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Defeat Satan with these secrets · Gil I Am

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Speaker 1: I want to show you, from the Word of God,
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Speaker 1: how to defeat the enemy in your life. And it's
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Speaker 1: actually very simple. Now, when I use the term secrets,
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Speaker 1: I'm using that synonymously with keys. These are biblical keys
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Speaker 1: to victory. Really, the Bible very plainly spells out how
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Speaker 1: we ought to defeat the enemy. God did not intend
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Speaker 1: for you to be defeated. God did not intend for
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Speaker 1: you to walk in bondage. You can be victorious. You
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Speaker 1: will be victorious despite how the enemy has lied to you.
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Speaker 1: Write that in the comment section, victory is mine. Let
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Speaker 1: that be your public declaration of faith. As I turned
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Speaker 1: now to One Peter chapter five, I'm going to read
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Speaker 1: verses eight and nine. Stay alert, watch out for your
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Speaker 1: great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring
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Speaker 1: lion looking for someone to devour. Stand firm against him,
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Speaker 1: and be strong in your faith. Remember that your family
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Speaker 1: of believers all over the world is going through the
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Speaker 1: same kind of suffering you are. There is a spiritual realm.
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Speaker 1: Heaven is real, Hell is real, Demons exist, angels exist,
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Speaker 1: heavenly hosts exist. The supernatural realm is real. When the
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Speaker 1: Bible talks about demonic power, it's not just using that
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Speaker 1: term as an analogy for darkness. These are actual sentient
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Speaker 1: beings that exist in another dimension that hate the children
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Speaker 1: of God. The Bible gives us a warning to stay alert,
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Speaker 1: to be vigilant. Now keep in mind that vigilance is
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Speaker 1: not the same thing as paranoia. Far too many Christians
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Speaker 1: come to believe doctrines about the enemy that minimize the
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Speaker 1: power of the Holy Spirit and magnify the power of
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Speaker 1: the enemy. But that's not what we're going to do today. Again,
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Speaker 1: as I said, it's actually quite simple. So if you've
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Speaker 1: been frustrated, you feel like you're spinning your wheels, maybe
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Speaker 1: pressing up against a brick wall that you just can't move.
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Speaker 1: And maybe you're frustrated. Maybe you're tired of the cycles.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you're tired of going through this again and again
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Speaker 1: and again, and you're crying out saying, God, where are you?
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Speaker 2: God? What do I do?
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Speaker 1: Why the turmoil? Why the torment, why the chaos? Why
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Speaker 1: the confusion, Why the conflict? Why the constant tension? And
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Speaker 1: you sense that overbearing, weighty burden of spiritual attack, And
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Speaker 1: maybe for years you've been trying to be free, or
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Speaker 1: perhaps it's only been a few days. Either way, the
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Speaker 1: Word of God has the answer. Number one. Submit to God.
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Speaker 1: James Chapter four, verse seven says, submit yourselves therefore to God.
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Speaker 1: Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Now,
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Speaker 1: let God be true in every man a liar. If
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Speaker 1: the Word of God says it, I believe it, even
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Speaker 1: if others claim something different. So what does the Bible
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Speaker 1: say about those who resist the devil? Does the devil
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Speaker 1: fight them or does he flee? Well, what does the
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Speaker 1: word say he flees? Far too many Christians find some
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Speaker 1: form of pride in the fact that they're defeated by
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Speaker 1: the enemy, and they say things like, well, the devil
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Speaker 1: is just fighting me so hard because he knows how
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Speaker 1: much of a threat I am to the kingdom.
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Speaker 2: It's actually just the opposite.
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Speaker 1: According to scripture, when the devil recognizes the threat that
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Speaker 1: you become, he flees, he doesn't fight. Notice here that
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Speaker 1: the Bible says to resist the devil, that is, to
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Speaker 1: come against him. That means he's on the exterior, coming
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Speaker 1: against you. And as you begin to resist him, then
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Speaker 1: he recognizes that you know who you are in Christ.
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Speaker 1: He recognizes that you're walking in obedience. He recognizes that
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Speaker 1: you're becoming who God intended you to be, and therefore
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Speaker 1: he flees. Now does this mean that the devil never
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Speaker 1: attacks obedient Christians? By no means. Of course, he attacks
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Speaker 1: obedient Christians. I'm not talking about trials and tragedies and
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Speaker 1: the things on the exterior that take place around us. Remember,
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Speaker 1: the devil comes against us, not just our circumstances. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about those who live under the deception of the
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Speaker 1: enemy in such a way where they are internally defeated.
