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761. Hearing from God? The Enemy? Or my own thoughts? · Faith by annm2705

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  As I was reading the book of Jeremiah, the part about the
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  word of the Lord came to me stood out because of what's
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  recently happened and it's September 27th, 2025.
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  And if any of you follow prophecy or if you just want to
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  go, I don't know if people probably took down the videos
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  since then, but in the prior weeks, I, I probably saw the,
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  the, the original one that went viral.
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  And because it went viral, because it gave a date of
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  rapture date of September 23rd, 2025.
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  And when I listened to it, it was a it was a long interview
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  and it was this Joshua who was talking about this, this rapture
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  date. And you know, he, he did seem
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  like he was a believer. And but then I was very
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  skeptical because it was so specific.
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  And, you know, we all have to be discerning about those things.
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  And then what followed it, I would say that was probably like
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  when I saw it was maybe about a month ago, a month before the
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  event was supposed to occur. And so I, I thought about it and
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  I was, you know, I do listen to things that people say, but I
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  just was, I just didn't know what to think of it, to be
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  honest. And then what really concerned
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  me though, was that there were all of these other people who
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  did seem like real believers. Like they really seemed like
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  they were, they were sincere believers.
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  They weren't, they were just common people who were praying
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  about it as well. And they were getting
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  confirmations from God. And that kind of really was
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  that, that that made me like question like, why am I doubting
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  what this guy says? But at the same time, I don't
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  put my faith in what anybody says.
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  If they say they're a prophet or they hear from God, I'm I'm
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  always skeptical of that. At the same time that I'm
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  skeptical of that, after I got baptized, I started having
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  dreams and certain scenes from my dreams would happen in my
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  real life afterwards. So because of my own
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  experiences, and I've had like 80 different dreams since then,
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  since I got baptized in 2021 and because of my own personal
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  experiences, I'm not doubting that some of these people have
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  these dreams. Some of these people may hear
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  things from the Lord. I believe that.
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  I'm not saying these people are are you know, they're, I, I
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  believe them because I've experienced it myself, but I
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  just like anyone else who hasn't had that specific thing happen
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  to them, everyone will be skeptical of it and think I
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  don't know about that. Well, that's exactly how I was
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  like I, I know God does that, but at the same time it just
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  was, it was confusing to me, which God is not the author of
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  confusion. You have to remember that part
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  of Scripture as well. So then also I, I want to talk
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  about something that I'm almost fearful of even saying because
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  of what's happened about this prediction.
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  So Joshua, in this video, he predicted that the rapture would
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  occur on September 23rd, 2025. Specific day, specific year.
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  Maybe he might have said the 24th, perhaps like within a day
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  of that, but it was definitely the year 2025, no question about
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  it. And that he was told by the Lord
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  Jesus appeared to him in a vision.
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  Now, Jesus did appear to Paul in a vision.
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  So that's, you know, something that you know, that is biblical
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  that that could happen. But you know, the question
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  remains like, why would God appear to why would Jesus appear
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  to Joshua and tell him this thing?
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  Well, maybe to warn people of this very soon coming of Christ.
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  Now that part I you know, he what he was saying in that
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  regard was that he was warning people to prepare.
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  And so the message he was giving to people was biblical.
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  And so again, I thought, well, I can't be prideful and think that
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  I know it's not going to happen if it is going to happen.
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  And so the way that I reacted to what I heard him say was that we
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  just need to be prepared because we don't know if it was going to
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  happen or if it didn't. Well, now in hindsight on the
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  27th, we can say it did not happen at that day.
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  Now I've heard he's giving a new date and I really don't have any
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  faith in that new date because I feel like that's almost prideful
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  just saying, well, he's just so sure of what he heard and and
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  then he just wants to find out how to make it possible.
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  And he so now he's using the Julian calendar to make it that
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  date. I believe he really believes
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  that he heard from God. But the scripture that comes to
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  mind when that happens is that Satan can appear like an Angel
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  of light. Satan masquerades as an Angel of
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  light. I just don't we don't know the
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  capabilities of what Satan has. And the other thing is I'm not
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  saying, you know, Joshua could very well be and does seem to be
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  a man of God. And like I said, what he what he
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  says, he seems to be very sincere in it.
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  And, and I do believe that he did see something, he did have
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  some sort of experience. But the question is, was it
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  really Jesus or was it someone pretending to be Jesus?
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  Because Jesus himself said that there will be all kinds of false
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  prophets and false messiahs coming in my name.
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  So could this be a fulfillment of what Jesus said would happen,
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  Where Jesus said that there will be all sorts of false messiahs
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  coming in my name? Could that happen in a dream?
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  Because that's what happened to Joshua.
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  And it says and that the Satan would be doing this, Satan would
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  be behind this because he would do these signs and wonders that
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  if possible could deceive even the elect.
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  And that's what I think we have to, you know.
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  So I think Joshua is the elect from other just like hit the
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  what he said, and I could be wrong about that.
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  I'm not judging whether he is or he isn't, but I think he
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  sincerely, I mean, he was so confident.
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  I think he said like 100 billionth percentage or like his
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  numbers of his confidence is what he was saying, saying that
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  he was so sure that it was going to happen.
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  And the other thing I think about this is how the OK, this
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  could be a fulfillment of what Jesus said, a false Messiah,
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  even coming in a dream, a false Messiah.
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  And what would the purpose of that be?
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  The purpose of that would be to deceive.
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  So all of a sudden he had all of these believers believing and
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  receiving confirmations that this was going to happen.
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  So now everybody on the outside who maybe wasn't a believer or
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  maybe even believers are going to look at all those people who
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  said I got confirmation from God and it's going to happen.
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  All those people that said that now there anybody who hears them
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  talk again is going to be skeptical.
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  They're not going to believe anything they say.
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  Don't you think that would be a really great strategy by the
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  enemy of God to have all these people?
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  I mean, this thing went viral. Don't you think that would be
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  like a strategy of the enemy? Make it go viral, make this date
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  go viral. And then when it doesn't happen,
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  the people look foolish that they all believed this was the
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  date. Well, that's where I'm wondering
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  is that part of the great deception that is here today?
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  And this probably isn't going to be the only time that there's
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  going to be a deception. Again, This is why getting in
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  the word every single day and reading the word so that you
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  know these things like Joshua seems like he is, like I said,
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  he seems like a believer in everything.
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  And maybe because it was so impactful that he was just, he
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  wanted people to be prepared. Like his heart was very sincere
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  and he did encourage people. Now the question after the fact
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  is what happened to all those people that believed that was
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  going to happen? And again, this is another
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  strategy of the enemy. When something doesn't come
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  through, they fall away. Well, that's something else that
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  the enemy wants people to do is fall away.
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  So the thing about any of these like dates or whatever people,
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  you know, even the the timing of God's gathering of people like
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  if it's a pre tribulation, mid tribulation, post tribulation,
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  we can't be set in our ways. We have to realize that
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  scripture is hard to interpret this debate, especially on when
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  it occurs pre mid post that has been debated for years and
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  people have different arguments for it and everybody will land
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  in a certain place. We shouldn't so much be
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  concerned about when as to everybody needs to be prepared.
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  So the only time that when is important is that if it's coming
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  up soon or if people believe it's coming up soon, then that
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  means you people do not have much time to prepare.
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  And I think that message is coming forth loud and clear by
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  everyone who's having dreams and visions right now.
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  Time is urgent. We need to be prepared.
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  And when I say prepared, it's not like a prepper.
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  Our relationship with God needs to be right.
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  We need to repent. We need to make Jesus Lord of
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  our life. We need to acknowledge that
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  Jesus, when he returns, is going to be king over all of the earth
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  and everyone will bow to him. He is going to be the authority
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  over everyone. And we need to be, I guess, to
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  have thought through all of that and let God know, are we willing
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  to have Jesus rule over us? And if we are, we need to be
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  willing to obey God's commands. God will help us obey His
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  commands because He will give us the Holy Spirit.
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  Jesus said He will send the Holy Spirit.
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  He will request it from the Father and then give to us the
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  Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is what will
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  change a person and make us ready.
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  It's spiritual preparation. That's the kind of preparation
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  that I'm talking about. And we can't be, we can't be
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  lukewarm because I talked about this in the last podcast.
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  If we are lukewarm, we are with the enemy.
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  We are not with God. We can't be on the fence.
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  We can't be half in, half out. We're either all for or we're
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  God's enemy and that needs to become real in our life.
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  We need to wake up. We need to get ready, we need to
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  be prepared. We need to have communication
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  with God and be in the word of God so that we can know when we
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  are being deceived. Well, know when we are being
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  deceived. That doesn't really make sense,
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  but we need to know God's word so that we aren't deceived
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  because the deception is going to be so great.
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  These are like trial runs. I think God is being merciful
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  with us and he's allowing these things.
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  God probably allowed this Joshua video to go viral so that people
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  could see that OK, this didn't happen, but this guy seems like
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  a man of God. So what happened?
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  Could it have been a great deception this happened?
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  In fact, I'm probably people be upset about this, but it's true.
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  This happened with another religion.
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  The Bible was written, the last book of the Bible was written in
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  90 AD. And within the Bible it says if
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  anyone gives you another gospel different from ours and it says
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  something about let that person be accursed is what it says.
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  But it's a deceiver that would do something like that.
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  And then in 600 years after, well in 600 AD around there are
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  537, almost 600 years later, the a prophet gets a download from
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  angels, from the Angel Gabriel and starts a whole new religion.
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  And I'm not even going to say what it is, but there's another
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  religion out there that came about around 6:37 I think is
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  when this prophet said that angels came and gave him this
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  message. And this prophet is supposed to
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  be a greater prophet than Jesus by those who believe him.
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  And it's a big false lie because again, the Bible warned us about
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  it. So the people who were not
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  familiar with the Bible believed the great deception and are
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  still under the great deception. Hopefully the people will come
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  out of that great deception and be able to be in God's Kingdom.
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  Because if you are following that, you are in idolatry and
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  you are not worshipping the true God.
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  So in order to be in God's Kingdom, Jesus said I am the
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  way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father
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  except through me. Jesus had followers that were
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  actually killed because of their belief that because they would
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  not renounce Jesus, like they gave up their lives.
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  Jesus gave up his life for all of us so that we can be in God's
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  Kingdom. And then his followers, many of
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  them did the same thing because they would not.
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  You know, those who deny me, I will deny.
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  That's what Jesus said. I will deny them before the
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  Father so it when they knew Jesus as intimately as they did.
