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The Demon Dynamic - 5/17/26 - Meadows Baptist Church - Pastor Charlie Branch · Meadows Baptist Church Podcast

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  Welcome to the podcast of Meadows
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  Baptist Church of Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. We're so glad you joined us
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  today. If you enjoy today's message, be
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  sure to subscribe, follow, and share
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  with your friends. Now, let's join
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  Pastor Charlie Branch with a word from
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  God.
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  >> I believe I really believe he's done all
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  things well. And you you know I I think
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  sometimes we we convince ourselves that
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  because of what he does, he's worthy.
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  And I know y'all hear me say it all the
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  time, but it really ain't what he does.
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  >> Right. Right.
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  >> And uh cuz he don't have to do anything.
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  >> Right.
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  >> And uh I think if we'd ever get that
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  through our head,
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  >> that he really just ain't obligated to
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  do nothing.
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  >> Right.
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  >> Everything he does for us is just cuz he
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  wants to,
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  >> right?
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  >> Amen. You parents got children. Amen.
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  And you do things for them just cuz you
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  want to. I hope you do. Amen. Some
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  sometimes you probably do things just
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  cuz you have to. Um but you love them.
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  You'll do things just cuz you want to.
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  Amen. And you understand everything
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  God's done for every one of us is just
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  cuz he wants to.
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  >> Amen. And he's just good. That's just
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  who he is.
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  >> And I bless his name for it. And
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  appreciate them singing that this
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  morning. Mark chapter number nine. If
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  you have a Bible, when you find your
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  place, if you can't and you're able,
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  would you like to stay in on reference
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  to the reading of God's word, Mark
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  chapter number nine?
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  Got a signup sheet here. Far as next
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  Sunday goes, um got volunteer spots on
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  it here. Brother Kyle's been putting
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  everything together for us on next
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  Sunday. So volunteers for food,
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  volunteers for workers, um different
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  things, ice machine, inflatable games,
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  stuff like that. People to be around to
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  uh to watch for that. And so look after
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  the children and they'll be playing on
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  those. Um also all the can bring bag
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  desserts that won't melt. So um that's
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  on here. We'll have that at the back.
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  And if you have any other questions, you
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  can see brother Kyle on that. Um, I got
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  u want to say this about next Sunday.
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  Um, be praying about that service. There
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  is a chance of rain. Let's pray that'll
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  hold off and pray that God will give us
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  a good dry day on next Sunday. And I'll
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  be honest with you, I'd love to see it
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  rain. And we need some rain, don't we?
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  And pray that God would send some rain
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  our way. Um, but I'd love to be able to
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  have that outside on next Sunday. And
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  so, you just pray about that. And let's
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  pray this way. Just pray God's will be
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  done. Amen. And let's pray God will have
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  his way in everything that's said and
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  done on next Sunday. All right. Mark
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  chapter number nine. He needs to have
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  his way today though, don't we? Amen.
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  And uh bless his name. I appreciate all
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  that he does. Mark chapter 9. Let's
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  begin reading in verse number 14. Mark
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  chapter 9 verse number 14. And you pray
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  for us this morning as we look at this
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  text. The Bible says, "And when he came
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  to his disciples, he saw a great
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  multitude about them. And the scribes
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  questioning with them, and straightway
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  all the people, when they beheld him,
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  were greatly amazed, and running to him,
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  saluted him." And he asked the scribes,
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  "What question ye with them?" And one of
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  the multitude answered and said, Master,
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  I brought unto thee my son, which hath a
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  dumb spirit, and wheresoever he taketh
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  him, he teareth him, and he foamth and
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  nashethth with his teeth, and pineth
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  away. And I spake to thy disciples that
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  they should cast him out, and they could
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  not. He answerth him, and saith, Oh
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  faithless generation, how long shall I
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  be with you? How long shall I suffer
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  you? bring him unto me." And they
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  brought him unto him. And when he saw
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  him, straightway the spirit tear him,
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  and he fell on the ground, and wallowed,
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  foaming. And he asked his father, "How
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  long is it a ghost since this came unto
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  him?" And he said, "Of a child, and off
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  times it cast him into the fire, and
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  into the waters to destroy him. But if
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  thou can't do anything, have compassion
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  on us and help us." Verse 23, Jesus said
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  unto him, "If thou can't believe, all
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  things are possible to him that
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  believeth." I want you to notice with me
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  in verse number 18, the Bible says that
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  last phrase of verse 17, he brought unto
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  him his son, which hath a dumb spirit.
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  Verse 18, and wheresoever he taketh him,
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  he teareth him, and he foamth and
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  nasheth with his teeth and pineth away.
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  and I spake to thy disciples that they
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  should cast him out and they could not.
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  And I want to look this morning out of
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  this text. We'll preach again here
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  tonight, Lord willing, whatever God has
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  for us. That's what I want. But I want
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  to look out of this text on a thought
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  out of verse number 18 on the demon
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  dynamic.
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  The demon dynamic. Now, you'd be very
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  foolish this morning to say that demons
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  are not at work in this world today.
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  >> Right? They're at work, I dare say, as
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  hard as they've ever been.
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  >> And I think if there's anything we ought
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  to be aware of as the children of God,
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  we need to be aware of the influence of
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  the other world.
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  >> And if you're lost this morning, you
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  realize that you are a twofold child of
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  hell this morning.
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  >> And you cannot You say, "Preacher, I'm
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  not I'm not possessed. I'm not." You're
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  You may not be, but the reason you're
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  not is because you're headed the same
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  direction they are.
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  >> They're going to hell. And if you're
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  lost, you are, too. And we need to pray
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  that God would help us this morning in
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  this service. Father, thank you so much
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  for this time. God, I ask you for
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  wisdom. I ask you for discernment this
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  morning. And God, I love to encourage
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  the people of God. And Lord, I pray,
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  Father, that Lord, that whatever is
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  needed, Lord, your will would be
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  accomplished. God, I realize, Father,
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  that Lord, you told me in your word that
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  my responsibility is to repu, reprove,
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  rebuke, and exhort. And so Lord, I pray
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  God that you would help me to do just
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  that this morning. And Lord, to set a
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  warning, set a watch, God, as the
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  shepherd of this flock, the
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  undersheperd. Lord, I pray you would
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  help me help me say everything I should,
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  nothing I shouldn't, get all glory to
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  yourself. And Lord, I pray, Father, for
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  that sinner here today that's lost
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  without God. I pray today would be the
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  day of salvation for them. And Lord, for
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  maybe one, God, that's grown cold on you
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  and backsliden from you. I pray that you
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  would deal with them this morning, draw
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  them back to a place of fellowship,
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  Lord, they might enjoy the presence of
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  God again in their life and not grieve
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  the Holy Spirit. Help us, God, today,
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  get all glory yourself. And we'll thank
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  you for what you do because we ask it in
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  Jesus name. Amen. And amen. You can be
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  seated. Thank you for standing with me
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  this morning. Now, in Sunday school this
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  morning, if you miss Sunday school, you
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  missed the introduction to this message.
