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Episode 72 - The Good Fight · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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I will lift mine eyes till the hills from whence comes my help. My
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help comes from the Lord, the Lord who made heaven and earth. Father,
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we thank you for this glorious, splendid, beautiful, magnificent day that
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you have allowed us to see. God, we thank you for all of
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your mercy new this morning. Great is your faithfulness to us. Great is
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your long suffering, your compassion, your goodness, your kindness, your faithfulness.
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Father, we thank you for the blood of Jesus Christ that we shed
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for the remission of our sins. Thank you for opening up the way of
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salvation. You are the Way, the truth, and the life. And
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no one comes to the Father but by you. God. Help us to
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day, Lord, to walk worthy of the vocation to speak the truth in
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our hearts. Let the words of our mouth and the meditation of our hearts
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be acceptable in your sight always in Jesus name, we thank you now for
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all of your blessings and your keeping power for your people everywhere A man and
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a man all right, God, bless you again. Everyone. We welcome
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you once more to this another amen edition of End Time Revival Ministries USA radio
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broadcasts and podcast. I am your host, pastor al Zachary. And today,
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Amen, we are again as always eternally grateful to the Lord for all
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of his amen benefits. A man towards us, a man, I hope
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you know the benefits that you have available to you as a child of the
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King, a man, as an heir and a joint heir with Christ,
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as kings and priests, a man. That's what the Bible tells us that
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we are now. We are the sons of God. Doth not yet appear
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what we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear, we
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are going to be like him, and we are going to see Him in
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all of his glory and splendor and majesty. A man, and the Bible
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tells us now we sit together with Him in heavenly places. In Christ Jesus.
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We are chosen generation a royal priesthood. Amen. Amen. And so
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we just thank God for amen, his mercy, his loving kindness, a
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man adopting us a man to be sons, a man and again heirs and
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joint heirs with Christ Jesus. Never forget, never forget who you are,
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never forget whose you are, to whom you belong a man, and thank
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God again that he has called us to this great salvation and calling in Christ
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Jesus our Lord. Amen. This broadcast can be heard each and every Sunday
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a man the word of the Lord. Amen, we endeavor to faithfully a
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man preach and teach the word of the Lord, a man without compromise,
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a man. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not for sale. Amen.
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There is no price, amen, that anyone could pay. Amen. Jesus
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paid the price for all of us fully a man, and freely we have
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received, and freely we give. Amen. So we do this a man,
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because the Lord has called us, has commissioned us, a man to
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a man, preach the word to be instant in season out of season,
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reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. Because as the
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apostle Paul wrote to Timothy, his son in the Gospel, saying these words
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which we now are living in this particular time, for the time will come
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that they the listeners. A man will not endure sound doctrine, but they
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will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears, and turn away their ears from
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the truth. But we are commissioned, We are commanded a man. We
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are sent forth by God to preach the word, Amen, and to preach
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it faithfully without compromise a man. It is not my word, it is
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the word of a living God. And that's what we need in order to
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a man commandeer our way through this world, to fight the fight. And
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that's what we're gonna be talking about today, fighting the fight of faith,
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the good fight, Amen, the good fight. And you need it.
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I need it, Amen, no matter what obstacles, and we will face
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them, no matter what mountains, and they will be there, no matter
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what valleys we go through, and they will happen as well. Amen,
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no matter what giants that we will face, and they will be there.
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Also. God has promised a man first and foremost. As we said in
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our previous session, I believe it was. He is always with us.
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That's number one and number two. We win, Amen, we win.
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We are victorious. We are more than conquerors because Jesus Christ has already won
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for us. Amen, the victory. Amen. He has already won for
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us the victory. Amen. Amen. All right, if you have your
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Bibles, you can go with us to the Book of Timothy, and I'll
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be there in just a few minutes. The Book of Timothy. This letter
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that the apostle Paul wrote to his son in the Gospel, two letters,
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Amen, first and second Timothy. We're going to view a few verses from
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each of those Amen. Letters to Timothy. Amen. Bible were reading.
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Bible reading and Bible believing. People of God should understand very well that we,
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the people of God, are in a fight. We are in warfare
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in this present world. Amen. In this present world, we are in
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warfare. We're in a fight. We're in a battle a man where the
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Prince and the power of the air is waging warfare against us, against the
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Church, a man against the people of God, against the Kingdom. Amen.
