I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people.
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Hello and welcome
to 3ABN Family Worship.
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We are so excited that
the Sabbath is rolling in,
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and just to get to
welcome the Sabbath with You
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and the rest of our
family here at the table.
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And I am Shelley Quinn.
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I'm JD Quinn, Yes.
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And who's with us?
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Oh, my goodness,
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we're just very
fortunate to have part of our,
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our extended family,
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you know, I mean,
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sometimes your
extended family is closer to you
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than your biological family,
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just 'cause we spend
all the time together.
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We have our
lovely Jill Morikone,
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and next to her is
her mentor, her mom...
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That's right.
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Who is here, Mollie Steenson.
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We have Luis Capote
right here, my good friend.
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And Eric Durant,
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I'm sorry, Eric, my
good friend here also.
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Dear friend. Dear
friend, what did I say?
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You said good
friend. Dear friend.
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Dear good
friend. Dear good friend.
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I don't know, I just know
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I respect both of
you very, very much.
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And this is a special time
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because we have a
special topic tonight.
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The battle belongs to God.
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I think that's what
everybody wants to know.
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Yes, amen. Amen, amen.
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You know, we
just want to thank you
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for joining us tonight,
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and we think you'll be
blessed because what we do
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when, as the Sabbath rolls
in, we're going to sing a song,
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none of us are
going to win any awards,
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but we make a
joyful noise to the Lord.
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And we want you to join us,
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then were going
to study God's words,
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so if you have your
Bible, and maybe a pen and pad,
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you can follow along
with us because it is true.
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I think everyone at this table
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and most of you who
are watching at home,
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you know what it's
like to be in a battle.
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It could be a physical battle,
it could be a mental battle,
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a spiritual battle,
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but it just seems
like there's a whole lot
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that's going on in this world.
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So grab your
pens and your Bibles,
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and now first we want
you to join us as we sing,
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and we've got one
more member of the family
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who is over at the piano
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and that is our
precious Summer Boyd.
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And Summer's going
to be playing for us,
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this is number 469
in the Adventist hymnal,
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but the words are going to
be at the bottom of the screen.
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So join with us,
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you make it sound so much better
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when you sing along with us,
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Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.
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What a fellowship
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What a joy divine
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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What a blessedness
what a peace is mine
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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Leaning, leaning
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Safe and secure from all alarms
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Leaning on
Jesus leaning on Jesus
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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O how sweet to walk
in this pilgrim's way
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leaning on the everlasting arms
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O how bright the
path grows from day to day
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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Leaning, leaning
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Safe and secure from all alarms
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Leaning on
Jesus leaning on Jesus
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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What have I to dread
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What have I to fear
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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I have blessed
peace with my Lord
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So near leaning on
the everlasting arms
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Leaning, leaning
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Safe and secure from all alarms
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Leaning, leaning
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leaning on the everlasting arms
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Amen. Amen. Wow.
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Jill, would you like
to open in prayer, please?
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Sure.
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Holy Father, we come
before You in the name of Jesus,
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and we thank You for
the privilege of Sabbath.
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We thank You for the
privilege of coming apart
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and spending this time with You.
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We invite Your presence,
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we want to come
before You with praise
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and enter your
gates with Thanksgiving
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for who You are
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and for what You've done for us,
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for Your
redemption, and salvation,
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and the privilege we have
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of being called
Your sons and daughters.
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Just now, we ask
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that You would open up
our minds, our understanding,
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as we open up Your Word
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and share with our
brothers and sisters.
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We thank you.
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In the precious
and holy name of Jesus.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen.
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Well, what we're
talking about tonight
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is the battle belongs to God.
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And I want to read
to you an affirmation,
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it's going to take
all of the scriptures
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that we're talking about.
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And this is just,
when we take God's Word
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and we confess it over our life,
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that's an
affirmation of His faithfulness,
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that He is the one
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who will work
these things in our life.
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But here's how it sounds
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if you put all
these scriptures together.
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"When someone or some...
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When something
or someone opposes
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the good plan
God has for my life,
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I realize my struggle is
not against flesh and blood
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but against
spiritual forces of the evil,"
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I can't even talk,
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"evil operating
within the world system.
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I take my stand without fear,
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the battle is the Lord's
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and he will give me the victory.
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God is my very present
help in times of trouble.
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I put my hope
in His Word knowing
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through Him
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I will push back the enemy.
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I have trust and
confidence in God's power
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and authority
over all situations."
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You know, I remember
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when the Lord
first was giving me
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this affirmation and
it was a time that I,
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I mean, I needed it
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because something was
going on and it's amazing.
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As you take God's word
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and as you begin
to pray God's word
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back to Him and
speak it over your life,
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how it totally transforms
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the way you're thinking.
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And all of a sudden,
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it was like I went from
kind of cowering in the,
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in the corner to thinking,
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"I don't have
anything to worry about.
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God's got me covered here."
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And so we wanted to look
at some of the scriptures.
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And, Mollie Sue,
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I think we're going
to let you kick it off
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with Ephesians 6:12-13.
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So Ephesians 6:12-13.
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And, Shelley, you
had this in the NIV,
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so I am going to use that.
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And I want to
start with verse 12,
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kind of break it down,
and then we'll go to verse 13.
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So let's read verse 12,
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"For our struggle is
not against flesh and blood,
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but against the rulers,
against the authorities,
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against the powers
of this dark world,
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and against the
spiritual forces of evil
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in the heavenly realms."
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Now if you all are like me,
I learned God's word without,
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with just the King
James Version of the Bible,
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that's still my
favorite, the King James.
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So this is worded
a little differently
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but the same base is there.
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And I really like the way
this, you know this is worded.
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These verses
describe the spiritual battle
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that exists in the
lives of all believers.
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Now if you don't
think you're in a battle,
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if you're not in a battle
at this moment, you will be.
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And if you, if
you weren't yesterday,
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praise God
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because we are
all, as all believers,
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we have to fight what?
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The good fight of faith.
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And so Paul is simply affirming
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our battle is
spiritual and not physical.
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It is so easy for us
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to lose sight of that fact.
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It is. And it's a fact.
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It is not a physical battle.
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But when your neighbor
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is causing you
all sorts of grief,
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it feels like
it's a physical battle
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but what you don't do
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is go next door and
pull up your neighbor,
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you go to your knees in prayer.
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Now that's what you do.
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Because it's not
a physical battle,
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it's a spiritual battle.
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The enemies we face ultimately
are not people or objects.
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The devil may use
people as part of his attack,
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but our true enemy
isn't other people,
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our enemy is
spiritual in nature.
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I'm reading this.
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And now what Paul
does in this scripture,
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what is, he identifies
the spiritual enemies,
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and that's what I
want to go over with you.
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And I want you all
to kick in anything
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you want to add.
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I tell my Sabbath School class
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where you've got a
group of maybe 20 people,
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the teacher
only knows this much.
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And every one of the people
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who's, they know, so
you put it all together
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and it's so much more effective.
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Amen.
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Okay, Paul identifies
the spiritual enemies.
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This list is interpreted
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as a ranking of demonic armies
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or demonic forces.
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Rulers seems to
indicate a top level.
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"We wrestle not,"
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I'm going to have to
go back to the King James
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because that's what I memorized.
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"We wrestle not
with flesh and blood,
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but we wrestle
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with
principalities, with powers,
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with the rulers of
darkness of this world,
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spiritual
wickedness in high places."
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Now what it
said here in the NIV,
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"Rulers, authorities,
powers of this world,
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and spiritual forces of
evil in the heavenly realm."
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And what that
is, that's rankings.
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Now think about this,
sometimes we will say,
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"Oh, the devil's been
after me all day long."
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And you know,
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demonic forces have
been after you all day long.
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Amen, because the
devil is not omnipresent,
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he is just one little angel.
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Well, I don't want to, I
don't want to say anything,
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he is one angel,
he's a powerful angel,
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but he can't be at
all places at all times.
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Yeah, his might have.
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Yeah, his hordes and
forces have been after you.
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But Jesus, when He
was in the wilderness,
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who confronted Him?
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Devil himself.
The devil himself.
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That's right.
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Now I will never put
myself on the same level
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as the Lord Jesus Christ.
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But am I tormented
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by the forces of hell
and the powers of darkness,
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Yes, I am.
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Principalities, the little dudes
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that run around,
that attack us or powers,
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the ones that may
go after the pastor.
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Principalities,
powers, rulers of darkness,
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that's, and it's
all over the world.
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If you've ever
been to some countries
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where voodoo maybe is the...
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Yes, absolutely.
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Is the religion of the country,
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you can feel the oppressiveness
in those countries,
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and then spiritual
wickedness in high places.
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So that is the
kind of categorizing
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or ranking of demonic forces.
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But then that's telling us
what we're fighting against.
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But verse 13,
now let's go to 13.
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It says, "Therefore,"
do something, what is it?
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"Put on the full armor of God,
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so that when the
day of evil comes,"
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you may not be in
the day of the evil,
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but this assures you that
the day of evil will come,
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"you may be able
to stand your ground,
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and after you've
done everything."
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King James says after
you've done all to stand.
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Now the point I
want to make in this,
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now put on the
whole armor of God,
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I just want you to know here
is the arsenal that you go to,
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the armory I think it is,
the armory that you go to,
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to get your
armor, to get all of this
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that God has
made available to you.
