Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG021629A
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00:14 >>YOU KNOW, IT TELLS US IN GENESIS THAT IN THE DAYS JUST 00:19 BEFORE THE FLOOD THE THOUGHTS OF MEN'S HEARTS WERE ONLY EVIL 00:23 CONTINUALLY AND VIOLENCE FILLED THE LAND. 00:28 AND JESUS SAID, IN THE DAYS JUST BEFORE HE RETURNED, IT WOULD BE 00:32 AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH. AND WE CAN SEE THAT IT SEEMS 00:39 LIKE IT'S GETTING THAT WAY NOW. NOW, YOU EXPECT, WHEN THERE'S A 00:43 FULL-BLOWN WAR AND PEOPLE ARE ON THE FRONT LINES, THAT YOU ARE 00:47 GOING TO SEE VIOLENCE, BUT WHEN YOU'RE IN A COUNTRY AND PEOPLE 00:51 ARE TURNING ON EACH OTHER, THAT'S NOT A GOOD OMEN. 01:00 NOW, I ALREADY HAD CHOSEN THE SERMON TITLE BEFORE THE 01:05 HEADLINES TOOK THE TURN THEY TOOK THIS WEEK, DEALING WITH 01:10 SPIRITUAL WARFARE, BUT IT'S - IT'S ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE 01:13 BECAUSE THERE IS A WAR GOING ON IN THE WORLD AND WHAT WE THINK 01:19 IS SOMETIMES A WAR IN THE STREETS, OR A PHYSICAL WAR, IS 01:23 REALLY BEGINNING WITH A SPIRITUAL WAR. 01:26 THERE'S A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. 01:27 >>AMEN. >>NOW, TODAY'S MESSAGE IS GOING 01:29 TO BE ON SPIRITUAL WARFARE PART 1 . AND SOME OF YOU MIGHT 01:33 WONDER, 'WELL, PASTOR DOUG, YOU DIDN'T GIVE US ALL THE ANSWERS 01:36 TO THIS ISSUE.' IT'S BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT TO COME FOR PART 2. 01:39 AND SO, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU THIS, FRIENDS, BUT WE ARE 01:45 SURROUNDED. YOU ARE SURROUNDED RIGHT NOW. 01:49 YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY SOMETHING YOU DON'T SEE. 01:55 NOW YOU THINK I'M TALKING ABOUT DEVILS. I'M ACTUALLY TALKING 01:58 ABOUT FREQUENCIES. YOU ARE SURROUNDED RIGHT NOW - 02:03 YOU ARE AWASH - YOU ARE SWIMMING IN ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIO 02:08 WAVES AND YOU CAN'T SEE THEM. MATTER OF FACT, THOSE OF YOU 02:14 WHO HAVE SMART PHONES OR APPLE DEVICES, SOMEBODY JUST CAME OUT 02:19 WITH A NEW APP - THEY'VE GOT AN APP FOR EVERYTHING. 02:22 IT'S CALLED ARCHITECTURE OF RADIO AND WHAT THIS APP DOES IS 02:28 IT HELPS YOU VISUALIZE, WHEREVER YOU ARE, BASED ON GPS SIGNALS 02:32 COMING DOWN TO YOUR PHONE OR YOUR IPAD WHAT ARE THE RADIO 02:36 WAVES - IT GIVES YOU A VISUALIZATION OF THE RADIO 02:38 WAVES, TELEVISION WAVES, FREQUENCIES ALL AROUND YOU. 02:42 AND ITS CREATOR, THE DUTCH INFORMATION DESIGNER RICHARD 02:47 VIJGEN DEVELOPED THIS SO THAT IT TAKES THE 7 MILLION TELEPHONE 02:53 CELL TOWERS, 19 MILLION WI-FI ROUTERS, HUNDREDS OF SATELLITES, 03:00 TELEVISION TOWERS, AND ALL THESE FREQUENCIES FROM RADIO THAT ARE 03:06 FILLING THE AIR, AND HELPS YOU MOVE AROUND AND SEE HOW 03:09 BOMBARDED YOU'RE BEING AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT. 03:12 WOULDN'T THAT BE DISCONCERTING? 03:14 IT'D MAKE YOU, PROBABLY, PUT ALUMINUM FOIL ON YOUR HEAD AND 03:16 WALK AROUND TRYING TO PROTECT YOURSELF. 03:17 (LAUGHTER) YOU JUST THINK ABOUT ALL OF THE RADIO WAVES - AND 03:22 THEN, I'VE THOUGHT BEFORE, WOULDN'T IT BE INTERESTING FOR 03:26 YOU TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH ONE OF THE APOSTLES AND TRY TO 03:29 EXPLAIN THAT WE ARE SWIMMING IN RADIO WAVES? 03:36 TRY AND EXPLAIN IT TO THOMAS, OF ALL THE APOSTLES. 03:40 SAY, 'YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT, BUT RIGHT NOW THERE ARE PICTURES 03:42 THAT ARE GOING THROUGH THE AIR VIA ELECTROMAGNETIC 03:46 FREQUENCIES.' AND HE'D SAY, 'WHAT?' 03:50 HE WOULD BE AS INCREDULOUS AT YOUR SUGGESTION ABOUT RADIO 03:55 WAVES AS WE ARE IN OUR SOPHISTICATED ERA, IF THOMAS 03:59 TOLD US THAT THERE ARE DEMONS AND ANGELS YOU CAN'T SEE ALL 04:03 AROUND YOU RIGHT NOW. WHY IS IT, IN OUR CULTURE, WE 04:07 THINK THAT IT'S SCIENTIFIC - I MEAN, HUNDRED YEARS AGO, IF YOU 04:10 TRIED TO EXPLAIN RADIO WAVES, PEOPLE WOULD THINK 04:12 YOU'RE A KOOK. BUT WE KNOW, NOW, THEY'RE THERE. 04:16 SO WHY DO WE FIND IT SO HARD TO BELIEVE WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS 04:19 THERE'S A WHOLE SPIRITUAL REALM AND WE JUST DON'T HAVE 04:22 INSTRUMENTS RIGHT NOW TO DETECT IT, BUT IT'S VERY REAL. 04:26 THERE ARE SPIRITS THAT ARE AT WAR AROUND US ALL THE TIME - 04:32 GOOD AND EVIL - THERE IS A BATTLE. 04:35 THERE'S A GREAT CONTROVERSY THAT IS GOING ON. 04:37 THERE'S A WAR THAT IS GOING ON AND THEY'RE FIGHTING OVER THE 04:41 TERRITORY OF OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS. AND WE ARE INVOLVED. 04:47 YOU CAN'T SAY, 'WELL, I DON'T BELIEVE IT SO IT DOESN'T AFFECT 04:49 ME.' WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IT DOES AFFECT YOU. 04:52 AND IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT THEN YOU'RE ALREADY CAPTIVE BECAUSE 04:55 THERE'S NOTHING THE DEVIL WANTS MORE THAN FOR YOU TO DISMISS HIS 04:59 REALITY. WELL, IF WE SAY THERE ARE DEVILS 05:05 OR ANGELS, WHERE'D THEY COME FROM? 05:08 THEY ARE ORIGINALLY CREATED AS MINISTERING SPIRITS AND ONE OF 05:13 THE HIGHEST OF GOD'S CREATIONS WAS THE LEADER OF THE ANGELS WHO 05:18 HAD THE NAME, AS FAR AS WE KNOW, IT WAS LUCIFER. 05:21 AND HE WAS PERFECT AND IT WAS A GOOD NAME AND IT MEANS 'LIGHT 05:23 BEARER'. BUT BECAUSE GOD MAKES ALL OF 05:27 HIS CREATURES FREE AND THEY'RE INTELLIGENT AND - IN ORDER TO 05:30 LOVE GOD HE GIVES THEM A CHOICE BECAUSE YOU CAN'T FORCE LOVE. 05:34 LUCIFER BEGAN TO CHOOSE TO LOVE HIMSELF MORE. 05:39 AND IT PROBABLY DIDN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. 05:40 IT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED OVER THE COURSE OF TEN THOUSAND YEARS. 05:42 YOU KNOW, THEY WERE CREATED TO LIVE FOREVER. 05:44 WE DON'T KNOW, IT JUST TELLS US AT SOME POINT HE BEGAN TO WISH 05:48 THAT HE WAS THE MOST HIGH. BEAUTIFUL ANGEL - POWERFUL, 05:52 INTELLIGENT, TALENTED - BEGAN TO LOVE HIMSELF. 05:56 AND GRADUALLY HIS LOVE FOR SELF ECLIPSED HIS LOVE FOR GOD AND 06:01 SEE, GOD DESIGNED US SO THAT LOVE COMES FROM US AND FLOWS 06:04 OUT. GOD IS LOVE - LOVE IS 06:06 ALWAYS GOING OUT FROM GOD. THE COMPASS NEEDLE WAS DESTROYED 06:10 IN LUCIFER SO HE WANTED THE WORSHIP TO COME IN. 06:15 AND HE EVENTUALLY LED A REBELLION - THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN 06:18 OVERNIGHT, BUT HE BEGAN A CAMPAIGN AND A REBELLION SAYING 06:21 THAT THE WORLD AND THE UNIVERSE WOULD BE MUCH HAPPIER IF HE WAS 06:24 IN CHARGE. AND YOU AND I THINK, 'HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?' BUT 06:27 DON'T UNDERESTIMATE - THIS IS A CREATURE THAT WAS JUST UNDER GOD 06:31 IN POWER AND INTELLIGENCE - AND HE WAS VERY PERSUASIVE AND VERY 06:36 CUNNING - AND HE'S GOT MOST OF THE WORLD PERSUADED RIGHT NOW. 06:40 YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS - IT TELLS ABOUT WHERE ANGELS COME 06:44 FROM. WHERE DID DEVILS COME FROM? 06:46 IF YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 12, VERSE 7, "A WAR BROKE OUT IN 06:51 HEAVEN:" - THERE WAS A CONFLICT - WAR IS THE BEST WORD THAT THE 06:55 WRITER COULD USE TO EXPLAIN IT IN TERMS WE UNDERSTAND - 06:58 "MICHAEL AND HIS ANGELS FOUGHT WITH THE DRAGON;" - NOW, YOU 07:03 REALIZE 'DRAGON' IS A SYMBOLIC WORD FOR WHO? 07:06 >>SATAN. >>THE DEVIL. 07:08 "AND THE DRAGON AND HIS ANGELS FOUGHT," - MICHAEL, BY THE WAY, 07:11 IS A SYMBOLIC TERM FOR CHRIST. MICHAEL IS A TERM THAT'S OFTEN 07:15 USED TO DESCRIBE CHRIST PRIOR TO THE INCARNATION. 07:19 IT MEANS 'THE ONE WHO IS AS GOD; THE GREATEST MESSENGER' - 07:21 MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL IS NOT AN ANGEL, LIKE WITH WINGS, IT MEANS 07:26 THE GREAT MESSENGER WHO IS AS GOD. 07:29 AND IN THE SAME WAY THAT THE DRAGON IS THE LEADER OF THE EVIL 07:32 ANGELS, IT'S A TITLE FOR THE DEVIL - MICHAEL IS A NAME FOR 07:34 CHRIST, THE LEADER OF THE GOOD ANGELS, WHO IS GOD THE SON. 07:41 AND THERE'S THIS WAR AND THE DRAGON FOUGHT AND HIS ANGELS - 07:44 NOTICE THE DRAGON HAS ANGELS - "BUT THEY DID NOT PREVAIL, NOR 07:48 WAS A PLACE FOUND FOR THEM IN HEAVEN ANY LONGER. 