Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG021631A
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00:14 >>WELCOME, GRANITE BAY FAMILY AND ANY VISITORS WHO ARE HERE 00:18 TODAY. I WAS THINKING HOW APPROPRIATE IT IS THAT, JUST AT 00:23 THE CONCLUSION OF THE PRAYER, WHEN IT SAID, 'DELIVER US FROM 00:26 EVIL' - I THINK YOU WERE ALL PAINFULLY AWARE THAT THERE IS A 00:32 BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL IN THE WORLD TODAY AND IT'S BEEN A 00:38 COUPLE OF WEEKS SINCE I DID PART 1 IN THIS SERIES CALLED 00:42 SPIRITUAL WARFARE AND LAST NIGHT I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, I WENT ON A 00:47 CAMPING TRIP BETWEEN PART 1 AND PART 2 - AND, BY THE WAY, THAT'S 00:50 HOW THE BEARD SHOWED UP. PEOPLE MIGHT WONDER, 'PASTOR 00:54 DOUG - IN THE FIRST DVD HE HAD NO BEARD - SECOND DVD - BOY, HIS 00:57 BEARD GROWS FAST.' (LAUGHTER) I NOTICED IN MY NOTES I TALKED 01:03 ABOUT A RECENT TERRORIST ATTACK AND HERE WE ARE AGAIN AND THERE 01:08 WAS ANOTHER ONE YESTERDAY - AT LEAST IT APPEARS THAT WAY. 01:12 THE WORLD REALLY IS IN A SAD WAY. 01:15 THERE CERTAINLY ARE EVIL FORCES THAT ARE AT WAR. 01:20 THE BIBLE TELLS US, 'WOE TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH AND THE 01:23 SEA FOR THE DEVIL HAS COME DOWN UNTO YOU, HAVING GREAT WRATH 01:27 BECAUSE HIS TIME IS SHORT.' IT SEEMS TO INDICATE THAT, AS WE 01:30 GET CLOSER TO THE END OF TIME, THE DEVIL BECOMES MORE FURIOUS 01:35 BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT HIS END IS COMING. 01:40 AND SO, WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LITTLE BIT, IN REVIEW, ABOUT 01:43 'WHY IS THERE EVIL IN THE WORLD?' AND THAT THE - THERE WAS 01:47 A WAR BETWEEN SATAN - LUCIFER - WHO WAS ONCE A GOOD ANGEL, AND 01:53 CHRIST AND HIS ANGELS, AND THEY WERE CAST OUT. 01:56 AND BECAUSE OUR EARLY PARENTS LISTENED TO THE WORD OF THE 02:00 DEVIL INSTEAD OF THE WORD OF GOD, THEN THERE HAS BEEN - THIS 02:04 WORLD HAS BECOME THE BEACHHEAD, REALLY, OF A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD 02:07 AND EVIL, AND ALL PEOPLE, FROM OUR FIRST PARENTS, WE BASICALLY 02:12 BECAME INFECTED WITH THIS DISEASE OF SIN. 02:17 TODAY, IN PART 2, WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE MORE SPECIFICALLY 02:20 ABOUT 'HOW DO WE BATTLE THE DEVIL?' AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT 02:25 JESUS TOLD US WE SHOULD EXPECT WOULD HAPPEN. 02:28 I THINK MOST OF US HAVE COMPUTERS AND I WOULD VENTURE TO 02:33 SAY THAT MOST OF YOU WITH COMPUTERS ALSO HAVE WHAT YOU 02:37 WOULD CALL A SOFTWARE PROTECTION - SOME KIND OF ANTI VIRUS 02:43 PROTECTION ON YOUR COMPUTER - DON'T YOU - ON YOUR COMPUTER? 02:48 SOMETIMES IT'S KNOWN AS ANTI-MAL WARE - SOUNDS 02:52 INSIDIOUS, DOESN'T IT? IT'S A COMPUTER SOFTWARE THAT 02:55 IS USED TO PREVENT AND DETECT MALICIOUS SOFTWARE. 03:02 ANTI VIRUS SOFTWARE WAS ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED TO DETECT 03:05 AND REMOVE FROM A COMPUTER THE VIRUSES; HOWEVER, WITH THE 03:09 PROLIFERATION OF OTHER KINDS OF MAL WARE, ANTI VIRUS SOFTWARE 03:14 STARTED TO PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM OTHER COMPUTER THREATS, IN 03:17 PARTICULAR, MODERN ANTI VIRUS SOFTWARE CAN PROTECT FROM A 03:21 MALICIOUS BROWSER, A BROWSER HIJACKER, RANSOM WARE, - 03:25 YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NOW? PEOPLE WILL, THROUGH A VIRUS IN 03:29 A BACK DOOR, THEY GET INTO YOUR COMPUTER, THEY WILL LOCK UP ALL 03:32 OF YOUR INFORMATION - THEY'LL COPY IT - AND THEY SAY THEY WILL 03:35 NOT RELEASE YOUR INFORMATION UNLESS YOU FORWARD CREDIT CARD 03:40 PAYMENT TO THEM. BASICALLY HOLD YOUR INFORMATION 03:43 AND YOUR COMPUTER HOSTAGE. THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO 03:46 BACK THINGS UP - BROWSERS, HACKERS, RANSOM WARE, 03:51 KEY LOGGERS - THEY PUT SOFTWARE ON THAT 03:54 MEASURES ALL OF YOUR KEYSTROKES SO THEY'LL KNOW WHEN YOU TYPE IN 03:56 A PASSWORD AND THEN THEY TRY THOSE TO ACCESS YOUR INFORMATION 04:01 - WORMS, TROJAN HORSES, FRAUD TOOLS, AD WARE, SPY WARE - 04:08 AD WARE IS AWFUL - SPY WARE, SPAM, SCAM 04:13 AND FISHING TACTICS - THEY TRY TO SECURE ONLINE IDENTITY SO 04:17 THEY CAN LOOT YOUR BANKING ACCOUNTS. 04:20 THEY GET INTO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION - MANIPULATE YOUR 04:23 LIFE THAT WAY, THROUGH SOCIAL ENGINEERING. WHY DO PEOPLE MAKE 04:30 VIRUSES FOR THE COMPUTER? TWO REASONS, REALLY - NO, THEY 04:35 GIVE THREE HERE BUT IT REALLY IS TWO. 04:38 1) TO MAKE MONEY, 2) TO STEAL ACCOUNT INFORMATION - THAT'S 04:43 STILL 1 - MAKE MONEY - AND 3) SOME PEOPLE DO IT JUST BECAUSE 04:47 THEY LOVE CREATING VIRUSES TO WATCH COMPANIES CRASH BECAUSE OF 04:50 THE PRIDE OF SAYING 'I BROUGHT THEM DOWN.' 04:54 IT'S JUST SELFISHNESS. SO THEY, IN THE END, THIS IS A 04:59 THRILL OF SEEING THE HAVOC AND THE CHAOS THEY CAN CREATE THAT 05:03 DRIVES THEM TO CREATE MORE VIRUSES. 05:05 NOW, I REMEMBER, WHEN I WAS A KID, SEEING A ROUTINE OF THE 05:13 THREE STOOGES WHERE THEY SNUCK AROUND BEHIND A HOUSE AND THEY 05:17 RELEASED A BUNCH OF RATS IN THIS HOUSE AND THEN A FEW HOURS LATER 05:21 THEY KNOCKED ON THE FRONT DOOR AND SAID, 'WE'RE EXTERMINATORS.' 05:27 AND I COULDN'T HELP BUT WONDER IF SOME OF THESE PEOPLE THAT 05:29 SELL ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE HAVE PEOPLE IN DARK ROOMS SOMEWHERE 05:34 THAT ARE CREATING NEW VIRUSES TO HELP YOU BUY THE SOFTWARE. 05:37 AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT'S EVER WONDERED THAT BEFORE? 05:40 OF COURSE, THAT WOULD BE A LACK OF INTEGRITY AND FAR BE IT FOR 05:42 ANY COMPANY TO EVER DO THAT. SO, THERE IS EVIL IN THE WORLD. 05:50 AND IN THE SAME WAY COMPUTERS GET VIRUSES, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT 05:53 PEOPLE CAN GET DEVILS. WE TALKED ABOUT DEMONS. 05:57 WE TALKED ABOUT PEOPLE HAVING UNCLEAN SPIRITS AND EVIL SPIRITS 06:02 AND THEY'RE CALLED BY ALL THESE NAMES IN THE BIBLE AND, BEFORE 06:05 YOU WALK OUT AND THINK THAT I'M BEING SENSATIONAL, JESUS TAUGHT 06:08 THIS, THE APOSTLES TAUGHT THIS. YOU DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT 06:12 IT BECAUSE FOLKS FEEL IT'S ANTIQUATED AND IT'S 06:15 UNSOPHISTICATED, BUT IT IS BIBLICAL TRUTH. 06:19 JESUS TALKED ABOUT CASTING OUT DEVILS. 06:23 NOW, THIS MAKES ME NERVOUS. 06:25 AND I THINK YOU OUGHT TO WATCH OUT FOR ANYBODY THAT WALKS 06:28 AROUND WITH A BUSINESS CARD THAT SAYS, 'DEMONS R US' AND 'WE CAST 06:31 OUT DEVILS' AND 'WE HAVE AN EXORCISM MINISTRY' AND NOWHERE 06:34 IN THE BIBLE DID THE APOSTLES LOOK FOR THIS, BUT WHEN THEY 06:38 ENCOUNTERED IT, THEY DEALT WITH IT. AND SO, JUST BE ON YOUR 06:43 GUARD IF PEOPLE SAY THAT THEY'VE GOT SOME SPECIAL GIFT IN THIS. 06:46 I THINK WE OUGHT TO AVOID IT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. 06:49 BUT NOTICE THE VERSES: MARK 16:17 - THIS IS THE LAST CHAPTER 06:53 IN THE BOOK OF ARK - OF MARK - "AND THESE SIGNS WILL FOLLOW 06:57 THOSE WHO BELIEVE; IN MY NAME SHALL THEY CAST OUT DEVILS; THEY 07:02 SHALL SPEAK WITH NEW TONGUES; THEY SHALL TAKE UP SERPENTS; AND 07:05 IF THEY DRINK ANY DEADLY THING, IT SHALL NOT HURT THEM;" - WE 07:08 KNOW PAUL WAS BIT BY A SERPENT AND IT WAS A DEADLY SERPENT BUT 07:11 HE SHOOK IT OFF AND NOTHING HAPPENED. BUT HE SAYS 07:13 THESE SIGNS WILL FOLLOW THOSE THAT BELIEVE. 07:15 DO YOU BELIEVE? >>AMEN. 07:18 >>THESE ARE THINGS. MARK 9:38, "AND JOHN ANSWERED HIM, SAYING, 07:22 'TEACHER, WE SAW SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT FOLLOW US'" 07:25 - HE'S NOT PART OF THE DISCIPLES OR THE APOSTLES - "'CASTING OUT 07:29 DEMONS IN YOUR NAME, AND WE FORBADE HIM BECAUSE HE DOES NOT 07:32 FOLLOW US.' BUT JESUS SAID, 'DO NOT FORBID HIM,'" - DO NOT 07:35 FORBID HIM FROM DOING WHAT? FROM CASTING OUT DEVILS IN THE 07:39 NAME OF THE LORD - "'DO NOT FORBID HIM, FOR NO ONE WHO WORKS 07:42 A MIRACLE IN MY NAME'" - SO THIS IS A MIRACLE, YOU NOTICE THAT? 07:46 - "'CAN SOON AFTERWARD SPEAK EVIL OF ME.'" - 07:48 CASTING OUT DEVILS WAS REFERRED TO AS A MIRACLE. 07:50 IT'S THE POWER OF GOD. SUPERNATURAL THINGS ARE 07:53 DEALT WITH SUPERNATURALLY. LUKE 10:17, "THEN THE SEVENTY" - 07:58 JESUS SENT OUT SEVENTY DISCIPLES - THESE ARE NOT APOSTLES. 