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Sunday school today we're doing 
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We are doing Sunday school for 
youth and adults as we start 

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this new series in Ephesians 
called The Armor of God. 

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We also, because we're using the
class forget to know R&O for new

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people that's going to be in the
older kids classroom. 

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And then next week we're doing 
membership class in there as 

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well. 
And so, so we're excited to have

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all ages in Sunday school. 
I do believe that all ages can 

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benefit from this Sunday school.
And so I'm going to be asking 

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questions along the way and 
trying to get participation. 

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And I just want you to know the 
format of this is that you can 

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raise a hand and ask a question 
if it's, you know, concerning 

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whatever the topic is I'm on at 
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And I would answer those or 
we'll have, if you don't get 

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your question answered at the 
stop of every kind of point or 

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section, we'll have questions. 
I will ask you questions. 

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And I'm hoping to get some 
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probably some scripture reading 
as well. 

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So please have your Bibles open 
and open them to Ephesians 

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chapter 6. 
And why, why we're excited about

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this series is because we 
believe that there's a lot of 

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spiritual warfare going on right
now that people don't recognize 

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it to be that. 
I think people just think in 

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general terms, and especially 
Christians. 

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Of course, all people, 
unbelievers don't really think 

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about spiritual things, but even
Christians sometimes neglect to 

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remember or to know what 
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on in the world. 
Has spiritual forces behind it 

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that are making things work, 
things that we can't see, things

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that are happening, influences 
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An organized system of evil that
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that may be at work in even some
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see in our world doing evil. 
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God or the full armor of God. 
It's all about spiritual 

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warfare, fighting the spiritual 
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And so I would like to start out
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from Ephesians 610 through 20. 
So pull your Bibles there as I 

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pull my Bible there. 
Sorry, we've kind of had a crazy

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morning with the projector not 
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So we had to do this, this quick
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But it turned out great. 
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being a little bit off, you 
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didn't tell you, right? 
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wonky today because of the 
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there. 
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10 through 20, I'm going to 
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It says, finally, be strong in 
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his might. 
Put on the whole armor of God 

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that you may be able to stand 
against the schemes of the 

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devil. 
For we do not wrestle against 

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flesh and blood, but against the
rulers, against the authorities,

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against the cosmic powers, over 
this present darkness, against 

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the spiritual forces of evil in 
the heavenly places. 

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Therefore take up the whole 
armour of God, that you may be 

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able to withstand in the evil 
day. 

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And having done all to stand 
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Stand, therefore, having 
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and having put on the 
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as shoes for your feet, having 
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the gospel of peace in all 
circumstances, take up the 

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shield of faith, with which you 
can extinguish all the flaming 

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darts of the evil. 1 And take 
the helmet of salvation and the 

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sword of the Spirit, which is 
the Word of God, praying at all 

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times in the Spirit with all 
prayer and supplication to that 

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end. 
Keep alert with all 

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perseverance, making 
supplication for all the Saints 

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and also for me, that words may 
be given to me, and opening my 

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mouth boldly to proclaim the 
mystery of the gospel for which 

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I am an ambassador in chains, 
that I may declare it boldly as 

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I ought to speak. 
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Ephesians, which I think that we
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Paul is in prison, chained to a 
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writing of this book. 
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Philippians, Ephesians, 
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Philemon. 
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were written in a prison in 
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And so it makes a lot of sense 
that he's using this armor 

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analogy. 
He sees this in his everyday 

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life. 
In fact, he sees it every single

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day, 18 inches away from him, 
chained to him. 

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No, I'm not saying that the I 
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always in full armor, but as he 
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different soldiers changing in 
and changing out shift or, you 

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know, walking through the city, 
he could see a soldier that had 

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all this different apparel on 
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And this would also make sense 
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The Ephesian church and people 
in general would have understood

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that he's talking about a 
soldier. 

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He writes this under the 
inspiration of the Holy Spirit 

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while using his own personal 
experience, logic, and reason to

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teach the church how to do 
spiritual warfare. 