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The kingdom suffers violence a man and and Satan. A man is on
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the attack. But nevertheless a man. Again, as I've already forestated,
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we when we don't lose a man. And so what we're going to be
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focusing on today in this word of encouragement to the people of God is fighting
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the good fight a man. We've got to fight the good fight. Amen.
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All of us face obstacles, all of us will face difficulty, all
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of us will have troubles, trials, tribulations. Jesus told us this,
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he said, in this world you will have trouble. I mean you will
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have tribulation, he said. But listen what he said. Jesus said these
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words, be of good cheer. Amen. Even through all of what or
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any of what we may go through, be of good cheer, Jesus says,
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For I have overcome the world, the world, this world system,
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Amen, Satan and all of his Amen. Darkness of his kingdom has already
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been defeated. Amen. And so we just need to engage in this fight.
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Amen. And from the moment that you are born into the kingdom a
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man, from the moment that your eyes are open, the scales all from
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your eyes, when the blindness is dissipated a man, when the Lord opens
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your eyes and births you into the Kingdom by the power of his Holy Spirit
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a man. Jesus is the one who baptizes, as John the Baptist said,
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baptizes you with the Holy ghost and fire. From that very moment,
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from that very instant, you are no longer a man, a man's spell
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under the auspices, under the delusion of the darkness of the kingdom of this
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world, you have been translated. You have been transformed. You have been
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transferred a man from the darkness to the light. And now you see,
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and now you are on the Lord's side. Now you're in the kingdom.
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Now you're on the other side of the warfare. Your eyes are open to
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see the evil, the wickedness a man, the bundages and ravages of sin,
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the deceitfulness of sin, all of those things a man become clear.
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And to those who are a man born again of the water and of the
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spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, by one spirit, we all baptized into
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one body a man. In those of us again who have been a man
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born again are now in a warfare. It is spiritual warfare. Of course,
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if you've hurt me, say this over and over again. And this
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is why the apostle Paul admonished the church a man that we are to put
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on the whole armor of God, that we may be able to withstand in
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this evil day. And having done all to stand, and God has given
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to us the weapons that we need, and we'll get to some of that
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a little bit later. He's equipped us, he's equipped the church. A
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man for the confrontation, for the battle, a man to stand in the
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gap, a man to contend for the faith and to fight the good fight
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of faith. Fight the good fight of faith. That's what we're going to
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be focusing on today. Fight the good fight a man fight. The word
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fight, the noun definition of the word fight, of course, is a
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battle or combat, any contest or struggle. And the verb definition of the
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word fight means too. This is action. This is what we are really
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going to be talking about and focusing on. The verb a man definition of
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the word fight, it means to engage in battle, a man to engage
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in combat, attempt to defend oneself against or to subdue, defeat, or
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destroy an adversary, to contend in any manner, strive vigorously for or against
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something. That's where we are a man, as the people of God,
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we are called to fight. Amen, we are called to engage in a
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battle. Amen, And and and again. Keep in mind, please keep
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in mind, don't ever forget this. We win, we don't lose.
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Amen, We've already won. Now, not that we won the battle.
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Jesus won it for us, and he gave it to us. He has
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given to us everything we need. A man to engage in this warfare,
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a man to subdue, to defeat, to destroy, to overcome, to
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contend earnestly. Jude wrote to the saints, Amen, we are to earnestly
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contend for the faith a man. So this is what this is all about,
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striving vigorously, in other words, you know, diligently, faithfully,
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a man with purpose, a man with with with with drive, a man
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giving all that we have. A man for the cause of Christ, for
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the cause of the kingdom and God's design for his people in overcoming again the
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trials, the tribulations, the troubles, a man, the adversary that we're
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going to be facing, a man, the devil. Amen, he is
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your adversary, a man. And of course he has people whom a man,
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either yet to repent or who will never repent, who are also in
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his camp a man. And this is why we pray for people. We
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pray for those who are lost, we pray for those who are blind.
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A man. Even as the greatest of examples of the apostle Paul, I
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mean one who was a and doing the work of the adversary, a man.
