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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your son. Yes, Father God,
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indeed, there is a war. Let us pray.
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Father, we thank you for the victory. Thank you that your will be done,
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O God, on earth and through us, as it's being done and declared in heaven.
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Lord God, we pray that your kingdom come, your will be done.
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We are your ambassadors.
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We are your assets on this earth to bring forth the purposes to which you have
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decided and determined, Father.
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So we thank you, Jesus, also for your wonderful gift and dying for us,
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shedding your blood for us, being pierced for us, being pounded to the cross
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for us, Father, that we might live.
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I thank you for that salvation, no greater gift, Lord God, no greater love than
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to lay down your life for your friends, for us. Thank you, Jesus, for doing that.
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And we thank you for giving us power over all the power of the enemy, even power to forgive.
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And we thank you, Lord. We take authority over the enemy, his power,
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his darkness, his intentions, his plans, Father.
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We bind and forbid them in the name of Jesus Christ.
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And we thank you now, Lord God, for the divine wisdom, wisdom from on high,
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not lies, not treachery, not deception, but the wisdom of God that you'll fill
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the hearts of your people with a wisdom, understanding,
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eyes to see, ears to hear, heart to receive, that we will not be rebellious
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in these very critical times.
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So, Father God, now open our hearts, open our minds, our eyes,
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Father, in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Well, you know, it seems like we're still, we're in a very dangerous place these
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days with so many people kind of in a, just a kind of a breathe, a sigh of relief.
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Okay, now, but still, we haven't yet got to the real issue, the deeper issue
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that that is holding, binding this world in the captivity and in the claw of the grip of Satan.
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And that is understanding the commandment of, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
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with all thy heart and soul, mind, and strength, and thy neighbor as thyself.
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I still see a lot of what we would call idolatry that's pervasive,
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that's even, it's inbredded, it's infused, it's seeped into every element of
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our own culture, of our thoughts, even of our own faith in God.
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In Exodus chapter 20, it says, And God spoke all these words,
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beginning with verse 1, saying, I am the Lord your God who brought you out of
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the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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You shall have no other gods before me.
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You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness of anything that
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is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.
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You shall not bow down to them nor serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God.
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Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth
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generation of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands.
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To those who love me and who keep my commandments.
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Amen. So right from the beginning here and the Ten Commandments,
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it's not that God is saying,
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I've got to have all the control here, that I'm just some kind of dictator,
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because he knows when we go away from him, we turn away from him in our hearts
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and worship other things, Other things,
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other people, other situations.
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He knows then that we open ourselves up to demonic control. The control of those
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things. That's exactly right.
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And so we're being controlled.
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God doesn't, he knows that what we worship is what we become.
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And when you yield your worship, which is an act of agreement,
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you yield that to whatever it is you're worshiping or pursuing or putting before
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God, which is idolatry, putting anything before God, that thing begins to control you.
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And those things, there's only two power sources. So if you're not worshiping
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God and the one true God and following Him.
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Then you're going to be seduced into believing all these other things and pursuits
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are valid and okay, which I believe this nation, we've kind of come to that place.
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We have lost our way, even in our religious communities and in the church,
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we have kind of lost our way because we don't recognize the power of this idolatry
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that's still undergirding all of the problem.
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So an idol, by dictionary definition, is an image, a form, a phantom,
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an apparition, or any object of ardent or excessive devotion or admiration.
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And idolatry then would be excessive
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devotion to or reverence for some person or thing other than God.
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So when Jesus said, follow me, you shall follow me, he was saying that's the
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course, that's the way to protect yourself from idolatry.
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If you follow Jesus Christ, the Son of God, do his will, seek his will.
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Yield yourself and your will to his will, then you will be safe from practicing idolatry.
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Any other thing, and there's many, many other things Satan has done in our minds
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to seduce us into believing that our thoughts are our thoughts and our ambitions
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are our opinions are opinions,
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and therefore we are practicing pursuing our own ideas, our own opinions,
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our own thoughts, our own attitudes, our own goals, and we've really failed to put God first.
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Not everyone, but a lot of people, and what has to happen, we've got to make an adjustment here.
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We've got to move from serving ourselves or following a false light or believing
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the things that are, you know, I mean, like Jesus says, if the light that is
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in you be darkness, how great is that darkness?
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If we continue to think of those things and not discern the true light from
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the false lights and the false and the antichrist spirits and the false Jesuses,
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if we don't discern those things, we will be just as in danger as we ever were.
