1 00:00:02,500 --> 00:00:06,100 It's wonderful to be here with you this morning and we 2 00:00:06,100 --> 00:00:09,300 appreciate the presence of all that have come to be with us. 3 00:00:09,300 --> 00:00:12,700 We have visitors among us and we would hope that you would feel 4 00:00:12,700 --> 00:00:15,400 as you are. And that is our honored guest, 5 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:17,200 welcome. You back every time we have the 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,900 opportunity to meet, please feel welcome. 7 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,600 And is at his, as is always the case. 8 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,400 It is my privilege to speak concerning God's word. 9 00:00:25,700 --> 00:00:27,800 I want to invite your attention to the book of Ephesians, 10 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,100 chapter 6. We want to be Ginn. 11 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:33,900 Reading there in verse 10, Ephesians chapter 6, the words 12 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:36,900 of the Apostle Paul beginning there in verse 10. 13 00:00:38,500 --> 00:00:42,100 Paul said, finally Brethren be strong in the Lord and in the 14 00:00:42,100 --> 00:00:46,300 power of His might put on the whole armor of God, that you may 15 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:49,200 be able to stand against The Wiles of the devil. 16 00:00:49,900 --> 00:00:52,300 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood. 17 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:55,900 But against principalities against Powers against the 18 00:00:55,900 --> 00:00:58,400 rulers. Of the darkness of this age, 19 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:02,300 against spiritual hosts of wickedness in Heavenly places. 20 00:01:03,100 --> 00:01:05,800 Therefore, take up the whole armor of God that you may be 21 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,200 able to withstand in the evil day. 22 00:01:08,900 --> 00:01:13,700 And having done all to stand couple weeks ago, having a Bible 23 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:17,600 study at my house will question came up about demonic 24 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,600 possession. In fact, I was asked to talk on 25 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:25,400 this subject and really, in study of it is a huge subject in 26 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:27,800 fact, so much so that this morning were only going to have 27 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,500 an introduction to it. And let me just say this 28 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:34,300 morning's sermon really is a sermon encouraging. 29 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:38,000 The people of God to realize that if we will do what Paul 30 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,900 says Is to do then. Satan cannot have a stronghold 31 00:01:41,900 --> 00:01:45,000 in our life at all. So we'll say that As We Lay the 32 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,700 foundation but this is the foundational part of our lesson. 33 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,700 We're going to talk about next time about exorcisms. 34 00:01:51,700 --> 00:01:55,900 You know that comes up today. What about exorcisms can the 35 00:01:55,900 --> 00:01:58,900 devil hath power over us against our will? 36 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,100 Do all those things exist. What about demonic possession? 37 00:02:03,100 --> 00:02:07,000 Does that exist today? We'll talk about that in later 38 00:02:07,300 --> 00:02:09,300 time next. Next Lord's Day. 39 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:12,000 Lord willing. But today for a little while, I 40 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,800 want to talk to you about three points and their three points 41 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,700 for the people of God, State and cannot have a strong hold in 42 00:02:18,700 --> 00:02:21,900 your life. If you do three things, number 43 00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:27,600 one, prepare as he said to prepare number to put on the 44 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:33,200 armor and number three, Identify the enemy and resist him in the 45 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,100 Bible tells us exactly how to do that. 46 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,200 The people of God can Rejoice because we have Victory, and 47 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,600 Satan cannot have a stronghold in our life. 48 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,700 If we do not allow him to do. So, when I talk about some 49 00:02:44,700 --> 00:02:48,200 things along this line, and just a few minutes, but at this time, 50 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:52,800 let us pray In the book of Ephesians, the great Apostle 51 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:58,000 Paul presents to us, great realities of being in Christ, he 52 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,300 talks about what it means to be a Christian. 53 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,600 What it means to belong to God, what it means to have the spirit 54 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:10,100 of God, what it means to be adopted in, God's family, 55 00:03:10,100 --> 00:03:14,700 wonderful blessings what it means to stand in him. 56 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:18,400 And so we see the great realities that we are blessed 57 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:22,400 with spiritual blessings in Just as we are members of the body of 58 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,600 Christ, we find that we've been taken from the Dominion of Satan 59 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,000 and placed into the kingdom of Christ. 60 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,400 And we understand that happens at baptism and when were 61 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,300 baptized into Christ, We rise from the Waters of baptism and 62 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:40,400 the Bible says we have been translated from the kingdom of 63 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:45,100 darkness and have been translated into the kingdom of 64 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:47,600 God's. Dear Son, let me just say the 65 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,300 very beginning of this sermon. There's only Kingdoms. 66 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:54,800 And you can be the greatest person in the world. 67 00:03:54,900 --> 00:03:57,600 You are found in one of those two kingdoms. 68 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:02,300 One kingdom is the kingdom of darkness and the other is the 69 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:06,100 kingdom of God's, Dear Son, there's one or the other. 70 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,700 In fact, you know, the Bible pictures the world as all in 71 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,500 darkness, you know, Jesus on the great Sermon on the Mount. 72 00:04:14,500 --> 00:04:17,300 When he was preaching that sermon he said to his disciples, 73 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:20,300 he said, now you are the salt of the earth. 74 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:24,700 And he said, also you are the light of the world now, why did 75 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:28,100 he say that? What he was meaning is Christ is 76 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:31,200 the true light, but his disciples and that's you, and I 77 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,400 today his disciples are luminaries and we are bringing 78 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,600 or testing out the Light of Christ to those that are in the 79 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,000 world. Why? 80 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,500 Because they're in darkness. You know, I know some wonderful 81 00:04:45,500 --> 00:04:48,000 people but they don't have Jesus. 82 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,900 There are wonderful people and somebody might say, no, wait a 83 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:53,400 minute, they can't be in darkness. 84 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:57,800 They're in darkness. If they don't have Jesus and you 85 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,400 don't have Jesus on your own terms, you have to be in him. 86 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,600 And the Bible says, that's when we are baptized into Christ. 87 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:09,800 We clothe ourselves with Christ. That's a wonderful blessing. 88 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,900 We've been translated or transferred from the kingdom of 89 00:05:12,900 --> 00:05:16,500 darkness to the kingdom of God's Dear Son, saying all of that. 90 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:21,500 Guess what? Satan Reigns over the kingdom of 91 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:24,300 darkness. I'm going to tell you something, 92 00:05:24,300 --> 00:05:26,900 if we would really have a picture of the devil, we would 93 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:30,200 run from the devil. But the devil is very widely. 