07:51 SO THE GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST" - TO THE EARTH - HE "WAS CAST OUT, 07:54 THAT SERPENT OF OLD, CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN," - NOW, DO WE 07:57 NEED TO WONDER WHO THE DRAGON IS, OR DOES THE BIBLE TELL US? 08:00 THE SERPENT, THE DEVIL, AND SATAN - 08:03 ALL ONE AND THE SAME. MANY NAMES. 08:06 HE'S APOLLYON, BEELZEBUB - I MEAN, THERE'S ALL KINDS OF NAMES 08:09 YOU CAN FIND FOR THE DEVIL - "WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD;" 08:13 - HOW MUCH OF THE WORLD IS DECEIVED BY HIM? 08:14 >>THE WHOLE WORLD. >>THE WHOLE WORLD. 08:16 "HE WAS CAST TO THE EARTH, AND HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH 08:19 HIM." NOW, EVIDENTLY, THERE ARE 08:23 MILLIONS - BILLIONS OF ANGELS THAT GOD HAS MADE. 08:26 THE BIBLE TELLS US GOD, APPARENTLY, HAS GUARDIAN ANGELS 08:29 FOR EVERY PERSON AND IF THERE ARE SEVEN-PLUS BILLION - 7.3 08:34 BILLION PEOPLE AND COUNTING, IN THE WORLD TODAY, AND THEN THE 08:38 BIBLE INDICATES THAT ONE-THIRD OF THE ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH 08:41 LUCIFER - IT SAYS WHEN LUCIFER WAS CAST OUT HE DREW ONE-THIRD 08:44 OF THE STARS - THE DRAGON - TO THE EARTH AND THAT WOULD MEAN 08:50 THERE'S BILLIONS OF FALLEN ANGELS. 08:53 I THINK WE'D BE SURPRISED - AND ANGELS WERE NOT ONLY MADE TO 08:57 MINISTER TO OUR WORLD, GOD HAS THESE MINISTERING ANGELS THAT 09:01 WORKED AND DID HIS BIDDING THROUGH THE COSMOS. 09:04 AND SO, THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT AN INNUMERABLE COMPANY OF ANGELS. 09:10 SO THERE ARE VERY MANY, BUT A THIRD OF THEM FOLLOW LUCIFER 09:12 AND THERE WAS A FINAL CONFLICT. 09:14 AND LUCIFER - THEY FIRST WERE CAST OUT OF HEAVEN - AND WHEN ON 09:18 THE EARTH HE FINALLY FOUND SOME, IN OUR FIRST PARENTS, ADAM AND 09:22 EVE, WHO WOULD LISTEN TO HIM INSTEAD OF GOD. 09:26 GOD SAID, 'DON'T EAT THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT.' THE DEVIL 09:29 SAID, 'GO AHEAD AND EAT IT.' WHEN OUR FIRST PARENTS SAID, 09:31 'WE'RE GOING TO LISTEN TO THE DEVIL'S WORD INSTEAD OF GOD'S 09:34 WORD, THE BIBLE SAYS WHOEVER YOU OBEY, THAT'S WHOSE SERVANTS YOU 09:37 ARE. THEY SURRENDERED THE DOMINION OF 09:40 OUR WORLD TO THE DEVIL AND, FROM THAT POINT ON, SATAN 09:43 WAS CAST TO THIS EARTH. HE FOUND A BEACHHEAD TO CONTINUE 09:47 HIS REBELLION AGAINST GOD AND HE TAKES GREAT DELIGHT IN USING 09:52 HUMANS TO MANIPULATE THEM IN HIS CAMPAIGN AGAINST GOD. YOU CAN 09:58 READ IN ISAIAH 14, SATAN WAS CAST OUT - "HOW YOU ARE FALLEN 10:01 FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING!" - 10:06 HE WANTED TO BE GOD. 10:07 YOU READ IN 1 JOHN 5, VERSE 19, "WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD, AND 10:12 THE WHOLE WORLD LIES UNDER THE SWAY OF THE WICKED ONE." 10:16 REVELATION WE JUST READ - HE DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD. 10:19 HERE, JOHN SAYS, THE WHOLE WORLD LIES UNDER THE SWAY OF THE 10:23 WICKED ONE. AND SO, WHEN WE SEE ALL THESE 10:25 BAD THINGS HAPPEN IN THE WORLD, AS YOU SAW ON THE NEWS THIS WEEK 10:32 - PEOPLE ARE OFTEN ASKING IF THERE'S A GOD, WHY DO SO 10:34 MANY BAD THINGS HAPPEN? I THINK WE OUGHT TO BE ASKING 10:37 THE QUESTION DIFFERENTLY: SINCE THE WHOLE WORLD IS UNDER THE 10:40 SWAY OF THE WICKED ONE, WHY DO SO MANY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN? 10:44 BUT AS THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND HIS RESTRAINING ANGELS ARE BEING 10:48 DRIVEN FROM OUR WORLD, WE'RE GOING TO SEE THE RESULTS OF 10:51 THAT. AND THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW. 10:55 PSALM 8, VERSES 4 AND 5, MAN HAS BEEN MADE "A LITTLE LOWER THAN 11:00 THE ANGELS, AND...CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR." 11:03 SO ANGELS ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN PEOPLE. 11:06 THEY ARE CREATED BY GOD - EACH ONE ORIGINAL - THEY DON'T GIVE 11:12 BIRTH. ANGELS NEITHER MARRY NOR ARE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE. 11:15 AND SO THERE'S THESE MINISTERING SPIRITS, THEY ARE INTELLIGENT, 11:19 THEY HAVE INDIVIDUAL WILLS - SOME CHOSE TO LISTEN TO GOD, 11:22 SOME CHOSE NOT TO. THEY HAVE NAMES. 11:24 IF GOD HAS GOT A NAME FOR ALL OF THE STARS IN THE SKY AND HE'S 11:28 NUMBERED THE HAIRS OF OUR HEAD, THEN THESE ANGELS - GOOD AND BAD 11:32 - HAVE INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERS. THEY'RE NOT ALL JUST LIKE A 11:35 COOKIE CUTTER COMING OUT LIKE MODEL T FORDS. 11:38 THEY'RE INDIVIDUALS. THEY'RE INTELLIGENT. 11:42 AND IN THE SAME WAY GOD HAS GUARDIAN ANGELS THAT HE'S 11:44 ASSIGNED TO PROTECT US, I SUSPECT THE DEVIL HAS ANGELS 11:48 THAT ARE ASSIGNED TO BRING US DOWN AND HE'S MORE CONCERNED 11:51 WITH SOME OF US THAN WITH OTHERS. AND THEY, MAYBE, STUDY 11:55 OUR WEAKNESSES. NOW, THERE'S A BOOK THAT WAS WRITTEN - THE BOOK 12:01 IS FICTION AND I DON'T RECOMMEND EVERYTHING C.S. LEWIS WRITES, 12:06 BUT C.S. LEWIS WROTE A BOOK CALLED THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS - 12:10 HAVE ANY OF YOU READ THAT? I READ IT. 12:12 I READ IT WHEN I WAS UP IN THE CAVE YEARS AGO AND IT DOES - IF 12:15 NOTHING ELSE, IT MAKES YOU THINK ABOUT THE PLOTTING AND PLANNING 12:20 AND THE INTENSITY OF HOW ANGELS - FALLEN ANGELS - ARE WORKING TO 12:25 BRING ABOUT THE OVERTHROW OF EVERY SOUL. 12:28 THE BOOK IS TRUE IN THAT RESPECT. 12:30 THERE - THERE IS A WHOLE BATTLE THAT IS RAGING. 12:33 THERE'S A WAR THAT'S GOING ON. MOST OF US DON'T THINK ABOUT IT. 12:36 JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT RADIO WAVES, DOESN'T MEAN 12:39 THEY DON'T EXIST. THEY'RE REAL. NOW, WHAT ARE THEIR NAMES? 12:44 NOW, I'M NOT GOING TO NAME ALL THE DEVILS, BUT SOME OF THE 12:45 NAMES THEY GO UNDER - YOU'VE HEARD PEOPLE TALK ABOUT DEMONS, 12:50 DEVILS, EVIL SPIRITS, UNCLEAN SPIRITS, WICKED SPIRITS, FALLEN 12:59 ANGELS, GOBLINS, GREMLINS, GHOSTS, BOGEYMEN - THERE'S ALL 13:03 KINDS OF THINGS THAT - EVIL TITLES - THAT PEOPLE ASSIGN TO 13:07 THESE FALLEN ANGELS. WHY DO I BELIEVE IN THEM? 13:12 WELL, THERE'S THREE PRINCIPLE REASONS: 1) THE BIBLE AND CHRIST 13:17 PLAINLY SAY THAT THEY EXIST. SO THAT, RIGHT THERE, 13:20 WOULD BE ENOUGH. THE BIBLE IS VERY 13:22 CLEAR THAT THEY EXIST. 2) I SEE THE EVIDENCE OF THEIR 13:27 WORK EVERYWHERE - AND WE SAW IT AGAIN THIS WEEK. 13:32 THERE IS CONSUMMATE EVIL IN THE WORLD TODAY THAT JUST GOES 13:35 BEYOND EXPLANATION. 3) THE GREAT SCHOLARS AND BIBLE 13:41 CHARACTERS RECOGNIZED THEIR EXISTENCE. AND THOSE WHO READ 13:46 THE BIBLE AND HAVE STUDIED IT, THEY CAN ALSO SEE THAT IT'S 13:50 PRETTY CLEAR THAT THEY EXIST. YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE THING, ALSO, 13:53 THAT VIRTUALLY EVERY RELIGION AGREES ON. THEY HAVE DIFFERENT 13:57 VIEWS ON IT, BUT JUST ABOUT EVERY RELIGION IN THE WORLD HAS 14:01 SOME EXPLANATION FOR GOOD AND EVIL, ADMITTING THAT 14:06 THERE ARE GOOD AND EVIL POWERS - THEY'VE GOT THE GREAT SPIRIT AND 14:09 THEY'VE GOT THE EVIL SPIRIT AND THEY - YOU KNOW, IN THE GREAT 14:13 PANTHEON OF GOD THEY HAD THE GOOD GODS AND THEY HAD THE 14:16 MENACING GODS AND - AND EVEN IN THE RELIGION OF ISLAM THEY'VE 14:22 GOT THIS 'JIN' CALLED 'THE DEVIL'. 14:25 THEY'VE GOT AN EXPLANATION FOR THESE EVIL FORCES. 14:28 NOW, IT IS INTERESTING THAT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT YOU CAN ONLY 14:33 FIND ONE OR TWO EXAMPLES OF SOMEONE WHO IS DEMON POSSESSED. 14:37 KING SAUL WAS ONE. IN THE EPISTLES OF THE APOSTLES, 14:46 THEY ALMOST NEVER ADDRESS DEMONIC POSSESSION. 14:52 YOU DO FIND IT RECORDED IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, BUT WHEN YOU'RE IN 14:56 THE GOSPELS, THE STORY OF JESUS' MINISTRY - IT REACHES A FEVER 15:01 PITCH AND IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE THE PREACHING OF CHRIST WAS SUCH 15:06 AN IRRITATION TO THESE DEVILS THAT THEY JUST STARTED OOZING 15:09 OUT OF THE WOODWORK WHENEVER JESUS WENT THROUGH A TOWN. 15:12 HE WAS A LIVING TESTIMONY THAT THEY ARE DOOMED. 15:17 SO THEY ARE REAL. WHAT IS THE GOAL OF THE 15:22 DEVIL AND HIS FALLEN ANGELS? YOU REALIZE THE DEVIL IS JUST - 15:25 HE IS THE SUPREME FALLEN ANGEL. AND OFTEN WE'LL SAY, 'WELL, THE 15:29 DEVIL IS TEMPTING ME.' DO YOU THINK IT'S THE DEVIL 15:31 PERSONALLY TEMPTING YOU? HE'S OFTEN OPERATING THROUGH 15:35 ONE OF HIS FALLEN ANGELS. QUITE FRANKLY, SINCE THE DEVIL 15:38 IS NOT ALL KNOWING, THE DEVIL DOESN'T KNOW ALL YOUR NAMES. 