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And now, today is
your day of preparation.
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When you're in
a pleasant meadow,
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when things are peaceful,
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that's when you arm yourself
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because if you wait
till you're in a battle...
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Yes.
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You can't run to
put your armor on.
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You don't memorize scripture
when your head is buzzing
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with all that's
going on around you.
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You memorize that scripture
a little here, a little there,
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layer after
layer, through the years,
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so that when the
enemy comes against you,
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you don't have to go
try to find you a scripture,
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it bubbles up out of you
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because you have armed yourself.
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Now again, this word
is your armory, this...
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And I want to read
something to you about the Word,
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that's in Proverbs 6:20-22.
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Shelley, I
wanted to end with this.
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This is in Proverbs, "My Son..."
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Where did you
say? Proverbs 6:20-22.
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Okay.
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"My son, keep
your Father's command."
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Now what are the
Father's commands?
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It's this Word. That's right.
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"My Son, keep the word of God,"
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keep this word that
your father has given to you.
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"Do not forsake
your mother's teaching."
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What was Bathsheba teaching?
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She was
teaching the Word of God.
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"Bind them
always on your heart,"
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bind what on your heart?
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God's word "Fasten
them around your neck.
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When you walk,"
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and this is one of
my favorite scriptures,
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Proverbs 6:22,
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"When you walk they
will guide you," Yes.
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What will guide you?
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This Word that you
planted in your heart,
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this Word that you've memorized,
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this armor of God
that He has given you
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to come against all
these forces of hell
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that have been
unleashed against us.
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"When you walk
they will guide you,
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when you sleep
they'll watch over you,
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and when you're awake
they'll speak to you."
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So that's the
power of God's Word,
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to watch over
you and protect you.
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So if you're going to
stand during the battle,
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the Bible says,
"Come and get..."
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Or Paul is telling us,
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put on the armor
that God has made.
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Let me just say
this, there was, it says,
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"When you've done all
to stand, stand therefore."
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Okay, do you watch this,
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this little guy
down in Kentucky,
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and he had bought him a horse.
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It was all swaybacked horse,
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you know, that horse
used to be a race horse,
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but it was no sway, it
had seen its best days.
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But he took that
horse to the races,
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he took it to
the Kentucky Derby,
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and he had his
horse over at the corral,
00:17:02.78\00:17:06.55
looking at these
other big majestic horses
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and this guy was just
kind of feeling sorry for him,
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he said, "Son, can
that horse run fast?"
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He said, "No, but it
sure can stand fast."
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Sometimes, watch your
circumstance or situation
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as you may not
be able to run fast,
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honey, you stand fast.
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Amen. Amen.
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You know, I'd like
to bring up a point.
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That's fantastic, Mollie,
great teaching right there.
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Amen But boy, another teaching
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is whenever you
were saying be prepared,
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something happened this morning.
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I'm not going to
date this program
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but it's one degree here.
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I think you dated it.
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And I mean, there
is four inches of snow,
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and probably an inch
of ice underneath that.
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And people yesterday,
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Joe noticed
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that we had three or four people
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that slipped on the ice.
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I mean it's rough right here.
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And, so anyway came into work
this morning, and Joe, Bryan
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who works in the
pastoral department,
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he came up to me and he says,
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"Hey, you mind, could
I borrow these today."
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Well, there was a
pair of ice cleats.
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The irony of this is,
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is that last year we
both bought ice cleats,
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sometimes you got more
money than you got sense.
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I don't remember when but...
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Well, anyway we
both bought ice cleats,
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never in a million
years would I ever thought
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about using ice cleats.
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We need ice
cleats, and so yesterday,
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he says, "Hey, have you
got your ice cleats out?"
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And it's kind of like,
"Duh, I've got ice cleats,
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but I have no idea
where those ice cleats are."
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And this
morning, bless his heart,
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he brings his ice
cleats for me to use.
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Okay, feeling sorry for me.
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The point is, lots of times
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we can buy
everything to be ready,
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but when the
time is really needed,
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"Where did I put em'?"
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And so, you know,
you can learn this Word,
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but you might just put it
under a bushel some place.
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And then I found
out the other day,
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I'm so proud of myself,
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'cause I was looking
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at don't put a
light under a bushel,
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what in the world is a bushel?
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'Cause a former
thinks underneath grain,
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it's an obsolete
word meaning Bowl.
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So don't put your
lamp underneath the bowl
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'cause you can't see anything,
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you know, it's
not going to shine.
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So if you, if you
take the time to learn
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what the Lord has given me here,
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a guide, a guide book to life.
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Have it where you
put your hands on it
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and now say, "Well, you know,
00:19:42.28\00:19:43.61
I've got it at someplace
but I don't know where it is."
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Anyway, great lesson.
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And boy, it just
jumped out at me.
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And so today I
got my ice cleats.
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All right.
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I got, let me clarify that,
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I got Joe's ice cleats.
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But you know the
beautiful thing is God
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wants us to stand in the
armor that He has given to us.
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And you think this
armor is free for the taking,
00:20:06.60\00:20:09.80
as it were for the
asking, for the putting on.
00:20:09.84\00:20:12.97
And how many times do
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we run out
without clothing ourselves
00:20:14.38\00:20:16.98
with the armor that
God has given to us.
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One of the most powerful things
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I love to do is actually
to pray these Scriptures.
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And when I pray them,
00:20:23.52\00:20:24.89
"Thank You, God, for
the helmet of salvation,"
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and pray over that,
00:20:27.32\00:20:28.79
and pray over the
sort of the spirit
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in the
breastplate of righteousness,
00:20:30.59\00:20:32.23
and truth about our loin,
and so as you pray over that,
00:20:32.26\00:20:35.86
it's almost as if
we are being closed
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with the Word of
God and with the power
00:20:38.73\00:20:41.07
that He is given us.
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To give us the
victory in the battle
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and that's just incredible.
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Amen. Amen.
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As we should pray daily. Yeah.
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So my scripture is 2 Chronicles,
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if you want to turn it
into a 2 Chronicles 20,
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and the two
verses are 15 and 17.
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But if I may, I want to back
up just a little bit in verse,
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in chapter 20.
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And to me, verses 15 and
17 are kind of the climax
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of what's been going
on here in the chapter.
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But if we look at
what Jehoshaphat did.
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If we look at verse 1,
00:21:14.64\00:21:16.24
it talks about
the people of Moab,
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the people of Ammon,
00:21:18.01\00:21:19.34
and the Ammonites
came to battle against him.
00:21:19.37\00:21:21.71
So he's the king,
00:21:21.74\00:21:23.08
he's responsible
for all these people
00:21:23.11\00:21:25.25
who are under him.
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And all of a sudden coming
against them is a great battle.
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So you think,
00:21:29.35\00:21:30.69
have you ever
faced a battle at home?
00:21:30.72\00:21:32.12
I know, I certainly have.
00:21:32.15\00:21:34.36
Every day we have battles,
and the battles come against us
00:21:34.39\00:21:37.63
whether we are like the
king in charge of people
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or we are just in
charge of ourselves,
00:21:40.26\00:21:41.86
we still have a
battle that comes against us.
00:21:41.90\00:21:46.10
And so Jehoshaphat
instead of falling apart,
00:21:46.13\00:21:49.27
instead of not
wringing his hands,
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or going out to battle,
Let's look at what he does.
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I think there is four things
00:21:55.08\00:21:56.68
he does before he
comes to verse 15.
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The first thing he
does is he remembers
00:22:00.45\00:22:02.18
what God did in the past.
00:22:02.22\00:22:03.95
We see that in verses 6,7.
00:22:03.99\00:22:07.99
Jehoshaphat had set a fast
and proclaimed all the people
00:22:08.02\00:22:11.06
to seek the Lord.
00:22:11.09\00:22:12.43
And then verse 6,
00:22:12.46\00:22:13.80
he reminds God what
God did for them before.
00:22:13.83\00:22:16.87
He said, "Lord
God of your fathers,
00:22:16.90\00:22:18.57
are You not God in heaven,
00:22:18.60\00:22:20.04
do You not rule
over the kingdoms
00:22:20.07\00:22:22.04
of the nations?
00:22:22.07\00:22:23.41
And in Your hand is
not power and might.
00:22:23.44\00:22:25.81
No one is able to withstand You.
00:22:25.84\00:22:28.08
Are You not our God
00:22:28.11\00:22:30.35
who drove out the
inhabitants of this land
00:22:30.38\00:22:34.52
before your people Israel
00:22:34.55\00:22:36.32
and gave it to the
descendants of Abraham,
00:22:36.35\00:22:38.39
your friend forever."
00:22:38.42\00:22:39.75
So Jehoshaphat is
almost reminding God,
00:22:39.79\00:22:42.66
what God did in the past.
00:22:42.69\00:22:44.59
Now God doesn't
need to be reminded,
00:22:44.63\00:22:46.46
Miss Mollie, of
what he has done,
00:22:46.49\00:22:48.50
he already knows.
00:22:48.53\00:22:50.13
It is for
Jehoshaphat faith to look back
00:22:50.17\00:22:54.54
and to remember
what God did in the past.
00:22:54.57\00:22:56.81
So you might be
facing a huge battle,
00:22:56.84\00:23:00.14
look back and say what
has God done in the past,
00:23:00.18\00:23:03.18
how has He answered
a prayer in the past.