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  And I hope that you know this text. I
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  want to put this out there. All right.
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  Sunday school is for you. Amen. It's not
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  just for me to get up here so I can hear
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  myself talk for another hour. Amen. But
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  it's for you. I want to be an
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  encouragement and a help to you. And
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  when I what I've been doing here lately
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  is I've been introducing text here
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  introduction, giving a u a little
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  thought before we get to the message on
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  Sunday morning. And I noticed in this
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  text we talked about the
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  transfiguration. In Mark 9 deals with
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  the the uh event of the transfiguration
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  of Christ. In verse number 2, 3 and 4,
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  the Bible tells us that Jesus took
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  Peter, James, and John up in the
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  mountain, and he transfigures himself in
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  front of them. They see him exalted.
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  They see him encompassed by glory. And
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  they see the expression of who he is in
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  light of the fact that standing beside
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  Moses and Elijah, law and prophets.
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  Amen. The Jesus Christ, the fullness of
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  everything that the word of God is. He's
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  completing the puzzle. He is finishing
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  the image. He is the finished work of
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  God. He is the will of God, the work of
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  God, and the witness of God allin one.
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  Jesus himself here in this text allows
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  these three men to see this miracle of
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  holiness. And this miracle expresses to
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  them his deity and how he is great and
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  exalted. And let me just say this this
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  morning. The Bible says there's coming a
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  day that every knee shall bow and every
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  tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ
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  is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
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  And I'll say this, you may never bow in
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  this lie, but one of these days you
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  along with Satan and every other person
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  in this world is going to bow at his
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  feet. And Jesus has allowed these three
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  men to come in on this instance here of
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  his transfiguration. But out of this,
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  they descend from the mountain. They
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  come back down and Jesus finds the other
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  nine disciples here in the text. And the
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  Bible says verse 14, when he came to the
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  disciples, he saw a great multitude
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  about them and the scribes questioning
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  with them. So immediately after Jesus
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  and Peter, James, and John come off the
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  holy mountain, they are faced with an
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  argument. This argument here has been
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  brought by the scribes, of course,
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  because his disciples that were left
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  behind were not able to cast the demon
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  out of the boy in this text. And so
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  they're arguing over the power that had
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  been invested in them. And I want to say
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  this this morning, I'll tell you, let me
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  just remind you, I talk's cheap.
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  >> Amen. You can argue all over all kinds
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  of things. Amen. And there's people,
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  preachers doing it on Facebook, arguing
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  over all types of different things. But
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  here's what it comes down to. At the end
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  of the day, we're called to preach the
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  gospel. Amen. And my platform ain't
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  Meta. Amen. My platform is Meta's
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  Baptist Church. Amen. That's the pull
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  pit that God gave me to preach. And I'm
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  responsible to preach in this pullpit
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  what God lays upon my heart. Anywhere
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  else, amen, that's out of my
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  jurisdiction. And I want to say this
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  this morning. If you're always wanting
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  to argue about something, let me just
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  tell you, that's not God. Amen. God has
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  never argued with anybody. Amen. God has
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  always just given the truth and it's
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  take it or leave it. Amen. And I notice
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  not only the argument in the text, but I
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  notice the amazement in the text. There
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  is the scribes that are arguing with the
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  disciples. But when Jesus comes back and
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  verse number 15, the Bible says
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  straightway all the people when they
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  beheld him were greatly amazed and
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  running to him saluted him. And so
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  obviously as Jesus descended off of this
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  mountain where he was transfigured,
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  there must have been some traces of the
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  glory that was still upon his face. And
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  you say, "Preacher, how do you know
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  that?" Well, I don't. But I know this.
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  The Bible says that when they saw him,
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  they were all amazed. There was
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  something about Jesus that was just a
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  little different than it was the last
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  time they'd seen him. And you say,
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  "Preacher, how is that?" Well, you
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  remember when Moses come off the
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  mountain in the book of Exodus in
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  chapter number 33, the Bible says that
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  he wis not that his face shone. And
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  those children of Israel looked upon him
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  and they had he had to cover his face
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  with a veil because the brightness of
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  the glory of God that was on his face
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  was blinding the children of Israel.
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  Jesus had been in that very same
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  presence and come off of this mountain.
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  And they are amazed at the complexion of
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  our Lord, the brightness of his glory.
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  And I notice out of this amazement, we
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  see that there is an appeal. They're all
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  gathered around to Jesus here in the
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  text. He asked the scribes, "What
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  question ye with them?" And in verse 17,
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  a man speaks up and says, "Master, I
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  brought unto thee my son, which hath a
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  dumb spirit." And so there's the
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  argument of the strides and the
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  amazement of because of the shining of
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  Christ's face. But then there is this
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  man that makes an appeal for his son.
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  This man's son here in the text is vexed
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  by a demon. And the Bible says in verse
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  number 18 or verse 17, he hath a dumb
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  spirit. So that literally means he's
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  this this demon that's on him has taken
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  away his ability to speak. He has no
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  ability to communicate. But all that
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  he's able to do is be controlled by this
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  demon in the text. And you notice what's
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  said about this demon here. The Bible
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  says, "And worse he taketh him, he teeth
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  him, he foamth and nasheth with his
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  teeth and pineth away. and I spake to
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  thy disciples that they should cast him
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  out and they could not. And when I think
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  about demons in the scripture, often
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  times my mind only comes to three
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  accounts. When I look at the New
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  Testament, there's other instances we
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  could talk about, but I really believe
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  you see it prevalent in the life of
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  Christ because when Christ was here on
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  this earth, the devil knew that Jesus
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  was headed to Calvary. And he knew that
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  if Jesus made it to Calvary and if he
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  didn't stop him before he got there,
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  amen, if he didn't stop him in his death
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  on the cross, if he couldn't stop him
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  before he rose again the third day, he
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  knew that his plan was over. Amen. But
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  we know that during that time, his
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  period of life on this year on the 33
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  and a half years on this earth, our Lord
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  had that the devil unleashed all the
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  forces that he had available to try to
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  undermine the work of God.