15:42 HE'S PROBABLY DELEGATED THAT TO SOME OF HIS - AND HE - THE BIBLE 15:46 TALKS ABOUT THERE'S AN ORGANIZATION AMONG THE ANGELS, 15:49 GOOD AND BAD - THEY'RE ORGANIZED IN THEIR WORK. 15:52 THERE'S A HIERARCHY AMONG THE ANGELS, GOOD AND BAD. 15:56 AND THEY'RE ORGANIZED LIKE AN ARMY IS ORGANIZED AND THERE ARE 16:01 SOME SERGEANTS AND PRIVATES ASSIGNED TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. 16:06 SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THAT - IN THE BOOK OF ACTS - I THINK IT'S 16:09 CHAPTER 19 - THESE EXORCISTS - THESE SONS OF SCEVA WERE TRYING 16:13 TO CAST OUT DEVILS AND THEY HEARD HOW PAUL WAS CASTING OUT 16:16 DEVILS IN THE NAME OF JESUS. THEY THOUGHT, 'WELL, WE'LL TRY 16:18 THAT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE JUST SAY THE WORD 'JESUS' LIKE 16:20 ABRACADABRA AND IT'LL WORK.' SO THEY FOUND THIS DEMON POSSESSED 16:23 MAN AND THEY SAID, 'IN THE NAME OF JESUS, WHO PAUL PREACHES, WE 16:27 CAST YOU OUT.' AND THE DEVIL SAID SOMETHING INTERESTING. 16:30 YES, DEVILS TALK THROUGH PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE - WE'LL GET TO THAT 16:33 LATER. THE DEVIL SAID, 'I KNOW JESUS.' 16:37 BECAUSE THEY KNEW JESUS BEFORE THE FALL - HE WAS THEIR CREATOR. 16:40 ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE, WERE MADE BY CHRIST. 16:42 THOSE FALLEN ANGELS WERE ONCE GOOD ANGELS AND JESUS MADE THEM 16:46 AND THEY REBELLED. HE SAID, 'I KNOW JESUS AND I 16:50 KNOW PAUL, BUT' - HE SAID, 'WHO ARE YOU?' 16:54 IN OTHER WORDS, 'THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE, THEY'RE 16:56 JUST SO SWALLOWED UP WITH THE DARKNESS OF THE WORLD THAT THE 17:00 DEVIL DOESN'T EVEN FRET ABOUT THEM. 17:02 IT MAKES YOU WONDER, DO YOU WANT TO PRAY THAT YOU CAN LIVE A LIFE 17:05 THAT THE DEVIL WILL TAKE NOTICE OF? 17:07 THAT'S ONE OF THOSE TRICK QUESTIONS. 17:09 DO YOU WANT TO LIVE A LIFE THAT IS GOING TO BE SO GODLY THAT THE 17:14 DEVIL WILL KNOW WHO YOU ARE? >>AMEN. 17:17 >>AND THE RIGHT ANSWER WOULD BE 'YES', BUT WHEN YOU SAY THAT, 17:20 THEN YOU THINK, 'I DON'T WANT ANY MORE ATTENTION FROM THE 17:23 DEVIL,' RIGHT? NOW HOW MANY OF YOU WILL ADMIT 17:27 THAT YOU ARE DEMON HARASSED? YOU SEE PEOPLE RAISING THEIR 17:34 HAND, THEY'RE GOING, 'DEMON HARASSED' - I DIDN'T SAY 'DEMON 17:37 POSSESSED' IF YOU NOTICE THAT. IF SOMEONE SAID, 'I'M DEMON 17:41 POSSESSED' EVERYONE'S GOING TO MOVE AWAY FROM THAT PERSON. 17:43 (LAUGHTER) DEMON HARASSED - IF IT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER, JESUS 17:48 WAS DEMON HARASSED. PAUL WAS DEMON HARASSED. 17:52 PAUL SAID SATAN SENT A THORN IN HIS SIDE. 17:55 AND SO, ALL OF US, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO BE A CHRISTIAN, WE'RE 18:00 DEMON HARASSED. YOU KNOW, A DEAD FISH WILL FLOAT DOWNSTREAM. 18:05 IT TAKES A LIVE FISH TO GO UPSTREAM AGAINST THE CURRENT. 18:09 AND IF YOU'RE TRYING TO LIVE A CHRISTIAN LIFE, YOU'VE GOT TO BE 18:12 ALIVE AND YOU'RE GOING TO MEET WITH RESISTANCE. 18:17 SO DON'T FEEL BAD TO SAY, 'THE DEVIL CAUSES ME PROBLEMS, 18:21 BECAUSE IF YOU'RE ALIVE, YOU'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH 18:24 TEMPTATION. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT - THIS 18:25 IS SPIRITUAL WARFARE - YOU'RE INVOLVED IN IT. 18:27 YOU'RE GOING TO FEEL THIS CURRENT THAT IS PUSHING YOU AWAY 18:31 FROM GOD ALL THE TIME. IT'S LIKE A GRAVITY THAT IS 18:35 TRYING TO KEEP YOU DOWN. AND GOD GIVES US COUNSEL IN HIS 18:38 WORD TO KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THE ENEMY. BUT, YOU KNOW 18:41 IF YOU'RE GOING TO FIGHT ANY ENEMY, YOU NEED 18:43 TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT IT. AND WHENEVER I SHARE A MESSAGE 18:46 LIKE THIS, I ALWAYS FEEL CONFLICTED, BECAUSE I DON'T 18:51 LIKE TALKING ABOUT THE DEVIL. I - HE LOVES TO GET ATTENTION. 18:57 HE IS CONSUMED WITH SELF, BUT I HAVE TO DO IT BECAUSE THE BIBLE 19:03 DOES IT AND IT IS A VERY REAL PROBLEM THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER 19:07 AND TO BE AWARE OF. SO WHAT IS THE GOAL OF SATAN? 19:12 WHAT'S HE AFTER, ANYWAY? 19:13 IF I WAS TO SUMMARIZE IT, I'D SAY THE MAIN GOAL OF THE DEVIL 19:16 IS TO ERASE THE IMAGE OF GOD FROM MAN, TO SEPARATE US FROM 19:21 JESUS - HE WANTS TO INFLICT AS MUCH SUFFERING AND MISERY ON THE 19:25 HUMAN RACE AS HE CAN AND THEN POINT THE BLAME TO GOD. 19:28 AND HE SAID, 'YOU MADE THESE CREATURES. 19:29 LOOK HOW MISERABLE THEY ARE. IT'S BECAUSE OF YOUR LAW. 19:31 IT'S BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU'VE DONE.' THE DEVIL IS A MASTER - 19:34 THE DEVIL WILL TELL YOU TO DO SOMETHING WRONG AND THEN HE'LL 19:36 TURN YOU IN FOR DOING IT. MY BROTHER DID THAT TO ME ONCE. 19:42 WE WERE PLAYING IN MY FATHER'S PARKED CAR - MY FATHER HAD A 19:45 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE PRETENDING WE'RE 19:50 DRIVING AND WE DIDN'T - THE KEYS WEREN'T IN THE CAR - AND THEN I 19:55 REMEMBER MY BROTHER SAID - I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, I WAS LIKE 19:56 FOUR OR FIVE YEARS OLD - I WAS STILL IN CALIFORNIA - AND MY 20:00 BROTHER SAID, 'DOUGIE,' HE SAID, 'PULL THAT PEDAL' OR 'PUSH THE 20:06 PEDAL' AND I WENT TO DO IT AND HE SAID, 'WAIT A MINUTE.' AND HE 20:10 GOT OUT OF THE CAR. (LAUGHTER) AND SO I PULLED THE 20:16 PEDAL AND I GUESS IT WAS THE EMERGENCY BRAKE AND THE CAR 20:19 STARTED ROLLING BACK DOWN THE DRIVEWAY. 20:22 IT DIDN'T ROLL VERY FAR - AND MY BROTHER WENT RUNNING IN THE 20:24 HOUSE AND SAID, 'DOUGIE'S PLAYING WITH THE CAR AND IT'S 20:28 ROLLING AWAY.' AND I GOT PUNISHED. 20:31 I SAID, 'HE TOLD ME TO DO IT AND THEN HE TURNED ME IN.' YEARS 20:35 LATER MY STEP-BROTHER AND I, WE GOT A CUP FROM MY BROTHER AND IT 20:38 SAID, 'LITTLE ANGEL' BECAUSE WE ALWAYS GOT IN TROUBLE AND HE WAS 20:40 ALWAYS THE LITTLE ANGEL - 'I DIDN'T DO IT! 20:42 THEY WERE THE ONES DOING IT.' BUT HE WAS ALWAYS 20:43 TELLING US WHAT TO. SO WHAT ARE THE TOOLS 20:47 OF SATAN'S TRADE? WELL, HE'S GOT A 20:51 PRETTY GOOD TOOL BOX. REVELATION 16:14, "FOR THEY 20:56 ARE SPIRITS OF DEMONS, WORKING MIRACLES." 21:00 REVELATION TELLS US THAT THESE FALLEN ANGELS, 21:03 THEY CAN DO SIGNS AND WONDERS AND MIRACLES. 21:06 THERE ARE A LOT OF RELIGIONS THAT GAIN THEIR CREDIBILITY 21:09 BECAUSE FALLEN ANGELS DID SIGNS AND WONDERS AND BROUGHT PEOPLE 21:12 IN AND IT WAS ALL THE DEVIL THAT WAS MANIPULATING PEOPLE. 21:17 SO SATAN DOES HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF POWER. 21:19 ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS READ THE BOOK OF JOB, WHICH, BY THE WAY, 21:21 WE ALL DID TOGETHER NOT TOO LONG AGO. 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9, "THE 21:27 COMING OF THE LAWLESS ONE IS ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF 21:30 SATAN, WITH ALL POWER, SIGNS, AND LYING WONDERS." 21:36 NOW, WHEN THE LORD BROUGHT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT, 21:38 IT TALKED ABOUT GOD DID MANY SIGNS AND WONDERS - MIRACLES 21:42 HAPPENED - BUT THESE ARE LYING WONDERS. 21:46 THE DEVIL CAN PERFORM MIRACLES AND HE OFTEN DOES THAT TO 21:49 DECEIVE. YOU CAN READ, ALSO, IN THE BOOK 21:52 OF JOB, CHAPTER 2, VERSE 7 - THE DEVIL CAN BRING SICKNESS. 21:57 "SO SATAN WENT OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND STRUCK 22:00 JOB WITH PAINFUL BOILS FROM THE SOLE OF HIS FOOT TO THE CROWN OF 22:04 HIS HEAD." A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN 22:06 MADE SICK BY THE DEVIL. NOW, OF COURSE, THERE'S SOME 22:10 SICKNESS THAT OBVIOUSLY COMES WITH AGE OR SICKNESS THAT 22:13 MAY COME WITH BACTERIA. THERE'S SOME NATURALLY-INDUCED 22:15 SICKNESS, AND THEN THERE ARE SUPERNATURAL AILMENTS. 22:20 LUKE 13:16 - JESUS HEALED A WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN BENT OVER FOR 22:23 18 YEARS. LISTEN TO HOW CHRIST DESCRIBED 22:26 IT: "SO OUGHT NOT THIS WOMAN, BEING A DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM, 22:29 WHOM SATAN HAS BOUND FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS," - 22:32 SATAN HAS BOUND HER - "BE LOOSED FROM THIS BOND ON THE SABBATH?" 