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My Hope. 
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have things today that are very 
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are encouraging and edifying to 
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As you can see, on the screen, 
the entitle of our lesson is the

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Christians Warfare are passages 
taken from the book of Ephesians

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chapter 6 and beginning there, 
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finally my brethren be strong in
the Lord and in the power of His

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might Put on the whole armor of 
God that you may be able to 

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stand against The Wiles of the 
devil. 

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For we do not wrestle against 
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But against principalities 
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Of the darkness of this age, 
against spiritual hosts of 

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wickedness in the Heavenly 
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Therefore, take up the whole 
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able to withstand in the evil 
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stand. 
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points out some great realities 
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What it means to be a child of 
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God, what it means to be adopted
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of those wonderful, wonderful 
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But he also points out that we 
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early, in my office, I was 
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I was thinking about all the 
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with in life and I would say 
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concerns about. 
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might be reflecting on things 
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us, maybe in our government, 
maybe we're concerned about what

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the president's going to do, or 
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changing and we're concerned 
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sometimes personally in our life
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Merit but that's not the 
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our life. 
That's not the greatest problem.

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The greatest concern that we 
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battle that we fight. 
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Devil. 
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think about all the dangers that
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there are there's some terrible 
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And the enemy is the devil. 
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things in great detail in just a
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There is great blessings about 
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Jesus Christ, though, when we 
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of sins, when we are in Jesus 
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the world does not have great 
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When we're in Christ, we leave 
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And by the way, there's 
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that are living in the kingdom 
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describes two different 
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There's the kingdom of darkness 
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dear son, that's the church. 
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kingdom of darkness and be a 
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Kingdom of God's. 
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He said, you are the light of 
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He wasn't saying that they are 
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light and that one true light is
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Have you ever considered how 
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of Christ? 
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you are lights, you are 
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You are spreading the light of 
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in darkness so they can see 
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summary, we have all the 
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not going to be easy. 
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lifetime so of you maybe even 
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It's very common. 
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feel bad, it's very common. 
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as I start serving God, that 
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you know what, I'm trying to do,
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easier, but it doesn't, you know
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Because the devil gets busy, 
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the power that's are the 
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have something else, we've got 
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So the Christian Life is 
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Notice what Paul said in second,
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He said I have fought the good 
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I have kept the faith. 
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a crown of righteousness, which 
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will give to me on that day and 
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who have loved his appearing. 
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this, he said this, I have 
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What's the good fight? 
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Even if it's difficult. 
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that I fight not as one who 
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somebody that is Shadow Boxing, 
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I don't swing my fist in a 
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a Target. 
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who indoors hardness repeatedly 
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The Christian Life is seen as 
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that you become the harder, 
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it's very encouraging when we've
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first, so we don't get 
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When God's people get busy. 
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devil? 
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He does everything right. 
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field. and then he goes home, 
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And, you know, it's kind of like
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as the sleep. 
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That is the sleep of The 
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When you worked hard all day and
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sleep. 
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enemy came into the field and he
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noxious weed seeds among that, 
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The servant, said to the master,
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paraphrase, the good. 
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One gospel account says, the 
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The devil always works in fields
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opposition by imitation and he 
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to stand in our way. 
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He said this, I will tarry in 
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He was saying, I've got to stay 
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hottest because the Bible does 
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but we are also soldiers. 
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Corinthians chapter 10, at the 
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fleshly. 
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dealing with high things now. 
there's a battle going on, as we

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know for our soul and you know, 
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after our kids hard. 
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The devil wants us to be lost. 
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So there's a great War, a great 
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don't be discouraged. 
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Three things from Ephesians 
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there's three things. 
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Number one, we've got to prepare
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the armor of God. 
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recognize and resist the enemy. 
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That's the three points of our 
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Operation. 
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battle unprepared in Ephesians 
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Paul said, finally my brethren 
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general principle in living the 
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We have to depend on the 
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going to say this when the Bible
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he's talking about people that 
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he's telling them, this be 
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secondarily in the power of His 
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Do you see the language up 
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Is it jumping off the screen at 
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It's not your strength. 
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When the Bible commands us to do
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it, it automatically erases, the
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that's the problem. 
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though. 
It's not your strength be strong

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in the Lord and in the power of 
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might When we are in Christ, we 
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therefore becomes our power, his
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strong in the power of His might
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understand that, no matter how 
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strengthen strength is superior.
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spirit, that doesn't mean that 
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I am absolutely nothing in my 
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I'm nothing without the Lord. 
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All the strength is his but 
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that's the devil regardless of 
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It doesn't matter. 
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but there's even more I got this
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I wanted to share it with you. 
Here it is. 