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Now to give a little more 
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Ephesians, the first 3 chapters 
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last three chapters are all 
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theology. 
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grace, God's glory, his spirit 
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We're going to have to look at 
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series. 
Go back chapters to to find out 

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what he means. 
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context. 
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regeneration and the church, an 
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That's what the study of the 
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church, that word is. 
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love. 
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therefore. 
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Paul's letters or another 
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the books are laid out. 
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theology up front. 
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place where it says therefore, 
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before, but we got to find out 
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therefore, and usually it's to 
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whatever Paul said about 
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Now how do I use this in my 
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So it goes on to talk about 
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membership. 
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versus darkness worship, how it 
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6 with children at work. 
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section on spiritual warfare. 
So let's look at our verses. 

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Now knowing that all of the 
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verses as we get into this intro
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And I believe this, this this 
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to take about 8 or 9 weeks. 
Is that right Mike? 

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Because each one of the armor 
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verse by verse, we're actually 
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verses have two pieces of armor 
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And so we'll have to take two 
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what these the armor is. 
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open us up with the first 3 
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armor talking about recognizing 
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just said, just so you know, is 
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made for you walking through 
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But let's get to our first 
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It says, finally be strong in 
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Put on the whole armor of God 

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that you may be able to stand 
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devil. 
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spiritual warfare in? 
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Whose strength we're supposed to
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Anybody want to answer that? 
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He is the strong man who, who 
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of any spiritual force. 
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the Gospels, Jesus tells a 
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bind a strong man and then you 
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That is talking about and, and, 
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are, are trying to say he casts 
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demons. 
Jesus. 

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stand. 
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is, look, no, the house that I'm
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infiltrated by a person he calls
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And so in order to get rid of 
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stronger has to be able to come 
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plunder his goods. 
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is the stronger man, stronger 
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in you than he who is in the 
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Jesus is the strong man and God 
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That's talking about his 
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It means all powerful. 
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and so if we go back to 
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as I said, we would look at 
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in him we have obtained an 
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predestined according to the 
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part of God's omnipotence or all
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in control of all things, that 
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That's what the the word means. 
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be strong in the Lord, in the 
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talking about not just the 
strength of the creator who 

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spoke everything into existence 
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can cast out demons and defeat 
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We're also talking about the 
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that nothing can thwart God's 
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remind ourselves of God's 
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We must say, OK, look, there are
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where Satan comes to Job and 
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and God saying, OK, go ahead. 
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allowed spiritual warfare in 
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there's a lot of lamenting and 
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But in the end, it's said that 
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he had before this happened. 
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warfare can be used for the good
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God's people. 
We always think of it as bad and

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evil because there is evil 
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us. 
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sovereign according to the 
purpose of him who works all 

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thing according to the counsel 
of His will. 

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He works all things according to
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Now, does that mean that God is 
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causes the evil to happen to you
now? 

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But He certainly allows it, and 
it has to be a part of some sort

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of plan, His sovereign will and 
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Himself and ultimately for our 
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So in our spiritual warfare, we 
must not remember whose strength

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we go in. 
So let's see whose strength 

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we've answered that. 
Whose armor? 

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Going back to that verse, whose 
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armor, right? 
What are the pieces? 

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What are the pieces of this 
armor? 

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How many are there? 
I'd like to hear, you know, how 

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many. 
What's your opinion about how 

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many pieces of armor are there 
in Ephesians 6? 

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It's going to be 14 through, I 
think about 18 lists them all 

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or, or, or, or let's just say 10
through 20. 

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Take some time to look at those 
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shout out how many pieces do you
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Six. 
OK. 

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And and so let's hear some of 
those belt of truth, breastplate

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of righteousness. 
What? 

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What was that? 
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peace or gospel readiness of 
shoes of the gospel of peace. 

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That one's a little bit hard to 
label actually. 

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But that's then you said what? 
Shield of Faith. 

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OK anymore? 
Sword of the Spirit, Helmet of 

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Salvation. 
All right, so now is there 

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another one in there? 
That seems like it should be in 

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there, but it isn't quite an 
armor isn't quite a piece of 

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something praying, yes, prayer, 
praying in the spirit at all 