00:23:03.21\00:23:06.01
And remember that,
00:23:06.05\00:23:07.38
remember those past
victories that's number one.
00:23:07.42\00:23:09.68
Number two, he stated a promise,
00:23:09.72\00:23:11.85
from God's word.
00:23:11.89\00:23:13.22
So in other words
he claimed a promise
00:23:13.25\00:23:15.96
over what he was dealing with.
00:23:15.99\00:23:17.76
We see that in verses
8-9, he quotes scripture.
00:23:17.79\00:23:21.40
It talks about,
00:23:21.43\00:23:22.76
"They dwell in it
00:23:22.80\00:23:24.13
and have built
a sanctuary for it
00:23:24.17\00:23:25.50
in your name
saying," verse nine,
00:23:25.53\00:23:26.87
"If disaster comes upon us,
00:23:26.90\00:23:28.77
so are judgment,
pestilence, or famine,
00:23:28.80\00:23:31.11
we will stand before this temple
00:23:31.14\00:23:33.41
and in Your presence
00:23:33.44\00:23:35.14
and cry out to
You in our affliction
00:23:35.18\00:23:37.15
and You will hear and save.
00:23:37.18\00:23:39.01
So he claims a
promise from the Word of God.
00:23:39.05\00:23:41.82
Something previously
that he had already read,
00:23:41.85\00:23:44.05
and that he had studied.
00:23:44.09\00:23:45.42
So when we face our battle
00:23:45.45\00:23:47.06
we remember what
God did in the past.
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Then we claim a promise
from God's word pertaining
00:23:49.29\00:23:53.03
to the battle that
we're dealing with.
00:23:53.06\00:23:55.43
Number three, he
stated the problem.
00:23:55.46\00:23:57.63
That's in verse 10,
and he just reminds God,
00:23:57.67\00:24:00.30
all these people
Ammon, Moab, Mount Seir,
00:24:00.34\00:24:03.10
they have come against us.
00:24:03.14\00:24:05.17
He reminds God.
00:24:05.21\00:24:06.54
Here they are verse 11,
00:24:06.57\00:24:08.04
and wanting to throw
us out of this heritance.
00:24:08.08\00:24:10.81
And then number four,
00:24:10.85\00:24:12.18
he'd simply make
the request before God,
00:24:12.21\00:24:14.78
we see that in verse 12.
00:24:14.82\00:24:16.32
He says, "Oh, our God,
will you not judge them."
00:24:16.35\00:24:18.85
meaning the people who
are coming against him.
00:24:18.89\00:24:21.19
We have no power
against this multitude
00:24:21.22\00:24:23.99
for we do not know what
to do, our eyes are upon You.
00:24:24.03\00:24:28.93
And you know
when we're in battle,
00:24:28.96\00:24:31.07
when we don't know what to do,
00:24:31.10\00:24:33.64
we remember what
God did in the past.
00:24:33.67\00:24:36.07
We remember a
promise from His Word.
00:24:36.10\00:24:38.57
Then we say,
00:24:38.61\00:24:39.94
"God, this is my
problem right now
00:24:39.97\00:24:42.21
and here is my request, I
don't even know what to do."
00:24:42.24\00:24:45.15
And then look at what
God says, the prophet speaks
00:24:45.18\00:24:48.35
and here is our
verses 15 and 17.
00:24:48.38\00:24:51.49
"This is the Spirit of
the Lord came upon Jahaziel.
00:24:51.52\00:24:55.26
So this is what Jahaziel said,
00:24:55.29\00:24:57.33
"Listen, all you of Judah,
00:24:57.36\00:24:59.43
and you
inhabitants of Jerusalem,
00:24:59.46\00:25:01.33
and you king Jehoshaphat,
thus says the Lord to you,
00:25:01.36\00:25:06.00
"Do not be afraid nor dismayed
00:25:06.03\00:25:08.84
because of this
great multitude."
00:25:08.87\00:25:10.84
Don't worry about the battle,
00:25:10.87\00:25:12.21
don't worry about the
things going on in life,
00:25:12.24\00:25:13.84
don't worry
00:25:13.88\00:25:15.21
that the problem
seems insurmountable, why?
00:25:15.24\00:25:18.15
For the battle is not
yours, but it is God's.
00:25:18.18\00:25:23.39
The word for dismayed,
00:25:23.42\00:25:24.82
it says "Do not be
afraid nor dismayed."
00:25:24.85\00:25:26.72
In Hebrew dismayed
means shattered or dismayed,
00:25:26.76\00:25:30.26
and sometimes battles,
problems, they can shatter us.
00:25:30.29\00:25:33.90
Wow, God, I don't
even know what to do here,
00:25:33.93\00:25:36.30
I am completely shattered,
I am completely undone.
00:25:36.33\00:25:41.54
And what does it say, "We
don't have to be shattered.
00:25:41.57\00:25:43.91
We don't have to be dismayed.
We don't have to be afraid.
00:25:43.94\00:25:47.18
The battle is not
ours, it belongs to God."
00:25:47.21\00:25:49.64
And then verse 17,
00:25:49.68\00:25:51.28
"You will not need to
fight in this battle."
00:25:51.31\00:25:55.55
"Position
yourselves," or set yourselves,
00:25:55.58\00:25:58.79
"Stand still and see
the salvation of the Lord
00:25:58.82\00:26:03.02
who is with you,"
00:26:03.06\00:26:04.39
"Oh, Judah and Jerusalem
do not fear or be dismayed.
00:26:04.43\00:26:08.86
Tomorrow go out against them,"
00:26:08.90\00:26:10.93
why, "For the Lord is with you."
00:26:10.97\00:26:14.44
So I don't know what
battle you're facing today,
00:26:14.47\00:26:17.01
but you don't have to be afraid.
00:26:17.04\00:26:19.91
You can go forward
in the strength of God,
00:26:19.94\00:26:22.54
knowing that He has your
back, that He has the front,
00:26:22.58\00:26:25.98
and that He has this battle.
00:26:26.01\00:26:28.15
Amen. Amen, wonderful.
00:26:28.18\00:26:30.35
So he remembered the
past, he claimed the promise,
00:26:30.39\00:26:33.76
he stated the problem,
00:26:33.79\00:26:35.12
he made his
request, God spoke to him.
00:26:35.16\00:26:36.49
Yeah, and then he stood still.
00:26:36.52\00:26:38.09
Absolutely,
that's good, that's good.
00:26:38.13\00:26:39.53
The battle belongs to the Lord.
00:26:39.56\00:26:43.20
Louise, I believe
you've got Exodus 14:14.
00:26:43.23\00:26:46.37
I do, I have Exodus 14:14.
00:26:46.40\00:26:49.24
And you know when you
called me for this program
00:26:49.27\00:26:52.31
and The Battle Belongs To God.
00:26:52.34\00:26:54.41
Just yesterday,
I received an email
00:26:54.44\00:26:56.38
that somebody sent
me, they said that,
00:26:56.41\00:26:58.98
"Fear is the
enemies greatest tool."
00:26:59.01\00:27:02.62
You know, when I'm
reading through that
00:27:02.65\00:27:04.39
and I'm talking
and I'm wondering,
00:27:04.42\00:27:05.85
and all of a sudden,
you called me, you send me,
00:27:05.89\00:27:08.29
you know, an
invite a while back,
00:27:08.32\00:27:10.29
and then I remembered.
00:27:10.33\00:27:12.19
If the battle belongs to God,
00:27:12.23\00:27:15.36
then where does fear
fit into the equation?
00:27:15.40\00:27:19.93
You know, I went
back and I'll read that,
00:27:19.97\00:27:22.50
let me read that first
00:27:22.54\00:27:23.87
'cause Exodus 14:14,
"The Lord will fight for you."
00:27:23.91\00:27:28.98
You know, that's what you ladies
00:27:29.01\00:27:30.35
have been talking about.
00:27:30.38\00:27:31.71
God will fight for you.
00:27:31.75\00:27:33.08
He tells you all the
time, don't fear and instead,
00:27:33.11\00:27:35.08
but guess what
you get to do? Oh.
00:27:35.12\00:27:37.92
Oh, this is... This
is the beautiful part.
00:27:37.95\00:27:39.29
And you shall hold your peace.
00:27:39.32\00:27:42.72
You see, many of us feel
00:27:42.76\00:27:44.29
that we need to do
something in this battle.
00:27:44.33\00:27:47.66
When we are,
00:27:47.70\00:27:49.26
usually when
you are in the Army,
00:27:49.30\00:27:50.63
I don't know,
there's the individuals,
00:27:50.67\00:27:52.00
I have never been,
00:27:52.03\00:27:53.37
but I know that you
need to take commands
00:27:53.40\00:27:55.17
from the
leaders, from the General,
00:27:55.20\00:27:57.87
and then you
just follow through.
00:27:57.91\00:27:59.57
You don't get to
insert your battle plans,
00:27:59.61\00:28:02.58
you don't get to
make your own decisions,
00:28:02.61\00:28:05.21
you don't get to
go chase a rabbit,
00:28:05.25\00:28:07.28
you know, idea on your side.
00:28:07.32\00:28:09.95
You follow
exactly what the Generals
00:28:09.98\00:28:12.55
and what all the
leaders before you put together.
