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 just a
great big welcome
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to each and every one of you.
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We are glad
that you've joined us
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3ABN Family Worship,
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it's time to get together,
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it's time to get your
family, gather them around,
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get the Word of God
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get what you
need pencil and papers
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and get ready to
jot down some things.
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Because I think you're
going to enjoy the subject
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I have as I've studied it.
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It'll be one that you will say,
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oh, I've been
over a lot of times.
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Well, I'm a believer in this.
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I'm a believer that
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the Holy Spirit
of the Living God,
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as we prayed about it
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already will
come into our hearts
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and our minds and
things will be brought out.
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Maybe questions that
you have been asking.
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You can't find any answers.
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I believe the Holy Spirit
will give you those answers
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by here through
this panel today.
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So we're glad, we're gonna be
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talking about
the great deception
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that could go in a lot
of different directions.
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But if you think about
the great deception, you know,
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where did it really begin?
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What is it really all about?
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You know, if we say, well,
we'll go back to the garden,
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you know, we'll go back to Eden.
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Look up everything that
took place what happened?
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And then my
question would come back.
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And you know, is the same things
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happening today
with us as God's people?
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Has the enemy
changed his tactics?
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We're going to see as we
study the Word of God today,
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and we believe that
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some of those
questions will be answered.
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I'm glad to have
my wife with me today.
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Honey, I'm glad
you're here with me.
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Well, I'm glad to be here.
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I think I would,
we say the right arm
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but I think she's much more than
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the right arm for me.
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Amen. Yeah.
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Oh, I don't know
about that but...
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Yeah, but we
talk about it a lot.
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That's for sure.
But you know what?
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Still is, I still
will at least admit
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she's the right
arm and certainly,
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you know to
support and holds back
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and miss some of you have
written many times before.
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She's the one,
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if I get a
little bit carried away,
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she's a balancer.
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So praise God for
the balancer. Yeah.
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Who do we have with us
today is going to help us
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with this exciting
study, Great Deception.
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Well, I'm gonna introduce you
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because I don't think
you told me your name.
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We may have a
lot of new people on.
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You're Pastor Kenny
Shelton, and I'm Chris Shelton.
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And when he was
talking about the balancer,
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I looked over to
JD because JD watches
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a lot of our
programs, goes through them.
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I do.
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And he helps to
balance both of us.
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So that's JD Quinn.
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And, JD, you're
in pastoral, correct?
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I am in pastoral, I am.
And you do a lot of things.
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You wear a lot of hats
around here, don't you?
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I think just like
everybody. Just like everybody.
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If you're not multi-headed,
well, then it'd be a tough fit.
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I understand that well.
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I love his willingness.
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I love his
willingness always to help out.
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It's always fun
with y'all. Yeah.
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And to his right
is Pastor John Dinzey.
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John Dinzey wears lots of hats,
luckily he took them off today,
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so he could...
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He is such a go getter
in the Latino department.
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And, of course, you also do
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a lot here in the
English department.
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I mean, you're on
a lot of programs,
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you do a lot in both places.
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I don't know how you keep up
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with all of it, but
we're glad that you do.
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We're glad that
you're joining us again.
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Well, thank you.
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It's a privilege
again to be here.
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And it's by God's
grace that we can do
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what we're given
the privilege to do.
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Amen. It is a privilege.
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It is a privilege to be
able to take the time to study
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and then present what the
Lord has placed on our hearts.
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We don't realize that.
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I think someday, once
this privilege is gone,
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we'll realize
what the Lord has given
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each and every one of us.
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And with that privilege
is a big responsibility.
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Yes. Oh, yes.
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And so that is where we
do need to at least give
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the Holy Spirit
permission to be our guide.
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Amen. Amen.
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'Cause, boy,
there's some things that,
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well, I didn't know that.
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I thought this. Yes.
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And that's kind of the direction
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we're gonna go today.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, I mentioned that you know,
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Sarah being kind
of tease me about it,
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but it's true the
balancer is because sometimes
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when we get and we can get
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maybe we feel like
we're overloaded at times.
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And I think the
older we get the more
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it's easier to get overloaded.
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And she'll, she'll
remind me from time to time,
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she'll say, it's a privilege.
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Don't forget it's a privilege.
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Or if I get little, can
I say this beside myself?
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Some of you don't get that way,
just a little bit in something,
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you know what she'll say?
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Now listen, this is interesting.
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And maybe your wife
will help you or vice versa.
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Just say,
remember who you represent.
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Remember who you are.
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That always
brings me to my senses.
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You know, we are a child of God.
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And that's very important that
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we represent Him
in all the things
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that's going on in the world
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and things are so
sometimes easily besets us.
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Well, before we
get into the studies
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and we're glad
again everybody's here,
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you taken time out.
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I know it takes
effort. I know it takes study.
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I know it takes time.
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But I know, God
helps you to make
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all of that up as He does us.
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We need to have prayer.
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'Cause we're
talking about prayer
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and the power
of the Holy Spirit.
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And I wouldn't even
attempt not to bring out
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the Word of God.
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Don't even open the Word, right?
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Open it up without
promise of the Holy Spirit.
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Would you pray
for us, honey? Sure.
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Okay.
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Most Gracious Heavenly Father,
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as we bow before You
along with our family at home,
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wherever they may be.
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Father, as was said here,
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we can do nothing
without Your Spirit.
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So we ask now that
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You'll forgive us
where we have faltered
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where we've stumbled,
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and we ask that Your
Holy Spirit will come in
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and give us spiritual eyes.
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Give us spiritual ears,
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give us a
spiritual heart to hear,
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to see, to feel all that
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You have in store for us
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during this
worship time together.
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We thank You for this time
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that we have with
our family at home.
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And we ask Your blessings
once again in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Thank you so much.
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I loved it when you
mentioned our family at home.
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This is the 3ABN and
each one of who do programs
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and so on so forth.
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We'd have to say
family, we just have to say it
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because when we meet
them physically as we do
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going from place to
place, just an awesome thing.
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And thing that they
say a lot of times is what?
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We know you, you're
in our house every day,
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that didn't give you the,
be careful the big head at all,
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it's a privilege
that God would allow us
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to be able to be in their
homes and then and vice versa.
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I tell them lot of
times if, you know,
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if I'm speaking or
somebody else's what?
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I know they're there.
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By faith I know that
they're not the individual,
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but I know that they're there.
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They're watching,
they're listening,
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because the Holy Spirit
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of the Word
wouldn't return void.
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Today is no
exception to the rules.
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We look at this great deception.
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We have a good start,
a good foundation here.
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Yes.
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And so each one
here have asked to read
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just a little portion of it,
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which will set
up the foundation.
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And then even if
you have a comment
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after you get done reading,
it's okay to go ahead with it.
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If not, we'll go right
into the first question.
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So can you start
out for us on, honey?
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Oh, absolutely. Okay. Good.
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This is a little
book called what?
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Darkness before
Dawn, this comes out of.
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It's a real nice
compilation, right,
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a compilation of
these Ellen White's writing.
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Yeah, it's really
good, Great Controversy.
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Okay. Okay.
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With the
earliest history of man,
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Satan began his
efforts to deceive our race.
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He who has incited
rebellion in heaven,
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desire to bring the inhabitants
of the earth to unite with him,
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in his warfare
against government of God.
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Adam and Eve had
been perfectly happy
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in obedience to the law of God.
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And this fact was
a constant testimony
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against the claim
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which Satan had urged in heaven,
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that God's law was oppressive
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and oppose the
good of his creatures.
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You know, we hear that a
lot of too today, don't we?
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And furthermore,
Satan's envy was excited.
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You know, I
don't think many of us
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realized that he was
envious of this world.
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Is envy was excited as he looked
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upon the beautiful home
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prepared for the sinless pair.
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He determined to
cause their fall.
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He determined
to cause their fall
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that having separated
them from God and brought them
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under his own power,
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he might gain
possession of the earth,
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and here establish his kingdom
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in opposition to the Most High.
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That's a sad
thought to think that
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we were pawns in
his little deception
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that he did just."
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Yeah, just a paragraph
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before we go unless
you have something else to,
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to Brother John,
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is I circled it when
she was reading it again.
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Because it said they
were perfectly happy.
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Yes.
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To me, if you think
you're perfectly happy,
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what are you looking for?
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You're not
looking for anything else.
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And then to have the enemy,
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I'm thinking how beautiful
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the Garden of
Eden must have been.
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Because it said here,
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he looked upon
the beautiful home,
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prepare for the sinless pair.
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Envy, he looked upon the
Garden of Eden with envy,
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when this angel, right?
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Was within the presence of God,
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seen him create
things in the whole universe,
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there must have been something.
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I'd just stop with that,
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but there's something special
about the Garden of Eden,
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which I think God's people
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will be able to
re-inhabitant again.
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But, okay, Brother John.
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Let me say something
real quick if I could,
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because in following
just what you said there,
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what jumped out at
me, was the word excited.
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That's a heavy word. Well.
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Well, whenever we
get excited to sometimes,
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you know that mean,
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that's something
beyond just normal.
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He was excited, because,
hey, I have an opportunity here.
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Second thing that
caught my attention determined.
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So he was determined that
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that the Garden of Eden
was going to become his.
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That was his determination.
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And he was
excited, because in his,
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he had in his own mind,
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I'm just assuming
this, in his own mind,
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this created being as
you made perfectly clear,
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Satan knew that
that's what I want.
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And then it comes in,
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but you brought up this word
three or four times the ability
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that we can if
we're not careful,
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and if we're not balanced,
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we could be big headed,
heavy headed, or whatever.
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And now there's
that contrast. Yes.
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And the contrast is
between good and evil
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and that deception
that we're talking about.
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So he did have a
foundation then, didn't he?
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He did have a foundation.
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He was determined,
he was excited about
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what he's getting ready to do.
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And he's gonna
make sure he did it,
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regardless of what it cost.
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Yes, a lot of
us can have a plan,
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but we're not sold on the plan.
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Other people like
that in the world, today.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I'm trying to
relate this thing to, right?
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We want to
relate it to the enemy
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and what he's doing
in this world today.