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times or prayer right. 
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underneath the sword of the 
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God, but it doesn't have a, a, a
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And so it's interesting to think
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+ 6 plus there's more than six, 
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same time 6.1. 
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Thunder when we get to that. 
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confidence, with remembering all
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the armor we need to remember 
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word of God. 
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work together very symbiotically
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I actually heard it said once 
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heard me say this before, but if
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they pray or prays more than 
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having two legs and one's longer
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You got to try to figure out how
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Otherwise, your walk is a little
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and praying equal amounts or if 
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get stronger in the other. 
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Yes, there are 6 pieces of 
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God provides the armor, so let's
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These are it right here. 
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of righteousness, shoes of the 
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faith, helmet of salvation, 
sword of the Spirit, and the 

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bonus of prayer. 
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verses, finishing 11 and 12. 
Put on the whole armour of God, 

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that you may be able to stand 
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devil. 
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flesh and blood, but against the
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against the cosmic powers, over 
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the spiritual forces of evil in 
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So the question is, who are we 
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That's my question. 
I'd like anybody to answer that.

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Maybe it's one, maybe it's one 
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Who are we doing war against 
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The devil, all right. 
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schemes of the devil. 
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authorities, cosmic powers and 
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Because that's not just talking 
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Who are they? 
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Lori? 
And his army. 

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OK, so Satan has an army. 
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organized? 
Armies are pretty organized, 

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right? 
The military is a pretty 

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organized machine to some 
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Also, every time we're teaching,
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us down. 
So all right, so Satan has an 

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army. 
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These rulers, authorities, 
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of evil, I would all call 
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These are all the demonic realm.
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Satan as the leader has an 
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are called authorities rulers. 
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where we get this from, I guess 
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places of Scripture. 
So Daniel 1013, if somebody 

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could grab Daniel 1013, somebody
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Who's going to do that? 
Raise your hand if you've got 

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one or the other. 
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Daniel 10130, you got Jude 19-K.
Hold on to that. 

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Who's God? 
Daniel 10/13 OK, go ahead and 

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read that for us. 
Daniel 1013. 

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Be loud if you can. 
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It says the Prince of the 
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21 days. 
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Princess, came to me, for I was 
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Persia. 
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This is Michael. 
Here is Michael the Archangel. 

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OK, so this is talking about a 
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Prince, while the Angel is also 
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these roles, these authoritative
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of where what Daniel would say 
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Kingdom of Persia. 
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A lot of theologians believe 
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who has authority over a place, 
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demons are not omnipresent. 
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means everywhere all at once. 
OK, Satan cannot be everywhere 

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all at once. 
He is just a fallen Angel. 

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We're going to get into who he 
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And demons are the same thing, 
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everywhere all at once, reading 
everybody's mind all at once. 

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No, in order for them to play 
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have to be organized and they've
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another. 
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communicate to one another and 
to kind of disseminate orders 

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and give directives and things 
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I know that sounds kind of 
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of it. 
Let's go to what is Jude 19 say?

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OK, so that's talking about in 
the book of Jude, apparently the

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Archangel Michael was was 
fighting with the devil over the

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body of Moses when he died at 
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Things that weren't exactly 
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You know, I think that's in 
Deuteronomy where it talks about

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Moses died and right before it 
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play back then. 
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and demons fighting against 
Revelation 12, seven. 

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Let me just let me read that to 
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Revelation 12/7 says now war 
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angels fighting against the 
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angels fought back. 
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there are there's a spiritual 
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We can't even see it. 
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before humans ever came onto the
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Because let's get into who the 
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We need to know our enemy, yes. 
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because of things like the book 
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of Job chapter 1, it says that 
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God came into God's presence and
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Job. 
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heavenly realm. 
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there's a heavenly realm, a 
spiritual realm where these 

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forces actually can communicate 
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heavenly places, you know, right
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the eternal state of heaven and 
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Jesus tells the parable about 
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rich man dies, goes to what is 
hell now, where he is in anguish

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in a flame and he begs for water
and he and he begs that someone 

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would go tell his brothers not 
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But from far off he sees Abraham
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and and it says there's a great 
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crossover. 
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places, we understand that there
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humans can't interact in their 
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state of glory with God. 
If you go to heaven, your, your 

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spirit is with God. 
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judgement. 
There's no interacting on that 

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part. 
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demons, there's a there's a 
sense in which we don't fully 

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understand how they can move in 
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Yeah, there's a battle going on.
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This is the thing though. 
We always want to blame just the

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devil and the demons for the 
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We need to be aware of that, and
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But I also want us to look at 
there are three enemies, not 

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just the devil's one of them, 
but does anybody know the other 

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two enemies that we are at war 
with in this spiritual battle 

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flesh. 
There's one more, one more enemy

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that we are at at war with. 
Well, let, let's let me read 

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this verse to you and maybe you 
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Ephesians 2, two and three. 
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were dead in our trespasses and 
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walked following the course of 
this world, following the Prince

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of the power of the air, that 
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working, the sons of 
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once lived in the passions of 
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desires of the body and the 
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And we're by nature, children of
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I like how that rhymes at the 
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Anyway, so we talked about the 
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We talked about flesh. 
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The world? 
The world. 

