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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul. What is your location? That's a good question.
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Lord Jesus, where are we at with all this? People are wondering, what is this?
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Where are we at in the timeline, in the end?
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Where are you? What's going on? So, Father, we pray right now that you would
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give us clarity of understanding, give us eyes to see, ears to hear,
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and a heart to receive the truth, because the truth is not complicated.
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It is simple the enemy has tried to make everything full of chaos anxiety fear confusion,
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double-mindedness father we bind all those spirits and we also bind all of the
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lying spirits that have maligned your spirit that they've made you look bad confused bipolar.
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Deceptive unapproachable father we just ask you to forgive us for judging you
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based on what we are doing, and then reflect it back, flip it back onto you
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that you're the problem.
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Lord, forgive us for doing that. And Jesus, we thank you for giving us a clear
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understanding of what the relationship with the Father is supposed to look like
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in your own submissions, humiliation, humbling yourself, and obedience even to the cross, Lord God.
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And we thank you for dying for us. We thank you that this is bigger than we
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can just reason out and figure out with our minds.
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We pray that the Holy Spirit will help us today day to understand what's really
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going on here so we will settle down and we'll be able to do the exploits you've
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asked us to do without fear and anxiety.
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Father, we thank you again for the promises of Jesus. You said,
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whatever you bind is bound, whatever you loose is loose. I give you power over
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all the power of the enemy.
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Lord, part of that power over the enemy, Father, is to understand the deceptions,
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the wiles of the devil, the persuasions of the enemy, how he tries to you deceive
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us and mislead us. So give us clarity.
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Give us peace. Jesus, you are the faithful witness.
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You are the wonderful counselor. You sent the Holy Spirit to help us.
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So, Father God, help us now to know what is the truth in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Well, here we are in that big question, what is the truth?
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How do we know what the truth is in these last days when everybody is preaching
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anything that comes to them?
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I mean, it's just like, where do you get this stuff from? Well,
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even from the Bible, there are many who are confused about what's really going on.
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And because it's been a long time since, you know, I think it's really been spoken clearly,
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what is the gospel, what is who is God, and that all of these things, Jerry,
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they've come to bring much confusion about the two things that are the objectives
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in Satan's battle and war against us, and that is the goodness of God and our own identity.
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Are we good? Are we unworthy?
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Is God good all the time? And so even now, spiritual warfare is a trending topic.
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Yeah, it's a trendy topic and there's all kinds of different views and slants
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and, you know, emphases. You know, some people emphasize one thing,
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some people emphasize another, and there's confusion.
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Yeah, that's right. But if you don't put the devil in the equation,
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if you only have two factors in the equation, God and me, God plus humanity, how do you explain evil?
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How do you explain depravity? How do you explain anything?
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You know, and most, and a lot of the religions of the world,
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including ones we're quite familiar with, have actually taken the devil and
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relegated him to something else. He's not that active. He's not involved.
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There's not really a devil. you know we're the bad ones
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it's our fault we should have you know take responsibility be good
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try harder and all of those gospels are
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not the true gospel of jesus christ jesus christ actually died
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and said you know he said you can't do
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this that's why i'm coming to do this you can't be good enough to
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get to heaven that's why i'm laying down my life because it's not even about being good
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to get to heaven it's about somebody had to pay the price for sin and yet we
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miss that part somehow how and we go on to you know actually judge god in his
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character right and then and then when people do give credence to the devil
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a lot of people don't want to talk about that it's too negative.
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Well it's just like someone talking coach preparing his football team for the
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next sunday but we don't want to talk about the team we don't want to talk no
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we don't want to talk about the team we're going to play we don't want to know
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we don't want to know anything about them because we're just going to come and play the game.
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Yeah, but if we... It's like, that would be ridiculous.
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Ignorance is not bliss. So, you know, a lot of times, you know,
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for example, I just, the example that comes to me,
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well, let's just talk this most recent event with, everybody saw this in the
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whole world where, you know, there was this assassination attempt on Trump or
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however you want to call it.
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Somebody took and shot a couple of bullets and people actually died. But the thing is.
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How do we explain this? How did God, we all agree pretty much,
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well, he was saved, he didn't die, God must have protected him.
