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852. Bible Study: Recognizing the Enemy (Satan)- Part 1 of 2 · Faith by annm2705

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  So this is a continuation of the last chapter from Ezekiel,
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  chapter 28, where it seemed like the reference was being made to
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  Satan. And so I created this separate
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  podcast because chapter 28 already was an hour long.
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  And so this is a continuation to talk a little bit more and it's
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  about recognizing the enemy because I think that's really
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  important for all people to know, know the enemy, not for
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  worship purposes, far from that, but to recognize so we aren't
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  deceived and led by the enemy. Because the enemy always starts
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  out with something alluring to us.
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  It seems like something good, but it eventually he works it to
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  our destruction and we'll just learn a whole lot by just a
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  couple of word searches. And this is often how new
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  things, how I discover new things in the Bible by word
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  searching. And one of the tools that I use
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  is blueletterbible.org, which is excellent because you can dig
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  into a lot deeper. So I'm going to go through the
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  verses about the enemy, at least on a quick search.
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  And then if you wanted to do your own search about this or
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  anything else to, I recommend blueletterbible.org because it,
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  it's a great tool. And then you can read more about
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  these things because I'll, I'll tell you what I know about these
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  verses. And then some of these things
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  you may want to read up a little bit more.
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  So you can do your own search by just simply putting in the
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  search word for a verse. And you can search Satan and I'm
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  using the NIV version. And then I've also searched
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  devil and I'm going to read these things and talk about what
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  I know about them. So the first one that comes up
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  when we search Satan, and this is a point to to know to learn
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  how Satan operates so that we can recognize it.
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  And then we cannot be deceived or we will, will not be deceived
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  because we'll say, Hey, I remember he did this to, you
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  know, someone in the Bible. And I'm not going to let this
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  happen to me. In fact, that's how I first read
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  the Bible. So this is really important to
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  me because I was, I had made a choice to not be a hypocrite.
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  Well, no, not quite. I had made a, a choice to live a
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  better life. And and so a lot of bad things
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  started happening to me right after that.
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  And it, I mean like a lot and, and I just, I was praying to God
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  and I was like, God, what is, what is going on?
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  I'm, I'm, you know, living my life better than I was just a
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  few years ago. And my life's only getting
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  worse. Like this isn't how it's
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  supposed to be. That was my thought.
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  I didn't know. About Satan and what he does.
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  And seriously, I believe this was not a coincidence, but I
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  hadn't read the Bible yet. And I had my Bible on the on my
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  night stand, I had, you know, prayed to God and said, I
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  surrendered. And what that meant to me was I
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  would, I would be more focused on on God than I was in the
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  past. And I would commit to praying in
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  the morning and praying in the evening.
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  And and that's. What I that was quote my
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  surrender. I didn't quite make Jesus Lord
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  of my life at that point, but I was ignorant.
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  I didn't have a mentor. I was doing this on my own.
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  I was doing what I thought was right.
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  Anyway, bad things were happening and I I just I wasn't
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  angry with God about the bad things that were happening.
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  I was just shocked. I was like God, how is how are
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  you letting this happen? You know, when I'm doing all
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  this, which is also probably something that God was teaching
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  me, that we don't get there by our.
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  Works. And maybe that's how I was
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  trying because that's kind of how I grew up thinking that
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  which it does matter how we live our lives and what we do, but
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  that doesn't earn us a place in God's Kingdom.
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  It is a gift from God through. Jesus.
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  That we are are given the opportunity to be in God's
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  Kingdom and how we respond to that free gift determines
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  whether or not we will be in God's Kingdom.
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  Jesus made the way, but we have a response to give back to God.
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  Do we accept or do we reject? So anyway, I was, I was, you
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  know, performance based and I was, you know, saying God, this
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  doesn't make sense. You know, I'm not angry at you,
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  but just explain what is going on.
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  And so I decided for the first time to open up the Bible and
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  see if there was something in the Bible that would make sense
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  of this. And so I randomly opened up and
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  I randomly opened up to the book of Job.
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  And boy, that was the perfect book for me to open the Bible to
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  because it, it started out in the beginning where Satan was in
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  front of, in the presence of God.
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  And Satan was saying, Hey, if I take all this stuff away from
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  Job, then he will turn against you.
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  And he just and, and God said, you know, actually God.
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  God. Allowed Satan to do this because
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  he, God was confident in Job, in his relationship with Job.
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  He knew Job's heart. He knew that Job was connected
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  to him. And Satan basically said yeah,
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  he's connected to you because you've done all these good
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  things for him. That's why he likes you.
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  It's just because of what you've done for him.
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  And I'm paraphrasing this, obviously.
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  And so God was like, no, you know, go.
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  Ahead, test him. And poor Job had no idea this
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  was going on, but God allowed. Satan to test.
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  Job and Job had not done anything wrong.
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  All of Job's friends suggested Job.
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  You had to do something wrong. This wouldn't be happening to
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  you if you hadn't done something wrong.
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  Confess. You know you need to repent of
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  whatever you've done. And his friends were not being
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  supportive of him. They didn't understand what was
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  going on with him and they were giving him bad advice because
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  they really didn't know which. Also.
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  Shows us how we can't always know what's going on in
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  someone's life, but God does anyway.
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  Satan did all sorts of things, destroyed so many different
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  things, His, his family, his things that he owned, his
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  health. I mean Satan took damaged all of
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  these. Things.
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  But in the very end, God restored doubly what Satan had
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  taken away. And so when I, when I read that
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  book, I, I first of all, like, I, that was like a horrible book
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  because I was like, Oh my gosh, this is like what I'm going
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  through. And that was good because then
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  it showed me this is not God. This is the enemy.
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  And I'm being tested. That's what I learned.
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  So that was when I learned about recognizing the enemy and how
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  important it is. While Christians don't want to
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  spend much time studying Satan or understanding what he is, I
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  think it's really important so that we can avoid his arrows,
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  his manipulation, his words. Because I another thing, I do
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  believe that Satan is behind suicides.
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  I believe he gets into somebody's head and starts
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  accusing them and telling them how worthless they are and
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  saying all these things. These are, these are the
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  opposite of what God would say to anyone.
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  God would say, you know, maybe you've fallen, maybe you've
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  sinned against me, maybe you've done these bad things, but there
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  is restoration and that my spirit will restore you.
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  We just have to rely on God and not try to be performance based
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  and rely on ourself and and just seek God, seek that relationship
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  with God and know that God is a good God.
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  He he does not it's he it says in Scripture that he does not
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  delight in the punishment or the discipline or the the.
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  Wrath. That sometimes happens as his
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  choice, but he is a God of righteousness and of justice.
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  So he has to do that because of who he is, because he is holy.
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  So those are things that God must do, otherwise he wouldn't
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  be holy and he wouldn't be just and he wouldn't be righteous if
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  he didn't do these things. So that's what we have to
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  understand about God is that it's not always going to be all
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  these like never anything bad happening.
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  The reason bad things happen is because of evil in the world and
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  God must do that to get rid of the evil.
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  Eventually when Jesus returns, there will be peace and Satan
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  will be locked up. So he's not going to be able to
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  influence like he had been in the past for 1000 years.
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  He will be released at the end of that thousand years, but then
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  he will be just. He will be sent to his
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  destruction after that. So he will rally up a few more
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  people in the world to go against God, but he will be
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  defeated by God and not by man, but by God will defeat him.
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  And then there will be the final judgement.
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  So all the people who have died, the ones who were not in Christ,
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  who had not received the Holy Spirit, they will come to life
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  at the end of that thousand years, and that's when the final
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  judgement will occur. And then everything will be
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  turned over to God's Kingdom. There's a new heaven and a new
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  Jerusalem that will come down from heaven.
