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Avoid Wicked Customs | Ps Graeme Politanski · Citipointe Church Caboolture

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  Hey, welcome to the City Point Church podcast.
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  Thanks for joining us. Every day is an opportunity to
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  take hold of. So we hope this message inspires
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  you and build your faith, but it helps you have more of a God
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  perspective for your day. Enjoy.
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  If you declare out loud today, my heart is open.
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  My ears are alert to grow and change.
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  I will never be the same after today's message.
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  In Jesus mighty name. In the powerful, wonderful name.
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  In the wonder working name. In the healing name, In the
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  victorious name. In the name that's above my
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  family, the name that is over my community, it's the name above
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  all names, Jesus Christ, Amen. Amen.
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  I would love you to stay standing for my message today.
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  But if you get up and down a few times, that's OK.
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  Why don't we be seated this morning?
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  And it's going to be a good day. It's already a good day.
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  Who woke up this morning? It's a good day.
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  Who woke up Richard this morning?
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  You sure did. You sure did.
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  We exist to see spiritual and social transformation of our
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  city. Amen.
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  Today, I want to talk direct. You're not ready for this.
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  I'm sure I'm in the right church.
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  God, you said it was City Point law.
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  Today I want to talk directly into Halloween and I want to let
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  you know why we the church, Saints, Christians, believers in
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  Jesus do not participate in this satanic celebration because it's
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  both spiritual and social effects on our community need to
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  be changed and stopped in Jesus name.
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  At the end of our message, we will pray together as a church
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  over our great community. We're going to do this you're
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  going to participate with with us today and I'm going to supply
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  us all with a few steps to take as Christians to make knowing
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  that our district is under the lordship of Jesus Christ.
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  Who who's ready to participate in that?
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  The Holy Scriptures aren't shy in these topics.
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  And I think us as a church, we ought to just jump at this.
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  We just need to stamp, stamp on this stuff, put it under our
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  heel. We don't play with it, we don't
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  entertain it, but we put it back in its rightful place, which is
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  under our heel. It's under the Lordship of Jesus
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  Christ. Let me tell you and I'd I decree
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  today that this community will no longer be bound by the
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  schemes and the plans of the enemy, because I know that this
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  church has risen up to take on this battle.
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  But I know that there is something that we understand is
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  that we don't battle for ourselves and by ourselves, but
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  with all of the Kingdom of heaven, with the power of God
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  and with the authority He's given us.
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  In fact, Ephesians 612 says, for we do not wrestle against flesh
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  and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
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  against the rulers of the darkness of this age, and
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  against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly
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  places. Amen.
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  I mean, you believe that today you're prepared to be in the
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  battle skin in the game. Who wants skin in the game
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  today? Amen.
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  So we've got the powerful there. So I've titled today's message,
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  avoid wicked customs. Avoid wicked customs in your
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  Holy Bible, in your scriptures, in Deuteronomy 18 verses 9 to
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  14, it's titled In the King, our New King James Version, it's
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  actually titled Avoid wicked Customs.
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  Isn't that amazing? I think they saw into the future
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  of my message today and said that is a good title.
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  We need that in the Bible. Avoid wicked customs when you
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  come into the land which the Lord your God has given you.
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  Who's in the land that the Lord their God gave them?
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  We aren't here by mistake. You are not in this city by
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  mistake. You're in this city by divine
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  plan for you to participate with the plans of heaven to see the
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  Kingdom of darkness broken and ended over this.
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  This, this is the city of Jesus Christ.
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  Amen. When you come into Caboolture,
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  the land which the Lord your God gave you, you shall not learn to
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  follow the abominations of those nations.
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  There shall be not, not be found among you anyone who makes his
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  son or his daughter pass through the fire, Or one who practices
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  witchcraft, Or a soothsayer, Or one who interprets omens, Or a
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  sorcerer, Or one who conjures getting pretty straight to the
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  .1 who conjures spells, Or a medium, or a spiritualist, or
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  one who calls up the dead For all who do these things are an
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  abomination to the Lord. And because of these
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  abominations, the Lord your God drives them out from before you.
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  Thank you Jesus. You shall be blameless before
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  the Lord your God, for these nations, which you shall
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  dispossessed, listened to soothsayers and diviners.
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  But As for you city point N, the Lord your God has not appointed
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  such for you. Amen.
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  Let me tell you today that if you have been part of this, have
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  worked in this or work in these fields in any way, shape or
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  form, the grace of God is sufficient for you every
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  morning. His mercies are new every
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  morning, the Bible says. But today is a day of an of
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  awakening for us as a church for you and your life.
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  And the cool thing about the about the Holy Spirit is he
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  convicts the Sinner of sin, but the righteous, the righteous of
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  righteousness. And so today there may be
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  conviction in you, but it's not about God saying you're a bad
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  person or that you're going to hell or anything like that.
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  It's just complete, not truth. But what it is, is it's the Holy
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  Spirit making us aware so that we can change your ways because
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  we are now part of the Kingdom of heaven, the Kingdom of light,
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  and not the Kingdom of darkness. Amen.
