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Speaker 1: My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro

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Speaker 1: of our republic. My call is to fight evil and

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Speaker 1: to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you

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Speaker 1: But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll

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Speaker 1: end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got

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Speaker 1: to stop sending your kids to college. You should get

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Speaker 1: married as young as possible and have as many kids

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Speaker 1: as possible. Go start at turning point. You would say,

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Speaker 1: Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign

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Speaker 1: up and become an activist. I gave my life to

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Speaker 1: the same. Here I am Lord, Use me. Buckle up, everybody,

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Speaker 1: Here we go. The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored

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Speaker 1: and viewers. So there's going to be some hard truths today,

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Speaker 1: straight from the Bible. But I think everybody here, would

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Speaker 1: rather get the weaponry and the skills and the truth

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Speaker 1: that just the nice, prepackaged message. And so if you

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Speaker 1: want to get that sort of message, there's plenty of

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Speaker 1: other type of churches and people you can go to.

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Speaker 1: But you're going to feel empowered and you're gonna feel equipped.

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Speaker 1: And I know, for me, if I ever have some

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Speaker 1: you know, here's the good news that you're still alive.

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Speaker 1: You know, I want to hear what's wrong and what

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Speaker 1: very Some people to consider this controversial, but I don't.

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Speaker 1: Which is the churches that refuse to recognize Satan and

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Speaker 1: call Satan by name. Now Satan hates it when we

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Speaker 1: some sort of amorphous figure, not some sort of idea,

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Speaker 1: but that had being. Now that's a hard thing for

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Speaker 1: Now I said that, intentionally open up your bibles. For

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Speaker 1: must be obedient to God's commands. We have to stop tolerating.

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Speaker 1: This nonsense has infiltrated the church. So let me reiterate

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Speaker 1: this with the devil. He hates this book and the

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Speaker 1: specifically the two books that he hates the most. Leanna

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Speaker 1: and I were just talking about this are Genesis and Revelation,

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Speaker 1: the beginning and the end. Genesis describes his devices, and

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Speaker 1: Revelation describes his doom. And right there in Genesis three

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Speaker 1: we see how the devil works. We see exactly what

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Speaker 1: he does, turning people against each other, sowing doubt, trying

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Speaker 1: to question God's commands, introducing this kind of rebellion against God. Now,

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Speaker 1: who was Satan? There's really no debate about this. Some

436
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Speaker 1: people infer a lot more about Satan than we really know,

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Speaker 1: and not necessarily all those inferences are outside of what

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Speaker 1: the word of the Lord says. I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: get into all that. Here's what we do know. We

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Speaker 1: know that he was an angel that rebelled from the Lord,

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Speaker 1: and the earth is his kingdom. I'm going to stop there.

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Speaker 1: That's what we know. Other pastors go on further about

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Speaker 1: some sort of long kind of idea of this discourse

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Speaker 1: between Lucifer and God that's debated. I'll let other people

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Speaker 1: get into though. Here's what we know is that Jesus

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Speaker 1: Christ said that he was the prince of this world.

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Speaker 1: In fact, he was the God of this world. So

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Speaker 1: now let's go back into our Bibles, right, and let's

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Speaker 1: see where the Savior of the world actually confronted the

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Speaker 1: devil himself. And we all know this story, but let's

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Speaker 1: really pick this up and let's go deeper than just

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Speaker 1: kind of like, oh yeah, Jesus Christ, for is this

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Speaker 1: a temptation? Now we have to remember that Jesus the

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Speaker 1: divine became human, right, so he had to go through

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Speaker 1: the exact same things that we went through. So what's

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Speaker 1: the context of this in Matthew four, Well, right before

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Speaker 1: Matthew four, it's kind of a crescendo part. It's his anointing.

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Speaker 1: And so all of you guys that awaken conference yesterday,

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Speaker 1: it's amazing, right, some of you might have felt that

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Speaker 1: that was your anointing. Right, and then all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden you go back home, maybe at eleven o'clock, maybe

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Speaker 1: this morning, all of a sudden, these thoughts start to

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Speaker 1: creep in, and what I do, what I do doesn't

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Speaker 1: really matter, No one cares about me. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: those ten things start to seep in. Were those Bible verses?

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Speaker 1: Jurgen saying actually true, was the Bible actually the word

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Speaker 1: of God? Boom right back in there. So what Matthew

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Speaker 1: for is telling us is Jesus was baptized in Matthew

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Speaker 1: three and anointed, and then right after that temptation comes.

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Speaker 1: So this message right here is perfect timing.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: You have the conference, you get built up, you get

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Speaker 1: sent out in the world, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: that's where the temptation's gonna start seep in. Okay, Matthew one.

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Speaker 1: Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness

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Speaker 1: to be tempted by the devil. After fasting for forty

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Speaker 1: days and forty nights, he was hungry. Okay, let me

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Speaker 1: let me stop here. So I entered first of all

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Speaker 1: with forty days. So Noah endured the flood for forty days,

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Speaker 1: Moses fast forty days, Elijah fast forty days, Israelites one

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Speaker 1: for forty years? Is number forty is repetitious about you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a season of trusting the Lord and seeing his deliverance.