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  I mean, there's going to be a new place where people will
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  reside. There will be no more mourning,
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  no more tears, no more All the evil will be separate.
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  There is, if you look at the description of it, whether it's
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  literal or figurative to just say there's going to be a great
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  huge thick wall between the outside and the inside.
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  Nothing evil or impure will ever enter the Kingdom of God and the
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  Holy Spirit. We can say, well, I'm impure, so
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  I'm not going to be able to be in the Kingdom of God.
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  Well, the Holy Spirit changes us and we won't be perfected until
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  Jesus returns, but we will be changed in an instant when Jesus
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  returns. If we put our faith and trust
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  and belief in Jesus and what he did on the cross, and if we have
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  received the Holy Spirit, these this will happen to us.
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  Otherwise, if that, if we haven't received the Holy Spirit
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  and we die, we're going to be in the ground waiting for that
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  thousand years to pass, and then we will be raised up and we will
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  be judged. By our deeds.
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  We are not covered in that case by the blood of Christ, by
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  Christ sacrifice. If somebody dies without
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  believing or trusting in Jesus, they will be judged according to
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  their actions. So what you reap.
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  You will sow and they will also be eternally separated from God.
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  And if we are not written in the book of life.
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  Then that means the what will happen is we will be in the
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  burning lake, a sulfur to be tormented forever and ever,
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  along with Satan and the false prophet, everyone whose name was
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  not written in the book of life. So choosing life, that's what
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  you know, God says, Jesus says the choose life anyway, I think
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  that's the most important thing. And I haven't talked about the
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  enemy yet, but now we'll talk about the enemy.
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  So knowing all of that, let's get into recognizing the enemy.
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  So. Look at this First Chronicles
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  chapter 21, verse one. Satan rose up against Israel and
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  incited David to take a census of Israel.
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  So God has said don't ever do that.
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  Like I guess that creates pride if you're counting your people
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  or you're putting your trust in your warriors or all of those
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  things. So God had rules and this is
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  his. David was a man after God's own
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  heart. God says that.
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  But Satan rose up against Israel and incited he influenced David
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  to take a census of Israel. So even if our hearts are turned
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  to God, that doesn't mean that Satan's not going to try to
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  influence us. That's why it's important to
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  recognize, is this from God or is this Satan?
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  Is this God's enemy? And if David was affected, that
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  means we can be affected. But if we know how the enemy
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  works, we can recognize it and perhaps avoid it.
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  So then in Job, this is kind of the story that I, the book that
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  I came about. Actually, there's a lot about
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  Satan in the book of Job, ironically, and that was the
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  first book of the Bible that I read.
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  So I will just read these verses because I really told you the
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  whole story already about what happened with Job.
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  But here's the references to Satan from the book of Job.
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  One day the angels came to present themselves before the
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  Lord, and Satan also came with them.
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  So we see Satan is, you know, going between the earth and the
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  heavens in the heavenly realms where the Lord is.
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  The Lord said to Satan, where have you come from?
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  Satan answered the Lord from roaming throughout the earth,
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  going back and forth. So we learned from this that
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  Satan has ability to be in God's presence and to be on earth and
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  he's roaming the earth. Then the Lord, now these are in.
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  This is all in the 1st chapter of Job.
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  Then the Lord said to Satan, have you considered my servant
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  Job? There is no one on earth like
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  him. He is blameless and upright, a
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  man who fears God and shuns evil.
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  So here is where God allowed Job to be tested.
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  Why did he do this? I don't know, but I know Satan,
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  you know I don't. I don't know why God allowed
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  this to happen, but he did. But he restored and Job didn't
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  know this was going on to him. And Job actually confronted God
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  and was like, why? Why, why?
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  Because he knew the way he was living.
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  He knew what he was doing and he knew how he his relationship
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  with God and he didn't understand it because Job didn't
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  he wasn't Privy to the information of what was
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  happening in the heavenly realms between God and Satan and the
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  conversation that was going on. So then it says in verse 9, does
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  Job fear God for nothing? Satan replied.
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  And then in verse 12 the Lord said to Satan, very well then
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  everything he has in it is in your power, but on the man
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  himself do not lay a finger. Then Satan went out from the
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  presence of the Lord. So here we also learn another
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  truth that we need to remember that the Lord controls.
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  Let's see, the Lord is more powerful or he has to allow
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  because he is God. Satan only has limited reign.
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  He's on a limited leash. Like he can only do what God
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  would allow, what God would say, OK, you can do that, but he is
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  still like, he is not God. He can't do things without God
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  allowing it to happen. Honestly, that's what this is
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  what it it says basically here. So God gave him permission and
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  you know, we can challenge that, but just like when Job
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  challenges that God. 'S like who are you?
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  You know, who are you? To challenge me.
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  And he talks about all the things that he's done that, you
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  know, that we need to have that fear of God, knowing God's
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  power, knowing who God is, and not think like we're on equal
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  playing field with God. Who are we talking to?
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  We need to have that reverence for for God.
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  So in Job chapter 2, on another day, the angels came to present
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  themselves before the Lord and Satan also came with them to
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  present himself before the Lord. So Satan is in the presence of
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  God. We can see that.
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  And verse 2 and the Lord said to Satan, where have you come from?
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  Satan answered the Lord from roaming throughout the earth,
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  going back and forth on it. You know, there's another verse
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  we may get to. It says that Satan prowls like a
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  lion looking for his next victim.
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  And here it's telling us that Satan is answering the Lord.
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  I'm going around the earth, going back and forth on it so.
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  For us to think that Satan is not roaming the earth right now.
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  We'd be foolish. We didn't read the Bible if we
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  think that. And then in verse 3 it says then
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  the Lord said to Satan, have you considered my servant Job?
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  There is no one like him on earth.
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  He is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil
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  and he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me
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  against him to ruin him without any reason.
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  So Satan was challenging, you know, like about well, you, you
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  protected him. That's why he likes you.
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  And God's like, no, it's not. And then God was saying, you
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  know, look at look at Job. He's an example.
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  He's blameless, he's upright, he fears God, he shuns evil.
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  He maintains his integrity, even though you incited him.
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  So unlike David that we just read about in in Chronicles, Job
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  was resisting Satan. So then Satan puts another
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  challenge on, he says skin for skin replied Satan replied, a
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  man will give all he has for his own life.
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  That's an interesting 1, isn't it?
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  Because Satan is saying, well, if you're going to take his life
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  or you're going to like hurt him, he will give all he has for
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  his own life. I mean, that's another thing
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  that we can think about like being self-centered about that.
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  Like God wants us to choose life.
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  Yes, that's there's no question about that.
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  But like a man will give all he has, like could that be also
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  something from the enemy like trying to say like, well you,
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  you can get better if you worship me or something like
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  that. So we always have to be wise to
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  how Satan operates. So the Lord said on verse 6, it
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  says the Lord said to Satan, very well, then he is in your
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  hands, but you must spare his life.
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  So Satan is on a leash from God. He's allowed to do some things,
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  but he cannot take his life. And we also find out in other
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  scripture, I think it'll come up here, where Satan has the power
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  over death, but Christ got that power when he died on the cross.
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  He defeated death. So, but at this point, Satan has
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  this, this, this power. And, and God's saying you can't,
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  you can't take his life though. So Satan went out, verse 7.
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  So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and
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  afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to
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  the crown of his head. So he's just going to make Job's
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  life miserable and and again, God allowed him to do this, but
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  Job doesn't turn away. There's no more about Job in
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  this word search. But in the end, you know, God
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  restores everything. Obviously God didn't make his
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  entire family come back to life, but because of Job's
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  relationship with God, he will be in God's Kingdom with his
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  reunited with his family if they were also believers, which they
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  probably were but or may have been, I don't know.
