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446 | Sin Has No Power over God and His Presence (part 2) · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  God is in control.
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  She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman
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  at the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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  like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Livin' her life for Christ, she's a happy girl She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl There's no doubt the devil is powerful and is the prince of the power of the air.
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  However, he is not more powerful than God, and he can't take you down if you
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  allow God to fight your battles.
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  Come join us as we continue this journey through the scriptures as Kim Miller
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  of Woman at the Well Ministries continues to open up the Bible and allows it
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  to reveal the truth about the power God has over sin.
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  With God on your side, man can do nothing to you.
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  Sin can't overpower you and you will be victorious.
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  Hello and thank you for joining us in part two of Sin Has No Power Over God
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  and No Power in His Presence.
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  In part one, we painstakingly detailed the three Hebrew children being thrown
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  in the fire and coming out. And I just want to pick up.
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  In verse 24 of Daniel chapter 3, Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astounded
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  and rose up in haste and spake and said unto his counselors,
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  Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?
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  They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
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  He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the
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  fire, and they have no hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
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  Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace,
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  and spake and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the Most
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  High God, come forth and come hither.
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  Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came forth of the midst of the fire,
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  and the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counselors,
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  being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power,
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  nor was a hair of their head singed.
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  Neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire passed on them.
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  Today, I want you to see what God does when you allow him to cover you in your fire,
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  when you allow him to protect you in your storm.
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  In Isaiah 43.2, he says this, When thou passest through the waters,
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  I will be with thee, and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee.
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  When thou walkest through the fire, thou shall not be burned,
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  neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
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  The three Hebrew children is a particular account of an example of the truth we see in Isaiah 43.2.
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  It's highly unlikely and mostly improbable that any of us will ever be thrown
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  into a fiery furnace because of our faith.
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  But daily we are thrown into symbolic fiery furnaces because of our love for
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  the Lord, because of the God that is in us, because of our deep devotion to
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  who he is, because we don't do and partake of things of the world.
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  And this is what we're talking about when we're trying to determine,
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  as God is revealing himself in the fire, what do we do?
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  How do we respond?
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  I think first we have to understand this faithful saying of Psalms 118.6, The Lord is on my side.
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  I will not fear. What can man do unto me?
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  How can we live a life in the midst of the fire without any fear?
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  I think it comes down to understanding the power of God, to understand what
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  he's already done for you,
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  to understand the magnitude of his grace and his mercy and what it cost him
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  to buy you the freedom of your salvation.
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  Jesus has freed sinners from their sin debt.
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  Thereby he disarmed satan do you
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  understand that so regardless of what your problem is
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  regardless of what your fire is regardless of what your storm is satan has been
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  disarmed because god is victorious we read in first corinthians 15 55 through
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  58 these precious words oh death where is thy sting?
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  O grave, where is thy victory?
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  The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
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  But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoved.
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  Music.
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  And smell of smoke because he's disarmed the fire.
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  It's just a place you're walking. If you have tucked yourself under the mighty
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  hand of God, if you've allowed him to cover you with the sweet presence of his feathers,
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  if you've given him complete authority of your life and you just are following
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  in his shadow, if you are drawn up close to him and letting him hold you,
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  if this is what your life is,
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  then you have nothing to fear because it is just one more step.
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  But you've got to believe that the steps in his shadow in the valley are as
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  sweet and protected as the steps on the mountaintop.
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  You've got to believe that his presence in your life in times of trouble is
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  the same as his presence in your life in times of great benefit and blessing.
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  The three Hebrew children understood that because earlier in that account,
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  he says, but my God will deliver me, and if he don't, I'm still not bowing,
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  because they understood,
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  that God was perfect and God was right, and the scripture in 1 Corinthians 15
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  that I just read in your hearing says that death is sin and that the strength of it is the law.
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  But God sent his son, to die on an old rugged cross.
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  And because of his grace, we have the free gift of salvation as Jesus freely,
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  willingly gave his life on the cross of Calvary to cover your sins.
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  And he disempowered and disarmed the devil on that day because he tore through the veil.
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  He gave us free access to himself.
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  And he was victorious over hell, death. in the grave.
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  He stripped him of all of his power then.
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  So if the devil has any power in your life right now, it's because you've opened
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  up the door and given it to him.
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  If he's defeating you, it's because you've thrown up the white flag.
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  But as I'm telling you, Jesus has freed their sinners from their sin debt,
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  and he disarmed Satan when he did.
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  Satan can no longer hold your sin debt against you. It's free.
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  It's gone. It's paid in full.
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  John 3.16 says, For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
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  that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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  Let me tell you something. Just as Satan was powerless in the fiery furnace
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  to the three Hebrew children,
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  even the source of the fire, the sin was eliminated, and they had no smoke,
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  they had no hurt, they had no singed on their hair,
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  their coats looked as if they had never been in the fire,
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  just as that is the case for them, that is the case for us, regardless of our situation,
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  regardless of our circumstance,
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  regardless of how bleak the world thinks it looks, you have victory in Jesus.
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  Because Jesus freed you when he defeated hell, death, and the grave,
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  and when he paid your sin debt.
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  The devil hasn't got anything, really, to entice you with.
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  Because the devil came to steal, kill, and destroy, but Jesus came that we might
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  have life and have it more abundantly, we're told in John 10.10.
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  Let's look at what Colossians 2, 13 through 15 has to tell us.
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  And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
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  hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
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  blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us,
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  which was contrary to us, and took it out to the way, nailing it to his cross.
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  And having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of them openly,
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  triumphing over them. The devil's got nothing on you.
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  He can't pin anything on you.