94 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:35,900 He is cunning, he is Crafty, he wants us to stay in darkness. 95 00:05:36,500 --> 00:05:40,700 Much more on that later. Everything changes, though, when 96 00:05:40,700 --> 00:05:44,000 we're a Christian, everything we have a new relationship. 97 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,000 In fact, Paul writing to the Ephesians says, our 98 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,200 relationships that we have with each other are different. 99 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,400 He says, your marriages are different and he describes the 100 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,600 marriage relationship and the role that the man is to have in 101 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,700 the home and the role that the woman is to have it, the home, 102 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:04,700 and they will be compatible working together, striving 103 00:06:04,700 --> 00:06:10,000 together, What about this? What about work, relations, Paul 104 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,400 even addresses that how you behave yourself. 105 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:15,300 You know what you may hate your boss. 106 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:19,100 I have no idea. You may absolutely hate your 107 00:06:19,100 --> 00:06:22,000 boss, he may be ruthless, he may be awful. 108 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,700 But Paul would describe if you are a servant or you are an 109 00:06:25,707 --> 00:06:29,300 employee you work hard. Alee you work like you're doing 110 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:33,600 it for the Lord. Everything Changes. 111 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,500 We have to be the very best. We can be when we leave darkness 112 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,800 and go to light. So in other words in summing it 113 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,800 up so far. You got the resources to live 114 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,600 the Christian Life. You've got the power to live the 115 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,300 Christian Life. You have the principles to live 116 00:06:50,300 --> 00:06:54,800 the Christian life but something else Paul would say it's not 117 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,100 going to be easy even though you got the power. 118 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,400 Even though you got the principles there, something else 119 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:07,300 that's there and that's the enemy, that's the devil. 120 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,300 I think sometimes people have a misunderstanding about what it 121 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:15,500 means to be a Christian. I can't tell you the number of 122 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:16,900 times. I've heard somebody say, well, 123 00:07:16,900 --> 00:07:19,600 you know what, I'm trying to draw to God, but my life's not 124 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:24,200 getting any easier, that's not by accident. 125 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:27,300 That's the devil and he is there. 126 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:32,600 Christianity is get this, it is a Warfare. 127 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,100 Do you remember what Paul said? When he got to the end of his 128 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:38,600 life? He said I have fought the good 129 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,300 fight. I have finished my course, I 130 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:44,400 have kept the faith then he said, henceforth. 131 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,800 There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, righteousness 132 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 that the Lord. The righteous judge will give me 133 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,700 in that day and not to me only but to all those that love his 134 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:55,700 appearing. What did Paul say? 135 00:07:55,800 --> 00:08:00,700 He said I fought the good fight. You know what I seen when I read 136 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:03,700 that, I see that, that's okay. You know why? 137 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:06,100 Because the fight of faith is always good. 138 00:08:07,300 --> 00:08:10,700 He said I fought a good fight. You know what else he said, he 139 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:13,600 said fight. Not as one who beats the air, he 140 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,000 described himself like that. In other words, I don't go and 141 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,300 just shadow box. There's the enemy, it's the 142 00:08:20,300 --> 00:08:22,200 devil. It's all that opposes the truth 143 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,600 and he stood against it to Timothy, he said, be a soldier 144 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:31,400 who indoors hard that hard - So, repeatedly in scripture, it's 145 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,600 described as Warfare. Let me say something. 146 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:39,100 Encouraging to you, the more effective that you become. 147 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:42,600 The harder, Satan's going to work. 148 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:48,100 And remember this? if you're having difficulty in 149 00:08:48,100 --> 00:08:51,700 your life, because you're trying to serve God, Just know that 150 00:08:51,700 --> 00:08:53,900 you're on the right track and you're doing what's right? 151 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:59,000 And the devil's opposing you in that You know, the devil Works 152 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,200 in fields that are not his do you know when Jesus gave the 153 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,500 parable of the tares I'll just say this really briefly remember 154 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:06,000 the guy goes out and he prepares the field. 155 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,700 Does everything right, everything? 156 00:09:07,700 --> 00:09:11,600 Right and then the Bible says he took takes the good seed and he 157 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:15,400 plants The Good Seed and he goes home and the Bible says he 158 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,900 sleeps. Kind of like Solomon talks about 159 00:09:17,900 --> 00:09:20,000 sleeping. The sleep that is sweet. 160 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,600 You know, when you work real hard all day and you did 161 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:23,400 everything right. You go home, you're tired, you 162 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:25,700 eat something. Take a shower and fall asleep. 163 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,300 Then the Bible says that with out of that ground grew up the 164 00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:32,500 tears alongside that which was good. 165 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:35,700 And that, and the servants come to the master and they said if 166 00:09:35,700 --> 00:09:37,700 you sowed the good seed, how come there's tears? 167 00:09:37,700 --> 00:09:40,300 You know what he said? I said all that to say this, he 168 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:45,800 said the enemy did it. And Luke's account says that the 169 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,100 enemy is the devil. The devil Works in fields that 170 00:09:49,100 --> 00:09:51,300 are not his. If you want to get yourself in 171 00:09:51,300 --> 00:09:52,900 motion doing that which is right. 172 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,500 Be understand, you will be opposed You know what Paul said 173 00:09:57,500 --> 00:09:59,600 in First Corinthians 16 at 8, I love this. 174 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:04,000 He talking about what his next adventure is going to be in 175 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,900 preaching the gospel, and then he said, I must Terry attempted 176 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:08,700 in Ephesus. Now. 177 00:10:08,700 --> 00:10:10,700 Why? Why was he going to stay in 178 00:10:10,700 --> 00:10:12,900 emphasis? He said, there's a great door of 179 00:10:12,900 --> 00:10:16,300 opportunity that's open to me and watch and there are many 180 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:19,800 adversaries. You know that's a great lesson 181 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:25,100 for me as a preacher preachers can learn from that sometimes we 182 00:10:25,100 --> 00:10:30,200 want to go find an easier work. You know what Paul said? 183 00:10:30,300 --> 00:10:33,900 I got to stay in Ephesus. Why there's great opportunity 184 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:36,700 here. Why there's many adversaries. 