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>>WELCOME, GRANITE BAY FAMILY
AND ANY VISITORS WHO ARE HERE
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TODAY. I WAS THINKING HOW
APPROPRIATE IT IS THAT, JUST AT
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THE CONCLUSION OF THE PRAYER,
WHEN IT SAID, 'DELIVER US FROM
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EVIL' - I THINK YOU WERE ALL
PAINFULLY AWARE THAT THERE IS A
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BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL IN
THE WORLD TODAY AND IT'S BEEN A
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COUPLE OF WEEKS SINCE I DID
PART 1 IN THIS SERIES CALLED
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SPIRITUAL WARFARE AND LAST NIGHT
I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, I WENT ON A
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CAMPING TRIP BETWEEN PART 1 AND
PART 2 - AND, BY THE WAY, THAT'S
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HOW THE BEARD SHOWED UP.
PEOPLE MIGHT WONDER, 'PASTOR
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DOUG - IN THE FIRST DVD HE HAD
NO BEARD - SECOND DVD - BOY, HIS
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BEARD GROWS FAST.' (LAUGHTER)
I NOTICED IN MY NOTES I TALKED
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ABOUT A RECENT TERRORIST ATTACK
AND HERE WE ARE AGAIN AND THERE
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WAS ANOTHER ONE YESTERDAY -
AT LEAST IT APPEARS THAT WAY.
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THE WORLD
REALLY IS IN A SAD WAY.
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THERE CERTAINLY ARE
EVIL FORCES THAT ARE AT WAR.
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THE BIBLE TELLS US, 'WOE TO THE
INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH AND THE
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SEA FOR THE DEVIL HAS COME DOWN
UNTO YOU, HAVING GREAT WRATH
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BECAUSE HIS TIME IS SHORT.'
IT SEEMS TO INDICATE THAT, AS WE
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GET CLOSER TO THE END OF TIME,
THE DEVIL BECOMES MORE FURIOUS
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BECAUSE HE KNOWS
THAT HIS END IS COMING.
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AND SO, WE'VE BEEN TALKING
A LITTLE BIT, IN REVIEW, ABOUT
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'WHY IS THERE EVIL IN THE
WORLD?' AND THAT THE - THERE WAS
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A WAR BETWEEN SATAN - LUCIFER
- WHO WAS ONCE A GOOD ANGEL, AND
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CHRIST AND HIS ANGELS,
AND THEY WERE CAST OUT.
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AND BECAUSE OUR EARLY PARENTS
LISTENED TO THE WORD OF THE
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DEVIL INSTEAD OF THE WORD OF
GOD, THEN THERE HAS BEEN - THIS
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WORLD HAS BECOME THE BEACHHEAD,
REALLY, OF A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD
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AND EVIL, AND ALL PEOPLE, FROM
OUR FIRST PARENTS, WE BASICALLY
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BECAME INFECTED
WITH THIS DISEASE OF SIN.
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TODAY, IN PART 2, WE'RE GOING TO
TALK A LITTLE MORE SPECIFICALLY
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ABOUT 'HOW DO WE BATTLE THE
DEVIL?' AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT
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JESUS TOLD US WE
SHOULD EXPECT WOULD HAPPEN.
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I THINK MOST OF US HAVE
COMPUTERS AND I WOULD VENTURE TO
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SAY THAT MOST OF YOU WITH
COMPUTERS ALSO HAVE WHAT YOU
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WOULD CALL A SOFTWARE PROTECTION
- SOME KIND OF ANTI VIRUS
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PROTECTION ON YOUR COMPUTER
- DON'T YOU - ON YOUR COMPUTER?
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SOMETIMES IT'S KNOWN
AS ANTI-MAL WARE - SOUNDS
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INSIDIOUS, DOESN'T IT?
IT'S A COMPUTER SOFTWARE THAT
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IS USED TO PREVENT AND
DETECT MALICIOUS SOFTWARE.
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ANTI VIRUS SOFTWARE WAS
ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED TO DETECT
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AND REMOVE FROM A COMPUTER
THE VIRUSES; HOWEVER, WITH THE
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PROLIFERATION OF OTHER KINDS
OF MAL WARE, ANTI VIRUS SOFTWARE
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STARTED TO PROVIDE PROTECTION
FROM OTHER COMPUTER THREATS, IN
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PARTICULAR, MODERN ANTI VIRUS
SOFTWARE CAN PROTECT FROM A
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MALICIOUS BROWSER, A
BROWSER HIJACKER, RANSOM WARE, -
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YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
PEOPLE WILL, THROUGH A VIRUS IN
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A BACK DOOR, THEY GET INTO YOUR
COMPUTER, THEY WILL LOCK UP ALL
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OF YOUR INFORMATION - THEY'LL
COPY IT - AND THEY SAY THEY WILL
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NOT RELEASE YOUR INFORMATION
UNLESS YOU FORWARD CREDIT CARD
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PAYMENT TO THEM.
BASICALLY HOLD YOUR INFORMATION
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AND YOUR COMPUTER HOSTAGE.
THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO
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BACK THINGS UP -
BROWSERS, HACKERS, RANSOM WARE,
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KEY LOGGERS - THEY
PUT SOFTWARE ON THAT
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MEASURES ALL OF YOUR KEYSTROKES
SO THEY'LL KNOW WHEN YOU TYPE IN
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A PASSWORD AND THEN THEY TRY
THOSE TO ACCESS YOUR INFORMATION
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- WORMS, TROJAN HORSES,
FRAUD TOOLS, AD WARE, SPY WARE -
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AD WARE IS AWFUL -
SPY WARE, SPAM, SCAM
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AND FISHING TACTICS - THEY
TRY TO SECURE ONLINE IDENTITY SO
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THEY CAN LOOT
YOUR BANKING ACCOUNTS.
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THEY GET INTO YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION - MANIPULATE YOUR
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LIFE THAT WAY, THROUGH SOCIAL
ENGINEERING. WHY DO PEOPLE MAKE
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VIRUSES FOR THE COMPUTER?
TWO REASONS, REALLY - NO, THEY
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GIVE THREE HERE
BUT IT REALLY IS TWO.
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1) TO MAKE MONEY, 2) TO STEAL
ACCOUNT INFORMATION - THAT'S
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STILL 1 - MAKE MONEY - AND 3)
SOME PEOPLE DO IT JUST BECAUSE
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THEY LOVE CREATING VIRUSES TO
WATCH COMPANIES CRASH BECAUSE OF
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THE PRIDE OF SAYING
'I BROUGHT THEM DOWN.'
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IT'S JUST SELFISHNESS. SO
THEY, IN THE END, THIS IS A
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THRILL OF SEEING THE HAVOC AND
THE CHAOS THEY CAN CREATE THAT
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DRIVES THEM TO
CREATE MORE VIRUSES.
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NOW, I REMEMBER, WHEN I WAS
A KID, SEEING A ROUTINE OF THE
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THREE STOOGES WHERE THEY SNUCK
AROUND BEHIND A HOUSE AND THEY
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RELEASED A BUNCH OF RATS IN THIS
HOUSE AND THEN A FEW HOURS LATER
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THEY KNOCKED ON THE FRONT DOOR
AND SAID, 'WE'RE EXTERMINATORS.'
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AND I COULDN'T HELP BUT WONDER
IF SOME OF THESE PEOPLE THAT
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SELL ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE HAVE
PEOPLE IN DARK ROOMS SOMEWHERE
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THAT ARE CREATING NEW VIRUSES
TO HELP YOU BUY THE SOFTWARE.
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AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT'S
EVER WONDERED THAT BEFORE?
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OF COURSE, THAT WOULD BE A LACK
OF INTEGRITY AND FAR BE IT FOR
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ANY COMPANY TO EVER DO THAT.
SO, THERE IS EVIL IN THE WORLD.
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AND IN THE SAME WAY COMPUTERS
GET VIRUSES, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT
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PEOPLE CAN GET DEVILS.
WE TALKED ABOUT DEMONS.
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WE TALKED ABOUT PEOPLE HAVING
UNCLEAN SPIRITS AND EVIL SPIRITS
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AND THEY'RE CALLED BY ALL THESE
NAMES IN THE BIBLE AND, BEFORE
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YOU WALK OUT AND THINK THAT I'M
BEING SENSATIONAL, JESUS TAUGHT
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THIS, THE APOSTLES TAUGHT
THIS. YOU DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT
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IT BECAUSE FOLKS FEEL
IT'S ANTIQUATED AND IT'S
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UNSOPHISTICATED, BUT
IT IS BIBLICAL TRUTH.
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JESUS TALKED ABOUT
CASTING OUT DEVILS.
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NOW, THIS MAKES ME NERVOUS.
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AND I THINK YOU OUGHT TO
WATCH OUT FOR ANYBODY THAT WALKS
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AROUND WITH A BUSINESS CARD THAT
SAYS, 'DEMONS R US' AND 'WE CAST
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OUT DEVILS' AND 'WE HAVE AN
EXORCISM MINISTRY' AND NOWHERE
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IN THE BIBLE DID THE APOSTLES
LOOK FOR THIS, BUT WHEN THEY
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ENCOUNTERED IT, THEY DEALT
WITH IT. AND SO, JUST BE ON YOUR
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GUARD IF PEOPLE SAY THAT THEY'VE
GOT SOME SPECIAL GIFT IN THIS.
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I THINK WE OUGHT TO
AVOID IT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
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BUT NOTICE THE VERSES: MARK
16:17 - THIS IS THE LAST CHAPTER
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IN THE BOOK OF ARK - OF MARK
- "AND THESE SIGNS WILL FOLLOW
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THOSE WHO BELIEVE; IN MY NAME
SHALL THEY CAST OUT DEVILS; THEY
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SHALL SPEAK WITH NEW TONGUES;
THEY SHALL TAKE UP SERPENTS; AND
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IF THEY DRINK ANY DEADLY THING,
IT SHALL NOT HURT THEM;" - WE
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KNOW PAUL WAS BIT BY A SERPENT
AND IT WAS A DEADLY SERPENT BUT
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HE SHOOK IT OFF AND
NOTHING HAPPENED. BUT HE SAYS
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THESE SIGNS WILL
FOLLOW THOSE THAT BELIEVE.
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DO YOU BELIEVE? >>AMEN.
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>>THESE ARE THINGS. MARK 9:38,
"AND JOHN ANSWERED HIM, SAYING,
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'TEACHER, WE SAW
SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT FOLLOW US'"
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- HE'S NOT PART OF THE DISCIPLES
OR THE APOSTLES - "'CASTING OUT
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DEMONS IN YOUR NAME, AND WE
FORBADE HIM BECAUSE HE DOES NOT
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FOLLOW US.' BUT JESUS SAID,
'DO NOT FORBID HIM,'" - DO NOT
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FORBID HIM FROM DOING WHAT?
FROM CASTING OUT DEVILS IN THE
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NAME OF THE LORD - "'DO NOT
FORBID HIM, FOR NO ONE WHO WORKS
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A MIRACLE IN MY NAME'" - SO THIS
IS A MIRACLE, YOU NOTICE THAT?
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- "'CAN SOON
AFTERWARD SPEAK EVIL OF ME.'" -
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CASTING OUT DEVILS WAS
REFERRED TO AS A MIRACLE.
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IT'S THE POWER OF GOD.
SUPERNATURAL THINGS ARE
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DEALT WITH SUPERNATURALLY.
LUKE 10:17, "THEN THE SEVENTY" -
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JESUS SENT OUT SEVENTY DISCIPLES
- THESE ARE NOT APOSTLES.
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SOME HAVE ARGUED IT'S ONLY
APOSTLES THAT CAST OUT DEVILS -
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IT'S NOT TRUE -"THEN THE SEVENTY
RETURNED WITH JOY, SAYING,
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'LORD, EVEN THE DEMONS ARE
SUBJECT TO US IN YOUR NAME.'"
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HE SAID, "I SAW SATAN FALL
LIKE LIGHTNING FROM HEAVEN."
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- ACTS 5:16 - NOW THIS IS AFTER
THE HOLY SPIRIT'S POURED OUT.
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YOU'RE DEALING WITH, NOW, THE
TIME OF THE EARLY CHURCH - "ALSO
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A MULTITUDE GATHERED FROM THE
SURROUNDING CITIES TO JERUSALEM,
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BRINGING SICK PEOPLE AND THOSE
WHO WERE TORMENTED BY UNCLEAN
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SPIRITS," - TORMENTED BY UNCLEAN
SPIRITS - UNCLEAN SPIRITS
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TORMENT PEOPLE - "AND
THEY WERE ALL HEALED."
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- IT SAYS THEY WERE ALL HEALED.
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ACTS 8 - NOW, I'M NOT GIVING YOU
ALL THE VERSES, I JUST WANT TO
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MAKE MY CASE - ACTS 8, VERSE
7, "FOR UNCLEAN SPIRITS, CRYING
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WITH A LOUD VOICE, CAME OUT
OF MANY WHO WERE POSSESSED; AND
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MANY WHO WERE
PARALYZED AND LAME WERE HEALED."
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SO WE BELIEVE THE OTHER THINGS
- DOES GOD STILL HEAL THE SICK?
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NOW THESE ARE, REALLY, PRETTY
SUPERNATURAL MIRACLES WHEN YOU
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SEE THE LAME
RESTORED AND SO FORTH.
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ACTS 19 - HERE'S ANOTHER ONE -
"NOW GOD WORKED UNUSUAL MIRACLES
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BY THE HANDS OF PAUL, SO THAT
EVEN HANDKERCHIEFS OR APRONS
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WERE BROUGHT FROM HIS BODY TO
THE SICK, AND THE DISEASES LEFT
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THEM AND THE EVIL
SPIRITS WENT OUT OF THEM."
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HERE IT'S CONNECTING
DISEASE AND EVIL SPIRITS.
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CAN THE DEVIL CAUSE SICKNESS?
WE TALKED LAST WEEK ABOUT THAT
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WOMAN WHO JESUS SAID
SATAN HAD BOUND 18 YEARS AND SHE
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WAS ALL DOUBLED OVER.
SO PART OF THE EARLY CHURCH
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CERTAINLY RECOGNIZED THAT THERE
IS A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND
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EVIL AND THAT PEOPLE ARE
BEING HARASSED BY THE DEVIL.
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I BELIEVE THAT WHEN WE ARE
SAVED, THE LORD SETS US FREE.
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THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT A PERSON,
AFTER THEY'VE BEEN SAVED BY THE
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LORD, CANNOT AGAIN
BE HARASSED BY DEVILS.
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WE'LL TALK ABOUT
THAT IN A MINUTE.
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MARY MAGDALENE, OUT OF WHOM WERE
CAST SEVEN DEVILS - IF YOU READ
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IN THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES
IT SOUNDS LIKE SEVEN DIFFERENT
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TIMES - AND CHRIST AGAIN TALKS
ABOUT A MAN WHO HAS AN EVIL
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SPIRIT CAST OUT BUT HE DOESN'T
DO ANYTHING TO REPLACE IT, AND
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JESUS SAYS, 'SEVEN DEVILS WORSE
THAN THE FIRST COME BACK.' AND
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SO, THERE ARE BELIEVERS WHO
MAYBE HAVE FALLEN BACK IN THE
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OLD LIFE, LIKE A PRODIGAL AND
THEY NEED DELIVERANCE AS WELL.