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This is from first John chapter 
4 and verse 4 you are of God 

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little children and have 
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in, you is greater than who's in
the world, because of that, this

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quote, God Is So infinitely 
greater that the smallest amount

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of divine power can overcome the
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hell and the enemy. 
And so the strength is ours in 

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the Lord. 
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said, and that's what he meant 
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This doesn't mean I'm going to 
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track meet. 
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not what that means. 
Philippians 4:13 is talking 

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about spiritual things, having 
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Therefore I can do all things 
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Who strengthens me. 
Somebody might say, well I just 

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can't. 
Yeah, you can. 

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But the strength is in the Lord,
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gave a death blow to Satan. 
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as the children have partaken of
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He himself likewise shared in 
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that through death, he might 
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Who had the power of death. 
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So when Jesus, when Paul said in
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the Lord, and in the power of 
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Victory with Jesus Christ. 
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the cross, Jesus defeated the 
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Okay? 
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If Jesus defeated Satan at the 
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And if we are in Christ, We 
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We defeated Satan at the same 
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The stay with me on this. 
If Jesus Christ defeated Satan 

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at the cross and we are in 
Christ there for sharing in that

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Victory, then we have defeated 
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And as Satan now is subject to 
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So is Satan subject to us? 
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means. 
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Meaning you are the one that's 
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I'm going to tell you the devil 
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That you will not allow. 
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you. 
He can't possess you 

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demonically. 
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He is bound by the word. 
The devil can't do anything to 

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you that, you don't allow why, 
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the cross. 
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In fact, he is as one man said, 
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You know, if you look up 
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words kind of like trounced. 
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between losing the ball game and
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If you're trounce, you got blown
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there was no confusion here, he 
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Satan was demolished in his 
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James 4 & 7, submit yourselves. 
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devil. 
Oil. 

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And he will flee from you. 
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You have that power. 
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that you don't allow. 
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faithful child of God. 
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different passages. 
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very encouraging things. 
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As we are preparing ourselves 
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in Romans 8 and 31, it says What
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things if God is for us? 
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Who shall separate us from the 
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Shall tribulation or distress or
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Or nakedness or Peril or sword 
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him. 
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I am persuaded that neither 
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principalities nor powers nor 
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come nor height nor depth, nor 
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be able to separate us from the 
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Christ Jesus, our lord, the 
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have to lose. 
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There's no reason to be afraid. 
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would you know how we have 
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the book of Revelation and we 
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right? 
And we win how many times we 

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said that we win? 
Yeah I've read the and we're 

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going through hard times now but
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I read the end, saw the end of 
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war and we can win. 
It also means we don't have to 

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lose the battles along the way. 
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We don't and the battles are 
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do two things. 
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Number one, you have to draw 
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And number two, you have to put 
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the power, but there are 
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is in the Lord not himself. 
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conditions of the armor. 
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chapter 10 and verse 12 very 
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Therefore, let him who thinks he
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Do you know who the most 
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Who are the most vulnerable 
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To falling. 
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vulnerable people to fall. are 
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there's any chance that they 
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if you had an attitude? 
I got it figured out. 

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I got it all. 
Dialed in. 

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I would never do that. 
I got this. 

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I'm better than that. 
You just fell. 

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You just fell in a different way
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What did Paul say let? 
He who thinks he stands, take 

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heed, lest he fall. 
We can be very vulnerable and 

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not even know it. 
Somebody might think I got all 

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the information I've even 
memorized. 