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Speaker 1: Now let me just say this, anyone who fasts for

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Speaker 1: more than an afternoon, you have some sort of supernatural power.

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Speaker 1: I do not have. Okay, So if I miss a meal,

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Speaker 1: an energy bar, I'm like, what is this? Get out

487
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Speaker 1: of here? I mean, I mean I meet these people

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Speaker 1: that fast. They're like, yeah, actually I know, guy f

489
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Speaker 1: Milklamy fast like thirty days. I'm like, I don't even know.

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Speaker 1: It's a different stratosphere. Maybe one day I'll get there.

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Speaker 1: I know you guys have people that fast here, and

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Speaker 1: I know you do. And so if again Mikey knows,

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Speaker 1: if I don't get like my energy bar right at

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Speaker 1: the time I need it, while I'm hosting my podcaster

495
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Speaker 1: or radio show, I'm like, what is going on here?

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Speaker 1: I go like full third world dictator right, like mobilization

497
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Speaker 1: of armed forces, go find the people someone's not doing

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Speaker 1: their job, scorched earth right, roll in the tanks, full

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Speaker 1: accountability culture. Right, It's like, what's going on? And so

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Speaker 1: forty days and forty nights, like I can't even just imagine.

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Speaker 1: Now it says here in the scripture is that he

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Speaker 1: was hungry. That's important because after you guys, know this,

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Speaker 1: after three four days of fasting, you actually set into

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Speaker 1: a state where you no longer feel hunger, right. But

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Speaker 1: when you start feeling hunger again, you're literally starving to death, right,

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Speaker 1: So that's where Jesus was at. He was at the

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Speaker 1: point where after it's set in, where he was not

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Speaker 1: feeling hunger anymore, he started being hungry again. That's where

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Speaker 1: he was literally starving to death. What does that tell

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Speaker 1: us the devil, Satan, the serpent's going to attack you

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Speaker 1: when you're most vulnerable. That he's going to attack you

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Speaker 1: when you're at your weakest, right, So for me, that's

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Speaker 1: after red eye flights, right. Whoever invented this whole thing,

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Speaker 1: they should be put in prison, Okay, And I say

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Speaker 1: that jokingly, okay, but it's like a red eye flight

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Speaker 1: for me is the worst thing. Maybe you can sympathize

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Speaker 1: some people like it. I sure, it's like you're two

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Speaker 1: hours of sleep, nothing but masks on you, people breathing.

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Speaker 1: It's like awful. And then you got a land and

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Speaker 1: you got to be ready to go, right, Not for me,

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Speaker 1: And so that's when all of a sudden, Satan comes in.

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Speaker 1: All these questions what you're about to do today doesn't

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Speaker 1: really matter, right, All of a sudden wears you down

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Speaker 1: when you're your most vulnerable. And all of you guys

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Speaker 1: know that moment. And it might not be a physical

526
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Speaker 1: vulnerability by the way, it might be that you slept

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Speaker 1: in for fourteen hours and you're just in the best

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Speaker 1: shape of your life. But it might be that you

529
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Speaker 1: are just tired of being around the people you're around.

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Speaker 1: It could be other types of vulnerability and other types

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Speaker 1: of weaknesses. The scriptures continue by saying, the tempter came

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Speaker 1: to him and said, if you are the son of God,

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Speaker 1: tell these stones to become bred, mocking him. The devil

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Speaker 1: is a mocker. Now, the devil was missing one of

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Speaker 1: his greatest tricks against Jesus. One of his greatest tricks

536
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Speaker 1: he was not able to use against against Jesus, which

537
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Speaker 1: is hold one's sin against them. Devil wasn't able to

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Speaker 1: do that. It's one of Devil's greatest tricks. Right, the

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Speaker 1: devil will always stay in your ear about ways you

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Speaker 1: fall in. Short, all of us have friends that like this. Right,

541
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Speaker 1: you screwed up in fourth grade and you spilled orange

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Speaker 1: juice over your classmate, and you still see this person.

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Speaker 1: You're like, I remember in fourth grade when you spilled

544
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Speaker 1: orange juice, Liser, Right, you all know that person, and

545
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: they're constantly holding your faults and your missteps against you.

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Speaker 1: The devil didn't have his best trick because Jesus never

547
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Speaker 1: did anything wrong with live the perfect life. So instead

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Speaker 1: he resorted to his second best trick, which is mocking

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Speaker 1: and then temptation of ruling. So come on, you say

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Speaker 1: you're the son of God, turned these stones to bread.

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Speaker 1: He was trying to agitate him, like you're trying to say,

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Speaker 1: you're such a tough guy, come on, punch me right

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Speaker 1: here in the face, trying to provoke Jesus to try

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Speaker 1: to get him and tempt him to engage on the

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Speaker 1: devil's terms, you see. But Jesus refused to even engage

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Speaker 1: on Satan's terms at all whatsoever. Then the devil took

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Speaker 1: him to the Holy City Jerusalem and had him stand

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Speaker 1: at the highest point of the temple, and he says,

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Speaker 1: come on, if you're the son of God, throw yourself down,

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Speaker 1: for it is written. And this is where it gets interesting.