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  But anyway his, his family will be restored.
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  At least those who are believers will be with him in eternity.
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  So that will all be restored later.
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  So Zechariah 3 verse one says then he showed me Joshua the
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  high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord and Satan
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  standing at his right side to accuse him.
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  So this is another fact that we get about Satan.
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  He is an accuser and he's standing next to the high priest
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  Joshua, who was a good person. He was from Israel and he was a
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  high priest and he was standing. This was a vision that Zechariah
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  had, but Satan was right there to accuse him.
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  And then in verse 2 it says the Lord said to Satan, the Lord
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  rebuke you. Satan, the Lord who has chosen
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  Jerusalem rebuke you. Is not this man a burning stick
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  snatched from the fire? Well, this gives us a lot of
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  insight to Jerusalem and Israel because of their idolatry over
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  the years and God's warning they are to be purified through fire.
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  And so Israel is that burning stick and God snatched him from
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  the fire. There's some and, and so he's
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  accusing, but God, God protects and there's a remnant that God
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  protects. So anyway, let's move on to the
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  next one in Jesus. OK, now we're getting into the
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  New Testament. In Matthew chapter 4 verse 10,
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  Jesus said to him, away from me Satan, for it is written,
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  worship the Lord your God and serve him only.
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  So Satan was trying to get Jesus to worship him, but Jesus
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  refused him. And the way he responded to
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  Satan was by quoting scripture. So what Jesus was quoting, I
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  can't seem to find this. It's not coming up right now,
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  but because there is a a note, I was trying to find out where
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  this is what Jesus was quoting. But he was essentially quoting
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  Scripture to Satan and refusing to worship him.
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  And this is when Jesus had just been baptized and he went out to
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  the wilderness for 40 days and was tempted by Satan.
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  So there was that 40 days is like that period of testing.
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  And it probably was literal, but it's also symbolic because what
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  was it? The Israelites wandered in the
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  desert for 40 years, and I think it was 40 years that they were
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  in the desert wandering. And then I think the the flood
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  of Noah, it rained for 40 days and 40 nights.
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  I mean, so 40 is significant. It may be literal in all those
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  cases, and it may be symbolic of a period of testing.
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  And even Jesus had this testing. So Jesus is our mediator between
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  the Father, and he has experienced the things that we
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  experience because he took on the body of a human and was
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  present here. He felt the things that humans
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  feel. He can relate to what we're
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  going through. And so he is an example of how,
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  I mean, when we pay attention to the way he lived and what he
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  did, we can learn from him. So we're learning, in this case,
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  we're learning that quote Scripture against no scripture.
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  You have to be in the Word, You have to understand what is in
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  the Bible so that when you have a temptation from Satan, you can
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  quote Scripture again and know what what Jesus says, what God
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  says. Jesus also said if Satan drives
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  out Satan, he is divided against himself.
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  How then can his Kingdom stand? Well, there's a lot of things we
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  can learn from this division causes kingdoms to fail.
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  So we can look at the United States right now and.
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  See that? Start paying.
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  Attention to the enemy. The enemy wants to divide, so
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  propaganda, media propaganda. The enemy is in charge of media
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  propaganda and will try to divide people and if we don't
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  recognize it and we fall prey to it, we're being manipulated by
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  the enemy by Satan. And he knows that if it's
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  divided, it can't stand. So this was a side note when
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  Jesus was talking about this because they were accusing him
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  of working on behalf of Satan when he was doing his miracles
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  and and he, you know, it did it just the logic made no sense at
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  all. So Jesus was replying back to
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  them like what you're saying doesn't even make sense because
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  the Kingdom wouldn't stand. So he was not from Satan as he
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  was being accused. So then Matthew 16 verse 23,
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  Jesus turned and said to Peter, get behind me Satan.
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  You are a stumbling block to me. You do not have in mind the
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  concerns of God, but merely human concerns.
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  So Jesus is saying to Peter, get behind me Satan.
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  Wouldn't that be offensive? You're you know the the one you
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  know is the Lord, the Son of God, and you are a disciple.
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  You are following Jesus, and Jesus calls you.
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  Satan. I mean, that would be like, Oh
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  my gosh. I mean, how horrible that would
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  have been for Peter to hear himself called Satan.
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  But Jesus was spiritually recognizing what was coming out
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  of Peter. Peter had taken out a sword and
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  chopped off a guy's ear and said, basically, he's like, I'm
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  going to kill, you know, not saying these words, but I'm just
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  paraphrasing or making, you know, my own words, the story.
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  Peter's basically saying, you know, we're not going to let
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  these guys take you. We're going to fight them.
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  We're going to kill them. We're going to keep them away
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  from you. But Jesus knew that he had to
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  die on the cross. Jesus knew what he was going to
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  go through and he was willingly doing this, but he couldn't
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  share that with his disciples. He couldn't share that with
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  anyone. He had to keep it to himself.
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  That's probably why he remained silent so much, because he
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  couldn't speak anything about it.
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  Because if he did and he let the enemy know that I'm going to die
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  on this cross and I'm going to break the curse of death and I'm
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  going to allow all these human beings to get into God's Kingdom
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  by doing this, the enemy would have stopped it.
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  The enemy wouldn't have killed him.
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  So Jesus had to be quiet. And so here we see how
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  insightful Jesus is to Peter when he says, get behind me,
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  Satan, you are a stumbling block to me.
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  You do not have in mind the concerns of God.
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  So what's the concern of God? The concern of God is saving
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  humanity is giving people a way to be in the Kingdom of God by
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  Jesus breaking the curse on mankind that were, you know, by
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  his atoning sacrifice on the cross.
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  It says without the shedding of blood.
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  This is in Hebrews. There is no forgiveness of sins.
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  So that's why Jesus is so important.
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  That's why all these religions who don't acknowledge Jesus are
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  in for a very rude awakening, because they will not be covered
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  by the blood of Jesus. They will be responsible for
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  their own sin and be judged by God.
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  Without a mediator. They're representing themselves
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  and they have no one standing up for them.
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  Those who accept Jesus, believe in Jesus, and make Jesus Lord
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  over our lives and receive the Holy Spirit will not be judged
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  in that same manner because we fall under the grace, the gift
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  of God, that we will not be judged for our own actions.
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  We've come to God in repentance, and God says He will remember
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  our sins no more. This is the.
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  Beauty of what God has done for us.
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  So again, going back to what Jesus said to Peter, he's like,
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  you do not have in mind the concerns of God.
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  So God wants to save people. But merely human concerns now,
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  Peter wasn't doing anything wrong.
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  He was just reacting in a fleshly way, in a human way,
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  like I'm going to protect you, Jesus, I don't want these people
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  to take you. But.
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  Jesus couldn't even tell Peter straightforwardly what he was
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  doing by his death on this cross.
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  He told him it was going to happen, but he couldn't quite
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  tell Peter all the details because the enemy was present.
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  So again. We see here that even someone
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  close to Jesus can be influenced be by Satan, one of his
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  disciples. So we should look at ourselves.
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  Even if we are a Christian, even if Jesus is Lord over our life,
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  that doesn't mean that Satan's not going to try.
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  In fact, he's going to probably try harder with.
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  US. Because he wants to destroy us
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  and he knows we're closer to being in God's Kingdom and he
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  does not want that to happen. So we just need to be able to
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  recognize things that Satan does to get us off the narrow path.
