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See You At The Pole 2026 · FROG Discipleship

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SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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SPEAKER_00: Nick here.
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Frog Discipleship.
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SPEAKER_00: Today is See You at the Poll.
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SPEAKER_00: So what that means is I had the privilege to go to our local high school and participate in See You at the Pole.
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SPEAKER_00: And what that is, is where a lot of the students, faculty, staff, and in our case, community was able to come together, gather around the flagpole, which happened to be in front of the school.
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SPEAKER_00: And there was probably, I don't know, 50 to 70 of us today, and just come together and lift up different things in prayer, whether it was the school, family, just pray.
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SPEAKER_00: And just come together as brothers and sisters in Christ at a designated time and designated location and just spend time taking things to God.
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SPEAKER_00: And it was just a great, great time.
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SPEAKER_00: So one of the things that I want to talk to you about, there's a couple things, is I want to share the passage of scripture that one of the young ladies have read.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, for the past two years, see you at the poll has been primarily led by the students, and that's a good thing, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Because we want to raise Christian leaders.
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SPEAKER_00: But there is a negative to this.
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SPEAKER_00: For the past several years, it has been led by young ladies.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's a good thing if you're a young lady.
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SPEAKER_00: But men, young men, it is time to step up.
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SPEAKER_00: Husbands, fathers, it is time to train up your children in the ways of the Lord, so when they grow old, they will not depart from it.
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SPEAKER_00: These young Christian women, these young ladies, are going to need strong, godly, masculine men.
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SPEAKER_00: And unfortunately, there is not many godly men out there, and there's definitely not very many masculine godly men.
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SPEAKER_00: So that is something that the body of Christ needs to work on.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so it is time for us to step up as men.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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SPEAKER_00: So, but neither here nor there.
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SPEAKER_00: That's another podcast for a different thing.
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SPEAKER_00: It's just something that I noticed.
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SPEAKER_00: But one of the passages of scripture that the young lady read, I want to read to you today.
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SPEAKER_00: And it reads, and this is out of Ephesians chapter 6, this is the armor of God.
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SPEAKER_00: And it reads this finally, this is verse 10, finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.
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SPEAKER_00: Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against wiles of the devil.
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SPEAKER_00: For we do not wrestle against flesh or blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual host of wickedness in the heavenly places.
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SPEAKER_00: Therefore, take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand, stand, therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace, and above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one, and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to the end of all perseverance and supplications of the saints.
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SPEAKER_00: And for me the utterance may be given to me that I may open my mouth bold to make known the mysteries of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in James, that in it I may speak boldly as I ought to speak.
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SPEAKER_00: So there is a lot here, y'all, that we need to discuss, and I am trying to go through it as quick as possible, but at the same point as thorough as possible.
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SPEAKER_00: So, yes, it was see you at the poll.
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SPEAKER_00: We didn't get to discuss this passage of scripture.
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SPEAKER_00: The young lady read it, and then we went around and we prayed as individuals.
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SPEAKER_00: So it was very, very good.
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SPEAKER_00: One thing I want to focus on before we get into the passage that I just read in Ephesians on why see you at the poll and other events like that are vital to the spiritual well-being of the body of Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: So when we look in the book of Hebrews, okay, starting at verse 24, this is Hebrews chapter 10, verse 24 and 25.
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SPEAKER_00: It says, Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is in the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see in the days approaching.
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SPEAKER_00: So we see a lot here.
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SPEAKER_00: The reason why we are to gather in certain areas like that, it says to stir up one another with love and good works.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, guys, we've got to support one another.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got to encourage each other.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, we are on the narrow path.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're a Christian, man or woman, you are on the narrow path.
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SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
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SPEAKER_00: You are outnumbered, probably a hundred to one.
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SPEAKER_00: What I mean by a hundred to one, there is one Christian for every one hundred non-Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: So we, the body of Christ, need to come together and in unity, such as events of Sea at the Pole, church, and other things, and stir up one another.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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SPEAKER_00: And we see what we are to do, stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembly together as in the manner of some, but exhorting one another, exhorting one another, and so much the more you see in the days approaching.