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But I don't know
if you ever met anyone
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or you don't want to
be judgmental about it.
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Have you ever met someone
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who is determined to
have a certain position
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or determined
and they will do it
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at whatever cost?
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Yes. Come on.
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Turn on the news. Yes.
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Turn on the news. There you go.
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Okay, now, yes.
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We see that, we see that
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I'm sure those
listening can look
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in their history in their minds
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and see how they
have been affected by
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someone who has had
this type of mentality.
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Okay.
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I'm thinking about, you know,
when we consider Adam and Eve,
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the earth, and
we consider heaven.
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There's a difference
here for Adam and Eve.
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And that is, the angels lived
under the commandments of God,
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the universal law of God,
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which summarize in Matthew 22,
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you shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart,
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with all your
mind, with all your soul,
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your soul, your strength.
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So, the angels loved
God and they loved Lucifer.
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However, Adam and
Eve did not know Lucifer,
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but they knew the commandments,
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love the Lord your
God with all your heart
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and love your
neighbor as yourself.
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But Satan does not come to them
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as he came to the other angels.
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See, when he came
to the other angels,
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there was
already a relationship.
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You're my friend,
you're my brother.
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We are family.
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Listen to this idea that I have.
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We're being mistreated here.
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God is unfair to us.
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And they, they
had some sympathies.
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But Adam and Eve had no
real sympathy for the devil.
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In fact, they were warned. Yes.
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Be careful.
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So when he is developing
his plan to tempt them,
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he can't come
to them as a buddy,
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as a friend, as family,
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because they don't know him.
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And so they
already had been warned.
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So he has to have
a different approach.
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And this is why we
have the record in Genesis
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that he came in as a
serpent, as a serpent.
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Now I find that interesting.
I don't know about you.
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But I find that interesting
that the word devil or Satan
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is not mentioned in Genesis.
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But there he is working
behind the scenes, you see.
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And I come to the conclusion
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that God gives
limited attention to the devil
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as far as mentioning
him and bring his name out.
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But he, the devil is
working behind the scenes
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because he tempts people.
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Yeah.
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We see it right
from the beginning.
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In fact, if you
look in the Bible,
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you'll not see the name Satan
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until you get to 1
Chronicles and then Job.
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But here he is,
he's, he has a plan,
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he has determination.
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And he, he didn't hesitate
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to bring this
temptation to Adam and Eve,
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unfortunately, not to
make their lives better,
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so that they could
become victims of to identify
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with him, to join his rebellion.
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A terrible,
terrible thing to do.
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Yes. But he convinced them.
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We read that this
was the first sermon
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ever preached on
the supernatural powers
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on the spiritualism.
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You know,
because can you imagine
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number one, we don't really know
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what a serpent look
like before it was cursed.
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You know some, I
think it had wings
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and it was
probably very beautiful,
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but I doubt that
it spoke, you know,
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so just seeing this creature
that could suddenly speak
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and speak eloquently and saying,
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God's holding back from you.
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If you eat this
fruit, you can be like God,
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you gonna be like me.
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Yes, that's right.
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But... You'll never die.
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Oh. But consider this as well.
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When the devil presents
to Adam and Eve temptations,
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he has to present them
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something different than
he presented to the angels.
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Because to them, the idea was,
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I can do
something better for you.
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I have a better
plan than God has.
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We're being mistreated here.
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But for Adam and Eve,
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he came with a
different temptation,
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which is, you can be as God.
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Of course, we
haven't got to that part yet.
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You can be as God,
you can get, you can...
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God has been lying to you.
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God has been lying to you.
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You can be as God
knowing good and evil.
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Well, we'll get to that part.
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There's more to
share there, I'm sure.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Are you gonna read that
was it, paragraph there, John?
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Okay, there we go.
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We are ready to
continue reading.
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Yeah.
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Had Satan revealed
himself in his real character.
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There we go.
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He would have
been repulsed at once.
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For Adam and Eve had been
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warned against
this dangerous foe.
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But he worked in the
dark, concealing his purpose,
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that he might more
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effectually
accomplish his object,
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employing as his
medium, the serpent.
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Then a creature of
fascinating appearance,
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he addressed himself to Eve.
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Hath God said ye shall not
eat of every tree of the garden?
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Genesis 3:1. Yeah.
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That's the big question. Yeah.
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The big lie.
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And then he started out
then the conversation with what?
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Was it the question
rather than a statement?
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If it made a statement,
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it said this is
but he said, have God,
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did God say this?
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He was determined.
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People come to me
sometime or something to say,
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in this way that it
is this is what was said.
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It's more of a question
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and you're not challenged by it,
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just said, you know,
you'll go right to it.
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But I come back once.
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I think you are challenged
by because he's casting doubt.
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Oh, absolutely. He's
casting doubt right there.
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And even though you
said is a little different.
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But it was still
the same technique...
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Oh, yes, same technique.
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Same technique,
still casting doubt,
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like he did with
the angels in heaven.
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And you know, one thing that
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we didn't
mention was that Lucifer,
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he was an archangel.
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He was a covering over the law.
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And so we wonder,
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why is the law been so attacked,
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but that's why
because he had issues
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with the law in heaven.
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He still has issues
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with God's Ten
Commandment law here on earth.
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And we'll see that all the way
to the coming of Jesus Christ.
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But anyway, I
think you should turn
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to finish reading our intro.
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Yes. Yeah.
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Yes. It's all right.
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Had Eve refrain from entering
into argument with the tempter,
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she would have been safe.
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But she ventured
to parley with him
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and fell a victim of
his viles, to his viles.
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It is thus that many
are still overcoming.
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They doubt and argue concerning
the requirements of God.
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Yes.
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And instead of
obeying the divine commands,
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they accept the human theories
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which but disguise
the devices of Satan.
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It's truth. Wow.
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Isn't that
interesting? Indeed, it is.
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Wow.
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I mean, if this will be
controversial, no doubt.
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But if you think about
who started this fiasco,
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just come down,
come down to the tree,
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we come down to the
enemy, the serpent and Eve.
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Now there had to be a
conversation to begin.
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Something had to take place.
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And I don't know
that we can pinpoint
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but there's two
involved here, but one of them.
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Oh-oh, one of
them was out of place.
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Yeah.
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One of them was placed. Yes.
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God told the serpent, you get,
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I'll always
like say it this way.
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God told serpent,
you get up in that tree.
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That's the only place you can go
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and you stay there till
I tell you can come down.
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It's the only
place he was allowed
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if I'm thinking
correctly, right?
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So he had one
place to do but Eve also,
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she had every
place that she could go.
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Now some of the
women are going to say oh,
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it's not about that.
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It's about, Eve was the one
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so let's just talk
about from Scripture.
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So somehow it started,
00:20:01.23\00:20:03.47
one was in the place
and ready for battle.
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And the other one came
to the place of battle.
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And then when you read
here, if she had not argued,
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which is one of our questions,
we should when we start in.
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And to me it was much
talk, begin the conversation
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with somehow this
would have never taken place.
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And so we had to relate
that to today in places that
00:20:27.36\00:20:29.36
we're at and things that go on,
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we have to be
careful about words we speak
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or not speak or
so on and so forth.
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First question,
let's get really into it,
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because it's, why
would it be dangerous
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to enter into an argument?
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I circle that and put discussion
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whether it's heated
discussion, or it's you know,
00:20:43.24\00:20:47.24
on a plane where
everybody is just discussing?
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Maybe just try to prove a point.
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Well, here,
you're actually touching
00:20:55.78\00:20:57.29
on question number two,
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because that's what the
definition of parley means.
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It's a conference
between opposing sides
00:21:02.09\00:21:04.23
to try to bring
about a resolution
00:21:04.26\00:21:06.53
and the thing
about it is, you know,
00:21:06.56\00:21:09.66
do you guys remember the man
00:21:09.70\00:21:11.33
that that was in Satanism,
00:21:11.37\00:21:14.44
and I listened to
so many of his sermon
00:21:14.47\00:21:17.97
or just talks on?
00:21:18.01\00:21:19.74
And I kept it, but he actually
got out of it without dying,
00:21:19.77\00:21:23.95
because a lot of times
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when you get as deep as
he was, the enemy or foe.
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Roger Meno.
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Remember what he said?
00:21:29.58\00:21:31.65
Never talk to them.
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And a lot of times, you know,
a lot of people say, though,
00:21:34.52\00:21:36.52
I'll tell him get
the behind me Satan.
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He said, you ask God to do that.
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Don't get in a conversation
where he warned people.
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And what the devil did,
00:21:44.57\00:21:46.43
what Lucifer did here
in that tree with Eve is
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what he's still doing with
each and every one of us today.
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And we're
listening to these doubts.
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It's casting
doubt on the Scripture.
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You know, before
we even came out here,
00:21:58.31\00:21:59.91
we were all back there
talking waiting for them
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to set the setup
for us to come out.
00:22:01.65\00:22:04.02
And it just kind of reminds me
00:22:04.05\00:22:06.76
because it was mentioned
about churches in the area.
00:22:06.79\00:22:10.56
And you were talking about
the different names in our area
00:22:10.59\00:22:12.59
that have biblical names.
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And I thought, how sad
as I was thinking about
00:22:14.60\00:22:17.23
the churches today,
00:22:17.27\00:22:19.07
because there's so
compromised with the world,
00:22:19.10\00:22:22.24
you can go into a church,
00:22:22.27\00:22:23.61
but you can come out
and do the very same things
00:22:23.64\00:22:25.44
that anybody else
would do that's not been
00:22:25.47\00:22:27.61
"saved or not."
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You know, they can still
drink, they can still party,
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they're still dressing the same.
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In fact, maybe I should say,
undressing the same, you know,
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because there's
a lot of the things
00:22:39.19\00:22:41.62
could be similar and the like,
00:22:41.66\00:22:43.32
but at least in modesty,
you know what I'm saying?
00:22:43.36\00:22:45.96
And that's just
not the norm anymore,
00:22:45.99\00:22:48.50
and it just doesn't matter.
00:22:48.53\00:22:50.40
And so most of the
time when you're out
00:22:50.43\00:22:52.73
and you see Christians,
you can't tell the difference.
