Sermon
Victory Though The Blood 1
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I encourage you to get your Bible out.
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Let's get them up and wave them around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad.
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And let's say this together Say Heavenly Father, I've tuned in tonight because I'm hungry.
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I'm hungry for more of you, and you and your Word are one.
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And so tonight I receive the Word of God as a direct revelation of who you are.
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I want to know you more, I want to have intimate knowledge and experiential knowledge of how great you are, and I thank you for the Word and I thank you for the Holy Ghost in Jesus' name, amen.
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Well, I wanted to continue with a message that I began last week victory through the blood.
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And let's turn in our Bibles to our foundation scriptures 1 Peter, 5 and Revelation, chapter 12.
Revelation 12 chapter mention
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We'll read 1 Peter, chapter 5, verse 8.
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Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour, whom resist steadfast in the faith.
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And also we'll turn back to Revelation.
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I happen to be in the book of Revelation right now in my normal reading.
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A lot of times I'm inspired to.
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What I preach is what I'm reading right now, revelation 12,.
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We'll start with verse 10.
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And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven now has come salvation and strength in the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ, for the accuser of our brethren is cast down.
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It's talking about the devil.
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The accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God, day and night.
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And they overcame him, the accused, in other words the believers.
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They overcame him, the accuser, by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of their testimony, and they love not their lives unto the death.
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Therefore, rejoice ye heavens and ye that dwell in them.
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Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea, for the devil has come down unto you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
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So thank God for the precious blood of Christ, and it's the major key and through faith in the blood, in revelation of what the blood has done and what the blood is doing right now, and that is the major key to overcoming the enemy.
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And so we're gonna cover a few things that we said last week, just to make sure that we all get on the same page.
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But why is he coming down with great wrath?
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Because he knows his time is short.
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He's crazy mad.
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All you have to do is look at the Democrats.
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They're crazy, mad all the time.
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They won the election.
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They say, they say they won the election and they look like they won the election as far as they're all out there doing all the crazy things that they're doing, but they're still mad.
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And so the devil is like a lion.
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He's not a lion.
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There's a major difference between the devil and a lion.
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A lion has got huge teeth, he's got sharp claws, but Jesus knocked all the devil's teeth out at the resurrection.
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And the devil says to the devil you know, there's a lot of things that are just toothless about.
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The worst that can do is gum, you know.
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But there is something they have in common and they are they are dependent on stealth and deception.
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You know, lions are very powerful animal and they are a threat.
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But even they don't just come full on to their prey.
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They, they wet lion weight, they're a roaring lion.
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Well, lions don't roar until after they kill their prey and they're eating them.
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They, they roar in, in, in, not really in celebration, but just to let everybody know hey, I killed this thing.
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You better stay clear until I finish my meal.
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But you know, the devil, as far as roaring.
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He can't roar because he would scare you off.
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No, he, he trash talks, he threatens, he accuses and and so, but he is like the, like the lion, looking for something he can devour.
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In other words, they take advantage of anyone, or the devil takes advantage of anyone that's unaware or sleepy.
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And so we need to be sober and vigilant.
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We need to watch all of the time.
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Our faith in the blood needs to be engaged 24 seven.
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It's just not a time to slack off in your Bible reading and your prayer life.
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Amen, you know, soldiers watch, shepherds watch, believers need to be watching, and so give no place to the devil.
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Ephesians 4, 27.
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It tells me, then, that if we would just do our party, he's going to have a hard time surprising us.
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And so how do we give place to the devil?
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Well, the obvious one is sin, especially unconfessed sin.
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You know, once the sin is confessed, it's washed away.
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So then it's no longer an open door.
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You know it's only when people, you know, do something they're ashamed of and they're and they really don't confess the sin, they don't own up to it, they don't confess it right then, and believe God, according to 1 John 1, 9, to believe that they're forgiven and cleansed.
