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Turn over to a scripture that is
widely known but also widely 

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misunderstood. 
John, chapter 10, verse 10. 

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What I'm my assignment here 
tonight from the word of God, 

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from from the head of the 
church, Jesus is to teach you 

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something that you've already 
heard in many different ways. 

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You're well taught in Anchor 
Faith Church. 

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Amen. 
Thank you for those six amens. 

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I said you're well taught at 
Anchor Faith Church. 

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Now how would I know that? 
Do you know that your pastor 

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teaches at our church when my 
wife and I are gone by by 

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YouTube, by video? 
We don't, we don't take that 

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lightly. 
There's only about four 

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different ministers that have 
taught our people besides us on 

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video. 
And your pastor's one of them. 

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You're, you're well taught here 
at Anchor Fay Church. 

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And not only do I know that by 
that, I know that because I've 

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been in literally thousands of 
churches and I, I know when I go

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into a church if they've been 
well taught or not by how people

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respond. 
Amen. 

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So I, I know you can handle 
this. 

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This is me. 
It's already 8:15. 

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I'm not letting you go at 8:30. 
I promise I'll let you go before

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midnight. 
John chapter 10 verse 10 says 

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the thief cometh not but for to 
steal and to kill and to 

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destroy. 
These are Jesus words, right? 

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I am come that thou mayest have 
life and have it more abundantly

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if you put up the amplified 
guys. 

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If you can have that, the 
amplified classic it. 

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It's interesting. 
The thief comes only say only. 

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Do you know that the thief only 
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This is his MO, his modus 
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operation. 
And it's only to steal and to 

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kill not or steal and kill and 
destroy. 

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That's all he comes to do. 
He's not coming to party with 

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you. 
I don't care what rock rock song

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you heard. 
I don't care what hip hop song 

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you heard. 
The devil is not a partier, he's

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a killer. 
He's a destroyer, he's a thief 

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and he comes only to do that. 
Oh, he made package party. 

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But see, he doesn't come. 
He doesn't come to be your 

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friend, but yet the Bible says 
he can even. 

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Come and appear as an Angel of 
light. 

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Why? 
Because he's a deceiver of the 

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brethren. 
He is the chief liar. 

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He's the father of lies. 
Why is he called the father of 

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lies? 
Because the first thing out of 

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his sneaky, snaky self in the 
Garden of Eden was a lie, He 

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told Eve. 
You shall not surely die When 

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you eat of the tree. 
You're not going to die. 

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God doesn't want you to eat that
because you'll be like him. 

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Two lies. 
That's all he can do is lie. 

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He's a deceiver, he's a fraud. 
Don't look around. 

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There's no he's not here. 
But notice this again only in 

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order to steal and kill the 
destroy. 

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This is taken from the Greek 
meaning this is the original 

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statement. 
He only comes for this. 

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Purpose. 
And I'm glad this is not the end

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of the sentence. 
It's not the end of this verse. 

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What does Jesus say? 
I came that they, they, who, 

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they, you, they, us, they, me. 
Hallelujah that the people may 

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have, may have. 
That's conditional. 

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And as I say, will have, doesn't
say, shall have. 

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It says may have. 
It's not up to him, it's up to 

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you. 
It's up to me. 

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May have. 
See if you're not a doer. 

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You may not have this abundant 
life. 

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If you're just a knower and 
knower, most of the body of 

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Christ can quote this verse, but
yet they don't live like it. 

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This word life is the Greek word
Zoe Zoe that means the the full 

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expression of life, health, 
abundance, prosperity, wisdom, 

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favor on and on. 
In other words, the God kind of 

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life or life as God has it. 
Other translations say he only 

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came to give you abundant life 
and even more abundantly, the 

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full abundance. 
It's the Greek word persistus 

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that means over the top, more 
than enough beyond your wildest 

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imagination. 
That's why he came. 

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Now I have a question for you. 
This is real easy math. 

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You won't have to take your 
shoes off to count toes on this.

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Please leave them on. 
Is the body of Christ walking in

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the God kind of life? 
Come on, this is not a trick 

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question, is it? 
No, no, I, I can just tell you 

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that straight up. 
I'll be even more specific. 

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Is everybody in Anchor Faith 
Church that calls it their 

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church home walking in the God 
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Nope. 
Everybody in my church walking 

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the God kind of Nope. 
But I'll tell you what is 

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happening. 
Everybody in our churches and 

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everybody in the body of Christ 
has been stolen from, killed and

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destroyed from Satan. 
Every single one of us has 

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succumbed to his stupidity every
single at one time in our life 

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or another. 
Even sometimes even after you 

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were a believer, the devil still
snuck in there and stole from 

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you. 
He ripped you off. 

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He cheated you. 
Come on. 

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He may have even destroyed 
something in your life. 

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Everyone of us have succumbed to
this because that wasn't our 

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choice. 
Sometimes it is, but that wasn't

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our choice. 
We were born into a fallen world

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and the God of this world is not
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Everybody running around saying 
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Why does the Bible say that 
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this earth, and his name is 
Satan? 

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He is the thief that comes only 
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Why? 
Why is there such a person 

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that's stealing from us, killing
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if God is still in control? 
Because this verse tells us that

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God's not in control, that God's
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conditional. 
And it's not based upon his 

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condition. 
It's not based upon His desire. 

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It's upon ours Our. 
Own these are fundamental basics

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foundations of our Christian 
faith, and most people in the 

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body Christ don't know it. 
Every time there's a school 

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shooting. 
Tallahassee, right? 

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Texas is known for a lot of 
school shootings. 

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Columbine. 
Just last week was the 

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anniversary of Columbine. 
Littleton Co. 

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I could just go on and on and 
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Newtown. 
Connecticut news cameras show up

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and they ask people, what do you
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And they'll say this is what 
they said. 

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This is their this is their Pat 
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I don't know why God allowed 
this Isn't that isn't that the 

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isn't that the stock axor? 
Yeah, I know God is in control 

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and he has a purpose for these 
listen but baby, he's got 

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killed, but he has a purpose in 
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No he doesn't. 
This verse tells you why do they

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why do they attest that God is 
in control and God has a purpose

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for this when it says otherwise 
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destroys it completely nukes 
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It nukes it. 
It wipes it off the face of the 

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earth, but yet most of the body 
of Christ hasn't gotten the 

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memo. 
You ought to know better. 

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God's not in control of 
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He's doing a lousy job. 
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wouldn't be any poverty, there 
wouldn't be any sickness, there 

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wouldn't be any lack, there 
wouldn't be any fear if God was 

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in control of everything. 
Come on. 

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It's, it's, it's, it's his will 
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That's his will. 
But he doesn't exert his will on

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everybody. 
We have a free will. 

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We are free moral ages. 
We are the the greatest gift God

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gave the church is the power of 
choice. 

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We get to choose what way we 
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He is not our dictator. 
He is not a Nazi. 

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Neither is Trump. 
Goodness gracious, I slapped 

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this. 
I slapped the knot on your head.

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You can't rub off so much 
stupidity going on out there. 

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In the name of Christ often 
times from the church often 

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times and they don't know 
anything. 

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And the the world doesn't know 
history either. 

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History is one of my minors in 
college and I still major in 

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history starting right here. 
You know, I learned stuff in 

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history at school that was in 
here, but I didn't know it yet. 

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Some of our very fundamental 
basic foundations of our 

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Christian faith are in what I'm 
talking about. 

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And people are so mesmerized by 
some hotshot by some popular 

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podcaster or you know whoever 
hip hop preacher all about 

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their. 
Image and their tats don't even 

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get me started. 
These basics, these fundamentals

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we cannot dismiss. 
We cannot any longer ignore. 

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We can't just let them take 
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We must be on purpose. 
Kind of last days, Christians. 

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The very strategies mentioned 
here in this verse strategies is

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one of the definitions of the 
word Wiles, the Wiles of the 

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devil. 
Using the New Testament 

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strategies and tricks of deceit.
These strategies and tricks of 

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the deceit, they're not new. 
It's the same strategies, tricks

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of the sea. 
The devil is always used. 

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He just repackages them. 
And we think, wow, this is, this

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is so worse than it used to be. 
No, there's just more people. 

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That's why it's worse. 
It's the same strategy, same 

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tricks. 
Anybody ever heard of Kenneth E 

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Hagin? 
Anybody around here ever heard 

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of? 
I heard him say this 50 years 

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ago, 50 years ago, before there 
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there was a church, before there
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campus. 
He said this 60 people in this 

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meeting, and that was a big 
Hagan meeting. 