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  There was no way that these people were going to deny
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  someone they knew that was the Son of God and they saw the
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  miracles he performed. They saw everything he did.
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  They saw him resurrected from the dead.
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  They saw him eat after he resurrected, he died.
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  He was raised, he ate with them after that.
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  Then he ascended and went back to the father and said he was
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  going there to prepare a place for them, which there's just so
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  much. I could probably talk for hours
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  about this, but getting back to this whole like date that was
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  given that didn't happen again, I, I want to give grace, let's
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  say give grace to Joshua because he, he sounded like he was a man
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  of God. He could have very well.
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  It seems like he may have been deceived by something that
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  wasn't God but was so powerful. I again, I think that's the same
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  thing that happened to a lot of the ancient people in the world,
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  all these various religions that are out there.
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  I think something very powerful came to these people.
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  I don't think these people were ignorant.
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  I don't think these people were, you know, just unintelligible
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  people that believed these crazy things.
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  I think they literally saw these things, things, and they worship
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  these things because they saw these things were greater and
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  bigger and supernatural. We're not humans.
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  And so they worship them like what they had in ancient
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  Mesopotamia, in Babylon, in all these different places.
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  These are all false things, you know.
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  Are they spirits? Are they demons?
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  Are they Satan? I don't know what they are.
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  There's something other than God though, and they want to be
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  worshipped and they want to be God.
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  It kind of fits the description of Satan.
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  All these other religions that do not acknowledge Jesus as the
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  way, the truth and the life are part of that.
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  You just can't get around it. And anyway, I don't know if I'm
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  prepared to really talk more about that, but I'm I'm really
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  talking about visions, dreams and things that come up and this
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  all these people, because it went so viral and people, I
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  think, did some people did drastic things like getting rid,
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  donating things because they were so sure and they got their
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  confirmations. What is happening with those
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  people? Did they destroy their lives by
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  giving away everything? Do they they're in like a lesser
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  ability than they had before because of maybe some actions
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  that they took because they believed in this specific date?
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  Well, I think those might be lessons for us and just lessons
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  from, you know, that got allowed that we need to really stay in
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  the word and really know and test things.
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  I was also thinking like, how do we know if it's the word of God
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  or if it's our own thought or if it's something evil?
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  Usually we can tell something that is evil if it contradicts
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  the Bible again. So the Bible is the most
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  important thing we can do is to read it and know what's in it so
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  that we can easily identify things that are lies, that are
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  untruths and and that takes a while, but that's why we need to
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  do it every day. In fact, when Moses gave the
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  laws, when the kings came about, the first kings, because first
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  the Israelites had God, but then the Israelites wanted to be like
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  the other nations around them and wanted to have a king.
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  And God told them it's not going to go well if you have a king
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  because you will become a slave to him or something to that
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  effect. He, you know, it's, it's just
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  not going to be good. You have all this freedom, you
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  don't really need it, but they wanted one.
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  So they got Saul. He fit the picture of what it
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  was, but Saul was more about himself.
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  He was kind of, he was the lukewarm guy.
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  He was listening to part of what God would say, but then he was
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  doing what he wanted to do. And eventually God just said,
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  no, done with you. I'm taking away your authority
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  and David's going to come in now because you, you did not do
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  you're not obedient. And he was, he was just too
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  rebellious, I guess. So they, I don't remember now
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  where I was going with that. Anyway, I'm going to, I don't, I
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  don't remember honestly where it was.
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  It might come back to me because I was looking at more things
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  that I had about the word of God and and just how God speaks to
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  somebody. Oh, just the fact that we need
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  to really be. Sure, this is God.
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  God did give certain signs to people like Gideon when he was
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  really seeking the Lord, he was throwing out fleece and he was
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  saying like if this is you have the dew land on the fleece and
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  if it's not then it'll be dry. And then he did all these things
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  like he wasn't testing God. He was trying to get a direction
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  from God. And there was, you know, we have
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  to be very careful because when we say things to God, he can
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  hold us to it. And that's what happened in
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  Gideon's case. And that was very, I don't know.
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  It's, it's not, I don't really like the rest of that story.
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  But another thing was Hezekiah, he was told that he was going to
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  die. He didn't want to die.
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  He pleaded with God for more time.
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  God said, OK, I'm going to give you 15 more years of life.
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  And then there was a sign that preceded that.
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  So Hezekiah knew that it was true.
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  And he did something like supernatural again, because it
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  was the shadow went the opposite direction of the stairs.
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  Like the shadow would follow a certain way, but it did the
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  exact opposite thing. Like that's something that only
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  God could do. It's not naturally possible.
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  So Hezekiah knew he was going to have his extra 15 years that God
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  gave him. So and there were signs at
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  different times where God would, you know, I remember another one
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  with Rebecca where the, the person that was sent to find the
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  wife for Isaac was, he wanted to do it right?
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  And he prayed to God and he said, so make it so that the
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  person who is supposed to be the wife for Isaac will not only
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  offer my camels or I don't know, not only offer me something to
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  drink, but also my camel. And so that's exactly what
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  happened. So people do ask for certain
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  signs when they want to know God's will, when they just don't
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  understand what the direction is of God.
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  In fact, God also made it a way for people to ask or or to know
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  His way when he designed the ephod that the high priest wore.
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  And on the ephod there were these yumum and thummim which
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  they were like dice if you want to call those today.
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  There were some method of like throwing dice is basically what
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  it was. And the high priest would do
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  that, and he would use these dice to find a direction from
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  God and advise the military leader.
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  So this was a practice. Now, that is a very random
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  practice. And yes, people need to be
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  careful about it because the Bible does say that you don't
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  use magic in those kinds of things.
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  But I think God does know the sincerity of our request.
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  And God may show a sign, but we should also, you know, if we
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  are, we need to ask God to give us some certain sign that can't
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  just be our own creation in our own minds.
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  And maybe a certain, I don't know, I mean, we don't, it's not
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  testing God, but it's really asking God for direction in a
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  certain situation. And, and I think God encourages
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  that throughout the Bible. He wants that.
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  I mean, why would he have given the high priest that ability to
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  use the yumum and thummim to figure out if they were supposed
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  to go to war, if they shouldn't go to war and decisions like
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  that, like they were relying on God and God gave them a means to
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  do that. God also spoke through prophets.
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  But again, here we go back to was this from God or was it
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  someone's own desire that they're saying, you know, it was
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  in their mind and all of a sudden they say, well, I thought
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  about this, so it must be from God.
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  Well, no, not necessarily because like if it's from our
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  own heart, our hearts are it's said in the Scripture that they
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  are deceitful. And if we follow our feelings,
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  that's deceitful. So what I've found personally is
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  when I prayed about something and maybe I don't want to do it
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  or I'm kind of a nervous about doing something, but then I
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  asked God about it and I get the message from God that yes, I
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  should do it and, and I feel confident that it is.
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  And then I do it and everything goes well.
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  That is to me an affirmation that I heard correctly from God.
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  Now it's, it's very risky and I think like all kinds of people,
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  like pastors and everybody, I don't know that all people get
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  it right, but I do think that God does want to communicate
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  with us and God will guide us. And that's something he's he
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  says, if you seek me, you will find me.
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  Now we what we want to seek is what is God's will, not things
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  about like am I going to get a brand new car?
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  Am I going to get a brand new job?
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  I mean, those kinds of things. Those are God provides whatever
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  we need, he provides you. We don't have to ask him those
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  kinds of things. But if we're talking about our
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  direction and what we want to do, we should be asking God,
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  what is your will? What do you want me to do?
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  And I think that's where God will respond to us.
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  And the question of what Joshua had was he was saying the right
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  thing. He was saying that people need
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  to prepare and people need to repent.
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  I remember his message. I, you know, I don't remember at
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  all 'cause I did watch it like a month ago and I haven't watched
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  it since. But it did seem like it was
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  along the lines of repentance and preparation and all the
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  things that are right. But and so again, was this done
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  by the enemy to have this big deception to where nobody trusts
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  anybody anymore, even if there are truly people getting word
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  from God. And now everybody's going to be
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  skeptical because this happened because this went viral.
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  And that's that's a very good chance.
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  That's the way it will be. And it's very interesting
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  because I like, again, what I said before was that people will
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  become skeptical and I have reasons for saying this, but I
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  want to read through some things about the Word of the Lord.
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  Do a word search, likeblueletterbible.org is a
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  great resource. And in it you can choose
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  whatever book you prefer, whatever translation you prefer,
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  and you can type in a verse or words and it will show you where
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  they are throughout the Bible. So I did that for the Word of
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  the Lord because that was referenced and it occurs 2015
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  times in 272 verses, including 200, 31 exact phrases that are
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  shown. First there are 6 pages of that.
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  I'm not going to read all these to you, but do this for yourself
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  and then read through it. And then you can Click to hear
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  the, you know, to read the whole story to get it in context.
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  But some of them I will read. And I'll just say after this,
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  the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision.
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  Do not be afraid Abram, I am your shield.
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  You're very great reward. So God spoke to Abram in a
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  vision. Now this says Abram, this is
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  before his name was changed to Abraham.
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  He the word of the Lord came to him in a vision and he said,
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  don't be afraid. I am your shield, your very
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  great reward. So in it, and I guess in a
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  translation it says I or it could also mean your reward will
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  be very great. That seems to make more well
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  your very great reward. So he will be rewarded for his
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  obedience. God does seem to do that, but he
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  spoke to a lot of people in Exodus.
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  It said those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word, the
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  officials of Pharaoh. So these are they feared the
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  word of the Lord. So the officials of Pharaoh,
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  they're probably not believers, but yet they feared the word of
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  the Lord. They hurried to bring their
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  slaves and livestock inside. This is when all the plagues
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  were coming out, and I believe this was the hail occurrence
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  that happened during the Exodus. So there were officials of
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  Pharaoh who feared fear of the word of the fear of God is the
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  beginning of wisdom, but they feared the word of the Lord and
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  they actually brought their slaves and livestock inside and
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  hail just devastated after that. And then it says in Exodus
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  Chapter 9, verse 21. But those who ignored the word
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  of the Lord left their slaves and livestock in the field.
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  Well, of course, they all got severely damaged.
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  So this is again just showing that God speaks through people.
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  He can speak in a vision, He can speak in a dream, and the word
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  can come, and I think audibly too, because that was what
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  Samuel. Here's the the thing that says
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  about Samuel. The boy Samuel ministered before
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  the Lord under Eli. He was the priest.