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On the one hand, and on the other hand, we say, well, why did God even, God permitted this?
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Okay, so we have a problem here. How does God permit something,
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then he has to save us from it?
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It's like, if we don't put in that equation, the understanding of one,
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number Number one, there is a demonic spirit force war that we're up against.
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And secondly, that we have a free will. We cannot answer that question.
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For example, the premise has to be and must be the basic bottom line premise on spiritual warfare.
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One of the truths we must agree with is that God is good all the time.
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If God isn't good all the time and he's good only once in a while, then we can't trust him.
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We don't know when he's good and when he's not good. And so what happens there is we have this doubt,
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double-mindedness, unbelief, and people who are anxious and walking away from
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God, who is their only source of help and hope because they don't know that
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he's good all the time. But on the other hand, we say God is love.
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When we read, God says, forgive one another.
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God says, be kind to one another. God says, bear one another's burdens.
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And if God is telling us to forgive and love one another, and God is love,
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then how can we relegate or ascribe to God unloving things?
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So the question becomes, what goes on here? How does this work if God is good
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all the time, and yet we see him doing things like the deluge,
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which is called the flood, or, you know, other things in the Old Testament,
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or the New Testament, where it doesn't seem to make sense.
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How do we understand God with all of that? God gets a bad rap for a lot of things.
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And the thing is, too, what do people, if they're in trouble,
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they have a tragedy happens, a lot of people just blame God. That's right.
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Because he could have stopped that. But here's the thing. Number one,
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we're going to realize that God is good all the time.
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Second of all, that there is a devil and he is operating against God.
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And his one operation principle is to get us to turn against God,
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to believe lies about God, to judge God, to believe God isn't good all the time,
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to make us to believe that all the bad things that are happening just as a result
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of our exercising our free will in a stupid way,
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that all of those consequences and bad things are God's fault.
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For example, if you, you know, go back to the parenting analogy.
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A parent has a child. Is the parent responsible for everything the child does?
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Is the parent allowing everything?
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Is he promoting everything that child does? if the child is breaking the law
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and hurting himself and making bad choices.
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The parent doesn't want the child to do that. But because the child has a free
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will, at least at this point, God has given us a free will to exercise.
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He does not stop us from exercising our free will, but he also then is very
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gracious to bring us out of that problem.
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But he forbids the enemy.
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He's given us actually power to do the same thing, bind and loose,
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say no to what the devil wants to to do.
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And some people actually use that authority and power and actually get some
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things done for the kingdom of God.
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But most of us feel like helpless, like, oh, who's, you know, was it God?
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Was it the devil? Who was doing this? Well, the thing is, the truth is that
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they're both operating in the same place at the same time to do the opposite thing.
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Satan was operating in that event to kill a person or kill or assassinate.
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And God was operating in that place to protect someone.
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And yet God permitted what the enemy, through the evil intentions of human beings, wanted to do.
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God permits the operation of our free will, but he also intervenes in those
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situations because he can and because he is for us.
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So God is for us, and so we have to understand, put the enemy in the equation.
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God is good all the time, and we make choices.
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And if you're going to understand the war. You have to understand the rules.
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God has given us a free will. Why did he do that? He lets us do that.
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He doesn't want robots to worship him.
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And he's not on some big ego trip where you got to worship him.
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He knows that what's best for us is to be connected with him in faith and love.
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Not in coercion, not in fear, not as slaves.
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The devil is the one who enslaves us. God is the one who saves and delivers
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and frees us. Makes us his children.
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Yes. And yet people, you know, we are servants. We're sons and daughters.
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We're soldiers. We're sheep.
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We're a lot of things, you know, various things in our relationship.
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But here's an interesting, how do you explain this?
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So if God in 2 Thessalonians, I think that was quoted recently in an interview
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I saw, 2 Thessalonians 2.11, you know, where God sends them a strong delusion
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that they should believe a lie because they refuse the love of the truth.
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Okay. So, so it sounds like God is deceiving them.
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God is sending a delusion to, so that they will believe the lie because they
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refuse the love of the truth.
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But how do you match that or coordinate that with James 1.13,
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where it says, God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he himself tempt anyone.
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So if he can contempt no one with evil, how can he send them a strong delusion
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to believe a lie without contradicting himself?
