"Easter and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ" Rescue Radio with Marjorie Cole

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Music.

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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.

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Father God, we thank you that the war has been won by your spirit,

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by your courage, Father God, by your promise, keeping your promise even to redeem us.

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Lord, I thank you, Father, for Jesus.

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Thank you, Jesus, for laying down your life for us and considering it,

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Lord God, a worthy endeavor to redeem us who have been lost,

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kidnapped, hijacked, held hostage by the God of this world.

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And I thank you, Jesus, for giving us power over all the power of the enemy.

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I thank you for giving us purpose and meaning and a reason to live.

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I thank you, Jesus, for giving us the authority that you said,

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I give you power over all the power of the enemy.

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Nothing shall by any means hurt you. Thank you for those who are courageous

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enough to use that authority.

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We bind the powers of darkness that have taken control, the God of this world

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that have tried to blind the hearts and the minds of the people who live here.

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We thank you for exposing him. We thank you, Jesus, for the promise that no

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weapon formed against us will prosper.

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And so we thank you for this day that you go with us, before us,

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keep us in your peace, your protection, and that the powers of darkness will

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not be able to destroy the work that you called our hands to do,

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our lives to perform for your glory.

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And we thank you, Jesus, that you give each one who listens today eyes to see

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and ears to hear, and a heart to receive the revelation of your love and truth.

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Father, we ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen. We're going to be talking

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today about Easter and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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So let's begin by reading a passage out of Matthew 28, verses 1-8.

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Now, after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn,

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Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

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And behold, there was a great earthquake, and an angel of the Lord descended

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from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat on it.

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His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing was white as snow.

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And the guards shook for fear of him and became like dead men.

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But the angel answered and said to the women, Do not be afraid,

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for I know that you seek Jesus, who was crucified.

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He is not here, for he is risen, as he said, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

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And go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead,

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and indeed he is going before you into Galilee.

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There you will see him. Behold, I have told you.

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So they departed quickly from

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the tomb with fear and great joy and ran to bring his disciples' word.

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This is the biblical account of what we will call the resurrection of Jesus

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Christ, which the world calls in various names, usually Easter.

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And so, today we're going to be looking at some of the.

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Contrasting ideas, images, symbols, ways that we have disturbed and distorted

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the true power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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And so, here we go. Well, 2 Timothy 4, verses 1 through 4, I charge you therefore

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before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead

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at his appearing and his kingdom.

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Preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, convince,

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rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and teaching. And the question is why?

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Verse 3, for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine,

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but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears,

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they will heap up for themselves teachers, and they will turn their ears away

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from the truth and be turned aside to fables.

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Yeah, the Bible. Made up stories.

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Stories, fables, fantasies, fairy tales, fables, yes. So this is another example.

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Evidence of the fascination that we have with the forbidden.

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You know, everything that's wonderful, beautiful, true has been wrapped in a

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shroud of fables, fantasies, lies, and distortions.

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Even the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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Why? To hide and distort the profound mystery of the love of God,

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the power of the death of Jesus Christ, the fact that He is the Lamb of God

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slain from the foundation of the world.

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And it's hidden, Jerry, it's hidden on the shelves of the merchandisers,

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you know, with the Easter eggs and the bunny rabbits and the jelly beans and

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everything else that's out there.

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It's offered as a way to symbolize or celebrate Easter, the resurrection.

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What's happened, the world and the church have incorporated a whole bunch of

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pagan practices and connected them and cluttered the beauty and power of the

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resurrection of Jesus with all these fables and traditions. Satan always writes the narrative.

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He always provides another option to the true story of what's ever going on.

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And these origins of the mystery, the fantasy, they're all hidden.

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Nobody knows where these things always come from, But now they're celebrated

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on a grand scale on every shelf and every store and every place where there's

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traffic, human traffic.

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We go and we are presented with these deadly, stupid, forbidden lies to be options

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to our celebration of the life and death of Jesus Christ and his resurrection.

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Well, the origin of some of these traditions, it's kind of a mixture, right?

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And that's what we're doing. It's a mixture of truth and error that we so often do. And basically...