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  In those days, the word of the Lord was rare.
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  There were not many visions. So here it's kind of interesting
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  because it seems like this is a vision.
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  The word of the Lord is a vision.
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  But then in verse, this is in first Sam Samuel chapter 3 Now
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  Samuel did not yet know the Lord, the word of the Lord had
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  not yet been revealed to him. So Samuel was in his early days,
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  he was not really, he didn't know about God.
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  And that's how everyone is. But Samuel actually heard
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  something. He heard something three times,
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  which is also significant to hearing from the Lord.
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  And of course, the enemy is going to try to copy anything
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  that God does. So we really, really need to be
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  like a detective with the Bible. When somebody speaks a quote
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  prophetic word we need to double check it with the Bible for
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  sure. But at this point it says 1/3
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  time the Lord called Samuel and Samuel got up and went to Eli
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  and said here I am you called me.
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  Then Eli realized that the Lord was calling the boy.
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  So Eli told Samuel go and lie down and if he calls you say
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  speak Lord for your servant is listening.
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  So Samuel went and lay down in his place, and then, you know,
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  the Lord continued to talk to him so and then Samuel became a
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  prophet that advised Saul, and the word of the Lord came to
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  Nathan. He was a prophet that advised
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  David, and he said to David at one point Nathan said, why did
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  you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his
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  eyes? You struck down Uriah the
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  Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own.
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  You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
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  So people get rebuked by the prophets through the word of the
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  Lord. The Lord will use people to
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  rebuke again. The the message of repentance is
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  always appropriate. It aligns with the Bible.
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  And if lots of people are saying repent because the Lord is near
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  or the Lord is coming near or Jesus return is soon, it's wise
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  to listen to that. Whether or not that profit is
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  our person, whatever is accurate about the date is going to
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  happen. The point about being prepared
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  is important and it doesn't hurt anyone to get prepared.
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  But don't, you know, do drastic things like selling or giving
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  away all your property because you know you're not going to be
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  here anymore because you really don't know and you can't, you
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  can't. Obviously this is this is clear
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  that you can't trust in people because people can be deceived.
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  So then it says, you know, another part, the word of the
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  Lord had come to Gad, the prophet David Seer.
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  The word of the Lord came to Solomon.
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  So it's God speaks through people and he when he, he's the
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  one who says it, it comes true. And if he's not the one who says
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  it, then if if God is not behind it, it will not come true.
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  So but a lot of it is the word of the Lord is keeping the
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  commands. So here's another one.
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  He this is another situation that was really bad about a
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  deceiver. Oh, I kind of want to read this
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  this chapter first Kings 13. This is just interesting because
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  it'll tell us a lot about hearing from God here.
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  A man of God from Judah. By the word of the Lord, a man
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  of God came from Judah to Bethel.
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  As Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make an offering by the
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  word of the Lord, he cried out against the altar.
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  Altar, altar. This is what the Lord says.
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  A son named Josiah will be born on the House to the House of
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  David on you. He will sacrifice the priests of
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  the high places who make offerings here, and human bones
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  will be burned on you. That same day, the man of God
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  gave a sign. This is the sign the Lord has
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  declared. OK, so we were just talking
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  about before getting in the fleece and the sign there we
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  talked about Hezekiah and the shadow and the sign that was
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  given there. Here's another example of a
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  sign. The altar will be split apart
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  and the ashes on it will be poured out.
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  So that was the the man of God said, this is what the the Lord
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  will give. Like this didn't happen yet, but
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  he was saying this is what's going to happen.
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  And you'll know this is from the Lord when this happens.
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  When King Jeroboam heard what the man of God cried out against
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  the altar at Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the
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  altar and said, seize him. But the hand he stretched out
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  toward the man shriveled up so that he could not pull it back.
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  Isn't that interesting? So something like deformed
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  happened to the guy's hand. King Jeroboam, when he said,
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  sees him and his hand does something strange.
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  Also, the altar was split apart and its ashes poured out
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  according to the sign given by the man of God, by the word of
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  the Lord. Then the king said to the man of
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  God, intercede with your, with the Lord, your God, and pray for
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  me that my hand may be restored. So the man of God interceded
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  with the Lord, and the King's hand was restored and became as
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  it was before. OK, so that's really
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  supernatural. The king saying sees that guy,
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  he's a man of God, He prays, here's a miracle that's
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  happening. I think I've heard before there
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  weren't any miracles in the Old Testament.
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  Well, there were because Elijah raised.
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  I'm thinking that just came to mind.
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  Elijah raised a child from death.
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  That was one of the miracles that happened.
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  And then here we are reading another one where the King's
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  hand was restored. So this is all through the
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  Spirit of God. No person is making this happen.
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  It is the Holy Spirit residing within the Holy Spirit from God
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  that's making these miracles happen for the glory of God.
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  Any miracle is for the glory of God.
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  Going back to this, this account, the king said to the
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  man of God, come home with me for a meal and I will give you a
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  gift. But the man of God answered the
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  king, even if you were to give me half of your possessions, I
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  would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water, for
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  I was commanded by the word of the Lord.
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  You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you
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  came. So this man of God had heard
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  from God, and God said don't eat bread, don't drink water or
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  return. By the way, he gave him
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  instructions. And obviously this man is close
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  to God because he prayed and the King's hand was restored.
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  So listen to this. So he took another road and he
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  did not return. By the way, he'd come to Bethel.
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  So he's being obedient. Now listen to this.
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  Now there was a certain old prophet living in Bethel, whose
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  sons came and told him all that the man of God had done there
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  that day. They also told their father what
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  he had said to the King. Their father asked them which
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  way did he go? And his sons showed him which
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  Rd. the man of God from Judah had taken.
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  So he said to his son, saddle the donkey for me.
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  And when they saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it and rode
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  after the man of God. He found him sitting under an
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  oak tree and asked him, Are you the man of God who came from
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  Judah? I am, he replied.
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  So the prophet said to him, come home with me and eat.
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  I want to pause for a minute because you know, we hear he's a
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  prophet. There are prophets who hear from
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  evil and there are prophets who hear from the Lord and the Bible
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  is really clear about that. And at one point, Elijah is a
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  great example. So if you just search Elijah,
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  you can see that Elijah was pleading with God saying that
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  I'm the only prophet left. You know, all of these others
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  are worshipping, they're prophets, but they're, you know,
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  calling on Baal or Baal or whatever you want to call it and
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  another Lord. And, and so, but the Lord said
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  to Elijah at that point that he had reserved, like he still has
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  maybe 600 or something. I don't remember the number, but
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  there were, the point being there were prophets kind of on
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  both sides there. There are people who get words
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  or get understanding from the spiritual realm, but not
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  everything that they get is from God.
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  So discernment is really critical.
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  So again, this prophet is in, This prophet probably said
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  things. This old prophet probably said
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  things that were true, that came true.
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  So people probably believed him, but he's getting things from an
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  evil source. Now an evil source could make
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  things true if they hear about it, because they're not
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  omnipresent like God. I think God is the only I think
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  they physically have to be present in spirit so they could
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  hear words that are spoken. But they as far as I know, they
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  cannot hear our thoughts to God. So if we talk to God in our
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  thoughts, they can't. That could be why the mark of
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  the beast in the forehead wants to get into our thoughts, to
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  know what's in our thoughts, perhaps so it can know what
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  people are thinking. Because right now that's one
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  thing. You can say something, but you
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  could do. You could be thinking something
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  the exact opposite of what you're saying if you are a
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  deceiver. So in order to know if
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  somebody's telling the truth or not, they would have to know the
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  thoughts of a person because a person could be thinking one
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  thing but doing another. And that happens all the time.
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  So again, it's complicated, but like the point I'm trying to
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  make that I'm saying way too much is that prophets can hear
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  from evil or from God, and we don't always know what they're
• 41:31
  hearing from. And it's not to say that the
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  person is necessarily bad, but sometimes the evil can put
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  thoughts even to a good person. And I'll show you that part of
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  that through scripture because you shouldn't just believe what
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  I say, but I need to back it up with Scripture to say why I'm
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  saying what I'm saying about this.
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  So this old prophet then he tells the man of God, come eat
• 41:56
  with me. The man of God, he's still being
• 41:59
  obedient to God. He says I cannot turn back and
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  go with you, nor can I eat bread or drink or water with you in
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  this place. I have been told by the word of
• 42:08
  the Lord you must not eat bread or drink water.
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  There are returned by the way that you came.
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  So twice now he's done the right thing, the man of God, he did a
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  miracle through God and he is obedient to God.
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  He's doing exactly what God says.
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  Now watch what happens. Here's where it turns.
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  The old prophet answered, I too am a prophet as you are, and an
• 42:38
  Angel said to me by the word of the Lord, bring him back with
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  you to your house so that he may eat bread and drink water.
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  Now in parentheses it says, but he was lying to him.
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  So there's two different things that I would say.
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  Like if it says like an Angel, there are fallen angels, there
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  are angels that side with Satan and there are angels who are
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  obedient to God. So just because it was an Angel
• 43:09
  doesn't mean it was good. And it could be a deceptive
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  Angel. And but then here it says he was
• 43:17
  lying to him. So this is probably a prophet, a
• 43:22
  quote prophet, but he probably worships Baal.
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  And so he, even though he's a prophet, he's getting stuff from
• 43:30
  the evil side, not from God. And of course, Satan is trying
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  to separate the man of God from like Satan wants to destroy.
• 43:43
  And there are alliances. It says in the Book of
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  Revelation, the dragon, which was symbolic of Satan took his
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  tail and he took a third of the angels with it.
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  And and you know, they were cast down to earth.
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  So he took the, the stars, 1/3 of the stars and the stars are
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  symbolic of angels. So Satan and his angels came
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  down to earth. It was a third of the angels.
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  And we have to there's 10 thousands upon 10 thousands of
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  angels. So there's quite a number of
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  angels that Satan that are, you know, allied with Satan.
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  The Bible tells us about this and and angels can appear as
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  people. It says in the Bible that be
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  kind to strangers because in doing so you may have not
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  realized that you had entertained an Angel.
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  So they don't come with ants. They're not flying in the sky
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  like depictions that we see. They can look like an everyday
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  normal human being. So apparently they can.
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  It even shows us that in the Bible because it said angels
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  came to Abraham and Sarah in Sodom and Gomorrah before Sodom
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  and Gomorrah was destroyed. They came to see if that was
• 44:58
  going to happen or if what they had heard.
