The hour is urgent as darkness
is dispelled by the light of
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God's Word, a new day begins.
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Jesus, the light of
the world is shining.
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Prepare your hearts to
proclaim the final cry.
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This is 3ABN
Summer Camp Meeting.
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Praise the Lord,
everyone, and welcome again.
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I'm Pastor Ryan Johnson, and
it is my privilege to introduce
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our final speaker of the day.
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Our speaker for the hour is
Dr. Pavel Goya, and he is one of
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the finest
storytellers that there is.
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He is the editor of Ministry
Magazine and currently serves
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as Associate Director for
Ministerial at the General
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Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists.
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Amen.
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He served as a pastor, however,
in Romania for six years, and
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for 16 years he served as
a pastor here in the United
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States.
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reminder of our vital need
for prayer, revival, and full
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commitment, then you might want
to check out the book, In the
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Spirit and Power, which
Dr. Goya co-authored with Kelly
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Maurer.
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God has a blessing
for us this evening.
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So, after a message in song
by none other than Pastor John
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Lomakang, we will be
ministered to by Dr. Pavel Goya.
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Hear ye him.
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God be with you.
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And it slows from deep within.
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There is a fountain And it
frees the soul from sin Unto
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this water For there is a vast
supply Yes, there is a river
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There was a thirsty woman
who was drawing from her well.
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Her life was bruised and
broken, and her soul was bound
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for hell.
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Oh, but then she met the
master, and he told her of her
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sin.
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He said, Child, if you drink
this living water, you'll never
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thirst again.
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Oh, there is a river, and
it flows from deep within.
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Oh, there is a living fountain,
and he frees our soul from sin.
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Oh, to this water, in
him there's a vast supply.
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Yes, there is a
river that never shall row.
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There is that river
that never shall row.
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Good evening.
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Wonderful music.
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I wish I had that voice.
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It's a privilege to be with
you, the wonderful family here.
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I love 3ABN.
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I love my wife more.
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Before we start, let's bow
our heads again for a word of
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prayer.
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Father in heaven, what a
privilege to come in your
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presence.
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Father, please open the world
and work with your spirit, that
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we may be
transformed in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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It is a series with a few
parts, about eight sermons, and
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I'm going to try to do all
eight tonight, if that's okay.
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Okay, so we know
that Jesus is coming soon.
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You believe that?
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You do believe that?
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Because we have been
saying that for so many years.
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My grandfather died 103, and
he became Adventist when he was
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about 20, and he would
tell me Jesus is coming.
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And then my father died, and he
was telling me Jesus is coming.
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But right now, I actually
believe with my whole heart, in
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a very strong way, that
Jesus is actually coming.
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You don't need to know too much.
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You look around, and you know.
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Plus, the prophecies that
we have been talking about are
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being fulfilled right now.
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We will see him on the clouds.
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And because Jesus is coming,
there are so many things that
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we need to be ready.
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We need to
prepare with, you know.
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We need to finish
the work, don't we?
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We need to be prepared for the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
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Am I right?
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It's not only proclamation
of the Gospel, but it's also
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personal preparation too.
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We are responsible
for our families too.
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Am I right?
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Not to mention the final
crisis, that according to the
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Bible is going to be a
crisis like no one before.
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We have seen crises, but none
of them can equal the last one.
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It's going to be so great that
people will lose their minds.
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How do you prepare for it?
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I'm going to give
you a story as we start.
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It's not a very clean story.
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But, so we do know that we
don't wrestle against flesh and
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blood.
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Ephesians chapter?
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You have an A.
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Good job.
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Excellent.
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Ephesians chapter 6.
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Thank you.
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blood.
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And so, many years ago, I was
in a district somewhere in the
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North.
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And in that specific church,
they did not have a lot of
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evangelies for
many, many, many years.
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And they told me,
it's kind of difficult.
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That's what everybody says.
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There are too many Lutherans.
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And if you go in South,
there are too many Baptists.
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And if you go in California,
there are too many secularists.
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And if you go in
everywhere, there is something.
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You know why
evangelism doesn't work?
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Because you don't do it.
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It's never going to
work if you don't do it.
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Do it and it works.
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Very simple.
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You know gardening doesn't work.
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Go in the garden and plant
it and water it and it works.
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Anyway, going back.
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So, they kindly told
me, it doesn't really work.
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I said, well,
then we need to do it.
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And so, we
prayed and we prepared.
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And I told them that evangelism
is not only what people call
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evangelism.
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The 30 days or
whatever, 20 days or whatever.
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Evangelism is like gardening.
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You cannot pick up tomatoes.
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And by the way,
I love my tomatoes.
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I am a little like this
because I talked to my tomatoes.
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Do you ever talk to your plants?
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If you do, you are like me.
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I love gardening.
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In fact, God could have given
Adam and Eve a lot of gifts.
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He gave them a garden.
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Going back.
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So, evangelism
is like gardening.
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You cannot pick up tomatoes if
you didn't prepare the ground,
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if you didn't plant, if
you didn't water, if you didn't
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weed.
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It just doesn't happen.
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You need to prepare the
ground before you do evangelism.
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Bottom line.
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crop.
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You follow me?
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And so, I told them
we need to do good work.
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We need to prepare
and so on and so forth.
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So we had everything.
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Preparation and we had prayer
and community activities and
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you name it.
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And Bible studies.
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We had everything.
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And then we had evangelism.
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And by God's grace, we
baptized a lot of people.
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A lot of Lutherans, by the way.
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But something happened.
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Friday night.
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Not Thursday.
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Not Monday.
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Friday night.
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Half an hour or one
hour or somewhere there.
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Before evangelism started,
my septic came in the basement.
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And in the basement, it
was a finished basement.
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I had my office with all my
books and computers and taxes
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and pictures and
sermons and everything.
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My office was, the
water was like this.
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And there was, I don't
want to describe too much.
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That's the reason I
said it's not a clean story.
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There was stuff floating.
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If you have rich imagination,
you know what I'm talking
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about.
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Oh, I got so frustrated.
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I lost everything.
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I got so angry
and so frustrated.
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And what can I do?
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And I'm running to the basement
and I'm trying to get in the...
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And I didn't
have a boat, you know.
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And so I'm desperate.
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And my wife comes
and gives me a hug.
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And she knew if she would
argue with me, that was not the
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moment.
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No, no, no, leave me alone.
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I need to solve the problem.
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She says, I'm not
going to let you go.
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And she keeps me.
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And she says, are you calm?
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I am calm.
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She says, well,
then I keep holding you.
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I say, okay, I'm calm.
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She says, honey, Jesus is
coming and the house and the
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office is going to burn.
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Go to evangelism.
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Forget it.
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Go to evangelism.
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Let God deal with it.
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I went to evangelism, came back.
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Saturday, evangelism came back.
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Sunday, I called
the Roto -Rooter.
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They came through the pipes and
they said, everything is okay.
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We don't know the reason.
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So Monday, I call
somebody from a bigger city.
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They came with a camera.
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They put the
camera through the pipes.
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They said, hey,
there is no problem.
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We don't know the reason.
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So then next day, I call people
with a big machines, bulldozer,
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excavator, and they dug a
big hole, ruined my front yard,
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grass.
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Everything was gone.
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They dug a hole to see
the septic and the pipes.
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They said, hey,
there is no problem.
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We don't know.
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After I finished evangelism,
30 days, the stuff went away.
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I didn't really
think about it much.
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I was upset.
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But hey, okay, it happens.
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Next year, we
did evangelism again.
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Friday night, one hour
before we started, guess what
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happened?
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By now, you know what?
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The basement came, the septic
came again in the basement.
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Friday night, not Monday
or Tuesday, not a week before.
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And my wife says, honey,
this is Satan trying to destruct
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you.
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And she says,
don't let that happen.
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Third year, we did evangelism
and I had a pastor from Canada.
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Good pastor.
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He came Friday night,
one hour before we started.
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Third year, the
septic came in the basement.
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And the pastor says, did you
consider anointing the house?
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I said, are you kidding me?
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We anoint people.
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We don't anoint homes.
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He says, you know
what it means to anoint?
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It means to set aside, to
invite God's presence, to give
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it to the Lord.
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They dedicated to
anoint, to dedicate.