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  Then in Mark chapter one verse 13 and he was in the wilderness
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  for 40 days being tempted by Satan.
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  He was with wild animals and angels attended him.
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  This is talking about Jesus after He got baptized in verse
• 31:52
  in Mark 3 verse 23. So Jesus called them over and
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  over to Him and began to speak to them in parables.
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  How can Satan drive out Satan? This is that similar one from
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  Matthew 12 verse 26 that we talked about already about Satan
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  divided. You know, He's divided against
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  himself. And then in verse. 26 from Mark
• 32:16
  chapter 3 And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he
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  cannot stand his end has come. I think that's also insightful
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  because often God will take Satan's people and turn them
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  against one another and it is to their destruction.
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  So sometimes and and and God is not doing anything outside of
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  their will because God allows their will, their choices to
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  proceed. But sometimes he can let enemy
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  like they're both under the the enemy, like Satan Satan's ruling
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  over two different groups, but they will fight against one
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  another. We saw that many times in in
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  the, in the Bible, in Israel's history where people just turned
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  on themselves and they got. They just it was weird how it
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  happened. I mean only through God that
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  that happened. So but God lets people's free
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  will sometimes destroy them. In Mark chapter 4 verse 15, some
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  people are like seed along the path where the word is.
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  Sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan
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  comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
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  So that's something else that we need to be aware of, especially
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  with new believers or people that we might talk to.
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  If we are believers are ready and we're talking to other
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  people, that as soon as they hear it, they might, they might
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  take it. But then Satan comes along and
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  does something that takes away the word that was sown in them.
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  So the enemy, I mean, just like I personally experienced when I
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  was trying to get closer to God, the bad things started happening
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  in my life. And you know, so the enemy was
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  probably trying to just like he did with Job, get me to get
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  angry at God and turn away from him.
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  That's probably what the enemy was doing.
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  And I think that's what God was showing me was that you're being
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  tested and and what are you going to do?
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  So. It was helpful.
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  To me, because then as soon as I knew the enemy, I was able, I
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  was like, Oh no, you're not going to do that to me.
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  So things changed after that. OK, in Mark chapter 8, verse 33,
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  when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter,
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  get behind me Satan. He said you do not have the in
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  mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.
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  So Mark was documenting that as well Luke 10 verse 18 he replied
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  I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
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  So this is Jesus talking about that.
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  In Luke 11 verse 18 he says the same thing.
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  It Jesus says this, if Satan is divided against himself, how can
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  his Kingdom stand? I say this because you claim
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  that I drive out demons by. Beezable.
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  So Jesus is giving a little bit more insight because these
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  people are saying you're doing these works, you're driving out
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  demons because you're you. Are.
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  Part of Satan's team and he's like, no, if that was the case,
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  why would he? Why would he cast demons out of
• 35:29
  people? Because his Kingdom wouldn't
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  stand if he did that. It's like, you're foolish
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  people. And and so that's what they were
• 35:37
  claiming that he was doing that. And Jesus was like, Nope, you
• 35:41
  don't get it. So then in Luke chapter 13 verse
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  16, then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom
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  Satan has kept bound for 18 long years, be set free on the
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  Sabbath day from what bound her? Now there's a lot here, but the
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  point, the portion about Satan, is that he was the one who bound
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  this woman for 18 long years. And she's a daughter of Abraham.
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  So that could, I guess that could either mean she's an
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  Israel person or she's, it doesn't really say because I
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  don't know if she was a Gentile or an Israel, an Israelite.
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  So I'm not really sure on that. But anyway, here's the I want to
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  really look, read a little bit more about this because I think
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  this is important to know on a Sabbath, Jesus was teaching in
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  one of the synagogues. So it must have been an
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  Israelite woman because she wouldn't have been in the
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  synagogue, right? So and a woman who was there who
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  had been crippled by a spirit for 18 years, she was bent over
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  and could not straighten up at all.
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  So the spirit Satan had crippled her for 18 years and made her
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  bent over and she could not straighten up and she was an
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  Israelite. Isn't that interesting?
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  When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her,
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  woman, you are set free from your infirmity.
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  Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened
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  up and praised God. Indignant because Jesus is
• 37:36
  healed on the Sabbath. So here we have the the the
• 37:41
  people who are invoking the law and don't understand the.
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  Law. Indignant because Jesus had
• 37:50
  healed on the Sabbath because that was supposed to be a day of
• 37:52
  rest. The synagogue leader said to the
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  people, there are 6 days for work, so come and be healed on
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  those days, not on the Sabbath. The Lord answered them.
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  You hypocrites, doesn't each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox
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  or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water?
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  Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, who Satan
• 38:16
  has been kept bound for 18 years, be set free on the
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  Sabbath from what bound her? When he said this, all his
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  opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with
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  all the wonderful things he was doing.
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  So isn't that. I mean, there's so eye opening,
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  so when we see sicknesses, they could be brought on by Satan.
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  Just something to and the name of Jesus can heal people.
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  There are miracles that happen today.
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  It has to be in God's will. And what I've searched on about
• 38:55
  healing and miracles is that usually those occur to give God
• 39:00
  glory. So God is and, and to give God
• 39:04
  glory means to make people aware of God and of his goodness.
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  And sometimes that doesn't always happen though, and we
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  don't know why, but most of the times that we read about it in
• 39:20
  the Bible, there, there is a healing and maybe it has to do
• 39:25
  with unbelief by people or maybe it has to do with sin in
• 39:30
  somebody's life that they're hanging on to.
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  I don't know. But it's definitely worth
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  praying for the healing of people because God can
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  absolutely do it. It's just a matter of it if it's
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  his will or not. Or maybe he has another plan
• 39:45
  that we don't know of. And if we knew everything like
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  God, then we would understand why maybe he doesn't heal
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  somebody because there's another reason why he didn't do that.
• 39:57
  So OK, then in Luke 22 verse three, it says then Satan
• 40:03
  entered Judas called Iscariot one of the 12.
• 40:07
  So not only was Satan, you know, getting at Peter, but Satan
• 40:11
  entered Judas. So sounds like Satan possessed
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  Judas. He entered him.
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  I want to see what the original Hebrew or actually Greek word
• 40:22
  would be and Satan entered it's. Let me see, I'll have it
• 40:27
  pronounced here it because I won't pronounce this correctly.
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  Strong's G1525 Ice air Hamai, ice air Hamai.
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  So that word means to go out or come in to enter.
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  So of Satan taking possession of the body of a person.
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  So that's clearly what it says as far as, you know, Satan
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  possessed Judas. So, and, and again, these are
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  things that we also learned from the Bible is that, you know,
• 41:06
  sin. Judas did have sin.
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  We all have sin. But that's why it's so important
• 41:12
  to stay close, to be protected. What I've learned recently is
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  the Holy Spirit is like a glass wall that separates us from the
• 41:23
  devil, the enemy. And if we have the Holy Spirit,
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  we are protected. And so that's why it's another
• 41:30
  reason why it's important not to grieve the Holy Spirit, not to
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  do things that would cause the Holy Spirit to be upset with
• 41:37
  what we're doing, because that is our protection.
• 41:41
  The Holy Spirit is our protection and and also the name
• 41:47
  of Jesus is our protection because Jesus even says that
• 41:53
  when he's praying to the Father, he says and to protect them in
• 41:58
  my name, the name that in your name, the name that you gave me.
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  So we are protected through the name of Jesus.
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  So then let's see. Oh gosh, I've lost my all right,
• 42:14
  my place. So Satan entered Judas Iscariot,
• 42:17
  so maybe he wasn't surrendered completely.
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  I think he was actually stealing money that they were collecting.
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  There were things that Judas was doing.