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  I mean, they obviously knew God knew that what he had heard was
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  true, but he was interacting with human beings.
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  And he also told Abraham and Sarah they would have a child a
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  year later. And you know, Abraham's like 100
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  years old or Sarah's, you know, you know, 90 years old or
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  something like that. So they're super old.
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  And these people come to visit their angels and tell them these
• 45:26
  things that are going to happen in the future.
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  So the point again being that angels, some are good and some
• 45:34
  are bad to keep it really simple.
• 45:36
  So this prophet goes against what God says to the man of God
• 45:42
  and he says, but an Angel told me for you to come back with me.
• 45:47
  So the man of God returned with him and ate and drank in his
• 45:51
  house. Like that was so simple.
• 45:53
  So he's, he's trusting this other guy.
• 45:57
  So that's what we cannot trust other people.
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  We can only trust God. And we also have to know that
• 46:05
  there are supernatural spiritual forces that can influence human
• 46:10
  beings. So this is really kind of sad
• 46:13
  though, because there was this this man of God and he was, he
• 46:18
  was being obedient to God. But then this third, you know,
• 46:22
  opportunity kind of came to him and he, I guess he kind of was
• 46:27
  like, oh, well, maybe maybe, you know, was an Angel.
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  OK, well, I'll, I'll go with you.
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  You know, I guess this is what the Lord wants me to do.
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  Like he changed his mind, but he shouldn't have listened to him
• 46:37
  because here's what happens after that.
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  While they were sitting at the table, the word of the Lord came
• 46:42
  to the old prophet who had brought him back.
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  He cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah.
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  This is what the Lord says. You have defied the word of the
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  Lord and have not kept the command.
• 46:55
  The Lord gave you. So think about this.
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  The guy, this old prophet brings you back, says he is an Angel
• 47:03
  that told him to do it, feeds you dinner and then accuses you
• 47:07
  at the table. That's exactly what Satan does.
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  He's the accuser, and so you came back.
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  He goes on. You came back and ate bread and
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  drank water in the place where he told you not to eat or drink.
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  Therefore your body will not be buried in the tomb of your
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  ancestors. When the man of God had finished
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  eating and drinking, the prophet who had brought him back saddled
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  his donkey for him. As he went on his way, a lion
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  met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying
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  on the road with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
• 47:45
  Some people who passed by saw the body lying there, with the
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  lion standing beside the body, and they went and reported it in
• 47:53
  the city where the old prophet lived.
• 47:56
  When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard
• 47:59
  of it, he said, Is this the man of God who defied the word of
• 48:02
  the Lord? The Lord has given him over to
• 48:05
  the lion, which has mauled him and killed him, as the word of
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  the Lord had warned him. The prophet said to his son,
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  saddled the donkey for me, and they did so.
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  Then he went out and found the body lying on the road with the
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  donkey and the lion standing beside it.
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  Think about all that time that passed, and the donkey and the
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  lion are still standing there. The lion had neither eaten the
• 48:28
  body nor mauled the donkey. Talk about supernatural.
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  That would not happen in the natural world.
• 48:36
  So the prophet took the body of the man of God, laid it on the
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  donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him
• 48:43
  and bury him. Then he laid the body in his own
• 48:45
  tomb and they mourned over him and said, At last my brother
• 48:50
  after burying him, he said to his sons, When I die, bury me in
• 48:53
  the grave where the man of God is buried.
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  Lay my bones beside, inside his bones.
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  For the message he declared by the word of the Lord against the
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  altar in Bethel and against all the shrines in the high places
• 49:04
  in the towns of Samaria will certainly come true.
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  The old prophet. At this point, the old prophet
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  apparently realizes he is truly a man of God and that what he
• 49:15
  said is going to happen. Even after this, Jeroboam did
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  not change his evil ways, but once more appointed priest for
• 49:23
  the high places from all sorts of people.
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  Not you know, this is to say like God has certain the the
• 49:30
  Levites and they the tribe are from Aaron, from the lineage of
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  Aaron. Those were the only ones who
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  were supposed to be priests. But during the time of Jeroboam,
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  people just did whatever they wanted to do and they put any
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  kind of people they wanted in these priests places.
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  So it said anyone who wanted to become a priest, he consecrated
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  for the high places and they were worshipping other entities
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  too. This was the sin of the House of
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  Jeroboam that led to the down its downfall and to its
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  destruction from the face of the earth.
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  So long story, but this just shows obedience to God and how
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  much it matters that the word of the Lord.
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  If we get a word from God and somebody tells us something
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  different from what we've heard and we know is from the word of
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  God because of however God communicates us and we've had
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  affirmations from God and it's been private communications.
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  I would really be worried about anything that you speak out loud
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  because in the spiritual realm, I don't know what is listening
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  to that and it's unseen things. But you know, if we're
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  communicating to God through our thoughts, through our minds, I
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  don't believe that the spiritual realm can access that right now
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  and that we can communicate directly with God.
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  And that's probably our best way if we want God to affirm things
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  is just to pray to God where nobody else can hear it.
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  Don't repeat what you're praying to God and ask God you know for
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  specific directions or something that you will know, but don't
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  speak about it to other people and in question if you're truly
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  sincerely seeking God. I just can't imagine it doesn't
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  say anywhere in the Bible where God would not honor that.
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  So it's just we have to be aware that there are evil spiritual
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  forces that can thwart our our communication with God.
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  In fact, we see evidence of that in the book of Daniel when he
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  was praying and the Angel. Now again, this is an Angel.
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  So it's always scary. Usually when an Angel, when I
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  say scary, I don't mean like literally scary.
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  I mean, it's concerning because when an Angel comes, it's like,
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  is this a good one or a bad one? And bad ones can appear like
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  good ones. So that there's another level of
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  questioning and 'cause they, you know, sacred Satan masquerades
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  as an Angel of light. Like this great deception.
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  There's so much deception that we just really need to know
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  what's in Scripture. It's so important right now
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  because we can be fooled and it's not good when we get
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  fooled. And, and it's not even those
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  closest to God, which I'm going to go over, even those closest
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  to Jesus or fooled too. So it's not saying that somebody
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  who gets fooled is far from God because that's not the truth.
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  Those closest, those in his inner circle, those 12 disciples
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  get fooled. So I will talk about that in a
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  minute. So I, I don't want people to
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  think that somebody's far from God because they aren't if they
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  get fooled, but they just have to be aware.
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  Spiritual discernment is so critical.
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  Anyway, there's a lot in here. I, I, I think if I keep reading
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  about the word of the Lord came to Elijah there.
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  I mean, there's just Jehoshaphat said the word of the Lord is
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  with him. You know, there's, there's so
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  much in here about the word of the Lord, the Lord speaking to
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  him. And I think it's better since
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  this has gone on so long for people just to read through all
• 53:45
  of those sections. And then if it doesn't make
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  sense to you, go back and read that chapter because you do
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  learn a lot about God. And what it does emphasize is
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  that when it is the word of God, we really need to obey it, but
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  it's not going to contradict anything in the Bible.
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  And and we also have to think logically.
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  We need critical thinking. We need to think, is this
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  something God would want? Is this something God says
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  throughout Scripture? Is there?
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  What is the purpose behind it? We have to use some discernment.
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  We can't just blindly follow things that we get told.
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  And you know, if, if it's kind of like, well, maybe God said
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  this. Well, maybe God didn't.
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  I mean, spend some time on it, pray about it.
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  Don't just be impulsive about it.
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  I think we all need to learn from that.
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  Anyway, Like I said, I'm not going to go over that part
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  anymore. But this is I I've talked a
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  little bit about being on the fence like a lukewarm Christian
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  or, you know, being, you know, like I love God, but yet I know
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  I'm rebellious. I'm still a Sinner.
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  The whole topic of grace is so abused in the Bible.
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  It in the not in the Bible. It's not abused in the Bible.
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  It's abused by pastors because there are so many pastors who
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  kind of just say all your sins are covered under grace.
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  Well, accidental sins. Yeah, accidental ones.
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  When you do something stupid momentarily because of our
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  sinful nature. And as soon as you do it, you're
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  like, Oh my gosh, I did the wrong thing, God, I'm sorry.
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  OK, That kind of a thing. Yes.
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  That's what the Bible says grace covers.
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  But grace doesn't cover. I know that God doesn't want me
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  to do this, but I'm going to do it because I want to do it.
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  But thank God for grace. No, it clearly says in Hebrews
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  that if you do that, you are just expecting judgement because
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  that's all that's left. There's no sacrifice that covers
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  that. If you look back in Leviticus,
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  they didn't even get there's nothing.
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  There are no sacrifices that were ever done for it's it's for
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  accidental sins, not for willful sins.
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  No, not for willful sins. The way that our sins are
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  covered is by Jesus's death on the cross.
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  And it's when we go to him in repentance when we say we ask
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  for forgiveness and our mind is that it's is saying I don't ever
• 56:32
  want to do this again. God like I'm asking for
• 56:35
  forgiveness. I don't, you know, maybe I have
• 56:38
  desires to do these things that I shouldn't be doing, but I need
• 56:41
  your help with that. But I don't ever want to do that
• 56:44
  again. Help me overcome these.
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  And God never gives us, he never puts us into a situation that
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  will overpower us. He always gives us a way out.
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  It says that in Scripture too. So don't get comfortable in your
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  sins. If you are doing something that
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  you know God doesn't want you to do, stop it right now.
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  Ask for forgiveness. Ask God for the Holy Spirit to
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  help you overcome it, because you will.
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  Do not think that you are too weak and that you just have to
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  rely on grace. That is true that in your
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  weakness you rely on the grace, but grace is the Holy Spirit,
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  and the Holy Spirit is power. So don't say you don't have
• 57:35
  power, because if you say you don't have power, that means
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  God's not powerful. God is powerful, and if God
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  gives us that power from the Holy Spirit, that means we have
• 57:44
  the power to overcome sin. Anything else is a lie from the
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  enemy, letting people think they are comfortable when they are
• 57:53
  not. Do not be lukewarm in, let's
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  see, Colossians 2. I had this one called up.
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  I don't know why, but as I was researching all this stuff, I
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  think it's an important one maybe to read because it talks
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  about the Laodicea. He says, I want you to know how
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  this is Paul writing. I want you to know how hard I am
• 58:15
  contending for you and for those at Laodicea.
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  Laodicea is known in the Book of Revelation as the lukewarm
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  church. So this is what Paul is talking
• 58:28
  to the lukewarm people. And for all who have not met me
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  personally, my goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and
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  united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete
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  understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of
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  God, namely, Christ, in whom all hid, in whom are hidden all the
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  treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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  We get wisdom and knowledge from Christ.