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Because what has to happen is that the war is between God and Satan for our
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affections and for our agreements.
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And so when we're giving our affections to something that's not God,
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even though it doesn't have the label demon on it at the moment,
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you're still in great danger.
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Yeah, sometimes we think of idolatry as someone just bowing before a statue.
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Or a sticker stone. An inanimate object or sticks or stones.
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And I've seen plenty of that in other countries.
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Where there are millions of people
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gods, small G-O-D-S, that are worshiped. But you know, honey, those are very obvious.
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Very obvious. They might be a monkey god or an elephant god or a fish god or whatever it is.
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And people are taken up with these sorts of things.
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But we think, no, let's get right down to here in the United States of America.
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Yeah, where it's not as obvious.
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It's not as obvious that you're not bowing down necessarily to some big ugly
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statue somewhere. Or maybe we are. Some people are now doing that too.
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It's happening. It's happening. But what's happening is, well,
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going back to Ezekiel for a very graphic description of what was going on and
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how, you know, we think God is so impatient. I think God is super patient.
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I think they were doing an Ezekiel. He was showing Ezekiel. He says,
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I want to show you something. Come follow me. And so he brought him to the door of the court.
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It's Ezekiel 8-7. He brought him to the door of the court. And when I looked,
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there was a hole in the wall. And he said, son of man, dig into the wall.
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And so I dug into the wall. And he said, go in and see what the wicked abominations
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are, what they're doing there. Now, this was in the temple, okay?
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So Ezekiel is following and looking through and being shown this.
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And when I went through, I saw there, verse 10, every sort of creeping thing,
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abomination, abominable beast,
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all kinds of idols of the house of Israel portrayed all around the walls.
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And there stood before them 70 men of the elders of the house of Israel in their
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midst and there was a leader with them with a censer in his hand and a thick
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cloud of incense and he said to me, son of a man, have you seen what the elders
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of the house of Israel are doing in the dark?
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Every man in the room of his idols and they said, the Lord does not see,
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the Lord has forsaken the land.
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So they were doing these things in secret and they were yet to be,
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they were supposed to be the leaders, the religious leaders of that land.
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They were supposed to be representing and leading the people into worshiping
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the one true and living God.
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And it talks about in verse 11, each man had a censer in his hand.
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Worshiping. It's worship.
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An act of agreement. An act of incense. An act of worship through the incense.
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So they were praying. Their affections were going there. And it's interesting.
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It says, every man in the room of his idols, in the middle of verse 12.
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In the King James, it says, I'm reading from the New King James,
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the King James says, in the chamber of his imagery.
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Imagery. So he has a room of his idols, his imagination, and this is what is
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being exposed here to Ezekiel.
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And it says in verse 17, for they have filled the land with violence,
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Then they have returned to provoke me to anger. Indeed, they put the brand,
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well, so what they're doing is they are not recognizing the connection between
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the violence in the land and the idolatry.
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And I think that's one of the things that we're failing to recognize too.
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So let's look for a minute at what those idols are for us.
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Yeah, and let me mention just a little bit here that he, she,
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they saw, Ezekiel saw 25 men with their backs toward the temple of the Lord
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and their faces toward the east. and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.
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And there's another place right in here where it talks about the women were weeping for Tammuz.
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So they were all emotionally taken up with worshiping Tammuz,
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which was a god of fertility.
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And how does this apply to us right now today in the United States of America?
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Well, I think, first of all, let's look at what the idols are.
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Because, again, if you go back to Matthew where the Lord is talking about if
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the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness,
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that there's a lot of things that are pretending to be or purporting to be or
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looking like they're the right thing.
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And so a lot of times I believe one of the biggest idols we serve is our own opinions.
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He says if your eye is good, your whole body will see clearly and the images will not be distorted.
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But if your eye is bad or sees things through a lens of distortion or indulgence,
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I think indulgence is a big word,
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perversions, another very big word, and fantasy, if we're seeing the world through
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those lenses of spells, enchantments, sorcery, your whole body will be filled with darkness.
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And he says, therefore, if the light or what you perceive to be the light or
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what you're following as the light is not the true light, but is darkness or
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evil, he says, if the light that is in you.
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There's a dark light in people. He says, if the light that is in you be darkness,
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so that implies that there's a light that can be in us that's full of confusion,
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perversion, twisting, idolatry.
