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You're visiting with us. 
You're our honored guest. 

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If I were to tell you tonight 
that this was outside of our 

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building, I would I would 
promise you that there would be 

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a reaction. 
If I were to tell you that, if 

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you walked outside that door, 
there's this little kitty cat 

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waiting on you. 
You would probably think to 

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yourself. 
I'm gonna go after you, you 

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know, you only have to be faster
than one person to get away from

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a cat like that. 
That's kind of how it works. 

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But when you stop and think 
about the devil, And how the 

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scriptures describe him like 
this, we're talking about an 

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incredibly powerful being 
somebody that stalks and 

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somebody that knows how to 
capture prey. 

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If you watch natural, 
geographic, or any of those 

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animal shows this, this, this 
cat right here knows exactly 

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what's up and what to do with 
its prey, and it's talks and it 

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works and it creeps and just at 
the right moment at the 

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unsuspecting moment, he pounces,
he does everything he can. 

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And tonight I want to talk to 
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About Satan's devices the way 
that he operates the way that he

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works in First Peter, 5:8, be 
sober be vigilant because your 

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adversary the devil walks about 
like a roaring lion seeking whom

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he may devour. 
Now, if I were to tell you that 

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the line is outside, you would 
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go outside. 
If I were to tell you that your 

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there was a lion in the backyard
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kids, don't go in the backyard. 
Don't go in the backyard at all.

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Wait till make sure, but that's 
not how safe. 

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Works whenever the Bible 
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describing his power and his 
prowess, but he never operates 

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in the form of just basically 
showing up, like, you would see 

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a line. 
If I see something this big, I 

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gotta tell you. 
Nobody had to tell me when I was

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little, when I first went to a 
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Louisiana, never been to the zoo
before still remembered nobody 

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had to tell me. 
Hey, stay away from sticking 

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your hand through the wire. 
Up to the animals. 

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Know that I know the signs were 
Were there, I've always wondered

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why those signs had to be there 
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to know except there's a real 
problem, the little ones don't 

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know, they don't know. 
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pretty scared of dogs. 
I've had a couple of dog 

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experiences that ended me up on 
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I had fight or flight and of 
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Come on when I was younger we're
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no fight you just run for all 
you're worth. 

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You get away from it for all 
you're worth. 

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You know, one thing I've learned
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assesses danger. 
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tell my girls every time that 
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Hey listen, there's a dog this 
dog, my girls are naturally 

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gravitationally drawn to dogs. 
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going to happen if you get down 
in a dog space, if you this dog 

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doesn't know you from anybody 
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We don't know this dog. 
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Crouch down over this dog and 
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Tell me no daddy, we're not 
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And they will tell because that 
dog get up. 

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Your face off. 
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Every time I scare him to death 
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they don't have it awareness, I 
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try to let that dog lick her 
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You see, she doesn't know. 
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And a lot of us are the same way
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We don't recognize the danger. 
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the fence, and we wonder how it 
is that this powerful animal 

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Yanks us through and into some 
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would end up and does what he 
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literally consume us when the 
Bible talks about the devil 

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seeking. 
Whom he may devour, he does not 

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say nibble. 
We're talking about devouring in

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second Corinthians 11, verse 
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Verse 11, lest Satan should take
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We are not ignorant of his 
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11 and 12. 
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armor of God, that you may be 
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of the devil who we do, not 
wrestle against flesh and blood,

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but against principalities and 
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Of the darkness of this age, 
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wickedness in the Heavenly 
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Now that's a pretty good army. 
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here. 
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lion and none of these 
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about the devil, just live your 
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However you want to not at all. 
They constantly warned us that 

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we're in a were in a 
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not with flesh and blood, it's 
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the soul of man, Satan operates 
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But ultimately what's on the 
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flesh-and-blood contest people. 
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There's gonna be all kinds of 
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It's not a normal war that you 
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It is an inside War. 
It's an inside our heart war and

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Revelation 12 and 9. 
So the Great Dragon was cast out

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that serpent called the devil 
and Satan who deceives the whole

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world and he was cast to the 
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out with him. 
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Then I heard a loud voice saying
in heaven, now, salvation and 

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strength and the kingdom of our 
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have come for the accuser of our
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Who accused them before our God 
day and night has been cast 

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down. 
Now none of those scriptures say

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hey it's gonna be great. 
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and I'll go ahead and say this. 
Now this is not meant to just 

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make you afraid. 
It's meant to make you assess 

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who your true enemy really is 
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him. 
Make you think about who he is 

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and make you think about the 
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because we all have them. 
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tonight with accuracy is every 
single person in this room has 

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weaknesses. 
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climb in and read our minds, but
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the same way that I could go to 
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If you were to think about my 
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would be that picture of a 
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fenced-in enclosure. 
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enough to recognize how to 
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We got a couple of kids that are
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big enough when I say big 
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enough. 
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big there's a big highway, 
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On the on the side, right? 
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We put in a fence, you know, we 
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The problem is there's Gates on 
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have locks on them yet. 
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chill inside of somebody that's 
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They're big enough to flip the 
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latch up and go out and toward 
the road, but they're not big 

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enough to assess how fast that 
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road. 
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fast and they're not able to 
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an adult or there's somebody out
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them. 
Hey get back in here and they 

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come back in. 
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just how fragile life really is.
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not to be trifled with and he 
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we'll talk about in just a 
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Whenever you look at natural 
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things you find is that's a very
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and over again. 
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it, but I always have my new to 
and it's one of those pictures 

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of how the food chain works. 
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It's really an ugly thing to 
think about but you have a 

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defenseless pitiful. 
Poor listen to what the 

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scripture says again. 
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You who dwell in them, woe to 
the inhabitants of the earth and

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the Sea. 
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you having great wrath because 
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time. 
Satan is defeated He already 

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knows that but his goal is to 
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God, the devil who deceived 
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into the lake of fire and 
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He only has a short time left. 
Do you know the only way that he

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can hurt God you the only way 
you can do it, you see what 

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Jesus did whenever he died was 
buried and rose again, as he 

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secured the pathway for you, two
to start an eternal relationship

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with God right now, tonight, I 
can tell you, there is a God in 

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heaven that whenever you 
surrender to his will, whenever 

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you identify with the death 
burial and resurrection of 

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Jesus, in baptism, you are 
entering into an eternal 

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Kingdom, you start right now 
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that will take you through. 
Eternity. 

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You can't find. 
You can't find something that 

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amazing. 
You can't find anywhere. 

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You could be a part of like that
only in Jesus Christ but make no

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mistake about it. 
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he's trying to get one at a time
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off. 
And he tries to peel that one 

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away. 
Or right now, it might be you 

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And I don't know if you've ever 
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you but the fact of the business
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And if you've ever had a day 
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was lining up on you, you don't 
have to think too hard about who

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it is. 
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What I want you to also know is,
there is a God in heaven that 

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limits his ability to operate 
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Is that no matter if we get 
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recognize who he is and that 
he's infinitely, good and he's 

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great and he's amazing. 
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another thing in your life, if 
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God is still infinitely. 
Good and God is still 

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infinitely. 
Amazing. 