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The book of Ephesians, I got it.
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depend on God, there's nothing 
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There's nothing verse 13. 
No temptation has overtaken you 

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except such as is common to man.
But God is faithful who will not

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allow you to be tempted beyond 
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But with the Temptation will 
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you may be able to Bear it. 
You know, those are some of the 

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most encouraging words. 
That even though you're going 

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through difficulty, and God 
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he allows Satan the tempter to 
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He is still in control, he is 
still in charge and God is 

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faithful and he will never allow
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you are able. 
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So just think this There's a 
difference though between making

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a whole lot of bad choices and 
therefore, you have all the 

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ramifications of the bad choice,
not talking about that. 

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I'm talking about a child of 
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okay? 
The Temptations that come their 

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way, the trials that come their 
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they are able to bear and God is
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Also in this. 
With the Temptation will also 

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make a way of Escape that you 
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Now listen folks it says God is 
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We either believe that or we 
don't we either accept that or 

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we don't, we either say, I 
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trust in the Lord's strength or 
you don't you don't have to lose

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the individual War. 
You don't have to lose the 

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individual battles. 
We don't have to lose. 

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And by the way, the resource 
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strength that comes from God is 
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our weakest second Corinthians 
12, and 9. 

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And he said to me, my grace is 
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strength is made perfect in 
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For most gladly, I will rather 
boast in my infirmities. 

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That the power of Christ May 
rest upon me. 

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Therefore, I take pleasure in 
infirmities in reproaches in 

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needs and persecutions in 
distresses for Christ's sake. 

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For when I am weak, Then I'm 
strong. 

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Now, you remember when that was 
said, right? 

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Paul was given a view into the 
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And the lord gave him a thorn in
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A messenger of Satan, the Bible 
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I like what the Bible says, it 
says, Paul said, I pleaded three

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times with the Lord, to take it 
away three times. 

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It wasn't just, he asked him, he
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He pleaded three times, take it 
away. 

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You know what the Lord said? 
This is what he said, no, he 

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said my grace is sufficient for 
you for my strength. 

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That's the Lord's strength is 
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therefore Paul said, when I am 
weak personally, then I am 

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strong spiritually because I got
that strength from the Lord 

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Listen folks, you know what? 
I got out of that. 

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I'm getting out of that. 
It's no excuse to say you're 

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weak. 
Because the strength is 

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accessible when you're weak. 
In fact, even when you are at 

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your weakest. 
So Paul said, Paul was pretty 

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weak, wasn't he? 
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The Lord said my strength. 
That's the Lord's strength is 

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made perfect in made complete in
your weakness. 

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Don't have to be weak. 
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Is not an excuse to justify 
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No longer. 
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We can't do that. 
You can't justify sinful or bad 

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behavior because well, I just 
write it off. 

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I'm just weak. 
It's not an excuse. 

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Remember this, when you're weak 
personally, we have the strength

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of God to have and have that 
great resource in our life, 

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okay? 
So the first thing we have to do

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is prepare got to prepare for 
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How do you do that though? 
How do you do that? 

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As we sum up number one, you got
to be strong in the Lord. 

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The strength comes from the 
Lord, the strength is not you. 

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That's number one, second way. 
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Remember that. 
The one that is in you is 

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greater than the enemy. 
To remember that too. 

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By the way, if you do these two,
you're on the way you're really 

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on the way, changing the way you
think, thirdly? 

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Remember that you are a / taker 
with Jesus. 

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As Jesus defeated the devil at 
the cross. 

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We are partakers of that victory
in Christ. 

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Remember that too? 
Got to do this though. 

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Take heed lest we fall. 
First Corinthians 12:13 can 

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happen to anybody. 
And finally, his strength is 

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made perfect in our weakness. 
That's how we prepare. 

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What? 
It's how we prepare our mind. 

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But number two, we got to do 
this too. 

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And by the way, these next two 
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But the next point is we got to 
put the armor on in Ephesians 6 

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and verse 11, Paul says, put on 
the whole armor of God, the 

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armor defends us against the 
devil. 

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And I'll just tell you this in 
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The language is this way. 
Grammatically when it says, put 

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on the whole armor, it literally
means put it on and never take 

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it off. 
In other words, it's a once and 

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for all put it on that's for the
rest of my life. 

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I'm never taking it off. 
Are you struggling? 

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I don't know how it is with you.
Are you struggling with sin? 

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Are you struggling spiritually? 
Young person old person in 

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between person you struggling. 
Maybe you're struggling because 

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you took the armor off. 
You have to keep it on. 