22:37 AND JESUS HEALED HER AND SHE WAS STRAIGHTENED FOR THE FIRST TIME 22:39 IN 18 YEARS - SHE HAD BEEN ALL HUNCHED OVER. 22:42 KAREN TELLS ME I'M LOSING MY POSTURE. 22:46 SHE SAYS I NEED A HEALING. BUT I THINK MINE'S JUST AGE. 22:51 NOW THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEMON HARASSMENT AND DEMON 22:55 POSSESSION - AS I MENTIONED. ALL OF US ARE HARASSED - WE'RE 22:59 ALL TEMPTED - BUT THE BIBLE SAYS THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE POSSESSED 23:02 AND IT'S VERY CLEAR AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MOMENT. 23:06 SOME OTHER THINGS THAT THE DEVIL DOES, JUST GENERALLY SPEAKING - 23:09 AND I'LL GIVE YOU A SCRIPTURE FOR EACH ONE OF THESE. 23:11 IF YOU WANT, LATER, I CAN POST MY NOTES ONLINE AND YOU'LL HAVE 23:13 THE REFERENCES. THE DEVIL DECEIVES AND HE PERSECUTES - 23:18 REVELATION 12:9 AND 13; HE MAKES WAR AGAINST GOD'S PEOPLE. 23:23 IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER, YOU'RE THE SPECIAL TARGET OF HIS ANGER - 23:28 HIS WRATH. HE FALSELY ACCUSES - MATTER OF 23:32 FACT, THE WORD 'DEVIL' MEANS 'SLANDERER' - HE SLANDERS - 23:36 HE'S CALLED THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN. YOU MAY REMEMBER 23:38 THERE IN THE BOOK ZECHARIAH, IT TALKS ABOUT SATAN 23:40 STOOD THERE BY THE HIGH PRIEST, POINTING HIS FINGER AND ACCUSING 23:44 BECAUSE HIS GARMENTS WERE FILTHY. HE'S A MURDERER. 23:48 JESUS SAID, IN JOHN CHAPTER 8:44, HE'S THE FIRST MURDERER 23:52 WHO INSPIRED CAIN TO KILL HIS BROTHER. 23:54 THE DEVIL WAS BUSY THIS WEEK - HE INSPIRES THAT VIOLENCE. 23:58 HE PROMPTS BETRAYAL. WHAT WAS IT - SATAN ENTERED 24:02 JUDAS AND JUDAS WENT OUT AND SOLD JESUS. 24:05 THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS. HE TRAPS AND HE ENSNARES 24:09 THROUGH A VARIETY OF WAYS. 2 TIMOTHY 2:26, 1 PETER 5:8. 24:15 HE BRINGS DISEASE. WE TOUCHED ON THAT. HE IMPRISONED - HE 24:20 IMPRISONS - LUKE - I'M SORRY, REVELATION 2:10. 24:23 HE'LL POSSESS OR HINDER A PERSON - LUKE 22:3 THROUGH 5; 24:28 1 THESSALONIANS 2:18. HE CAN APPEAR AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT. 24:31 NOW, WHEN THE DEVIL CAME TO TEMPT JESUS IN THE WILDERNESS - 24:34 I'M ASSUMING YOU ALL KNOW THE STORY YOU CAN FIND IN MATTHEW 24:36 AND MARK - OR MATTHEW AND LUKE - AND HE SAID, 'IF YOU'RE THE SON 24:43 OF GOD, TURN THESE STONES INTO LOAVES OF BREAD.' DO YOU THINK 24:47 THAT THE DEVIL PLOPPED DOWN ON THE GROUND THERE IN FRONT OF 24:50 JESUS, SNAPPING HIS POINTED RED TAIL, WEARING HIS RED LEOTARDS 24:56 AND HIS BAT WINGS AND HIS GOATEE - GOATEES ARE COMING BACK IN 25:01 STYLE. IS IT JUST ME OR ARE MORE AND 25:03 MORE PEOPLE GROWING BEARDS? AND, YOU KNOW, I GROW A BEARD. 25:07 I LIKE GROWING A BEARD BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE TO SHAVE, BUT PEOPLE 25:10 TELL ME I LOOK LIKE A SINISTER MINISTER WHEN I DO. 25:13 (LAUGHTER) AND - BUT IT'S GRAY NOW, SO IT DOESN'T LOOK NEAR 25:17 AS DIABOLICAL AS IT USED TO LOOK. 25:20 BUT, THEY'VE GOT THIS IDEA HE'S GOT THE HORNS - DO YOU SEE 25:25 ANYTHING IN THE BIBLE THAT PORTRAYS THE DEVIL THAT WAY? 25:28 IN SOME OF OUR GRAPHICS - OUR ARTWORK - YOU MAY SEE THE DEVIL, 25:31 YOU KNOW, IS PICTURED AS THE TYPICAL THING, BUT IT'S JUST - 25:34 IT'S JUST AN ARTIST'S CONCEPT. 25:35 NO, THE DEVIL WAS A BEAUTIFUL ANGEL AND WHEN HE APPEARED TO 25:38 JESUS DURING THAT GREAT TEMPTATION, HE PROBABLY CAME 25:40 LOOKING LIKE AN ANGEL SENT FROM GOD TO BRING RELIEF. 25:43 ANGELS DID COME TO HELP JESUS IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE. 25:48 ANGELS DID COME AND TAKE CARE OF ELIJAH IN THE WILDERNESS WHEN HE 25:51 WAS HUNGRY AND TIRED. AND SO, IT'S LIKE THE ANGEL CAME 25:55 AND SAYS, 'I HAVE BEEN SENT FROM HEAVEN. 25:57 NOW, IF YOU'RE THE SON OF GOD, JUST DO ONE LITTLE MIRACLE HERE 25:59 AND LET'S PROVE THAT YOU STILL BELIEVE.' AND HE WAS SO SUBTLE. 26:02 I MEAN, YOU AND I SOMETIMES MISS WHAT WAS GOING ON THERE, BUT IT 26:05 WAS A REAL TEMPTATION. HE CAN APPEAR AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT. 26:08 NOW, IF HE CAN APPEAR AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT DURING CHRIST'S 26:12 TIME, CAN HE STILL DO IT TODAY? WHAT DO YOU THINK - GOD CAME TO 26:17 EARTH IN THE FORM OF A MAN - THE INCARNATION IS JESUS. 26:21 BEFORE THE END OF THE WORLD, SATAN IS SAVING HIS MASTERPIECE. 26:24 YOU KNOW, AT THE END OF THE SHOW YOU'VE GOT THE BIG CRESCENDO - 26:26 THE CLIMAX - AND THE FINAL MASTERPIECE OF SATAN'S 26:30 MASQUERADE IS GOING TO BE HE WILL COME, NOT JUST AS AN ANGEL 26:34 OF LIGHT, BUT HE WILL COME AND APPEAR TO BE THE DAZZLING CHRIST 26:38 HIMSELF. AND MUCH OF THE WORLD IS 26:42 GOING TO BE SWEPT UP IN THAT. SO THERE'S A WAR GOING ON. 26:45 WE NEED TO KNOW HOW TO RECOGNIZE THAT. 26:49 HE CAN CALL FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN. 26:50 ISN'T THAT ONE OF THE SIGNS IT SAYS IN REVELATION 13? 26:54 HIS DEMONS WILL - CAN SOMETIMES POSSESS EVEN PASTORS AND PEOPLE 27:00 CAN BE BOUND. HE'LL BLIND PEOPLE TO THE TRUTH 27:04 - 2 CORINTHIANS 4:3 AND 4. NOW, THIS IS ALL SORT OF AN 27:09 INTRODUCTION TO SOMETHING I WANT YOU TO NOTICE. 27:11 IF I WERE TO ASK YOU, 'WHAT WAS THE FIRST MIRACLE OF JESUS?' 27:14 WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? >>TURNED WATER TO WINE. 27:16 >>TURNING WATER TO WINE. WHERE DO YOU READ THAT? 27:20 GOSPEL OF JOHN, CHAPTER 2 - THE WEDDING AT CANA, RIGHT? 27:24 THAT'S THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. AND I BELIEVE THAT WAS THE FIRST 27:28 MIRACLE OF CHRIST, BUT WHEN YOU READ LUKE AND MARK IT'S NOT 27:33 LISTED AS THE FIRST MIRACLE. JOHN SAYS IT WAS THE FIRST 27:37 MIRACLE, BUT WHEN YOU READ MARK AND LUKE, THE FIRST MIRACLE 27:41 LISTED - THE WEDDING AT CANA WAS OVER - WAS CASTING OUT A DEVIL. 27:47 YOU CAN LOOK IN MARK CHAPTER 1, VERSE 22 - OR 21, "THEN THEY 27:52 WENT INTO CAPERNAUM," - THIS IS AFTER HE HAD - KEEP IN MIND, 27:55 JESUS GOES IN THE WILDERNESS - HE'S BAPTIZED, HE GOES IN THE 28:01 WILDERNESS - HE'S TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL AND AFTER HE SUCCEEDS 28:05 AGAINST FIGHTING THE DEVIL IN THE WILDERNESS, HE GOES TO 28:08 CAPERNAUM AND HE BEGINS TO PREACH - AFTER THEY KICK HIM OUT 28:11 OF HIS HOME CHURCH IN NAZARETH - AND SOMEONE STANDS UP, WHEN 28:14 CHRIST PREACHES, WHO WAS POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL - "AND 28:18 IMMEDIATELY ON THE SABBATH HE ENTERED THE SYNAGOGUE AND 28:20 TAUGHT. AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS 28:22 TEACHING, FOR HE TAUGHT THEM AS ONE HAVING AUTHORITY, 28:25 AND NOT AS THE SCRIBES. NOW THERE WAS A MAN IN THEIR 28:28 SYNAGOGUE WITH AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT." - YOU WONDER, WOULD 28:34 THEY HAVE NOTICED THAT MAN HAD AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT IF CHRIST 28:38 HADN'T BEEN PREACHING THE WORD. BUT WHEN JESUS BEGAN PREACHING 28:42 THE WORD, ONE OF THE WAYS THAT EVIL SPIRITS ARE CAST OUT IS 28:48 THROUGH THE PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD. YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN 28:54 TELEVISION PROGRAMS BEFORE WHERE THERE'S A MINISTER AND PEOPLE 28:56 ARE COMING UP FRONT AND THE MINISTER, MAYBE, IS LAYING HANDS 28:59 ON THEM AND THEY'RE SHAKING AND WRITHING AND FLOPPING AROUND ON 29:03 THE FLOOR - NOW I'M NOT SAYING THAT THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN, I'VE 29:05 SEEN THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT MOST OF THE TIME WHEN PEOPLE ARE 29:10 BEING HARASSED BY THE DEVIL OR EVEN POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL, IT 29:13 IS SO SUBTLE THAT NO ONE AROUND YOU WOULD EVER KNOW. 29:18 WHEN A PERSON LIKE MARK CHAPTER 5 IS POSSESSED WITH A LEGION OF 29:25 DEMONS - HE'S GOT 2,000 DEMONS IN HIM - WELL, THEN THEY START 29:31 TO TEAR OFF THEIR CLOTHES AND BREAK CHAINS AND THEY'RE 29:35 SCREAMING AND CUTTING THEMSELVES WITH STONES AND RUNNING AROUND 29:37 LIKE A MANIAC AND LIVING IN A TOMB. WHEN YOU GET 2,000 DEMONS, 29:41 IT'S HARD TO HIDE. BUT SUPPOSE IT'S ONLY 1,000 DEMONS. 