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Speaker 1: Satan is quoting scripture. I want you to think about that.

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Speaker 1: He is quoting this perfect book. He's trying to use

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Speaker 1: scripture against it. Come on, you say you're so powerful.

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Speaker 1: I know your book too, and that's why you have

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Speaker 1: to be alert and filled with the Holy spirit. Where

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you might have false prophets. You

567
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Speaker 1: might have people that are up that are trying to

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden use things that you've memorized, committed

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Speaker 1: in a memory to try to pursue worldly things, where

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden people say, you know what Jesus

571
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Speaker 1: is all about love, then why wouldn't you say that

572
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Speaker 1: pedophilia is okay? Now that might sound extreme, that argument

573
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Speaker 1: is coming soon, I guarantee you. In fact, it's coming

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Speaker 1: here to California. That's exactly what's happening here is that

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Speaker 1: Satan was trying to use Jesus's own literacy with the

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Speaker 1: scriptures against him. He will command his angels concerning you,

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Speaker 1: so they will lift you up in their hands, that

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Speaker 1: you will not strike your foot against a stone, Jesus

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Speaker 1: answered him. It is also written, do not put the

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Speaker 1: Lord your god that detests Jesus is laying it down,

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Speaker 1: like you don't want this fight. We are going to

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Speaker 1: crush you, is what Giesus is saying, like, don't put

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Speaker 1: me to the test. You're not gonna like this. I'm

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00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: gonna win and you're gonna lose. But the devil, like

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Speaker 1: every single person that has the spirit of the devil

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Speaker 1: on earth. They never know when to stop. They never

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Speaker 1: know when to They do not have the fruit of

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Speaker 1: the spirit of self control. Constantly pushing, constantly trying to conquer,

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Speaker 1: trying to do more than they actually can do. Jesus

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Speaker 1: answered him, do you not put your lord tests again?

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Speaker 1: The devil took him to another mountain and showed him

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Speaker 1: all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. And

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Speaker 1: this I will give to you if you will bow

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Speaker 1: down and worship me. Now, Jesus rebukes him in the

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Speaker 1: next verse, But do you notice what's not here in Matthew.

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Speaker 1: In Matthew four one through eleven, Jesus never questions what

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Speaker 1: Satan says. He never says what Satan is saying is

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Speaker 1: on true. He's like, you know what you do run

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Speaker 1: this earth? This is your kingdom. Jesus never says no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: this is mine, not yours. Jesus basically is like, you

601
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Speaker 1: know what this is. This is your enemy occupied territory.

602
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Speaker 1: And so Jesus in human human form was going through

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Speaker 1: the same sort of temptation that we go through every

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Speaker 1: single day. So you know what Satan was doing. World

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Speaker 1: of all their splendor, Come on up here. I'll go

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Speaker 1: make you famous. I'll put you in a Netflix series.

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Speaker 1: I'll make you a billionaire. You'll get a private jet

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Speaker 1: and a yacht. People will love you. You'll get five

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Speaker 1: million Instagram followers, You'll have songs written about you. How

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Speaker 1: about statues as well? You can go to space. What

611
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Speaker 1: is it with these billionaire's weird pathological focus of going

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Speaker 1: It's really creepy. Honestly, I think I know what it is.

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Speaker 1: It's because they do not believe in the divine, so

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Speaker 1: they themselves want to become divine. So the only thing

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Speaker 1: they have not yet controlled and conquered is the heavens,

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Speaker 1: and they're never going to control the heavens or the cosmos.

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Speaker 1: I mean today they launched off. I'm sure he's a

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Speaker 1: good guy or whatever, but there's this weird push to

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Speaker 1: always trying to conquer things that have not yet been conquered. No,

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Speaker 1: they do not understand limitations on human beings. And Jesus

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Speaker 1: said to him, and every single person can commit this

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Speaker 1: to memory, then we're gonna get into the application of

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Speaker 1: all these texts. Away from me, Satan, Away from me Satan,

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Speaker 1: for it has written, worship the Lord your God, and

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Speaker 1: serve him only, and then the mic drop that I

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Speaker 1: think some people here today are waiting for this, because

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you feel the spiritual heaviness. You feel this

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Speaker 1: in our country, right, and you're like, man, just get

629
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Speaker 1: out of my head, Get out of my head. Then

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Speaker 1: the devil left him. Let me say that again. Then

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Speaker 1: the devil left him. You know why, because he's limited,

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Speaker 1: because the devil was worn out. And the Devil's like, fine,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go, you know, to Persia, see you later. Whatever, right,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go find some weird corrupt king in Thailand

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Speaker 1: that I can go like whisper in the ear of right.