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Well, people think they're enlightened, but,
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Their idea of enlightenment is actually darkness because it goes against the
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truth of the Lord. Right, and I think we've lost our ability.
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Something's weird going on here that we can't just read the words out of the
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book and say, oh, I get it, I see it, it's very clear.
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There is something interfacing, there's something coming between us and the
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revelation or the realization that we are still, many of us and most of the
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time oftentimes, practicing idolatry.
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Basically idolatry, the biggest idol that people worship without fear is fear.
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We're not afraid to worship fear. We're not afraid to take matters into our
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own hands. We're not afraid to say, I can't trust God, so therefore it's up to me.
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We're not afraid to plan our own way.
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And we're just, you know, we worship our opinions. We worship our conclusions.
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We worship our, we guide ourselves, our opinions. We're allowing our opinions,
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whether it's whatever, My opinion of how I see things and what I think is correct,
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if it's not guided by the Word of God and it's not substantiated in the Word of God,
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it is nothing more than hearsay and falsity.
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What about the idol of our experiences?
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So our experiences bring us into a place of opinion. Correct.
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And so, but. Right. So you're making an agreement with your experience and you're
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saying this is real because this really happened.
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And, but it's, it really happened, but it's not the truth because reality and
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truth are enemies because, you know, but, but again, that's another subject maybe for another day.
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But the fact is that we're worshiping our opinions, our conclusions,
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and this then creates a situation where we're defining our positions.
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Are you for or against? Are you in or out? Jesus said, there's only two kingdoms.
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You cannot serve God and mammon.
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There's not a third kingdom of just me or I can't, you know, I don't know.
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There are only two. And this is where it's going to end up, either with heaven or hell.
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It's not going to end up with heaven or hell plus, oh, I have my own kingdom,
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so I don't have to play that game with those guys.
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This is a true reckoning, day of reckoning.
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So he says, you know, if we if we define our positions, those positions will
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direct our behavior, and they will lead us into forming alliances or loyalties.
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Now, what are we going to form our alliances and loyalties with?
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What are we going to connect with?
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If we're going to find another source of power other than the one true God,
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all of those sources are already corrupted and controlled by the devil.
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Here's the deal, though.
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You know, we're created in the likeness and image of God. We're created for worship.
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And God knows that, Satan knows that.
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And if he can redirect our worship from the living God to him or something else.
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And so basically, the whole deal, it's really all about worship because Satan,
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at one time known as Lucifer, he was the worship leader of heaven.
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And he said, you know what?
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I am no longer, I want to be worshiped. I want to be like God.
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So his whole program is to divert mankind from worshiping, knowing and worshiping
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the true and living God to worshiping other things, false gods, idols.
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And one of the problems with being deceived is that we are deceived.
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So we don't realize that we've been seduced or captivated or captured by that
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which we have come to believe to be correct, the light or the truth.
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When indeed it is not the correct light, it's not the true light.
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So again, Jesus says how deep and impenetrable is that deception,
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that darkness, when Satan is beyond. He is beyond your idea of cunning and mine.
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The first thing that he released, actually, if you go back to the very beginning
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in the word, the commandment, thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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The very first thing that the enemy released onto the earth when he got Eve
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seduced into eating the fruit. And if you look at that story,
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you'll see there are three things that persuaded her to eat that, take that fruit.
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One of them was that it was beautiful, and it looked good for food,
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and it was there to make one wise.
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So it was very enchanting or enticing or tempting or alluring.
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It's beauty. She was fascinated, seduced by the beauty, as if she hadn't been
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in a garden full of beauty.
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But she was seduced by this beautiful, seductive.
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Because in that fruit, contained in that fruit, I believe was the release of
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the spirit of enchantment and seduction, which then puts a spell on people so
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they don't realize they're even being deceived.
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So this is where, and if you look, this was the very first thing that came off
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of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, was enchantments and root cuttings.
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So where'd you get that? Well, check it out in the book of Enoch.
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But the enchantments, Satan seduced Eve,
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enchanted her with the beauty of the fruit, beauty of the, and the word enchantment
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actually does mean a desire for feelings,
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a desire for a feeling of great pleasure.
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Isn't that what they describe when they do drugs? It's a high,
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it's a utopian, it's a wow, it's a, you know, and that's why they do it.
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So they're craving for the delights and the delightful feelings.