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  >> Right? And I want to talk to you about
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  that this morning. The demon dynamic.
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  Now, that dynamic literally talks about
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  a is is a moving force. It's a a if you
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  look think about dynamics in college,
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  that's a study of force moving force.
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  That's what that is. And I notice in
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  this text, what you always see in the
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  scripture when there's a demon present,
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  the demon will not be silent.
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  >> He's never quiet. And you know, I'll say
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  this. I'm not saying everybody that
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  spouts off the mind, Amen, is
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  demonpossessed.
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  But I'll say this, it's not a holy thing
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  for somebody that just lets their tongue
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  loose all the time.
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  >> Amen. James said it this way. He said,
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  "If any man seemth to be religious, am
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  onion bridleth not his tongue." He said,
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  "This man's religion is what?" Vain.
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  Amen. It's empty. And so, I want to give
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  you a few things out of this text and
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  put from some other text this morning
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  concerning this thought. I I notice in
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  this text about this young man. You see,
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  there is the harm that's mentioned here
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  by about this demon, this young man. And
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  and every time you see an individual who
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  is possessed or oppressed by a demon in
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  the scriptures, there is harm that's
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  involved with that. But I notice
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  specifically there's some terms that are
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  used in these verses to describe the
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  power of this demon here in the text. I
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  notice first of all when I see in this
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  text concerning the demon dynamic, I
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  notice first of all that there is
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  confusion that's taking place. The Bible
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  says that this man has brought his son
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  under the Lord because the disciples did
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  not have power to cast him out. And the
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  Bible says that he has he has a dumb
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  spirit. Now from what I understand of
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  this text, I I don't believe that this
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  boy has ever been able to talk. The
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  Bible says uh in verse number 21, Jesus
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  asked his father, "How long is it ago
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  since this came unto him?" And he said,
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  "Of a child." And so that literally
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  speaks of a little small baby. And so I
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  don't I don't know how long that he's
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  had this. I just know that he's he does
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  not have the ability to speak and he
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  should he should have the ability to
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  speak, but he is not able to speak. And
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  when I You say, "Preacher, how does that
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  correlate with the work of demons?"
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  Well, you see it directly in the text,
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  but applicationally, you think about the
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  world in which we live today where young
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  children are being uh they're being
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  prayed upon by perverts all across this
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  country and they're being paraded
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  through different trafficking
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  organizations throughout this country.
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  And what is always done, what is always
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  seen about those children, what are they
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  commanded to be? They're commanded to be
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  in signs. They have no voice. And the
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  and the marks of devil worship, the
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  marks of demon oppression is that there
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  is a dumb spirit. There is a a mark of
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  silence upon that.
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  >> It's confusion. You say, "How is it?"
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  Well, the demon here is very loud, but
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  the but the boy is real quiet,
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  >> right?
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  >> The demon is making his presence known,
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  but this boy is not able to do anything.
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  And you say, "Preacher, well, how does
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  that translate to confusion?" Well, the
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  Bible says that the enemy, devil
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  himself, is the author of confusion.
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  >> And so, he's the father. He's the
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  author. As Jesus is the the alpha and
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  the omega, the beginning and the end of
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  all that is confusion is the authorship
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  of the devil.
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  >> Right?
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  >> Amen. And we've said it before and I'll
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  say it again. The devil has no new
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  materials.
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  >> He can only take what God has made and
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  corrupt it. So he'll take a per an
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  individual who has a good sane mind and
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  you know what he'll do? He'll make them
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  insane. He'll take a person who has a
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  good sober mind and a good sober life
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  and what he'll do? He'll make them
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  intoxicated. He'll take somebody who has
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  purity. Somebody help me preach this
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  morning. He'll take somebody who has
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  purity and somebody who has perfection
• 17:04
  in their life. God has blessed them. And
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  what will he do? He'll take that purity
• 17:08
  from them. He'll take that perfection
• 17:10
  from them. and he WILL WRECK WHAT GOD
• 17:12
  DESIGNED to be a blessing. It's
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  confusion is what it is.
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  >> It's just like over there in the book of
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  Genesis. Amen. That rebellion of that
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  man Nimrod built that city and you know
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  what all it did was it left a bunch of
• 17:24
  people with broken lives in a place that
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  was broken and a and plans that were all
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  broken and busted up. There was nothing
• 17:31
  left behind BECAUSE IT WAS ALL OPERATING
• 17:34
  on rebellion. And that's who the devil
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  himself is. HE IS THE PRINCE of
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  rebellion. And this young man is
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  controlled. You say, "Preacher, how is
• 17:44
  it that it's is such a small child?"
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  WELL, LET ME JUST SAY THIS. The devil
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  does not care what medium he has to use.
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  >> Right?
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  >> He'll use anything.
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  >> And I'll say this, he don't have to use
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  people much anymore.
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  >> He just takes what we've got in our
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  pockets, amen, and on our screens at our
• 18:02
  home. Amen. And he does use people, but
• 18:04
  he uses just a few select people to
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  broadcast to the world.
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  >> You're right. the wickedness that he
• 18:10
  desires to confuse people's mind with.
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  He has a dumb spirit. He's not able to
• 18:15
  speak, but he should be able to speak.
• 18:17
  Notice this. Not only there is the
• 18:19
  confusion, but then there is the control
• 18:21
  in the text. Look what the Bible says in
• 18:23
  verse 18. What's that first phrase,
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  church? And wheresoever, what you Bible
• 18:28
  say? He taketh him. This demon has not
• 18:32
  only brought this boy and his family a
• 18:34
  state of confusion because he's not able
• 18:37
  to speak, but he has this young man
• 18:40
  under control. He is literally in the
• 18:43
  grips of this demon itself. And I'm
• 18:45
  reminded of what Paul said to the
• 18:47
  Ephesian church. He said, "Be not drunk
• 18:49
  with wine wherein is excess, but be
• 18:52
  filled with the spirit." What was he
• 18:53
  talking about? He was talking about that
• 18:55
  control of the alcohol over the mind of
• 18:58
  an individual who would intake that
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  drunken uh material into his body and
• 19:02
  then he himself becomes controlled by
• 19:05
  that influence in his life. And the
• 19:07
  demon influence is that same way. It's
• 19:09
  an influence OF CONTROL. THERE IS NO WAY
• 19:12
  TO escape it when it is present in your
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  life. That's right.