00:22:52.77\00:22:55.50
Because we're being deceived
to think that it's okay.
00:22:55.54\00:22:58.94
You know, the scripture
says, "Come as you are."
00:22:58.97\00:23:01.84
People think you
can come as you are
00:23:01.88\00:23:03.28
and you stay as you are.
00:23:03.31\00:23:04.91
But that's not what God means.
00:23:04.95\00:23:06.98
You come as you are as
a babe, accepting Christ.
00:23:07.02\00:23:10.99
And then as you begin to study,
00:23:11.02\00:23:13.12
which we'll talk more about that
00:23:13.15\00:23:14.92
and worship the Lord,
00:23:14.96\00:23:16.29
then He begins to
mold and to fashion us.
00:23:16.32\00:23:18.53
And what's he fashioning us for?
00:23:18.56\00:23:21.96
For to live in the kingdom.
00:23:22.00\00:23:23.80
He's remaking us to
live in the kingdom.
00:23:23.83\00:23:27.77
So the enemy didn't
want to, then we can go from,
00:23:27.80\00:23:30.41
you guys need to go from here
00:23:30.44\00:23:31.77
where he wanted to
get into the discussion.
00:23:31.81\00:23:34.81
Yes. He wanted to, for what?
00:23:34.84\00:23:37.11
Because he knew, or
at least in his mind,
00:23:37.15\00:23:39.85
he knew he was
determined, you told,
00:23:39.88\00:23:42.22
that he could beat
her in a conversation.
00:23:42.25\00:23:46.92
Note, he's had to
go through his mind.
00:23:46.96\00:23:49.19
He knew he was of...
00:23:49.22\00:23:50.66
It's okay to say
higher intelligence,
00:23:50.69\00:23:52.16
at least at that point
time in the good and bad.
00:23:52.19\00:23:55.03
So he knew and some
people know it today,
00:23:55.06\00:23:57.57
they pick certain ones
that they talk to or whatever,
00:23:57.60\00:24:00.34
because they know
that they can pretty much
00:24:00.37\00:24:02.14
beat them by parleying, or
having a conversation with,
00:24:02.17\00:24:08.41
and they know
which ones they can work.
00:24:08.44\00:24:09.91
Enemy knew if I could just
00:24:09.94\00:24:11.28
get this
conversation going here,
00:24:11.31\00:24:12.95
I can beat her. Well, it was...
00:24:12.98\00:24:15.52
I have to say it was a wise way
00:24:15.55\00:24:18.59
to draw her into conversation
by asking the question.
00:24:18.62\00:24:22.06
Yes. Yeah, sure.
00:24:22.09\00:24:24.63
You know, when you
look at the animals,
00:24:24.66\00:24:27.63
I was watching a
documentary on these animals,
00:24:27.66\00:24:30.97
they watch their prey.
00:24:31.00\00:24:33.94
They study the moment
when it is best to attack.
00:24:33.97\00:24:36.60
Yes.
00:24:36.64\00:24:37.97
And they, they
sometimes sneak up upon them,
00:24:38.01\00:24:40.78
but then they come
curiously at them to,
00:24:40.81\00:24:42.74
of course, to destroy.
00:24:42.78\00:24:44.11
Sure.
00:24:44.15\00:24:45.48
And I saw these lions trying
to kill a little baby elephant.
00:24:45.51\00:24:48.88
And then the hyenas came later,
00:24:48.92\00:24:50.35
but they all did the same thing.
00:24:50.39\00:24:52.19
Yes.
00:24:52.22\00:24:53.56
Watch the prey, and then look
for the best moment to attack.
00:24:53.59\00:24:57.43
The best moment to attack was,
00:24:57.46\00:24:59.79
I mean, we some people say
that Adam and Eve were together.
00:24:59.83\00:25:03.50
But the Bible doesn't show that.
00:25:03.53\00:25:05.00
Because it says, it says
that Eve plucked the fruit
00:25:05.03\00:25:08.17
and gave to Adam and he
later, but that's later.
00:25:08.20\00:25:12.17
But Eve was by herself. Yes.
00:25:12.21\00:25:14.44
That's why the devil didn't...
00:25:14.48\00:25:17.51
Adam is not talking
in this conversation.
00:25:17.55\00:25:18.88
This is the point
which we land down right now,
00:25:18.91\00:25:20.82
which I think is good.
00:25:20.85\00:25:22.18
It's not trying to be hurtful.
00:25:22.22\00:25:23.55
It's not trying
to pinpoint this one,
00:25:23.59\00:25:24.92
so more guilty the
woman is than the man.
00:25:24.95\00:25:27.26
But Early
Writings, page 147 says,
00:25:27.29\00:25:29.49
the very first err that
was committed in the garden,
00:25:29.52\00:25:32.33
the first wrong was
00:25:32.36\00:25:33.70
because Eve
strayed from her husband.
00:25:33.73\00:25:35.90
Yes.
00:25:35.93\00:25:37.27
So he, she entered into
the conversation, but what...
00:25:37.30\00:25:39.97
She wandered from
at least by herself.
00:25:40.00\00:25:42.77
Yes. What did the devil know?
00:25:42.80\00:25:45.34
What did the devil
know about Eve and Adam?
00:25:45.37\00:25:48.18
Yeah. He knew they loved God.
00:25:48.21\00:25:50.68
Oh, yeah.
00:25:50.71\00:25:52.05
Well, God had
done so much for them.
00:25:52.08\00:25:53.82
Yeah. Created this world.
00:25:53.85\00:25:56.12
They could bless
them with a Garden of Eden
00:25:56.15\00:25:59.45
that he was in there.
00:25:59.49\00:26:01.79
So he knew that.
00:26:01.82\00:26:03.26
So somehow he must try to
persuade her to distrust God,
00:26:03.29\00:26:09.36
to question His love.
00:26:09.40\00:26:10.97
Use the word, we use.
I'm gonna use the word here.
00:26:11.00\00:26:14.40
Here I go again,
I'm gonna say the women.
00:26:14.44\00:26:18.37
I think sometimes they are
00:26:18.41\00:26:20.91
and Spirit of
Prophecy brings out.
00:26:20.94\00:26:22.44
She was curious, probably
more curious than Adam was.
00:26:22.48\00:26:28.42
You see.
00:26:28.45\00:26:29.78
And so we always say
curiosity killed the cat.
00:26:29.82\00:26:33.86
She was very curious
of what about the tree
00:26:33.89\00:26:37.53
and what was going on.
00:26:37.56\00:26:38.89
So therefore she
strayed close to it,
00:26:38.93\00:26:40.90
she wandered close to
it, he knew he had his prey.
00:26:40.93\00:26:45.93
But remember,
curiosity played a big part
00:26:45.97\00:26:49.37
in the one that he chose
to land on first as it were,
00:26:49.40\00:26:53.44
because he knew, you
know, he had been around,
00:26:53.48\00:26:55.68
he had understood that
00:26:55.71\00:26:57.05
women are just a
little different,
00:26:57.08\00:26:58.41
doesn't mean bad.
00:26:58.45\00:26:59.78
But in this case here it caused,
00:26:59.81\00:27:01.88
which would end up
causing doubt about
00:27:01.92\00:27:04.99
God's goodness, we
talked about and God's love.
00:27:05.02\00:27:06.92
Go ahead. Yeah.
00:27:06.96\00:27:08.29
I'm gonna, I'm
going to put in a,
00:27:08.32\00:27:10.26
if you don't mind.
00:27:10.29\00:27:11.63
I know you're not supposed
to put words in the Bible.
00:27:11.66\00:27:14.46
But I'm going to put this there
to give it a little context.
00:27:14.50\00:27:17.63
Notice, the
question is have God said,
00:27:17.67\00:27:20.64
I'm going to say, has
God that you love said,
00:27:20.67\00:27:26.14
you should not eat up
every tree of the garden.
00:27:26.17\00:27:29.14
Right. Because
he is questioning.
00:27:29.18\00:27:32.55
He's trying to persuade
her to consider God loves you,
00:27:32.58\00:27:35.92
but He's not allowing you
to eat from tree of the garden.
00:27:35.95\00:27:37.79
Right, that
makes a big difference.
00:27:37.82\00:27:40.76
See, he's keeping
something from you.
00:27:40.79\00:27:42.66
Right. So what does Eve do?
00:27:42.69\00:27:45.59
She loves God. Yes.
00:27:45.63\00:27:47.26
She comes to his
defense. What does she say?
00:27:47.30\00:27:51.17
His defense, her
defense of God was...
00:27:51.20\00:27:55.60
We may eat the fruit.
00:27:55.64\00:27:56.97
And the woman
said to the serpent,
00:27:57.01\00:27:58.34
we may, we may eat of the fruit
of the trees of the garden.
00:27:58.37\00:28:02.38
Yes.
00:28:02.41\00:28:03.75
And then, but of
the fruit of the tree
00:28:03.78\00:28:07.12
which is in the midst of
the garden, God has said,
00:28:07.15\00:28:10.39
you shall not eat of it,
00:28:10.42\00:28:11.79
nor shall you
touch it, lest you die.
00:28:11.82\00:28:14.66
So I'm protecting.
00:28:14.69\00:28:17.06
I'm defending God. He said this.
00:28:17.09\00:28:19.73
You're wrong. You're wrong.
00:28:19.76\00:28:21.86
He didn't say
that. You're mistaken.
00:28:21.90\00:28:23.87
He said this.
00:28:23.90\00:28:25.23
And then he, then she
added, don't touch it.
00:28:25.27\00:28:30.64
God didn't say that part. No.
00:28:30.67\00:28:33.58
So now he's got
her on her underground.
00:28:33.61\00:28:37.21
He's already has
her in discussion.
00:28:37.25\00:28:39.38
Her curiosity is aroused.
00:28:39.41\00:28:41.68
So he comes with
part two of his attack.
00:28:41.72\00:28:45.02
Yes. Mm-hmm.
00:28:45.05\00:28:46.92
Part two, you
shall not surely die.
00:28:46.96\00:28:49.09
Ah, there you go.