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And then he said the devil has 
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He still steals and kills and 
destroys from primarily men, 

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particularly preachers. 
He was addressing the same three

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things, the gold, the glory, and
the girls. 

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Now he's probably not the first 
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That said, that was the first 
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that's still true. 
Preachers are following right 

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and left because of gold. 
Glory are the girls. 

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Some of them have all three 
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Some of them train others to do 
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Really. 
Yep, sure do. 

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I could name some names right 
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Why? 
Because they're false prophets. 

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They're false doctrine. 
But I don't have time for that. 

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Matthew chapter 16. 
Matthew chapter 16. 

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Are you with me yet? 
Matthew chapter 16 This is a 

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great, great story about Jesus 
and the disciples. 

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He he talks about a wicked and 
adulterous generation. 6 After a

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sign in chapter 16, he talks 
about being aware and taking 

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heed because of the leaven of 
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In other words, false prophets, 
false doctrine, Pharisees and 

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Sadducees were of false doctrine
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Oh, that's just not love. 
Oh really? 

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Let me tell you about love. 
So Jesus wasn't walking in love 

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when he ran the money changers, 
when he whipped the money 

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changers butts out of the temple
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He didn't order it on Amazon. 
He made it. 

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It was a premeditated weapon. 
So that wasn't love. 

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Let me tell you something. 
This is something the Holy 

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Spirit told me Saturday. 
I wrote it down. 

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I'd already had this typed out 
six weeks ago. 

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The Lord gave me this message. 
I didn't know where I was going 

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to minister it, but just 
Saturday he, he, he had me right

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on this very expensive 
stationary. 

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You know how expensive post it 
notes are. 

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But this is what he said. 
Showing mercy to the wolf is 

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showing cruelty to the sheep. 
So showing mercy to the wolves, 

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the devourers, the devil like 
invaders, the devil like 

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talkers, the devil like actors, 
showing mercy to the wolf is 

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showing cruelty to the sheep. 
You see, this is what the devil 

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does. 
He reverses these things. 

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What he's actually doing, he 
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Sounds like a political party. 
This is what Jesus said when he 

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said in verse 13, I mean this is
this is you remember the the 

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loaves and fishes story. 
I mean, I could just go on and 

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on. 
So he says, Who do men say that 

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I am? 
Some say you're John the 

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Baptist, others say you're 
Elijah, others say you're 

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Jeremiah, one of the prophets. 
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But who do you say I am? 
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Peter answer said Thou art the 
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God. 
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recorded in the Bible that Jesus
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He's the one, you're the one. 
You're the he was saying this. 

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You're the one we've been 
trained about and heard about 

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our whole lives. 
You're the ones that we 

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celebrate the feast for. 
You're the you're the identical 

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one. 
You're, you are him by the way, 

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he called him Lord. 
Do you know? 

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Do you know? 
Do you know? 

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That if a political figure of 
the day would have heard that 

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Peter would have lost his head, 
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Caesar, right? 
The Lord then was Herod, right? 

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Well, let me tell you, Let me 
tell you something worse. 

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If the Sadducees and the 
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they would behead him as well. 
The Church, the religious false 

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doctrine. 
What's Jesus answered verse 18. 

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He said, I also say unto you 
that thou art Peter, and upon 

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this rock I will build my church
in the gates of hell shall not 

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prevail against it. 
We need the amplified here 

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because it really helps us. 
You are Peter in Greek as 

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Petrus, a large piece of rock, 
not the rock. 

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You're a piece of rock everyone 
of us are a piece of. 

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As a born again believer, we are
a piece of the rock. 

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We are creating his image and 
after His likeness. 

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If we if Jesus is our Lord, 
we're a piece of the Lord. 

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We're not the Lord. 
How do you know you're not well?

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I smelled my breath this 
morning. 

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I know, I know. 
I'm not Jesus. 

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Deity couldn't have breath like 
us. 

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But he goes on and says upon 
this rock, the right back 

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Capernaum, which is the 
seashore, a huge mountain of 

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rock, and it says, Thou art of 
on this rock, Petra, a huge rock

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like Gibraltar. 
Any of any of you ever been to 

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Gibraltar? 
On the southern tip of Spain? 

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You have, Sir Navy. 
No, just OK. 

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Just anybody else you have why 
were you there? 

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Military. 
OK. 

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It actually belongs. 
It's it's part of the European 

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continent. 
It belongs to the Spanish. 

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But if the Brits didn't come in 
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maintain it during World War 2, 
all of us would be speaking 

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German. 
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Because it controls the 18 miles
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where the Atlantic meets the 
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And Hitler wanted to control all
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all of southern Europe, but he 
couldn't get his ships into the 

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Mediterranean. 
He could only get submarines. 

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And so the Brits put big guns. 
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World War One, they put cannon 
in the side and then right on 

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the side of it you can see these
caves built and they have old 

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cannon up there. 2 wheel cannon,
You know what I'm talking about?

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Like Civil war level cannon? 
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those big guns for World War One
on top of Gibraltar, and then 

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they put bigger guns in World 
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They could shoot it all the way 
out into the Atlantic, bombs to 

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control so the Germans could not
get in and out of the 

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Mediterranean. 
Because if they did, they would 

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have controlled it. 
Have you, have you been up on 

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the top? 
No, but you probably read about 

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it, saw the pictures of the guns
that were you up on top? 

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Yeah, all the way up. 
The biggest danger up there now 

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is what's called the Barbary 
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In other words, the the apes 
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And they are mean. 
They are really, really mean. 

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The reason they were Barbary, 
because they were pirates would 

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take them on their ships and 
pirates would land there at 

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Gibraltar, and because it's a 
natural port and they would land

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there for safety out of the 
Atlantic storms. 

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And then they'd go back out in 
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the coast and control things. 
The pirates would, they control 

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all the shipping channels. 
And so they would take those 

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apes and then they'd let them 
off there and they'd run up on 

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top and go wild. 
I mean, they'll steal your 

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lunch, but they'll scratch it, 
they'll jump on top of you, 

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they'll bite you, everything 
else. 

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So I got to kill a couple of 
those. 

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But anyway, I fed them rocks. 
It says don't feed the Barbary 

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apes, but I fed them stones. 
But anyway, Why? 

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Because I was defending myself. 
Anyway, you've seen the Rock of 

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Gibraltar on Prudential 
Insurance commercials. 

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They pull it behind boats, they 
climb on it. 

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They they carry it in vehicles. 
But you can't do it. 

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It's gigantic. 
It's bigger than this building, 

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by far. 
Taller, bigger, wider and it's 

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it's powerful. 
Jesus just said, Peter, you're a

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piece of the rock. 
But upon this rock of 

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revelation, talking about 
himself, I'm going to build my 

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church. 
The rock of revelation. 

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What is the rock of revelation? 
Jesus is the rock. 

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The Bible calls him the rock. 
If you, if you don't build your 

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house on the rock or the 
revelation of who Jesus Christ 

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is in your life and lordship. 
Pastor and I've talked to 

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extensively about this. 
The biggest problem in the body 

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of Christ is the lack of 
lordship. 

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They want Jesus as Savior, but 
oh, they don't want him as Lord.

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They don't want anybody telling 
them what to do. 

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But yet Jesus will far do better
for you than you could ever do 

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for yourself. 
So go ahead and make Him Lord of

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your life. 
That's not up to Him. 

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Lordship is not His decision. 
Salvation was His decision. 

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Remember, He had to decide that 
in the Garden of Gethsemane the 

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night before. 
He made that decision once and 

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for all. 
Not my will, but your will be 

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done. 
But we're the ones that make him

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Lord of our lives. 
He doesn't make himself Lord. 

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He's not a dictator. 
Upon this rock, this rock of 

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revelation, I will build my 
church first place. 

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The word church is used in the 
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hell or Hades. 
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Hades is a specific name, 
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infernal region. 
It's not just talking about a 

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place, it's talking about the 
influence of hell. 

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That's the danger. 
The influence of hell is in the 

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earth. 
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Because hell is in the center of
the earth and the influence of 

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it is on the earth. 
As long as Satan is the little 

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God of this world, he's using 
the powers of his influence 

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against us. 
And when we build our lives on 

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the rock of Revelation, of Jesus
being our Lord, there is no 

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power of the devil that can 
stand against us. 

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He is no threat when Jesus is 
our Lord. 

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You've heard me say it before. 
Whatever you yield your field 

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to, it's going to grow a crop in
it. 

