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Light Fighters [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: Warner Family. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: the Morning Devo. Is your brother. Sam Lopez aka DJ
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Speaker 1: that way I'm gonna go over like I tend to do.
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Speaker 1: So listen, We're here for another Morning Devo. Amen. And
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Speaker 1: today I'm calling this one lights Fighters, Lights Fighters. Amen.
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Speaker 1: We're not against light, We're against darkness. We come against darkness.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Christian Business Forum for sharing this on your
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Speaker 1: people that just came in. Light Fighters, listen to this statement.
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Speaker 1: Hell is not shaken by your church attendants. And we
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Speaker 1: understand that I go to church, so you know, enemy can't. No,
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Speaker 1: Hell is not shaken by your church attendants. Hell is
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Speaker 1: not intimidated by your church music playlist. Right. Hell is
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Speaker 1: not concerned with your spirit to talk. But the moment
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Speaker 1: you change, the moment holy Spirit lives inside of you,
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Speaker 1: the moment you give your life to heart, in your
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Speaker 1: heart to Christ, the moment you put your faith, hope
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Speaker 1: and trust in the Lord, the moment God transforms something
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Speaker 1: real in your life, all of hell takes notice. Amen.
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Speaker 1: The devil and the demons, they shrugged their shoulders at
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Speaker 1: spiritual talk, they strugged their shoulders at church attendants. Amen.
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Speaker 1: But once they see the transformation, once they see the
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Speaker 1: seal of the holy ghosts, the Holy Spirit God inside, living, breathing, talking, leading,
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Speaker 1: teaching and reminding us of who Jesus is, then all
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Speaker 1: of hell takes notice. Amen. So we can't escape the
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Speaker 1: fact that hell is against us. But we are filled
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Speaker 1: of Holy Spirit and the lights of God, the light
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Speaker 1: of Christ. So we become light fighters fighting against darkness.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be in John chapter one, verse number five,
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Speaker 1: John chapter one, verse number five. If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
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Speaker 1: those who are always on him obile device. So let's
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Speaker 1: go forward. We're gonna pray first. After we pray with
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Speaker 1: shad us out for like sixty seconds, and then on
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Speaker 1: the other side of those sixty seconds, we'll get right
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Speaker 1: into today's scripture. I'm calling this one lights fighters a man.
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Speaker 1: Trust me, is gonna make sense when we come and
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Speaker 1: read a scripture together. Father, I thank you that we
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Speaker 1: are more than conquerous through Christ Jesus, who gives us
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Speaker 1: the strength to get every single mission done according to
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Speaker 1: your willing purpose for our lives. I pray low God
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Speaker 1: that you would continue to guide us and guard us.
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Speaker 1: I pray I had your protection over my brothers and
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Speaker 1: sisters in Christ, my brothers and sisters, and through blood
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Speaker 1: all over myself, my wife, our children, our grandchildren, our
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Speaker 1: family members, from the very youngest to the oldest. I
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Speaker 1: pray peace, protection, the power of God doing the mispower
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Speaker 1: by way of Holy Spirit. I pray that over every
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Speaker 1: single person that's listening or watching right now that's on
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Speaker 1: the other side of this mic, on the other side
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Speaker 1: of the screen, the power of God that will touch
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Speaker 1: your heart, touch your mind, feel the presence of the Lord,
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Speaker 1: and the Lord will fill your room, will fill your
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Speaker 1: temple with his love, grace and mercy. I prayed this
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Speaker 1: by faith. We are life fighters. Thank you, Lord God,
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Speaker 1: that the principalities and the devil, the demons, and all
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Speaker 1: the demonic influence that's in this world cannot defeat your
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Speaker 1: purpose in the life of your children, of your child.
