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War and Victory - Part 2 - Know Your Enemy | Episode #364 | Encore Episode #035 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: For though we walk in the plesh, we do not
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  Speaker 2: war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our
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  Speaker 2: warfare are not carnival, but mighty in God, for pulling
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  Speaker 2: down strongholds, casting down arguments, and every high thing that
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  Speaker 2: exalts it sell against the knowledge of God, bringing every
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  Speaker 2: thought into captivity to the obedience of Jesus Christ. Second
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  Speaker 2: Current ends chapter ten and verses three two five. We
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  Speaker 2: will entitle this segment of war and victory the Christian
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  Speaker 2: fight of faith. Know your enemy You see, we just
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  Speaker 2: read that our warfare is not with flesh and blood.
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  Speaker 2: We don't fight in the same manner because our enemy
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  Speaker 2: is not the flesh and blood enemy. In other words,
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  Speaker 2: our enemy is not the man, or the neighbor, or
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  Speaker 2: your brother or friend. Our enemy is Satan and his
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  Speaker 2: strategic forces. So using this method of being able to
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  Speaker 2: understand who our enemy is is going to make a
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  Speaker 2: tremendous difference in how we fight. Suppose your life or
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  Speaker 2: the life of a family member or friend was being
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  Speaker 2: threatened by an enemy. What would be your first name,
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  Speaker 2: natural instinct defense, right, you would try to defend those
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  Speaker 2: dear to you from the enemy. Now, in order to
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  Speaker 2: defend your side or fight this enemy, you must first
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  Speaker 2: know something about him, who he is, where he comes from,
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  Speaker 2: what kind of weapons he employs. In other words, knowing
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  Speaker 2: your enemy is going to enable you to enter into combat,
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  Speaker 2: and it is the determining factor in who gains the victory. Now,
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  Speaker 2: of course, you want to win the battle for the war,
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  Speaker 2: so you really set up good centers of intelligence to
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  Speaker 2: spy out the enemy and report back to you, or
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  Speaker 2: do you. Now, if you're not a Christian, your enemy
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  Speaker 2: has cleverly kept himself hidden from you. He's used deceit,
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  Speaker 2: lies and disguises to inflict harmful and sometimes even dead
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  Speaker 2: lead blows. He has allowed you to think that the
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  Speaker 2: way out of your problem is greater humanitarian effort, more
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  Speaker 2: and better education, and the progress that comes from technology,
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  Speaker 2: even when it might endanger your present or future existence.
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  Speaker 2: He tells you that as long as you live a
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  Speaker 2: good life and help your neighbor, that everything will get better.
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  Speaker 2: Some of us have actually followed his directions, but have
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  Speaker 2: world conditions improved or are they worse than ever before?
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  Speaker 2: If his way is the right way, then why does
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  Speaker 2: it constantly lead to death and destruction? Remember know your enemy.
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  Speaker 2: Strangely enough, he uses the exact same tactics on Christians.
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  Speaker 2: That's hard to believe, isn't it. You'd think he would
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  Speaker 2: employ some new weapon or a different means of attack,
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  Speaker 2: But he doesn't. He still sneaks in unaware, plunders, steals, kills,
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  Speaker 2: and destroys. You Know, the interesting thing is that as
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  Speaker 2: long as he can remain in the background or unexposed,
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  Speaker 2: he is free to operate in his diabolical manner. So
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  Speaker 2: let's expose him right here and now, who is he? Well?
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  Speaker 2: He's described as the angel of light in disguise, the
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  Speaker 2: father of lies, the enemy of God, the thief in
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  Speaker 2: the night, the prince of the powers of the air,
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  Speaker 2: and the ruler of the dark recesses of this world.
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  Speaker 2: He has been immortalized by his followers and worshiped through
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  Speaker 2: the ages. Probably has been more involved in starting religions
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  Speaker 2: and philosophies, and he's done more to war or redirect
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  Speaker 2: the course of history than any known ruler. He introduced sin,
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  Speaker 2: he marred the face of nature. He perpetuates wars, and
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  Speaker 2: he's invented and utilized diseases. He promotes continual jealousy and grief. Now,
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  Speaker 2: in this description we have already explained that this enemy
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  Speaker 2: is not flesh and blood. So what's his origin? Where
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  Speaker 2: do we find how he came about? His name originally
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  Speaker 2: was Lucifer. He was one of, if not the highest,
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  Speaker 2: of the position spiritual beings that God created. He had
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  Speaker 2: served in a trusted capacity so as to be free.