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And if you're yielding you're 
field to the powers of the 

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infertile region. 
You're in trouble and you can't 

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get out of on your own. 
Well, I'll never fall in the 

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devil's trap. 
Really. 

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Isn't that part of what the word
means? 

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You didn't see it coming. 
That's why it's called a trap. 

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There's not a sign that says 
trap ahead. 

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And he's seen people like us 
before. 

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He knows our MO. 
He knows how we react to 

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pressure. 
He knows how we react to to 

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somebody being ugly to us. 
He knows how we react to, to, to

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temptations. 
And so he lays those traps in 

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all those places where we go and
we fall in them. 

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I've fallen in them. 
Surely you haven't done that 

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here at Anchor Faith Church. 
But I've fallen in traps before.

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You're a bunch of lying dudes. 
Come on. 

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How many have fallen into a trap
of the enemy? 

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So the enemy has this ancient 
time tested proven system to 

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steal and kill and destroy. 
But Jesus just told us that 

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system doesn't work against 
those who have built their life 

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on this rock. 
Amen. 

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And it's not, it's not a thing. 
Well, brother, I've already read

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the Bible. 
Oh really? 

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Evidently you didn't read it 
enough because Jesus said that 

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if we abide in his word and 
allow his words to abide in US, 

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evidently you you didn't read 
the part where Jesus said 

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continue in my word. 
He didn't say read it and walk 

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away. 
He didn't say memorize it and 

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walk away. 
He said continue in it and he 

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said if you continue in it, 
you're my. 

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Disciple. 
See, everybody, every Christian 

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calls it. 
Yes, I have a disciple. 

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But if you're not continuing in 
the Word, you're not a disciple.

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Now, none of you are that 
foolish, but there are people 

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watching and listening who are. 
Every church has them. 

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Come on. 
I just want to make sure that I 

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cover this pastor. 
Oh, and I did not talk about 

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what I was going to preach here.
I know nothing. 

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I hear nothing. 
I'm Sergeant John, not Sergeant 

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Schultz. 
I know the Holy Spirit. 

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They gave me this six weeks ago.
So let's start, let's start by 

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learning there are three 
different time tested, ancient 

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proven systems that the devil 
uses to steal and kill and 

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destroy. 
This is what it looks like now. 

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These are, these are three major
ones. 

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There are, there are multiple 
single ones #1 assaults or an 

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invasion. 
He comes to assault you and 

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invade your life. 
And I want you to write these 

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down, type them into your phone,
whatever you got to do, make 

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sure that you have this. 
Because if we're not, if we're 

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not aware of this, not afraid, 
but if. 

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We're we're, we're we're not. 
The Bible says in Corinthians 

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that we're not to be ignorant of
Satan's devices. 

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We're not to study the devil, 
but we, we, we shouldn't be 

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ignorant of his, how he 
operates. 

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So this is how he operates. 
He invades, he assaults. 

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Secondly, that's the purpose, to
build a stronghold. 

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He's not about befriending you, 
He's about lording over you. 

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He's about building a stronghold
in your life where he can. 

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Come in, set up shop and do what
he wants. 

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And thirdly is to establish 
bondages, spiritual slavery. 

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That's how strong bondage is. 
It's spiritual slavery. 

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Now I'm just going to quote this
verse for the sake of time, but 

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you've been well taught. 
First Thessalonians 521 says, 

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and the very God of peace 
sanctify you holy, and I pray 

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God, your whole spirit and soul 
and body be preserved blameless 

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under the coming of our Lord 
Jesus Christ. 

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Another one says, And may the 
God of peace himself sanctify 

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you through and through, 
separate from your profane from 

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profane things, make you pure 
and wholly consecrated to God. 

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And may your spirit and soul and
body be preserved, sound and 

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complete and found blameless at 
the coming of our Lord Jesus 

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Christ. 
That's not talking to preachers.

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That's talking to every 
believer. 

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We're supposed to be live a life
of purity, holiness, blameless 

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before God. 
It's not just for preachers. 

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That's a really good place to 
start. 

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Not all preachers are blameless.
Not all preachers are holy. 

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You have two preachers. 
You you have your pastors that 

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are, I know Pastor Mike is I'm 
still praying for Angie, but I, 

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I just want to, I just want to 
just really qualify some things 

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here. 
She dishes it out, so I she has 

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to take it. 
So the enemy attacks you in two 

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primary realms. 
OK, in other words, he assaults 

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you, he invades you. 
That's our first point. 

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He assaults and invades you in 
two primary realms #1 

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heavenlies, plural. 
In the heavenlies. 

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Stop talking about 3rd heaven, 
where God lives. 

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The devil's not where God lives.
He used to be got kicked out, 

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then he got evicted. 
Why? 

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Because of rebellion, right? 
Rebellion is never good 

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rebellion, and a Christian 
really makes them viciously 

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ugly. 
In other words, the spiritual 

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bombardment comes from the 
heavenlies. 

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We're going to show you this in 
Scripture in a minute. 

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You know what you're well 
taught? 

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Secondly, in the natural realm. 
In the natural realm, that's 

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flesh and blood or physical 
soulish. 

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So this qualifies your whole 
spirit and soul and body. 

452
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,680
You see, spirit is spiritual 
bombardment. 

453
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,520
Body that's in the natural, 
that's flesh and blood. 

454
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,560
These two can overlap. 
The enemy really has a party 

455
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:45,760
when he can overlap these two. 
But that's not how we're 

456
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:50,640
supposed to live. 
I'm, I'm going to make this 

457
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,040
statement. 
I'm not going to go into detail 

458
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,680
about this, but the enemy 
operates much the same way as a 

459
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,520
corporate takeover, corporate 
Raiders. 

460
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,600
They look for a company that's a
good company, but it's weak in 

461
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,640
the leadership or it's weak in 
production or it's weak in some 

462
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,280
area and they, they look at it 
to take it over. 

463
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,240
And so they attack the weakness.
How many have ever watched Nat 

464
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,920
Geo or or anything about Lions, 
etcetera, etcetera? 

465
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,120
You know how lions seek their 
prey and they, they, they seek 

466
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,520
out their attack. 
Do they just run in there in the

467
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,760
middle of of the water Buffalo 
and attack the bulls? 

468
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,120
No. 
They're looking for a weak, 

469
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:39,680
sickly, injured, or one that's 
not paying attention, one that's

470
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,440
not aware of his surroundings, 
one that's not sober thinking, 

471
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:51,160
OK, that's going to come later. 
They're not going to attack the 

472
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,920
the bulls. 
They're not going to attack the 

473
00:32:52,920 --> 00:33:05,920
strong, the strengths. 
So #1 go to First Peter chapter 

474
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,200
5. 
First Peter chapter 5. 

475
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:20,320
This is one of the outstanding 
writings in your New Testament. 

476
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:27,040
It covers the coast, talks to to
elders, it talks to younger, but

477
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,680
we're we're going to cherry pick
one verse out of here in verse 

478
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,440
8. 
It says be sober, be vigilant 

479
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,080
because your adversary, well, 
who is that? 

480
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,520
The devil. 
It says your adversary the devil

481
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:46,800
as a roaring lion walks about 
seeking whom he may devour not 

482
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:51,200
will devour not shell devour may
conditional look at this in the 

483
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:55,960
amplified be well balanced sober
temperate sober of mine. 

484
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,800
That doesn't mean not drunk. 
It includes it, but it's talking

485
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,280
about somebody's not thinking 
right, somebody who has not 

486
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:07,400
renewed their mind to the word 
of God and that's many in the 

487
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:12,080
church we're. 
Still, we're still controlled by

488
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,840
our senses instead of by the 
Spirit. 

489
00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:18,639
We're supposed to be controlled 
by the Spirit and by the Word of

490
00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:20,600
God. 
We're supposed to be walking by 

491
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,520
faith. 
Not by our senses, not by how we

492
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:29,320
feel, what we see, what we hear.
We're supposed to be dictated by

493
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,960
the walk of faith. 
We're supposed to live by faith,

494
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,159
walk by faith. 
We're not supposed to be walking

495
00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:36,600
by our senses, but yet most of 
body of Christ is walking by 

496
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,080
their senses. 
You know what I heard today? 

497
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:40,760
Doesn't matter what you heard. 
What does the? 

498
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,960
Word say and. 
I'm not going to make my choices

499
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:46,920
based upon what I've heard 
because what if? 

500
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:52,199
What if I heard the 9th person 
of the 10 on the game of 

501
00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:57,680
telephone? 
It's changed. 