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Speaker 1: I thank you, Lord God that we are part of
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Speaker 1: the body, that you have adopted us into the body
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Speaker 1: of Christ. And I prayed, O God, that we will
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Speaker 1: forever be grateful and know that you are King of
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Speaker 1: Kings and Lord of Lords, and that you have saved
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Speaker 1: us for a purpose, plan and reason for this side
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Speaker 1: all eternity. So thank you Lord God for your power.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Lord God for your love. Thank you Lord
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Speaker 1: God for your forgiveness. And thank you Lord God that
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Speaker 1: we can continue to come together and be life fighters
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Speaker 1: together united on the one Spirit, one faith, one church,
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Speaker 1: one God, one baptism. We thank you, Lord God for
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Speaker 1: the unified word that you have given us, and that
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Speaker 1: you have placed deep in our heart and so and
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Speaker 1: that you renewed our mind and renewed our heart and
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Speaker 1: actually replaced our mind with the mind of Christ, and
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Speaker 1: replaced our heartest stone, with a heart of flesh filled
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Speaker 1: with your desires. And Jesus Holy Name, I prayed. It's
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Speaker 1: by faith with thanksgiving. And all those who agree with
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Speaker 1: this prayer, we say yes and Amen to the Amen.
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Speaker 1: So let's go forward. Also, let me pray real quickly
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Speaker 1: for my boy Jonathan, my brother in Christ, a man
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Speaker 1: for his mom. Amen. Just a prayer request going out
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Speaker 1: for his mom for health. In Jesus Name, I pray health.
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Speaker 1: I speak life to our body right now. I speak encouragement.
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Speaker 1: I speak peace to him, his mom and his family,
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Speaker 1: that they would come united under one faith, one God,
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Speaker 1: one hope, and trust the Lord in the process. And
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Speaker 1: Jesus Holy Name, my prayer is by faith. Amen to
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Speaker 1: the Amen. To help me share this out sixty seconds.
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Speaker 1: When I come back, we'll get right into today's morning Devo.
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Speaker 1: I'll be right back a man. Thank you so much
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Speaker 1: we could spread this gospel message further and deeper into
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Speaker 1: the places where people normally will not be exposed to
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Speaker 1: the gospel message. So thank you so much, Brother John,
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Speaker 1: I see you. Good morning, yes, and amen to the amen.
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Speaker 1: Great morning to Oh yes, it's a great morning, a
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Speaker 1: new start, a new day. Amen. And let's see what
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Speaker 1: the Lord will do. So we'll rejoice and be glad.
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Speaker 1: And in the day that the Lord created. Amen, He's
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Speaker 1: the creator. I remind myself every day that God is
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Speaker 1: the creator, not me, not you. Amen. But together God
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Speaker 1: gets the glory. Amen. And we give them the next
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Speaker 1: feel or how we think our walk is not based
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Speaker 1: on feelings, Good Lord, thank you Jesus, because if our
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Speaker 1: war was based on feelings, this will be such a
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Speaker 1: roller coaster. Amen. We will not be stable. We would
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Speaker 1: be so unstable, we will be double minded. Amen. If
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Speaker 1: God revealed to us everything that was gonna happen in
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Speaker 1: our lives as we continue to serve Him, as we
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Speaker 1: were serving him. I don't think a lot of us
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Speaker 1: will hold on to his promises if he showed us
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Speaker 1: what's happening right now in the spiritual realm, spiritual war
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Speaker 1: going on, but with light fighters. He gave us the light, Amen.
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Speaker 1: He gave us the heart to fight the good fight
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Speaker 1: of faith. Amen. So we're gonna continue on in that
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Speaker 1: mode right there. So here it is light fighters, Amen,
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Speaker 1: today in the morning devo. And of course I put
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Speaker 1: some kind of guide that looks like a fighter. A
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Speaker 1: man just put that there. It looks like street fighter,
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Speaker 1: or looks like a Mortal Kombat type of vibe. Amen.
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Speaker 1: But this is what I felt the Lord was showing me.
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Speaker 1: John shot the one verse number five, the Bible says,
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Speaker 1: the light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness
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Speaker 1: did not understand it, or overpower it, or appropriate it,
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Speaker 1: or absorb it, and is unreceptive to it. You could
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Speaker 1: also see this in the very first book of the Bible,
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Speaker 1: not chronologically, but the way it's formatted in Genesis, chapter one,
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Speaker 1: verse number three. So the light shines on in the darkness.
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Speaker 1: So there's light shining in the darkness, and the darkness
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Speaker 1: doesn't understand it. A lot of times people fear what
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Speaker 1: they don't understand. So when you are just walking, minding
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Speaker 1: your business, doing what you do, Amen, you walk in
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Speaker 1: with the light of Christ blazing through you. You walk
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Speaker 1: in some situations that the darkness in people, that the
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Speaker 1: darkness that they're in, they don't understand it. And a
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Speaker 1: lot of times what people don't understand, they fear it
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Speaker 1: or they get angry about it because they can't figure
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Speaker 1: it out. But we're light fighters. So darkness did not
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Speaker 1: understand it or overpowered or appropriate it or absorb and
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Speaker 1: it's unreceptive to it. But we are receivers of Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit light. We are receivers of the spirit of God.