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  He wasn't a perfect one and and Jesus knew that was he was part
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  of the group and maybe that's why Jesus chose him because
• 42:35
  Jesus was maybe this is speculation was thinking, you
• 42:39
  know, I have to die on this cross for the people so that I
• 42:42
  can make it possible for them to be in God's Kingdom.
• 42:46
  So therefore I need somebody close to me to betray me and to
• 42:51
  make this happen. And so he chose Judas because he
• 42:55
  knew what was in Judas's heart. And he's new, like God knows all
• 43:00
  these things. And he thought, OK, Satan's
• 43:02
  going to really want to get somebody close in my inner
• 43:04
  circle. He's going to want to go for
• 43:06
  that. So let's let him have Judas.
• 43:09
  He can have Judas, and then he can accomplish like Satan is
• 43:12
  basically accomplishing God's will.
• 43:15
  Isn't that crazy how God is sovereign and not crazy?
• 43:18
  That's not the right word. But isn't that awesome?
• 43:20
  And amazing how, you know, God uses everybody's free will to
• 43:26
  accomplish what he wants accomplished.
• 43:29
  So he is sovereign over everything.
• 43:31
  But he lets us figure out, Yeah. I mean, we can still do what we
• 43:35
  want within his sovereignty. That's that's pretty wild.
• 43:39
  So then again, Luke 22. Poor Peter here.
• 43:44
  So Simon. Simon, I think that was Peter.
• 43:47
  Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat.
• 43:52
  So Satan, again, Satan must have asked Jesus or asked the Father,
• 44:01
  and Jesus knew from the Father what Satan was up to, but he
• 44:06
  wanted to probably do what he was had done to Job before to
• 44:11
  all of Jesus's disciples, all of Jesus's inner circles.
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  Isn't that interesting? I want to leave, read a little
• 44:20
  bit more about that chapter here.
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  So here's what Jesus responded. But I have prayed for you,
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  Simon, that your faith may not fall and when you have turned
• 44:32
  back, strengthen your brothers. So this is really interesting.
• 44:38
  So Jesus prayed for Simon that your faith may not fall.
• 44:43
  Maybe we need to pray for others, especially when we have
• 44:46
  the Holy Spirit that we pray for others that their faith may not
• 44:49
  fall. But Jesus is also recognizing
• 44:53
  and when you have turned back, so Jesus already knew that
• 44:59
  something was going to happen, but then he said strengthen your
• 45:03
  brothers. So he already knew that Peter
• 45:07
  was going to turn his back on Jesus.
• 45:12
  But then he said, when you come back, strengthen your brothers,
• 45:14
  like let them learn from your mistake and build them up.
• 45:18
  And so Peter says, but he replied, Lord, I'm ready to go
• 45:21
  with you to prison and to death. And then Jesus was like, OK
• 45:25
  buddy, you know, you are my buddy, you are my friend.
• 45:28
  But Jesus answered, I tell you Peter, before the rooster crows
• 45:32
  today you will deny 3 times that you know me.
• 45:36
  Then Jesus asked them, When I sent you without a purse, bag or
• 45:40
  sandals, did you lack anything? Nothing.
• 45:42
  They answered, He said to them, But if you have a purse, take it
• 45:47
  and also a bag. But if you don't have a sword,
• 45:49
  sell your cloak and buy one. It is written.
• 45:53
  And he was numbered with transgressors.
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  And I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me.
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  Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.
• 46:06
  The disciples said, see, Lord, here are two swords.
• 46:11
  That's enough, he replied. There's a lot more in there that
• 46:15
  I could go on with a whole nother conversation and I
• 46:18
  haven't studied it enough. But this is oh, something else
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  that it was right above all this stuff where it says, Simon,
• 46:27
  Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat.
• 46:31
  And here's what this is. This is interesting.
• 46:34
  Like this is something that Jesus, this is going to be a
• 46:36
  revelation for us. You know, when you think about
• 46:39
  the elders and and who is and Jesus isn't, he will judge.
• 46:45
  But then listen to this in Luke 22, verse 29.
• 46:48
  And I confer on you a Kingdom just as my father conferred on
• 46:54
  me. So Jesus receives the Kingdom
• 46:59
  from the Father and then he says in verse 30, so that you may eat
• 47:05
  and drink at my table in my Kingdom and sit on Thrones
• 47:10
  judging the 12 tribes of Israel. So Jesus's disciples are going
• 47:17
  to be judging the 12 tribes of Israel.
• 47:21
  Isn't that interesting? So these are just things that I
• 47:25
  just didn't pay attention to what I read over it.
• 47:27
  And sometimes you read quickly and you don't pick up on those
• 47:29
  little verses. And then when you do a word
• 47:32
  search, you find these things and it's like, oh wow, that's
• 47:35
  very clear what's going to happen.
• 47:38
  So then in the book of Acts, Peter said, and this is Acts
• 47:44
  chapter 5, verse 3. Then Peter said, Ananias, how is
• 47:47
  it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the
• 47:52
  Holy Spirit and have kept yourself some money you received
• 47:55
  for the land? So I think Ananias was a priest
• 47:59
  or something, no? Well maybe not, I don't, I don't
• 48:05
  know. Now a man named Ananias,
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  together with his wife Sapphira also sold a pop a piece of
• 48:11
  property with his wife's full knowledge.
• 48:13
  They kept back part of the money for themselves, put the rest of
• 48:17
  it at the apostles feet. These were just other believers.
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  I don't know if there's anything more significant about them, but
• 48:26
  this is Satan is another, you know, way that he's has so
• 48:31
  filled your heart. Well, how does Satan fill
• 48:33
  somebody's heart? Maybe it's something that
• 48:37
  someone desires and Satan, because somebody desires it.
• 48:42
  Satan is like, yeah, you should have it.
• 48:45
  God wants you to have good things.
• 48:47
  And maybe it's not from God. And and so Satan will convince
• 48:53
  them that they, you know, will kind of like encourage that
• 48:58
  maybe Ananias was had a little bit of idolatry with money.
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  And so Satan, you know, puts these lies into his head and
• 49:08
  says. Well, just keep a little.
• 49:10
  Bit for yourself and your wife, you don't have to give it all.
• 49:13
  You don't have to give all the money and just tell them this is
• 49:15
  all the money and just keep the other part of it.
• 49:17
  And they did it. And then Peter rebuked him about
• 49:20
  that. They're like, how is it that,
• 49:23
  you know, Satan filled your heart that you've lied to the
• 49:26
  Holy Spirit? So what happened to them is
• 49:29
  actually both husband and wife died as a result of that because
• 49:33
  their heart was not right with God.
• 49:36
  So that's really important for all of us to examine our heart
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  and make sure that our heart is right with God, that we do have
• 49:45
  our hearts set on serving God and being his child.
• 49:49
  And and Jesus said, if you love me, obey my commandments.
• 49:52
  So that's a simple way that we can show God that we love him is
• 49:56
  by being obedient. So Acts 26, verse 18 to open
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  their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from the
• 50:05
  power of Satan to God so that they may receive forgiveness of
• 50:11
  sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.
• 50:16
  Boy, there is a lot in that statement.
• 50:21
  So this is this is about I'll just read from verse 12.
• 50:28
  So you get the context of it. One-on-one of these journeys I
• 50:32
  was going to Damascus with the authority and Commission of the
• 50:35
  chief priest about noon, King Agrippa.
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  As I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than
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  the sun blazing around me and my companions.
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  We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in
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  Aramaic, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?
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  It is hard for you to kick against the goads.