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The world. 
OK, so we're going to walk 

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through as quick as we can. 
Not that we have to end right at

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10, I don't think. 
But these three people or three 

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forces at work against us in 
spiritual warfare. 

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First we have the devil. 
He is the word devil means 

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slanderer or Satan means 
adversary who has an angelic 

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being who fell from his position
in heaven due to sin and is now 

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completely opposed to God doing 
all in his power to thwart God's

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purposes. 
You guys know the story that 

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before humanity was created 
there was a war in heaven. 

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Some believe that Revelation 12 
that's actually talking about 

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that. 
Some believe that that's talking

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about something in the future. 
But Satan and his demons were 

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cast out of heaven in in 
Revelation, it calls 1/3 of the 

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stars of heaven. 
But Satanist demons were cast 

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out of heaven because in Isaiah 
14 and Ezekiel, what is it 

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Ezekiel? 
I have the verses here anywhere,

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somewhere in Ezekiel. 
There are two places in these 

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these in the Old Testament that 
simultaneously are talking about

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a king and Satan at the same 
time and it talks about him 

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being cast out of heaven. 
Revelation tells us the same 

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thing because of pride, because 
he said I will ascend to the 

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throne. 
And in Isaiah 14, I will 

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they're, they're called the five
I wills of Satan in Isaiah 1412 

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through 15. 
I'm not going to read them, but 

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if you want to take notes, go 
look at those verses. 

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So who is Satan? 
Oh yeah, it's Ezekiel 2813 

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through 17 as well. 
So Satan is fiercely, fiercely 

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opposed to God's work. 
Satan rules the fallen world 

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system in rebellion against God.
He is the liar and father of the

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lies, as Jesus says. 
He's come to steal, kill and 

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destroy again. 
Jesus says that and John, he's 

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on the hunt for vulnerable 
Christians first. 

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Peter, 58, talks about he's a 
roaring lion ready to devour. 

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Satan's greatest tool is deceit 
because he is the liar and 

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father of lies and he will one 
day face God's judgment and 

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demons. 
Then our fallen angels who who 

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are cast out of heaven. 
Grudem says sometime before 

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Satan tempted Eve in the garden,
a number of angels sinned and 

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rebelled against God. 
So let's look at second Peter 2 

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verse four and Jude 6. 
Leanna, you already had Jude. 

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Are you still close to that Jude
verse 6? 

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Somebody else read Second Peter 
424. 

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OK, go ahead. 
OK, so he's saying God did not 

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spare angels but put them in 
chains of darkness to be kept to

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judgment. 
What does Jude 6 say? 

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OK, so there apparently are 
demons that are being kept in 

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chains. 
Well, now trying to understand 

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what that means is a little bit 
difficult because this is this 

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is apocalyptic language, This is
spiritual language. 

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We don't know if there's literal
change in the spiritual realm. 

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Just like in Revelation chapter 
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Angel who came down from heaven 
with a great chain and he bound 

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Satan and put him in a pit and 
had a key and locked him with 

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the. 
Is that talking about a literal 

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chain with a literal key? 
That's the biggest, biggest 

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argument about the end times. 
There is actually is trying to 

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understand that passage about a 
a literal 1000 year reign 

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Millennium thing, right? 
So many people disagree about 

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the chain is a figurative chain 
that binds them in a sense. 

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Not completely, but binds him 
from completely taking over the 

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whole world, binds him from 
completely deceiving people so 

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bad that nobody can understand 
the gospel. 

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So. 
But evidently some demons are 

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00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:08,000
bound and waiting for judgement.
There are there are demons also 

452
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,360
that are on the that roam the 
earth, just like Satan can roam 

453
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,960
the earth and they have limited 
power. 

