Good evening
ladies and gentleman
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don't you just love
that bumper music that brings
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ascent to another exciting
program that were calling
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the Eleventh Hour
edition were coming to you live
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from Battle Creek, Michigan.
My name is Pastor Jason
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and your host. And I'm so
excited about the messages
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that pastor
Asscherick has been bringing us
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night by night. How about
you folks would you say Amen?
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Okay, now you know
these is the 3ABN audience
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out there so as I say
Amen really load ready,
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Amen praise Lord. God
has been good and he has been
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lifting himself up.
One of the things that
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I've experienced is a new
persuasion that Jesus Christ
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is alive and he loves
me, how about you? Amen.
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And tonight Buddy Houghtaling
is sitting by right now
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with a beautiful version
of the song I am persuaded
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taken from Romans
chapter 8 I understand it
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Buddy take it away.
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I am persuaded
that death nor life,
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Could ever keep
my Father from me.
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I am persuaded that there's
no angel, nor principality,
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That could separate
me from my God above,
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Or is love in Jesus Christ.
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I am persuaded
that I'm His child,
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And He'll love me
for the rest of my life.
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I am persuaded
that there's no power,
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Nothing
present, nothing to come.
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I am persuaded,
no height, nor depth,
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no creature, not
anyone, That could separate me
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from my God above and
His love in Jesus Christ.
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I am persuaded
that I'm His child,
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And He'll love me
for the rest of my life.
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Sometimes I feel I'm
more than a conqueror.
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But even when I'm at my weakest,
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Of one thing I am sure.
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I am persuaded
that death nor life,
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Could ever keep
my Father from me.
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I am persuaded that there's
no angel, nor principality,
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That can separate
me from my God above,
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And His love in Jesus Christ.
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I am persuaded
that I'm His child,
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And He'll love me
for the rest of my life;
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And He'll love me
for the rest of my life.
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Amen. Well brother
you may be just persuaded
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but I agree with you
tonight Jesus Christ is a God
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that you can trust him
be a friend of I see pastor
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Asscherick is making
his way up here right now
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and he is got a lode of
information for you tonight.
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I want to take you
for just a moment though
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back in time to the
day when our beloved
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commended Jesus Christ
was standing with his angel
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friends looking at
them I suppose the tears
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were running down there faces.
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As they put their arms
around him for what was going
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to be last time
in a very long time.
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And then one of the angels
flew swiftly to a little girl
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a young maiden and
gather area around,
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around Galilee in
the town of Nazareth and
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lady named Mary. And said
it's in your hands now Mary,
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do you want to see the
Messiah coming to the world
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through your, through
your womb and when she said
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be it unto me according
that I will another angel pace
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another side and angel
who used to be know as Lucifer
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knew exactly what
it happen in heaven.
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Jesus had stepped into
the glory of his father
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I suppose and disappeared
it was now in the room of Mary.
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Coming into this
world for what purpose?
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For what purpose my
friends? To go the cross,
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what did he do it
what is the cross mean,
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pastor Asscherick
has answers tonight.
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Pastor Asscherick God bless.
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Amen. Good evening
every one. Good evening.
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Wasn't that a beautiful
song? Well, that. Thank you,
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I tell you thank you Buddy
for that, is that your son?
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He is beautiful who that
happen. Oh! he is beautiful
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thank for singing, wasn't
that a wonderful introduction,
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I was really I felt like
I was right there in heaven
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just before Jesus left
to come to this planet.
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Well our message tonight
is the first in a two part
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series entitled The
Cross: The Fulcrum of the Ages.
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The Cross: the Fulcrum of
The Ages tonight is part 1
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and then we will be
back on Sunday for part 2.
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I will take two nights
off and actually I will make a
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quick flight down to Florida
and then a quick flight back,
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and if I don't make
it Pastor Jason Seiber
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will do what he can do.
And in absence he will pick up
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the time. Of
course I'm, I am imagining
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that he is hoping
that doesn't happen.
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That's my hunch.
You're imagining wrong.
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He is praying that my
plane not that it goes down
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of course but
that it's gets delayed.
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Well let's begin with
a word of prayer and then
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we get right into our
message proper this evening.
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Father in heaven
as we gather tonight
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we are persuaded that
neither death nor life no
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angels, nor principalities
or powers nor height,
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nor depth or any
other creature shell be able
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to separate us from the love
God that is in Christ Jesus.
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Father tonight as we
begin to unfold that love,
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as we begin to try and
understand from a universal
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perspective father.
I pray that your spirit
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will be with us
in a powerful way.
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Lord tonight as we
begin this two part series
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on the cross I pray
that you will lose my lips,
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so that I may speak
in a powerful compelling
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and persuasive way. Father
in heaven you said to Moses
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may years ago
who made man's mouth.
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And surly father if you
could speak to the mouth
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of Moses you can
speak to the mouth of David,
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and so father I pray
you will be with us tonight,
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and that your word will
come across and that your
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son will be glorified
and uplifted in this room
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for we ask it in
Jesus name, Amen.
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for we ask it in
Jesus name, Amen.
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Why don't you open
your Bibles with me to
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Revelation chapter
12, Revelation chapter 12,
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so many times when we
seek to understand the cross
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and its significances we
see it from what I considered
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to be a rather my
optic point of view.
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That is to say we see
it from one perspective
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and often times at limited
perspective we see the cross
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simply from our
point of reference,
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our point of
view and we see it as,
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as that place where
Jesus saved us from our sins
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and so we say on the
cross Jesus pay it for my sins
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and is that true yes or no.
It's abundantly true that is,
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that is one of
great cornerstones
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of the Christian faith,
what we are going to trying
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to do in the next two
meetings is to understand
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the cross not only
from the perspective
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of you and I that is to
say sinners saved by grace.
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We are going to try to
take a larger universal look
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at the cross, how does
the cross look to the unfallen
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angels, and to the unfallen
worlds, who have not had
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an experiential
attachment an intimacy with sin.
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And so this will begin
a two part series entitled
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of the cross. The Fulcrum
of the Ages and we are going
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to begin in what
some people might consider
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to be an unusual place and
that's Revelation chapter 12.
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Now what we are
going to do is also maybe a
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little unusual. We are going
to read Revelation chapter 12
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through in its entirety
so that we can have a broad
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sweep, a broad picture,
what I call it airplane view
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of this great chapter.
Many theologians consider
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Revelation chapter 12 to
be the theological climax
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of the book of Revelation.
And so we are going to
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take time and read
through all 17 verses,
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I will be reading you
follow along in our Bibles
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and try to get a
picture in your mind of the
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vivid imagery and of
the powerful symbolism
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is used in this chapter.
We will then come back and
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we will divide this
chapter into five main elements
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and then we will
progress from there.
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Let's begin in Revelation
chapter 12 in verse 1.
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Now a great sign appeared
in heaven a woman clothed
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with the sun, with
the moon under her feet,
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and on her head a
garland of twelve stars.
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Verse 2, Then being with
child, she cried out in labor
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and in pain to give
birth. And another sign appeared
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in heaven: behold a
great fiery red dragon
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having seven
heads and ten horns,
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and seven diadems on his
heads. His tail drew a third
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of the stars of heaven
and threw them to the earth.
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And the dragon stood
before the woman who was
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ready to be devoured or
who is ready to give birth
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to devour her child
as soon as it was born.
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She born a male Child
who was to rule all nations
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with a rod of iron.
And her Child was caught up
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to God and His throne.
Then the woman fled into
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the wilderness, where she
has a place prepared by God.
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That they should feed
her there one thousand
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two hundred and sixty days
and war broke out in heaven:
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Michael and his
angels fought with a dragon;
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and the dragon
and his angels fought,
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but they did not
prevail, nor was a place found
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for them in heaven any
longer. So the great dragon
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was cast out,
that serpent of old,
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called the Devil and
Satan, who deceives the whole
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world; he was cast to
the earth, and his angels
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were cast out with him.
Then I heard a loud voice
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saying in heaven, "Now
salvation, and strength,
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and the kingdom of our
God, and the power of His
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Christ have come, for
the accuser of our brethren,
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who accused them
before our God day and night,
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has been cast down. And
they overcame him by the blood
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of the Lamb and by the
word of their testimony,
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and they did not love
their lives to the death.
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Therefore rejoice, O heavens,
and you who dwell in them!
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Woe to the inhabitants
of the earth and the sea!
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For the devil has come
down to you, having great wrath,
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because he knows
that he has a short time."
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Now when the dragon
saw that he had been cast
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to the earth, he persecuted
the woman who gave birth
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to the male Child. But
the woman was given two wings
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of a great eagle that she
might fly into the wilderness
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to her place, where
she is nourished for a time
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and times and half a
time, from the presence
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of the serpent. So the
serpent spewed water out
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of his mouth like a
flood after the woman
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that he might cause her to
be carried away by the flood.
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But the earth helped
the woman, and the earth
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opened its mouth and
swallowed up the flood
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which the dragon had
spewed out of his mouth.
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And the dragon was
enraged with the woman,
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and went to make war with
the rest of her offspring,
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who keep the commandments
of God and have the testimony
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of Jesus.
Powerful chapter isn't?
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The imagery in that
chapter is just amazing
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it's inescapably gripping.
You've here these elements
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that are, that are so foreign
to our natural experience
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dragons and wars and
wars in heaven I mean
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so many different
things here that are foreign
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almost to the way
that we see reality.
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Yeah, here is John the
last living Apostle there
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out 24 miles out
into the Aegean Sea,
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and with an aged hand
he was scribbling down
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on papyrus these words
these visions that Jesus
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was revealing to him
and you might be asking
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as we comments this
evening what does Revelation
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chapter 12 have
to do with the cross.
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Why would be begin there
about a message concerning
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the cross. Well what we
would like to do at this
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point is to take Revelation
chapter 12 and divided
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into five main
elements. Five main elements,
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the first element that
we are introduce to you in
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Revelation chapter 12 is
the women, it is what everyone.