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And when we delay that, oh, I tell you, when I get to church, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get right with God.
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Or when I get in my prayer closet, I'm gonna get.
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No, you know, the instant you sin right, then you say, oh, I missed it, father, forgive me.
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According to 1 John 1, 9,.
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I confess that and I believe I've received my forgiveness and my cleansing right now, and I mean that sin has gone and that door is closed.
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There's no open door.
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Yeah, but I said last week, and I believe I open it up, not if you confessed it, it's not open.
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So let's, let's keep short accounts with God.
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And then the second way is just a lack of consistency or constancy in prayer.
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You know, if we're just praying, you know, like when we're on our way out of the house early in the morning, on our way to the car, or on our way to the bus stop or whatever, say oh, lord, bless me today, you know that's not a sufficient amount of prayer.
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You got to get up extra early and spend some time in contact with the Holy one, because that's when God can warn you, god can inform you of things that you need to know, and it's not always a voice speaking words.
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Sometimes it's when we pray and we we do our part of Bible reading and prayer.
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You will have what Paul said one time.
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He said I perceive that this voyage is going to be with much hurt, both of the ship and the lading of the ship and of our lives.
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You know, he didn't say that God told him.
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He didn't say I saw a vision.
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He just said I perceive and that's the way I relate to God most of the time I just perceive things.
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I perceive because my spirit is built up and I keep it built up on a daily basis, and that way my spirit is sensitive and if there is an enemy attack, I'm going to smell it, I'm going to sense it, I'm going to perceive it.
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Sense is the wrong word because it's not through our five senses, it's a perception, it's a spiritual knowing.
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You know down in your knower something's not quite right and then you're on alert.
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You start to pray in a, in a holy ghost, praying that, praying tongues, and you buying the devil and you're going to pray in and head him off to where and above, to his home.
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And so then we talked about overcoming.
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We overcome by the blood of the lamb.
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That is faith, faith in the blood, knowing your covenant.
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See, the covenant means to cut, and the greatest document ever written is the new covenant.
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You'll spend your time reading the new covenant.
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Yeah, I read the old covenant some, but read the new covenant.
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That's your, that's your covenant, especially the epistles, all of the verses that say in Christ, in whom, through whom, those are yours, those you know.
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All the Bible is is for you, but not all the Bible is to you.
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The epistles are written to you and for you, and so we need to read them and we need to study them and we need to be in them on a constant basis in our prayer life.
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And and as you do that, then you you've got.
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You've got faith in the blood act in the 24, 7, your conscious of your covenant.
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And then, of course, he said they overcome them by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony and other words apply the blood with our mouth.
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We talked about that last week.
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Like, like the Israelites, you know, on the night when the death angel pass through Egypt and killed all the firstborn of the Egyptians, the Jews killed the pass over the lamb and dipped a hisso branch in the blood of that lamb and struck their doorposts, and they filled the threshold with blood and the death angel passed over their dwelling place.
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If they had not been marked by the blood, then they would have been vulnerable to the death angel.
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He would not have known, and they would have been visited by by something that God didn't want them to have.
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So so we need to apply the blood with words.
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We need to speak out of our mouth the blood of Jesus, our faith in the blood of Jesus.
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It's not just mental, but we have to speak it, and that's your mouth, is the hisso.
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Another thing that I remember years ago, 40 some odd years ago I heard Derek Prince on the radio and he was talking about these verses and he said they overcame with the word of their testimony.
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In other words there, the word of their testimony of what the blood has purchased for them.
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So he gets back to your covenant, you, there's no substitute for Bible knowledge, revelation, not just head knowledge, getting it down in your spirit and speaking it forth.
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You have to speak it.
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And then the last one is they love, not their lives, unto the death.
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And so a victorious warrior must be an obedient servant, in other words, yielded to God, dead to criticism, dead to praise.
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I mean, your life is not your own, you live your life.
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You know you're a son of God, but you live as a servant.