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Speaker 1: You know the Aztecs they do child sacrifice. I'm going

637
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Speaker 1: over there, whatever, right, Like this guy Christ can't get

638
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Speaker 1: in his head, the angels come and tend to him.

639
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Speaker 1: The point is that there are limitations to his power.

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Speaker 1: So if you're going through a moment right now where

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Speaker 1: you feel like Satan is harassing you, it will not

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Speaker 1: last forever. Let me say it again, It will not

643
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Speaker 1: last forever. Let me say it will not last forever.

644
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Speaker 1: So now let's talk about how does Satan actually get

645
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Speaker 1: penetration in your mind, because that's where this is happening

646
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Speaker 1: right now. The scriptures promise us a sound mind, but

647
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Speaker 1: we have to understand that sometimes we make the entry points,

648
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Speaker 1: we make the ability for Satan to take. We do

649
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Speaker 1: his work for him. In fact, we build the on

650
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Speaker 1: ramps for him. Sometimes we're basically like, you know what,

651
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Speaker 1: let me construct a special exit where you can just

652
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Speaker 1: come straight into my consciousness. And sometimes we do this

653
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Speaker 1: without realizing it. And so first we must realize what

654
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Speaker 1: the scriptures tell us about how Satan acts. Be alert

655
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Speaker 1: and of sober mind. Alert. I feel as if this

656
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Speaker 1: church is an alert church. You're aware of what's happening

657
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: in your school boards, You're aware of what's happening with

658
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Speaker 1: all the things around you. An alert church is a

659
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Speaker 1: church that is contesting for the kingdom now, Alert and

660
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Speaker 1: of sober mind. Those are the sober mind is a different,

661
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: different message for a different time. But your enemy, the devil,

662
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: prows around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

663
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Speaker 1: Resist him, standing firm and faith because you know that

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Speaker 1: the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the

665
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Speaker 1: same kind of sufferings. Don't feel sorry for yourself if

666
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Speaker 1: Satan's harassing you, if your fellow believers don't always talk

667
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Speaker 1: about it. They also are harassed at some point. They're

668
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Speaker 1: also hearing those negative thoughts, those ten things that are happening,

669
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Speaker 1: and they're constantly under attack. So how does Satan get

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Speaker 1: penetration into your mind? There are three ways. This is

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Speaker 1: what the Bible tells us, both in James and in Matthew.

672
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Speaker 1: It was written by James and said by Jesus. Was

673
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Speaker 1: this idea that I never thought about very much. And

674
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Speaker 1: then a really really wise pastor walked me through the

675
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Speaker 1: significance of how we create these vectors for Satan to

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Speaker 1: come into our own life. Which is number one is

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Speaker 1: by vows. That's what Satan did. I will, I will,

678
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Speaker 1: I will, I will, I will five times now vows

679
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Speaker 1: earthly vows that they're of the world. They but we

680
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Speaker 1: do this all the time. I'm never going to take

681
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Speaker 1: a drink again. I'm not going to visit this website.

682
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: I'm stronger than this, gonna stop gossiping. And how many

683
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: times we fall short all the time? Do you know why?

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Speaker 1: As soon as we write that vowel and Jesus said,

685
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Speaker 1: let your yes be yes and your no me no

686
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Speaker 1: no be no. And then the rest come through Jesus Christ.

687
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Speaker 1: Why is that as soon as you say that, Satan's like, ah,

688
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Speaker 1: now I got a reference point to harass you with.

689
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Speaker 1: You think you're so strong, you think you can endure it.

690
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: I'm gonna taunt you with this. You see, you wrote

691
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Speaker 1: right here that you're not gonna go to this website.

692
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: You wrote right here that you're not going to go

693
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Speaker 1: into credit card debt. You wrote right here that you're like,

694
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna harass you with it. Most times we fail

695
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Speaker 1: because the way we're actually instructed to do it is

696
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Speaker 1: the exact opposite. It's not that I will I will,

697
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 1: I will, I will I will, it's Jesus did. Jesus is,

698
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Speaker 1: and he's the He is the chairman of the board

699
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Speaker 1: of my life, and he will protect you at that moment.

700
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Speaker 1: It's totally different. Let me be clear. Every person in

701
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: this room will lose on your own against Satan, every

702
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,800
Speaker 1: single person, myself included. I'm not telling you have to

703
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Speaker 1: fight this war. We're in the midst of this war,

704
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Speaker 1: and some of us are trying to fight it for

705
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Speaker 1: ourselves right, and sometimes we go to earthly means to

706
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Speaker 1: do this. Right. We go to yoga class. We try

707
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: like all these different substances. All I'm saying is, you

708
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Speaker 1: keep on going into the earth to try to defeat

709
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Speaker 1: the king of the earth, which is Satan, You're gonna lose.

710
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Speaker 1: So instead, you just got to step out of the way,

711
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Speaker 1: and you just got to worship and say, Jesus, can

712
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Speaker 1: you just take care of this place? Can you just

713
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Speaker 1: come in here and slay this for me, and take

714
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Speaker 1: care of this for me and win this battle for me.