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The women notice there
in verse 1 now a great sign
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appeared in heaven: a
woman clothed with the sun,
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and the moon under
her feet, and on her head
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a garland of twelve stars.
So, the first thing the John
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saw there in that vision
was woman well what is a woman
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here is they say
literal woman the answer is no.
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An End time Bible
prophecy that book of Revelation
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as well as another places
a women symbolizes the people
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of God. A woman
symbolizes the people of God,
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now listen very carefully I
purposely didn't say the word
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church there. Because
the woman was also used
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in the Old Testament
to symbolize the nation of
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Israel and so the nation
of Israel in the Old Testament
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symbolize by a woman
and the people of God
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in the New Testament
also symbolize by a woman
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and so we avoid a
necessary confusion when we say
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the woman
represents the people of God.
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Can you say Amen to
that? Amen. Now notice this
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incredible statement
taken here from 2 Corinthians
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chapter 11 in verse 2
the Apostle Paul writing.
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Writing to the
church at Corinthians says,
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For I am jealous for
you with godly jealousy.
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For I have betrothed, the
word means given or engaged,
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I have betrothed
you to one husband,
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that I may present you as
a chaste virgin to Christ.
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Paul here picks up on
that analogy that powerful
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analogy that the relationship
between a man and his wife,
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between a husband and
wife, is a microcosm the
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great relationship the
Jesus Christ has with his church
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if that make sense to
you, why don't you say Amen.
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Amen. You can read
all about it in Ephesians
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chapter 5 with the Apostle
Paul says this is a great
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mystery but I speak concerning
Christ and the church.
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So, the first thing
that John sees there in this
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panoramic vision there
from the island of Patmos
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is a woman the people of
God. Notice how she is clothed,
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how she is adorned
with the sun and the moon
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and the stars, the
garland of twelve on her head,
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clothed with the sun
and standing on the moon
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what to these three
things have in common the sun,
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the moon, and the stars.
These are things that God uses
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to bring light to this
earth. The sun in the day
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and the moon and
the stars at night.
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I believe that is John
was writing these words he had
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Isaiah chapter 60 beginning
in verse 1 in his mind Arise,
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shine, for light has
come, and the glory of the Lord
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rises upon the. Behold,
the darkness shall covers
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the earth, and
gross darkness the people;
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But the Lord shall
arise upon thee, And His glory
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will be seen upon thee.
What is God communicating
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here about his church? That
she will shine forth the light
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of the glory of God to a
world's steeped in darkness
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depravity and sin. The first
thing that John sees in his
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vision. What is the
second element that we are
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introduced to the
answer is the Wicked Dragon.
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Notice that's the second
element that we saw there
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Revelation chapter 12
and verse 2. Then being with
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child, she cried out in
labor and in pain to give birth.
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And another sign
appeared in heaven:
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behold, a great, fiery
red dragon having seven heads
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and ten horns, and
seven diadems on his heads.
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There need to no
confusion about the identity
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of the dragon for John
spells it out in very plane
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language in verse
29, notice that with me.
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So the great dragon was
cast out, that serpent of old,
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call who everyone? The
Devil and what's the next word?
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Satan, Satan the
adversary, who deceives how
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much of the
world? The whole world;
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he was cast to the earth,
and his angels were cast out
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with him. We spoke
about that last evening and we
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talked about this Lucifer,
this angel how could it be
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that a bright, beautiful
glories perfect resplendent
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being could degenerate
into what you and I know
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today as the devil or
Satan. Now friends in a sentence
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what happen Satan is
that he was filled with pride.
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He was filled with
word did I say everyone?
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Pride, pride and this Lucifer
become filled with pride about
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his own glory and his
own accomplishments and his
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own beauty. I remind you
what is at the center of pride,
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PRIDE the same that
is at the center of sin,
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SIN and friends pride and
sin are all about the same
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thing namely me, me, me
and is Lucifer took his eyes
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off glory of God.
After off of the majesty
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and worthiness of God
and begin look in mirror
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and think to himself, well
I'm looking quite nice myself,
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his focus switched and
he became Satan who formally
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had been bright,
beautiful, and glorious Lucifer,
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are you with me on
this yes or no? Amen.
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So, so repugnant
was this creature,
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so terrible and contrasted
was this change that John
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reference to him as a
great fiery red dragon.
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Think about the
contrast a bright, beautiful,
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glorious resplendently
iridescent being degenerating
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into a deprived, and
debauched, and disgusting
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repulsive dragon, friends.
It's a contrast that it's well
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for us to notice, very
important. As we continue
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the next element that we
are introduce to is the War,
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there is a great war and
I want you to notice that
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in verse 7. Revelation
chapter 12 and notice with me
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verse 7 it says, an
war broke out in Iraq.
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Is that what it
says war broke out where?
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Heaven. It's no
surprise to you and I that war
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is broke out in Iraq.
It's common to speak about
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war in the terrestrial
room and the earthly room.
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But, friends notice
here war has spoken about
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in the celestial room,
in the heavenly kingdom.
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War broke out
where everyone? Heaven.
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In Heaven and
Michael and his angels fought
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with the dragon; and the
dragon and his angels fought.
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Now the word war
occurs only two times in
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Revelation chapter 12 and
let me ask you a very simple
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question. Where did
the war begin in heaven?
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Now let you ask a
second question according
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Revelation chapter 12
well where were the war end?
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Notice with me verse 17.
And the dragon was enraged
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with the woman, and he
went to make war with the rest
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of her offspring, who
keep the commandments of God
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and have the testimony
of Jesus. Note with me that
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the war that began in
the celestial Rooms will be
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completed and will reach
its climax and conclusion right
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here on planet earth.
Friends this is a very important
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point that we note. There
are many people that say today,
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Oh! There is no devil,
there is no personal evil being.
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But, friends I assure
you that the very last one
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that you would you to be
aware that there is a devil
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is the devil himself. He
is the one who has invented
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these ridiculous characters
you know a pointy tail
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and pitchfork and these
kinds of things absolutely
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ridiculous and rational
thinking people look at that,
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say surely this is
straight out of Greek and Rome
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in mythology. Friends all
the while Satan is quoting
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himself in a clandestine
move to jump and to surprise
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the entire word not as an
angel of darkness friends.
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But as an angel of what?
Light, so the war broke out
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in heaven that it will be
finished on earth and notice
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also number 4 here the
weapon. Number 4 is the Weapon.
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Now the word weapon
does not occur in Revelation
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chapter 12. But, the
concept of the weapon
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is surely there.
Notice it with me in verse 11,
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And they that is the
people of God, overcame him,
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that is Satan, by
the blood of the Lamb.
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They overcome by what
everyone? By the blood
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of the lamb. Where was
the blood of the lamb spilt?
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On and across of Calgary,
that's right, and notice the
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second element there in
verse 11. And by the word
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of their testimony, and
they did not love their lives
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to the death.
Revelation's weapon friends,
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is the cross of Jesus Christ.
The weapon with which God
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will defeat Satan is not your
resolve, it's not your will,
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it's not your
commandment keeping.
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You are moral leanings.
The weapon with which God
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will defeat Satan
finally once and for all,
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is the weapon of the
cross. We are going to talk more
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and more about
that is we progress.
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And the last element that
we are introduced to round
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out the 5 is the
Winners that is to say those
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who gain the victory we
seem them there in verse 11,
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love not their lives to
the death. We see them in verse
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17 the dragon was wroth.
And so we divide Revelation
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chapter 12 neatly and
nicely into these 5 elements.
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The woman, the wicked
dragon, the war, the weapon
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that Christ uses to
overcome Satan once and for all
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and those who avail
themselves of that weapon
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namely the winners.
And friends do you know who
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the winners are?
That is you and me.
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Can you say Amen? Amen.
Brothers and sisters you can
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be in that number when
the saints go marching in.
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Now what I like to do is
for you to consider with me
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something very important
in the book of Genesis,
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this is first book of
the Bible, we find something
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very important, we find a
perfect God in the first two
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chapters living in
perfect communion with a perfect
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people let me repeat
that. In Genesis 1 and 2 we
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find a perfect God. In
perfect communion with a perfect
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people, where do
you that take place?
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What was the
name of that location?
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Eden that's exactly
right. The Garden of Eden,
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now remarkably when you
move all the way through
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all 66 books of the
Bible you come to the last book
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of the Bible what
book is that by the way.
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The book of Revelation
and in the last two chapters
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of the last book of the
Bible, yet again in Revelation
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21 and 22 we find a
perfect God in perfect communion
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with a perfect people.
So, the first two chapters
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are Eden and the last
two chapters of the Bible
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are Eden restored, are
you understanding yes or no?
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Amen. Now notice
with me just a moment here
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as we sort of on try
and get our fingers wrapped
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around this. First book
of the Bible Genesis, last
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book of the Bible
Revelation and what we learn
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here is that the Bible
itself suggests an Eden-to-Eden
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perspective. If you hold
up your Bible just like that
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on this cover there is Eden
on this cover there is Eden.
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The Eden-to-Eden perspective
is not some construct
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four-step on the Bible it
is something that is give to us
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from the Bible itself.
Now, notice something remarkable
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here. If we set the
book of Genesis over here
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and we set the book of
Revelation over here okay,
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now everything in
between is the Bible.
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So, what's over here everyone?
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Genesis. Genesis, and
what's over here everyone?
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Revelation. Revelation,
now notice this with me.
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The first two chapters of
Genesis have a perfect God,
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and perfect communion
with a perfect people.
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The last two chapters of
Revelation a perfect God,
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perfect communion
with a perfect people.
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Now note with me here,
if I was to take one step
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this direction. What
chapter would I be in Genesis?
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No what chapter
would I be in Genesis,
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I've gone from Genesis 1
and 2 into Genesis chapter
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you've got it,
brother Genesis chapter 3.