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  Then I asked, Who are you, Lord? I am Jesus, whom you are
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  persecuting, the Lord replied. Now get up and stand on your
• 51:08
  feet. I have appeared to you to
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  appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen,
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  and you will see of me. I will rescue you from your own
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  people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open
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  their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from the
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  power of Satan to God, so that they may receive the forgiveness
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  of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in
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  Me. So this is Paul giving his
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  testimony to King Agrippa about what happened in his own life
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  when Jesus appeared before him. And Paul was given a mission by
• 51:58
  Jesus. He was appointed as a servant to
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  go and speak to the Gentiles, and his purpose was to open
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  their eyes and turn them from darkness to light.
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  Darkness is the power of Satan to light is to God, and so it's
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  repentance so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and
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  a place among those that's placed in God's Kingdom, among
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  those who are sanctified. That means made pure by faith in
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  me. It's by us believing what Jesus
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  said, by us believing the Holy Spirit changes us.
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  It's our belief, but it's through the power of God that
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  changes our life and it's by our faith.
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  Our belief is is shown by how we live our life.
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  So it's faith with action. We have faith so that produces
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  an action in US. And when we have the Holy
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  Spirit, that action is a changed life.
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  We've become a new creation. There is going to.
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  Be a difference that others, not just ourselves, will recognize
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  they. Will somebody who's known you
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  before you receive the Holy Spirit and after you receive the
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  Holy Spirit will definitely see a change in in you in the way
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  you live life. Really OK then Romans 16 verse
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  20, the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.
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  The grace of the Lord be with you.
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  So that's I guess in a letter, probably to the Romans from Paul
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  about the God of peace, Jesus. Will soon crush Satan.
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  Then in First Corinthians 5, verse five, hand this man over
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  to Satan for the destruction of the flesh so that his spirit may
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  be saved on the day of the Lord. This is a really interesting one
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  because this involves, I think, a backsliding person.
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  I'm going to read a little bit more about this, but he's, he's
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  basically a backsliding person in a church and he's like, hand
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  this person over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh.
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  So Satan's going to destroy, but this is the hope that God has
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  that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
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  So he's going to let Satan do destruction in this person's
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  life, in this backsliders life. So let me read about this one.
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  OK, This was actually a it says, dealing with a case of incest.
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  It is actually reported here that there is sexual immorality
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  among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate.
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  A man is sleeping with his father's wife, OK.
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  I don't know. This is more like, OK, so yeah,
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  a man is sleeping with his father's wife.
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  And you are proud. Shouldn't you rather have gone
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  into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who
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  has been doing this? So this is something within the
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  church. For my part, even though I am
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  not physically present, I am with you in spirit.
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  As one who is present with you in this way, I have already
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  passed judgement in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who
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  has been doing this. So here's another thing.
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  A lot of people say, well, Christians shouldn't judge, but
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  what if they're doing something, they're in the church and
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  they're doing something that is completely against God's word?
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  We're not a church or fellow. Believers are not judging in the
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  sense of saying the final verdict is that you're going to.
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  Hell. I mean, we don't have that
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  authority. We can't say that, but look at
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  Paul is saying, I have already passed judgement in the name of
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  our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this.
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  So maybe he told him about Scripture and reminded him of
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  this. I don't know.
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  So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit and the
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  power of the Lord Jesus's present hand this man over to
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  Satan for the destruction of the flesh so that his spirit may be
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  saved on the day of the Lord. And he says your boasting is not
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  good. Don't you know that a little
• 56:32
  yeast. Yeast is referred to as sin
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  leavens the whole batch of dough.
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  So if you allow this like backsliding person, he's already
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  in the church. If you allow this to continue
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  and you don't address it, it's going to destroy all the dough.
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  And so he says, get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a
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  new unleavened brat batch as you really are.
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  For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.
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  Therefore, let us keep the festival, not with the.
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  Old. Bread leavened with malice and
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  wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity
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  and truth. I wrote to you in my letter not
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  to associate with sexually immoral people.
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  Not at all. Meaning the people of the world
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  who are immoral or the greedy and the swindlers or idolaters.
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  In that case, you would have to leave this world.
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  But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with
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  anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is
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  sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, A
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  drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such
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  people. So Paul is pretty strict about
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  this, saying that if somebody's calling, if they're basically a
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  hypocritical Christian, don't hang out with them.
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  Like you can hang out with people who aren't, who know that
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  they're not a believer yet because only, well, like Jesus
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  did. I mean, the purpose would be to
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  bring them to Jesus, but if they're not going to come to.
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  Jesus. Then there's, you know.
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  Well, I guess he doesn't say that.
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  Like stop trying except if they reject it, there is a part about
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  shaking the dust off your feet and just being gone.
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  Like God's judgement, we'll take care of that.
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  Like, I don't know that we are necessarily responsible to
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  follow through with every single person that we talked to, but
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  somebody else might interact with that person and lead them
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  to Christ. But.
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  We have to make the effort. And if we're seeing that our
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  effort is not being productive, maybe it's time to spend time
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  elsewhere. And but especially this isn't
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  about the worldly people because he says, you know, you'd have to
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  leave the world if you weren't going to associate with people
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  who do these things. But it's sexually immoral or
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  greedy or an idolater or slanderer or drunkard or
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  swindler. Do not even eat with such
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  people. So how can you, unless you
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  observe? Maybe observe is a better word
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  than judgement or discern. But you have to look at the way
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  people, the fruit of somebody's life, and if they're in church,
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  they're calling themselves a Christian, calling themselves a
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  believer, yet they're doing all of these things.
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  That's a hypocrite. Basically he's just saying don't
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  associate with hypocrites within the church.
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  So First Corinthians chapter 5 that's covers that.
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  Then this is about relationships.
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  First Corinthians 7 verse 5 do not deprive each other, except
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  perhaps by mutual consent and for a.
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  Time so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, then come
• 1:00:04
  together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of
• 1:00:08
  your lack of self-control. So this was advice to the
• 1:00:14
  Corinthians about in a marriage, about having sex.
• 1:00:20
  And, and basically, you know, you know, I mean, that's
• 1:00:25
  important. And he's like, do not deprive
• 1:00:30
  each other except perhaps by mutual consent for a time so
• 1:00:34
  that you may devote yourselves to prayer, then come together
• 1:00:37
  again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack
• 1:00:41
  of self-control. So God can you know God gave
• 1:00:47
  made humans to have sex. Sex is not bad but we can use it
• 1:00:54
  in a bad way and the enemy can use it in a bad way.
• 1:00:57
  God has a certain parameters around it.
• 1:01:00
  It's supposed to be from a married with a married couple
• 1:01:04
  and both are supposed to submit to one another.
• 1:01:09
  And the enemy though, twist it all where it's like, OK, you
• 1:01:14
  don't have to be married. It can be with anyone and it can
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  be for a time and as long as you're both like not seeing
• 1:01:20
  anybody else, you can do that. Those are all lies from the
• 1:01:22
  enemy. That's not what God said.
• 1:01:24
  And again, we have to know what scripture says or else we will
• 1:01:27
  fall into what Satan's trying to do.
• 1:01:29
  He's trying to separate us. Sin separates us from God.
• 1:01:34
  So if we willingly are being sexually immoral, then we are
• 1:01:43
  willingly separating ourselves from God.
• 1:01:46
  That's what Scripture tells us. We may not like to hear that,
• 1:01:49
  but that's what we're doing. And if we read Scripture, we
• 1:01:52
  will see that. All right, Romans 16, verse 20.
• 1:01:58
  This is, I think I've read that already.
• 1:01:59
  So let's go 2nd Corinthians 2 verse 11 in order that Satan
• 1:02:07
  might not outwit us for we are not unaware of his schemes.
