Sermon
What Satan Knows - Greg Gay 4/16/07
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Wonderful to see all those who are able to be here tonight.
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As we continue our gospel meeting.
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I don't know if you've heard the news today or not of goings-on
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in the east coast where in excess of 30 individuals lost
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their lives and tragic shooting in the school.
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Those aren't the only deaths today, of course.
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That have happened as a result of Senseless violence every day.
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Every day, many individuals lose their lives, because someone
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decides to take it. In this city in every city on
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this day crimes, senseless crimes.
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Violent crimes have been committed, four people were
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hurt, things were taken. On this day.
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Individuals decided to steal from the company which they
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work. On this day.
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Individuals have decided to lie. On this day, husbands have
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decided to be unfaithful. Why?
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Yes, I've decided to be unfaithful individuals, young
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and old have decided to be immoral.
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On this day. On every day. when we think
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about, how many days, the Earth has existed, And compare that to
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how many days sin has happened. They're about the same, aren't
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they? They're about the same.
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We don't know how long it was in the Garden of Eden.
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Before Adam and Eve sinned doesn't seem like it was long.
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We don't know. How many days there have been
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without sin? But it's not very many.
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And there are none today. Satan is Alive and Well.
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And his evil influence flourishes in far greater ways
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than we like to think. This is a sermon that I preached
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nearly everywhere I go because I need it.
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And at the same time, this is one of those subjects that is
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absolutely terrifying to me. This is not a happy sermon, it's
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not intended to be, it's intended to be a sermon that
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makes me first and hopefully, everyone else that here's stop.
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And think about the battle that is going on for our souls.
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The relationship between God and Satan fascinating.
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And one reason for this Fascination is because of the
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two extremes that are represented there, there is no
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greater good than God. We know that there's no greater
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evil than Satan. We know that God is the giver
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and bringer of light. Satan is the Prince of Darkness.
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God is the creator. Satan The Destroyer God the
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bread of life that nourishes and sustains Satan.
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The Devourer likened to a roaring lion seeking a meal.
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The contrast is obvious yet that contrast between good and evil
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still forms a relationship that is part of our lives.
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And I think we need to understand the relationship
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between God and Satan. In order for us to be motivated
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and better equipped to serve the Lord.
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Lord and to avoid Satan snares. God's dealings with, Satan are
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very difficult to understand how God could allow Satan to present
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himself to Eve in the garden is beyond my understanding.
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Yet, he did that. I just don't begin to comprehend
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stuff like that. When we think of the
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vulnerability of Adam and Eve. It must be something greater
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than we ourselves are capable of fathoming.
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For all of the things that God has done there.
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I mentioned earlier and I'll mention this, several times
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throughout the meeting because this is an important concept
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that gets lost in religions today, the concept of free will
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Now, we choose whether or not to do this or that or the other, we
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choose whether or not to serve the Lord, and when the Lord
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created mankind, he gave us and he gives us free, will you see
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no one ever forces anyone to serve the Lord?
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No one ever forces anybody to do that we couldn't do that.
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In fact in any given relationship, the only person we
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can control is ourselves. and we kind of fool ourselves when we
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think we control our children, We really only can control
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ourselves and we can only hopefully, positively manipulate
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our children. Now, by the, I don't see
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manipulation as a bad word. I see that as a good word and I
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think it's fine to manipulate somebody as long as you tell
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them, that's what you're doing. And I don't see that, that's a
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problem at all. And so if I know how somebody
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works personality wise and I say, look, I'm going to flatter
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you because that's what I need to do, to get you to do
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something for me. I think that's fine.
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It's cold, hearted manipulation, and that's okay. but, you know,
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What about manipulating people to do wrong?
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Ever seen anybody do that prey on their vulnerabilities.
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Set them up to watch them fall. You know, all of those things
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can happen. How could God allow Eve, the
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crown jewel of all creation to face Satan alone.
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I was told the other night about a TV series that's on right now
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on one of the channels that portrays animals in the wild and
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how these helpless little infant animals, became the prey for an
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animal to carry back to her Young.
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Hmm. Ones feeding on the other.
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Who's feeding on us? Satan wants to.
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He wants to carry God's young to his nest.
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God allows that. He allows us to be tested.
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He allows us to be tempted. and if he allowed it with Adam and
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Eve, what makes us think? We are exempt from that process.
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We are not, we are not at all, he allowed it with job.