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  So after reading that scripture that I just read, would you say
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  that Halloween is OK for Christians to be part of?
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  No Halloween has religious origins and this is where I
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  think the church has been deceived and something that we
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  need to understand here today. Halloween has religious origins.
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  Halloween means a holy evening. You get the word holy in there
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  and it's got oh that must be religious holy evening shortened
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  from All Hallows Eve, which we've heard these words before.
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  Halloween is the evening before All Saints Day, which is a
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  religious holiday honouring Christian martyrs.
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  So traditionally this is coming up on the screen.
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  On the 31st of October is Halloween, on the 1st of
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  November is All Saints Day and on the 2nd of November is Souls
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  Day and you may have heard those terms before.
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  Halloween on the 31st of October is grounded in the two festivals
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  of All Saints Day and Souls Day. Now, All Saints Day on the 1st
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  of November is a celebration and it celebrates.
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  It's also known as Sowin Day and it goes back dates back to the
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  4th century in Rome. The holiday was officially added
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  to the universal church calendar in the 9th century.
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  As the holiday spread to Christianised areas, traditions
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  merged with local cultures in ancient times and marked the end
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  of the harvest and the coming of winter, a time when the veil
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  between the living living and the dead was believed to be
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  especially thin. This is just rubbish between the
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  physical world and the spirit world, allowing more interaction
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  between humans and denizens of the other world.
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  It also kicked off on the evening of October 31.
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  Can you say out loud the devil deceiver is a deceiver?
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  There's no such thing as a thinner curtain.
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  The curtain was torn when Jesus was on the cross.
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  Souls Day on the 2nd of November.
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  In Roman Catholicism, Souls Day is a day for commemoration of
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  all the faithful departed, the baptized Christians who are
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  believed to be in purgatory, which is not biblical because
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  they died with the guilt of lesser sins on their souls.
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  Roman Catholic doctrine holds that the prayers of the faithful
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  on earth will help cleanse these souls in order to fit them for
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  the vision of God in heaven, and the day is dedicated to prayer
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  and remembrance. It sounds holy, It sounds good.
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  We wish maybe that it was the case, but it's untrue, it's
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  unscriptural, and it's not what God has decreed.
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  These are contrary to what the Bible teaches.
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  Say my Bible. That's right.
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  It's your Bible that teaches us contrary.
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  So we then have things like trick or treating, which is a
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  secular version of the medieval Christian religious practice of
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  souling, when souling children and the poor went from door to
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  door to ask for soul cakes in exchange for prayers for the
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  dead on All Souls Day. So in exchange you would receive
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  a soul cake and you would pray for their people in purgatory.
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  What about Jack O lanterns? There's an there is an Irish
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  custom of lighting Jack O lanterns to water away evil
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  spirits. This is demonic stuff started
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  with turnip, the root vegetable, and then America American
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  pumpkins replace them. So that's how we get the
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  pumpkins in Bunnings, in bunnies in Bunnies.
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  And then dress UPS. We'll see more of this in a
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  minute on the video. But they began to wear masks in
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  other disguises to avoid being recognized by the ghost thought
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  to be present. There's no such thing as Casper
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  the Friendly Ghost. It's a demon from the pit of
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  hell. It is, it's what it is.
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  So they were dressing up so that they wouldn't recognize them.
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  It was in this that witches, hobgoblins, big word fairies and
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  demons came to be associated with Halloween.
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  The period was also thought to be favourable for divination on
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  matters such as marriage, health and death.
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  In order to split, split marriages.
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  This is this is what Halloween's about.
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  It's demonic, there's witches involved, there's curses all
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  over things. So I have a question for you
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  church today. Is Halloween OK for Christians
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  to be part of? Firstly, praying to, praying
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  for, or interacting with the dead is not OK Biblically, the
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  outcome of a person's destiny is determined by the decisions they
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  do or don't make to follow Jesus while alive right now on planet
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  earth. And let me tell you here today,
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  the life that you're living right now is the accumulation of
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  all the decisions that you have made till this day.
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  The life that I am living right now, your addictions or
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  addiction, we can't, we can't just pass the buck.
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  The addictions are decisions that we have made and allowed
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  into our life. And you might say, well, Pastor,
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  great, you're not really sure. You don't really understand my
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  life. See, I understand this, that
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  healing's not possible until responsibility has been taken
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  up. And there are some things in our
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  lives that happened to us that start to form the world in which
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  we live in. I understand this OK.
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  But as believers in the Kingdom of God, with the living Word of
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  God that transforms our lives, each one of us has a decision at
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  some point on that journey that we can make to say, God, I
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  choose to give this thing over to you and do whatever is
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  required to see my inner healing happen, which might be
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  counselling or spiritual help or prayer with pastors, so on or so
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  forth. At the end of the day, at the
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  end of the day, no one and no devil has authority over your
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  life more than you allow them to have.
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  And I understand. I mean, I really understand
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  first hand. I understand in my life, in my
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  world that things happen even in the womb that will affect the
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  outworkings of our lives. I understand that parents might
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  say or do trusted authority, might say or do things that will
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  have ramifications over our lives.