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You, you're ready to do whatever he bids.
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Jesus is your Lord, he's your master.
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If you know that he you're to do something, you don't delay, you obey.
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I mean, does a soldier get by with disobeying an order?
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No, they go to the brig.
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And I think in our society that, and especially in America, where we live in such a loose condition, a lot of times we know that we're supposed to do a thing and we put it off.
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Well, it's kind of hard.
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Well, it's gonna be awkward.
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Well, I don't know if how they're gonna think of what they're gonna think about.
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See, let's, let's, let's take.
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When we know that God wants us to do a certain thing, let's do it right then, and let's not wait, let's not put it off.
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And so that's part of loving, not your life unto the death.
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It's not so much about dying for Jesus, it's about dying to the desires of your flesh, amen.
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And so then, last week also, we talked about pleading the blood, and what a powerful idea that is, you know.
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So the word plead there doesn't mean beg, but it means to strive, to contend or to conduct a legal case.
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You see, our covenant is a legal document and now it's been written in our hearts and it's legal.
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But everything that's legal doesn't necessarily happen.
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You know, we have, we have a part to play in that legal.
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We call it the legal side of redemption, and then we call the vital side of redemption in Vca, which is Latin for according to life, I like to say it this way the functional side of redemption.
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In other words, what have we received by faith, what have we activated, what have we applied by faith in the word concerning our covenant?
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And so when you know what belongs to you, you can go and conduct a legal case.
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When the devil is attacking you, you can plead the blood because they know devil, you can't put this symptom on me.
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Jesus was wounded for my transgression.
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He was bruised.
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My iniquities himself bear my sicknesses, took my infirmities.
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See, plead the blood.
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And by pleading you're not saying that you're begging, you're, you're going before the throne of God, where the mercy seat is, and that's where the blood is still there, the blood of Jesus that was shed on this earth.
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Jesus took it.
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He took it to heaven and deposited it in the mercy seat in the throne of God.
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And so when we do a legal contest and we contest the devil and oppose him on legal terms, by faith, I'm telling you, so powerful, we overcome him.
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We overcome him.
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He has to relax, amen.
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Oh, I tell you.
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And then the last one we talked about last week was holding the blood.
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Holding the blood over stubborn situations, things that just seem like they hang on and they hang on and they hang on.
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You know, there's been a lot of those kind of things in my life where I've had to just hold the blood.
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What do you mean?
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Holding blood?
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It's kind of an old-timers, you know a Pentecostal kind of a term, but there's truth in it.
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I liken it to liquid wrench.
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I don't know if you have any in your cupboard or your garage, I have a can of it.
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I don't do very much mechanic work anymore, but I know one thing if you have a rusted nut on a boat I used to do a lot of work on cars and I use liquid wrench or what they call penetrating oil and so you got a boat, a nut that's stuck on a boat and it's rusted on there and you start trying to crank down on it.
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A lot of times it's just tight quarters, you know you can't really get a lot of force on it.
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And so you squirt that penetrating oil, that liquid wrench.
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It's just a liquid.
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You put it on there and wait for 10 or 15 minutes, and then what I'd do is I'd do it again, you know, I'd put some more on there, wait another 10 seconds, take a while, and then you know, when you hit that wrench on that nut and you break it loose, it just comes right off.
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And so that's kind of what holding the blood does.
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It makes the devil relax his grip on the circumstance that he's afflicting you with, whether it's some trouble in your marriage or trouble with your children or something trouble in your health, whatever it is.
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You know, smith Wigglesworth said years ago.
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He said his experience with most Christians is they quit too soon.
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Yeah, they didn't use the liquid wrench, they didn't use the blood, they didn't, they didn't hold the blood against this situation long enough to see the victory come.
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I tell you, there's victory through the blood If we know how to apply it and not quit too soon.
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I mean, well, it didn't happen overnight.
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Well, a lot of things don't happen overnight and we don't want to faint.