00:28:49.12\00:28:51.56
Now, this one now is
a direct contradiction
00:28:51.59\00:28:57.83
to what God said.
00:28:57.87\00:28:59.63
A direct
contradiction to what God said.
00:28:59.67\00:29:01.60
Now he has to wait for her
00:29:01.64\00:29:03.20
to respond to that contradiction
00:29:03.24\00:29:05.81
because she knows.
00:29:05.84\00:29:08.31
And she said it,
if you eat of it,
00:29:08.34\00:29:10.95
you're going to die.
00:29:10.98\00:29:12.31
Now he's contradicting
her. What are you going to?
00:29:12.35\00:29:13.92
What are you
going to do now? Yes.
00:29:13.95\00:29:16.85
You know the sad thing about it
00:29:16.89\00:29:18.32
is bring it up to the
day then we'll go back there
00:29:18.35\00:29:20.52
is that this is
probably salesmanship.
00:29:20.56\00:29:23.96
Like if you go to
your fortune 500 companies,
00:29:23.99\00:29:30.27
and they're saying, hey,
you've got some potential.
00:29:30.30\00:29:33.27
We want to see you grow.
00:29:33.30\00:29:35.34
And they, then they send
you to the specialized courses.
00:29:35.37\00:29:39.71
And this is where
we are right now, okay?
00:29:39.74\00:29:43.08
Establishing that
doubt, making a fact,
00:29:43.11\00:29:46.72
taken that fact
00:29:46.75\00:29:48.08
because we're going
against competition.
00:29:48.12\00:29:50.99
Okay?
00:29:51.02\00:29:52.35
And then we're
asking a question,
00:29:52.39\00:29:56.22
which most people,
00:29:56.26\00:29:58.36
not most people, a lot of people
00:29:58.39\00:30:00.06
their answers are yes, no.
00:30:00.10\00:30:02.93
Oh. Yes, no.
00:30:02.96\00:30:05.27
And you're not getting
anywhere and think well, shoot.
00:30:05.30\00:30:07.84
I'd like to speak
with the decision maker.
00:30:07.87\00:30:10.67
Well, I am the
decision maker. Yes, no.
00:30:10.71\00:30:13.78
So you have to come
back with a question.
00:30:13.81\00:30:16.88
And here I mean, this,
00:30:16.91\00:30:18.28
this is the first time
that they've met we're assuming.
00:30:18.31\00:30:21.88
Yes. Okay.
00:30:21.92\00:30:23.32
And he's coming
out with this question.
00:30:23.35\00:30:25.59
I think that, you
know, and in today's work,
00:30:25.62\00:30:28.19
I've always heard, I
would rather have someone
00:30:28.22\00:30:32.29
that has some
experience and determination.
00:30:32.33\00:30:37.60
I put them up against anybody
that's super intelligent.
00:30:37.63\00:30:41.77
So if you're taking
00:30:41.80\00:30:43.14
two different personality types,
00:30:43.17\00:30:45.87
you would want someone
00:30:45.91\00:30:47.58
that's got
experience, and someone
00:30:47.61\00:30:49.71
that has determination,
00:30:49.74\00:30:51.08
because they're
not going to give up.
00:30:51.11\00:30:52.45
We've read while ago,
00:30:52.48\00:30:53.82
you know that he
was very determined.
00:30:53.85\00:30:56.82
Okay? Yes, absolutely.
00:30:56.85\00:30:58.19
She, bless her little heart.
00:30:58.22\00:30:59.92
She's being naive and taking
and backing what she knows.
00:30:59.95\00:31:05.29
And, boy, then all of a sudden,
00:31:05.33\00:31:07.40
now, then he comes right back
00:31:07.43\00:31:09.46
and he's asked
her another question.
00:31:09.50\00:31:10.83
Yes.
00:31:10.87\00:31:12.20
So she thought
she was defending.
00:31:12.23\00:31:13.84
You bet.
00:31:13.87\00:31:15.20
I mean, that's kind
of the way that we're,
00:31:15.24\00:31:17.21
that's the
direction we're going.
00:31:17.24\00:31:18.57
Okay. All right. Yeah.
00:31:18.61\00:31:19.94
But notice this
part, notice this part.
00:31:19.97\00:31:23.24
I'm sure you
thought of the same thing.
00:31:23.28\00:31:25.58
She heard the
first lie in the human,
00:31:25.61\00:31:29.35
on the earth that
was the very first lie.
00:31:29.38\00:31:31.65
She had never
heard a lie before.
00:31:31.69\00:31:33.29
Everything she had heard
before was truth, truth, truth.
00:31:33.32\00:31:37.43
And now here comes a declaration
00:31:37.46\00:31:40.00
by a serpent and said,
you will not surely die.
00:31:40.03\00:31:43.97
Oh.
00:31:44.00\00:31:45.33
Now she has this
conflict, God said this.
00:31:45.37\00:31:48.17
Yes.
00:31:48.20\00:31:49.54
Can't you see that the
serpent could have said,
00:31:49.57\00:31:51.71
"Look, I've eaten
it, I'm not dead."
00:31:51.74\00:31:54.28
You see?
00:31:54.31\00:31:55.64
So there was a lot there
00:31:55.68\00:31:57.35
and exactly you're
setting it up so well,
00:31:57.38\00:32:00.55
because she
didn't understand it,
00:32:00.58\00:32:02.12
but he was...
00:32:02.15\00:32:03.49
Back in the 80s
there was a program
00:32:03.52\00:32:04.85
that was really big.
00:32:04.89\00:32:06.22
They were pushing it
on a lot of ministers
00:32:06.25\00:32:07.72
called linguistic programming.
00:32:07.76\00:32:10.46
I see this in here.
00:32:10.49\00:32:12.66
Because he's what,
00:32:12.69\00:32:14.03
what he's doing by
asking these questions,
00:32:14.06\00:32:16.03
he's getting
her to think the way
00:32:16.06\00:32:17.67
he wants her to think
without her realizing that
00:32:17.70\00:32:20.60
he's changing
her way she thought.
00:32:20.64\00:32:21.97
She has to
analyze the declaration,
00:32:22.00\00:32:24.24
this statement.
00:32:24.27\00:32:25.61
Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:25.64\00:32:27.08
Which is a
contradiction to what God said,
00:32:27.11\00:32:28.98
but the devil
adds something else.
00:32:29.01\00:32:31.21
Notice what here he adds.
00:32:31.25\00:32:32.58
He says, He says,
00:32:32.61\00:32:37.05
we're in verse...
00:32:37.09\00:32:38.99
Just finished four. Oh, yes.
00:32:39.02\00:32:40.66
For God knows, verse 5,
00:32:40.69\00:32:42.36
"For God knows that
in the day you eat of it,
00:32:42.39\00:32:46.59
your eyes will be open,
and you will be like God,
00:32:46.63\00:32:50.57
knowing good and evil."
00:32:50.60\00:32:51.93
So she was told
the day you eat of it,
00:32:51.97\00:32:55.94
you're going to
die, but the devil says,
00:32:55.97\00:32:59.07
the day you eat of it,
you're going to be like God,
00:32:59.11\00:33:01.51
a complete opposite.
00:33:01.54\00:33:02.94
And she has to analyze this.
00:33:02.98\00:33:04.88
And he says, your
eyes will be open,
00:33:04.91\00:33:07.45
and you will be like
God, knowing good and evil.
00:33:07.48\00:33:10.69
Two things I'd like
to point out if I may.
00:33:10.72\00:33:14.92
One, the serpent
appears to be saying,
00:33:14.96\00:33:19.46
I know something
about God, you don't.
00:33:19.49\00:33:21.20
Sure.
00:33:21.23\00:33:22.56
Now, to me, that
should have been a red flag.
00:33:22.60\00:33:25.83
You're a lower form of life.
00:33:25.87\00:33:28.57
Your brain is smaller than mine.
00:33:28.60\00:33:30.61
How could you know
something about God?
00:33:30.64\00:33:32.71
How could you know this without?
00:33:32.74\00:33:34.78
And I, I'm smart, I'm supposed.
00:33:34.81\00:33:36.14
She's supposed to be
smarter than the serpent.
00:33:36.18\00:33:37.51
Because he ate it.
00:33:37.55\00:33:38.88
So she had to say,
00:33:38.91\00:33:40.25
I'm not really
talking to a serpent here.
00:33:40.28\00:33:42.25
Somebody's behind this
a very smart declaration,
00:33:42.28\00:33:46.05
intelligence is coming
00:33:46.09\00:33:47.42
from this animal
that's not supposed to be
00:33:47.46\00:33:49.22
coming from this animal.
00:33:49.26\00:33:50.66
But anyway, look
at the statement is,
00:33:50.69\00:33:53.73
you will be as God
knowing good and evil.
00:33:53.76\00:33:56.13
Painted, put in
her mind the idea
00:33:56.16\00:33:59.73
that knowing evil
00:33:59.77\00:34:01.57
was going to bring
her to a higher plain.
00:34:01.60\00:34:05.01
Absolutely.
00:34:05.04\00:34:06.37
You're going to
reach new heights.
00:34:06.41\00:34:07.78
Yes.
00:34:07.81\00:34:09.14
heights that you are not,
00:34:09.18\00:34:10.51
you cannot reach
unless you eat of this fruit.
00:34:10.55\00:34:14.08
And so what
follows is Eve expressing
00:34:14.12\00:34:19.39
or her thoughts are revealed.
00:34:19.42\00:34:20.89
Yeah.
00:34:20.92\00:34:22.26
He appealed to two things again,
00:34:22.29\00:34:24.26
first he appealed to...
00:34:24.29\00:34:26.19
Her desire.
00:34:26.23\00:34:27.76
That sometimes the
women, they are more emotional.
00:34:27.80\00:34:30.90
Not always but I'm saying,
00:34:30.93\00:34:32.27
he appealed to her
feelings and her emotion,
00:34:32.30\00:34:36.30
emotions with these.
00:34:36.34\00:34:37.87
And when you do that sometime,
00:34:37.91\00:34:39.27
sometime we respond in a way
that's a little different than
00:34:39.31\00:34:42.18
maybe we ordinarily would.