29:46 WELL, THEY'D PROBABLY BE STILL REALLY DIFFICULT TO GET ALONG 29:48 WITH. WHAT IF YOU CUT THAT DOWN TO 100 29:51 DEMONS? WELL, THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO WALK 29:55 UP AND DOWN THE STREETS AND YOU WOULDN'T SPOT THEM RIGHT AWAY. 29:58 GET IT DOWN TO JUST FOUR OR FIVE. YOU MIGHT EVEN GET TO 30:02 WHERE YOU CAN HOLD A POSITION IN THE CHURCH AND PEOPLE WOULD 30:04 NEVER KNOW. YOU HEAR WHERE I'M GOING WITH 30:08 THIS? >>YES. 30:09 >>IT IS - I THINK WE MISUNDERSTAND - THERE ARE PEOPLE 30:11 WHERE THE DEVIL'S GOT HOOKS IN THEM AND IT'S A THIN LINE 30:14 BETWEEN HARASSMENT AND POSSESSION, BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE 30:16 BOUND BY THE DEVIL. AND, IF IT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER, MARY 30:20 MAGDALENE, WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON THAT JESUS REVEALED 30:23 HIMSELF TO WHEN HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD, HAD SEVEN DEVILS CAST OUT 30:26 OF HER. AND SHE BECAME ONE OF HIS FIRST DISCIPLES. 30:33 AND SO - SHE FOLLOWED HIM AND SHE FELL BACK INTO SIN. 30:36 HE CAST OUT THE DEVIL, SHE FELL AGAIN. HE CAST OUT THE DEVIL - 30:38 I THINK IT HAPPENED SEVEN DIFFERENT TIMES. 30:40 IF YOU READ THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES IT SAYS SEVEN DIFFERENT 30:42 TIMES SHE HEARD HIS VOICE CASTING OUT DEVILS. 30:48 AND SO, HERE'S THIS MAN, HE'S IN CHURCH, BUT THE PREACHING OF THE 30:52 GOSPEL - AND, YOU KNOW, HE - YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS IN LUKE 30:55 CHAPTER 4:33, "...THERE WAS A MAN WHO HAD A SPIRIT OF AN 30:59 UNCLEAN DEMON." AND, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME 31:01 PASTORS WHO SAY, 'NOW SOME OF THESE DEMONS ARE UNCLEAN AND 31:03 THEY'RE REALLY THE BAD ONES.' ALL DEMONS ARE UNCLEAN. 31:07 THERE ARE NO CLEAN DEMONS. AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT MEANS 'THE 31:11 BAD SPIRIT' - THAT'S ALL IT'S SAYING. 31:12 FOR THE JEWISH MIND YOU HAD CLEAN FOODS AND UNCLEAN FOODS; 31:16 YOU HAD THE GOOD ANGELS AND THE UNCLEAN SPIRITS. 31:19 SO THERE ARE SOME CHARISMATIC PASTORS OUT THERE THAT SAY, 'AND 31:22 THIS ONE WAS REALLY BAD BECAUSE HE WAS AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT AND HE 31:25 MAKES PEOPLE LEAVE THEIR ROOMS MESSY.' THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT'S 31:28 TALKING ABOUT. AGAIN, LUKE - FIRST MIRACLE 31:35 - MARK - FIRST MIRACLE. SO RIGHT AFTER DEFEATING THE 31:39 DEVIL IN THE WILDERNESS, HE NOW ENCOUNTERS A DEVIL 31:42 IN THE CHURCH. ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 31:45 WHAT'S THAT MAN DOING GOING TO CHURCH? 31:47 DO DEVILS GO TO CHURCH? >>YES. 31:50 >>DID JESUS HAVE A JUDAS AMONG THE APOSTLES? 31:53 >>AMEN. >>DID HE KNOW THERE WAS A 31:55 JUDAS AMONG THE APOSTLES? >>YES. 31:57 >>AND, ULTIMATELY, SATAN POSSESSED JUDAS BECAUSE IT SAYS, 32:02 'SATAN ENTERED HIM' THERE AT THE LAST SUPPER. 32:06 HE HAD - HE HAD BEEN CLINGING TO THAT SECRET SIN OF GREED AND 32:10 PRIDE AND HE WOULDN'T LET IT GO. CAN THE DEVIL QUOTE THE BIBLE? 32:18 IN THE WILDERNESS DID SATAN QUOTE THE SCRIPTURES TO JESUS? 32:20 >>YES. >>YES HE DID. 32:22 SIR WALTER SCOTT SAID, 'A SORT OF CREEPING COMES OVER MY SKIN 32:26 WHEN I HEAR THE DEVIL QUOTE SCRIPTURE.' 32:29 ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SURF THROUGH RELIGIOUS CHANNELS AND 32:32 YOU'LL SOMETIMES SEE SILVER-TONGUED DEVILS QUOTING 32:36 SCRIPTURE AND THEN THEY MISQUOTE AND THAT'S WHAT THE DEVIL 32:38 DID WITH JESUS IN THE WILDERNESS. 32:40 HE PROPERLY QUOTED PART OF IT AND THEN HE LEFT SOMETHING VERY 32:43 IMPORTANT OUT SO THE WHOLE THING WAS TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT - 32:46 TRYING TO USE THE SCRIPTURES TO SAY HE'S SUPPOSED TO JUMP OFF 32:48 THE TEMPLE - AND THE DEVIL STILL DOES THAT TODAY - MISQUOTES 32:52 SCRIPTURE. >>AMEN. 32:54 >>MARK 1:24 - BACK TO THAT STORY IN MARK WHERE JESUS CAST OUT THE 32:58 DEVIL - AND WHEN JESUS TOLD THE DEVIL TO COME OUT, THE 33:01 DEMON-POSSESSED MAN RESPONDED, "LET US ALONE!" 33:05 SO DOES THAT MAN HAVE MORE THAN ONE DEVIL? 33:07 AGAIN, HE'S IN CHURCH - "LET US ALONE! 33:10 WHAT HAVE WE TO DO WITH YOU, JESUS OF NAZARETH? 33:13 DID YOU COME TO DESTROY US? I KNOW WHO YOU ARE" - IT'S 33:16 INTERESTING, HE GOES BETWEEN US AND I - "I KNOW WHO YOU ARE - 33:19 THE HOLY ONE OF GOD!'" SO DID THEY KNOW WHO HE WAS? THEY DID. 33:27 THEY RECOGNIZED THAT HE HAD A WHOLE DIFFERENT SPIRIT ABOUT - 33:29 SEE, KEEP IN MIND, WHEN ADAM AND EVE SINNED, SOMETHING CHANGED. 33:35 ADAM AND EVE WERE CLOTHED WITH GARMENTS OF LIGHT. 33:38 WHEN GOD MADE ADAM AND EVE, COULD ADAM AND EVE - BEFORE SIN 33:42 - COULD THEY SEE THAT SPIRITUAL REALM? 33:46 WERE ADAM AND EVE - WERE ANGELS PLAYING PEEK-A-BOO SO THEY 33:49 COULDN'T SEE THEM, WITH ADAM AND EVE? 33:51 OR COULD THEY SEE GOD? THEY COULD LOOK ON GOD. 33:54 THEY TALKED TO HIM IN THE GARDEN. 33:55 NOW, IF YOU CAN SEE GOD, CAN YOU SEE ANGELS? 33:57 >>YES. >>YOU WOULD THINK. 33:59 BUT WHEN THEY SINNED AND THOSE GARMENTS OF LIGHT FADED AND 34:02 EVAPORATED, I BELIEVE THAT THEY LOST A WHOLE DIMENSION - THERE'S 34:07 A SPIRITUAL REALM ALL AROUND US - LET ME PROVE THAT TO YOU. 34:12 WHEN ELISHA WAS IN THE CITY OF DOTHAN, IN THE SECOND BOOK OF 34:16 KINGS, AND THE ASSYRIAN KING SENT AN ARMY TO SURROUND THE 34:20 CITY DURING THE NIGHT, AND ELISHA'S SERVANT GOT UP - HE SAW 34:24 THE ARMY THAT HAD GATHERED THERE TO, OSTENSIBLY, CAPTURE ELISHA, 34:28 AND HE WAS TERRIFIED AND HE WOKE UP ELISHA AND SAID, 'MASTER, 34:31 ALAS! WHAT SHALL WE DO?' 34:33 AND ELISHA LOOKED AND HE SAW THAT THE WHOLE CITY WAS 34:35 SURROUNDED BY THIS ARMY THAT WAS MOUNTED OF ASSYRIAN SOLDIERS, 34:40 BUT HE WASN'T WORRIED. AND HIS SERVANT WAS WONDERING WHY. 34:43 AND ELISHA PRAYED AND SAID, 'LORD, OPEN HIS EYES.' AND THE 34:48 LORD OPENED THE EYES OF HIS SERVANT AND HE SAW, IN THE 34:51 MOUNTAINS SURROUNDING THE ASSYRIAN ARMY, THAT WAS 34:55 SURROUNDING THE LITTLE TOWN OF DOTHAN, GOD HAD THE MOUNTAIN 34:58 FULL, IT SAYS, OF CHARIOTS AND HORSES OF FIRE - GOD'S HOSTS - 35:06 HIS HOLY ANGELS WERE COMPLETELY SURROUNDING ELISHA - PROTECTING 35:09 HIM FROM THE ASSYRIAN ARMY WAS NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. 35:13 >>AMEN. >>AND YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD IT 35:15 SAID, 'THEY THAT BE WITH US ARE MORE THAN THEY 35:19 THAT BE WITH THEM. AND JESUS, WHEN HE WAS GOING TO 35:22 THE CROSS AND PETER PULLED OUT HIS SWORD, HE SAID, 'PETER, 35:24 PUT YOUR SWORD AWAY. DON'T YOU KNOW THAT I COULD 35:26 SPEAK TO MY FATHER AND HE WILL SEND TWELVE LEGIONS OF ANGELS?' 35:30 - THE MAN WHO WAS POSSESSED ONLY HAD ONE LEGION. 35:33 JESUS SAID, 'I CAN CALL FOR TWELVE LEGIONS OF ANGELS. 35:37 AND SO, THIS IS GOING ON AROUND US ALL THE TIME - ANGELS - 35:40 MINISTERING SPIRITS OF GOD ARE TAKING OUR PRAYERS BACK AND 35:42 FORTH. OFTEN WHEN YOU'RE PROTECTED AND 35:45 YOU NEARLY HAVE A CAR ACCIDENT YOU SAY, 'JESUS SAVED ME.' WELL, 35:48 JESUS DID SAVE YOU, BUT HOW DID HE DO IT? THROUGH AN ANGEL. 35:53 AND SO, THE ANGELS ARE THE ONES WHO ARE REALLY ON THE FRONT 35:57 LINES AROUND US. THERE IS A SPIRITUAL BATTLE 36:00 GOING ON AROUND US AND YOU AND I CAN RESPOND IN WAYS THAT WILL 36:06 HELP US BE VICTORIOUS IN THOSE BATTLES OR WE CAN 36:09 BE EASILY OVERCOME. BUT THE DEVIL GOES TO CHURCH. 36:13 YOU CAN SEE THAT HERE. THIS MAN WENT TO CHURCH. 36:15 JAMES 2:19, "YOU BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ONE GOD. 36:19 YOU DO WELL. EVEN THE DEMONS BELIEVE - AND TREMBLE!" 36:23 NOW THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I THOUGHT MORE ABOUT THIS WEEK - 36:26 EVIL ANGELS ARE NOT HAPPY. THEY'RE JUST UNHAPPY. 36:31 WHY ARE THEY UNHAPPY? THEY HAVE BEEN CAST OUT OF 36:34 HEAVEN AND THEY KNOW THEY'RE NEVER GOING BACK. 36:36 THEY DON'T LIKE YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO GET BACK. 36:41 WE ARE SEPARATED FROM GOD, ALSO, YOU KNOW? 36:43 BUT BECAUSE OF THE MERCY OF CHRIST, WE HAVE A PROBATIONARY 36:46 TIME. THE FALLEN ANGELS HAD A PROBATIONARY TIME - THEY USED IT 36:49 UP. IT'S GONE. THEY'RE - THEY'VE COMMITTED THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. 