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  >> He said he taketh him and out of that
• 19:19
  taking his control leads to, notice
• 19:22
  this, not only confusion, but it leads
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  to corruption. The Bible says, "Woroever
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  he taketh him, he tearth him, and he
• 19:31
  foamth him nasheth with his teeth and
• 19:33
  pineth away." And and I and I think
• 19:35
  about all of that, what he's saying in
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  this text. Wheresoever he taketh him,
• 19:39
  that implies a place. That implies
• 19:41
  around people. that implies all types of
• 19:44
  other things. But you understand what
• 19:46
  this leads up to is is that the the
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  sanitary the and let let me just put
• 19:50
  this in in a sense of of a physical term
• 19:53
  so we can understand what I'm getting at
• 19:54
  here. There's a gentleman in this church
• 19:56
  that just a few months ago he was in a
• 19:59
  an accident and and his foot it he it
• 20:02
  got tore right between his toes. And out
• 20:05
  of that tearing, what happened was he he
• 20:08
  went to the doctor and that thing got
• 20:09
  sewed up again. But what happened? the
• 20:11
  wound was not clean.
• 20:13
  >> You know what? Because of that, there
• 20:15
  was an infection that set up.
• 20:18
  >> And out of that, he has been dealing
• 20:19
  with a problem that should have been
• 20:21
  fixed in a matter of hours, but he's
• 20:22
  been dealing with it for months.
• 20:24
  >> And here's what I'll say to you in this
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  text. The Bible says that this demon, he
• 20:28
  teeth him. You think about this young
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  boy. He's opening, this demon's opening
• 20:34
  him up to corruption. You're
• 20:35
  >> right.
• 20:37
  >> He's opening up to corruption. Here's
• 20:39
  what here's what demon influence in your
• 20:40
  life will do. It'll open you up to
• 20:43
  things that you have no business messing
• 20:44
  with.
• 20:45
  >> That's right.
• 20:46
  >> Amen. When somebody tries to introduce
• 20:49
  you to alcohol, when somebody tries to
• 20:51
  introduce you to drugs or some type of
• 20:53
  of marijuana or or or anything like
• 20:56
  that, you know what that is? That's a
• 20:57
  demon influence,
• 20:58
  >> right?
• 20:59
  >> You you've never had that in your life.
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  You've never been involved with that.
• 21:02
  Now, that's come into your life. You
• 21:04
  know what that is? That is a demon
• 21:05
  influence in your life. He is
• 21:07
  introducing you to corruption. This boy
• 21:09
  who would have been otherwise healthy.
• 21:11
  Get what I'm saying this morning? This
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  young man who would have been otherwise
• 21:14
  healthy because of this demon is now
• 21:17
  susceptible to infection.
• 21:19
  >> Right?
• 21:20
  >> Amen.
• 21:21
  >> That's why we got to pray for our
• 21:22
  children.
• 21:24
  >> Amen. Our children because of the way we
• 21:26
  raised them should be otherwise healthy.
• 21:29
  Amen. We put them in a good Christian
• 21:30
  school. We take them to a good church.
• 21:32
  Amen. We read the Bible and we have
• 21:34
  family altar and we pray for them. But
• 21:37
  you understand, you can't do everything
• 21:39
  perfect enough to keep the enemy's
• 21:41
  influence OUT OF YOUR CHILDREN'S LIFE.
• 21:44
  >> YOU CAN'T DO ENOUGH. You can't be
• 21:45
  enough. IT DOES NOT MATTER. The enemy is
• 21:48
  going to find a crack in the door
• 21:50
  somewhere to get through to influence
• 21:52
  your children so he can slip corruption
• 21:55
  into their lives.
• 21:58
  >> Notice the text. He take if he teareth
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  him. literally speaks of the harm of his
• 22:03
  flesh and and he falth and nashethth
• 22:06
  with his teeth. He's crazed. His mind is
• 22:09
  loose. HE HAS NO CONTROL because he's
• 22:11
  under complete control
• 22:14
  of this corrupt individual. I think not
• 22:17
  only about the confusion, the control,
• 22:19
  the corruption, but I think about the
• 22:21
  consummation. You see this demon's got a
• 22:23
  got an end goal in mind. You say, "What
• 22:26
  is that, preacher?" Well, notice the
• 22:28
  text. You see this harm is described in
• 22:30
  verse number 18. He is his his flesh is
• 22:33
  tor. He's foing at the mouth. He is
• 22:35
  nashing with his teeth. The Bible says,
• 22:37
  notice that last phrase, verse 18, the
• 22:39
  middle of verse, and he pineth away.
• 22:42
  He's getting weaker by the day. You know
• 22:44
  what? That's what that's what sin
• 22:46
  corrupts. That's what what demon
• 22:47
  influence will do to you.
• 22:49
  >> You get weaker every day.
• 22:52
  >> You know what? You'll find the thing
• 22:53
  that you once had to really, really try
• 22:55
  hard to get involved with, you'll just
• 22:57
  find it just happens naturally.
• 22:58
  >> You're right.
• 23:00
  >> Amen.
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  >> Anybody will tell you this, it's a good
• 23:03
  illustration, but when you get out of
• 23:04
  church, it's always easier to leave
• 23:08
  >> than it is to come back,
• 23:09
  >> right?
• 23:10
  >> It's always easier to get out than it is
• 23:13
  to get back in.
• 23:14
  >> You see, his the end of his goal is to
• 23:17
  consume
• 23:19
  this young man. You say, "Preacher,
• 23:21
  WELL, HOW DO YOU KNOW that this demon's
• 23:23
  going to take his life?" Well, his harm
• 23:25
  is described in verse 17 and 18. His
• 23:28
  harm is displayed in verse 20. Notice
• 23:30
  what the Bible said. "And they brought
• 23:32
  him unto him," speaking of Jesus. "And
• 23:34
  when he saw him, when Jesus saw this
• 23:36
  young man, straightway the spirit tear
• 23:38
  him, and he fell on the ground and
• 23:40
  wallowed foaming." You see, the display
• 23:42
  matched the description. Everything that
• 23:44
  the daddy had told Jesus about when
• 23:47
  Jesus came near, you know what this
• 23:48
  demon did? exactly what the daddy had
• 23:51
  said. And let me say this, when Jesus
• 23:53
  gets near that demon influence, when
• 23:55
  Jesus gets near that demon oppression,
• 23:58
  you know what? They're not going to sit
• 23:59
  there.