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Now you say what is the
significance about Genesis
00:22:02.95\00:22:05.23
chapter 3? Friends
listen very carefully in Genesis
00:22:05.26\00:22:08.35
chapter 3 we find Jesus Christ
fighting the thrust battle
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with the serpent on
planet earth that's Genesis 3.
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Now follow me all the way
through the canon of scripture
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and we come now to
Revelation 21 and 22.
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Now if I stepped
this way one chapter,
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what chapter would
I be in? Revelation.
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Revelation what is
that Jason? Chapter 20,
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now listen carefully.
What is the significance the
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theological significance
of Revelation chapter 20
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chiefly this, the last
battle that Jesus Christ fights
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with the serpent on planet
earth. Do you begin to see
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the picture yes or no?
Get it in your mind on this
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end Eden move one
chapter first battle.
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No this end Eden resorted
moved one chapter and the last
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battle and so these two
great pillars act like bookmarks
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in between which
the rest of the Bible,
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the rest of the
canon can be fit in place,
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are you with me
now, yes or no? Amen.
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So, we say the Bible
suggests an Eden-to-Eden
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perspective. That is to
say in the beginning of perfect
00:23:04.04\00:23:06.93
God and perfect
communion with a perfect people,
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so too in Revelation a
perfect God in perfect communion
00:23:09.07\00:23:12.63
with a perfect
people. Many theologians have
00:23:12.66\00:23:14.46
recognized this as something
the Bible itself suggests.
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Secondarily though the
Bible employs a first battle
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and a last battle
perspective, are you with me on
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this yes or no? It
begins in Genesis 3 and it ends
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in Revelation 20. Now,
let's put everything together
00:23:27.42\00:23:30.92
before we progress
even one movement further.
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We read through Revelation
chapter 12 and its entirety
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and you might me
thinking why? Why would be read
00:23:35.68\00:23:37.21
through Revelation 12 and
its entirety and the answer
00:23:37.24\00:23:39.31
is just. Revelation
chapter 12 more than any other
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chapter in the Bible
distills down for us this great
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cosmic, conflict and battle
between the forces of light
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and darkness and good and
evil. If there was one chapter
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that you will going to
pick out of the entire cannon
00:23:53.71\00:23:55.45
of the Bible and say,
that's the chapter that's shows
00:23:55.48\00:23:57.90
the great battle,
that's the chapter that shows
00:23:57.93\00:23:59.79
the great controversy,
you would pick Revelation 12.
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Now what we seen Revelation
chapter 12 in microcosm
00:24:02.31\00:24:06.24
that's means small, we
see in the entire record
00:24:06.27\00:24:10.19
of scripture in microcosm.
What we are going to do now
00:24:10.22\00:24:14.11
is something that I think
you will find absolutely amazing
00:24:14.14\00:24:17.02
and very, very
thrilling to your soul.
00:24:17.05\00:24:20.47
We are going to take and
trace 6 stages of victory,
00:24:20.50\00:24:24.59
6 stages of progress in
this great cosmic conflict
00:24:24.62\00:24:28.98
that begin in Genesis 3
extends all the way down
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to Revelation 20
through 6 very distant and
00:24:32.08\00:24:36.04
distinguishable stages.
This is a great battle a
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great conflict. You have
there Christ and the dragon
00:24:39.40\00:24:42.74
is making war with him
and with his people and we
00:24:42.77\00:24:45.58
are going to trace this
battle through and notice
00:24:45.61\00:24:48.13
the centrality of the
cross. The centrality of what
00:24:48.16\00:24:51.81
word did I say
everyone? The cross. The
00:24:51.84\00:24:53.49
cross notice again, we
are warning to understand
00:24:53.52\00:24:55.60
the cross but not just
from our narrow myopic view,
00:24:55.63\00:24:58.77
we attended to say Oh!
the cross that's would Jesus
00:24:58.80\00:25:00.88
pay for my sins,
surely that's true friends but
00:25:00.91\00:25:03.24
does the cross mean for
the angels? What does the cross
00:25:03.27\00:25:06.64
mean God himself and
what was the cross mean for us
00:25:06.67\00:25:09.80
throughout the ceaseless
eternal ages when we are
00:25:09.83\00:25:12.05
redeemed sinners. Friends
the cross is not just something
00:25:12.08\00:25:14.83
that we say will that's
were he forgave my sins.
00:25:14.86\00:25:16.51
Surely that is true,
but that is only one half
00:25:16.54\00:25:18.81
of the coin. Let's try to
set that cross in a larger more
00:25:18.84\00:25:24.50
powerful and
more holistic context,
00:25:24.53\00:25:27.83
as the very centerpiece of
the great war between Satan
00:25:27.86\00:25:31.63
and God the
great cosmic conflict.
00:25:31.66\00:25:34.68
And friends this is a
not a Jorge Lucas film,
00:25:34.71\00:25:36.57
this is reality. Amen.
00:25:36.60\00:25:39.80
So, let's begin then
the first stage that we find
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we go to Genesis chapter 3
as we've already suggested.
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Let us go there
Genesis chapter 3,
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now they paint the
picture here very quickly in
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Genesis chapters 1 and
2 as we've already said we
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find a perfect God in
perfect communion with a perfect
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people everything was
glorious and beautiful.
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The atmosphere was
beautiful, the water was clean,
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the birds were flying
overhead and you just can
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let your imagination
around while with which,
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with what Eden
much have looked like.
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Now Adam and Eve had
been placed in this garden
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by God to tended and to
keep it and to take care
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of it's. But, in Genesis
chapter 3 we are introduced
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to an element that is out
of context a discordant note
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in the beauty and
the harmony of Eden,
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begging in verse 1, now
the serpent was more cunning
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than any beast of the
field which the Lord God
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had made. And he
said to the woman,
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"Has God indeed said, 'You
shall not eat of every tree
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of the garden'?" He
begins to insinuate doubt,
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to insinuate
what word did I say?
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Doubt. Are you
sure that God said that?
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And friends that's the
same thing the devil would
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to you and I and this
day and it shall say now
00:26:44.15\00:26:46.59
I know think that the
Bible says that but are you sure
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that God said that and
this is exactly how Satan
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works. He begins to
insinuate suddenly and cleverly
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his doubt, notice
verse 2. And the woman said
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to the serpent, "We may
eat the fruit of the trees
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of the garden; but
of the fruit of the tree
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which is in the midst of
the garden, God has said,
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'You shall not eat it,
neither shall you touch it,
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lest you die." Verse
4, then the serpent said
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to the woman, five
words "He will not surely die.
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But, God had said four
words in the date that we
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thou shalt surely die
four words and Satan here
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inserts a fifth.
Does it change the meaning
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of the sentence yes or
no? Oh! Friends these are
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antithetical statements
now. They are the exact
00:27:21.70\00:27:23.83
opposite, God had
said "ye shall surely die,
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Satan said Ye shall not
surely die and I ask you the
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question last night
and I repeated again,
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which one do you think
would be more pleasing to the
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heart and to the ears of
Eve the first or the seconds?
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The second and as
we discussed last night
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Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is
deceitful above all things,
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And desperately
wicked; Who can know it?
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Friends we are so
pruned to deception
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because our heart
actually wants to be deceived.
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Amen, Amen. Now notice
what happens in verse 5,
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For God knows that in the
day you eat of it your eyes
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will be opened, and
you will be like God,
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knowing good and
evil." So when the woman saw
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that the tree was good for
food, that it was desirable
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to make one wise, she
took of the fruit and ate.
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She gave also to her
husband with her, and he ate.
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I emphasize the word
saw there because the Bible
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says in 2 Corinthians
5:7 we walk by faith,
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not by sight. What is
the woman walking by faith in
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God's word or what
she saw, what she saw?
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And I remind you again of
what we discuss last night
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friends then there was
a great signs and miracles
00:28:21.54\00:28:23.68
and wonders that will be
permitting and saturating
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a land, many people will
be walking by what they see
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and not by what the
word of God's says, Amen.
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And they will be
committing to same fall that was
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committed there in
Eden when Eve chose to stand
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what her eyes told
here, what her senses told her
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and not on plan thus
say at the Lord. Verse 7,
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Than the eyes of
both of them were opened,
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and they knew that they
were naked; and they sewed
00:28:45.09\00:28:46.72
fig leaves together and
made themselves coverings.
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And they heard, this is
the one of the most tragic
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verses and all of the
Bible certainly, verse 8,
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And they heard the
sound of the Lord God walking
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in the garden in
the cool of the day,
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and Adam and his
wife hid themselves,
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friends note those
two words very carefully.
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They hid themselves from
the presence it says of the
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Lord God, but let me insert
a word here that will make
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it even more
penitent they hid themselves
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from the presence
of their father. Amen.
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Now, I have a son, I
have two sons as a matter
00:29:13.12\00:29:15.93
of fact and my
oldest son three years old,
00:29:15.96\00:29:18.68
he is almost three I
just love him very much
00:29:18.71\00:29:20.97
he is so dear to me,
so close to my heart,
00:29:21.00\00:29:23.81
he is just as wild
and energetic as I am.
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And I tell you when
I come walking into the
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house right now
I'm away with him,
00:29:28.57\00:29:29.71
away from him because he
is in California while my
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wife is watching
her sister give birth.
00:29:31.56\00:29:32.96
And listen carefully
when I get to see my boy
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after being away for
two weeks, when he sees me
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I can tell you how he responds.
00:29:38.57\00:29:40.00
At the top of his lungs
he says papa and he comes
00:29:40.48\00:29:43.03
running and he runs just
like me you know my friends
00:29:43.06\00:29:45.11
joke that I run like a
bear and he my son will come
00:29:45.14\00:29:47.84
papa and he'll run right
up to me and he'll hug me
00:29:47.87\00:29:50.18
and I'll throw my arms
around him, throw him in
00:29:50.21\00:29:52.08
the air we wrestle
together you can just imagine
00:29:52.11\00:29:53.82
what is like
between me and my son.