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He didn't know it at the time. He said, I did what
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I did in ignorance and in unbelief. But God had mercy on me and
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man. And this is why we pray. We never know a man how
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God is going to move or act a man on the behalf or in the
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behalf of someone who is being blinded by Satan. Amen, they are blinded,
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Amen, and we will all blinded. Bible says such were some of
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you. But God, Amen. Thank God for his mercy, Thank God
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for his a man saving grace. And so we're gonna the design. The
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design a man that God has for us is to be the overcomerce, a
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man through all of the trials, tribulations, the adversary, A man that
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we're going to contend with the devil, any and all obstacles, a man
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any and all challenges, a man that we're going to face. A man.
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And what God is designed for us is for us to fight the good
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fight, fight the good fight. And from the very beginning, a man
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of the children of Idra, for example, when they left out of Egypt,
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when the Lord brought them out a man, and they started on their
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journey to the Promised Land. They had to learn how to fight a man.
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They didn't have an army. God, a man had to teach them
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how to fight. They had to face adversaries faith first, and foremost the
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Pharaoh himself, who came after them a man, and God fought the battle
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for them, and he showed them that he's on their side. He is
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with them, he is for them. He's not gonna leave them, he's
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not gonna forsake them. He's gonna carry them through. He's gonna take them
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on forward. And that's what we are. We're moving forward a man,
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not looking back. We forget the things that are behind us, and we
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overcome a man. We continue to look to Jesus, who is the author
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and the finisher of our faith, a man. So from the very beginning,
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when the Lord brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, out of
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the bondage that they were in, and they were journeying onward toward the Promised
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Land, again, they had to learn how to fight amen and the fight
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was against enemies, a man who would rise up against them. And even
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after the death of their leader, Moses, the one who God commissioned,
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of course, to go back to the Egypt, go to Pharaoh and give
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him the command to let my people go even after the death or at the
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time of the death of this great leader. A man, Moses gave a
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departing speech Amen to his successor, or Joshua, into which he charged Joshua,
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and he charged the people a man to be strong and to be of
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good courage, a man in order for to to to Amen, and we're
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gonna see these words again a man from the lips of the apostle Paul,
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as he gave the same kind of admonishment to Timothy. A man be strong,
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a man fight the good fight, be courageous. I mean, you
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don't have to be fear. There's no reason, Amen, there's no reason,
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absolutely no reason at all, for any of the people of God to
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live in fear, to allow fear a man to control us in any way,
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in any way we win. I don't care what obstacle we face.
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I don't care what challenges we face. I don't care what attacks, Amen
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come against us. I don't care what the adversary tries to do. The
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Bible tells us all of the ant there are so many. But again,
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no weapon, ladies and gentlemen, no weapon formed against us can prosper prosper
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shall prosper Amen. No weapon, nothing that means nothing that the adversary,
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nothing that any of his demonic forces. Nothing that the people of this world
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a man who are with him with the devil, nothing that they can do,
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nothing that they can conjure up against the people of God can prosper.
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Amen. So Moses understood, and he knew what the Lord was going to
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do. You've got to have faith. Faith sees what has not yet been
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accomplished, what has already been done. You don't need faith for that,
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it's already done. Faith is the substance of things, hopefully, the evidence
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of things not seen. They were not there yet. They were on their
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way to that land that they did not see, that they did not know
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of. Amen. But they had to have the faith, and they also
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needed to have the fight in them because there would be obstacles. There would
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be giants that would be enemies, a man that would come against them to
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try to hinder them from the promise that God has for them, had for
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them. Amen. And this is again it was of course a picture of
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what we are going through. Amen. We are on our way to a
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destination, and our destination, our ultimate, of course, destination, is
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going to be in heaven and glory, a man glorified with him. But
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while we are here, a man, in this battle, in this warfare,
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in this earth, we are destined, predestined to be like Jesus,
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to be conformed into the enemy is going to do everything he can, a
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man, to hinder you from being conformed into the image of Jesus Christ.
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He's wont He's gonna throw every obstacle he can in your way, a man
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to distract you, to disarm you, a man from a man engaging.
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Remember the definition of fight. You have to engage. Amen. There's no
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passivity here. You must be engaged in this fight. Amen. And perhaps
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more than any of the time in all of our existence. Amen. The
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Church, the Church, the Church of Jesus Christ. Amen, which Jesus
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Christ himself, a man, began a man. He said, upon this
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rock, I'll build my church. Amen. And the gates of Hell will
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not Amen, prevail against it. Jesus is the Amen, the chief shepherd,
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a man, He's the head of the church. Amen, He's the
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savior of the Church. Amen. He's the one who is the builder of
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the church. Amen. And it is his church. Don't ever forget that,
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Amen, So he says, upon this rock, I'll build my church.