00:34:42.21\00:34:44.31
Because, and I'm gonna
throw this out here too,
00:34:44.35\00:34:46.72
because it seems like
00:34:46.75\00:34:48.08
when you read this
account in several thing.
00:34:48.12\00:34:50.19
I read a couple more
this morning was like,
00:34:50.22\00:34:52.72
it's kind of like that
the enemy plucked the fruit
00:34:52.75\00:34:57.33
and put it in her hand.
00:34:57.36\00:34:59.03
Try it.
00:34:59.06\00:35:00.40
Okay, now, but
that went deeper than
00:35:00.43\00:35:03.06
I kind of
thought about previously.
00:35:03.10\00:35:05.47
He plucked it, he
put it in her hand
00:35:05.50\00:35:07.20
because usually
when somebody hands
00:35:07.24\00:35:08.64
you something or shape or...
00:35:08.67\00:35:10.01
The natural reaction.
00:35:10.04\00:35:11.37
Natural reaction,
look, I have the water.
00:35:11.41\00:35:13.48
Thank you, honey.
00:35:13.51\00:35:15.21
And natural reaction
is I do like this what?
00:35:15.24\00:35:17.68
Her hand will respond
to that, and I leave it.
00:35:17.71\00:35:20.25
But it's so, she went ahead,
let me just throw this out.
00:35:20.28\00:35:24.55
She went ahead
and she took a bite.
00:35:24.59\00:35:28.52
And so it was still,
00:35:28.56\00:35:30.73
it was still the
enemy had really put
00:35:30.76\00:35:32.66
some undue pressure,
00:35:32.69\00:35:34.03
her emotions and her feelings
00:35:34.06\00:35:35.40
were kind of out of
whack at the time here.
00:35:35.43\00:35:37.83
She did feel once she ate,
00:35:37.87\00:35:40.84
she felt special
power go through her,
00:35:40.87\00:35:44.07
she thought she
did through her system.
00:35:44.11\00:35:47.01
So that was evidences
00:35:47.04\00:35:48.58
of this must be a mightier power
00:35:48.61\00:35:50.95
that you're
talking about while ago.
00:35:50.98\00:35:53.58
It made her feel I believe
it was a great controversy.
00:35:53.62\00:35:56.32
It made her feel alive,
powerful and good inside.
00:35:56.35\00:36:00.89
You know, people say,
00:36:00.92\00:36:02.26
I know that didn't
harmonize with Scripture.
00:36:02.29\00:36:04.03
But man did that
make me feel good?
00:36:04.06\00:36:05.39
You ever heard that?
00:36:05.43\00:36:06.96
They'll say, I'll
mention one of the things
00:36:07.00\00:36:09.56
just go ahead with it.
00:36:09.60\00:36:11.17
Some people are
speaking in tongues.
00:36:11.20\00:36:13.54
They'll will, I've
not had them as I say
00:36:13.57\00:36:15.40
and there are other people
where you can fuss if you want.
00:36:15.44\00:36:17.57
They, we will say, well,
00:36:17.61\00:36:19.01
there's a true
and there's a false.
00:36:19.04\00:36:20.71
They'll say, it doesn't matter.
I know what it did inside.
00:36:20.74\00:36:23.81
I know what I
felt. She felt alive.
00:36:23.85\00:36:25.71
She felt
invigorated, she felt powerful.
00:36:25.75\00:36:27.98
And she wanted
to reach a higher,
00:36:28.02\00:36:30.82
listen, a higher plain than
00:36:30.85\00:36:32.79
God had attended her
ever for her to reach.
00:36:32.82\00:36:37.26
She went out of that
which God had in mind for her.
00:36:37.29\00:36:40.30
That's why the sin came
00:36:40.33\00:36:41.70
and then she
became subject to mankind.
00:36:41.73\00:36:44.50
Yes.
00:36:44.53\00:36:45.87
But go on with the other
00:36:45.90\00:36:47.24
and then we can
debate if we need to.
00:36:47.27\00:36:48.60
Oh, Brother John
said, I sit down at the end.
00:36:48.64\00:36:50.11
I said yeah, so
case we get into it,
00:36:50.14\00:36:52.21
we can really
discuss this stuff.
00:36:52.24\00:36:53.58
But you know, that
is so important though
00:36:53.61\00:36:55.24
what you're pointing
out because we're still
00:36:55.28\00:36:57.41
and I hope
people are catching this
00:36:57.45\00:36:58.78
at home taking notes.
00:36:58.81\00:37:00.15
Because once we get
to question number three,
00:37:00.18\00:37:02.28
which we will get to
question number three.
00:37:02.32\00:37:04.75
You know, we have
to at this one time.
00:37:04.79\00:37:06.12
No, we're putting
all three together.
00:37:06.15\00:37:07.49
But you know, it makes sense
00:37:07.52\00:37:08.86
'cause God, the devil
has not changed his tactics.
00:37:08.89\00:37:12.03
Yeah. He hasn't changed it.
00:37:12.06\00:37:13.86
And it's still the
same way, it may, you know,
00:37:13.90\00:37:17.30
what do you say like
morphed into other ways.
00:37:17.33\00:37:19.67
He's gonna get us
00:37:19.70\00:37:21.04
where he thinks
we're the most vulnerable.
00:37:21.07\00:37:23.44
Like you said, we're his prey.
00:37:23.47\00:37:25.21
And I'm glad you
pointed that out,
00:37:25.24\00:37:26.61
because really, we are his prey.
00:37:26.64\00:37:28.84
He didn't care.
00:37:28.88\00:37:30.21
And what he was
telling Eve when he said that
00:37:30.25\00:37:33.31
your eyes will be
open, you'll be like God.
00:37:33.35\00:37:35.35
Was he telling a full lie?
00:37:35.38\00:37:39.82
That was not a full lie. No.
00:37:39.85\00:37:41.49
It was not a full lie.
00:37:41.52\00:37:43.02
But the way he
presented it was...
00:37:43.06\00:37:45.13
Was very deceptive.
00:37:45.16\00:37:46.49
It's not that you're going to be
00:37:46.53\00:37:47.86
like God in character,
00:37:47.90\00:37:49.23
but like God in
authority and power and ability.
00:37:49.26\00:37:53.40
You're going to be as God,
like knowing good and evil.
00:37:53.44\00:37:56.71
That's a privilege,
00:37:56.74\00:37:58.07
that's something
that brings to end.
00:37:58.11\00:37:59.44
Feeling good. Isn't that right?
00:37:59.47\00:38:00.81
That's all they knew was
good and perfect and righteous.
00:38:00.84\00:38:02.24
That's all they learned.
00:38:02.28\00:38:03.61
You pointed out
like it was a privilege.
00:38:03.65\00:38:05.95
He presented it as
it was a privilege.
00:38:05.98\00:38:08.12
And she began to
realize that it was a heartache.
00:38:08.15\00:38:11.95
She was far better not knowing.
00:38:11.99\00:38:14.82
He already knew
they wouldn't. Yes.
00:38:14.86\00:38:17.53
And isn't that
exactly the same thing
00:38:17.56\00:38:20.23
we find when we're talking about
00:38:20.26\00:38:21.63
God's Ten Commandment laws.
00:38:21.66\00:38:23.87
God wants me to have no fun.
00:38:23.90\00:38:25.30
It's nothing
but do's and don'ts,
00:38:25.33\00:38:27.04
when in fact it's
God protecting us.
00:38:27.07\00:38:30.31
Don't go out and murder.
00:38:30.34\00:38:32.47
Don't commit adultery.
00:38:32.51\00:38:34.64
Treat your
children honor your parents,
00:38:34.68\00:38:38.21
you know, love God,
00:38:38.25\00:38:39.71
and how to love God
and how not to love God.
00:38:39.75\00:38:43.05
You know, all of these things,
00:38:43.08\00:38:44.52
is God protecting
us from this character.
00:38:44.55\00:38:46.82
Praise God. If I...
00:38:46.86\00:38:48.19
Oh, sorry, go ahead.
00:38:48.22\00:38:49.56
As far as the
enemy is concerned here,
00:38:49.59\00:38:51.93
we have to remember the angels
00:38:51.96\00:38:54.60
who is a little
bit higher than us
00:38:54.63\00:38:57.33
that Lucifer had converted
00:38:57.37\00:39:01.84
a third of these people.
00:39:01.87\00:39:03.64
Yes. Absolutely.
00:39:03.67\00:39:05.01
So I mean, salesman of salesmen.
00:39:05.04\00:39:08.61
Yes. That's right.
00:39:08.64\00:39:10.38
He had probably, and
I'm just making this up.
00:39:10.41\00:39:16.28
He had probably
talked to a million.
00:39:16.32\00:39:19.85
He had probably told
her story a million times.
00:39:19.89\00:39:22.86
You can't throw anything at me
that I haven't already tackled.
00:39:22.89\00:39:26.73
So in here she
is very vulnerable.
00:39:26.76\00:39:29.43
Just very vulnerable.
00:39:32.67\00:39:34.87
Well, any of us would
have been very vulnerable.
00:39:34.90\00:39:37.74
Yes. We are very
vulnerable today.
00:39:37.77\00:39:42.34
You talk to people
today, do you not that says,
00:39:42.38\00:39:44.75
no matter what you throw at me
00:39:44.78\00:39:46.35
when you're in discussion.
00:39:46.38\00:39:47.72
I've already thought about it.
00:39:47.75\00:39:49.62
I already have the answer to it.
00:39:49.65\00:39:51.05
So there's no issue to go there
00:39:51.09\00:39:52.55
and all sudden
you're going, what.
00:39:52.59\00:39:54.72
I want to just read part of
my answer for that question.
00:39:54.76\00:39:58.69
And it was basically
00:39:58.73\00:40:00.06
we are simply no
match for the devil.
00:40:00.10\00:40:03.40
That's the bottom line.
00:40:03.43\00:40:04.77
We must, and
this is for all of us.
00:40:04.80\00:40:07.24
We must allow
Christ to intervene
00:40:07.27\00:40:10.17
and fight our battles for us.
00:40:10.21\00:40:12.07
We cannot do this on our own.
