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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.
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Yeah, that's true, Lord God. You know this. Thy will be done,
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O God, on earth and in through us, as it's being done and declared in heaven.
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We thank you for this day. We thank you that your will be done.
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Lord God, we praise you and celebrate this day because you are a faithful God
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and you are redeeming your people.
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And so we thank you for the truth that sets us free. We thank you,
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Lord God, for sending your son, Jesus. We thank you for surrendering your life so that we could live.
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And we thank you for giving us power over all the power of the enemy.
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You said, whatever you bind is bound, whatever you loose is loosed.
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I give you power to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the devil.
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And you said, cast out demons, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead.
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So we thank you, Lord. We bind the powers of darkness and we command that anything
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that would try to fleck or affect us, Lord God, that you promise that no weapon
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formed against us will prosper.
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So we praise you and thank you for this time together.
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May you give us eyes to see, ears to hear, and heart to receive and the revelation
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of your love and truth in Jesus' name. Amen.
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So, here we are in the middle of wherever we are, wherever you are right now.
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And the thing is, I guess our question today that we're going to kind of ponder
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is, does everybody have a demon?
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You know, is that kind of a fair way to start this? Well, when you really look
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at it, you certainly wonder. It's certainly a valid question because you think
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of the behaviors of the human being.
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And, you know, the thing is, too, is the origin created in the likeness and
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image of God, yet in that origin, we're not living according to that origin at all.
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We're living according to a perversion of that origin where for the most part we yielded,
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to the enemy. I mean, like Eve yielded to the suggestions of the enemy,
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and it really, you know, it's set us off ever since. Yeah, you're right.
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So, okay, so here's the thing, that there is the divine identity made in the
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image of God and also the fact that we live in the snake pit and the fact that
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we need to understand, we're going to talk, does everybody have a demon?
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Well, is everybody possessed? First of all, let's define that word a minute
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because it is used in some of the translations, Old King James and stuff like that.
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Possessed means to own, occupy, or control according to the English language,
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and those three words do not mean the same thing.
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So you can own something you don't occupy, that's the landlord.
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You can occupy something you don't own, and that would be the renter,
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or you can be controlled by something that you, something is controlling you
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that doesn't have a right to be there.
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And so that's like what the enemy does. He lives in our lives like a rat or
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a demon or a thought or an impersonator or whatever you want to call them,
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and we don't recognize it, and so we don't resist.
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Many of the things that we are being seduced and deceived into believing are us, my thought.
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I like the taste. I like to drink. I like to, you know, whatever,
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and we're not realizing that this is actually a literal temptation the enemy
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is putting into your mind as your thought, but let's look at the scripture itself
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to see, you know, a lot of people are troubled, not just with, you know, addictions.
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It's all kinds of immoralities, perversions, pornography.
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I mean, just everything. We're in the snake pit. And when you're living in the
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pit, you're going to get bit and dirty. There's no doubt about it.
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And yet God has redeemed us by putting us on the rock that is in the middle of the snake pit.
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So let's go back to, you talked earlier, Jerry, about we're doing things that
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basically we're not created to do.
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And why do we do that? Well, in Romans, Paul talks about, he says that very thing.
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He says in Romans chapter seven, and if I am doing what I do not want to do,
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he goes back to say, he says, verse 5, he says, for we know that we are spiritual,
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the law is spiritual, but we are carnal, sold under sin, so we're enslaved to sin.
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The influences of the snake pit.
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He says, for what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will or want to
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do, that I do not practice, but what I hate, that I do.
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So he goes on to say, if I'm doing what I don't want to do, He says,
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I agree with the law of God, that it's good in verse 16.
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He says, but now in 17, but if I'm doing what I do not want to do, it's not...
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Me, he said, is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells within me.
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And then he goes on in 18, I know that in me that is in my flesh,
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nothing good dwells for to will.
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In other words, to will to be good is present with me, but how to perform it,
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I do not find for indeed, he says then verse 20, he says, now,
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if I do what I will not to do, he says the same thing in verse, as he said in 17.
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If I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
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So he says, I find then a law that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
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For he says, I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,
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but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind,
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bringing me into captivity to the law of sin and death, which is in my members.
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Then he says, oh, wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death?
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Now stop right there for a second and go back to the definition of possession
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to mean to own, occupy, or control.
