You know, day by
day as we get up,
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get out of bed and
go out into the world we
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are facing a
very real adversary.
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There is a great
controversy going on.
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God is all powerful, but
we need to know our enemy.
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Stay tune today
because we are going to be
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talking about how
to overcome the foe.
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Hello, I am Shelley
Quinn and welcome again to
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"Issues and Answers".
I think this is a program
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you are going to
be glad you tuned into
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because we are
going to be taking about
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"Yours and My
Adversary", the Devil.
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You know the Bible
says that, "he masquerades
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as an angel of light",
but the Bible also says
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Verse Peter 5:8
that we need to be sober
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and vigilant because
it's says your adversary,
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the devil walks
around like a roaring lion,
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seeking whom he may
devour. One of the thing
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that I've noticed if
you ever watch National
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Geographic or any
program on nature and you see
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a lion that is approaching
the herd what they do
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is they try to separate
their prey from the herd,
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and then when they can
get them all alone that's
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when they attack. Let
me introduce you to a very
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special guest, Jim
Ayer who is a Vice-President
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with Adventist World
Radio, and Author, a Christian,
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and I think that's the
label you are most proud of.
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Absolutely! As a
Christian. Absolutely, Amen.
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And you are also a
programmer on 3ABN,
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Adventist World
Radio has a program called
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"Making Waves" great
testimonies from around
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the world and I know
you must have a lot of fun
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as you go out to all
these different countries,
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and speak to
exciting people. I do, I do.
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Jim, when you do go
out though, there is
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something that you
know in United States
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I think that most
parts of United States,
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I know there are
certain areas that maybe get
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into a little voodoo
or something but most
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parts of the United
States, we have been in some
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way sheltered from the
idea or resisted the idea
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that the devil is
real, and therefore,
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some people have
difficulty when they are reading
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the new testimony
about demonic possession.
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Yet, I think that we
are seeing a whole lot
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of activity going on
and we don't understand
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what it is with a
new age beliefs that have
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become so
pervasive in our society.
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What has your experience
been when you are going
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out where there
are people who actually
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worship demons? Has a
devil and demonic possession,
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has that proven
itself to be true to you?
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First of all I say yes
it's true and I hate even on
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some levels bring up this
topic today on this subject
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because many people
may take it wrong way,
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and first of all as we
talk about the devil and
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demons, I've read my
Bible from cover to cover
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and God is more powerful. Amen.
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So whoever tunes in it
any point, God is the winner,
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Amen, and God is more
powerful and he can handle
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the devil. The
question is for each one of us.
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Do we think we've got
power on our own to deal
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with the devil? And
the answer of that is no,
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we do not, and I remember
well, let me backup just
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for second in the book
of Mark if people doubt it,
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there is such a thing
as far as demon possession
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and things all they have
to do is read the book of
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Mark and start to
underlining how many
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times Jesus cast
out demons- but the good
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thing is Jesus cast
them out. We've always got
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to remember that
keep that paramount,
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Jesus cast all the
demons out every time.
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But here is the
situation, I went to this one
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country and I had
never seen such a thing
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and I was doing an
evangelistic series there
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and I've got a friend
who is, oh, he is about
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my height but he weighs
about 250 pounds all muscle.
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He is out there
baptizing a lady in the river,
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and all of a sudden,
I see him straining and
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I am thinking what's
going on? What is happening?
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And pretty soon this
little, she is about 90 pound
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lady dripping wet, she
comes up and she is all
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contorted, she has kind
of all these funny looks
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and all of a sudden
it's like God said Jim demon
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possession. And I
walked down to the river side
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as these two fellows
were pulling her out,
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pull my hands on her
and I said them the name of
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Jesus Christ come out
of her, I demand it come
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out of her, and in the
moment she starts wiping
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her eyes, she puts
back her hair and she looks
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around and she is
just fine. And I went home
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there at night with
friend who is a Pastor,
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and this particularly
is in India, and I said,
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oh that was a really
an interesting day and
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he said, well, Jim he
said, don't they teach you in
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your schools there,
how to cast out demons,
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and I said no this is
not something, you know,
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we do on a regular
basis. And he said oh,
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we talked more
about, they even give some
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classes on how to cast
out demons and that was
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my first, you know,
first touch was such a thing.