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And God is still deserving of 
Your Allegiance and your 

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adoration every day. 
But he's not just a God that 

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leaves it alone. 
He's not a God, that leaves his 

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children tonight. 
We prayed in our assembly and we

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prayed for a reason we have a 
father that listens to us. 

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In fact, you may have had a bad 
dad experience. 

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You may have had in law and 
Outlaw and step this and step 

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that and Blended Every Which 
away. 

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And you may have not had a great
experience with a father. 

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But one thing I can tell you is 
that you've got a father in 

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Heaven, that is absolutely 
amazing and does exactly what's 

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right by you. 
You can't find that anywhere 

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else and of all the things that 
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God, you will find a God that 
wants what's best for you all 

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the time. 
But he also was a God that 

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whenever you have to leave the 
nest and you begin to have your 

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own Wings representative of free
will when you lead the 

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foolishness of childhood, not 
sin but the foolishness of our 

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childhood and we grow up and 
we're accountable now and we 

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start making big boy and big 
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The simple reality is there is 
Someone that is tracking us and 

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he's got an angry disposition. 
I don't know anybody that ever 

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watches natural G National 
Geographic and thinks oh that is

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the nicest kitty cat. 
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That is a sweet cat. 
No, you recognize the power and 

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the prowess and how that is an 
absolute enemy of this 

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defenseless cap. 
Except the calf, for the most 

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part except for the instincts 
inside, really doesn't know 

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what's happening to it until 
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We got to be more aware. 
We've got to understand what it 

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is that we have in Jesus Christ 
in the protections. 

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We have in Christ, will God 
trains us for the enemy? 

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So, Satan's worse can become our
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That's something we need to 
believe. 

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In, in Psalms, 144 blessed, be 
the Lord. 

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My rock who trains my hands for 
war, and my fingers for battle. 

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Did you know? 
God is training you today, he is

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never trained any of his 
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He's never trained. 
Any of his children, not to be a

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people that don't know how to 
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to be a people. 
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us down. 
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inside to get up and whoop, the 
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She won't do it by yourself 
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beloved do not think it strange 
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you / take of Christ's 
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is revealed, you may also be 
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said, if you are Approach for 
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Happy are you for the spirit of 
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And of God rests upon you on 
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He has blasphemed but on your 
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let those who suffer according 
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souls to him in doing good asked
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There's a lot of things that 
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going to look like that. 
It's bad for you and that it's 

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not a good thing at what God 
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makes it something that bills 
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He makes it something that even 
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of the things that Satan, the 
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make us just to destroy us. 
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that literally becomes our 
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character, becomes an Earnest 
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I'm not talking about Publishers
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of hope. 
I don't know about you. 

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I'm not really buying into the 
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Sweepstakes thing. 
They've never come to my 

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neighborhood. 
They have never contacted me. 

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I have Filled out their junk 
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they send me an email says act. 
Now and I act if you'll just 

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look through this list and buy 
something, I've even bought some

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of their junk before they still 
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neighborhood, I don't have much 
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House, Sweepstakes showing up 
and giving me five thousand 

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dollars a week for life. 
But I've got a tremendous amount

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of Hope because Jesus died on 
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looks like that I'm going to 
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looks like that I'm down and out
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I've messed up and I messed up 
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feel like what I figure out is 
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time than you fall down and you 
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Satan and no matter what he's 
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matter how much he's trying to 
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there is a God in heaven, that 
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it may feel like you're defeated
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His Greatest Victory because one
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you're going to be glorified 
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And Satan is going to be 
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That's a day. 
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team. 
You want to be on the right team

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that day, and what he was 
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are people that were under fiery
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that it's strange understand 
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you get to participate in 
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blessing in some of the stuff 
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I don't know. 
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I just know this, the Lord made 
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sins. 
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is not greater than his master. 
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they're going to persecute you. 
Also, there's gonna be junk. 

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You just got to deal with. 
And you got to know what the 

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real motive behind it is. 
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God's goal is to make you better
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at one in the same time, in our 
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and he's the father of Lies. 
Listen, he said to them in John 

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8:44, you are you are of your 
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desires of your father, you want
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the beginning and does not stand
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There is no truth in him. 
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from his own resources for he is
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Now again, he had just told them
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be free. 
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be free, and they did not want 
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rejected his teaching. 
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It was they rejected it? 
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word of God, one of the most 
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face is, who's my father. 
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God, I'm reading the words of my
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characteristics of what it means
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make it and going to win in this
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father's team and wants to 
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Now that has to be, that has to 
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And he called out these people 
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a different father, they wanted 
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religion. 
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having the authority because 
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He says, I'm going to tell you 
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I'm going to tell you about my 
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tell you about your father and 
he appealed to their credibility

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and the acrylic appealed to who 
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that was the devil and there's 
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We've got We're either going to 
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going to be our father in 
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The Bible says, now the serpent 
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of the field, which the Lord God
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woman has God, indeed said You 
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the garden and the woman said 
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We may eat of the fruit of the 
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But of the fruit of the tree of 
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garden of God, God said You 
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Nor shall you? 
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Serpent said to the woman if 
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God. 
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eat of it, your eyes will be 
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knowing Good and Evil. 
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along and he takes a 
circumstance, where you clearly 

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understand what the word of God 
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altered. 
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what about? 
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see it that way and somebody 
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somebody that gets in our head 
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obvious and we began to question
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Stop. 
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many people are trading what 
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word of God for what they're 
thinking in their mind. 

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The question in their mind. 
Listen, I'm honest with you. 

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When I tell you that your mind 
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may not have the answer to. 
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questions that the Bible may not
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expects you to do is be able to 
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and recognize that you won't get
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comes up in your mind, you won't
know the answer. 

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All the prophet in the Old 
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ways are higher, his thoughts 
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his ways are higher than our 
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And here you have a circumstance
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understood the rules of the 
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and that choice cost them be 
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tree of life. 
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physically dying. 
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stung. 
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world. 
Death has fallen upon all men 

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because of sin. 
Romans 5 and verse 12. 

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But again, Satan does his very 
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He he does his very best to 
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God has said. 
He does it just a little bit and

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so in order to do that he wants 
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father of Lies. 
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the woods. 
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called dear not dears dear. 
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every time doesn't matter if 
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of deer out there, we got a 
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were to drive up on dear, what 
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in the middle-of-the-road. 
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headlights out there and all the
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sit there if you're sitting in a
field and you've got some kind 

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of a spotlight in you shine that
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sudden that deer will just pop 
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It's just one of those ignorant 
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They can't figure it out. 
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and that car can come closer and
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And that deer just stands there.
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And all the sudden, it doesn't 
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This is what Satan does. 
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He said, even if our gospel is 
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who are perishing, whose Minds 
the God of this age has blinded,

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who do not believe less, the 
light of the Gospel of the glory

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of Christ, who is the image of 
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They're blinded, now, that's a 
terrible thought but there are 

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many times where the Lord would 
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Him hear. 
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of circumstances, where he would
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grown dull, your eyes, they're 
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You're not really open to the 
understanding of what I'm trying

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to give you Paul by inspiration 
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Basically said it like this. 
Satan shining something in your 

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eyes. 
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And whenever that happens, what 
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will not listen to The Gospel, 
they that you can't reach them, 

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I can sit down with you and I 
can show you, okay? 