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AND SO, THIS IS SOMETHING
THAT APPLIES, NOT ONLY TO OUR
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MINISTRY, BUT MAY
APPLY TO US PERSONALLY.
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WE'RE ALL HARASSED BY THE DEVIL
- WE EXPLAINED THAT, RIGHT?
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EVERYBODY'S
TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL.
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SOME PEOPLE EXPERIENCE DEMONIC
POSSESSION IN VARYING DEGREES.
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AND HOW DO WE GET
INVOLVED IN THIS WARFARE THEN?
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PAUL GIVES US SOME GUIDELINES.
THIS WAS IN OUR MEMORY VERSE.
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I'D LIKE TO REPEAT TO YOU
EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6, VERSES 14
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THROUGH 18. HE SAYS,
'PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR
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OF GOD' - WE NEED TO STAND IN
THAT ARMOR - BUT LET ME READ IT
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TO YOU - "STAND FIRM THEN, WITH
THE BELT OF TRUTH" - THERE'S
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SEVEN IMPLEMENTS WE'RE GOING
TO TALK ABOUT IN THE ARMOR -
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"HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS" - AND AS SHOES
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FOR YOUR FEET HAVING PUT ON
"THE READINESS THAT COMES FROM
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THE GOSPEL OF PEACE." -
IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES "TAKE UP
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THE SHIELD OF FAITH, WITH
WHICH YOU CAN EXTINGUISH ALL THE
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FLAMING ARROWS OF THE EVIL ONE.
TAKE THE HELMET OF SALVATION AND
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THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT,
WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD."
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- AND "PRAYING ALWAYS WITH ALL
PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION IN THE
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SPIRIT...TO THIS END WITH ALL
PERSEVERANCE AND SUPPLICATION
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FOR ALL THE SAINTS." NOW,
WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS WHAT
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THESE DIFFERENT IMPLEMENTS OF
ARMOR REPRESENT, BUT I THOUGHT
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IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO HAVE A
VISUAL SO WE'VE GOT ONE OF THE
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MEMBERS OF OUR CHURCH -
BOB, WHY DON'T YOU COME ON OUT?
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ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF OUR CHURCH
IS HANDY WITH METAL WORKING AND
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BOB CURTICE, WHO WANTS TO REMAIN
ANONYMOUS SO HE'S GOT HIS FULL
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GEAR ON TODAY, HE'S - COME
ON UP. CAN YOU SEE THE STEPS?
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WE DON'T WANT - WE
DON'T WANT AN INSURANCE CLAIM.
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(LAUGHTER) SO THIS REPRESENTS
SOME OF THE ARMOR OF GOD.
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BOB, I THINK, ACTUALLY
MADE THAT HELMET, IS THAT RIGHT?
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(NODS IN AGREEMENT)
AND THAT'S PRETTY COOL.
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>>ALL OF IT. >>AND - ALL OF IT.
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HE MADE ALL OF IT.
THAT'S RIGHT, THE GREAVES AND SO
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FORTH AND SO HERE YOU'VE GOT -
YOU'VE GOT THE SHIELD THAT, YOU
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KNOW, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO TUCK
BEHIND AND PROTECT YOUR BODY.
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YOU'VE GOT THE HELMET -
OSHA WOULD NOT LET HIM BRING HIS
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REALLY BEAUTIFUL METAL SWORD
THAT DOUBLED-EDGED SWORD, SO
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HE'S GOT THAT ONE RIGHT NOW,
AND HE'S GOT THE GREAVES, THE
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BREASTPLATE - AND YOU NOTICE,
UNDER THE ARMOR, THIS CAN PINCH
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YOU. YOU WEAR A ROBE. AND
THEN YOU'VE GOT A BELT OF TRUTH.
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AND YOU PUT YOUR SWORD,
NORMALLY, IN A SCABBARD THAT
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WOULD BE ON THE BELT. AND
SO, THIS IS THE IMPLEMENTS
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OF ARMOR THAT ARE
DISCUSSED IN THE BIBLE.
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I KNEW ALL THE KIDS WOULD
WAKE UP RIGHT ABOUT NOW IN THE
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SERMON. ALRIGHT, LET'S
THANK BOB. CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'?
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>>AMEN. >>ALRIGHT,
JUST IF HE STAYS UP
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HERE WHILE I'M PREACHING - W.C.
FIELDS SAID, 'DON'T DO A MOVIE
00:13:01.78\00:13:06.31
WITH A DOG OR A KID
BECAUSE THEY STEAL EVERYTHING.'
00:13:06.31\00:13:09.75
BUT ANYWAY -
ARE YOU STUCK? >>NO.
00:13:09.75\00:13:12.42
>>OKAY, WELL THANK
YOU VERY MUCH, BOB.
00:13:12.42\00:13:14.39
HE SAYS THAT'S HEAVY AND
IT - HOW MUCH DOES THAT WEIGH?
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>>AROUND 45 POUNDS.
>>45 POUNDS - THAT JUST - AND
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HE DOESN'T EVEN
HAVE FULL BODY ARMOR ON.
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SOME OF THE MEDIEVAL ARMOR -
THAT'S MORE LIKE THE MEDIEVAL
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ARMOR. WHEN THEY
WORE FULL ARMOR, iT
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COULD WEIGH OVER A HUNDRED
POUNDS. AND THOSE GUYS USED TO
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GO OFF INTO BATTLE WEARING THAT
STUFF. THE ARMOR IN BIBLE GOES
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WAY BACK. WE'RE
GOING TO LOOK AT SOME OF
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THE EXAMPLES OF THE ARMOR.
FOR INSTANCE, 2 CHRONICLES 26:14
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- STYLES CHANGE THROUGH HISTORY.
YOU'LL SEE SOME DIFFERENT
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DEPICTIONS ON THE WALL.
WHEN PAUL WROTE ABOUT THE ARMOR
00:13:47.22\00:13:49.92
OF GOD HE WROTE A LOT
OF HIS LETTERS FROM JAIL.
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HE WAS PROBABLY CHAINED TO A
ROMAN SOLDIER AND HE COULD LOOK
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AT A DESCRIPTION OF IT
RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF HIM.
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PAUL SPENT A LOT OF TIME
TRAVELING AROUND AS A PRISONER
00:13:58.93\00:14:03.27
OR AT LEAST IN THE
CUSTODY OF A ROMAN SOLDIER.
00:14:03.27\00:14:05.77
ONE WAS NAMED JULIUS
AND THEY WORE THIS ARMOR.
00:14:05.77\00:14:09.28
SO 2 CHRONICLES 26:14 - KING
UZZIAH - HE WAS A GOOD KING.
00:14:09.28\00:14:13.25
HE PREPARED THEM FOR - AN ENTIRE
ARMY - SHIELDS, SPEARS, HELMETS,
00:14:13.25\00:14:17.92
BODY ARMORS, BOWS,
AND SLINGS TO CAST STONES.
00:14:17.92\00:14:21.42
UZZIAH ACTUALLY WAS MADE FAMOUS.
IT SAYS HE MADE MACHINES OF WAR
00:14:21.42\00:14:26.63
- THIS IS WAY BEFORE THE TIME OF
JESUS - HE MADE MACHINES OF WAR
00:14:26.63\00:14:29.90
THAT COULD HURL JAVELINS AND
STONES. HE HAD CLEVER ENGINEERS.
00:14:29.90\00:14:34.50
1 SAMUEL 17 - YOU KNOW THE
STORY OF DAVID AND GOLIATH?
00:14:34.50\00:14:38.67
"HE HAD A BRONZE HELMET ON
HIS HEAD AND HE WAS ARMED WITH A
00:14:38.67\00:14:41.81
COAT OF MAIL, AND THE WEIGHT
OF THE COAT WAS FIVE THOUSAND
00:14:41.81\00:14:45.25
SHEKELS OF BRONZE."
THAT'S LIKE A HUNDRED AND
00:14:45.25\00:14:47.72
TWENTY-TWO POUNDS - "AND HE
HAD BRONZE ARMOR ON HIS LEGS AND
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A BRONZE JAVELIN
BETWEEN HIS SHOULDERS.
00:14:51.35\00:14:53.79
NOW THE STAFF OF HIS SPEAR WAS
LIKE A WEAVER'S BEAM," - THEY
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HAD A BIG OLD POST THEY USED
TO WEAVE THE RUGS ON, SO HE HAD
00:14:57.36\00:15:01.63
THIS SPEAR THAT WAS MUCH THICKER
THAN WHAT A NORMAL MAN COULD
00:15:01.63\00:15:04.97
CARRY - "AND HIS IRON SPEARHEAD
WEIGHED SIX HUNDRED SHEKELS;"
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THAT'S ABOUT 22 POUNDS.
NOW WHEN I EXERCISE IN THE
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MORNING I LIFT SOME
WEIGHTS THAT ARE 25 POUNDS.
00:15:12.81\00:15:15.48
I CAN'T IMAGINE LIFTING A
SPEAR WITH A 22 POUND SPEARHEAD.
00:15:15.48\00:15:20.05
THIS GUY WAS A MONSTER - "AND A
SHIELD-BEARER WENT BEFORE HIM."
00:15:20.05\00:15:25.62
HIS SHIELD WAS SO BIG, ONE
GUY - HIS JOB WAS 'YOU CARRY THE
00:15:25.62\00:15:28.32
SHIELD UNTIL HE ACTUALLY GOES
INTO BATTLE.' NOW, WHEN I READ
00:15:28.32\00:15:32.66
ABOUT ARMOR IN THE BIBLE,
IT NEVER SEEMED TO DO A LOT OF
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GOOD. DAVID DID NOT
WANT TO WEAR SAUL'S ARMOR.
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HE TRIED BUT SAUL, OF COURSE,
WAS A HEAD AND SHOULDERS TALLER
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THAN EVERYONE ELSE AND I'M
JUST IMAGINING THAT DAVID PUT ON
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SAUL'S ARMOR AND HE'S PEEKING
OUT OF THE NECK HOLE AND HE
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SAID, 'THIS ISN'T GOING TO
WORK.' HE WASN'T USED TO IT.
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IT DIDN'T FIT. YOU'VE
GOT TO WORK IN YOUR ARMOR.
00:15:51.28\00:15:54.05
AHAB WENT INTO BATTLE TRUSTING
HIS ARMOR BUT HE HAD A LITTLE
00:15:54.05\00:15:59.02
CRACK AND AN ARROW FOUND A CRACK
IN HIS ARMOR AND STRUCK A VITAL
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VEIN AND HE BLED
TO DEATH AND DIED.
00:16:04.69\00:16:07.13
SO MAN-MADE ARMOR IS NOT
WHAT OUR TRUST IS TO BE IN.
00:16:07.13\00:16:11.57
THIS VERSE THAT WE'RE READING
HERE IN EPHESIANS IS TALKING
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ABOUT A SPIRITUAL ARMOR.
AND, AS WE GO THROUGH THESE
00:16:13.90\00:16:17.84
DIFFERENT IMPLEMENTS, WE'LL
TALK A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT THEY
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REPRESENT IN OUR
LIVES IN A PRACTICAL WAY.
00:16:19.91\00:16:22.71
IF WE JUST TALK ABOUT METAPHORS
AND YOU CAN'T PUT IT IN YOUR
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LIFE, IT DOESN'T DO YOU ANY
GOOD. FIGHTING WITH EVIL FORCES
00:16:25.15\00:16:29.52
IN THE CHURCH, IN
THE WORLD, ARE VERY REAL.
00:16:29.52\00:16:32.29
WE NEED REAL
ANSWERS, AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:16:32.29\00:16:35.19
>>ALRIGHT, 2 CORINTHIANS 10,
VERSE 3, "FOR THOUGH WE WALK IN
00:16:35.19\00:16:39.56
THE FLESH," - PAUL SAYS - "WE DO
NOT WAR ACCORDING TO THE FLESH."
00:16:39.56\00:16:43.20
- IT'D BE EASIER IF WE THOUGHT
WE COULD WRESTLE WITH AND BOX
00:16:43.20\00:16:45.37
THE DEVIL, BUT YOU CAN'T.
YOU CAN'T CLOBBER HIM WITH A
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BASEBALL BAT. - "FOR THE WEAPONS
OF OUR WARFARE ARE NOT CARNAL
00:16:47.77\00:16:53.01
BUT MIGHTY IN GOD FOR PULLING
DOWN STRONGHOLDS, CASTING DOWN
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ARGUMENTS AND EVERY HIGH THING
THAT EXALTS ITSELF AGAINST THE
00:16:58.75\00:17:02.28
KNOWLEDGE OF GOD," SO WE'RE
FIGHTING AGAINST THINGS THAT
00:17:02.28\00:17:04.95
FIGHT AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE
OF GOD - "BRINGING EVERY THOUGHT
00:17:04.95\00:17:08.19
INTO CAPTIVITY TO
THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST."
00:17:08.19\00:17:12.46
THE OPPOSITE OF YOUR THOUGHTS
BEING IN THE CAPTIVITY OF CHRIST
00:17:12.46\00:17:15.86
IS WHEN THE DEVIL STARTS
HASSLING YOU IN YOUR THINKING.
00:17:15.86\00:17:19.60
ROMANS 13, VERSE 12 - PAUL SAID,
"THE NIGHT IS FAR SPENT, THE DAY
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IS AT HAND.
THEREFORE LET US CAST OFF THE
00:17:24.77\00:17:27.34
WORKS OF DARKNESS, AND LET
US PUT ON THE ARMOR OF LIGHT."
00:17:27.34\00:17:31.81
AND SO THIS IS
AN ARMOR OF LIGHT.
00:17:31.81\00:17:33.78
GOD SAID TO THE CHURCH, 'YOU ARE
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.' IT'S A
00:17:33.78\00:17:36.22
TRUTH CONNECTED WITH IT.
AND SO, WITH THAT, MAYBE WE
00:17:36.22\00:17:39.72
SHOULD GO INTO
THE FIRST IMPLEMENT.
00:17:39.72\00:17:41.29
SO WE'VE GOT THE BELT OF TRUTH
- FIRST THING PAUL TALKS ABOUT -
00:17:41.29\00:17:45.46
HAVING YOURSELF
GIRDED WITH THIS TRUTH.
00:17:45.46\00:17:48.06
YOU CAN READ IN ISAIAH 11, VERSE
5, "RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE THE
00:17:48.06\00:17:52.47
BELT OF HIS LOINS, AND
FAITHFULNESS THE BELT OF HIS
00:17:52.47\00:17:55.40
WAIST." NOW THE BELT
WAS A VERY CENTRAL THING.