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See I think my
personal belief is that people
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who have been
into demonic worship,
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which many religions
are worship the demons
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and idols that these
people know the power
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of the devil, and
that's why we are seeing such,
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when they learn that
there is a greater power,
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a loving power, a
personal God who takes interest
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in the details of their
lives. This is why I think
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that we see so
many flock to the Lord,
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and we see such
great evangelistic results
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and out reach where
begins to just multiply
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exponentially is
because these people are,
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they accept the power
of the Holy Spirit because
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they've known
spirit power before it
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just wasn't a Holy
Spirit. Yes, that's right,
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and all you have to do
is read some Roger Morneau's
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books, yes. If you
remember Roger Morneau,
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unfortunately he
passed way now but he was in
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the demon worship and
he was into all of that
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power of demons and
they commune with demons.
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I was down in a
Madagascar. I talked
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with the lady who
had been a witch and
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she held open commune.
She talked just like you
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and I do, in
their house with demons.
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They were wide
open walking around the
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house on regular basis
and one day these demons
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said to her, we want
to give you more power.
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We want you to become
a witch for us. Well she
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said okay, and they told
her, go down to the river.
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She went down to the
river and this is the part
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now I've got the cameras
rolling and I kind a went,
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she said, I went down
the river where they told me
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to go underwater where
I stayed for day and half.
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I said for how long. A
day and a half and she said
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the demons fed me
underwater and took
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care of me while
I was underwater.
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Now if we don't think
that the devil has power
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and that we can handle
these kind of things on
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our own the power of
the one who was closes in
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command to God and
the universe were greatly
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mistaken, that's why
we've got at least and
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I feel compel to
share these things so the
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people realize the foe
we are fighting as I said,
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the roaring lion that
you talked about in the
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very beginning. And I do
want to add this caveat is
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that we don't want to
go from the extreme of not
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believing that the
devil has power to the extreme
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of thinking that
every problem we have is one
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of demon possession,
you know, absolutely,
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and I'll give you
perfect example of this.
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There are people who
think that anyone who has a
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mental illness that it
is demonically derived and
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many times I mean I am
not saying that a demon
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cannot make it appear
as a mental illness but
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there are chemical
imbalances and having
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a mental illness may
not be any different than
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having a sugar
diabetes which is a chemical
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imbalance with the pancreas etc.
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So we don't want to,
we are not trying today
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to actually glorify the
topic of demon possession
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because we're not
trying to get you off pace,
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what we want you to
recognize today is that,
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yes it's real, but there
is a greater power and this
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power is our Lord
Jesus Christ, the father,
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the spirit, the sun
who can help you overcome
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all problems, right.
That's right and let me
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contextualize for you
too. I have been to 53
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countries and many
of those countries many,
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many times, and an all
those times and all the
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situations I have been in
and all these really weird
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places, I have seen demon
possession and experienced
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it in various things
maybe 10 times. Okay.
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Ten times all those
years in all those countries,
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so it is unlike it's
around, and just what you were
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saying, it is
around every corner. Right.
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But the devil is out
there, the devil is real,
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and he wants to destroy
us. And if he is not trying
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to possess us for
certain he will oppresses,
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and we do see demon
oppression quite often.
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Yeah. He wants to trap
us up. See God is looking
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for a people that he
can hold up to the universe
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and say see they can
follow me. The devil said,
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it's impossible and
that God is a tyrant,
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and God's rules and
laws, no one can follow.
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And God is saying, hey, I
am looking for this people.
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Here is the people to
display the universe that
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wherever the lamb
goes they will follow.
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And it's a people who
have learnt that the way
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to follow is to relied
and depend totally upon
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Him for the power to
do what he asks us to do.
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That's right.
Okay. That's right.
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I've got to share
one more story with you.