• 24:00
  >> They're not going to BE SILENT. THEY'RE
• 24:02
  NOT GOING TO STEP BACK, BUT THEY'RE
• 24:03
  GOING TO REAR UP THEIR POWER. You ever
• 24:05
  seen somebody that in the face of truth,
• 24:07
  they always want to stand up in
• 24:08
  rebellion? THEY ALWAYS WANT TO STAND UP
• 24:11
  and speak out and they'll spew the most
• 24:13
  awful, wicked things from their mouth
• 24:15
  and spew some OF THE MOST UNGODLY THINGS
• 24:18
  that could ever COME OUT OF ANYBODY'S
• 24:19
  LIPS. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS? THAT'S
• 24:21
  DEMON INFLUENCE IS what that is.
• 24:24
  >> The spirit tear him. He fell on the
• 24:26
  ground. His harm is displayed. But
• 24:28
  notice the destruction of his harm.
• 24:30
  Well, look what look how it said in
• 24:32
  verse 21 and 22. And he asked his
• 24:34
  father, "How long is it ago since this
• 24:36
  came unto him?" And he said, "Of a
• 24:37
  child." Verse 22. and all times it have
• 24:40
  cast him into the fire and into the
• 24:42
  waters. What's that next phrase? To
• 24:44
  destroy him. He's trying to get rid of
• 24:47
  him.
• 24:47
  >> Right.
• 24:47
  >> This he says, I've had to get him out of
• 24:49
  fires and I've had to get him out of
• 24:51
  waters from drowning. I've had to save
• 24:53
  him from being burned alive because this
• 24:56
  demon desires to destroy him. And let me
• 24:59
  say this to you. We can rejoice. And and
• 25:01
  I'll say this in this text. This demon
• 25:03
  was not able to destroy this boat. And
• 25:06
  I'm thankful, amen, that we all, thank
• 25:08
  God, we can have deliverance because of
• 25:11
  Jesus Christ. And I'm going to say more
• 25:13
  about that in this evening's service.
• 25:15
  BUT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT'S NOT ALWAYS THE
• 25:17
  CASE.
• 25:18
  >> RIGHT?
• 25:18
  >> Not everybody WHO IS INFLUENCED BY the
• 25:21
  devil OR DEMONS MAKES IT OUT.
• 25:23
  >> RIGHT?
• 25:24
  >> You say, "How is that, preacher? Have
• 25:26
  you got some kind of personal example?"
• 25:27
  Well, it is a personal example. It's a
• 25:29
  scriptural example. That's
• 25:30
  >> right.
• 25:31
  >> Amen. When I think about demon
• 25:33
  oppression in the word of God, there's
• 25:35
  at least three individuals that come to
• 25:37
  mind. One being this young man. Jesus
• 25:40
  delivers him in this text because the
• 25:42
  desire of his father to deliver him.
• 25:45
  Jesus meets the intercessory prayer of
• 25:48
  that father. Let me say this this
• 25:50
  morning. YOU GOT TO BE PRAYING FOR YOUR
• 25:52
  CHILDREN. YOU GOT TO BE PRAYING FOR YOUR
• 25:54
  FAMILY. HEY CHILD, YOU MAY BE SAVED AND
• 25:56
  YOUR PARENTS ARE LOST. YOU GOT TO BE
• 25:58
  PRAYING FOR YOUR PARENTS THAT GOD WOULD
• 26:00
  DEAL WITH THEM BECAUSE HE IS THE ONLY
• 26:03
  ONE THAT'S ABLE TO DEFEAT THE VOICE OF
• 26:05
  THE DEVIL IN THEIR LIFE.
• 26:08
  >> HIS INTERCESSORY PRAYER BROUGHT
• 26:10
  DELIVERANCE. But you know what? There's
• 26:11
  another man in the Bible that found
• 26:13
  deliverance. Turn with me to Luke
• 26:15
  chapter number eight.
• 26:17
  Jesus makes a journey across the sea
• 26:19
  just to meet this man. Luke chapter 8
• 26:22
  and verse number 26. And they arrived at
• 26:24
  the country of the Gatherines, which is
• 26:27
  over against Galilee. And when he went
• 26:28
  forth to land, there met him out of the
• 26:30
  city, a certain man, which had devils
• 26:32
  long time, and wear no clothes, neither
• 26:35
  abode in any house, but in the tombs.
• 26:37
  When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell
• 26:39
  down before him, and with a loud voice
• 26:41
  said, "What have I do to do with thee,
• 26:43
  Jesus, thou son of God most high? I
• 26:46
  beseech thee, torment me not." And Jesus
• 26:48
  tells the story of how this young this
• 26:51
  young man in the text, the Bible says he
• 26:53
  was possessed with demons running about
• 26:55
  in the tombs. He had a legion of demons
• 26:58
  within him. And after Jesus casted THOSE
• 27:00
  DEMONS OUT, THEY went into that herd of
• 27:03
  swine. 2,000 demons took out a whole
• 27:06
  herd of swine and they drowned in the
• 27:08
  lake. YOU SAY, "PREACHER, WHAT ARE YOU
• 27:09
  SAYING?" I'm saying everywhere there's a
• 27:12
  demon involved. THERE'S GOING TO BE
• 27:13
  DEATH INVOLVED. AMEN.
• 27:16
  You say, "Preacher, but that other boy
• 27:17
  didn't die." Well, look at the text with
• 27:19
  me again.
• 27:23
  Mark chapter 9 verse 26.
• 27:26
  Bible said, "And the spirit cried when
• 27:28
  Jesus spoke to him and ran him sore and
• 27:31
  came out of him and he was as one dead
• 27:34
  in so much that many said he is dead."
• 27:37
  But Jesus Jesus took him by the hand and
• 27:40
  lifted him up and he arose.
• 27:43
  >> Amen. You see, his life was near death.
• 27:46
  The gatherinian man would have died, but
• 27:50
  those swine died.
• 27:51
  >> Right?
• 27:52
  >> You say, "What's the emphasis of that,
• 27:53
  preacher?" Well, this young boy got
• 27:55
  delivered. That man and the gatherines,
• 27:57
  he got delivered. But you know what? The
• 27:59
  most notable possessed man in the New
• 28:02
  Testament, he didn't get deliverance.
• 28:05
  You say, "Who is that, preacher? I can't
• 28:06
  think of another." Well, you might know
• 28:09
  him as the betrayer.