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I don't know. How does that work? Well, there has to be an answer.
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When you have a situation, it has to agree.
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You know, when you're putting things together, they have to agree with themselves.
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Ultimately, they can't work at cross purposes to themselves.
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Think, for example, about your body, how it's all put together.
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It's individualized, but everything works together with each other.
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And as they're assigned in there as members to do this or that, they work together.
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They don't work at cross purposes. So you have one unified whole,
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one life, one living being.
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So here's the thing so god cannot
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tempt anyone he but he allows he
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allows satan remember in job he satan went up to
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god and said can i i want to test job and and i proved i'll prove he's not righteous
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so satan's agenda was to tempt job to prove to god that job was not really loving
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god serving god and so god didn't say okay yeah that's a good idea god just
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said don't touch his body with that implication.
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Satan dove right into the opportunities to take his life, take,
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or take his family, I should say, and take his, his kids, his finances.
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And so, but you see the whole discussion in the book of Job goes back and forth
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where everybody's trying to make Job, you know, explain Job's problems because God was mad at him.
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But if you look at the very first chapter, it says God was calling Job a righteous
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man. He says, have you seen my righteous servant Job.
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He was not mad at him. He was not trying to test him. He knew that he was loved,
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and Job was loving and serving him.
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And so Satan was the one who had the issue, and he was the one who was trying
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to bring forth the confusion.
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But at the end, all the friends, they kept looking through Job's life.
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He must have done something wrong to make God so mad.
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And in the end, God says, you know what? Those guys have not spoken that which is right concerning me.
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Job, go pray for them so i can forgive them and job too he got at the end of
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all this illness and the whole.
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Trial he he just he
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learned too he had to repent and slack off in ashes well he got a deeper revelation
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because he got a deeper revelation he hadn't you know god doesn't really fault
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us because we don't have a deep enough revelation you know it's it's an ongoing
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revelation and so So he got a great,
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through that whole thing, one of the great benefits.
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Was that Job got a greater revelation. Of the goodness of God.
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He prayed for his friends that had missed the boat on it, and God restored his
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family and his household again, his wealth and everything like that.
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But he says, I've known you, Lord, by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes see you.
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So that revelation was so significant for him.
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And it is for us as well. So if we go back to this idea of the delusions,
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the deceptions, We have to go back to answer that question.
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Where are all these deceptions coming from? And in Romans chapter 1,
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it says God gave them over.
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You know, when they refused the love of the truth, they refused to be thankful.
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They refused to acknowledge him as God.
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When they went off into idolatry and they had all these other things they were
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worshiping, including the lies and whatever, God gave them over to a debased mind.
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God had to let go of them. God had to give them up. Just like sometimes you
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have to let your children go because they don't want to do the right thing right now.
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They've got to learn it the hard way, so to speak. speak and so
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by that in that journey which is a dangerous journey you pray
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pray pray for them but you you you so this
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is what god is saying he he's he sent them he permitted
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the deceptions of the son of
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perdition in the book of thessalonians is talking about the son of perdition
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is coming because they refuse over and over they harden themselves they refuse
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the love of the truth but let's go back to one thing let's understand in the
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spiritual war and everybody's talking about spiritual warfare there are rules
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and we must understand that the rule of the of the war is Romans 6.16,
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whom we yield ourselves servant to obey.
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That's who slave we become. So there are rules and God honors the rules.
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He doesn't cheat. He doesn't manipulate, doesn't use his power.
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He doesn't try to deceive us with his glory.
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He allows us to receive his love and glory as a part of our relationship with
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him and in covenant with him.
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He doesn't try to pull his strings and bribe us with big, wonderful.
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And benefits like Satan does. So we have to realize there's a war,
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there's rules, whom you yield yourself servant to obey his slave you become.
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We also have to realize in this war, there's another rule that both Satan and God have to abide by.
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And that is that we human beings have a free will.
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So the question, the issue then becomes God votes for you. The devil votes against
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you. There are only two kingdoms. There's not a third kingdom.
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So I don't have a kingdom. And all the things we throw in that junk box of,
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I don't know, are not operating outside of the sovereignty of God,
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like coincidences and fate and good luck and bad luck and mental illness and aliens.