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Great. I was again in
the Dominican Republic,
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down there doing of
evangelistic meetings
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and one night, a
lady came to me said,
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would you please visit
me. Sure I will. I went
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with me
translator. We got to the house
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and the house I mean
it's just you can see through
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the boards in the house
it's got a dirt floor and
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everything, but sweet
lady. And I said, well,
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what's your problem.
She said well, every night
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when I go to bed, she
said I close the door,
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there is a little
man who opens the door,
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runs up on the bed,
jumps up and tries to choke me.
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I am going okay. I said
what do you think this is?
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She says, I think
it's the demons, a devil.
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I said, yeah, I would
agree with you. I said
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let's pray to God about
this. I have never prayed.
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I said okay then
follow me. So we got down on
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the dirt floor, my
translator she was right
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across from me I was
right here, they closed their
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eyes I kept my eyes
wide open. I said, you just
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repeat after me. Lord
Jesus thank you so much
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for your love,
went round the circle.
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I said, Lord Jesus you
are a such a wonderful God,
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went round the
circle, then Lord Jesus I ask
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right now that you
would wash over me with your
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cleansing blood and
give me your power, is that
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God around her and
I knew what to expect
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because I've seen that
before she just gets out
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of her mouth she
slammed on the floor
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and she is reaching around,
grabbing up to her throat,
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and I see she is chocking,
and I grabbed hold of her
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and demanded the
demons to come out of her.
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And in a moment she
seems like she was okay.
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But she was still kind
of playing pain with her
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throat and I thought
this isn't quite right.
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I said, you are
right. Yeah, I am okay.
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She came that night to
the meeting. I said, you
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are right. She said, I
am okay. Next night you
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okay? Well, no, she
said, would you come again.
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Came again, the very
same thing repeated the
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identical thing
again. And I still thought,
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just does not
seem quite right here.
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But next night she
came to meet and everything
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was fine, next
night everything was fine.
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We are at the final
night I give a call for Baptism
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and then the Pastor
was Baptizing some people
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and she wanted to be
Baptized but she wasn't
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married to the man she
was with and it turns out
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I found out that man
was taking her to the witch
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doctor for healing,
had a witch doctor in the
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neighborhood and all
these other things were going on
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in her life and see
that's where the devil still
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got this entrance to
her life is, is through
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all these other
things. Amen. You can't dabble,
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you can't dabble with
the devil and follow God.
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And you know I am
glad you mentioned
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that because
that's where people who,
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and I know Christians,
I mean many different
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denominations, I know
Christians who will have
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their key leaves read
or go to a psychic or call
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a psychic hotline or and
they claim to be Christians
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and yet they read the
horoscope or they dabble
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with these things like
the Ouija board and think
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that it's all fun
because you know it's like they
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make light of it and
it's like, oh this is just
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entertainment, yet, you
are opening the door for
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the devil to come in
when you do these things.
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They watch this
program on the Sci-fi channels,
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that's having spirits
in the houses and following
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all these crazy
things. You know, it is coming
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up to the edge and
this daring the devil to do
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something in your
life. We can't do that.
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Okay, but now the
Lord said that when he sent
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his disciples out, he
said that he was going to
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give them power over
demons and if someone
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is watching right now
because since we broach
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this topic, what do
you suggest if maybe there
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is some young teen who
is saying, hey, you know,
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I've been playing
dungeons and dragons.
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I have been playing
with the Ouija board
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or I have done
certain things, you know,
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I am fascinated with witchcraft.
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What would you say
to someone like that?
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Where do they start in
a prayer to denounce these
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things? Well, if I
can, let me kind of finish
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that other story,
sure, that we were there and
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this lady came
forward at the Pastor's call,
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this lady came forward
and by this time now she
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pretty much said, okay,
I don't want anything to
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do with any these
other things. She put it out
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of her life. But
she was standing there.
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The Pastor had this
called, he was praying while
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he was praying she was
virtually lifted up and
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slammed straight
down on the floor.
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You knew from a
human's stand point
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that isn't really
possible the way it happened.