185 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:42,000 What a great example. You know what he was saying, I 186 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,500 got to stay with a fires hot. I gotta stay right here. 187 00:10:46,500 --> 00:10:48,300 I got it. Earnestly contend for the faith. 188 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:49,400 That was delivered. The Saints. 189 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,200 I got to stand firm now. I gotta preach the truth now. 190 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,600 Where, where its hottest? Where the devil doesn't like it. 191 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:01,400 So yes, we are children, we are the children of God. 192 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,200 Yes, we are servants. We are slaves for Christ. 193 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,300 But listen, we Are Soldiers, to Paul said, in second Corinthians 194 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:12,700 chapter 10, he said the weapons of our Warfare are not fleshly, 195 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,300 they are spiritual. So we're dealing with high 196 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:17,700 things here. We're not just dealing with 197 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:23,900 things of a physical nature. Now, I can have that element but 198 00:11:23,900 --> 00:11:27,100 understand this. There is a battle for the souls 199 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:29,800 of man between the Lord and the devil. 200 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:34,600 There's a battle going on for your soul right now. 201 00:11:35,700 --> 00:11:38,900 The devil wants all of us to be lost and the Lord wants all of 202 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:42,800 us to be saved. Now, that's where the war is but 203 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:48,900 the battles are in the fleshly Physical Realm. the devil does 204 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:53,400 so through temptation, Throwing stumbling blocks our way. 205 00:11:54,900 --> 00:11:57,900 But remember this, it's a spiritual battle. 206 00:11:59,100 --> 00:12:02,200 And so, as we look at Ephesians chapter 6, verses 10 through 13, 207 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:03,800 let me share three things with you. 208 00:12:04,500 --> 00:12:08,400 Three things I want to share the preparation, the armor and the 209 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,100 enemy. First of all, As We Lay some 210 00:12:11,100 --> 00:12:13,400 foundational things, the preparation. 211 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,500 You cannot go into battle when you are not prepared, there's 212 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:21,000 nothing that you will ever achieve in life, that's 213 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,400 difficult. If you are not prepared in 214 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,700 Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 10, Paul said, finally my 215 00:12:26,700 --> 00:12:31,600 brethren, get this, he said be strong in the Lord and be strong 216 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:35,400 in the power of His might Now. Where's the strength? 217 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,700 The strength does not come from our self. 218 00:12:38,700 --> 00:12:41,800 If you think that you're strong enough to stand against the 219 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:45,400 devil, all on your own, you are sadly mistaken. 220 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:47,200 You know what? He stands. 221 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,100 You got to prepare, right? How do you do that? 222 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:53,500 Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might, that's how 223 00:12:53,500 --> 00:12:58,400 you prepare. You know, that's a cardinal 224 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:02,900 reality in the book of Ephesians, we are in Christ and 225 00:13:02,900 --> 00:13:05,000 when we are in Christ, we are one with him. 226 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,200 His life is our life, his power is our power. 227 00:13:08,300 --> 00:13:12,900 His truth is our truth, and it's only in Christ that his might 228 00:13:12,900 --> 00:13:17,400 becomes our might By the way, regardless of how strong the 229 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:22,600 enemy is, and he's very strong. Regardless of how strong the 230 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,900 enemy is. The Lord is stronger. 231 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,400 In first John chapter 4 and verse 4. 232 00:13:28,500 --> 00:13:31,400 The Bible says he that is in you. 233 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,100 Is greater than he that is in the world. 234 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,300 That's why we draw our strength from him. 235 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:47,300 He that is in, you is greater than he that is in the world, 236 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:49,200 who's in? The world is talking about the 237 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,300 Devil. He's the prince of the power of 238 00:13:51,300 --> 00:13:54,100 darkness and more than that, but we'll get to that later. 239 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:59,400 One scholar said this. He said. 240 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:06,700 God Is So infinitely greater than the devil that the smallest 241 00:14:06,700 --> 00:14:12,600 amount of divine power can overcome the greatest amount of 242 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,800 the powers of hell and the enemy. 243 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,200 And so our strength is ours in the Lord. 244 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,800 It is his strength in Philippians 4:13. 245 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:26,300 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me? 246 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:29,900 Let me show you why the resource is ours. 247 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,700 You know, when Jesus was at the cross, Jesus gave a deathblow to 248 00:14:33,700 --> 00:14:35,500 Satan and that's recorded in Hebrews. 249 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:39,300 Chapter 2 and verse 14, he destroyed him. 250 00:14:39,300 --> 00:14:42,700 The one that had the power of death and all we need to do is 251 00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:46,800 to take have that in our life, applied Hebrews 2 and 14. 252 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,400 Watch this. Inasmuch. 253 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,800 Then as the children have been partakers of Flesh and Blood, he 254 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:57,000 himself likewise shared in the same that through death, he 255 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,400 might destroy him. Who had the power of death? 256 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,900 That is the devil. Now, we understand this, Jesus 257 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:10,400 defeated the devil at the cross. Isn't that great? 258 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,600 The devil had no idea. All the devil was thinking is I 259 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,000 got to get Jesus off the face of this Earth. 260 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,800 Can you imagine what the devil must have thought? 261 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:26,200 When Jesus was on the cross, he dies in six hours he's planted 262 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,900 in the grave and for three days, there's no answer. 263 00:15:32,300 --> 00:15:36,600 There must have been rejoicing among Satan and all of his 264 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:44,000 demonic Army when that happened. but on the third day, Heroes. 265 00:15:45,500 --> 00:15:50,300 He conquered death. He conquered hell, he conquered 266 00:15:50,300 --> 00:15:52,700 the grave. And guess what? 267 00:15:53,100 --> 00:15:55,900 He defeated Satan when he did. So. 268 00:15:56,300 --> 00:15:57,400 Now, what does that have to do with me? 269 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,700 And you? Here's the whole point, if Jesus 270 00:16:00,700 --> 00:16:07,200 defeated Satan At The Cross by his death, if we are in Christ 271 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,800 and contact the blood of Jesus at baptism that he shed on the 272 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:16,100 cross, then we have access to heaven and we are triumphant 273 00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:20,400 over the devil too. Not by our own strength. 