• 28:13
  know him as the one that Jesus spoke of
• 28:15
  called him the son of predition.
• 28:19
  Listen to what Jesus said in John 13.
• 28:24
  John 13 and verse number one. Now before
• 28:26
  the feast of the Passover when Jesus
• 28:28
  knew that his hour was come that he
• 28:31
  should depart out of this world unto the
• 28:32
  father having loved his own which were
• 28:34
  in the world he loved them unto the end.
• 28:37
  Jesus knew his plan was drawn to a
• 28:40
  close. And in verse number two, the
• 28:42
  Bible says, "And supper being ended,"
• 28:44
  notice this, "the devil having now put
• 28:47
  into the heart of Judas's Scariot,
• 28:49
  Simon's son, to betray him." You see,
• 28:53
  Jesus tells us that the devil entered
• 28:56
  into Simon. You can look at the account,
• 28:58
  I believe it's Luke's Gospel, chapter 22
• 29:01
  and verse number three. I think it's
• 29:02
  where it is, but it literally says, "And
• 29:04
  Satan entered Jesus." Entered Judas. You
• 29:08
  say, "Preacher, what is that?" Well, we
• 29:09
  think about Judas. You turn to Matthew
• 29:11
  chapter number 27. The Bible says that
• 29:13
  he they betrayed he betrayed the Lord
• 29:15
  for those 30 pieces of silver. You
• 29:18
  remember Matthew 27, the first part of
• 29:20
  the chapter, he comes back to the chief
• 29:22
  priest and he throws that money down at
• 29:23
  their feet and said, "I've I've sinned
• 29:25
  and that I've betrayed the innocent
• 29:27
  blood." The Bible says he repented
• 29:28
  himself, but it didn't mean that he
• 29:30
  repented of his sin, but he was
• 29:31
  remorseful over what he did,
• 29:33
  >> right?
• 29:33
  >> Not really wanting to believe the Lord,
• 29:35
  but he was just sorry. And so in that
• 29:38
  text, he throwed the money down and and
• 29:41
  the Bible says that those Pharisees took
• 29:43
  that money. They went and bought the
• 29:45
  field of blood there. According to the
• 29:47
  book of Acts, chapter number one, they
• 29:48
  purchased that field, Peter said, with a
• 29:50
  reward of iniquity is what he called it.
• 29:52
  And out of that reward of iniquity, the
• 29:54
  Bible says that after Judas left that
• 29:56
  money, he went to he went outside of
• 29:58
  town and he hung himself in a tree,
• 30:01
  killed himself. You say, "Preacher,
• 30:04
  what's the end of demon influence?"
• 30:06
  Well, you see, the devil took Judas out.
• 30:10
  You know, I You don't have to agree with
• 30:12
  me on this this morning, but I believe
• 30:15
  Judas could have gotten saved. I believe
• 30:18
  that. I'll say this. I don't think that
• 30:21
  I don't think that he ever would have
• 30:23
  because Jesus knew his heart. Jesus
• 30:25
  looked at him. He knew he was he called
• 30:28
  him friend. He loved him. Even though
• 30:31
  it's hard for us to understand that
• 30:32
  Jesus loved the devil.
• 30:35
  He was that individual of worship in
• 30:37
  heaven, Lucifer. How art thou fallen
• 30:39
  from heaven, thou son of the morning,
• 30:41
  right?
• 30:41
  >> He said that, "You're the most beautiful
• 30:43
  creature until iniquity was found in
• 30:45
  thee." But I believe Judas could have
• 30:47
  gotten saved. And what a story of
• 30:48
  redemption that would have been.
• 30:50
  >> But you know what? The devil had to
• 30:51
  finish him off,
• 30:52
  >> right? I believe that Judas could have
• 30:55
  been forgiven, but because of the demon
• 30:59
  influence in his life, Judas, when he
• 31:02
  throwed that money down, the devil
• 31:04
  convinced him that it was over
• 31:06
  >> and he went outside of town and he hung
• 31:08
  himself.
• 31:09
  >> You know, I'll say this to you this
• 31:10
  morning. You said, "Preacher, I'm not
• 31:13
  going to let any demon influence me."
• 31:17
  >> Well, here's the thing about that this
• 31:18
  morning. No, you probably won't
• 31:20
  willfully. But I'll say this, he doesn't
• 31:23
  care who you are,
• 31:24
  >> right?
• 31:25
  >> He doesn't care how young you are.
• 31:26
  You're
• 31:27
  >> right.
• 31:27
  >> He doesn't care how old you are. He
• 31:28
  doesn't care how much Bible you know. He
• 31:31
  doesn't care anything about you,
• 31:33
  >> right?
• 31:34
  >> Or anybody else for that matter.
• 31:36
  >> Right.
• 31:36
  >> And this is what he knows. If he can get
• 31:39
  you going his direction,
• 31:41
  >> you say, "Preacher, what is that? I'm
• 31:42
  not a drunkard. I I'm not a I'm I'm not
• 31:45
  a I'm not a drunkard. I'm not a
• 31:46
  fornicator. I'm not an adulterer. I'm
• 31:48
  not a homosexual. I'm not. I'm not. I'm
• 31:49
  not. But here's the problem about that.
• 31:51
  If you if you've never been saved, it
• 31:54
  don't matter how much stuff you don't
• 31:55
  do.
• 31:55
  >> Right?
• 31:56
  >> It don't matter how good of a moral
• 31:58
  person you are.
• 31:59
  >> That's right.
• 31:59
  >> You know why he don't bother you? Is
• 32:01
  because you're headed the same direction
• 32:03
  he is.
• 32:03
  >> Right.
• 32:04
  >> The reason why you don't feel NO
• 32:06
  OPPRESSION IS BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING THE
• 32:08
  SAME WAY. WHEN YOU GO AGAINST the grain
• 32:10
  on something, you know what? It ain't
• 32:12
  comfortable, is it?
• 32:13
  >> Right. Right.
• 32:14
  >> You know why? It don't feel like there's
• 32:16
  any opposition in your life. When I got
• 32:18
  saved, man, I was introduced to an enemy
• 32:20
  that I'd never seen before.
• 32:21
  >> Right,
• 32:23
  >> man. I could tell you the story of my
• 32:25
  life and and and tell you things of how
• 32:27
  I've seen him try to work against me.
• 32:29
  And I've seen it in just recent days,
• 32:32
  how he would love to just shut out the
• 32:34
  light of God.