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  I understand that in the church there is people of authority
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  that when they say things or speak things over our lives,
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  there is ramifications that that person then has to walk.
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  And the hope is, is that all people in all forms of authority
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  would speak life, would speak Jesus, and would speak things
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  that would lift you up. But the reality is, is that is
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  not always the case. But also part of that reality is
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  they walk away from you and you're left dealing with it.
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  And sometimes we don't have the mental or spiritual capacity to
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  deal with what just happened. And so therefore it has this
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  shadow over our lives. God is not naive to these
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  things. Jesus lived a life just like you
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  and I. He is not naive to the reality
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  of the pressures, the curses, the burdens of life.
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  He's not naive also to the fact that things happen that form and
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  shape our identity, yet those things happen to us not of our
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  own decision. That's why the Scripture has
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  these crazy out there verses that say things like, by the
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  grace of God, just in these peace, the enemy will soon be
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  trampled under your hill. It's why he says that by the
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  stripes of Jesus Christ on the crossed, we will be healed.
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  He's not just talking about physical healing, He's talking
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  emotional healing, spiritual healing.
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  And what I want to say and declare here today is that these
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  these words in the Bible aren't weak.
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  They are more powerful than anything that has ever been said
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  over your life. You can walk out of this room
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  today redeemed and set free. But let me just not be all nice
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  and Christianese in saying that. Because the reality is, is I
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  want to go the next step and say you have everything within you.
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  It's in you. It's God, part of your DNA, part
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  of your RNA, gifted from God. You have the strength, you have
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  the Holy Spirit. You have what it takes to move
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  on from. I know that I am set free to I'm
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  going to walk the steps of this freedom.
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  You have what it takes to pick up the phone and say I need help
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  and you have an education in this area.
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  Help me. You know, Pastor Mel and I just
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  this year in our leadership world, we to grow as leaders.
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  We said to we said to each other, we need help.
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  And so we called and we called up someone way bigger than us.
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  And you know, we're just like little, little peas, you know,
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  compared to who they are in in the Kingdom.
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  And we said we need help because we want to grow as leaders
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  because we have a great community and we need to help
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  our church influence this community.
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  And so, but it cost money, real money and more than our budget
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  is. And so we had to step out in
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  faith and crazy stuff. Not only are we paying that
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  bill, we just seem to be doing so much more in our weekly world
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  this year. It's crazy that we haven't been
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  able to achieve over past years. Let me say this, God cares for
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  you so much. Would you have the faith to make
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  that phone call? To reach out to that person in
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  spite the cost, because everything costs and just say,
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  God, this is so important to me and I know that you care about
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  me so deeply. God, would you make this
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  possible even financially? And why don't you just see a God
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  do an amazing miracle, not only not only in provision, but in
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  your life? Amen.
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  You believe that? So God is a total God of
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  healing. He's not just a declaration God.
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  He's not just a God that has all the great words to declare, but
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  we don't actually see the results.
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  No, no, no, God goes way deeper than that.
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  There's too many people in this church to know that to be true.
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  Amen, Amen. So the outcome of a person's
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  destiny is determined by the decisions they do or don't make
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  to follow Jesus Christ. All that we do or don't make
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  here today. Let me read you some Bible
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  Hebrews 927 and as it is appointed for man to die once,
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  but after this is judgment, there's no purgatory.
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  First Corinthians 10/21 you cannot drink the cup of the Lord
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  and the cup of demons. You cannot partake in the table
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  of the Lord and the table of demons.
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  He like he's just going there in the Bible, Amen.
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  Ephesians 511 Take no part in the unfruitful works of
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  darkness. Say no, we will take no part in
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  the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead we will
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  expose them. Say I will expose them.
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  Well, you just said it, Ephesians 427 and give no
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  opportunity to the devil. How many opportunities will we
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  give him? None.
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  He's under my heel. Amen.
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  First Thessalonians 522 Abstain from every form of evil.
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  Not some, but every form. It might not actually look to
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  you like it is, but it's got the form of.
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  Therefore we will not go near Isaiah 520.
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  Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness
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  for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for
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  sweets and sweet for bitter. This is why we as Christians do
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  not partake in Halloween is because we aren't putting bitter
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  for sweet. There is nothing sweet about
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  this. I'm here today to let you know
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  that it's bitter and to show you why it is bitter.
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  Amen. First Thessalonians 521 to 22.
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  But test everything. What everything hold fast.
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  What is good. We hold tight to the good
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  things. We don't let them go.
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  We don't even loosen our grip. This is why we walk around with
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  bibles. This is why TJ walks like this
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  all the time, all right? He's literally holding fast to
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  what is good because he understands if he's not gripped
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  to the goodness of God, the enemy will just try and come in
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  and make bitter look sweet. But test everything.
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  Hold fast what is good, Abstain from every form of evil.
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  There it is again. So why stay away from Halloween?
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  It's very easy. It's one line and it's found
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  Ephesians 427 and do not give the devil a foothold.