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All of those things are submitted to the same parameters that we are in this
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world. But we have a free will.
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God allows Satan to tempt us.
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the result of the lie, the fruit of the lie is demonic judgments.
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We say, oh, no, no, no, I got in trouble. God's mad at me.
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Yes, you got in trouble. And yes, God is not happy with you.
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God does not hate you, but Satan does.
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And he's putting these judgments upon us to make us think that God hates us
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and that there's no hope now.
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And how do I ever get out of this horrible place I'm in?
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Because God's mad at me. God's not mad at you. God loves you and wants you to
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know that and wants you to come back to him and know he's good.
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God created us with a free will. He respects our free will, but Satan exploits our free will.
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He says, okay, they've got a free will. I'm just going to infuse them with lies,
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and get them off course in their thinking and their behavior,
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and as you say so often, break that relationship, blow up the bridge of that
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connection between us and the Lord God.
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Well, you know, the thing is, too, there are only two kingdoms,
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but we don't understand that.
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We think everything is the way we think it is, and we don't go back to what the Bible says.
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So there's heaven or hell, there's good or evil, there's God or the devil,
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there's light and darkness,
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there's all these kinds of things that we kind of don't realize that this is
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the way that our two kingdoms.
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So we have framed God as one who dishes out the trouble, the calamities,
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the bad things that are happening.
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And if we do not get a satisfactory answer for all of these questions,
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we will not be able to live in the peace of God or the abundant life of God,
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the love of God, the trust of God.
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We will continue to be anxious and unsure.
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Uncertain about life the root
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of this is the foundation of this is
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coming to know the the true character of god
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exactly who who is he really because
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if we don't know that his character if we don't know this goodness that he can't
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he can't live in opposition himself we will not we will live in anxiety we will
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not be able to be at peace and another thing you you alluded to Marjorie just
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a moment ago is about if we have this third kingdom,
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we throw everything into a third kingdom.
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The things that we don't understand, we think, oh, it's just fate. It was just an accident.
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It's something we just don't understand.
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It's luck. It's an enigma. It's luck. It's karma. It's whatever it is.
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A coincidence. A coincidence.
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All this sort of thing. How much confusion, How much confusion does that bring us?
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And how much does that drain away any hope that we have if we've got this third
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category where so much of life drops into that?
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Exactly. Because we don't want to deal with it. Because we don't want to figure it out.
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Because we've been taught, programmed to believe there are three kingdoms and
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we're in control of things.
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But the thing is.
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So Jesus said, how are you going to discern this? How are you going to know
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the truth? How are you going to know what is the truth?
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Well, rightly dividing the holy word of God, which by the way,
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has been many times divided incorrectly all along the way, deliberately by the
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enemy or by the confusions he's put in the hearts of men.
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But rightly dividing that word has to bring a single conclusion that agrees
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with itself, so to speak.
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So there are two kingdoms. So this means means, Jesus said that this way,
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Matthew 7, 13, I think, by their fruits, you shall know them.
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By you see what's coming out of a person, by their lifestyle,
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by their behavior, by their words, by their decisions, you will see who and
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what they're listening to. It's either going to be God or the devil.
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It's either going to be confusion, anxiety, fear, self-preservation,
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or it's going to be rest, truth, and trust in God.
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So by their fruits, you shall know them. so there can only be two kingdoms for
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that declaration to actually work.
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So you say, where's this from?
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You're troubled with something. Someone's saying something. Something's coming
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out of your own mouth. You're hearing something on the TV.
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You say, okay, what is that reduced down to?
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What is what they're saying reduced down to? Does it bring me peace?
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Does it bring me hope? Does it bring me joy?
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Does it bring me hope in the future? Or does it bring terror and fear and dread?
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You know that's one thing so there's only
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two kingdoms there's one rule whom you yield yourself
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servant to obey and then there's this other thing that we
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try to avoid talk around and and don't embrace is that a christian a believer
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a follower in jesus can actually be we will call it demonized they can have
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demons they can have to live not agreeing with that you have no explanations for or anything.
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Oh, here's the explanation is that it's problems with your flesh.
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Oh yeah. It's your, it's your sinful human nature. Here's my problem.