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If you look at many different heathen practices in Asia, in Europe,

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and so forth, this is where we get a lot of these traditions that we associate with Easter.

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You know, we got the bunnies, eggs, plastic grass, chicks, and ham.

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Forbidden by the Lord for the Jewish people.

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And then, of course, the candy and the sweets. Well, basically,

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the term Easter or Ostara comes from a Germanic goddess or Celtic goddess.

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It's kind of all in that same area. Mixed up and mushed together.

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Yeah, E-O-S-T-R-E, Easter.

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And it also comes from Babylonian goddess of Astaroth.

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So it's all different.

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Pagan cultures. Pagan culture traditions. And supposedly, you wonder where the Easter Bunny came from.

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Well, according to the fable or the tradition or the legend.

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This goddess, Astaire, found a bird whose wings were frozen.

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And this goddess saved the bird and,

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by turning it into a rabbit, yet the rabbit retained the ability to lay eggs,

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and that's where we get the Easter bunny.

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And, of course, all this was during the spring equinox, you know,

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when things are coming to life again, and there was just kind of the worship

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of— Fertility. Fertility.

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A rabbit was a symbol of fertility, and the eggs were symbols of new life and so forth.

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But all this got rolled into the church, the Catholic church.

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It got rolled into, and all the way through now. No, it's all everywhere.

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Catholicism. It's everywhere. It's not just one church. Yeah,

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it's just. But we are mesmerized with this kind of fable fascination.

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And it's, again, just what Satan always does. He creates a false narrative so

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that he can create counterfeits to the real to distract and distort and weaken

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or minimize the power of the truth.

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And again, people are more delighted in buying into that counterfeit than to

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stand up for and embrace and experience the real.

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So it's really a corrupting of the truth with a myth. you know,

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he is just substituting something unholy for something holy,

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and his narrative always tries to counter-explain everything that's holy and

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authentic, so that we can be buried in this attempt to destroy the revelation,

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the truth, obscuring the truth, so that no one really seeks it, and it loses its power.

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The resurrection, as we just read about it in Matthew, loses its power of incredible.

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Awesome, astonishing interaction with God and man in Jesus Christ coming back

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to life with this goofiness, this silliness, these distractions.

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Almost every church you see, right now you drive around and you see all these

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banners in front of churches that say, hey, come to our Easter egg hunt.

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And it's like, okay. I mean, not okay, really.

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What are we doing here? We want to have fun for the kids.

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And, you know, we can Jesusize it by saying, you know,

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the rabbit is a symbol of life and fertility and that the eggs and stuff are symbols of new life.

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And it's springtime and the grass is coming up and the flowers are soon to bloom and so forth.

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But, you know, people think nothing of it. It's a fun time, but it's such a mixture.

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Could I just read something here from 2 Kings 17?

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This is when the Assyrians had taken over the Israel, and then they came back

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and recolonized Israel.

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And they brought in pagan people to live and mix with the remnant of those that

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were still in the country with the Israelites.

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And, of course, these pagans brought on all their pagan traditions.

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Legends, gods, pagan practices.

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So it says, here's what it says about the people in 2 Kings 17, 33 and 34.

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They feared the Lord, yet served their own gods.

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According to the rituals of the nations among whom they were carried away.

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To this day they continue practicing the former rituals.

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They do not fear the Lord, nor do they follow their statutes or ordinances,

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or the law and commandment which the Lord had commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

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So basically, this is what the theologians call syncretism, where you unite

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or attempt to unite, or there's a mixture of truth and error,

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of true faith in God and paganism.

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So Satan had to do something to veil and conceal this most powerful of all human events.

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I mean, he had to come up with something, and the more ridiculous it seemed

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to be, the more powerful it was.

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So he didn't fail to spin a yarn, another fable,

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around the death and the resurrection of the only begotten Son of God,

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who was also designated to be the Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of

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the world to take away the penalty of death that had come upon us because of sin.

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So Satan, you know, he was really on his game here, but how often does he not do this?

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He uses the trivial and the carnal distractions to reduce the meaning and significance

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of a truth into a mockery.