502
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,840
It may have been a number one. 
It may have been a pure. 

503
00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:04,720
The sun's going to come up 
tomorrow. 

504
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:11,520
It's going to be a great day. 
Next person says, well, maybe, 

505
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,160
maybe the sun's going to come up
tomorrow and it could be a bad 

506
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:16,920
day. 
By the time it gets to number 9 

507
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:21,400
or 10, it's totally whacked out.
That's a child game. 

508
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:22,960
But that's how Christians 
operate. 

509
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,520
Many Christians operate by what 
they hear, not by what the word 

510
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:35,360
says, but but what they hear. 
What if somebody told you or 

511
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:40,280
emailed you or texted you? 
I'm not moved by text. 

512
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,560
I'm not moved by emails. 
I'm moved by the word. 

513
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:49,520
What does the word tell me? 
So he comes. 

514
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,960
He's looking for those who 
aren't well balanced, those who 

515
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,440
aren't in control. 
Temperate means in control. 

516
00:35:57,240 --> 00:35:59,800
Sober of mine. 
Then he said be vigilant and 

517
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,560
cautious. 
He didn't say be fearful. 

518
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,920
He said be vigilant, be aware, 
be alert, right? 

519
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:11,600
Be alert, cautious for that 
enemy of yours. 

520
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:13,600
If you wonder who that was, it 
says it again. 

521
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:19,120
It our enemy is the devil. 
He roams about like a lion, not 

522
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,760
as a lion. 
He roams about like a lion, 

523
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:26,040
roaring in fierce hunger, 
seeking someone to seize upon 

524
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:31,760
and devour. 
He's seeking and looking. 

525
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,160
For people, that's the someone 
here, he not looking to capture 

526
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,280
your puppy dog. 
He not looking to capture your 

527
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:44,320
your parakeet or your iguana, 
whatever your pet is, he's 

528
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,720
looking to, he's looking to 
capture people's hearts and 

529
00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:49,840
minds and lives and bodies. 
And he's looking for those that 

530
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:57,360
are weak, those that what have 
open portals of access. 

531
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,560
I'm not going to use the word 
doors for another reason. 

532
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,480
I'll tell you in a minute. 
I'll show you in the word. 

533
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,240
He's looking for openness, open 
portals of access. 

534
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,560
He's looking for strife. 
He's looking for fear. 

535
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,120
He's looking for for mental 
weakness. 

536
00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:21,160
He's looking for offense. 
I could just go on and on the 

537
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,560
list as endless, but he's 
looking and that's who he's 

538
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:30,080
going to jump on. 
He doesn't go after the the 

539
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,840
lead, He doesn't go after the, 
the, the, the strength. 

540
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,280
Are you hearing me now? 
I'm not saying he never does, 

541
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,520
but I'm talking about as 
individuals. 

542
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:44,040
He's not he's not he If the 
devil, if the devil could come 

543
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:48,000
and just take you out anytime he
wanted, he would have already 

544
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,680
done it. 
Come on. 

545
00:37:57,330 --> 00:38:00,610
In other words, the enemy is 
looking for those with no 

546
00:38:01,490 --> 00:38:07,960
supernatural security system. 
He's looking for those with Open

547
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:13,600
Access. 
So we clearly see here that the 

548
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,120
enemy cannot invade and devour 
those with renewed minds and who

549
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,480
are alert with spiritual 
discernment of what he's trying 

550
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,120
to do. 
That's what he just told us in 

551
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,040
this verse. 
The devil can't take you out 

552
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:24,680
when you know who you are in 
Christ. 

553
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,920
The devil can't take you out 
when you're aware of his 

554
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,440
devices. 
You see him coming. 

555
00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:37,240
That's why it's important to be 
a member of a church, not only 

556
00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:41,920
to learn, but to sharpen each 
other and to be taught of the 

557
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,760
Lord by an overseer called A. 
Shepherd. 

558
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:50,680
That's why the devil hates the 
church. 

559
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,680
That's why he tries to make fun 
of the church. 

560
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,760
He tries to belittle the church.
He tries to bring strife in the 

561
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,080
church. 
He tries to bring fear in the 

562
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:58,880
church. 
He tries to divide the church. 

563
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,680
Come on, think about borders, 
walls, fences, castles, 

564
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,520
fortifications. 
I'm going to to Peru here in 

565
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,560
just a few weeks. 
I go there typically every year 

566
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,000
till COVID. 
It's sad that we have to say, 

567
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:16,440
well, after COVID, it used to be
after 911, now it's after COVID.

568
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,640
That's really sad. 
I mean, it's all orchestrated by

569
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,680
the devil. 
And now we put it as a as a 

570
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:26,080
timeline. 
But I've been to Portugal and 

571
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:30,760
Spain and France and and Austria
and those kinds of places all 

572
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,920
over Mexico, Latin America, 
every country in in, in Latin 

573
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,520
America. 
And you see castles, you see 

574
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,640
fortifications everywhere and 
you see walls and you see razor 

575
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,600
wire on top of those walls. 
In Lima, Peru, where I'm going 

576
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,480
in a few weeks, I'm also going 
to Arequipa. 

577
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:49,400
But all around Lima there's five
counties, 5 counties, 1 town. 

578
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,520
And all those counties are named
something different, but it's 

579
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,320
all Lima. 
There's 12 to 15,000,000. 

580
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,680
Some people think there's 20 
million, almost as big as Mexico

581
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:03,200
City. 
And there are nice apartment 

582
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,160
buildings there. 
There's Old Town, you know, But 

583
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:06,360
there's nice apartment 
buildings. 

584
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,680
There's gates and walls and 
everything. 

585
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,040
But that's not enough. 
You have to put razor wire on 

586
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:14,880
your balcony. 
Yeah. 

587
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,720
And you want that here? 
You want that spirit here, huh? 

588
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,560
Anybody want that here? 
Well, there are parts of America

589
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,120
where that that's, that's the 
way it looks. 

590
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,760
That's the way it is right now. 
Why? 

591
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,920
Because we've allowed all the 
illegals to come over here and 

592
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:35,080
establish that system here. 
That's all I'll say about that. 

593
00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:43,880
Well, we're all immigrants 
legal. 

594
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:47,280
OK, I'll go on. 
No extra charge. 

595
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,280
You know, I just want to remind 
you, I live in Texas. 

596
00:41:03,170 --> 00:41:06,450
I, I could tell you some really,
really heartbreaking stories. 

597
00:41:06,490 --> 00:41:08,090
I could tell you some 
devastating stories. 

598
00:41:08,410 --> 00:41:11,210
I could, I could, I could tell 
you some tearjerker stories of 

599
00:41:11,210 --> 00:41:14,530
what the cartels have done 
across the Texas border. 

600
00:41:17,450 --> 00:41:20,170
It's not only about drugs. 
It's not only about fentanyl and

601
00:41:20,170 --> 00:41:23,610
all those things. 
It's about child sex trafficking

602
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,760
where they cut razor wire. 
Excuse me, They cut barbed wire 

603
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:31,240
on ranches. 
That's not unusual to cut the 

604
00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:34,280
top two strands where they can 
step over, but they're cutting 

605
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,800
the bottom 2 strands because 
they're running children under 

606
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:43,720
the wire every stinking night. 
And it's all adults, three to 

607
00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:50,360
four adults with 40 to 60 kids. 
But there's a there's a leftist 

608
00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:54,400
political part of that says 
they're just coming over for 

609
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,080
work. 
It's all families. 

610
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:01,160
Oh really? 
It was proven in the last four 

611
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:05,840
years they couldn't find 344,000
children that they processed. 

612
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,080
So you think it's just about 
families? 

613
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,280
You're reading the wrong feed, 
junior. 

614
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:19,760
My preaching has been in your 
shot, and so far I'm on the 

615
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,640
front lines of it. 
You can't get millions in boats 

616
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:28,360
here to Florida. 
You can get millions across an 

617
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,120
open border across the Rio 
Grande. 

618
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,840
And it's happened. 
No extra charge. 

619
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:39,800
Ours is a spiritual battle, and 
it's only one in the spirit. 

620
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,480
Come on, somebody. 
Now I'm going to give you a 

621
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,000
homework homework assignment 
before I come back whenever I'm 

622
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,240
invited, if I'm invited back 
again, read the whole chapter of

623
00:42:50,240 --> 00:42:53,240
John 10. 
But we're we're going to look at

624
00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:55,440
a couple more verses there and 
and we're going to wind this 

625
00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:03,640
down the whole chapter. 
But let's go back to John 10 and

626
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:12,040
let's let's see the pre 
statements before verse 10. 