08:02 SOME HAVE ARGUED IT'S ONLY APOSTLES THAT CAST OUT DEVILS - 08:05 IT'S NOT TRUE -"THEN THE SEVENTY RETURNED WITH JOY, SAYING, 08:09 'LORD, EVEN THE DEMONS ARE SUBJECT TO US IN YOUR NAME.'" 08:13 HE SAID, "I SAW SATAN FALL LIKE LIGHTNING FROM HEAVEN." 08:16 - ACTS 5:16 - NOW THIS IS AFTER THE HOLY SPIRIT'S POURED OUT. 08:20 YOU'RE DEALING WITH, NOW, THE TIME OF THE EARLY CHURCH - "ALSO 08:24 A MULTITUDE GATHERED FROM THE SURROUNDING CITIES TO JERUSALEM, 08:28 BRINGING SICK PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO WERE TORMENTED BY UNCLEAN 08:31 SPIRITS," - TORMENTED BY UNCLEAN SPIRITS - UNCLEAN SPIRITS 08:34 TORMENT PEOPLE - "AND THEY WERE ALL HEALED." 08:39 - IT SAYS THEY WERE ALL HEALED. 08:41 ACTS 8 - NOW, I'M NOT GIVING YOU ALL THE VERSES, I JUST WANT TO 08:43 MAKE MY CASE - ACTS 8, VERSE 7, "FOR UNCLEAN SPIRITS, CRYING 08:48 WITH A LOUD VOICE, CAME OUT OF MANY WHO WERE POSSESSED; AND 08:51 MANY WHO WERE PARALYZED AND LAME WERE HEALED." 08:54 SO WE BELIEVE THE OTHER THINGS - DOES GOD STILL HEAL THE SICK? 08:59 NOW THESE ARE, REALLY, PRETTY SUPERNATURAL MIRACLES WHEN YOU 09:03 SEE THE LAME RESTORED AND SO FORTH. 09:05 ACTS 19 - HERE'S ANOTHER ONE - "NOW GOD WORKED UNUSUAL MIRACLES 09:10 BY THE HANDS OF PAUL, SO THAT EVEN HANDKERCHIEFS OR APRONS 09:14 WERE BROUGHT FROM HIS BODY TO THE SICK, AND THE DISEASES LEFT 09:18 THEM AND THE EVIL SPIRITS WENT OUT OF THEM." 09:21 HERE IT'S CONNECTING DISEASE AND EVIL SPIRITS. 09:25 CAN THE DEVIL CAUSE SICKNESS? WE TALKED LAST WEEK ABOUT THAT 09:29 WOMAN WHO JESUS SAID SATAN HAD BOUND 18 YEARS AND SHE 09:33 WAS ALL DOUBLED OVER. SO PART OF THE EARLY CHURCH 09:37 CERTAINLY RECOGNIZED THAT THERE IS A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND 09:41 EVIL AND THAT PEOPLE ARE BEING HARASSED BY THE DEVIL. 09:45 I BELIEVE THAT WHEN WE ARE SAVED, THE LORD SETS US FREE. 09:49 THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT A PERSON, AFTER THEY'VE BEEN SAVED BY THE 09:52 LORD, CANNOT AGAIN BE HARASSED BY DEVILS. 09:56 WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE. 09:59 MARY MAGDALENE, OUT OF WHOM WERE CAST SEVEN DEVILS - IF YOU READ 10:02 IN THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES IT SOUNDS LIKE SEVEN DIFFERENT 10:04 TIMES - AND CHRIST AGAIN TALKS ABOUT A MAN WHO HAS AN EVIL 10:08 SPIRIT CAST OUT BUT HE DOESN'T DO ANYTHING TO REPLACE IT, AND 10:12 JESUS SAYS, 'SEVEN DEVILS WORSE THAN THE FIRST COME BACK.' AND 10:16 SO, THERE ARE BELIEVERS WHO MAYBE HAVE FALLEN BACK IN THE 10:20 OLD LIFE, LIKE A PRODIGAL AND THEY NEED DELIVERANCE AS WELL. 10:25 AND SO, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT APPLIES, NOT ONLY TO OUR 10:27 MINISTRY, BUT MAY APPLY TO US PERSONALLY. 10:29 WE'RE ALL HARASSED BY THE DEVIL - WE EXPLAINED THAT, RIGHT? 10:33 EVERYBODY'S TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL. 10:34 SOME PEOPLE EXPERIENCE DEMONIC POSSESSION IN VARYING DEGREES. 10:40 AND HOW DO WE GET INVOLVED IN THIS WARFARE THEN? 10:45 PAUL GIVES US SOME GUIDELINES. THIS WAS IN OUR MEMORY VERSE. 10:47 I'D LIKE TO REPEAT TO YOU EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6, VERSES 14 10:51 THROUGH 18. HE SAYS, 'PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR 10:54 OF GOD' - WE NEED TO STAND IN THAT ARMOR - BUT LET ME READ IT 10:56 TO YOU - "STAND FIRM THEN, WITH THE BELT OF TRUTH" - THERE'S 11:02 SEVEN IMPLEMENTS WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT IN THE ARMOR - 11:05 "HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS" - AND AS SHOES 11:10 FOR YOUR FEET HAVING PUT ON "THE READINESS THAT COMES FROM 11:13 THE GOSPEL OF PEACE." - IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES "TAKE UP 11:16 THE SHIELD OF FAITH, WITH WHICH YOU CAN EXTINGUISH ALL THE 11:19 FLAMING ARROWS OF THE EVIL ONE. TAKE THE HELMET OF SALVATION AND 11:23 THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD." 11:26 - AND "PRAYING ALWAYS WITH ALL PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION IN THE 11:27 SPIRIT...TO THIS END WITH ALL PERSEVERANCE AND SUPPLICATION 11:35 FOR ALL THE SAINTS." NOW, WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS WHAT 11:38 THESE DIFFERENT IMPLEMENTS OF ARMOR REPRESENT, BUT I THOUGHT 11:41 IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO HAVE A VISUAL SO WE'VE GOT ONE OF THE 11:43 MEMBERS OF OUR CHURCH - BOB, WHY DON'T YOU COME ON OUT? 11:46 ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF OUR CHURCH IS HANDY WITH METAL WORKING AND 11:53 BOB CURTICE, WHO WANTS TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS SO HE'S GOT HIS FULL 11:58 GEAR ON TODAY, HE'S - COME ON UP. CAN YOU SEE THE STEPS? 12:01 WE DON'T WANT - WE DON'T WANT AN INSURANCE CLAIM. 12:05 (LAUGHTER) SO THIS REPRESENTS SOME OF THE ARMOR OF GOD. 12:09 BOB, I THINK, ACTUALLY MADE THAT HELMET, IS THAT RIGHT? 12:11 (NODS IN AGREEMENT) AND THAT'S PRETTY COOL. 12:13 >>ALL OF IT. >>AND - ALL OF IT. 12:15 HE MADE ALL OF IT. THAT'S RIGHT, THE GREAVES AND SO 12:17 FORTH AND SO HERE YOU'VE GOT - YOU'VE GOT THE SHIELD THAT, YOU 12:22 KNOW, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO TUCK BEHIND AND PROTECT YOUR BODY. 12:25 YOU'VE GOT THE HELMET - OSHA WOULD NOT LET HIM BRING HIS 12:29 REALLY BEAUTIFUL METAL SWORD THAT DOUBLED-EDGED SWORD, SO 12:33 HE'S GOT THAT ONE RIGHT NOW, AND HE'S GOT THE GREAVES, THE 12:37 BREASTPLATE - AND YOU NOTICE, UNDER THE ARMOR, THIS CAN PINCH 12:40 YOU. YOU WEAR A ROBE. AND THEN YOU'VE GOT A BELT OF TRUTH. 12:44 AND YOU PUT YOUR SWORD, NORMALLY, IN A SCABBARD THAT 12:47 WOULD BE ON THE BELT. AND SO, THIS IS THE IMPLEMENTS 12:51 OF ARMOR THAT ARE DISCUSSED IN THE BIBLE. 12:54 I KNEW ALL THE KIDS WOULD WAKE UP RIGHT ABOUT NOW IN THE 12:56 SERMON. ALRIGHT, LET'S THANK BOB. CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'? 13:00 >>AMEN. >>ALRIGHT, JUST IF HE STAYS UP 13:01 HERE WHILE I'M PREACHING - W.C. FIELDS SAID, 'DON'T DO A MOVIE 13:06 WITH A DOG OR A KID BECAUSE THEY STEAL EVERYTHING.' 13:09 BUT ANYWAY - ARE YOU STUCK? >>NO. 13:12 >>OKAY, WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH, BOB. 13:14 HE SAYS THAT'S HEAVY AND IT - HOW MUCH DOES THAT WEIGH? 13:18 >>AROUND 45 POUNDS. >>45 POUNDS - THAT JUST - AND 13:22 HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE FULL BODY ARMOR ON. 13:25 SOME OF THE MEDIEVAL ARMOR - THAT'S MORE LIKE THE MEDIEVAL 13:28 ARMOR. WHEN THEY WORE FULL ARMOR, iT 13:31 COULD WEIGH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS. AND THOSE GUYS USED TO 13:34 GO OFF INTO BATTLE WEARING THAT STUFF. THE ARMOR IN BIBLE GOES 13:38 WAY BACK. WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT SOME OF 13:39 THE EXAMPLES OF THE ARMOR. FOR INSTANCE, 2 CHRONICLES 26:14 13:44 - STYLES CHANGE THROUGH HISTORY. YOU'LL SEE SOME DIFFERENT 13:47 DEPICTIONS ON THE WALL. WHEN PAUL WROTE ABOUT THE ARMOR 13:49 OF GOD HE WROTE A LOT OF HIS LETTERS FROM JAIL. 13:53 HE WAS PROBABLY CHAINED TO A ROMAN SOLDIER AND HE COULD LOOK 13:56 AT A DESCRIPTION OF IT RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF HIM. 13:58 PAUL SPENT A LOT OF TIME TRAVELING AROUND AS A PRISONER 14:03 OR AT LEAST IN THE CUSTODY OF A ROMAN SOLDIER. 14:05 ONE WAS NAMED JULIUS AND THEY WORE THIS ARMOR. 14:09 SO 2 CHRONICLES 26:14 - KING UZZIAH - HE WAS A GOOD KING. 14:13 HE PREPARED THEM FOR - AN ENTIRE ARMY - SHIELDS, SPEARS, HELMETS, 14:17 BODY ARMORS, BOWS, AND SLINGS TO CAST STONES. 14:21 UZZIAH ACTUALLY WAS MADE FAMOUS. IT SAYS HE MADE MACHINES OF WAR 14:26 - THIS IS WAY BEFORE THE TIME OF JESUS - HE MADE MACHINES OF WAR 14:29 THAT COULD HURL JAVELINS AND STONES. HE HAD CLEVER ENGINEERS. 14:34 1 SAMUEL 17 - YOU KNOW THE STORY OF DAVID AND GOLIATH? 14:38 "HE HAD A BRONZE HELMET ON HIS HEAD AND HE WAS ARMED WITH A 14:41 COAT OF MAIL, AND THE WEIGHT OF THE COAT WAS FIVE THOUSAND 14:45 SHEKELS OF BRONZE." THAT'S LIKE A HUNDRED AND 14:47 TWENTY-TWO POUNDS - "AND HE HAD BRONZE ARMOR ON HIS LEGS AND 14:51 A BRONZE JAVELIN BETWEEN HIS SHOULDERS. 