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Speaker 1: We are receivers of the blazing light of Christ. So
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Speaker 1: we become light fighters for the glory of God. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna break this down in a minute. I
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Speaker 1: got my notes, amen, because I just can't leave you
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Speaker 1: like that because it won't make any sense to a
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Speaker 1: lot of people. But hopefully this will make more sense
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Speaker 1: when I go through the notes and the reasoning behind
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Speaker 1: why I call them this light fighters. So light threatens darkness. Right,
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Speaker 1: Let's be honest. When you walk, sometimes you gotta do
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Speaker 1: show up. I say, I've been in situations that you
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Speaker 1: just walk in a place, or you walk into a
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Speaker 1: certain atmosphere and the atmosphere is like looking at you,
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Speaker 1: and the people are looking at you, like what are
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Speaker 1: you doing here? And I'm like, I thought this was
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Speaker 1: a public place. I thought this was a restaurant. I
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Speaker 1: thought this was a museum. I thought this was a hospital.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about, Right, You walk into
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Speaker 1: some places and you just feel like the darkness trying to, like,
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Speaker 1: you know, overpower you or something. But then you keep
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Speaker 1: on walking. You walk with kindness, will walk with love. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And if all else fails, you just mentioned the name
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Speaker 1: of Jesus Yashi wahamashik and watch what happens. Then demons tremble,
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Speaker 1: Darkness flees, Darkness goes away, Amen, because they know that
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Speaker 1: we're coming on mission, on purpose, for the plans that
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Speaker 1: God has for us. So light threatens darkness. So when
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Speaker 1: transformation brings light into your life and into my life,
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Speaker 1: the enemy fights, but he can't win. Period. The enemy
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Speaker 1: cannot win. He has his little victories and his little
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Speaker 1: moments when he manipulates. If you ever try to have
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Speaker 1: an argument with the devil, you're gonna lose. He's a liar,
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Speaker 1: a man. It's like you go into the courtroom representing
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Speaker 1: yourself and the company that or the person that's trying
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Speaker 1: to go against you sends the best lawyers in the world. Right,
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Speaker 1: try to lie and try to convince the judge that
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Speaker 1: you are guilty when you know you're innocent. Well, the
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Speaker 1: devil is a liar. I would never suggest or advise
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Speaker 1: anyone to have a conversation with him. Amen, No way,
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Speaker 1: he's a liar. He'll bring up your past in detail,
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Speaker 1: almost right, and then he'll get you and feeling some
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Speaker 1: kind of shame, some kind of guilt for something you
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Speaker 1: did ten twenty thirty years ago. Well, we don't want that,
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Speaker 1: we don't need that. Amen. I'll just conversate with the Lord. Amen,
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Speaker 1: repeat what the Lord has you to repeat. Speak words
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Speaker 1: of life. Speak. Lights go in light, walk in light,
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Speaker 1: and not in darkness. So we're light fighters because when
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Speaker 1: we show up, we bring the light of Christ. We
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Speaker 1: threaten darkness. And then when the enemy sees the transformation,
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Speaker 1: that's bringing light into our hearts and into our eyes
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Speaker 1: and into our life. And we're bringing that same light
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Speaker 1: among our family members. Among friends, and the work at school,
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Speaker 1: everywhere we go. Then the enemy tries to fight against that,
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Speaker 1: but he can't win, not win. In Collagens, Chapter one,
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Speaker 1: verse thirteen, the Bible says, for he has rescued us
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Speaker 1: from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the
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Speaker 1: kingdom of the sun he loves. So when transformations pulls
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Speaker 1: you out of the enemy's territory, when the Lord pulls
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Speaker 1: you out from darkness into his marvelous light, hell is threatened.