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  A foothold. This, probably this word
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  foothold probably changes our thinking about this.
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  It does for me because a foothold is very, very small.
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  And if you're a wall, you know, rock climber, you know, the wall
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  climbing things with the little pegs, I don't know what you call
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  that. What do you call that?
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  Rock climbing? Yeah.
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  Good. That that'll do.
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  So if you're a little, if you're a little peg on a wall climber,
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  what you realize is 1 peg is there.
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  And the other peg is just way too far for me, Right.
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  But it's not for everyone else. But I just fall on peg one.
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  But sometimes we go, I'll give the devil this foothold because
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  the distance is really big. I'm not going to lose my faith.
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  It's just this photo. It's just Halloween.
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  It's fun for the kids. And so you dress them up like
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  Ariel or Casper or you're like, I'm not into the dark gothic
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  sort of stuff. I'm going to dress them up like
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  angels. I'm going to make it holy
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  because originally it was holy and so I'm going to dress them
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  up like Christian angels, good looking angels.
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  Let me tell you what you've just done is you've got your child
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  and you've covered their identity in a deceitful costume
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  that looks like an holy Angel but has wrapped the God identity
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  into an identity to enter this celebration.
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  You can repent right now if you want.
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  That's all good. We can't give the devil a free
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  foothold in our lives. The keyword there is we just
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  can't. We just can't afford to.
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  And if we have, it's completely good.
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  Once again, the peace of God overcomes the enemy, the blood
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  of Jesus on the cross. Just what?
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  He'll just wash it away if you just allow Him.
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  It's just that simple. Today can be a new day for you.
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  Amen and your family. If this is anything you've ever
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  played with, it might look fun and OK.
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  You may not see what is happening right away, but your
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  choice to participate in the Devil's playground gives Him
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  permission to begin a devouring process in your life.
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  The Bible says that he is here to steal.
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  Stealing is a foothold. That's what stealing looks like.
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  When a robber breaks into someone's house, they're just
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  after jewelry. They're not after your whole
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  house. You've got lots.
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  These rich people live in Caboolture.
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  They're just all walking in this blessing thing.
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  You know, I'll just go in and take their jewelry out of their
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  house. They're not, they're not,
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  they're not looking to hurt you. It doesn't look like they're
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  there to devalue. They're not going to break
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  things and mess things up. They just want to find the
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  jewelry and just that. You've got plenty.
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  We will leave. We'll leave even some they break
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  in to take a foothold in your life.
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  But if your house has ever been broken into, you realize that
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  that more happens when you come home and you see that window
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  open and your jewellery on the floor.
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  More happens in that situation. Instantly, security in your life
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  has gone out the window. You no longer feel like that
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  house that you've been working for for 20 years is enough.
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  The next thing that will happen is you'll probably have an
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  argument with your spouse and no one will even know why.
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  We're just all fuming. We're just, we're just, we're on
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  edge. We're just all on edge.
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  You will have a sleepless night. Both of these would just be
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  laying there. Just can't be trying to pray.
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  And then what starts to happen is you'll start to double guess.
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  God, it's just gone quiet. Who's been broken into before.
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  It feels like everyone might have you start to double guess.
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  God. God, I prayed your protection
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  over this house. Do my prayers work or do they
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  not? Does God even hear me?
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  You start asking these, these big life changing identity, life
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  changing questions. See, that's what a foothold of
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  the devil does. All they did was took some
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  jewelry. That's all they did, took some
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  jewelry. But you thought they weren't
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  invited. Where was the invitation when
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  you got your child and you changed their clothes?
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  The devil goes thank you, I have a foothold.
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  And then the devouring. He wants to steal.
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  Stole the identity. We don't do dress UPS.
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  We don't do dress UPS. But what we do do is we just
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  have lollies because people are coming and they're coming to a
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  good Christian Holy Spirit filled house.
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  So we just have lollies. It's not their fault they're
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  children, right? It's not their fault their
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  parents sent them out and the kids, they, you know, they're
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  only 10 or 9 years old knocking on, knocking on strangers
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  houses. And, and So what we do is we
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  just provide a foothold. I mean, lollies, we're, we're
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  just, we're just, we're not part of it, but we're entertaining
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  it. I would never do it with my
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  children, but obviously it's OK if you do it with yours because
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  I'm here for you. Foothold.
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  So the devil comes to steal and then what he does he do to kill?
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  What does that mean in you? Why?
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  What are you saying? Is God really, does he really
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  hear my prayers? He's killing you.
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  He's killing your faith with unreasonable things, things that
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  he's killing your relationship. You're arguing and you don't
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  even really know why because we're all on edge and he's like,
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  he starts to kill you on the inside and this and you're just
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  like, I don't know why this is happening.
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  I don't know why I struggle with this.
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  I don't know why I just get so angry so quick.
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  I don't know why. I just turn.
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  I don't know why these things, and it's because we've given him
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  footholds in areas of our life when we didn't quite really
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  realize because no pastor had even preached it before in the
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  church. And so today is no day of
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  awakening. Amen.