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SPEAKER_00: So what he's saying is we need to, this is Paul writing this.
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SPEAKER_00: The time is now, the need is now for us to come together, encourage, build, and support one another in Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: I just shared with you, because I got a 17-year-old daughter, and the men, the good men, are just not there.
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SPEAKER_00: And I really emphasize the masculinity part of things.
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SPEAKER_00: There's some Christian men, but masculinity is just not there, hardly.
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SPEAKER_00: And Christian masculinity is coming very, very scarce.
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SPEAKER_00: So I pray for my daughter daily because there's not many godly, masculine men out there.
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SPEAKER_00: It's slim pickings.
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SPEAKER_00: So this is why it's so important that we stir up and build up other godly men and be that masculine man that God needs you to be as a husband, as a father, as a parent, or whatever.
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SPEAKER_00: But so on and so forth.
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SPEAKER_00: This matters.
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SPEAKER_00: These things matter.
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SPEAKER_00: We have to come together in unity and stir up with love, grace, and compassion.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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SPEAKER_00: So, enough of that.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's go to Ephesians.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's look at the armor of God.
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SPEAKER_00: So we look at this, and it says, verse 11, put on the whole armor of God, the whole armor.
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SPEAKER_00: Not just a piece of it, but all of it.
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SPEAKER_00: Because the thing about it is, I mean, the the helmet of salvation is great, but if you forget, uh, and it says above all in verse 16, so what does that mean?
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SPEAKER_00: Above all, take the shield of faith.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: So you might have your helmet of salvation on, but you don't have your shield of faith, nor do you have your sword.
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SPEAKER_00: And the sword, the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.
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SPEAKER_00: So you don't have the shield that is designed and given to you to uh protect you from the evil of the devil, and you don't have your so you don't have your your shield, which is a defensive tool, and you don't have your sword, which is your offensive tool, but you only got the helmet on, the rest of you is exposed, and you're setting yourself up for failure.
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SPEAKER_00: So we are told to put on the entire armor of God.
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SPEAKER_00: Every part of it, every single part of it has a purpose, and we need it for a reason.
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SPEAKER_00: Because it literally says, for we do not wrestle against flesh or blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rules of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts and wickedness in the heavenly places.
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SPEAKER_00: So I say this with love, but if you don't think that spiritual warfare exists, you're a fool.
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SPEAKER_00: Simply, you are our you are a fool.
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SPEAKER_00: Spiritual warfare is a very real thing.
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SPEAKER_00: If we believe in God and that there is a God, that Christ is the Son of God who died on the cross for our sin, well, he died on the cross for our sins, because what does sin?
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SPEAKER_00: Sin is separation from God.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, where did that come from?
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SPEAKER_00: Remember?
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SPEAKER_00: The garden caused sin, separation.
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SPEAKER_00: We were kicked out of the garden.
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SPEAKER_00: So if there is a God, there has to be a devil.
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SPEAKER_00: If there's good, there's evil.
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SPEAKER_00: If there's light, there's darkness.
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SPEAKER_00: You see the picture that I'm trying to paint?
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SPEAKER_00: So why would, when we're being taught here by Paul telling us to put on the whole armor of God, why would we ignore this?
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SPEAKER_00: Spiritual warfare exists.
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SPEAKER_00: Guys, there is so much evil immorality and corruption in culture and society today.
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SPEAKER_00: Turn on the TV, watch what's there, it's a bunch of filth.
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SPEAKER_00: Just scroll through social media, and I promise you, something inappropriate, whether it's not dressed appropriately or something not said, is going to pop up in your social media feed.
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SPEAKER_00: Because we are wrestling against the evil principalities.
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SPEAKER_00: We are at spiritual warfare.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, how do we overcome these things?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, Christ, yes, but that's that's only the the beginning.
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SPEAKER_00: Christ is what gives us the ability to overcome, but he also gives us tools to use to help us continue to get better and stronger and mature in our faith.
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SPEAKER_00: And here we are talking about the armor of God.