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Job was a wonderful man. And how God could allow Satan to
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put job through. So much misery.
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Again, beyond my understanding, yet within the concept of free.
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Will it becomes understandable but it's still very hard to read
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about how God could allow Satan to kill Christ.
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When we read the gospel accounts.
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And look, when Jesus said this is the hour, when darkness
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Reigns Satan was being allowed to have his way upon the Earth.
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God allowed that Now he plunged the world into darkness so it
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would mourn. What mankind would not.
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There are many miracles about the cross where God, displayed
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his great August power. Such as when they all fell down
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in the garden. When they came to get Jesus,
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lots of Miracles. They're displaying the power of
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God, but he still Let Jesus died.
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He still let it happen. And how God could allow Satan to
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do. That is the best thing that ever
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happened to us. You know that As God's people,
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we know that and in a strange and very real way.
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Satan is part of God's plan for mankind.
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You see when God W Satan to be stopped forever.
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He will be. It's one of those things where
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you look in the back of the book and it turns out okay.
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Satan is going to be stopped, forever and forever.
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God has a plan for that. He has a schedule for that but
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that time has not yet come Satan's origin clouded in
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mystery, Isaiah 14:12 there. The Bible reads, how art thou
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fallen from Heaven o, Lucifer, son of the morning, how art thou
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cut down to the ground, which didst weaken, the nation's, for
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thou Hast, said in thine heart, I will Ascend into heaven, I
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will exalt my throne above the stars of God.
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I will sit also upon the Mount of the congregation in the sides
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of the north. I will Ascend above the heights
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of the clouds. I will be like the most high.
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Now that is referring to a ruler of Babel and but it is couched
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in the language of the fall of Satan from his place as an angel
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who was supposed to serve God. And so we see that Satan's fall
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came about because he said I will exalt my throne above the
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stars of God. I will be above you Satan Laird.
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Well, we read of a warning concerning this in 2nd Peter
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chapter 2. Second Peter chapter 2 and verse
2 Peter 2 chapter mention
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4 where the Bible reads for if God spared, not the angels that
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sinned, but cast them down to Hell and delivered them into
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chains of Darkness to be reserved unto judgement.
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God did not spare those angels when they said long long ago,
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Angel saying. And what does that mean?
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Means they also had free will and do have today.
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Angels have free will even today we trust.
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And so when we read about them in Jude verse 6, we find the
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Angels, which kept not their first estate but left their own
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habitation. He hath reserved in Everlasting
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chains, under Darkness unto the Judgment of that, great day.
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And so Angels were created With a territory.
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They were assigned a place a Dominion, a rule.
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And then within that sphere, they had Authority or
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responsibility, and they had a place where they were to stay
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and as long as they stayed there, they were blessed.
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Now, when Jesus was created, when Jesus was born upon the
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Earth, and when Jesus is explained, Jesus has always been
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since Is God, but when the presence of Jesus was explained,
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he is explained in the contextual setting of the
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Angelic host, which was created and it says regarding him in
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Ephesians 1:21, that Jesus is far above all principality and
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power and might and dominion and every name that is named not
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only in this world but also in that which is to come and those
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various names their principality power and might and Dominion are
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different degrees of angels different degrees.
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Use of authority of the Angelic, host different ranks within the
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Angelic Army, if you will. And so there were certain,
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Angels, long, long ago that evidently plotted among
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themselves and decided that they led by Satan.
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We're going to usurp their Authority and overthrow the very
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Throne of God. One who would be an elder is
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reminded of this. In first Timothy chapter 3 and
1 Timothy 3 chapter mention
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verse 6, where Paul told Timothy one who would be an elder is not
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a novice lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the
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condemnation of the devil. Now it appears that that is what
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happened with Satan, he was lifted up with pride.
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And so whenever we see this referred to as a warning, it
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means that one who would be an elder must be very, very
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careful. Lest he also be condemned for
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doing the very same thing that Satan did.
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Now we might think that it was some huge huge sand, that would
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cause Satan to fall from Heaven. And here we see that it was
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something horribly common, the sin of pride.
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Can any of us? Say we have never ever, ever had
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just a little bit of pride in ourselves in our own abilities.
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Hmm. Common everyday.
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Ordinary sins that we are all very painfully painfully.
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Capable of doing. There's this genius Society.
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Men's, I believe it is. Some years ago in the Reader's
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Digest, there was a test, you could take just to see whether
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or not you might be considered for acceptance into that genius
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Society. I took it I didn't score too
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well. They didn't want me.