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They dedicated the temple.
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Shouldn't you dedicate
all you have to the Lord?
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Your house, your family,
your car, yourself, everything.
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He says, why don't
we do that right now?
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Friday night, one hour before,
we kneel down and we say, Lord,
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we give you the house.
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From now on, it's
going to be your house.
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If you don't mind, we are going
to sleep in it and eat in it.
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But we are going
to use it for you.
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Invite people over for prayer.
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Invite people over for meetings.
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Invite people
over for Bible studies.
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We are going to use it
as much as we can for you.
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We give it to you.
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Please come and
live in the house.
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It's yours.
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We need you in this house
because we signed the title to
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you.
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It's yours.
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In the moment we prayed, the
stuff from the basement started
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to go speed and never came back.
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We don't fight
against flesh and blood.
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This is spiritual war.
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If God opened our eyes...
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By the way, the spirit
of prophecy says, over every
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man...
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Women, you can relax.
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Over every man, evil, good, and
evil angels continually strive
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for control, for influence.
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If God opened our eyes, this
moment, over everyone, there
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will be good angels and
evil angels trying to influence
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every decision, every thought,
every word, every action,
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everything,
trying to influence us.
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Satan wants us to be ignorant
of that war so we don't take it
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seriously, so we
have no chance to win.
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God wants us to be
aware of the spiritual battle.
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This is the great controversy.
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We have no hope in our power.
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And so the spirit of prophecy
says that Satan knows that he
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has very little time left
over and he uses every single
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method, power, angels,
everything he has to get us.
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How do you prepare?
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Moreover, for the crisis
that is just ahead of us.
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How do you prepare?
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And if you think about that...
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I don't need to read the
Bible verse because you know it.
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We don't rest against
flesh and blood, but against
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principalities,
powers, who knows, continue.
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Rulers of darkness, against
spiritual hosts in the heavenly
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places.
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And now listen carefully.
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How do you fight?
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Therefore, for this reason,
that means therefore, take up
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the whole...
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What?
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The armor of God!
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We talk about war when you say
armor, and you say the sword,
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and you say the spear, and
you say that you remember the
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shield, the helmet.
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You talk about war, don't you?
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Take the whole arm.
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How much of it?
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How much?
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You can miss the helmet.
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You don't need it, do you?
00:18:05.71\00:18:06.85
You don't need
the shoes, do you?
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You do?
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You remember the
legend of Achilles.
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You remember?
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It's a legend.
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Never happened, but anyway.
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The legend says that if
a newborn baby at birth was
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immersed in Styx River, not
later, only at birth, an adult
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would do that, they would die.
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But a newborn baby that had
no fault whatsoever, if it was
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immersed in Styx River, as much
of the body that was immersed
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would be invincible.
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So when Achilles was born, his
mom took him from the foot, and
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she immersed him in
Styx River and got him out.
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But she immersed the whole body
except the foot because she was
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an adult, and she didn't want
to get her hand in the river
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because she would die.
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And so he was invincible.
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So the legend says that in
every war, nobody could kill
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him, and everybody
learned he cannot be killed.
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Arrows would fly left and
right, they would never hit
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him.
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and hit him in the foot because
his foot was not immersed in
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the river, and he bled to death.
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He died.
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What's the lesson?
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Whatever in your body is not
immersed, covered by the armor
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of God, that's where
Satan is going to attack you.
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That's where you are vulnerable.
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And Satan knows
where you are not covered.
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And so let's go there
and talk a little about it.
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It says there in last day
events, page 11, something
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great and decisive
is about to take place.
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The world is on the
verge of a great crisis.
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There will be a trouble
like never before in history.
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How do you prepare for it?
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How do you prepare?
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Well, listen carefully
to Ephesians chapter 6.
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Brethren, be strong in the Lord.
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Be strong in the Lord and
in the power of his might.
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Listen to this paragraph.
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As Christ in his humanity
sought strength from the Lord,
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from the Father, that he
may endure the temptations, so
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should we.
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Daily, not when you
get baptized, but daily.
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Daily we need help and grace
and power from the source of
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all power.
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The difference between the
five wise and the five foolish
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virgins is not that some
of them didn't get baptized.
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They all did.
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It's not that some
of them didn't have oil.
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They all did in the beginning.
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It's that five of them
didn't go daily to fill their
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container again.
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So the container started to get
lower and lower slowly, almost
00:21:06.26\00:21:09.96
you will not
even notice, slowly.
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And they kept going to church
and singing Kumbaya and eating
00:21:11.97\00:21:15.20
broccoli and they
did everything perfect.
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They did not work on Sabbath.
00:21:17.74\00:21:20.28
They did not eat meat.
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They did eat meat sometime
when they would eat one another.
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But, you know, but human
meat, not beef or chicken, don't
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worry.
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They did go to church, but they
failed to fill the container
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with a fresh measure,
fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit
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daily.
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Do you get daily baptized?
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And so this is
what she says here.
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Daily we need help and grace
and power from above if you
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want to make it.
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The single desire
of ages, page 324.
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The single, the single,
the only defense against Satan,
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there is no other defense, is
the indwelling of Christ in the
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heart.
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with God, we will never resist.
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There is, she says in
a different paragraph, in
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continual communion,
continually, there is no second
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that you should disconnect.
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You disconnect for a
second, Satan would attack you.
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Continually, that's the reason
he says pray without ceasing.
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That doesn't mean that you stay
home on your knees and never go
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to work and never eat.
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It means that whatever
you do, you never separate.
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As Jesus says in John chapter
15, I am the vine, you are the
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branches.
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And by the way, how do
you know that you are in me?
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Because you can
think and still be away.
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It's very simple, he
says you'll know them by day.
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And Jesus says in John 15,
that if you abide in me and I in
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you, you will
produce much fruit.
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Well, so if there is no fruit,
that means that you may think
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that you are in Christ, but
you're actually not in Christ.
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You have the theory of Christ,
but not the presence of Christ.
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And so, if you
remain in him, you are safe.
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Unless we are continually
connected, she says in this era
00:23:22.16\00:23:25.53
of ages, we will never resist.
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Now I want to move on because
I'm not going to give all eight
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sermons.
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So, number one in,
brethren be strong in the Lord.
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Now listen carefully.
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It says there, if you continue
to read in verse 18, praying
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all the time.
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How much?
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How much is all the time?
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How many hours a day?
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24?
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How many people pray?
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Don't raise your hands.
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I don't want you to lie.
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It's a sin.
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How many people
pray 24 hours a day?
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You see what I'm talking about?
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We make prayer an event.
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Prayer, it's a way of life.
00:24:08.61\00:24:10.45
The spirit of prophecy says
that prayer is the breath of
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the soul.
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breathing five minutes in
the morning, five minutes in the
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evening and staying alive.
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That means that
spiritually we stink.
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We are dead bodies.
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If you want to be alive
and strong, you pray without
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ceasing.
00:24:33.70\00:24:34.24
And if you are not used to pray
here, do you think that you'll
00:24:35.84\00:24:38.81
enjoy to pray in
heaven all the time?
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So you better learn
to commune all the time.
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Ellen White says that our minds
take the shape of the things
00:24:46.45\00:24:51.35
that we dwell upon.
00:24:51.35\00:24:52.49
And she says the more we
talk about heaven, about Jesus,
00:24:54.16\00:24:57.99
about sacrifice, about God, the
more we are transforming to his
00:24:58.76\00:25:03.43
image.
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citizens of heaven, are more
attracted to heaven and have
00:25:07.80\00:25:11.27
less attraction for this world.
00:25:11.27\00:25:13.17
And she says the more we do
that, the more we are connected
00:25:13.64\00:25:16.31
to heaven and we have
no more joy in this world.
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Our joy is in his presence.
00:25:20.12\00:25:22.15
Shouldn't our minds be
all the time heaven focused?
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The reason we have no peace
is because we keep our minds on
00:25:31.39\00:25:34.30
this.
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The Bible says you
keep him in perfect peace.
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Him whose mind is
fixed on him, on that.
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You understand?
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Heaven focused because
heaven is what we hope for.
00:25:47.44\00:25:52.98
Otherwise, why are you here?
00:25:53.45\00:25:55.42
In the Lord.