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  Speaker 2: He could go anywhere, do anything as long as he
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  Speaker 2: obeyed his creator. And he witnessed the creation of much
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  Speaker 2: of the universe, the stars, the planets, the earth, the
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  Speaker 2: works of nature, the animal and plant life forms and
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  Speaker 2: God's pride of creation mankind. He of all angelic beings,
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  Speaker 2: knew the holiness of God, and he had access to
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  Speaker 2: his very throne. He knew that God loved everything he
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  Speaker 2: had created, especially man. He also knew of God's plan,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps not entirely, but in principle for his creation. He
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  Speaker 2: knew of God's greatness and rich provision. We could probably
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  Speaker 2: state that he lacked nothing as far as position, prominence,
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  Speaker 2: or provision with God. Something changed. What really happened that changed, Well, folks,
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  Speaker 2: we don't know exactly what took place, but somehow an
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  Speaker 2: unholy desire began to emerge, and Lucifer was not satisfied
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  Speaker 2: with who or what he was. He wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: worshiped as God himself. The Bible records a rebellion which
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  Speaker 2: Lucifer the creature led against God the Creator, and many
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  Speaker 2: of the angelic beings actually tried to overthrow the Kingdom
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  Speaker 2: of God. This attempt failed, and Lucifer, as well as
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  Speaker 2: the third of the Angels of Heaven, were cast out
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  Speaker 2: and demoted to a state of existence outside of God's
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  Speaker 2: perfect plan. The intentions of this fallen angel became tremendously worse,
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  Speaker 2: everything about him changed. Instead of his name being one
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  Speaker 2: that could be of glory, it became Satan, or the devil.
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  Speaker 2: His thoughts and deeds became even more evil. His intelligence,
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  Speaker 2: once greatly encouraged by God for goodness, became perverted and
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  Speaker 2: twisted and bent on revenge. He must have purposed in
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  Speaker 2: himself to destroy or try to destroy, all of God's handiwork.
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  Speaker 2: He knew how much God loved man, the height of
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  Speaker 2: all of God's creator, so he began to use his
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  Speaker 2: perverted intelligence to destroy man. Now he knew man had
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  Speaker 2: been given dominion or rule over all that God had
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  Speaker 2: made on this earth. He can find that in the
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  Speaker 2: first chapter of Genesis in verse twenty eight. He also
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  Speaker 2: knew that God would not sanction disobedience because of what
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  Speaker 2: had happened to Satan himself. So through deception he tricked
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  Speaker 2: man into disobedience, and when this took place, the immortal
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  Speaker 2: part of man became separated or dead to God. Man
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  Speaker 2: no longer had fellowship or enjoyment with God or even
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  Speaker 2: his creation. He no longer had dominion over all the earth.
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  Speaker 2: He gave it away, and that dominion was given away
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  Speaker 2: by his disobedience to God, who did he give it
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  Speaker 2: to the one who desired it in the first place Satan.
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  Speaker 2: Now Satan could legally rule in his limited capacity all
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  Speaker 2: that God had given to man. In this particular area,
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  Speaker 2: Man has dealt with the problem of sin from the
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  Speaker 2: time that it was introduced by deception in the Garden
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  Speaker 2: of Eden. Man has been the victim. But the good
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  Speaker 2: news is that because Jesus came, he fulfilled the promise
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  Speaker 2: of the Father by actually destroying the works of the devil.
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  Speaker 2: If he do it, he did it by paying the
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  Speaker 2: price for your sin and my sin. His mission on
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  Speaker 2: this earth was to do one thing, and that was
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  Speaker 2: to destroy the works of the devil. In First John,
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  Speaker 2: in chapter three and verse eight, it says for this
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  Speaker 2: purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might
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  Speaker 2: destroy the works of the devil. It is so important
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  Speaker 2: in our Christian fight of faith and the war and
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  Speaker 2: victory that continues to be waged for us to understand
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  Speaker 2: that because of what Jesus did, he has given dominion
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  Speaker 2: back to man. Satan no longer has rules over those
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus has redeemed. What do we see when we
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  Speaker 2: look at man after he comes to the saving knowledge
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ. What we see is the righteousness of
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  Speaker 2: God in him.
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up today's message.
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  Speaker 2: And folks, that's what God sees. Satan cannot harm a
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  Speaker 2: child of God. Now I'm not going to tell you
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  Speaker 2: that he can't try, but he has no power over
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  Speaker 2: you if you have been bought and purchased by the
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  Speaker 2: precious blood of Jesus Christ. We want to be able
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  Speaker 2: to stress that part of the scripture promise that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: came to fulfill. For this purpose, the son of God
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  Speaker 2: was manisfested that he might destroy the works of the
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  Speaker 2: devil first John three and verse eight. And that is
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  Speaker 2: today's Reflection on the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 1: Christie saying thanks for listening to this edition of Reflections
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