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  I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by find fine
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  sounding arguments. For though I am absent from you
• 59:05
  and body, I'm present with you in spirit and delight to see how
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  disciplined you are and how firm your faith in Christ is.
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  So these fine sounding arguments, don't be deceived by
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  them. One of those fine sounding
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  arguments to me is grace thinking that you can keep on
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  sinning and grace covers you. That's a fine sounding argument
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  because it's exploiting grace is what it's doing because it's
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  contradicting scripture. Because I think it's Hebrews
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  10/26 I that's just came to mind.
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  I don't know if that's the right one, but I'm going to search it.
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  Hebrews 10, and I think it is 26.
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  Let me look. Yep, it is.
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  If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received
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  the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but
• 1:00:08
  only a fearful expectation of judgement and of raging fire
• 1:00:15
  that will consume the enemies of God.
• 1:00:20
  So someone who keeps on sinning is considered an enemy of God?
• 1:00:27
  I don't know that I I mean this is already getting really long
• 1:00:30
  and it's Colossians 2. Colossians chapter 2 is a good
• 1:00:36
  one to finish reading, but this is already an hour long.
• 1:00:40
  I want to just talk through a few more things because I think
• 1:00:43
  people are ignorant of some of these things and just the fact
• 1:00:48
  of spiritual warfare and of I don't even know what it is.
• 1:00:52
  If it's an Angel, if it's a demon, if it's Satan himself, I
• 1:00:57
  don't know, let's just call it evil.
• 1:01:00
  But what I want to say is what Scripture tells us.
• 1:01:04
  So I'm going to Luke chapter 22, verse 31.
• 1:01:09
  This is Jesus telling Peter, who was called Simon, Simon, Simon.
• 1:01:15
  Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat.
• 1:01:22
  So there's several things we can learn from this.
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  Number one is Jesus has authority.
• 1:01:29
  Satan can't do anything, so if we are in Christ we don't have
• 1:01:35
  to fear Satan, but if we are living by the flesh, we are not
• 1:01:43
  in Christ. If you want to read about that
• 1:01:46
  go to Galatians chapter 5. If we are living in the flesh it
• 1:01:50
  tells you this is the way people act.
• 1:01:52
  If you are living by the Spirit, it gives you another example of
• 1:01:55
  how you live. You can self evaluate and look
• 1:01:59
  am I living by my flesh? Am I living by the spirit and
• 1:02:03
  figure it out. If you are living by the flesh,
• 1:02:07
  just beware that you are not in Christ.
• 1:02:09
  You are not protected so you need to do something, you need
• 1:02:14
  to repent is what you need to do and ask Jesus for the Holy
• 1:02:19
  Spirit because look at this Simon, Simon, Satan has asked,
• 1:02:24
  we talked about Jesus authority to sift you all this wheat Satan
• 1:02:27
  wants to destroy. Now these are the 12 guys that
• 1:02:31
  are hanging out with Jesus that are learning from Jesus his
• 1:02:35
  closest companions. Satan has asked to sift them.
• 1:02:42
  And in fact, later Jesus says, Father, I've kept all of those
• 1:02:45
  that you've given to me. I've kept them safe, but I'm
• 1:02:48
  going. And that's why he asked for the
• 1:02:49
  Holy Spirit to come when he was gone so that the Holy Spirit
• 1:02:52
  could be with them. But the point is, even those
• 1:02:57
  closest to Jesus in in Simon or Peter, Simon Peter, you know, he
• 1:03:03
  was the one who said, you know, I would never deny you.
• 1:03:07
  But what happens? He denies.
• 1:03:10
  And then and then Peter feels terrible about it because he
• 1:03:15
  said he would never deny Christ. He denied knowing him three
• 1:03:18
  times. And Jesus says, Oh yeah, you
• 1:03:19
  will. You're going to done deny me
• 1:03:21
  three times before the rooster crows.
• 1:03:24
  And then that exact same thing happened.
• 1:03:26
  He denied Jesus three times and then he heard the rooster crow
• 1:03:29
  and then he knew he did exactly what he said he wasn't going to
• 1:03:32
  do. So John and Peter were the two
• 1:03:36
  that thought they were the closest to God and the closest
• 1:03:40
  to Jesus. And because they would argue
• 1:03:42
  with one another, they had this competition going on.
• 1:03:44
  You can see in Scripture that there's this competition between
• 1:03:47
  John and Peter. Like who does the Lord love the
• 1:03:50
  most? Now John says the one that the
• 1:03:52
  Lord loved, he's referring to himself, which I think is
• 1:03:55
  hilarious. And you know what's really
• 1:03:56
  funny? It not funny but interesting is
• 1:03:59
  that John, I think died a natural death.
• 1:04:02
  All the other ones got killed in a really horrible way.
• 1:04:07
  John was sent off to an island in Patmos and had this vision of
• 1:04:11
  Jesus. But he I don't think, I think he
• 1:04:13
  just did. He was the only one who didn't
• 1:04:16
  die by some martyrdom. But anyway, it was obvious that
• 1:04:23
  those closest to Jesus were were still Satan was trying to get in
• 1:04:29
  there. He was still trying to destroy
• 1:04:31
  them, but Jesus was protecting them.
• 1:04:34
  Now they were submitted. They were loyal to Jesus, but
• 1:04:40
  not perfect. So they did have their, their
• 1:04:44
  shortfalls at times, like, you know, different times, except
• 1:04:52
  for one of them, Judas, he wasn't submitted to Christ.
• 1:04:56
  He kind of like probably like Saul, the first king of Israel,
• 1:05:03
  where he partially did what God wanted him to do.
• 1:05:07
  But then he did what Saul wanted, what himself wanted to
• 1:05:10
  do. And so he was kind of like on
• 1:05:13
  the fence. Well, if you're on the fence,
• 1:05:16
  you're God's enemy. That's what we have to really
• 1:05:18
  understand. That's what Scripture shows us.
• 1:05:21
  So here in Luke chapter 22 verse 3 it says then Satan entered
• 1:05:28
  Judas called Iscariot one of the 12 these this is the closest
• 1:05:33
  circle to Jesus and Satan entered Judas.
• 1:05:38
  Why? Probably because he wasn't
• 1:05:42
  submitted to Jesus, because he was on the fence.
• 1:05:46
  He was partially one of the disciples, but partially doing
• 1:05:50
  it also said that he liked to take money out of this, the
• 1:05:53
  money they collected. So he had a little bit of evil
• 1:05:56
  in him and he wasn't getting rid of that.
• 1:05:59
  He didn't repent of that. He was still hanging on to his
• 1:06:03
  sin and Satan entered him. So if Satan entered somebody who
• 1:06:10
  was in the inner circle of Jesus, do you not think that
• 1:06:14
  that could happen to followers of Jesus?
• 1:06:17
  Do you not think that we see that today if they do not have
• 1:06:22
  the Holy Spirit? So if someone is living fleshly,
• 1:06:28
  go to Galatians chapter 5. If somebody's living according
• 1:06:31
  to the flesh, I think that person is at risk.
• 1:06:36
  If they are living by the Spirit, they are protected by
• 1:06:39
  Jesus because that's evidence that the whole they have the
• 1:06:42
  Holy Spirit. So Galatians 5 is so critical
• 1:06:47
  and and it's just something that we need to be that people need
• 1:06:52
  to be aware of because we need Jesus's protection, we need the
• 1:06:56
  Holy Spirit, especially now. So in John chapter 13 verse 27,
• 1:07:02
  it says the same thing. As soon as Judas took the bread,
• 1:07:05
  Satan entered into him. So Jesus told him what you are
• 1:07:11
  about to do, do quickly. And I, you know, I, I just think
• 1:07:22
  there's, there's, I think Satan can influence a person without
• 1:07:27
  possessing a person. Satan can put thoughts into a
• 1:07:31
  person's head. They can act by their own free
• 1:07:34
  will to choose to do those things.
• 1:07:36
  It doesn't necessarily mean that they are possessed, but every
• 1:07:39
  time that you do something in rebellion to God legally, I have
• 1:07:44
  a feeling, this is my own opinion, that you start giving
• 1:07:47
  more authority to the evil 1 to rule over you.
• 1:07:52
  Because it's always like when somebody starts to do a little
• 1:07:56
  sin, but they don't stop it. Nip it in the bud right away.
• 1:08:00
  It gets, it grows bigger and bigger and bigger and gets
• 1:08:03
  harder and harder and harder to get out of.
• 1:08:06
  Like at first, it's not so bad if I'm, let's just say like a
• 1:08:10
  chemical of some kind, a drug, a drink, whatever.
• 1:08:13
  At first, you know, oh, I'm just going to have a sip.
• 1:08:15
  It's no big deal or smoke or whatever.
• 1:08:18
  But then that turns into more and more and more and more
• 1:08:21
  because you're rebelling against God.
• 1:08:23
  God, you know, in a case of a, a drug or a drink or something
• 1:08:28
  like that, you know, it says be alert enough sober mind, because
• 1:08:31
  the devil prowls looking for his next victim.
• 1:08:34
  When we do that, when we alter our mind, we make ourselves more
• 1:08:39
  susceptible to the enemy. All right, let's go back again
• 1:08:45
  to Jesus's closest followers. In Matthew chapter 16 verse 23,
• 1:08:50
  Jesus turned and said to Peter, get behind me Satan, you are a
• 1:08:56
  stumbling block to me. You do not have in mind the
• 1:08:59
  concerns of God, but merely human concerns.
• 1:09:03
  Now, either I, I think Jesus here was saying to Peter, he was
• 1:09:10
  seeing like the influences of Satan, that Satan was
• 1:09:14
  influencing Peter, that he was, you know, Peter was saying, I'm
• 1:09:18
  going to, I'm going to kill off anybody who, you know, tries to
• 1:09:22
  do this to you, Lord. Like he's doing these what he
• 1:09:26
  thinks are good things, but he's hindering Jesus from the next
• 1:09:31
  step that Jesus had to take, which was to be crucified.
• 1:09:36
  And and Jesus knew what was going to happen.
• 1:09:39
  So I don't know if this was, you know, Jesus was aware that one
• 1:09:44
  of his closest people were being prodded by Satan.
• 1:09:49
  He wasn't, Peter wasn't possessed by Satan.
• 1:09:52
  He by no means was possessed. He was just being influenced.