715
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Speaker 1: That's what you gotta do. And He will never ever

716
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Speaker 1: forsake you or abandon you.

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Speaker 1: Now. So vows are the first way. And that's not

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Speaker 1: to say that you shouldn't identify your sin. That's not

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Speaker 1: why I say you shouldn't identify where you're falling. But

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Speaker 1: if one Christian said to me once, he said, you know,

740
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Speaker 1: I am a master of self control. And one thing

741
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: I don't think the Bible talks about enough is my

742
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Speaker 1: ability to conquer my own you know, my own device.

743
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Speaker 1: I say, self control. It's interesting, where do you think

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Speaker 1: you get self control from? And I say, I also

745
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: want to tell you about humility? Like that would be

746
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Speaker 1: another one. It's so funny. He's like, oh, yeah, I'm

747
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Speaker 1: this this This guy's all right, he's the Lord transforms

748
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: all people. This person would definitely be an evidence of

749
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Speaker 1: that and so you always be like, yes, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm so handsome, creative, generous, successful, benevolent and forward thinking.

751
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: Never ever talks about how humble I am. You know,

752
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, okay, great. The point is that where

753
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: do you think you get self control from? It's a

754
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: fruit of the spirit. We don't talk about that one

755
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: as much, right, patience, I need that one. Oh, my

756
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: goodness with what I have to do, jeez, goodness, kindness, graciousness.

757
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: But then self control, that's not of your own devices.

758
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: That is a gift from the Lord. That is the

759
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: spirit filling you. And so vows is number one. Number

760
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: two is your environment. Satan gets an on ramp based

761
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: on who you surround yourself with, the music you listen to,

762
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: and what your environment is. And Jesus proved it. Jesus said,

763
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Speaker 1: if it caused you to sin, cut off your arm,

764
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Speaker 1: get rid of it. Make your environment reflective of the

765
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: type of worship you want to engage in. Now, psychology

766
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: tells us this, and you should all do this tonight.

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Speaker 1: Write down the five people you spend the most time with,

768
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Speaker 1: because that's who you are. You become the moving average

769
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Speaker 1: of the five people you spend the most time with.

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Speaker 1: Do you notice you start saying one liner is the

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Speaker 1: kind of the five people you start spending time with?

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Speaker 1: You notice you kind of start like dressing. Ye, I

773
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: kind of see that around here at this church. So

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00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 1: that's fine, you guys stress great. I'm not as cool

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00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: as them, right, So I just kind of threw this together.

776
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Speaker 1: I figured if I I figured that, if I did

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Speaker 1: the if I did the you know, when I speak

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Speaker 1: at Baptist churches, it's three piece suit right, full tie

779
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: right by the way, there is this you know, the

780
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Speaker 1: idea of worship is like like that, that's like feeling

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. I'm kidding. I love them. It's great.

782
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: And so I get all sorts of different type of church.

783
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Speaker 1: It's actually nice because I'm able to move around. But

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Speaker 1: if I ever left the box of this, like it

785
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: might have screwed up all the energy. Right. But you

786
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 1: become who you spend the most amount of time with, right,

787
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Speaker 1: And so you ask yourself, am I spending people? Am

788
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Speaker 1: I around gossipers? Gossip is terrible? I can't stand it.

789
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Speaker 1: Am I around people that are constant trying to bring

790
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Speaker 1: down others? Am I around people that are always telling

791
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Speaker 1: half truths? Late to meetings, kind of sending text messages

792
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Speaker 1: that are always on the end. Am I around people

793
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Speaker 1: that are kind of talking about superficial material stuff. Am

794
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Speaker 1: I around people that are kind of putting points on

795
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Speaker 1: the board of how rich they are, how big they're,

796
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Speaker 1: you know, how fast their cars are, how many vacations

797
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Speaker 1: they take, or talking about deeper and more meaningful things.

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Speaker 1: Am I around people that are filled with scorn and

799
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Speaker 1: bitterness and revenge and anger. Around people that are filled

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Speaker 1: with peace and love. Your environment is one of the

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Speaker 1: ways that Satan finds an on ramp, and including your

802
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Speaker 1: music too. For me, in the work that I do,

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Speaker 1: I've caught out almost all secular music. And and by

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Speaker 1: the way, I'm not saying that if you look secular

805
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: music you're a bad person. But for me, music is

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Speaker 1: one of the ways that I really am able to

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Speaker 1: kind of get incantations of truth. I'm like, you know what,

808
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 1: I just need to listen to praise music and scripture music.