274 00:16:21,900 --> 00:16:27,600 But because of the cross. The same cross if Satan is 275 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:32,100 subject to Jesus because of the Cross, then Satan is subject to 276 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:37,100 us by the power of the Cross to and he has no strength, he has 277 00:16:37,100 --> 00:16:41,500 no stronghold in our life. He is a vanquished foe. 278 00:16:41,700 --> 00:16:44,700 He can lay no claim on the faithful child of God. 279 00:16:46,700 --> 00:16:49,600 You know, sometimes people say, well, you know, life is just 280 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,500 really, really hard and it's just really difficult and 281 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:56,900 sometimes people take Romans chapter 8 out of context. 282 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,200 They take a totally out of context and they say you see. 283 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,900 All we got to do is if we love God, everything's going to work 284 00:17:03,900 --> 00:17:06,800 out. And that's not what the Bible 285 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:08,800 says. Sometimes things don't work out. 286 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,500 Sometimes things are bad. Sometimes things are tragic. 287 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:14,000 Sometimes things are sad. It's the way it is. 288 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,099 Sometimes it doesn't work out. Sometimes people don't get 289 00:17:16,099 --> 00:17:18,200 better when we pray for them. Sometimes they die. 290 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,700 So everything we do is according to the Lord's will, but let me 291 00:17:21,700 --> 00:17:24,800 tell you what, the promises are that you can forsake of a better 292 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:28,300 term, go to the bank. About watch this. 293 00:17:28,700 --> 00:17:31,100 Romans 8:31. I'm going to read several verses 294 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:33,200 here. What? 295 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:35,300 Then shall we say to these things? 296 00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:37,600 If God, be for us? Who can be against us? 297 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,500 That's number one. It doesn't matter. 298 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:42,600 What Satan wants to do with your life. 299 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,200 If God is for you, he is nothing. 300 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,800 Satan is nothing in your life, that's number one. 301 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:53,100 Drop down to verse 35, Romans 8, who shall separate us from the 302 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:56,600 love of Christ, shall tribulation, or distress, or 303 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:01,600 persecution, or famine, or nakedness or Peril or sword. 304 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,300 Here's Encouraging things drop. Down to verse 37. 305 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:11,800 Verse 37, yet in all these things, we are more than 306 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,900 conquerors through him, who loved us. 307 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,400 Now, watch this for, I am persuaded that neither death, 308 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:23,000 nor life, nor angels, nor principalities nor powers nor 309 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,500 things present, nor things to come nor height nor depth, nor 310 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:30,200 any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the 311 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,900 love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our lord, you know, when 312 00:18:33,900 --> 00:18:38,800 it talks about this, when it talks about Qualities and angels 313 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:43,200 and powers, and all of that. Paul's talking about the same 314 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:47,200 thing that he's talking about in Ephesians chapter 6, and those 315 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,500 Powers were going to get to that later and another time, but 316 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:55,400 those Powers, that's the Demonic forces that is Satan's Army. 317 00:18:56,700 --> 00:18:59,700 And you know what, if you're in Christ and you're trying to do 318 00:18:59,700 --> 00:19:01,600 that which is right? And you have prepared yourself 319 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,200 the way that the Bible says to prepare yourself and your living 320 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,500 a Godly life and you're doing what the Bible tells you. 321 00:19:07,700 --> 00:19:10,400 None of those things have power over you at all. 322 00:19:11,100 --> 00:19:14,100 You cannot be. We don't have to lose that. 323 00:19:14,100 --> 00:19:17,700 There's a Divine resource belongs to us, we can win in the 324 00:19:17,700 --> 00:19:19,800 end. Here are the conditions we have 325 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,400 to have our strength in the Lord and secondly, you got to have 326 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,500 your armor on, you know, whenever Satan is dealt with, 327 00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:28,200 he's dealt with. In terms of two things, 328 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:33,300 strengthen the Lord. And an obedient child of God, 329 00:19:33,300 --> 00:19:36,200 doing what the Bible says. Do you know that there is not 330 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,300 one place in the Bible? Not one place. 331 00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:44,000 Get this. We're a Christian was possessed 332 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,600 by a devil. Not one. 333 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,700 In the times of demonic possession. 334 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,600 It was for a purpose, it was all during the point in the time of 335 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,800 Miracles, it was for the purpose of the revealing, and confirming 336 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,300 the word of God to show, that Jesus was greater than all of 337 00:20:05,300 --> 00:20:08,700 that. But not one time. 338 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,500 Were those demon possessed people? 339 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,600 Faithful Christians not one. And by the way, let me just say 340 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,300 this. I know about the 1970s movie 341 00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:21,500 where the little girl was possessed by a demon and they 342 00:20:21,500 --> 00:20:24,300 came in with all these guys and they did all this stuff and her 343 00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:26,500 head spun round and round and round and round, and round. 344 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:29,200 She turned colors said, horrible things, horrible. 345 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,200 Language green stuffs flew out of her mouth. 346 00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:37,000 That's not found in one place in the Bible. 347 00:20:39,300 --> 00:20:43,100 Every single time when a demon was cast out, it was done by the 348 00:20:43,100 --> 00:20:47,500 power of the Lord, none of that exorcism stuff ever happened. 349 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:52,300 Ephesians chapter 1. And verse 19. 350 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,100 And what is exceeding greatness of his power toward us who 351 00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:01,300 believe according to the working of his mighty power, which he 352 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:03,500 worked in Christ. When he raised him from the dead 353 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:08,000 and seated him at his right hand in Heavenly places far above 354 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:13,000 here, it is principality power, and might and dominion, and 355 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,600 every name that is named not only in this age, but also in 356 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:20,400 the age to come, we draw our strength from the Lord. 357 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:26,500 But number two, we have to have our armor on. 1st Corinthians 358 00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:31,600 chapter 10 and verse 12. Paul says therefore let him who 359 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,800 thinks he stands take heed, lest he fall. 360 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,000 Do you know when you're the most vulnerable? 