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So he goes back to 24. He says, 20, I'm sorry.
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Now, if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it,
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but sin that dwells in me.
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So he's saying there's something dwelling in him that's causing him to do what
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he doesn't want to do, manipulating, controlling him, and getting him in trouble for it.
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And he goes on to say, oh, wretched man, who will deliver me from this body of sin or body of death?
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So we've been programmed, even though we're made in the image of God,
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we've been hijacked and programmed by a body of death software that Satan has
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downloaded into us. Yeah, think of it that way now.
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The body of death software that Satan has downloaded into us. So we got that going on.
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And for the most part, human beings take heed to that.
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They give place to their feelings and appetites. Give place to that, right.
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And that's how we think that we normally operate. It's just basically like.
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If you're driving on a muddy road, you know, a dirt road, and there's ruts.
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So there's, say the ruts are, it's mud and it's frozen.
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You try to get out of those ruts. You follow in those ruts.
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You try to get out of those ruts. Yeah. You try to pull up, and you just end
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up back there anyway. You end up in the ruts because this is what this law.
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So the rut is controlling you then.
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It's a law of sin and death that's. Operating.
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That's operating and basically dominating your life.
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This is the course of your life.
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And this is why we have what we have in our world today.
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Well, you know, Romans 6, verse 12, which is amplified,
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it says, let not sin rule as king in your mortal, short-lived,
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perishable body to make you obey it in its lusts, evil passions, and cravings.
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So it surely sounds like there's something going on inside of me that's causing
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me to do what I don't want to do.
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And so we have to, when we're understanding the war, we're understanding the
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addictions, the cravings, and trying to manage a craving.
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Okay, so this is the way that the world approaches these temptations,
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the anger management, control your emotions, you know, go to treatment,
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work the program, try harder, get more self-control, white knuckle it, willpower.
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And it's promoting all these self-improvement, self-improvement books,
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all these things that put it back on me to do it.
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Now, I recognize we have some responsibility to say yes and to agree with what
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needs to be done, but if we're agreeing with the wrong thing that needs to be
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done, we're not going to get the right results.
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Yeah, well, Paul says it's not me doing it.
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It's the sin that, so how can, he wants to, he wants to be free from this.
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But he keeps falling back into that rut.
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And so it's that sin that dwells within me.
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And that's the operating rut that people are in.
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And basically there's where the enemy comes in.
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So sin opens the door for the influence of the demons. And what happens is that
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you're there listening to all these lies when you're.
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That law of sin that dwells in your members, that's fed by the lies that you
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have in the world. That are coming through fear.
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That are in your own mind and in your own heart.
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And so where you're into those lies and you behave according to those lies,
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that's where Satan, demons, get control of you because you're yielding to those lies.
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Well, in Romans, again, in the Amplified version, Romans 7, 6,
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it says, Having died to what once restrained or held us captive?
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Well, in the Amplified, what is this thing that restrains and holds us captive?
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It says, For sin, this is how it's reading in the Amplified,
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For sin, seizing the opportunity and getting hold of me, beguiled,
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entrapped, and cheated and killed me.
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This is Romans 7, 11 in the Amplified. So these verbs, these,
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you know, beguiling, entrapping, cheating, killing, seizing.
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How would you seize yourself?
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You don't seize yourself. You don't try to beguile yourself.
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This is coming from an outside force and an outside source.
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So the enemy is really using our vulnerability, the vulnerability that is in our flesh.
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Our flesh is our body, which is weak, not bad, but vulnerable,
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needing things. and our soul, which has been programmed by the lies of the pit
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and the generational lies and all kinds of things.
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So the body of death operating software is in our soul. Paul says, in me.
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In my flesh dwells no good thing. He doesn't say the flesh is bad.
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He says, but inside there's something going on inside of me that's not me,
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that's causing me to do what I don't want to do.
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And people don't recognize that as a demon or demonic.
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They just, they don't. And if you don't recognize that as demonic activity,
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now it can be possessed. It can be oppressed. It can be suppressed.
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It can be, you know, the devil will, there's different degrees to this intent, this capture.
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And so, you know, sometimes it's just a matter of you saying,
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no, I'm not going to believe that.
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I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to go there. I'm not going to,
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you know, say yes to that temptation.
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And that's what the Bible says, lead us not into temptation,
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but deliver us from evil.