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And there it gets back to our Bible reading every day and also our prayer life.
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You know, I'm not going to preach about the barn.
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I was just listening to someone talk about the Barna Group latest survey of evangelical Christians.
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It was done in 2020 during the COVID, and they were really trying to find out about the COVID thing, but they asked a lot of other questions and I was pretty shocked to hear some of the reports that that most Christians over 75% never read their Bible.
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They were talking about evangelical Christian over 75% never read their Bible.
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Is there any doubt, then, as to why the church is asleep and why the church is so ineffective and some would even say feckless?
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I mean, in their response to overreach by government leaders and how they're not don't seem to be outraged at all.
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They just seemed like, you know, like weak little lambs.
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That's because they are weak.
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They don't read their Bibles.
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Oh, I take folks at first.
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The time when we've got to get our Bible reading in is right now, because we've got to have faith in the blood of Jesus all the time and and so holding the blood.
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Now, tonight, I want to talk about believing God for loved ones.
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Believing God for loved ones, I tell you we're all have that in our, in our hearts.
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I mean whether it's a parent, or whether it's a sibling, or whether it's a child, a grandchild, nieces, nephews, cousins, whatever that case may be, we, we all have that concern.
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And let's look at Hebrews, chapter 11.
Hebrews 11 chapter mention
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And I believe I can help us gain some faith for believing for our loved ones.
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Hebrews, chapter 11.
Hebrews 11 chapter mention
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And we'll read in verse 30 Hebrews 11 30 by faith, the walls of Jericho fell down after they were accomplished about seven days.
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By faith, the harlot, rahab, perish not with them, that believe not when she had received the spies with peace.
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So you know the story.
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Joshua led the children of the Israel across the Jordan this is the second generation and they conquered the greatest city on the face of the earth.
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It was more defended, more more fortified than any city.
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The walls were big enough to drive chariots on top of them.
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And yet the walls fell down.
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They just recessed down in the earth and they went in and they destroyed every man, woman and child and animal in the city, except for Rahab and her family Now.
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So go back now to the book of Joshua, chapter six, and let's go back to where it records this.
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That is recorded.
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See, rahab, who was not Jewish, she's a Gentile.
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She gets mentioned in the hall of fame of faith.
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I mean, this woman wasn't, wasn't technically, she was not a covenant woman.
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She didn't have a covenant and she had no right to ask.
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But she did, and she got a promise from one of the, from the two spies.
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Joshua, chapter six have you found it yet?
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In verse 17.
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And this is Joshua telling the soldiers and the city shall be accursed, even if and my work margin says devoted.
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In other words, it was the first city in the Canaan land.
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And so God said I don't want you to keep any of it for yourself, none of the spoil.
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Destroy all of it and basically offer it to me as a tithe of the spoil you're gonna get later.
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And so he said the city shall be devoted, even if and all that is there into the Lord, only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her.
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Listen to this Rahab the harlot shall live, and she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
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Verse 22,.
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But Joshua said unto the two men that had spied out the country go into the harlot's house and bring out from there the woman and all that she has, as you swear unto her.
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And the young men that were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father.
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Now everybody else is dead.
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Every man, woman and child in that city was dead.
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All the animals were dead.
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All the spoil was broken up and on fire, but Rahab and her entire family and all of her stuff, her furniture, her rugs, her doilies, whatever she had Most of you don't know what a doily is, all right.
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And so he brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brother and all that she had.
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And they brought out all her kindred, cousins, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephews, nieces, and left them outside the camp of Israel.
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And they burned the city with fire and all that was there in, only the silver and the gold and the vessels of brass and iron.
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They put into the treasury of the house of the Lord and Joshua saved Rahab, the harlot, alive, and her father's household and all that she had.
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And she dwelled in Israel even unto this day because she hid the messengers which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
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And so what we see here is, by faith, rahab was saved and her extended family, just her immediate family, no, all of her family and her servants.