• 32:35
  >> But here's what I come back to in my
• 32:37
  thoughts. You know, I'm thankful that we
• 32:39
  believe this from the scripture that a
• 32:40
  saved person cannot be possessed
• 32:43
  because we're possessed by the Lord
• 32:45
  Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit of God
• 32:47
  lives inside of us. We're not our own.
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  We're bought with a price.
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  >> Jesus, the Holy Ghost, the person of the
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  spirit of God lives on the inside. But
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  I'll tell you this, you can grieve the
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  Holy Spirit and be oppressed,
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  >> right?
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  >> By a devil. You say, "How is that?"
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  Well, you remember the Bible says over
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  there in the book of Peter, I'm just
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  giving you scripture this morning. I
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  could give you personal examples. I
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  could give you all that, but you
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  understand that ain't going to help you.
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  Okay? The Bible says that Lot when he
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  was down at Sodom and Gomorra, the Bible
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  says he vexed his righteous soul, you
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  know what that was doing? He was
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  willingly suspecting himself
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  to demon influence.
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  >> Right?
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  >> He willfully allowed himself looking at
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  that filth every day of his life. He
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  vexed himself by seeing and hearing. The
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  Bible says their unrighteous deeds.
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  And this is the greatest sin we have in
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  this day and time is the sin of
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  fornication.
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  >> And you know it goes on in public, but
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  I'll tell you where it's at. It's on the
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  telephone,
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  >> right?
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  >> That's where it's at.
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  It would blow our minds to know how many
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  people have been involved with it even
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  today.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> You say, "How is that, preacher?" Well,
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  it's what's killing us. Because here
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  here's the thing about it's demon
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  influence.
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  >> Right?
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  >> God said Lot. Peter said, "Lot vexed his
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  righteous soul in seeing and hearing
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  >> their unlawful." He vexed his righteous
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  soul with their unlawful deeds in seeing
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  and hear. You can turn there and look
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  look at Peter. That's what he said. And
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  so it's not it's not just your
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  relationships with people, but it's what
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  you allow yourself to intake.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> Through your eyes, through your ears.
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  >> And here's what'll happen to you. Your
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  life will end in destruction.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> If you do not allow the Lord Jesus
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  Christ to give you victory.
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  >> Amen. Now, I've left a lot of this out.
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  We're going to preach the rest of it
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  tonight. This is the message I want to
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  get want you to get today. You do not
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  have the power in your flesh to defeat
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  the enemy.
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  >> Right. Amen.
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  >> You can't put up enough walls. You can't
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  have enough accountability. And I
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  believe in walls. And I believe in
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  accountability. And probably more than
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  anybody else in this room, I've got more
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  than anybody else. And I'm not saying
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  that pridefully, but I just know how
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  sorry I am. Okay? Can I just be real
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  with you? I've got walls in my life
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  that's high. I've got accountability
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  that's high. My wife, my wife's password
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  and my password to our phones are
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  exactly the same, aren't they?
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  >> Right.
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  >> We have open lines of communication. She
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  knows more about me than any other
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  individual in this world.
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  >> And I wouldn't change a thing about it.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> I have I have all of that. But I'll say
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  this, all it takes is one moment of
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  weakness.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> Amen.
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  one
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  one decision
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  one one time the devil says all you
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  nobody know nobody's going to know
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  >> come on
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  >> nobody's going to see that
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  and before you know it what what was
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  just a moment of confusion
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  led to him ultimately controlling you
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  >> right
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  >> corrupting your life and then consuming
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  you eternally you say preacher but if
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  I'm saved I can't be consumed eternally.
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  You know, the Bible talks about
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  John said it this way. He said uh he
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  said, "My little children abide in him."
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  1 John 2, he said, "My little children
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  abide in him that when he shall appear
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  that we may have confidence and not be
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  ashamed before him at his coming."
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  That's
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  >> right.
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  >> You know, I'd hate to know that I wasted
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  my life.
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  >> Come on. as a child of God
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  >> and I'll enter heaven and I would I
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  would enter heaven enter the presence of
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  God ashamed because of the way I live my
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  life down here you say preacher but all
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  tears are going to be wiped away but
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  what about when we get those rewards
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  >> what about when the crowns are given
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  what about when you walk through that
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  fire and all the works of the flesh are
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  burned up
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  >> right
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  >> and what you come out the other side
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  with is all that's going to be left and
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  you come out the other side and all that
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  wood hay and devil's burned up and
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  you're left with nothing to put at the
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  feet of Jesus. I don't know how I don't
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  I don't see how I could not cry.
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  I don't see how I could think to myself
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  all that he's done for me and I have
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  nothing
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  nothing to offer him.
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  Every head bowed and every eye closed
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  this morning.
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  You're here and you're lost this
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  morning.
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  You don't know what I'm talking about.
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  Okay? The demon influence in your life
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  is going to destroy you.
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  And the reason this is so serious is
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  because Jesus could come today.
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  He could come in the next five minutes.
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  And you know what? Demon influence right
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  now for you sinner is not that you
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  would, you know, go look at pornography
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  or that you would go get a beer and turn
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  it up or that you'd go smoke a joint.
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  demon influence for you right now is
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  saying you're okay.
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  It's saying you're fine. You don't need
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  what that preacher's offering you. You
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  don't need that blood. You don't NEED
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  THAT GOSPEL. YOU'RE all right. You can
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  go out of here and you you can come to
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  church every now and again. God will
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  judge your good works and your good
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  works will outweigh your bad. You know
• 38:05
  what that is? That's a demon influence.
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  THE HOLY GHOST OF GOD IS SPEAKING TO
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  YOUR HEART and he's saying, "I love you.
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  Jesus died for you." And God the Father
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  says, "Come."
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  And at the end of the day,
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  you've got a choice.
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  Are you going to allow that little voice
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  tell you you're all right?
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  Are you going to listen to the voice of
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  God that says
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  you need to be saved?
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  You say, "Preacher, how do I know the
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  difference?" Well, I can say this to you
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  with assurance this morning. If you have
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  never asked the Lord Jesus Christ to
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  forgive you of your sins and save you.
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  If you've never asked him, if you've
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  never trusted him by faith, if you have
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  never asked the Lord, "Please forgive me
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  and save me, Lord Jesus."
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  If you've never done that, you're lost.