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And when all the things that 
happen in life and all the 

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Temptations come your way, you 
can beat the devil, but you got 

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to keep the armor on. 
Can't take it off. 

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So once and for all time, it is 
a preemptive strike against the 

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devil. 
All right. 

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What is it? 
What is it? 

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What is the whole armor of God? 
What do you actually putting on 

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here? 
It is. 

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Right here, Ephesians 6. 
Beginning, in verse 14, stand. 

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Therefore having girded your 
waist with truth. 

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That's number one. 
Having girded your waist with 

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truth. 
Number two, putting on the 

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breastplate of righteousness. 
Number three, having your feet 

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shod with the preparation of the
gospel of peace, number 4 above 

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all, taking the shield of Faith 
which is which will be able to 

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quench all the fiery darts of 
the wicked. 

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One also take the helmet of 
salvation and the sword of the 

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spirit which is the word of God.
You got to put the armor of God 

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on And you got to keep it on. 
How do I know? 

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That's exactly what the Lord was
talking about and winning the 

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Christian Life? 
What Paul was talking about, get

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the armor on, get your life, 
right? 

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And all of that, how do I know 
that? 

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Because these are the things 
that we must do in order to make

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it I was talking to somebody 
recently. 

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And I really believe this how 
bad the Lord wants me to make 

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it. 
How bad God wants you to make 

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it? 
If we fail, it's our fault. 

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Everything has been set up for 
us to make. 

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It is the greatest thing of all,
and even though we're going to 

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have challenges and Trials, come
our way and the devil who is 

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Alive and Well, is taking his 
best shot at us. 

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He won't win if we do it. 
The word of God says, he wants 

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us to make it. 
Paul said, you got to put on the

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armor of God. 
Now that brings us to the third 

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point and that is the enemy. 
We're going to look at that 

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verse again and Ephesians 6 and 
11. 

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This is why you put on the armor
of God, put on the armor of God 

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that you may be able to stand 
against The Wiles of the devil. 

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You know, Wiles means cunning 
craftiness and all of that, we 

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know that Satan is going to 
attack. 

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Few years ago, I remember Terry 
preached a sermon about about 

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Satan and he mentioned how he's 
a lion. 

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He's a roaring lion walketh 
about seeking those who he would

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devour, that guy, think on the 
PowerPoint. 

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He had a picture of a lion, a 
belief on there. 

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I think that was you anyway 
preaching that sermon. 

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Have you ever stopped to 
consider? 

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You don't have to go look for 
the Devil. 

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The devil will find you. 
You don't have to look for the 

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devil. 
The devil is going to find you. 

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And by the way, nowhere in the 
word of God, does it say attack 

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the devil? 
I saw something on TV not long 

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ago. 
There was a preacher up there 

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onstage and he was praying and 
he was rebuking the Deep the 

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devil rebuking the demons. 
He was doing all this stuff and 

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I thought you know that's not 
what the Bible says. 

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The Bible doesn't say, attacked 
the devil. 

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The Bible says, resist the 
devil. 

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That's what it says. 
You don't have to go out and 

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looking for the devil devil, 
find you. 

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That's what he does. 
But you are in control. 

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You're in control. 
We're to resist and he will. 

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Flee James 4:7 says submit 
yourselves. 

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Therefore to God. 
Resist the devil, he will flee 

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from you. 
The word flee? 

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00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,800
Don't that word is. 
It's the Greek word. 

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Few, go and that word actually 
is translated as fleeing or 

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running and we get another 
English word that comes from few

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go and it's the word fugitive. 
Right? 

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Somebody's a fugitive from the 
law. 

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What are you doing? 
You are running from the law. 

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That's why the Bible says, flee.
Also youthful lust, you flee 

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from it, you run from it, that's
what you do. 

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With the devil, don't mess 
around with the devil, run from 

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him, flee from him, resist him. 
And the Bible says, he will flee

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from you. now, I know it's not a
very Popular idea and concept, I

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get that. 
Okay, I get it. 

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Why do we got to talk about the 
devil? 

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Why can't we just talk about 
Jesus? 

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What can we just talk about 
things that make us feel good? 