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You know, Satan covered up the incomprehensible love of God, his ransom payment.

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You know, God was paying a ransom through the blood of his son to buy back all

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of us, his sons and daughters who had been kidnapped and held hostage in the

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devil's concentration camp.

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So God was doing an amazing thing here, and the devil was trying to obscure

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it, and now even still to this day, you know.

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As children, he tells us stories, he gives us candy,

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he gives us, you know, foolish things to follow, and we miss the whole awesome

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and incredible point of what really happened on that day with the death and

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the resurrection, Jesus Christ.

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So you have the Easter bunny for Easter and Santa Claus at Christmas, and

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You have these things that are just really contrary.

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So contradictory. Really so wickedly. So how can we live?

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I mean, how blinded have we become that we will incorporate these traditions

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and kind of use them sort of to preach the gospel? But why do it?

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Why do it if you're a believer in Jesus and you believe in the resurrection?

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Why obscure it with a bunch of foolishness, legends, fables that are rooted

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in demonic, pagan traditions?

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Well, I think the reason that happens is because we are also mixed in our affections.

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We want the ways of the world, and we also know the things of God.

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But we know that Satan, his major target, is the believer, because he already

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has the other people kind of deceived and duped and mesmerized and stupefied.

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And the practices of witchcraft, enchantment, and sorcery have already blinded

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their eyes, their minds.

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But for us, it's like he's trying to bury the Son of God in a tomb filled with

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jelly beans and Easter rabbits.

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I mean, come on, let's wake up.

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And you have an incredible story here with Jesus Christ raising from the dead.

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That in itself is powerful, not just he died on the cross, but that he rose

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from the dead. If he had died on the cross, that would have been nothing.

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Anybody can be killed and mercilessly murdered on a cross, but he rose from the dead.

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And so Satan is putting these things in front of us to kind of like minimize the truth.

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But I tell you something, Jerry, creation itself did not miss what was going on.

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On the cross and in the tomb, the sky turned black as night.

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The thunder rebuked the shameless folly of those who mocked him.

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The earth broke underneath their feet as if to cry out in pain to having to

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have to receive the holy blood spilled out on the ground.

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A few were able to receive and reverence this moment and cried out.

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They realized that the most profound, and I don't even know if they realized

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it at that moment, maybe at the morning of the resurrection,

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the most profound of all things that had ever been done in human history.

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And these elements, the creation, was a witness to his promise kept.

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And that promise began in the garden when the seed of the serpent would be burning

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against and trying to bruise the heel of God's seed, the seed of the woman.

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And that's what he did on Calvary. Jesus' heel was being bruised.

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But three days later, after the death blow had been struck, the head of the

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serpent was crushed when Jesus Christ, the Son of God, broke the head of the

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devil and rose from the dead.

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So the head crusher was coming to complete God's promise to Eve,

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promise to humanity that he would come to bring redemption.

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And that redemption came through the full payment for the sin,

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And the death that had come upon the earth, upon all of us, because of the sin

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against the truth, the disobedience, and eating the fruit from the forbidden tree.

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And what a great symbol of redemption is that the first evangelist,

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the first person who witnessed the wisdom of Christ was Mary Magdalene,

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out of whom Jesus had cast seven demons.

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And she's the one. She's a woman, mind you.

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And in a lot of places in that culture, women did not have much credibility

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in terms of, you know, proclaiming or witnessing.

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But Jesus, he's a woman's liberator. He's a man's liberator.

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Elevated women to the right status after the devil had crushed them.

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And she went and told those who had been with him as they mourned and wept.

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And when they heard that, he was alive.

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And had been seen by her, they did not believe at first. But then,

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you know, it was all verified to the disciples that were on the way to Omaeus

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and the other, the 12 or the 11, because Judas had already committed suicide.

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So, Satan could not, he bribed the soldiers to tell a lie that his followers had stolen the body.

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But the evidence of the resurrection could not be hidden because the veil of

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the temple, six inches thick, was ripped from the top to the bottom,

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which opened up the way for all of us to enter into the Holy of Holies.