00:17:55.40\00:17:59.57
IT SOMETIMES WAS MORE OF A
GIRDLE THAN, YOU KNOW - WE'VE
00:17:59.57\00:18:02.54
GOT OUR LEATHER BELTS THAT WE
WEAR - IT WAS A LITTLE WIDER AND
00:18:02.54\00:18:07.62
IT WAS THE KIND OF THING, YOU
KNOW - COWBOYS, WHEN THEY WEAR A
00:18:07.62\00:18:09.62
GUN ON A HOLSTER, THEY
DON'T GOT A SKINNY BELT.
00:18:09.62\00:18:11.32
IT WAS A LITTLE BIGGER. THEY'D
HANG THEIR SWORDS ON THIS.
00:18:11.32\00:18:13.92
THEY WOULD SOMETIMES HAVE
THE EQUIVALENT OF A FANNY PACK.
00:18:13.92\00:18:18.09
THEY HAD, SOMETIMES, SOME OF
THEIR GEAR AND THEIR NECESSITIES
00:18:18.09\00:18:20.20
- THEIR WATER BOTTLE AND THINGS
THAT THEY MIGHT NEED WERE ALL
00:18:20.20\00:18:23.53
STRUNG TO THE BELT. IT
HELD EVERYTHING IN PLACE.
00:18:23.53\00:18:26.17
IN THE BIBLE, SOLDIERS OFTEN
WORE ROBES AND CLOTHES, BUT WHEN
00:18:26.17\00:18:30.24
THEY WENT INTO BATTLE THEY WOULD
GIRD THEIR CLOTHES UP INTO THEIR
00:18:30.24\00:18:33.31
BELT SO THEY
WOULDN'T BE TRIPPING OVER IT.
00:18:33.31\00:18:35.81
YOU CAN READ AN EXAMPLE
OF THAT WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT -
00:18:35.81\00:18:38.95
1 KINGS 18:46 - ELIJAH.
"THEN THE HAND OF THE LORD CAME
00:18:38.95\00:18:43.55
UPON ELIJAH; AND HE GIRDED UP
HIS LOINS" - THAT MEANS HE TOOK
00:18:43.55\00:18:46.82
HIS ROBE AND TUCKED IT IN HIS
BELT - "AND RAN AHEAD OF AHAB
00:18:46.82\00:18:51.16
TO THE ENTRANCE OF ISRAEL."
SO THEY'D GIRD THEMSELVES.
00:18:51.16\00:18:54.00
THE BELT IS - IT
HELD EVERYTHING IN PLACE.
00:18:54.00\00:18:56.83
WHAT HOLDS EVERYTHING IN
PLACE FOR US IS THE TRUTH.
00:18:56.83\00:19:00.37
JESUS SAYS THE
TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.
00:19:00.37\00:19:03.74
CHRIST SAID, 'I AM THE TRUTH.'
THE TRUTH IS A - YOU KNOW, WHAT
00:19:03.74\00:19:08.31
WE'RE SHARING NOW - ALL THESE
POINTS THAT WE'RE GIVING YOU.
00:19:08.31\00:19:10.81
IT MAKES SENSE THAT IT
WOULD BE THE FIRST THING.
00:19:10.81\00:19:13.31
THE LORD LOVES TRUTH.
AMONG THE THINGS THAT GOD
00:19:13.31\00:19:16.02
SAYS HE HATES ARE DISHONESTY.
IN PROVERBS CHAPTER 6:16
00:19:16.02\00:19:21.92
- HE HATES A LYING
TONGUE. GOD WANTS THE TRUTH.
00:19:21.92\00:19:25.06
THE TRUTH SETS US FREE. 2
CORINTHIANS 6:7, "BY THE WORD
00:19:25.06\00:19:29.16
OF TRUTH, BY THE POWER OF GOD,
BY THE ARMOR OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ON
00:19:29.16\00:19:33.20
THE RIGHT HAND AND ON THE
LEFT," - BY THE WORD OF TRUTH.
00:19:33.20\00:19:35.77
SO HOW DO WE FIGHT THE
DEVIL? HE'S THE FATHER OF LIES.
00:19:35.77\00:19:40.88
WE FIGHT HIM WITH TRUTH. >>AMEN.
00:19:40.88\00:19:43.45
>>YOU NEED TO BE READY TO GIVE
AN ANSWER FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
00:19:43.45\00:19:46.68
THERE'S SO MUCH ERROR IN
THE WORLD, WHEN YOU SHARE TRUTH
00:19:46.68\00:19:49.78
THERE'S SOMETHING LIBERATING
ABOUT THAT. YOU DON'T WANT TO BE
00:19:49.78\00:19:54.62
EMBARRASSED WHEN SOMEONE SAYS,
'WHY DO YOU BELIEVE WHAT YOU
00:19:54.62\00:19:56.93
BELIEVE?' I REMEMBER A FEW YEARS
AGO - ACTUALLY SEVERAL YEARS
00:19:56.93\00:20:00.30
AGO, I WAS A CAMP
PASTOR AT LEONI MEADOWS
00:20:00.30\00:20:03.47
AND I HAD THE TOUGH JOB OF
BEING PASTOR FOR AQUATICS CAMP.
00:20:03.47\00:20:11.14
IT WAS ACTUALLY REALLY GREAT.
IT MEANT I DID A WORSHIP IN THE
00:20:11.14\00:20:13.98
MORNING, I DID A WORSHIP AT
NIGHT, AND THROUGH THE DAY WE
00:20:13.98\00:20:15.98
KIND OF WATER SKIED AND WIND
SURFED AND I WAS HELPING TEACH
00:20:15.98\00:20:18.21
KIDS TO WATER SKI BECAUSE I -
I GREW UP - WE HAD A BOAT IN THE
00:20:18.21\00:20:21.35
BACKYARD - I
KNEW HOW TO WATER SKI.
00:20:21.35\00:20:22.85
AND SO, SOME OF THE KIDS
WANTED TO LEARN TO SKI BAREFOOT.
00:20:22.85\00:20:27.69
NOW WATER SKIING, YOU KNOW, YOU
GET THE BOAT GOING 15 - 20 MILES
00:20:27.69\00:20:30.93
AN HOUR - IT DEPENDS ON IF
YOU'VE GOT ONE SKI OR TWO - YOU
00:20:30.93\00:20:33.46
HAVE TO GO FASTER WITH ONE
SKI BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT LESS
00:20:33.46\00:20:36.13
DISPLACEMENT. YOU CAN
GO SLOWER WITH TWO SKIS,
00:20:36.13\00:20:38.50
BUT WHEN YOU SKI BAREFOOT YOU'VE
GOT VERY LITTLE HOLDING YOU UP.
00:20:38.50\00:20:41.80
YOU'VE GOT TO BE SCREAMING
ACROSS THE LAKE AND YOU DO IT IN
00:20:41.80\00:20:45.04
THE MORNING WHEN
THE WATER IS VERY CALM.
00:20:45.04\00:20:47.04
YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE IT GLASSY
BECAUSE IF YOU'RE GOING ALONG
00:20:47.04\00:20:48.98
AND THERE'S LITTLE WAVES
AND YOUR TOE GETS CAUGHT UNDER A
00:20:48.98\00:20:52.41
WAVE WHILE YOU'RE GOING 40 MILES
AN HOUR, IT JUST - YOU JUST
00:20:52.41\00:20:55.42
FLIP. AND YOU
HAVE TO GO SO FAST -
00:20:55.42\00:20:57.95
I ACTUALLY SAW ONE KID -
I THINK HE BRUISED HIS RIBS.
00:20:57.95\00:21:01.26
HE FELL - HE HIT SO HARD ON
THE WATER THAT HE HAD TROUBLE
00:21:01.26\00:21:04.53
BREATHING LATER. SO
WHEN YOU'RE BAREFOOT SKIING -
00:21:04.53\00:21:07.93
THEY'VE ACTUALLY GOT A BAREFOOT
SUIT THAT'S GOT - IT'S PADDING
00:21:07.93\00:21:10.40
UP HERE TO PROTECT
YOU, KIND OF LIKE ARMOR.
00:21:10.40\00:21:12.77
AND SO, I TRIED A FEW TIMES AND
KIND OF GOT THE KNACK OF IT AND
00:21:12.77\00:21:17.54
THEY GOT THIS BOOM OFF THE SIDE
OF THE BOAT SO YOU DON'T JUST GO
00:21:17.54\00:21:20.54
UP ON A ROPE
WHEN YOU'RE LEARNING.
00:21:20.54\00:21:22.18
THERE'S THIS BOOM OFF THE
SIDE OF THE BOAT AND THE BOAT
00:21:22.18\00:21:24.21
GETS GOING ABOUT
40 MILES AN HOUR.
00:21:24.21\00:21:25.48
YOU STEP OUT, YOU GET ONE FOOT,
AND WHEN YOU THINK YOU'VE GOT
00:21:25.48\00:21:29.02
YOURSELF AND YOU'RE HOLDING ON,
YOU GET THE OTHER FOOT OUT THERE
00:21:29.02\00:21:31.55
AND, HOPEFULLY,
YOU CAN GET GOING.
00:21:31.55\00:21:35.06
IT PUTS OFF A BIG SPRAY BECAUSE
YOU'VE GOT TO GO SO FAST.
00:21:35.06\00:21:37.93
THIS ONE BOY
REALLY WANTED TO TRY IT.
00:21:37.93\00:21:39.59
HE WAS JUST LIKE 12 YEARS OLD -
A LITTLE BIT CHUBBY - AND HE WAS
00:21:39.59\00:21:48.27
SO EXCITED BECAUSE HE HAD A
FRIEND IN THE BOAT WITH A CAMERA
00:21:48.27\00:21:50.31
AND HE GOT OUT AND HE GOT ONE
FOOT GOING AND HE'S SKIING AND
00:21:50.31\00:21:53.84
HE GOT HIS OTHER FOOT OUT AND
HE TURNED TO LOOK AND SMILE AND
00:21:53.84\00:21:56.68
RIGHT THEN HE CAUGHT HIS TOE
ON A RIPPLE OR SOMETHING AND HE
00:21:56.68\00:22:00.52
JUST DISAPPEARED. IT'S
LIKE A FLASH BECAUSE IT'S
00:22:00.52\00:22:01.95
ALL HAPPENING SO FAST, AND WE
LOOKED BACK AND ALL WE SAW WAS
00:22:01.95\00:22:04.99
THIS KID SKIPPING
ACROSS THE WATER LIKE A STONE.
00:22:04.99\00:22:08.86
AND WE WERE HOPING HE WAS OKAY,
SO WE SPUN THE BOAT AROUND, WE
00:22:08.86\00:22:12.23
CAME OVER, AND HE LOOKED
UP AND HE HAD KIND OF A DAZED
00:22:12.23\00:22:14.30
EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE
AND WE SAID, 'ARE YOU OKAY?'
00:22:14.30\00:22:17.93
'AH YEAH.' WE SAID
'YOU WANT TO TRY IT AGAIN?'
00:22:17.93\00:22:20.50
'NO.' (LAUGHTER) WE SAID,
'ALRIGHT, DO YOU WANT TO GET IN
00:22:20.50\00:22:24.71
THE BOAT?'
'NO.' WE SAID, 'DO YOU
00:22:24.71\00:22:27.41
WANT TO TRY IT AGAIN?'
'NO.' 'SO WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?'
00:22:27.41\00:22:30.18
HE SAID, 'I CAN'T FIND MY
SWIMSUIT.' (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER)
00:22:30.18\00:22:35.22
WHEN THEY MAKE BATHING SUITS
THEY PUT A LITTLE STRING IN
00:22:35.22\00:22:37.25
THERE THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED
TO GIVE ATTENTION TO AND,
00:22:37.25\00:22:40.32
EVIDENTLY, HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING
ABOUT THE STRING IN HIS SUIT AND
00:22:40.32\00:22:43.66
HE WAS LEFT IN A VERY
EMBARRASSING SITUATION.
00:22:43.66\00:22:45.96
FORTUNATELY WE WERE ALL BOYS IN
THE BOAT AND WE FOUND HIS SUIT -
00:22:45.96\00:22:48.46
IT LOOKED LIKE A CHECKERED FLAG
AT A RACE SO IT WAS EASY TO SPOT
00:22:48.46\00:22:51.67
- AND HE GOT BACK IN THE BOAT.
BUT, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE
00:22:51.67\00:22:56.37
EMBARRASSED, IF YOU DON'T WANT
TO TRIP YOU NEED TO HAVE TRUTH.
00:22:56.37\00:23:00.21
>>AMEN. >>IT
KEEPS EVERYTHING ELSE IN
00:23:00.21\00:23:01.58
PLACE AND WE NEED TO KNOW HOW
TO GIVE AN ANSWER. SO YOU'VE GOT
00:23:01.58\00:23:04.98
THAT BELT OF TRUTH AS A VERY
IMPORTANT IMPLEMENT IN THE ARMOR
00:23:04.98\00:23:08.55
OF GOD. THE NEXT THING IS THE
BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:23:08.55\00:23:12.82
AND YOU CAN READ IN
ISAIAH 59:17, "FOR HE PUT ON
00:23:12.82\00:23:16.26
RIGHTEOUSNESS AS A BREASTPLATE"
- YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
00:23:16.26\00:23:19.23
ISAIAH WROTE THIS
600 YEARS BEFORE JESUS.
00:23:19.23\00:23:22.13
PAUL, WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT THE
ARMOR OF GOD, IS NOT IN PRISON
00:23:22.13\00:23:24.97
DREAMING THINGS UP, PAUL IS
REMEMBERING THE WORDS OF ISAIAH.
00:23:24.97\00:23:29.07
HE'S QUOTING OLD TESTAMENT
PRINCIPLES - THAT THIS ARMOR OF
00:23:29.07\00:23:32.31
GOD IS TALKING ABOUT THE
RIGHTEOUS CHARACTERISTICS OF
00:23:32.31\00:23:35.84
GOD. HE PUT ON
RIGHTEOUSNESS AS A
00:23:35.84\00:23:38.25
BREASTPLATE AND A
HELMET OF SALVATION.
00:23:38.25\00:23:40.45
ISN'T THAT WHAT PAUL JUST
SAID? HELMET OF SALVATION?
00:23:40.45\00:23:43.89
SO THE BREASTPLATE, PAUL JUST
DEMONSTRATED, IT WAS, ESPECIALLY
00:23:43.89\00:23:47.52
ON THE FRONT, IT WAS OFTEN JUST
TIED OFF, LIKE A GIRDLE, IN THE
00:23:47.52\00:23:50.69
BACK BECAUSE THE ROMANS NEVER
PROVIDED ARMOR FOR THE BACK OF
00:23:50.69\00:23:56.10
THEIR SOLDIERS BECAUSE THEY SAID
'YOU ARE NEVER TO TURN YOUR BACK
00:23:56.10\00:23:58.73
TO THE ENEMY.' >>AMEN.