454
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,480
Again, they're not omniscient, 
they don't know everything, 

455
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:17,880
they're not everywhere all at 
once. 

456
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,360
They are smart though. 
And let me just say it this way.

457
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:28,000
If you existed for at least 6000
years or more, however long, I 

458
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,480
don't know when all things were 
created, especially in heaven 

459
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:38,719
before earth was created. 
But if demons existed and has 

460
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:46,080
has has observed us human beings
for the last 6000 years and they

461
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:51,560
don't die, they would gain a lot
of knowledge about humanity and 

462
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,199
how it works, right? 
I mean, you ever been in a close

463
00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:57,240
relationship with someone, a 
kid, a wife or a friend? 

464
00:34:57,240 --> 00:34:59,720
You just, you can complete their
sentences, you know what they're

465
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:02,960
going to do just based on habit.
And that's only after a couple 

466
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:07,520
of years. 
Imagine these well organized 

467
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:12,280
appointed spiritual beings in 
countries and States and cities 

468
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:19,320
and provinces that are watching 
people assigned to families and 

469
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:26,480
groups of people to take notes, 
to learn what they're doing, to 

470
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:31,000
figure out how to thwart their 
plans, to stir up their own 

471
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:38,560
rebellion against God. 
I mean, again, now here's a 

472
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,320
controversial one. 
But demons cannot possess a 

473
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:47,240
Christian. 
Demons cannot completely take 

474
00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:51,040
over a true believer who has the
Spirit of God. 

475
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:56,000
Now they could oppress A 
believer. 

476
00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:02,720
And if a believer is given in 
too much sin, like drunkenness 

477
00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:07,280
or, you know, different things, 
I think you're inviting satanic 

478
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:12,200
or demonic influence into your 
life when you take in substances

479
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:16,400
like alcohol and drugs, so much 
so that you're inebriated. 

480
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:21,040
You've now given over control of
yourself to whatever wants to 

481
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,920
take control, you know, So in a 
sense. 

482
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:30,120
And, and by the way, you know, 
Paul talks about, you know this 

483
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:35,120
in Ephesians 4 in the sin list 
and he calls it, what's that? 

484
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,080
What's that word in Ephesians 
chapter 4? 

485
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:53,920
He calls it, it's like a, a 
spell or a kind of a witchcraft 

486
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:58,960
sounding type of a word. 
And my, my, my Bible's not 

487
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,240
working right now for some 
reason. 

488
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,200
Ephesians chapter 4 in the in 
the sin list. 

489
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,520
Is there a sin list in chapter 
4? 

490
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,920
Maybe I'm wrong. 
That's maybe it's talking about 

491
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,600
don't be filled with wine, which
leads to bakery. 

492
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:14,880
Maybe it's in Galatians. 
I don't know. 

493
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:21,680
But it talks about oh, sorcery. 
That's the word sorcery when it 

494
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,160
says the word sorcery. 
The word in Greek is pharmakeia,

495
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,720
which comes from our word for 
where we get pharmaceuticals and

496
00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:31,160
pharmacy. 
What are those drugs? 

497
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,480
Right. 
Well, why is he bringing that up

498
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:37,960
as a a sin? 
Because pagans have used drugs 

499
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:45,160
and alcohol and certain, you 
know, medicinal herbs to have 

500
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:50,240
kind of a euphoric experience, 
not just for recreation, but 

501
00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:56,200
also to communicate with deities
who are, there are no other 

502
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,720
deities or heavenly beings or 
other gods. 

503
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:05,400
The only spiritual beings are 
God and angels or Satan and 

504
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,160
demons. 
And so every time any religion 

505
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:12,160
is reaching out to some kind of 
deity, they're actually, Paul 

506
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:16,440
says in I think 1st Corinthians 
10, what they offer as sacrifice

507
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,600
to gods. 
They give to demons and not to 

508
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,840
gods. 
And So what I would say, I think

509
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:26,120
MacArthur actually said this 
very well, and I agree with it, 

510
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:31,600
was any false religion is 
worshipping a demon. 

511
00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:36,680
And it's not just human forces 
that set up that false religion 

512
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,800
with all of its history and all 
of its false teaching, with all 

513
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,680
of its books. 
In fact, a demon is at the head 

514
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:48,600
of every false church. 
This is the battle we're facing.