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  If you have never done that, you are
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  lost. You say, "Preacher, I've done
• 39:10
  that. I'VE PRAYED A PRAYER, BUT NOTHING
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  EVER CHANGED. NOTHING WAS EVER
• 39:14
  DIFFERENT." YOU WANT TO know the
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  difference between the voice of God and
• 39:17
  the voice of en the enemy in your life?
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  God looks at you and he says, "I love
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  you."
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  The enemy says you're worthless.
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  The enemy says you're not valuable.
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  You have no worth. You're the sorryest
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  human being alive.
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  You don't need what he's got.
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  And what'll happen is if you walk out of
• 39:45
  these door lost today and he's told you
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  you're okay. You know what? The moment
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  you walk through those doors, he's going
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  to try to give you some false comfort.
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  Well, you went to church today.
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  All the while, Jesus is saying, "Come."
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  The voice of God and the voice of the
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  enemy
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  in your life
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  could be the thing that
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  changes your destiny. You say,
• 40:17
  "Preacher, how is that?" Well, you
• 40:19
  realize that I would have never heard
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  the voice of God if I hadn't heard the
• 40:23
  voice of the enemy.
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  You say, "How is that, preacher?" Well,
• 40:29
  that night that I got saved, 7 years
• 40:32
  old, God spoke to my heart and said,
• 40:35
  "Son, you need to be saved." And the
• 40:37
  enemy said, "You're a preacher's kid.
• 40:41
  You're all right."
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  But you know what? God said, "That
• 40:50
  doesn't matter.
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  It ain't about your mom and it ain't
• 40:54
  about your daddy.
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  It's not about none of these people that
• 40:58
  you're sitting around, but son, I love
• 40:59
  you and I want to save you. And if Jesus
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  is speaking, if the Holy Ghost is
• 41:05
  convicting your heart
• 41:07
  and telling you right now that he loves
• 41:10
  you and he wants to save you and he's
• 41:12
  showing you that you don't have to go to
• 41:13
  hell, you know, I do, if I was you, I'd
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  get up and I'd run.
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  I wouldn't wait another second.
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  It doesn't matter what anybody thinks.
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  Doesn't matter how long you've been a
• 41:26
  member of this church. Doesn't matter
• 41:29
  how much work you've done because there
• 41:30
  ain't no amount of works that you can do
• 41:31
  to save you. It matters that you know if
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  you were to die right now that you would
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  go to heaven.
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  A good way to know that God's speaking
• 41:44
  to you
• 41:47
  is that that preached word for the first
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  time in your life's making sense.
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  For the first time in your life, you're
• 41:53
  realizing that I really don't got what
• 41:56
  he's talking about.
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  You say, "Preacher, I'm here and I I
• 42:01
  don't know that I'm saved. Preacher, I'm
• 42:03
  having a hard time. I don't know.
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  Would you be honest enough? Nobody's
• 42:08
  looking around but me, but to raise your
• 42:11
  hand,
• 42:13
  say, "Preacher, would you pray for me?
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  I'm not saved."
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  Be honest between you and God. Just
• 42:19
  raise your hand up. I'll pray for you
• 42:21
  this morning. Nobody's looking around.
• 42:25
  Some of you, it's written all over your
• 42:26
  face.
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  God knows your heart.
• 42:33
  And I don't I wouldn't scare you for
• 42:34
  nothing, but I want to tell you this
• 42:36
  might be the last opportunity.
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  >> Do not miss it.
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  Don't miss it.
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  For those of you that are saved this
• 42:45
  morning,
• 42:47
  the most precious truth that we have
• 42:51
  is that when the devil gets so loud in
• 42:53
  our mind, we have a book
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  >> that we can come back to where God's
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  words are written down.
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  They're settled in heaven. They're a
• 43:04
  lamp to our feet and a light to our
• 43:06
  path. And if we'll just read his word,
• 43:08
  God will speak. And he cannot. The
• 43:11
  devil, listen to me, child of God. The
• 43:13
  devil cannot overcome the word of God.
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  The Bible says re book of Revelation,
• 43:20
  they overcame him by the blood of the
• 43:22
  lamb and by the word of their testimony.
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  You know what that is? That's the word
• 43:26
  of God.
• 43:29
  He cannot overcome the word of God. If
• 43:32
  you take him to that Bible when Jesus
• 43:34
  was tempted, you know what he did? He
• 43:38
  took that Bible and he said, "Devil, you
• 43:40
  got no business talking to me that way."
• 43:45
  You know what? You ought to do the same
• 43:46
  thing. Father,
• 43:48
  Lord, I thank you for this time this
• 43:50
  morning. Not trying to drag the
• 43:52
  invitation out this morning. I just feel
• 43:53
  like somebody needs to be saved today.
• 43:56
  God, I pray you'd please deal with their
• 43:58
  heart because Lord, this truth about the
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  influence of the demonic world is real.
• 44:04
  God, we see it in all of our lives.
• 44:08
  Lord, would you help us, God, as your
• 44:10
  church to be aware of it, but God, also
• 44:12
  to be attendant to your voice, Lord,
• 44:14
  it's not that we need to uh Lord, learn
• 44:17
  the voice of the enemy, God, we don't
• 44:19
  need to do that. We need to learn your
• 44:21
  voice. And Lord, when we know your voice
• 44:23
  the way we should, God, we'll know when
• 44:25
  it's not you. Lord, would you help us to
• 44:28
  be obedient to you, Lord? I pray for
• 44:30
  that and it's here today and lost. God,
• 44:32
  I know you wouldn't put this on my heart
• 44:34
  if there wasn't somebody here today
• 44:35
  that's lost. God, I pray you'd deal with
• 44:37
  them. Draw them unto yourself,
• 44:40
  Lord. For those that are backslid and
• 44:41
  drawn back to a place of repentance
• 44:45
  and help us, help us all to be obedient
• 44:47
  to you. Lord, I love you. Thank you for
• 44:50
  loving us. We ask it all in Jesus name.
• 44:53
  God's children say it.
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  >> Thank you for joining our service today.
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  We'd love it if you join us in person
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  the next time you are able at Meadows
• 45:02
  Baptist Church. Our physical address is
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  2988
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  Stewart Road in Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. Our service times are Sunday
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  school at 10:00 a.m., Sunday morning
• 45:14
  worship at 11:00 a.m., Sunday evening
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  worship at 6:00 p.m., and Wednesday
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  evening Bible study at 7:00 p.m. For
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  more information, visit us at
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  meadowsbaptisturch.com.
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  Thanks again for tuning in.