• 1:09:56
  And that's what there's a difference there in Mark chapter
• 1:10:01
  8 verse 33. But when Jesus turned and looked
• 1:10:04
  at his disciples, he rebuked Peter, get behind me, Satan.
• 1:10:07
  He said you do not have the the in mind the concerns of God, but
• 1:10:11
  merely human concerns. So this was written by two
• 1:10:15
  different gospels. This was accounted and then not
• 1:10:23
  to spend like a whole lot of time talking about Satan, but at
• 1:10:28
  the same time, I think it's important for us to recognize if
• 1:10:33
  you don't know the enemy is how can you fight off the enemy?
• 1:10:37
  How can you be aware? If you think that I don't get
• 1:10:42
  influenced by Satan, you know, I believe in God.
• 1:10:47
  Well, then I guess you're better than Peter who was present with
• 1:10:54
  Jesus and one of the 12 closest people who Jesus said, Peter,
• 1:10:59
  you are, you know, like you are my rock.
• 1:11:04
  I mean, that's if you think that you are in a unreachable place,
• 1:11:11
  but Peter wasn't, you know, Peter was, Peter was reachable,
• 1:11:18
  but you are not reachable. That's crazy because Peter
• 1:11:24
  again, was vying, you know, it was between John and Peter,
• 1:11:27
  who's the one that's closest to Jesus.
• 1:11:29
  And so I don't think any of us should think that we are beyond
• 1:11:33
  being influenced by Satan. But if we recognize that, we can
• 1:11:38
  say, Jesus help me because we will know.
• 1:11:41
  Like if anger is coming over us, that's probably Satan.
• 1:11:46
  It's influencing us to act out in a fleshly way against another
• 1:11:51
  person. And we need to recognize that
• 1:11:54
  immediately. Our snowballs and gets bigger
• 1:11:57
  and bigger and bigger. And the way we recognize it is
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  we don't rely on our own strength.
• 1:12:02
  We resist. The devil says resist the devil
• 1:12:05
  and he will flee. He's there, but resist him.
• 1:12:10
  And you know, ask Jesus. I mean, it always call on Jesus
• 1:12:16
  that that is like the solution. So again, I'm not trying to
• 1:12:20
  focus on Satan, but I'm trying to make people aware of Satan
• 1:12:26
  and not feel like I'm saying anybody is possessed because I'm
• 1:12:31
  not. But I'm saying he does
• 1:12:33
  influence. And so when we read through
• 1:12:36
  these things, you will see that Satan does influence and we need
• 1:12:41
  to open up our eyes and realize that so that we are not deceived
• 1:12:46
  and not influenced and thereby acting in accordance with Satan
• 1:12:51
  instead of with God. So here we go.
• 1:12:56
  We have 53 verses to read. I'm just going to read through
• 1:12:59
  them. I'm not going to reference where
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  they are, but if you want to do that, you can go to Blue Letter
• 1:13:04
  Bible and search the word Satan and see all these verses.
• 1:13:09
  Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census
• 1:13:15
  of Israel. So Satan made David take a
• 1:13:18
  census. God told David, don't do that.
• 1:13:23
  This is again, like a prideful thing.
• 1:13:24
  Like look at what I've accomplished.
• 1:13:26
  So David wants to, you know, take a census of people.
• 1:13:30
  Well, Satan is the one who inspired David to do that.
• 1:13:35
  And this is 1, you know, this is the King David, but you know,
• 1:13:40
  God's chosen, you know, Jesus came from the line of David.
• 1:13:44
  So again, I'm, I'm trying to say that, you know, pay attention to
• 1:13:49
  this like very significant, very important people, very close
• 1:13:53
  people to Jesus in Jesus's ancestral line.
• 1:13:57
  We're all incited by you, influenced by Satan.
• 1:14:02
  So don't think that we are any different from them.
• 1:14:09
  We're probably lesser. We're probably further away from
• 1:14:12
  Christ in, you know, a physical sense.
• 1:14:16
  And unless we are fully submitted to Him, we are, we are
• 1:14:20
  an easy talk. We are an easy pawn for Satan.
• 1:14:24
  But even when we are close to God, we have to realize that
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  that's not going to keep Satan from coming after us.
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  That's why, you know, bad things happen to good people because
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  Satan is coming after the good people of God.
• 1:14:38
  The people who are close to God will get attacked because
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  that's, you know, that I guess the more influence that you
• 1:14:47
  have, the greater the enemy is going to come against you.
• 1:14:51
  They're going to take out the the powerful ones.
• 1:14:53
  So just know this and in Job it says on the day the angels came
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  to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came with
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  them. So Satan's in front of God and
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  he's also there with angels. The Lord said to Satan, where
• 1:15:10
  have you come from? Satan answered the Lord from
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  roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.
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  So Satan is like this eternal being.
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  He's been around since Adam and Eve and he's been through these
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  thousands of years and he's still like looking around, who
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  can I influence? So, and he also has these other
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  angels who agreed with him and allied with him that were cast
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  out of heaven that are helping him.
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  And I don't even know, like I said about demons and all these
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  different, I don't care to know. But all I'll say is that these
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  evil things that are associated with Satan, there's more than
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  just Satan. It's not just him going around
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  doing all this. There's other things that are
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  working on his behalf to do the same thing, and we need to be
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  aware of it, but we don't need to have fear.
• 1:16:04
  What we need to do is get right with God, repent, ask for the
• 1:16:08
  Holy Spirit so that we can have the power of God within us that
• 1:16:14
  Satan cannot penetrate. So OK, let's OK, so in Job then
• 1:16:22
  the Lord said to Satan, have you considered my servant Job?
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  There is no one like him. He is blameless and upright, a
• 1:16:29
  man who fears God and shuns evil.
• 1:16:33
  So see this is Job was a really good person.
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  He was he feared God. So we had wisdom and he shunned
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  evil. He stayed away from it.
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  And then does Job fear God for nothing?
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  Satan replied. The Lord said to Satan, Very
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  well then everything he has is in your power, but on the man
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  himself do not lay a finger. Then Satan went out from the
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  presence of the Lord. So Satan had to get permission
• 1:17:00
  from God to do something to all of Job's stuff because it says
• 1:17:07
  everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do
• 1:17:10
  not lay a finger. So then it says on another day
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  the angels came, this is another day came to present themselves
• 1:17:17
  before the Lord and Satan also came with them to present
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  himself before him. And Lord said to Satan, where
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  have you come from? Satan answered the Lord from
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  roaming throughout the earth going back and forth on it.
• 1:17:31
  It sounds like he's restless. He's just going around
• 1:17:34
  constantly looking over the earth and where he can do
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  whatever he's going to do. And so then it says the then the
• 1:17:43
  Lord said to Satan, have you considered my servant Job?
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  There is no one on earth like him.
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  He is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns
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  evil, and he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me
• 1:17:58
  against him to ruin him without any reason.
• 1:18:03
  So the Lord is basically proving Satan wrong and he said he still
• 1:18:08
  maintains his integrity even though you did a bunch of bad
• 1:18:13
  stuff to him and then Satan replaced.
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  Now it's going to get worse skin for skin.
• 1:18:19
  Satan replied A man will give all he has for his own life.
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  The Lord said to Satan, very well then he is in your hands,
• 1:18:28
  but you must spare his life. So God is letting Satan inflict
• 1:18:33
  Job himself, but he said you can't have his life.
• 1:18:39
  So Job went out from the presence of the Lord and flicked
• 1:18:43
  it. So Satan went out from the
• 1:18:44
  presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores
• 1:18:48
  from the soles of the of his feet to the crown on his head.
• 1:18:53
  So this goes away. I mean, the, the, the eventual
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  story is that Job is pleading with God, saying why are you
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  doing this to me and doesn't know about what's happening.
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  But God does eventually restore everything.
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  And God proves Satan is wrong about Job maintained his
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  relationship with God and God proved it through that.
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  But the story of Job shows us that Satan is relentless and
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  also that Satan is under the power of God.
• 1:19:30
  God allows Satan to test people, but God always gives us a way
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  out. So it's only in this time on
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  earth where we're going to have to endure trials and
• 1:19:43
  tribulations because after Jesus returns, we're well in eternity
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  at least we will not have to. We will be separated, Good and
• 1:19:53
  evil will be separated. And when Jesus returns, Satan
• 1:19:56
  will be bound for 1000 years. So we won't have to deal with
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  him at that point. Then in Zachariah it says, Then
• 1:20:04
  he showed me the high priest standing before the Angel of the
• 1:20:07
  Lord, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.
• 1:20:12
  That was just like the story of the man, the old prophet and the
• 1:20:16
  man of God where Satan apparently was influencing that
• 1:20:20
  old prophet because he immediately takes the guy back
• 1:20:23
  to his home to eat and then starts accusing him for all the
• 1:20:26
  wrong he did. Well, that's what Satan is doing
• 1:20:28
  too, right there with Joshua. He's accusing him and that's
• 1:20:34
  what he will always do. And that's what when we start
• 1:20:36
  feeling accusations, when we've turned to God, when we've
• 1:20:39
  repented for our sins, when we've turned to God.
• 1:20:42
  Don't listen to that. If you want to call it voice or
• 1:20:45
  those thoughts of I'm not good enough and all these negative
• 1:20:49
  thoughts, any kind of depression type things, I believe those are
• 1:20:54
  from the enemy. I believe that is Satan or
• 1:20:56
  something evil that is influencing people because that
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  is not usually about. It's usually it's just bad and
• 1:21:04
  that's not God. So it's from the evil 1 the Lord
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  said to Satan, the Lord rebuke you.
• 1:21:12
  Satan, the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you.
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  Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire.
• 1:21:22
  So Joshua was saved from the fire and he was, you know, he
• 1:21:29
  was unclean, but God made him clean because he turned to God.
• 1:21:33
  And anyway, it's again, Satan is trying to get people.
• 1:21:39
  This is showing what he does and we I think we Oh no, this is a
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  Matthew chapter 4, verse 10. Jesus said to him away from me
• 1:21:49
  Satan for it is written worship the Lord your God and serve him
• 1:21:52
  only. This is a great example because
• 1:21:57
  Jesus knows scripture, so does Satan.
• 1:22:01
  But Jesus uses scripture to get Satan, he said away from me
• 1:22:08
  Satan, for it's written worship the Lord, Lord your God and
• 1:22:12
  serve him. Only.
• 1:22:13
  Satan was trying to tempt Jesus. I'll give you everything because
• 1:22:16
  apparently Satan does have the rule of the earth.