00:29:53.85\00:29:55.24
Let me tell you
what would be devastating
00:29:55.27\00:29:57.84
for the heart of a father.
If I come and I say Landon
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and he turns the
other direction and in fear
00:30:01.95\00:30:06.92
and trepidation and
uncertainty he runs the
00:30:07.74\00:30:11.02
opposite direction. Not in
joking, not in play and make
00:30:11.05\00:30:14.66
believe but he is running
the other direction because
00:30:14.69\00:30:16.70
he is terrified of me. Do
you think that would break
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the heart of a father? Amen.
00:30:19.48\00:30:20.90
Friends what was
happening there when
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Adam and Eve ran
from the presence they hid
00:30:22.30\00:30:24.70
from the presence of
the Lord a relationship have
00:30:24.73\00:30:28.21
been fractured. They had
effectively changed their
00:30:28.24\00:30:32.18
loyalty from the side
of their Creator and Father
00:30:32.21\00:30:34.87
to the side of the enemy
Satan it was as though before
00:30:34.90\00:30:39.48
they have their
arms around the Lord.
00:30:39.51\00:30:41.41
They have their arms
around their father but
00:30:41.44\00:30:43.61
now that they have
transgressed, they have heard
00:30:43.64\00:30:45.35
the words of Satan
over the words of God,
00:30:45.38\00:30:46.92
they have now effectively
changed loyalties. Amen.
00:30:46.95\00:30:51.07
Are you
understanding yes or no? Yes.
00:30:51.10\00:30:52.86
So, when God comes
walking into the garden instead
00:30:52.89\00:30:54.62
of finding his children
running to him to tell them
00:30:54.65\00:30:56.80
of the exploits
and glories of the day,
00:30:56.83\00:30:58.70
He finds them running
away in fear and trepidation,
00:30:58.73\00:31:02.59
the heart of God was
broken friends. Amen.
00:31:02.62\00:31:05.48
Now, note with me. God
then asks Adam three questions.
00:31:08.26\00:31:10.90
What are that? Who
told you that you were naked
00:31:10.93\00:31:12.58
and have you eaten
of that tree? He blames
00:31:12.61\00:31:15.08
it on the woman. The
woman that thou gave wished to
00:31:15.11\00:31:16.71
be with me. She
gave me of the tree and
00:31:16.74\00:31:18.19
I did eat and then he
asks Eve just one question
00:31:18.22\00:31:20.08
women what is this
that thou has done?
00:31:20.11\00:31:21.57
And then he turns
and he preaches a serpent
00:31:21.60\00:31:24.50
or a sermon to the serpent.
Adam gets three questions,
00:31:24.53\00:31:27.35
Eve gets one but the
serpent gets no questions
00:31:27.38\00:31:30.38
because he knew better
he had stood in the very
00:31:30.41\00:31:32.74
presence of the
throne of God. Amen.
00:31:32.77\00:31:35.27
So, notice. Let's note
that sermon in Verse 14
00:31:35.84\00:31:37.59
of Genesis 3: So the
LORD God said to the serpent,
00:31:37.62\00:31:40.06
"Because you have done
this, you are cursed more
00:31:40.09\00:31:41.65
than all cattle, And more
than every beast of the field;
00:31:41.68\00:31:43.59
On your belly you will
go, And you shall eat dust
00:31:43.62\00:31:45.96
all the days of your life.
Verse 15 and I'll put enmity
00:31:45.99\00:31:50.05
the word means hatred,
what does the word mean
00:31:50.08\00:31:52.14
everyone? Hatred.
00:31:52.17\00:31:53.20
Hatred between
you and the woman,
00:31:53.23\00:31:54.20
And between your
seed and her seed;
00:31:54.21\00:31:55.47
He shall bruise your
head, And you shall bruise
00:31:55.50\00:31:58.76
his heel." Friends this
Verse the meaning of this
00:31:58.79\00:32:01.79
Verse is not immediately
apparent, we need to go back
00:32:01.82\00:32:05.49
through it see it
again. Notice Verse 15 God
00:32:05.52\00:32:08.55
is speaking to the
serpent, who is God speaking
00:32:08.58\00:32:10.27
to everyone? Serpent.
00:32:10.30\00:32:11.67
The serpent and he
says I will put enmity,
00:32:11.70\00:32:13.08
hatred between
you and the woman.
00:32:14.14\00:32:16.44
Why would he say
something like that because
00:32:16.47\00:32:18.56
friends at that moment it
appeared as though the women
00:32:18.59\00:32:21.69
had a new best bug
and that was the serpent,
00:32:21.72\00:32:24.74
they were loyal to one
and other they were attached
00:32:24.77\00:32:27.98
to one and other and
they were committed to one
00:32:28.01\00:32:30.00
and other and so Jesus
God comes into that garden
00:32:30.03\00:32:32.85
and says I'll put
enmity, hatred between you two
00:32:32.88\00:32:35.99
where now there is
friendship and amicability
00:32:36.02\00:32:39.36
I will make hatred and
enmity. Now notice what it goes
00:32:39.39\00:32:44.04
on to say this enmity
will bruise your head.
00:32:44.07\00:32:47.21
The word is actually
crush, that enmity will crush
00:32:48.20\00:32:51.12
your head but you that
enmity will bruise the heal.
00:32:51.15\00:32:56.44
What is being foretold
here? Friends this is the very
00:32:57.91\00:33:00.94
first the earliest reference
in the Bible to the Cross.
00:33:00.97\00:33:04.34
To the what word
did I say? To the Cross.
00:33:04.37\00:33:07.08
God here foretells that
the natural affinity that saint
00:33:07.11\00:33:11.12
pardon me that Adam
and Eve now have for Satan
00:33:11.15\00:33:13.47
will one day be
dissolved and crushed when the
00:33:13.50\00:33:16.81
enmity comes. Who is
that enmity? It is Christ
00:33:16.84\00:33:20.00
on the Cross who alone
can create in the carnal heart
00:33:20.03\00:33:23.54
of man and antipathy
toward the things of Satan.
00:33:23.57\00:33:26.79
Amen. So, friends,
number one that victory,
00:33:27.57\00:33:30.18
that victory was
declared in Eden.
00:33:30.21\00:33:31.39
In a fact I like to put
it this way when I'm trying
00:33:32.16\00:33:33.88
to teach these things to
my boys, I'm trying to make
00:33:33.91\00:33:35.89
the Bible more simple
and I can't use these words
00:33:35.92\00:33:38.20
that I sometimes
use with you and so,
00:33:38.23\00:33:39.95
I say to my boy I say
Landon what God here said
00:33:39.98\00:33:43.55
to the devil is effectively
you'll get beat up by a girl.
00:33:43.58\00:33:47.38
Amen. Amen. That's what he said.
00:33:50.81\00:33:52.53
Amen. I'm gonna put
enmity between you and the
00:33:53.16\00:33:54.88
woman and you're
gonna beat up by her.
00:33:54.91\00:33:56.95
Friends here the
victory was not yet achieved
00:33:58.79\00:34:01.63
the victory was
not even began yet but
00:34:01.66\00:34:04.38
the victory was
announced in Eden.
00:34:04.41\00:34:07.67
From the days of Eden
it appeared as though Satan
00:34:08.34\00:34:10.45
had won the war, what
God is saying you may have
00:34:10.48\00:34:12.95
won the day but the battle
and the war will eventually
00:34:12.98\00:34:16.12
be mine. The victory was
declared in Eden, the victory
00:34:16.15\00:34:19.65
number two of the
stages was begun in the earthly
00:34:19.68\00:34:23.09
ministry of Jesus. Go
with me to Luke, Chapter 11.
00:34:23.12\00:34:25.57
Luke, Chapter 11, the
victory began in Eden her
00:34:27.32\00:34:30.24
Haptonomy declared in
Eden was began and the
00:34:30.27\00:34:32.07
earthly ministry of
Jesus. I'm in Luke Chapter 11
00:34:32.10\00:34:34.34
and I'm reading in
Verse 14. What Verse are
00:34:34.37\00:34:35.94
we in everyone? 14.
Luke 11:14 the Bible says
00:34:35.97\00:34:39.42
and as he was casting
out demons, and he was
00:34:39.45\00:34:42.25
casting out a
demon and it was mute.
00:34:42.28\00:34:43.78
So, it was when the demon
had gone out that the mute
00:34:44.41\00:34:46.90
spoke in the
multitudes marveled.
00:34:46.93\00:34:48.33
But some of them said,
Ha! Ha! 'He casts out demons
00:34:48.36\00:34:50.43
by Beelzebub, the
ruler of the demons.'
00:34:50.46\00:34:52.04
others, testing Him, sought
from Him a sign from heaven.
00:34:52.07\00:34:54.04
But He, knowing their
thoughts, said to them:
00:34:54.07\00:34:56.43
'Every kingdom divided
against itself is brought
00:34:56.46\00:34:58.48
to desolation, and a
house divided against a house
00:34:58.51\00:35:00.39
falls. If Satan also is
divided against himself,
00:35:00.42\00:35:02.81
how will his kingdom
stand? Because you say I cast
00:35:02.84\00:35:05.13
out demons by Beelzebub.
And if I cast out demons
00:35:05.16\00:35:08.51
by Beelzebub above, by
whom do your sons cast them out?
00:35:08.54\00:35:10.92
Therefore they
will be your judges.
00:35:10.95\00:35:12.15
But if I cast out
demons with the finger of God,
00:35:12.18\00:35:14.88
surely the kingdom of
God has come upon you.