515
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:54,320
OK, let's talk about the other 
two, the other two that we're 

516
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,480
fighting the world. 
The world is an organized 

517
00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:01,000
system, ideas and ideologies in 
opposition and rebellion against

518
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,200
God. 
Satan is actually not only 

519
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:09,160
leader of the demons, but the 
second Corinthians 4/4 says he 

520
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,400
is the God of this world who's 
blinded the minds of unbelievers

521
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:18,280
or the Prince of the power of 
the air, which we just read in 

522
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,480
Ephesians chapter 2. 
Satan has a lot of influence in 

523
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:25,160
the world. 
He uses his demons as this 

524
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:31,680
organized system to communicate 
to people in power, to push 

525
00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:37,080
ideologies, false teachings, 
false religions on to the world.

526
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:43,520
I think it's first John 216 is a
verse that says the lust of the 

527
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,280
flesh, the lust of the eyes and 
the pride of life. 

528
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,760
That is the world. 
Everything that you can see. 

529
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,320
I wish I had that right. 
The lust of the eyes, the lust 

530
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,400
of the flesh is is passions and 
desires. 

531
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,800
The pride of life is, you know, 
the success, and we look out at 

532
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,560
the world and we see, you know, 
kind of. 

533
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,600
The way things operate and, and,
and and sometimes we look at it 

534
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,560
and we're like envious and 
covetous. 

535
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,280
I want this, I want that. 
I want their possessions. 

536
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,440
I want to live like them. 
I want to have as much money as 

537
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,320
them. 
I want to have as much power as 

538
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,200
they do. 
And how did they get there? 

539
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:27,320
I want to get there. 
It's all a ruse to try to get us

540
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:33,080
distracted, getting us to really
say we yeah, we're believers, we

541
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,000
love God. 
But I think we sometimes, if 

542
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,320
some people are honest or maybe 
in our own cells, we have idols,

543
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,560
idolatry and Satan. 
Not only the Satan is is trying 

544
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,320
to invent idols for us to go 
worship out there in the world. 

545
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,880
Colossians 28 says they see to 
it that no one takes you captive

546
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,480
by philosophy and empty deceit 
according to human tradition, 

547
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,160
according to the elemental 
spirits of the world and not 

548
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:02,080
according to Christ. 
There's philosophy and human 

549
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:11,840
tradition that set itself up 
against God, philosophies and 

550
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:17,240
ideologies pushed by even our 
government systems and school 

551
00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:21,200
systems. 
I love, you know, Vodi Baucom 

552
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,280
passed away and man, I love that
guy. 

553
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:28,760
I mean, he was my number one guy
that I went to for just about 

554
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:33,880
everything. 
And one of the things he said, 

555
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,360
which I agree with, and I'm 
going to say this caveating that

556
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:45,400
I have my own child is in public
school, but he said he said 

557
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,040
this. 
He says if we keep sending our 

558
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,880
children to Caesar, then don't 
be surprised that they come back

559
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:59,680
Romans because the government 
ultimately who leads and and 

560
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,400
rules what's going to be taught 
and educated in our public 

561
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,160
schools. 
Also, not all of it's bad. 

562
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:09,160
Math's not bad, right? 
English is all right, you know, 

563
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:14,320
but but when we get to things 
that are theoretical or, or 

564
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:19,440
political or ideologies that are
just one guy's stance or 

565
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:24,240
opinion, I mean, that's when the
war sets in, in our kids. 

566
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,720
And we better, if we're sending 
them to public school, we better

567
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:33,480
be having more influence than 
they get 6 hours a day there. 

568
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,560
And that is difficult. 
That is very difficult. 

569
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:43,000
And so that's one that we need 
to keep our eye on. 

570
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:50,120
I think that's the world now. 
The last one is the flesh. 

571
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,520
It is a compulsive inner force 
inherited from man's fall, which

572
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:59,160
expresses itself in general and 
specific rebellion against God 

573
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:05,720
and his righteousness, our own 
flesh, talking about the 

574
00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:08,240
passions of the flesh, the 
desires of the body. 