• 1:22:20
  Jesus didn't say Satan, you're lying.
• 1:22:22
  That's not true. You don't have all this.
• 1:22:25
  Jesus didn't respond with that. He just said worship the Lord
• 1:22:28
  your God and serve him only. He's like, I'm not serving you,
• 1:22:31
  Satan. You may have the rule of the
• 1:22:34
  earth for right now, but I'm not serving you.
• 1:22:37
  I'm serving God and he just said away from me, Satan.
• 1:22:42
  So again, knowing Scripture, reading Scripture, being in the
• 1:22:46
  word every day, in Matthew chapter 12 verse 26, it says if
• 1:22:51
  Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself.
• 1:22:54
  How can his Kingdom stand? This is just like a debate with
• 1:23:01
  the Pharisees that Jesus was having.
• 1:23:03
  So you have to read that for context.
• 1:23:05
  It doesn't really give us any insight to what I'm talking
• 1:23:08
  about right now. Matthew 1623.
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  That's where Jesus says get behind me Satan.
• 1:23:14
  We talked about that already in Mark chapter one, verse 13.
• 1:23:18
  This is about Jesus being in the wilderness. 40 days be, you
• 1:23:22
  know, 40 days is like a period of testing, often being tempted
• 1:23:27
  by Satan. He was with wild animals and
• 1:23:30
  angels attended him. So again, Satan is, you know,
• 1:23:36
  being tempted or Satan is tempting Jesus.
• 1:23:41
  So here Satan is trying it against Jesus.
• 1:23:45
  So that's a really good point that just came to mind right
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  now. If somebody thinks, well, Satan
• 1:23:50
  doesn't do this to me, I don't ever get thoughts from Satan.
• 1:23:55
  Why would he not do it to you when He did it to Jesus?
• 1:23:59
  Really. OK, Mark chapter 3, verse 23.
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  So Jesus called them over to him and began to speak to them in
• 1:24:06
  parables. How can Satan drive out Satan?
• 1:24:08
  Again, you'll have to read the whole thing in Mark chapter 3.
• 1:24:14
  That's where that is. Then in Mark chapter 4 it says
• 1:24:19
  some people are like seed along the path and where the word is
• 1:24:23
  sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan
• 1:24:25
  comes and takes away the Word that was sown in them.
• 1:24:29
  So people can receive the Word of God and they can believe it,
• 1:24:32
  but something happens, maybe some bad thing happens in their
• 1:24:36
  life, and all of a sudden then they reject it.
• 1:24:38
  I don't know what the circumstances may be, but the
• 1:24:41
  Word of God says that as soon as they hear it, Satan comes and
• 1:24:45
  takes it away. So Satan is targeting.
• 1:24:47
  If somebody hears the gospel, somebody hears the Word of God,
• 1:24:52
  somebody starts pursuing God, Satan's going to come after them
• 1:24:56
  and try to get it to happen. So we have to know, oh, that
• 1:25:00
  happens. That actually happened to me
• 1:25:02
  when I started seeking the Lord. Bad things started happening,
• 1:25:06
  relationships started failing, all these things like everything
• 1:25:10
  bad was happening. I started being very depressed
• 1:25:13
  and I couldn't understand it because I was like, I am living
• 1:25:18
  more for God now than I ever have in my life and why is all
• 1:25:22
  this bad stuff happening? I didn't know about this stuff,
• 1:25:26
  and so I opened up the Bible. I'm going to say God showed me
• 1:25:31
  that because I think God influences stuff that happens in
• 1:25:34
  our life. I open up the Bible to the book
• 1:25:37
  of Job. That was the first book out of
• 1:25:39
  the Bible that I read and look at what it was about and I was
• 1:25:44
  experiencing that. To me, that was like God showing
• 1:25:46
  me this is what's happening to you in your life.
• 1:25:50
  OK, Then we talked about get behind me, Satan.
• 1:25:54
  That's documented in Mark chapter 8 and then Jesus said in
• 1:26:00
  Luke chapter 10 I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
• 1:26:06
  And then Luke 11 is talking about Satan being divided
• 1:26:11
  against himself. Then here's another thing about
• 1:26:14
  sicknesses and ailments and things being not everything, but
• 1:26:20
  I, I do tend to think this is my own opinion.
• 1:26:23
  I do think that that the sickness that we get is caused
• 1:26:28
  by Satan, by something evil, you know, yeah, bacteria, viruses,
• 1:26:35
  whatever it is, those are means. But something created by the
• 1:26:39
  evil 1, something fabricated by the evil 1, something that
• 1:26:45
  there's good bacteria. But then bacteria can be bad,
• 1:26:49
  like in certain ways too. But bacteria can be good, like
• 1:26:55
  good gut bacteria versus bacteria that causes pneumonia.
• 1:27:01
  So bacteria can be good, it can be bad.
• 1:27:05
  So I think that the enemy uses it against people.
• 1:27:11
  I really do. So and here this just, this is
• 1:27:15
  not about bacterias or viruses or anything.
• 1:27:18
  This is my own personal belief. You can criticize me, whatever,
• 1:27:21
  I don't care. It doesn't matter to me.
• 1:27:24
  But I just believe it comes from the enemy.
• 1:27:28
  Luke chapter 13 verse 16 it says then should not this woman, a
• 1:27:33
  daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for 18 long
• 1:27:39
  years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?
• 1:27:47
  So there it, you know, there this, these are things that you
• 1:27:56
  know, it, it talks about. There's, you know, that he's
• 1:28:02
  bound somebody for 18 years. So I don't know.
• 1:28:07
  I don't know if this person was possessed.
• 1:28:09
  I don't know. But she was afflicted in some
• 1:28:13
  manner for 18 years and Jesus was going to set her free.
• 1:28:19
  So that's just talking about the power.
• 1:28:21
  She probably didn't know what happened.
• 1:28:23
  She just probably thought it was a natural effect that yeah, this
• 1:28:27
  has just happened to me, I have bad luck, whatever, I don't
• 1:28:30
  know, you know, whatever their belief was or bad experience or
• 1:28:35
  I don't know if something is wrong with me medically.
• 1:28:38
  But no, this is saying that Satan has done it.
• 1:28:42
  Maybe he uses natural things to do that, but it seems like he's
• 1:28:47
  behind this stuff. That's why people could can pray
• 1:28:52
  and people can be healed miraculously.
• 1:28:55
  It's because it's Satan. It's a spiritual thing.
• 1:28:59
  Then we talked about Satan entering Judas.
• 1:29:02
  We talked about Jesus calling, telling Simon, Simon, Satan is
• 1:29:06
  asked to sift all of you. Again, it talks about Judas sent
• 1:29:12
  Satan entering him and then Peter.
• 1:29:15
  This is in the book of Acts. Peter says Ananias, how is it
• 1:29:19
  that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the
• 1:29:23
  Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you
• 1:29:28
  received for the land? Again, so Satan influenced
• 1:29:34
  Ananias and he was withholding money and he was lying to them
• 1:29:40
  saying that he gave them all the money.
• 1:29:43
  And then in Acts chapter 26, this is eye opening, Acts
• 1:29:49
  chapter 26, verse 18, to open their eyes and turn them from
• 1:29:55
  darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God so that
• 1:30:04
  they may receive forgiveness of sins in a place among those who
• 1:30:09
  are sanctified by faith in Me. That is, let's see.
• 1:30:22
  That is, let's see. I will rescue.
• 1:30:25
  I'm sending them. So this is G OK, so Paul is
• 1:30:28
  giving a recount. He's giving the account of his
• 1:30:34
  vision from Jesus and what Jesus told him.
• 1:30:38
  He said, I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn
• 1:30:41
  them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan.
• 1:30:45
  So Satan has some kind of power over them and turning them to
• 1:30:51
  God. See, that's like we need to like
• 1:30:53
  be aware of that, that, that, you know, just like recognize
• 1:30:59
  this stuff. And it says so that they may
• 1:31:02
  receive the forgiveness of sins which God gives, and a place
• 1:31:08
  among those so inheritance, God's Kingdom, who are
• 1:31:14
  sanctified by faith in me. The Holy Spirit starts working
• 1:31:20
  in someone to sanctify them. And it's through their faith,
• 1:31:24
  through belief in Jesus. So those are really critical
• 1:31:30
  things to understand. And then Paul says the God of
• 1:31:35
  peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.
• 1:31:40
  So Jesus will soon crush. That was giving in initially
• 1:31:45
  given in the book of Genesis. I think it might be chapter 3
• 1:31:49
  where it says that you will strike his heel and he will
• 1:31:55
  crush your head. Talking about Jesus, the seed of
• 1:31:58
  the woman, Jesus will crush Satan's head.
• 1:32:02
  And again this is in Romans. The God of peace, which is Jesus
• 1:32:07
  will soon crush Satan under your feet.
• 1:32:12
  And then in First Corinthians chapter 5, hand this man over to
• 1:32:17
  Satan for the destruction of flesh so that his spirit may be
• 1:32:22
  saved on the day of the Lord. This is talking about my study
• 1:32:32
  Bible, basically, or it says dealing with the case of incest
• 1:32:35
  like this. This is somebody who is in a
• 1:32:39
  church or part of a Christian community and they're being
• 1:32:43
  sexually immoral and they're sleeping.
• 1:32:47
  It's a a man sleeping with his father's wife, and it says hand
• 1:32:56
  this man over to Satan for the destruction of flesh so that his
• 1:33:00
  spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
• 1:33:04
  So it's. Yeah, obviously Satan will
• 1:33:16
  destroy the flesh. I mean, who knows if that is
• 1:33:19
  again some physical thing that happens, and maybe when somebody
• 1:33:24
  suffers physically, they turn to God and then they may be saved
• 1:33:28
  on the day of the Lord. That's something I didn't
• 1:33:32
  prepare enough to talk about that.
• 1:33:34
  But again, an influence like you know how God uses Satan, perhaps
• 1:33:43
  that he can for the destruction of the flesh.
• 1:33:47
  And then in first Corinthians Chapter 7 verse 5, do not
• 1:33:51
  deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent.
• 1:33:56
  Consent and for a time so that you may devote yourselves to
• 1:33:59
  prayer. Then come together again so that
• 1:34:02
  Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
• 1:34:06
  This is about sex with it within a married couple because Satan
• 1:34:11
  comes after married couples and it says, you know, don't deprive
• 1:34:16
  each other of sex, but maybe you both agree for a time and then
• 1:34:21
  you devote yourselves in prayer during that time and then come
• 1:34:25
  back together, start having sex again.