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This is what the Bible says, 
very plainly. 

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The Bible says this, and that 
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that. 
They read it out loud and say, 

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okay, what is the answer to 
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Let me give an example of that. 
The Bible says in Hebrews 11:6 

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without faith. 
It is impossible to please him. 

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For he, that cometh to God must 
believe that he is, and that he 

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rewards those who diligently 
seek him, too. 

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Things in that passage are very,
very important. 

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Number one, the key question is,
can I please God if I don't 

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believe in him with all my heart
do I can't possibly know. 

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Well certainly you can see that?
Well then there's the next part 

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of that where the Bible says, he
rewards those who do what 

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diligently seek him. 
Two things. 

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And that passage very, very 
important things that he does. 

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The problem with that is today, 
the blindness of humanity, is 

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there there there is a stop 
mechanism. 

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Somebody can say, yeah, you 
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here's the problem, I've always 
felt like I've always thought 

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that really I just need to do 
that. 

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I just need to believe in him 
and it's all going to work out, 

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okay? 
You know, that there's another 

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part to that it says those that 
diligently. 

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At least take him. 
There were a lot of people that 

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believe that Jesus was the son 
of God, but they were not 

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willing to follow him because 
they had money tied up and they 

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had money on the line. 
And they had people that were 

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Jews, that didn't like Jesus, 
and they wanted to fit in with 

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him. 
And so, Jesus would say, you're 

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really close to the kingdom, but
you're not in the Kingdom of the

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reason you're not in. 
The kingdom, is you've got these

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affections with other things and
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He said, look, You can't be part
way with me. 

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He said you can't hold hands 
with the world. 

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You can't be in love with this 
stuff and hold hands with me. 

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Because what's going to happen 
is you're going to have a 

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divided Allegiance and you're 
going to try for a while but 

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it's not going to work out. 
You're going to have to be all 

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in to be with me or you're going
to have to go. 

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Do what you got to do in your 
life. 

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You know, how many people have 
tried their, very best to live 

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their life and still have Jesus 
Christ, and it's not working out

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for him because God requires the
basic tenets of Christianity is 

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deny yourself. 
Take up your cross and follow 

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00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,000
me. 
That's diligently, seeking him. 

446
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,300
That's the challenge. 
And what Satan wants to do is he

447
00:22:39,300 --> 00:22:42,200
wants to shine a bright light in
your eye and he wants you to not

448
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,500
be able to see it and he does a 
very good job of making that 

449
00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:49,200
bright light available and it is
not the light of Jesus Christ. 

450
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,300
It's the blinding light of his 
lies. 

451
00:22:52,300 --> 00:22:56,100
Will Satan Disease deceives by 
invitation for for such are 

452
00:22:56,100 --> 00:22:59,300
false Apostles, deceitful 
workers transforming themselves 

453
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,700
into Apostles of Christ and no 
wonder for Satan himself 

454
00:23:02,700 --> 00:23:04,600
transforms. 
Warms himself into an angel of 

455
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,100
Light. 
Therefore, it is no great thing.

456
00:23:07,100 --> 00:23:11,400
If he, if he, if his ministers, 
also transformed themselves in a

457
00:23:11,408 --> 00:23:15,300
Ministers of righteousness, 
whose end will be according to 

458
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:19,000
their works. 
Now listen, keep going on. 

459
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,300
The mount the very first Sermon 
on the Mount. 

460
00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:24,500
That Jesus gave, he said, Beware
of false prophets, who come to 

461
00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:27,700
you in sheep's clothing, but 
inwardly are ravenous wolves. 

462
00:23:27,700 --> 00:23:29,700
You will know them by their 
fruits. 

463
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,900
Keep going for a second. 
Now, the spirit expressly. 

464
00:23:33,100 --> 00:23:35,600
Says that in latter times, some 
will depart from the faith 

465
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,600
giving heed to seducing, or 
deceiving spirits and doctrines 

466
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,500
of demons. 
They will speak lies in 

467
00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:42,500
hypocrisy having their 
conscience. 

468
00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:44,700
Seared with a hot iron 
forbidding to marry and 

469
00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:47,600
commanding to abstain from 
foods, which God has created to 

470
00:23:47,608 --> 00:23:51,100
be received with Thanksgiving by
those who believe and know the 

471
00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:53,900
truth. 
Now, he goes on for a little bit

472
00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:56,900
talking about this explanation 
of how God made food to be 

473
00:23:56,900 --> 00:23:59,400
something you enjoy. 
If you bless it with prayer, 

474
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,100
that was a different teaching 
that they had ever known. 

475
00:24:02,500 --> 00:24:04,600
And he said, People are going to
come along and they're going to 

476
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,400
try to hijack the teaching of 
the church and they're going to 

477
00:24:07,408 --> 00:24:11,700
make traditions where God has 
not taught anything got to be 

478
00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:15,800
careful of those guys. 
Jesus said they're going to be 

479
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,500
ravenous wolves. 
They look like sheep but they're

480
00:24:17,500 --> 00:24:20,400
really ravenous wolves and here 
he says they're able to 

481
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,800
transform themselves. 
I know a lot of really, really 

482
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,000
good. 
Good acting good. 

483
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,900
Good people in so many 
circumstances that have believed

484
00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:34,800
somebody a preacher or whoever 
it is. 

485
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,900
And they've taken no 
responsibility for their own 

486
00:24:36,900 --> 00:24:39,300
soul in this. 
The Bible says, we have to study

487
00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:40,900
to show ourselves approved unto 
God. 

488
00:24:40,900 --> 00:24:44,100
A Workman that needeth not to be
ashamed, rightly dividing the 

489
00:24:44,100 --> 00:24:46,400
word of Truth. 
What does he mean by that? 

490
00:24:46,700 --> 00:24:50,300
Here's what he means by that. 
When you look at the Bible, 

491
00:24:50,300 --> 00:24:53,500
God's holy word, right here, 
what I mean by that is you 

492
00:24:53,500 --> 00:24:55,700
should take your Bible out and 
you should measure everything 

493
00:24:55,700 --> 00:24:58,700
that I'm saying by the book. 
And how do you know if I'm a 

494
00:24:58,700 --> 00:25:00,400
preacher of God or if I'm a 
liar? 