627
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,640
What did he say? 
He started out talking in verse 

628
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:23,760
one of John chapter 10. 
The principles, the the text, 

629
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:29,680
the point. 
Verily, verily, I say unto you, 

630
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:39,720
he that entereth not by the 
door, say by the door or gate. 

631
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:45,800
Into the sheepfold, but climbeth
up some other way. 

632
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,600
The same is a thief and a 
robber. 

633
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:56,080
Think about your house and jump 
over your fence, jump through 

634
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:57,280
your window while you're at 
work. 

635
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,360
They're a thief and they're a 
robber. 

636
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,040
They're not there because you 
invited them over for coffee. 

637
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:09,560
They're not there because you 
they're your friend. 

638
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:16,520
Hello. 
But he that enters them by the 

639
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,880
door, say by the door, you got 
to underline that by the door, 

640
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,320
it's not the first place we've 
seen it is the shepherd of the 

641
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:27,080
sheep. 
So the one that comes up front 

642
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:31,200
by the door, the front door 
comes in legally is your 

643
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,600
shepherd. 
The one who comes in sneakily, 

644
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:41,880
Slytherin is not your friend, 
and certainly not your shepherd.

645
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:51,120
To him the shepherd, the Porter 
openeth, and the sheep hear his 

646
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:55,520
voice, and he calleth his own 
sheep by name and leads them 

647
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,680
out. 
And when he puts forth his own 

648
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:01,600
sheep, he goes before them, and 
the sheep follow him, for they 

649
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:06,000
know his voice. 
They know their own shepherd's 

650
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,880
voice. 
I'm going to give you a little a

651
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:13,000
little history lesson here. 
When I go to Europe and I go to 

652
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:18,280
South America, I still see 
shepherds and sheep walking in 

653
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:23,400
the fields and what they did in 
Jesus day. 

654
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:27,400
And the reason he uses this 
illustration is they didn't have

655
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:31,720
in the Middle East, didn't have 
a lot of had no fences. 

656
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,520
They may have had a few rock 
walls, but they would gather all

657
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:37,320
of their sheep. 
All these different shepherds 

658
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,040
would gather all their sheep 
into one place at night. 

659
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,360
Now, if it's where I come from 
cattle country, there's still a 

660
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:46,880
George Ranch in the Panhandle of
Texas. 

661
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,440
You brand your cattle and you 
ear tag them. 

662
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,520
You can't brand a sheep or you 
ruin the wool. 

663
00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:56,200
You could brand them, but you 
couldn't see it because the 

664
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:57,840
wool's going to grow over the 
top of it. 

665
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:02,880
And, and even if you, even if it
was, it didn't grow any wool 

666
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:04,680
there. 
The wool over the top of it's 

667
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,520
going to fold over and you can't
see it. 

668
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:10,560
So they would pull them all in 
together, sleep during the 

669
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,480
night, and they would, they'd 
sleep around the perimeter of 

670
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,960
all those sheep, maybe have a 
dog or two, maybe have a donkey 

671
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,200
or two, because the donkeys will
protect them as well. 

672
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:21,280
But they'll have them out there,
but they'll sleep around the 

673
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,760
perimeter and the next morning 
when they wake up, all the sheep

674
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:28,200
look the same. 
How are we going to separate our

675
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,960
own sheep? 
Because I've already got to deal

676
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,920
with this, this, this, this 
landowner over here that I can 

677
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,440
come graze over there in his 
pasture today. 

678
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:39,640
I don't have that deal for all 
these sheep. 

679
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,200
I just have that deal as As for 
my sheep. 

680
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,880
Are you hearing what I'm saying?
So he gets up and what does he 

681
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:51,840
do? 
He calls for his sheep. 

682
00:46:54,720 --> 00:46:58,760
It says it right there in verse 
verse 4 or excuse me, verse 3. 

683
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:04,080
To him the Porter open and the 
sheep hear his voice and he 

684
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:09,880
calls his own sheep by name, 
calls his own sheep by name. 

685
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,640
Your Jesus is your chief 
shepherd. 

686
00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:19,200
He knows you by name. 
Your pastor knows you by name. 

687
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,160
Joyce Meyer don't know your 
name? 

688
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,000
Brother Copeland doesn't know 
your name. 

689
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:32,520
You can call them if you want to
and you'll hear them answer the 

690
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,600
phone. 
But it's a recording, and they 

691
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:40,280
don't know you from Jack 
Daniels. 

692
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:43,960
Not that any of you would know 
what that means. 

693
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:53,960
That's your before Christ life. 
And you ask? 

694
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:58,800
Joyce to come. 
To your little weekly women's 

695
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,640
Bible study. 
She ain't coming. 

696
00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:05,680
I said she ain't coming. 
Turn to her number, say she 

697
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,160
ain't coming. 
Or you get Brother Copeland over

698
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:09,560
there. 
And you asked in the voicemail. 

699
00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:12,560
You know you're going to ask 
when you leave a voicemail 

700
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:13,960
there. 
Can Brother Copeland come and 

701
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,160
bury my aunt? 
She just died and she was a 

702
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,480
great partner of his. 
He ain't coming. 

703
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:19,720
Turn to her number, Say he ain't
coming. 

704
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:35,360
Now, in my, in my phone right 
here, I've got brother, Brother 

705
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:39,280
Copeland's number, his private 
number. 

706
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:45,120
I'm not saying this a name drop,
but if my aunt, you know, my 

707
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,840
aunt Molly dies and she was a 
partner of his, I'm not going to

708
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:50,480
call Brother Copeland to come do
his funeral. 

709
00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:55,720
So I know he's not coming. 
You understand what I'm saying 

710
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,200
in words. 
I have relationship to him but 

711
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:03,520
my aunt doesn't. 
But when you call your shepherd 

712
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,040
that knows your name, he knows 
your voice. 

713
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:11,960
You know, Now we all got caller 
ID on our cell phones, but 

714
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:14,400
Pastor knew your voice before 
there was caller ID. 

715
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,840
He knew exactly. 
I mean when he calls me I don't 

716
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,760
have to look at the caller Idi 
know exactly who it is, why we 

717
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:21,880
have relationship. 
He knows my voice. 

718
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,400
I I know his voice. 
I could just go on and on. 

719
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,240
That's true of all of us. 
We have relationship with 

720
00:49:28,240 --> 00:49:29,600
people. 
We know their voice. 

721
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:32,080
But do you know the voice of 
God? 

722
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:34,680
Do you know the voice of your 
Good Shepherd? 

723
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,080
I've had people in prayer lines 
over the year pray for me that 

724
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,960
I'll know his voice. 
I can't pray for you that you'll

725
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:49,000
know His voice. 
If I could do that, I'd lay 

726
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,600
hands on you right now and I'd 
rub the hair off your head. 

727
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:56,960
I'd lay hands on you so fast. 
But I can't pray that you will 

728
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,440
know God's voice. 
You have to build a relationship

729
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,560
with Him. 
He has to be your King and your 

730
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,680
Lord. 
He has to be your not just your 

731
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:07,320
Savior, but your Lord. 
You have to have that intimate, 

732
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:11,040
personal relationship with Him 
to actually know His voice. 

733
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,000
Well, how do I know that was God
that said that? 

734
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:21,400
Do you know God? 
If you know God, you know God's 

735
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:25,440
voice. 
Is this. 

736
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,360
Is this too tough? 
I'm winding down or I really am.

737
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,640
I have several wines, but I'm 
I'm, I'm winding down. 

738
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:40,800
So that's I heard that, that's 
what he says here. 

739
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:45,400
Look at verse 5. 
Well, let's back up to verse 4 

740
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,800
again. 
When He put forth his own sheep,

741
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,400
he goes before them. 
In other words, He stands up in 

742
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,920
front of them, and the sheep 
follow him, for they know His 

743
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,640
voice. 
So not only did he call them by 

744
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:05,520
their name, He knows who they 
are, and they know him, and they

745
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:10,120
know him by his voice. 
And a stranger will they not 

746
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:14,720
follow, but will flee from the 
stranger, for they know not the 

747
00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:17,560
voice of strangers. 
That's the problem with the 

748
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:19,720
church today. 
We're listening to all these 

749
00:51:19,720 --> 00:51:22,400
different voices. 
This is one of the strategies in

750
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,960
the assaults of the devil. 
This is one of the invasions of 

751
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,360
the devil. 
He bombards us with all kinds of

752
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:31,040
noise and all kinds of voices 
and all kinds of images and all 

753
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:34,560
kinds of glamour and glitz. 
And that's just in the church. 