00:28:12.59\00:28:15.42
So the same thing happens here.
00:28:15.46\00:28:17.43
When you, when the
battle belongs to God,
00:28:17.46\00:28:20.63
your job is to sit back,
00:28:20.66\00:28:22.96
your job is to take
and learn the manual,
00:28:23.00\00:28:26.80
make sure that you're following
00:28:26.84\00:28:28.20
the manual that God
has put together for you,
00:28:28.24\00:28:31.17
and make sure that you
don't follow it partly,
00:28:31.21\00:28:35.64
you don't take pieces here
00:28:35.68\00:28:37.15
and pieces there to
fit your, your way of life.
00:28:37.18\00:28:41.42
You will follow 100%.
00:28:41.45\00:28:43.25
When you put in
the armor of God,
00:28:43.28\00:28:45.25
you're making
sure that it is God
00:28:45.29\00:28:47.46
who is being seen through you,
00:28:47.49\00:28:48.82
not you who is
being seen through God.
00:28:48.86\00:28:51.29
And when I looked at
this, and I look at my past,
00:28:51.33\00:28:53.53
and I come from a
communist country,
00:28:53.56\00:28:55.56
and I have seen
the way God works.
00:28:55.60\00:29:00.34
I have studied,
I have, we started,
00:29:00.37\00:29:03.51
started a church back in
Shreveport, Spanish church.
00:29:03.54\00:29:08.01
And I remember one day
00:29:08.04\00:29:09.44
where we're brought this pastor,
00:29:09.48\00:29:11.78
I know I've
mentioned that before,
00:29:11.81\00:29:13.35
but we brought this pastor
and nobody was showing up,
00:29:13.38\00:29:16.75
and we made all this expenses.
00:29:16.79\00:29:18.19
I went to pray,
and I went praying,
00:29:18.22\00:29:19.95
and that church
got filled completely
00:29:19.99\00:29:22.02
because when you are,
00:29:22.06\00:29:24.43
when you allow God
to fight your battles,
00:29:24.46\00:29:28.46
that's when you're
going to see the victories.
00:29:28.50\00:29:30.77
You know, a few weeks ago
00:29:30.80\00:29:32.13
I'm coming out of
the prison ministry
00:29:32.17\00:29:34.30
and there's this one guy
that does not want to come back
00:29:34.34\00:29:36.97
and he says, "I'm
sorry, you believe in the law
00:29:37.01\00:29:40.64
and we are under
grace, we're no longer,
00:29:40.68\00:29:42.68
you have nothing to teach
me, I'm not going to come back.
00:29:42.71\00:29:45.28
I came out of
there so heartbroken.
00:29:45.31\00:29:47.98
And as I am driving, I said,
"Lord, I cannot win them all."
00:29:48.02\00:29:53.59
and He says,
00:29:53.62\00:29:54.96
"Excuse me, I am God,
and they're my Children.
00:29:54.99\00:29:58.79
And you are not the one
that who does the winning."
00:29:58.83\00:30:00.90
"You're the one
that does the seeding,
00:30:00.93\00:30:03.06
I'm the one that
takes care of everything.
00:30:03.10\00:30:04.53
The battle
belongs to me, not you.
00:30:04.57\00:30:08.40
You need to be faithful
00:30:08.44\00:30:09.90
and watch me
show you the victory."
00:30:09.94\00:30:12.37
So when we look at this aspect
and we understand that fear
00:30:12.41\00:30:17.05
should never
enter into our hearts.
00:30:17.08\00:30:21.28
How easy is that to say?
00:30:21.32\00:30:23.59
Easy to say, hard to
do. How hard is that to do?
00:30:23.62\00:30:27.16
You know, when
you're coming out of,
00:30:27.19\00:30:29.09
when we moved from
Cuba to Costa Rica,
00:30:29.12\00:30:32.69
Jill, we couldn't
take anything out.
00:30:32.73\00:30:35.20
We had the clothes
that was in our back,
00:30:35.23\00:30:38.50
we had maybe
one bag of clothing.
00:30:38.53\00:30:40.90
And we're going to a country
00:30:40.94\00:30:42.27
that we don't know
who the individuals are.
00:30:42.30\00:30:44.57
Wow.
00:30:44.61\00:30:45.94
When we moved from
Costa Rica to Canada,
00:30:45.97\00:30:48.34
we're going, my father thought
we're going to the North Pole,
00:30:48.38\00:30:51.11
'cause I mean, that's
where you see in the map.
00:30:51.15\00:30:53.95
And I remember my
father in the Chicago Airport
00:30:53.98\00:30:56.52
crying like I've
never seen him cry
00:30:56.55\00:30:58.25
because not only was it winter,
00:30:58.29\00:31:02.29
it was about five
feet of snow in the ground,
00:31:02.32\00:31:05.56
we had no idea
about the language.
00:31:05.59\00:31:08.30
The only word, the only phrase
I knew in English was sit down,
00:31:08.33\00:31:12.07
that's the only thing
that I knew to say in English.
00:31:12.10\00:31:14.87
And we're coming into
this harsh environment.
00:31:14.90\00:31:17.44
So if you don't understand
that the battle belongs to God,
00:31:17.47\00:31:21.38
then you have not tested,
you have not followed exactly
00:31:21.41\00:31:26.72
what the
instructions are talking about.
00:31:26.75\00:31:28.82
Because when we look
00:31:28.85\00:31:30.19
at every
individuals in the Bible
00:31:30.22\00:31:32.22
like you have just
read, the only time
00:31:32.25\00:31:35.19
that they actually
experienced victory,
00:31:35.22\00:31:37.76
the only times that
they actually understood,
00:31:37.79\00:31:39.49
it's when they were following
00:31:39.53\00:31:40.96
the complete
battle instructions,
00:31:41.00\00:31:44.43
and that's when the enemy
sends the different commanders,
00:31:44.47\00:31:49.54
and He keeps on raising
the bars of individuals.
00:31:49.57\00:31:52.37
Maybe right now
you're only dealing with,
00:31:52.41\00:31:54.84
you know, the lower
commands of the enemy,
00:31:54.88\00:31:58.61
but as you start
being the head elder,
00:31:58.65\00:32:00.78
as you start
being the in-charge,
00:32:00.82\00:32:02.68
as you start
being the GM of 3ABN,
00:32:02.72\00:32:05.72
I'm quite sure, Miss Mollie,
that when you first started,
00:32:05.75\00:32:08.66
and I know Miss
Jil is experiencing
00:32:08.69\00:32:10.39
probably this at this moment,
your battle started exclament,
00:32:10.43\00:32:15.66
you know, greater and
greater as you started relying
00:32:15.70\00:32:19.03
more and more on God.
00:32:19.07\00:32:20.44
And this is what this tells you.
00:32:20.47\00:32:23.51
Stop, analyze your
life, look at who's in charge,
00:32:23.54\00:32:29.38
and then if that's His battle,
00:32:29.41\00:32:31.08
sit back and
enjoy all the benefits.
00:32:31.11\00:32:34.85
You know, the
part of this scripture
00:32:34.88\00:32:38.22
that gets me
00:32:38.25\00:32:39.59
when he says the
Lord will fight for you,
00:32:39.62\00:32:41.22
you shall hold your peace.
00:32:41.26\00:32:43.06
I think there are times
when we get under attack.
00:32:43.09\00:32:45.53
And what we like to do
is rehearse our problem.
00:32:45.56\00:32:48.90
We like to whine,
00:32:48.93\00:32:50.27
we like to tell
people all about it in the,
00:32:50.30\00:32:53.90
"Oh, fate! Oh, it's me?"
00:32:53.94\00:32:55.54
You know, you
know what I'm saying.
00:32:55.57\00:32:57.37
Oh, yeah.
00:32:57.41\00:32:58.74
And I think sometimes
00:32:58.77\00:33:01.28
we are not very good
witnesses for the Lord
00:33:01.31\00:33:07.78
when, I mean, there's one
thing just to state your case,
00:33:07.82\00:33:11.29
but when you just
continually rehearse a problem,
00:33:11.32\00:33:14.46
it's like you don't have faith
that God is really working.
00:33:14.49\00:33:17.46
So when He says hold your peace,
00:33:17.49\00:33:20.03
I think, sometimes He is
talking about lock it up.
00:33:20.06\00:33:24.10
Yeah, you can talk
yourself right out of faith.
00:33:24.13\00:33:26.90
You can read God's Word.
00:33:26.94\00:33:29.17
And when you start
rehearsing your problem,
00:33:29.20\00:33:31.51
what you're rehearsing
it, what you're talking
00:33:31.54\00:33:33.38
about becomes
bigger than this Word
00:33:33.41\00:33:35.48
that you keep in your heart.
00:33:35.51\00:33:37.41
Keep your mouth shut,
00:33:37.45\00:33:38.78
take advantage
of every opportunity
00:33:38.81\00:33:40.75
to keep your mouth shut.
00:33:40.78\00:33:44.15
As Jason so often,
00:33:44.19\00:33:46.39
Jason Bradley so
often reminds us,
00:33:46.42\00:33:49.09
"God made us with
two ears and one mouth,
00:33:49.12\00:33:51.53
so we ought to be doing twice
as much listening as talking."
00:33:51.56\00:33:54.13
Amen. Amen.
00:33:54.16\00:33:55.96
Thank you so much,
Louise, that's good thoughts,
00:33:56.00\00:33:59.03
good thoughts.
