Welcome to Faith
Chapel, my name is
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Sandy Smith. I am
the Founder and Speaking
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Director for Laymen
For a Finished Work.
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I'm also the Recreation Director
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for Atlantic
Union College in South
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Lancaster, Massachusetts.
Have you ever pondered
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while our life has
so many decisions and
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choices to make. Why
can't life be simple?
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Why do we have all
of these decisions to
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make? My sermon
today "Satan's Snares"
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may help you with
this dilemma. Let us pray.
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Father, we pray
that You might manifest
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Yourself here, this
day, in Jesus name, Amen.
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Satan cleverly has
caused people to think
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that he is a
fictitious character make
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believe, he loves
it when people picture
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him as a demon with
two horns and a pitchfork.
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He relished at the
fact that people think that
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he is make
believe. Satan knows that it
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will be easier to
deceive and defeat unaware,
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unsuspecting and
unguarded people if
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they think that he is a figment
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of their imagination.
Please turn with me in
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your Bibles to
Second Corinthians the 11
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chapter and we will
begin reading at verse 13,
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the Bible says, for
such are false apostles,
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deceitful workers, transforming
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themselves into
the apostles of Christ.
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And no marvel;
for Satan himself is
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transformed into
an angel of light.
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Therefore it is
no great thing if his
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ministers also be
transformed as the
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ministers of
righteousness whose end shall be
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according to their
works. The Bible tells us very
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clearly that Satan
himself is transformed
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into an angel of
light. Satan comes in many
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forms and disguises. He
is the master disguiser.
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People have
seen Satan in person.
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I can remember
listening to a well
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known Pastor telling
a story of some church
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going people who
were at a night club
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and knowing that
they were in the wrong
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place and they
became intoxicated
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with alcohol and as
they looked out in that
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nightclub and all
the people dancing to
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their horror they
saw demons in this
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nightclub that
scared them nearly to death
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and that was enough
to convinced them to
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stop that lifestyle and
to know that Satan is real.
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The Bible says
that not only will Satan
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transform himself
into an angel of light but
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those whom he
works through will also
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appear to be
good Christian men and
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women but in
disguise they are demons,
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human beings being used and
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manipulated by
himself. The Bible offers
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much proof that
Satan is real and alive on
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planet earth.
Please turn your Bibles
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to Job, the first
chapter and the Bible
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says, now there was
a day when the sons of
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God came to present
themselves before the
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Lord, and Satan
came also among them.
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And the Lord said unto
Satan, Whence comest thou?
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Then Satan
answered the Lord, and said,
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From going to and fro
in the earth, and from
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walking up and down
in it. And the Lord said
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unto Satan, Has thou
considered my servant
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job, that there is
none like him in the earth,
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a perfect and an
upright man, one that
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feareth God and escheweth evil?
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Then Satan
answered the Lord, and said,
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Doth Job fear God for nought?
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Then we turn again
in our Bibles to Isaiah
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the 14th chapter
beginning at verse 12
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and the Bible says very clearly,
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How art thou fallen from heaven,
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O Lucifer, son of the morning!
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How art thou cut
down to the ground,
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which did weaken the nations.
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For thou has
said in thine heart,
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I will ascend into
heaven, I will exalt
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my throne above
the stars of God:
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I will sit also
upon the mount of the
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congregation, in
the sides of the north,
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I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds;
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I will be like the most High.
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Yet thou shalt be
brought down to hell,
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to the sides of the
pit. They that see thee
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shall narrowly
look upon thee and
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consider thee
saying, Is this the man that
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made the earth
to tremble, that did
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shake kingdoms;
That made the world
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as a wilderness, and destroyed
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the cities
thereof; that opened not the
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house his
prisoners? And then we turn to
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Ezekiel the 28th
chapter and the Bible says,
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Moreover the word
of the Lord came unto
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me saying, Son of man, take up a
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lamentation upon the
King of Tyrus and say
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unto him, Thus
saith the Lord God;
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Thou sealest up the
sum, full of wisdom,
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and perfect in
beauty. Thou hast been in
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Eden the garden of
God; every precious stone
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was thy covering,
the sardius, topaz,
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and the diamond,
the beryl, the onyx,
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and the jasper, the
sapphire, the emerald,
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and the carbuncle,
and gold: the workmanship
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of tabrets and of
thy pipes was prepared in
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thee in the day
that thou was created.