754
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,480
Forget the world, that's 
obvious. 

755
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:43,640
But he bombards Christians with 
all these noises and all these 

756
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,960
wonderful teachers. 
Pastor, have you watched this 

757
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:51,240
video? 
I know you're like me if I heard

758
00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:54,400
that once. 
I've heard 1000 times, maybe a 

759
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,320
million, and I've told you not 
to exaggerate. 

760
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:04,360
That means our people are 
listening to all these voices 

761
00:52:05,720 --> 00:52:09,720
and a lot of them are whack jobs
and they have just enough truth 

762
00:52:09,720 --> 00:52:12,440
to where it will gain traction, 
but they're going to lead you 

763
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:18,640
somewhere else. 
I'm going to quote my 5 year old

764
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,680
grandson. 
When he was three, he said, Oh 

765
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:29,830
my goodness, so the devil gains 
access through these entry 

766
00:52:29,830 --> 00:52:37,550
points. 
Now this is my biggest point and

767
00:52:37,550 --> 00:52:38,830
I'm not going to finish this 
message. 

768
00:52:38,830 --> 00:52:41,270
I'm just going to give you the 
last two just to talk about 

769
00:52:41,270 --> 00:52:45,520
them, but this is my greatest 
point right here out of this 

770
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:53,750
chapter. 
The devil gains access points, 

771
00:52:53,750 --> 00:52:56,950
entry points, but none are 
through the door. 

772
00:53:03,050 --> 00:53:05,410
Number one, he has no authority 
to come through the door. 

773
00:53:06,290 --> 00:53:08,330
Did you just hear that? 
He has no authority to come to 

774
00:53:08,330 --> 00:53:10,650
the door Because if he did, he 
would have already come in and 

775
00:53:10,650 --> 00:53:13,690
cleaned, clean house. 
He has no authority to come 

776
00:53:13,690 --> 00:53:18,360
through the door. 
He's not the shepherd, he's a 

777
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:23,840
thief. 
Doesn't have any authority, none

778
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:28,600
of you in your right minds. 
My mom was a drunk and she was 

779
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:31,480
rarely in her right mind, but 
when she was in her right mind, 

780
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:36,880
she would never allow some total
nitwit and dork to come into our

781
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,440
house and ransack. 
She used to talk about the guy 

782
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:41,240
who lived behind us in the 
projects. 

783
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:45,520
No fences in the projects 
because you can't hide anything.

784
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:49,520
You could see. 
And, and, and many of the 

785
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,240
projects, we were the same way 
in the beginning. 

786
00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:53,880
We had no curtains, no blinds, 
nothing. 

787
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:57,280
So the, this man that lived in 
the projects and that duplex, we

788
00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:59,160
lived in this duplex. 
I lived in all kinds of 

789
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:02,560
complexes, but this particular 
one was the last one I lived in 

790
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,960
was a duplex. 
And behind us there was a, a 

791
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:09,000
little yard and then there was 
another yard that with their 

792
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,960
yard behind it. 
They had no, they, they had 

793
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:16,640
windows that went into their 
kitchen and dining area, which I

794
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:20,680
mean, just the front part of 
this stage was that size. 

795
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:22,360
That's the kitchen and the 
dining area. 

796
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:28,760
They had no curtains, no window 
coverings, no blinds. 

797
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:33,240
He's over there constantly. 
This bald headed fat guy is over

798
00:54:33,240 --> 00:54:34,320
there. 
Watch. 

799
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:36,040
Excuse me, He's over there 
cussing. 

800
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:41,160
He's living with his mom and his
mom is in her upper 80s, early 

801
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:43,360
90s. 
And he's living with his mom and

802
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,000
he's constantly cussing her and 
slapping her around. 

803
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,240
We could see it all the time. 
We could hear it and then we 

804
00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:53,200
could see it. 
And my mom so, so hated what he 

805
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:56,680
was doing and so hated who he 
was. 

806
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:02,920
She hated him so much that 
within a year she's sleeping 

807
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:11,550
with. 
Him and I'm the child. 

808
00:55:11,550 --> 00:55:14,830
My brother already left when he 
was 11, I was 7. 

809
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:17,840
I'm left there to try to defend 
her. 

810
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:22,520
And he'd get her drunk, which is
not hard. 

811
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:24,400
You didn't have to. 
She didn't have to have an 

812
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:30,480
invitation. 
And he wanted to take a field 

813
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:34,800
trip one Saturday, go up to 
Pilot Point, TX. 

814
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,640
That's the last bank that Bonnie
and Clyde robbed. 

815
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:45,600
Angie knows this part of Texas 
by the way, her high school 

816
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:47,960
girls won the state's 3A 
championship in basketball this 

817
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:48,960
year. 
I don't know if she told you 

818
00:55:48,960 --> 00:56:01,010
that it wasn't Pilot Point, it 
was Nokona or as the local say, 

819
00:56:01,010 --> 00:56:06,650
Nokona. 
You got a witness back there, 

820
00:56:06,650 --> 00:56:12,570
Angie. 
So we go up to Pilot point and I

821
00:56:12,570 --> 00:56:14,770
had to ride in the back seat 
with that 90 something year old 

822
00:56:14,770 --> 00:56:17,250
lady and she's back there 
rolling her own. 

823
00:56:17,250 --> 00:56:18,450
And I'm not talking about 
joints. 

824
00:56:18,450 --> 00:56:21,440
I'm talking about cigarettes. 
And she licks it and sticks that

825
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,640
brown thing in her mouth. 
And it smelled like manure. 

826
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,760
It was, you know, was out of one
of those, you know, drawstring 

827
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,440
sacks. 
You know, it was Bull Durham is 

828
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:37,200
what it was. 
And it stumped filterless. 

829
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,400
And I'm back there and it's just
a mess. 

830
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:42,760
It's it's, it's they were 
hoarders and they're the 

831
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,520
floorboard was full of stuff and
the seats were full of stuff. 

832
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:48,600
I was so mad. 
I was, I was so angry. 

833
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:53,160
And I'm eight years old and my 
mom is putting me through this 

834
00:56:53,240 --> 00:56:56,480
stuff where she hated what that 
man did to his mom. 

835
00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,600
But yet now she's paddling 
around with him. 

836
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:10,120
My point is when you invite the 
enemy in by not knowing God's 

837
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:15,080
voice and following his voice, 
your shepherd, you will invite 

838
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:19,640
the devil himself into your life
and you will you will do a a 

839
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:23,000
spiral downward and my mom never
recovered from that. 

840
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:32,200
She never recovered from that. 
I don't have time to get in all 

841
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:35,560
that my mom tried to commit 
suicide right in front of my 

842
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:38,480
brother and I5 or six times. 
I didn't even know all about him

843
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:40,960
because I'm the younger and I 
there's some some stuff I don't 

844
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:46,800
remember. 
My mom was born again spirit 

845
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:52,200
filled Christian, but she didn't
slam the door on the devil. 

846
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:55,960
Paul said neither give any place
to him. 

847
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:57,760
Don't give it. 
Don't give him anything. 

848
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:02,120
And this is where you start you 
you got to understand you got to

849
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:03,800
understand this is how he gains 
entry. 

850
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:05,720
He doesn't come in through the 
door. 

851
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:11,040
He cannot enter into the door. 
Why? 

852
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:16,160
Listen, listen, listen. 
Because Jesus is the door. 

853
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:20,200
Jesus is the door. 
And then Jesus won't let him in 

854
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:22,120
through the door. 
He has to come in through the 

855
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:23,240
side. 
He has to come in through the 

856
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:24,840
back. 
He has to come from behind. 

857
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:26,360
He has to come in through the 
windows. 

858
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:28,840
He has to come in from your 
invitation. 

859
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:32,440
He can't come in through the 
door. 

860
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,480
The devil never comes to us and 
knocks on your door and says, 

861
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:42,240
hey, I'm the devil. 
You can't believe all the chaos 

862
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:45,240
I have for you. 
Can you let me in tonight? 

863
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:47,480
Nobody would take him up on 
that. 

864
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:50,240
But see, he doesn't come in 
through the door. 

865
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:57,040
He comes in through other means,
sneaky. 

866
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:00,640
He enters through the open 
portals of our mind, our 

867
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:02,280
thoughts, our will, our 
emotions. 