36:53 I'VE ACTUALLY HEARD PEOPLE ASK ME BEFORE, 'PASTOR DOUG, NOW IF 36:57 THE DEVIL REPENTS' - THEY'RE OPTIMISTIC - 'WOULD GOD FORGIVE 37:04 HIM?' NOW HE'S NOT GOING TO REPENT - DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH. 37:08 HE HAS COMMITTED THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. 37:10 HE HAS COMPLETELY LOST HIS CAPACITY TO REPENT, AS HAVE ALL 37:14 OF THE FALLEN ANGELS - THEY'RE NOT GOING TO REPENT. 37:16 THEY ARE SEALED. THEY ARE DOOMED. THEY ARE KEPT IN 37:21 EVERLASTING CHAINS OF DARKNESS WAITING FOR THAT FATEFUL DAY. 37:24 THEY DON'T KNOW WHEN, BUT THE BIBLE SAYS, 'WOE UNTO THE 37:27 INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH FOR SATAN HAS COME DOWN TO YOU 37:29 HAVING GREAT WRATH' - THIS IS REVELATION 12 - 'BECAUSE HE 37:32 KNOWS HIS TIME IS SHORT.' THE DEMONS TREMBLE - THEY KNOW THEIR 37:37 DAY OF JUDGMENT IS COMING. CHRIST IS GOING TO SAY, 'DEPART 37:40 YE CURSED, INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS 37:44 ANGELS.' THEY KNOW THAT IT IS NOT GOING TO END WELL FOR THEM. 37:49 AND SO, THEY'RE JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, SOME KIND OF MANGY 37:53 PIT BULL THAT'S OUT THERE TRY - NOW SOME OF YOU ARE GOING TO 37:55 COME UP TO ME LATER AND SAY, 'I'VE GOT A PIT BULL, DON'T SAY 37:58 THAT.' BUT THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO TEAR AND RIP AS MANY AS THEY 38:03 CAN ON THEIR WAY DOWN. IT'S - THEY'RE LIKE THESE SUICIDE 38:07 BOMBERS. THEY DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM ANYMORE, THEY'RE 38:11 JUST TRYING TO TAKE AS MANY WITH THEM AS THEY CAN. 38:14 SO THEY KNOW THEY'RE DOOMED AND HE'S COME DOWN WITH GREAT WRATH 38:17 TO TRY AND CAUSE AS MUCH MISERY AS HE CAN. 38:20 NOW, HAVING SET THE STAGE AND HOPEFULLY YOU'VE GOT A PICTURE 38:24 THAT THE DEVILS ARE REAL - THEY'RE OUT THERE - AND WHAT 38:26 THEY'RE LIKE. JESUS GIVES US A DIVINE MANDATE. 38:30 YOU READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN MARK 6:12 - HE SENT OUT THE DISCIPLES 38:36 AND "SO THEY WENT OUT AND PREACHED THAT PEOPLE SHOULD 38:40 REPENT. AND THEY CAST OUT MANY DEMONS, 38:44 AND ANOINTED WITH OIL MANY WHO WERE SICK, AND HEALED THEM." 38:50 YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 'WELL, PASTOR DOUG, NOW ARE WE GOING TO 38:53 START A SMALL GROUP MINISTRY HERE AT GRANITE BAY CALLED 'THE 38:56 EXORCISM MINISTRY'? WHO WOULD LIKE TO LEAD THAT GROUP? 39:04 I THINK THAT MAKES US ALL - INCLUDING ME - A LITTLE 39:05 UNCOMFORTABLE, BUT I HAVE TO FAITHFULLY PROCLAIM THE WORD TO 39:09 YOU, FRIENDS, AND TELL YOU THAT, AT LEAST IN THE TIME OF CHRIST, 39:12 HE SENT THE DISCIPLES OUT AND THEY WERE CASTING OUT DEVILS. 39:16 NOW, DO - WE BELIEVE IN PREACHING? 39:17 NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS, 'THEY PREACHED THAT PEOPLE SHOULD 39:19 REPENT.' DO WE BELIEVE IN THAT? 39:20 >>YES. >>DO WE DO THAT? 39:22 AND THEN YOU JUMP AND IT SAYS, 'THEY ANOINTED MANY WHO WERE 39:25 SICK, WITH OIL.' DO WE BELIEVE IN THAT? 39:27 DO WE DO THAT? NOW WHAT'S IT SAY JUST BETWEEN THERE? 39:30 THEY CAST OUT MANY DEMONS. YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING, 39:33 'WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?' DO YOU THINK THAT'S STILL 39:36 PART OF THE MESSAGE? IT IS. 39:39 WHAT IT MEANS AND HOW THEY DID IT WILL SURPRISE YOU. 39:43 AND THAT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO BE MORE OF PART 2, SO - BUT IT IS 39:47 VERY CLEARLY TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE. 39:49 JESUS SAID - MATTHEW 10:8 - LISTEN, THIS IS WHAT HE SAID 39:52 WHEN HE SENT OUT THE APOSTLES, "HEAL THE SICK, CLEANSE THE 39:55 LEPERS, RAISE THE DEAD, CAST OUT DEMONS. 39:59 FREELY YOU HAVE RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE. 40:01 NOW WE HAVEN'T SEEN TOO MANY DEAD RAISED LATELY, BUT I HAVE 40:06 SEEN PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT FROM DEATH TO LIFE 40:08 THROUGH THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL. >>AMEN. 40:11 >>SO WHEN YOU PREACH THE GOSPEL, THE DEAD ARE RAISED. 40:14 I DO BELIEVE THAT BEFORE CHRIST COMES BACK AGAIN - YOU KNOW, 40:17 WHERE SIN ABOUNDS, GRACE ABOUNDS - AND, AS WE NEAR THE END AND 40:20 WE'RE GOING TO SEE AN INCREASE OF DIABOLICAL POWERS, SIGNS, AND 40:25 WONDERS, GOD IS GOING TO POUR OUT THE SPIRIT ON HIS PEOPLE AND 40:28 WE WILL, ONCE AGAIN, BEGIN TO SEE THE SAME KIND OF POWER AND 40:32 MIRACLES THAT YOU SAW AT PENTECOST. 40:34 GOD HASN'T CHANGED. >>AMEN. 40:36 >>AND IF YOU SAW THAT KIND OF DEMONSTRATION OF THE POWER OF 40:38 GOD DURING THE FORMER RAIN AT PENTECOST, WHEN ALL THESE SIGNS 40:41 AND WONDERS AND MIRACLES TO CREATE A GREAT REVIVAL, WHY 40:45 WOULD WE THINK THAT GOD'S GOSPEL IS GOING TO END WITH A WHIMPER 40:49 OF HIS POWER? OF COURSE HE'S GOING TO POUR OUT 40:51 HIS SPIRIT AND THERE'S GOING TO BE GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS - AND 40:54 I THINK THE DEAD'LL BE RAISED AGAIN. 40:56 I THINK THERE WILL BE MIRACULOUS HEALING OF THE SICK. 40:59 >>AMEN. >>NOT ONLY THAT - WHICH COMES 41:01 FROM GOOD MEDICAL MINISTRY. MARK 16:17 - THIS IS THE GREAT 41:05 COMMISSION - JESUS SENDS OUT THE APOSTLES. 41:07 YOU KNOW THE GREAT COMMISSION IN MATTHEW, LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS 41:10 IN MARK 16, VERSE 17, "AND THESE SIGNS WILL FOLLOW THOSE WHO 41:14 BELIEVE: IN MY NAME THEY WILL CAST OUT DEMONS; THEY WILL SPEAK 41:19 WITH NEW TONGUES;" NOW WE KNOW THAT THEY SPOKE WITH TONGUES. 41:24 WE KNOW THAT THE DISCIPLES WENT OUT AND THEY CAST OUT DEVILS. 41:26 AND THE QUESTION IS: IS THAT TO BE PART OF IT? HERE'S WHAT I 41:31 THINK: THE REASON - YOU NOTICE WHAT I SAID EARLIER? 41:36 OLD TESTAMENT - VERY LITTLE ABOUT DEMONIC POSSESSION - 41:39 IT'S THERE - IT DOESN'T TALK ABOUT - THE JEWISH PRIEST DIDN'T 41:43 SAY, YOU KNOW, COME FOR - WE'VE GOT A SPECIAL SACRIFICE FOR 41:46 BEING DELIVERED FROM DEMONS. 41:48 AND ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT SACRIFICES FOR LEPROSY AND ALL 41:50 THESE DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT YOU DON'T READ A LOT ABOUT IT. 41:53 KING SAUL AND MAYBE A COUPLE OF OTHERS - BALAAM WAS POSSESSED - 41:56 AND THEN YOU GET TO THE EPISTLES - THEY DON'T TALK A LOT - IT IS 42:02 IN THE BOOK OF ACTS IN THE GOSPELS, BUT WHEREVER YOU SEE 42:04 THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL, YOU SEE THE RESISTANCE OF THE 42:09 DEVILS, BECAUSE THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE 42:14 MEANS OF CASTING OUT THE DEVIL. >>AMEN. 42:18 >>IT IS THE WORD - WHAT DID JESUS USE AGAINST THE DEVIL? 42:22 >>IT IS WRITTEN. >>WHEN SATAN CAME TO CHRIST IN 42:24 THE WILDERNESS AND HE TEMPTED HIM - THOSE THREE PRIMARY 42:26 TEMPTATIONS - HE MET EVERY TEMPTATION BY SAYING, 42:30 'IT IS WRITTEN. IT IS WRITTEN. 42:32 IT IS WRITTEN.' AND FINALLY, THE DEVIL HAD TO LEAVE. 42:36 AND IT'S THE POWER OF THE WORD, STILL, THAT DOES THAT - THAT 42:39 MAKES THAT DIFFERENCE. SO WE HAVE A DIVINE MANDATE: 42:46 SATAN AND HIS DEVILS CAN CAUSE PHYSICAL REACTIONS. 42:50 I WANT YOU TO NOTICE, QUICKLY, MARK 1:25 - WHEN JESUS REBUKED 42:54 THE DEVIL THERE IN THE SYNAGOGUE, HE SAID, 'BE QUIET 42:58 AND COME OUT OF HIM.' THE DEVIL WAS TALKING AND I SHOULD MENTION 43:02 RIGHT HERE - NO, I'LL SAY THAT IN A MOMENT - WHEN THAT HAPPENED 43:08 IT SAYS, "...THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT HAD CONVULSED HIM AND CRIED OUT 43:12 WITH A LOUD VOICE, HE CAME OUT OF HIM." 43:14 THERE WAS A CONVULSION. HE WAS WRITHING. 43:17 MARK 9:26, "THEN THE SPIRIT CRIED OUT, CONVULSED HIM 43:21 GREATLY, AND CAME OUT OF HIM. AND HE BECAME AS ONE DEAD, SO 43:25 THAT MANY SAID, 'HE IS DEAD.' BUT JESUS TOOK HIM BY THE HAND 43:28 AND LIFTED HIM UP, AND HE AROSE." 43:31 THERE WAS A GREAT BATTLE THAT TRANSPIRED, SOMETIMES. 