00:33:59.07\00:34:00.40
JD?
00:34:00.44\00:34:01.77
Okay, I've got
two scriptures here.
00:34:01.80\00:34:04.51
But I'm going to give
you five. Fair enough?
00:34:04.54\00:34:07.48
Because they're
short and they're good.
00:34:07.51\00:34:09.84
One of the big issues
00:34:09.88\00:34:11.21
that we come back
today is bullying.
00:34:11.25\00:34:13.52
You know, a lot of
people understand bullying,
00:34:13.55\00:34:17.39
how it is to be pushed around
00:34:17.42\00:34:18.75
when somebody and
you've done nothing wrong.
00:34:18.79\00:34:20.82
Well, boy, there's a spiritual
bullying going on all the time.
00:34:20.86\00:34:24.86
You know,
there's those little nets
00:34:24.89\00:34:26.26
that are just going around,
00:34:26.29\00:34:27.63
you're just
flatting all the time,
00:34:27.66\00:34:29.00
it's called
harassment, you know.
00:34:29.03\00:34:30.40
And there's an enemy
just trying to wear us down,
00:34:30.43\00:34:32.57
wear us down.
00:34:32.60\00:34:33.94
Do we have any value?
00:34:33.97\00:34:35.97
I'm going to give
you these scriptures,
00:34:36.00\00:34:37.77
you can write them down
00:34:37.81\00:34:39.14
if you'd like
to write them down,
00:34:39.17\00:34:40.51
then we'll just take
a little trip together.
00:34:40.54\00:34:42.14
Psalms 46:1, Psalms 46:1.
00:34:42.18\00:34:46.61
Nahum 1:7,
00:34:46.65\00:34:48.88
Nahum 1:7.
00:34:48.92\00:34:52.95
Psalms 23:4,
00:34:52.99\00:34:56.99
Isaiah 40:29,
00:34:57.03\00:35:00.60
and Psalms 48:14.
00:35:00.63\00:35:04.43
Now we're going to take
a little trip real quick,
00:35:04.47\00:35:05.87
all right?
00:35:05.90\00:35:07.24
48:14? That's Psalms 48:14.
00:35:07.27\00:35:11.27
And I'm just going
to go through them,
00:35:11.31\00:35:12.64
you got your
homework assignments,
00:35:12.67\00:35:14.01
you can connect your dots.
00:35:14.04\00:35:16.95
Psalms 46:1, the very first one,
00:35:16.98\00:35:19.21
"God is our
refuge and our strength."
00:35:19.25\00:35:21.05
Remember, we're
talking about bullying,
00:35:21.08\00:35:23.35
whether it be on this earth,
00:35:23.39\00:35:25.09
whether it be out here
in this spiritual realm,
00:35:25.12\00:35:28.72
"God is our
refuge and our strength,
00:35:28.76\00:35:30.49
a very present help
in the time of trouble."
00:35:30.53\00:35:32.89
Oh, thank you,
Jesus, that we can call you.
00:35:32.93\00:35:35.33
Remember that
He's a present help.
00:35:35.36\00:35:37.03
He's not saying,
00:35:37.07\00:35:38.40
"Hey, let me go have lunch
00:35:38.43\00:35:39.77
and then I'll
get back with you."
00:35:39.80\00:35:42.04
Very present help
in the time of trouble.
00:35:42.07\00:35:44.64
But we also need to
remember that the Lord is good,
00:35:44.67\00:35:47.24
He's a stronghold
in the day of trouble.
00:35:47.28\00:35:49.64
So whenever that bullying comes,
00:35:49.68\00:35:51.21
whatever that issue is,
00:35:51.25\00:35:52.78
a stronghold in
the day of trouble
00:35:52.81\00:35:54.55
and He knows
those that trust Him.
00:35:54.58\00:35:57.35
Well, now we just take that era,
00:35:57.39\00:35:59.19
if you put this
on a white board,
00:35:59.22\00:36:00.76
put all these in a white
board, and we take that era,
00:36:00.79\00:36:03.63
He knows those that trust him.
00:36:03.66\00:36:04.99
Now we go right back to 46:1,
00:36:05.03\00:36:07.30
"He is our
refuge and our strength,
00:36:07.33\00:36:08.96
and He is a very present
help in the time of trouble."
00:36:09.00\00:36:12.57
But then we remember
that, "Wait a minute, JD,
00:36:12.60\00:36:16.50
I've given you
that special promise
00:36:16.54\00:36:18.31
in Psalms 23:4"
00:36:18.34\00:36:19.97
"Yea, though I walk
00:36:20.01\00:36:21.34
through the valley of
the shadow of death..."
00:36:21.38\00:36:23.14
Let's just add this on there.
00:36:23.18\00:36:25.61
"Yea, though I walk
00:36:25.65\00:36:26.98
through the valley
of the shadow of death,"
00:36:27.02\00:36:28.35
yea, whether it be
the shadow of fear,
00:36:28.38\00:36:31.15
I will fear no evil,
00:36:31.19\00:36:32.55
"For You are with me,"
and then he's saying that,
00:36:32.59\00:36:36.69
"Your," talking about God, okay.
00:36:36.73\00:36:40.23
He's," Jesus," I'll take
out that big old wooden club,
00:36:40.26\00:36:45.00
I got that staff
00:36:45.03\00:36:46.37
that'll keep you
strong on your feet.
00:36:46.40\00:36:49.30
Because I know
00:36:49.34\00:36:50.67
that you're there to comfort me.
00:36:50.71\00:36:52.87
Boy, what a
promise! That's right.
00:36:52.91\00:36:54.58
You know, I don't care
00:36:54.61\00:36:55.94
if the enemy's got a big
stick and he comes after you.
00:36:55.98\00:36:59.15
God's got a bigger stick. Amen.
00:36:59.18\00:37:01.88
In fact, I understand
that He could just blow on him.
00:37:01.92\00:37:04.85
That's right.
00:37:04.89\00:37:06.86
But anyway, and
they could disappear.
00:37:06.89\00:37:09.52
Amen.
00:37:09.56\00:37:10.89
I mean, that's got my respect.
00:37:10.93\00:37:14.66
And then Isaiah 40:29,
"He gives power to the weak."
00:37:14.70\00:37:20.04
So you know,
sometimes as strong as you think
00:37:20.07\00:37:22.54
that you may be,
00:37:22.57\00:37:24.17
but He does give
power to the weak
00:37:24.21\00:37:25.94
and to those who have no might.
00:37:25.97\00:37:27.94
"He increases their strength."
00:37:27.98\00:37:30.71
And then in
ending, "For this is God,
00:37:30.75\00:37:33.78
our God forever and ever,"
00:37:33.82\00:37:36.62
and it makes, you
know, He'll be with us today,
00:37:36.65\00:37:39.55
He'll be with us tomorrow,
He'll even be with us in death.
00:37:39.59\00:37:44.03
What a bunch of promises
that you can take to the bank.
00:37:44.06\00:37:47.73
Amen. Amen.
00:37:47.76\00:37:49.43
So I know that
there's been sometimes
00:37:49.46\00:37:51.80
when you and I
had to just hold fast
00:37:51.83\00:37:53.80
to these promises.
00:37:53.84\00:37:55.17
Oh, my goodness. My goodness.
00:37:55.20\00:37:56.54
And trust them
00:37:56.57\00:37:57.91
that God would be
who He says He will be.
00:37:57.94\00:38:01.41
I think mine kind
of bounces off that.
00:38:01.44\00:38:05.38
So let's look at the scripture
00:38:05.41\00:38:08.52
that I want to share with you is
00:38:08.55\00:38:13.49
Psalm 119:114.
00:38:13.52\00:38:18.69
And the Psalmist
says, speaking to God,
00:38:18.73\00:38:23.47
"You are my hiding
place and my shield.
00:38:23.50\00:38:28.47
I hope in Your Word."
00:38:28.50\00:38:31.64
You know when you think
about what is he saying here.
00:38:31.67\00:38:37.48
He's saying, "God,
you are my protector.
00:38:37.51\00:38:42.52
You are my refuge.
You are my asylum."
00:38:42.55\00:38:49.16
And we hide
within His protection
00:38:49.19\00:38:54.16
from those who would harm us.
00:38:54.20\00:38:56.36
You know, you
think of all the people,
00:38:56.40\00:38:58.97
the Bible characters
who've been through this,
00:38:59.00\00:39:01.37
but it's something
00:39:01.40\00:39:02.94
that's going on in your
life and my life right now
00:39:02.97\00:39:05.71
that God is our hiding place.
00:39:05.74\00:39:09.54
And so, he says,
00:39:09.58\00:39:11.21
but he doesn't just say
you are my hiding place,
00:39:11.25\00:39:13.85
he says, "You are my shield"
00:39:13.88\00:39:16.05
So, God will take care of us,
00:39:16.08\00:39:19.39
he will cover us with
His shield of protection
00:39:19.42\00:39:23.96
that will protect us
00:39:23.99\00:39:25.69
from the fiery
darts of the enemy, right?
00:39:25.73\00:39:29.86
That's right.
00:39:29.90\00:39:31.23
He will protect us
from the temptation,
00:39:31.27\00:39:32.80
He won't let us be tempted
00:39:32.83\00:39:34.70
beyond what we can be
tempted or can bear up under.