575
00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:11,600
And it's not talking about our 
physical bodies, because when 

576
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,480
God created our physical bodies,
he said it's all good, 

577
00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:17,280
everything is good. 
We weren't created evil, but we 

578
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:21,400
did fall. 
And so the fall causes this, 

579
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:25,160
this built in nature. 
Now that's in us that only wants

580
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,360
to go the sinful way. 
We're bored. 

581
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,400
And that's why in Ephesians 2 it
says we were born dead. 

582
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,640
We are dead in our trespasses 
and sins. 

583
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,800
We are spiritually dead because 
of the fall, the inherited 

584
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,240
nature. 
Even though we have a physical 

585
00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:45,840
body that's living, we have a 
dead spiritual nature that 

586
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:51,880
actually wants to side with the 
world and side with Satan until 

587
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,920
we're born again. 
When we get born again, we get 

588
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:59,400
the new nature of the Holy 
Spirit, God's nature put in US. 

589
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:05,160
And now when you become a 
Christian, now there's a war, 

590
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:09,080
internal war, the Spirit and the
flesh. 

591
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:14,280
Galatians chapter 5 has a lot to
say about this war. 

592
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,600
It says the sinful nature wants 
to do evil, which is just the 

593
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,320
opposite of what the Spirit 
wants. 

594
00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:23,320
The Spirit gives us desires that
are opposite of what the sinful 

595
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,080
nature desires. 
These two forces are constantly 

596
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:29,040
fighting each other, so you're 
not free to carry out your good 

597
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:33,720
intentions. 
So the spiritual battle from 

598
00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:38,600
without and from within, we need
to remember that three enemies, 

599
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:45,000
the world, the flesh and the 
devil, Romans 87 the sinful 

600
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,160
nature is always hostile to God.
It never did obey God's law and 

601
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:52,200
it never will. 
We're all included, even non 

602
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,480
believers. 
They don't have the Spirit of 

603
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:58,640
God, but they still are fighting
against the world, the flesh and

604
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:00,720
the devil too. 
They just don't know it and 

605
00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:05,680
probably don't care. 
Nobody is exempt from this 

606
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:11,720
battle as a human. 
So I want to close then with 

607
00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:15,120
this last verse for the day. 
Therefore, take up the whole 

608
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,120
armor of God that you may be 
able to withstand in the evil 

609
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:24,400
day that's today and all the 
days before this was written to 

610
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:31,040
now 2000 of them, 2000 years of 
them having done all to stand 

611
00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:36,440
firm. 
How do we wage war according to 

612
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,760
these verses? 
Let's hear some answers. 

613
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:46,850
How do we wage war? 
By God? 

614
00:45:46,850 --> 00:45:49,090
His strength, right? 
God's strength. 

615
00:45:49,290 --> 00:45:54,130
We saw that in the first verse, 
Ephesians 316. 

616
00:45:56,570 --> 00:46:01,570
If we keep going back to our 
text in the context of what this

617
00:46:01,570 --> 00:46:11,720
was written, Ephesians 316 that 
according to the riches of his 

618
00:46:11,720 --> 00:46:16,440
glory, He may grant you to be 
strengthened with power through 

619
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:23,800
his spirit in your inner being. 
We get the power through his 

620
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:28,520
spirit in our inner being. 
We need to remember we have the 

621
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:33,760
Spirit of God another. 
What's another good principle on

622
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:38,240
how to do war? 
Who, who? 

623
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:45,800
What information do you have to 
know who you're fighting? 

624
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:51,760
Have you seen my notes? 
Knowing the enemy, You've got to

625
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,320
know the enemy. 
Who's the enemy again? 

626
00:46:54,320 --> 00:47:03,000
Tell me the three word The the 
world, the flesh and the devil. 

627
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:04,320
The world, the flesh and the 
devil. 

628
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,400
And then next, what did that 
verse? 

629
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,560
What is this whole section 
telling us to do? 

630
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:22,520
Fight. 
How are we going to fight? 

631
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:25,800
What are we supposed to do? 
The major imperative is to put 

632
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:29,600
something on, put on the armor 
of God. 

633
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,000
We're putting it on or taking it
up. 

634
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,920
In the in the different verses 
it says put it on or take it up.

635
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:42,080
What does this mean? 
It's like putting on clothes. 

636
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:46,120
It's a daily ritual. 
I hope you put on clothes every 

637
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:47,480
day. 
You know when you get up. 