495
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,100
Here's how you know, it you take
this book and you sit down with 

496
00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:07,000
it and you say I'm going to ride
down every scripture: hats. 

497
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,300
If you want to take my sermon 
home, I'll give it to you. 

498
00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:11,800
That's no problem. 
Take every scripture, I'm giving

499
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,500
you home, take the explanations.
I'm giving you from scripture 

500
00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:17,600
home with you, if what I am 
saying is different than what 

501
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,000
the word of God says. 
Not a man of God and I'm not a 

502
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:24,600
preacher of God. 
And so many of my friends people

503
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,900
that I love so much. 
Here's here's the common thing 

504
00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:29,400
that I hear, they say, you know,
Cullen. 

505
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,300
I just don't feel like God is 
interested in the details. 

506
00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:36,700
Let me see if I can make sure 
that I understand this. 

507
00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:39,900
He said they're going to come to
you in sheep's clothing. 

508
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,600
He said they're going to be 
deceitful workers and they're 

509
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,000
going to look like somebody. 
That's really righteous and 

510
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,200
good. 
He said they're going to teach 

511
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,300
details like this that are not 
okay with God they're going to 

512
00:25:50,308 --> 00:25:53,600
tell you sometimes in history. 
This happened for sure that you 

513
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,800
can't marry they're going to 
teach you doctrines of demons. 

514
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,200
They're going to speak lies in 
hypocrisy. 

515
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,100
They're going to have a 
conscience seared with a hot 

516
00:26:01,100 --> 00:26:04,000
iron. 
Are those details that matter? 

517
00:26:04,100 --> 00:26:07,900
Yeah. 
You see the real problem happens

518
00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:11,300
in religion, when we do this, 
whenever people make up their 

519
00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:13,800
mind that I'm going to believe 
what I'm going to believe and 

520
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,600
you believe what you want to 
believe and it's all going to 

521
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,600
work out. 
Okay, that's a major problem. 

522
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,800
Here's why. 
Jesus said not every one that 

523
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,000
saith unto me Lord. 
Lord shall enter into the 

524
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,300
kingdom of heaven, but he that 
doeth, the will of My Father, 

525
00:26:24,300 --> 00:26:26,600
which is in heaven. 
Many will say, to me, in that 

526
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,200
day, have we not prophesied in 
thy name? 

527
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,600
And in thy name, have cast out 
demons in thy name. 

528
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,200
Done many wonderful works. 
Then will I profess unto them? 

529
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:38,400
I never knew you. 
Depart from me those of you that

530
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,100
practice lawlessness. 
Now let me let me back up for a 

531
00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:45,000
second because man, this is this
is plowed pretty close to the 

532
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,200
corn. 
We're trying to grow. 

533
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,700
You're telling me that good 
sweet sincere, people. 

534
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,500
In that moment that have lived a
somewhat definitely, a religious

535
00:26:55,500 --> 00:26:57,900
life have jeopardized their 
soul. 

536
00:26:57,900 --> 00:26:59,200
And yes, the answer is yes to 
that. 

537
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,900
Jesus answered it. 
He said, I don't know you, what 

538
00:27:01,900 --> 00:27:05,000
is the determining Factor? 
He said not every one that saith

539
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,100
unto me, Lord Lord. 
But he that doeth, the will of 

540
00:27:08,108 --> 00:27:10,700
My Father, which is in heaven. 
So in other words, if I show you

541
00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:13,300
what the Bible teaches for you 
to do the question, I have in 

542
00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:14,900
the commitment, I ask from you, 
tonight is this. 

543
00:27:14,900 --> 00:27:17,700
If I can show you what the Bible
says, that's different than what

544
00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:19,200
you're currently doing. 
Would you do it? 

545
00:27:21,500 --> 00:27:23,100
I can show you what the Bible 
says, period. 

546
00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:26,200
Would you do it? 
That answer has to be yes. 

547
00:27:27,300 --> 00:27:28,900
That answer has to be 
absolutely. 

548
00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:31,100
Yes. 
You see what the Lord is going 

549
00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:32,100
to do. 
Is he's going to start out. 

550
00:27:32,108 --> 00:27:34,600
He's going to teach you with 
what the Bible would refer to as

551
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:35,900
milk. 
Just like a baby. 

552
00:27:36,700 --> 00:27:39,100
It's not very proud thing to be 
able to say. 

553
00:27:39,100 --> 00:27:41,200
Okay I'm going to start out. 
I'm going to be a baby in Christ

554
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,900
but that's exactly what we are. 
But it expects us to grow, and 

555
00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:47,600
sometimes during that period of 
being a baby, we grow and we're 

556
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:52,600
week well week, but then we grow
to be strong but all along the 

557
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,500
way. 
He's feeding us and what he 

558
00:27:54,508 --> 00:27:57,200
requires from us is that we 
would be a people that are 

559
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,500
humble and willing to change. 
If he shows it to us, will you 

560
00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:03,500
do it one of the most effective 
questions I've ever heard? 

561
00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:06,400
Anybody asked in any religious 
sector, is this? 

562
00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:09,600
If I showed you what the Bible 
says, would you promised me? 

563
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,500
You'd do it. 
And that answer better be yes. 

564
00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:15,600
How could we ever claim to be 
God's people, if we would not 

565
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,300
answer that question? 
Yes. 

566
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,200
So then the rubber meets the 
road and when I say, the rubber 

567
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,200
meets the road you're talking 
about, you mean, you're going to

568
00:28:23,208 --> 00:28:25,000
change me morally? 
You're going to change my 

569
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:25,900
morals. 
Yep. 

570
00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:28,100
Yeah. 
You mean I'm going to have to 

571
00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:30,500
start doing some of the things 
differently than what I do. 

572
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:32,200
I'm going to have to start 
acting different. 

573
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,400
I'm going to have to change 
everything about my yeah. 

574
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:35,300
It's what you're going to have 
to do. 

575
00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:38,200
But is it different? 
There's a Different Twist on 

576
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,200
this. 
It's what you have the 

577
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,700
opportunity to do. 
For an infinite. 

578
00:28:43,700 --> 00:28:46,800
Holy God to send his son to die 
for you. 

579
00:28:47,900 --> 00:28:49,900
Because one day it's not going 
to matter about what you did 

580
00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:52,500
today or this week or what kind 
of family vacation you took or 

581
00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:54,500
what kind of house you live in 
or what your lifestyle is. 

582
00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:56,500
Like, one day, it's only going 
to matter. 

583
00:28:56,700 --> 00:29:00,100
If the Lord says, I know you or 
I don't know you. 

584
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,600
That's going to matter. 
That's going to be the most 

585
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:04,900
important. 
In fact, there's not going to be

586
00:29:04,900 --> 00:29:09,900
anything else that does matter. 
Well, Pate Satan tempts people 

587
00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:13,500
to send, listen and Luke 1:38, 
the Bible says, and the chief 

588
00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:15,500
priests, and the scribes saw how
they might kill him. 