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I've always considered myself far smarter than my wife.
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She took that test. She did a lot better than I did.
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Thank any Pride was involved if I remember that, 15 years later.
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Hmm, anywhere where we get to think and we're just pretty
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good. That's one of those areas where
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we can really, really be brought down.
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Any of those areas could get us. Not a novice, lest being lifted
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up with pride. Common everyday, ordinary Pride.
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He fall into the condemnation of the devil.
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What must heaven have been like, on that time, long, long ago,
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when there was dissension between God's angels and the
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Lord and his Angelic hosts that were faithful to him revelation
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Evan says, there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels
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fought against the dragon and the dragon fought.
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And his angels and prevailed. Not neither was their place,
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found any more in heaven. And the Great Dragon was cast
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out that old serpent called the devil, and Satan, which
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deceiveth the whole world. He was cast out into the Earth,
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and his angels were cast out with him.
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Heaven is a place of Peace, you know, Heavens, a place of rest.
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Heaven is a place of tranquility and here we find.
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Heaven was a place of War when Satan decided that he was going
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to take God's place. Now, this battle that took place
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was something that God allowed, but the battle that happened was
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between sorry was between. Mean.
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Satan. And Michael the Archangel, the
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Lord allowed that battle to take place.
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Now the Lord's Angel Wong and Satan, and his followers lost
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and they have never been forgiven for that defection.
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There is no Plan of Salvation for Angels, that's revealed in
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the word of God and we trust, there's not one we trust,
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there's not want it all. Now, the angels that remain, I
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mentioned that they have free will.
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How careful are they to keep their appropriate and proper
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place? Let's look at Jude verse 9 and
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we can see a hint of that. It says There Michael the
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Archangel when contending with the devil, he disputed about the
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body of Moses, Durst not bring against him a railing.
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Nation but said the Lord rebuke thee.
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Remember what happened with Moses?
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He committed a sin and he was not allowed into the promised
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land, but the Lord allowed him to see the promised land from
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the mountain. He could see what it was going
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to be like and then he died and the Lord buried him.
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And we are told that no man will know the place of Moses burial
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Somewhere in Time. Satan's influence was such that
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he wanted the body of Moses discovered.
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Now, those who operate in the Unseen realm can see others in
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the Unseen Realm, We're the ones that can't God can see Satan and
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Satan's angels, and it would appear that Satan and his angels
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can see God. And His angels, were the ones
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that are left out here. And so, the Lord dispatch
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Michael, the Archangel to have some type of a spiritual
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confrontation with Satan, some type of a battle between good
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and evil. What is it stake at stake?
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Here is the Ability of the truth of God's word.
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Because if the body of Moses has ever discovered, it means god is
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a liar because God said you will not discover Moses body.
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That's a guarantee. Satan said, oh yeah, I'll show
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you the Lord said, no, I'll show you now.
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Does anybody know where Moses body is today?
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Now, people are still conjecturing about it.
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You know, every year about Easter time somebody Throw
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something out to somehow lend out about the truth of God's
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word. But the fact is, we do not know
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where Moses was buried. Neither are we going to And when
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people say they're going to disprove the word of God,
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they're going to have to get up a lot earlier than Satan because
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he tried and he couldn't do it. Neither can anybody living
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today? The word of God is true?
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It is real. We could depend upon it and we
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can trust and depend upon what it says.
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Now Michael the Archangel is confronting, Satan over the body
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of Moses, over the place of the burial of the body of Moses.
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It says there, he Durst not bring against him, a railing
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accusation. He didn't stand before Satan and
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say as the Archangel of God I rebuke you.
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It is as though he stood to one side and said to Satan the Lord
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rebuke you Who was Michael the Archangel, he was only a
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messenger of the truth. He was not trying to be anybody
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except a messenger, a servant of God.
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I think there's a lesson for all of us to learn there.
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Who are we to tell anybody anything?
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We're nobody, you know, but we can be a messenger of God to
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tell someone, the Lord's message, whether it's a positive
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message, or even a message of rebuke.
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But we never stand before anybody and say, big, I rebuke
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little you. That's not our place, we never
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do that. So why was Mark Michael the
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Archangel? So very, very careful.
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Because angels have free will. He didn't want to make a
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mistake. He didn't want to be lost.