14:53 NOW THE STAFF OF HIS SPEAR WAS LIKE A WEAVER'S BEAM," - THEY 14:57 HAD A BIG OLD POST THEY USED TO WEAVE THE RUGS ON, SO HE HAD 15:01 THIS SPEAR THAT WAS MUCH THICKER THAN WHAT A NORMAL MAN COULD 15:04 CARRY - "AND HIS IRON SPEARHEAD WEIGHED SIX HUNDRED SHEKELS;" 15:09 THAT'S ABOUT 22 POUNDS. NOW WHEN I EXERCISE IN THE 15:12 MORNING I LIFT SOME WEIGHTS THAT ARE 25 POUNDS. 15:15 I CAN'T IMAGINE LIFTING A SPEAR WITH A 22 POUND SPEARHEAD. 15:20 THIS GUY WAS A MONSTER - "AND A SHIELD-BEARER WENT BEFORE HIM." 15:25 HIS SHIELD WAS SO BIG, ONE GUY - HIS JOB WAS 'YOU CARRY THE 15:28 SHIELD UNTIL HE ACTUALLY GOES INTO BATTLE.' NOW, WHEN I READ 15:32 ABOUT ARMOR IN THE BIBLE, IT NEVER SEEMED TO DO A LOT OF 15:34 GOOD. DAVID DID NOT WANT TO WEAR SAUL'S ARMOR. 15:39 HE TRIED BUT SAUL, OF COURSE, WAS A HEAD AND SHOULDERS TALLER 15:42 THAN EVERYONE ELSE AND I'M JUST IMAGINING THAT DAVID PUT ON 15:44 SAUL'S ARMOR AND HE'S PEEKING OUT OF THE NECK HOLE AND HE 15:49 SAID, 'THIS ISN'T GOING TO WORK.' HE WASN'T USED TO IT. 15:51 IT DIDN'T FIT. YOU'VE GOT TO WORK IN YOUR ARMOR. 15:54 AHAB WENT INTO BATTLE TRUSTING HIS ARMOR BUT HE HAD A LITTLE 15:59 CRACK AND AN ARROW FOUND A CRACK IN HIS ARMOR AND STRUCK A VITAL 16:04 VEIN AND HE BLED TO DEATH AND DIED. 16:07 SO MAN-MADE ARMOR IS NOT WHAT OUR TRUST IS TO BE IN. 16:11 THIS VERSE THAT WE'RE READING HERE IN EPHESIANS IS TALKING 16:13 ABOUT A SPIRITUAL ARMOR. AND, AS WE GO THROUGH THESE 16:17 DIFFERENT IMPLEMENTS, WE'LL TALK A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT THEY 16:19 REPRESENT IN OUR LIVES IN A PRACTICAL WAY. 16:22 IF WE JUST TALK ABOUT METAPHORS AND YOU CAN'T PUT IT IN YOUR 16:25 LIFE, IT DOESN'T DO YOU ANY GOOD. FIGHTING WITH EVIL FORCES 16:29 IN THE CHURCH, IN THE WORLD, ARE VERY REAL. 16:32 WE NEED REAL ANSWERS, AMEN? >>AMEN. 16:35 >>ALRIGHT, 2 CORINTHIANS 10, VERSE 3, "FOR THOUGH WE WALK IN 16:39 THE FLESH," - PAUL SAYS - "WE DO NOT WAR ACCORDING TO THE FLESH." 16:43 - IT'D BE EASIER IF WE THOUGHT WE COULD WRESTLE WITH AND BOX 16:45 THE DEVIL, BUT YOU CAN'T. YOU CAN'T CLOBBER HIM WITH A 16:47 BASEBALL BAT. - "FOR THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE NOT CARNAL 16:53 BUT MIGHTY IN GOD FOR PULLING DOWN STRONGHOLDS, CASTING DOWN 16:58 ARGUMENTS AND EVERY HIGH THING THAT EXALTS ITSELF AGAINST THE 17:02 KNOWLEDGE OF GOD," SO WE'RE FIGHTING AGAINST THINGS THAT 17:04 FIGHT AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD - "BRINGING EVERY THOUGHT 17:08 INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST." 17:12 THE OPPOSITE OF YOUR THOUGHTS BEING IN THE CAPTIVITY OF CHRIST 17:15 IS WHEN THE DEVIL STARTS HASSLING YOU IN YOUR THINKING. 17:19 ROMANS 13, VERSE 12 - PAUL SAID, "THE NIGHT IS FAR SPENT, THE DAY 17:24 IS AT HAND. THEREFORE LET US CAST OFF THE 17:27 WORKS OF DARKNESS, AND LET US PUT ON THE ARMOR OF LIGHT." 17:31 AND SO THIS IS AN ARMOR OF LIGHT. 17:33 GOD SAID TO THE CHURCH, 'YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.' IT'S A 17:36 TRUTH CONNECTED WITH IT. AND SO, WITH THAT, MAYBE WE 17:39 SHOULD GO INTO THE FIRST IMPLEMENT. 17:41 SO WE'VE GOT THE BELT OF TRUTH - FIRST THING PAUL TALKS ABOUT - 17:45 HAVING YOURSELF GIRDED WITH THIS TRUTH. 17:48 YOU CAN READ IN ISAIAH 11, VERSE 5, "RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE THE 17:52 BELT OF HIS LOINS, AND FAITHFULNESS THE BELT OF HIS 17:55 WAIST." NOW THE BELT WAS A VERY CENTRAL THING. 17:59 IT SOMETIMES WAS MORE OF A GIRDLE THAN, YOU KNOW - WE'VE 18:02 GOT OUR LEATHER BELTS THAT WE WEAR - IT WAS A LITTLE WIDER AND 18:07 IT WAS THE KIND OF THING, YOU KNOW - COWBOYS, WHEN THEY WEAR A 18:09 GUN ON A HOLSTER, THEY DON'T GOT A SKINNY BELT. 18:11 IT WAS A LITTLE BIGGER. THEY'D HANG THEIR SWORDS ON THIS. 18:13 THEY WOULD SOMETIMES HAVE THE EQUIVALENT OF A FANNY PACK. 18:18 THEY HAD, SOMETIMES, SOME OF THEIR GEAR AND THEIR NECESSITIES 18:20 - THEIR WATER BOTTLE AND THINGS THAT THEY MIGHT NEED WERE ALL 18:23 STRUNG TO THE BELT. IT HELD EVERYTHING IN PLACE. 18:26 IN THE BIBLE, SOLDIERS OFTEN WORE ROBES AND CLOTHES, BUT WHEN 18:30 THEY WENT INTO BATTLE THEY WOULD GIRD THEIR CLOTHES UP INTO THEIR 18:33 BELT SO THEY WOULDN'T BE TRIPPING OVER IT. 18:35 YOU CAN READ AN EXAMPLE OF THAT WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT - 18:38 1 KINGS 18:46 - ELIJAH. "THEN THE HAND OF THE LORD CAME 18:43 UPON ELIJAH; AND HE GIRDED UP HIS LOINS" - THAT MEANS HE TOOK 18:46 HIS ROBE AND TUCKED IT IN HIS BELT - "AND RAN AHEAD OF AHAB 18:51 TO THE ENTRANCE OF ISRAEL." SO THEY'D GIRD THEMSELVES. 18:54 THE BELT IS - IT HELD EVERYTHING IN PLACE. 18:56 WHAT HOLDS EVERYTHING IN PLACE FOR US IS THE TRUTH. 19:00 JESUS SAYS THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE. 19:03 CHRIST SAID, 'I AM THE TRUTH.' THE TRUTH IS A - YOU KNOW, WHAT 19:08 WE'RE SHARING NOW - ALL THESE POINTS THAT WE'RE GIVING YOU. 19:10 IT MAKES SENSE THAT IT WOULD BE THE FIRST THING. 19:13 THE LORD LOVES TRUTH. AMONG THE THINGS THAT GOD 19:16 SAYS HE HATES ARE DISHONESTY. IN PROVERBS CHAPTER 6:16 19:21 - HE HATES A LYING TONGUE. GOD WANTS THE TRUTH. 19:25 THE TRUTH SETS US FREE. 2 CORINTHIANS 6:7, "BY THE WORD 19:29 OF TRUTH, BY THE POWER OF GOD, BY THE ARMOR OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ON 19:33 THE RIGHT HAND AND ON THE LEFT," - BY THE WORD OF TRUTH. 19:35 SO HOW DO WE FIGHT THE DEVIL? HE'S THE FATHER OF LIES. 19:40 WE FIGHT HIM WITH TRUTH. >>AMEN. 19:43 >>YOU NEED TO BE READY TO GIVE AN ANSWER FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE. 19:46 THERE'S SO MUCH ERROR IN THE WORLD, WHEN YOU SHARE TRUTH 19:49 THERE'S SOMETHING LIBERATING ABOUT THAT. YOU DON'T WANT TO BE 19:54 EMBARRASSED WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, 'WHY DO YOU BELIEVE WHAT YOU 19:56 BELIEVE?' I REMEMBER A FEW YEARS AGO - ACTUALLY SEVERAL YEARS 20:00 AGO, I WAS A CAMP PASTOR AT LEONI MEADOWS 20:03 AND I HAD THE TOUGH JOB OF BEING PASTOR FOR AQUATICS CAMP. 20:11 IT WAS ACTUALLY REALLY GREAT. IT MEANT I DID A WORSHIP IN THE 20:13 MORNING, I DID A WORSHIP AT NIGHT, AND THROUGH THE DAY WE 20:15 KIND OF WATER SKIED AND WIND SURFED AND I WAS HELPING TEACH 20:18 KIDS TO WATER SKI BECAUSE I - I GREW UP - WE HAD A BOAT IN THE 20:21 BACKYARD - I KNEW HOW TO WATER SKI. 20:22 AND SO, SOME OF THE KIDS WANTED TO LEARN TO SKI BAREFOOT. 20:27 NOW WATER SKIING, YOU KNOW, YOU GET THE BOAT GOING 15 - 20 MILES 20:30 AN HOUR - IT DEPENDS ON IF YOU'VE GOT ONE SKI OR TWO - YOU 20:33 HAVE TO GO FASTER WITH ONE SKI BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT LESS 20:36 DISPLACEMENT. YOU CAN GO SLOWER WITH TWO SKIS, 20:38 BUT WHEN YOU SKI BAREFOOT YOU'VE GOT VERY LITTLE HOLDING YOU UP. 20:41 YOU'VE GOT TO BE SCREAMING ACROSS THE LAKE AND YOU DO IT IN 20:45 THE MORNING WHEN THE WATER IS VERY CALM. 20:47 YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE IT GLASSY BECAUSE IF YOU'RE GOING ALONG 20:48 AND THERE'S LITTLE WAVES AND YOUR TOE GETS CAUGHT UNDER A 20:52 WAVE WHILE YOU'RE GOING 40 MILES AN HOUR, IT JUST - YOU JUST 20:55 FLIP. AND YOU HAVE TO GO SO FAST - 20:57 I ACTUALLY SAW ONE KID - I THINK HE BRUISED HIS RIBS. 21:01 HE FELL - HE HIT SO HARD ON THE WATER THAT HE HAD TROUBLE 21:04 BREATHING LATER. SO WHEN YOU'RE BAREFOOT SKIING - 21:07 THEY'VE ACTUALLY GOT A BAREFOOT SUIT THAT'S GOT - IT'S PADDING 21:10 UP HERE TO PROTECT YOU, KIND OF LIKE ARMOR. 21:12 AND SO, I TRIED A FEW TIMES AND KIND OF GOT THE KNACK OF IT AND 21:17 THEY GOT THIS BOOM OFF THE SIDE OF THE BOAT SO YOU DON'T JUST GO 21:20 UP ON A ROPE WHEN YOU'RE LEARNING. 21:22 THERE'S THIS BOOM OFF THE SIDE OF THE BOAT AND THE BOAT 21:24 GETS GOING ABOUT 40 MILES AN HOUR. 21:25 YOU STEP OUT, YOU GET ONE FOOT, AND WHEN YOU THINK YOU'VE GOT 21:29 YOURSELF AND YOU'RE HOLDING ON, YOU GET THE OTHER FOOT OUT THERE 21:31 AND, HOPEFULLY, YOU CAN GET GOING. 21:35 IT PUTS OFF A BIG SPRAY BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT TO GO SO FAST. 21:37 THIS ONE BOY REALLY WANTED TO TRY IT. 21:39 HE WAS JUST LIKE 12 YEARS OLD - A LITTLE BIT CHUBBY - AND HE WAS 21:48 SO EXCITED BECAUSE HE HAD A FRIEND IN THE BOAT WITH A CAMERA 21:50 AND HE GOT OUT AND HE GOT ONE FOOT GOING AND HE'S SKIING AND 21:53 HE GOT HIS OTHER FOOT OUT AND HE TURNED TO LOOK AND SMILE AND 21:56 RIGHT THEN HE CAUGHT HIS TOE ON A RIPPLE OR SOMETHING AND HE 22:00 JUST DISAPPEARED. IT'S LIKE A FLASH BECAUSE IT'S 22:01 ALL HAPPENING SO FAST, AND WE LOOKED BACK AND ALL WE SAW WAS 22:04 THIS KID SKIPPING ACROSS THE WATER LIKE A STONE. 