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So there is, we get our, we get to put our will, we attach our will,
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our vote to either side, what God is saying or what the devil is saying.
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If you're saying voting with God, you're going to be walking in obedience, of course.
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And if you vote with the devil and fear, you're going to be operating in confusion
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and doubt and being beguiled and killed and all those other things.
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So we have to recognize, we do have a part to play in this, but we have to know,
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first of all, what the strategy is of the enemy before we can actually be wise
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and make a smart move here.
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And so when you go with all the secular, even church secular,
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you know, suggestions, go to treatment, go to anger, get an accountability partner.
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That's not what the Bible says to do when you're tormented with a demon.
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And by the way, we've just come through an intensive.
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We do these setting captives free intensives in the winter in Minnesota,
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Northern Minnesota, in a Salvation Army camp. And you know.
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We have mostly, I don't know if we have any unbelievers there.
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Once in a while, you have one that's not sure of their salvation.
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But, you know, in every case, we're praying with people, teaching people,
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and they're getting delivered from demons.
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And some of them are really manifesting.
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I mean, some of them, it's just a, you know, it's a recognition,
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a revelation, and boom, things cleared up.
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And that's what it takes. It takes a revelation. But sometimes there's actually
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an entity inside of the person. these are believers who know Jesus.
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You know, have accepted, and they're manifesting an entity, a power.
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Something is going on that is leaving them, like Jesus describes it in Matthew
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and Mark with a demoniac and the little boy that had the demons and whatnot.
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There's actually physical manifestations, and so the person is not doing that
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to themselves, and they're believers. So, you can't say a Christian cannot have a demon.
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You know, there's a misunderstanding here because you think having a demon makes
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you a demon and you think having a demon disqualifies you from heaven.
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And yet Paul is saying, I've got this thing going on inside of me that's causing
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me to do what I don't want to do. And then he says, oh, wretched man that I am, who will deliver me?
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So Paul himself, the apostle and the writer of half the New Testament,
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basically, is saying, who will get this thing out of me and who will get this
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stronghold, this deliverance, this demon, demonic activity out of me?
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And before we can have any real freedom, we need to ask that question.
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So another thing, too, this whole myth of that a Christian cannot have a demon.
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Oh, that's a good point. It's a myth, but it's been theologized.
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And so many people, pastors, churches, denominations say, well,
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if you still have trouble, you can be oppressed.
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You know, the enemy can come from the outside to influence you,
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but not really from the inside if you're a true believer.
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If you're still having trouble with demons, this is another thing that's a kicker.
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The church will say, well, if you're still having trouble with demons,
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you still have trouble with lust or whatever it is.
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You're really not converted. You're not saved. You're not saved.
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You've had a false conversion.
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Yeah, we have. And a lot of people get that dropped on them.
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Spirals you out of control, yeah. And then you're always worried about,
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am I saved? Am I saved? Am I saved?
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And I know there are people that think they're saved and they just.
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Yeah, let me say something about that. Yeah, some people, they think they're
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saved because they do certain things in a church or whatever.
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But here's the deal. It's if you've got all these issues and problems,
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it's because, and we see it all the time, like Marty said,
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people that are genuinely believers.
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They genuinely believe, confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and everything like that.
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And they're rooted with some very serious demonic strongholds that need to come out.
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And by God's grace, they come out in the name of Jesus.
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Well, here's the deal. We have to understand the difference between salvation
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and sanctification. There's one issue.
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First of all, salvation is God buys the house back.
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It means that you've given your heart to Jesus. He made the house.
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He created the house. He died for the house. He bought it back.
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And now in salvation, you give him the right to come back into the house. I give my heart to Jesus.
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Sanctification, however, is not salvation.
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It comes after you buy the house. After God buys the house, he now has to clean the house.
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And cleaning the house may be ridding out generational curses,
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strongholds, habits and patterns.
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For example, anytime you're operating outside of the will of God,
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like anytime you're doing something you're trying to stop doing,
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you're trying to quit something you can't quit, like this is smoking a cigarette.
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If you want to quit, Paula says, I don't want to do it, and something in there
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does, and you're still smoking even though you don't want to smoke,
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then there's something going on.
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What is that? What is that? That is, oh, that's just a bad habit.
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Well, it is that, but it's more than that.