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Trying to do the Lord's will. And so there may be something
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for all of us to learn and take heart from that particular
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battle. Not the only place that a
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similar battle is referred to Zechariah Chapter 3 verses 1 and
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2. He showed me Joshua, the high
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priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing
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at the right hand to resist him. And the Lord said through the
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angel and to Satan the Lord rebuke thee.
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O sated We can see some things that God has allowed Satan to do
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in the Garden of Eden. We do know that Satan was
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allowed to use an animal for his devices.
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He used a serpent there and in the form of a serpent.
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He came before Eve and he said some things to her and he asked
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her a religious question. Now, not everybody that asks
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you, a religious question is religious and righteous sir.
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Satan certainly was isn't ye hath.
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God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the Garden.
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It is the serpent who was more subtle than any beast of the
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field. Satan acting through the
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serpent. The animal saying, these things,
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and before we are very hard on Eve, let us think about this for
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just a moment where we in the Garden of Eden and it was just
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the two Adam and Eve of us. And an animal came up and
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started talking to us. You think we wouldn't answer
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back? Think about it.
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We wouldn't be curious about that.
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I think we would, I think we'd answer back.
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I think we'd be curious. I think we'd see that animals as
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a really smart animal. I think we'd say Hi Neighbor.
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Are you doing? I think we would get involved in
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this, that's what he did. So let's not look at Eve and
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say, well, she did something I wouldn't have done.
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Oh yes. We would have, we would have
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Well, she answered the serpent on her own that got her into
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trouble because she had a helper that she didn't use got her into
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big trouble. And so Satan lied told her she
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wouldn't die as God had said. And then she saw the tree in a
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different light took of the fruit.
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Did he gave to her husband? He did eat.
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And then they were punished by the Lord.
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The woman said, the serpent beguiled me and I did eat lord.
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It's not my fault. It's the serpent.
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It's that serpent. Who made the serpent.
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Lord, you did. It's your fault.
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Adam said the woman thou gavest to be with me, she's the one
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that gave this to me. In other words, this woman you
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made. Lord, she did it.
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It's your fault, both of them. Basically, tried to blame the
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Lord for their own actions, and the Lord didn't know, he didn't
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buy that at all. But here's what happened to the
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serpent. Verse 14 of Genesis 3 because
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thou Hast done this Thou Art, cursed above, all cattle, and
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above every beast of the field upon thy belly, shalt, thou go
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and dust shalt, thou eat. The days of thy life.
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Now, wait a minute. Don't snakes crawl on the
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ground. Yeah, they do now.
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But they didn't then. And so Somewhere In Time the
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animal that now crawls on its belly like a snake was an
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upright animal. And God said to the animal, your
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punishment is to crawl on the ground.
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One of these days, somebody looking through Rock remains of
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animals, are going to see something like a walking snake
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and they're going to say see here's a missing link somewhere
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and Bible students are going to say no, this may just be the
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skeleton of a snake before the fall.
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Snakes were upright, but they're not now.
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Verse 15 is directed to Satan. I will put enmity between the
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woman and between between thee and the woman and between thy
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seed, and her seed, it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt
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bruise his heel. This is Genesis 3:15, the first,
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Messianic prophecy, the first Prophecy of the Messiah, the
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first prophecy of Christ, this is where God is saying one of
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these days. Satan, you're going to have a
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battle and you're going to lose And so for everyone, that was
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ever born Satan, then wondered, is this the one?
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As every boy, child was born, is he the one that's going to
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battle me and I'm going to lose for every girl, child that was
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born. Is she going to Bear the wrong?
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Who will battle me? And I will lose.
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And so one after another Satan viciously attacked every boy and
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girl who was ever born. Just as soon as they could
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recognize the difference between right and wrong and just like
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dominoes. Knows we all fell.
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All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
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We don't need to inherit sin as some religions, would say we do
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from Adam that's foreign to the Bible.
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We don't need to inherit anyone's in, we will have enough
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of our own thank you because of our own actions.
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And that's true of every one of us who have ever lived except
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for Jesus Christ. He's different than us and all
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we can thank God for that. Look at the intelligence, God,
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allow Satan By inspiration were told about The Wiles of the
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devil and Ephesians 6 verse 11. The word Wiles means a cunning
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craft a device, a strategy. So Satan has a plan for everyone
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Revelation, 20 verse 10. Tells us that Satan is a
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deceiver. He's a Seducer.
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He's out to lead us astray. It takes a plan.
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It takes a plan to be the deceiver.