• 1:34:27
  So Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of
• 1:34:31
  self-control, because when you have sex all the time, you want
• 1:34:35
  more sex and and Satan knows that so he can tempt.
• 1:34:38
  That's how he got the Israelites to sin against God like this is
• 1:34:45
  Balaam and Balak when they were, you know, asking for a curse.
• 1:34:49
  Whatever one of the names I can't I get the names mixed up.
• 1:34:52
  Whoever was the king told the the prophet guy to put a curse
• 1:34:57
  on Israel and every time he he said I can only do what God
• 1:35:00
  tells me to do. Every time he tried to curse
• 1:35:03
  Israel, he could only bless them and the king was getting mad
• 1:35:07
  because that's not what he wanted.
• 1:35:09
  But then the prophet comes to the king later and says, but I
• 1:35:13
  no way that you can get to them. And it was through like the
• 1:35:20
  temple prostitutes, basically the the false idolatry worship
• 1:35:26
  where they could have sex with temple prostitutes.
• 1:35:29
  That's where those were a thing in the day.
• 1:35:31
  So that's how he could, he could come and appeal to, he couldn't
• 1:35:37
  get them to maybe disobey God. They were still worshipping God,
• 1:35:40
  but he could lure them in through sex.
• 1:35:42
  So Satan will use sex and temptation and you know that is
• 1:35:50
  the way that he can accomplish separating us from God through
• 1:35:57
  sexual immoral immorality. And then it says in second
• 1:36:03
  second Corinthians chapter 2 verse 11, this is probably like
• 1:36:06
  a A1 to go through, but it says anyone you forgive, I forgive
• 1:36:12
  also. And what I have forgiven is if
• 1:36:16
  there was anything to forgive, I have forgiven in the sight of
• 1:36:19
  Christ for your sake, in order that Satan might not outwit us
• 1:36:26
  for we are not unaware of his schemes.
• 1:36:29
  So I think this is important and it shows that Paul knows that
• 1:36:33
  Satan is coming against people all the time, and he's talking
• 1:36:37
  about forgiveness with people that don't hold on to these
• 1:36:41
  grudges. And you don't want Satan to
• 1:36:43
  outwit us because we're not unaware of his schemes.
• 1:36:48
  Like over time, people do figure out what he does.
• 1:36:54
  And so by anger, by unforgiveness.
• 1:36:59
  And then in Second Corinthians Chapter 11, verse 14, Paul says,
• 1:37:05
  and no wonder for Satan himself masquerades as an Angel of
• 1:37:10
  light. This is what I was wondering.
• 1:37:12
  Like could Satan masquerade as an Angel of light in a dream?
• 1:37:18
  Why not? If he can do that in person, if
• 1:37:22
  he can do that as an Angel, I don't know.
• 1:37:25
  I think, you know, if people are, you know, we just need to
• 1:37:28
  see, does it line up with Scripture?
• 1:37:31
  We have to be careful because Satan masquerades as an Angel of
• 1:37:35
  light. We have to remember that 2nd
• 1:37:39
  Corinthians chapter 12 verse 7, or because of these surpassingly
• 1:37:44
  great revelations, therefore, in order to keep me from being
• 1:37:48
  conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of
• 1:37:55
  Satan, to torment me. This is Paul talking about.
• 1:38:00
  That he had this thorn in his flesh is how he described it.
• 1:38:04
  And it was a messenger of Satan. And I remember in other parts of
• 1:38:08
  Scripture Paul said, you know, please take this away from me.
• 1:38:11
  But God said no, in my strength, you know, my strength is
• 1:38:17
  sufficient. So he didn't take this away from
• 1:38:20
  him. And we also see that there was a
• 1:38:22
  purpose in this. It was to keep Paul from being
• 1:38:27
  conceited that he was given a thorn in his flesh, a messenger
• 1:38:31
  of Satan. So look at how God can use
• 1:38:35
  something like that. I mean, it's just really
• 1:38:38
  interesting when you get into Scripture, you start seeing
• 1:38:40
  these things that we just these natural things in the world that
• 1:38:44
  really have spiritual significance.
• 1:38:49
  And then in First Thessalonians 2 chapter 18 for we wanted to
• 1:38:53
  come to you. Certainly I, Paul did again and
• 1:38:57
  again, but Satan blocked our way.
• 1:39:00
  So sometimes when you're on the right path, Satan will do things
• 1:39:04
  to take you off your course. Now you also have to find out,
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  is it Satan keeping you from doing something or does God not
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  want you to do it? So that takes discernment.
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  We really all need discernment. We need to pray to God all the
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  time. 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 9.
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  We're almost finished. The coming of the lawless one
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  will be in accordance with how Satan works.
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  He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs
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  and wonders that serve the lie. Again, this is about massive
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  deceit and it says and all the ways that wickedness deceives
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  those who are perishing. So people who are perishing
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  don't even know that they're being deceived.
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  They perish because they refuse to love the truth and so be
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  saved. So people who don't like to hear
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  what God's Word says, you don't love the truth.
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  If you don't love what God says and you're at risk.
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  And then again, it says in First Timothy 1, chapter 20.
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  Among them are Hymenaeus, I don't know how to say that, and
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  Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not
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  to blasphemy. So Satan has another purpose.
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  He's going to be doing something.
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  He's going to teaching them never to blasphemy.
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  What happened to them. I have no idea, but it's
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  interesting that yeah, just turn them over to the hymn.
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  I mean, if can't be, don't blasphemy First Timothy 515.
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  Some have in fact already turned away to follow Satan.
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  So people do choose that, unfortunately, it's, you know,
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  oh, this is this is pretty interesting because it's talking
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  about widows, elders and slaves. Maybe I should read this.
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  Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he
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  would your father treat younger men as brothers, older women as
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  mothers, and younger women as sisters with absolute purity.
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  Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.
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  But if a widow has grandchildren, has children or
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  grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put the
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  religion into practice by caring for their own family and so
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  repaying their parents and grandparents for this is
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  pleasing to God. The widow who is really in need
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  and left alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day
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  to pray and to ask God for help. But the widow who lives for
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  pleasure is dead even while she lives.
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  Give the people these instructions so that no one may
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  be open to blame. Anyone who does not provide for
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  their relatives and especially for their own household has
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  denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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  So it's important to help out family.
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  No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over 60,
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  has been faithful to her husband, and is well known for
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  her good deeds such as bringing up children, showing
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  hospitality, washing the feet of the Lord's people, help helping
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  those in trouble, and devoting herself to all kinds of good
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  deeds. As for younger widows, do not
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  put them on such a list for when their sensual desires overcome
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  their dedication to Christ, Christ they want to marry.
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  Thus they bring judgement on themselves because they have
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  broken their first pledge. That's really interesting
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  because it really talks about like, you know, Christ needs to
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  be first and but anyone who is not married but wants to be
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  married, sometimes their desire to marry becomes more important
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  than their dedication to Christ. And here it says they will bring
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  judgment on themselves because they have broken their first
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  pledge. The dedication to Christ is
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  their first pledge. Besides, they get into the habit
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  of being idle and going about from house to house, and not
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  only do they become idlers, but also busy bodies who talk
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  nonsense, saying things they ought not to.
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  So I counsel younger women to marry, to have children, to
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  manage their homes, and to give the enemy no opportunity for
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  slander. Some have in fact, already
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  turned away to follow Satan. So it sounds like some of the
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  people who are widowers or widows, you know, turn away and
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  just follow Satan. They're not even following
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  Christ anymore. So anyway, there's, there's a
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  lot more to be said. Boy, there's just so much in the
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  Bible. You can't cover it all, but then
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  it says in Revelation chapter 2 verse 9, I know your afflictions
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  and your poverty, yet you are rich.
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  I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and
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  are not but are a synagogue of Satan.
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  Satan gets in everywhere, synagogues, churches,
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  everything. Revelation 2, verse 13.
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  I know where you live, where Satan has his throne, yet you
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  remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith
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  in me, even in the days of Antiphus, my faithful witness
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  who was put to death in your city where Satan lives, I where
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  the throne is. I looked this up before.
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  It's Pergamum, which is in Turkey and the whole Pergamum
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  throne. It's really interesting because
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  and you can go down a rabbit hole with that.
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  So anyway, if you want to search Google for that and maybe you
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  find out Pergamum Throne or something kind of interesting.
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  Revelation 3, verse 9. I will make those who are of the
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  synagogue of Satan who claim to be Jews, yet they are not, but
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  are liars. I will make them come and fall
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  down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved
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  you. Revelation 12 verse 9.
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  The great dragon was hurled down the ancient serpent one from the
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  Garden of Eden called the Devil or Satan, who leads the whole
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  world astray. He was hurled to earth and his
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  angels with him. So yes, there is an impact in
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  our world and with there is influence.
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  He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent who is the devil
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  or Satan and bound him 1000 years.
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  This is the Angel or the Angel that came down out of heaven who
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  will bind. This is when Jesus returns and
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  he will be bound for 1000 years. But then it says in Revelation
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  20 verse seven that when the 1000 years are over over Satan
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  will be released from his prison.
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  And the first time I read that, that concerned me.
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  But it comes to a quick close. It says when the 1000 years are
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  over, after Jesus reigns on the earth, Satan will be released
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  from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the
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  four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, and gather them for
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  battle in number. They are like sand on the
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  seashore. They marched across the breath
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  of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city
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  he loves. But fire came down from heaven
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  and devoured them, and the devil who deceived them was thrown
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  into the lake of burning sulfur where the beast and the false
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  prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and
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  night, forever and ever. Then I saw a great white throne,
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  and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled
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  from His presence, and there was no place for them.
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  And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the
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  throne. And the books were open.
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  Another book was opened, which is the Book of Life.
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  The dead were judged according to what they had done as
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  recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that
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  were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in
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  them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.
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  Then Death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of Fire.
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  The Lake of Fire is the second death.
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  Anyone whose name was not found written in the Book of Life was
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  thrown into the Lake of Fire. So we need to make sure our name
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  is written in the Book of Life. And Jesus told us how that
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  happens. So very, very long explanation
• 1:48:36
  of things. Oh my gosh, almost two hours
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  long. I can't believe this is this
• 1:48:41
  long. Anyway, I better end it now.
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  I could even keep on talking more, but I'm going to stop
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  right now and think, given people enough to think about.
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  Just get right with God. Don't delay it anymore.