00:23:58.73\00:24:00.30
>>IT WAS ONLY FOR THE FRONT AND
IT PROTECTED THE VITAL ORGANS IN
00:24:00.30\00:24:05.37
THE FRONT AND - WHEN
IT'S CALLED THE BREASTPLATE OF
00:24:05.37\00:24:09.01
RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT'S
REALLY SAYING LIVING A LIFE OF
00:24:09.01\00:24:15.12
RIGHTEOUSNESS
PROTECTS YOU. YOU ACCEPT THE
00:24:15.12\00:24:19.69
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST.
NOW YOU NOTICE, I MENTIONED WHEN
00:24:19.69\00:24:21.96
BOB DEMONSTRATED HIS ARMOR, THAT
UNDER THE BREASTPLATE PART OF IT
00:24:21.96\00:24:26.09
THEY WOULD ACTUALLY SEW A ROBE
UNDERNEATH THERE BECAUSE, IF
00:24:26.09\00:24:29.33
YOU'RE OUT IN THE SUN - CAN YOU
IMAGINE BEING OUT THERE, WHEN
00:24:29.33\00:24:33.00
IT'S A HUNDRED DEGREES,
FOR AN HOUR WEARING ARMOR?
00:24:33.00\00:24:37.14
I PICKED UP MY FLUTE ONCE AFTER
IT SAT OUT IN THE SUN FOR A
00:24:37.14\00:24:40.31
LITTLE WHILE AND YOU BURNT
YOUR FINGERS TRYING TO PLAY IT.
00:24:40.31\00:24:42.84
YOU STAND OUT THERE WITH SOME
- WITHOUT SOME LINING - SO THIS
00:24:42.84\00:24:46.11
ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS KIND OF
GOES UNDERNEATH THE BREASTPLATE
00:24:46.11\00:24:49.65
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND THIS
REPRESENTS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF
00:24:49.65\00:24:52.95
CHRIST. BUT THAT
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST
00:24:52.95\00:24:55.16
THAT HE GIVES US AS A GIFT
IN JUSTIFICATION, IS SOMETHING
00:24:55.16\00:24:59.43
WE SHOULD BE
LIVING IN SANCTIFICATION.
00:24:59.43\00:25:02.76
IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO INTO
BATTLE WITH THE DEVIL - IF WE'RE
00:25:02.76\00:25:07.17
GOING TO DO WHAT JESUS TOLD THE
DISCIPLES TO DO, WE NEED TO KNOW
00:25:07.17\00:25:10.57
THAT OUR LIVES ARE RIGHT THROUGH
ACCEPTING THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF
00:25:10.57\00:25:13.44
CHRIST AND THEN TRYING TO WALK
IN THE LIGHT - A RIGHTEOUS LIFE,
00:25:13.44\00:25:16.91
AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:25:16.91\00:25:19.35
>>THE DEVIL JUST LAUGHED.
JOB 29:14, HE SAYS, "I PUT ON
00:25:19.35\00:25:24.72
RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND IT
CLOTHED ME;" - NOW, WAS JOB
00:25:24.72\00:25:27.39
A RIGHTEOUS MAN?
WE WANT TO EMBRACE THE
00:25:27.39\00:25:30.36
RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT GOD GIVES
US AS A GIFT AND, THROUGH HIS
00:25:30.36\00:25:33.40
GRACE, HE GIVES US
POWER TO LIVE A NEW LIFE.
00:25:33.40\00:25:36.00
SO IT COVERED THE VITAL ORGANS
THAT - THE BIBLE SAYS, 'GUARD
00:25:36.00\00:25:40.97
YOUR HEART' - AND IT'S TALKING
ABOUT THAT, GUARDING OUR HEART
00:25:40.97\00:25:44.44
AS WELL. THEN YOU'VE
GOT, NEXT, THESE GOSPEL SHOES.
00:25:44.44\00:25:48.68
FOOTING IS VERY
IMPORTANT IN WARFARE.
00:25:48.68\00:25:52.45
I KNOW, WHEN OUR SON CAME HOME
FROM THE MARINES, THEY ISSUE
00:25:52.45\00:25:57.95
SOME REALLY QUALITY FOOTWEAR.
IT'S GOTTEN A LOT BETTER THAN
00:25:57.95\00:26:01.29
WHAT THEY HAD DURING WORLD WAR
II AND SOME OF THE VERY WORST
00:26:01.29\00:26:05.89
FOOTWEAR IN HISTORY
WAS FROM THE CIVIL WAR.
00:26:05.89\00:26:09.90
ONE OF THE MANUFACTURERS, DURING
THE CIVIL WAR, HE MADE SOME
00:26:09.90\00:26:15.64
BOOTS FOR THE SOLDIERS AND
HE THOUGHT, 'I CAN MAKE THESE BY
00:26:15.64\00:26:18.84
PRESSING CARDBOARD.' THE SOLES
WERE ALL MADE OUT OF CARDBOARD
00:26:18.84\00:26:22.94
AND THEY USED VERY CHEAP
MATERIALS FOR LEATHER AND HE
00:26:22.94\00:26:26.35
WANTED TO MASS PRODUCE
THEM FOR THE NORTHERN ARMY.
00:26:26.35\00:26:30.02
AND THE SOLDIERS FOUND, WHEN
THEY WENT MARCHING THROUGH THE
00:26:30.02\00:26:31.75
MUD, THEIR BOOTS
JUST DISINTEGRATED.
00:26:31.75\00:26:35.26
YOU KNOW WHAT THE
NAME OF THE COMPANY WAS?
00:26:35.26\00:26:37.76
'THE SHODDY BOOT COMPANY.'
(LAUGHTER) SO WHENEVER YOU SAY,
00:26:37.76\00:26:41.83
'THAT IS MADE IN A SHODDY WAY',
THAT IS A WORD THAT COMES FROM
00:26:41.83\00:26:45.97
THESE CARDBOARD BOOTS THAT THE
MILITARY ISSUED TO THE NORTHERN
00:26:45.97\00:26:49.44
TROOPS THAT LEFT THEM BAREFOOT,
WHICH IS NO WAY FOR A SOLDIER TO
00:26:49.44\00:26:53.44
GO INTO BATTLE. SO NOW
YOU'LL KNOW WHAT SHODDY MEANS.
00:26:53.44\00:26:57.08
BUT I REMEMBER WHEN DANIEL
CAME HOME, HE HAD THESE JUST
00:26:57.08\00:27:01.45
REALLY GOOD STRONG LEATHER
BOOTS. I'VE GOT SOME BOOTS I
00:27:01.45\00:27:04.89
TAKE ON MY HIKING TRIP THAT
WERE MADE BY A COMPANY CALLED
00:27:04.89\00:27:08.62
'ARIAT' THAT I'VE HAD FOR 12
YEARS AND THEY'RE AS GOOD TODAY
00:27:08.62\00:27:12.36
- EVERY NOW AND
THEN I TAKE CARE OF THEM.
00:27:12.36\00:27:14.93
I RUB THEM WITH MINK OIL,
I SPRAY THEM WITH WATERPROOF
00:27:14.93\00:27:19.43
BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETIMES WE'RE
OUT IN THE MUD - WE WERE THIS
00:27:19.43\00:27:21.34
LAST CAMPING TRIP - AND THEY'RE
JUST AS GOOD TODAY - AND THEY'VE
00:27:21.34\00:27:24.24
GOT A NICE GRIP ON THE BOTTOM
SO YOU'RE HIKING AROUND ON THE
00:27:24.24\00:27:27.01
ROCKS AND STUFF
- YOU DON'T SLIP.
00:27:27.01\00:27:28.91
BECAUSE YOU NEED
GOOD FOOTING TO FIGHT.
00:27:28.91\00:27:32.45
WHEN I WAS A KID IN - I WENT TO
A JEWISH SCHOOL CALLED 'BENTLEY'
00:27:32.45\00:27:35.85
IN NEW YORK CITY AND MY BROTHER
WAS A GRADE OLDER THAN ME.
00:27:35.85\00:27:39.42
NOW, BY BROTHER HAD CYSTIC
FIBROSIS AND EVEN THOUGH HE WAS
00:27:39.42\00:27:42.52
TWO YEARS OLDER THAN ME, HE
WAS ALWAYS MY SIZE GROWING UP
00:27:42.52\00:27:45.33
BECAUSE HIS GROWTH
WAS A LITTLE BIT STUNTED.
00:27:45.33\00:27:47.60
AND THEY USED TO TEASE HIM
BECAUSE MY BROTHER, HE WAS THIN,
00:27:47.60\00:27:53.37
A LITTLE BARREL CHESTED, FLAMING
RED HAIR, AND HE HAD THE NAME
00:27:53.37\00:27:56.87
FALCON, SO THEY CALLED HIM
'CHICKEN LITTLE' AND THEY MADE
00:27:56.87\00:27:59.21
FUN - AND, YOU KNOW, I USED TO
FEEL BAD FOR MY BROTHER BECAUSE
00:27:59.21\00:28:02.18
I'D SEE HIM COUGHING AT NIGHT
AND TAKING HIS MEDICINE, GOING
00:28:02.18\00:28:04.61
TO THE HOSPITAL - HE
WAS - HE WAS PRETTY SICK.
00:28:04.61\00:28:07.05
AND THIS ONE KID NAMED VERNE, IN
GYM CLASS, WAS MAKING FUN OF MY
00:28:07.05\00:28:12.19
BROTHER - MY OLDER BROTHER - AND
I WAS A SCRAPPY LITTLE KID - YOU
00:28:12.19\00:28:17.89
PROBABLY WOULD NEVER GUESS
- AND I JUST GOT REALLY MAD.
00:28:17.89\00:28:22.00
AND, EVEN THOUGH VERNE WAS IN
HIS CLASS AND HE WAS OLDER THAN
00:28:22.00\00:28:24.07
ME, I TOOK OFF AND JUST
STARTED FIGHTING WITH VERNE.
00:28:24.07\00:28:27.94
AND WE WERE TRYING TO BOX BUT
THEY HAD - I HAD JUST - I WAS
00:28:27.94\00:28:31.74
CHANGING, GOING INTO GYM CLASS,
AND HIS CLASS WAS LEAVING GYM
00:28:31.74\00:28:36.81
CLASS, AND I DIDN'T HAVE MY
SHOES ON AND ALL I HAD WAS SOCKS
00:28:36.81\00:28:39.88
ON AND THEY HAD JUST
WAXED THE FLOOR IN THE GYM.
00:28:39.88\00:28:45.45
AND IT'S LIKE WATCHING SOMEONE
ON WET ICE TRYING TO BOX.
00:28:45.45\00:28:51.83
IT WAS A JOKE. I'M
SLIDING ALL OVER THE PLACE
00:28:51.83\00:28:54.46
TRYING TO HIT HIM AND
HE'S JUST LAUGHING AT ME.
00:28:54.46\00:28:57.00
SO I PULLED OFF MY SOCKS - AND
I'VE GOT BIG FLAT FEET AND THEY
00:28:57.00\00:29:00.87
JUST - THEY GRABBED AND I LIT
INTO VERNE AND I NEVER FORGOT
00:29:00.87\00:29:07.64
WHAT A BIG DIFFERENCE IT
MAKES HAVING A GOOD STANDING.
00:29:07.64\00:29:11.78
YOU NEED A GOOD UNDERSTANDING
- YOU KNOW, GET IT?
00:29:11.78\00:29:14.98
UNDERSTANDING -
(LAUGHTER) I WEAR A SIZE 12.
00:29:14.98\00:29:19.89
THAT'S A BIG UNDERSTANDING.
YOU NEED A GOOD UNDERSTANDING
00:29:19.89\00:29:23.09
IF YOU'RE GOING TO
FIGHT - GOOD FOOTING.
00:29:23.09\00:29:25.46
MUHAMMAD ALI USED TO SAY, 'DANCE
[FLOAT] LIKE A BUTTERFLY, STING
00:29:25.46\00:29:29.26
LIKE A BEE'. HE WAS
RENOWN FOR HIS FOOTWORK.
00:29:29.26\00:29:33.74
AND SO, YOU NEED GOSPEL SHOES.
00:29:33.74\00:29:35.44
YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS,
SPEAKING OF THOSE SHOES, 'HOW
00:29:35.44\00:29:37.84
BEAUTIFUL UPON THE MOUNTAINS ARE
THE FEET OF HIM WHO BRINGS GOOD
00:29:37.84\00:29:42.21
NEWS, WHO PROCLAIMS PEACE,
WHO BRINGS GLAD TIDINGS OF GOOD
00:29:42.21\00:29:45.85
THINGS.' THE FEET, IN THE
BIBLE, REPRESENT YOUR WALK - IT
00:29:45.85\00:29:50.39
REPRESENTS THE DIRECTION OF YOUR
LIFE. ROMANS 6:4, "...EVEN SO WE
00:29:50.39\00:29:54.46
ALSO SHOULD WALK IN
THE NEWNESS OF LIFE."
00:29:54.46\00:29:56.26
IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO INTO THE
BATTLE WITH THE DEVIL YOU WANT
00:29:56.26\00:29:59.39
TO MAKE SURE - YOUR OWN LIFE,
OR ARE YOU LIVING IN THE WILL OF
00:29:59.39\00:30:01.80
THE LORD - ARE
YOU FOLLOWING HIM?
00:30:01.80\00:30:04.50
CHRIST SAID, 'WHEREFORE, IF YOUR
HAND OR YOUR FOOT OFFENDS YOU,
00:30:04.50\00:30:08.47
CUT IT OFF AND CAST IT FROM YOU.
1 TIMOTHY 4:16, "...FOR IN DOING
00:30:08.47\00:30:14.18
THIS YOU WILL SAVE BOTH YOURSELF
AND THOSE WHO HEAR YOU."
00:30:14.18\00:30:16.41
SO, QUITE PRACTICALLY, IF YOU'RE
GOING TO BE REACHING OUT FOR
00:30:16.41\00:30:20.48
OTHERS - ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT'S HAPPENING IS YOU WILL BE
00:30:20.48\00:30:24.72
SAVING YOURSELF
IN DOING THE SAME.
00:30:24.72\00:30:26.82
AND SO, BE INVOLVED IN DOING THE
WILL OF GOD AND IN SHARING THE
00:30:26.82\00:30:31.53
GOSPEL, IN WALKING IN HIS LIGHT.
AS YOU WALK IN THE LIGHT, YOU
00:30:31.53\00:30:36.13
HAVE THOSE GOSPEL SHOES - YOU
WANT JESUS TO WASH YOUR FEET -
00:30:36.13\00:30:41.24
PUT ON THOSE GOSPEL SHOES
AND THEN YOU CAN DO BATTLE
00:30:41.24\00:30:44.47
WITH THE ENEMY, AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:30:44.47\00:30:46.74
>>SHIELD OF FAITH. IN
VERSE 16, HERE IN EPHESIANS
00:30:46.74\00:30:49.74
6, IT TALKS ABOUT SATAN
ATTACKING OUR FAITHFULNESS.
00:30:49.74\00:30:55.72
JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU'VE GOT
FAITH, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.'