00:40:12.11\00:40:14.04
We cannot win an
argument with the devil.
00:40:14.08\00:40:16.75
He is a master
manipulator and deceiver.
00:40:16.78\00:40:20.45
He seasons his words
00:40:20.48\00:40:23.39
with just the
right amount of truth
00:40:23.42\00:40:25.39
and a hefty portion of doubt,
00:40:25.42\00:40:27.09
and mixes them to the point that
00:40:27.12\00:40:29.06
you begin to
question what truth really is,
00:40:29.09\00:40:33.16
just as Adam and
Eve questioned that
00:40:33.19\00:40:35.56
God was hiding
the truth from them.
00:40:35.60\00:40:37.97
This is a lie that he has been
using on all of us a deception
00:40:38.00\00:40:42.04
that he's been
using on all of us.
00:40:42.07\00:40:43.41
That's right.
00:40:43.44\00:40:44.77
And we need to
begin to recognize
00:40:44.81\00:40:46.14
and then we also
need to spend time
00:40:46.17\00:40:48.34
on how to not be deceived.
00:40:48.38\00:40:51.31
We need to look at
question number three,
00:40:51.35\00:40:53.15
so we know how not to
fall just as they fell,
00:40:53.18\00:40:56.25
or to quit falling.
00:40:56.28\00:40:57.62
All of us have sinned
00:40:57.65\00:40:58.99
and come short
of the glory of God.
00:40:59.02\00:41:00.36
But we need to learn
how not to continue to fall.
00:41:00.39\00:41:03.43
Good. If I may take a moment.
00:41:03.46\00:41:07.43
You know, when I'm
going to go forward
00:41:07.46\00:41:10.53
and then backward, if I may.
00:41:10.57\00:41:12.47
When God asked Adam, you know,
00:41:12.50\00:41:16.67
have you eaten up the fruit?
00:41:16.71\00:41:18.74
Have you eaten of the
fruit? What did he say?
00:41:18.77\00:41:20.98
Well, he said, he
threw her under the bus.
00:41:21.01\00:41:25.21
The woman, you gave me.
00:41:25.25\00:41:26.85
Yes. The woman you gave me.
00:41:26.88\00:41:29.75
She gave me of
the fruit and I ate.
00:41:29.78\00:41:32.59
Yeah. But Eve is
not without excuse.
00:41:32.62\00:41:34.92
Because she
said, what did she say?
00:41:34.96\00:41:37.89
The serpent deceived me.
00:41:37.93\00:41:40.30
I'm not to blame. Yeah.
00:41:40.33\00:41:41.90
She blamed God. The
serpent deceived me.
00:41:41.93\00:41:43.80
Yeah. And I ate.
00:41:43.83\00:41:45.20
But notice what it
says in Genesis Chapter 3,
00:41:45.23\00:41:49.00
because Eve was deceived.
00:41:49.04\00:41:51.61
However, she had
a, she had a choice.
00:41:51.64\00:41:55.44
Notice this, verse
6, So when the woman saw
00:41:55.48\00:41:58.65
and the Hebrew word saw is,
00:41:58.68\00:42:01.38
you consider, you
analyze, you evaluate.
00:42:01.42\00:42:05.65
So when the woman saw that
the tree was good for food,
00:42:05.69\00:42:09.89
and that it was
pleasant to the eyes,
00:42:09.92\00:42:12.46
and a tree
desirable to make one wise.
00:42:12.49\00:42:17.17
He took of its fruit and ate.
00:42:17.20\00:42:20.34
She also gave
also to her husband
00:42:20.37\00:42:22.00
with her husband
with her and he ate.
00:42:22.04\00:42:25.27
So she analyzed, she evaluated,
00:42:25.31\00:42:28.64
and she says, Hey, this fruit,
00:42:28.68\00:42:31.38
like the devil said,
00:42:31.41\00:42:32.75
and I'm putting
there apparently,
00:42:32.78\00:42:34.12
like the devil
said will make me wise.
00:42:34.15\00:42:36.55
And so she evaluated
before she ate, she evaluated.
00:42:36.58\00:42:41.19
It wasn't that, oh,
well, that sounds good to me.
00:42:41.22\00:42:44.06
No, she evaluated,
she saw, she evaluated.
00:42:44.09\00:42:47.16
And she made a decision
based on information given
00:42:47.20\00:42:50.47
and her own analysis.
00:42:50.50\00:42:52.73
So she has guilt in
this process is not,
00:42:52.77\00:42:56.04
well, the devil deceived me.
00:42:56.07\00:42:57.41
Because if that
would be an excuse,
00:42:57.44\00:42:58.97
when we are tempted,
00:42:59.01\00:43:00.48
we could say, Lord,
the devil deceived me.
00:43:00.51\00:43:04.01
And I killed that
person or I stole that.
00:43:04.05\00:43:07.05
That's not an excuse.
00:43:07.08\00:43:08.65
We have a choice.
00:43:08.68\00:43:10.52
Eve had a choice,
00:43:10.55\00:43:12.19
Adam had a
choice, we have a choice.
00:43:12.22\00:43:14.39
Yes. But we are
at a disadvantage.
00:43:14.42\00:43:17.03
Yes.
00:43:17.06\00:43:18.39
Adam and Eve had an
advantage, I could say that,
00:43:18.43\00:43:20.70
we have a disadvantage.
00:43:20.73\00:43:22.06
What's our disadvantage?
We inherited a fallen nature.
00:43:22.10\00:43:25.97
That brings, yes, that, I mean,
00:43:26.00\00:43:27.57
that brings the
food for thought,
00:43:27.60\00:43:30.04
because we have a
tendency to blame the enemy.
00:43:30.07\00:43:32.61
And that's what we're
bringing out while ago.
00:43:32.64\00:43:34.18
We're gonna go to
all three questions here.
00:43:34.21\00:43:35.54
Yes.
00:43:35.58\00:43:36.91
Eve parleyed with, you know,
00:43:36.95\00:43:38.41
what happened when she
parleyed with the devil.
00:43:38.45\00:43:40.42
So the first thing
to do is not to parley.
00:43:40.45\00:43:41.78
Yeah.
00:43:41.82\00:43:43.15
Interesting, I
looked up the word parley.
00:43:43.18\00:43:44.52
Listen, it's interesting.
00:43:44.55\00:43:45.99
Parley, to speak with
an enemy, It could be.
00:43:46.02\00:43:50.56
It's a conference
as to settle a dispute
00:43:50.59\00:43:54.83
and goes on, to
speak with the enemy.
00:43:54.86\00:43:57.33
And then I put this in red here,
00:43:57.37\00:44:00.14
listen, to discuss terms.
00:44:00.17\00:44:03.57
When you parley,
he parleyed with Eve
00:44:03.61\00:44:06.17
because he was
going to discuss terms
00:44:06.21\00:44:09.88
of what was going to take place
00:44:09.91\00:44:11.31
and how it was
going to take place.
00:44:11.35\00:44:13.31
And then there's that
word, parley is different,
00:44:13.35\00:44:16.22
you parley is
to bet on something
00:44:16.25\00:44:20.52
that you can win.
00:44:20.56\00:44:22.42
It's very close
to this, but notice,
00:44:22.46\00:44:24.33
to exploit the original
wages plus his winnings.
00:44:24.36\00:44:29.80
He was putting it all
on the line, was he not?
00:44:29.83\00:44:33.70
In his words he put
everything out there
00:44:33.74\00:44:35.67
on the line that
he could take her.
00:44:35.70\00:44:37.97
He was smarter
00:44:38.01\00:44:39.34
as everybody's
brought up here wisdom.
00:44:39.37\00:44:40.71
So there's two things
00:44:40.74\00:44:42.08
and then the other
was because, again,
00:44:42.11\00:44:44.61
we said while ago
00:44:44.65\00:44:45.98
and again it can
be up for discussion
00:44:46.01\00:44:47.35
that Eve seem to eat,
he gave her the apple.
00:44:47.38\00:44:51.52
So I will say he
plucked, he gave it to her.
00:44:51.55\00:44:53.56
She reached out and got it.
00:44:53.59\00:44:55.06
And she
evidently took a bite. Yes.
00:44:55.09\00:44:57.63
And because then she said,
00:44:57.66\00:44:59.23
she started
feeling all these emotions
00:44:59.26\00:45:01.06
and these
feelings and she ate it
00:45:01.10\00:45:02.56
and power came into her system,
00:45:02.60\00:45:04.77
she became alive, she
become feeling different
00:45:04.80\00:45:07.20
than she ever had before.
00:45:07.24\00:45:08.87
See, the enemy can do
this all about feelings
00:45:08.90\00:45:10.74
when we think oh, we, you know,
but it's against scripture.
00:45:10.77\00:45:13.74
But then notice this, this,
00:45:13.78\00:45:15.88
this is on the Patriarchs
and Prophets, page 556.
00:45:15.91\00:45:20.72
This brought her
to imagine herself,
00:45:20.75\00:45:23.69
entering upon a
higher state of existence.
00:45:23.72\00:45:26.55
We kind of talked
about, notice, remember when,
00:45:26.59\00:45:29.32
to me is when you
guys can correct me maybe.
00:45:29.36\00:45:31.79
When he gave it to
her, she reached she ate,
00:45:31.83\00:45:34.66
all these things
came in her to her mind.
00:45:34.70\00:45:37.83
Now notice it, all of a sudden
00:45:37.87\00:45:39.37
she's entered a
higher state of existence.
00:45:39.40\00:45:43.17
And then it says, after that,
00:45:43.20\00:45:45.07
it says, notice
after without fear,
00:45:45.11\00:45:48.44
she plucked it,
she plucked and ate.
00:45:48.48\00:45:53.55
So now listen, and now having
I've never seen this before,
00:45:53.58\00:45:58.35
and now having transgressed
00:45:58.39\00:46:00.99
Now, having
transgressed what was it before?
00:46:01.02\00:46:03.79
Temptation.
00:46:03.83\00:46:05.16
You know, the temptation,
but she did eat for him,
00:46:05.19\00:46:06.96
but maybe some of the blame,
00:46:07.00\00:46:08.33
I don't know, God knows.