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The second definition of an enchantment is to be under a spell.
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And I believe this nation is under a spell. I believe that came,
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and it came from, actually, Romans chapter 11, where he says,
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if you don't choose between grace and good works and you keep your religious
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affiliations, God will put a spirit of stupor upon you.
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So if you can't distinguish between grace and works, and you pursue works to
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be saved and to find grace, He said there's going to be a spirit of stupor,
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hardness of heart and stupor.
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And that spirit of stupor is what I believe is on the nation,
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that spirit of sorcery and stupor.
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Yeah, right. And if you read Romans chapter 1, this is a great description.
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A painful description. A painful description of...
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Idolatry, basically, we knew God, we weren't thankful, we became futile in their
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thoughts and their imaginations.
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Our vain imaginations. And their foolish hearts were darkened.
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So idolatry gets us into all this. The darkness.
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Professing to be wise. They became fools.
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And change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like a corruptible
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man and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
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That's right. So we're switching out our humanity to become part of monkeys
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and beasts and things like that because of the depravity of the evil one.
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Not the depravity of man, but the depravity of the situation that we're in and
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not being able to truly discern it.
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And so what's happening is because the enchantments and the stupor,
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the root cuttings, the drugs.
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So Satan offered in the beginning, he set up, he released the enchantments,
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the sorceries, the spells.
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And then that was enhanced and I think activated by the root cuttings, the drugs.
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So the pharmakia and the enchantments go together, and this nation has been deceived, duped.
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Drugged. Drugged, there's a good word. Drugged. Really, you know,
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the thing is too is that basically if you're addicted to a drug, that's your idol.
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Who's in control of you? And it's not just the chemical, but it's the demon
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behind it with the chemical. Many demons.
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So Satan, again, going back to the enchantments a little bit,
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he was using sorcery and drugs.
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To mesmerize the people and put them in a stupor. This is exactly where we are as a nation.
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What do we need to do about this? We need to, number one, identify it.
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Number two, confess the sins as sins and abominations.
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And number three, repent and ask God to forgive us. Number four.
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So understanding the difference between the gospel of grace,
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like I said, and good works also brings this stupor upon us.
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And again, going back to, you cannot serve two masters.
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Jesus said you'll either love the one and be loyal to the one or despise the other.
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And there's not a third kingdom. So you're going to have to decide,
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get in or get out. There is a line.
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There is a line. And that line is God's line.
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But the kingdom of God is not the same as the kingdom of darkness.
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You can't be in one and serve the other.
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You have to get in or get out. And we get in or get out. number one,
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the first thing we must do is recognize that we've been deceived.
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Recognize that reality is not the truth. What really happened,
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your experiences, your opinions, how you experienced life.
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Satan used all of that to set you up to believe lies.
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He set you up to deceive you into believing either I've got to take care of
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myself because there's nobody there for me. I can't, I can't trust anybody.
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And so for the most part, he set us all up in a place where we are to having to.
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Put ourselves as the idol, or put ourselves as God. You know,
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we're afraid of God, serving God. We don't trust God. He wasn't there.
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What all the lies Satan told us about him.
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And so we have to be our own God. And this is true, true, true.
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So then we become controlling, we become manipulative, we become afraid.
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So people are anxious and afraid because they're trying to be their own God
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and it's not working very well. So it creates on the other side of the torture
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rack, a lot of anxiety and fear.
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But going back to the story, the stupor
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that comes from the pursuit of these enchantments the
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devices just desire to feel good you know we were you know
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not too not too long ago we were in the in the movie theater
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again we don't go there very often but you see on the walls all the upcoming
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movies and films and advertisement and it's just shockingly evil and vile you
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know just stupid folly folly foolishness fantasy fantasy is a big one evil fantasy
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fantasy and so darkness.
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People are like children and they want to live in a fantasy world.
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And this is exactly where Satan is stupefied and mesmerized and seduced most
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people into living into a fantasy world because in a fantasy world,
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you can have everything the way you want it.
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It can be your nice little charming, beautiful world with no consequences and
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everything's wonderful. It's kind of like a false heaven.
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And so what God wants us to do is recognize that we are in a place of reality
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now where we have to understand that there is a judgment coming.
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This world is real. Satan has a plan to destroy this world.
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God has a plan to save it. And we want to understand what they're so breaking
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out of a fantasy, breaking out of that enchantment, it's there.