00:30:55.72\00:30:58.79
AND SO, CONSTANTLY, THE DEVIL
IS GOING TO BE ATTACKING OUR
00:30:58.79\00:31:01.89
FAITHFULNESS AND OUR FAITH
IN HIM. WE'VE GOT TO HOLD UP THE
00:31:01.89\00:31:04.86
SHIELD OF FAITH. THE
BIBLE SAYS CHRIST IS THE
00:31:04.86\00:31:08.00
AUTHOR AND
PERFECTOR OF OUR FAITH.
00:31:08.00\00:31:12.13
2 PETER 1:4, "BY WHICH HAVE BEEN
GIVEN TO US EXCEEDINGLY GREAT
00:31:12.13\00:31:16.47
AND PRECIOUS PROMISES,
THAT THROUGH THESE YOU MAY BE
00:31:16.47\00:31:19.84
PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE,
HAVING ESCAPED THE CORRUPTION
00:31:19.84\00:31:23.31
THAT IS IN THE WORLD
THROUGH LUST. I THINK IT WAS -
00:31:23.31\00:31:26.31
THE SPARTAN SOLDIERS HAD THIS
BIG SHIELD THAT THEY WOULD CARRY
00:31:26.31\00:31:31.99
- A BRONZE SHIELD - AND IT WAS
JUST BIG ENOUGH WHERE THEY COULD
00:31:31.99\00:31:35.69
DUCK DOWN AND THEY
COULD RESIST A HAIL OF ARROWS.
00:31:35.69\00:31:39.09
IT WOULD DEFLECT ALL
THESE ARROWS AT THE ENEMY.
00:31:39.09\00:31:41.03
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THE
STORY OF THE 300 SPARTANS THAT,
00:31:41.03\00:31:43.83
OSTENSIBLY, HELD OFF THE PERSIAN
ARMY AT A PASS UNTIL THE HOME
00:31:43.83\00:31:49.54
TROOPS OF GREECE COULD
RALLY AN ARMY ADEQUATE TO FIGHT.
00:31:49.54\00:31:52.97
AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU CAN
BELIEVE THE STORIES IN HISTORY,
00:31:52.97\00:31:56.11
THESE 300 SOLDIERS WITHSTOOD 15
TIMES AS MANY SOLDIERS THAT WERE
00:31:56.11\00:32:02.55
COMING AGAINST THEM - I
MEAN, ACTUALLY KILLED 15 TIMES -
00:32:02.55\00:32:04.95
BEFORE THEY WERE
FINALLY ALL KILLED.
00:32:04.95\00:32:06.59
BUT THEY STOOD UP UNDER A
HAIL OF ARROWS THAT THE PERSIANS
00:32:06.59\00:32:09.12
RAINED DOWN ON THEM BECAUSE
THEY GOT BEHIND THE SHIELD.
00:32:09.12\00:32:12.23
THE DEVIL IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE
THROWING FLAMING ARROWS AT YOUR
00:32:12.23\00:32:14.93
FAITH - THEY'RE DOUBTS THAT HE
SENDS - AND WE MEET THOSE DOUBTS
00:32:14.93\00:32:19.10
WITH THE PROMISES OF GOD.
AND YOU JUST DON'T EVEN WANT
00:32:19.10\00:32:22.84
TO GET NEAR THOSE ARROWS OF
TEMPTATION. THE SHIELD CREATES
00:32:22.84\00:32:27.61
AN INSULATING AREA BETWEEN
YOU AND THE OTHER WEAPON.
00:32:27.61\00:32:33.28
WHEN YOU SEE THAT THE DEVIL IS
THROWING DOUBTS AND FEARS, DON'T
00:32:33.28\00:32:37.39
LET IT GET NEAR YOU -
YOU KEEP THE SHIELD OUT.
00:32:37.39\00:32:39.65
DON'T EVEN
ENTERTAIN THE TEMPTATIONS.
00:32:39.65\00:32:43.02
AND THAT'S WHAT
THAT'S ALL A SYMBOL OF.
00:32:43.02\00:32:45.43
MOVING ON, YOU'VE GOT THE HELMET
OF SALVATION - VERSE 17 - YOUR
00:32:45.43\00:32:51.57
MOST VITAL ORGAN - YOU KNOW, YOU
CAN GO INTO BATTLE AND LOSE AND
00:32:51.57\00:32:53.90
ARM AND A LEG - A FOOT - BUT
YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOUR HEAD
00:32:53.90\00:32:59.21
BECAUSE IT'S ALL OVER THEN.
AND IF YOU GET CLOBBERED ON THE
00:32:59.21\00:33:04.58
HEAD, IT'S A
KNOCKOUT FOR THE ENEMY.
00:33:04.58\00:33:08.22
YOU, ABOVE THE NECK, HAVE SEVEN
ENTRANCES - INTERESTING NUMBER.
00:33:08.22\00:33:12.65
YOU KNOW, MOST THINGS
ARE SYMMETRICAL IN THE BIBLE.
00:33:12.65\00:33:15.39
YOU'VE GOT TWO EYES, TWO ARMS,
TWO LEGS, TWO NOSTRILS, TWO
00:33:15.39\00:33:18.03
EARS, BUT YOU'VE GOT ONE MOUTH.
BUT YOU'VE GOT SEVEN SACRED
00:33:18.03\00:33:25.23
ENTRANCES TO YOUR
SOUL, ABOVE YOUR HEAD.
00:33:25.23\00:33:30.11
YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL
WHAT COMES INTO YOUR EYES.
00:33:30.11\00:33:33.34
YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL
WHAT COMES INTO YOUR EARS.
00:33:33.34\00:33:37.35
I EXPECT YOU'VE GOT TO BE
CAREFUL WHAT COMES INTO YOUR
00:33:37.35\00:33:38.88
NOSE AND YOUR MOUTH, BECAUSE
THESE CAN ALL HAVE AN IMPACT ON
00:33:38.88\00:33:43.12
WHO YOU ARE. YOU KNOW, I HAVE
FUN - WHEN I THINK ABOUT THIS
00:33:43.12\00:33:46.82
HELMET OF SALVATION, IN MY MIND,
I ALMOST PICTURE AN ASTRONAUT
00:33:46.82\00:33:52.33
WHO'S OUT IN SPACE. HIS
HELMET IS VERY IMPORTANT.
00:33:52.33\00:33:57.70
IF HE GETS A BREAK
IN HIS HELMET, HE DIES.
00:33:57.70\00:34:00.14
IT'S CREATING A WHOLE ATMOSPHERE
FOR HIM BECAUSE HE IS FROM A
00:34:00.14\00:34:05.71
DIFFERENT WORLD AND WHEN
HE'S IN SPACE, HE'S IN AN ALIEN
00:34:05.71\00:34:09.51
ENVIRONMENT AND, IN ORDER TO
LIVE, HE'S GOT TO BREATHE THIS
00:34:09.51\00:34:14.02
ENVIRONMENT FROM HIS HOME
WORLD. WE, AS CHRISTIANS, ARE
00:34:14.02\00:34:18.75
LIVING IN AN ALIEN WORLD.
WE ARE TO BE BREATHING IN THE
00:34:18.75\00:34:22.46
ATMOSPHERE OF HEAVEN. WHAT
WE'RE THINKING ABOUT, WHAT WE'RE
00:34:22.46\00:34:26.80
LOOKING AT, WHAT WE'RE LISTENING
TO AND, EVEN THE THINGS WE SMELL
00:34:26.80\00:34:29.73
AND EAT, ALL AFFECT US. AND SO,
YOU NEED TO CONTROL THE AVENUES
00:34:29.73\00:34:35.17
TO THE SOUL - THIS IS
THE HELMET OF SALVATION.
00:34:35.17\00:34:37.61
ALSO, IT'S VERY SIMPLE, KNOWING
THAT YOU'RE SAVED - YOU ARE A
00:34:37.61\00:34:42.34
CHILD OF THE KING - HAVE THAT AS
A CROWN ON YOUR HEAD SO THAT IT
00:34:42.34\00:34:46.18
AFFECTS EVERYTHING YOU DO
- PUTTING ON THE HELMET OF
00:34:46.18\00:34:48.95
SALVATION. YOU KNOW HOW
DAVID BROUGHT DOWN GOLIATH?
00:34:48.95\00:34:54.29
DIDN'T THE BIBLE SAY
GOLIATH HAD A HELMET?
00:34:54.29\00:34:57.29
BUT WHEN DAVID CAME OUT TO FIGHT
GOLIATH - A LOT OF COMMENTARIES
00:34:57.29\00:35:01.80
AGREE - GOLIATH - HE DISDAINED
HIM, IT SAYS - HE PUSHED HIS
00:35:01.80\00:35:06.97
HELMET BACK AND SAID, 'ARE YOU
SENDING A BOY TO FIGHT ME WITH A
00:35:06.97\00:35:11.24
STICK?' HE DIDN'T
SEE DAVID'S SLING YET.
00:35:11.24\00:35:13.24
DAVID HAD A SHEPHERD'S STAFF,
HE HAD A SLING, AND SOME STONES.
00:35:13.24\00:35:16.64
AND WHEN HE PUSHED HIS
HELMET BACK, HE LEFT HIMSELF
00:35:16.64\00:35:19.35
VULNERABLE. AND
SO, THE HELMET DIDN'T
00:35:19.35\00:35:22.42
DO HIM ANY GOOD THAT DAY.
THEN YOU'VE GOT, PROBABLY ONE OF
00:35:22.42\00:35:26.89
THE MOST IMPORTANT IMPLEMENTS,
WHICH IS THE SWORD OF THE
00:35:26.89\00:35:30.49
SPIRIT, WHICH IS THE WORD OF
GOD. WHAT DID JESUS USE TO FIGHT
00:35:30.49\00:35:35.43
AGAINST THE DEVIL?
EVERY TIME SATAN CAME
00:35:35.43\00:35:38.73
HE SAID, 'IT IS
WRITTEN. IT IS WRITTEN.
00:35:38.73\00:35:40.40
IT IS WRITTEN.' HOW
DID CHRIST CAST OUT DEVILS?
00:35:40.40\00:35:44.24
YOU KNOW, IT OFTEN
HAPPENED WHEN HE WAS IN CHURCH.
00:35:44.24\00:35:47.14
CHRIST WAS PREACHING -
PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD - THE
00:35:47.14\00:35:49.91
DEVIL WOULD START SCREAMING,
'HAVE YOU COME TO TORMENT ME?'
00:35:49.91\00:35:52.75
HOW WAS HE BEING TORMENTED?
00:35:52.75\00:35:53.75
BY THE WORD - THE
TRUTH. THEY HATE THAT.
00:35:53.75\00:35:56.25
THREE TIMES JESUS QUOTED THE
DEVIL - JUST THREE TIMES - TO
00:35:56.25\00:35:59.42
SATAN AND HE SAID, 'GET BEHIND
ME SATAN' AND THE DEVIL HAD TO
00:35:59.42\00:36:02.62
LEAVE FROM THE WORD OF
GOD. RESIST THE DEVIL AND
00:36:02.62\00:36:06.66
HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.
HOW DO YOU RESIST THE DEVIL?
00:36:06.66\00:36:09.86
CLAIM THE PROMISES
OF GOD IN HIS WORD.
00:36:09.86\00:36:12.47
>>AMEN. >>THIS IS
A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD.
00:36:12.47\00:36:14.87
IT CUTS BOTH WAYS.
JESUS SAID, 'I DIDN'T COME TO
00:36:14.87\00:36:17.41
SEND PEACE, BUT A SWORD.' IT
DOESN'T MEAN JESUS CAME TO SEND
00:36:17.41\00:36:21.68
TROUBLE, IT MEANT THAT THE WORD
OF GOD IS QUICK AND POWERFUL
00:36:21.68\00:36:25.88
AND SHARPER THAN
ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD.
00:36:25.88\00:36:28.18
JESUS IS PICTURED IN REVELATION
WITH A SWORD COMING OUT OF HIS
00:36:28.18\00:36:31.99
MOUTH. DO YOU
REALLY THINK, IN HEAVEN,
00:36:31.99\00:36:33.49
JESUS WILL HAVE A SWORD
COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH?
00:36:33.49\00:36:35.59
WHAT DOES THAT
REPRESENT? >>HIS WORD.
00:36:35.59\00:36:37.49
>>NOW, IT'S NOT JUST ANY
SWORD - WHAT KIND OF SWORD?
00:36:37.49\00:36:39.76
>>DOUBLE-EDGED.
>>DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD - THE WORD
00:36:39.76\00:36:42.90
OF GOD - YOU'VE GOT THE NEW AND
THE OLD TESTAMENT, YOU'VE GOT
00:36:42.90\00:36:46.23
THE TWO WITNESSES - TEN
COMMANDMENTS ARE WRITTEN ON TWO
00:36:46.23\00:36:49.87
TABLES OF STONE. IT CUTS
NO MATTER WHAT DIRECTION.
00:36:49.87\00:36:53.98
THE WORD OF GOD IS THE ONLY
OFFENSIVE WEAPON IN THE ARSENAL
00:36:53.98\00:37:00.42
OF THE ARMOR. MOST
OF IT IS TO PROTECT YOU
00:37:00.42\00:37:04.09
- THE HELMET, THE SHOES, THE
SHIELD, THE BREASTPLATE - BUT
00:37:04.09\00:37:09.96
THE SWORD IS FOR OFFENSE.
WE GO FORTH CONQUERING FOR
00:37:09.96\00:37:15.13
CHRIST WITH THE WORD OF
GOD. SO WHEN WE'RE DEALING WITH
00:37:15.13\00:37:19.70
FALLEN SPIRITS, THE MOST
IMPORTANT THING IS MAKE SURE
00:37:19.70\00:37:22.14
THAT YOU ARE ARMED. DO YOU KNOW
THE BIBLE? YOU DON'T HAVE TO
00:37:22.14\00:37:25.11
KNOW EVERYTHING, BUT YOU NEED
TO BE EQUIPPED A LITTLE BIT.
00:37:25.11\00:37:28.21
JESUS EVEN TOLD THE DISCIPLES,
'DON'T GO OUT PREACHING UNTIL
00:37:28.21\00:37:30.98
YOU'VE RECEIVED THE HOLY
SPIRIT.' AND SO, WE WANT TO HAVE
00:37:30.98\00:37:34.42
THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT WILL BRING
THE WORDS TO OUR REMEMBRANCE.
00:37:34.42\00:37:37.92
SO THE SEVENTH IMPLEMENT - IT'S
REALLY - PAUL MENTIONS IT - IT'S
00:37:37.92\00:37:43.73
NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN
VISUALIZE, BUT IT'S PRAYER.
00:37:43.73\00:37:47.56
YOU KNOW, SOLDIERS, BEFORE
THEY GO INTO BATTLE, ARE OFTEN
00:37:47.56\00:37:51.30
CHALLENGED AND
ENCOURAGED BY THEIR COMMANDER.
00:37:51.30\00:37:55.20
THEY'RE IN COMMUNION.