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Speaker 1: They're walking in constant lowliness. They're walking in constant fear.
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Speaker 1: They're walking in constant confusion. They can't overcome a sinful habit,
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Speaker 1: and they're wondering how to be free. Here the Bible says,
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Speaker 1: what do you do? What do you do? You submit
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Speaker 1: yourselves therefore to God. As you surrender to the Holy Spirit,
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Speaker 1: you become one who can stand against the enemy. Surrender
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Speaker 1: to the Holy Spirit is to say no to your
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Speaker 1: will and yes to God's. Surrender to the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: is to say no to the desires of the flesh
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Speaker 1: and yes to the Holy Spirit's desires. Resist the devil
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Speaker 1: and he will flee. So the enemy does flee when
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Speaker 1: you resist him and again, let me emphasize this so
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Speaker 1: that there's no misunderstanding and that there's no confusion because
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Speaker 1: of that misunderstanding. I am not saying that the devil
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Speaker 1: doesn't attack Christians. He attempt He tempts them, he tries
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Speaker 1: to deceive them, he tries to torment them. Of course,
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying is that those attacks do not prevail
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Speaker 1: if you're submitted to God. Does this mean that will
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Speaker 1: never face tragedies or chaotic circumstances. No, Sometimes life happens.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, we must never settle for
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Speaker 1: internal defeat. We must never settle for spiritual bondage. Submit
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Speaker 1: yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will
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Speaker 1: flee from you, or you can resist the devil. You
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Speaker 1: have to submit to God. You have to submit to
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Speaker 1: the voice of the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit speaks, obey,
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Speaker 1: when the Holy Spirit convicts you change, When the Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit guides you follow. Listen for the voice of the
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Speaker 1: precious Holy Spirit in your life. Follow his leading and
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Speaker 1: he will guide you into freedom. How do we submit
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Speaker 1: to God? Well, it's the simple basic practices of the
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Speaker 1: Christian faith. Listen, I'm going to say something that maybe
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Speaker 1: your flesh might try to resist.
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Speaker 2: But I want you to hear this.
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Speaker 1: Ninety nine point ninety ninety nine percent of the Christians troubles,
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Speaker 1: and I'm not talking about trials.
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Speaker 2: Trials.
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Speaker 1: According to James, trials are opportunities for great joy because
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Speaker 1: they perfect our faith's that's the circumstances of life. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking specifically, not about trials. I'm talking about the attacks
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Speaker 1: of the enemy. And Christians get those confused for one another.
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Speaker 1: And so because they confuse trials for attacks of the enemy,
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Speaker 1: they think that the enemy is somehow gaining victory just
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Speaker 1: because things aren't going their way.
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Speaker 2: Those are two separate things.
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Speaker 1: But when when you begin to walk in obedience, ninety
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Speaker 1: nine point nine nine nine percent of your problems not
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Speaker 1: necessarily trials, doesn't mean all your troubles go away, all
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Speaker 1: your circumstances aligning the way you want them. I'm talking
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Speaker 1: about that internal victory. Ninety nine point nine nine percent
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Speaker 1: of those things that bring you spiritual defeat will be
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Speaker 1: broken if you just practice the spiritual basics. But we
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Speaker 1: don't want to be told that. We want to be
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Speaker 1: told that we can blame exterior forces for the choices
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Speaker 1: that we make in the flesh. You want to know
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Speaker 1: who your number one enemy is. Satan is an enemy, yes,
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Speaker 1: But do you know who your number one enemy is?
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Speaker 1: It's the flesh. I thought the Bible said we wrestle
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Speaker 1: not against flesh and blood. Well, there, the scripture is
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Speaker 1: talking about conflict with other human beings. It's not talking
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Speaker 1: about the sin nature. In fact, the Bible talks more
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Speaker 1: about the sin nature than it does demons. The Bible
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Speaker 1: talks more about overcoming that sin than it does overcoming
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Speaker 1: the enemy, or being alert and watching out for the enemy.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying the enemy isn't an issue. I'm saying
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Speaker 1: the bigger problem is self, and self partners with Satan.
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Speaker 1: So many times the choices that we make cause us
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Speaker 1: to become more susceptible to the power of the enemy,
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Speaker 1: so that we live in a certain way that gives
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Speaker 1: the enemy the ability to deceive us, to tempt us,
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Speaker 1: to torment us.
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Speaker 2: All the while.