00:39:34.74\00:39:39.54
But, I think what the
Psalmist is just doing here is,
00:39:39.57\00:39:45.38
he is explaining his
total dependence up on God.
00:39:45.41\00:39:48.28
That's right. That's good.
00:39:48.32\00:39:49.65
And in upon
God's sustaining grace
00:39:49.68\00:39:52.52
according to His inspired work.
00:39:52.55\00:39:56.66
You know, when we read the Word,
00:39:56.69\00:39:58.76
and I so
appreciate everyone has made
00:39:58.79\00:40:01.03
that focus about
getting in the word.
00:40:01.06\00:40:05.33
Because I think
when we read the word,
00:40:05.37\00:40:09.60
we have a great
ground for confidence.
00:40:09.64\00:40:11.77
Yes.
00:40:11.81\00:40:13.14
Because this is my
hope is in your Word.
00:40:13.17\00:40:16.78
Hope in the Greek is different
00:40:16.81\00:40:19.18
than we use hope in the English.
00:40:19.21\00:40:21.38
Hope in the
Greek was intentional,
00:40:21.42\00:40:24.72
it was eager expectation...
00:40:24.75\00:40:27.72
Wow!
00:40:27.76\00:40:29.09
Intentional, eager expectation.
00:40:29.12\00:40:32.36
So we get in to the Word
00:40:32.39\00:40:34.86
and we know that
His Word enables us
00:40:34.90\00:40:38.97
to see the right
path in this dark world.
00:40:39.00\00:40:42.20
I mean, it's a
light to our feet,
00:40:42.24\00:40:44.44
a lamp to our feet,
a light to our path.
00:40:44.47\00:40:48.11
And we know that He empowers us
00:40:48.14\00:40:52.71
by His Word, does He not?
00:40:52.75\00:40:54.75
So, as we get in to
this word, I love...
00:40:54.78\00:40:57.25
If you look at
Psalms 119:116-117
00:40:57.29\00:41:02.02
what he says, after he says,
00:41:02.06\00:41:04.03
"I have put my
hope in your word",
00:41:04.06\00:41:05.39
he says, "Uphold me
according to your word
00:41:05.43\00:41:08.66
that I may live."
00:41:08.70\00:41:11.37
See, he is putting his hope,
00:41:11.40\00:41:12.73
he eagerly expects God to
put these promises into effect.
00:41:12.77\00:41:17.47
He says, "Do not let
me be ashamed of my hope,"
00:41:17.51\00:41:20.64
of my eager expectation,
00:41:20.68\00:41:22.81
"Hold me up and I shall be safe,
00:41:22.84\00:41:25.88
and I shall observe
your statues continually."
00:41:25.91\00:41:29.92
So, Lord, I know
I am saved by grace,
00:41:29.95\00:41:32.45
I know that You
are my hiding place
00:41:32.49\00:41:34.69
in my shield.
00:41:34.72\00:41:36.06
I put my hope in Your word,
00:41:36.09\00:41:38.09
I will walk in obedience
'cause You empower me to.
00:41:38.13\00:41:41.86
Now, I want to
take this real quickly
00:41:41.90\00:41:44.57
and imply it to
the New Testament.
00:41:44.60\00:41:47.50
Because I believe
00:41:47.54\00:41:49.70
there is a New
Testament, this is perfect,
00:41:49.74\00:41:53.41
when in psalms
119:114, when he says,
00:41:53.44\00:41:56.01
"You are my hiding
place" Colossians 3:3 says,
00:41:56.04\00:42:00.38
"For you have
died," died to this world,
00:42:00.42\00:42:05.39
"and your life is hidden
00:42:05.42\00:42:09.39
with Christ in God."
00:42:09.42\00:42:12.16
Amen!
00:42:12.19\00:42:13.53
See, our life, our
eternal security is,
00:42:13.56\00:42:18.93
it is concealed, it is safe.
00:42:18.97\00:42:22.74
Christ is our
source of salvation,
00:42:22.77\00:42:26.14
He is our source of
life, He is our protection,
00:42:26.17\00:42:30.18
He is our security, is He not?
00:42:30.21\00:42:33.52
And it doesn't
matter what the conflict is,
00:42:33.55\00:42:36.28
what the temptation is,
00:42:36.32\00:42:38.65
you know even
when we are battling
00:42:38.69\00:42:40.46
against these wicked
forces in high places.
00:42:40.49\00:42:46.93
When we are hidden
with Christ in God,
00:42:46.96\00:42:49.96
we can say, "Halleluiah,
You are my hiding place.
00:42:50.00\00:42:54.20
Halleluiah, You are my shield,
I put my hope in Your Word."
00:42:54.24\00:42:58.21
But when you think about this,
00:42:58.24\00:43:01.04
one of my favorite promises
in the bible is Hebrews 7:22,
00:43:01.08\00:43:05.85
Hebrews 7:22 says that,
00:43:05.88\00:43:09.22
"Christ is the
surety of the new covenant."
00:43:09.25\00:43:14.96
That means Christ
00:43:14.99\00:43:16.59
is the guarantor
of the new covenant.
00:43:16.62\00:43:20.13
He is God's guaranteed to us.
00:43:20.16\00:43:24.80
That, 2 Corinthians, 1:20,
00:43:24.83\00:43:27.20
"All of God's promises are ours,
00:43:27.24\00:43:29.57
yes and amen in Christ."
00:43:29.60\00:43:30.94
That's right.
00:43:30.97\00:43:32.31
So, He is God's guarantee to us
00:43:32.34\00:43:35.51
that all of God's
promises are ours,
00:43:35.54\00:43:37.68
but guess what,
00:43:37.71\00:43:39.48
He's, in this new
covenant relationship,
00:43:39.51\00:43:43.79
God expects covenant loyalty,
we show our love for Him, how?
00:43:43.82\00:43:48.89
If you love me,
keep my commandments.
00:43:48.92\00:43:52.73
Jesus is our guarantee to God
00:43:52.76\00:43:57.27
because Jesus
says, "Yes, Father.
00:43:57.30\00:44:00.54
I will work in them
00:44:00.57\00:44:01.90
to who are
willing to do my good,
00:44:01.94\00:44:03.34
your good
pleasure by the spirit."
00:44:03.37\00:44:06.31
So, He is, He says,
00:44:06.34\00:44:08.58
"Lord, I will complete
the good work that I began."
00:44:08.61\00:44:12.71
So, God, because of Christ,
he is that two way guarantee,
00:44:12.75\00:44:17.19
he is the
surety of the covenant.
00:44:17.22\00:44:19.32
So I can, both of I
say, He is my hiding place,
00:44:19.35\00:44:24.63
no matter what the battle
is the battle belongs to Him,
00:44:24.66\00:44:28.26
and, He is my shield, I
put my hope in His word.
00:44:28.30\00:44:33.44
And I just think that's,
00:44:33.47\00:44:35.44
to me that's the
application that God gave me
00:44:35.47\00:44:37.91
as I looked at the
scripture this moment.
00:44:37.94\00:44:39.37
Amen! Amen!
00:44:39.41\00:44:41.08
That's beautiful.
00:44:41.11\00:44:42.44
Well, okay.
00:44:42.48\00:44:45.28
Eric. Okay.
00:44:45.31\00:44:47.22
So, the Verse that I picked
00:44:47.25\00:44:49.25
was Psalms 44:5-8,
00:44:49.28\00:44:53.42
and I am going to
read from the NIV version.
00:44:53.46\00:44:57.23
"Through You we
push back our enemies,
00:44:57.26\00:44:59.96
through Your name
we trample our force,
00:45:00.00\00:45:02.83
You gave us
victory over our enemies,
00:45:02.86\00:45:05.50
in God we make our
boast all day long."
00:45:05.53\00:45:11.14
When I read this
first, I think of the enemies
00:45:11.17\00:45:13.34
that we all have outside,
00:45:13.38\00:45:16.88
but I think that the enemy
00:45:16.91\00:45:18.25
that we have inside
is even more insidious
00:45:18.28\00:45:21.28
and more dangerous
00:45:21.32\00:45:22.65
than the one we
have on the outside.
00:45:22.68\00:45:24.09
Wow!
00:45:24.12\00:45:25.95
Jeremiah 17:9 says,
00:45:25.99\00:45:28.22
"The heart is
desperately wicked,
00:45:28.26\00:45:31.09
who can know it."
00:45:31.13\00:45:33.50
God gives us the
most wonderful gift
00:45:33.53\00:45:37.47
that He could give anyone.
00:45:37.50\00:45:39.73
In my opinion, it's
the gift of free will,
00:45:39.77\00:45:43.67
it's the gift of choice.
00:45:43.71\00:45:45.97
When we use that choice,
00:45:46.01\00:45:47.34
that free ill to serve Him
faithfully, it's a blessing.
00:45:47.38\00:45:52.75
But when we use that
to rebel against the Lord,
00:45:52.78\00:45:56.55
we become the enemy inside.
00:45:56.58\00:46:00.19
I was thinking of a
story that I read years ago,
00:46:00.22\00:46:05.69
it's a historic,
it's a historical story
00:46:05.73\00:46:07.60
about a submarine
called the USS Thresher.