43:34 WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE BORN AS A NATION AND THEY CAME 43:38 OUT OF EGYPT, DID THEY COME WITH JUST, YOU KNOW, WAVING HANKIES 43:44 AND EVERYTHING WAS FINE? OR WAS THERE A GREAT CONVULSION? 43:50 WAS THERE RESISTANCE? DID THE PHARAOH CHASE AFTER THEM? 43:54 DID HE TRY TO HANG ONTO HIM AND CLAW THEM TO KEEP THEM? 43:58 WHEN YOU ARE BREAKING FREE - WHEN THERE IS A NEW BIRTH - DO 44:03 WOMEN SOMETIMES GO THROUGH CONTRACTIONS? 44:07 THEY MAY BE WALKING AROUND DURING THEIR PREGNANCY WITH A 44:09 ROSY GLOW - AFTER MORNING SICKNESS - BUT THEN THAT DAY 44:16 COMES WHERE THERE'S GOING TO BE A BIRTH AND THEIR BODIES - LET'S 44:20 FACE IT - A LITTLE HUMAN IS GOING TO COME OUT OF ANOTHER 44:22 HUMAN - THAT'S KIND OF A STRANGE THING TO HAPPEN. 44:25 AND THERE'S A CONVULSION THAT HAPPENS AND WHEN PEOPLE ARE 44:30 BEING DELIVERED FROM THE DEVIL AND THEY ARE BEING BORN AGAIN, 44:33 THERE'S A BATTLE. PEOPLE WANT TO BE SAVED WITHOUT ANY KIND OF 44:36 STRUGGLE. AND WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO GIVE UP THE OLD WAYS AND TAKE 44:40 ON A NEW WAY OF LIFE, THERE'S OFTEN A BATTLE. 44:43 AND THE DEVIL WILL TIGHTEN HIS GRIP AND I RESENT, SOMETIMES, 44:48 WHEN PASTORS TELL PEOPLE 'JUST COME FORWARD, SAY THIS PRAYER, 44:50 AND EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE FINE.' IT'S NOT HONEST. 44:53 YOU MIGHT FEEL A STRUGGLE BECAUSE YOU'VE GONE FROM BEING 44:56 THE, YOU KNOW, COMPLIANT SLAVE OF THE DEVIL, TO BEING HIS 44:59 ENEMY, AND YOU'RE GOING TO MEET WITH SOME RESISTANCE AND PEOPLE 45:04 NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR THAT AND DISCIPLED AND TAUGHT. 45:06 SO THERE'S A PHYSICAL REACTION, OFTEN, WHEN PEOPLE ARE BEING 45:09 DELIVERED. DEMONS MAY SPEAK THROUGH PEOPLE 45:13 - LUKE 8:30, "JESUS ASKED HIM, SAYING, 'WHAT IS YOUR NAME?'" 45:16 THIS IS THE ONLY TIME WHEN JESUS ACTUALLY ADDRESSED THE 45:18 DEMON - "AND HE SAID, 'LEGION,' BECAUSE MANY DEMONS HAD ENTERED 45:22 HIM." GO TO LUKE 4:33, "NOW IN THE 45:26 SYNAGOGUE THERE WAS A MAN WHO HAD A SPIRIT OF 45:27 AN UNCLEAN DEMON. AND HE CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD 45:30 VOICE, SAYING, 'LET US ALONE! WHAT HAVE WE TO DO WITH 45:33 YOU, JESUS OF NAZARETH? DID YOU COME TO DESTROY US? 45:36 I KNOW WHO YOU ARE - THE HOLY ONE OF GOD!' 45:38 BUT JESUS REBUKED HIM, SAYING, 'BE QUIET, AND COME OUT OF HIM!' 45:42 AND WHEN THE DEMON HAD THROWN HIM" - THERE YOU HAVE A 45:44 CONVULSION AGAIN - "WHEN THE DEMON HAD THROWN HIM IN THEIR 45:47 MIDST, IT CAME OUT OF HIM AND DID NOT HURT HIM." 45:50 IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS HURTING HIM BUT HE ENDED UP BEING OKAY. 45:53 "THEN THEY WERE ALL AMAZED AND SPOKE AMONG THEMSELVES SAYING, 45:56 'WHAT A WORD IS THIS? FOR WITH AUTHORITY AND POWER HE 46:00 COMMANDS THE UNCLEAN SPIRITS AND THEY COME OUT.'" 46:02 SO THERE'S A KEY RIGHT THERE. HE SPOKE THE WORD - 46:06 >>AMEN. >>AND THE DEMONS CAME OUT. 46:10 I'M ALWAYS SUSPICIOUS OF PASTORS THAT SAY THEY'VE GOT A MINISTRY 46:13 OF EXORCISMS AND THEY HAVE A BUSINESS CARD THAT SAYS, 'DEMONS 46:16 ARE US' AND WE CAST OUT DEVILS, CALL OUR NUMBER, WE'LL COME OVER 46:20 AND' - YOU KNOW, I JUST DON'T SEE ANY OF THE DISCIPLES IN THE 46:23 BIBLE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE DEMON POSSESSED. 46:27 THEY ENCOUNTERED IT AND THEY DEALT WITH IT. AND I'VE SEEN IT. 46:31 YOU KNOW, I - IN SOME OF THESE COUNTRIES WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF 46:35 PAGAN WORSHIP AND - I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS IN INDIA AT A 46:38 MEETING, A LADY JUST BEGAN TO SHRIEK AND WRITHE AND THE 46:41 PASTORS ACTED LIKE, 'OH YEAH, WE'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE. 46:44 SHE'S DEMON POSSESSED.' AND THEY WENT AND THEY GATHERED AROUND - 46:46 THEY ACTUALLY HAD TO HOLD HER DOWN AND THEY PRAYED FOR HER. 46:48 SHE SETTLED DOWN - SHE GOT UP AND SAT DOWN - LOOKED LIKE SHE 46:51 WAS - HAD HER SENSES THROUGH THE REST OF THE MEETING. 46:54 I THOUGHT, 'WOW, HOPE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.' 46:57 (LAUGHTER) I HAD IT HAPPEN IN AFRICA - CAMEROON - JUST A LADY 47:02 OUT OF CONTROL - AND THEY ACTUALLY LIFTED THE LADY UP OVER 47:04 THEIR HEADS - THEY HAD TO CARRY HER - SEVERAL PASTORS. 47:06 IT'S LIKE, 'OH YEAH, HERE WE GO AGAIN.' I GUESS THEY DEAL WITH 47:08 IT QUITE A BIT. THEY CARRIED HER BEHIND THE 47:10 STAGE, THERE WAS THIS BIG RUCKUS BACK THERE AND THEY - WHILE I'M 47:12 PREACHING SHE - WHILE SHE HEARD THE WORD THIS DEMON JUST ENTERED 47:16 THIS PERSON AND JEAN SAYS HE'S SEEN IT TOO, YEAH. 47:21 AND PRAYED FOR HER AND, AGAIN, HER CALMNESS WAS RESTORED. 47:26 SO IT'S VERY REAL AND, YOU KNOW, IN OUR CULTURE, WE JUST - WE 47:31 DON'T - I'VE HAD PEOPLE COME UP TO ME BEFORE THAT JUST HAD AN 47:34 INTENSITY AND HATRED - WHILE I WAS PREACHING THEY INTERRUPTED 47:38 THE SERMONS AND YOU JUST KNEW - I SAID, 'THE DEVIL IS IN THAT 47:41 PERSON.' AND THEY JUST - THEY WANT TO DO YOU VIOLENCE BECAUSE 47:46 THEY'RE CONVICTED BY THE WORD. SO HERE'S - I'M GOING TO END 47:52 SECTION 1 BY ASKING THIS: CAN WE WIN THE BATTLE AGAINST THE DEVIL 47:57 IN THIS SPIRITUAL WARFARE? >>YES. 47:59 >>LET ME GIVE YOU A FEW PROMISES. 48:00 I'LL GIVE YOU MORE LATER. COLOSSIANS 1:13, "HE HAS 48:04 DELIVERED US FROM THE POWER OF DARKNESS AND CONVEYED US INTO 48:09 THE KINGDOM OF THE SON" - HE WILL OR HE HAS? 48:11 >>HAS. >>YOU CAN - THE KINGDOM OF GOD 48:14 IS AT HAND - YOU CAN LEAVE THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS THAT 48:17 ENCOMPASSES THIS WORLD - THE WHOLE WORLD IS IN 48:19 DARKNESS, WE READ. 1 JOHN 2:13, "I WRITE TO YOU, 48:23 YOUNG MEN, BECAUSE YOU HAVE OVERCOME THE WICKED ONE." 48:27 CAN WE OVERCOME THE WICKED ONE? >>YES. 48:30 >>1 JOHN 4:4, "YOU ARE OF GOD, LITTLE CHILDREN, AND HAVE 48:35 OVERCOME THEM, BECAUSE HE WHO IS IN YOU IS GREATER THAN HE WHO IS 48:40 IN THE WORLD." AND WHO IS HE TALKING ABOUT THAT'S IN THE 48:41 WORLD? IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE DEVIL - BUT HE THAT IS IN YOU IS 48:45 GREATER THAN THE ONE WHO KEEPS THE WORLD IN DARKNESS. 48:48 SO YES, YOU CAN OVERCOME. HOW DO WE DEFEAT THE DEVIL? 48:53 NOW THIS IS JUST THE FIRST PART - PSALM 119, VERSE 11, "YOUR 48:59 WORD I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY HEART, THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN AGAINST 49:03 YOU." JAMES 4:7, "THEREFORE SUBMIT TO GOD. 49:08 RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU." 49:11 HOW DO YOU SUBMIT TO GOD? >>PRAYER. 49:14 >>YOU PRAY, YOU SAY, 'LORD, I AM WILLING TO MAKE YOU LORD AND 49:19 COMPLY WITH YOUR WORD. I AM GOING TO BE YOUR SERVANT. 49:23 YOU ARE GOING TO BE MY LORD.' INSTEAD OF SUBMITTING TO THE 49:26 DEVIL AS YOUR LORD, YOU SUBMIT TO GOD AS YOUR LORD. 49:29 A WILLINGNESS TO OBEY WHO YOUR NEW MASTER IS. 49:32 IF YOU SUBMIT TO THE LORD, "DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND HE WILL DRAW 49:36 NEAR TO YOU." THE DEVIL FLEES FROM YOU. 49:40 "CLEANSE YOUR HANDS, YOU SINNERS; AND PURIFY YOUR HEARTS, 49:42 YOU DOUBLE-MINDED." YOU KNOW, IN THE LORD'S PRAYER, 49:46 WHEN IT SAYS, 'DELIVER US FROM EVIL'? 49:48 YOU KNOW WHAT IT ACTUALLY SAYS IN THE ORIGINAL? 49:50 YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN THE NEW KING JAMES AND SOME OF THE 49:52 OTHER TRANSLATIONS - IT LITERALLY SAYS, 'DELIVER US FROM 49:55 THE EVIL ONE.' NOW, THE FACT THAT THE LORD'S PRAYER SAYS, 49:59 'GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD' IMPLIES THAT EVERY DAY WE 50:04 NEED TO BE PRAYING THAT GOD WILL DELIVER US FROM THE EVIL ONE, 50:08 BECAUSE EVERY DAY WE ARE HARASSED BY THE DEVIL. 50:11 AND I'LL GIVE YOU ONE MORE. 50:13 1 PETER 5:8 AND 9, "BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT; BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY 50:19 THE DEVIL WALKS ABOUT LIKE A ROARING LION" - LIONS LIKE TO 50:22 SNEAK UP THROUGH THE BUSHES - "SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR. 50:26 RESIST HIM, STEADFAST IN THE FAITH, KNOWING THAT THE SAME 50:31 SUFFERINGS ARE EXPERIENCED BY YOUR BROTHERHOOD IN THE WORLD." 