589
00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:19,100
For they feared the people then 
Satan entered Judas surnamed 

590
00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:21,000
Iscariot who was numbered among 
the twelve. 

591
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,200
So he went his way and confirmed
with the chief priests and 

592
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,400
Captain's how he might betray 
him to them and they were glad 

593
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,200
and agreed to give him money. 
So he promised and sought 

594
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,000
opportunity to betray Him to 
them in the absence of the 

595
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,300
multitude. 
You got two groups here that 

596
00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:39,000
want something. 
You got Judas, that is selling 

597
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,900
Jesus out. 
And you've got the Jews, the 

598
00:29:40,900 --> 00:29:44,600
scribes, and the chief priests 
that what his blood because 

599
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,700
they're jealous of him. 
He was stealing their Thunder. 

600
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,500
They were mad. 
Let me tell you why they were 

601
00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:55,000
mad. 
They had been mad ever since 

602
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,800
John the Baptist Jesus cousin, 
six months older than him. 

603
00:29:58,700 --> 00:30:00,900
He was six months older than him
and he had stood in the Jordan 

604
00:30:00,900 --> 00:30:03,000
River and he'd looked every one 
of them in the eye and said, you

605
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,300
brood of vipers who warned you 
to flee from the Wrath to come 

606
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,200
and he told them you'd have to 
bring forth fruit that is worthy

607
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,000
of repentance. 
They didn't like that very much.

608
00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:14,800
Now, the common people came to 
John and they realized, hey, 

609
00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:17,000
he's talking straight to 
everybody. 

610
00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:19,000
You know what? 
I love about God, he didn't care

611
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,800
who you are, where you came 
from, he wants you to Rendered. 

612
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,500
He wants you to change. 
So Jesus comes along and he 

613
00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:26,400
begins to preach that same 
message. 

614
00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:29,300
And he tells people, I tell you 
native, unless you repent, you 

615
00:30:29,300 --> 00:30:31,500
will all likewise perish. 
They didn't like that either. 

616
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,300
They thought that because they 
had blood veins. 

617
00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:37,600
That said, I've got Abraham's 
blood in my physical veins, they

618
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,300
thought they were good with God.
Have you ever known people that 

619
00:30:40,300 --> 00:30:44,300
thought, you know, my parents 
church to me, my parents took me

620
00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:46,700
to church. 
I've been in church. 

621
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,700
That's the same thing that was 
wrong with the Pharisees. 

622
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:56,200
They trusted in that but they 
did not have a real relationship

623
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,300
with God and I'm going to define
a real relationship with God is 

624
00:30:59,300 --> 00:31:02,100
Wonder one where we surrender to
the will of the father. 

625
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:05,900
Because I don't know anybody 
they can claim they have a real 

626
00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:08,500
relationship with God if they're
disobeying God. 

627
00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:10,200
I do not know where that passage
exist. 

628
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,600
I don't know what teaching that 
would be. 

629
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,200
That would ever help somebody 
think that But here's what the 

630
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,500
scripture says, again, Satan 
entered you had somebody that 

631
00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:21,200
wanted to sell something or 
needed some money. 

632
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,500
Wanted some money. 
That was his weakness and guess 

633
00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:25,200
what? 
He opened the door, guess what? 

634
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,800
Our weaknesses do, Judas had a 
weakness for money. 

635
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,300
He was the guy that carried the 
bag at always ought to make us 

636
00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:34,000
nervous a little bit. 
You ought to be real nervous 

637
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,300
when you start thinking about 
money because money is one of 

638
00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:38,900
those things that the love of it
is, the root of all evil. 

639
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,300
I think that's a pretty good 
quality pot qualifier when you 

640
00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:44,300
sell out Jesus for 30 pieces of 
silver. 

641
00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:46,700
Then you got other people that 
want blood and they're willing 

642
00:31:46,700 --> 00:31:50,300
to participate in this as well. 
Not a good situation, another 

643
00:31:50,300 --> 00:31:53,000
story about money ananias and 
Sapphira. 

644
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,400
Guess what happened Peter said 
ananias, why has Satan filled 

645
00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:00,300
your heart to lie to the Holy 
Spirit and keep back part of the

646
00:32:00,300 --> 00:32:02,200
price of the land. 
For yourself. 

647
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,200
You ever had some, you ever had 
a moment where you Justified 

648
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,400
something to yourself Stop and 
think for a second how Judas 

649
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,500
Iscariot must have Justified 
this to himself. 

650
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,600
Stop and think how ananias and 
Sapphira this husband-wife combo

651
00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:17,600
seem to be doing something 
really good Judas. 

652
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,500
You can't say anything was good 
about what he did. 

653
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,600
And I sense if I were were early
members of the church and they 

654
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,100
sold some land and they brought 
it and they put it before the 

655
00:32:26,108 --> 00:32:28,600
apostles. 
Most scholars, believe that the 

656
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,200
reason why they were struck dead
that day is because they were 

657
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,500
attempting the apostles to see 
if God's. 

658
00:32:34,500 --> 00:32:38,000
Holy spirit, was really in them.
And they were able to CERN and 

659
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,700
see that he was cheating, they 
were cheating the situation. 

660
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,000
In other words, they were 
telling a half-truth, I don't 

661
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,300
know what would have been wrong 
with them. 

662
00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:47,500
Selling the land and saying, 
hey, I'm going to give you half 

663
00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:49,800
of it, but they acted like, they
gave it all to him. 

664
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,300
So, stop and think for a second.
Why has Satan filled thine heart

665
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,200
to lie? 
That's a powerful statement. 

666
00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:02,000
We ever stopped in Justified 
yourself in circumstances, we 

667
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,800
all have you get in trouble. 
You have somebody hold you 

668
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,700
accountable and you say, well, 
the reason why I did it, Was. 

669
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,700
Why said that was? 
Why did that was? 

670
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,800
Well, imagine what justification
must have been going through 

671
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,500
ananias and Sapphira is mine and
it doesn't look like they got to

672
00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:19,400
give an answer. 
They were struck dead that day. 

673
00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:22,700
The Bible says that fear fell on
all the church. 

674
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,500
Yeah, somebody comes in to 
church tonight. 

675
00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:30,000
They acted like they were one 
way and they really weren't we 

676
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,800
drag their dead bodies out of 
the church. 

677
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,000
I think that would cause a 
Revival right up here in the 

678
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,300
middle of all of us, wouldn't 
it? 

679
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,000
We'd be all thinking, you know 
what? 

680
00:33:37,500 --> 00:33:40,800
Fess up before I get this, same 
circumstance going on. 

681
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,400
That was the supernatural moment
where God was judging his people

682
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,500
and helping people understand, 
then what he is more 

683
00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:50,300
long-suffering with. 
Now you see they were 

684
00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:55,600
questioning literally put in a 
bad situation about how the Holy

685
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,900
Spirit works and about how the 
apostles worked. 