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That's popping out. Okay. Here's my problem. Okay. If my problems in my body, I have a body. Okay.
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And my problem with my body is that it's my liver.
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My liver always gets me in trouble. My liver always disobeys.
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My liver doesn't do anything to help me. So how am I going to live without my liver?
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I don't know. How am I going to live in this natural body by being mad at my flesh.
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The Bible says, in my flesh dwells no good thing, in my flesh, in.
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He says, then he says, the flesh, the body, is fearfully and wonderfully made.
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So two sides, opposite sides of the same coin. So which is it?
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In my flesh. Paul says he figured this out. Paul actually figured this out in Romans chapter seven.
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I love God. I agree with the law of God that is good, but I see this war going on inside of me.
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And he's a Christian at this time. Inside of me, the one who wills to do good.
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He says, with my inward man, I agree with the law of God that is good.
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He says, but I see this war going inside of me, causing me to do what I do not want to do.
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He says, and then in verse 720 and 717, if I'm doing what I do not want to do,
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it's not me doing it. Oh, what?
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It's a sin that dwells within me. Oh, but we've erased that.
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We've obscured that because we want everybody to to take responsibility so that
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Satan wants us to take responsibility for the sin we are doing or believing
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or participating in so we can lay guilt on us,
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so he can play his demonic judgment upon us and make us think it's God.
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Now, if I sin, when I sin, Jesus said, you will, when you sin, confess your sin.
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First John, he was talking to believers. He says, when you sin,
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God is faithful and just. Confess your sin, repent.
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Those two things. And God is faithful to forgive us. But the devil says,
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no, no, no, no. We're not going to do it that way. We're not going to confess and repent.
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We're going to try harder to be good. And we're going to feel really bad and guilty.
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And we're going to accept all this demonic judgment of pain and poverty and
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infirmity on our bodies until we pay for the sin we just committed.
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So it's all about people think they have to pay for your sin. No, no, no.
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Jesus paid it all. He paid it all. He paid in full 2,000 years ago before you
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even got sick, before you even had pain, before you even had issues,
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Jesus bought and paid for all of our afflictions.
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But so what is this then? A Christian can have a demon. Well,
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you can surely have a tumor.
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You can have a, you know, but what is this?
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A Christian who is addicted, a Christian who's trying to quit,
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stop using what they can't stop.
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People, Christians full of perversions, life controlling habits,
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suicidal ideation, self-injury, anorexia, gossip, bitterness.
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What is that? Is that from heaven?
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Or is that from hell? And if it's, where is it from? Well, it's from, obviously.
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Not heaven. And it's from hell. Yeah. And it's the influence of Satan.
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It's basically lies and lies that we believe and behaviors that have affected
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us, affected our DNA from generations past as well. Here's the deal.
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We can't explain our demonic behavior and activity and all of these afflictions
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that are upon us without putting the devil in the equation.
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And also without putting the devil in us because he's acting in us,
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promoting his agenda in us and through our weakness, the weakness of our flesh.
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Our flesh is not bad, but it is weak and vulnerable. We need things,
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and so Satan uses our need and our lack to put pressure on us to do things to
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fix and take away the pains and the afflictions he's put upon us. Does that make sense?
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Yeah, it makes sense. And so what happens is.
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We've got this influence upon us.
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We're so vulnerable. Like you said, we're so vulnerable to the lies of the enemy.
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We don't even believe these are lies.
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He's affecting our thoughts. He's implanting thoughts.
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You know, it's like, can the devil read your mind?
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People ask that, can the devil read your mind? That's a pointless question to ask.
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It really is, but the thing is what happened. He doesn't have to read your mind
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if he's just putting his thoughts in your mind.
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But see, here's the problem. We've caught it. We've painted ourself into a corner.
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We're saying a Christian cannot have a demonic influence or can't be tempted,
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but you're tempted all the time. Where are you tempted?
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In your mind. Where's your brain? Where's your head? Where's your mind?
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Inside of you. So the devil is in there stirring up your thoughts,
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creating, impersonating you, getting you to think your thoughts are your thoughts,
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but they're actually his thoughts presented to you as your thoughts.
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And so he can get you to act on them. So it's not, it's, you know what our bottom line fears?