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Speaker 1: Why because it loses its dominion over you, and it
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Speaker 1: lost its dominion over me as well. So now Hell
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Speaker 1: is mad like you. Like Jesus comes in to the
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Speaker 1: kingdom of Hell and snatches us out, takes us out
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Speaker 1: for all those who are willing to listen, those who
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Speaker 1: have eyes to see and ears to listen. Jesus will
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Speaker 1: take us from the darkness into light. That's what he
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Speaker 1: did to me. That's what he did to so many
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Speaker 1: people out there who believe in him. We know where
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Speaker 1: we were, We know where we were headed. Amen, although
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Speaker 1: we were blinded by the world a man, we knew
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Speaker 1: deep down the side that we were in the wrong spot,
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Speaker 1: the wrong place, going in the wrong direction. And we
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Speaker 1: knew we were in darkness. Amen. We were making the similar,
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Speaker 1: same common mistakes every single time. Because we were slaves
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Speaker 1: to sin. We had no power to go against the grain.
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Speaker 1: We had no power to go against the dark forces.
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Speaker 1: But then when Jesus showed up, him being the lights,
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Speaker 1: him being the Life, him being the Way, him being
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Speaker 1: the Truth, he snatches us from the darkness and brings
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Speaker 1: us into his marvelous light. So when Hell loses its dominion,
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Speaker 1: Hell loses its power over you and over me. Amen.
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Speaker 1: They know that they are weak, they know that they
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Speaker 1: have lost, They know that they are threatened. And the
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Speaker 1: enemy's territory. Yeah, we go into them places, and men
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Speaker 1: don't go along, go preyed up. We go into these
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Speaker 1: enemies territories on mission, on a purpose to win souls
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Speaker 1: for the glory of God. We don't transform the soul,
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Speaker 1: we don't save the soul, but we could win them
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Speaker 1: over with the Gospel message using what God gives us
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Speaker 1: to use. The tools and weapons of our warfare are
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Speaker 1: the Word of God, which brings healing, and which brings life,
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Speaker 1: which brings salvation, which brings good news, which brings power,
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Speaker 1: which brings light. Amen, how about this, We spoke about
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Speaker 1: this the other day Romans twelve two. The renewing of
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Speaker 1: our mind is a weapon, and that weapon is a
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Speaker 1: transformed mind, not to be transformed or conformed into this
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Speaker 1: world's customs, but to be transformed by the renewing of
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Speaker 1: the mind. So when your mind is transformed, when your
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Speaker 1: mind's renewed, right, you can't be manipulated by the enemy
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Speaker 1: the same way. You can't be manipulated by dark forces,
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Speaker 1: the same way. Satan fears believers who think the way
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Speaker 1: the Lord thinks. Satan. The devil fears believers who have
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Speaker 1: the mind of Christ. Satan. The devil fears believers who
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Speaker 1: have the light of God shining through them. And we're
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Speaker 1: not afraid to shine our light so others could see
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Speaker 1: the glory of God that lives in us, so much
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Speaker 1: so that if they ask us how we're living and
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Speaker 1: how we're living the way we live, we give them
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Speaker 1: the Gospel and we introduce them to the King of
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Speaker 1: Kings and the Lord of lords, the Lord Jesus, the Christ. Amen,
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Speaker 1: Sister Joanne, I see you, good morning, God bless you.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the morning deve with my sister, my friend.
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Speaker 1: So when God delivers us from our old ways. The
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Speaker 1: enemy tries to return right, to try to slip us
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Speaker 1: up in the same way we used to get slipped up,
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Speaker 1: but he's too late Matthew twelve forty three to forty five.
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Speaker 1: When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it
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Speaker 1: goes and finds seven other spirits more wicked, and they
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Speaker 1: go in and live there. That's when your temple is
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Speaker 1: unoccupied a man. I truly don't believe that holy gold,
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Speaker 1: spirit filled child of God can be possessed by a demon.