361 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:47,400 Really me too. I am the most vulnerable. when 362 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:54,100 I'm at a point when I think that I'm not vulnerable, when I look 363 00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:59,000 at my life and think that I'm strong all on my own, I'm the 364 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,500 most vulnerable. You know what Paul said? 365 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:08,400 Paul said, let him who thinks he stands take heed, lest he fall. 366 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,800 So in other words, the power is not in you. 367 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,100 The very next verse verse 13 says that we are not going to be 368 00:22:16,100 --> 00:22:18,500 tempted above that which we are able. 369 00:22:18,700 --> 00:22:21,800 But with the Temptation God's going to give us a means of 370 00:22:21,808 --> 00:22:24,500 Escape that we are able to bear it. 371 00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:32,600 The strength is in the Lord. Second Corinthians 12 and 9. 372 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,600 Paul says, when I am weak, then I am strong. 373 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,500 My strength is made perfect in weakness. 374 00:22:38,700 --> 00:22:41,600 You know, it's amazing to me. What's amazing to me is even 375 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,000 when we're week, we can have the strength of God. 376 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,000 You know, when Jesus wrote those or Jesus talked about those 377 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,800 seven churches of Asia, you remember Philadelphia. 378 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,400 Now very few were considered faithful but Philadelphia was 379 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,100 one. Now what did Jesus say about the 380 00:22:56,100 --> 00:22:58,600 church at Philadelphia? He said they were faithful. 381 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,700 He said, but they were little and strength. 382 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:06,300 That tells me that the strength of God is available when I'm 383 00:23:06,300 --> 00:23:10,900 weak. That's the whole point if I'm 384 00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:15,300 obedient. I can have the strength of God. 385 00:23:16,300 --> 00:23:20,300 I need to be prepared to defeat Satan. 386 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,400 How do you do that? How do you are you prepared to 387 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,000 be a faithful? Christian, whose strength is in 388 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,200 the Lord. Again, in review in summary 389 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:31,400 season 6, and 10 be strong in the Lord. 390 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:34,600 First John four. And for that which is in you is 391 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,100 greater than that which is in the world Hebrews 12 and 4 were 392 00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:39,000 partakers with Jesus at the cross. 393 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,100 Jesus defeated Satan at the cross. 394 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:45,400 Therefore we do too. First Corinthians 10, 12 and 13. 395 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,000 Take heed, lest we fall and G and the Lord will help us get 396 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,300 through those times and be strong as we serve God. 397 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:55,800 And from that point forward, I'm just going to mention these 398 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,600 briefly because we need to get to the enemy. 399 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:02,300 That's really the whole Crux of this series, but I want to talk 400 00:24:02,300 --> 00:24:06,400 about the armor in Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 11. 401 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:10,300 Paul says, put on the whole armor of God. 402 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,300 Now just stop right there for just a minute. 403 00:24:14,900 --> 00:24:21,100 It doesn't do you any good. if you don't put the armor on, You 404 00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:24,800 know, in the original that phrase put on the armor, it 405 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:28,900 means this in the original, it means put it on once and for 406 00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:31,100 all. Have you ever known somebody 407 00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:33,300 that was did this? Have you ever known somebody 408 00:24:33,300 --> 00:24:35,200 that kind of was a Christian over here? 409 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,800 And then over here they just kind of dwelt in the world a 410 00:24:37,808 --> 00:24:40,700 little bit and they dabbled in worldly things over here and 411 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:43,400 then over here the kind of put on their Christian face and all 412 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,300 of that. That is not what's happening 413 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:49,100 here and they armor is not something that you take off and 414 00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:53,200 put on repeatedly in your life in the original, it means put it 415 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,500 on and keep it on for the rest of your life. 416 00:24:58,700 --> 00:25:00,700 We're talking about how can we defeat the Devil? 417 00:25:00,700 --> 00:25:04,800 We have to first prepare, right. Then we have to put on the armor 418 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,200 once and for all I'm just going to read this briefly. 419 00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:11,300 Look at verses 14 to 17 in the Visions, chapter 6. 420 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,800 Beating chapter 6. Beginning in verse 14, I'll just 421 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,100 read these and we're not gonna spend any time on them, but 422 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:21,900 here's the armor stand, therefore having girded your 423 00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:26,900 waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness 424 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,400 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of 425 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:36,100 peace above all, taking the shield of Faith, which With you 426 00:25:36,100 --> 00:25:39,700 will be able to quench the fiery darts of the wicked, and take 427 00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:43,100 the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit which is the 428 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:45,600 word of God. That's the armor. 429 00:25:46,900 --> 00:25:49,500 So it's not just enough to put your trust in God, you got to 430 00:25:49,508 --> 00:25:53,100 put on the armor in your life. Let me ask you something. 431 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:56,000 Have you put the armor on in your life? 432 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,200 Are you manifesting that am I? Are we manifesting that in our 433 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,900 life? Put the armor on. 434 00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:08,800 And don't give place to the devil, but now we get down to 435 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,900 the park that we're going to spend our time on and that is 436 00:26:12,100 --> 00:26:16,400 the enemy. Understand that Satan is the 437 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,600 enemy in fact, in Ephesians, 6 and 11. 438 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:22,400 It says that you may be able to stand against The Wiles of the 439 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,900 devil. You know, every Christian needs 440 00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:29,000 to understand that Satan is going to attack us. 441 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,900 I got to tell you something. I saw I read about this the 442 00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:36,600 other day. There was a group of these 443 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,200 people. That get this in this silly. 444 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,900 There's a group of these people, and they gathered together, and 445 00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:49,000 they had this ritual and they wanted to call on the devil. 446 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,600 And the reason that they wanted to call on the devil, they 447 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,000 wanted to call on the devil and then rebuke the devil. 448 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,500 Like they had the power over the devil You know, that's not the 449 00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:04,200 preparation, we have power because of the lord we have 450 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,400 strength because of the Lord and by the way, you don't have to go 451 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,500 look for the devil. If you're a Christian, he'll 452 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:13,700 find you. The devil will find you, you 453 00:27:13,708 --> 00:27:15,000 don't have to go and look for him. 454 00:27:16,100 --> 00:27:18,400 You don't need the chat, you need to do all that stuff. 