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Thou art the
anointed cherub that covereth;
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and I have set thee
so, thou wast upon the
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holy mountain of God; thou hast
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walked up and down
in the midst of the
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stones of fire.
Thou wast perfect
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in thy ways from
the day that thou wast
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created, till
iniquity was found in thee.
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By the multitude of
thy merchandise they
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have filled the midst
of thee with violence,
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and thou hast
sinned: therefore I will cast
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thee as a profane out
of the mountain of God:
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and I will destroy
thee, O covering cherub,
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from the midst of
the stones of fire.
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Thine heart was lifted
up because of thy beauty,
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thou hast corrupted
thy wisdom by a reason,
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by a reason of thy
brightness, I will cast
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thee to the ground,
I will lay thee before
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Kings, that
they may behold thee.
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Thou hast defiled
thy sanctuaries by the
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multitude of
thine iniquities, by the
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iniquity of thy
traffic; therefore I will bring
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forth a fire from
the midst of thee,
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it shall devour
thee, and I will bring thee
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to ashes upon the
earth in the sight of
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them that behold
thee. All they that know
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thee among the people shall be
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astonished at thee.
Thou shalt be a terror,
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and never shalt
thou be any more.
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Satan is believed
to have been the first
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created being in the universe.
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He was created a happy, exalted,
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majestic,
intelligent being by God.
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He was the choir
director of the angelic host.
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He stood in the
very presence of God as
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the covering
cherub. He was there before
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the throne of
God. The angels adored
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and honored
Satan. He was their hero.
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Spiritual beings
don't live in time but they
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live in eternity which
has no beginning or ending.
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Time unfortunately is an
interruption of eternity.
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The time that we
have here on earth is an
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interruption of the
eternal time of God.
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And when this
life shall be ended and
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God shall make all
things new, time shall
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be no more, and we
will return to eternity.
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Satan's name which
means light-bearer,
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the shiny one, the
morning star tells the
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exalted about the
exalted being he was
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in the beginning.
Heaven is a place of
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endless peace, of happiness.
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Sin cannot dwell
there because the presence
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of God is there.
Sin cannot dwell where
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our Holy God
exists, and where he lives.
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A mystery occurred
in heaven, Lucifer for
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unknown reasons
became jealous of
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Jesus, and began to
spread lies concerning
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Jesus that He was
unfair, that He was a
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dictator, and as
reality Lucifer coveted
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Jesus position.
Please turn with me
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in your Bibles
to Ephesians the 6th
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chapter and we will
begin reading at verse 10,
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and the Bible says,
Finally, my brethren,
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be strong in the
Lord, and in the power of
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his might. Put on
the whole armor of God,
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that ye may be able
to stand against the
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wiles of the
devil. For we wrestle not
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against flesh and
blood, but against
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principalities,
against powers, against the
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rulers of the
darkness of this world, against
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spiritual
wickedness in high places.
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We must realize my
brother and sister that
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the devil is real,
the devil is all over this
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world with his
evil imps creating havoc
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and violence. Often
when I go to a funeral
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and I see the
widow and the family at
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church and it comes
time to row the coffin
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out of the church
and you see the wife
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draped over the casket
and you see her sobbing.
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This is when I
realized that God is
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not responsible for
the death of her husband
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or the death of our
loved ones but it's Satan,
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Satan is responsible
for all deaths because
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he is the originator of sin.
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Satan is responsible for
all wars and for violence.
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He's responsible for
racism and prejudice.
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He is respect, he
is responsible for
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shootings and murders.
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Satan is the originator of sin.
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Satan realizes that
his time to trick and
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deceive and to tempt
people is almost ended.
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Satan dreads his
future because he
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knows what's coming.
In fact, the Bible tells
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us what's coming
for Satan and his evil
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imps, and unfortunately
for all of human beings
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who have decided to
take and believe his
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lives and to follow
him. In Revelation the 20th
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chapter and
beginning at verse 7,
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And the Bible says, And when the
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thousand years are
expired, Satan shall
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be loose out of his prison,
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And shall go out
to deceive the nations
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which are in the
four corners of the earth,
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Gog and Magog, to
gather them together
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to battle, the
number of whom is as the
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sand of the sea.
And they went up on
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the breath of the
earth, and compassed
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the camp of the
saints about, and the
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beloved city. And
fire came down from
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God out of heaven
and devoured them.
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And the devil
that deceived them was
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cast into the lake
of fire and brimstone,
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where the beast and
the false prophet are,
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and shall be tormented day
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and night forever and ever.