22:08 AND WE WERE HOPING HE WAS OKAY, SO WE SPUN THE BOAT AROUND, WE 22:12 CAME OVER, AND HE LOOKED UP AND HE HAD KIND OF A DAZED 22:14 EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE AND WE SAID, 'ARE YOU OKAY?' 22:17 'AH YEAH.' WE SAID 'YOU WANT TO TRY IT AGAIN?' 22:20 'NO.' (LAUGHTER) WE SAID, 'ALRIGHT, DO YOU WANT TO GET IN 22:24 THE BOAT?' 'NO.' WE SAID, 'DO YOU 22:27 WANT TO TRY IT AGAIN?' 'NO.' 'SO WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?' 22:30 HE SAID, 'I CAN'T FIND MY SWIMSUIT.' (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) 22:35 WHEN THEY MAKE BATHING SUITS THEY PUT A LITTLE STRING IN 22:37 THERE THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GIVE ATTENTION TO AND, 22:40 EVIDENTLY, HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE STRING IN HIS SUIT AND 22:43 HE WAS LEFT IN A VERY EMBARRASSING SITUATION. 22:45 FORTUNATELY WE WERE ALL BOYS IN THE BOAT AND WE FOUND HIS SUIT - 22:48 IT LOOKED LIKE A CHECKERED FLAG AT A RACE SO IT WAS EASY TO SPOT 22:51 - AND HE GOT BACK IN THE BOAT. BUT, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE 22:56 EMBARRASSED, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO TRIP YOU NEED TO HAVE TRUTH. 23:00 >>AMEN. >>IT KEEPS EVERYTHING ELSE IN 23:01 PLACE AND WE NEED TO KNOW HOW TO GIVE AN ANSWER. SO YOU'VE GOT 23:04 THAT BELT OF TRUTH AS A VERY IMPORTANT IMPLEMENT IN THE ARMOR 23:08 OF GOD. THE NEXT THING IS THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 23:12 AND YOU CAN READ IN ISAIAH 59:17, "FOR HE PUT ON 23:16 RIGHTEOUSNESS AS A BREASTPLATE" - YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? 23:19 ISAIAH WROTE THIS 600 YEARS BEFORE JESUS. 23:22 PAUL, WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT THE ARMOR OF GOD, IS NOT IN PRISON 23:24 DREAMING THINGS UP, PAUL IS REMEMBERING THE WORDS OF ISAIAH. 23:29 HE'S QUOTING OLD TESTAMENT PRINCIPLES - THAT THIS ARMOR OF 23:32 GOD IS TALKING ABOUT THE RIGHTEOUS CHARACTERISTICS OF 23:35 GOD. HE PUT ON RIGHTEOUSNESS AS A 23:38 BREASTPLATE AND A HELMET OF SALVATION. 23:40 ISN'T THAT WHAT PAUL JUST SAID? HELMET OF SALVATION? 23:43 SO THE BREASTPLATE, PAUL JUST DEMONSTRATED, IT WAS, ESPECIALLY 23:47 ON THE FRONT, IT WAS OFTEN JUST TIED OFF, LIKE A GIRDLE, IN THE 23:50 BACK BECAUSE THE ROMANS NEVER PROVIDED ARMOR FOR THE BACK OF 23:56 THEIR SOLDIERS BECAUSE THEY SAID 'YOU ARE NEVER TO TURN YOUR BACK 23:58 TO THE ENEMY.' >>AMEN. 24:00 >>IT WAS ONLY FOR THE FRONT AND IT PROTECTED THE VITAL ORGANS IN 24:05 THE FRONT AND - WHEN IT'S CALLED THE BREASTPLATE OF 24:09 RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT'S REALLY SAYING LIVING A LIFE OF 24:15 RIGHTEOUSNESS PROTECTS YOU. YOU ACCEPT THE 24:19 RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST. NOW YOU NOTICE, I MENTIONED WHEN 24:21 BOB DEMONSTRATED HIS ARMOR, THAT UNDER THE BREASTPLATE PART OF IT 24:26 THEY WOULD ACTUALLY SEW A ROBE UNDERNEATH THERE BECAUSE, IF 24:29 YOU'RE OUT IN THE SUN - CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING OUT THERE, WHEN 24:33 IT'S A HUNDRED DEGREES, FOR AN HOUR WEARING ARMOR? 24:37 I PICKED UP MY FLUTE ONCE AFTER IT SAT OUT IN THE SUN FOR A 24:40 LITTLE WHILE AND YOU BURNT YOUR FINGERS TRYING TO PLAY IT. 24:42 YOU STAND OUT THERE WITH SOME - WITHOUT SOME LINING - SO THIS 24:46 ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS KIND OF GOES UNDERNEATH THE BREASTPLATE 24:49 OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND THIS REPRESENTS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF 24:52 CHRIST. BUT THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST 24:55 THAT HE GIVES US AS A GIFT IN JUSTIFICATION, IS SOMETHING 24:59 WE SHOULD BE LIVING IN SANCTIFICATION. 25:02 IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO INTO BATTLE WITH THE DEVIL - IF WE'RE 25:07 GOING TO DO WHAT JESUS TOLD THE DISCIPLES TO DO, WE NEED TO KNOW 25:10 THAT OUR LIVES ARE RIGHT THROUGH ACCEPTING THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF 25:13 CHRIST AND THEN TRYING TO WALK IN THE LIGHT - A RIGHTEOUS LIFE, 25:16 AMEN? >>AMEN. 25:19 >>THE DEVIL JUST LAUGHED. JOB 29:14, HE SAYS, "I PUT ON 25:24 RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND IT CLOTHED ME;" - NOW, WAS JOB 25:27 A RIGHTEOUS MAN? WE WANT TO EMBRACE THE 25:30 RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT GOD GIVES US AS A GIFT AND, THROUGH HIS 25:33 GRACE, HE GIVES US POWER TO LIVE A NEW LIFE. 25:36 SO IT COVERED THE VITAL ORGANS THAT - THE BIBLE SAYS, 'GUARD 25:40 YOUR HEART' - AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT THAT, GUARDING OUR HEART 25:44 AS WELL. THEN YOU'VE GOT, NEXT, THESE GOSPEL SHOES. 25:48 FOOTING IS VERY IMPORTANT IN WARFARE. 25:52 I KNOW, WHEN OUR SON CAME HOME FROM THE MARINES, THEY ISSUE 25:57 SOME REALLY QUALITY FOOTWEAR. IT'S GOTTEN A LOT BETTER THAN 26:01 WHAT THEY HAD DURING WORLD WAR II AND SOME OF THE VERY WORST 26:05 FOOTWEAR IN HISTORY WAS FROM THE CIVIL WAR. 26:09 ONE OF THE MANUFACTURERS, DURING THE CIVIL WAR, HE MADE SOME 26:15 BOOTS FOR THE SOLDIERS AND HE THOUGHT, 'I CAN MAKE THESE BY 26:18 PRESSING CARDBOARD.' THE SOLES WERE ALL MADE OUT OF CARDBOARD 26:22 AND THEY USED VERY CHEAP MATERIALS FOR LEATHER AND HE 26:26 WANTED TO MASS PRODUCE THEM FOR THE NORTHERN ARMY. 26:30 AND THE SOLDIERS FOUND, WHEN THEY WENT MARCHING THROUGH THE 26:31 MUD, THEIR BOOTS JUST DISINTEGRATED. 26:35 YOU KNOW WHAT THE NAME OF THE COMPANY WAS? 26:37 'THE SHODDY BOOT COMPANY.' (LAUGHTER) SO WHENEVER YOU SAY, 26:41 'THAT IS MADE IN A SHODDY WAY', THAT IS A WORD THAT COMES FROM 26:45 THESE CARDBOARD BOOTS THAT THE MILITARY ISSUED TO THE NORTHERN 26:49 TROOPS THAT LEFT THEM BAREFOOT, WHICH IS NO WAY FOR A SOLDIER TO 26:53 GO INTO BATTLE. SO NOW YOU'LL KNOW WHAT SHODDY MEANS. 26:57 BUT I REMEMBER WHEN DANIEL CAME HOME, HE HAD THESE JUST 27:01 REALLY GOOD STRONG LEATHER BOOTS. I'VE GOT SOME BOOTS I 27:04 TAKE ON MY HIKING TRIP THAT WERE MADE BY A COMPANY CALLED 27:08 'ARIAT' THAT I'VE HAD FOR 12 YEARS AND THEY'RE AS GOOD TODAY 27:12 - EVERY NOW AND THEN I TAKE CARE OF THEM. 27:14 I RUB THEM WITH MINK OIL, I SPRAY THEM WITH WATERPROOF 27:19 BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETIMES WE'RE OUT IN THE MUD - WE WERE THIS 27:21 LAST CAMPING TRIP - AND THEY'RE JUST AS GOOD TODAY - AND THEY'VE 27:24 GOT A NICE GRIP ON THE BOTTOM SO YOU'RE HIKING AROUND ON THE 27:27 ROCKS AND STUFF - YOU DON'T SLIP. 27:28 BECAUSE YOU NEED GOOD FOOTING TO FIGHT. 27:32 WHEN I WAS A KID IN - I WENT TO A JEWISH SCHOOL CALLED 'BENTLEY' 27:35 IN NEW YORK CITY AND MY BROTHER WAS A GRADE OLDER THAN ME. 27:39 NOW, BY BROTHER HAD CYSTIC FIBROSIS AND EVEN THOUGH HE WAS 27:42 TWO YEARS OLDER THAN ME, HE WAS ALWAYS MY SIZE GROWING UP 27:45 BECAUSE HIS GROWTH WAS A LITTLE BIT STUNTED. 27:47 AND THEY USED TO TEASE HIM BECAUSE MY BROTHER, HE WAS THIN, 27:53 A LITTLE BARREL CHESTED, FLAMING RED HAIR, AND HE HAD THE NAME 27:56 FALCON, SO THEY CALLED HIM 'CHICKEN LITTLE' AND THEY MADE 27:59 FUN - AND, YOU KNOW, I USED TO FEEL BAD FOR MY BROTHER BECAUSE 28:02 I'D SEE HIM COUGHING AT NIGHT AND TAKING HIS MEDICINE, GOING 28:04 TO THE HOSPITAL - HE WAS - HE WAS PRETTY SICK. 28:07 AND THIS ONE KID NAMED VERNE, IN GYM CLASS, WAS MAKING FUN OF MY 28:12 BROTHER - MY OLDER BROTHER - AND I WAS A SCRAPPY LITTLE KID - YOU 28:17 PROBABLY WOULD NEVER GUESS - AND I JUST GOT REALLY MAD. 28:22 AND, EVEN THOUGH VERNE WAS IN HIS CLASS AND HE WAS OLDER THAN 28:24 ME, I TOOK OFF AND JUST STARTED FIGHTING WITH VERNE. 28:27 AND WE WERE TRYING TO BOX BUT THEY HAD - I HAD JUST - I WAS 28:31 CHANGING, GOING INTO GYM CLASS, AND HIS CLASS WAS LEAVING GYM 28:36 CLASS, AND I DIDN'T HAVE MY SHOES ON AND ALL I HAD WAS SOCKS 28:39 ON AND THEY HAD JUST WAXED THE FLOOR IN THE GYM. 28:45 AND IT'S LIKE WATCHING SOMEONE ON WET ICE TRYING TO BOX. 28:51 IT WAS A JOKE. I'M SLIDING ALL OVER THE PLACE 28:54 TRYING TO HIT HIM AND HE'S JUST LAUGHING AT ME. 28:57 SO I PULLED OFF MY SOCKS - AND I'VE GOT BIG FLAT FEET AND THEY 29:00 JUST - THEY GRABBED AND I LIT INTO VERNE AND I NEVER FORGOT 29:07 WHAT A BIG DIFFERENCE IT MAKES HAVING A GOOD STANDING. 