455 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,100 And by the way, nowhere in the word of God doesn't say this in 456 00:27:22,100 --> 00:27:24,800 nowhere. Does it say go out and 457 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,200 aggressively fight the devil? You know what? 458 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:32,200 It says run from the devil, flee from the devil, you know, that's 459 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,200 what the Bible says when it says flee. 460 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:39,200 Also, youthful lust, why they war against the soul? 461 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:45,300 That is the Christian Warfare. The word flee comes from the 462 00:27:45,308 --> 00:27:48,700 word, few go, you know this, the word few go and see where we get 463 00:27:48,700 --> 00:27:51,500 the word fugitive. And that's exactly what you do. 464 00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:54,100 When it comes to the devil. You don't go out and try to find 465 00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:57,500 the devil so you can fight him, you run from the devil and he 466 00:27:57,500 --> 00:28:02,800 will flee from you. You resist him, stand strong, 467 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,700 and you resist him. I read a deal the other day 468 00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:08,600 where somebody said, oh, there's no devil. 469 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:12,000 You know, it's amazing what you can read and research. 470 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,700 Just people that write stuff when you're trying to put a 471 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,200 topic together. Somebody said, get this. 472 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,800 Somebody actually said there is no devil and we need not to be 473 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,700 afraid because there is no devil. 474 00:28:25,700 --> 00:28:31,100 All there really is is a Halloween costume of a red guy 475 00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:35,400 with little horns and a pitchfork and a pointed tail. 476 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:42,900 I got news for us. There is the devil and he 477 00:28:42,908 --> 00:28:48,000 doesn't look like that at all. He is a demonic being, you know 478 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,300 who he is. His name is Lucifer. 479 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,800 What happened to the devil? Why is there a devil turn in 480 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,800 your Bibles? Please to Isaiah 14? 481 00:28:59,300 --> 00:29:04,800 Look at Isaiah chapter 14. Now, understand this, the devil 482 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:09,300 is an angel. The principalities powers and 483 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:12,300 all that stuff in darkness that Paul talked about. 484 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:18,000 They are also Angels, they are demonic beings and there was a 485 00:29:18,008 --> 00:29:21,300 time when they were in heaven and let me just say one more 486 00:29:21,300 --> 00:29:26,200 thing before we read these verses, they are created beings 487 00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:28,700 and don't let anybody ever tell you. 488 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:31,700 They are not created beings, they are created beings. 489 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,500 I don't know when they were created, I really don't care. 490 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:36,700 It was before all the stuff began before. 491 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:38,300 Or Adam and Eve were in the garden. 492 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,500 They are created beings. Now don't let anybody tell you 493 00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:45,200 different. Jesus Christ is not a created 494 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,900 being, he is above all that. In fact, Jesus Christ, God in 495 00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:51,700 the Holy Spirit have always existed. 496 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,700 Somebody might say well how did that work? 497 00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:55,200 They had to originated somewhere. 498 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,700 I don't know. And I don't care other than the 499 00:29:57,700 --> 00:30:00,400 fact that they have always existed and that's really all 500 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,700 that matters, but not Satan. Not the angels and not the 501 00:30:04,708 --> 00:30:06,700 Demonic beings that were talking about. 502 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,400 They were created look at Isaiah Dean. 503 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:15,100 Let's begin verse 12. How you are fallen from Heaven 504 00:30:15,100 --> 00:30:20,700 o, Lucifer, son of the morning, how you are cut down to the 505 00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:24,600 ground. YooHoo weaken the nation's for 506 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:28,200 you have said, in the heart, I will Ascend into heaven. 507 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,700 I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, you to get that. 508 00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:36,500 You get the pride there, I will exhaust my exhaust myself above 509 00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:40,400 the stars of God. I will also sit on the Mount of 510 00:30:40,408 --> 00:30:44,100 the congregation on the farthest sides of the north. 511 00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:46,800 I will Ascend above the heights of the clouds. 512 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,300 I will be like the most high yet. 513 00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:54,700 You shall be brought down to sheol to the lowest depths of 514 00:30:54,700 --> 00:30:58,700 the pit. Did you get that? 515 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:07,100 Lucifer was an anointed cherub. He was an anointed Angel, he was 516 00:31:07,100 --> 00:31:11,500 of the greatest of all. And he decided, you know what? 517 00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:14,800 I want to be greater? I want to be greater than God. 518 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,800 I want to sit on the throne. Well, I'm going to tell you 519 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:18,100 something. God is Not mocked. 520 00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:19,500 You know what? God Said, No, you're out of 521 00:31:19,508 --> 00:31:22,300 here. And the Bible says, in the Book 522 00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:25,300 of Revelation chapter 4, I'll paraphrase. 523 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:31,200 Now that when he was cast out, his tail, swept, a third of the 524 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,400 others, a third of the stars of Heaven is talking about the 525 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:40,800 other demonic angels. And they were cast out, I got to 526 00:31:40,808 --> 00:31:42,900 admit something to you. I don't know how many we're 527 00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:46,100 talking about. I'm going to tell you what one 528 00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:49,200 scholar said and then I'm just going to say as a little 529 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,800 disclaimer. I don't know how you can know 530 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,800 this and I don't know if it's true but that's what he said. 531 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,700 He said there's probably Millions. 532 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:02,600 Probably millions of these, that constituted a third of the hosts 533 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:08,400 of Heaven that were cast out with Lucifer, the enemy the 534 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:13,600 devil. In fact, Revelation 12 says like 535 00:32:13,700 --> 00:32:18,600 a great Dragon. He fell and his tail, he swept a 536 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:24,400 third of the angels with him. Lucifer is the Fallen Angel. 537 00:32:25,100 --> 00:32:29,700 He also has titles. There are titles to him. 538 00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:34,600 He is called the prince of the world. 