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Number two, he says pray all
the time with petitions in the
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spirit.
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Listen carefully.
00:26:08.66\00:26:09.40
At the sound of fervent prayers.
00:26:10.00\00:26:12.27
Do you remember the paragraph?
00:26:12.93\00:26:13.94
Satan and his whole hosts.
00:26:14.80\00:26:16.67
Tremble.
00:26:17.64\00:26:20.21
Somebody asked
me, can I pray loud?
00:26:21.21\00:26:23.28
If I pray loud, Satan is going
to hear my prayer and then he
00:26:23.58\00:26:26.08
knows what I want.
00:26:26.08\00:26:27.08
Really?
00:26:30.99\00:26:31.45
When you pray, you
go into God's presence.
00:26:32.22\00:26:35.39
Prayer is not just a poetry.
00:26:35.69\00:26:37.03
You enter the most holy place.
00:26:37.79\00:26:39.76
You are next to God.
00:26:40.43\00:26:41.63
Do you think that when
God is there, Satan comes too?
00:26:41.86\00:26:45.07
When you pray, Satan flees.
00:26:47.60\00:26:49.64
He runs.
00:26:50.41\00:26:50.91
That's when you
are safe, actually.
00:26:52.44\00:26:53.71
That's the reason you
should pray all the time.
00:26:54.08\00:26:55.71
You connect with
the source of all power.
00:26:56.38\00:26:58.88
Satan, first
testimonies, page 295.
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He's enraged at the sound of
fervent prayer because he knows
00:27:02.85\00:27:05.99
that he will
certainly suffer loss.
00:27:05.99\00:27:08.12
He's enraged when you pray
because he knows that he will
00:27:09.19\00:27:12.43
certainly, he says, suffer loss.
00:27:12.43\00:27:14.60
Why don't we pray?
00:27:16.03\00:27:17.03
Prayer should not be a chore,
a duty, an event or a routine or
00:27:18.23\00:27:22.80
something in crisis.
00:27:22.80\00:27:23.71
Prayer should be
the breath of the soul.
00:27:24.04\00:27:26.64
Prayer should be a privilege.
00:27:28.08\00:27:30.51
Prayer, he says, listen
carefully, is the breath of the
00:27:32.88\00:27:35.18
soul, is the
secret of spiritual power.
00:27:35.18\00:27:37.45
Prayer brings the heart
into immediate contact with the
00:27:37.82\00:27:40.96
spring of life.
00:27:40.96\00:27:41.72
Nelect prayer or pray
spasmodically and you lose your
00:27:42.06\00:27:46.66
hold on God.
00:27:46.66\00:27:47.86
Evangelion page 609.
00:27:48.60\00:27:50.13
Prayer is the faith of the
Christian and those who pray
00:27:50.13\00:27:54.57
will certainly
prevail against Satan.
00:27:54.57\00:27:57.57
Brethren, be strong in the Lord.
00:27:59.61\00:28:01.08
That's your first weapon.
00:28:02.18\00:28:03.21
Always connect it.
00:28:04.05\00:28:05.31
Pray all the time.
00:28:05.51\00:28:06.58
Don't use prayer for your needs.
00:28:07.45\00:28:09.32
You can do that, too.
00:28:09.65\00:28:10.92
But prayer is a
spiritual, physical weapon.
00:28:11.25\00:28:13.99
It's a gun.
00:28:14.16\00:28:15.06
It's your gun that
you can fight Satan.
00:28:16.32\00:28:18.29
There is no other gun.
00:28:18.33\00:28:22.43
You cannot shoot Satan.
00:28:23.50\00:28:25.43
Prayer is your real weapon.
00:28:26.80\00:28:28.44
Prayer is the great
strength of the Christian.
00:28:32.21\00:28:34.11
And then he says, in the world,
thy world is a lamp unto my
00:28:35.08\00:28:41.98
feet.
00:28:41.98\00:28:42.35
Listen carefully.
00:28:43.69\00:28:44.72
Preparation, how do you
prepare, should be made by
00:28:45.62\00:28:48.66
diligent study of the world.
00:28:48.66\00:28:50.76
By diligent study of the world.
00:28:50.99\00:28:52.89
By diligent study of the world.
00:28:52.96\00:28:54.73
The world.
00:28:55.23\00:28:56.00
How do you, how do you, how
much time do you spend in the
00:28:56.46\00:28:59.77
world?
00:28:59.77\00:29:02.47
So closely with the counterfeit
resembled the truth that it
00:29:03.14\00:29:06.17
will be impossible to
distinguish between them,
00:29:06.17\00:29:09.21
except by the scriptures.
00:29:09.21\00:29:11.05
And then in Selected Messages,
volume 3, page 389, go to God
00:29:11.05\00:29:15.55
in the Lord.
00:29:15.55\00:29:16.62
Go to the world and to prayer.
00:29:17.19\00:29:19.49
Do you see them?
00:29:19.65\00:29:20.29
In the Lord, in
prayer in the world.
00:29:20.62\00:29:22.26
Go to God, go to the world and
to prayer for divine alignment,
00:29:22.52\00:29:26.53
that you may be able to
distinguish between God's work
00:29:26.83\00:29:30.03
and Satan's counterfeit work.
00:29:30.03\00:29:32.33
And then in six testimonies,
prayer and study should never
00:29:33.37\00:29:36.94
be separated.
00:29:36.94\00:29:40.28
talk to God.
00:29:40.28\00:29:40.94
And through the word, God talks
back to us just as he was next
00:29:41.51\00:29:44.98
to us, talking
to us face to face.
00:29:44.98\00:29:46.51
The word is God's
voice, God's letter for you.
00:29:47.08\00:29:50.65
You should not just
study the word as a duty.
00:29:52.52\00:29:54.69
If you read three chapters a
day, in one year you can finish
00:29:55.16\00:29:57.86
the Bible and that's the goal.
00:29:57.86\00:29:59.16
Eleanor Knight is very clear.
00:30:00.23\00:30:01.13
She says, don't read a lot.
00:30:01.33\00:30:02.40
Have you read that paragraph?
00:30:03.47\00:30:04.37
She says, take one,
two verses at a time.
00:30:04.37\00:30:07.77
And she says, pray over it
so the Holy Spirit will inspire
00:30:08.37\00:30:11.54
you to understand.
00:30:11.54\00:30:12.27
And then she says, read it.
00:30:12.61\00:30:13.58
And then she
says, reflect on it.
00:30:13.58\00:30:15.04
And then she says, pray again.
00:30:15.11\00:30:16.14
Read it again.
00:30:16.28\00:30:16.88
And then she says, digest it.
00:30:17.35\00:30:19.75
Reflect.
00:30:20.02\00:30:20.45
Meditate.
00:30:20.78\00:30:21.25
Day and night.
00:30:21.48\00:30:21.98
Meditate upon it.
00:30:22.08\00:30:23.18
Make the word food.
00:30:23.95\00:30:25.75
Eat it and live.
00:30:26.15\00:30:29.32
every word that
comes from God's mouth.
00:30:29.32\00:30:30.66
God's word has power.
00:30:31.36\00:30:32.96
When he says, it happens.
00:30:32.96\00:30:34.93
God's word has
transforming power.
00:30:35.16\00:30:36.93
It's the single book in
the history that can actually
00:30:37.03\00:30:39.87
change character.
00:30:39.87\00:30:41.00
Don't just read it.
00:30:42.00\00:30:43.74
Eat it.
00:30:44.01\00:30:44.81
So in you, it will
have transforming power.
00:30:44.94\00:30:47.61
Prayer and the word
should never be separated.
00:30:49.04\00:30:51.41
They are like a dialogue.
00:30:51.65\00:30:52.61
It's breathing.
00:30:53.01\00:30:53.38
You exhale when you talk
and you inhale when you read.
00:30:54.52\00:30:58.19
You talk, God talks.
00:30:58.55\00:30:59.69
You understand?
00:31:00.96\00:31:02.02
It's a dialogue.
00:31:02.02\00:31:03.39
That's breathing.
00:31:03.56\00:31:04.36
Now, if you think about it,
lately, and the Bible says that
00:31:06.16\00:31:13.64
there will be false
Christ, false prophets, false
00:31:13.64\00:31:17.11
doctrines, false
ideas and theories.