686
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,200
And it was really a challenge to
those guys and God struck him 

687
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,400
dead. 
And that ought to be, that ought

688
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,300
to be a warning to us. 
It ought to be a warning to us 

689
00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:08,500
about justification. 
And it ought to be a warning to 

690
00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:11,500
us about how Satan operates 
because he will give you a 

691
00:34:11,500 --> 00:34:14,400
justification for whatever you 
want to believe and for whatever

692
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,000
you want to think. 
And for whatever you want to do,

693
00:34:16,100 --> 00:34:18,000
if you want to do it, God will 
let you do it. 

694
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,300
The problem is, your choice is 
not free, and there are 

695
00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:23,199
consequences to that. 
And that's the dangerous side to

696
00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:26,000
how this works and how Satan 
tempts people to send. 

697
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,400
Well, he takes and bakes, and 
chokes, the power of God's word.

698
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,600
The solar the Bible says the 
sower sows. 

699
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,500
The word and these are the ones 
by the wayside where the word is

700
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:38,300
sown. 
When they You're Satan, comes 

701
00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:41,400
immediately and takes away. 
The word that was sown in their 

702
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:45,900
hearts. 
These likewise are the ones sown

703
00:34:45,900 --> 00:34:48,400
on Stony ground, who, when they 
hear the word immediately 

704
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,500
receive it with gladness, and 
they have no root in themselves.

705
00:34:51,500 --> 00:34:55,800
So, in dirt, only for a Time 
afterward when tribulation or 

706
00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:00,200
persecution arises for the words
sake immediately, they tumble. 

707
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:04,400
Now, these are the ones also, 
sown among Thorns, they are the 

708
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,400
ones who hear the word and the 
cares of this world. 

709
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,100
Swirled the deceitfulness of 
riches and the desires for other

710
00:35:11,100 --> 00:35:14,500
things, enter anything in choke 
the word and it becomes 

711
00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:17,900
unfruitful but these are the 
ones sown on good ground. 

712
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,900
Those who hear the word except 
that in bear fruit. 

713
00:35:20,900 --> 00:35:26,400
Some thirtyfold, some 60 And 
some hundred, this is all of us 

714
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,800
right here. 
The Wayside soil. 

715
00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:32,800
Who comes the Bible? 
Says Satan comes and takes it 

716
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,200
away. 
That's not where you want to be.

717
00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:38,100
That's not where anybody wants 
to be. 

718
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,300
I have heard people and watched 
people with the gospel before 

719
00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:45,500
and they have an attitude of I 
really don't care what you're 

720
00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:48,000
saying. 
In fact they're doing 

721
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,400
everything. 
But listen, they could care 

722
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,100
less. 
But the word is still there. 

723
00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:55,500
This it's still powerful. 
The problem is the heart that 

724
00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:58,000
it's sewn on could care less. 
And so, the Bible says Satan 

725
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,800
takes it away. 
Be real careful. 

726
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,800
When you hear the word of God to
be open to it because the next 

727
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,700
round goes like this. 
Oh yeah. 

728
00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:08,500
That's a great idea. 
Yeah preacher. 

729
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,600
Yeah, you showed her to me. 
I like it. 

730
00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:13,400
I accept it. 
But that's where it stops. 

731
00:36:14,100 --> 00:36:15,400
You see? 
The Bible says, we have to 

732
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,200
continue in it and there's a 
natural growth process. 

733
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,300
And the problem is when people 
give up on the growth process, 

734
00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:24,600
it goes kind of like this. 
I get into Jesus Christ. 

735
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,400
I'm all gung-ho I grow a little 
plant. 

736
00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:31,400
It's looking good, but the 
Problem is then I take away all 

737
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,200
the water and all the fertilizer
from it and then I wonder why 

738
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,600
the route doesn't go down and it
begins to die. 

739
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,700
In other words, it's a picture 
of people that literally don't 

740
00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:43,600
do what's necessary to grow. 
You have to grow, you have to 

741
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,000
grow, what do you have to do to 
grow, get, Eat, You Gotta Eat, 

742
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,900
I've never in my life forgotten,
what it was like to have twins. 

743
00:36:52,900 --> 00:36:56,000
In fact of all the things that 
are probably would have done if 

744
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,600
we would have just had one, I 
would have probably been some 

745
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,000
arrogant person that gave People
parenting advice. 

746
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,300
Listen, if you're here and you 
got kids bless your heart, 

747
00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:06,000
you've survived, you've made it,
it's great. 

748
00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:09,000
I don't have any advice for you.
I remember figuring out how we 

749
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,000
were going to put food in and 
get something out. 

750
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,600
I remembered all that. 
It was very, very important. 

751
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,900
In fact, it was necessary. 
Well, this one's not eat as 

752
00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:17,800
much. 
Well, this 18, but then it came 

753
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,600
out, I don't know. 
It wasn't a proper coming out 

754
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,100
kind either. 
It's supposed to you're supposed

755
00:37:21,100 --> 00:37:23,600
to feed them and it's supposed 
to stay there and they grow. 

756
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,600
The next time you take them to 
the doctor, they're a little 

757
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,600
bigger and a little fatter and 
they grow and if they don't and 

758
00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:32,300
oh she's not eat this. 
Is this one is and Mama's 

759
00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:34,800
worried about that and they make
me worry about that. 

760
00:37:34,900 --> 00:37:36,700
I didn't know what to worry 
about but I do. 

761
00:37:36,700 --> 00:37:38,900
Now you got to eat, you got to 
grow. 

762
00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:42,000
There's a growth chart older 
than 95th percentile their high 

763
00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:43,900
but oh, they're 40 percentile 
for weight. 

764
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,300
What are we gonna do? 
I'm scared. 

765
00:37:45,300 --> 00:37:48,700
They're going to die. 
There's a chart, there's an 

766
00:37:48,700 --> 00:37:51,800
expectation. 
We know that with little kids 

767
00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:54,500
well there's an expectation. 
Spiritually to it. 

768
00:37:54,508 --> 00:37:56,300
Here's what it is. 
All your life. 

769
00:37:56,300 --> 00:37:59,700
You're trying to act like Jesus 
and grow to be like Jesus every 

770
00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:02,200
day. 
And he's going to help you do 

771
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,600
it. 
But you got to eat it, you got 

772
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,300
to eat the food. 
Sometimes, the food is going to 

773
00:38:08,308 --> 00:38:10,300
taste real good, and it's going 
to get to your stomach, and it's

774
00:38:10,300 --> 00:38:13,400
going to be bitter. 
That's what the Bible says about

775
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,300
itself. 
Sometimes it's like sweet honey,

776
00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:18,900
but then when it gets inside, 
and it begins to change 

777
00:38:18,900 --> 00:38:20,700
everything and all the 
relationships and everything 

778
00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:22,700
begins to change. 
Sometimes it's bitter. 

779
00:38:23,700 --> 00:38:26,000
You got to make that different. 
You got to make that call. 