THEY'RE GETTING THEIR ORDERS
00:37:55.20\00:37:58.07
WITH THEIR COMMANDER. AND
IT'S NOT JUST ANY PRAYER -
00:37:58.07\00:38:01.78
NOTICE WHAT PAUL SAYS THERE
- 'ALL PRAYER.' WE'RE GOING
00:38:01.78\00:38:05.61
TO BATTLE WITH ALL
PRAYER. EPHESIANS 6:18, "PRAYING
00:38:05.61\00:38:08.68
ALWAYS WITH ALL PRAYER AND
SUPPLICATION IN THE SPIRIT,
00:38:08.68\00:38:12.29
BEING WATCHFUL TO THIS END" -
A SOLDIER'S GOT TO BE ON GUARD
00:38:12.29\00:38:15.82
- WITH ALL PERSEVERANCE AND
SUPPLICATION FOR ALL THE SAINTS.
00:38:15.82\00:38:18.79
NOTICE THE WORD - ALL, ALL, ALL,
ALL - FOUR TIMES. PSALM 86, "BE
00:38:18.79\00:38:23.87
MERCIFUL TO ME, O LORD,
FOR I CRY TO YOU ALL DAY LONG."
00:38:23.87\00:38:28.54
2 THESSALONIANS 1:11, "THEREFORE
WE ALSO PRAY ALWAYS FOR YOU".
00:38:28.54\00:38:35.81
LUKE 21:36, "WATCH THEREFORE,"
- JESUS SAID - "AND PRAY ALWAYS
00:38:35.81\00:38:41.22
THAT YOU MAY BE COUNTED WORTHY
TO ESCAPE ALL THESE THINGS THAT
00:38:41.22\00:38:44.25
WILL COME TO PASS, AND TO
STAND BEFORE THE SON OF MAN."
00:38:44.25\00:38:47.12
SO YOU'VE GOT ALL
PRAYER WE'RE TO BE ARMED WITH.
00:38:47.12\00:38:50.13
ALRIGHT, THIS FIRST SECTION -
I'VE JUST BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE
00:38:50.13\00:38:52.96
ARMOR. I'M SAYING
THAT IF YOU'RE GOING
00:38:52.96\00:38:55.93
TO BE - JESUS SAID YOU'RE GOING
TO ENCOUNTER EVIL IN THE WORLD.
00:38:55.93\00:39:01.30
YOU'RE GOING TO
ENCOUNTER EVIL SPIRITS.
00:39:01.30\00:39:04.44
NOT VERY OFTEN DO YOU HAVE
SOMEONE START SHRIEKING AND
00:39:04.44\00:39:08.18
WRITHING AND CALLING OUT WITH
SOME STRANGE OTHERWORLDLY VOICE.
00:39:08.18\00:39:13.45
MOST OF THE TIME IT
DOESN'T HAPPEN THAT WAY.
00:39:13.45\00:39:15.95
YOU MIGHT GO YOUR WHOLE LIFE AND
NEVER ENCOUNTER ANYTHING LIKE
00:39:15.95\00:39:17.72
THAT, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN
THAT PEOPLE AREN'T HARASSED WITH
00:39:17.72\00:39:21.06
UNCLEAN AND EVIL SPIRITS.
THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE
00:39:21.06\00:39:23.59
WHO ARE TORMENTED WITH EVIL.
AND JESUS IS VERY CLEAR: HE
00:39:23.59\00:39:28.43
GIVES US THE SPIRIT SO THAT
WE CAN DO BATTLE WITH THE DEVIL.
00:39:28.43\00:39:31.80
HOW DO WE, IN A
PRACTICAL SENSE, DO BATTLE?
00:39:31.80\00:39:34.34
ALRIGHT, NOW I'M GOING TO TALK
ABOUT WHAT THAT BATTLE MIGHT
00:39:34.34\00:39:37.17
LOOK LIKE. SEVEN
POINTS - SEVEN PARTS OF
00:39:37.17\00:39:39.14
THE ARMOR, SEVEN
POINTS IN THE BATTLE.
00:39:39.14\00:39:42.68
FIRST OF ALL,
PREPARE YOUR OWN HEART.
00:39:42.68\00:39:44.51
WE SORT OF DISCUSSED
THIS BY PUTTING ON THE ARMOR.
00:39:44.51\00:39:47.82
YOU DON'T WANT TO GO INTO BATTLE
WITH THE DEVIL, PROUD, BECAUSE
00:39:47.82\00:39:51.32
YOU ARE WEARING THE
DEVIL'S ARMOR IF YOU'RE TRUSTING
00:39:51.32\00:39:53.59
YOURSELF. THE DEVIL IS PROUD.
00:39:53.59\00:39:56.93
YOU WANT TO GO IN WITH THE
SPIRIT OF HUMILITY, CONSIDERING
00:39:56.93\00:39:59.63
YOURSELF LEST YOU ALSO BE
TEMPTED. THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE
00:39:59.63\00:40:02.53
SAYS - GALATIANS 6:1.
EPHESIANS 4:2, "WITH ALL
00:40:02.53\00:40:06.63
HUMILITY AND GENTLENESS,
WITH PATIENCE" - WE NEED TO HAVE
00:40:06.63\00:40:11.27
A HUMBLE ATTITUDE
AND NOT BE ARROGANT.
00:40:11.27\00:40:14.71
YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN PROGRAMS
BEFORE WHERE THESE DUBIOUS
00:40:14.71\00:40:18.55
EVANGELISTS ARE OUT THERE
CASTING OUT DEVILS AND SOME OF
00:40:18.55\00:40:22.95
YOU REMEMBER SEVERAL YEARS AGO
- I DON'T WANT TO BE UNKIND, BUT
00:40:22.95\00:40:30.26
IT WAS, SORT OF, PUBLIC
KNOWLEDGE - JIMMY SWAGGART, WHO
00:40:30.26\00:40:34.46
HAD A VERY PROMINENT MINISTRY,
GOT IN TROUBLE FOR VISITING WITH
00:40:34.46\00:40:41.97
LADIES OF THE NIGHT AND THE
ASSEMBLY OF GOD ASKED HIM TO
00:40:41.97\00:40:48.04
TAKE A YEAR OFF TO GET
COUNSELING AND - BUT HIS, YOU
00:40:48.04\00:40:51.11
KNOW, HE HAD A BIG THRIVING
MINISTRY AND HE DIDN'T WANT TO
00:40:51.11\00:40:53.31
DO THAT, AND HE SAID, 'YOU
KNOW, I HAD THIS EVIL SPIRIT OF
00:40:53.31\00:40:59.32
PORNOGRAPHY THAT WAS AFFLICTING
ME AND ORAL ROBERTS CALLED AND
00:40:59.32\00:41:04.03
HE CAST OUT THE EVIL
SPIRITS OVER THE PHONE.' AND THE
00:41:04.03\00:41:09.30
ASSEMBLY OF GOD WASN'T TOO HAPPY
WITH THAT EXPLANATION AND THEY
00:41:09.30\00:41:11.83
SAID, 'NO, YOU PROBABLY NEED
TO SPEND SOME TIME PRAYING AND
00:41:11.83\00:41:14.14
COUNSELING.' AND
HE DIDN'T WANT TO.
00:41:14.14\00:41:18.47
AND THEN ORAL ROBERTS CONFIRMED.
00:41:18.47\00:41:19.67
HE SAID, 'YEAH,' - HE SAID -
'HE HAD THESE EVIL SPIRITS OF
00:41:19.67\00:41:21.44
PORNOGRAPHY - HAD THEIR CLAWS IN
JIMMY SWAGGART AND I PRAYED AND
00:41:21.44\00:41:23.91
THEY CAME OUT SCREAMING
AND YELLING.' WELL, A FEW WEEKS
00:41:23.91\00:41:27.52
LATER JIMMY SWAGGART WAS PULLED
OVER IN PALM SPRINGS WITH A
00:41:27.52\00:41:32.35
PROSTITUTE IN HIS CAR AND
PORNOGRAPHIC MAGAZINES STREWN
00:41:32.35\00:41:35.49
ALL OVER THE FLOOR.
THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS.
00:41:35.49\00:41:40.73
IT'S THROUGH SUBMITTING YOURSELF
TO GOD AND TRUSTING IN THE HOLY
00:41:40.73\00:41:47.44
SPIRIT WITH A HUMBLE ATTITUDE.
TO JUST, YOU KNOW, BLOW THINGS
00:41:47.44\00:41:52.57
OFF LIKE THAT IS NOT
THE WAY THAT IT WORKS.
00:41:52.57\00:41:54.64
YOU NEED TO
PREPARE YOUR OWN HEART.
00:41:54.64\00:41:56.21
PUT ON THE ARMOR OF GOD.
HUMBLE YOURSELF BEFORE GOD.
00:41:56.21\00:41:59.41
HOW MUCH CAN WE
DO WITHOUT JESUS?
00:41:59.41\00:42:01.88
NOTHING, BUT WE CAN DO
ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST.
00:42:01.88\00:42:05.59
SOMETHING ELSE YOU MIGHT
CONSIDER IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE
00:42:05.59\00:42:07.36
PRAYING FOR SOMEONE, IN
PARTICULAR, THAT YOU THINK IS
00:42:07.36\00:42:09.59
JUST BOUND BY THE DEVIL IN SOME
WAY: NOT ONLY PRAY, BUT FAST AND
00:42:09.59\00:42:15.30
PRAY. MARK CHAPTER 9 -
MAN BROUGHT HIS SON TO JESUS.
00:42:15.30\00:42:19.93
THE DEVIL WAS THROWING THE BOY
IN THE FIRE SOMETIMES AND IN THE
00:42:19.93\00:42:23.41
WATER OTHER TIMES. YOU
KNOW WHAT THAT REPRESENTS?
00:42:23.41\00:42:25.44
TWO OPPOSITE
THINGS. NOW, IS FIRE BAD?
00:42:25.44\00:42:29.14
FIRE UNDER
CONTROL IS VERY IMPORTANT.
00:42:29.14\00:42:31.21
IS WATER BAD? >>NO.
00:42:31.21\00:42:33.35
>>WATER IS VERY IMPORTANT, BUT
YOU CAN BURN AND YOU CAN DROWN.
00:42:33.35\00:42:37.32
THESE TWO OPPOSITE EXTREMES.
NOW, WE NEED TO BE BORN OF THE
00:42:37.32\00:42:41.39
SPIRIT AND WE NEED
TO BE BORN OF THE WATER.
00:42:41.39\00:42:44.39
AND HERE, YOU'VE GOT THIS VOID
- THE DEVIL'S DROWNING HIM IN
00:42:44.39\00:42:47.46
WATER - TRYING TO DROWN HIM AND
THROWING HIM IN COOK FIRES AND
00:42:47.46\00:42:51.43
THINGS AND FATHER BRINGS HIS SON
TO JESUS AND SAYS, 'LORD, IF YOU
00:42:51.43\00:42:54.34
CAN DO ANYTHING, PLEASE HELP.'
AND YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS SAID?
00:42:54.34\00:42:58.14
'IF YOU BELIEVE, ALL THINGS ARE
POSSIBLE.' HE SAID, 'I BROUGHT
00:42:58.14\00:43:01.74
HIM TO YOUR DISCIPLES AND THEY
COULD NOT CAST HIM OUT.' - SO,
00:43:01.74\00:43:05.05
RIGHT THERE, DON'T MISS THAT.
EVEN THE DISCIPLES, SOMETIMES,
00:43:05.05\00:43:08.38
RAN INTO EVIL POWERS
THEY COULD NOT DEAL WITH.
00:43:08.38\00:43:12.89
JESUS CAST OUT THE DEVIL - THE
BOY - IT WAS, EVIDENTLY, A HARD
00:43:12.89\00:43:16.29
CASE BECAUSE THE BOY WAS
THRASHING AND WRITHING AS THE
00:43:16.29\00:43:18.46
DEVIL CAME OUT AND THERE WAS A
GREAT CALM AND JESUS TOOK HIM BY
00:43:18.46\00:43:21.60
THE HAND AND LIFTED HIM UP
AND DELIVERED HIM TO HIS FATHER.
00:43:21.60\00:43:24.37
THE DISCIPLES CAME TO
JESUS LATER AND SAID, 'LORD, WHY
00:43:24.37\00:43:26.67
COULDN'T' WE CAST HIM OUT?'
AND HE SAID, 'THIS KIND DOES NOT
00:43:26.67\00:43:30.51
COME FORTH EXCEPT
BY PRAYER AND FASTING.'
00:43:30.51\00:43:34.34
NOW, YOU KNOW WHAT
THAT MEANS? ALL OF YOU ARE
00:43:34.34\00:43:37.78
FASTING RIGHT NOW. IT
MIGHT ONLY BE 20 MINUTES.
00:43:37.78\00:43:41.28
SOME OF YOU MAY BE HIDING
SUNFLOWER SEEDS OR SOMETHING.
00:43:41.28\00:43:43.75
(LAUGHTER) WE SEE THE KERNELS
- YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT
00:43:43.75\00:43:46.62
IN CHURCH.
(LAUGHTER) BUT NO PROBLEM
00:43:46.62\00:43:50.89
FASTING FOR TEN MINUTES.
ANY OF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM
00:43:50.89\00:43:53.16
FASTING FOR AN HOUR? THE
VERY FACT THAT JESUS SAYS
00:43:53.16\00:43:57.03
FASTING AND PRAYER -
WHAT DOES THAT IMPLY?
00:43:57.03\00:43:59.43
IT COULD TAKE TIME BECAUSE
YOU DON'T EVEN LOOK LIKE YOU'RE
00:43:59.43\00:44:03.77
FASTING UNTIL YOU'VE
MISSED AT LEAST ONE MEAL, RIGHT?
00:44:03.77\00:44:07.44
SOME OF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE
FASTING IF YOU MISS A SNACK.
00:44:07.44\00:44:10.28
HA, YOU DON'T CREDIT FOR
THAT. SO, YOU MISS A MEAL.
00:44:10.28\00:44:14.85
HE'S TALKING ABOUT YOU MIGHT
HAVE SOMETHING YOU'RE PRAYING
00:44:14.85\00:44:18.19
ABOUT AND YOU HAVE TO
FAST AND PRAY FOR AWHILE.
00:44:18.19\00:44:20.69
THERE COULD BE A PROCESS
INVOLVED IN PRAYING THAT A
00:44:20.69\00:44:23.39
PERSON - SOME PEOPLE
PRAY FOR YEARS FOR OTHERS.
00:44:23.39\00:44:27.66
FAST AND PRAY.
NOTICE - LUKE 22 - JESUS IS
00:44:27.66\00:44:31.43
SPEAKING HERE - VERSE 31, "AND
THE LORD SAID, 'SIMON, SIMON!
00:44:31.43\00:44:35.84
INDEED, SATAN HAS ASKED FOR YOU,
THAT HE MAY SIFT YOU AS WHEAT.