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I mean, you just look around.
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Everything that's set up to make us believe we can live in a fake world and be real, but we can't.
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And here's another thing, too. An idol can be another person.
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You know, how many people, how many, you can worship your boyfriend,
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worship your girlfriend, there's a- Worship the relationship,
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yeah, worship. Worship the relationship.
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Well, what do they say? They're infatuated. That's kind of a first term used oftentimes.
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People fall in love. Jesus said, Paul writes to Timothy in the last days,
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people will be lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.
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So this is another form of that.
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Well, that's exactly what enchantment is. We just want to have fun.
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Delight, beauty, pleasure, fantasy world.
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Because the other world is so scary, but the other world is the real world that
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you're going to have to deal with. You can live in a fake world,
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a fantasy world, until you breathe your last breath, if you want to.
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But at that point in time, there's no options left.
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And the fantasy world is like a, whether it's in drugs or movies or another
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person or your ideas or your fun or whatever, you do it as a coping mechanism, and it doesn't work.
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God never called us to cope. He called us to be set free and live an abundant
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life. But the thing is, too, is like life is too painful.
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We've got to have some kind of escape. Or medication.
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Entertainment. I think the original word for entertainment is to take away from,
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to put you in another state,
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another realm, to be entertained by people, by music, all that stuff.
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In its escape because here's again, let's go back to this definition.
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Idolatry is anything, any excessive devotion or reverence for a person,
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person or place or thing other than the living God.
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Well, this is what we have been deceived, seduced into being and believing.
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Like, for example, the state of enchantment brings you into a state of being under a spell.
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So obviously, if you're under a spell, you're not going to be worshiping the one true God.
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It brings us into a state of being under a spell. It's magic.
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It's sorcery. It's wizardry.
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It's conjugating. It's hypnotism. It's mesmerizing. it's charms it's black arts
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it's spells again it's incantations captivations bewitching.
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Fascinations temptations there you go temptations seductions allurements enticement
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what has a fisherman done he lures the fish in using delightful things think
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about the lures that the fishermen use they're all shiny or sparkly or it's
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exactly what the fish is looking for the charms, the beauty, the sparkles,
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the attractiveness, the appeal, the irresistible, all of these things that we want heaven.
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And Satan makes these things look like heaven. And so it's a feeling of great
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pleasure and attraction.
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You know, life is not full of a lot of pleasure. It can be. I mean,
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it can have lots of peace and joy.
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I mean, the whole thing can be filled with joy and peace and the revelation
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of God and the fullness of knowing that.
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But most people are not looking for peace. they're looking for
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pleasure or an absence of pain and they're
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attracted to anything that can give them that and anything that can give you
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that that's not god is an idol you know especially if it's something beautiful
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the hebrew word means actually something that is very beautiful but covered
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or muffled or secret and so again.
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The Lord knows about the enemy's cunning. He knows about all of these things.
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He knows about the wickedness, the allurements, the enchantments,
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the idolatry, but they're all connected.
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But we have to go back to being set free from the enchantments,
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which is a rejection of truth, because I just don't want to live there.
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I want to live in my little fairy world.
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I want to live in my little fantasy world. I want to live in my little drug
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world, my little fruit world.
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But drugs only give you a moment of this pursuit of this delightful bliss or happiness.
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Only a moment, and then it takes everything.
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And so whether your idol is a drug or a feeling or the pursuit of an emotion
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or a feeling or the pursuit of money, God versus mammon. Stuff.
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Anything, anything. And please, in this nation, Father God, right now,
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as we are a nation that is hanging in the balance right now,
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being weighed in the balances by the Almighty God,
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and we are petitioning for his mercy, we must also be willing to come back to truth.
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Cast down every idle, vain imagination, and come back into the fullness of your
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allegiance, alliance, dedication to God.
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And I do believe, truly, as I've seen around it happening, that the people are
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being called out of darkness, out of idolatry, out of their enchantments,
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out of their stupors, out of their witchcraft, out of their drugs and pharmakia and plant kettings.
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They're being pulled back into the fullness of Jesus Christ.
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And I do see this. And the funniest thing is, he's beginning at the dregs and
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at the fringes of society.
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He's beginning to gather his harvest at the fringes, not in your
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hardcore, nice, easy living, so I can get by kind of churchy people.
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He's starting with the people who are broken, cast down, highways and hedges type people.