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SPEAKER_00: We just discussed not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, and the reason for that is because we need to nurture one another, encourage one another, build up one another, but we all need to show up wearing our armor because that matters.
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SPEAKER_00: And here's the thing: you never let your guard down.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, what about when I go to church, Nick?
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SPEAKER_00: Do you not think that the devil's in the church house?
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SPEAKER_00: Period.
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SPEAKER_00: The devil's in the churchhouse.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna share this little story with you that I heard once.
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SPEAKER_00: And it was really good.
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SPEAKER_00: I really liked it.
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SPEAKER_00: I might have shared it on here before.
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SPEAKER_00: If I have, you get to listen to it again.
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SPEAKER_00: But a family just moved to town and they go to visit a church.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, when they pull up in this one church, they get out and they notice that there's a demon sitting on the front porch of the church.
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SPEAKER_00: One demon sitting on the front porch of the church.
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SPEAKER_00: So the dad stopped, turned to his film, and said, No, let's get in the car and let's let's go.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's go to a different church.
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SPEAKER_00: So they drive down the road and they pull up, and when they pull up, they get out of the car and they see demons just swarming all around.
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SPEAKER_00: They're flying completely around the top of the church.
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SPEAKER_00: So the father walks up to one of the demons and says, Hey, what is going on here?
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SPEAKER_00: We were just down the road at such and such church, and there was one demon there, and now we come to this church, and there's hundreds of demons here.
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SPEAKER_00: What is going on?
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SPEAKER_00: And the demon looked at the father and said, Oh, that church down the road, we already have under control.
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SPEAKER_00: That one demon is just standing guard.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, right now we're trying to take this church over.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's why there's so many more.
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SPEAKER_00: So, guys, evil is all around us.
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SPEAKER_00: It's on the television, it's on the radios, it's in your home, it's in your thoughts.
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SPEAKER_00: We have a sin nature, right?
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SPEAKER_00: So that means it's in our in our in our fiber, right?
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SPEAKER_00: We have to choose to go and do things the right way, God's way, but the we are more successful doing that when we are adequately prepared.
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SPEAKER_00: How do we adequately prepare ourselves?
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SPEAKER_00: Put on your whole armor of God every single day.
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SPEAKER_00: Gather with brothers and sisters in Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: Salvation is not a fake it till you make it type thing.
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SPEAKER_00: Christianity is not a fake it till you make it.
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SPEAKER_00: Let that sink in, guys.
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SPEAKER_00: You're either for God or you're against God.
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SPEAKER_00: You're either light or you're dark.
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SPEAKER_00: There is no in-between.
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SPEAKER_00: So, if you want to make an impact for the kingdom of God, you have to wear your armor.
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SPEAKER_00: You have to wear your armorful.
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SPEAKER_00: In verse 13, it says, Therefore, take up the whole armor of God.
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SPEAKER_00: It's repeated.
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SPEAKER_00: It's repeated.
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SPEAKER_00: If scripture repeats itself, if you didn't catch it the first time, it repeats it because it's of importance that you need to listen.
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SPEAKER_00: Therefore, take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having all and having done all to stand.
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SPEAKER_00: So he has given us what we need.
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SPEAKER_00: Stand, therefore, having girded your waist with truth.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the belt, the belt of truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness.
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SPEAKER_00: So we go from a belt.
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SPEAKER_00: The belt holds our weaponry.
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SPEAKER_00: The breastplate protects our chest, our midsection, having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, here's one thing that I don't think many of us know, but it's a very good fun fact.
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SPEAKER_00: So when we're looking at the having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace, so during this time, during Paul's time, the Roman soldiers, now everybody wore sandals, but the Roman soldiers, their sandals were different.
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SPEAKER_00: They weren't just sandals on their feet, but they had spikes at the bottom.
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SPEAKER_00: And the reason why those spikes were so important, so when they went out on the battlefield and they had the adversary coming to attack them, what would they use?
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SPEAKER_00: They would put up their shields, they would dig their feet into the ground and let those spikes dig into the ground so that way when the adversary hit, they did not move.
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SPEAKER_00: They did not waver.