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Speaker 1: All we have to do is walk in simple obedience,
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Speaker 1: and as I said, it will solve ninety nine point
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Speaker 1: nine nine nine percent of your problems internally. Now, let's
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Speaker 1: say you went in for a physical check up for
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Speaker 1: your local doctor at your local doctor and you go
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Speaker 1: to the doctor and you say, listen, I'm not feeling well.
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Speaker 2: Something about my body just feels off.
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Speaker 1: I just feel low energy, constantly tired, always in pain.
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Speaker 1: Everything just seems to be malfunctioning in the body. The
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Speaker 1: doctor is going to begin to assess you and first
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Speaker 1: ask you some basic questions. The physician will ask, are
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Speaker 1: you drinking water, how are your sleep patterns, how's your diet?
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Speaker 1: Do you exercise? And the physician will ask about those
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Speaker 1: four different categories. Typically, because most of the issues that
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Speaker 1: you have can be solved early on if you simply
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Speaker 1: practice healthy habits in the same way, if you simply
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Speaker 1: give yourself over to daily prayer, if you simply make
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Speaker 1: it a habit to pray, if you simply make it
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Speaker 1: a habit to seek the Lord in the secret place, it's.
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Speaker 2: All part of prayer.
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Speaker 1: If you make it a habit to devote yourself to
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Speaker 1: the Word, to study the Scripture, to show yourself approved,
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Speaker 1: to worship God, to attend a local church, you practice
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Speaker 1: the basics of Christianity, pray, read the Word, fellowship, lift
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Speaker 1: holy worship God. You do those things, and as I said,
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Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine nine percent of those internal issues
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Speaker 1: where the enemy's tempting you, deceiving you, tormenting you, confusing you,
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Speaker 1: the goal away. I'm not saying all your issues, I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about spiritual attack. And again, when we confuse trials
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Speaker 1: in this world for spiritual attack, we're going to think
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Speaker 1: we're always under attack because trials abound in the life
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Speaker 1: of the believer. But that doesn't mean we have to
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Speaker 1: live in defeat, because we can be victorious even in
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Speaker 1: the trials. So these are the simple fixes we must apply.
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Speaker 1: Believers don't want to do that. Why because they don't
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Speaker 1: want to implement the disciplines of practicing the basics. They'd
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Speaker 1: rather have a preacher lay hands on them. You preacher,
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Speaker 1: lay hands on me, make all my problems go away,
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Speaker 1: and then I don't have to do anything. I don't
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Speaker 1: have to change anything. Well, even if the preacher lays
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Speaker 1: hands on you and there's some form of break tough
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Speaker 1: that takes place, if you don't practice the spiritual basics,
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Speaker 1: you're just going to find yourself in bondage.
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Speaker 2: Again. I very rarely have ever met a.
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Speaker 1: Christian who prayed daily, devoted themselves to the Word, and
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Speaker 1: lived in spiritual bondage. I've never met that kind of Christian.
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Speaker 1: I've never met a Christian who was spiritually spiritually defeated
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Speaker 1: and was a prayer warrior and was in the word.
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Speaker 1: Sure they went through troubling times, but inwardly they had peace,
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Speaker 1: they had joyed, they had love. They had this stability
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Speaker 1: about them that caused them to approach life with a
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Speaker 1: faith and a hope that caused them to be victorious
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Speaker 1: even in the midst of the struggle. No complications, no
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Speaker 1: rituals to perform. The only power the enemy has over
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Speaker 1: you is the power you give. It's the power you surrender.
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Speaker 1: The only power he has over you is the power
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Speaker 1: you believe he has. He's a liar. The devil is
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Speaker 1: a liar. And so you overcome the attacks of the enemy.
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Speaker 1: You defeat satanic power by number one, submitting to God,
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Speaker 1: and through that submission to God, you resist the devil.
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Speaker 1: Number two, you declare the Word, You speak the Word.
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Speaker 1: Go with me now to Matthew chapter four. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to read verses one through eleven. Then Jesus was led
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Speaker 1: by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there
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Speaker 1: by the devil. For forty days and forty nights, he
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Speaker 1: fasted and became very hungry.
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Speaker 2: During that time.
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Speaker 1: The devil came and said to him, if you are
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Speaker 1: the son of God, please tell these stones to become
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Speaker 1: loaves of bread.
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Speaker 2: But Jesus told him no.
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Speaker 1: The scriptures say people do not live by bread alone,
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Speaker 1: but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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Speaker 2: Verse five.