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  But after he kills your faith, he then goes, and I want to
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  destroy you see, for the devil. This is in the Bible, by the
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  way. I'm just quoting the Scripture
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  after he kills you. He's not happened.
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  Happy with that. You know why he's not happy with
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  just killing your faith? Because he knows the power of
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  the Lord Jesus Christ. If I'm correct, Lazarus was
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  dead. But Rose, again, if I'm correct,
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  there are people looking at me right now because I know a lot
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  of people's stories who were once dead and one encounter with
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  God. He breathes life.
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  The devil knows this. So his next and final step is
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  destruction. Absolute destruction.
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  Mental destructions. Emotional destruction, Life
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  destruction. He'll take your finances.
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  He will. He will rob your relationships.
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  He will rob your family and then fill you with so much guilt you
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  can't repent. He will fill you with so much
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  guilt you will believe that you can't go to Jesus.
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  Yet Jesus is the only one whose arms are always wide open.
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  He doesn't judge like we judge ourselves.
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  His whole perspective is so different.
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  He doesn't look at you and go, oh, you did Halloween.
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  There's three footholds. That's too much. 2 is my limit.
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  He doesn't. He doesn't go, well, you believe
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  you can't go to me. Oh man, if you believe it, your
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  reality is your truth. He doesn't.
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  He doesn't operate like this. God just looks at you and he
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  just sees his child. That's all he sees.
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  It's called the prodigal son. He just sees his child and he
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  just goes, oh, would they just turn their heart to me?
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  Would they just blink at me? That's all I need.
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  Just a mustard seed of faith. I could move mountains for them
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  if they would just hope. They don't even have to call it
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  faith. Just hope.
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  Hope, hopes. I'll work with hope.
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  He's just looking at you and all he sees is a child lost or a
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  child found, a child in darkness or a child in light, a child
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  deceived or a child redeems. And his every thought, the Bible
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  says is on you. No matter where you are, his
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  every thought is on. Isn't that amazing?
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  Isn't he a good, good, faithful God?
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  So your choice to participate in the devil's playground gives him
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  permission to begin a devouring process.
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  But it's good for me to preach. Would you like to see another
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  pastor? John Romaez, who is an ex
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  warlock. He would sit with the devil face
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  to face and talk with him. This is where he was at.
• 34:44
  He was extremely powerful in the Kingdom of Darkness.
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  This is the guy that would would transport.
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  He would transport. He talks about Halloween.
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  He used to curse. Halloween is, Yeah, yeah.
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  It's just his story. You can see it all on YouTube.
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  It's all legit. I've checked it all out, and
• 35:04
  he's just absolutely amazing. But he was so deep from a very,
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  very young age. Bad things happened to him.
• 35:13
  He sold his soul to the devil, and he worshipped the devil and
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  used to. Actually, very few people have
• 35:19
  been able to do this. He used to actually sit with the
• 35:23
  devil. The devil would come into his
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  lounge room and they would sit and scheme together.
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  And this was also until he found out the darkness wasn't the
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  strongest power. Listen, the devil himself, I
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  told John that he had no power or authority to touch a born
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  again practicing Christian. Keyword practicing.
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  That's very Catholic of me. But let let me tell you, weak
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  Christians that don't operate in the power of the Holy Spirit,
• 36:08
  that's what I would class as a weak Christian, OK?
• 36:12
  The enemy would scheme against those sort of people.
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  He would have plans, the foot, the foothold kind of kind of
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  concepts would always be knocking on their doors.
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  But Christians that operate like this church, that pray in the
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  spirit that have faith beyond their capacities.
• 36:29
  The devil himself told John you cannot come against these people
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  and used to tell him to, to just move away into or to hold from
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  operating their scheme until that person had left that place.
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  Let's check out this video for 5 minutes for yourself and then
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  we're going to pray. Well, isn't that amazing?
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  And I would love us to do something right now.
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  I love us if if we could all just stand to our feet.
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  Pastor TJ is going to lead us in a a prayer.
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  This is a revival style prayer. Is that alright?
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  And if you if you have participated ever in Halloween,
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  I would love you just to right now, just you know under your
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  breath to say you know God, I renounce every connection to
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  that in my past. My past is my past.
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  Today is a new day in the Lord and you reign in my life and
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  this isn't a salvation issue for you.
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  OK, It's just about opening doors or or giving footholds to
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  the enemy so you can just renounce that by just saying I
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  break every tie of everything that is ever been in my family
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  or my life through all my history.
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  I break it right now in the name of Jesus.
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  And then I would love you to turn your prayers for this
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  community. T JS going to lead us in praying
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  for revival for this community. But listen, the blood covering
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  of Jesus Christ over our community.
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  Halloween's a counterfeit and requires blood.
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  We all know that right? But the blood of Jesus is the
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  blood that sets people free and washes sins away.
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  And we're going to pray for a spirit revival of our community.
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  I don't think our community really quite understands what
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  the 31st, 31st of October is in 2025.
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  It's a turn year where revival goes out and not darkness.