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My friend, the Bible
tells us that the devil
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has a day coming.
When God is going to
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give the devil
the devil, even though
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right now it appears
that Satan is winning
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in this war of good
and evil, his time and
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his number is,
his days are numbered.
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Satan knows that
his time is very short.
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God is going to
repay him for all of the
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havoc and the evil
and the sinned that he has
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caused in this world.
You need to understand
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that Satan walks
around with his imps,
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24x7 tempting
people to sin and so when
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unaware human
begins sin even though
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they're responsible
for sinning because we
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have to make a
choice but Satan is going to
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have to be punished
for these sins that he
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has tempted
people to commit, and so
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Satan's day is
coming where the Bible says
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that he along with
his imps and those who
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have chosen to
follow him are going to be
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burnt up in the lake of fire.
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Satan has an organized, detailed
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and strategic plan
to defeat God and to
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cause 6 billion
people on this earth to miss
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out on eternal
life. Just think about it.
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Satan has been
in heaven with God,
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he knows what is
there, he knows the
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beauty that
exists in heaven, he once
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experienced the
peace and the tranquility
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and it is his
greatest desire to make sure
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that you and I
don't get a chance to
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experience what heaven is like.
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And most important
he does not want you
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to exist in the
presence of a holy and loving
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and kind and merciful
God. One who is love and
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so he is working
overtime to make sure
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that you do not get a chance
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to experience heaven.
And so his strategy is
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to cut off people from
communicating with God.
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He wants them to stop
trying, stop studying,
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stop witnessing.
He wants to keep you
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so busy and that is
busy even doing good
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things that you will
not have quality time
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to spend with God.
You see the devil is a
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shrewd individual.
He doesn't care if you
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accept one
percent error because he
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knows you're
gonna be lost anyway.
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He know that it is a
100 percent truth that
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you must accept, and
so God expects all or
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none, the devil
says you give me just a
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little bit of you I
will accept you, and so he
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tries his best to put
the bait out there for
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us to accept it, so
that if we bite on it,
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he knows that
we're gonna to be lost.
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And so Satan again
keeps us busy doing
00:16:13.64\00:16:17.16
good things to take
up our time, to keep us
00:16:17.17\00:16:21.67
away from the things
that are most important
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and most
eternal. He keeps us busy
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with television and
there is not a sin in
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watching television,
but it can lead to a sin.
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It can distract
you, take away your
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valuable time that
you could spend doing
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worthwhile things.
He has ESPN, whereby
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you can just watch
sports all day, not that
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there is
anything wrong with ESPN,
00:16:49.62\00:16:51.44
but it becomes as a
trap or a snare to you
00:16:52.21\00:16:56.55
when you spend all
of his quality time
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watching sports all
day. Then he brings in the
00:16:59.41\00:17:02.35
satellite where you
can sit all day just
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watch the satellites Direct TV.
00:17:05.67\00:17:07.60
Some having over 900
televisions stations.
00:17:08.23\00:17:11.15
All programs, some
of the programs are just
00:17:11.72\00:17:14.93
comedies or
westerns or cowboys, some of
00:17:16.04\00:17:19.96
the sports, some
are jazz, anything that
00:17:19.97\00:17:22.43
just take up your
time. He has the computer,
00:17:22.44\00:17:26.05
the Internet where
you can stay on the
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Internet for
countless hours watching and
00:17:27.67\00:17:31.68
working on the
Internet, then you have video
00:17:32.01\00:17:34.62
games which can take
up a lot of your time.
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Cell phones, he
has your beepers then
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you have your
hobbies, then we can get
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caught up with our
jobs, we can fall in
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love with our
jobs even more so then
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God where we would
become workaholics.
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We will work
around the clock and spend
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all of our time,
most of our times on our
00:17:54.07\00:17:56.29
jobs rather than spending time,
00:17:56.30\00:17:58.59
valuable time with
our families and with
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our family love
ones. He helps us to spend
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much of our times
unfortunately in the
00:18:04.78\00:18:06.47
malls just
shopping and browsing.