29:11 YOU NEED A GOOD UNDERSTANDING - YOU KNOW, GET IT? 29:14 UNDERSTANDING - (LAUGHTER) I WEAR A SIZE 12. 29:19 THAT'S A BIG UNDERSTANDING. YOU NEED A GOOD UNDERSTANDING 29:23 IF YOU'RE GOING TO FIGHT - GOOD FOOTING. 29:25 MUHAMMAD ALI USED TO SAY, 'DANCE [FLOAT] LIKE A BUTTERFLY, STING 29:29 LIKE A BEE'. HE WAS RENOWN FOR HIS FOOTWORK. 29:33 AND SO, YOU NEED GOSPEL SHOES. 29:35 YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS, SPEAKING OF THOSE SHOES, 'HOW 29:37 BEAUTIFUL UPON THE MOUNTAINS ARE THE FEET OF HIM WHO BRINGS GOOD 29:42 NEWS, WHO PROCLAIMS PEACE, WHO BRINGS GLAD TIDINGS OF GOOD 29:45 THINGS.' THE FEET, IN THE BIBLE, REPRESENT YOUR WALK - IT 29:50 REPRESENTS THE DIRECTION OF YOUR LIFE. ROMANS 6:4, "...EVEN SO WE 29:54 ALSO SHOULD WALK IN THE NEWNESS OF LIFE." 29:56 IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO INTO THE BATTLE WITH THE DEVIL YOU WANT 29:59 TO MAKE SURE - YOUR OWN LIFE, OR ARE YOU LIVING IN THE WILL OF 30:01 THE LORD - ARE YOU FOLLOWING HIM? 30:04 CHRIST SAID, 'WHEREFORE, IF YOUR HAND OR YOUR FOOT OFFENDS YOU, 30:08 CUT IT OFF AND CAST IT FROM YOU. 1 TIMOTHY 4:16, "...FOR IN DOING 30:14 THIS YOU WILL SAVE BOTH YOURSELF AND THOSE WHO HEAR YOU." 30:16 SO, QUITE PRACTICALLY, IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE REACHING OUT FOR 30:20 OTHERS - ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S HAPPENING IS YOU WILL BE 30:24 SAVING YOURSELF IN DOING THE SAME. 30:26 AND SO, BE INVOLVED IN DOING THE WILL OF GOD AND IN SHARING THE 30:31 GOSPEL, IN WALKING IN HIS LIGHT. AS YOU WALK IN THE LIGHT, YOU 30:36 HAVE THOSE GOSPEL SHOES - YOU WANT JESUS TO WASH YOUR FEET - 30:41 PUT ON THOSE GOSPEL SHOES AND THEN YOU CAN DO BATTLE 30:44 WITH THE ENEMY, AMEN? >>AMEN. 30:46 >>SHIELD OF FAITH. IN VERSE 16, HERE IN EPHESIANS 30:49 6, IT TALKS ABOUT SATAN ATTACKING OUR FAITHFULNESS. 30:55 JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU'VE GOT FAITH, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.' 30:58 AND SO, CONSTANTLY, THE DEVIL IS GOING TO BE ATTACKING OUR 31:01 FAITHFULNESS AND OUR FAITH IN HIM. WE'VE GOT TO HOLD UP THE 31:04 SHIELD OF FAITH. THE BIBLE SAYS CHRIST IS THE 31:08 AUTHOR AND PERFECTOR OF OUR FAITH. 31:12 2 PETER 1:4, "BY WHICH HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO US EXCEEDINGLY GREAT 31:16 AND PRECIOUS PROMISES, THAT THROUGH THESE YOU MAY BE 31:19 PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE, HAVING ESCAPED THE CORRUPTION 31:23 THAT IS IN THE WORLD THROUGH LUST. I THINK IT WAS - 31:26 THE SPARTAN SOLDIERS HAD THIS BIG SHIELD THAT THEY WOULD CARRY 31:31 - A BRONZE SHIELD - AND IT WAS JUST BIG ENOUGH WHERE THEY COULD 31:35 DUCK DOWN AND THEY COULD RESIST A HAIL OF ARROWS. 31:39 IT WOULD DEFLECT ALL THESE ARROWS AT THE ENEMY. 31:41 YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THE STORY OF THE 300 SPARTANS THAT, 31:43 OSTENSIBLY, HELD OFF THE PERSIAN ARMY AT A PASS UNTIL THE HOME 31:49 TROOPS OF GREECE COULD RALLY AN ARMY ADEQUATE TO FIGHT. 31:52 AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU CAN BELIEVE THE STORIES IN HISTORY, 31:56 THESE 300 SOLDIERS WITHSTOOD 15 TIMES AS MANY SOLDIERS THAT WERE 32:02 COMING AGAINST THEM - I MEAN, ACTUALLY KILLED 15 TIMES - 32:04 BEFORE THEY WERE FINALLY ALL KILLED. 32:06 BUT THEY STOOD UP UNDER A HAIL OF ARROWS THAT THE PERSIANS 32:09 RAINED DOWN ON THEM BECAUSE THEY GOT BEHIND THE SHIELD. 32:12 THE DEVIL IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE THROWING FLAMING ARROWS AT YOUR 32:14 FAITH - THEY'RE DOUBTS THAT HE SENDS - AND WE MEET THOSE DOUBTS 32:19 WITH THE PROMISES OF GOD. AND YOU JUST DON'T EVEN WANT 32:22 TO GET NEAR THOSE ARROWS OF TEMPTATION. THE SHIELD CREATES 32:27 AN INSULATING AREA BETWEEN YOU AND THE OTHER WEAPON. 32:33 WHEN YOU SEE THAT THE DEVIL IS THROWING DOUBTS AND FEARS, DON'T 32:37 LET IT GET NEAR YOU - YOU KEEP THE SHIELD OUT. 32:39 DON'T EVEN ENTERTAIN THE TEMPTATIONS. 32:43 AND THAT'S WHAT THAT'S ALL A SYMBOL OF. 32:45 MOVING ON, YOU'VE GOT THE HELMET OF SALVATION - VERSE 17 - YOUR 32:51 MOST VITAL ORGAN - YOU KNOW, YOU CAN GO INTO BATTLE AND LOSE AND 32:53 ARM AND A LEG - A FOOT - BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOUR HEAD 32:59 BECAUSE IT'S ALL OVER THEN. AND IF YOU GET CLOBBERED ON THE 33:04 HEAD, IT'S A KNOCKOUT FOR THE ENEMY. 33:08 YOU, ABOVE THE NECK, HAVE SEVEN ENTRANCES - INTERESTING NUMBER. 33:12 YOU KNOW, MOST THINGS ARE SYMMETRICAL IN THE BIBLE. 33:15 YOU'VE GOT TWO EYES, TWO ARMS, TWO LEGS, TWO NOSTRILS, TWO 33:18 EARS, BUT YOU'VE GOT ONE MOUTH. BUT YOU'VE GOT SEVEN SACRED 33:25 ENTRANCES TO YOUR SOUL, ABOVE YOUR HEAD. 33:30 YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL WHAT COMES INTO YOUR EYES. 33:33 YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL WHAT COMES INTO YOUR EARS. 33:37 I EXPECT YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL WHAT COMES INTO YOUR 33:38 NOSE AND YOUR MOUTH, BECAUSE THESE CAN ALL HAVE AN IMPACT ON 33:43 WHO YOU ARE. YOU KNOW, I HAVE FUN - WHEN I THINK ABOUT THIS 33:46 HELMET OF SALVATION, IN MY MIND, I ALMOST PICTURE AN ASTRONAUT 33:52 WHO'S OUT IN SPACE. HIS HELMET IS VERY IMPORTANT. 33:57 IF HE GETS A BREAK IN HIS HELMET, HE DIES. 34:00 IT'S CREATING A WHOLE ATMOSPHERE FOR HIM BECAUSE HE IS FROM A 34:05 DIFFERENT WORLD AND WHEN HE'S IN SPACE, HE'S IN AN ALIEN 34:09 ENVIRONMENT AND, IN ORDER TO LIVE, HE'S GOT TO BREATHE THIS 34:14 ENVIRONMENT FROM HIS HOME WORLD. WE, AS CHRISTIANS, ARE 34:18 LIVING IN AN ALIEN WORLD. WE ARE TO BE BREATHING IN THE 34:22 ATMOSPHERE OF HEAVEN. WHAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT, WHAT WE'RE 34:26 LOOKING AT, WHAT WE'RE LISTENING TO AND, EVEN THE THINGS WE SMELL 34:29 AND EAT, ALL AFFECT US. AND SO, YOU NEED TO CONTROL THE AVENUES 34:35 TO THE SOUL - THIS IS THE HELMET OF SALVATION. 34:37 ALSO, IT'S VERY SIMPLE, KNOWING THAT YOU'RE SAVED - YOU ARE A 34:42 CHILD OF THE KING - HAVE THAT AS A CROWN ON YOUR HEAD SO THAT IT 34:46 AFFECTS EVERYTHING YOU DO - PUTTING ON THE HELMET OF 34:48 SALVATION. YOU KNOW HOW DAVID BROUGHT DOWN GOLIATH? 34:54 DIDN'T THE BIBLE SAY GOLIATH HAD A HELMET? 34:57 BUT WHEN DAVID CAME OUT TO FIGHT GOLIATH - A LOT OF COMMENTARIES 35:01 AGREE - GOLIATH - HE DISDAINED HIM, IT SAYS - HE PUSHED HIS 35:06 HELMET BACK AND SAID, 'ARE YOU SENDING A BOY TO FIGHT ME WITH A 35:11 STICK?' HE DIDN'T SEE DAVID'S SLING YET. 35:13 DAVID HAD A SHEPHERD'S STAFF, HE HAD A SLING, AND SOME STONES. 35:16 AND WHEN HE PUSHED HIS HELMET BACK, HE LEFT HIMSELF 35:19 VULNERABLE. AND SO, THE HELMET DIDN'T 35:22 DO HIM ANY GOOD THAT DAY. THEN YOU'VE GOT, PROBABLY ONE OF 35:26 THE MOST IMPORTANT IMPLEMENTS, WHICH IS THE SWORD OF THE 35:30 SPIRIT, WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD. WHAT DID JESUS USE TO FIGHT 35:35 AGAINST THE DEVIL? EVERY TIME SATAN CAME 35:38 HE SAID, 'IT IS WRITTEN. IT IS WRITTEN. 35:40 IT IS WRITTEN.' HOW DID CHRIST CAST OUT DEVILS? 35:44 YOU KNOW, IT OFTEN HAPPENED WHEN HE WAS IN CHURCH. 35:47 CHRIST WAS PREACHING - PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD - THE 35:49 DEVIL WOULD START SCREAMING, 'HAVE YOU COME TO TORMENT ME?' 35:52 HOW WAS HE BEING TORMENTED? 35:53 BY THE WORD - THE TRUTH. THEY HATE THAT. 35:56 THREE TIMES JESUS QUOTED THE DEVIL - JUST THREE TIMES - TO 35:59 SATAN AND HE SAID, 'GET BEHIND ME SATAN' AND THE DEVIL HAD TO 36:02 LEAVE FROM THE WORD OF GOD. RESIST THE DEVIL AND 36:06 HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU. HOW DO YOU RESIST THE DEVIL? 36:09 CLAIM THE PROMISES OF GOD IN HIS WORD. 36:12 >>AMEN. >>THIS IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD. 36:14 IT CUTS BOTH WAYS. JESUS SAID, 'I DIDN'T COME TO 36:17 SEND PEACE, BUT A SWORD.' IT DOESN'T MEAN JESUS CAME TO SEND 36:21 TROUBLE, IT MEANT THAT THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK AND POWERFUL 36:25 AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD. 36:28 JESUS IS PICTURED IN REVELATION WITH A SWORD COMING OUT OF HIS 36:31 MOUTH. DO YOU REALLY THINK, IN HEAVEN, 36:33 JESUS WILL HAVE A SWORD COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH? 36:35 WHAT DOES THAT REPRESENT? >>HIS WORD. 36:37 >>NOW, IT'S NOT JUST ANY SWORD - WHAT KIND OF SWORD? 