00:46:08.36\00:46:09.70
But the enemy, I mean,
he had it all fool her.
00:46:09.73\00:46:12.33
But now he fooled
her so that she plucked,
00:46:12.37\00:46:15.64
she ate, she
transgressed is what it says.
00:46:15.67\00:46:19.27
She became the
agent of Satan to work
00:46:19.31\00:46:22.38
the ruin of her husband.
00:46:22.41\00:46:23.88
Yes.
00:46:23.91\00:46:25.25
It seems there's
two different plateaus
00:46:25.28\00:46:27.35
that seems to be there.
00:46:27.38\00:46:29.55
I mean, how it is
today when we are fooled,
00:46:29.58\00:46:34.02
the enemy fools, he deceived.
00:46:34.06\00:46:35.39
If we don't, we
don't know at that moment,
00:46:35.42\00:46:37.23
and we are deceived.
00:46:37.26\00:46:38.83
How does God look at that?
00:46:38.86\00:46:40.90
Or that we know
that we have sinned.
00:46:40.93\00:46:43.57
We know that it's
wrong, but we go ahead.
00:46:43.60\00:46:46.84
It's just food that can
go a lot of different ways.
00:46:46.87\00:46:49.00
Yes. I had never
seen that before.
00:46:49.04\00:46:51.44
Yeah.
00:46:51.47\00:46:52.81
And it excited me
to a certain extent,
00:46:52.84\00:46:54.81
in God's Word to say,
how did God look at this?
00:46:54.84\00:46:57.88
Wow. Go ahead.
00:46:57.91\00:47:00.48
Go ahead, brother.
00:47:00.52\00:47:01.85
Oh, I have, I entered
three of your questions
00:47:01.88\00:47:06.59
and probably 10 words.
00:47:06.62\00:47:08.49
Okay.
00:47:08.52\00:47:09.86
Now I mean this is
just food for thought that
00:47:09.89\00:47:11.96
we can continue to chew on.
00:47:11.99\00:47:13.50
Okay. Number one.
00:47:13.53\00:47:17.03
And let's bring this
down to where we are today.
00:47:17.07\00:47:19.47
We have predetermined
or preconceived ideas.
00:47:19.50\00:47:24.01
We watch so much TV,
00:47:24.04\00:47:26.11
we buy into this
billboards and everything,
00:47:26.14\00:47:28.81
that we kind of
like we don't have to go
00:47:28.84\00:47:32.18
through everything.
00:47:32.21\00:47:33.55
They've already told us,
and we bought because we...
00:47:33.58\00:47:37.45
Many people feel
like they're needy,
00:47:37.49\00:47:39.52
I'm being cheated at home.
00:47:39.55\00:47:41.42
Okay?
00:47:41.46\00:47:42.79
All next place,
00:47:42.82\00:47:44.29
being at the wrong
place at the right time.
00:47:44.33\00:47:48.53
Boy, now here we
got preconceived ideas.
00:47:48.56\00:47:51.60
Now, that's my move.
00:47:51.63\00:47:55.40
Wrong place, wrong time.
00:47:55.44\00:47:57.94
And then we buy
into it. We take it.
00:47:57.97\00:48:02.94
But then we find out after
the fact is a temporary high.
00:48:02.98\00:48:08.95
Exactly. Good.
00:48:08.98\00:48:10.32
Yes.
00:48:10.35\00:48:11.69
Now all of a sudden, the
good seed that's been sown.
00:48:11.72\00:48:16.83
We see, maybe
I've been deceived.
00:48:16.86\00:48:22.26
The good news,
00:48:22.30\00:48:24.20
because right now
this is purely bad stuff.
00:48:24.23\00:48:26.70
We're at such a disadvantage.
00:48:26.74\00:48:28.50
The good news is that somebody
went to the cross for us.
00:48:28.54\00:48:32.94
Amen. Amen.
00:48:32.97\00:48:34.31
Amen. Powerful.
00:48:34.34\00:48:35.68
Which means that
all of a sudden...
00:48:35.71\00:48:40.32
Thank you, Jesus.
00:48:40.35\00:48:41.68
I do have a second chance.
00:48:41.72\00:48:43.25
Amen.
00:48:43.28\00:48:44.62
Or as before because this,
00:48:44.65\00:48:45.99
this is a tough battle
if I got preconceived ideas.
00:48:46.02\00:48:48.96
It's pretty bad
if I'm driven to be
00:48:48.99\00:48:51.99
at the wrong
place at the wrong time.
00:48:52.03\00:48:54.13
And then all of a sudden,
00:48:54.16\00:48:57.13
I buy into it, or
I buy into the story,
00:48:57.17\00:49:00.77
because I have my own fantasies.
00:49:00.80\00:49:04.31
And then all of a sudden,
00:49:04.34\00:49:07.38
I just went three steps forward.
00:49:07.41\00:49:10.15
Yes.
00:49:10.18\00:49:11.51
But then all of a sudden,
I went four steps backward.
00:49:11.55\00:49:13.98
Is at least for our simple mind,
00:49:14.02\00:49:16.79
my simple mind is
00:49:16.82\00:49:18.15
what we're saying here is
the enemy studies us, right?
00:49:18.19\00:49:21.26
He studies our character.
00:49:21.29\00:49:23.12
He knows he doesn't,
he can't read your mind.
00:49:23.16\00:49:25.59
But he knows by actions
00:49:25.63\00:49:27.10
what you're trying
to set up the words
00:49:27.13\00:49:29.16
that you speak
to different people.
00:49:29.20\00:49:31.07
And he tries to arrange that
00:49:31.10\00:49:34.77
which goes through
your mind that's wrong.
00:49:34.80\00:49:37.07
He tries to
arrange it and set it up to
00:49:37.11\00:49:38.81
where you say
wrong place wrong time,
00:49:38.84\00:49:40.28
and then something
develops and happens.
00:49:40.31\00:49:42.24
I just know that if I
go out and play the game,
00:49:42.28\00:49:45.11
I may think that
I'm pretty good at it.
00:49:45.15\00:49:47.12
But if my opponent's got
6000 years of experience...
00:49:47.15\00:49:50.19
Oh, have mercy.
00:49:50.22\00:49:51.55
I think that the
reality steps in.
00:49:51.59\00:49:53.36
That's right.
00:49:53.39\00:49:54.72
And I think I may be outclassed.
00:49:54.76\00:49:56.59
So I think that probably I
better listen to mom and dad
00:49:56.62\00:50:00.50
and not find myself
00:50:00.53\00:50:02.20
in the wrong
place at the wrong time.
00:50:02.23\00:50:03.87
And look where he started.
00:50:03.90\00:50:05.43
Valid point. Excellent.
00:50:05.47\00:50:07.17
But look where he started,
much higher than what we are.
00:50:07.20\00:50:10.44
We're the dust of
the earth, none good,
00:50:10.47\00:50:11.91
no, not one,
look where he started.
00:50:11.94\00:50:13.68
We are just getting so
close to being out of time.
00:50:13.71\00:50:16.85
Because this is so important.
00:50:16.88\00:50:20.32
How may we be
00:50:20.35\00:50:21.68
overcomers of this evil
clothed in righteousness,
00:50:21.72\00:50:24.89
especially as his
deceptions reach a crescendo,
00:50:24.92\00:50:29.56
when we are told
that Satan himself
00:50:29.59\00:50:31.76
will appear as
Christ, when the world is
00:50:31.79\00:50:34.80
in a total state of
hopelessness, right before
00:50:34.83\00:50:38.23
the true second coming
of our Lord and Savior.
00:50:38.27\00:50:40.94
Actually, most of my
study was on this question,
00:50:40.97\00:50:43.74
because this is
what we see the world
00:50:43.77\00:50:46.37
coming to right now.
00:50:46.41\00:50:48.31
They are hurting,
they are confused.
00:50:48.34\00:50:50.75
They want to know
00:50:50.78\00:50:52.11
why things are happening the way
00:50:52.15\00:50:53.62
that they're happening.
00:50:53.65\00:50:54.98
You know, is there somebody,
00:50:55.02\00:50:56.35
is there a group
of people behind this.
00:50:56.38\00:50:58.69
And then what happens
when the devil gets us
00:50:58.72\00:51:01.59
so choked up that
we're pleading God,
00:51:01.62\00:51:03.79
we need help, and who shows up,
00:51:03.83\00:51:07.00
but the beast, the
dragon, and the false prophet.
00:51:07.03\00:51:12.23
And when those
three are together,
00:51:12.27\00:51:13.67
we're told that
00:51:13.70\00:51:15.04
that is the
abomination of desolation
00:51:15.07\00:51:17.07
standing in the holy place,
00:51:17.11\00:51:18.44
that's when it's
going to get really bad.
00:51:18.47\00:51:20.84
So how are we going
to be able to stand?
00:51:20.88\00:51:23.24
You know, are we going to
00:51:23.28\00:51:24.61
continue to be
deceived when we sees a being
00:51:24.65\00:51:28.28
showing up and looking
00:51:28.32\00:51:29.82
and sounding
like the description
00:51:29.85\00:51:32.29
that we read in
revelation of Jesus Christ?
00:51:32.32\00:51:36.19
You know, and they tell you,
00:51:36.22\00:51:38.09
oh, he's, he's
here, come and see him.
00:51:38.13\00:51:40.20
He's here, Christ has
come, He's going to help us.
00:51:40.23\00:51:42.53
He's doing all
these marvelous miracles.
00:51:42.56\00:51:44.97
He's raising
people from the dead,
00:51:45.00\00:51:47.07
he's healing
people, we're saved,
00:51:47.10\00:51:48.90
everything's going to be better.
00:51:48.94\00:51:50.41
Just come and meet him.
00:51:50.44\00:51:52.61
Isn't the enemy
can do something,
00:51:52.64\00:51:54.08
maybe in the last five minutes
00:51:54.11\00:51:55.44
we have we talked
about because the main thing
00:51:55.48\00:51:56.95
here is he
wanted to create what?
00:51:56.98\00:51:59.61
Doubt in the
goodness and the wisdom of God
00:51:59.65\00:52:03.32
and God's law and
doing the right thing.