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Speaker 1: Too much going on, I'm not going to be able

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Speaker 1: to handle all this other stuff. And for young people

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Speaker 1: in particular, that's important. Same thing for and we all

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Speaker 1: know this. There's a television show, a movie, a comedian

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Speaker 1: a YouTube series that all of us could identify right

814
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 1: now that is an on ramps for Satan, all of us,

815
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Speaker 1: we could all pick one, right, one of those things

816
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Speaker 1: where all of a sudden you're like, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: that puts me in kind of a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a state of disobedience to the Lord. And that's not

819
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Speaker 1: to say you can't have any fun. That's not to

820
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Speaker 1: say that you have to always just kind of shield

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Speaker 1: yourself at all times from everything always out there. But

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Speaker 1: just ask God for wisdom. I'll give it to you

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Speaker 1: generously in James one to five. But you know exactly

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Speaker 1: those types of those things that you have to remove

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Speaker 1: from your life for those on ramps for Satan. The

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Speaker 1: third thing, and this is an important one which I

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Speaker 1: think that this church does a good job of, but

828
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Speaker 1: the general American corporate Christianity does not do a good

829
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Speaker 1: enough job of because they're afraid people are just gonna

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Speaker 1: walk out of which is Satan loves to seize an

831
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Speaker 1: unrepented sin, especially sexual sin and sin of the flesh,

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Speaker 1: which is sins of the flesh is where Satan is

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Speaker 1: the master right where it be sins of things you

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Speaker 1: can touch and you can feel and member Satan loves

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Speaker 1: to hold that against you, right the serpent in the

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Speaker 1: grass loves to say, like, man, your failure time and

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Speaker 1: time again shows that you should you might as well

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Speaker 1: just give it up and just get drunk every single night.

839
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: He wants to bring you down by how awful and

840
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Speaker 1: terrible that you believe you are. But you know what's

841
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Speaker 1: amazing is that once Jesus Christ forgives your sin at

842
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Speaker 1: that moment, he will never mention that sin to you again.

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Speaker 1: He will never hold that against you. He will never

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Speaker 1: say that you are anything but a son of his

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Speaker 1: and that you are born into attorney. It is wiped clean.

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Speaker 1: And so the devil isn't like that. The devil will

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Speaker 1: hold that fourth grade blunder of spilling orange juice on

848
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 1: your friend against you. That becomes your identity and you'll

849
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: never get past that, and he uses it as a

850
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 1: means of control, as a way to keep you in

851
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: a perpetual, open air prison sentence. And so the butt

852
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: in one thousand times in the Old Testament is repentance

853
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: one thousand times. I think that the Church has to

854
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: get more serious about repentance. I think that we have

855
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: to get more serious about repenting our own sin and

856
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: things we've done wrong. It doesn't have to be done publicly,

857
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: but repentance is some of the most It's so freeing

858
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 1: and it's liberating, and it closes off the on ramps

859
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: because you remember, Satan is the master of lies. Are

860
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,240
Speaker 1: you lying to yourself about a sin that you're committing?

861
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: Are you lying to yourself about a pattern that you're

862
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: in that you know deep down is not good for you?

863
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 1: But then all of a sudden you kind of do

864
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: the justification thing. Yeah, I mean it's fine that I

865
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 1: get drunk every single night. I provide for the family

866
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: and like, it's whatever, right, it's not a big deal.

867
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: It's okay that I swear all the time or I

868
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 1: gossip because I'm a good person. Are you kind of

869
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 1: in that moral justification range? You're like, God, man, I

870
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,439
Speaker 1: need your mercy and your grace. I'm not even close

871
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,240
Speaker 1: to where I need to be right now. Satan doesn't

872
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: like that. As soon as you repent, you are building

873
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: a wall that makes it harder for Satan to take

874
00:42:55,680 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: season your mind and to capture where you are. So

875
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: now let's talk about in closing, I'm going to go

876
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: a little overtime, just a little bit, not a lot.

877
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 1: How do we counter it? What can we do? So

878
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 1: those are three ways Satan takes hold of our mind

879
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: in the spiritual war. And what else can we do

880
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 1: to actually be able to achieve a peace of mind

881
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,760
Speaker 1: and a sound mind? And I want to just reiterate

882
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: our goal. Then the devil left him. How many of

883
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: you right now would love to have that happen for

884
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 1: you right now? I'm sure there are seasons, right there

885
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: are seasons where we feel more at peace than others.

886
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: There's season because that Satan is not constant, right, but

887
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: God is constant. So a couple things of how we

888
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: can counter it, which is number one is prayer. This

889
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: church is a great prayer church. In fact, I want

890
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 1: to compliment you and encourage you. You are a phenomenal

891
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: prayer church and you need to do more of it

892
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: and continue to do what you're doing, because again, if

893
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: we do not get in this position of vulnerable prayer,

894
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: of letting the Lord just capture who you are and

895
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: your spirit, then we're always going to be bonded to

896
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 1: the earth. Now, my favorite prayer in the entire Bible

897
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: is three words. It was said by one of the

898
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: women that Jesus healed, and it was very simple, Lord

899
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: help me, Lord help me. That's it. Now, let me

900
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: be very clear. Your prayers must be sincere. They do

901
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: not have to be sophisticated. You do not have to

902
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: write a doctoral thesis submitted to Stanford with citations and

903
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: footnotes of all the different biblical citations as to be

904
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: just Lord help me, Lord help me. And that sort

905
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:40,800
Speaker 1: of sincere, broken down prayer is exactly one of the