00:31:17.11\00:31:19.21
Lately, we have so many false
ideas and theories, even among
00:31:19.64\00:31:22.44
us.
00:31:22.44\00:31:22.71
Am I right?
00:31:22.84\00:31:23.45
People who no longer believe
in this and people who no longer
00:31:24.18\00:31:26.51
believe in that and people.
00:31:26.51\00:31:27.58
How can you stand if
you don't know your Bible?
00:31:28.72\00:31:31.32
You need to be
solid on the Bible.
00:31:33.19\00:31:37.33
Amen.
00:31:38.56\00:31:39.19
That's the key.
00:31:40.66\00:31:41.30
And then he says,
take the whole armor.
00:31:42.13\00:31:45.03
You need the armor.
00:31:45.40\00:31:46.27
You need the armor.
00:31:46.40\00:31:47.44
Put the whole armor of God
so you may stand against the
00:31:47.60\00:31:51.61
schemes of the devil.
00:31:51.61\00:31:52.47
Now think about this.
00:31:53.17\00:31:54.18
The whole armor, the word armor
there in Greek is panoplia.
00:31:54.38\00:31:59.28
Panoplia that you have the
word panoply from in Hebrew is
00:31:59.28\00:32:04.65
shalat.
00:32:04.65\00:32:05.29
What does it mean?
00:32:05.75\00:32:06.52
It means a complete set of
protection or a covering set of
00:32:06.92\00:32:13.96
protection, complete protection.
00:32:13.96\00:32:16.97
But this word shalat in Hebrew
panoplia in Greek is what is
00:32:18.03\00:32:24.01
used in the Bible many times.
00:32:24.01\00:32:25.27
For instance, it says the
angel of the Lord encamps around
00:32:25.27\00:32:29.34
those who fear him
in the word shalat.
00:32:29.34\00:32:33.58
The angel of the
Lord in a different place.
00:32:33.78\00:32:36.15
Satan goes before God and
God says, have you considered my
00:32:36.28\00:32:40.59
servant Job?
00:32:40.59\00:32:41.42
And Satan says,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:32:42.06\00:32:44.39
And then Satan says,
you have put a shalat.
00:32:44.76\00:32:48.73
That's the word there.
00:32:48.76\00:32:49.86
You have put a wall of
protection around him and his
00:32:49.86\00:32:54.34
household and his family.
00:32:54.34\00:32:55.34
I cannot even touch him.
00:32:55.34\00:32:55.37
That's the armor.
00:32:57.64\00:32:58.97
That's the armor.
00:33:00.34\00:33:01.84
Don't you want
that armor around you?
00:33:03.38\00:33:06.15
Shouldn't we pray daily
for the armor around Lord?
00:33:06.68\00:33:10.45
Put this armor around me,
my spouse, my children, my
00:33:10.62\00:33:14.69
grandchildren, around my house.
00:33:14.69\00:33:16.66
Lord, I need your armor today
and I need it every second, not
00:33:16.66\00:33:22.86
for selfish interest.
00:33:22.86\00:33:23.90
So I have no accidents and I
never get sick and I am never
00:33:24.10\00:33:27.00
poor.
00:33:27.00\00:33:27.54
But first, so Satan has no
access to my mind and to my
00:33:28.80\00:33:33.14
heart.
00:33:33.14\00:33:38.95
invincible.
00:33:39.48\00:33:40.18
By the way, talking
about accidents, my wife was
00:33:41.75\00:33:44.39
pregnant.
00:33:44.39\00:33:44.95
With our first kid
and we were in Bucharest.
00:33:46.02\00:33:50.03
I was a student and she says,
honey, the church is over and
00:33:50.33\00:33:55.53
as usually you talk too much.
00:33:55.53\00:33:57.10
Let's go home.
00:33:57.50\00:33:59.43
Let's just stay
five minutes more.
00:34:00.14\00:34:01.74
Let's talk to people.
00:34:01.90\00:34:03.17
She says, let's go home.
00:34:03.30\00:34:05.24
Honey, three minutes.
00:34:05.64\00:34:07.34
Let's go home.
00:34:07.91\00:34:08.64
One minute.
00:34:08.78\00:34:09.38
She says, no,
honey, I can hardly walk.
00:34:09.91\00:34:11.75
I am tired.
00:34:12.05\00:34:12.45
Let's go home.
00:34:12.45\00:34:16.35
You go, by the time you cross
the street to the bus station,
00:34:16.72\00:34:19.59
I'm going to run and catch up.
00:34:20.12\00:34:22.52
She says, no, then I have to
wait at the bus station another
00:34:23.02\00:34:25.59
10 minutes.
00:34:25.59\00:34:26.09
I know how you are.
00:34:26.09\00:34:27.10
I said, honey,
please, I promise.
00:34:27.76\00:34:29.83
She says, OK, one minute.
00:34:30.17\00:34:31.53
OK, one minute.
00:34:31.90\00:34:32.93
She walks.
00:34:33.67\00:34:34.30
I'm talking.
00:34:34.87\00:34:35.27
And she gets off the
sidewalk into the street.
00:34:35.90\00:34:40.71
And she doesn't
look left or right.
00:34:40.71\00:34:43.08
She walks into the
street looking back.
00:34:43.35\00:34:45.15
Come on, honey, please.
00:34:45.15\00:34:46.55
And she walks into the street.
00:34:46.55\00:34:47.88
And I see a car coming with
extreme speed and hitting her.
00:34:48.18\00:34:52.72
When I see the car hitting
her right here, I scream, Donna.
00:34:53.29\00:34:57.19
And she looked back.
00:34:57.56\00:34:58.33
What?
00:34:58.33\00:34:58.79
And then I see her
doing acrobatics like circus.
00:34:59.59\00:35:02.60
She was pushed
back from the stomach.
00:35:04.30\00:35:07.84
Her legs were still there.
00:35:08.00\00:35:08.94
Her hand still there.
00:35:08.94\00:35:10.24
And the car went by.
00:35:11.24\00:35:13.17
And I said, how did
you manage to do that?
00:35:13.94\00:35:17.21
And she says, I didn't.
00:35:18.61\00:35:20.82
There was a hand, physical
hand, that I felt in my stomach
00:35:21.05\00:35:23.95
so hard that I could not
breathe that physically pushed
00:35:23.95\00:35:27.82
me back a few
feet in an instant.
00:35:27.82\00:35:31.86
When we go to heaven, the angel
of the Lord is going to say,
00:35:33.03\00:35:36.80
that's the armor.
00:35:37.40\00:35:38.53
I was there
protecting you and the baby.
00:35:39.60\00:35:43.30
The angel of the Lord.
00:35:45.04\00:35:46.84
You remember in Second Kings,
the story, the prophet is on
00:35:47.24\00:35:50.78
the mountain with his servant.
00:35:50.78\00:35:52.21
And the servant says,
whoa, master, the mountain is
00:35:52.71\00:35:55.98
surrounded by the Syrian army.
00:35:55.98\00:35:57.62
And the prophet says,
Lord, please open his eyes.
00:35:57.62\00:36:03.09
And he sees the mountain
surrounded also by God's army
00:36:03.83\00:36:09.66
of angels.
00:36:09.66\00:36:10.80
Shalat,
Panopria, the armor of God.
00:36:14.64\00:36:17.54
And we are not even
aware of the war around us.
00:36:17.97\00:36:20.68
And Satan is like a lion,
desperately trying to destroy
00:36:20.94\00:36:25.28
you and your family and
your life and your faith.
00:36:25.28\00:36:28.65
And Satan attacks your house
not because he needs a house.
00:36:29.08\00:36:31.72
Satan doesn't like your house.
00:36:31.95\00:36:33.56
He attacks your car
not because he drives.
00:36:34.42\00:36:36.52
He flies.
00:36:36.66\00:36:37.13
He doesn't need a car.
00:36:37.23\00:36:38.39
He attacks your spouse not
because he likes your spouse.
00:36:38.39\00:36:41.26
No, but because by attacking
everything you have, he can
00:36:42.26\00:36:46.00
distract you from
your relationship with God.