36:39 >>DOUBLE-EDGED. >>DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD - THE WORD 36:42 OF GOD - YOU'VE GOT THE NEW AND THE OLD TESTAMENT, YOU'VE GOT 36:46 THE TWO WITNESSES - TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE WRITTEN ON TWO 36:49 TABLES OF STONE. IT CUTS NO MATTER WHAT DIRECTION. 36:53 THE WORD OF GOD IS THE ONLY OFFENSIVE WEAPON IN THE ARSENAL 37:00 OF THE ARMOR. MOST OF IT IS TO PROTECT YOU 37:04 - THE HELMET, THE SHOES, THE SHIELD, THE BREASTPLATE - BUT 37:09 THE SWORD IS FOR OFFENSE. WE GO FORTH CONQUERING FOR 37:15 CHRIST WITH THE WORD OF GOD. SO WHEN WE'RE DEALING WITH 37:19 FALLEN SPIRITS, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS MAKE SURE 37:22 THAT YOU ARE ARMED. DO YOU KNOW THE BIBLE? YOU DON'T HAVE TO 37:25 KNOW EVERYTHING, BUT YOU NEED TO BE EQUIPPED A LITTLE BIT. 37:28 JESUS EVEN TOLD THE DISCIPLES, 'DON'T GO OUT PREACHING UNTIL 37:30 YOU'VE RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT.' AND SO, WE WANT TO HAVE 37:34 THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT WILL BRING THE WORDS TO OUR REMEMBRANCE. 37:37 SO THE SEVENTH IMPLEMENT - IT'S REALLY - PAUL MENTIONS IT - IT'S 37:43 NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN VISUALIZE, BUT IT'S PRAYER. 37:47 YOU KNOW, SOLDIERS, BEFORE THEY GO INTO BATTLE, ARE OFTEN 37:51 CHALLENGED AND ENCOURAGED BY THEIR COMMANDER. 37:55 THEY'RE IN COMMUNION. THEY'RE GETTING THEIR ORDERS 37:58 WITH THEIR COMMANDER. AND IT'S NOT JUST ANY PRAYER - 38:01 NOTICE WHAT PAUL SAYS THERE - 'ALL PRAYER.' WE'RE GOING 38:05 TO BATTLE WITH ALL PRAYER. EPHESIANS 6:18, "PRAYING 38:08 ALWAYS WITH ALL PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION IN THE SPIRIT, 38:12 BEING WATCHFUL TO THIS END" - A SOLDIER'S GOT TO BE ON GUARD 38:15 - WITH ALL PERSEVERANCE AND SUPPLICATION FOR ALL THE SAINTS. 38:18 NOTICE THE WORD - ALL, ALL, ALL, ALL - FOUR TIMES. PSALM 86, "BE 38:23 MERCIFUL TO ME, O LORD, FOR I CRY TO YOU ALL DAY LONG." 38:28 2 THESSALONIANS 1:11, "THEREFORE WE ALSO PRAY ALWAYS FOR YOU". 38:35 LUKE 21:36, "WATCH THEREFORE," - JESUS SAID - "AND PRAY ALWAYS 38:41 THAT YOU MAY BE COUNTED WORTHY TO ESCAPE ALL THESE THINGS THAT 38:44 WILL COME TO PASS, AND TO STAND BEFORE THE SON OF MAN." 38:47 SO YOU'VE GOT ALL PRAYER WE'RE TO BE ARMED WITH. 38:50 ALRIGHT, THIS FIRST SECTION - I'VE JUST BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE 38:52 ARMOR. I'M SAYING THAT IF YOU'RE GOING 38:55 TO BE - JESUS SAID YOU'RE GOING TO ENCOUNTER EVIL IN THE WORLD. 39:01 YOU'RE GOING TO ENCOUNTER EVIL SPIRITS. 39:04 NOT VERY OFTEN DO YOU HAVE SOMEONE START SHRIEKING AND 39:08 WRITHING AND CALLING OUT WITH SOME STRANGE OTHERWORLDLY VOICE. 39:13 MOST OF THE TIME IT DOESN'T HAPPEN THAT WAY. 39:15 YOU MIGHT GO YOUR WHOLE LIFE AND NEVER ENCOUNTER ANYTHING LIKE 39:17 THAT, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT PEOPLE AREN'T HARASSED WITH 39:21 UNCLEAN AND EVIL SPIRITS. THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE 39:23 WHO ARE TORMENTED WITH EVIL. AND JESUS IS VERY CLEAR: HE 39:28 GIVES US THE SPIRIT SO THAT WE CAN DO BATTLE WITH THE DEVIL. 39:31 HOW DO WE, IN A PRACTICAL SENSE, DO BATTLE? 39:34 ALRIGHT, NOW I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT BATTLE MIGHT 39:37 LOOK LIKE. SEVEN POINTS - SEVEN PARTS OF 39:39 THE ARMOR, SEVEN POINTS IN THE BATTLE. 39:42 FIRST OF ALL, PREPARE YOUR OWN HEART. 39:44 WE SORT OF DISCUSSED THIS BY PUTTING ON THE ARMOR. 39:47 YOU DON'T WANT TO GO INTO BATTLE WITH THE DEVIL, PROUD, BECAUSE 39:51 YOU ARE WEARING THE DEVIL'S ARMOR IF YOU'RE TRUSTING 39:53 YOURSELF. THE DEVIL IS PROUD. 39:56 YOU WANT TO GO IN WITH THE SPIRIT OF HUMILITY, CONSIDERING 39:59 YOURSELF LEST YOU ALSO BE TEMPTED. THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE 40:02 SAYS - GALATIANS 6:1. EPHESIANS 4:2, "WITH ALL 40:06 HUMILITY AND GENTLENESS, WITH PATIENCE" - WE NEED TO HAVE 40:11 A HUMBLE ATTITUDE AND NOT BE ARROGANT. 40:14 YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN PROGRAMS BEFORE WHERE THESE DUBIOUS 40:18 EVANGELISTS ARE OUT THERE CASTING OUT DEVILS AND SOME OF 40:22 YOU REMEMBER SEVERAL YEARS AGO - I DON'T WANT TO BE UNKIND, BUT 40:30 IT WAS, SORT OF, PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE - JIMMY SWAGGART, WHO 40:34 HAD A VERY PROMINENT MINISTRY, GOT IN TROUBLE FOR VISITING WITH 40:41 LADIES OF THE NIGHT AND THE ASSEMBLY OF GOD ASKED HIM TO 40:48 TAKE A YEAR OFF TO GET COUNSELING AND - BUT HIS, YOU 40:51 KNOW, HE HAD A BIG THRIVING MINISTRY AND HE DIDN'T WANT TO 40:53 DO THAT, AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I HAD THIS EVIL SPIRIT OF 40:59 PORNOGRAPHY THAT WAS AFFLICTING ME AND ORAL ROBERTS CALLED AND 41:04 HE CAST OUT THE EVIL SPIRITS OVER THE PHONE.' AND THE 41:09 ASSEMBLY OF GOD WASN'T TOO HAPPY WITH THAT EXPLANATION AND THEY 41:11 SAID, 'NO, YOU PROBABLY NEED TO SPEND SOME TIME PRAYING AND 41:14 COUNSELING.' AND HE DIDN'T WANT TO. 41:18 AND THEN ORAL ROBERTS CONFIRMED. 41:19 HE SAID, 'YEAH,' - HE SAID - 'HE HAD THESE EVIL SPIRITS OF 41:21 PORNOGRAPHY - HAD THEIR CLAWS IN JIMMY SWAGGART AND I PRAYED AND 41:23 THEY CAME OUT SCREAMING AND YELLING.' WELL, A FEW WEEKS 41:27 LATER JIMMY SWAGGART WAS PULLED OVER IN PALM SPRINGS WITH A 41:32 PROSTITUTE IN HIS CAR AND PORNOGRAPHIC MAGAZINES STREWN 41:35 ALL OVER THE FLOOR. THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. 41:40 IT'S THROUGH SUBMITTING YOURSELF TO GOD AND TRUSTING IN THE HOLY 41:47 SPIRIT WITH A HUMBLE ATTITUDE. TO JUST, YOU KNOW, BLOW THINGS 41:52 OFF LIKE THAT IS NOT THE WAY THAT IT WORKS. 41:54 YOU NEED TO PREPARE YOUR OWN HEART. 41:56 PUT ON THE ARMOR OF GOD. HUMBLE YOURSELF BEFORE GOD. 41:59 HOW MUCH CAN WE DO WITHOUT JESUS? 42:01 NOTHING, BUT WE CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST. 42:05 SOMETHING ELSE YOU MIGHT CONSIDER IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE 42:07 PRAYING FOR SOMEONE, IN PARTICULAR, THAT YOU THINK IS 42:09 JUST BOUND BY THE DEVIL IN SOME WAY: NOT ONLY PRAY, BUT FAST AND 42:15 PRAY. MARK CHAPTER 9 - MAN BROUGHT HIS SON TO JESUS. 42:19 THE DEVIL WAS THROWING THE BOY IN THE FIRE SOMETIMES AND IN THE 42:23 WATER OTHER TIMES. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT REPRESENTS? 42:25 TWO OPPOSITE THINGS. NOW, IS FIRE BAD? 42:29 FIRE UNDER CONTROL IS VERY IMPORTANT. 42:31 IS WATER BAD? >>NO. 42:33 >>WATER IS VERY IMPORTANT, BUT YOU CAN BURN AND YOU CAN DROWN. 42:37 THESE TWO OPPOSITE EXTREMES. NOW, WE NEED TO BE BORN OF THE 42:41 SPIRIT AND WE NEED TO BE BORN OF THE WATER. 42:44 AND HERE, YOU'VE GOT THIS VOID - THE DEVIL'S DROWNING HIM IN 42:47 WATER - TRYING TO DROWN HIM AND THROWING HIM IN COOK FIRES AND 42:51 THINGS AND FATHER BRINGS HIS SON TO JESUS AND SAYS, 'LORD, IF YOU 42:54 CAN DO ANYTHING, PLEASE HELP.' AND YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS SAID? 42:58 'IF YOU BELIEVE, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.' HE SAID, 'I BROUGHT 43:01 HIM TO YOUR DISCIPLES AND THEY COULD NOT CAST HIM OUT.' - SO, 43:05 RIGHT THERE, DON'T MISS THAT. EVEN THE DISCIPLES, SOMETIMES, 43:08 RAN INTO EVIL POWERS THEY COULD NOT DEAL WITH. 43:12 JESUS CAST OUT THE DEVIL - THE BOY - IT WAS, EVIDENTLY, A HARD 43:16 CASE BECAUSE THE BOY WAS THRASHING AND WRITHING AS THE 43:18 DEVIL CAME OUT AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM AND JESUS TOOK HIM BY 43:21 THE HAND AND LIFTED HIM UP AND DELIVERED HIM TO HIS FATHER. 43:24 THE DISCIPLES CAME TO JESUS LATER AND SAID, 'LORD, WHY 43:26 COULDN'T' WE CAST HIM OUT?' AND HE SAID, 'THIS KIND DOES NOT 43:30 COME FORTH EXCEPT BY PRAYER AND FASTING.' 43:34 NOW, YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? ALL OF YOU ARE 43:37 FASTING RIGHT NOW. IT MIGHT ONLY BE 20 MINUTES. 43:41 SOME OF YOU MAY BE HIDING SUNFLOWER SEEDS OR SOMETHING. 43:43 (LAUGHTER) WE SEE THE KERNELS - YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT 43:46 IN CHURCH. (LAUGHTER) BUT NO PROBLEM 43:50 FASTING FOR TEN MINUTES. ANY OF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM 43:53 FASTING FOR AN HOUR? THE VERY FACT THAT JESUS SAYS 43:57 FASTING AND PRAYER - WHAT DOES THAT IMPLY? 