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But these people
down there, are used to
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these kind of
things because they worked
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in a different culture
and they see it, they pulled
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the curtain across
the stage, everybody was
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dismissed, the
end of the meeting,
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and this lady was
there shaking and slamming up
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and down violently
and we all grabbed her and
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she was looking
away and demanded demons
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to come out of her. But
she was looking away and
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all of a sudden I said,
in the name of Jesus look
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at me and she immediately
turned over and looked
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to me and I mean
surely it was like I was
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staring in the pitch of
hell. It just sent chills
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down me spine but I
demanded in the name
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of Jesus Christ
to come out of her.
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And in the next moment
she was whipping her face,
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she sat up, I said,
you okay and she said, yes.
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And I had to leave the
next day, but two weeks later
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I got a message from
the Pastor that said,
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the devil tried the
drown her in the baptismal
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tanks but Jesus got the
victory she was Baptized,
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she is free and she is
so happy in Jesus Christ.
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Glory to God. And
that's we've got to share
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with the young people
as God is more powerful.
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God is more powerful
and if you've been dabbling
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in these things
whatever it is, ask God,
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invite him and
right now this moment,
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he will give the
strength. In Mark,
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he sends the
disciples out and he says,
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I am giving you
power, go cast out demons,
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go heal the sick,
go raise the dead,
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do all these things.
And the disciples went out
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and they did all these
things and they came back
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they were just
rejoicing and said, why Lord the
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spirits were subject
to all of these things,
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everything you
said we can do. How did
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they do it? In the
power of God and in the Bible
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there at least in the
New Testimony, at least
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a couple types of power,
one the power is Dunamis,
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the Greek word
Dunamis where we get our word
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Dynamite, yeah,
exactly, Dynamite power of God.
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And then the other one
is Exousia, the authority.
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The authority, He is
the creator, God of the
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universe. Yes.
He's got the authority,
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so he gives them
the power of God and the
00:17:18.33\00:17:20.91
authority of God to go
out and cast out demons,
00:17:20.94\00:17:24.07
heal the sick, raise
the dead, and it happened
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exactly as God
said. And that's the power
00:17:26.98\00:17:29.84
we need to invite
into our lives. God says
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I want to dwell in
you. I want to come live in
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your life. And you
know I believe, I am so glad
00:17:34.78\00:17:38.47
we are talking about
these. At first it was
00:17:38.50\00:17:40.09
kind a like, oh this
is going to be interesting
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program. I believe
that the reason many of
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our youth and our
younger generation and,
00:17:48.52\00:17:51.12
the reason many people
are dabbling with the occult
00:17:51.15\00:17:55.25
with witchcraft, with
new age is that people are
00:17:55.28\00:18:00.26
looking for power.
People feel powerless,
00:18:00.29\00:18:02.50
particularly our
younger generations.
00:18:02.53\00:18:04.68
They have got so
much coming at them
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and they feel so powerless
and in many ways what the
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Church has had to show
them has been a powerless God.
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Yes, yes. And so if,
that's not what the Bible says,
00:18:15.78\00:18:20.06
but what's being
demonstrated to them
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is a powerless God or
perhaps they see parents
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who profess religion,
profess a relationship,
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and yet they don't
seem to have power to change
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so pretty soon people
are going, you know the
00:18:33.85\00:18:36.03
younger generation is
like, right on, so what do
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I want with God? I
need power, but if they
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understand that God
has that dynamite power
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and if they understand
He is willing to share
00:18:45.67\00:18:48.03
that dynamite power
with us to reside in us,
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to overcome sin,
to be an overcomer,
00:18:51.27\00:18:55.38
but also then to live
a victorious lifestyle
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if they knew God had the answer,
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God had the power I
think more would turn to him
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instead of new
age. Oh! Amen, and amen.
00:19:03.93\00:19:06.92
You know, we want to
give our young people problem
00:19:06.95\00:19:09.93
today, and God wants
to say, hey, come on to me
00:19:09.96\00:19:12.85
I am all transforming
with the tremendous life.