00:36:46.00\00:36:48.04
And you worry about this and
that instead of realizing that
00:36:49.24\00:36:53.61
your biggest problem is not
your job or your house and your
00:36:53.61\00:36:56.48
car, your biggest need, it's
your relationship with Christ
00:36:56.48\00:36:59.38
and your faith and your
prayer and your study time.
00:36:59.38\00:37:02.02
And Satan does all those things.
00:37:02.85\00:37:04.25
So you focus there
instead of focusing there.
00:37:04.25\00:37:07.19
And we desperately, moreover
in the times we live, we need
00:37:10.49\00:37:15.26
Panoplia.
00:37:15.26\00:37:15.90
You follow me?
00:37:16.90\00:37:17.63
We need that
armor of protection.
00:37:18.87\00:37:20.60
And by the way, if you go
a little deeper, if you go a
00:37:20.80\00:37:24.64
little deeper, it's...
00:37:24.64\00:37:27.24
If you think about it, it says,
the sword of the spirit that
00:37:27.74\00:37:34.12
is, it says in my
Bible, that is the word of God.
00:37:34.12\00:37:37.99
Did you know?
00:37:38.35\00:37:39.62
They sang carefully.
00:37:40.36\00:37:40.99
The sword, what
is part of the armor?
00:37:41.22\00:37:43.49
The sword of the
spirit, that is what?
00:37:43.76\00:37:45.66
Did you know that
the Bible is a sword?
00:37:46.96\00:37:49.40
You take the Bible, bang!
00:37:49.50\00:37:50.83
Did you know that?
00:37:51.80\00:37:56.44
to fight as a weapon, not
only to defend yourself, but to
00:37:56.44\00:38:01.24
destroy Satan.
00:38:01.24\00:38:02.14
Did you ever use the Bible
as a weapon to fight with it?
00:38:03.61\00:38:08.05
Not to hit people in the head.
00:38:08.45\00:38:09.58
It's not what I'm talking about.
00:38:09.65\00:38:10.95
It's about fighting
Satan, not hitting people.
00:38:11.75\00:38:14.02
You understand?
00:38:14.02\00:38:14.06
Okay.
00:38:15.89\00:38:16.42
Well, well, well.
00:38:18.59\00:38:24.93
word, the Greek word for sword,
it's a different word that
00:38:24.93\00:38:28.37
doesn't even mean sword.
00:38:28.37\00:38:29.74
It's a word called
Makaira that doesn't mean sword.
00:38:30.41\00:38:33.98
If you Google it,
Makaira, it's a knife.
00:38:34.18\00:38:36.68
They had a sword and they had a
knife here in the back that was
00:38:38.38\00:38:44.09
short.
00:38:44.09\00:38:44.75
It had a canal in the middle
and it had two edges, so sharp,
00:38:45.75\00:38:52.09
if you read in the history,
so sharp that they used to use
00:38:53.06\00:38:57.20
this knife, Makaira, to shave.
00:38:57.20\00:38:59.37
It says that if you would put
a Makaira on a tomato without
00:39:01.24\00:39:06.07
pushing, without moving,
without any pressure, only the
00:39:06.07\00:39:09.34
weight of the knife would
go through the tomato like
00:39:09.34\00:39:11.45
nothing.
00:39:11.45\00:39:12.01
And they say the steel that
was made of could cut anything
00:39:12.61\00:39:17.39
without getting a dent.
00:39:17.39\00:39:18.89
And they said it was the
most deadly part of the weapon.
00:39:20.06\00:39:23.66
And they said, now listen
carefully, it was used when the
00:39:24.19\00:39:27.93
enemy was way
stronger, way bigger.
00:39:27.93\00:39:29.93
You had no chance and the
enemy got on you, grabbed you.
00:39:30.47\00:39:34.64
When the enemy grabbed you,
body to body fight, and you had
00:39:34.94\00:39:39.21
no hope, you take the knife.
00:39:39.21\00:39:41.04
And if you got in the enemy, it
would cut everything, including
00:39:41.04\00:39:44.18
bone, everything,
totally destroy, deadly.
00:39:44.18\00:39:48.12
And the Bible says that
the word of God is a Makaira.
00:39:48.98\00:39:51.92
It's a knife with two
edges that can cut anything.
00:39:52.32\00:39:55.46
And that's what Jesus used.
00:39:57.79\00:39:59.76
He says the sword of
the spirit, that is what?
00:40:01.56\00:40:05.97
But the word is not logos in
Greek, as usually, always word
00:40:05.97\00:40:11.24
is logos.
00:40:11.24\00:40:11.71
It's rima, the word rima that
we have the word rhyme from,
00:40:12.74\00:40:16.91
the word rima.
00:40:18.35\00:40:19.31
What means rima?
00:40:20.42\00:40:21.42
Rima doesn't mean a word, it
means a paragraph or a saying,
00:40:22.25\00:40:27.79
a few sentences or a sentence.
00:40:29.52\00:40:31.33
It's a few words that you can
take it and use it when you are
00:40:31.33\00:40:37.87
in need.
00:40:37.87\00:40:38.53
And if you go back when Jesus
was attacked by Satan in the
00:40:40.27\00:40:44.11
wilderness, it says that Jesus
said, it is written, the man is
00:40:44.11\00:40:52.81
not going to live by, but by.
00:40:52.81\00:40:56.45
And when he says word,
when Jesus answered to Satan's
00:40:56.45\00:41:02.96
attack, when he says it is
written, every time it's not
00:41:02.96\00:41:07.00
logos, it's rima.
00:41:07.00\00:41:08.60
Jesus used a paragraph or a
saying from the Bible to fight
00:41:09.16\00:41:14.20
Satan.
00:41:14.20\00:41:14.77
Every time Jesus was attacked
three times and three times he
00:41:16.91\00:41:20.64
used the sword of the
word rima to fight back.
00:41:20.64\00:41:24.45
And the spiritual prophecy
says, and I have the quotation,
00:41:25.15\00:41:27.42
that Satan is afraid of
the word because the word has
00:41:27.85\00:41:32.09
power.
00:41:32.09\00:41:32.72
The word of God,
when God says, it happens.
00:41:34.02\00:41:37.09
It's not like our words, like
politicians' words, you know.
00:41:37.93\00:41:40.70
They say it doesn't happen.
00:41:41.03\00:41:42.53
When God says, it is secure.
00:41:44.37\00:41:47.44
One hundred percent.
00:41:48.14\00:41:48.84
There is no shadow of doubt.
00:41:49.24\00:41:50.71
When God says, it's secure.
00:41:50.71\00:41:53.51
Satan is afraid of the word.
00:41:55.18\00:41:56.58
And that's our weapon.
00:41:57.55\00:41:58.75
Fight with prayer,
fight with the word.
00:41:59.18\00:42:01.98
Isn't that amazing?
00:42:02.45\00:42:03.22
And we rarely
use them as a weapon.
00:42:04.82\00:42:06.86
We use prayer as a routine.
00:42:07.22\00:42:08.59
We use prayer in crisis instead
of using prayer all the time.
00:42:09.06\00:42:13.73
And then you'll be safe.
00:42:14.23\00:42:15.43
Use the word all the
time and then you'll be safe.
00:42:15.96\00:42:18.70
Now, very interesting.
00:42:19.70\00:42:21.20
Very interesting.
00:42:21.77\00:42:22.47
If you talk about the word,
it says, pray all the time.
00:42:23.27\00:42:27.38
Now listen carefully.
00:42:27.71\00:42:28.41
The sword of the speed
that is the word of God.
00:42:29.01\00:42:31.15
What we said is the sword.
00:42:31.75\00:42:33.08
The word is makaira.
00:42:33.38\00:42:34.55
Okay.
00:42:34.82\00:42:35.18
That is the word of God.
00:42:35.38\00:42:36.05
What is the word?
00:42:36.08\00:42:36.92
It's rima.
00:42:37.45\00:42:38.09
Praying with all
prayers and supplication.
00:42:38.65\00:42:41.12
Praying in the spirit.
00:42:41.46\00:42:42.99
Did you ever pray in the spirit?
00:42:43.26\00:42:45.46
Do you know how to, it says
here in the Bible in Ephesians
00:42:45.46\00:42:48.63
chapter 6, do you know
how to pray in the spirit?