906
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 1: ways that we counter this onslaught of spiritual warfare. Number

907
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: two is dig into the word and know it is

908
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 1: the Word of God. And this right here is a

909
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: USB drive waiting to be inputed and downloaded into your

910
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: operating system to protect you from the ransomware and malware

911
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: attacks against the enemy. It's waiting for you, it says,

912
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: please download it. Please, it's waiting for you. Just to

913
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: download it, because as soon as you do, you start

914
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: memorizing scripture, you're filled with the word offics and you go, oh,

915
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 1: I know what's happening here. You start to understand the

916
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: terrain of which this battle is being fought on. Then

917
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: number three, which is very very important, which is James

918
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: four seven, submit yourselves. Then to God and resist the devil,

919
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: and he will flee from you, not that he will

920
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: walk away, not that he'll just kind of like, oh okay,

921
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: what a flee? Whoa? When you flee, you're in danger.

922
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 1: That means submission to the Lord, obedience to his commands.

923
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: He flees and he runs audio Satan have a nice day,

924
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: like gets out. Now understand you are not again. You

925
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 1: are not going to be able to do this, but

926
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: submission and obedience to Lord, follow his commands. You are

927
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: going to fall short. But here's my one challenge to you.

928
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 1: In the next day or two days, can you try

929
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: your best and you're going to fail at this. We

930
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: all will to try to make your sins accidental sins.

931
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: To try to make your sins missteps, not deliberate, pre

932
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: planned and purchase sins. What I mean by that like,

933
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: for example, if you all of a sudden have your

934
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: buddies together and you're like, hey, we're going to go

935
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: on a trip, we're going to visit a strip club,

936
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:15,359
Speaker 1: We're gonna get really drunk, and you plant it out.

937
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: That is pre planned. That is just like, but all

938
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: of a sudden, if you're doing something and you have

939
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 1: a thought and you missed up. Those are accidental, those

940
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: are understandable. The point is, don't build those on ramps.

941
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: Try your best to be obedient to the Lord in

942
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: every single capacity. And then the last thing is this,

943
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:31,839
Speaker 1: which is the best news of all. And then I'm

944
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: going to talk about an earthly example of what we

945
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: need to do right here in this moment, which is,

946
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 1: despite what the devil might be telling you, despite what

947
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 1: those thoughts might be weighing down on you, we are

948
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: promised victory. This is why Satan hates the Book of Revelation.

949
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: He will be thrown into the lake of fire and

950
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 1: he will burn forever. That's his destiny. The harasser, the tormentor,

951
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: the liar, the serpent, the mocker, he will be thrown

952
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 1: into the lake of fire. That battle is over and

953
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,760
Speaker 1: it is done. We are simply just temporary physical manifestations

954
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: of that spiritual war. The scriptures say very clearly. But

955
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 1: the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and

956
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: protect you from the evil one. It says in John

957
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 1: sixteen thirty three, I have told you these things that

958
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 1: you may have peace. But then all of a sudden,

959
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 1: there's a part of the scriptures that we don't talk about.

960
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: In this world. You will have trouble in this world.

961
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: You will have trouble in this world. You will have trouble.

962
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: Jesus is saying, you're gonna have trouble. If you think

963
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: it's unique that you're being harassed right now by the

964
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: evil One, it's not unique. He said, you're gonna have trouble.

965
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 1: But then Jesus says, but take heart, I've overcome the world.

966
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: Take cart, I've overcome the current governor, mayor president of

967
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 1: this earth that's called say. I've overcome all of that.

968
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: And now I'm going to close on what we have

969
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 1: to do right now, because we not just have to

970
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: pray and repent and read. We have to be aggressive

971
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,240
Speaker 1: and offensive to launch a counter offensive against what Satan

972
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: has done here, which and some people here today might say, Charlie,

973
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: this message doesn't really apply to me. Charlie, I don't

974
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: quite get it. And you know what, maybe it's because

975
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: you've already been doing all these things and you've been

976
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: walking in obedience, or maybe you're not taking enough terrain

977
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: and Satan doesn't deem you a threat. Not every person

978
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 1: is harassed equally. Not every person has harassed equally because

979
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: he's got limited resources. And the people that are harassed

980
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 1: the most are the ones that are taken the most ground.

981
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 1: If you're not harassed, maybe you've mastered all this and

982
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: I got a lot to learn from you. Or maybe

983
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 1: this is a reason for you to get more in

984
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: the fight and go take more terrain from the enemy.

985
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: So let me close with this, only two minutes over time.

986
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: Let me close with this. The type of counter offensive

987
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:52,800
Speaker 1: that we need to launch can best be metaphorically depicted

988
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 1: in World War Two at a certain moment. World War two,

989
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: I believe was one of our nation's greatest moments, where

990
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,280
Speaker 1: we send and hundreds of thousands of our own citizens

991
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: to never fight on our own land or our own soil,

992
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,800
Speaker 1: but for the betterment and for the good of the

993
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 1: world and for other nations outside of Pearl Harbor. No

994
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: part of World War Two was fought on our own shores,

995
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: and that was preempted against us. And so after d Day,

996
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 1: Allied forces of the French and the British, Canadians and Americans,

997
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 1: we were on the march. We were liberating french Town.