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Second Corinthians 2 verse 11. Let's say And should get an
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advantage of us for. We are not ignorant of his
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devices so that which Satan does is well, thought out and long
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considered how to get us to fall like him.
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First, Peter 5 verse 8, be sober be vigilant because your
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adversary, the devil as a roaring lion walketh about
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seeking whom. He may devour the word devour is
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from Qatar which means down and Pinot.
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Which means to drink. He wants to drink us down.
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He wants to consume Our lives. Our thoughts, our bodies, our
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souls for all of eternity. He wants us to be lost like him
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wherever we are prideful. Satan is gleeful wherever we are
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weak. He knows where ever, we are
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struggling. He knows where we have given in
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to Temptation in the past. He knows.
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He knows so much about us not that he can read minds.
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I don't believe. But that he never gives up.
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And he has a sense of urgency as though.
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Time were short to Everyday, bombard us with everything, he
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possibly can to get us to fall. And then when people do fall, he
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doesn't even quit thin because he wants them to stay down and
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never get up. Never rise above that.
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But with all the things that Satan does know and with all of
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the intelligence that he does have, there are still some
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things that Satan did not know and does not know.
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Satan did not know what God's plan was for mankind.
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You see God can keep a secret. Psalm 78.
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Verse 2 is quoted in Matthew 13, 35, that it might be fulfilled,
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which was spoken by the prophet. I will open my mouth in
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Parables, I will utter things which have been kept secret from
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the foundation of the world. You see God has had Secrets.
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He he's really good about keeping the secret, you know, in
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the office where I work. There's some folks.
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It can really keep a secret and then there's some folks that
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just can't. They just can't do it.
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You can tell them now, don't tell this and they mean well,
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but they just turn around and it just blurts out God's.
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Not like that. If he's going to keep a secret,
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it is kept. His lips are sealed until the
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appropriate time. I think there's an element in
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which God kept the agony of the cross, a secret from Christ.
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At least the depths of that Agony to me.
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There's always been an element of surprise in Jesus Christ from
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the cross, Matthew 27:46, when he said my God, my God.
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Why hast Thou forsaken? Me?
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It's almost as though it was better, it was greater it was
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more horrible more in depth than what he knew.
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God keeps things secret such as the passing away of the End of
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the Age knoweth. No man, no, not the angels of
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heaven, but my father only Matthew 24 verse 36.
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Satan could not know of God's plan about the church, First
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Corinthians chapter 2, verses 7 and 8, but we speak the wisdom
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of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God
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ordained before. For the world unto our Glory,
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which none of the princes of this world knew for had they
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known it. They would not have crucified
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the Lord Of Glory. You see had had evil men known
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what killing Christ would bring about, they wouldn't have done
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that. They would have worked hard to
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keep him alive because it was because of his death that we
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have his burial and his resurrection.
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Proving him to have power over death, hell and the grave.
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They were ever more giving us, the sure hope of our own
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Resurrection from the dead and our own Eternal reward upon
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God's blessings in our life. All this is that great mystery.
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That mystery that dominates. The Bible that is revealed in
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the New Testament times. You see the death of Christ.
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Epitomizes the evil of Satan and the righteousness of God, all at
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the same time and the Lord used that evil, which he allowed to
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bring about his plan. Satan did not know that he was
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shocked. He was surprised when the first
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day of the week came and Jesus walked out of that tomb, We're
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not told what he said, we have no idea, but can't you just
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imagine him saying, oh, now what have I done?
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You see, that was the bruising of Satan's head when Jesus
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walked out of that tomb alive, Satan Was Defeated forever,
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more, and he knew it and there was absolutely nothing that he
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could do to take that away. Way, all he can do.
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Now is try to prevent everybody from believing in the Jesus of
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the empty tomb. That's all he can do is to try
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to get us everyone of us throughout the whole world to
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turn their back on God and his word and the things of the word
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of God, God raised him from the dead acts, 13 and verse 30, and
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by death death is destroyed. Hebrews 2:14 through 18, and it
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is the power of God that raised Jesus from the dead Ephesians
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1:18, through 23, Satan did not know that.
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That is what was going to happen.
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He did not know that the church was how God was going to
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manifest himself through the lives of people that loved and
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will serve him. Satan did not know that and so
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he remains horribly angry about the church.