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  Amen. So we're going to declare this
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  over. Pastor TJ, take us away.
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  Just put your hands to heaven right now, Church, We're going
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  to get to pray. We're not praying from fear, but
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  we're praying in from victory. You are seated in heavenly
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  places. The Bible says in Acts one that
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  they were in one accord in unity together, praying constantly.
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  So if you can speak a heavenly language in this place today,
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  would you lift up the name of Jesus?
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  Let's go. Father God Almighty, we lift up
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  your name over this community. Father God, any dealings we've
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  ever had in this part, we denounce, We repent, Father God,
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  but fourth now, we pray the blood of Jesus over this place.
• 43:35
  We break the curses over this place by the blood of Jesus.
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  Father, we come before you now and we say every knee shall bow,
• 43:44
  every tongue will confess to the name of Jesus.
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  We declare Morton Bay over this place.
• 43:51
  Father, the blood of Jesus and the victory of Jesus.
• 43:54
  There will be revival. We put a stake in the ground,
• 43:57
  Father God, and say this town is for Jesus, this church, Father
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  God, God will be raised up and the community will be blessed
• 44:06
  because of it. Father God Almighty, we break
• 44:08
  every demonic force. We pray over our homes, we pray
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  for the schools, we pray, Father God, over our neighborhood.
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  Because God, your blood has the victory.
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  Your blood has the victory, God, your blood has the victory over
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  this community. And we are seated in heavenly
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  places knowing that Christ is the one.
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  We lift you up Jesus, we lift you up Jesus, we lift you up
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  Jesus, and we thank you for it that we've declared and agreed
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  to think and it shall happen. And we all agreed, said.
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  Amen. Amen.
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  Amen. Thank you.
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  Thank you, Pastor TJ. And why don't we be seated?
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  I I suppose the question from now is Pastor Grey, it's great
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  to pray, but what can we do? What can we do from here?
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  So I'm going to give us three things as a church that we are
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  going to do. And it requires your
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  participation. This isn't I'm doing because I
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  can only do one street, but between all of us, that's
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  hundreds of streets in our community, Amen.
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  And even suburbs you can take this way further.
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  So three things for all of us. If you're a note taker, would
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  you take this maybe in your phones?
• 45:25
  You might want to write it down. I don't want you to forget.
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  So obviously Halloween's on the 31st of October.
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  So we've got two weeks and there's three things for all of
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  us to do in preparation for the 31st.
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  This is to be done in your street and the entrances of your
• 45:45
  suburbs. So if you're in Central Lakes,
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  there's about two or three entrances.
• 45:50
  You can do it there for the whole suburb, but I would like
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  you to personally also do it for your streets.
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  OK, so #1 is coming up on the screen.
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  We're going to anoint #2 we're going to declare the blood of
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  Jesus, and I'll teach you how. And #3 we're going to fast
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  together #1 we're going to anoint.
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  We're going to declare the blood of Jesus and we're going to
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  fast. OK, so #1 let's anoint our
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  streets with oil. Now.
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  I am literally talking about Woolworths oil, OK?
• 46:26
  And this might be good for Woolworths as well.
• 46:29
  Not for sales but for spirit declaration First.
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  John 3/8 It says for this purpose the Son of God was
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  manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
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  Now where does anointing come in?
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  The word Christ literally means the anointed. 1 John is saying
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  the manifestation of the anointing in Christ had one
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  purpose, to undo, to dissolve, and to destroy the devil's
• 47:07
  operations. Make no mistake, when Jesus
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  came, it's just not a good story.
• 47:14
  He came to dissolve and to destroy the works of the enemy
• 47:19
  for you and I Amen. So the power of the devil was
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  broken by the coming and the anointing of Jesus Christ, which
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  is the anointed 1. So listen, here's our homework.
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  So over the next two weeks, let's get oil from your cupboard
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  and anoint your street entrance with oil.
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  We've done this for this church building a couple years ago.
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  And so this is what I'm literally talking about.
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  However bold you want to get, all right, you can get oil from
• 47:52
  your cupboard and literally just go like that if you want across
• 47:56
  your street. Or you can get a whole bottle
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  and you can just walk it across your street.
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  You know what this means? Every car and every person that
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  walks across this anointed threshold comes under the
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  anointing, the power breaking. The Bible says that the
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  anointing breaks the yoke, that no matter what they're doing,
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  they think they're doing it in innocence.
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  And as they outwork this broken foothold, broken foothold,
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  broken, they can receive their lollies.
• 48:29
  They can do what they want, but the enemy will have no authority
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  over your street. OK.
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  And then I'm believing for more than that.
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  I'm believing as they walk across your oil.
• 48:41
  This is the faith we have that they are getting conviction of
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  sin, all conviction of righteousness that as they walk
• 48:51
  across that they are literally walking across what Jesus the
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  Christ came to break on planet earth and we are partnering with
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  him for that. Amen.
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  So you can do that over your suburb entrances, down the ends
• 49:07
  of your streets, streets as well.
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  Do it over your driveway, pour it over your head.