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That if I have a demon, I am a demon. That's the bottom line.
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But I'm not a demon. I'm never going to be a demon. I'm always going to be a
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human, even if I go to hell. And the fact is, I can have a rat in my house without being a rat.
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Now, I can live with the rat, I can deny the rat, I can feed the rat,
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or I can get rid of the rat.
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What do you want to do? Paul, in Romans chapter 7, saw the separation between
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himself and the sin that dwells within him.
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And the thing is, too, we just recently, a friend of ours just really got this
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revelation going that some of this stuff that's been going on in his life,
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a bulk of it, the bulk of it, was not him.
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And if we don't, yeah. Well, you can see the difference between who you are,
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who you are, and what's going on within you.
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See, that's the problem. People can never resolve their sinful behavior by,
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you know, within themselves.
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They cannot, you know, if we're made in the image of God, and yet we're saddled
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with a sinful human nature, and I hate the things that I do.
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If I do the things I hate, then to get rid of the things I hate,
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I've got to get rid of myself.
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This doesn't work. This does not work to solve the problem. This works to create suicidal ideation.
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So we have to realize that in my flesh, as Paul says, there's something going
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on inside of me that's not me, that's causing me to do what I don't want to do.
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And I need to recognize that. I need to take the responsibility to recognize
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that thing is not me and has done this.
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The devil, the demons actually, they project their appetites,
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their perversions onto us, and they actually can take over people's bodies, literally.
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It only happens if we have been persuaded through fear to give them permission to do that.
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And most people are persuaded to give fear place in their lives when they're
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tiny, when they're little, when they're even in the womb, when they're being
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sexually abused at four years old, whatever it is.
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There is no way they're going to resist the devil because they don't even know what the deal is.
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They don't even know what the war is. They don't even know what the devil is
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doing. They don't know there is a devil.
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But then when we get older, we grow up, then Satan wants to indoctrinate us
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with, oh, well, it's your sinful human nature because you have a sinful human
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nature. So they use that term, which is not even in the Bible.
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The Bible says we sin. Yes, we sin. Human beings sin.
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But the Bible says we're made in the image of God. Therefore, we have a divine nature.
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That means our first nature, our one true nature is to love what God loves and
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hate what he hates because God made us in his image, in his likeness.
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He did not make us to be perverted.
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He did not make us to be bipolar.
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He did not make us to be hateful. He made us to know and love the truth.
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And the two things we hate, because we love what God loves and hate what he
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hates, are the same two things God hates.
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He hates injustice and he hates sin. When we sin, we feel guilty.
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When things aren't fair, we get mad.
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So we have a divine nature, but we're thrown into the snake pit down here.
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And we believe that we are what we do. We believe that the mud,
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and everybody says, look at the mud on you.
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Oh, it is your fault. You did it on purpose. You fell in the mud.
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You're bad. And so Satan wants us to believe we're bad. And so he can help us to be good.
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He wants to save us in his way. Satan's salvation message is work harder,
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try harder. You're never going to make it, but work hard anyway.
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And then you give up. You get fearful. Then you don't like God anymore because where's God?
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Why isn't God helping me? Because you're not listening to him, basically.
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You try to do the reprogram yourself with self-help books and recovery programs, good works.
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Treatment. That just basically makes it worse. Makes it worse.
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It makes it worse. So if something is getting worse, go back to the principle,
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by their fruits, you shall know them.
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So if something is not working, guess what?
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It is not working. And therefore it is not working. So therefore stop doing
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it. Go back to the book, go back to settle down.
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You know, here's what we need to do. Make your peace with God.
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First of all, by knowing that God loves you, he is good and he is for you, not against you.
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And all the things that he has made to look out like he's bad and,
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you know, doing all these crazy things, he is doing those actually to protect us.
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His purposes, his actions were always and always are for our good,
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for our salvation, for our redemption, to protect us even in the flood.
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He was washing away all of the vile confusion in the DNA, all the hybridization
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and the cross-pollination of human beings to preserve the true identity of a
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human being through Noah,
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to bring us to Bethlehem, to bring us to the place where Jesus could be born.
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And so here, you know, there's much to this. There's much more we can say about
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this, and we always seem to be talking about this.