50:34 CHRISTIANS EVERYWHERE ARE STRUGGLING WITH TEMPTATION AND 50:38 MANY ARE BEING VICTORIOUS AND YOU CAN BE VICTORIOUS - IS WHAT 50:42 HE'S SAYING. PETER SAYS, 'RESIST HIM 50:44 STEADFAST' WHAT DID WE START WITH? 50:47 STAND, THEREFORE, WITH THE ARMOR OF GOD BECAUSE YOU DON'T WRESTLE 50:50 AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD BUT BY - AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES AND 50:54 POWERS. JESUS FOUGHT THE DEVIL WITH THE WORD. 50:57 NOT TOO LONG AGO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DID A SPECIAL ON THE 51:02 ALASKAN BULL MOOSE AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER SEEN ONE - 51:08 IF - YOU'VE GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL; SOME OF THESE TOURISTS, 51:10 THEY'LL SEE A BIG BULL MOOSE OUT THERE ON THE ROAD IN ALASKA AND 51:13 THEY GO, 'OH, I WANT TO GET A PICTURE.' AND MORE PEOPLE ARE 51:17 KILLED BY MOOSE IN ALASKA THAN BEAR. 51:20 AND YOU'VE JUST GOT TO BE REAL - ESPECIALLY DURING THE MATING 51:24 SEASON. WHAT THE BULL MOOSE DO IS, YOU 51:28 KNOW, WHOEVER IS THE ALPHA MOOSE - IS THAT WHAT THEY CALL THEM? 51:36 THEY'VE GOT THE BIGGEST RACK OF HORNS - THEY FIGHT WITH THE 51:38 OTHER MOOSE AND THEIR PRINCIPLE WEAPON IS THESE MASSIVE RACKS 51:42 THAT THEY HAVE AND IF, DURING A BATTLE, IF ONE OF THE MOOSE - IF 51:46 HIS RACK ISN'T WELL DEVELOPED AND STRONG AND IT SNAPS OFF, 51:48 IT'S OVER. HE IS GOING TO HAVE TO SUBMIT. 51:54 AND WHAT THEY SAID IN THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ARTICLE IS 51:58 THE MOOSE ARE REALLY WINNING THE BATTLE BEFORE THE BATTLE 52:04 DEPENDING UPON HOW THEY FEED THROUGH THE SPRING AND THE 52:07 SUMMER. THOSE ONES WHO FEED ON THE 52:10 BEST AND MOST NUTRITIOUS FOOD, DEVELOP THE BIGGEST RACKS AND 52:15 THE MOST MASS SO THAT THEY CAN WIN THE BATTLE. I MEAN, THAT'S 52:21 KIND OF HOW IT IS WITH US - I DON'T MEAN TO COMPARE YOU WITH A 52:23 BULL MOOSE, BUT IT'S FEEDING NOW ON THE WORD THAT PREPARES US FOR 52:30 THE TIMES OF TRIAL THAT COME. >>AMEN. 52:33 >>IF WE ARE FEEDING OUR SOULS, THAT'S GOING TO BE THE KEY TO 52:35 OUR VICTORY. >>AMEN. 52:37 >>AND SO, IN THESE NEXT COUPLE OF PRESENTATIONS, WE'RE GOING TO 52:40 BE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING VERY REAL, FRIENDS. 52:41 WE ARE ENTERING THE LAST DAYS AND WE'RE GOING TO FEEL 52:44 SPIRITUAL BATTLES AND GOD HAS GIVEN US THE TOOLS SO THAT WE 52:48 DON'T NEED TO BE OVERCOME. >>AMEN. 52:50 >>HAS THE DEVIL BEEN HARASSING YOU? 52:52 MAYBE SOME OF YOU ARE WONDERING IF YOU'RE POSSESSED IN SOME AREA 52:55 - HE'S GOT YOU - HE'S GOT A HOLD ON YOUR LIFE AND YOU WANT TO BE 52:58 FREE. THE KEY IS GOING TO BE FOUND 53:01 IN THE WORD - IN CLAIMING THE PROMISES OF GOD AND HE 53:04 WILL GIVE YOU STRENGTH. (MUSIC) 53:16 >>AMONG THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE TROPICS, FOR 53:18 THOUSANDS OF YEARS, THE COCONUT HAS BEEN A VIRTUAL TREE OF LIFE. 53:23 THE PEOPLE USE IT FOR FOOD, FOR CLOTHING, FOR WATER, FOR TOOLS, 53:27 SOAP - IT DOES JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING. 53:31 THE COCONUT HAS ALSO SAVED A LOT OF LIVES. 53:35 DURING WORLD WAR II, PILOTS THAT WERE SHOT DOWN OR SAILORS THAT 53:38 WERE STRANDED ON PACIFIC ISLANDS, THEY LIVED FOR MANY 53:40 MONTHS ON NOTHING OTHER THAN THE COCONUT TREES THAT WERE ON THEIR 53:44 ISLANDS. YESSIR, THE COCONUT IS A TREE OF LIFE. 53:48 ONE OF THE AMAZING THINGS ABOUT THE COCONUT IS THEY'RE DESIGNED 53:51 SO THEY'RE ACTUALLY ABLE TO FLOAT ACROSS OCEANS. 53:55 COCONUTS CAN GO THOUSANDS OF MILES AFTER MANY MONTHS, BE 53:57 WASHED UP ON SOME DESERTED SANDY BEACH, THEN THEY TAKE ROOT, 54:03 SPROUT, COME TO LIFE, AND THEY'LL DEVELOP A WHOLE NEW 54:06 ECOSYSTEM, HOLDING ISLANDS IN PLACE THROUGH A HURRICANE. 54:10 WHEN THE ANCIENT POLYNESIAN TRAVELERS CROSSING OCEANS SAW AN 54:13 ISLAND WITH COCONUT TREES, THEY KNEW THERE WAS HOPE. 54:17 IT'S AMAZING HOW, IN VIRTUALLY NO TIME AT ALL, THOSE LIVING ON 54:20 PACIFIC ISLANDS KNOW HOW TO MAKE BASKETS AND ALL KINDS OF TOOLS 54:24 FROM THE LEAVES OF THE COCONUT TREE. 54:29 THE COCONUTS EVEN SERVE DIFFERENT PURPOSES AT DIFFERENT 54:32 TIMES IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT. THE YOUNGER, GREEN COCONUTS, 54:34 THEY'RE FULL OF WATER AND THAT'LL KEEP YOU ALIVE. 54:39 YOU CAN EVEN MAKE YOUR UTENSILS FROM THE COCONUT. 54:42 MY SPOON IS PART OF THE GREEN SHELL AND HERE, THIS IS A 54:47 COCONUT JELLY - MAKES GOOD FOR BREAKFAST. 54:52 THE MORE MATURE COCONUTS, THAT'S WHERE YOU GET THE MEAT - BUT YOU 54:55 WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE NOT BAD AND THE WAY THAT YOU 54:57 TEST THIS IS YOU CAN HEAR THE WATER INSIDE. 54:59 HERE, BRING THAT MIC OVER HERE. CAN YOU HEAR IT? 55:03 THAT'S A GOOD ONE. HOW ABOUT WE TAKE A BITE? 55:06 NOW THAT MAKES A MEAL THAT WILL REALLY FILL YOU UP AND IT 55:08 CLEANS YOUR TEETH AT THE SAME TIME. 55:13 THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE, JESUS USES A NUMBER OF METAPHORS TO REMIND 55:16 US THAT EVERYTHING WE NEED TO SURVIVE COMES FROM HIM. 55:20 HE SAYS THAT HE'S THE LIVING WATER. 55:21 JESUS TELLS US THAT HE IS THE BREAD OF LIFE. 55:24 HIS ROBE COVERS US WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS. 55:27 HE IS OUR GOOD SHEPHERD THAT PROTECTS US. 55:29 JESUS IS THE LIVING VINE THROUGH WHICH WE GET OUR LIFE AND OUR 55:33 NOURISHMENT. YOU MIGHT SAY JESUS IS LIKE THE 55:36 COCONUT TREE - A TREE OF LIFE. YOU KNOW, THE FIRST FEW VERSES 55:39 IN THE BIBLE TELL THAT GOD PROVIDED A TREE OF LIFE FOR MAN 55:43 SO THAT HE COULD LIVE FOREVER. BUT, BECAUSE OF SIN, MAN WAS 55:46 SEPARATED FROM THAT TREE AND FROM THE GARDEN. 55:48 BUT THROUGH TRUSTING IN JESUS AND TRUSTING IN HIS SACRIFICE ON 55:52 THE CROSS, WE ONCE AGAIN WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE TREE OF LIFE 55:55 AND HAVE ETERNAL LIFE WITH HIM IN THE KINGDOM. 55:58 BUT THIS IS ALL MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE WE TRUST IN JESUS, 56:01 WHO IS THE REAL TREE OF LIFE. 56:03 JESUS SAID, 'UNLESS YOU EAT MY FLESH AND DRINK MY BLOOD, YOU 56:06 HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU.' BUT WHEN WE ACCEPT CHRIST AS OUR 56:08 SACRIFICE, AND WE ALLOW HIM TO CLEANSE US AND FILL US WITH HIS 56:11 SPIRIT, WE BECOME NEW CREATURES AND WE CAN BE WITH HIM IN 56:15 SHARING THE GIFT OF EVERLASTING LIFE WITH OTHERS. 56:18 MATTER OF FACT, WE COULD DO THAT RIGHT NOW BY TOSSING A COCONUT 56:21 OUT AND PRAYING THAT IT LANDS ON A DESERTED BEACH. (MUSIC) 56:47 >>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN IN 1965 WITH A GOD-INSPIRED CONCEPT. 56:53 >>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS AND THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST 56:56 FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU. 56:58 >>EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM 57:02 SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY, FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT 57:06 TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE. 57:10 THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON 57:13 BEGAN EXPANDING TO INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS. 57:17 IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS 57:21 GROWING OUTREACH EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING 57:24 EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD. 57:28 IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE 57:32 MINISTRY, ADDING THE BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO 57:36 PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON 57:39 MULTIPLE NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD. 57:43 FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE 57:47 BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A 57:51 TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND 57:55 WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF 57:57 EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S CHURCH 58:02 SEE A RICH HARVEST OF SOULS. 58:06 AMAZING FACTS: GOD'S MESSAGE, OUR MISSION. 58:11 (MUSIC) |
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