00:18:06.48\00:18:09.08
Decorating our
homes which is nothing
00:18:09.94\00:18:11.48
wrong with
decorating homes but yet it
00:18:11.49\00:18:14.06
becomes a snare to
us when we spend a lot
00:18:14.07\00:18:17.65
of time decorating
our homes and again,
00:18:17.66\00:18:20.18
no quality time or
very little for God,
00:18:20.68\00:18:22.73
and then even with
retirement he helps us
00:18:23.71\00:18:25.94
and encourages us
and influences us to
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just spend all of
our time figuring out our
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retirement and how
much we're going to
00:18:31.29\00:18:33.38
receive each
month and where we're
00:18:33.39\00:18:34.65
going to visit and
where we're going to
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live, anything to
distract this and then the
00:18:36.20\00:18:40.62
accumulation of
stuff, just stuff we begin to
00:18:40.63\00:18:44.31
hover stuff, stuff
that we would never use
00:18:44.32\00:18:46.76
and keeping up with the Jones.
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Well, the Jones
just bought a new car so
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I think it's time
for me to buy a new car
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or a new home or new
clothes anything that
00:18:55.67\00:18:59.05
he can do to distract
us. Satan confuses people
00:18:59.06\00:19:04.57
by speaking
through, some TV evangelist
00:19:05.91\00:19:10.28
to teach that the love
of God has been abolished.
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Now, I would like ask you today,
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from Mount Sinai, God along with
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thousands and ten thousands of
00:19:21.92\00:19:23.68
thousands of angels
wrote the Ten Commandments.
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He spoke the Ten
commandments with
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fire and lightening and thunder,
00:19:29.19\00:19:31.11
giving all ten
of the commandments,
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then it seems
logical to me if God had
00:19:34.59\00:19:38.19
changed the Ten Commandments and
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especially the
fourth commandment
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which says,
remember the Sabbath day to
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keep it Holy. Six
days halt thou labor,
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and do all thy work;
but the seventh day is
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the Sabbath of the Lord thy God:
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in it thou shalt
not do any work, then
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it seems to me that
if He went through all
00:19:53.44\00:19:55.96
of trouble if you
might use that word to
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pronounce and to
give the Ten Commandments
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surely He would have
to at least match that
00:20:02.97\00:20:05.23
to say that He
changed it, and if God
00:20:06.52\00:20:09.39
did change the
fourth commandment or any
00:20:09.40\00:20:12.02
of the
commandment for that matter,
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would He not
have given it to the
00:20:14.50\00:20:16.21
disciples when He
left and they would have
00:20:16.37\00:20:18.71
been able to tell us
in scripture that He had
00:20:18.72\00:20:21.89
changed His law,
that He has changed the
00:20:21.90\00:20:24.54
fourth commandment
from the seventh to
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the fourth but no
where in scripture do
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we find that the
disciples ever taught
00:20:30.42\00:20:33.20
or promoted the change of the
00:20:34.02\00:20:35.67
Sabbath, and so
Satan convinces people to
00:20:35.68\00:20:40.24
put their full trust in men.
00:20:40.25\00:20:44.25
The Bible says,
put not your trust in
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princes, nor in the
son of man, in which
00:20:48.26\00:20:50.90
there is no help.
He wants you to trust
00:20:50.91\00:20:54.90
men and women, counselors.
00:20:56.68\00:20:58.80
It's fine to go to counselors
00:20:59.58\00:21:01.23
and men and women
of expertise and their
00:21:01.24\00:21:03.55
feels for counsel
but you never put their
00:21:03.56\00:21:07.31
word over the word of
God. Even ministers as
00:21:07.32\00:21:10.76
sincere we are, you
never put minister's
00:21:10.77\00:21:14.76
words over the word of God.
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Your stranded in
your belief, it has to be
00:21:18.14\00:21:20.22
founded from the word of God.
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For if I'm going to
be judged by the word of
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God would I receive
eternal life or eternal
00:21:25.26\00:21:28.55
damnation.
Certainly, I don't want to come
00:21:28.56\00:21:31.53
up in the end and come up short
00:21:31.54\00:21:33.55
because I have taken
the word of my Pastor
00:21:33.56\00:21:35.79
or my Rabbi or my
priest. I want to be able to
00:21:36.10\00:21:39.60
stand before God and
say Lord, it was your
00:21:39.61\00:21:42.93
word that I obeyed,
It was your word that
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I tried to carry
out, and If I'm lost which
00:21:45.33\00:21:49.61
I won't be if I
follow the word of God then
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I am going to be lost
or save on the word of
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God, not on the opinion and the
00:21:54.46\00:21:56.81
expertise of men and women.