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Amen. And right now in the in the season and the time or
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the age in which we are now living, perhaps more than in any other
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time, a man in all of our existence as the Church of the Living
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God, I mean, we are facing spiritual warfare. Unlike anything, at
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least we have seen a man an experience, particularly in our present a man
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day, a man in this again church age, as it has always been,
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though, when the evil of the adversary, when the evil of wicked
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man, a man has has come up against the Church, and it's always
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been in the world, Never forget that. And there's nothing new under the
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sun here a man, but as it has always been, a man from
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the very beginning of the church. The Church of Jesus Christ, must have
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soldiers who are willing and who are equipped to engage in this warfare. Amen.
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The very good and again and the most important news. Never forget it,
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Never forget it, Never forget it. The very good news, ladies
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and gentlemen. That's what's that's what the gospel is, by the way,
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the good news. And I've got good news for you. I've got good
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I've already said it, but i got good news for you. And it's
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most it's vital. It's crucial that you never forget this, because you're gonna
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look at things on the outward appearance. You're gonna look at things from your
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own perspective. You're gonna gauge it from your historical perspective in view, Amen,
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and then you're gonna see and and start believing the lies and the deception
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of the enemy. If you don't, Amen, have the word of God
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rooted deep in your heart. Amen. So it's very important for you to
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know, engaging in this warfare, Amen, that we do not lose.
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We win. And not only do we win, but it is no contest
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at all by virtue of the fact. Again that the enemy, who is
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living in delusion, by the way, he has already been soundly defeated,
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although he continues to deploy his deception. Again, he's living in delusion.
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Satan is not only is he the master of delusion and deception, he lives
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in delusion a man, and he continues to shoot his little darts his little
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arrows, a man at us, a man in order to again try to
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discourage us. He's trying to distract us, he's trying to hopefully disarm us.
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But again, put on the whole armor of God, that you may
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be able to withstand in the evil day. And that's the time that we
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are in. We're in the evil day. Amen. And again, as
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I've been talking about over these pasts, Amen, few sessions, Amen,
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that God has a man, an affirmative action program for his people, and
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he has already affirmed us. He's already spoken concerning us. I know the
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thoughts that I think towards you, thoughts of good and not of evil,
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to give you an expected end. The end, the end of the thing
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is far better than what you are going through now than what I'm going what
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we are going through now. Don't look at the outward appearance. Don't look
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at it from your narrow scope, your little amen of vision, your little
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thinking, your narrow knowledge. You don't know, Amen, You don't know
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what tomorrow bring. No one knows, Amen, what tomorrow may bring.
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A man. We may have amn a revival tomorrow like we've never seen before,
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that like we have never seen before it. Amen. And that's what
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I'm praying for it. By the way, Amen, I'm believing God for
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it. And I will stand a man on the promises of God, the
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power of God a man, the ability of God to do exceeding abundantly and
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above all that we can ask or think. I'm gonna believe God. Amen,
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I'm gonna believe God. Amen, for a revival, that God will
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say, that God will deliver, that God will set captains free, That
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God will open blinded eyes. Amen. Bring people out of the darkness.
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Amen, cause the scales to fall from their eyes so they can come from
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under the spell of the delusion of the enemy. Amen, that wicked one.
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Snatching people out of the fire. Pulling people out of the fire.
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This is what this fight is all about. Amen. And we, the
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Church of the Living God, must have soldiers who are willing and who are
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equipped to engage in this battle. Amen. We win, we win,
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we win, all we win. Sadan is already defeated, His destiny is
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already determined. And our mission, Church of the Living God, our mission
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on this side of glory is simply to engage in warfare. Amen, to
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again pull people out. Amen, say we're not here to save the world.
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I understand what the mission is. Jesus said, go into all,
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Go into all of the world. I send you forth as sheep doves in
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the midst of wolves. Amen we are. We are, as harmless creatures
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going into the den of lions, into the pack of wolves. Go into
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all the world. Preach the Gospel. Amen, Make disciples of all nations,
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baptizing them in the name. Amen. In the our disciples understood.