43:59 IT COULD TAKE TIME BECAUSE YOU DON'T EVEN LOOK LIKE YOU'RE 44:03 FASTING UNTIL YOU'VE MISSED AT LEAST ONE MEAL, RIGHT? 44:07 SOME OF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE FASTING IF YOU MISS A SNACK. 44:10 HA, YOU DON'T CREDIT FOR THAT. SO, YOU MISS A MEAL. 44:14 HE'S TALKING ABOUT YOU MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING YOU'RE PRAYING 44:18 ABOUT AND YOU HAVE TO FAST AND PRAY FOR AWHILE. 44:20 THERE COULD BE A PROCESS INVOLVED IN PRAYING THAT A 44:23 PERSON - SOME PEOPLE PRAY FOR YEARS FOR OTHERS. 44:27 FAST AND PRAY. NOTICE - LUKE 22 - JESUS IS 44:31 SPEAKING HERE - VERSE 31, "AND THE LORD SAID, 'SIMON, SIMON! 44:35 INDEED, SATAN HAS ASKED FOR YOU, THAT HE MAY SIFT YOU AS WHEAT. 44:39 BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR YOU,'" - JESUS PRAYED BECAUSE THE DEVIL 44:43 WAS WANTING TO HANG ON TO PETER - "THAT YOUR FAITH SHOULD NOT 44:46 FAIL; AND WHEN YOU HAVE RETURNED TO ME, STRENGTHEN YOUR 44:49 BRETHREN." SO THERE'S - EVEN JESUS SAID HE 44:54 WANTED PETER - AND HE PRAYED - PRAYER IS THE ANSWER. 44:57 SO YOU'VE GOT PREPARE YOUR HEART, PRAY, CITE SCRIPTURE. 45:01 WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT JESUS DID WITH THE DEVIL, BUT IF YOU'RE 45:04 DEALING WITH A PERSON - WHEN IT SAYS 'CITING SCRIPTURE' THAT 45:06 DOESN'T MEAN JUST THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO RAMBLE 45:10 OFF A BUNCH OF VERSES, BUT THE APPLICATION OF THE SCRIPTURE - 45:13 YOU NOTICE WHEN JESUS QUOTED SCRIPTURE TO THE DEVIL, HE 45:16 QUOTED SCRIPTURE THAT APPLIED TO THE TEMPTATION. 45:20 SO THE PROPER APPLICATION OF SCRIPTURE IS SOMETHING THE DEVIL 45:23 HATES, BECAUSE THE DEVIL CAN QUOTE SCRIPTURE TOO, CAN'T HE? 45:26 BUT HE TWISTS IT TO PEOPLE'S DESTRUCTION. IN MODERN TERMS, 45:33 WHEN YOU SHARE THE WORD OF GOD WITH PEOPLE, DEVILS ARE EVICTED. 45:39 AS WE ARE INVOLVED IN GIVING BIBLE STUDIES - YOU MIGHT NOT 45:42 HEAR A PERSON SHOUT AND SCREAM OR ROLL AROUND, BUT IF YOU ARE 45:46 CALMLY IN A PERSON'S HOUSE AND YOU'RE OPENING THE WORD, YOU 45:49 WILL NOTICE, SOMETIMES, A GLINT IN A PERSON'S EYE - THEY'LL SAY, 45:52 'WOW, I'VE NEVER UNDERSTOOD THIS.' THEY CHANGE. 45:56 ALL OF A SUDDEN THE FRONT YARD'S CLEAN, ALL KINDS OF THINGS BEGIN 45:59 TO HAPPEN - YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT BUT YOU CAST OUT AN EVIL SPIRIT, 46:03 THAT HAD THEIR LIFE, THROUGH STUDYING WITH THEM. 46:06 SO WHEN I SAY 'QUOTING THE WORD' I DON'T MEAN YOU JUST START 46:08 SHOUTING SCRIPTURES OVER A PERSON AND THEY'RE GOING TO 46:10 SCREAM AND AN EVIL SPIRIT COMES OUT. 46:12 MOST OF THE TIME, THE UNCLEAN EVIL SPIRITS COME OUT OF PEOPLE 46:16 AS WE SHARE THE GOSPEL - AS WE STUDY THE WORD. 46:20 THAT'S HOW IT HAPPENED WITH ME. I MEAN - I'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL. 46:25 I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT EVERY PROBLEM THAT A PERSON HAS IS 46:30 DEMONIC. THERE ARE THOSE THAT ARE GOING 46:34 OUT THERE AND SAY, 'HE'S GOT THE DEVIL OF EARACHES.' 'HE'S GOT 46:37 THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT OF, YOU KNOW, DRY EYE SYNDROME.' OR JUST 46:43 WHATEVER IT IS, YOU KNOW? 'IT'S A DEVIL OF ARTHRITIS' 46:45 - IT MIGHT JUST BE OLD AGE. NOT EVERYTHING IS 46:47 A DEVIL POSSESSION. YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 46:50 BECAUSE THERE ARE PREACHERS OUT THERE THAT BELIEVE THAT. 46:52 I DON'T BELIEVE THAT BUT, WHEN YOU'RE ADDICTED, IT'S NOT THE 46:56 SPIRIT OF GOD; WHEN YOU'RE ADDICTED TO ANYTHING, THAT'S AN 47:01 UNCLEAN SPIRIT THAT, IN SOME CAPACITY, HAS AHOLD OF YOU. 47:05 AND I KNOW, WHEN I STRUGGLED IN GIVING UP DRUGS AND GIVING UP - 47:10 I COULD CURSE - CIGARETTES, FOR ME - ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS - 47:16 THAT IT WAS THROUGH PEOPLE STUDYING WITH ME AND 47:18 UNDERSTANDING THE PROMISES OF GOD THAT I GAINED THE STRENGTH 47:21 TO BE FREE FROM THOSE THINGS. AND THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENS, 47:26 IN A PRACTICAL SENSE. SO, AS WE GO FORTH SHARING WITH 47:29 CHRIST, WE'RE TAKING THE WORD WITH US. 47:32 THIS IS THE SWORD OF THE - OF THE SPIRIT - OF THE WORD OF GOD, 47:35 AMEN? >>AMEN. 47:37 >>IT SAYS, 'BELIEVE.' AS YOU'VE BEEN PREPARING YOUR OWN HEART 47:41 AND CITING SCRIPTURE AND PRAYING - PERHAPS PRAYING AND FASTING, 47:45 BELIEVE THAT GOD IS GOING TO WORK IN THAT PERSON'S LIFE. 47:48 JESUS SAID IN MARK 9, 'IF YOU CAN BELIEVE, ALL THINGS ARE 47:50 POSSIBLE.' MARTIN LUTHER SAID OUR SONGS AND OUR PSALMS SORELY 47:57 VEX AND GRIEVE THE DEVIL, WHEREAS OUR PASSIONS AND OUR 48:00 IMPATIENCES, OUR COMPLAININGS AND OUR CRYINGS - OUR SAYING 48:03 'ALAS' AND 'WOE IS ME' PLEASE HIM WELL. 48:05 HE LAUGHS IN HIS FIST. HE TAKES DELIGHT IN TORMENTING 48:08 US, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE CONFESS, PRAISE, PREACH, AND LAUD CHRIST. 48:12 IF WE SAY WE'RE CHRISTIANS AND WE COMPLAIN ALL THE TIME, WE 48:14 DON'T BELIEVE OUR OWN PROMISES TO PREACH THE GOSPEL, IT MAKES 48:19 THE DEVIL HAPPY. WE'VE GOT TO BELIEVE THAT GOD IS 48:20 GOING TO DO WHAT WE'RE ASKING HIM TO DO. 48:23 NOW, POINT #5 - AND I SEE - I KNOW YOU'VE GOT SOME OF THESE ON 48:26 YOUR SCREEN UP THERE: ANOINT WITH OIL. 48:29 THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT'S HARD AND FAST, BUT THERE IS A 48:32 VERSE. NOT ONLY DO YOU READ JAMES 5:14, 48:35 "IS ANYONE AMONG YOU SICK? LET HIM CALL FOR THE ELDERS OF 48:38 THE CHURCH, AND LET THEM PRAY OVER HIM, ANOINTING HIM WITH 48:41 OIL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. AND THE PRAYER OF FAITH WILL 48:45 SAVE THE SICK, AND THE LORD WILL RAISE HIM UP. AND IF HE HAS 48:48 COMMITTED SINS, HE WILL BE FORGIVEN." SO HERE THERE'S 48:51 HEALING AND FORGIVENESS THROUGH PRAYER AND ANOINTING WITH OIL, 48:55 WHICH IS A SYMBOL FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT COMING IN THEIR LIFE. 48:59 SOME SICKNESS IS DIABOLICAL IN NATURE - WE'VE ALREADY SHOWN YOU 49:03 THAT IN THE BIBLE, SO YOU HAVE THAT EXAMPLE. 49:06 AND LOOK AT THIS - MARK 6:13 - IT SAYS, "AND THEY CAST OUT MANY 49:10 DEMONS, AND ANOINTED WITH OIL MANY WHO WERE SICK, AND HEALED 49:14 THEM." - IT'S JUST INTERESTING THAT THEY MENTION CASTING OUT 49:16 DEVILS AND ANOINTING WITH OIL MANY WHO WERE SICK - IT'S 49:19 ALMOST LIKE THEY WERE ALTOGETHER - ONE THING THAT WAS HAPPENING. 49:24 AND THEN POINT #6: INVOKING JESUS' NAME. 49:30 ALL THAT WE DO IS IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. 49:32 ACTS 16, VERSE 18, IT SAYS THAT PAUL, GREATLY ANNOYED, TURNED 49:38 AND SAID TO THIS GIRL WHO WAS POSSESSED WITH AN EVIL SPIRIT, 49:41 'I COMMAND YOU, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, TO COME OUT OF 49:45 HER.' AND HE CAME OUT THAT VERY HOUR. 49:48 THERE WAS A GIRL WHO WAS DEMON POSSESSED. 49:50 AND AGAIN, IT SAYS, "THESE SIGNS" - CHRIST SAID - MARK 49:54 16:17 - "THESE SIGNS" - MAY? 49:57 NO - "THESE SIGNS WILL FOLLOW THOSE WHO BELIEVE:" - YOU'RE 50:00 GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE THIS UP WITH JESUS IF YOU DON'T 50:01 UNDERSTAND THIS, FRIENDS - "THESE SIGNS WILL FOLLOW THOSE 50:05 WHO BELIEVE: IN MY NAME THEY WILL CAST OUT DEMONS;" - NOW, I 50:11 HOPE I'VE MADE IT CLEAR TO EVERYBODY, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT 50:14 SOME MEDICINE SHOW OR SOME KIND OF, YOU KNOW, CARNIVAL 50:19 ATMOSPHERE IN THE CHURCH WHERE PEOPLE ARE CASTING OUT DEVILS, 50:22 I'M TALKING, REALLY, ABOUT WHAT WE DO AS WE'RE LIVING THE LIFE 50:26 AND SHARING THE WORD. >>AMEN. 50:28 >>YOU'RE GOING FORTH BUT DON'T DOUBT FOR A MINUTE THAT THERE 50:32 AREN'T REAL SPIRITUAL BATTLES THAT ARE AT WAR. 50:35 SOME THINGS ARE MEDICAL AND WE KNOW THAT. 50:38 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE DEMON POSSESSED AND THEN THE 50:41 BIBLE TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE LUNATIC AND THAT MEANT THAT 50:45 MAYBE THEY HAD A MENTAL ILLNESS. JESUS CAN HEAL BOTH, CAN'T HE? 50:48 BUT WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL. SOME PEOPLE, QUITE LITERALLY, 50:51 HAVE A CHEMICAL PROBLEM. I KNOW IF I GET TOO HUNGRY, I 50:57 GET GRUMPY - THAT'S A CHEMICAL PROBLEM, ISN'T IT. 51:00 AND SO CHEMICALS IN YOUR BODY CAN AFFECT YOUR BEHAVIOR. 