868
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:07,240
His primary assault is upon the 
soul, your mind, your will, and 

869
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:10,760
your emotions. 
It's a relentless attack. 

870
00:59:17,500 --> 00:59:18,820
I'm going to quote the Scripture
for you. 

871
00:59:18,820 --> 00:59:25,820
Ephesians 612 For we wrestle not
against what flesh and blood, 

872
00:59:25,820 --> 00:59:29,540
but against principalities and 
powers and mights and dominions.

873
00:59:29,980 --> 00:59:32,940
Can you put that up in the 
amplified 612? 

874
00:59:32,940 --> 00:59:35,860
Ephesians 612 We're not 
wrestling with flesh and blood. 

875
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:39,680
We're we're contending. 
We're not just contending only 

876
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:41,680
with physical opponents. 
In other words, we're supposed 

877
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,280
to be contending. 
Jude said that in verse 3. 

878
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:47,200
We're supposed to be contending 
for the faith, but we don't 

879
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,200
contend with with, with these 
powers. 

880
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:53,520
In other words, we don't contend
with people, physical opponents,

881
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:55,720
but against. 
But we do contend against 

882
00:59:55,720 --> 01:00:01,800
despotisms, against the powers, 
against the master spirits who 

883
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,640
are the world rulers of this 
present darkness. 

884
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:09,000
They are still in. 
They are still in control of 

885
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:13,640
this Earth now that time is 
coming to an end very quickly, 

886
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:16,000
and that's why they've ratcheted
up the heat. 

887
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,920
They're following their father, 
the devil, the little God of 

888
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,040
this world. 
Thank you, Adam, thank you so 

889
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:28,720
much because the Adam was the 
first little God. 

890
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:30,280
He was the first Lord of the 
earth. 

891
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:32,680
He was the first God of the 
earth. 

892
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:36,200
He goes on and says the world 
rulers of this present darkness 

893
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:39,280
against the spirit forces of 
wickedness in the heavenly 

894
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:45,240
supernatural sphere. 
What is that space? 

895
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:47,800
It's not the 3rd heaven where 
God is. 

896
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:50,600
It's in space. 
It's in the atmosphere, it's in 

897
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:52,400
space. 
That's where the warfare is 

898
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:57,720
taking place. 
That's why John, the only First 

899
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:04,800
Baptist, said in Matthew chapter
3, very beginning of the New 

900
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:08,560
Testament, I indeed baptize you 
with water. 

901
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:11,640
But he that comes after me unto 
repentance, but he that comes 

902
01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:14,160
after me is mightier than I, 
whose shoes I'm not worthy to 

903
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:16,600
bear. 
I'm not worthy to tie his laces 

904
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:20,600
to, to lace his sandals. 
I'm not worthy to carry his 

905
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:22,640
sandals. 
He's going to come and baptize 

906
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:24,560
you with the Holy Ghost and 
fire. 

907
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:28,400
Isn't it interesting that 
Baptists still baptize people in

908
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:32,560
water, but they don't do what 
John, the only First Baptist, 

909
01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:37,200
said, what Jesus is coming for. 
He's going to baptize you with 

910
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:40,240
the Holy Ghost and fire, and 
they're against. 

911
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:43,200
That now don't misunderstand me,
I was born again in a Baptist 

912
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,520
Church and I thank God for it. 
But we actually read those 

913
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:49,560
verses and we went to the pastor
and said, what are we going to 

914
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:50,600
do? 
When are we going to get the 

915
01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:55,520
Holy Ghost in fire? 
That's what we ask him, when are

916
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:57,640
we going to get the Holy Ghost? 
Oh, that's been done away with. 

917
01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:00,440
I said, well, why hasn't water 
baptism been done away with 

918
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:02,680
then? 
It's in the same verse. 

919
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:09,040
I don't know. 
I don't, I don't know anything. 

920
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:10,760
I'm 13. 
I don't know anything. 

921
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:12,520
But I I knew English. 
Let. 

922
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:25,080
Me give you this verse Second 
Corinthians chapter 10. 

923
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:30,560
I'm closing my Bible. 
Verse 3. 

924
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:38,040
Verses 3 through 5 talks about 
taking every thought. 

925
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:42,480
What's the big deal about the 
thoughts? 

926
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:45,440
They come and go. 
Why is this so serious? 

927
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:49,320
Let me tell you why it's a big 
deal about taking captive every 

928
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:51,000
thought. 
Not every other thought, every 

929
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,720
thought. 
What took under the knowledge of

930
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:58,000
the of the Word of God? 
Why do I take every thought and 

931
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:02,760
measure it against the Word? 
Listen carefully, because if you

932
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:08,160
don't take every thought 
captive, every thought will take

933
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:13,600
you captive. 
That's not hard to understand, 

934
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:17,440
is it? 
But that that's put upon us. 

935
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:21,920
That's what Paul wrote in Second
Corinthians chapter 10, verses 3

936
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:23,840
through 5. 
If we don't take those thoughts 

937
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,560
captive, they're going to take 
us captive. 

938
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:31,000
In other words, we must take 
them captive to the obedience of

939
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,760
Christ. 
Now listen to me. 

940
01:03:34,960 --> 01:03:37,760
That's not talking about Jesus 
obedience. 

941
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:41,960
It's talking about our obedience
to Christ. 

942
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:49,960
Let's control our thoughts. 
That's why you need a shepherd. 

943
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:52,800
Shepherd helps you know what to 
think. 

944
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:55,360
That's right, because your 
shepherd's telling you the truth

945
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:58,840
and your shepherd is teaching 
you how the, the way of the 

946
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:06,320
door, what comes through the 
door is what you need to be 

947
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:10,040
paying attention to, Not what 
comes through by any other 

948
01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:13,560
means, not comes through to, to 
the interweb. 

949
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,880
You, you know, the interweb, 
that thing that Al Gore created,

950
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:23,480
the interweb. 
We're supposed to take control 

951
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:27,600
of every thought, whether it's 
on the Internet, whether it's 

952
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:32,800
through Cousin Molly, through 
from, from Uncle Billy Bob, It 

953
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:36,360
doesn't matter who it is. 
We need to take every thought. 

954
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:41,080
The ones that just come randomly
to us, we need to take it and 

955
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:44,640
put it under the microscope of 
the obedience of Christ. 

956
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:55,960
We have to close every portal, 
every access that the enemy 

957
01:04:55,960 --> 01:05:01,880
could possibly gain. 
Second. 

958
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:04,320
Well, he got to build those. 
He's he's coming to build those 

959
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:07,560
strongholds. 
But if you do what I just taught

960
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:12,760
you, he can't build the 
strongholds. 

961
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:16,800
And then he's come to establish 
bondage in your life where he's 

962
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:24,240
going to make you a slave, where
you no longer have choices, you 

963
01:05:24,240 --> 01:05:27,760
no longer have the power to say 
no to him. 

964
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:30,200
You know that people can get to 
that point. 

965
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:39,390
My mom got to that point. 
Church, we're in the last of the

966
01:05:39,390 --> 01:05:42,870
last days. 
And I don't say that to fear 

967
01:05:42,870 --> 01:05:47,110
you, to make you fear. 
I'm saying that because it's the

968
01:05:47,110 --> 01:05:48,150
truth. 
It's Bible. 

969
01:05:49,150 --> 01:05:53,920
If it was the first of the last 
days during Timothy's day when 

970
01:05:53,920 --> 01:05:56,880
Paul wrote that to Pastor 
Timothy, what are we in? 

971
01:05:56,880 --> 01:06:01,520
We're in the last of the last 
days and the enemy is cranking 

972
01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:06,160
up the heat. 
And see, listen to me carefully,

973
01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:13,920
listen to me carefully. 
The devil has no power to take 

974
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:23,680
out church people and churches 
from outside because he can't 

975
01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:28,640
get through the door. 
Jesus won't let him because 

976
01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:30,200
Jesus is a controller of the 
door, right? 

977
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:33,920
He is the door. 
You, you think that you, you 

978
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:36,000
think the Lord is allowing the 
devil into your life. 

979
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:37,800
He's allowing the school 
shootings. 

980
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:39,680
He's allowing. 
No, no, no, no, no, no, he's the

981
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:41,560
door. 
He's not a he's not a stupid 

982
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:42,760
shepherd. 
He's a Good Shepherd. 

983
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:47,320
He only, he only allows the 
right things that come in, but 

984
01:06:47,320 --> 01:06:51,320
they come in through the door. 
We allow the thief and that's 

985
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:55,680
why Paul said don't give any 
place, don't give him anything, 

986
01:06:55,880 --> 01:07:01,800
don't give him a millimeter 
because if he does, he's going 

987
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:04,840
to come in. 
He can't come in from the 

988
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:06,680
outside. 
You invite him in. 