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The earth had opened up the graves of the righteous who were being seen by many

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people. They were witnessed by many people.

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So, graves are opening up. The Lord himself appeared, like you just said, to his followers.

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He ate food with them. He was there with them 40 days.

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And then in front of them, at that 40-day point, he ascended into heaven, and they saw it.

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So, you know, how can we not know this unless we do not really embrace the truth?

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And we settle for celebrating this celebration with coloring Easter eggs and,

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you know, gorging ourself with candy.

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It's just, it's too, it's so contrasting.

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It's so offensive. It's so cheap and it's cheap and offensive.

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And how can we, I mean, yeah, you say, well, everybody in our family,

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well, we do this. this is our family tradition, this is memories, this is da-da-da-da.

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Isn't it time to start telling your people,

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your precious little ones, the truth about what really happened so that they

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have something to hold on to,

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some real truth that they can anchor themselves to when we come into the desperate

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days where bunny rabbits can't save you and Easter eggs will be of no avail,

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and you'll need to know the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ that you might be saved.

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I mean, what are we giving our kids to understand if we just bury them in all

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kinds of, you know— Fantasies.

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Fantasies. And you know what? These fantasies don't even all agree with each other.

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They don't even hold water. I mean, you've got a bunny. You've got a rabbit.

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You've got a bird. You've got an egg. You've got colored eggs.

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It's all mushed together to make no sense.

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The only purpose of all this madness is to cover up the true power of the resurrection

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of Jesus Christ so that people are all hung up on eating Easter ham,

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and, you know, if they even do Easter anymore, I don't even know.

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But, you know, we do have people, yes, some in the church who do reenact the

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death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We have those things,

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and they're still there.

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Some people are holding to that, you know, the truth and making that available.

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You make a choice. How much corruption and clutter and compromise do you want

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in your life? Do you want in your family?

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Because the more you allow corruption and clutter and the devil's narratives

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to operate in your life, the more you're going to have the devil's judgments,

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the demonic judgments of sickness and poverty and fear and confusion and mental

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torment and accidents, assaults and injuries and every other thing Satan can

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use against us to crush us, to separate us from the love of God.

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That's how you're going to have to make a stand. And I think the more pure and

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holy and deliberate is our witness for the truth, the more powerful will be the truth in us.

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What would be, Margie, what would be some of the examples of clutter in our

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lives? We've got the clutter surrounding Christmas.

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We've got the clutter surrounding what we call Easter, which is,

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you know, we shouldn't even use that term, really. It's the resurrection.

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It's the celebration of the resurrection.

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And what are some of the other things that really clutter our lives?

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Well, anxiety, fear, man fear, what people will say, what people will say,

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trying to please people, trying to make people happy, trying to stay safe,

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trying to control other people so that our world is safe. It's all about fear.

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Our whole world is cluttered with what ifs and oh no's and what's going to happen if.

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And I've got to and it's up to me. These are the thoughts that clutter our soul,

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mind, will, and emotions.

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But in your spirit, you can know the truth and walk in the peace of God.

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So it's a matter of whose report are you going to believe? Are you going to

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believe what God says and not falter?

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He doesn't change his mind. He doesn't go back and forth. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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Are you going to stand with him even though it doesn't always look like or feel

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like it's going to work out?

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Or are you going to go with what it feels like, looks like, and every wind of

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doctrine that comes by pushes you in another direction? You will be unstable in all your ways.

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So the clutter can be anything from, you know, stuff and accumulating too much

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stuff in your physical life, you know, junk and clutter and all that sort of thing.

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Or it can be, you can be clean and your life can be simple.

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But to do that, you're going to have to make some decisions what you're going

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to cast out, what you're going to reject, what you're not going to do anymore,

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what you're going to not allow to...

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Entertain you in your mind, in your thoughts. You know, just speaking of entertainment,

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you go down the halls of any movie theater and they'll show you the next movies that are coming out.

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And they're all just built on fantasy, witchcraft, fables, foolishness, goofiness,

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you know, all kinds of things that are not in any way edifying or pointing to

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hope or truth in people's lives and their hearts.