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I feel such a burden
as during this program
00:19:17.28\00:19:20.84
people watching out
there are so shackled by so
00:19:20.87\00:19:23.97
many things,
pornography on the internet.
00:19:24.00\00:19:26.51
That's dabbling with
the demons. Is pornography
00:19:26.54\00:19:30.01
on the internet,
with so many programs on
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Television with so
many things that we are
00:19:33.61\00:19:37.12
dealing with
today. We dabble with it.
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We temper with it,
and the devil can come in
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and mess our lives up
so badly when God's say hey
00:19:42.05\00:19:46.87
I want you to
have an Abundant Life.
00:19:46.90\00:19:49.02
I want you to have
my peace, my happiness,
00:19:49.05\00:19:51.43
my joy and he has got
that for us right now today.
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And you know that's
what the grace of God is
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all about. It's not
just the gift of eternal life
00:19:57.80\00:20:00.53
but the grace of God
is the supernatural power
00:20:00.56\00:20:04.01
of God unto salvation.
It's his divine assistance.
00:20:04.04\00:20:06.87
Amen. It's his
power working in us that
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we might overcome these things.
00:20:09.35\00:20:11.22
Some people think
well we are saved by grace,
00:20:11.25\00:20:13.28
it doesn't matter if I
am involved in pornography,
00:20:13.31\00:20:16.14
yes, it matters, God
hates sin. It's an abomination.
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Adultery is an
abomination to the Lord.
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Well, God will give you
the power to overcome this,
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alright, let's preach.
Amen, keep going. Amen.
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Well, let's go to, we
say okay what's the practical
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application? How do I
do this? How do I get from
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point A to point B
here? If everybody turns to
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Luke chapter 24, let's
look at some practical.
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Luke 24. And let's look
at let's see here Verse 13,
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okay "And, behold, two
of them went that same day
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to a village called
Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem
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about threescore furlongs."
What is the story about?
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Here is two fellows,
they had just watched the
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crucifixion. They had
watch their Lord being laid in
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the tomb, and they
are just downtrodden,
00:21:15.33\00:21:18.01
they are broken heart.
They are feeling terrible.
00:21:18.04\00:21:20.11
And so they've got
this, it's about a seven mile
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walk downhill and
that's the direction, their
00:21:22.87\00:21:25.42
hearts and their hearts
lives are going right now
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was downhill, a
terrible direction.
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And all of a sudden,
"a stranger" comes up
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beside them in this
story. He virtually blocks their
00:21:33.91\00:21:37.87
eyes and I could show
you so many wonderful stories
00:21:37.90\00:21:40.06
in the Mission Field
how God block's the eyes of
00:21:40.09\00:21:42.83
certain people to protect
from sins, but God blocked
00:21:42.86\00:21:46.02
their eyes and he
began sharing with them
00:21:46.05\00:21:48.46
everything in the
scriptures about himself,
00:21:48.49\00:21:50.92
about himself. So they
know there is a man there.
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They just don't know
it's Jesus. Yeah, yeah,
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and so they continue on,
Verse 16, "But their eyes
00:21:56.05\00:21:59.42
were hold that they
should not know him".
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That they should not
know him at that moment.
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Well, he continues on,
"and Jesus then begins all the
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law in the prophets
and he shares with them
00:22:09.23\00:22:12.08
who he really is and
about his power and all these
00:22:12.11\00:22:15.11
things, and they get
right up near the end of the day
00:22:15.14\00:22:19.10
and they were just
about to their house,
00:22:19.13\00:22:20.54
and let's see where,
oh! let's see, 24, 25 says,
00:22:20.57\00:22:29.80
and then Jesus says, "O
fools, and slow of heart".