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SPEAKER_00: They are protecting, not just physically protecting their body, but protecting where they stand.
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SPEAKER_00: We are not to be moved.
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SPEAKER_00: We are not to be moved.
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SPEAKER_00: Above all, take up the shield of faith with which you are able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
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SPEAKER_00: Guys, Satan's going to continue to come at you and come at you.
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SPEAKER_00: And here's also this is another thing.
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SPEAKER_00: He doesn't just come after you, he comes after the ones you love.
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SPEAKER_00: He comes up with your after your friends and families and all those individuals that you love as well.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm going to try to see if I can find a passage of scripture real quick, just kind of going off, going to the Ten Commandments real quick.
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SPEAKER_00: And I want to look up something real quick because I want us to realize something that is very, very important.
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SPEAKER_00: So when we look at, this is the Ten Commandments, this is Exodus 20.
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SPEAKER_00: So I want to read this to you.
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SPEAKER_00: This is you shall not make for yourself a carved image.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, no other idols is what it's speaking of.
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SPEAKER_00: Any likeness or anything in is a heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth, you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.
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SPEAKER_00: For the Lord your God am a jealous God.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, now here, so don't worship idols, and God's a jealous God.
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SPEAKER_00: Then what we see after this, visiting the iniquities of the fathers of the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing mercy to the thousand of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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SPEAKER_00: So what does that mean?
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SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
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SPEAKER_00: Let's unpack that.
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SPEAKER_00: Visiting the iniquities to the third and fourth generation.
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SPEAKER_00: So the sin that you dabble in does not just affect you.
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SPEAKER_00: When you fail to wear your armor of God and you fail to serve God, it doesn't, your sin doesn't just affect you, it can affect your children, your grandchildren, and your great-grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, what's an example of this?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, there's a lot.
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SPEAKER_00: So let's go with an obvious one.
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SPEAKER_00: Divorce.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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SPEAKER_00: If you divorce and you have children, well, guess what?
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SPEAKER_00: Now you're not doing it by God's design.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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SPEAKER_00: The marriage, the home has been broken.
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SPEAKER_00: So now the kids are being raised in two different homes, and oftentimes by two different sets of parents.
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SPEAKER_00: So that right there, the covenant of God has been broken.
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SPEAKER_00: So statistically, if you're divorced, your children are likely to get divorced, just as if you're in prison, your children are like 86% likely to be in prison themselves because there is learned behavior.
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SPEAKER_00: But the fact is, you are not able to have that impact in your child's life because of divorce.
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SPEAKER_00: You got mom doing things this way, dad doing things this way, and more often than not, they're not in a line.
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SPEAKER_00: So that sin is being visited to the next generation, to the next generation, to the next generation.
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SPEAKER_00: That's what that's talking about.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is why it's so important to put on our armor of God, because it's not just meant to protect you, it's meant to protect the future generation.
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SPEAKER_00: Because we're looking at this is talking about idols, idol worshiping.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, idol worship is not just a carved image, guys.
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SPEAKER_00: It talks about the things on the earth, things in the water, all this stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: Your cell phone can be an idol to you.
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SPEAKER_00: Your job can be an idol to you.
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SPEAKER_00: Your car can be an idol to you.
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SPEAKER_00: Your spouse can be an idol to you.
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SPEAKER_00: Your children can be an idol to you.
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SPEAKER_00: Anything that you are prioritizing over God can be an idol to you.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's where we have to be careful.
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SPEAKER_00: Put on the whole armor of God.
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SPEAKER_00: Carry your shield of faith to quench those fiery darts.
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SPEAKER_00: And quench means to put out, to extinguish.
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SPEAKER_00: They don't just hit it, but they extinguish.
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SPEAKER_00: Put them out.
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SPEAKER_00: The helmet of salvation, the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.
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SPEAKER_00: Here's the thing: a lot of people want to talk a good game about Christianity and this, that, and the other.
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SPEAKER_00: And Jesus this, Jesus that.
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SPEAKER_00: But what I have found to be just mind-blowing to me is a lot of people don't even realize what God's word says about something.