00:42:48.63\00:42:51.67
Well, it says in Romans chapter
8 that the Holy Spirit has to
00:42:52.87\00:42:56.91
intercede for us
because we don't.
00:42:56.91\00:42:59.44
We don't know how to pray.
00:43:00.24\00:43:01.24
Therefore what?
00:43:01.74\00:43:02.64
You may assume that
is good and you can ask.
00:43:02.68\00:43:05.61
The spirit says, no,
you actually don't know.
00:43:05.88\00:43:07.88
It's not what you should ask.
00:43:08.08\00:43:09.05
It's really not good for you.
00:43:09.12\00:43:10.22
If you knew the whole picture,
if you knew the future, if you
00:43:10.39\00:43:13.79
knew your real problem,
you would not pray for this.
00:43:13.79\00:43:16.36
You would pray for that.
00:43:16.36\00:43:17.73
So shouldn't we, instead of
assuming that we pray the right
00:43:18.39\00:43:21.66
prayer, shouldn't we ask the
Holy Spirit to inspire us what
00:43:21.66\00:43:24.90
to pray for?
00:43:24.90\00:43:25.70
Because the Holy Spirit knows
much better what you should
00:43:26.40\00:43:29.67
pray for than what you know.
00:43:29.67\00:43:31.14
Am I right?
00:43:31.24\00:43:31.84
Let me give you an example.
00:43:33.07\00:43:34.04
I was praying.
00:43:34.08\00:43:35.11
I said, Lord, I don't
know what to pray for.
00:43:35.41\00:43:38.41
I already finished all I know.
00:43:38.58\00:43:39.78
But if there is somebody in
need, you tell me what to pray
00:43:39.78\00:43:43.08
for.
00:43:43.08\00:43:43.69
And the Holy Spirit put
in my mind, call so-and-so.
00:43:44.22\00:43:46.49
I said, why would
I call that person?
00:43:46.99\00:43:48.72
We never call each other.
00:43:49.12\00:43:50.29
Basically, he lives in Europe.
00:43:50.59\00:43:52.73
I live here.
00:43:52.83\00:43:53.43
We never call each other.
00:43:54.56\00:43:56.63
And we meet once a
year at the annual council.
00:43:57.83\00:44:00.64
Hi, hi, hi, hi, bye.
00:44:01.24\00:44:02.17
That's it.
00:44:02.37\00:44:03.07
Next year,
October, annual council.
00:44:03.20\00:44:04.77
Hi, hi, bye, bye.
00:44:04.94\00:44:05.61
That's it.
00:44:05.67\00:44:06.14
Why would I call him?
00:44:06.84\00:44:07.78
And the Holy Spirit says in my
mind, you asked me what to pray
00:44:08.88\00:44:13.01
for.
00:44:13.01\00:44:13.42
Call and pray with him.
00:44:13.58\00:44:14.55
So I called.
00:44:15.05\00:44:15.72
He says, how did you know?
00:44:16.15\00:44:18.02
I said, what?
00:44:18.55\00:44:19.65
He says, we are in a meeting,
executive committee at the
00:44:20.82\00:44:23.46
union, and we need to make
a decision that is extremely
00:44:23.46\00:44:26.90
important.
00:44:26.90\00:44:27.36
So I got outside the meeting.
00:44:27.60\00:44:29.40
I took my telephone to
call you to pray together.
00:44:29.80\00:44:32.17
And I had my phone ready
to dial, and you called me.
00:44:32.70\00:44:35.77
How did you know?
00:44:36.24\00:44:37.37
I said, well, the Holy
Spirit told me to pray for you.
00:44:37.37\00:44:39.74
Basically, pray for what to
pray before you pray for what
00:44:40.58\00:44:43.01
you pray.
00:44:43.01\00:44:43.45
You understand?
00:44:46.85\00:44:47.75
It would be so much better if
we would allow the Holy Spirit
00:44:48.82\00:44:52.72
to impress us how to pray.
00:44:52.72\00:44:54.32
And if we ask, please, Lord,
I don't even know what I need,
00:44:54.76\00:44:59.46
but you do.
00:44:59.59\00:45:00.60
You understand?
00:45:02.23\00:45:02.93
God is waiting.
00:45:04.53\00:45:05.67
He's not like, I
don't like your eyes.
00:45:05.67\00:45:08.30
He wants to answer your prayer
more than you want answers to
00:45:09.30\00:45:14.41
your prayers.
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And he's more than
that praying in the spirit.
00:45:16.95\00:45:19.48
Let me give you an example.
00:45:19.75\00:45:20.68
Our youngest son, Ovi, he was
about three years and a half.
00:45:21.02\00:45:24.79
We are traveling with a train
from Bucharest to the south of
00:45:27.09\00:45:30.19
the country.
00:45:30.19\00:45:31.03
In that time, there was no law
that you cannot smoke in public
00:45:31.43\00:45:34.46
places.
00:45:34.46\00:45:38.10
compartment with six
seats, three and three.
00:45:38.10\00:45:40.87
It was my wife, myself, two
kids, small, one was three and
00:45:41.47\00:45:46.01
a half, one was six and a half.
00:45:46.01\00:45:47.11
Across from us, it was a lady,
and she was smoking like an old
00:45:47.61\00:45:51.35
train.
00:45:51.35\00:45:51.71
It was the smoke so dense that
you could not see each other.
00:45:53.95\00:45:56.35
And I was like, I told my
wife, honey, five hours in this
00:45:56.62\00:45:59.85
compartment, this
train, I'm going to die.
00:45:59.85\00:46:02.12
And Ovi, three years and
a half, daddy, why don't you
00:46:02.96\00:46:06.16
pray?
00:46:06.16\00:46:06.56
I said, leave me alone.
00:46:07.50\00:46:08.53
But that's what you preached.
00:46:09.50\00:46:11.07
I said, well, that
was the sermon, son.
00:46:11.33\00:46:12.73
He said, daddy, you said in
the sermon that we need to pray.
00:46:14.04\00:46:17.41
I said, OK, you pray.
00:46:18.17\00:46:19.37
He says, I did already.
00:46:20.61\00:46:22.08
But he says, you need to pray
for the Holy Spirit to tell you
00:46:22.91\00:46:26.41
what to talk to the lady.
00:46:26.41\00:46:27.92
I shook my head.
00:46:29.02\00:46:29.95
I said, he's a kid.
00:46:30.05\00:46:30.82
He doesn't understand.
00:46:30.82\00:46:31.72
Well, sometimes they do
understand better than we do,
00:46:31.99\00:46:36.73
though we don't
like to acknowledge.
00:46:36.83\00:46:38.19
So he, three years and a
half, got on his knees in the
00:46:39.03\00:46:42.23
compartment.
00:46:42.23\00:46:42.93
Lord Jesus, give me your Holy
Spirit to know what to talk to
00:46:43.50\00:46:45.70
this lady, because I want to do
and say what you say, not what
00:46:45.70\00:46:49.34
I would say.
00:46:49.34\00:46:50.14
Amen.
00:46:50.24\00:46:50.67
And then he says,
lady, stop smoking.
00:46:51.64\00:46:53.38
You kill us.
00:46:53.58\00:46:54.44
And the lady
said, leave me alone.
00:46:56.91\00:46:58.78
He kneels down and
says, Lord, this didn't work.
00:46:59.81\00:47:02.35
Give me another line.
00:47:02.35\00:47:02.38
He gets up and says, lady, you
don't care, obviously, that you
00:47:05.62\00:47:09.12
kill us.
00:47:09.12\00:47:11.16
She says, leave me alone.
00:47:11.56\00:47:12.83
He kneels down third time.
00:47:13.63\00:47:15.03
He says, Jesus, you
need to give me another line.
00:47:15.13\00:47:17.63
He gets up and he
says, do you have children?
00:47:19.80\00:47:23.24
And the lady says, why?
00:47:23.77\00:47:25.47
It's just a simple question.
00:47:26.04\00:47:27.38
Do you have children?
00:47:27.38\00:47:27.41
She says, yes.
00:47:28.24\00:47:29.51
Do you love your children?
00:47:29.61\00:47:30.48
Yes.
00:47:31.18\00:47:31.58
He says, no, no, no, no.
00:47:31.85\00:47:32.81
Just be honest.