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Church and when Paul appeared before, King Agrippa to tell
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about the purpose of the preaching of the gospel of
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Christ. The New American Standard
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Version says of Acts 26 verse 18 to open their eyes so that they
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may turn from Darkness to light and from the Dominion of Satan
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to God in order that they may receive forgiveness of sins and
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an inheritance. Among those who have been
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Sanctified by faith in me or when we do what is necessary to
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have forgiveness of our sins. Once we are in the Dominion of
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God and when we have not done, what is necessary to have the
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Forgiveness of our sins, then we are in darkness and we are in
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the Dominion of Satan, and there is no middle ground for anyone.
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Oh, there are those innocence those children who do not know
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the difference between right and wrong, who are in and part of
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the kingdom of God, even though they are not in or part of the
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church. But all, when we know the
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difference between In right and wrong, we choose that which is
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wrong. Then we are saying to Satan, we
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are on your side, we are with you in nailing Christ to the
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cross. And again, we don't look upon
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that with pride because as our brother prayed, we are all weak
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and we have all made mistakes and when we look to our sinful
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past every one of us held the hammer that drove the nails that
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put Christ on the cross, every one of us did that.
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And so we don't look at others who have sinned in their lives
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with pride, because we are simply standing on this, the
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Lord side because we know what to do.
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And we are willing to do it to be forgiven.
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And the Lord be praised that we have had his word revealed
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taught to us. Satan does not know.
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Whether or not we will be his or gods in eternity.
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You see just because we obey the gospel does not mean he ever
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gives up. He just keeps working on us in
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Luke. 22 Jesus has a little conversation with Simon Peter
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and he says they're he revealed something of what was going on
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in the Unseen Realm. He says Simon behold.
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Satan has desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat.
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You remember, how wheat was sifted in those days?
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It would be thrown up into the breeze and the chaff would be
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blown away in the heavier week would settle back to the ground.
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And so it was, Jesus is saying to Simon.
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Peter Satan wants to throw you up in the air and see.
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What You're Made Of. He wants to toss you around, you
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know, that's reminiscent of a long time before when Satan
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appeared before God. And God said, have you
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considered my servant job and in my very loose translation.
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Satan said, let me at him, Let me at him.
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Satan was asking God, it appears in Luke 22 for permission to go
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after Simon, Peter. Listen to what Jesus said.
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He didn't stop it, but verse 32 says Jesus words, but I have
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prayed for thee that thy faith, fail not.
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And when thou art converted strengthen thy brethren, If you
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ever wonder what to pray for. Pray for each other.
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Pray for folks in this congregation and the surrounding
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congregations by name. You see, we never know when the
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person we're praying for is being sifted like we did in
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their life, we never know. God won't stop those
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Temptations. We know that he didn't even
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stop. Simon Peters temptation, but he
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said I've prayed for you that thy faith, fail, not.
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And so we leaned upon the mercy and the grace of God, we beg for
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his providential care to lead us, not in passive, temptation,
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but to Deliver Us from Evil. And what do we want?
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We want the strength to get through the Temptations that
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we're going to be faced with today, just today.
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And sometimes we will never know when our prayer to God on behalf
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of a dear brother, or sister is just what they needed to help
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them through the day. Don't ever wonder what to pray
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for. Pray for each other.
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Pray for ourselves. You see here's God's promise to
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us. God still are Satan.
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Rather still incites people to evil First.
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Corinthians 7 verse 5. He's able to disguise himself as
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an angel of Light. Second Corinthians 11:14, he
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continues to hinder. Christians first Thessalonians,
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2 18, He Still The Prince of the power of the air Ephesians 2
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verse 2 but if we resist the devil, he will.
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Flee James 4 verse 7. Resist the devil and he will
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flee from you. And we are told submit
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yourselves, then to God. Lest there be any confusion when
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Saint happens in our lives. It is our fault James 1:13.
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Let no, man say when he is, tempted, I am tempted of God.
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For God cannot be tempted with evil.
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Neither tempteth. He any man, but every man is
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tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed,
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then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin and sin.
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When it is finished, bringeth forth, death.
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Do not are my beloved Brethren. So where does this end and began
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with us? We can't blame anybody else for
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our trespasses, only ourselves. And so, what do we need to do?
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We need to as a fission for verse. 27 says, neither give
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place to the devil. We need to fill our lives with
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those things that are good. Doing our very best with one
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another's. Help to do those things that are
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right? So that we may turn aside from
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Satan and resist his wives. We thank you for listening to
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our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans.
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