638
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:50,520
I'm sure you all do, right? 
It would be weird if you didn't.

639
00:47:50,720 --> 00:47:54,400
Why is it that we do this as a 
ritual? 

640
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:59,920
Because it's just socially a 
thing I need to do and sometimes

641
00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:02,000
forget. 
We've got to put on the 

642
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,760
spiritual clothes, right? 
Spiritual clothes, put them on. 

643
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:10,360
We need to have those habits and
disciplines to remember, and 

644
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,680
we're going to learn that in the
series what those are. 

645
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,240
And then finally, what do we do 
with this armor? 

646
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,760
It says we're wrestling. 
We're fighting as as Leanna 

647
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:26,320
said, but just remember, this is
spiritual fighting, not 

648
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:33,760
physical, spiritually wrestling.
And then finally standing firm, 

649
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,000
you know what's, it's always 
fun. 

650
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,920
I've never been over to, you 
know, London. 

651
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:48,160
But I always see videos of 
those, the, the Queen's Guard. 

652
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,960
And all they do is stand there, 
you know, and people go up to 

653
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,040
them and they take pictures next
to them and they're trying to 

654
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:58,960
get them to, to do something. 
And they won't do anything until

655
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:03,440
you get too close. 
And then they're pretty scary, 

656
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:08,360
honestly. 
I mean, I've seen, I've seen 

657
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:11,440
them if somebody gets in their 
face or pushes them or spits on 

658
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:16,480
them, they'll eventually like do
something, you know, after 

659
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,960
several warnings. 
So I get that in my mind when I 

660
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:24,360
think of standing firm, that 
dude is not letting anything bug

661
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:25,800
him. 
Like a lot of words are 

662
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:27,760
happening and he is standing 
still. 

663
00:49:29,720 --> 00:49:35,560
Sometimes we're so unsteady, 
right? 

664
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,880
Like on when things are 
happening in the world all 

665
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:41,560
around us, we're tossed to and 
fro. 

666
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:47,200
We can't stand still. 
And that's, that's part of the 

667
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:51,800
battle is not being fooled into 
the little childish things that 

668
00:49:51,800 --> 00:50:04,250
the enemy is doing. 
Somebody read Exodus 1412 

669
00:50:04,250 --> 00:50:06,800
through 14? 
Somebody want to read that for 

670
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:22,420
us? 
Exodus 1412 through 14, 

671
00:50:41,390 --> 00:50:49,390
Anybody have it? 
Do you want a microphone? 

672
00:50:49,390 --> 00:50:56,630
You don't want a microphone 
here. 

673
00:50:56,630 --> 00:51:03,040
Say it loud, OK? 
Didn't we say to you in Egypt, 

674
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,240
leave us alone, Let us serve the
Egyptians. 

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It would have been better for us
to serve the Egyptians than to 

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die in the desert. 
Moses answered to the people. 

677
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Do not be afraid. 
Stand firm and you will see the 

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deliverance the Lord will bring 
you today. 

679
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,600
The Egyptians will see you today
you will never see again. 

680
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,800
The Lord will fight for you. 
You only need to be still. 

681
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,720
Isn't that beautiful? 
Stand firm, the Lord will fight 

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for you. 
We need to learn how to what it 

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means to stand firm instead of 
getting, you know, distracted 

684
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and pulled off of our post like 
that standing warrior, that word

685
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stand firm means to maintain or 
abide. 

686
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,840
You've heard that before to 
abide in the the Christian life.

687
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Keep doing the things you need 
to do. 

688
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:51,600
This life is about disciplines 
and habits and rituals. 

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That and listen to this last 
verse and I'll close with this. 

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It says in Thessalonians 2:15. 
So then, brothers, stand firm 

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and hold to the traditions that 
you were taught by us, either by

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our spoken word or by our 
letter. 

693
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:14,240
There are rituals, habits, 
traditions that come from 

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scripture that we need to keep 
doing over and over again, and 

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we will be ready to fight this 
battle. 

696
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:25,400
Thank you for being here in this
first introduction to the 

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series. 
I'm excited about it. 

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God bless you guys and you have 
any questions or need prayer? 

699
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Let me know. 
But otherwise, let's get some 

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coffee and greet some people.