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What doesn't say that, with everything that she had, that included her servants, which typically were slaves, that's right.
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Slavery was existed in Bible days.
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Slavery was common all over the world.
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Slavery was common everywhere.
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All this talk about slavery and how horrible.
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Well, yeah, it's horrible, but it was not unusual, I mean, you know, to make America suffer over its history.
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Why don't you go through Europe?
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Why don't you go through everywhere and condemn everybody?
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Because that's the way it was Conquered.
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People wanted to live, and so they sold themselves or allowed themselves to be sold into slavery.
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It was the way that they could survive, otherwise they died.
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A whole lot of these people did die, and she was saved alive, anyway.
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So it says here that all of her stuff, I mean her furniture and everything that she owned was spared, and the Bible says that she survived and lived in Israel all the way through.
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She was in the Promised Land and was blessed and not a covenant woman.
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None of her family were covenant people, and what was the source of their protection?
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How was it that they got delivered.
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Well, let's go back to Joshua, chapter two.
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I want you to see, this is so powerful.
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Verse 12, here she's talking to the two spies.
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This is when Joshua sent the two spies, you know, and they're waiting to hear, get a report.
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And so they go over there.
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And of course they were waiting for them.
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And so she had to hide them.
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And she risked her life, there's no question about it.
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She risked her life to hide them.
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And then she said, in verse 12, now, therefore, I pray, you talking to the two spies, swear unto me by the Lord, since I have showed you kindness, that you will also show kindness under my father's house and give me a true token.
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Give me a true token.
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In other words, I want something besides just your word.
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I want something besides the handshake buddy.
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I mean, I'm sticking my neck out, it's out there.
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When you leave, I'm sitting still here, if I survive, when you come back.
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So I want a true token.
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And so in then, verse 18, behold, when we come into the land, this is the two spies.
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You shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by.
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See, she let them down over the wall.
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She lived next to the wall and they went out that window, down the wall, and escaped.
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So bind this thread in your window, this scarlet thread, and you shall bring your father, your mother, your brother and all your father's household home unto thee, praise God.
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And so that was the true token.
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It was a scarlet thread.
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So now get a picture of this.
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You know is meditating on this.
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You know, meditate on all these things, meditate on it, think about it.
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How it was right, what it felt like, what was it like if I was right there, watching with house, taking notes and watching what everybody?
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Well, you know, this didn't happen overnight.
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She had, she had a ball of scarlet twine thread and that's all she had as proof that she had made a covenant with Israel and they and she had to trust it that Joshua, who was the boss, is going to honor their treaty.
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I mean, they cut a covenant with her and they promised her, they swore by their God, and all she had was a ball of yarn.
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And so it didn't happen that day or the next day or the next week.
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It was weeks and weeks, probably months, because what had to happen?
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Well, they had to travel all the way back to the camp.
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Then the camp had to cross the river Jordan, then they circumcised.
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They had to get over the circumcision and all of that.
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It was weeks.
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And then they're marching around the city and now she, she says Homer, where's that, where's that scarlet thread?
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Well, I had it laying right here on the on the windowsill.
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What did you do?
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Well, I saw it.
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I didn't know what it was.
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I put it in the bureau drawer.
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Oh, don't you dare touch that.
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That's we got to have that.
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Oh, did you get it dirty with your own dirty hand?
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I know that's not in the Bible, but it was in my meditation.
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That's how I was thinking about it.
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I was thinking about poor old Homer I don't know whatever his name was, had to be a man and messing it up already.
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But anyway, she rolls that thing out, puts it in the window.
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That's the only way they know not to destroy her house, not to burn it with fire, not to drag them out and kill them.
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Was that scarlet thread?
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Of course it stands for what.
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It stands for the blood.
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It stands for the blood Hallelujah.
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Why?
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Because blood covenant men made a covenant with her Glory to God.