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Well, you go to a public elementary school book fair and you'll find probably

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90, 95% of them deal with fantasy, fables.

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Spells. Spells. Sorcery. Witchcraft, sorcery, all kinds of things.

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It's like, oh, this is what our kids are getting.

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And even a lot of the, you know, the cartoons and the video games,

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people are just so cluttered. Taken up, cluttered.

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Cluttered. You know, I was thinking the other day that, you know,

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there's the devices, our phones, are like remote controls in the hand of our enemy.

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And he pushes this button and we go over here. He pushes that button and we go over there.

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It's like we're being controlled and mesmerized by those electronics through

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the prince of the power of the air who is actually guiding us.

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We're almost like we're like little robots and he's just pushing us here.

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And so people jump for their phone. They got to have their phone.

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They don't know what's going to happen if they don't have their phone.

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And it's like there's just a kind of a overtaking of human wills by the fantasies,

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the sorcery, and the fables of the enemy.

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So we're just, you know, we're just kind of like being dumbed down and set as

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sheep for the slaughter, don't even realize it.

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Yeah, and it's like, you know, wherever you go, people are just locked into the phones.

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I mean, it can be used as a tremendous...

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So you can get information, tap into the internet, you keep in touch with people.

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It can be good. It can be a tremendous tool to use for good and for the glory of God.

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That's the problem. But we're just so mesmerized.

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We're just, they talk about man and machine woven together, incorporated man and devices.

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Paul said we're not ignorant of his devices. He wasn't talking about cell phones right then.

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But the devices, the strategies, the strategies of the enemy,

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you know, talks about the strategy.

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In Ephesians 6, it talks about the strategies of the enemy.

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Yeah. And there's so many. Yeah. But we have to be alert to them and avoid them

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and keep our minds and hearts focused on the Lord. Well, the only way we know

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those strategies actually is to read the Word of God.

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In Isaiah 47, for example, in verse 8, Therefore, hear this now,

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you who are given to pleasures.

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Pleasure is one of the enticing lures of the enchantments that the enemy,

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the fallen angels set up to pull us into that place of delusion,

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sorcery, and deception.

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He says, you who dwell safely, who say in your heart, I am and there's no one else beside me.

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I will not sit like a widow. I will not lose my children. But he says,

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these things are going to come upon you in a moment, in one day.

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The loss of your children, widowhood, they will come upon you to their fullness

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because of the multitude of your, what's the next word, sorceries,

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the magic, the witchcraft, the spells that we have been enchanted,

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he says, for the great abundance of your enchantments.

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So the sorceries practiced against us, the witchcraft, the spells,

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enchantments have closed and shut our eyes, our mouth, our understanding.

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We do not get what's going on because we've been hypnotized, so to speak.

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He says now, God says now, stand now with your enchantments and the.

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This is Isaiah 47, verse 12. Then he says,

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Let now the astrologers and the stargazers and the monthly prognosticators stand

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up and save you from these things that shall come upon you.

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Behold, they will be as stubble. The fire will burn them up.

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They will not be able to deliver themselves from the power of the flame.

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It shall not be like a coal to be warmed by, nor a fire to sit before.

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Thus they shall be to you with whom you have labored, your merchants from your youth.

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They have wandered each to their own quarters, and no one will save you.

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So the enchantments, the spells, the sorcery, the mesmerizing,

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the delusions, the fantasies, all the work of the demonic narratives to lure

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us into the place of false safety, false peace.

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And he said, it is the very multitude of your sorceries and enchantments that's

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going to be your undoing. And so we have to wake up, wake up.

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We have to wake up. And the Word of God is full of truth. It's full of right doctrine.

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It's full of, if it's rightly divided, it's full of hope and truth and peace.

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And it always directs, everything in there directs us to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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Everything that, even in the Old Testament, the sacrificing of the lambs,

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everything turns us back to the Lamb of God who came to take away the sins of the world.

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And everything that God wants to tell you is everything Satan does not want

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you to hear or know or understand.

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That's why we've got all this compromise, this conglomeration of foolishness

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and demonic narratives and all kinds of options to celebrate the day and give

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the day to someone else other than to the glory of God and to be thankful to Jesus Christ.