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  I don't care. Just don't drink it unless it's
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  pure virgin. You know that?
• 49:19
  Yeah, olive oil, you can drink that.
• 49:21
  You should have a teaspoon every day.
• 49:22
  It's good for your liver anyway #2 declare the blood of you.
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  Don't believe me, do you? Go through Jewish history,
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  you'll see it. Declare the blood of Jesus.
• 49:35
  Colossians 113 to 14 says He has delivered us from the power of
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  darkness and conveyed us into the Kingdom of the Son of His
• 49:46
  love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the
• 49:52
  forgiveness of sins. We're breaking the powers of
• 49:56
  darkness. He's conveying us into the
• 49:58
  Kingdom of God and redeeming us through the blood and the
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  forgiveness of sins. Listen, the blood redeems and
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  delivers us from the power and the authorities of darkness.
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  Redemption by the blood means the devil has no legal claim
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  over those who are washed in it. The blood transfers believers
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  from Satan's dominion to God's Kingdom.
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  Now you might say grey, like how do we do blood?
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  You know, I kind of get, you know, the symbol of oil with
• 50:32
  anointing, but how do we do the blood thing?
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  Well, the first verse I read today was that we don't fight
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  against flesh and blood, but against principalities and
• 50:45
  powers. So how do you bling bring the
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  blood of an eternal God into our now existence?
• 50:53
  It's through prayer. It's through prayer.
• 50:56
  It's a spirit, it's a spiritual entity.
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  It's the blood of Jesus that was shed, but don't forget he rose
• 51:05
  again in human form and the Bible teaches in human form.
• 51:10
  Jesus now sits on the right hand of the Father.
• 51:14
  That blood that Jesus shed when he was on the cross because of
• 51:18
  no sin that Jesus had, His blood was eternal blood.
• 51:23
  In other words, now that blood still exists, but it's now in a
• 51:28
  spiritual manner in heaven. And so through prayer, you and I
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  access the power of the blood of Jesus that was shed physically
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  on planet earth but has eternal entity.
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  Does this make sense? So how do we plead and access
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  the blood? We do it through faith in our
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  prayer. So church, over the next two
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  weeks, let's walk down and up and down and up and down our
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  streets praying and declaring the blood of Jesus over our
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  streets in every home. It looks like Father God right
• 52:05
  now as I walk down the street of 15 of Mcandrew St. in
• 52:10
  Caboolture, I declare the blood of Jesus just as it washes my
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  sins away, just as it is eternal from the cross.
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  Lord God, I declare that the blood of Jesus is washing and
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  covering this street and this community.
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  And Father, anyone that comes under the umbrella of the blood
• 52:29
  of Jesus will be set free. They will be redeemed, Father,
• 52:34
  the schemes and the plans of the enemy, they are broken in the
• 52:39
  existence of the blood of Jesus. From one end of anointing to the
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  next end of anointing. This street in every house and
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  my house and my people, Lord God, are covered and washed and
• 52:49
  clean in the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  It's an eternal blood, Lord God, and we break the powers of
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  darkness, principalities and powers.
• 52:59
  We fight this battle right now, although I and flesh I am part
• 53:04
  with God and I am fighting a spiritual black battle in the
• 53:08
  mighty name of Jesus. That's how you do it.
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  Amen. You receive that today.
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  Who believes that you can do that?
• 53:16
  Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, but I would have done
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  it privately too and said why could we not cast it out?
• 53:24
  They were trying to cast a demon out of a person.
• 53:27
  Verse 21 says this kind does not go out except by prayer, which
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  we just did, and fasting, which we will also do.
• 53:38
  Fasting is not just self denial, it's spiritual warfare.
• 53:44
  Oh, now we're talking. Come on Pentecostals, ever
• 53:48
  knowing how to get into spiritual warfare?
• 53:51
  This is how you enter it, through fasting.
• 53:53
  When combined with prayer and faith in Jesus, fasting breaks
• 53:58
  demonic oppression. It releases deliverance.
• 54:03
  It brings release. It's not all about breaking the
• 54:07
  powers off. It's also releasing God within
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  you. Amen.
• 54:11
  It's releasing everything God has given to you, Saints, and
• 54:15
  it's releasing it out into the community.
• 54:17
  This is what fasting does. It empowers us to walk in the
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  authority and victory of Christ. Man, that's so true.
• 54:25
  Let me tell you, I fast all the time and every time I fast I
• 54:29
  just feel like I am like I just feel like devil get out of my
• 54:34
  way because I'm on a mission for the Kingdom of God.
• 54:37
  I just get such a grunt in the spiritual realm because an
• 54:41
  authority that is only divine and from God comes over me.
• 54:46
  You've never experienced that unless you fasted.
• 54:49
  So church, this is the call to fast.
• 54:52
  Amen. So over the next two weeks,
• 54:54
  let's fast food. We're not playing games here,
• 54:58
  we're not fasting computer games.
• 54:59
  We're fasting our bodies. We're fasting food for one full
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  day. Who could do that?