00:47:32.81\00:47:33.35
Do you really
love your children?
00:47:33.58\00:47:34.65
Yes.
00:47:34.78\00:47:35.08
No, no, no.
00:47:35.55\00:47:35.92
Just tell me.
00:47:35.98\00:47:36.58
Do you really love your...
00:47:36.58\00:47:36.62
He says, yes.
00:47:37.65\00:47:38.49
He says, then what's the point
to kill yourself and your kids
00:47:38.92\00:47:42.22
go from foster
home to foster home?
00:47:42.22\00:47:44.13
If you really love your
children, stop smoking, raise
00:47:45.09\00:47:47.76
them up and then
smoke and kill yourself.
00:47:47.76\00:47:49.76
And the lady says, did
you teach him to say that?
00:47:51.70\00:47:54.57
He says, lady, it will not
cross my mind moreover to teach
00:47:54.57\00:47:57.81
him.
00:47:57.81\00:47:58.37
I have no idea
where he came from.
00:47:59.77\00:48:01.68
He says, daddy, the Holy Spirit.
00:48:01.88\00:48:03.58
I prayed about it.
00:48:04.85\00:48:06.65
The lady says, can
I have your address?
00:48:09.72\00:48:11.42
And she started to cry.
00:48:11.49\00:48:12.52
We gave her our address.
00:48:13.72\00:48:14.72
Three months
later, we got a letter.
00:48:14.86\00:48:16.22
There was no cell
phone internet in that time.
00:48:16.46\00:48:18.49
That's 100 years
ago and we were young.
00:48:19.33\00:48:21.36
We got a letter and she
says, God inspired your kid.
00:48:22.36\00:48:26.33
And God talked to
me through the kid.
00:48:27.10\00:48:28.77
I want you to know since
that day, I never smoked again.
00:48:29.17\00:48:31.37
I found the church
and my life is changed.
00:48:31.51\00:48:34.94
Pray in the spirit.
00:48:38.18\00:48:39.88
Do you understand
what I'm trying to say?
00:48:40.48\00:48:42.35
But we need to finish because
my time is, oh, heaven, I have
00:48:42.98\00:48:45.85
only eight minutes left over.
00:48:45.85\00:48:47.02
Can I speak fast?
00:48:48.39\00:48:49.59
When you pray in the spirit
means you are guided by the
00:48:50.66\00:48:53.83
spirit.
00:48:53.83\00:48:56.06
You are enabled, empowered,
inspired by the spirit.
00:48:56.06\00:48:59.20
You pray what the spirit
wants you to pray, not what you
00:48:59.50\00:49:01.94
assume that you should pray.
00:49:01.94\00:49:03.24
Listen what he says in Romans,
the Holy Spirit helps because
00:49:04.41\00:49:07.48
we don't even know how to pray.
00:49:07.48\00:49:10.05
He says in Jude, verse 20,
building yourself up in your
00:49:13.18\00:49:18.75
faith, praying all
the time in the spirit.
00:49:18.75\00:49:22.06
In Luke chapter 12, the Holy
Spirit will give you the words.
00:49:23.32\00:49:26.26
You know those Bible verses.
00:49:26.66\00:49:27.86
In spirit of prophecy, he
says there about Joshua in
00:49:28.93\00:49:33.54
Patriarchal Prophets.
00:49:33.54\00:49:35.00
The Joshua said to the son
to stand still until they get
00:49:35.60\00:49:39.47
victory over.
00:49:39.47\00:49:40.51
You remember?
00:49:40.51\00:49:41.24
And then the spirit of prophecy
says the Holy Spirit inspired
00:49:42.24\00:49:46.48
him to talk to the son.
00:49:46.48\00:49:47.88
It was not his mind.
00:49:47.92\00:49:50.09
And then she says,
because he was in the spirit.
00:49:50.99\00:49:54.09
That's what happens when
you don't talk from your brain.
00:49:55.39\00:49:58.73
You are connected to the spirit.
00:49:58.89\00:50:00.86
And you say, Lord, please give
me your Holy Spirit, because
00:50:01.06\00:50:04.53
without your
spirit, I am nothing.
00:50:04.53\00:50:06.23
Take over my
mind, over my mouth.
00:50:06.67\00:50:09.10
Over.
00:50:09.10\00:50:09.47
You follow me?
00:50:09.64\00:50:10.67
That's what Illinois says
that we should be daily filled,
00:50:12.14\00:50:16.48
freshly baptized
with the Holy Spirit.
00:50:17.01\00:50:19.81
That's what the
foolish virgins didn't have.
00:50:20.82\00:50:23.05
Oil in the lamp.
00:50:23.32\00:50:24.45
The Holy Spirit.
00:50:25.62\00:50:26.55
And how little
we talk about that.
00:50:28.06\00:50:29.82
Now, listen.
00:50:30.73\00:50:31.96
And he says there.
00:50:33.06\00:50:34.66
Listen carefully.
00:50:36.67\00:50:37.57
Very interesting.
00:50:38.47\00:50:39.33
By the way, before we
get there, how do you know?
00:50:44.64\00:50:49.14
He says the Holy
Spirit would remind you.
00:50:49.81\00:50:52.91
OK, what to say?
00:50:52.91\00:50:54.92
How do you know what to say?
00:50:55.85\00:50:57.05
How can the Holy
Spirit remind you?
00:50:58.52\00:51:02.12
You have to learn it
in order to remember it.
00:51:03.96\00:51:06.59
It's like, hey, I didn't put
any money in the bank, but I go
00:51:06.63\00:51:10.43
to withdraw some money.
00:51:10.43\00:51:11.87
You need to put it in in order
to be able to recall it out.
00:51:12.70\00:51:17.87
Am I right?
00:51:18.04\00:51:18.71
If you don't do any prayer
and study, don't expect the Holy
00:51:19.41\00:51:22.98
Spirit to remember you the
Bible verses that you never
00:51:22.98\00:51:24.98
read.
00:51:24.98\00:51:25.28
Do you
understand what I'm saying?
00:51:26.01\00:51:27.62
You need to do diligent study
for the Holy Spirit to have
00:51:28.45\00:51:31.15
something to remind you.
00:51:31.15\00:51:33.15
You don't.
00:51:34.79\00:51:37.26
You know what?
00:51:37.49\00:51:38.29
When I was a kid, my
father made fun of me.
00:51:38.49\00:51:40.86
He says, son, you like
soccer and bicycles more than
00:51:40.90\00:51:43.97
mathematics.
00:51:43.97\00:51:44.50
And he says, you
know how can learn easy?
00:51:45.73\00:51:47.37
He says, when you go to sleep,
put your book under the pillow.
00:51:47.80\00:51:50.94
If you sleep with your head,
maybe somehow it goes through
00:51:50.94\00:51:54.08
the it goes into the head.
00:51:54.08\00:51:56.54
I said, really?
00:51:56.64\00:51:57.78
He says, no, you
need to learn it, son.
00:51:57.98\00:52:00.45
I was just joking.
00:52:00.45\00:52:01.55
You understand?
00:52:05.72\00:52:06.32
It's not going to happen if you
just sleep with the Bible next
00:52:07.32\00:52:09.89
to your head.
00:52:09.89\00:52:10.83
You need to eat it.
00:52:13.73\00:52:15.46
It should be your joy.
00:52:17.10\00:52:18.77
By the way, when they are going
to take it from you and they
00:52:19.63\00:52:22.47
will.
00:52:22.47\00:52:26.14
He says there in
Psalm 119, your word,
00:52:27.71\00:52:31.88
your word, I.
00:52:36.99\00:52:39.09
Hidden into my in a different
realization, I stored into my
00:52:40.09\00:52:43.83
heart.
00:52:43.83\00:52:44.23
So I may not sin.
00:52:44.33\00:52:45.93
How do you
protect yourself from sin?
00:52:46.19\00:52:48.26
Having the word in your
mind, in your heart is so clear.
00:52:48.26\00:52:53.37
It's a weapon.
00:52:53.67\00:52:55.14
It's a sword.
00:52:56.60\00:52:57.47
It's a Makaira.
00:52:57.74\00:52:59.51
Your word, I've hidden
into my heart that I may not sin
00:53:01.54\00:53:04.48
against it.