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Speaker 1: Then the devil took him to the Holy City Jerusalem,
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Speaker 1: to the highest point of the temple, and said, if
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Speaker 1: you are the son of God, jump off, for the
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Speaker 1: scriptures say he will order his angels to protect you,
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Speaker 1: and they will hold you up with their hands, so
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Speaker 1: you won't even hurt your foot on a stone.
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Speaker 2: Verse seven.
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Speaker 1: Jesus responded, the scriptures also say you must not test
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Speaker 1: the Lord your God. Next, the devil took him to
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Speaker 1: the peak of a very high mountain and showed him
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Speaker 1: all the kingdoms of the world in their glory. I
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Speaker 1: will give it all to you, he said, if you
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Speaker 1: will kneel down and worship me Verse ten, get out
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Speaker 1: of your satan, Jesus told him, for the scriptures say
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Speaker 1: you must worship the Lord your God and serve only him.
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Speaker 1: Then the devil went away, and angels came and took
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Speaker 1: care of Jesus. Now, Jesus very clearly lays out for
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Speaker 1: us a road map if you will, to defeating the
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Speaker 1: power of the enemy. Now, what was the devil doing?
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Speaker 1: He was questioning the authority of the Lord. He was
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Speaker 1: questioning his identity. If you are the son of God,
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Speaker 1: if you are the son of God. Well, often temptations
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Speaker 1: begin with the questioning of your identity in Christ. When
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Speaker 1: you don't know who you are in Him, it's very
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Speaker 1: difficult to defeat the enemy. Now Satan was questioning, Satan
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Speaker 1: was contradicting. Satan was resisting, if you are the son
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Speaker 1: of God, if you are the son of God, almost
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Speaker 1: taunting him. Now, Jesus could have responded with his experience.
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Speaker 1: Think about it. Jesus could have pointed to his baptism
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Speaker 1: and said, what do you mean if I am the
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Speaker 1: son of God? Weren't you there at my baptism? The
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit descended upon me like a dove. My father
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Speaker 1: spoke aloud a voice from heaven. This is my beloved son,
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Speaker 1: and whom I'm well pleased.
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Speaker 2: Didn't you hear the voice? Didn't you just the dove?
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Speaker 1: Couldn't you see heaven open? Jesus didn't do that. Jesus
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Speaker 1: did not point to his experience. In fact, Jesus is
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Speaker 1: the only one who, if he wanted to, could have
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Speaker 1: referenced his experience, but he didn't. What did he say?
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Speaker 1: It is written. Let me tell you something very plainly.
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Speaker 1: The devil and demons do not care about how much
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Speaker 1: you think you know about the spiritual realm. The devil
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Speaker 1: does not care how long you've been practicing spiritual warfare,
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Speaker 1: how long you've been practicing deliverance, how long you've been
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Speaker 1: casting out demons. The devil doesn't care about what you
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Speaker 1: know about demonology. The devil doesn't care about the doctrines
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Speaker 1: that you have. The devil doesn't care if you raise
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Speaker 1: your voice or shout, or consider yourself some spiritually elite,
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Speaker 1: well equipped individual who knows how to deal with demons.
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Speaker 1: He laughs at what we think gives us authority. The
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Speaker 1: devil doesn't care about any of that. Demons are not
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Speaker 1: intimidated by man's credentials. Demons are not intimidated by our
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Speaker 1: attempts at being intimidating.
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Speaker 2: What does he look at? One thing?
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Speaker 1: It is written using the scripture to contradict what the
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Speaker 1: enemy says, using the scripture to combat the lies. That's
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Speaker 1: what the enemy fears. Stop pointing to your experience, stop
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Speaker 1: pointing to what you think is your expertise, and instead
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Speaker 1: point to the word.
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Speaker 2: It is written.
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Speaker 1: Methods and experiences do nothing nothing. It's the word of God.
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Speaker 1: It's not in man's ability. It's in the power of
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Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost. So it's number two. Speak the word.
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Speaker 1: So number one submit to God. Number two speak the word.
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Speaker 1: Number three. Stand firm in truth and faith. Ephesians chapter six.
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Speaker 1: We're going to read verses ten through seventeen. Go there now,
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Speaker 1: please a final word. Be strong in the Lord and
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Speaker 1: in his mighty power. Put on all of God's armor,
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Speaker 1: so that you will be able to stand firm against
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Speaker 1: all strategies of the devil.
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Speaker 2: That's key.