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Why is that? 
Why do we got to mention the 

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devil? 
Why do we even have to mention? 

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00:31:20,700 --> 00:31:24,500
He'll why do that? 
First of all, let me just say 

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this. 
If you're going to get in a 

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battle, you better understand 
who the opponent is. 

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And you also have to understand 
that the enemy is the opponent. 

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And the enemy is the devil and 
the enemy wants your soul. 

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Got to understand that So you 
have to understand who that 

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enemy is. 
I saw deal not long ago and 

499
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,300
somebody was getting up and they
were debating whether or not 

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there actually was a devil, 
okay? 

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00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:54,800
And one guy said, no, there's no
such thing as the devil. 

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00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,500
The devil really is a Halloween 
costume in red with horns on the

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head with a pitch fork in the 
hand and an arrow at the end of 

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the tail. 
Is that the devil? 

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00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,300
It's not what the Bible says and
Isaiah chapter 14. 

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00:32:11,300 --> 00:32:13,700
I don't have time to go there 
but verses 12 through 15. 

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It deals with the Angelic being 
of the devil. 

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His name is Lucifer, he's real 
and Lucifer was thrown out of 

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heaven. 
And Revelation chapter 12 says 

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00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:31,000
like a great Dragon. 
He fell with his tail and swept 

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00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,400
a third of the angels with him. 
He's real. 

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00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:41,200
Lucifer was a fallen angel and 
he took a third of the host of 

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00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,500
heaven with him listen to this 
this real being called The 

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Devil. 
He's got some titles me, tell 

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00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:52,400
you what they are in John, 16 he
is called the prince of this 

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00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,600
world in Ephesians chapter 2. 
He is called the prince of the 

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00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:01,300
power of the air in 2nd 
Corinthians chapter 4. 

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00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:06,000
He's called the God of this age.
In Luke 11 and 15. 

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00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:11,400
He's called The Prince of demons
52 times, he's called Satan 

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00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:16,000
which means adversary. 
This is the most common title to

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00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,800
35 times. 
He's called the devil Diablos 

522
00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:23,900
which means slanderer, he's 
called the old serpent, the 

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00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:28,900
Great Dragon, the roaring lion, 
the evil one, he's called the 

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00:33:28,900 --> 00:33:34,700
tempter, the accuser, he is also
referred to as the spirit it now

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00:33:34,700 --> 00:33:40,300
working in the sons of 
Disobedience, remember Satan is 

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00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:45,600
the enemy, he teaches a 
lifestyle that condemns He 

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00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,300
tempts us to fall. 
Back on self-reliance. 

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00:33:49,900 --> 00:33:54,700
He tempts us to doubt, he has us
filled with lies and immorality 

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00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:57,600
to worldliness and pride and 
discouragement. 

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00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:01,700
And you know what's amazing is 
when Paul said in our 

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introductory text we do not 
wrestle with flesh and blood. 

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00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,600
He said, but we wrestle with 
principalities and powers and by

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the way they are we don't have 
time to go in that. 

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00:34:13,100 --> 00:34:17,000
Those are demonic angels, a 
hierarchy of angels that are 

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under Satan, but that's a 
subject for another day. 

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00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:28,500
But think about it this way. 
when Paul said Russell, what do 

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00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:36,300
you think about when you say C 
wrestle, I see two boys on the 

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00:34:36,300 --> 00:34:39,400
map. 
With those ridiculous jumpsuits 

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00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,600
on. 
And they wrestle. 

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00:34:42,699 --> 00:34:47,300
For sport. 
And one wins when he pins the 

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00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:51,699
other shoulders down, right? 
When you pin the shoulders down 

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00:34:51,699 --> 00:34:56,800
for three counts, you win. 
But at the time of this writing 

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in the Roman world, that was not
wrestling. 

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And I think we need to 
understand the seriousness of 

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what he was referring to. 
So we understand exactly how 

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serious our fight is to. 
What they would do these 

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00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,400
Gladiators, these combatants 
they would come together on the 

548
00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:18,300
battle floor. 
They would go in hand-to-hand 

549
00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:22,800
combat with no weapons. 
One would finally get the other 

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00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,100
one down that was the goal. 
He would wrap both hands around 

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00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:30,600
his neck and squeezed his throat
if he could hold him down for a 

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00:35:30,607 --> 00:35:34,600
period of time, not only his 
shoulders but his head. 