• 1:02:11
  OK, this is kind of what I was talking about earlier is that we
• 1:02:15
  just need to know how he operates.
• 1:02:19
  So this is talking about forgiveness.
• 1:02:22
  Anyone you forgive, I also forgive.
• 1:02:24
  And what I have forgiven, if there was anything to forgive, I
• 1:02:28
  have forgiven in the sight of of Christ for your sake, in order
• 1:02:34
  that Satan might not outwit us, for we are not unaware of his
• 1:02:39
  schemes. I think this may be relevant to
• 1:02:44
  anger because usually if somebody wrongs you, there's
• 1:02:48
  anger involved with it. And it says do not like, do not
• 1:02:53
  be angered in your anger. Do not let Satan get a foothold
• 1:02:57
  so the anger can. If if we don't.
• 1:03:00
  Forgive others and we hold on to our anger about how they've
• 1:03:04
  wronged us if we don't let it go.
• 1:03:07
  That's giving Satan a root. And this is again, a way that he
• 1:03:12
  can outwit us, as Paul says, because we need to be aware of
• 1:03:18
  his schemes and know how to resist that.
• 1:03:23
  And then in 2nd Corinthians 11 verse 14, And this is a key one,
• 1:03:29
  and no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an Angel of
• 1:03:33
  light, so it says. It is not surprising then if his
• 1:03:40
  servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness.
• 1:03:45
  Their end will be what their actions deserve.
• 1:03:49
  And the sentence before Satan masquerading as an Angel of
• 1:03:53
  light, it says for such people are false apostles, deceitful
• 1:03:58
  workers masquerading as apostles of Christ.
• 1:04:04
  So there's there's a lot of that.
• 1:04:07
  Let's see, this is about false apostles and the deception.
• 1:04:14
  So there's going to be people infiltrating the church.
• 1:04:17
  And I think the Satan's probably done a good job of this.
• 1:04:21
  When there are people who have church hurt where they reject,
• 1:04:27
  they reject God because of their experience with somebody that
• 1:04:30
  called themselves a Christian. And they because they were not
• 1:04:37
  grounded in their faith, they hadn't read the Bible, they
• 1:04:41
  didn't understand the Bible, they didn't read it, They didn't
• 1:04:43
  know that there are hypocrites. Then all of a sudden they're
• 1:04:47
  lumping all of Christianity with their experience of a person who
• 1:04:52
  wasn't a Christian but called themselves a Christian because
• 1:04:57
  people can deceive themselves and call themselves Christians.
• 1:05:00
  It's easy to call yourself a Christian.
• 1:05:01
  You could, you could be an atheist and call yourself a
• 1:05:04
  Christian if you wanted to, if you wanted to fool someone.
• 1:05:07
  But it's it's like, what do you truly believe?
• 1:05:11
  What is truly in your heart? How do you live your life?
• 1:05:14
  And do you have the Holy Spirit? And so there's people who don't
• 1:05:18
  have the Holy Spirit who call themselves a Christian.
• 1:05:22
  They could show up, they could serve, they could do all these
• 1:05:25
  good things in the church, but they might be living a very
• 1:05:29
  sinful life and deceiving other people because other people see
• 1:05:35
  some of their outward actions and they see them serving.
• 1:05:37
  They see them doing these good things or maybe giving the poor
• 1:05:40
  or whatever it is, and they see these things happening, but and
• 1:05:45
  so they assume they're Christian.
• 1:05:46
  But then when they experience something, they experience some
• 1:05:50
  non Christian behavior out of them and then they're like,
• 1:05:53
  well, if that's what Christian people do, I don't want to be a.
• 1:05:55
  Part of that. You know, they're so, you know,
• 1:06:00
  Satan, just like he wanted to get in to Christ Jesus's inner
• 1:06:05
  circle of apostles, disciples, and he wanted to sift them like
• 1:06:10
  wheat. Don't you think he wants to do
• 1:06:12
  that in the church too? So we need to not be ignorant of
• 1:06:17
  his strategies and to see that, you know, be observant, Get to
• 1:06:22
  know what Galatians chapter 5 says about someone who has the
• 1:06:26
  Holy Spirit and someone who doesn't have the Holy Spirit so
• 1:06:30
  that we are not deceived. And then in 2nd Corinthians 12
• 1:06:37
  verse 7, it says because of these unsurpassingly great
• 1:06:41
  revelations, therefore in order to keep me from being conceited,
• 1:06:45
  I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment
• 1:06:48
  me. So Paul has talked about this
• 1:06:51
  before. He was pleading with God to take
• 1:06:54
  away this whatever was affecting him.
• 1:06:57
  And here we see this is a messenger of Satan.
• 1:07:00
  So this is probably some spiritual thing.
• 1:07:02
  What the spiritual thing was doing to Paul, who knows?
• 1:07:07
  But it was something, he referred to it as a thorn in my
• 1:07:11
  flesh, you know, maybe something that he, you know, like fleshly
• 1:07:17
  desires maybe. And there was a messenger of
• 1:07:20
  Satan that was just tormenting him, like trying to get him to
• 1:07:23
  sin. And who knows what it was?
• 1:07:27
  And but it it says, therefore, in order to keep me from being
• 1:07:32
  conceited. So Paul is completely aware.
• 1:07:36
  He knows this is a messenger of Satan and he knows that it's to
• 1:07:41
  keep him from being conceited. So whatever it was, it doesn't,
• 1:07:45
  the Bible doesn't say, but it's it's awesome that Paul
• 1:07:49
  recognized that it was a messenger of Satan and the
• 1:07:53
  purpose was so he didn't become conceited.
• 1:07:57
  So maybe it was something in his body that made him so he
• 1:08:01
  couldn't be conceited. I don't know.
• 1:08:02
  But it says a messenger of Satan to torment me.
• 1:08:05
  So it sounds like it's more mental than physical.
• 1:08:09
  Who knows? But Paul is recognizing Satan
• 1:08:12
  and that's what I think is important for us too, in First
• 1:08:16
  Thessalonians 2 verse 18, for we wanted to come to you.
• 1:08:20
  Certainly I Paul did again and again, but Satan blocked our
• 1:08:25
  way. Sometimes Satan can block our
• 1:08:29
  way. We saw that in Daniel when he
• 1:08:33
  prayed and Michael the Archangel came to him and he said, as soon
• 1:08:37
  as you prayed and the word went out, we came.
• 1:08:40
  But the Prince of Persia, this is the heavenly realms, the
• 1:08:43
  spiritual realm resisted him for 21 days, and he wasn't able to
• 1:08:49
  bring the message back to Daniel.
• 1:08:52
  So that happens in the spiritual realm, but apparently this
• 1:08:56
  happens in the physical realm too.
• 1:08:58
  And again, Paul recognized it like he had an intention to go
• 1:09:02
  this way. That's another reason why we
• 1:09:04
  should always pray to God because God has angels that can
• 1:09:08
  come at the request and we can ask God if, if it's his will for
• 1:09:14
  this certain thing to be done, that he protect the way and
• 1:09:18
  allow it to happen. And so our prayers, especially
• 1:09:22
  if we are righteous, if we are living in obedience to God, our
• 1:09:25
  prayers are important. Just like Abraham's prayed for
• 1:09:29
  his his nephew Lot to be spared and God did, he said, because it
• 1:09:35
  said God remembered Abraham and he spared Lot in it.
• 1:09:40
  He was going to be his whole family.
• 1:09:41
  But anyway, so prayers are important.