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Speaker 1: At the same time, there's just no way what I
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Speaker 1: think is going on most of the time when you
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Speaker 1: see these deliverances, I think the people who are proclaiming
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Speaker 1: to be Christian who are born again, they might be saved, right,
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Speaker 1: they are actually fighting against the flesh, and they're being
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Speaker 1: deceived and manipulated by the enemy, and they're weak in
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Speaker 1: certain areas in their lives, and they're allowing the enemy
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Speaker 1: to take dominion over certain areas of their heart and
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Speaker 1: over certain areas of their thinking, over certain areas of
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Speaker 1: their life. But if they're born again, they are not
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Speaker 1: possessed Amen, They're not dominated by a demon. They're being
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Speaker 1: deceived at that point so we pray, we rebuke, and
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Speaker 1: we cast out demons. Amen. When God cleans and transformed
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Speaker 1: a life. Amen. The enemy attempts to come back stronger
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Speaker 1: because he hates losing ground. But when he sees that
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Speaker 1: light inside your temple, he'd be like, nah, I'm not
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Speaker 1: going in there. The demons be like, nah, I'm not
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Speaker 1: going in there. Let's leave and let's try to go
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Speaker 1: somewhere else. Right. So, when you lay hands on somebody
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Speaker 1: and you cast out demons in the name of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: I think what you should do immediately after that, Amen,
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Speaker 1: Because it's gonna happen. Demons flee, they tremble at the
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Speaker 1: name of Jesus. So when we come with the authority
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Speaker 1: under the another thing of the power of God, cast
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Speaker 1: out demons. Right, that's what we can do. According to
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Speaker 1: the scriptures, it says it Jesus up. Jesus gave us
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Speaker 1: the authority to cast out demons. I suggest right afterwards
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Speaker 1: you introduce them to Christ, take them and teach them
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Speaker 1: how to be filled with the Holy Ghost. Amen. That
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Speaker 1: they need to trust Jesus. At that point. They need
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Speaker 1: to be filled with the spirit of God. Amen. Needs
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Speaker 1: to be in the word. It needs to be surrounded
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Speaker 1: by believers. If not, you just made a show spectacle
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Speaker 1: of a demon. Yeah, people will be wooed and wild
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Speaker 1: that we have the authority to cast out demons. But
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Speaker 1: what about that soul, that person that the demon left.
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Speaker 1: If they come back and return and see a clean
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Speaker 1: temple but no occupant, nobody in there, no Holy spirit
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Speaker 1: in there, they're gonna come back and it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: worse for that person. I made that mistake early in ministry, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and it's one of those things that I said, Wow,
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Speaker 1: I will never do that again. Amen. But God is faithful.
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Speaker 1: God forgives Amen. And of trusting God to whatever blender
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Speaker 1: I made. Amen in that person's life, that God will
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Speaker 1: send someone that's mature enough to get it done right. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I believe we play a part when we're going around
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Speaker 1: casting out demons. Amen for show. And I didn't do
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Speaker 1: it for show. I just did it out of love
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Speaker 1: and concern for that young person. I believe that there's
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Speaker 1: believers out there not doing this for show. There's mature
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Speaker 1: believers that know, Okay, now that the demons out, let's
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Speaker 1: get the soul into the Kingdom of God. Let's try
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Speaker 1: to convince and then allow God to do the rest. Amen.
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Speaker 1: We can't save nobody. We can't convince nobody that Jesus
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Speaker 1: is God and Jesus Lord. But something tells me, once
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Speaker 1: a demon comes out of a person, now now they're
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Speaker 1: open to reasoning. Now they could see, now they could hear.
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Speaker 1: And when you present the gospel message at that point,
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Speaker 1: I believe they're more receptive to that message. Now they
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Speaker 1: deny it, to reject the message of the Gospel. After
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Speaker 1: the demon is out, then you know, we just got
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Speaker 1: to keep them in prayer. And maybe maybe that person
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Speaker 1: needs some kind of rehabilitation, maybe they need to go
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Speaker 1: to a program or something like that. But we trust
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Speaker 1: and believe that God will save the soul for those
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Speaker 1: who are willing aman to listen to the gospel and
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Speaker 1: who need truth, not just happiness, right, they need truth
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Speaker 1: and the truth and the way in the life is
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Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus Christ. The way, the truth and the life.
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Speaker 1: When God cleans and transforms the life. The enemy has
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Speaker 1: to go is when the enemy sees the light and
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Speaker 1: they no longer see the darkness in that person. Amen,
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Speaker 1: the enemy gotta go, and the person who is saved
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Speaker 1: born again rescue delivered sealed by holy ghosts. Amen. It
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Speaker 1: becomes a light fighter. Where we have the light of
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Speaker 1: Christ and we're fighting against darkness. We have a new
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Speaker 1: identity in Christ. I remember when I first got saved,
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Speaker 1: ask the Lord two questions, how am I gonna not
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Speaker 1: be tempted to go back to the same old ways
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Speaker 1: that I used to He gave me first Corinthians tent thirteen.