00:44:35.84\00:44:39.87
BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR YOU,'"
- JESUS PRAYED BECAUSE THE DEVIL
00:44:39.87\00:44:43.14
WAS WANTING TO HANG ON TO PETER
- "THAT YOUR FAITH SHOULD NOT
00:44:43.14\00:44:46.08
FAIL; AND WHEN YOU HAVE
RETURNED TO ME, STRENGTHEN YOUR
00:44:46.08\00:44:49.32
BRETHREN." SO
THERE'S - EVEN JESUS SAID HE
00:44:49.32\00:44:54.06
WANTED PETER - AND HE
PRAYED - PRAYER IS THE ANSWER.
00:44:54.06\00:44:57.43
SO YOU'VE GOT PREPARE YOUR
HEART, PRAY, CITE SCRIPTURE.
00:44:57.43\00:45:01.40
WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT JESUS DID
WITH THE DEVIL, BUT IF YOU'RE
00:45:01.40\00:45:04.13
DEALING WITH A PERSON - WHEN
IT SAYS 'CITING SCRIPTURE' THAT
00:45:04.13\00:45:06.90
DOESN'T MEAN JUST THAT, YOU
KNOW, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO RAMBLE
00:45:06.90\00:45:10.11
OFF A BUNCH OF VERSES, BUT THE
APPLICATION OF THE SCRIPTURE -
00:45:10.11\00:45:13.84
YOU NOTICE WHEN JESUS QUOTED
SCRIPTURE TO THE DEVIL, HE
00:45:13.84\00:45:16.48
QUOTED SCRIPTURE THAT
APPLIED TO THE TEMPTATION.
00:45:16.48\00:45:20.15
SO THE PROPER APPLICATION OF
SCRIPTURE IS SOMETHING THE DEVIL
00:45:20.15\00:45:23.59
HATES, BECAUSE THE DEVIL CAN
QUOTE SCRIPTURE TOO, CAN'T HE?
00:45:23.59\00:45:26.99
BUT HE TWISTS IT TO PEOPLE'S
DESTRUCTION. IN MODERN TERMS,
00:45:26.99\00:45:33.90
WHEN YOU SHARE THE WORD OF GOD
WITH PEOPLE, DEVILS ARE EVICTED.
00:45:33.90\00:45:39.43
AS WE ARE INVOLVED IN GIVING
BIBLE STUDIES - YOU MIGHT NOT
00:45:39.43\00:45:42.40
HEAR A PERSON SHOUT AND SCREAM
OR ROLL AROUND, BUT IF YOU ARE
00:45:42.40\00:45:46.47
CALMLY IN A PERSON'S HOUSE
AND YOU'RE OPENING THE WORD, YOU
00:45:46.47\00:45:49.51
WILL NOTICE, SOMETIMES, A GLINT
IN A PERSON'S EYE - THEY'LL SAY,
00:45:49.51\00:45:52.18
'WOW, I'VE NEVER
UNDERSTOOD THIS.' THEY CHANGE.
00:45:52.18\00:45:56.42
ALL OF A SUDDEN THE FRONT YARD'S
CLEAN, ALL KINDS OF THINGS BEGIN
00:45:56.42\00:45:59.39
TO HAPPEN - YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT
BUT YOU CAST OUT AN EVIL SPIRIT,
00:45:59.39\00:46:03.16
THAT HAD THEIR LIFE,
THROUGH STUDYING WITH THEM.
00:46:03.16\00:46:06.36
SO WHEN I SAY 'QUOTING THE WORD'
I DON'T MEAN YOU JUST START
00:46:06.36\00:46:08.76
SHOUTING SCRIPTURES OVER A
PERSON AND THEY'RE GOING TO
00:46:08.76\00:46:10.73
SCREAM AND AN
EVIL SPIRIT COMES OUT.
00:46:10.73\00:46:12.47
MOST OF THE TIME, THE UNCLEAN
EVIL SPIRITS COME OUT OF PEOPLE
00:46:12.47\00:46:16.47
AS WE SHARE THE GOSPEL
- AS WE STUDY THE WORD.
00:46:16.47\00:46:20.08
THAT'S HOW IT HAPPENED WITH ME.
I MEAN - I'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL.
00:46:20.08\00:46:25.11
I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT EVERY
PROBLEM THAT A PERSON HAS IS
00:46:25.11\00:46:30.92
DEMONIC. THERE ARE
THOSE THAT ARE GOING
00:46:30.92\00:46:34.06
OUT THERE AND SAY, 'HE'S GOT THE
DEVIL OF EARACHES.' 'HE'S GOT
00:46:34.06\00:46:37.63
THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT OF, YOU
KNOW, DRY EYE SYNDROME.' OR JUST
00:46:37.63\00:46:43.00
WHATEVER IT IS, YOU KNOW?
'IT'S A DEVIL OF ARTHRITIS'
00:46:43.00\00:46:45.87
- IT MIGHT JUST BE
OLD AGE. NOT EVERYTHING IS
00:46:45.87\00:46:47.94
A DEVIL POSSESSION.
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:46:47.94\00:46:50.31
BECAUSE THERE ARE PREACHERS
OUT THERE THAT BELIEVE THAT.
00:46:50.31\00:46:52.24
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT BUT, WHEN
YOU'RE ADDICTED, IT'S NOT THE
00:46:52.24\00:46:56.48
SPIRIT OF GOD; WHEN YOU'RE
ADDICTED TO ANYTHING, THAT'S AN
00:46:56.48\00:47:01.02
UNCLEAN SPIRIT THAT, IN
SOME CAPACITY, HAS AHOLD OF YOU.
00:47:01.02\00:47:05.95
AND I KNOW, WHEN I STRUGGLED IN
GIVING UP DRUGS AND GIVING UP -
00:47:05.95\00:47:10.49
I COULD CURSE - CIGARETTES, FOR
ME - ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS -
00:47:10.49\00:47:16.10
THAT IT WAS THROUGH
PEOPLE STUDYING WITH ME AND
00:47:16.10\00:47:18.93
UNDERSTANDING THE PROMISES OF
GOD THAT I GAINED THE STRENGTH
00:47:18.93\00:47:21.77
TO BE FREE FROM THOSE THINGS.
AND THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENS,
00:47:21.77\00:47:26.31
IN A PRACTICAL SENSE. SO,
AS WE GO FORTH SHARING WITH
00:47:26.31\00:47:29.71
CHRIST, WE'RE
TAKING THE WORD WITH US.
00:47:29.71\00:47:32.35
THIS IS THE SWORD OF THE - OF
THE SPIRIT - OF THE WORD OF GOD,
00:47:32.35\00:47:35.75
AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:47:35.75\00:47:37.45
>>IT SAYS, 'BELIEVE.' AS YOU'VE
BEEN PREPARING YOUR OWN HEART
00:47:37.45\00:47:41.46
AND CITING SCRIPTURE AND PRAYING
- PERHAPS PRAYING AND FASTING,
00:47:41.46\00:47:45.09
BELIEVE THAT GOD IS GOING
TO WORK IN THAT PERSON'S LIFE.
00:47:45.09\00:47:48.00
JESUS SAID IN MARK 9, 'IF
YOU CAN BELIEVE, ALL THINGS ARE
00:47:48.00\00:47:50.93
POSSIBLE.' MARTIN LUTHER SAID
OUR SONGS AND OUR PSALMS SORELY
00:47:50.93\00:47:57.17
VEX AND GRIEVE THE DEVIL,
WHEREAS OUR PASSIONS AND OUR
00:47:57.17\00:48:00.21
IMPATIENCES, OUR COMPLAININGS
AND OUR CRYINGS - OUR SAYING
00:48:00.21\00:48:03.35
'ALAS' AND 'WOE IS
ME' PLEASE HIM WELL.
00:48:03.35\00:48:05.98
HE LAUGHS IN HIS FIST. HE
TAKES DELIGHT IN TORMENTING
00:48:05.98\00:48:08.48
US, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE CONFESS,
PRAISE, PREACH, AND LAUD CHRIST.
00:48:08.48\00:48:12.69
IF WE SAY WE'RE CHRISTIANS
AND WE COMPLAIN ALL THE TIME, WE
00:48:12.69\00:48:14.89
DON'T BELIEVE OUR OWN PROMISES
TO PREACH THE GOSPEL, IT MAKES
00:48:14.89\00:48:19.26
THE DEVIL HAPPY. WE'VE
GOT TO BELIEVE THAT GOD IS
00:48:19.26\00:48:20.96
GOING TO DO WHAT
WE'RE ASKING HIM TO DO.
00:48:20.96\00:48:23.33
NOW, POINT #5 - AND I SEE - I
KNOW YOU'VE GOT SOME OF THESE ON
00:48:23.33\00:48:26.23
YOUR SCREEN UP
THERE: ANOINT WITH OIL.
00:48:26.23\00:48:29.84
THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT'S
HARD AND FAST, BUT THERE IS A
00:48:29.84\00:48:32.11
VERSE. NOT ONLY DO
YOU READ JAMES 5:14,
00:48:32.11\00:48:35.34
"IS ANYONE AMONG YOU SICK?
LET HIM CALL FOR THE ELDERS OF
00:48:35.34\00:48:38.58
THE CHURCH, AND LET THEM PRAY
OVER HIM, ANOINTING HIM WITH
00:48:38.58\00:48:41.92
OIL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
AND THE PRAYER OF FAITH WILL
00:48:41.92\00:48:45.79
SAVE THE SICK, AND THE LORD
WILL RAISE HIM UP. AND IF HE HAS
00:48:45.79\00:48:48.96
COMMITTED SINS, HE WILL
BE FORGIVEN." SO HERE THERE'S
00:48:48.96\00:48:51.36
HEALING AND FORGIVENESS THROUGH
PRAYER AND ANOINTING WITH OIL,
00:48:51.36\00:48:55.73
WHICH IS A SYMBOL FOR THE HOLY
SPIRIT COMING IN THEIR LIFE.
00:48:55.73\00:48:59.37
SOME SICKNESS IS DIABOLICAL IN
NATURE - WE'VE ALREADY SHOWN YOU
00:48:59.37\00:49:03.54
THAT IN THE BIBLE, SO
YOU HAVE THAT EXAMPLE.
00:49:03.54\00:49:06.34
AND LOOK AT THIS - MARK 6:13 -
IT SAYS, "AND THEY CAST OUT MANY
00:49:06.34\00:49:10.71
DEMONS, AND ANOINTED WITH OIL
MANY WHO WERE SICK, AND HEALED
00:49:10.71\00:49:14.32
THEM." - IT'S JUST INTERESTING
THAT THEY MENTION CASTING OUT
00:49:14.32\00:49:16.79
DEVILS AND ANOINTING WITH
OIL MANY WHO WERE SICK - IT'S
00:49:16.79\00:49:19.52
ALMOST LIKE THEY WERE ALTOGETHER
- ONE THING THAT WAS HAPPENING.
00:49:19.52\00:49:24.33
AND THEN POINT #6:
INVOKING JESUS' NAME.
00:49:24.33\00:49:30.20
ALL THAT WE DO IS IN
THE NAME OF THE LORD.
00:49:30.20\00:49:32.77
ACTS 16, VERSE 18, IT SAYS THAT
PAUL, GREATLY ANNOYED, TURNED
00:49:32.77\00:49:38.74
AND SAID TO THIS GIRL WHO WAS
POSSESSED WITH AN EVIL SPIRIT,
00:49:38.74\00:49:41.34
'I COMMAND YOU, IN THE NAME
OF JESUS CHRIST, TO COME OUT OF
00:49:41.34\00:49:45.21
HER.' AND HE CAME
OUT THAT VERY HOUR.
00:49:45.21\00:49:48.42
THERE WAS A GIRL
WHO WAS DEMON POSSESSED.
00:49:48.42\00:49:50.62
AND AGAIN, IT SAYS, "THESE
SIGNS" - CHRIST SAID - MARK
00:49:50.62\00:49:54.12
16:17 - "THESE SIGNS" - MAY?
00:49:54.12\00:49:57.16
NO - "THESE SIGNS WILL FOLLOW
THOSE WHO BELIEVE:" - YOU'RE
00:49:57.16\00:50:00.16
GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE
THIS UP WITH JESUS IF YOU DON'T
00:50:00.16\00:50:01.93
UNDERSTAND THIS, FRIENDS -
"THESE SIGNS WILL FOLLOW THOSE
00:50:01.93\00:50:05.57
WHO BELIEVE: IN MY NAME THEY
WILL CAST OUT DEMONS;" - NOW, I
00:50:05.57\00:50:11.24
HOPE I'VE MADE IT CLEAR TO
EVERYBODY, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT
00:50:11.24\00:50:14.08
SOME MEDICINE SHOW OR SOME
KIND OF, YOU KNOW, CARNIVAL
00:50:14.08\00:50:19.85
ATMOSPHERE IN THE CHURCH WHERE
PEOPLE ARE CASTING OUT DEVILS,
00:50:19.85\00:50:22.48
I'M TALKING, REALLY, ABOUT WHAT
WE DO AS WE'RE LIVING THE LIFE
00:50:22.48\00:50:26.32
AND SHARING THE WORD. >>AMEN.
00:50:26.32\00:50:28.89
>>YOU'RE GOING FORTH BUT DON'T
DOUBT FOR A MINUTE THAT THERE
00:50:28.89\00:50:32.13
AREN'T REAL SPIRITUAL
BATTLES THAT ARE AT WAR.
00:50:32.13\00:50:35.96
SOME THINGS ARE
MEDICAL AND WE KNOW THAT.
00:50:35.96\00:50:38.97
THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO
ARE DEMON POSSESSED AND THEN THE
00:50:38.97\00:50:41.97
BIBLE TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO
ARE LUNATIC AND THAT MEANT THAT
00:50:41.97\00:50:45.41
MAYBE THEY HAD A MENTAL ILLNESS.
JESUS CAN HEAL BOTH, CAN'T HE?
00:50:45.41\00:50:48.88
BUT WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL.
SOME PEOPLE, QUITE LITERALLY,
00:50:48.88\00:50:51.81
HAVE A CHEMICAL PROBLEM. I
KNOW IF I GET TOO HUNGRY, I
00:50:51.81\00:50:57.52
GET GRUMPY - THAT'S A
CHEMICAL PROBLEM, ISN'T IT.
00:50:57.52\00:51:00.49
AND SO CHEMICALS IN YOUR
BODY CAN AFFECT YOUR BEHAVIOR.
00:51:00.49\00:51:04.13
AND SO, SOME PEOPLE HAVE VALID
CHEMICAL PROBLEMS AND I TOLD -
00:51:04.13\00:51:07.46
HEARD A PASTOR SAY,
'THROW AWAY YOUR MEDICINE.
00:51:07.46\00:51:09.40
WE'RE GOING TO PRAY AND CAST OUT
THIS DEVIL.' YOU'VE GOT TO BE
00:51:09.40\00:51:11.70
VERY CAREFUL ABOUT DOING THAT.