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And so, Father God, we ask for repentance among the nation, among the church.
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Let the church, God, repent. This is where God's looking for the action.
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He's not expecting the world to do the right thing. He's expecting the church.
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And so, Father, for the pastors, the churches, the people who go to those churches,
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The people who are so comfortable in their pews, Lord, disquiet them,
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trouble them like the mother eagle takes all the feathers away so the babies
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aren't comfortable in the nest anymore.
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Get us out into that place of true worshiping of the one true God,
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trusting you, Lord God, and seeking you to see what great and mighty things
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you will do as we stand upon your holy, precious word.
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Your word says in 1 Corinthians 10, 14, flee from idolatry.
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Get away from it as quick as you can. Father God, I just pray that whatever
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is in our lives that we're putting our infections, our time, our money, our effort,
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that we're putting into more than directly related to you, Lord.
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You know, what we do with time and money and our thoughts and everything needs
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to be focused on you, Lord.
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We're not here to worship ourselves. We're not here to worship other people.
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We're not here to worship our opinions, our experiences, persons,
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places, or things. We're here to worship you. Forgive us, yes, Lord.
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Cleanse us from every bit of idolatry that even we don't even realize that we're
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doing, where we realize that, man, this has got my affection,
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this has got my heart more than you, Father God.
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Because we know that if we've got affections and things that are.
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Other than you, there's a control factor there of the enemy, demons.
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And Paul makes it clear in 1 Corinthians 10 that any idol is connected with
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a demon. Every idol is connected with a demon.
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You get an idol, you get demon, and demons.
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So, Lord God, we want to be free.
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We want to be true worshipers of you, to worship you like Jesus said in John
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4, chapter 4, to worship you in spirit and in truth.
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Yes, Father God. And forgive us, Lord, as well as we confess our idolatry on
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behalf of the nation, as we confess it as Nehemiah did, as Ezra did,
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as Daniel did, confessing the sins of their nation.
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So we confess the spirit of idolatry and enchantments and sorcery.
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We confess these as sin and an abomination before the Most High God.
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We call them an abomination.
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Even as it's been practiced in the church, We call it out as an abomination,
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as an affront, as an insult to the Most High God and to the work of Jesus Christ, our Savior.
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So we ask you to forgive us. We declare these things to be an abomination.
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And we ask, Father, for the mercy to reveal this same thing to the many people
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who are still yet caught up in idolatry.
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You'd open their eyes for the sake of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the work
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of his reward that he has coming for dying for all of us.
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That you'd open up the harvest, Lord God, that you'd bring in a great and mighty
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harvest, Lord God. We know that you will. We know that you are.
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Now turn the hearts of many back to you, Father God, for the sake of Jesus Christ.
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And may we then find the peace and the healing that we so crave and desire,
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Father God, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
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You have a series, an audio series, God on Trial.
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Yeah. I think that deals a lot withâ Fascination and stories.
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Fascination and imagination and idolatry. But what you do there is you present.
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Spiritual warfare, you spread truth. Truth. You bring interdimensional truth
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and experiences there in a very creative way.
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Yeah, it's very fun. I would just like to challenge the people to go to our
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website, liferecovery.com, and just start, you can listen to the audio,
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parts of the audio versions.
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Just tap into one of them. Tease yourself a little. Yeah, and just try it out.
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You know, there's 28 episodes in this, and they're each, I think,
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about $3, $4, a nice series volume.
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And each episode is like 28 minutes long. So you can truly have a great time
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with your family, talking to them.
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Kids love it because they have so many questions.
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Because it's a drama. It's an audio. I mean, there are characters in this thing.
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There's sound effects. It's not just a boring somebody's reading to you a story.
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It's really an acted-out story. And it's interesting that back in the day,
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now this might be an okay thing to go back to.
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People used to listen to radio dramas. Oh, yeah.
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They'd sit by the radio at night and listen to these radio dramas with the sound
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effects and everything like that.
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Families would gather around the radio and this, why not do this?
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Yeah, try it out. Gather around your computer and listen.
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At least give it a chance. And that is, again, it's... Get a sample. It's God on trial.
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Go to the website, liferecovery.com, and have a great day. Thank you.
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I have an emergency. What is your location?
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Music.
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I have an emergency. I don't know anything.
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I can't promise you're not going to be there. I can't believe it. Three, two, one, one.
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Rescue Radio Cause there's a war for your soul.