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Speaker 1: And then I asked him, how am I going to
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Speaker 1: go and explain this to my wife at the time
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Speaker 1: we were separate separated? He gave me tewod Corinthians five seventeen,
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Speaker 1: which says that if anyone is in Christ, he is
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Speaker 1: a new creation. The old has gone, the new has come. Amen.
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Speaker 1: In other words, once I was the old person walking
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Speaker 1: in darkness. Now I'm a new person walking in the light,
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Speaker 1: and I'm a light fighter. So becoming new, becoming new
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Speaker 1: is a direct threat to the old kingdom that we
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Speaker 1: came from. We used to be in the kingdom of darkness.
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Speaker 1: We used to be in the kingdom of this world,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of us are still there. A lot
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Speaker 1: of people are still there, excuse me, and a lot
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Speaker 1: of us who were there. We know that man. We
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Speaker 1: made it out. But a lot of people that we
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Speaker 1: love are still in that kingdom, and they're thriving in
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Speaker 1: the kingdom of darkness, unfortunately, because the enemy is showing
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Speaker 1: them and giving them and inspiring them to do things
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Speaker 1: that are oppose to the Lord. But it looks friendly,
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Speaker 1: it looks good, it looks like it's okay. You know,
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Speaker 1: it could be money, fame, popularity. Now, social media influencing
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Speaker 1: and all this other stuff could be blinding a lot
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Speaker 1: of people, right and the purpose that God really has
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Speaker 1: for them a man will be like muffled and they
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Speaker 1: won't see it clearly a man, and they won't know,
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Speaker 1: and they won't they would think people are hating on them.
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Speaker 1: When we come with the godspel message or we come
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Speaker 1: with a word for their lives, they might be saying, now,
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Speaker 1: that's less than what I have going on right now.
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Speaker 1: So we have to pray, stay in prayer, bring the
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Speaker 1: light of Christ into the situation. And God will do
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Speaker 1: the transformation. He would do the saving, he would do
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Speaker 1: the revelation. He will reveal himself to those who are
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Speaker 1: looking for the true, living, holy, righteous God, and Jesus
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Speaker 1: will appear to those people. Right. So, becoming new is
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Speaker 1: a threat to the old. Right, when you're a new person,
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Speaker 1: you know how you could walk into newness. And we
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Speaker 1: don't have to walk into darkness no more. We don't
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Speaker 1: have to walk in the old ways no more. A
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Speaker 1: man and the devil's threatened by that. Hell is threatened
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Speaker 1: by that. And we need to go and be light fighters.
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Speaker 1: And listen, don't be afraid to shine your light. You're
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Speaker 1: gonna be shining your light anyway everywhere you go. So
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Speaker 1: don't try to hide under a bushel, don't try to
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Speaker 1: hide the light of Christ that's living inside of you,
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Speaker 1: and go to the back of the room or something,
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Speaker 1: or hide in the closet of something. Come out of
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Speaker 1: the closet. Everybody else is punintended. Come out of that
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Speaker 1: closet and show the glory of God showed the light
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Speaker 1: of crisis in you a man, and preach the gospel
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Speaker 1: with love and kindness and gentleness. Very important. Enemy targets
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Speaker 1: targets what God is growing. God is growing a new
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Speaker 1: seed in the life of a believer. He's growing these things.
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Speaker 1: Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was
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Speaker 1: sown in the people who are are kind of wishy
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Speaker 1: washy with their salvation that they set a prayer, maybe
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Speaker 1: at the altar at a church or at a Christian event,
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Speaker 1: and they set a prayer and they say, Okay, I'm
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Speaker 1: saved now, and then they ran right back to their
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Speaker 1: old ways because nobody's discipling them. Or to be fair,
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Speaker 1: they're not going around people who can decide with them.
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Speaker 1: They're not joining a church, they're not joining a church community.
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Speaker 1: They're not going to Bible study, they're not doing more
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Speaker 1: in devotion. So they say they say to say the prayer,
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Speaker 1: and the enemy said, okay, you saved now, I'll come
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Speaker 1: right back. And that's not the way it is either.