00:35:14.91\00:35:17.54
"When a strong man, fully
armed, guards his own palace,
00:35:18.22\00:35:20.20
his goods are in
peace. Notice Verse 22
00:35:20.23\00:35:21.78
"But when a stronger
than he comes upon him and
00:35:21.81\00:35:24.85
overcomes him, he takes from
him all his armor in which he
00:35:24.88\00:35:27.62
trusted, and divides his
spoils.'' What's Jesus saying
00:35:27.65\00:35:31.09
here Jesus is saying
what Satan has claimed as his,
00:35:31.12\00:35:34.43
I am reclaiming as mine.
00:35:34.46\00:35:36.50
Amen. Amen. Satan has
had this earth under lock
00:35:37.25\00:35:40.12
and key and I am coming
back and I am plucking back
00:35:40.15\00:35:44.74
what I claim as my
own. In the earthly ministry
00:35:44.77\00:35:47.95
of Jesus he was
healing the blood. Amen.
00:35:47.98\00:35:50.54
Raising the dead, he
was causing the paralytic to
00:35:50.57\00:35:52.91
standup. He was taking
back what Satan had claimed
00:35:52.94\00:35:56.36
as his own. The victory
was beginning in the earthly
00:35:56.39\00:35:59.85
ministry of Jesus. Amen.
00:35:59.88\00:36:02.74
In fact we find this no more
clearly that in Luke Chapter
00:36:02.77\00:36:04.53
13, note that with me
very quickly. In Luke Chapter
00:36:04.56\00:36:07.17
13 we find a
remarkable story beginning
00:36:07.20\00:36:08.92
in Verse 10, Luke 13
and Verse 10. Now he was
00:36:08.95\00:36:11.48
teaching in one of the
synagogues on the Sabbath.
00:36:11.51\00:36:13.05
And behold, there was
a woman who had a spirit
00:36:13.08\00:36:14.27
of infirmity eighteen
years, and was bent over
00:36:14.30\00:36:16.20
and can no way raise
herself up. But when Jesus saw
00:36:16.23\00:36:18.94
her, He called her
and he said "Woman,
00:36:18.97\00:36:20.49
you are loosed
from your infirmity."
00:36:20.52\00:36:22.73
And He laid His hands
on her, and immediately
00:36:22.76\00:36:24.38
she was made
straight, and glorified God.
00:36:24.41\00:36:25.98
Friends let me
make a quick note here,
00:36:26.01\00:36:27.53
it is just like the devil
to make you crook and bend
00:36:27.56\00:36:29.89
you over and just like
God that straighten you up.
00:36:29.92\00:36:32.72
Amen. Amen. Verse 14: But
the ruler of the synagogue
00:36:32.75\00:36:36.53
answered with
indignation, because Jesus had
00:36:36.56\00:36:38.31
healed on the Sabbath;
and he said to the crowd,
00:36:38.34\00:36:39.93
"There are six days on
which men ought to work;
00:36:39.96\00:36:41.98
therefore come
and be healed on them,
00:36:42.01\00:36:43.50
and not on the Sabbath
day." And notice Verse 15:
00:36:43.53\00:36:45.31
The Lord then
answered and said to them,
00:36:45.34\00:36:46.96
"Hypocrite! Does not
each one of you on the Sabbath
00:36:46.99\00:36:49.07
loose his ox or
donkey from the stall,
00:36:49.10\00:36:50.57
and lead it away to
water it? All of those verses
00:36:50.60\00:36:52.68
were read to set the
context for Verse 16.
00:36:52.71\00:36:55.64
Notice with me Verse 16:
"So ought not this woman,
00:36:57.20\00:37:00.50
being a daughter of
Abraham, a daughter of who
00:37:00.53\00:37:02.58
everyone? Abraham.
Whom Satan has bond
00:37:02.61\00:37:06.70
That's the one. Who
had bound her? Satan
00:37:08.46\00:37:10.17
Satan has bound think
of it for eighteen years,
00:37:10.20\00:37:14.03
be loosed from this
bond on the Sabbath?"
00:37:14.06\00:37:16.34
Jesus doest not accept any
responsibility or capability
00:37:16.81\00:37:21.03
with the women's
infirmity and sickness.
00:37:21.06\00:37:22.58
He says that devil bond
her over and I straight her up.
00:37:23.10\00:37:25.65
Amen. Amen. Amen.
Friends the picture here is
00:37:25.68\00:37:29.02
one of Jesus and I have
this picture in my fertile
00:37:29.05\00:37:31.63
imagination and Jesus is
just going like this and he
00:37:31.66\00:37:34.91
is walking and
reclaiming the very territory,
00:37:34.94\00:37:37.01
the very people, the very
cities, the very villages,
00:37:37.04\00:37:39.12
the very landscape that
Satan had claimed as his own.
00:37:39.15\00:37:42.22
This victory was beginning
in the earthly ministry
00:37:42.25\00:37:45.73
of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Yeah.
00:37:45.76\00:37:47.91
Are you with me on
that? And notice this number
00:37:47.94\00:37:50.63
one victory begins
it was declared in Eden,
00:37:50.66\00:37:54.53
the victory was begun in
the earthly ministry of Jesus
00:37:54.56\00:37:57.20
and Halleluiah number
3 the victory of Christ
00:37:57.23\00:38:00.71
over Satan was
achieved on the Cross. Amen.
00:38:00.74\00:38:03.64
Let me show just one Verse
to that effect and we're going
00:38:04.12\00:38:05.86
to talk more about
this on Sunday but notice
00:38:05.89\00:38:07.77
with me John Chapter
12. John what chapter are
00:38:07.80\00:38:10.24
we going to? 12. John
Chapter 12 and notice with me
00:38:10.27\00:38:13.53
Verse 32 actually
we'll begin in Verse 31
00:38:13.56\00:38:18.38
and then we will move to
Verse 32. John 12:31 Jesus
00:38:18.41\00:38:22.86
says now, what word
does he say everyone?
00:38:22.89\00:38:25.24
Now. What is
now mean? Right now.
00:38:25.83\00:38:27.89
Means now that's
easy right I should write
00:38:27.92\00:38:29.68
a dictionary now means
now. It doesn't mean Past
00:38:29.71\00:38:32.97
Tense and it doesn't
mean Future Tense now
00:38:33.00\00:38:34.54
is right now. Notice what
he says now is the judgment
00:38:34.57\00:38:38.69
of this world,
notice the word again, now.
00:38:38.72\00:38:41.05
The ruler of this
world will be cast out. Who
00:38:41.08\00:38:43.83
is the ruler of this
world? To whom is he referring?
00:38:45.05\00:38:46.76
Satan. He is referring
to Satan he uses that term
00:38:46.79\00:38:49.13
three times by the
way to refer a Satan.
00:38:49.16\00:38:51.29
The prince of this
world, the prince of this world,
00:38:51.32\00:38:54.26
the prince of this world
and notice what Jesus says
00:38:54.29\00:38:55.26
He says now the prince
of this world is cast out.
00:38:55.27\00:38:57.88
Now for those of
you who are thinking,
00:38:59.88\00:39:01.03
you would notice that
we have already come across
00:39:01.06\00:39:03.15
this very same language
in Revelation Chapter 12
00:39:03.18\00:39:05.22
in Verse 9 he was
cast out, he was cast out,
00:39:05.25\00:39:07.44
he was cast out, and
that's what the entire sermon
00:39:07.47\00:39:09.92
on Sunday is about. But
notice with me just one thing
00:39:09.95\00:39:12.56
Jesus says two
times now is the judgment
00:39:12.59\00:39:15.41
of this world, now is the
ruler of this world cast out
00:39:15.44\00:39:17.83
and we might reasonably
ask the question when is now?
00:39:17.86\00:39:20.72
And you read Verse 32.
Jesus and I, if I am lifted up
00:39:22.36\00:39:26.72
from the earth I will
draw all peoples to myself.
00:39:26.75\00:39:29.99
What is he referring to
when he says if I lifted up
00:39:30.02\00:39:32.48
from the earth I will
draw all peoples to myself.
00:39:32.51\00:39:34.23
To what is he referring? Cross.
00:39:34.26\00:39:35.97
The Cross, so notice what
Jesus says in the immediate
00:39:36.00\00:39:39.71
context of the Cross Satan
was cast out and defeated. Say
00:39:39.74\00:39:45.38
context of the Cross
Satan say amen if that
00:39:45.41\00:39:46.38
makes sense. Amen. Now
friends note that carefully,
00:39:46.39\00:39:48.20
in fact I just cannot
resist. You are right there
00:39:49.00\00:39:50.46
in John Chapter 12,
notice with me John Chapter 14,
00:39:50.49\00:39:53.11
very quickly John
Chapter 14 I'm counting on your
00:39:53.14\00:39:55.36
dexterous fingers
to get there quickly.
00:39:55.39\00:39:56.82
John 14 in Verse 30 Jesus
says I will no longer talk
00:39:57.77\00:40:00.54
with you for the ruler
of this world is coming
00:40:00.57\00:40:02.64
and he has nothing in me. Amen.
00:40:02.67\00:40:05.10
He's cast out, he is
judge what can you do?
00:40:06.91\00:40:08.91
Notice John Chapter
16 the same Verse 11,
00:40:09.65\00:40:11.57
John 16 in Verse 11 of
judgment because the ruler
00:40:12.47\00:40:15.72
of this world is judged.
Three times Jesus this almost
00:40:15.75\00:40:19.89
cryptic phrase here, the
ruler of this world is judged,
00:40:19.92\00:40:22.92
he is judged, he is
judged, he is cast out. Amen.
00:40:22.95\00:40:25.39
Now in each instance
the casting out of Satan
00:40:26.56\00:40:30.36
is in the context,
the immediate context
00:40:30.97\00:40:33.46
of the Cross of
Jesus Christ. Amen.
00:40:33.69\00:40:35.36
Now, let me read to
you a powerful passage
00:40:35.39\00:40:37.64
of scripture taking
from the writings of the
00:40:37.67\00:40:39.10
Apostle Paul, Colossians
2:15 notice this Verse
00:40:39.13\00:40:42.08
of scripture very carefully.