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But there's so many things we can say.
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But I want to just end this with a little piece of an analogy of a puzzle.
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A puzzle. puzzle okay this is kind of how where we're at the we're commissioned
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to put together a thousand piece puzzle it's called life okay and you've got
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all these pieces laying around in this box some people are better at than others
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they know how to start it out and get the border going blah blah.
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What happens if you are missing pieces? How are you going to get the full final
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picture of your life and what it's supposed to be if you're,
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number one, missing pieces, or you're forcing pieces to fit into places where they don't fit,
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or the worst of all, you're being handed pieces from another puzzle that don't
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belong in the picture in the first place.
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Satan is handing a lot of these theological explanations and puzzle pieces out
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that don't even and match the original picture, plan, or purpose of God.
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And he's promoting these as pieces of the true gospel, the true story of Jesus
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Christ in our life, but they're not.
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So that's what happens then. Well, we get sick of the puzzle.
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We let the puzzle just sit unfinished. So we never get the whole picture. We never get the truth.
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And we never know the beauty of what God has for us.
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So, what can we say? In defense of human beings, part of our deal is we need
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to understand that God loves us. We are good.
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We don't do good things all the time, and the reason we don't is because we're
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tempted and we fall for the lies of the devil because we believe the lies that
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what he is saying is more important than what God is saying, and that's bottom line.
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The bottom line, the two kingdoms, God and Satan, are trying to get us to leverage
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our free will to vote for them, and when you vote for God, you get blessed.
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When you vote for the devil, you get in trouble.
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And then the devil says, oh, but it's God's attitude.
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And so you see the confusions here. So going back to rightly dividing the word
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of God and the truth, we could speak on this all day.
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We could speak on this all day. But for now, we're just going to say,
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it's time for you to be quiet.
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Seek the Lord. Take off your religious glasses and read the Bible.
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Get a clean copy, without all the commentaries. Please avoid the commentaries.
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They're just worthless.
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They're somebody else's ideas, and some of them are helpful.
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I know. The concordance is sometimes helpful because you can find the verses faster.
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But let us just be quiet and listen to the Lord and let the Holy Spirit,
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Holy Spirit who's been sent to live in us, to help us to rightly divide the Word of God's truth.
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Lord, help us to have that revelation of your true character,
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Victor, who you really are and who we really are and what that relationship is all about.
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Help us open our eyes to see that, Lord. Lord, deliver us from the theological
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clutter, from the lies that we've believed, the traditions that we maybe have held to.
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So, Lord, just pray that you'd clear that debris out of our lives,
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out of our minds, out of our hearts that we will see you for who you really are.
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That we'll see your word for what it really is.
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And so we thank you, Lord, for each one that's listening at this time.
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And thank you, Father, for the good work that you're doing in us, Lord.
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You came to set us free. You came to love us.
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You came to bring us into our full destiny, the plan that you have for us.
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We reject the plans of the enemy.
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We receive, Lord, your plan, your purpose. us one step at a time,
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one time, one moment at a time.
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Help us to hear your voice and do what you say, because you always have the very best in mind for us.
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And we thank you for that, Father, in Jesus' name.
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Yes, Father God. And we thank you for the opportunities to speak and share and
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preach and pray and declare the goodness of God.
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Father God, I pray that you give people ears to hear this, a heart to receive
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it, to exchange the lie and the programming of the enemy for the truth.
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And thank you, Paul, for telling us that not everything that we think,
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see, feel, say, and do is us, although it is acting and operating through us,
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which makes it look like us.
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So, Father God, we pray that you'd give us wisdom to discern that, the difference,
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and that we would truly respond to the call of your heart to follow you and
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enter into that love covenant it with you, Father, in Jesus' name,
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because we're going to need it in the days to come. Amen.
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Marjorie, tell us about your latest book. I just did.
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Spiritual Warfare. It's all in there about the rules of the war, the free will.
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Can I even begin to explain it all, Lord? There's so much.
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It's very simple, actually. If you want to really get a simplified,
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clear, clean understanding and explanation of what's going on in the war,
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spiritual warfare and how deliverance can change your life is the way to go.
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You can get it on amazon.com and we encourage you to do that. Have a great day.
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