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It's some entity, nicotine, cigarettes, cravings, whatever,
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just commanding, demanding that you smoke a cigarette for him.
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And that makes total sense to me. And you say, oh, but Christians can't have
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demons, going back to that little idea.
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Well, you know what? They say, well, God, why? Because God and Satan can't be
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in the same place at the same time. Well, that's not even true because God is everywhere.
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Yeah, there you go. So God is everywhere. So where in the world could the devil
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ever be that God isn't already?
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And so they say light and darkness can't be in the same place.
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They say Jesus and God and the devil can't be in the same place.
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Well, Jesus was talking to the devil in the wilderness there in the same place.
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How about in the Garden of Gethsemane? There was a lot of battle going on there.
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So we know that that's garbage, but the church doesn't want to deal with it,
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even though God said one of the main things he said to do in the job list was
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preach the gospel, of course, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,
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raise the dead, and cast out demons.
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Why would he say that? Why would he give us power to bind and loose and tread
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on serpents and scorpions and nothing hurt us if it was a ruse,
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if it was nothing, nothing to do.
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And so we have to get your head on people, understand that you're being deceived
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by the very thoughts that are coming through your mind, Satan impersonates you to yourself.
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That is more something to understand than the fact that Christians can't have demons.
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There's no immunity. If a Christian believes the lie and practices the lie,
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wherever he's believing that, he's being controlled by that or she, they are demonized.
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Now you can be demonized a little bit or a lot. And you know,
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here's another thing. A lot of people are, this is a big fad now,
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casting out demons. Okay.
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And it's all, you know, on YouTube and it's all spark, you know, whatever.
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And I'm going to tell you something right now. If you're one who casts out demons
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and that other person is freaking and flipping and,
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convulsing and whatnot and carrying on, you are the one, if you're the one who's
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casting, You should have the power and control, according to God,
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to bind that spirit so it doesn't hurt that person, so it doesn't embarrass
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that person, doesn't make them look ridiculous.
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I know the little boy, when the demon went out, he convulsed. I get that.
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And that's an indication of a demon leaving. There's several other ways they can leave.
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And they said, oh, no, he's dead. Jesus, no, he's not dead.
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And so he just picked him up and he was fine. But the thing is,
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we have to be able to know our authority in Christ.
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And we need to know and quit making up excuses for the devil.
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So that he can just keep binding you, destroying you, eating up your life.
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Again, you know, the Bible is very clear that Christians, Paul wasn't writing
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this to pagans in Romans chapter 7.
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He had just talked about Romans 6, where there, you know, here's how you reckon
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the old man dead, you're crucified with Christ, you know, yield not your members
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as instruments of unrighteousness.
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And then in the 70s, but there's stuff still going on inside of me,
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so let's look at it. So then we have to recognize that.
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This is a war, an internal war. And you can wear your whole self out forever
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in a day, try and get rid of a demon in you.
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And you don't really get down to the real business of being here.
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And that is to preach the gospel, heal the sick, bring good news to other people,
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because you're so busy trying to get rid of your own stuff.
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Let's just admit what it is and deal with it. You have the authority.
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You know, nobody, I mean, some people, they'll say do need someone to help them.
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It's like you have major surgery and you can't take out your own tumor,
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but you can take out plenty of your own slivers.
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So let's just not, you know, put it on somebody else.
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If you can submit to God, resist the devil, and he will flee and give no place
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to the devil, then start there.
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And if you're running up into something that's too big for you,
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or it's too buried in there, or too rooted in there, and it needs to be cast
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out, you might need to have some help in prayer.
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But don't yield yourself to, and just placate the enemy.
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Just, you don't understand, He is not in favor of us. He is here to destroy us any way he can.
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And if six or 12 demons can work on different areas of your life for destruction,
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you know, like you're not eating right and you're smoking and you're not sleeping
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right and you've got a spirit of anger and bitterness and you're mean to your
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wife and you're narcissistic or you're a witch or whatever, you got all that stuff going on.
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It's pretty hard to lead a quiet life.
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You got to get some of that stuff, if not all of it, out of there.
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What about the old question, the old excuse that's made?
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Well, the devil made me do it. Well, he...
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He has to get your cooperation and agreement to get to do anything in you,
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because if he could just do anything, he'd already done it and you'd be dead.
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So the devil makes us do it in the sense that he convinces our mind,
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our heart, our emotions.