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Come on, let's just thank the Lord right now for the blood.
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Oh, thank God for the blood, for the blood, for the blood, for the blood, hallelujah.
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So she had a true token and over and over the Bible after this, mentions her family being safe and living there.
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You know, years ago I was taking notes, jeannie Wilkerson, who was a prayer warrior and a teacher that was connected to brother Hagen and taught at Ramah Lot and the Bible school.
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She testified that the Lord had spoken to her one time and he said to her tell my people not to be concerned for lost loved ones, missing the rapture.
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He said I'll wrestle them in their bed if I have to Just mention them in prayer name their names.
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Release the true token of the word over them.
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Praise God, release the true token of the blood, of the word.
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Concerning the blood.
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Praise God.
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But they're not safe, but you are.
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I mean, rahab wasn't technically saved either.
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She didn't have a covenant, but God is the one who's going to be the one who's going to be the one who's going to be the one who's going to be the one who's going to be the one who is going to be the one who's going to be the one who's going to be the one who's going to be in prayer, and Gaga does know, but God spared her.
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And God will spare our loved ones if we'll just mentioned them in prayer.
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Praise God.
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I think it about, about brother Hagen's testimony, about his brother Doug.
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You know he had a brother who was not saved and he said you know, I'd pray over dub, sometimes I'd fast God, and you know, of course, he got over into the Word of faith.
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He began to learn about our authority, the authority of the believer.
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He was teaching that and one day the Spirit of God spoke to him and says you know, you need to do something about his salvation.
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You've got more to do about it than I do.
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What in the world?
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Why did God say that?
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Because God had already done everything necessary.
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He'd already sent Jesus to the cross.
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Is Jesus going to come back down here just for the?
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I mean, it's not necessary.
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What's wrong with dub?
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Dub hadn't heard.
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So bind the devil.
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In other words, use the authority of the believer.
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It's our loved ones.
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Bind the devil.
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What's wrong?
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Why hasn't he gotten saved?
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Well, the Bible says in 2 Corinthians that their minds are blinded by the God of this age.
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So bind the devil, bind the God of this age from blinding their minds.
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Loose them to receive the glorious gospel of Christ.
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Pray to laborers into their pathway that will talk to them about Jesus.
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We can do all of that without even praying.
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We can say it, we can bind, we can loose, we can, we can speak and we can mention their name and prayer.
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Oh Father, thank you that dub is saved.
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You know, from then on, for the next couple of weeks, he just he.
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He prayed about it one time, or really said it one time, and then the rest of the time he was thank God that he was, that he was saved.
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You just said I see him.
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Save, lord, thank you.
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In about three weeks they got noticed that he wasn't even anywhere where brother, brother Hagan, could be the witness to him.
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How many he wasn't.
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He wasn't the instrument that God used to get that man saved.
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Somebody else, somewhere else, did it and led him to the Lord and he got saved and they forgot all of his life.
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And so we can do the same thing, because we have a true token and the blood of Jesus has been shed for us and we have authority to break the power of the devil.
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God wants our loved ones save he want.
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You know, I read Psalm 68.
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I had to glide on this many years, 35 years, almost 40 years ago I was reading Psalm 68.
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God sets the solitary in families.
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You know, in Gladys and her family she had a big family of eight.
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There was seven brothers and sisters besides her and so eight in her family and hardly any of them were saved.
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None of them served God.
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She was.
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She got saved a little while after her daddy died and Jesus said I came to her.
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She was crying on her front porch and Jesus so tender, he and she gave her heart to Jesus, walked down the aisle the next Sunday but Jesus said I'll be your daddy and comforted her and she gave her heart to Jesus.
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When she's 10 years old she was the only one in the house that was saved and she, god, set the solitary in that family, just one person, and I've seen that over all these 40 years of watching and many times there's just one member of the family that's saved and then they pray everybody else in.
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You know, and and I I know that's happened in my family, it's happened in, it happened in her family.