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I don't go to all that. But the disciples understood that the name of
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Jesus Christ Aman was the name. Baptizing them in the name Amen, of
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the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them.
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That's that's our mission. Amen, to go to reach, to teach
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a man, to make disciples. Amen. If we win, we win
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again. Jesus didn't come to save the world to save everybody in the world
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out of the world. But he came to save to seeking to save those
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who were lost. And everyone a man who hears his voice, everyone who
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obeys his voice, everyone who repents, everyone who amen seeks and with their
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whole heart, every broken heart, every countrite spirit, everyone who calls on
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the name of the Lord Amen. Shall we say, Amen, the devil
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is defeated. We win. Amen. We are engaging in this warfare so
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that people can come out of the darkness, so that the shackles and the
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chains Amen, that that that minds their minds amen, can be broken.
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Amen. And the Church has been given by the way the keys to the
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Kingdom. Amen. The Church has been given the power over all of the
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works of the darkness. The Church has been given the authority to use to
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invoke the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. The Church has been given such
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weapons as prayer, as praise. Faith. We got faith, we got
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love, we got truth, we got the peace of God, we got
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the joy of the Lord. We have hope within us. We have blessed
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assurance that God has given to us. And we have boldness and confidence.
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And of course we have the Holy Ghost, the power of the Living God,
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the same creative power of the Holy Ghost, of power other that was
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that created, that spoke, the spirit of God that moved upon the face
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of the Word, the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, The
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same spirit of the Living God of God himself now in dwells Us is in
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the Church empowers. The Church moves in the world moves upon the hearts of
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men, is with us and for us. Amen. And we again also
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have the living Word of God. They shall not return into him void all
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of these weapons that we have. And then, oh, we have the
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Living Savior himself, Jesus Christ, at the right hand of the Majesty on
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Hi, who is interceding for us, who is with us still, and
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who has guaranteed to us that we win, that we are more than conquerors,
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that we overcome. And again the Bible teach us that the weapons of
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our warfare are not carnal, they're not man made. Amen. They're not
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the weapons of this world. Amen. But they are mighty through God,
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the mighty weapons of our God, that cannot be overcome. Amen. The
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devil can't defeat us, he can't. Amen. Again, keep your eyes
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on Jesus. Know the Word of God. Know the prophecies. Amen.
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First and foremost, those that have already been fulfilled. Amen. You can
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have confidence in those, Amen, those things that God spoke long ago,
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that He's already brought to past. Can you and I can have the assurance
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that if God did what he said he was going to do a man,
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First and foremost in bringing the Savior Jesus Christ into the world to die the
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death for our sins. Amen, for our transgressions, to make us a
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man, and to transform us, and to save us a man into being
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sons of God. If he did those things, Amen, Just those things
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concerning Jesus Christ. Amen. If he's already performed, and his record is
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there for us to see, then the things that are yet to be we
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can have the confidence. We can have the assurance. Amen again that the
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God who cannot lie, the God who cannot die, the God who cannot
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fail, the God who cannot change, a man who has all power,
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all authority. Amen, that which he has spoken, it shall come to
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pass again. No weapon, no scheme, no tactic of the one who
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has already been defeated by the way. None, none of the enemies of
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the cross. No one will be able to snatch victory from you. No
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one can, as Jesus said of his sheep, if you're one of him,
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one of them, brother, no one can snatch them from my father's
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hand. You can't lose. You cannot lose, Ladies and gentlemen. You
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cannot lose. If you are truly saved. Amen, If you are truly
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saved again. If we have we know that in the church, they are
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those who are our professors. Amen. Amen, they're not truly born again
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of the water of the spirit. Amen, they don't. They don't.
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Jesus gonna say in that day, and I'm gonna get back to this fight
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in just this moment, a man. But this is part of the fight
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because there's a lot of deception in the world. There's a lot of deception
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that that's happen. Is it part of the sneak attack of the enemy.
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The Bible teaches us and tells us Second Corinthians, chapter eleven that Satan himself
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is transformed as an angel of light, and he has his own ministers in
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the church. Read again. And I make mention of this often the parable
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of the wheat and the tears. I mean, there are enemies in the
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church sewn into the church. Again, when the devil saw that he couldn't
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defeat through discouragement, through the attacks that he a man leveraged against the church.