00:46:07.63\00:46:12.27
The USS Thresher
00:46:12.30\00:46:13.64
was deployed in 1963
00:46:13.67\00:46:18.77
and had crew about 153 men,
00:46:18.81\00:46:24.08
and it was on its first cruise.
00:46:24.11\00:46:26.95
And the submarine, it
was on a test cruise to see
00:46:26.98\00:46:29.58
how everything worked
00:46:29.62\00:46:30.95
and it would
descend to different depths
00:46:30.99\00:46:33.19
and then it would go
through its test to see
00:46:33.22\00:46:34.69
how well everything is working.
00:46:34.72\00:46:37.13
Well, when it
descended to its deepest depth,
00:46:37.16\00:46:39.79
suddenly the navy
lost total contact with it,
00:46:39.83\00:46:43.33
and for three days
00:46:43.37\00:46:44.70
they searched
for this submarine,
00:46:44.73\00:46:47.10
and when they finally found it,
it was sitting on the bottom,
00:46:47.14\00:46:50.31
and it was crushed
by the water pressure,
00:46:50.34\00:46:54.61
that thousands and thousands
00:46:54.64\00:46:56.08
of pounds per square
inch of water pressure
00:46:56.11\00:46:58.08
crushed this submarine.
00:46:58.11\00:46:59.51
Oh, how sad.
00:46:59.55\00:47:01.55
But the interesting thing is,
00:47:01.58\00:47:04.09
around the crushed
hole of the submarine
00:47:04.12\00:47:07.26
were fish
swimming around oblivious
00:47:07.29\00:47:10.59
to this water pressure.
00:47:10.63\00:47:12.39
And I thought,
00:47:12.43\00:47:13.76
why are they oblivious
to this water pressure,
00:47:13.80\00:47:16.46
when the best
that man could built
00:47:16.50\00:47:19.03
was crushed like an egg shell.
00:47:19.07\00:47:21.24
How are these fish immune?
00:47:21.27\00:47:23.27
And what it turns
out... That's a great point.
00:47:23.30\00:47:24.94
What it turns out
being is that the pressure,
00:47:24.97\00:47:28.94
the resistance pressure
within the fish is as strong
00:47:28.98\00:47:33.28
as the pressure
pressing down on the fish,
00:47:33.31\00:47:36.72
so they don't notice it.
00:47:36.75\00:47:39.85
When Christ abides in us... Wow.
00:47:39.89\00:47:42.59
Oh, that's God.
This is really good.
00:47:42.62\00:47:45.29
The Holy Spirit, not
only does He displace
00:47:45.33\00:47:49.36
that wickedness
in our own heart,
00:47:49.40\00:47:52.20
but He applies
that resistance for us.
00:47:52.23\00:47:55.17
The counter pressure
to the external enemy
00:47:55.20\00:47:58.34
that only wants to crush us,
00:47:58.37\00:48:00.81
and this boat comes to
mind every time I think of that.
00:48:00.84\00:48:06.28
One of my favorite verses is
00:48:06.31\00:48:08.22
Psalms 119:97-105,
00:48:08.25\00:48:13.96
and I hope that I
have time to read this.
00:48:13.99\00:48:15.69
You do.
00:48:15.72\00:48:17.23
First, tell me again,
that was called the USS, what?
00:48:17.26\00:48:20.73
The USS Thresher, 1960, 1963,
00:48:20.76\00:48:25.50
somewhere in that range.
00:48:25.53\00:48:27.14
Thresher.
00:48:27.17\00:48:28.50
I am going to
read Psalms 119:97-105.
00:48:28.54\00:48:33.14
Okay.
00:48:33.17\00:48:34.88
I read this all the time.
00:48:34.91\00:48:38.15
"Oh, how I love Your law,
it is my meditation all day.
00:48:38.18\00:48:43.25
You through Your commandments
make me wiser than my enemies,
00:48:43.28\00:48:47.06
for they are ever with me.
00:48:47.09\00:48:49.92
I have more understanding
than all my teachers
00:48:49.96\00:48:52.99
for your
testimonies are my meditation.
00:48:53.03\00:48:56.50
I understand
more than the ancients
00:48:56.53\00:48:58.37
because I keep your precepts.
00:48:58.40\00:49:00.94
I have restrained my
feet from every evil way
00:49:00.97\00:49:04.27
that I may keep Your Word.
00:49:04.31\00:49:06.44
I have not departed
from Your judgments,
00:49:06.47\00:49:09.11
for You
yourself have taught me."
00:49:09.14\00:49:11.91
This is my favorite part,
00:49:11.95\00:49:13.42
"How sweet are
your words to my taste,
00:49:13.45\00:49:17.15
sweeter than honey to my mouth."
00:49:17.19\00:49:20.22
It was delicious, the
word of God was delicious.
00:49:20.26\00:49:24.09
"Through Your precepts,
00:49:24.13\00:49:25.46
I get understanding therefore
I hate every false way.
00:49:25.49\00:49:30.17
Your word is a lamp to my
feet and a light to my path."
00:49:30.20\00:49:35.24
Amen! Amen!
00:49:35.27\00:49:37.11
Proverbs 1:33...
00:49:37.14\00:49:39.37
Proverbs 1:33...
00:49:43.04\00:49:45.91
"But who so ever
listens to me will dwell safely,
00:49:49.05\00:49:53.25
and will be secure
without fear of evil."
00:49:53.29\00:49:57.76
I always invite the
Holy Spirit to dwell in me
00:49:57.79\00:50:01.73
because we all face enemies,
00:50:01.76\00:50:04.10
and I want those
enemies displaced,
00:50:04.13\00:50:06.84
and I want Holy Spirit to
reflect out of me to others.
00:50:06.87\00:50:11.34
Amen! Amen!
00:50:11.37\00:50:14.68
Very well put. That's powerful.
00:50:14.71\00:50:16.54
That is really
powerful. Praise the Lord.
00:50:16.58\00:50:19.45
I got to go and study that,
00:50:19.48\00:50:20.82
just thinking about the presence
00:50:20.85\00:50:22.65
and power of God within us.
00:50:22.68\00:50:25.15
That resistance for
us, so when the outward
00:50:25.19\00:50:27.32
resistance
doesn't, doesn't matter.
00:50:27.36\00:50:29.32
Doesn't affect
you. That's beautiful.
00:50:29.36\00:50:30.69
And it, and it only makes sense.
00:50:30.73\00:50:32.93
I mean that's the
genius of Christ, right there.
00:50:32.96\00:50:35.40
I mean this is,
I mean this is...
00:50:35.43\00:50:37.60
And it is displaces it,
00:50:37.63\00:50:38.97
displaces that
evil in our own heart,
00:50:39.00\00:50:40.67
also the Holy Spirit.
00:50:40.70\00:50:42.04
It's good.
00:50:42.07\00:50:43.41
I believe it was
the Lord that gave you
00:50:43.44\00:50:44.77
that insight 'cause most people
would just be looking at that,
00:50:44.81\00:50:48.38
that sad event of just seeing
00:50:48.41\00:50:52.71
this crushed...
00:50:52.75\00:50:54.08
Submarine.
00:50:54.12\00:50:55.45
Submarine, and just
00:50:55.48\00:50:56.82
'cause there is fish
there is kind of like,
00:50:56.85\00:50:58.22
Oh, yeah, we just
take them for granted,
00:50:58.25\00:50:59.85
and wouldn't have...
00:50:59.89\00:51:01.22
I think the Lord gave you
00:51:01.26\00:51:02.59
that insight
and aren't we to be,
00:51:02.62\00:51:04.96
I mean, we have been watching
00:51:04.99\00:51:07.40
some of our
loved ones here at 3ABN
00:51:07.43\00:51:10.07
who've been going
through a horrific battle,
00:51:10.10\00:51:13.84
and they are like those fish,
00:51:13.87\00:51:18.07
they just speak in
faith, they speak, they pray,
00:51:18.11\00:51:23.38
they are upbeat, in
great physical pain,
00:51:23.41\00:51:27.32
but still come in
and do programming
00:51:27.35\00:51:28.78
and stuff and you think,
00:51:28.82\00:51:30.45
this is, you
know, they are like,
00:51:30.49\00:51:32.42
if you were
looking at the picture,
00:51:32.45\00:51:34.72
they are like those little
fish that are just saying,
00:51:34.76\00:51:37.96
"Hey, I don't care
00:51:37.99\00:51:39.33
how much pressure the
devils putting on me..."
00:51:39.36\00:51:41.26
I am immune.
00:51:41.30\00:51:42.63
"I am immune to that pressure."
00:51:42.66\00:51:44.83
Jesus says,
00:51:44.87\00:51:46.47
"Greater is he who is in me
00:51:46.50\00:51:48.70
than he who is in
the world", right?
00:51:48.74\00:51:51.87
Let me ask you a quick question,
00:51:51.91\00:51:53.31
we do want to pray,
00:51:53.34\00:51:54.84
but let me ask
you this question.
00:51:54.88\00:51:58.55
I forgot my question.
00:51:58.58\00:52:00.85
Oh, I knew what
I was going to ask.
00:52:00.88\00:52:04.29
When you were talking about
00:52:04.32\00:52:06.35
the wickedness
and that's going on.