780
00:38:26,700 --> 00:38:29,100
But then he talked about the 
thorns and he said, this is the 

781
00:38:29,100 --> 00:38:31,000
cares in the richest in the 
pleasures of life. 

782
00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:33,300
That's a very careful thing that
we ought to take into 

783
00:38:33,300 --> 00:38:35,700
consideration. 
There's a lot of stuff that 

784
00:38:35,700 --> 00:38:37,800
Satan sends our way to try to 
get our mind off. 

785
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,300
What our job is, and our job is 
to bear fruit. 

786
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:44,300
Our job is to grow to be like 
Jesus, every single day to bear 

787
00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:47,000
fruit. 
Last of all for this reason, 

788
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,100
when I could no longer endure 
it, I sent, I sent to know your 

789
00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:52,900
faith lest by some means. 
The tempter have tempted. 

790
00:38:52,900 --> 00:38:56,600
You Our labor might be in vain. 
In other words, the job of 

791
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,600
everybody that preaches. 
The gospel and teach us the word

792
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,700
of God is to make sure that this
see falls upon the ground and on

793
00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:05,200
the good ground it to make sure 
that it does something. 

794
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,300
And he talks about the labor of 
that process, sometimes it's in 

795
00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:12,400
vain because what Satan does is 
he wants to destroy that work. 

796
00:39:14,100 --> 00:39:17,400
That's what he tries to do. 
I gotta hurry, Satan uses 

797
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,300
sickness disease and death. 
All along throughout scripture 

798
00:39:21,300 --> 00:39:24,400
there have been moments, where 
disease, and sickness and death,

799
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,700
Satan uses that to destroy 
people, even to destroy and 

800
00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:32,000
discouraged and try to ruin. 
People just know this. 

801
00:39:32,100 --> 00:39:35,000
What Satan uses, what Satan 
tries to do. 

802
00:39:35,100 --> 00:39:37,200
What? 
He's always trying to do is make

803
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,700
people sick and die. 
What God said, basically is 

804
00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:41,700
this? 
Everybody's going to get sick 

805
00:39:41,700 --> 00:39:45,900
and everybody is going to die. 
But what's It does is because he

806
00:39:45,900 --> 00:39:49,100
knows that we don't want to die 
physically and God's put all the

807
00:39:49,100 --> 00:39:51,600
cards on the table. 
He wants to frame it in such a 

808
00:39:51,607 --> 00:39:55,300
way that it's God's fault and 
it's God's problem. 

809
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,900
And God is not the reason why we
get sick and God is not the 

810
00:39:58,900 --> 00:40:03,200
reason why we die sin is. 
And sins are Choice problem and 

811
00:40:03,207 --> 00:40:07,300
that's it's our Freewill problem
and all along the time he is 

812
00:40:07,300 --> 00:40:11,400
always used sickness and disease
and death to try to destroy 

813
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,700
people's faith. 
And tonight, I pray that he's 

814
00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:16,800
never able to do that for you. 
The Apostle Paul captured all 

815
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,200
this, when he would say things 
like this for me to depart and 

816
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,400
to be with the Lord is far 
better than this. 

817
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,000
If I stay, it's going to be 
better for you because I'm going

818
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,300
to bless you with my life. 
I'm going to serve you. 

819
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,300
I'm going to work for you. 
I'm going to do everything I can

820
00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:31,400
for you, but it's far better to 
die. 

821
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,300
And go be with the Lord. 
That's when we know our 

822
00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:37,500
relationship with God is real, 
Satan does not win. 

823
00:40:38,300 --> 00:40:41,400
And first Peter 3:8, he who sins
is of the devil for the devil 

824
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,000
has sinned from the beginning 
for this purpose. 

825
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,100
The Son of God was manifested 
that he might destroy the works 

826
00:40:46,100 --> 00:40:48,800
of the devil in his much than 
the children have / taken a 

827
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,200
flesh-and-blood. 
Hebrews said he himself likewise

828
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,100
shared in the same that he might
through death, he might destroy 

829
00:40:54,100 --> 00:40:55,400
him. 
That had the power of death. 

830
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,500
That is the devil. 
Satan is not going to win. 

831
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,400
You read, Luke chapter 4 and you
read. 

832
00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:04,800
Matthew and what you'll find is 
Jesus was taken up and he is the

833
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,100
perfect picture of what Satan 
tried to do. 

834
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,000
He tried to destroy Jesus with 
three different times, three 

835
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,100
different moments at the weakest
moment of Jesus's life except 

836
00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:16,200
for the Garden of Gethsemane. 
And in those moments, Jesus 

837
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,600
would say it is written. 
It is written, it is written 

838
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:21,600
again, and that's what we have 
to do. 

839
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,800
The very, the very thing that 
God gave us to fight with our 

840
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:27,900
weapons. 
We don't wrestle, he said 

841
00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:31,000
against flesh and blood, but 
against spiritual hosts. 

842
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,200
So what did Say, take up the 
whole armor of God, he would say

843
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,200
things like this. 
Gird, your waist, with the 

844
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:40,200
truth, put on the breastplate of
righteousness shod, your feet 

845
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,300
with the preparation of the 
gospel of peace. 

846
00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:45,800
But then he said this above all 
taking, the shield of Faith, you

847
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,600
will be able to Finch quench, 
all the fiery darts of the 

848
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:53,000
wicked one. 
And take the helmet of salvation

849
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,100
and the sword of the spirit, 
which is the word of God. 

850
00:41:55,100 --> 00:41:58,100
Praying, always with all prayer 
and supplication in the spirit 

851
00:41:58,100 --> 00:42:00,700
being watchful to the end with 
all perseverance and 

852
00:42:00,700 --> 00:42:05,000
supplication for all the saints.
You know what he's saying? 

853
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,100
This is what's going on. 
And yes, this has to happen 

854
00:42:08,100 --> 00:42:10,600
individually, but there's also 
something collectively that we 

855
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:15,000
do Now, if somebody came in God 
forbid and they were to begin 

856
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:19,500
shooting, like we hear all this 
crazy stuff, you know, where I'm

857
00:42:19,500 --> 00:42:21,500
going to be. 
I'm not going to stand right 

858
00:42:21,500 --> 00:42:25,600
behind this. 
I'm going to get behind that. 

859
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,900
If somebody came in and they 
were shooting darts at you or 

860
00:42:29,900 --> 00:42:32,300
shooting anything that you, 
where do you want to be, you 

861
00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:36,200
want to stand behind this and 
try to figure out a way to know.

862
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:37,300
You don't want to do that at 
all. 

863
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:38,900
You want to try to get behind 
something. 

864
00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:41,800
That's big enough for you to 
hide something, to put every 

865
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,700
part of your body, so that they 
don't get any part of you. 

866
00:42:46,500 --> 00:42:49,600
Satan Satan does his very best 
to destroy people before? 