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Speaker 1: We're going to come back to it in a moment
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Speaker 1: verse twelve. For we are not fighting against flesh and
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Speaker 1: blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the
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Speaker 1: unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and
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Speaker 1: against evil spirits in the heavenly places. Therefore, put on
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Speaker 1: every piece of God's armor so you will be able
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Speaker 1: to resist the enemy in the.
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Speaker 2: Time of evil.
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Speaker 1: Then after the battle, you will still be standing firm,
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Speaker 1: stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and
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Speaker 1: the body armor of God's righteousness. For shoes. Put on
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Speaker 1: the piece that comes from the good news, so that
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Speaker 1: you will be fully prepared. In addition to all of these,
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Speaker 1: hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery
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Speaker 1: arrows of the devil. Put on salvation as your helmet,
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Speaker 1: and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the
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Speaker 1: word of God. Now verse eleven, going back to it,
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Speaker 1: put on all of God's armor so that you will
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Speaker 1: be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil.
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Speaker 1: The word strategies here is methods. These are the methods
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Speaker 1: of the enemy. Now, notice that the Bible tells us
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Speaker 1: the Book of Ephesians here in chapter six it tells
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Speaker 1: us plainly that if you apply the armor of God,
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Speaker 1: that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies,
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Speaker 1: not some. You're gonna be able to stand firm against
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Speaker 1: all strategies of the devil. Now that's key right there,
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Speaker 1: because that means that if you wear the armor of God,
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Speaker 1: there's no strategy that the enemy can use against.
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Speaker 2: You that will work.
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Speaker 1: Here, the scripture is expressing an idea of wholeness, completeness.
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Speaker 1: This covers everything if you wear the armor of God. Now,
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Speaker 1: as we begin to break down the armor, we see
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Speaker 1: the various different pieces belts of truth, simple truth, body
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Speaker 1: armor of God's righteousness. The armor that's being talked about
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Speaker 1: here would be the kind that would require that the
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Speaker 1: body armor be held in place by the belt. So
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Speaker 1: truth causes you to stand in righteousness. You cannot stand
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Speaker 1: in righteousness if you're not grounded in truth. Jesus said,
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Speaker 1: you'll know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
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Speaker 1: So if you're still bound, then there's the truth you've
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Speaker 1: yet to discover. All spiritual defeat is rooted in spiritual deception.
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Speaker 1: If you are bound by the enemy, there's a lie
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Speaker 1: somewhere that you're believing. Stand your ground, putting on the
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Speaker 1: belt of truth and the body armor of God's righteousness.
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Speaker 1: That truth holds the body armor the righteousness in place
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Speaker 1: for shoes. Put on the peace that comes from the
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Speaker 1: good News, so that you will be fully prepared. So
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Speaker 1: for our shoes we put on the truth of the Gospel.
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Speaker 1: In addition to all these, hold up the shield of faith.
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Speaker 1: What is the shield of faith? It's your belief in
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Speaker 1: what God has said. When the enemy launches a fiery dart,
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Speaker 1: which is a lie. You hold up the shield of
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Speaker 1: faith and you resist that lie. So, by putting my
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Speaker 1: faith in what God has said, I extinguish the lie
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Speaker 1: of the enemy.
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Speaker 2: Think about that.
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Speaker 1: By putting my faith in what God has said, I
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Speaker 1: extinguish the lie of the enemy.
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Speaker 2: How do you hold up the shield of faith?
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Speaker 1: You believe or you choose to believe what the scripture
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Speaker 1: says in contradiction to the lie that the enemy tells.
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Speaker 2: You put on salvation as your helmet. Salvation.
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Speaker 1: This is the mindset or the thinking according to salvation,
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Speaker 1: the hope of salvation. It's mindset that, of course, has
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Speaker 1: to do with combating deception. And take the sword of
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Speaker 1: the spirit, which is the word of God. This is
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Speaker 1: the truth of the word of God. Notice here that
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Speaker 1: as the body armor of God is being detailed, that
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Speaker 1: we are being given all of the pieces that we
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Speaker 1: need for the purpose of fighting deception. Every piece of
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Speaker 1: the armor of God has something primarily to do with truth.
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Speaker 1: And therefore spiritual warfare is the fight to believe God's
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Speaker 1: truths over the enemy's lies. And so when the enemy
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Speaker 1: attacks you with the lie, you choose instead to stand
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Speaker 1: in faith. You choose instead to stand in truth. He
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Speaker 1: tells you God has rejected you. You say no, I
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Speaker 1: hold up my shield of faith, and I believe in
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Speaker 1: the promise. I'll never leave you nor forsake you. That's
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Speaker 1: what the Bible says. The enemy says you're not forgiven.