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Amen, from the very outset, when he saw that he could not
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defeat the church, because Jesus said it upon this rock, I'm gonna be
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aild my church. The gates of hell shall not prevail. Amen. We're
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actually on the offensive, by the way. But the devil is always on
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the attack. He's always as a roaring lying the Bible says, prowling,
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going about sinking whom he made devour a man. And so when he saw
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that he could not defeat the church, overthrow what God established, he decided
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to get a membership. And that's all it is. The devil has as
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he's dressed up, as the Bible says, as as as a as a
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as a sheep. I mean, they are sheep in the church, but
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they're not sheep of Jesus Christ. They are sheep in they are wolves,
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brother in sheep's clothing. And Jesus said, you'll know them by their fruit.
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You'll know them. You'll know them. The foundation of Bible says of
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God. And I always take solace in this verse. Oh my God,
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help me, Jesus. The foundation of God stands your having this seal.
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The Lord knows them that are his is. Let everyone who names the name
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of Christ depart from iniquity. And in that day Jesus is going to say
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to those pretenders, those professors who were never truly saved, he's gonna say,
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depart from me, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you.
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I never knew you. Everyone who names the name of Christ is to first
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and foremost depart from iniquity, which which He has supplied to the church.
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Amen. Again, read it in p Ephesian six. A man. God
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has supplied us with the armor that we need, a man in order for
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us to wage war in this fight as the over overcomers that He has called
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for us to be. And listen, we don't compromise. That's one of
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the by the way, that's one of the I believe. I don't believe
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it. I know it. I know this, I know this, Amen,
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I know this for a fact. One of the tell tale signs of
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a professor who is not truly saved is the fact that they are willing to
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compromise the gospel of Jesus Christ. Willing to compromise the word of God.
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They're not willing to fight. They don't see them engaged in the fight against
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evil, a fight against wicked. They want to compromise, compromise the word
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of God, compromise the standards that God has placed, that God has the
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commands. They're willing to you know, water down as it were, the
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truth of God. There's a tell tale sign of a charlatan, of a
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false prophet, false teacher, a man, a professor. They profess that
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they know God, as the apostle Paul wrote, but in which they deny
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him in the fight, they don't have a weapon in their hand. They're
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not fighting the good fight of faith. Amen. They are on the side
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of the enemy, but pretending to be in the church, traders, as
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the Bible called them, traders, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure
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more than lovers of God. Amen. We're called to fight the good fight
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of faith. What is the good fight? How do we fight this fight?
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Amen? And how long will this fighting be? We're gonna get to
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those questions in just a moment, But that is what we're going to.
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Amen. Look at a man from the Word of the Lord, and then
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would go to the First Timothy. If you have your Bibles. I've already
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said we're gonna be in Timothy here. I want to read a couple of
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verses from the first chapter of First Timothy. As the apostle Paul admonished his
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son in the faith, Timothy, to engage a man to fight. Amen,
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as a good soldier. Amen, in this spiritual warfare that we are
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engaged in against the evil, against the amen spiritual wicked that is in the
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world today. This charge verse number eighteen of First Timothy, Chapter one,
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Paul says, this charge, I commit to you, son Timothy, according
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to the prophecies previously made concerning you. That listen what he says, that
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by them you may wage the good warfare. You see that, ladies and
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gentlemen, warfare. We are in battle a man. Listen to verse nineteen,
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having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, these are
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the professors of the faith, by the way, concerning the faith, have
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suffered shipwreck. That's what happens when you are not a man, truly a
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child of God, when you're not walking and being led by the spirit,
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walking in the spirit, and been led by the spirit, shipwreck. Amen.
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So the apostle Paul is admonishing his son Timothy in the Gospel to first
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and foremost that Timothy, you've got to wage the good warfare. Fight the
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good fight. It's what he's saying here, wage the good warfare. And
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what do you need for this, Timothy? Faith? Amen, Having faith
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and a good conscience. Oh my God, I wish I had time to
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deal with this conscious thing, But I gotta move on. Look, let's
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go to First Timothy chapter six. Paul is again Amen, over and over
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again, reiterating and admonishing his son Timothy about this fight that we are engaged
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in. This is warfare. There are enemies, real enemies, Amen,
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a real adversary. The your main adversary is the devil, Amen, the
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trickster, Amen, the cunning one, that old serpent. List is what
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the Bible says, First Timothy, chapter six, verse number three. If
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anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, listen what he says,
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even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which
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accords with godliness. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't care who they are.