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  All he can do is trick and lie and cheat and deceit, and you fall and you stumble.
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  Because you've taken your eyes off of Jesus, because you begin to look around, just like Peter.
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  When Peter fixed his eyes on Jesus, he was walking on water.
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  He was walking over the storms.
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  He was walking over the very thing that had caused him fear,
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  that had slowed him down, that was impending death for him. He was walking on it.
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  It was under his feet because he was trusting and watching and following Jesus.
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  Oh, Jesus said, come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest.
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  Jesus' arms are wide open in their nails card, and he's begging you to lay it down.
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  He's begging you to lay down that burden, to lay down that problem,
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  to rest in his shoulders in the fiery furnace.
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  And don't allow the devil to get in your mind. Don't allow him to get in your head.
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  Don't follow him. Don't listen to him. But crawl up.
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  Crawl up on his lap Lay your head on his chest And hear him say He that dwelleth
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  in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty,
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  I will say of the Lord He is my refuge and my fortress My God in him will I trust,
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  Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler And from the noisome pestilence,
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  He shall cover thee with the feathers And under his wings
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  thou shalt trust his truth shall be
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  thy shield and buckler in
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  colossians 2 what we learned was that
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  he has forgiven us of all of our trespasses he blotted out all of the records
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  of our wrongdoing and everything that was contrary to what it meant to be a
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  child of god to walk in his ways he took it and he nailed it to the cross.
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  He totally spoiled any ideas of principalities and powers.
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  He made fun of them openly, and he said, I have defeated them,
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  and he triumphed over them.
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  And I'm telling you, that's Satan and the devil.
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  In Ephesians chapter 6, we are given a beautiful encouragement and recipe for
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  how to walk in this world and not let things get to us.
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  But putting on the whole armor of God. And in verse 12, he says this,
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  for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
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  against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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  That's who we're talking about in Colossians 2, 13 through 15,
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  when he says he spoiled the principalities and powers.
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  He disrupted their ideas.
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  He triumphed over them.
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  And because of that, death has no more sting. The grave has no more victory.
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  And hell can't have us.
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  We have to choose it for it to ever get us.
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  John 10, 28 says that no man shall pluck us out of his hand.
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  Oh, friends, that power that was in that fire, that fourth man,
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  let's read about it in Ephesians 1, 19 through 23.
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  And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe you cannot
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  refute the display of his power in the fiery furnace with the three hebrew children
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  he destroyed the power of the source.
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  The burning wood no longer could produce heat. The burning wood could no longer hurt.
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  It was powerless.
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  The three Hebrew children were safe in the shield and buckler of Jesus and God.
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  Because the exceeding greatness of his power toward us is unimaginable.
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  And we know that the three Hebrew children believed they weren't going to bow no matter what.
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  And for us who believe there's exceeding greatness of power,
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  according to the working of his mighty power, which he brought us through Christ,
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  when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places far above all.
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  Far above all principality and power and might
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  and dominion and every name that is named not only
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  in this world but also in that which is to come and
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  hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head of all things
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  to the church which is his body the fullness of him that filleth all in all
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  oh friends he has exceeding great power and that same exceeding great power
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  was on display in the fiery furnace.
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  Jesus loves me, this I know, for the devil can get me. The Bible tells me so.
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  The devil has to go through nail-scarred hands and his blood to touch me.
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  I can step outside of it, and I can invite him in.
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  But if I'm believing, if I'm walking in faith and trusting, the devil can't
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  get me because he triumphed over him.
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  Jesus has freed sinners from their sin debt, thereby disarming Satan.
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  He can't hold anything against us.
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  So in that fire, you can look to the world and you can allow it to consume you.
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  You can allow it to fill your mind to the point that's all you can think about,
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  you can watch it destroy your body raise your blood pressure raise your blood
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  sugar make you lethargic.
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  Disable you. Or you can remember, we've been freed.
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  Satan has nothing. He's disarmed and he's not powered unless we let him.
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  Ephesians 2, 1 through 6 reads like this. And you hath he quickened who were
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  dead in trespasses and sins, wherein time past you walked according to the course of this world,
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  according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit thou now worketh
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  in the children of disobedience. We were once that.
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  But those who truly believe, those who have become new creatures in Christ Jesus,
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  those who've placed their faith in Jesus,
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  among whom also we had conversation in time past in the lust of our flesh,
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  fulfilling the desires of the flesh of the mind, and were by nature the children
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  of wrath, even as others.
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  We all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
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  Those of us, we once were that. but God sent his son to go to hell and come
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  back victorious by the shedding of his blood on the cross of Calvary that wipes away our sins.
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  But God, who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us,
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  even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.
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  By grace ye are saved and hath raised us up together and made us sit in heavenly
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  places. In Christ Jesus, we are victorious in him.
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  Thanks be to God who gives us the victory.
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  Sin has no more dominion over us. We can sit in our fiery furnace, close to the Lord,
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  arms wrapped around him, following his every move and doing his every word.
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  The fire won't get us.
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  Is powerless, because God has already fought that battle, and he won.
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  Friends, sin has no power where God is, and sin has no power in his presence,
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  and sin can't touch you unless you go seeking for it.
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  John 8.36 says this, If the sun therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
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  Did you get that? If the sun therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
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  I can't promise you you won't have a fiery furnace, but I can promise you,
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  if you crawl up with Jesus, it's not going to hurt you.
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  Because he said in Isaiah 43 too, when thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee.
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  And through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.
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  And when thou walkest through the fire, thou shall not be burned,
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  neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
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  Walk with Jesus and know the peace of a disarmed devil.
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  Remember you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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