HAVING SAID THAT, THERE ARE
00:51:11.70\00:51:16.64
PROBABLY SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE
DEMON POSSESSED AND DOCTORS ARE
00:51:16.64\00:51:19.67
TRYING TO DEAL
WITH IT WITH MEDICINES.
00:51:19.67\00:51:22.44
AND SO - BECAUSE NO DOCTOR -
I SHOULDN'T SAY NO DOCTOR - VERY
00:51:22.44\00:51:26.28
FEW DOCTORS ADMIT THESE
SPIRITUAL WARS THAT ARE GOING
00:51:26.28\00:51:29.85
ON. WELL, FRIENDS, THAT'S BEEN
00:51:29.85\00:51:31.85
SORT OF AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT'S
HAPPENING BEHIND THE SCENES.
00:51:31.85\00:51:36.42
THERE ARE RADIO WAVES OUT THERE
THAT WE CAN'T SEE, AND THERE ARE
00:51:36.42\00:51:41.03
SPIRITUAL FORCES. THERE
ARE SNEAKY PEOPLE TRYING
00:51:41.03\00:51:44.30
TO PUT VIRUSES IN OUR COMPUTER
AND THERE ARE DEVILS THAT ARE
00:51:44.30\00:51:47.34
TRYING TO PUT THEIR CLAWS
IN US AND WE ALL NEED JESUS'
00:51:47.34\00:51:52.24
ANTI-VIRUS
SOFTWARE, AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:51:52.24\00:51:55.74
>>HE THAT HAS THE SON HAS LIFE
AND IF CHRIST IS IN YOU, GREATER
00:51:55.74\00:52:00.15
IS HE THAT IS IN YOU
THAT HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD.
00:52:00.15\00:52:03.05
WE DON'T NEED TO BE AFRAID.
DO WE KNOW HOW THE STORY ENDS?
00:52:03.05\00:52:05.99
>>AMEN. >>THE DEVIL - THE
00:52:05.99\00:52:08.82
DEVILS TREMBLE. THEY
ARE KEPT IN EVERLASTING
00:52:08.82\00:52:12.63
CHAINS RESERVED UNTO THE
JUDGMENT OF THE GREAT DAY.
00:52:12.63\00:52:15.73
THEY KNOW THEIR
DAYS ARE NUMBERED.
00:52:15.73\00:52:18.73
CHRIST WILL DECLARE TO THOSE
THAT ARE LOST, 'AWAY, DEPART
00:52:18.73\00:52:22.20
FROM ME YE CURSED, INTO
EVERLASTING FIRE PREPARED FOR
00:52:22.20\00:52:24.61
THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS.'
SATAN KNOWS THAT THEY ARE GOING
00:52:24.61\00:52:29.28
TO BE CONSUMED IN THE FIRES THAT
DESTROY THE WORLD AND PURIFY THE
00:52:29.28\00:52:34.25
EARTH AT THE SAME TIME. AND
SO, WE DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID.
00:52:34.25\00:52:37.99
YOU KNOW, IT'S ALSO GOOD TO KNOW
- YEAH, THERE ARE ONE-THIRD OF
00:52:37.99\00:52:44.46
THE ANGELS THAT FELL, BUT
TWO-THIRDS THAT DIDN'T FALL, SO
00:52:44.46\00:52:48.50
YOU'VE GOT MORE ON YOUR SIDE
THAN THEY HAVE ON THEIR SIDE.
00:52:48.50\00:52:52.47
YOU REMEMBER WHEN ELISHA TO HIS
SERVANT, 'LORD, OPEN HIS EYES.
00:52:52.47\00:52:56.40
MORE THEY BE THAT ARE WITH US
THAN THEY THAT BE THAT WERE WITH
00:52:56.40\00:53:01.64
THEM.' AND SO,
WE'RE ON THE WINNING TEAM.
00:53:01.64\00:53:04.65
AND, YOU KNOW, THE TRUTH IS THAT
EVEN IF ALL OF THE ANGELS FELL
00:53:04.65\00:53:09.62
AND FOLLOWED LUCIFER, IF YOU'VE
GOT JESUS ON YOUR SIDE, YOU'RE
00:53:09.62\00:53:13.89
ON THE WINNING TEAM. >>AMEN.
00:53:13.89\00:53:16.99
>>I REMEMBER READING ABOUT
DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN AND THERE WAS
00:53:16.99\00:53:21.90
THIS ONE MIGHTY MAN, I NEVER
COULD FORGET HIS NAME, HE'S
00:53:21.90\00:53:24.20
ELIEZER, THE SON OF DODO
- THAT'S WHY IT WAS EASY TO
00:53:24.20\00:53:28.10
REMEMBER - ELIEZER THE SON OF
DODO AND HE'S LISTED AMONG THE
00:53:28.10\00:53:30.57
MIGHTY MEN OF DAVID. AND
IT TALKS ABOUT THIS ONE TIME
00:53:30.57\00:53:34.51
WHEN THEY WERE IN BATTLE
WITH THE PHILISTINES AND ALL OF
00:53:34.51\00:53:38.91
THE ARMY FLED BECAUSE THE
PHILISTINES OUTNUMBERED THE
00:53:38.91\00:53:41.82
ISRAELITES, BUT
DAVID WOULD NOT RETREAT.
00:53:41.82\00:53:45.32
AND DAVID STOOD THE GROUND - AND
THEY WERE IN A BARLEY FIELD -
00:53:45.32\00:53:49.32
AND ELIEZER STOOD AT HIS BACK
- I GUESS YOU COULD SAY DAVID
00:53:49.32\00:53:53.16
STOOD AT HIS BACK - AND THERE
THEY WERE BACK TO BACK - ELIEZER
00:53:53.16\00:53:56.00
AND DAVID - AND THEY FOUGHT THE
PHILISTINES AND THEY DEFEATED
00:53:56.00\00:53:58.93
THEM. THE TWO OF THEM!
WENT THROUGH THE PHILISTINES
00:53:58.93\00:54:01.37
LIKE A MOWING MACHINE. AND
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ELIEZER
00:54:01.37\00:54:05.07
COULD NOT LET GO OF HIS SWORD
BECAUSE HE HAD HELD IT SO LONG
00:54:05.07\00:54:08.48
THAT HIS HAND
CLAVE UNTO HIS SWORD.
00:54:08.48\00:54:10.95
YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING, WHEN
YOU CONSIDER THE BIBLE DOES NOT
00:54:10.95\00:54:14.22
RECORD DAVID
EVER LOSING A BATTLE.
00:54:14.22\00:54:17.15
AND IF YOU GO INTO BATTLE WITH
DAVID, JESUS, THE SON OF DAVID,
00:54:17.15\00:54:21.92
YOU WILL NEVER
LOSE A BATTLE. >>AMEN.
00:54:21.92\00:54:24.39
>>SO, HE'S GOT YOUR BACK AND YOU
DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO BE AFRAID
00:54:24.39\00:54:28.30
OF. SO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE GET
00:54:28.30\00:54:29.63
NERVOUS. PASTOR
DOUG TALKS ABOUT DEVILS
00:54:29.63\00:54:31.47
AND THEY GO OUT AND
THEY'RE SPOOKED BY EVERYTHING.
00:54:31.47\00:54:33.34
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE
AFRAID. I'M NOT AFRAID.
00:54:33.34\00:54:35.60
I THINK THAT WE CAN FIND
CONFIDENCE IN KNOWING THAT
00:54:35.60\00:54:38.94
CHRIST IS WITH US WHEREVER WE
GO AND THAT HE CAN GIVE US THE
00:54:38.94\00:54:41.71
VICTORY. SO, PUT ON
THE ARMOR OF GOD AND
00:54:41.71\00:54:44.48
STAND AND DO IT WITH
ALL PRAYER AND PERSISTENCE
00:54:44.48\00:54:48.58
AND WATCHFULNESS.
HOW MANY WANT TO BE
00:54:48.58\00:54:50.05
SOLDIERS IN GOD'S ARMY?
00:54:50.05\00:54:52.92
>>FOR LIFE-CHANGING
CHRISTIAN RESOURCES, VISIT
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AFBOOKSTORE.COM . (MUSIC)
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FRIENDS, IF YOU'RE
SCARED OF SNAKES, THIS MAY NOT
00:55:09.57\00:55:12.11
BE FOR YOU. I'M
HERE AT A REPTILE PARK
00:55:12.11\00:55:15.38
OUTSIDE OF DURBAN, SOUTH
AFRICA AND I'M HOLDING MY FRIEND
00:55:15.38\00:55:18.25
HERE, WHO'S A RED-TAIL BOA.
SNAKES ARE FOUND ALL OVER THE
00:55:18.25\00:55:22.35
WORLD AND THEY
COME IN ALL SIZES.
00:55:22.35\00:55:24.52
SNAKES CAN BE FOUND THROUGH THE
TREES, THEY CRAWL ON THE GROUND,
00:55:24.52\00:55:27.79
THEY LIVE UNDER THE GROUND,
AND THEY SWIM IN THE WATER.
00:55:27.79\00:55:30.49
VERY INTERESTING CREATURES.
SOME SNAKES ARE VENOMOUS.
00:55:30.49\00:55:34.63
NOT MY FRIEND
HERE. BUT THE BLACK MAMBA
00:55:34.63\00:55:36.63
- VERY POISONOUS.
MATTER OF FACT, THEIR BITE IS
00:55:36.63\00:55:40.30
OFTEN REFERRED TO
AS 'THE KISS OF DEATH'.
00:55:40.30\00:55:42.80
THEY CAN GROW 15-FEET LONG AND
CAN TRAVEL UP TO SEVEN MILES AN
00:55:42.80\00:55:45.57
HOUR. THEY DON'T CALL THEM BLACK
00:55:45.57\00:55:47.21
MAMBAS BECAUSE OF THE COLOR
OF THEIR SKIN, BUT THE INTERIOR
00:55:47.21\00:55:50.11
OF THEIR MOUTH IS BLACK.
SNAKES ALSO COME IN ALL SIZES -
00:55:50.11\00:55:54.08
LIKE THIS BOA OR A PYTHON -
THEY CAN GROW TO GREAT SIZES.
00:55:54.08\00:55:57.55
MATTER OF FACT, IN SOUTH
AMERICA, THEY FOUND SOME FOSSILS
00:55:57.55\00:56:00.72
OF A SNAKE THAT
THEY CALL 'TITANIBOA'.
00:56:00.72\00:56:03.99
THEY BELIEVE IT WAS AS BIG AS
50-FEET LONG AND WEIGHED AS MUCH
00:56:03.99\00:56:07.36
AS A CAR. SAY
'CHEESE!' A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE
00:56:07.36\00:56:11.27
SCARED OF SNAKES. I
USED TO LIVE ON A MOUNTAIN IN
00:56:11.27\00:56:13.57
A CAVE AND I RAN
INTO SNAKES FREQUENTLY.
00:56:13.57\00:56:15.37
THEY NEVER BOTHERED ME
UNLESS I WAS BOTHERING THEM.
00:56:15.37\00:56:18.57
IN THE BIBLE, THE SNAKE IS
OFTEN A SYMBOL OF THE DEVIL.
00:56:18.57\00:56:21.34
IN REALITY, IT'S JUST A SYMBOL.
00:56:21.34\00:56:23.35
THEY'RE ANIMALS JUST LIKE OTHER
ANIMALS, BUT IT SAYS THEY WERE
00:56:23.35\00:56:25.85
CURSED TO GO UPON THEIR BELLY
BECAUSE THEY WERE THE FIRST
00:56:25.85\00:56:28.28
MEDIUM THAT THE DEVIL
USED TO TEMPT ADAM AND EVE.
00:56:28.28\00:56:31.35
IN THE BOOK OF NUMBERS CHAPTER
21, IT TELLS THE STORY OF HOW,
00:56:31.35\00:56:34.59
WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE
GOING THROUGH THE WILDERNESS,
00:56:34.59\00:56:37.33
THEY BEGAN TO COMPLAIN ABOUT
GOD'S MANNA AND IT SAYS THE LORD
00:56:37.33\00:56:40.73
ALLOWED THESE FIERY SERPENTS
TO GO AMONG THE PEOPLE AND MANY
00:56:40.73\00:56:43.87
WERE BITTEN AND
THE VENOM WAS DEADLY.
00:56:43.87\00:56:46.87
I SHOULD PROBABLY MENTION AT
THIS POINT, THAT BREAD THEY WERE
00:56:46.87\00:56:49.30
COMPLAINING ABOUT IS A
SYMBOL FOR THE WORD OF GOD.
00:56:49.30\00:56:51.91
AS MANY OF THE PEOPLE WERE DYING
FROM THIS PLAGUE OF SERPENTS,
00:56:51.91\00:56:54.91
THEY WENT UNTO MOSES AND
THEY SAID, 'WHAT SHALL WE DO?'
00:56:54.91\00:56:57.65
GOD TOLD MOSES TO MAKE A BRONZE
SERPENT AND PUT IT ON A POLE AND
00:56:57.65\00:57:01.38
LIFT IT UP, THAT
WHOEVER LOOKED UPON THE SERPENT,
00:57:01.38\00:57:04.12
THEY WOULD BE
HEALED OF THEIR VENOM.
00:57:04.12\00:57:06.62
THIS IS WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT,
BECAUSE JESUS SAYS, IN THE
00:57:06.62\00:57:09.12
GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 3, VERSES
14 AND 15, "AS MOSES LIFTED UP
00:57:09.12\00:57:14.50
THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS,
EVEN SO THE SON OF MAN MUST BE
00:57:14.50\00:57:18.13
LIFTED UP, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES
IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT
00:57:18.13\00:57:21.90
HAVE ETERNAL LIFE." THEY
NEEDED TO LOOK AND TO LIVE.
00:57:21.90\00:57:26.04
YOU SEE, THOSE ANCIENT
SHEPHERDS, WHEN THEY WOULD KILL
00:57:26.04\00:57:27.88
A VENOMOUS SNAKE, THEY WOULD
CARRY IT OFF ON THEIR STAFF AND
00:57:27.88\00:57:31.21
BURY IT, SO A SERPENT ON A POLE
REPRESENTED A DEFEATED SNAKE.
00:57:31.21\00:57:36.08
IT'S TALKING ABOUT
DEFEATING THE DEVIL, FRIENDS.
00:57:36.08\00:57:38.95
HAVE YOU BEEN BITTEN BY
THE SERPENT? WE ALL HAVE.
00:57:38.95\00:57:41.49
THE ONLY CURE FOR THE VENOM
OF SATAN IS TO LOOK IN FAITH AT
00:57:41.49\00:57:45.13
JESUS. HE THEN DEFEATED THE
DEVIL. HE TOOK THE VENOM OF SIN
00:57:45.13\00:57:49.16
IN HIS BODY TO PROVIDE
THE ANTIDOTE IN HIS BLOOD.
00:57:49.16\00:57:53.07
SO FRIENDS, I ENCOURAGE
YOU TO LOOK TODAY AND LIVE.
00:57:53.07\00:57:56.24
(MUSIC)
00:57:56.24\00:58:11.32