998
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 1: After French Town, I'm sure this church is felt on

999
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: the March at some time right building auditoriums, look around you,

1000
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: how blessed you. It's unbelievable winning souls for Christ. You

1001
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 1: have force equals mass times acceleration is momentum. Right where

1002
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: you have mass and you are moving fast. We all

1003
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 1: know a season where we have momentum. That's what was

1004
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: happening right after we won on D Day. The bad guys,

1005
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 1: the National Socialist Worker Party, they were on defense. They

1006
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 1: were losing town after town after town after town. In fact,

1007
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: it looked as if victory was inevitable. We were heading

1008
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 1: into the winter. It looked like, no way, are they

1009
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 1: not going to waive the surrender flag. George Patton was

1010
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: so confident, confident of this, he went to Paris just

1011
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 1: to kind of go enjoy Paris because we liberated Paris.

1012
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 1: But evil hates it when they get put on defense.

1013
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: Evil as soon there's gonna be a moment where all

1014
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Allied forces thought they were going

1015
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 1: to enjoy Christmas. Allied forces thought they were going to

1016
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 1: be able to enjoy Belgium in northeast France and just

1017
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: have a nice little chance to take a breath and

1018
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: maybe not have to lose their friends or lose their

1019
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: loved ones. But then the most unexpected all out counter

1020
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 1: offensive from the enemy towards the good guys occurred in

1021
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,400
Speaker 1: the Ardennes Forest, which is known as the Battle of

1022
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:44,839
Speaker 1: the Bulge out number ten to one, full out Blitzkreek,

1023
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: the leader who I refuse to say his evil name

1024
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: of the National Socialist Workers Party, who might be the

1025
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: closest to the devil incarnate that we can look at

1026
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,439
Speaker 1: in the next one hundred years, who basically satisfied every

1027
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: single one of those things that executed a plan and

1028
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,919
Speaker 1: methodical and mechanize murder of a certain type of people,

1029
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 1: and also God's chosen people. Hated it when he got

1030
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,760
Speaker 1: put on defense, hated it when all of a sudden

1031
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: terrain was taken. He said, that's it. I'm gonna try

1032
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 1: to take every single one of them down with me.

1033
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:13,959
Speaker 1: His generals thought he was nuts. Now, remember, a sound

1034
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:16,320
Speaker 1: mind is not something that is a characteristic of Satan.

1035
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: He said, I don't care go after the art Den.

1036
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:20,800
Speaker 1: We're going to go retake the port city in Belgium.

1037
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 1: We're going to turn the course of the war. They

1038
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 1: will never take Germany. American forces were put on defense

1039
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 1: they're put on their heels. I'm sure a lot of

1040
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: you feel this way right now, where all of a

1041
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 1: sudden it's under attack, under attack, and even though you

1042
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: know you're going to win, it's really awful. So they

1043
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 1: knew they were going to win. They knew that it

1044
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 1: wasn't a matter of whether or not victory was there,

1045
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: it was why are you harassing me? Why are you

1046
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 1: killing my friends? Why are of all of a sudden

1047
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: you're bombing us? And they said, we're not sure what's

1048
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 1: going We just want to win this war because we

1049
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: know victory is inevitable, but it feels like hell. It

1050
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:52,800
Speaker 1: was cloudy. Therefore, no ability to bomb the enemy forces

1051
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: was possible, and it was an awful week's long struggle.

1052
00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: And then when all of a sudden, hope was kind

1053
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: of low, lost, of just kind of a trench warfare

1054
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 1: setting in and the Germans were picking off Allied forces.

1055
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: They woke up one day and it was one of

1056
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: the clearest days you could possibly imagine, and the Allied

1057
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: forces bombers couldn't believe their eyes. For forty five miles

1058
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Speaker 1: they saw every single German tank, artillery, piece of equipment

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Speaker 1: and the Allied forces destroyed almost every single piece of

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Speaker 1: German machinery, and out of there broke exactly what you

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Speaker 1: are about to experience, because they knew victor is inevitable,

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Speaker 1: and they were crushed and they were defeated. What I'm

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Speaker 1: getting at right now is that the enemy is always

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Speaker 1: going to try to be launching these all out campaigns,

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Speaker 1: but victory is ours. We are promised that of a

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Speaker 1: sound mind, we are promised that in the scriptures that

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Speaker 1: we are born new. Remember, he is a liar, he

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Speaker 1: is deceitful, he is treacherous, he's a serpent. He might

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Speaker 1: be the king of this world, but he'll be thrown

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Speaker 1: into the lake of fire. If we are serious about

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Speaker 1: saving America and serious about saving our republic, we must

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Speaker 1: now launch that counter offensive against that long, forty five

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Speaker 1: mile train of evil forces, and we are going to win.

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Speaker 1: God bless you guys. Thank you so much.

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