00:22:29.83\00:22:31.96
Now that's an
interesting way for someone is
00:22:31.99\00:22:33.78
giving a Bible study. You
only fools, slow of heart,
00:22:33.81\00:22:37.06
you know, do not
believe all the prophets has
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spoken and he continues
on, and down at Verse 29,
00:22:39.96\00:22:44.86
Jesus is about ready to
continue on to walk right
00:22:44.89\00:22:47.56
on Pastor house and
Verse 29 says something very
00:22:47.59\00:22:50.89
interesting, they said
please come in and abide
00:22:50.92\00:22:53.72
with us, abide with
us. Jesus was going to walk
00:22:53.75\00:22:57.31
right on path if they
had not given an invitation
00:22:57.34\00:23:00.59
to come in and
have dinner with them.
00:23:00.62\00:23:03.40
Now they get into dinner
and Jesus sits down at the
00:23:03.43\00:23:06.38
meal and he raises up
his nail pierced hands
00:23:06.41\00:23:09.32
and he holds that
bread up and he blesses it,
00:23:09.35\00:23:11.57
and they recognizing
and puff, he is gone.
00:23:11.60\00:23:14.67
And all of a sudden
they said, it was our Lord,
00:23:14.70\00:23:17.37
it was our Lord. They
recognized the nail prints,
00:23:17.40\00:23:20.03
they recognized now. They
have had a good Bible study.
00:23:20.06\00:23:23.27
They followed him
throughout the Bible
00:23:23.30\00:23:25.39
and they realized and
then they are running back.
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They're gonna tell
everybody Jerusalem who this is?
00:23:27.91\00:23:30.34
They just had an encounter
with their God and they
00:23:30.37\00:23:32.98
said, did not our
hearts burn within us.
00:23:33.01\00:23:36.14
Why did their burns
within them because they pressed
00:23:36.17\00:23:39.91
upon Jesus to please
come in, come in with us,
00:23:39.94\00:23:42.87
abide with us and they
got so incredibly blessed
00:23:42.90\00:23:47.85
beyond imagination.
And he was opening up
00:23:47.88\00:23:51.94
the scriptures to them,
and they were sitting at
00:23:51.97\00:23:54.98
his feet to learn
which is something
00:23:55.01\00:23:56.61
I think it's very important.
Yes, yes, exactly, and
00:23:56.64\00:23:59.50
Shelley we've got all
these stuff going on in
00:23:59.53\00:24:02.26
the world, all these
things everything in this world
00:24:02.29\00:24:05.43
is so important too.
When in reality there is
00:24:05.46\00:24:07.76
only one important
thing, that's to have a
00:24:07.79\00:24:09.97
friendship and
relationship with Jesus because
00:24:10.00\00:24:12.44
he will give us an
incredible peace now. Amen.
00:24:12.47\00:24:15.71
Can I share a little
story? Yes. We have time to
00:24:15.74\00:24:18.99
share a little story
with you. A lady, a little
00:24:19.02\00:24:21.63
old lady, a grandma,
she loved to play monopoly
00:24:21.66\00:24:25.24
and her grandson got
old enough to began playing
00:24:25.27\00:24:27.42
monopoly. She said,
come on honey I want to teach
00:24:27.45\00:24:29.68
you how to play? Well,
he began loving the game.
00:24:29.71\00:24:32.17
You know, he count out
all the ones, fives, the tens
00:24:32.20\00:24:35.03
and the twenty's and
stick them on the board
00:24:35.06\00:24:36.82
and then what he real
loved is casting the dice
00:24:36.85\00:24:40.45
and going around go
and collecting $200.
00:24:40.48\00:24:43.75
Oh! This he loved, collecting
$200 but then he noticed
00:24:43.78\00:24:47.46
that grandma would buy
this property and he had
00:24:47.49\00:24:49.64
to pay rent and he
just didn't like that.
00:24:49.67\00:24:51.85
He didn't like to pay
rent. Oh! He hated it,
00:24:51.88\00:24:54.04
and pretty soon all
of his money is gone and
00:24:54.07\00:24:56.15
he storm up and he
said grandma I just knew
00:24:56.18\00:24:58.44
grandma. He gets so
excited. Grandma said,
00:24:58.47\00:25:01.21
honey, honey one
day you will understand.