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And we go along with it. Well, because we're in fear, panic, fear.
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If I don't, oh no, what's going to happen? I've got to have this boyfriend.
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If I don't have this girlfriend, if I don't get this cigarette,
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if I don't get this fix, if I don't, whatever, I will, fear says that I will perish.
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So there's a lot of stuff that's going on in us all the time.
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It's a battle. It's really a battle. But if you recognize it,
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then you can just basically determine in your heart that you're going to follow
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Jesus and do the next right thing according to God.
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And that's called following Jesus instead of going back and forth and up and
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down and being all ambushed all the time by the devil.
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It's interesting in Psalm 51 verse 6 where David says he's praying a prayer
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of repentance after his sin with Bathsheba and arranging for the murder of her husband.
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But he says, you desire truth in the inward parts. In the inward parts you will make me know wisdom.
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So basically what happens is that the issue is that we don't have the truth in the inward parts.
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That truth is not activated. It's not operating.
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We're, what are we doing?
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We are under the influence of the lies.
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We're living according to the lies, and there should be truth within us, right?
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There is some truth within us.
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Even because we're made in the likeness and image of God.
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But when you have truth in the inward parts, you're going to allow that truth
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to operate predominantly in your life.
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That's what you're going to follow because you know the truth.
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Really, who knows the truth? How many people, how many believers really know the truth?
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They could say, well, yeah, I know the Bible is the word of God.
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I know Jesus is the Savior and all that.
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But as far as really getting down to, like we used to say, brass tacks in your
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own life, what is the truth?
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What is the truth about what's going on in my life now? What's the truth with
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what's going on in my marriage, my children, and my workplace?
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Yeah, well, the answer is Jesus. He is the truth. He's the way,
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the truth, and the life. And so, truth is an absolute.
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And many people say, well, my truth or your truth, we can all agree to disagree,
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and we can have our own truth.
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And this is crazy, because if you're building a house and someone's yardstick
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is 36 inches and the other guy's is 24, and you're using the same measure,
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building the house together, you're not going to have a very straight house,
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because truth is truth. It's got to be that.
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And I'm going to read a little paragraph on page 99 out of the book called Cravings.
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Why do I do what I don't want to do. You can get it on Amazon.
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He says, this is kind of the kicker where people get all chipped up.
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He says, they want it to be, well, you've got to take responsibility.
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You've got to work the program. You've got to show that you're really sincere.
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Well, you weren't really sincere about this and blah, blah, blah.
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Okay. Our freedom from sin has never been a matter of taking responsibility
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or using more willpower from God's point of view.
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If our freedom would have been a matter of our willpower, our Lord would have
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never talked about his power to keep us from the power of the evil one who would
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try to snatch us from his hand.
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See John chapter 10, verse 28 and 29, and Matthew 6, 13.
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Let us not misconstrue this to diminish our need to cooperate with God's grace
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and power to keep us through our obedience to him.
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If Jesus would have told his disciples to try harder and get it right,
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then grace would have been just a nice afterthought. God.
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So we do cooperate. We have the freedom to move your vote back to the truth,
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back to obedience, back to the love of God.
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And Satan will probably try to resist that, sabotage it, cause you to relapse
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or whatever all that looks like.
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But get up and keep going because Satan cannot take you. He cannot make you do anything.
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You know, the devil made me do it or all that lies.
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He cannot because if he could do that, you and I wouldn't even be talking. We'd be dead.
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So again, God says he will never test us or tempt us above that he's able to
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keep us, but with every temptation to make a way of escape that we're able to bear.
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It's not God who's tempting us, but God is allowing Satan to tempt us because
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Satan says to God, look it.
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I know you can't keep them. I know I can take them away from you.
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Jesus said that you can't take them out of my hand, but Satan is sure going to give it a wild try.
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And so you and I have to know that we're loved by God, that God's got this.
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And when you're safe in that, you know, once you know who you are in Christ,
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that God is good, that God is going to keep you, and you're going to,
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but you have this final vote.
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God votes for you. The devil votes against you. So where are you going to cast
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your vote? That's where it's going to go.
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That's where you're going to lean in the direction of God, or you're going to
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lean in the direction of the devil going back and forth, you're going to be
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in a rut. You have to determine this is too serious of a deal.