00:52:06.39\00:52:10.33
And we are all
talking about the battles
00:52:10.36\00:52:13.19
that are coming
against us and sometimes,
00:52:13.23\00:52:16.60
you know, you
could just recognize,
00:52:16.63\00:52:18.10
"Man, there is,
my next door neighbor
00:52:18.13\00:52:20.70
is giving me trouble,"
00:52:20.74\00:52:22.07
as you said, maybe or
whatever the situation is,
00:52:22.10\00:52:25.17
what do you think
about the time when,
00:52:25.21\00:52:29.51
maybe somebody is just
flattering in a flitter,
00:52:29.54\00:52:34.65
that they are
suddenly not motivated,
00:52:34.68\00:52:37.45
you know, they wake up cause
00:52:37.49\00:52:38.82
I've, I've had a
gentleman tell me,
00:52:38.85\00:52:42.12
he used to love the
Word, to read the Word of God,
00:52:42.16\00:52:44.56
and it was like
all of the sudden,
00:52:44.59\00:52:47.00
he could not, he
just couldn't get up
00:52:47.03\00:52:50.63
the energy to
read the Word of God,
00:52:50.67\00:52:52.27
he would lost the desire.
00:52:52.30\00:52:53.64
Now what happened to him,
00:52:53.67\00:52:55.00
somebody gave
him that new version
00:52:55.04\00:53:00.48
that's
paraphrased and I can't...
00:53:00.51\00:53:01.84
Is that a Word?
00:53:01.88\00:53:03.21
No, it s a...
00:53:03.24\00:53:04.58
The Message?
00:53:04.61\00:53:05.95
The Message, somebody
gave him a copy of the Message,
00:53:05.98\00:53:07.92
that got him
out of his doldrums.
00:53:07.95\00:53:10.52
But don't you think
00:53:10.55\00:53:11.89
that's just as
much a spiritual battle,
00:53:11.92\00:53:15.46
when you feel apathetic,
when you feel you don't,
00:53:15.49\00:53:19.53
we have got to recognize,
that's a battle, isn't it?
00:53:19.56\00:53:21.86
sometimes we think the opposite
of faith is doubt and unbelief,
00:53:21.90\00:53:27.60
the opposite of faith is apathy.
00:53:27.64\00:53:29.74
Yes, that's good,
Mollie. It's really good.
00:53:29.77\00:53:31.47
Cause if you've
got doubt and unbelief,
00:53:31.51\00:53:33.58
that can be overcome,
00:53:33.61\00:53:34.94
but apathy, you are apathetic.
00:53:34.98\00:53:37.21
It's a lot being self deceived.
00:53:37.25\00:53:39.51
And so, you know what,
00:53:39.55\00:53:41.25
what is the
antidote for self deception?
00:53:41.28\00:53:43.89
You are self deceived.
00:53:43.92\00:53:45.25
There is, you know,
if you are self deceived,
00:53:45.29\00:53:47.49
then you don't know
that you are deceived.
00:53:47.52\00:53:51.26
And so, somebody
come at you with the truth
00:53:51.29\00:53:53.23
and you think
that they are wrong.
00:53:53.26\00:53:54.86
And so, no, that
apathy is a hard thing,
00:53:54.90\00:53:57.93
and it's something
that the enemy uses,
00:53:57.97\00:53:59.93
you know, somebody said earlier
that we are contrasting fear
00:53:59.97\00:54:04.34
and how Satan uses fear,
00:54:04.37\00:54:05.74
I believe that,
was that you, Luis?
00:54:05.77\00:54:07.94
Fear activates Satan,
just like faith activates God.
00:54:07.98\00:54:12.98
So you get in that
situation of being fearful
00:54:13.01\00:54:18.45
that your enemies got you,
00:54:18.49\00:54:20.09
but when you move
out of that ramming,
00:54:20.12\00:54:22.46
you move into
faith, then what happens?
00:54:22.49\00:54:25.53
We have read a
scripture early on,
00:54:25.56\00:54:27.46
I think it's one
that's written down here.
00:54:27.50\00:54:29.36
Oh, here it is,
"The Lord is good,
00:54:29.40\00:54:31.70
a stronghold in
the day of trouble
00:54:31.73\00:54:33.80
and He knows
those who trust in Him."
00:54:33.84\00:54:38.51
So, God know you,
he knows that faith.
00:54:38.54\00:54:41.54
So the opposite
of apathy, faith.
00:54:41.58\00:54:45.75
The opposite of fear,
00:54:45.78\00:54:50.49
faith, faith in
God, and faith comes by,
00:54:50.52\00:54:53.56
what have we all
been saying today?
00:54:53.59\00:54:55.69
Faith comes by hearing,
00:54:55.72\00:54:57.29
I'm here, go to the
armory and get the God's word.
00:54:57.33\00:55:01.26
Study and put
your armor on. Amen.
00:55:01.30\00:55:03.57
Okay, I am going to
pray the scriptures back,
00:55:03.60\00:55:06.20
Lord, I will start the prayer,
but then when I finished,
00:55:06.23\00:55:08.54
just invite, Jill,
will start with you.
00:55:08.57\00:55:11.57
And just kind of go around
as we close of this program.
00:55:11.61\00:55:14.98
We know not
00:55:15.01\00:55:16.75
because we are
seers or prophets,
00:55:16.78\00:55:19.48
but we know that you are going
through struggles out there.
00:55:19.51\00:55:25.12
You don't even
have to write to tell us
00:55:25.15\00:55:26.65
because if you are
alive on this planet earth,
00:55:26.69\00:55:29.86
we know that there is
some serious struggles.
00:55:29.89\00:55:32.79
And we just want you to remember
00:55:32.83\00:55:35.16
that the battle belongs to Lord.
00:55:35.20\00:55:37.47
So let's, we are going to
pray these scriptures back now.
00:55:37.50\00:55:40.87
And then, Jill,
you will continue
00:55:40.90\00:55:42.24
the pray the prayer.
00:55:42.27\00:55:44.21
"Heavenly father, we
come in the name of Jesus.
00:55:44.24\00:55:46.94
And we thank You
Father that we know
00:55:46.98\00:55:48.71
when something
or someone opposes
00:55:48.74\00:55:51.08
the good plan you
have for our life,
00:55:51.11\00:55:53.05
that we know that this struggle,
00:55:53.08\00:55:56.02
our struggles not
against flesh and blood,
00:55:56.05\00:55:58.35
but against
spiritual forces of evil
00:55:58.39\00:56:01.42
that are operating
within this world system.
00:56:01.46\00:56:04.16
Father, we will by Your power,
take our stand without fear.
00:56:04.19\00:56:09.93
We thank you that You
have reminded us tonight
00:56:09.96\00:56:12.23
the battle is yours
00:56:12.27\00:56:14.14
and that you will
give us the victory.
00:56:14.17\00:56:16.91
Father, we thank you
00:56:16.94\00:56:18.27
that You are our
very present help
00:56:18.31\00:56:20.38
in times of trouble.
00:56:20.41\00:56:21.91
We put our hope in Your Word,
00:56:21.94\00:56:23.85
knowing Lord that it is You
who will push back our enemies.
00:56:23.88\00:56:29.05
We have trust and
confidence in Your power,
00:56:29.08\00:56:31.79
in Your authority
of our all situations.
00:56:31.82\00:56:34.36
And we thank You
Father for your great love
00:56:34.39\00:56:38.09
and concern for us."
00:56:38.13\00:56:40.13
"Thank You, Father,
00:56:40.16\00:56:41.50
that we can stand,
You enable us to stand,
00:56:41.53\00:56:44.73
that we don't have to be afraid,
00:56:44.77\00:56:46.70
that we don't have to fight,
00:56:46.74\00:56:48.27
that You will
give us the victory."
00:56:48.30\00:56:51.37
"Thank you, Father,
00:56:51.41\00:56:52.74
that You are
sniggling this word in our heart
00:56:52.77\00:56:54.84
that the enemy can't come
00:56:54.88\00:56:56.21
and take one of these
words out of our heart.
00:56:56.24\00:56:58.81
Father, that they'll
take root, they will grow,
00:56:58.85\00:57:01.22
and they will
produce bountifully
00:57:01.25\00:57:02.65
for Your
kingdom in Christ name."
00:57:02.68\00:57:04.45
Amen.
00:57:04.49\00:57:06.22
"And father, I just
want to thank You Lord
00:57:06.25\00:57:07.79
that You are a
refugee in our strength,
00:57:07.82\00:57:09.76
or that You are forever present
00:57:09.79\00:57:13.26
and ready to assist
us and whenever we call."
00:57:13.29\00:57:17.17
"Our beloved father,
00:57:17.20\00:57:18.53
thank You that the
battle belongs to You.
00:57:18.57\00:57:21.24
And because the
battle does belong to You,
00:57:21.27\00:57:23.24
Lord, we can just sit back
and just look at the victories
00:57:23.27\00:57:27.04
that are going to be around us,
00:57:27.08\00:57:28.61
and we are praying
Lord for the pouring
00:57:28.64\00:57:30.41
of Your Holy
Spirit up on us here
00:57:30.45\00:57:33.05
and up on our viewers Lord,
00:57:33.08\00:57:34.68
that they can
understand that the issues
00:57:34.72\00:57:37.52
that are going
through their lives.
00:57:37.55\00:57:39.82
The victory is only in Jesus,
00:57:39.85\00:57:42.09
we thank You Lord,
in Christ name, amen."
00:57:42.12\00:57:44.79