539 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,400 In fact, he's called The Prince of the power of the air and I 540 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,900 want to make a point about this. What does that mean? 541 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:43,800 What does it mean when we say he's the prince of the power of 542 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,100 the air? Do you remember when Paul was 543 00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:51,500 given a view into heaven? Paul was given that view into 544 00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:53,900 heaven in. The Bible says, it was what it 545 00:32:53,900 --> 00:32:58,700 was the third heaven. So the third heaven, that's 546 00:32:58,700 --> 00:33:01,400 where God is. That's where we all want to go. 547 00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:05,000 Now, what happened? Paul was able to see things that 548 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,800 were so magnificent and hear things that were so magnificent 549 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,100 that a human being in the flesh should never be able to see 550 00:33:12,100 --> 00:33:13,900 those things or hear those things. 551 00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:16,800 So what happened? He was given a thorn in the 552 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,000 flesh. Why a messenger of Satan Ian to 553 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:25,800 buff it me, just keep your feet on the ground ball of the things 554 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,400 that he saw. That's the third heaven. 555 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,300 That's where God is. The second heaven is the sodi 556 00:33:32,300 --> 00:33:35,400 really expanse. It is the severe e o Heavens. 557 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,600 It's where you look up and see the stars. 558 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,200 You see all that? The Sun, the Moon, that is the 559 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,200 sidereal or the second heaven? You know what, the first Heaven 560 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:50,700 is it's the place where Satan is over and the It's of it is the 561 00:33:50,700 --> 00:33:53,800 power of the air. It's talking about all that you 562 00:33:53,808 --> 00:33:57,800 look up in this world. All that's connected to this 563 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,600 world. And Satan. 564 00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:12,100 Is over that. so, let's talk about some titles of the devil. 565 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:16,500 2nd Corinthians chapter 4. He's called the God of this age. 566 00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:21,100 In Luke chapter 11 and verse 15. He is called the prince of 567 00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:25,500 demons. 52 times he's called Satan. 568 00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:29,900 That means adversary. That is the most common Title by 569 00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:33,199 the way. 35 times. He's called the devil Diablos 570 00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:38,600 which means slanderer He is called the old serpent, he's 571 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,100 called the Great Dragon, he's called The Roaring Lion, he's 572 00:34:42,100 --> 00:34:45,500 called the evil one. He's called the tempter, the 573 00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:50,000 accuser and get this the spirit. Now, working in the sons of 574 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,900 Disobedience, did you see that? He can't work in your life. 575 00:34:54,900 --> 00:34:58,500 If you're an obedient child of God, that's prepared, right? 576 00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:00,300 It has the armor on. He cannot. 577 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:04,400 But he works in the children of Disobedience, that's how the 578 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,500 spiritual realm can have access to the Physical Realm, through 579 00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:12,500 Temptation and disobedience. Next time I'm going to talk to 580 00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:16,200 you about Lucifer's Army in Ephesians, 6 and 12 but remember 581 00:35:16,300 --> 00:35:19,600 Satan is the enemy. He is a liar and the father of 582 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:20,900 it. He's a deceiver his whole 583 00:35:20,900 --> 00:35:23,600 system. Deceives suddenly supernaturally 584 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,300 cleverly and powerfully he teaches a lifestyle that 585 00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:28,900 condemns and I'm going to tell you something. 586 00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:34,200 Our world is changed, so horribly in that regard. 587 00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:36,300 Nobody wants to stand for anything. 588 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,400 You know what people do? People don't have a standard 589 00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:44,200 like the Bible of what's right? And what's wrong or absolute 590 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,200 truth. People think that you can 591 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,100 determine what your own morality is or your own truth is but 592 00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:53,100 that's never been the case. There is always been a standard. 593 00:35:53,100 --> 00:35:57,500 There has always been the armor and it's always been about the 594 00:35:57,508 --> 00:36:00,600 truth. People say, Well, they're not 595 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,900 bothering me. It's all right. 596 00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:08,800 And people are absolutely scared at this to stand against what's 597 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:18,900 wrong. Paul said, here they are. 598 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:26,300 Here's the Army, principalities Powers rulers of the darkness of 599 00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:30,400 this world spiritual wickedness, in Heavenly places. 600 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,300 These are terms that describe the Demonic world and let me 601 00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:38,900 just say, one thing in passing. You know, I don't know. 602 00:36:38,900 --> 00:36:43,600 All there is to know about the power of the ranking hierarchy 603 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,500 that's found in Ephesians 6, but I do know this. 604 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:52,700 Jesus dealt with the idea that some of those demons could have 605 00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:55,700 more power than others. Do you remember when that man 606 00:36:55,700 --> 00:36:59,300 brought his son to Jesus and he said I took him to your 607 00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:01,000 disciples. They couldn't cure him on to say 608 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,600 this very briefly it could not do it and Jesus cast it out. 609 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,400 But before that they asked him. They said why couldn't we do it? 610 00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:09,800 And This says, because of your little faith. 611 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:13,200 Remember what the second thing he said though. 612 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:21,700 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and 613 00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:23,900 fasting. This is during a time of demonic 614 00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:26,900 possession. Now, Jesus describes this kind, 615 00:37:26,900 --> 00:37:28,000 I don't know what he meant by that. 616 00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:32,200 I know one thing has a doozy that's a tough one. 617 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:36,800 We don't ever want to mess with the occult. 618 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,600 Imma talk about that next time, the Satanism and the power of 619 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,500 the occult. Now interesting, the word 620 00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:46,100 wrestle, Paul says, we don't wrestle against flesh and blood 621 00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:49,600 but we wrestle against those demonic forces, you know, when 622 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,100 we think about wrestling, you know I think of I think about 623 00:37:52,100 --> 00:37:55,300 the sport today where these guys get together on a map with those 624 00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:59,500 ridiculous jumpsuits. And then they wrestle and roll 625 00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:01,900 around and pin each other down and all that. 626 00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:06,200 You know, this word wrestle Paul is talking about something else, 627 00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:10,900 he's talking about the days in Rome, where it was more than 628 00:38:10,900 --> 00:38:15,400 just an athletic competition. In fact, I read what they would 629 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,700 do is they would wrestle. They would hand to hand combat, 630 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,800 and then, they wouldn't just pinned their shoulders down for 631 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,300 a count of three. What they would do is they would 632 00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:27,200 put into the ground pin their shoulders. 