00:52:03.35\00:52:05.45
Doubt is the issue.
00:52:05.49\00:52:07.09
And so I found
something in Great Controversy,
00:52:07.12\00:52:08.59
then you can go head on,
00:52:08.62\00:52:09.96
it's just a
couple lines of page,
00:52:09.99\00:52:11.66
I think it was 528.
00:52:11.69\00:52:14.16
It says, you want
to be free from doubt,
00:52:14.20\00:52:16.40
we have to be free from doubt,
because notice what it says,
00:52:16.43\00:52:19.17
instead of questioning
and caviling concerning that
00:52:19.20\00:52:22.20
which they do not understand,
talking about people who is,
00:52:22.24\00:52:25.07
you know, questioning
all the time and doubting.
00:52:25.11\00:52:26.98
Let them give heed to the light,
00:52:27.01\00:52:29.64
which already shines upon them.
00:52:29.68\00:52:32.11
And they will
receive greater light,
00:52:32.15\00:52:34.32
simply to do those things
00:52:34.35\00:52:35.68
that are already made plain,
00:52:35.72\00:52:37.92
you know, whose understanding,
00:52:37.95\00:52:39.45
more understanding will come.
00:52:39.49\00:52:41.12
Other words, if you say
00:52:41.16\00:52:42.49
I don't have much understanding,
00:52:42.52\00:52:43.86
then concentrate
on the understanding
00:52:43.89\00:52:46.03
that you do have,
00:52:46.06\00:52:47.46
the light that has
been given and more that
00:52:47.50\00:52:49.33
you look at the
light that has been given
00:52:49.36\00:52:50.83
you know that it is,
doubt would dissipate.
00:52:50.87\00:52:53.64
And God will be showing
you more things to come.
00:52:53.67\00:52:56.47
Doubt has to go as long
as we're down in Scripture.
00:52:56.50\00:52:58.67
That's a lack of what?
Lack of our faith in God.
00:52:58.71\00:53:02.84
And without faith it's
impossible to please God.
00:53:02.88\00:53:04.48
Okay. Go ahead.
00:53:04.51\00:53:05.85
You know, I mentioned
something a little while ago
00:53:05.88\00:53:08.08
that after Adam and Eve
sinned, they had an advantage,
00:53:08.12\00:53:12.52
we have a disadvantage
00:53:12.55\00:53:13.89
because we inherited
a tendency toward evil,
00:53:13.92\00:53:16.99
a nature that wants to do
evil, but because of Christ,
00:53:17.03\00:53:22.66
because of Christ, we can go
00:53:22.70\00:53:24.43
from being at a disadvantage
to be to have an advantage,
00:53:24.47\00:53:29.64
because through
Jesus we can be overcomers.
00:53:29.67\00:53:32.81
Amen.
00:53:32.84\00:53:34.18
And that's why it
says in Revelation 12:11,
00:53:34.21\00:53:37.31
"They overcame him by
the blood of the Lamb."
00:53:37.35\00:53:40.68
Good.
00:53:40.72\00:53:42.05
And their oil, their
lamps were filled with oil.
00:53:42.08\00:53:44.65
They were studying,
00:53:44.69\00:53:46.02
they were praying,
they were witnessing,
00:53:46.05\00:53:47.96
they were going
through the sanctuary message.
00:53:47.99\00:53:51.59
To summarize some of this,
00:53:51.63\00:53:52.96
the thoughts came
to me late last night,
00:53:52.99\00:53:55.00
God is our
fortress. God is our strength.
00:53:55.03\00:53:58.20
God is our restorer.
God is our sustainer.
00:53:58.23\00:54:01.57
God is our overcomer.
00:54:01.60\00:54:03.51
God is our
hope, and you can back
00:54:03.54\00:54:05.37
each and every one of
these up with Scripture.
00:54:05.41\00:54:07.94
God is our fortress.
00:54:07.98\00:54:09.41
You know, Psalms 91:2,
00:54:09.44\00:54:11.21
you can find every one of
these in principle in Psalms 91.
00:54:11.25\00:54:13.68
Yes.
00:54:13.72\00:54:15.05
He is my refuge and my fortress.
00:54:15.08\00:54:16.92
God is our strength.
00:54:16.95\00:54:18.29
His truth shall be
thy shield and buckler.
00:54:18.32\00:54:21.36
See, if we don't
know what truth is.
00:54:21.39\00:54:23.22
If you don't know the
second coming of Christ,
00:54:23.26\00:54:25.16
you're going to be deceived.
00:54:25.19\00:54:26.70
That's what's bothering me.
00:54:26.73\00:54:28.26
I see my
children being deceived.
00:54:28.30\00:54:30.63
I see people I
love being deceived,
00:54:30.67\00:54:32.93
because they're not
accepting the Word of the God
00:54:32.97\00:54:36.30
as the absolute morality.
00:54:36.34\00:54:38.84
Absolute truth. Yes.
00:54:38.87\00:54:40.98
And we must accept
it as absolute truth
00:54:41.01\00:54:43.38
or we're gonna be
deceived just like Eve was.
00:54:43.41\00:54:45.78
God is our restorer.
00:54:45.81\00:54:47.35
He shall give His
angels charge over thee.
00:54:47.38\00:54:50.65
What a blessing.
00:54:50.69\00:54:52.02
You don't have
to do it yourself.
00:54:52.05\00:54:53.59
He's going to give
you the strength to do it,
00:54:53.62\00:54:55.36
to keep you in all thy ways.
00:54:55.39\00:54:57.83
God is our sustainer.
00:54:57.86\00:54:59.93
He shall give His angels charge.
00:54:59.96\00:55:02.03
Well, that's
what I meant to read.
00:55:02.06\00:55:03.80
I read the wrong one.
00:55:03.83\00:55:05.17
Oh, I got in here
twice, that's why,
00:55:05.20\00:55:07.30
but also restored to me
the joy of thy salvation.
00:55:07.34\00:55:10.07
God is our overcomer,
00:55:10.11\00:55:11.74
He shall deliver thee
from the snare of the fowler.
00:55:11.77\00:55:15.84
It's He that is
doing the battle for us.
00:55:15.88\00:55:18.51
When we get
there, but you know what?
00:55:18.55\00:55:19.91
He's not going to
force anything on us.
00:55:19.95\00:55:21.52
You got to reach out.
God, I'm in a mess, help me.
00:55:21.55\00:55:25.42
And He said He will
do that. God is our hope.
00:55:25.45\00:55:28.59
Because He has
set His love upon me,
00:55:28.62\00:55:31.06
therefore will I deliver him.
00:55:31.09\00:55:33.06
I will set him on high
because he had known my name.
00:55:33.09\00:55:38.27
God wants to do all
these things for us.
00:55:38.30\00:55:41.00
And it's in His strength,
His power, His salvation,
00:55:41.04\00:55:44.87
everything that
we can be overcomers
00:55:44.91\00:55:47.01
and when these
things are attacking us
00:55:47.04\00:55:49.04
and we feel
hopeless and helpless,
00:55:49.08\00:55:50.71
we have God's
Word to combat that.
00:55:50.75\00:55:52.08
Amen. Brother, JD?
00:55:52.11\00:55:53.45
Well, I just...
00:55:53.48\00:55:54.82
Here again, I
understand and following exactly
00:55:54.85\00:55:58.42
what you said,
Chris, number one know that
00:55:58.45\00:56:00.89
you know that you know.
00:56:00.92\00:56:02.32
How do you know
that you know that
00:56:02.36\00:56:03.69
you know is by getting in,
00:56:03.73\00:56:05.39
getting in there
inviting the Holy Spirit in,
00:56:05.43\00:56:07.96
He knows your heart, He knows.
00:56:08.00\00:56:11.00
Thank You, Jesus that
He tells us in Matthew
00:56:11.03\00:56:13.34
that I will bring
to you the remembrance.
00:56:13.37\00:56:17.11
But I've got to have
something in there first.
00:56:17.14\00:56:20.18
And then there's
the rules of engagement
00:56:20.21\00:56:21.94
of which means that God
is not going to overstep
00:56:21.98\00:56:24.81
unless you're giving permission,
00:56:24.85\00:56:26.18
giving permission.
00:56:26.21\00:56:27.55
Yeah. Lord, I need Your help.
00:56:27.58\00:56:28.95
This has got to
make some sense to me.
00:56:28.98\00:56:31.02
Yes. And then be faithful.
00:56:31.05\00:56:32.85
And don't hesitate to plead.
00:56:32.89\00:56:35.79
Nothing wrong with pleading.
00:56:35.82\00:56:37.39
That's right.
Pleading is not sissies.
00:56:37.43\00:56:39.23
A contrite heart as Micah said.
00:56:39.26\00:56:40.90
Amen. Amen.
00:56:40.93\00:56:42.26
A contrite heart. Amen.
00:56:42.30\00:56:44.57
Well, you know,
in John Chapter 15,
00:56:44.60\00:56:47.87
Jesus says, abide in Me,
00:56:47.90\00:56:51.37
and without Me
you can do nothing.
00:56:51.41\00:56:52.84
Abide in me,
00:56:52.87\00:56:54.21
as the vine
cannot bear fruit of it,
00:56:54.24\00:56:55.84
as the branch cannot bear fruit
00:56:55.88\00:56:57.35
unless it abides
of the vine neither,
00:56:57.38\00:56:59.05
neither can you
except if you abide in Me.
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I see the time is over.
It says, Desire of Ages 324.
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Remember that,
Desire of Ages, 324.
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The only defense against
evil is the indwelling of Christ
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in the heart, through
faith and His righteousness.
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Amen. Wow.
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To me, it's been
a real good study,
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blessings of the
Holy Spirit being with us.
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We want to condense it
down real quick, we did.
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You know, again
the first error of Eve
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wandering away from her husband.
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Let's that not be issue,
we don't wander away from God.
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Number two is that
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we need not linger
around the forbidden tree
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or the temptation.
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And then we did
not doubt God's Word.
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I know you're
not going to doubt.
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God loves you.
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We love you and we look
forward to seeing you next time.
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Amen.
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