It says and the hostile
00:40:42.11\00:40:45.26
princes and rulers He
shook off from Himself,
00:40:45.29\00:40:48.19
and boldly displayed
them as His conquests,
00:40:48.22\00:40:50.83
the word is trophies
when by the Cross He triumphed
00:40:50.86\00:40:53.92
over them. Amen, Amen.
00:40:53.95\00:40:55.84
Friends the picture here I
wish I have time to go into
00:40:55.87\00:40:57.78
the etymology of the
word here that he displayed
00:40:57.81\00:41:01.25
the message
conquest, the word there in the
00:41:01.28\00:41:03.29
Greek if you look it up
in a lexicon is the same
00:41:03.32\00:41:06.07
word that would be
used when army would defeat
00:41:06.10\00:41:07.96
another army and
they would take that king
00:41:07.99\00:41:10.18
and they would strip
him naked and sometimes
00:41:10.21\00:41:12.00
they poke his eyes out
and they would lead him
00:41:12.03\00:41:13.98
humiliated, defeated and
make it through the streets.
00:41:14.01\00:41:16.74
That's the word
that is here employed,
00:41:16.77\00:41:18.99
it says that on the
Cross, where everyone?
00:41:19.02\00:41:21.17
By the cross, he
triumphed over who?
00:41:22.09\00:41:24.33
Over these princes and
principalities powers namely
00:41:24.36\00:41:28.26
Satan himself, friends Satan
was humiliated on the Cross.
00:41:28.29\00:41:31.24
Amen. Amen. He
thought he gained the victory,
00:41:31.27\00:41:34.86
but just as he thought
he had Jesus where he wanted
00:41:35.11\00:41:37.47
him. He bore his chest
only to receive the stroke of
00:41:37.50\00:41:42.11
death. Friends the
victory was announced in Eden,
00:41:42.14\00:41:47.10
the victory was began in
the earthly ministry of Jesus
00:41:47.13\00:41:49.98
and according to Jesus
himself the victory was achieved
00:41:50.01\00:41:52.70
on the Cross. Halleluiah
the number four the victory
00:41:53.28\00:41:57.04
was proclaimed in the
resurrection. Amen. Amen.
00:41:57.75\00:42:01.30
Let's go to Acts Chapter
2, Acts Chapter 2 and the
00:42:02.41\00:42:05.40
Apostle Peter is preaching.
Who is preaching? Peter.
00:42:05.43\00:42:08.90
Peter is preaching, notice
with me in Acts Chapter 2,
00:42:08.93\00:42:11.77
we could read all of
Acts 2 if time allowed but
00:42:12.49\00:42:15.38
we're just going to read
a few Verses here in Acts
00:42:15.41\00:42:17.54
Chapter 2. It's the
day of Pentecost Peter
00:42:17.57\00:42:19.40
is preaching his heart out
and we'll pick it up in Verse
00:42:19.43\00:42:21.09
22 Acts 2 and Verse 22.
"Men of Israel, hear these
00:42:21.12\00:42:27.63
words: Jesus of
Nazareth, a man attested by God
00:42:27.66\00:42:31.25
to you by miracles
wonders and signs that God
00:42:31.28\00:42:33.94
did through him in your
midst, as you yourselves
00:42:33.97\00:42:36.63
also know him being
delivered by the determinant
00:42:36.66\00:42:40.20
purpose and for
knowledge of God you have taken
00:42:40.23\00:42:42.70
by lawless hands and
have crucified and put to the
00:42:42.73\00:42:44.67
death. What's he
saying in Verse 23,
00:42:44.70\00:42:45.92
what he is saying in
Verse 23 is you did it but God
00:42:45.95\00:42:49.03
ordained it. Verse
24 whom God raised up,
00:42:49.06\00:42:54.24
can you say Amen? Amen.
00:42:54.27\00:42:55.69
Whom God raised up
having loosed to pains of death,
00:42:56.21\00:42:58.26
because it was not
possible that he should
00:42:58.74\00:43:00.88
be held by it. Amen.
Verse 25: For David says
00:43:00.91\00:43:03.94
concerning him, and
Peter does something
00:43:03.97\00:43:05.60
remarkable here. Peter
begins to quote from the
00:43:05.63\00:43:07.91
Psalms and in the Psalms
the traditional interpretation
00:43:07.94\00:43:11.79
of the rabies, their binnacle
interpretation of the day
00:43:11.82\00:43:14.33
was that when David
resided these words when David
00:43:14.36\00:43:17.02
wrote these words, he
was talking about himself.
00:43:17.05\00:43:19.20
But Peter here does
something remarkable
00:43:19.23\00:43:21.79
he interprets these
Psalms against the backdrop
00:43:21.82\00:43:24.49
of the messianic identity
in resurrection of Jesus
00:43:24.52\00:43:27.48
and he says he was
not talking about himself,
00:43:27.51\00:43:30.00
he has talking
about Jesus. Amen.
00:43:30.03\00:43:32.01
Notice it here
beginning in Verse 25.
00:43:32.04\00:43:33.50
I foresaw the Lord
always before my face,
00:43:33.53\00:43:35.68
for he is on my right
hand, that I may not be shaken.
00:43:35.71\00:43:37.95
Therefore my heart
rejoiced, and my tongue
00:43:37.98\00:43:40.23
was glad; moreover also
my flesh will rest in hope.
00:43:40.26\00:43:43.13
For you will not
leave my soul in Hades,
00:43:43.16\00:43:45.77
nor will you allow your
Holy One to see corruption,
00:43:45.80\00:43:48.32
the word means decay.
Verse 28 for you have made
00:43:48.35\00:43:51.16
known to me the ways of life;
You will make me full of joy
00:43:51.19\00:43:54.80
in Your presence. And
then he says in Verse 29
00:43:54.83\00:43:57.28
men and brethren let me
freely speak to you of the
00:43:57.31\00:44:00.76
patriot David. I like that.
Friends let me just tell you
00:44:00.79\00:44:04.20
about David, that's
what he is saying that he
00:44:04.23\00:44:06.55
is both dead and what? Buried.
00:44:06.58\00:44:09.98
And his tomb is
with us today. Amen.
00:44:10.01\00:44:13.32
Do you say what
he is saying? Amen.
00:44:13.35\00:44:14.87
He go to the tomb of David,
00:44:14.90\00:44:15.87
go in there and exhume
his body and you will find.
00:44:15.88\00:44:19.25
He is still in there. He
wasn't writing about himself
00:44:19.28\00:44:22.96
when the spirit of God
inspired him to write these
00:44:22.99\00:44:25.16
words in Psalms he
was writing about Jesus.
00:44:25.19\00:44:27.77
Notice Verse 30
therefore being a prophet and
00:44:27.80\00:44:29.88
knowing that God has
sworn with an oath to him
00:44:29.91\00:44:31.47
that of the fruit of his
body according to the flesh
00:44:31.50\00:44:33.98
he would raise up the
Christ to sit on his throne.
00:44:34.01\00:44:37.55
Who would he raise
up everyone? Christ.
00:44:37.58\00:44:39.10
The Christ. He,
foreseeing this spoke concerning
00:44:39.56\00:44:42.16
the resurrection of
the Christ, that his soul
00:44:42.19\00:44:45.98
was not left in Hades nor
did his flesh see corruption.
00:44:46.01\00:44:50.12
And friends we can
read the whole thing Verse
00:44:50.15\00:44:51.79
32 This Jesus God
has raised up of whom
00:44:51.82\00:44:54.96
we are witnesses. What is
Peter preaching on the day
00:44:54.99\00:44:57.60
of Pentecost, what's the
whole point of this sermon.
00:44:57.63\00:45:00.20
The resurrection, he is
preaching resurrection over
00:45:00.23\00:45:04.25
and over again, he just
keeps revisiting that theme
00:45:04.28\00:45:07.95
and reinvesting that theme,
he says you crucified him,
00:45:07.98\00:45:09.43
you put him in the
tomb but god raised him up,
00:45:09.46\00:45:11.59
he raised him up, he
raised him up why because
00:45:11.62\00:45:14.27
through the resurrection
friends the victory of Christ
00:45:14.30\00:45:17.47
over death and sin
and Satan was proclaimed.
00:45:17.50\00:45:20.81
Amen. And friends as
we discussed the other
00:45:21.34\00:45:23.30
evening if Jesus can go
into the Cross or into the tomb
00:45:23.33\00:45:27.35
and then walk back out
then you and I can follow him
00:45:27.38\00:45:29.80
into the tomb if the
Lord allows and wills
00:45:29.83\00:45:31.58
and you and I can
follow him right back out.
00:45:31.61\00:45:33.62
Amen? Amen.
Praise the Lord death
00:45:33.65\00:45:36.35
will not have
the last laugh. Amen.
00:45:36.38\00:45:38.44
And friends let me speak
to you. Let me speak to you
00:45:39.61\00:45:41.75
very quickly and very
candidly. The other day Jason
00:45:41.78\00:45:45.18
and I went visited a dear
friend of ours, a dear friend
00:45:45.21\00:45:47.38
who at this very moment
is in a bed in his house
00:45:47.41\00:45:50.15
who is dying of
metastasis bone cancer.
00:45:50.18\00:45:52.58
A Christian man, a godly
man who has given his life
00:45:53.35\00:45:56.45
for the preaching of the
Gospel man named Dan Collins
00:45:56.48\00:45:59.54
a powerful of Evangelist
not powerful in his own
00:45:59.57\00:46:02.89
right he would detest
me even suggesting that but
00:46:02.92\00:46:05.36
powerful through the
spirit of God speaking through
00:46:05.39\00:46:07.91
him, he was converted
from the life of departuary
00:46:07.94\00:46:10.64
and depravity, he had
gone all the way that way
00:46:10.67\00:46:13.20
and he has come all the
way back and if you ever
00:46:13.23\00:46:15.30
want to meet somebody
that's wild for the Lord Jesus
00:46:15.33\00:46:17.52
then Collins is the man.