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Speaker 1: He's abandoned you. You say no. First John one nine.
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Speaker 1: I hold up that shield of faith, and I put
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Speaker 1: my faith in what the Scripture says. If we confess
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Speaker 1: our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us
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Speaker 1: our sins, cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And so for
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Speaker 1: every lie that the enemy tells you, there's a truth
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Speaker 1: in the Word of God that contradicts that lie. But
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Speaker 1: how are you supposed to know that if you're not
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Speaker 1: in the Word. This is why I say it comes
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Speaker 1: back to the basics. If you're not taking in the Word,
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Speaker 1: what are you giving yourself to combat the lives? If
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Speaker 1: you're not in the Word daily, you've let down your
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Speaker 1: shield and your sword. You've dropped those pieces of armor.
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Speaker 1: How are you supposed to fight without a shield and
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Speaker 1: a sword. So number one, you submit to God. This
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Speaker 1: is to do the basics. Just live for God. Read
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Speaker 1: the Word, pray, worship, assemble with the believers, live a
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Speaker 1: clean life. You do these things, that's submission to God.
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Speaker 1: And that right there, you do just those basics. Ninety
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Speaker 1: nine point nine nine nine percent of all your internal
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Speaker 1: spiritual problems done, you can walk in peace and victory.
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Speaker 1: You can walk in the goodness of God. You can
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Speaker 1: walk in joy. You don't have to walk around with
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Speaker 1: that heaviness on you if you just submit to God.
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Speaker 2: Speak the word. This is to declare the truth.
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Speaker 1: Jesus did not combat Satan with his experience or his credentials.
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Speaker 1: He combatd him with the word it is written. And finally,
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Speaker 1: number three, stand in truth and faith. This is to
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Speaker 1: put on the armor of God and combat the lies
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Speaker 1: of the enemy. Now, I want to say something that
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Speaker 1: is loosely connected with this message, and you'll find that
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Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily fit into the outline, but it is
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Speaker 1: something that I believe the Holy Spirit wanted me to
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Speaker 1: share with you. Fear is not of God. Fear is
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Speaker 1: based in deception. Fear is based in the lies of
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Speaker 1: the enemy. I truly believe that there's an assault on
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Speaker 1: the Church from the enemy with the spirit of fear.
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Speaker 1: And you know, the spirit of fear, because it manifests
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Speaker 1: as paranoia, it manifests as defensiveness, it manifests as the
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Speaker 1: inability to reason or be reasoned with fear. And in
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Speaker 1: this day and age, there are many things about which
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Speaker 1: we can be afraid if we so choose, if we
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Speaker 1: focus on them. Anything's going on in our world that
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Speaker 1: are caused for concern, systems, failing nation, going against nation, people, failing, confusion, turmoil, conflict,
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Speaker 1: you're worried about your future. Perhaps you're hearing all of
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Speaker 1: the different sayings and reports coming in on the news
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Speaker 1: and social media feeds, and it's very easy to get
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Speaker 1: swept up in the fear, so much so that we
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Speaker 1: begin to develop doctrines and theologies that are based in fear,
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Speaker 1: and we live in the constant tension of fear based theology.
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Speaker 1: The devil is a liar. God has not given us
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Speaker 1: a spirit of fear, but of power and love and
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Speaker 1: a sound mind. And perhaps the enemy is attacking you
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Speaker 1: in this area, causing compromise in your thinking, causing your
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Speaker 1: faith to waver. Recognize this for what it is. It's
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Speaker 1: an attack of the enemy, and you overcome that attack
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Speaker 1: by submitting to God declaring the word and wearing the
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Speaker 1: armor of God for battle. Father, in the name of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: I lift each one to you now who's receiving this,
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Speaker 1: And I ask you, precious Lord, to begin to strengthen
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Speaker 1: your people, touch their lives.
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Speaker 2: In a fresh way. Them encounter you, Anon. Let your
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Speaker 2: presence and power be sensed in the room with them.
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Speaker 2: Right now we are nourished in your presence. Od I
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Speaker 2: thank you for the light that is shining in the
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Speaker 2: dark place. I can sense it like heat on my hands.
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Speaker 2: Right now, the.
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Speaker 1: Power of God is flowing receive today. I thank you
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Speaker 1: Jesus that you're touching each one. Let your light shine
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Speaker 1: in dark places. Peace, joy overflowing the mighty name of Jesus.
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Speaker 2: We pray. Say it because you believe it, Type it
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Speaker 2: because you believe it. A men