00:53:04.48\00:53:05.31
How do you store the
word into your heart?
00:53:05.78\00:53:08.08
Well, well, well, Illinois says
committee, she says, committed
00:53:09.85\00:53:13.56
to memory.
00:53:13.56\00:53:15.46
She just take one or two verses
and she says, read them, pray
00:53:15.46\00:53:18.99
over them, read them
again, pray over them, read them
00:53:18.99\00:53:20.83
again, reflect on it, meditate
upon it, read them again.
00:53:20.83\00:53:23.13
She says several times
until you committed to memory.
00:53:23.16\00:53:26.67
Now, think about that.
00:53:27.44\00:53:28.67
If you take two verses, one
verse, OK, let's suppose you
00:53:28.84\00:53:32.01
don't have a good memory.
00:53:32.01\00:53:32.77
One verse a day.
00:53:33.01\00:53:34.14
OK, and you read it 20 times.
00:53:34.34\00:53:36.58
If you read one verse 20
times, you will remember it.
00:53:37.31\00:53:43.28
In one year is three
hundred sixty verses.
00:53:44.09\00:53:46.59
Three hundred
sixty five in ten years.
00:53:46.59\00:53:49.32
Time goes fast.
00:53:49.59\00:53:51.06
It's like snowball.
00:53:52.36\00:53:53.03
It accumulates.
00:53:53.16\00:53:54.03
And then the Holy Spirit, when
you study, remind you, oh, this
00:53:54.36\00:53:57.73
connects to this and that.
00:53:57.73\00:53:58.70
Oh, makes light.
00:53:58.93\00:54:00.04
When you talk to somebody, the
Holy Spirit reminds you and you
00:54:00.57\00:54:03.14
know what to tell them.
00:54:03.14\00:54:04.04
When you go through some
trials, the Holy Spirit reminds
00:54:04.27\00:54:06.64
you and he gives you strength.
00:54:06.64\00:54:10.25
gives you courage.
00:54:10.25\00:54:14.38
you strength to fight Satan.
00:54:14.38\00:54:15.28
Because the world is
there to give you strength.
00:54:15.78\00:54:20.96
Shouldn't we do that daily?
00:54:23.49\00:54:24.86
You better start today.
00:54:25.89\00:54:27.23
Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.
00:54:28.53\00:54:31.00
You remember?
00:54:31.17\00:54:31.63
Today is the day of salvation.
00:54:32.87\00:54:34.47
So how do you do that?
00:54:34.84\00:54:36.40
How do you store
the word in your brain?
00:54:36.40\00:54:39.57
Repetition.
00:54:42.21\00:54:42.81
My father used to say
repetition is the mother of
00:54:43.45\00:54:45.31
memorization.
00:54:45.31\00:54:45.98
He says in Deuteronomy chapter
four, take heed to yourself.
00:54:47.18\00:54:51.49
Otherwise, you will
forget these things.
00:54:51.79\00:54:53.19
And then he says, teach
them and repeat them to your
00:54:53.42\00:54:57.46
children and
grandchildren daily.
00:54:57.46\00:54:59.46
Repeat them.
00:54:59.83\00:55:00.80
Repeat them again
and again and again.
00:55:01.66\00:55:03.53
Repeat them.
00:55:04.13\00:55:04.90
Now, there is another way.
00:55:05.63\00:55:07.50
He says there in Colossians
chapter three, let the word of
00:55:07.60\00:55:11.14
Christ.
00:55:11.14\00:55:11.67
Now listen carefully.
00:55:11.67\00:55:12.54
Let the word dwell in you
by admonishing one another in
00:55:13.07\00:55:19.95
hymns and songs.
00:55:19.95\00:55:21.05
Did you ever think about
the word dwelling in you through
00:55:22.12\00:55:25.22
songs?
00:55:25.22\00:55:25.69
He says in the Bible, singing
with grace in your hearts.
00:55:26.42\00:55:29.86
Basically, when you sing
Bible songs, the word remains.
00:55:29.86\00:55:39.80
The more you sing, the
more you memorize the word.
00:55:40.04\00:55:42.40
And Eleonore says
songs are prayers.
00:55:43.24\00:55:46.24
And songs are a weapon.
00:55:48.21\00:55:49.84
For instance, when Satan would
attack King Saul, David would
00:55:50.05\00:55:54.95
play and the evil
spirits would run.
00:55:54.95\00:55:57.59
What it would be if our people
would be people singing Bible
00:55:58.92\00:56:03.53
songs?
00:56:03.53\00:56:04.26
Like you
remember the Bible songs?
00:56:04.36\00:56:06.16
Give thanks, give
thanks to the whole.
00:56:08.20\00:56:14.67
Oh, come on, you have a C.
00:56:14.84\00:56:16.04
You should all sing.
00:56:16.04\00:56:17.44
Give thanks because he's giving.
00:56:18.37\00:56:20.54
Now you've got a B.
00:56:21.44\00:56:23.11
Okay, another one.
00:56:23.58\00:56:24.55
Another one.
00:56:24.55\00:56:26.01
Seek ye first.
00:56:26.25\00:56:27.82
Okay, you have an A.
00:56:28.62\00:56:29.82
This one.
00:56:29.88\00:56:30.35
You know this one.
00:56:30.35\00:56:31.75
When I am afraid, I will trust.
00:56:32.32\00:56:34.86
You know this one too.
00:56:35.36\00:56:36.99
This little light of mine.
00:56:39.53\00:56:41.23
You know this one, don't you?
00:56:42.30\00:56:44.00
What it would be if our
people would sing all the time?
00:56:47.37\00:56:50.51
Jesus is coming.
00:56:51.54\00:56:52.57
Coming again.
00:56:54.24\00:56:55.28
He is coming.
00:56:55.68\00:56:56.98
And God through the Holy Spirit
talks to you and says make
00:56:58.11\00:57:02.35
prayer.
00:57:02.35\00:57:03.02
Study of the world.
00:57:03.18\00:57:04.52
The presence of the Holy Spirit.
00:57:05.59\00:57:06.72
The connection, a
continual connection with God.
00:57:07.09\00:57:09.39
Make it a priority.
00:57:09.66\00:57:10.99
If you don't do it today, why
do you think that you are going
00:57:11.29\00:57:14.23
to do it tomorrow?
00:57:14.23\00:57:15.10
If you keep procrastinating.
00:57:16.20\00:57:17.83
Renoir says that by
procrastinating we harden our
00:57:17.83\00:57:20.80
hearts until we are insensitive
to the voice of the Holy
00:57:20.80\00:57:22.97
Spirit.
00:57:22.97\00:57:23.64
Do not play games
with the Holy Spirit.
00:57:23.84\00:57:26.24
If God says start
today, start today.
00:57:26.68\00:57:30.71
How many of you want to
start today to make prayer?
00:57:32.05\00:57:34.78
Study of the world.
00:57:34.98\00:57:35.82
A continual
relationship with God.
00:57:36.38\00:57:37.72
A priority.
00:57:38.09\00:57:38.69
The center of the life.
00:57:39.75\00:57:40.76
The focus of the life.
00:57:40.96\00:57:42.46
Today.
00:57:43.12\00:57:43.32
Amen.
00:57:44.06\00:57:48.26
Do it again.
00:57:48.93\00:57:49.96
Don't give up.
00:57:51.07\00:57:52.63
Because God is
waiting for you to do that.
00:57:53.10\00:57:55.67
Because that's your only safety.
00:57:55.90\00:57:58.47
Moreover in the crisis.
00:57:59.11\00:58:00.34
Amen.
00:58:01.04\00:58:01.28
Let's pray together.
00:58:01.58\00:58:03.01
Father in heaven, prayer
is the greatest privilege.
00:58:04.88\00:58:09.45
We can talk to you the God
of the universe, the most holy.
00:58:09.45\00:58:14.66
Please help us understand
our desperate need for prayer.
00:58:16.86\00:58:20.63
For the world.
00:58:21.26\00:58:21.96
For a continual
connection with you.
00:58:22.63\00:58:24.83
Our desperate need
for the Holy Spirit.
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Our desperate need to be fully
covered by the armor of God.
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And help us to
make it a reality.
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To be not only
listeners, but doers.
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We pray in Jesus name.
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Amen.
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