00:25:01.24\00:25:03.59
Oh! Grandma go out of the house.
00:25:03.62\00:25:06.16
That summer a friend of
his showed up who really
00:25:06.19\00:25:09.67
knew how to play
monopoly. He said, I am going to
00:25:09.70\00:25:11.91
learn how to play
so I can beat grandma,
00:25:11.94\00:25:13.62
and he played all
summer long and at the end of
00:25:13.65\00:25:16.17
the summer he was
ready to play grandma again.
00:25:16.20\00:25:18.43
He went over knocked
on the door, grandma,
00:25:18.46\00:25:19.98
grandma let's play
monopoly. He got out
00:25:20.01\00:25:22.39
the board, now
there was no fun. Man he's
00:25:22.42\00:25:24.99
counting out all the
money and he starts rolling
00:25:25.02\00:25:27.20
the dice and you
know, what monopoly can do,
00:25:27.23\00:25:29.30
went back and forth,
back and forth and they have
00:25:29.33\00:25:32.48
been flowing stacks of
money in the hotels and
00:25:32.51\00:25:35.31
pretty soon he
was getting grandma,
00:25:35.34\00:25:36.81
he was getting the edge,
and he was getting closure
00:25:36.84\00:25:39.18
and closure and
pretty soon he got the last
00:25:39.21\00:25:40.99
of dollar. He grabs
that all up, said, I got you
00:25:41.02\00:25:43.46
grandma, I beat you,
I've got it all, I got all
00:25:43.49\00:25:45.79
houses, the railroads,
everything. Grandma says,
00:25:45.82\00:25:49.27
honey, honey,
what grandma? Honey one
00:25:49.30\00:25:52.64
day you will understand.
What do you mean grandma?
00:25:52.67\00:25:55.10
What do you mean?
Honey, when the game is over it
00:25:55.13\00:25:59.09
all goes back in the
box. For our listeners today,
00:25:59.12\00:26:04.60
our viewers
today, this world is but
00:26:04.63\00:26:07.90
a blip on the
screen of eternity.
00:26:08.49\00:26:10.98
Amen. God has
created us for eternity,
00:26:11.38\00:26:13.13
not for this short
time. The devils tried to trip
00:26:13.16\00:26:16.42
us up here. He
has tried to get us
00:26:16.45\00:26:18.15
to break communication
with God, but God has
00:26:18.18\00:26:20.97
come to restore it and he
wants to restore life to us
00:26:21.00\00:26:24.12
abundantly in a major way.
00:26:24.15\00:26:26.55
The devil does not have to win.
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God has the power and he can win
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in our lives if we
just simply put away the
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stuff and spend time
with God and invite God.
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And realize that at the
end of our lives all that's
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left is what they
put in their box, really.
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Yeah, yeah. It's all
that can be burned up.
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We are looking for eternity.
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God has created us for
fellowship with him forever.
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Jim you've given us a
lot to think about and
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I just want to thank
you again for being with us.
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We appreciate, my
pleasure, your visit to 3ABN.
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I want to sum this
up for those of you at
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home because we talked about the
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reality of our foe
that he is a powerful foe.
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He is an intelligent,
Satan is an intelligent
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creative being, but
the Bible says Verse John
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4:4, greater is he
who is within you that he
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who is in this
world, and then in
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Revelation 3:20, when
it's like when the man
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of the mass
invited Jesus to abide with
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him, he would not
have stayed if they
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had, here what the Jesus said in
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Revelation 3:20, he
says, "Behold, I stand
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at the door and
knock; if anyone hears my
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voice and opens the
door, I will come in to
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him and dine with
him, and he with me.
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To him who overcomes,
I will grant to sit with
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me on my throne, as
I also overcame and sat
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with My Father on His throne."
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Amen. Please I ask
you today, do yourself
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a big favor, the
greatest thing you will
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have to do. Ask
the Lord to abide with
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you. He is standing
at the door, ready to
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come in, he will be
there for eternity. Bye, bye.
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it with
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me on my throne, as
I also overcame and sat
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