989
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:10,720
My mom invited that jerk into 
our apartment. 

990
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:15,120
He and she invited him into her 
bed. 

991
01:07:16,120 --> 01:07:20,320
That made me so mad. 
I'm just 7:00 and 8:00, but it 

992
01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:24,320
made me so mad. 
I'd already knocked out several 

993
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:26,280
boyfriends. 
Actually, they weren't 

994
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:27,440
boyfriends. 
They were just travelling 

995
01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:32,840
salesman selling encyclopedias 
or, or phonograph sets. 

996
01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:35,520
Or that's a turntable for you 
young people who don't know what

997
01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:38,680
that means. 
And then if you listen, if you 

998
01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:40,920
listen to the presentation, you 
get a free album. 

999
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:43,480
But we didn't have a photograph.
What's the free album? 

1000
01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:47,120
And my mom, my mom died still 
having that album, that long 

1001
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:53,840
play album of Eddie Arnold and 
never had a phonograph 92 years.

1002
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:02,680
When you allow the devil into 
your life, he he doesn't just 

1003
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:08,080
come in to trick you. 
He comes only to what steal and 

1004
01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:12,960
to kill and to destroy. 
He destroyed a homecoming 

1005
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:16,560
Queen's life. 
He destroyed a a mother of two 

1006
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:20,240
godly men. 
He destroyed her life. 

1007
01:08:20,920 --> 01:08:25,600
He destroyed a life. 
A smart lady that was salutatory

1008
01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:28,160
and 2nd smartest in the 
graduating class of 1000 

1009
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:36,200
graduates, head cheerleader. 
She and my mom were on the 

1010
01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:38,840
Johnny Carson show, The Tonight 
Show, the first week they were 

1011
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:44,359
married in New York City before 
it was called The Tonight Show. 

1012
01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:47,560
They don't put stupid people on 
The Tonight Show. 

1013
01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:50,040
They don't put ugly people on 
The Tonight Show unless they're 

1014
01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:51,760
just famous for being ugly. 
Don't look around. 

1015
01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:58,279
Don't look around. 
I've gone way over time, but I I

1016
01:08:58,279 --> 01:09:04,560
have to tell you, it is time for
the Church of Jesus Christ to 

1017
01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:11,120
stand up and fight, fight 
against any entries that are not

1018
01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:15,319
through the door. 
That's this. 

1019
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:19,160
But you got to know this. 
And let me tell you who's going 

1020
01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:20,840
to help. 
You know your pastors. 

1021
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:26,560
I don't care what brother do, 
Dad said. 

1022
01:09:31,279 --> 01:09:33,880
And every one of us pastors, we 
have this going on today. 

1023
01:09:34,359 --> 01:09:36,560
Every church I know of has this 
going on today. 

1024
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:39,680
There's all kinds of stupid 
stuff happening. 

1025
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:44,479
Stupid stuff and and the devil 
knows he can't, he can't gain 

1026
01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:47,479
entry from outside and from the 
world, but he tries to 

1027
01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:50,479
penetrate. 
He can't come through the front 

1028
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:52,160
door. 
Jesus won't let him because 

1029
01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:54,800
Jesus is the door, right? 
So what is the he's trying to 

1030
01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:57,680
penetrate and what is he doing? 
He's looking for that straggler.

1031
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:01,400
He's looking for that one that 
had has no soberness in their 

1032
01:10:01,400 --> 01:10:03,440
mind and their thinking. 
They don't have discipline 

1033
01:10:03,440 --> 01:10:06,600
thoughts. 
He's looking for those with 

1034
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:10,200
those open portals and that Open
Access of strife and offense, 

1035
01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:12,600
etcetera, etcetera. 
Well, you don't know what they 

1036
01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:14,680
did to me. 
Are you serious? 

1037
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:19,160
Get in line. 
Offense comes to every one of 

1038
01:10:19,160 --> 01:10:22,280
us. 
Offense comes to every one of 

1039
01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:26,280
us. 
I, I told the well, no minister 

1040
01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:29,160
that one time get in line. 
He said, you well, you don't 

1041
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:30,960
know what brother so and so did 
to me. 

1042
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:36,200
I said get in line. 
You're not the first, you won't 

1043
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:40,080
be the last, but you got to walk
in love. 

1044
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:44,760
You wouldn't even be known if it
weren't for Brother so and so. 

1045
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:51,960
Because Brother so and so gave 
you a platform, believed in you,

1046
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:55,320
gave you an opportunity, and now
you're going to go against 

1047
01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:58,560
Brother so and so and call his 
name from the pulpit. 

1048
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:05,000
Are you serious? 
That person didn't talk to me 

1049
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:09,120
for 11 years, but that's OK. 
They heard what I had to say and

1050
01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:12,280
they finally repented about 10 
years ago and said, I'm so 

1051
01:11:12,280 --> 01:11:13,280
sorry. 
You were right. 

1052
01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:17,640
I said, but at what cost? 
At what cost? 

1053
01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:22,680
It cost you a lot. 
And you see, that's what the 

1054
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:26,480
devil is out to do. 
He's trying to exact the cost in

1055
01:11:26,480 --> 01:11:28,280
your life. 
He's trying to steal and kill 

1056
01:11:28,280 --> 01:11:31,080
and destroy. 
He's going to take something 

1057
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:34,320
that's worthy in you and he's 
going to make it unworthy. 

1058
01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:37,960
And you have the control over 
that. 

1059
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:44,920
You under Jesus, Lordship, have 
the empowerment to stand against

1060
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:48,640
that. 
But you got to keep following 

1061
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:54,760
the Good Shepherd. 
And the Good Shepherd said the 

1062
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:57,720
powers of the infernal region 
will not have any supremacy over

1063
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:01,640
my people. 
So why is it so many are? 

1064
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:04,200
Are there defeated Christians? 
Because they've left the door 

1065
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:06,760
open. 
Let's close the door. 

1066
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:11,280
Turn to your neighbor, say not 
your spouse, turn to your 

1067
01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:12,960
neighbor. 
Say shut the door on the devil. 

1068
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:21,050
Right now I'm going to lead you 
in a statement. 

1069
01:12:21,050 --> 01:12:24,970
How to do that? 
Would you stand to your feet? 

1070
01:12:26,250 --> 01:12:36,390
Please nobody be dismissed. 
Put your hand up. 

1071
01:12:37,390 --> 01:12:42,670
Look up toward heaven. 
Say, Heavenly Father, I believe 

1072
01:12:43,550 --> 01:12:46,200
that you love me with everything
you have. 

1073
01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:50,120
You are love. 
You can't do anything but love 

1074
01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:55,280
me. 
And you love me so much. 

1075
01:12:57,280 --> 01:13:04,080
You sent me a Good Shepherd and 
he gave his life for me and you 

1076
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:11,200
raised him from the dead and I 
believe in him so much that I 

1077
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:15,720
want him to be my Lord. 
So Jesus, come and be my Lord, 

1078
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:21,800
take over my whole life, my 
thoughts, my plans, my past and 

1079
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:28,040
my future, my relationships, my 
money, my entertainment. 

1080
01:13:28,560 --> 01:13:32,400
Be Lord of my whole life because
I desire you. 

1081
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:37,240
And according to the word of 
God, Romans chapter 10 verse 9, 

1082
01:13:38,600 --> 01:13:45,600
I'm now saved, and you've given 
me authority over all the power 

1083
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:49,200
of the enemy, according to Luke 
chapter 10, verse 19. 

1084
01:13:51,320 --> 01:13:55,120
And I say to the devil, now 
point to the floor. 

1085
01:13:55,640 --> 01:14:02,120
I say to the devil right now I 
adjure you, I come against you. 

1086
01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:08,240
I give you no place in my life, 
my marriage, my children, my 

1087
01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:14,400
family, my relationships, my 
finances, my church, my life in 

1088
01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:18,160
any way right now. 
I don't give you any place in my

1089
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:22,280
body with my money because it's 
all. 

1090
01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:29,200
Yours. 
But Jesus took it and he gave it

1091
01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:33,880
back to me. 
Jesus, you're my Lord. 

1092
01:14:37,400 --> 01:14:43,040
It's your money, it's your body,
it's your mind belongs to you 

1093
01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:48,000
and I yield it to you right now 
in Jesus name.