51:04 AND SO, SOME PEOPLE HAVE VALID CHEMICAL PROBLEMS AND I TOLD - 51:07 HEARD A PASTOR SAY, 'THROW AWAY YOUR MEDICINE. 51:09 WE'RE GOING TO PRAY AND CAST OUT THIS DEVIL.' YOU'VE GOT TO BE 51:11 VERY CAREFUL ABOUT DOING THAT. HAVING SAID THAT, THERE ARE 51:16 PROBABLY SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE DEMON POSSESSED AND DOCTORS ARE 51:19 TRYING TO DEAL WITH IT WITH MEDICINES. 51:22 AND SO - BECAUSE NO DOCTOR - I SHOULDN'T SAY NO DOCTOR - VERY 51:26 FEW DOCTORS ADMIT THESE SPIRITUAL WARS THAT ARE GOING 51:29 ON. WELL, FRIENDS, THAT'S BEEN 51:31 SORT OF AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT'S HAPPENING BEHIND THE SCENES. 51:36 THERE ARE RADIO WAVES OUT THERE THAT WE CAN'T SEE, AND THERE ARE 51:41 SPIRITUAL FORCES. THERE ARE SNEAKY PEOPLE TRYING 51:44 TO PUT VIRUSES IN OUR COMPUTER AND THERE ARE DEVILS THAT ARE 51:47 TRYING TO PUT THEIR CLAWS IN US AND WE ALL NEED JESUS' 51:52 ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE, AMEN? >>AMEN. 51:55 >>HE THAT HAS THE SON HAS LIFE AND IF CHRIST IS IN YOU, GREATER 52:00 IS HE THAT IS IN YOU THAT HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD. 52:03 WE DON'T NEED TO BE AFRAID. DO WE KNOW HOW THE STORY ENDS? 52:05 >>AMEN. >>THE DEVIL - THE 52:08 DEVILS TREMBLE. THEY ARE KEPT IN EVERLASTING 52:12 CHAINS RESERVED UNTO THE JUDGMENT OF THE GREAT DAY. 52:15 THEY KNOW THEIR DAYS ARE NUMBERED. 52:18 CHRIST WILL DECLARE TO THOSE THAT ARE LOST, 'AWAY, DEPART 52:22 FROM ME YE CURSED, INTO EVERLASTING FIRE PREPARED FOR 52:24 THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS.' SATAN KNOWS THAT THEY ARE GOING 52:29 TO BE CONSUMED IN THE FIRES THAT DESTROY THE WORLD AND PURIFY THE 52:34 EARTH AT THE SAME TIME. AND SO, WE DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID. 52:37 YOU KNOW, IT'S ALSO GOOD TO KNOW - YEAH, THERE ARE ONE-THIRD OF 52:44 THE ANGELS THAT FELL, BUT TWO-THIRDS THAT DIDN'T FALL, SO 52:48 YOU'VE GOT MORE ON YOUR SIDE THAN THEY HAVE ON THEIR SIDE. 52:52 YOU REMEMBER WHEN ELISHA TO HIS SERVANT, 'LORD, OPEN HIS EYES. 52:56 MORE THEY BE THAT ARE WITH US THAN THEY THAT BE THAT WERE WITH 53:01 THEM.' AND SO, WE'RE ON THE WINNING TEAM. 53:04 AND, YOU KNOW, THE TRUTH IS THAT EVEN IF ALL OF THE ANGELS FELL 53:09 AND FOLLOWED LUCIFER, IF YOU'VE GOT JESUS ON YOUR SIDE, YOU'RE 53:13 ON THE WINNING TEAM. >>AMEN. 53:16 >>I REMEMBER READING ABOUT DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN AND THERE WAS 53:21 THIS ONE MIGHTY MAN, I NEVER COULD FORGET HIS NAME, HE'S 53:24 ELIEZER, THE SON OF DODO - THAT'S WHY IT WAS EASY TO 53:28 REMEMBER - ELIEZER THE SON OF DODO AND HE'S LISTED AMONG THE 53:30 MIGHTY MEN OF DAVID. AND IT TALKS ABOUT THIS ONE TIME 53:34 WHEN THEY WERE IN BATTLE WITH THE PHILISTINES AND ALL OF 53:38 THE ARMY FLED BECAUSE THE PHILISTINES OUTNUMBERED THE 53:41 ISRAELITES, BUT DAVID WOULD NOT RETREAT. 53:45 AND DAVID STOOD THE GROUND - AND THEY WERE IN A BARLEY FIELD - 53:49 AND ELIEZER STOOD AT HIS BACK - I GUESS YOU COULD SAY DAVID 53:53 STOOD AT HIS BACK - AND THERE THEY WERE BACK TO BACK - ELIEZER 53:56 AND DAVID - AND THEY FOUGHT THE PHILISTINES AND THEY DEFEATED 53:58 THEM. THE TWO OF THEM! WENT THROUGH THE PHILISTINES 54:01 LIKE A MOWING MACHINE. AND THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ELIEZER 54:05 COULD NOT LET GO OF HIS SWORD BECAUSE HE HAD HELD IT SO LONG 54:08 THAT HIS HAND CLAVE UNTO HIS SWORD. 54:10 YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING, WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE BIBLE DOES NOT 54:14 RECORD DAVID EVER LOSING A BATTLE. 54:17 AND IF YOU GO INTO BATTLE WITH DAVID, JESUS, THE SON OF DAVID, 54:21 YOU WILL NEVER LOSE A BATTLE. >>AMEN. 54:24 >>SO, HE'S GOT YOUR BACK AND YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO BE AFRAID 54:28 OF. SO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE GET 54:29 NERVOUS. PASTOR DOUG TALKS ABOUT DEVILS 54:31 AND THEY GO OUT AND THEY'RE SPOOKED BY EVERYTHING. 54:33 YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID. I'M NOT AFRAID. 54:35 I THINK THAT WE CAN FIND CONFIDENCE IN KNOWING THAT 54:38 CHRIST IS WITH US WHEREVER WE GO AND THAT HE CAN GIVE US THE 54:41 VICTORY. SO, PUT ON THE ARMOR OF GOD AND 54:44 STAND AND DO IT WITH ALL PRAYER AND PERSISTENCE 54:48 AND WATCHFULNESS. HOW MANY WANT TO BE 54:50 SOLDIERS IN GOD'S ARMY? 54:52 >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN RESOURCES, VISIT 54:55 AFBOOKSTORE.COM . (MUSIC) 55:09 FRIENDS, IF YOU'RE SCARED OF SNAKES, THIS MAY NOT 55:12 BE FOR YOU. I'M HERE AT A REPTILE PARK 55:15 OUTSIDE OF DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA AND I'M HOLDING MY FRIEND 55:18 HERE, WHO'S A RED-TAIL BOA. SNAKES ARE FOUND ALL OVER THE 55:22 WORLD AND THEY COME IN ALL SIZES. 55:24 SNAKES CAN BE FOUND THROUGH THE TREES, THEY CRAWL ON THE GROUND, 55:27 THEY LIVE UNDER THE GROUND, AND THEY SWIM IN THE WATER. 55:30 VERY INTERESTING CREATURES. SOME SNAKES ARE VENOMOUS. 55:34 NOT MY FRIEND HERE. BUT THE BLACK MAMBA 55:36 - VERY POISONOUS. MATTER OF FACT, THEIR BITE IS 55:40 OFTEN REFERRED TO AS 'THE KISS OF DEATH'. 55:42 THEY CAN GROW 15-FEET LONG AND CAN TRAVEL UP TO SEVEN MILES AN 55:45 HOUR. THEY DON'T CALL THEM BLACK 55:47 MAMBAS BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN, BUT THE INTERIOR 55:50 OF THEIR MOUTH IS BLACK. SNAKES ALSO COME IN ALL SIZES - 55:54 LIKE THIS BOA OR A PYTHON - THEY CAN GROW TO GREAT SIZES. 55:57 MATTER OF FACT, IN SOUTH AMERICA, THEY FOUND SOME FOSSILS 56:00 OF A SNAKE THAT THEY CALL 'TITANIBOA'. 56:03 THEY BELIEVE IT WAS AS BIG AS 50-FEET LONG AND WEIGHED AS MUCH 56:07 AS A CAR. SAY 'CHEESE!' A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE 56:11 SCARED OF SNAKES. I USED TO LIVE ON A MOUNTAIN IN 56:13 A CAVE AND I RAN INTO SNAKES FREQUENTLY. 56:15 THEY NEVER BOTHERED ME UNLESS I WAS BOTHERING THEM. 56:18 IN THE BIBLE, THE SNAKE IS OFTEN A SYMBOL OF THE DEVIL. 56:21 IN REALITY, IT'S JUST A SYMBOL. 56:23 THEY'RE ANIMALS JUST LIKE OTHER ANIMALS, BUT IT SAYS THEY WERE 56:25 CURSED TO GO UPON THEIR BELLY BECAUSE THEY WERE THE FIRST 56:28 MEDIUM THAT THE DEVIL USED TO TEMPT ADAM AND EVE. 56:31 IN THE BOOK OF NUMBERS CHAPTER 21, IT TELLS THE STORY OF HOW, 56:34 WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE GOING THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, 56:37 THEY BEGAN TO COMPLAIN ABOUT GOD'S MANNA AND IT SAYS THE LORD 56:40 ALLOWED THESE FIERY SERPENTS TO GO AMONG THE PEOPLE AND MANY 56:43 WERE BITTEN AND THE VENOM WAS DEADLY. 56:46 I SHOULD PROBABLY MENTION AT THIS POINT, THAT BREAD THEY WERE 56:49 COMPLAINING ABOUT IS A SYMBOL FOR THE WORD OF GOD. 56:51 AS MANY OF THE PEOPLE WERE DYING FROM THIS PLAGUE OF SERPENTS, 56:54 THEY WENT UNTO MOSES AND THEY SAID, 'WHAT SHALL WE DO?' 56:57 GOD TOLD MOSES TO MAKE A BRONZE SERPENT AND PUT IT ON A POLE AND 57:01 LIFT IT UP, THAT WHOEVER LOOKED UPON THE SERPENT, 57:04 THEY WOULD BE HEALED OF THEIR VENOM. 57:06 THIS IS WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT, BECAUSE JESUS SAYS, IN THE 57:09 GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 3, VERSES 14 AND 15, "AS MOSES LIFTED UP 57:14 THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS, EVEN SO THE SON OF MAN MUST BE 57:18 LIFTED UP, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT 57:21 HAVE ETERNAL LIFE." THEY NEEDED TO LOOK AND TO LIVE. 57:26 YOU SEE, THOSE ANCIENT SHEPHERDS, WHEN THEY WOULD KILL 57:27 A VENOMOUS SNAKE, THEY WOULD CARRY IT OFF ON THEIR STAFF AND 57:31 BURY IT, SO A SERPENT ON A POLE REPRESENTED A DEFEATED SNAKE. 57:36 IT'S TALKING ABOUT DEFEATING THE DEVIL, FRIENDS. 57:38 HAVE YOU BEEN BITTEN BY THE SERPENT? WE ALL HAVE. 57:41 THE ONLY CURE FOR THE VENOM OF SATAN IS TO LOOK IN FAITH AT 57:45 JESUS. HE THEN DEFEATED THE DEVIL. HE TOOK THE VENOM OF SIN 57:49 IN HIS BODY TO PROVIDE THE ANTIDOTE IN HIS BLOOD. 57:53 SO FRIENDS, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK TODAY AND LIVE. 57:56 (MUSIC) |
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