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And so, again, we have got to allow the Word of God, rightly divided,

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to bring us to the place of truth, because only then will we have the peace

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and the freedom and the truth to stand and having done all to stand in these

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evil days filled with lies and fantasies and sorceries and enchantments and fables.

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We have got to go back to the truth of the Word of God. And every day...

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God has called us to be celebrating the resurrection because it's through that

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resurrection. It's our emancipation.

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The cross and the resurrection of Jesus is where we have our life.

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You know, the cross, he said it is complete. It is finished.

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The whole thing is, the theologians call this the cross resurrection event.

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The cross was important, vital.

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He bore our sins and he bore our transgressions or shame on the cross,

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but it wouldn't have meant anything if he was not raised from the dead.

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It's the proof that he is the son of God.

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It's the proof that our redemption has been completed, and that is the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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And so, Father God, we ask you

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to forgive us for despising the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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for counterfeiting and substituting all of these foolish things that are a mockery

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to the holiness and the goodness and the passion of your heart for us.

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We ask you, Lord God, to forgive us. Each one who's listening today,

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I forgive you for the way we have all been deceived and followed the lies and the deceptions.

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I ask you, Lord God, to forgive us for the lies we believed about the death

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and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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And I bring before the court of heaven now and ask for the petitions of Jesus

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Christ, the faithful witness, to present our case before the Lord God regarding

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all of the sorceries, the enchantments, the deception,

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the delusion, the charms that

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Satan has set before us to deceive and draw us away from you, Lord God.

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I pray that the court will rule in favor of the restoration of truth and bring us to the place of.

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The revelation of Jesus Christ and the truth of his power, his love to set us

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free, that that will be our solid

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rock and we will no longer be pawns and puppets and robots of the devil.

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Father God, I pray that you'd release from heaven now through the ruling of

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this court the truth about what's going on and bring your people out of darkness,

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out of this stupor, into your marvelous light.

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Also, forgive us for practicing religion instead of following the truth of Jesus Christ.

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Lord, again, we ask for a divine awakening in those who are sleeping,

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a breaking forth of life and light and revelation, and that they will again

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be awake to know, to see, to understand, to participate in their own lives, Father God.

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We ask these things in the name of Jesus Christ, who is our faithful witness,

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who has seen all of these things and is still in love with us and is willing

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to bear our case, bring our case before the court of God for mercy.

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Thank you, Jesus. Amen.

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Yes, Lord, and thank you for...

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We just ask you to forgive us. We thank you for being raised from the dead.

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Forgive us for all the things that we've allowed in our lives to clutter our

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minds, clutter our hearts, clutter our churches, clutter our nation, Lord God.

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And we just pray that the revelation of the risen Christ will be so powerful

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and strong in each one listening in a whole new, fresh way this time of the year, Father. Amen.

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And every day, Father, we pray that in Jesus' name.

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Marjorie, I was just thinking about the devices of the enemy,

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and you have a series called God on Trial that really basically incorporates

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in a very entertaining form,

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and biblical and entertaining.

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There's creative license in there, but it just really expresses.

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The power of Jesus Christ. It exposes so much of the lies and the deceptions

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and the devices of the enemy.

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Tell us about that. Well, it's an audio drama that is the reenactment of the

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life and death of Jesus Christ.

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And if you really want to pick it up where it's powerful, I mean,

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it's powerful all the way through, but in episodes 25, 6, and 7,

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or 24, 5, and 6, we have the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in those episodes.

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And, you know, you can buy them individually. They're very, very reasonable.

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I think there's a total of 28.

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But if you wanted to just entertain yourself with the power of the truth of the war,

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check out on the website, liferecovery.com, the only place you can actually

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get them and see what it'll bring to your mind to this revelation of Jesus and

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the power of his death and resurrection,

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his descent into hell and getting the keys back from the devil. It's very interesting.

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Again, liferecovery.com, and it's called God on Trial.

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Check out episodes 24, 5, and 6. Okay, God bless you. Have a wonderful day.

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