00:21:56.82\00:21:59.01
Satan works
overtime to harden peoples
00:22:00.60\00:22:03.98
compassion towards the poor,
00:22:03.99\00:22:06.03
and the
downtrodden, and foreigners and
00:22:06.48\00:22:08.73
immigrants and
the homeless and the
00:22:08.74\00:22:10.35
widows and the
orphans. I mean we see so
00:22:10.36\00:22:14.43
much on television
with the homeless and
00:22:14.44\00:22:17.04
the tornadoes, and Katrina that
00:22:17.05\00:22:19.94
sometimes it's easy
for us to harden our
00:22:19.97\00:22:22.46
hearts and not
to have compassion.
00:22:22.47\00:22:25.20
Satan blames all of the natural
00:22:26.02\00:22:28.80
catastrophes and
disasters on God.
00:22:28.81\00:22:32.28
He calls them an act of God.
00:22:32.29\00:22:34.59
The earthquakes
and mud slides and
00:22:35.37\00:22:38.00
volcanoes and hurricanes and
00:22:38.01\00:22:40.44
tsunamis,
droughts and forest-fires,
00:22:40.45\00:22:44.16
floodings and wreaked
heat and cold and snow
00:22:44.81\00:22:47.26
and hail and rain.
He says that these are
00:22:47.61\00:22:51.76
the result of
God. Now we know that
00:22:51.77\00:22:54.56
God is a God of
love. God does not destroy,
00:22:54.57\00:22:58.32
He creates, He
preserves. Satan is responsible
00:22:58.33\00:23:02.58
for all misery and pain and
00:23:03.08\00:23:04.97
suffering in this
world. Satan is responsible
00:23:04.98\00:23:07.84
for the
post-office killings and the
00:23:07.85\00:23:09.61
school killings by
our children and family
00:23:09.62\00:23:12.15
homicides and child
abuse and infant kidnapping.
00:23:12.16\00:23:15.57
He is responsible for
all terrorism and aids
00:23:16.14\00:23:18.76
and all pain and
suffering and all
00:23:18.77\00:23:20.86
deaths, not God.
Satan is garnering
00:23:20.87\00:23:23.98
millions of
people into his net of
00:23:23.99\00:23:26.40
destruction
through licentiousness and
00:23:26.41\00:23:28.96
lasciviousness
and gluttony and the
00:23:28.97\00:23:31.29
obsession of
pleasure, the love of pleasure.
00:23:31.30\00:23:34.46
Satan plays with
people like a tom cat
00:23:35.51\00:23:39.19
does a field mouse,
out in an open field.
00:23:39.20\00:23:41.94
Please turn me with
me in your Bibles to
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Second Timothy
the 2nd chapter and we
00:23:45.05\00:23:48.70
want to read verse
26, and the Bible says,
00:23:48.71\00:23:52.96
And that they may
recover themselves
00:23:54.08\00:23:56.35
out of the snare of
the devil, who are taken
00:23:56.61\00:24:00.00
captive by him at his will.
00:24:00.01\00:24:02.86
People make resolutions
every first of the year.
00:24:04.20\00:24:08.21
I am going to stop
smoking and drinking
00:24:08.22\00:24:10.38
and I am going to
exercise and I am not
00:24:10.39\00:24:12.02
going to eat this or
that. My friends your
00:24:12.03\00:24:14.55
promises are like ropes of sand.
00:24:14.56\00:24:16.54
Satan laughs at
you and I because he
00:24:17.19\00:24:18.90
knows you have no power
to resist his temptations.
00:24:18.91\00:24:21.92
The only power
you have is from Jesus
00:24:22.45\00:24:24.71
Christ and so when we make these
00:24:24.72\00:24:26.65
resolutions, he knows
that you can't keep them.
00:24:26.66\00:24:28.88
In the Job the
13th chapter and reading
00:24:30.06\00:24:33.79
verse 15, the Bible
says, Though He slay
00:24:33.80\00:24:39.26
me, yet will I
trust in him: but I will
00:24:39.27\00:24:42.20
maintain mine
own ways before him.
00:24:42.21\00:24:45.60
Job says that
even though he's going
00:24:46.48\00:24:49.19
though things that he
doesn't quite understand.
00:24:49.20\00:24:51.32
He is going to trust
God no matter what comes.
00:24:51.33\00:24:53.85
And then in the
Bible Matthew the 27th
00:24:54.63\00:24:57.31
chapter and we
want to begin reading at
00:24:57.32\00:24:59.85
verse 1, the
Bible says, and when the
00:24:59.86\00:25:03.85
morning was come,
all the chief priests
00:25:03.86\00:25:07.62
and elders of the
people took counsel
00:25:07.63\00:25:10.03
against Jesus to
put him to death:
00:25:10.36\00:25:12.61
And when they had
bound him, they led
00:25:13.34\00:25:15.53
him away, and delivered him to
00:25:15.54\00:25:18.78
Pontius Pilate the governor.