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I'm just about all of her brothers and sisters got saved and she's got two brothers left alive, and all the rest of them are in heaven now, and we know they went to heaven because they had a witness, praise God.
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So let's look back at Joshua again and see something about the blood.
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And this is a Rahab talking to the two spies.
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And she said unto the men I know that the Lord has given you the land and that your terror is falling upon us and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you, for we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you.
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That happened 40 years before they're talking about events that happened 40 years.
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We heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt and what he did under the two kings of the Emirates that were on the other side Jordan, zion and Og whom you utterly destroyed.
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They were giants, by the way, giants.
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One of them had six toes on each and six fingers on each hand, six toes on each foot.
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They were freaks, they were huge, and so they were destroyed.
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They hung them up on a tree until nighttime and then they took them down and put them in a cave and rolled a stone away.
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And so they heard about all that.
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And as soon as we had heard verse 11, these things, our heart did melt.
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Neither did there remain any more courage in any man because of you for the Lord, your God.
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He is God in heaven above and in earth beneath.
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She became a believer, based on God's judgment of Pharaoh and of the other eminents.
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I tell you so.
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The bottom line of that is the devil is afraid of the blood.
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He's afraid because it reminds him that when Jesus shed, you know, the Bible says that if they had known what Jesus was gonna do, they would not have slain, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory that flashed to the devil.
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If the devil had known what Jesus was gonna do, do you think he would have went all the way to the cross?
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No, he wouldn't have.
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He didn't know.
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He didn't know that he opened the door for Jesus to clean his clock.
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And Jesus cleaned his clock at the resurrection, praise God, he rose up from the dead and defeated the devil.
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And so the devil is deathly afraid of the blood.
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When we speak the blood, it reminds him of his defeat.
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It reminds him of that day when he was stripped of all of his authority.
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Praise God, praise God.
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He knows that by that blood he is defeated and all that really he has left is just simply to deceive and to lie and to trash talk and to intimidate.
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That's about all he's got left verbiage.
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He knows the real power of the blood because he's experienced it.
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Praise God.
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So it's time.
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It's time for you and I to pray that the church of the Lord Jesus Christ rise up and faith and apply the blood of Jesus and rejoice over the ensuing victory.
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Praise God, amen.
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Let's just practice a minute Now.
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Let's think about somebody, that one of your loved ones that you've been burdened about.
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Maybe you're burdened about all of them.
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It's okay, just mention their name in prayer.
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It doesn't have to be rigorous, but you know, let's just pray a prayer I'm gonna use.
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Let me see who am I gonna use.
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I'm gonna use a lady by the name of Farrell.
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She's not really a blood kin, but she's a blood kin to an aunt by marriage.
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My aunt Eunice was married to my blood uncle and so it's her niece, and I know that she's a follower of a cult.
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And so I'm gonna pray like you should pray.
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As the heavenly father.
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In Jesus name.
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I demand the devil, right now, loose your hold over Farrell.
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And right now I break the power of the God of this age that's blinded her mind to the gospel and to the truth.
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She's followed falsehoods.
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I bind that in the name of Jesus and I loose her to receive the glorious gospel of Christ.
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Father, I pray that you send laborers, put in her path the right person or persons to witness to her that Jesus loves her, and I just claim her salvation right now by the blood of Jesus.
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I plead that blood over her in Jesus name.
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Amen.
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And now in the next few weeks, when I'm thinking about Farrell, I'm just gonna thank God that she saved and see, it takes this kind of thing.
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Sometimes we're gonna have quick results and sometimes it takes a little time, but I believe that we'll see our loved ones in the rapture.
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Praise God, they're gonna go up with us.
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I tell you God sets a solitary in family so he can reunite them into heaven.
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Amen, amen, praise God, victory through the blood.
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I hope that blessed you tonight.
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Glory to God.
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Everybody say thank God for the blood.