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I don't care what kind of name they have. I don't care how many
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people they have following them. I don't care what size of their megachurch congregation
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it is. I don't care how long they've been around. I don't care
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if they teach otherwise, if they do not consent to wholesome words, even
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the word Church of Jesus Christ. If they depart from the words of Jesus
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Christ, I don't care who they are. If they don't teach the doctrine
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the Bible says, which accords with godliness. Again, the charlatans, A
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tell tale sign is their willingness to compromise. That's a tell tale sign that
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you are listening to a charlatan, a false prophet, a minister of the
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devil. If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even
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the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine, which are
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courts with godliness, this is what the Bible says. Paul said, such
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a man is proud and pride goes before destruction, ladies, gentlemen, before
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that shipwreck happens. This pride is there. You can see it. You
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can see it in them. You see it, you see it. They're
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full of pride. Paul says. He is proud, knowing nothing, but
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is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words from which come envy, strife,
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reveling, evil, suspicions, useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute
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of the truth, who suppose that gountliness is a means of gain. From
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such, withdrawal yourself. If you are sitting under, if you are listening
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to a charlatan who departs from the teaching, who compromises the word, who
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compromises the gospel of Jesus Christ, because they are only there because they use
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it as a means of gain, as a means of profiting a man.
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The admonishment here for you for your own soul's sake, Paul says, from
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such, withdraw yourself because verse six, godliness, he says, with contentment
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is great gain. And he reminds us verse seven, for we brought nothing
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into this world, and it is certain we carry nothing out, and having
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food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire
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I wish I had at the time. I'm gonna come back to this one
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day. But those I've already talked about this at nauseum and other occasions.
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But I'll get back to this this chapter again. But those who desire to
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be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful
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lust which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is
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a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have straight from the
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faith in their greediness, these false prophets and those who buy into it,
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because all they care about is the you know this, this present comfort and
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luxury and and and lifestyle of this world. Amen. They're they're full of
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covetousness and greed. Amen. And that's all they care about, the here
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and and now. They're storing up the treasures in heaven. No, they're
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not seeking the kingdom first. No, they're only in it for gained,
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for profit, for money. Your money, by the way, and the
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love of money, the Bible says, is a root of all kinds of
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evil. Amen, from which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness.
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And this is when the Bible says, they have any sorrows, but
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listen with Paul says to Timothy, But you, oh Man of God,
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flee these things. Get away from these charlatans. Get away from these spirits
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of covetousness, of greed, of earthliness only Amen, worldliness. Yeah,
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we're in the world where we're not to be of the world. But you,
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oh Man of God, flee these things and pursue listen, righteousness,
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godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. Oh, watch this verse
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twelve. Fight the good fight of faith. What's the good fights the fight
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of faith? Fight the good fight of faith. Without faith, it's impossible
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to please God. Faith comes to us by hearing what hearing the word of
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God? What has God said? What has God spoken? That is what
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produces faith in us. And we're to fight the good fight of the faith
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of this faith, having faith, believing God, trusting God, looking to
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him. Listen when the Bible says, lay hold on eternal life, not
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just your little more told life. Your life is just a vapor here.
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You're only here for a season. Sir ma'am. Fight the good fight of
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faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and
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have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. Fight the good
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fight of faith. That's what we've been called to, Church of the Living
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God. We've been called to fight and to fight the fight of faith.
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Amen, this is what this is all about. Seeking the kingdom first,
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That's what Jesus said, Seek ye the kingdom first. Seek the kingdom first,
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and all the other things will be added. Unto you again, what
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is this good fight the good fight first and foremost. First and foremost,
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it begins with believing God. That's the fight of faith. You've got to
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believe God. He that comes to God must believe. The Bible says that
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he is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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Amen. The good fight also ends with you and I believe in God.
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You begin. The fight begins with you believing God. It begins it
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ends rather with you believing God. Amen. That's the good fight of faith.
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How how are we gonna fight this? We're gonna fight this fight of
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faith trusting in God. We don't lean to our own understanding. You can
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read throughout the book of the Acts of the Apostles how the early Church and
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the Apostles. Amen, look to Jesus prayed fasted. Amen, look to
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the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Amen. So we fight this fight by
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trusting in God, leading not to our own understanding in all of our ways,
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acknowledging him, trusting and believing that He's going to order our steps.