633 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:31,300 And then wrap their hands around their throat and squeezed and 634 00:38:31,300 --> 00:38:33,600 shove their head down. And I'm pinned down their head 635 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:38,000 to, you know, what happened. If they kept the head down the 636 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,800 man died. If the man kept his head up, but 637 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,500 his shoulders were down. Guess what? 638 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:50,200 He got to live and fight again. That's the word wrestle. 639 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,200 We are in a battle with the devil and his forces and the 640 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,800 word wrestle that Paul uses is the kind that takes life. 641 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:02,200 It is a life and death matter. That's what we're talking about. 642 00:39:04,100 --> 00:39:06,700 Spiritual life and spiritual death. 643 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,600 All right, how do you do it? How we going to fight the devil 644 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,200 in our life? Not, I'll say it again. 645 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,200 The devil does not have a strong hold in your life. 646 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,700 If you don't let him, you want to fight the devil. 647 00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:18,400 There it is. Prepare yourself. 648 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:23,600 Draw your strength from God, put your faith and trust in God, be 649 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,600 a faithful member of the body of Christ. 650 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,900 Have the blood of Jesus, wash your sins away. 651 00:39:27,900 --> 00:39:31,400 Become a child of God, be added to his church. 652 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,700 Then your translated from the kingdom of darkness. 653 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,000 And now you're in the Kingdom of God's dear son. 654 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,000 But now you got homework to do. What do you do? 655 00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:42,600 Got to put the armor on, got to put it on, you know why we're in 656 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,800 a battle. Brian Elliott years ago was 657 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:51,200 talking about the shield. And I love this. 658 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,600 Because he was talking about the history of the shield. 659 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,900 He said, you know, those shields were big and they kind of walk 660 00:39:56,900 --> 00:40:02,200 behind the shield like this. Now, look at the point, I said, 661 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,500 resist the devil, but we have to stand. 662 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,300 We flee from the youthful lust and the sinful Temptations, and 663 00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:11,500 all of that. But when it comes to the devil, 664 00:40:11,500 --> 00:40:15,300 we stand firm against him. And the shield of faith that is 665 00:40:15,300 --> 00:40:19,100 talking about that Shield Brian said, that that Shield only 666 00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:22,100 protected those that were coming at their front. 667 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,200 So if they chickened out and got out of the fight and turned and 668 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,800 ran there was nothing protecting them from behind. 669 00:40:30,500 --> 00:40:33,900 You got to get in the fight. You got to get in the battle and 670 00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:36,000 stand firm and resist, the devil. 671 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,900 And the Bible says he will flee from you. 672 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,700 Okay next time we're going to talk about more of the occult 673 00:40:44,700 --> 00:40:47,400 and Satanism but also want to talk about some other things to 674 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,400 things that sometimes we don't think are very big deal but they 675 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:55,400 are connected to the occult. Here are a few Ouija boards. 676 00:40:57,100 --> 00:41:00,700 Tear it cards. Palm readers. 677 00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:07,500 Tea Leaf, readers astrologers horoscopes psychics mediums? 678 00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:11,700 you know, that one, I'm not trying to make be sarcastic or 679 00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:16,400 make fun of her, but the Rhode Island medium or Long Island or 680 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,300 whatever her name is Long Island, Medium lady that says 681 00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:26,200 that she has contact with the debt and is such a farce You 682 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,200 know, when Jesus talked about the rich man and Lazarus. 683 00:41:29,700 --> 00:41:32,100 You know the rich man knew he was lost and knew there was no. 684 00:41:32,100 --> 00:41:35,100 Hope what did he want? He wanted somebody to go back 685 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,500 and tell his five brothers, don't come here, straighten your 686 00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:43,900 life out. There's no connection at all 687 00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:49,600 between the living and the dead. And by the way, I know that we 688 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,700 like to say it in our society. If it feels good to say, oh 689 00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:55,400 they're up in heaven, they're looking down there so proud. 690 00:41:55,700 --> 00:41:57,200 I don't know what where they are. 691 00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,400 I don't know where they're looking, but they're not seeing 692 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:03,100 us. There's not one Bible passage 693 00:42:03,100 --> 00:42:06,100 that proves or shows that there's a connection between the 694 00:42:06,100 --> 00:42:08,100 two Realms. None at all. 695 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,700 I'm going to leave you with one more passage, and I'm finished. 696 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,400 Very encouraging fission 6 and 13. 697 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,300 Therefore, take up the whole armor of God. 698 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:30,300 Wipe all that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and 699 00:42:30,300 --> 00:42:35,100 having done all to stand. You know, that means that means 700 00:42:35,100 --> 00:42:37,900 we're going to win. That means we can have 701 00:42:37,900 --> 00:42:42,300 confidence and it's going to work when we have the armor on 702 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,900 in the evil day. You might say, well when's the 703 00:42:44,900 --> 00:42:46,400 evil day. I'll tell you. 704 00:42:46,408 --> 00:42:47,500 When the evil day is. Here it is. 705 00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:53,600 The evil day is yesterday. Today. 706 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,800 And tomorrow for the rest of your life. 707 00:43:00,300 --> 00:43:03,400 And as long as Satan is the prince of the power of the air. 708 00:43:04,900 --> 00:43:09,600 It's the evil day. Put on the armor, put your faith 709 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,800 and trust in God. Draw from his strength. 710 00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:14,300 Live faithful unto death. Guess what? 711 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,100 He has no stronghold in our life and we win. 712 00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:19,700 I like one man said, one time. No. 713 00:43:19,707 --> 00:43:22,200 He said, when you talked about the Christian that child of God, 714 00:43:22,700 --> 00:43:24,300 we win in the end. If you read the book of 715 00:43:24,300 --> 00:43:27,300 Revelation, we win ultimately in the end. 716 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,300 But there's no reason to lose the skirmishes day by day. 717 00:43:31,300 --> 00:43:36,000 Either put the armor on. And stand against the devil and 718 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,300 he will flee. From you next time, we'll talk 719 00:43:39,300 --> 00:43:42,300 about some other things. Thank you for your kind, 720 00:43:42,300 --> 00:43:46,600 listening to our introduction to what we're going to discuss over 721 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,000 the next at least one, maybe two more times. 722 00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,300 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 723 00:43:53,300 --> 00:43:59,000 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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