867
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:53,200
They have a chance to build and 
put together what God put in 

868
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,300
place. 
But let me tell you what God 

869
00:42:55,300 --> 00:42:58,700
did. 
Before you ever have a chance to

870
00:42:58,700 --> 00:43:01,000
grow your faith, the way it 
should be, he puts you as a part

871
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,400
of a body. 
And what our job is is, we've 

872
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:09,000
got to do our very best to hide 
behind when we are weak or sick 

873
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,000
or down and out, we've got to 
have somebody that's going to 

874
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,300
fight off the lines and you 
better be that person for 

875
00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:16,700
somebody because there's going 
to become a day and time where 

876
00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:18,400
you're going to have somebody 
doing that for you. 

877
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,400
You better have a moment in your
life where you recognize that 

878
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,000
you may be that person that 
somebody else is relying on and 

879
00:43:26,008 --> 00:43:28,400
if you don't stand in there, you
don't do your part. 

880
00:43:29,100 --> 00:43:32,700
They're not going to make it. 
Listen to what the scripture 

881
00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:36,500
says for the body is one and has
many members, but all the 

882
00:43:36,508 --> 00:43:38,600
members of that one body being 
many are one body. 

883
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,300
So also is Christ. 
You notice what he said back 

884
00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:43,800
here, we make prayer. 
You know, the greatest thing 

885
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,100
you'll ever do for anybody in 
your in their whole life, 

886
00:43:46,100 --> 00:43:47,900
anything the greatest thing you 
can ever do. 

887
00:43:47,900 --> 00:43:51,300
For me, the greatest thing that 
I'll ever do for you is remind 

888
00:43:51,300 --> 00:43:53,000
God of how important you are to 
me. 

889
00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:58,400
And I am to you. 
And what Satan wants to do is he

890
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,500
wants to try to separate off, he
wants to try to make sick. 

891
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He wants to try to get somebody 
victimized and off by themselves

892
00:44:04,700 --> 00:44:07,500
away from the herd and what the 
herd has the responsibility to 

893
00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:10,700
do is get in there and dig in. 
We've got to dig in and we've 

894
00:44:10,700 --> 00:44:14,300
got to build a perimeter around.
We've got to do everything we 

895
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can, although the lion seems so 
close, we got to do everything 

896
00:44:17,500 --> 00:44:22,800
we can to fight him off. 
Because we're one body. 

897
00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:26,600
And when one of us hurts, we all
hurt one of us has a victory, we

898
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,500
all have the Victory and that's 
what you have in the body of 

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Christ. 
You demonstrate that reality 

900
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,400
When you pray for your brothers 
and your sisters in Christ you 

901
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,600
demonstrate that reality when 
you provoke one another on to 

902
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,400
love and good works, you 
demonstrate that when you call 

903
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,200
one another, when you send text 
messages of encouragement, when 

904
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you're seeing cards, when you do
nothing more than smile and Pat,

905
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somebody on the back, you have a
god-given job that anybody no 

906
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matter who they are in the whole
wide world, you can be a 

907
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blessing to them. 
Specially, you can be a blessing

908
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to your brother and your sister 
in Christ. 

909
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,900
We are fighting. 
In fact, we are in the fight of 

910
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our life against the devil, and 
we, when we're together and when

911
00:45:06,500 --> 00:45:11,400
we have the herd assembled 
around us, We're going to beat 

912
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him. 
We're going to beat him big 

913
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because his fate is already 
known. 

914
00:45:15,700 --> 00:45:18,300
We know what's going to happen 
to him, we don't want him to get

915
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another one. 
And those that he's got ahold 

916
00:45:20,500 --> 00:45:26,800
of, we want to get back. 
We want to do everything we can.

917
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To be on the Lord's Side to 
fight this fight for all were 

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worth. 
If you're here tonight and 

919
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you're not a Christian, won't 
you accept the invitation? 

920
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,600
Jesus said come unto me all ye 
that labor and are heavy laden 

921
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,600
and I will give you rest take my
yoke upon you and learn of me 

922
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:48,100
for my yoke is easy, and my 
burden is light light. 

923
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,100
Now, what I talked about tonight
is not light, the Bible says, 

924
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Greater is he that is in you 
than he that is in the world. 

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00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,900
Whenever you're baptized in the 
name of the Father, the Son of 

926
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the Holy Spirit, you have just 
called upon. 

927
00:46:00,700 --> 00:46:04,100
We have wheat, somebody will 
call upon the most powerful 

928
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beings in the universe, God the 
Father God, the son, and God, 

929
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the Holy Spirit, and they buy 
their power and authority wash 

930
00:46:12,300 --> 00:46:13,900
away. 
The dead man of sin and they 

931
00:46:13,900 --> 00:46:17,600
make by their Grace, they make 
us alive again. 

932
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According to Ephesians 2 verse 1
and then the Bible says, greater

933
00:46:21,500 --> 00:46:24,400
is he that is in you. 
He that is in the world. 

934
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:25,800
Who is it? 
That's in you. 

935
00:46:27,700 --> 00:46:30,300
The Father, the Son, and the 
Holy Spirit. 

936
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,400
You're not going to lose when 
the Father, the Son, and the 

937
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,300
Holy Spirit are in you and 
you're in Christ. 

938
00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:39,900
Do you know the place where they
are? 

939
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,400
And you should be in Christ? 
That's where every spiritual 

940
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,500
blessing is your feeling weak 
and you're feeling alone and 

941
00:46:46,500 --> 00:46:49,100
you're feeling like the world 
has victimized you and you feel 

942
00:46:49,100 --> 00:46:51,500
like you need some help and you 
feel like you're down and out. 

943
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:55,300
You find the herd and the herd 
is the body of Jesus Christ. 

944
00:46:55,300 --> 00:46:58,100
And will not only protect, you 
will fight some of your battles 

945
00:46:58,100 --> 00:46:59,700
for you will do everything we 
can. 

946
00:46:59,900 --> 00:47:02,900
Well, bear every burden that we 
possibly It can bear for you, 

947
00:47:02,900 --> 00:47:05,000
the Bible tells us that's our 
job. 

948
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,700
Fulfill the law of Christ to 
Bear one another's, burdens. 

949
00:47:11,100 --> 00:47:13,100
Are you here tonight in? 
San is overtaking you and you 

950
00:47:13,107 --> 00:47:15,200
need our prayers. 
We'd love to pray for you. 

951
00:47:15,700 --> 00:47:19,600
If you only knew if you could 
only imagine at that moment, 

952
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,800
where you feel the weakest, some
of the greatest strength you'll 

953
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,600
ever find, or people that are 
calling your name in prayer. 

954
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,300
We thank you for listening to 
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00:47:29,300 --> 00:47:35,000
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00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,100
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957
00:47:38,100 --> 00:47:41,300
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00:47:41,900 --> 00:47:45,700
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959
00:47:45,700 --> 00:47:49,700
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00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:55,300
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961
00:47:55,900 --> 00:47:59,400
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