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That He's already again spoken good concerning us. He's already Amen, declared the
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end from the beginning, his word is going forth out of his mouth concerning
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us, Amen, concerning what he's gonna do. Amen, how he's he's
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going. He listen, he says, he says, the battle is mine.
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He said, the battle is not yours, it is mine. Amen.
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The battle is the lords. And guess what. He doesn't lose.
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And if he doesn't lose, we can't lose because we are with him,
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and he's with us, and he is for us. And all we have
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to do is fight in this spiritual Again, your weapons are not carnal.
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It's not about strife and the bait, Amen, and arguing and and none
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of them. No. Speak the truth and love. Speak it with boldness,
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Speak it with confidence, Speak it without compromise. Amen. That's how
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we fight. That's how we fight. We fight on our knees. Amen.
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We fight with praise, We fight with love. We fight with peace,
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the peace of God. We we fight with the joy of the Lord
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that gives us strength. Amen. All of the attributes of the fruit of
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the spirit, those are our weapons. That's what that's what God had given
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to us. Meekness. Amen. Moses being attacked by his own people,
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the Bible spoke of him being one of the meekest of men who ever lived
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meekness, gentleness, Amen, all of these attributes of the Holy same thing
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that Jesus did. Amen. And again there were there are times whenever we're
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gonna have confrontations, Amen, contentious, contentious confrontations. But again we do
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it with love, with faith, with confidence, with boldness. Amen.
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That's how we fight. We trust God, We trust the outcome to the
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Lord. Just like shot rack me checking a been to go O king.
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We don't know what God is gonna do. We're not gonna presume in what
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he's gonna do. But we know this. I mean, you can,
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you can. You can give us all kinds of opportunities and chances over and
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over again. You give us another month. We're still not gonna bow.
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Amen, We're gonna trust God. Amen. After the final breath for every
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true child of God has taken for each of us respectively. Amen. We
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ought to be and we must be longing for and desiring to hear the commendation
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of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, saying to all of us,
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well done, good and faithful servants, see these the words of admonishment.
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Amen. That that that the apostle Paul wrote to Timothy They were not just
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words uh, mere words uh that were uh uh spoken or written without war
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experience from some kind of sideline soldier who had never been in life combat,
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who had never been in the heat of the battle. But this came from
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a foot soldier who had been fully engaged, the apostle Paul at the forefront
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of the warfare on the battlefield, and he writes these closing words. I'm
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going to close out here in Second Timothy Chapter two, Amen, verses one
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through five. Listen what the Bible teaches and tells us and commends and to
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us amunishment. You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace
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that is in Christ Jesus, and the things that you have heard from me
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among many witnesses. Commit these the apostles doctrine the apostles teaching which Paul by
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the way God from Jesus Christ. Amen, commit these teachings, these words
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to faithful men who will be able to teach others. Also, this is
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how the Church goes on and thrives and survives a man by faithfully a man
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teaching the word of God. Amen. You therefore watch this verse number three.
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You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, every
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one of us, Lady Gemen again, heart, we got to endure.
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The race is not to the swift, The battle is not to the strong,
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but to the one that endures to the end. You therefore must endure,
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you, me, all of us, We must endure hardship as good
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soldiers of Jesus Christ. This soul. Who's the soldier? A soldiers one
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you would think, I mean from the you know, as soon as we
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hear that, we think about being combat ready, being prepared, being trained
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for battle. And this is what if Paul is talking about here. And
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he says, no one engaged in warfare entangles himself in the affairs of this
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life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier a
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man. And when Paul knew, by the way, let me finish very
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quickly with this, when he knew that his days of warfare on this earth
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was accomplished a man, he wrote these words to Timothy. I'm ready to
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be poured out as a train golfering the time of my departures at And he
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says, I have fought the good fight. I fought the good fight.
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I have finished the race I have kept the faith, and finally there is
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later for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the Righteous Judge
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will give to me on that day. And not to me only, Oh
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I love this, but also to all that's you and me, ladies and
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gentlemen who have loved His appearing God. Help us to fight this fight,
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the good fight of faith. In the name of Jesus. We thank you.
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Now. Lord, we want to finish strong and hear you say well
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done, good and faithful servant,