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00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:44,200
He was killed. 
He was executed. but if the guy 

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00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:48,400
resisted, And his shoulders were
pinned, but he was able to keep 

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00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:52,200
his head up. 
He lived to fight another day. 

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00:35:54,300 --> 00:36:00,500
That's what we're doing. 
We are living to fight another 

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00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,700
day. 
We're wrestling with all that 

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00:36:03,700 --> 00:36:07,500
folks. 
And it's life or death, 

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00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:09,300
spiritual life, and spiritual 
death. 

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And as we do that, we have to 
remember, we got to prepare 

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ourselves. 
How do you do that? 

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Be a faithful Christian. 
Whose strength is in the Lord. 

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What else? 
Put on the armor of God? 

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Leave it on verses 14 to 17. 
What else understand who the 

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enemy is that Satan and he has 
this all of his influences and 

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resist him. 
And I'm going to leave you with 

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one passage found in Ephesians 
chapter 6 and verse 13. 

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Therefore take up the whole 
armor of God. 

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We know that y that you may be 
able to withstand in the evil 

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day. 
What's that day? 

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What's that day? 
Yeah, that day is right now, 

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while you're living. 
That's right. 

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00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,500
It's right now. 
So put on the armor of God and 

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00:37:02,500 --> 00:37:05,100
leave it on and you'll be able 
to withstand The Wiles of the 

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devil right now. 
And for the rest of your life. 

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He can't win. 
If you don't let him. 

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00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:17,900
He can't win. 
If you don't let him. 

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00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:22,700
What are we going to do? 
He's going to flee from us. 

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00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:24,100
Why not? 
Because of our strength but 

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00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:29,000
because God is in control. 
If we do our part So, prepare 

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00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,800
yourself, put on the armor of 
God and resist the enemy in your

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00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,000
life. 
And you know what, you can make 

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00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,800
it to the end and you can go to 
heaven, and the devil doesn't 

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00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,800
have to pull you away. 
Doesn't have to. 

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00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:45,100
And like I said, in the Book of 
Revelation, in the end we win, 

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00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:50,600
And what a grand were Union, 
never fathomed that will be on 

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00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,500
that day. 
When we make it, you can make it

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00:37:56,700 --> 00:37:58,000
I talked about in the 
introduction. 

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The things that are blessings 
for the Christian. 

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00:38:03,300 --> 00:38:05,300
But there's no blessings outside
of Christ. 

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00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:09,700
So we want to extend an 
invitation now to someone that 

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perhaps might be in this 
audience today and you're not a 

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00:38:13,008 --> 00:38:16,700
child of God. 
You heard me mention several 

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00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:20,100
times about being in the Lord 
and being in Christ. 

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The way that you are in Christ 
is when you're baptized into 

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Jesus Christ, for the remission 
of your sins, the steps to 

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become a child of God. 
A very simple Paul said in 

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Romans 10:17, so then faith 
comes by hearing and hearing by 

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00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:40,300
the word of God. 
Jesus said you got a choice Mark

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00:38:40,300 --> 00:38:43,300
16:16. 
He that believeth and is 

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00:38:43,300 --> 00:38:47,400
baptized shall be saved. 
That's not just simple belief. 

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00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:50,000
That's the belief. 
Having the force to obey. 

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00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,200
In other words I believe it's so
much. 

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00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,400
I'm going to obey what the Lord 
told me to do. 

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00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,400
In Luke 13 and 3. 
Jesus said I tell you. 

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00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,000
No. 
But except you repent, you will 

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00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,900
all likewise perish. 
He said in Matthew 10:32, if 

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00:39:03,900 --> 00:39:06,500
you'll confess me before men, I 
will confess you before my 

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00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:09,300
Father, which is in heaven. 
And that confession is, I 

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00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:13,200
believe that Jesus Christ is the
son of God. 

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Upon taking those steps, you are
fit candidate to go to the point

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of your salvation and that 
happens in the waters of 

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baptism. 
It saves us first Peter 3:21, 

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the like figure whereunto even 
baptism doth also now save us. 

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