00:25:18.79\00:25:20.11
Then Judas,
which had betrayed him,
00:25:21.12\00:25:23.23
when he saw that
he was condemned,
00:25:23.52\00:25:25.21
repented himself,
and brought again the
00:25:25.64\00:25:28.07
thirty pieces of
silver to the chief priests
00:25:28.08\00:25:31.71
and elders,
saying, I have sinned and
00:25:31.72\00:25:34.61
I have betrayed
the innocent blood.
00:25:34.62\00:25:36.73
And they said,
What is that to us?
00:25:37.08\00:25:39.64
See thou to that.
And he cast down the
00:25:40.28\00:25:43.07
pieces of silver in
the temple and departed,
00:25:43.08\00:25:46.03
and went out and hanged himself.
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My friend all of us
are going to be tempted
00:25:49.86\00:25:52.44
but it's only those
who hold in there and
00:25:53.53\00:25:56.80
hang in and who will be saved.
00:25:56.81\00:25:58.17
Job was going
through a difficult
00:25:58.82\00:26:00.09
time but he went and
repented and he was saved.
00:26:00.10\00:26:04.95
Judas on the other
hand did not repent
00:26:05.45\00:26:07.56
and it is
believed he will be lost.
00:26:07.86\00:26:09.72
And our final text
is found in Ephesians
00:26:10.39\00:26:12.59
the 6th chapter
verse 13, and the Bible
00:26:12.60\00:26:17.36
says, Wherefore
take unto you the whole
00:26:17.37\00:26:20.11
armor of God,
that ye may be able to
00:26:20.12\00:26:22.21
withstand an evil day,
and having done all to stand.
00:26:22.22\00:26:25.87
Stand therefore
having your loins
00:26:26.51\00:26:28.43
girded about,
girded about with truth,
00:26:28.44\00:26:30.90
and having on the breastplate
00:26:31.47\00:26:32.80
of righteousness;
And your feet shod
00:26:32.81\00:26:34.96
with the preparation
of the gospel of peace;
00:26:34.97\00:26:36.80
And above all,
taking the shield of faith,
00:26:37.31\00:26:39.24
wherefore ye shall be
able to quench all the
00:26:40.80\00:26:42.84
fiery darts of the
wicked. And take the helmet
00:26:42.85\00:26:45.65
of salvation, and
the sword of the Spirit,
00:26:45.66\00:26:48.08
which is the word of
God: Praying always with
00:26:48.43\00:26:52.37
all prayer and
supplication in the Spirit,
00:26:52.38\00:26:55.23
and watching thereunto with all
00:26:55.60\00:26:57.47
perseverance and supplication
00:26:57.48\00:26:59.55
for all the
saints. And so we close out
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this broadcast today my brother,
00:27:03.35\00:27:05.10
my sister saying,
trust God, no matter what
00:27:05.11\00:27:08.73
comes, no matter
how dismal the situation
00:27:08.74\00:27:11.70
may seem. God loves you.
00:27:11.71\00:27:13.11
He hasn't forgotten
you, He is very aware
00:27:13.47\00:27:15.58
of what's going
on in your situation,
00:27:15.59\00:27:17.24
and your life.
Before God will let you be
00:27:17.25\00:27:20.02
overcome by the
devil or his temptations
00:27:20.03\00:27:22.22
or his snares. He
will send and empty all
00:27:22.23\00:27:25.00
of heaven, of all of
the angels to come to
00:27:25.01\00:27:27.24
your rescue and if
that didn't work He would
00:27:27.25\00:27:30.63
come Himself to
make sure that you
00:27:30.64\00:27:32.70
would not be overcome
by the wily foe Satan.
00:27:32.71\00:27:35.42
The Bible says
that we are the apple of
00:27:36.62\00:27:38.29
God's eyes
which means that God's
00:27:38.30\00:27:40.83
people occupy
symbolic, symbolically a place
00:27:41.21\00:27:45.01
in His eye, his
pupils. The devil would have
00:27:45.02\00:27:48.08
to rip his eyes out in order to
00:27:48.09\00:27:50.37
cause you to fall,
so trust God no matter
00:27:51.13\00:27:53.02
what my dear
saints. God loves you.
00:27:53.03\00:27:55.26