• 1:09:44
  It's important for I mean, that's a benefit of being
• 1:09:48
  righteous, of being obedient to God's laws is that our prayers
• 1:09:53
  are powerful. And then 2nd Thessalonians 2,
• 1:09:57
  verse 9, the coming of the lawless one will be in
• 1:10:01
  accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of
• 1:10:04
  displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie.
• 1:10:10
  So this is talking about the lawless one, or the Antichrist
• 1:10:13
  as some people call him, and that's what people believe this
• 1:10:17
  is. And he's going to use.
• 1:10:22
  So it it continues on in verse 10.
• 1:10:26
  I'll just read. Yeah, I'll read all of it.
• 1:10:28
  But coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how
• 1:10:31
  Satan works. Now he's going to tell us how he
• 1:10:33
  works. He uses all sorts of displays of
• 1:10:35
  power through signs and wonders that serve the lie and all the
• 1:10:40
  ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing.
• 1:10:45
  They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be
• 1:10:51
  saved. So the Bible is the truth, Jesus
• 1:10:55
  is the truth. I am the way, the truth and the
• 1:10:57
  life. That's what Jesus says.
• 1:10:59
  And so if you're refusing to love the truth, you're refusing
• 1:11:04
  to love Jesus and so be saved. And Jesus says, if you love me,
• 1:11:09
  obey my commands. So there is obedience that comes
• 1:11:12
  along with that too. So these people that are
• 1:11:15
  perishing, they're not obedient to God.
• 1:11:18
  They refuse to love Jesus, and that's how they'd be saved.
• 1:11:22
  But then it continues in verse 11.
• 1:11:24
  For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion so that they
• 1:11:30
  will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have
• 1:11:36
  not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
• 1:11:40
  So people choose to reject Jesus and they delight in their
• 1:11:48
  wickedness. They don't want to give up their
• 1:11:50
  sin. They want to keep it.
• 1:11:51
  They don't want Jesus. And so they, they, it's here,
• 1:11:58
  you know, saying that they're going to be, they're going to
• 1:12:01
  get a powerful delusion. It's a warning.
• 1:12:05
  So we have to be careful. First Timothy.
• 1:12:09
  Timothy 120. Among them are Hymenaeus and
• 1:12:12
  Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not
• 1:12:17
  to blasphemy. That's interesting.
• 1:12:20
  So that sounds like I haven't really read this one.
• 1:12:25
  I don't know if Hymenaeus and Alexander, I don't know if they
• 1:12:28
  were part of the church, but he said he handed them over to
• 1:12:31
  Satan to be taught not to blasphemy.
• 1:12:34
  So maybe they were part of the church and they were doing
• 1:12:37
  something against, I haven't researched that or read that in
• 1:12:41
  detail, but similar to what they were talking about, that sexual
• 1:12:45
  immoral guy that was in the church that Paul said to hand
• 1:12:48
  him over to Satan so that his flesh could be tormented so that
• 1:12:53
  hopefully so that maybe his soul may be saved on the day of the
• 1:12:57
  Lord. And so here another couple of
• 1:13:00
  people are being handed over to Satan and they are supposedly
• 1:13:05
  being taught not to blasphemy. And then First Timothy 5:15, it
• 1:13:11
  says some have in fact already turned away to follow Satan.
• 1:13:16
  So this is listen to this is about widows.
• 1:13:27
  This is a this is a interesting thing.
• 1:13:31
  Yeah, this is about widows, elders and slaves.
• 1:13:34
  But it says. There's a lot here.
• 1:13:47
  Let me see. I've some have, in fact.
• 1:13:50
  OK, let's read where it is. So I counsel younger women to
• 1:13:54
  marry, to have children, to manage their homes, and to give
• 1:13:58
  the enemy no opportunity for slander.
• 1:14:01
  Some have, in fact, already turned.
• 1:14:03
  Away to follow Satan. So if any woman who is a
• 1:14:08
  believer has widows in her care, she should continue to help them
• 1:14:11
  and not let the church be burdened with them so that the
• 1:14:13
  church can help those widows who are really in need.
• 1:14:17
  So this is this is just talking about yeah, widows within the
• 1:14:24
  church. As for younger widows, do not
• 1:14:26
  put them on the list, for when their sensual desires overcome
• 1:14:30
  their dedication to Christ, they want to marry.
• 1:14:33
  Thus they bring judgment on themselves because they have
• 1:14:37
  broken their first pledge. Besides, they get into the habit
• 1:14:41
  of being idle and going about from house to house and not only
• 1:14:45
  do they become idlers, but also. Busy, busy bodies who talk
• 1:14:49
  nonsense, saying things they ought not to.
• 1:14:53
  So I counsel the younger women to marry, to have children, to
• 1:14:56
  manage their homes and give the enemy no opportunity for
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  slander. Some have in fact already turned
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  away to follow Satan. Pretty strong words about
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  widows. Then we have the Book of
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  Revelation and Revelation 2. I know this is when Jesus is
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  talking about the churches are talking to the churches or
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  giving messages to the churches in Revelation 2, verse 9.
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  I know your afflictions and your poverty, yet you are rich.
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  I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and
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  are not but are a synagogue of Satan.
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  So again, there's hypocrites in the Jewish faith just like there
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  are in the Christian faith. So I know, and then Revelation
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  213, I know where you live, where Satan has his throne, yet
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  you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith
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  in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness,
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  who was put to death in your city where Satan lives.
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  This is interesting because Pergamum, it's in Turkey is
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  where Satan has his throne apparently, and I don't know all
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  the details of that, but I just know I, I paid attention.
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  I was like, oh, where is this? Where does Satan have his
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  throne? But Satan could have his throne
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  in many places because it also talks about in Ezekiel, it was
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  talking about in Iran where God was going to place his throne.
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  So basically all the places where Satan has set up his
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  throne, God's going to take over all of that eventually.
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  Jesus is. So let's see.
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  Revelation 39 I will make those who are of the synagogue of
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  Satan, who claim to be Jews that they are not, but are liars.
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  I will make them come and fall down at your.
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  Feet and acknowledge that I have loved you so then we get into
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  Revelation chapter 12 the great dragon who was hurled down that
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  ancient serpent like the one that was in Eden called the
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  devil or Satan who leads the whole world astray.
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  He was hurled to earth and his angels with him.
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  That's where we get the concept of the fallen angels in
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  Revelation 20 verse two he sees the dragon that ancient serpent
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  who is the devil or Satan and bound him for 1000 years.
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  So this is. Is it the Angel or?
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  Yeah it's an Angel. I and I saw an Angel coming down
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  out of heaven having a key to the abyss.
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  It's probably Jesus and holding in his hand a great chain.
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  He sees the dragon, the ancient servant who is the devil and
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  bound him for 1000 years. Then in Revelation 20 verse 7 it
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  says when the 1000 years are over Satan will be released from
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  his prison. First time I read.
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  That I was like. I panicked, but the good news is
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  that shortly after that, God just ends him and and he's like,
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  I guess thrown into the burning lake of sulfur.
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  And again, that could relate back to Tyre that we were
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  reading about. Like he's out in the sea and the
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  seas can be symbolic of many peoples and they will see this
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  happen to him where he will be destroyed because when he gets
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  out of his prison, he's going to rile up people from the ends of
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  the earth and they're going to come against the Lord and all of
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  the faithful ones, but God supernaturally is going to
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  destroy them. So there is good news in the end
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  of that. So that was the search for
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  Satan. But there's still more about the
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  devil, because sometimes it's called.
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  Both. He has different things.
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  So I gosh, there's 33 verses here.
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  I think I'm going to make a Part 2 because this one, this podcast
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  is now an hour and 18 minutes. So I'm going to continue with
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  the next podcast on a separate one.