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Speaker 1: Once you're born again, Amen, you have to seek out
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Speaker 1: the other born again people. You have to get taught
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Speaker 1: disciples right so that way you can stay in the faith,
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Speaker 1: thrive in the faith, learn from the Lord. Amen, Because
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Speaker 1: if you try to do it on your own, then
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Speaker 1: that seed that was supposedly planted right, it wasn't sown
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Speaker 1: a good ground. And when when the enemy knows that
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Speaker 1: that seed is still in darkness, he'll snatch that word
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Speaker 1: that was sown into you and try to take it
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Speaker 1: out a man. The enemy attacks the moment your salvation begins.
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Speaker 1: The enemy attacks the moment he sees the light of
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Speaker 1: Christ coming. The enemy attacks the moment transformation begins. He
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Speaker 1: wants to steal what God has just planted. Haven't you noticed?
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Speaker 1: You could be at a church service man, and the
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Speaker 1: preaching is good. Everybody's hallow louing and hallowo, and everything's
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Speaker 1: going good. And when you leave out of that environment,
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Speaker 1: someone asked you, so I was church, and you say, man,
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Speaker 1: it was great. What was the message about? And you're like,
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Speaker 1: you don't remember. It's crazy, right, It's because the enemy
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Speaker 1: tries as soon as you get out of that environment,
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Speaker 1: he tries to distract you. He tries to make us
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Speaker 1: lose focus. We might not even remember what just happened.
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Speaker 1: A man, we know it was a move with God.
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Speaker 1: We know that God moved in other people. But then
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Speaker 1: we ourselves come out of there and not knowing what
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Speaker 1: just happened. And that's why I believe it's important, maybe
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Speaker 1: take notes, it's point maybe to really be present during
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Speaker 1: the time of the preach and participate in the atmosphere. Amen,
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Speaker 1: raise your hand, lift your hands, pray, shout, ask God
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Speaker 1: to help you remember. And that's God that to help
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Speaker 1: you really really embrace the word. To that way, you
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Speaker 1: won't forget the word. And that's why it's important to
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Speaker 1: apply to word. If you learn something from the Lord,
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Speaker 1: goehead and apply what you've learned, and that will retain
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Speaker 1: a man. You will believe more because you'll see the
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Speaker 1: Word of God working in your life and other people's
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Speaker 1: life in real time. You're a life fighter. When the
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Speaker 1: enemy attacks the moment transformation begins, he wants to steal
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Speaker 1: whatever light was given to us, Amen, and he wants
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Speaker 1: to darken or dim the light. But he can't do
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Speaker 1: that technically, he cannot do that a man. What God
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Speaker 1: has placed in us doesn't belong to him a man.
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Speaker 1: What belongs to the enemy is all temporary things. God
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Speaker 1: has eternal purpose for our lives. What God gives us
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Speaker 1: is eternal. But the devil tries to give people is
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Speaker 1: very temporary. As a matter of fact, it's false, it's
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Speaker 1: not real, right, and it's just a lure that he uses,
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Speaker 1: a tactic that he uses to try to get us
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Speaker 1: off course a man. As we're moving forward, and of course,
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Speaker 1: your testimony overcomes the enemy. Revelation twelve eleven says they
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Speaker 1: overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by
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Speaker 1: the word of their testimony, so it transformed life. With
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Speaker 1: a testimony is spiritual welfare. Hell hates your testimony because
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Speaker 1: your testimony can free others. Hell hates your testimony because
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Speaker 1: it could help people that are in darkness see the
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Speaker 1: light and come to the light of Christ. And then
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Speaker 1: we're freed forever. Who the sun says free is what
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Speaker 1: free indeed amount of time. I hope you get what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. We started in John chapter one, verse five.
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Speaker 1: I suggest you read the whole chapter John chapter one.
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Speaker 1: A man, You're a light fighter. I'm a light fighter. Together,
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Speaker 1: we have the light of Christ, and it's a blazing light.
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Speaker 1: Let's shine the light in the dark world. A men,
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Speaker 1: so many will see the light and be curious enough
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Speaker 1: to acces us how we're shining, and how we have
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Speaker 1: this light us and who gave us the light? And
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Speaker 1: then we can introduce them to our Lord. And I
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Speaker 1: will save you the Lord Jesus, because God bless you all,
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Speaker 1: God keep you all, and remember always that God is good. Peace,