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SPEAKER_00: Going back to divorce.
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SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_00: People that are Christians, quote unquote, and say, oh, divorce is okay.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not.
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SPEAKER_00: Does it happen?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, but is that by God's original design?
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SPEAKER_00: No, it's not.
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SPEAKER_00: And what we do is we have we have created a justification of sin, and that is not okay.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is where it says, and take up the helmet of salvation, the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
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SPEAKER_00: You need to know, because at the end of the day, guys, you're responsible for everything from Genesis to Revelation.
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SPEAKER_00: You're going to stand before the Lord and you're going to have to give an account of everything you have done.
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SPEAKER_00: And you can't sit there and say, Oh, I didn't know.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, my preacher didn't tell me.
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SPEAKER_00: Guys, it is not your preacher's responsibility to fully equip you.
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SPEAKER_00: The preacher can tell you, just like I'm telling you now, put on your home whole armor of God.
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SPEAKER_00: But it's up to you, the individual, to put it on.
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SPEAKER_00: The pastor, the deacons, the elders, other Christians can teach you, yes, we're called to do that.
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SPEAKER_00: We're called to make disciples, but you have to apply what is being taught.
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SPEAKER_00: That's a you thing, not a me thing.
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SPEAKER_00: If you listen to this podcast today and you're like, oh, I'm going to like it, I'm even going to subscribe to it or whatever, but yet at the end of the day, you don't apply it to your life.
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SPEAKER_00: I appreciate the like, I appreciate the subscription or whatever you call it.
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SPEAKER_00: But more importantly, I want your life to be transformed, to be growing closer to your Heavenly Father.
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SPEAKER_00: The application is a you problem, and it is time for you to apply it.
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SPEAKER_00: Verse 18, praying always with the prayer of supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to the end with all perseverance and supplications for all the saints.
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SPEAKER_00: We have to always be prepared, praying always, being watchful.
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SPEAKER_00: What are we watching for?
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SPEAKER_00: Spiritual warfare?
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SPEAKER_00: The evil sneaking in?
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, he was a serpent for a reason, really sneaky sneaky.
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SPEAKER_00: Scripture literally says he is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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SPEAKER_00: So he is hidden among us, talking a good talk, but walking not so good a walk.
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SPEAKER_00: And for me, that utterance may be given to me that I may open my mouth bold to make known the mysteries of the gospel.
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SPEAKER_00: And we see in the book of Romans, faith comes by hearing and the and hearing of the word of God.
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SPEAKER_00: In order for trans uh for a transition of light, or uh let me for someone to go from unsaved to saved, for that transition to take place, the old has died and the new remains, the gospel has to be presented to them.
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SPEAKER_00: Because it's a mystery.
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SPEAKER_00: So many people I've talked to said, well, I've read the Bible, I don't understand it.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, you don't understand it probably because you're not saved, or you're just not being taught.
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SPEAKER_00: Because it's the mystery.
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SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit, the helper, helps us understand it.
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SPEAKER_00: The body of Christ helps us apply it and further grow in our faith, because it is a mystery, for which I am an ambassador in chain.
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SPEAKER_00: So this is Paul writing, that in it I may speak bold as I ought to speak.
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SPEAKER_00: Everyone.
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SPEAKER_00: This applies to every Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: We are ambassadors in Christ, and we need to speak boldly about Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: Why not you?
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SPEAKER_00: God has called you to do great things.
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SPEAKER_00: But you can't do great things if you don't have your armor on.
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SPEAKER_00: You can't do great things if you're not if you're forsaking the assembling of yourselves together with the brothers and sisters in Christ because you're not doing it God's way, you're doing it man's way.
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SPEAKER_00: You do thing man's way, you're gonna get manly results.
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SPEAKER_00: You do thing God's way, you're gonna get godly results.
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SPEAKER_00: Something to think about, y'all.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's start putting our armor on every day, gathering together as brothers and sisters in Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: Train up the next generation.
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SPEAKER_00: Train them up, strengthen them, build them, make them godly, strong men and women of God.
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SPEAKER_00: Why not you?