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Heaven and hell is too serious of a deal to mess with, to miss it, to play around with it.
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And you're wasting your time and you're wasting your life going back and forth.
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Just, you know, you've tried religion.
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You've tried church. You've tried no church. You've tried going back to church.
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You've tried whatever all that looks like. You've tried, you know.
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Whatever all this emotion, trying to get some feelings, feeling God's presence
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and all this good stuff, which is wonderful. but it's not the requirement.
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The requirement is obedience to the word of God, whether you feel like it or
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not. When you're a soldier on the front line, you don't necessarily feel like being there.
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And yet you're there because you're standing and taking a stand for whatever
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it is you're there to believe and protect, to believe for.
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So let's just not continue to be deceived by our feelings, our emotions,
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and the rigmarole and the rhetoric of the church, which has kind of gone off
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the tracks because the church preaches a nice sweet gospel sometimes on one
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side of the coin, but they don't talk about the other side.
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They don't talk about deliverance and inner healing.
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They don't talk about, you know, standing and having done all to stand.
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They don't talk about the demon can be doing stuff in us that we don't want him to do.
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So I get, there's just, you know, and because you don't have the right understanding
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of the spiritual warfare, you don't have then the tools you need,
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the footing you need to take a stand and having done all to stand.
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So if you're just thinking it's all been done. Yes, it is under the blood, sure enough.
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But you and I have to enforce that. That's the job of the church to enforce
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the truth of the victories of Calvary, to tell the devil that my temple belongs
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to me and Jesus, and it doesn't, and Jesus, the true Jesus.
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And that you, Satan, don't have a right to do anything there.
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Get out. No, you won't. Shut your mouth. Be gone. And you just have to start
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using your words as weapons against the enemy, because those words can be death or they can be life.
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And don't use your words to murmur and complain and say, I can't help myself,
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and I don't know what to do.
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Stand up, read the Word of God, get into Romans chapter 7 for a minute, 6, 7, and 8.
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And there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ. Jesus says,
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Paul says, he says, it was finally solved by the fact that Jesus Christ paid the price.
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You already said, yeah, Romans 8, 1 into verse 3, There's therefore now no condemnation
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to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh,
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but according to the Spirit.
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For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
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There's a new law that's replacing this other law or overwhelming it.
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For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh,
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God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin,
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He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might
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be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
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So on a quick wrap, I'm going to read the table of contents,
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which is 20 chapters of the book Cravings, and you can get that on Amazon.
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Cravings, why do I do what I don't want to do?
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Chapters, chapter 1, eat what I give you.
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Chapter 2. Don't touch my food. Chapter 3. The war within.
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Chapter 4. Being redefined by the devil. Chapter 5. Depraved or enslaved.
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Chapter 6. God had a problem. Chapter 7. The devil's operating software.
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Chapter 8. The torture rack of responsibility.
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Chapter 9. Guilt. One size fits all. Chapter 10. What's wrong with this picture?
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Chapter 11. The internal takeover. Chapter 12. Take down the tower.
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Chapter 13, the food fight from hell. Chapter 14, conditions and counterfeits.
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Conditioning and counterfeits. Chapter 15, the spiritual warfare template.
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Chapter 16, scientific proof that God was right. 17, beware,
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strings attached. 18, willpower and treatment.
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19, the vicious circle. And 20, frog soup.
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Let's not be the frog that's being cooked in the kettle at such a mild temperature
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and nonetheless increasing until we are too sedated, stupefied,
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mesmerized, or spellbound to jump out of the kettle before it's too late.
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We have options here and we don't have to die.
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So again, we're saying people, yes, they do wrestle with demons.
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So stop making it something it's not and deal with what it is.
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So Father God, we thank you so much for this revelation for all of us.
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Let the lights go on, connect the dots, give us the revelations that we need.
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You said you should know the truth and the truth will set you free.
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Father God, in Jesus' name, thank you.
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Amen. Lord, we thank you for each one that's listening. We pray your truth would
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just penetrate hearts and minds that we might be set free by the power of your
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Spirit in the name of Jesus.
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Amen. Amen. And fight the good fight of faith. Again, cravings.
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Why do I do what I do not want to do? That's an Amazon. It'll help you. God bless.
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I have an emergency. What is your location?
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Music.
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3, 2, 1, go! Rescue radio, because there's a war for yourself.