You know pastor Asscherick
00:46:17.55\00:46:20.03
is well friends are
nothing compared to this man.
00:46:20.06\00:46:22.21
Amen. We went and
we visited with him.
00:46:22.87\00:46:24.17
And a man who is used
to be so strong and robust,
00:46:25.00\00:46:27.49
his muscles practically
burst out of this shirt
00:46:27.52\00:46:29.88
he is in his hospital bed
and he is frail and he withering
00:46:29.91\00:46:33.03
away and his
emaciated condition but
00:46:33.06\00:46:35.44
I tell you the devil has
not touched his face. Amen.
00:46:35.47\00:46:38.44
He is still close
and as we sat down Jason
00:46:39.18\00:46:41.57
and I went over
to encourage him,
00:46:41.60\00:46:42.99
we are gonna go give the
old man some encouragement.
00:46:43.02\00:46:45.97
He had love me saying
that by the way, the old man.
00:46:46.00\00:46:48.24
We gonna go give
him some encouragement,
00:46:48.97\00:46:50.14
giving some inspiration
friends we went to encourage
00:46:50.17\00:46:52.43
and we came away
encouraged. Amen.
00:46:52.46\00:46:54.54
We went to inspire
and we came away inspired.
00:46:54.57\00:46:57.37
Why because he is a man
on his death bed staring
00:46:57.40\00:47:00.39
death right in the
face, looking the devil right
00:47:00.42\00:47:02.66
in the eye and he
has no fear because Jesus
00:47:02.69\00:47:05.53
has already been
there. Amen. Amen.
00:47:05.56\00:47:07.52
Friends that's the
beauty of the resurrection
00:47:07.55\00:47:10.20
is that if Jesus
went in came out then you
00:47:10.23\00:47:12.49
and I if God wills go
in and he'll take us out.
00:47:12.52\00:47:15.03
Amen. Friends that's the
glory of the resurrection,
00:47:15.06\00:47:18.93
death has no more
power. Sin has no more grip.
00:47:18.96\00:47:22.83
And yet we spend our
lives. Oh I am gonna say this,
00:47:24.38\00:47:27.34
and yet we spend time looking
and enjoying the beauties
00:47:27.37\00:47:33.19
the so called beauties
and the sweetness of sin.
00:47:33.22\00:47:35.92
Friends sin brings about death,
00:47:36.83\00:47:38.81
sin is the very that
put Jesus on the Cross.
00:47:38.84\00:47:41.55
Sin is not funny, Amen. Amen.
00:47:41.58\00:47:44.23
And you turn on a
sit calm and you laughed
00:47:44.26\00:47:46.25
at it and if its
sin it's not funny.
00:47:46.28\00:47:47.68
The Bible says in
Proverbs 14:9 Fools make a mock
00:47:47.71\00:47:51.08
at sin. Amen. Friends
listen to me very carefully
00:47:51.74\00:47:54.23
I urge upon you, if
you want to have confidence
00:47:54.26\00:47:56.71
as you face death, if
you want to be like brother
00:47:56.74\00:47:59.22
Dan Collins staring Satan
and death right in the face
00:47:59.25\00:48:01.65
with confidence
knowing that you will go in
00:48:01.68\00:48:04.14
and come out. You
must, what word did I say?
00:48:04.17\00:48:07.29
Must. Must to the
power of the Spirit begin
00:48:07.32\00:48:09.88
to develop a detestation
that is a hate for sin.
00:48:09.91\00:48:13.19
Amen. Amen. Sin
cannot be enjoyably you know
00:48:13.22\00:48:16.13
when you think you're
gonna come following Jesus
00:48:16.16\00:48:17.86
out of the tomb, no.
Friends sin must be that thing
00:48:17.89\00:48:22.27
which we hate. What
did Jesus say there?
00:48:22.30\00:48:24.20
What did Jesus say in
Genesis Chapter 3 in Verse 15
00:48:24.23\00:48:26.91
and I will put an
affinity between thee and
00:48:26.94\00:48:29.12
the women? No. No, no,
no, he said I'll put enmity
00:48:29.62\00:48:31.67
between thee and the woman.
00:48:31.70\00:48:32.79
You will hate the
things you used to love
00:48:32.82\00:48:34.96
and love the things you
used to hate. Amen. Amen.
00:48:34.99\00:48:38.71
Amen. Jason and I
today just read an article
00:48:38.74\00:48:40.60
as we were traveling up
to Lancing and I was thinking
00:48:40.63\00:48:42.31
about that article and
it's a story from a Ephesians
00:48:42.34\00:48:44.94
or a story from Acts
when the Ephesians powered
00:48:44.97\00:48:47.33
and then he preached
the Gospel they had their
00:48:47.36\00:48:49.87
worship of Diana and oh
they love to worship Diana but
00:48:49.90\00:48:52.99
when Paul preached the Gospel
they saw that their worship
00:48:53.02\00:48:54.95
of Diana was nothing
more than adultery and magic
00:48:54.98\00:48:57.98
and sorcery and the
Bible says that they took those
00:48:58.01\00:49:00.77
books and they
burned them. Amen.
00:49:00.80\00:49:02.20
What did they do
friends? They burned the books.
00:49:02.23\00:49:05.05
Now what do you have
in your life that needs
00:49:05.08\00:49:06.50
to burned? Amen. What
are you holding on to?
00:49:06.53\00:49:08.81
Friends you got some
videos in your house that need
00:49:09.54\00:49:11.16
to be burn, go
burn them. Amen. Amen.
00:49:11.19\00:49:14.37
You got some things
in your house that need
00:49:14.99\00:49:16.33
to be burnt go burn. Amen, yes.
00:49:16.36\00:49:18.88
Friends we need to
come all the way out. Amen.
00:49:18.91\00:49:20.80
And here is the
glory not in your strength.
00:49:21.49\00:49:23.02
You have no strength.
But the strength of Christ
00:49:23.05\00:49:26.40
has made perfect
in pathetic weakness.
00:49:26.43\00:49:28.50
Friends as you claim to
the victory already gained
00:49:28.53\00:49:30.86
on your behalf Jesus
has already defeated Satan.
00:49:30.89\00:49:33.65
He is a defeated for he
is ripped dog. Amen. Amen.
00:49:33.68\00:49:37.18
You can't beat the Satan
on your own you just trust
00:49:37.21\00:49:39.46
in the victory already
gained for you and you go
00:49:39.49\00:49:41.92
through your clauses and
through your refrigerator
00:49:41.95\00:49:44.15
and through your
entertainment you go through
00:49:44.18\00:49:46.26
your house and you
take out all the magic books
00:49:46.29\00:49:48.42
and throw them away. Amen. Amen.
00:49:48.45\00:49:50.78
Are you with me now?
Amen. Friends the victory
00:49:50.81\00:49:54.15
was declared, declared in
the resurrection and if you want
00:49:54.18\00:49:58.08
to have confidence
going into that tomb.
00:49:58.11\00:49:59.81
Friends you need to be
living like that today.
00:49:59.84\00:50:02.54
Are you with me?
Amen. Friends the victory
00:50:04.52\00:50:07.67
was proclaimed in the
resurrection and the victory
00:50:07.70\00:50:11.01
is continued in
the, what is that word?
00:50:11.04\00:50:14.15
The victory is
continued in the church.
00:50:15.41\00:50:17.26
Go with me in your
Bible to Acts chapter 26.
00:50:17.29\00:50:19.57
Acts, what chapter are
we going to? Chapter 26,
00:50:19.60\00:50:22.10
the Apostle Paul is
retelling his testimony. And
00:50:22.13\00:50:24.78
as he tells his testimony,
he tells us the story,
00:50:24.81\00:50:28.25
when he was riding on
his high horse to Damascus.
00:50:28.28\00:50:30.50
And the Lord came
and interrupted him.
00:50:31.84\00:50:33.74
And in Acts chapter 26 and
I'm reading now in verse 14.
00:50:35.17\00:50:37.76
And when had fell
onto the ground and
00:50:37.79\00:50:39.71
I heard a voice
speaking to me and saying
00:50:39.74\00:50:41.08
in the Hebrew
language, "Saul, Saul,
00:50:41.11\00:50:42.56
why are you persecuting
me?" It is hard for you
00:50:42.59\00:50:45.79
to kick against the
pricks. Verse 16, so I said,
00:50:45.82\00:50:48.96
who are you Lord? Verse
15, continues I'm Jesus,
00:50:48.99\00:50:53.73
whom you're
prosecuting. And verse 16,
00:50:54.74\00:50:56.94
but rise and stand on
your feet for I have appeared
00:50:56.97\00:51:00.03
to you for this
purpose, ]to make you a minister
00:51:00.06\00:51:03.00
and the witness. Let
me stop on those two words
00:51:03.03\00:51:05.56
to make him, what everyone?
A minister and the witness.
00:51:06.04\00:51:09.20
So, let me tell you
something, the Apostle Paul
00:51:09.23\00:51:11.38
was not some super
saint. In fact, he was a super
00:51:11.41\00:51:13.90
prosecute. And Christ
called him to be a minister
00:51:13.93\00:51:17.23
and a witness and every
single person that becomes
00:51:17.26\00:51:19.72
to devoted follower
of the Lord Jesus Christ
00:51:19.75\00:51:21.76
also was called to be a
minister and the witness.
00:51:21.79\00:51:25.17
Amen. There is no
such thing is a Christian
00:51:25.20\00:51:28.08
who doesn't share. I
like the way my good friend,
00:51:28.11\00:51:30.95
Doctor Samuel Pippen puts it,
00:51:30.98\00:51:32.12
if you're not a missionary
your mission failed, amen.