• 55:05
  Who could do one day for one day and find your own day?
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  You can do this wherever you want.
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  Make it work with your family and fast.
• 55:15
  Let me tell you, if you wake up in the morning and the kids are
• 55:18
  crazy and you go to work and you haven't yet had breakfast, don't
• 55:22
  go. Oh, I'm going to fast today.
• 55:24
  You're already halfway through, right?
• 55:27
  Find a day, plan the day and say I am fasting tomorrow.
• 55:30
  Let me tell you'll be hungry while you're sleeping during the
• 55:33
  night because your body, body knows that you're about to fast
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  for Christ. Amen.
• 55:38
  And it starts to hit you. Find your own day fast that the
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  schemes of the devil will be powerless over your street and
• 55:47
  that Jesus will be revealed to people in your street.
• 55:50
  You can do that or your suburb. So just to reiterate for you to
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  writing it down anoint declare the blood of Jesus and fast
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  you've got two weeks. Can you do this do this together
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  church, Amen. And just in finishing, I just
• 56:06
  want to say let's avoid wicked customs, Amen.
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  No part of who we are because our identity is in Jesus Christ.
• 56:15
  You know, you might have been listening to this and you're
• 56:18
  just like, whoa, whoa, I came on a crazy day today.
• 56:21
  Yeah, you came on a crazy day. And let me tell you that in all
• 56:30
  of this, why would I preach this to a church congregation?
• 56:35
  It's because the enemy just sometimes he just works so
• 56:40
  simply and calmly because the world is a little bit crazy
• 56:45
  right now. And we've had times in histories
• 56:48
  where the where the world has just been like, you know, just
• 56:52
  what's going on, where's God and all that.
• 56:55
  But the world is really crazy and I think it's really crazy.
• 56:58
  It's crazy in a different time than what it's ever been in a
• 57:01
  different way to what it's ever been in history.
• 57:04
  It's a little bit crazy because the signs of the end are drawing
• 57:09
  closer than what I've ever drawn before and some real ridiculous
• 57:13
  sort of stuff is happening on planet Earth.
• 57:15
  Just jump on YouTube for 5 minutes, look at news, hit the
• 57:18
  news tab. That's the only reason why you
• 57:20
  would go on YouTube, by the way. And you click the news tab and
• 57:25
  you know in 5 minutes you'll just see the stuff going on in
• 57:28
  the church. The Bible talks about wars and
• 57:31
  rumours of wars. It talks about the third temple
• 57:33
  being rebuilt, you know, just before Jesus comes.
• 57:36
  And we're starting to see all these signs.
• 57:39
  And so what's happening is the spiritual atmosphere that we all
• 57:43
  live and walk in daily is just starting to get battle ready.
• 57:49
  It's starting to get Armageddon ready.
• 57:52
  It's starting to get end times ready.
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  And the the devil is just like at work like never before.
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  It's all OK, God's in heaven sip in a latte because the battle's
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  already won, right? Jesus has already died.
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  So the ultimate battle's already won.
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  God's just out working time. OK.
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  But with all of this comes this spiritual pressure that often we
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  don't know, but we just have to live in and walk in.
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  And so I just say all that because when you don't have
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  Jesus in your life and you've never, you've never taken stock
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  of your life and said, you know what?
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  I am bowing down to something. Some things I just don't know.
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  I'm bowing down to government. I'm bowing down to society
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  pressure. I'm bowing down to culture.
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  I'm being led by things. That's how you know if you're
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  bowing down, you're being led by things, which is generally
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  culture. But you have the authority and I
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  know that you have the strength that if you're not right with
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  Jesus to take stock of your life and go, I will bow down to
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  nothing or no one who hasn't formed me in the 1st place.
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  And in that, taking stock of your life and your eternity, you
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  can say I don't understand everything about God, but I
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  can't deny that he is real. You might struggle to even think
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  that he might. He created you.
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  Maybe you're atheists or you believe in things like Big Bang
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  Theory and and all, and all of that sort of stuff.
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  And you might not understand yet or have a comprehension of how
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  things could just exist and how could God be real.
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  But one thing everyone in this room knows is that the spirit
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  realm is real. There is not one person in this
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  room can't deny that. If you've had a bad dream, if
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  you've gone to bed scared, or if you've ever had fear.
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  This is all spiritual stuff. And when you are aware that the
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  spirit realm is real, you have to conclude that there is an
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  ultimate. You have to conclude that there
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  is one above all. And to that, that is God, my
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  God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the one and only true God.
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  And you, you can see that around you.
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  And once you accept that, your life becomes transformed.
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  How do you see it around you? Well, the Bible says the
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  evidence is all around a rainbow.
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  Crazy rainbows are just crazy trees.
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  They form oxygen for you and I to leave evidence of a a God
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  that's outside of all things is evident all around.
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  But look at the church. Look at this wonderful church.
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  All of us that have given our lives to Jesus, we live better
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  for it. We live free.
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  We aren't dictated to by dreams and movies and and the enemy.
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  There is a freedom. The evidence is in this room
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  here today.