00:51:32.15\00:51:35.75
Amen. Friends, if
you're not out sharing,
00:51:36.73\00:51:38.79
if you're not out being
a minister and the witness
00:51:38.82\00:51:41.58
and somebody needs to
minister and witness to you,
00:51:41.61\00:51:44.00
amen. He says, I have
appeared to you for this purpose
00:51:44.03\00:51:46.75
to make you a
minister and the witness both
00:51:46.78\00:51:49.46
of the things, which
you've seen end of the things,
00:51:49.49\00:51:51.43
which I will yet
revealed you. Verse 17,
00:51:51.46\00:51:52.94
he says it right here.
I will deliver you from
00:51:52.97\00:51:55.40
the Jewish people as
well as from the gentiles
00:51:55.43\00:51:57.29
to whom I now send you, why,
00:51:57.32\00:51:58.92
why are you sending
me to the gentiles Jesus?
00:51:58.95\00:52:00.89
Let me tell you in
verse 18, to open their eyes.
00:52:00.92\00:52:03.17
In order to turn them
from darkness to light
00:52:03.20\00:52:05.46
and from the
power of, what everyone?
00:52:05.49\00:52:07.48
Satan, Satan to
God's. That they may receive
00:52:07.51\00:52:09.92
forgiveness of sins
and inheritance among those
00:52:09.95\00:52:12.15
who were
sanctified by faith in me.
00:52:12.18\00:52:13.49
Notice that the transition
from darkness to light
00:52:13.52\00:52:15.71
and from Satan to
God that Paul would be
00:52:15.74\00:52:17.85
instrumental helping
people to make that transition,
00:52:17.88\00:52:20.46
amen. Amen. Friends
Jesus doesn't save us,
00:52:21.32\00:52:23.82
so that we can sit on
our lazy boy and be saved.
00:52:23.85\00:52:26.39
He saves us, so we can
be ministers and witness
00:52:27.28\00:52:29.31
and so forth the
praises of him, who is called
00:52:29.34\00:52:31.53
that's out of darkness
into his marvelous light.
00:52:31.56\00:52:33.23
Amen, amen. Why would
it be the God would involve
00:52:33.77\00:52:36.67
the church? Friends
because the victory that
00:52:36.70\00:52:39.29
was gained by Christ
on the cross proclaimed
00:52:39.32\00:52:41.62
on the resurrection
must now be continued
00:52:41.65\00:52:43.97
in the church and
that's why you have these
00:52:44.00\00:52:45.33
great hymns, a
legacy of great hymns
00:52:45.36\00:52:47.62
like on word Christian, what.
00:52:47.65\00:52:50.47
Soldiers. Soldiers
marching as toward.
00:52:51.12\00:52:53.39
You ever have seen
people march toward.
00:52:54.48\00:52:55.53
They don't do it in a
slatternly manner or some
00:52:55.56\00:52:57.94
going this way,
some going that way,
00:52:57.97\00:52:59.24
they marched with synchronicity,
00:52:59.27\00:53:01.33
they marched with power,
they marched with conviction,
00:53:01.36\00:53:04.01
amen. Amen. Not a rag
tag bunch a motley crew.
00:53:05.09\00:53:08.14
Each one going in their
own way, no, no, no friends,
00:53:08.17\00:53:10.24
we're unified in Christ.
Black man, white man, male,
00:53:10.27\00:53:13.92
female, you name and
unified in Jesus, amen, why?
00:53:13.95\00:53:17.47
To show forth
the praises of him,
00:53:17.50\00:53:19.28
who called us out of
darkness of darkness in the
00:53:19.31\00:53:20.28
marvelous light to go
tell, the victory is achieve,
00:53:20.29\00:53:22.91
the victory is
proclaimed, amen. Amen.
00:53:22.94\00:53:25.56
In the church, amen,
friends God calls you to be
00:53:26.17\00:53:29.46
a witness of what
Jesus has done on the cross,
00:53:29.49\00:53:31.86
amen. Your neighbors
know what Jesus did on
00:53:31.89\00:53:33.84
the cross. Somebody
better tell him friends, amen.
00:53:33.87\00:53:37.95
Amen. And if you don't do
it the stones will cry out.
00:53:37.98\00:53:40.88
And let us continue as
we go to our last point.
00:53:42.37\00:53:44.06
The victory was continued
in the church and it will be
00:53:44.09\00:53:46.47
concluded after the
1000 years. You know,
00:53:46.50\00:53:49.22
friends the devils is
gonna take a long vacation
00:53:49.25\00:53:51.52
and eternal one. And I'm
in Revelation chapter 20.
00:53:51.55\00:53:54.82
Last verse, Revelation
chapter 20 and I'm reading
00:53:54.85\00:53:58.59
in verse 7. We began
in Genesis and we have
00:53:58.62\00:54:01.50
trace this Great War,
this great conflict all the way
00:54:01.53\00:54:04.24
through the pages of scripture,
00:54:04.27\00:54:05.34
and it concludes in
Revelation chapter 20,
00:54:06.25\00:54:07.68
beginning in verse 7.
Now, when the 1000 years
00:54:07.71\00:54:09.64
of expired, Satan
will be released from his
00:54:09.67\00:54:11.90
prison and will go out
to deceive the nations,
00:54:11.93\00:54:13.57
which were in the four
corners of the earth Gog
00:54:13.60\00:54:15.29
and Magog
together them for battle.
00:54:15.32\00:54:16.99
To the battle, the
number of whom is as the sand
00:54:17.02\00:54:19.82
of the sea. And they
went up on the breadth
00:54:19.85\00:54:20.95
of the earth, and surrounded
the camp of the saints
00:54:20.98\00:54:22.75
and the beloved city:
and fire came down from God
00:54:22.78\00:54:24.89
out of heaven,
and did what everyone,
00:54:24.92\00:54:26.43
devoured them. The
devil who deceived them,
00:54:26.46\00:54:28.84
was cast into the
lake of fire and brimstone,
00:54:28.87\00:54:31.20
where the beast and
the false prophet are,
00:54:31.23\00:54:32.45
and would be
tormented day and night forever
00:54:32.48\00:54:34.38
and ever. The
devil will be destroyed,
00:54:34.41\00:54:37.23
can you say amen? Amen.
00:54:37.26\00:54:38.66
The instigator of the
rebellion will finally be
00:54:38.69\00:54:41.35
destroyed and you can
be destroyed with him,
00:54:41.38\00:54:44.11
if you don't
repent. Amen. Amen. Amen.
00:54:44.14\00:54:47.48
Trust in Jesus and
what he has done for you.
00:54:48.65\00:54:50.23
So, notice it here friends,
the sixth stages of victory,
00:54:50.26\00:54:52.38
it was declared in
Eden, it was be gone in the
00:54:52.41\00:54:54.56
earthly ministry of Jesus.
It was achieved on the cross,
00:54:54.59\00:54:57.03
it's a victory already
gained for you, are you need
00:54:57.06\00:54:58.68
to do is live in
the victory, amen. Amen.
00:54:58.71\00:55:01.83
You don't need to go
out and flex your muscles
00:55:01.86\00:55:02.96
to the devil. He
love for you to think
00:55:02.99\00:55:04.35
it's your power to
get through the victory.
00:55:04.38\00:55:06.01
You just trust in the victory
that he is already gained.
00:55:06.44\00:55:08.47
Proclaimed in resurrection,
continued in the church,
00:55:09.17\00:55:11.26
as ministers and
witnesses and concluded
00:55:11.29\00:55:13.39
after the 1000 years. Friends,
in Revelation chapter 19,
00:55:13.42\00:55:16.66
Jesus is depicted his
rising, riding into battle,
00:55:16.69\00:55:19.45
victorious on a white stallion.
00:55:19.48\00:55:21.28
I put to you
today this question;
00:55:21.31\00:55:23.05
it is time to decide
friends. And my question for you
00:55:23.08\00:55:26.19
is who side are you walk? Amen.
00:55:26.22\00:55:29.88
We have traced
this cosmic conflict,
00:55:31.01\00:55:32.47
this cosmic battle, not
only through Revelation 12,
00:55:32.50\00:55:35.05
which is the
distillation of a conflict.
00:55:35.08\00:55:37.29
It is the chapter
more than any other chapter
00:55:37.32\00:55:39.21
that just stills
that conflict down,
00:55:39.24\00:55:40.81
but we have trace it
through the whole Bible
00:55:40.84\00:55:42.91
and we have seen the
six phases, the six stages.
00:55:42.94\00:55:45.88
And I have got a news
for you, you already know
00:55:45.91\00:55:47.74
the outcome, you
know, who wins. So,
00:55:47.77\00:55:50.32
why a lying yourself by
side yourself was Satan.
00:55:50.35\00:55:53.60
He is going to be
defeated, amen. Amen.
00:55:53.63\00:55:55.99
Friends, lying
yourself with Jesus, amen,
00:55:56.53\00:55:58.54
stand behind the
cross, nothing in my hand
00:55:58.57\00:56:00.58
I bring simply to
the cross I claimed.
00:56:00.61\00:56:03.34
Now, I want you to
stand to your feet,
00:56:04.09\00:56:05.10
if you want to claim to
that cross stand up with me,
00:56:05.13\00:56:06.79
won't you? Say, I'm on that,
00:56:06.82\00:56:08.78
I want to be on
Jesus team. Amen.
00:56:08.81\00:56:11.19
I want to be on
the winning team.
00:56:11.22\00:56:12.83
Everybody should
be standing friends.
00:56:12.86\00:56:14.29
Nobody wants to be
a loser, amen. Amen.
00:56:14.32\00:56:17.60
You want to be winners,
amen. You want to be winners
00:56:17.63\00:56:20.16
for Jesus, amen.
Friends you can win with Jesus.
00:56:20.19\00:56:22.69