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Your life.

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Here's when you loved my home, here's when you loved my home.

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Here's in you my life, here's in you, Lord my strength.

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Here's in you, Lord my hope.

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Here's in you, Lord, in you.

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Here's in you, I will praise you with all of my life.

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I will praise you with all of my strength.

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Here's in you, Lord my hope.

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We're done with our lives, we've fallen apart.

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Is anybody here play a sport right now?

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Is anybody ever played a sport before?

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Have you ever been part of a team before then?

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Was it a solo sport?

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Not very many of those in high school anymore.

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I mean what's a solo sport?

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Cross country?

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Consoerto?

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Yeah, that's consoerto.

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Consoerto is a solo sport.

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If you're part of a team, that means you're working together for a common goal.

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In our church, the acronym TEAM stands for Together Empowering a Ministry.

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That's what it stands for.

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And our church does its ministry through teams.

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So for example, when we come in here to worship, the praise team or the music team leaves our worship.

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All right, good girl.

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All right, so it stands for Together Empowering a Ministry and the music team works together to help us use music to worship God.

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And not only that, but there are members of the team that teach others how to play music.

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Folks will come and do specials and things, that kind of thing.

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And then we have another other team.

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In the room right now, we have our...

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RJ is around here somewhere.

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Okay, so RJ is right here.

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RJ is our youth team leader.

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So RJ works with the teenagers and his team then works together to empower that ministry.

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And they were teenagers working, then do various things through that ministry.

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We have the preschool nursery team.

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It runs the preschool nursery.

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It runs the God's Kids team that runs the Reading Age children and they transition when their parents and the leaders think it's right.

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So we don't do like grades.

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Like you go, oh, you're kidding.

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I just kicked out of here, right?

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It's not like that.

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We transition when the parents think they're ready and when the teachers think they're ready.

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So we are kind of reading eight children up through sixth grade.

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And then we have a Christian Games team.

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Christian Games team does card games, board games, role-playing games, board games, every kind of games.

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And they play games for fellowship and then they reach people with the gospel who are playing games in the community.

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And that kind of thing.

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They do video games too.

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I shouldn't forget that.

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So, and I have a name them all.

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The Arts and Crafts team is Josh in here.

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Josh behind me.

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Yes.

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The Arts and Crafts team.

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And we wouldn't want to forget that Arts and Crafts night is every other Friday night from six to eight.

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And it is this coming Friday.

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So are we doing anything special this Friday, Josh?

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I think we're working on games for the upcoming fall.

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All right.

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So haul a lot of fun, which is October 31st from six to eight.

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The Arts and Crafts team will be coming up with games ideas and decoration ideas, not Halloween games.

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Because this is an alternative to trick or treat.

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This one we do as a safe alternative to trick or treat so kids can come and play games and be in a safe, less safe place.

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And so we do a lot of fun down the hallway.

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So we'll need games to fill the whole hallway and decorations.

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And they'll be working on that six to eight on Friday.

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And if you don't want to work on that, Josh will be perfectly content to have you paint or color or draw or cut out things, whatever you'd like to do.

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And that's Arts and Crafts.

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And so there are war.

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If you're interested in getting involved in a team, you don't have to be a member of the church to be part of one of those teams.

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You just have to be willing to work together to empower that ministry.

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There are prayer warriors, for example, who don't do anything else with the ministry, but just pray for the needs of that ministry.

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Once you say, like, I don't want to work with teenagers because teenagers make me afraid.

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And you say, no, that wouldn't be true.

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But it is for some people.

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Right.

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And so I want to work with teenagers, but I can pray for them.

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And so then you get a whole R&J and say, I can pray for your teenagers, what's going on?

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And you can be a prayer warrior for the team.

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So that's what that's like.

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That's how our church is organized.

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And the only ministries that we do that are not through teams are the whole church.

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Everybody together, all involved.

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So we do our block parties, outreaches, working with communities, with pantry, things like that.

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And everybody can help with that.

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So that's teams at New Heights, together empowering a ministry.

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If you remember that the next time I ask it, which will probably be next Tuesday night, I may have a treat for a young person who can remember that acronym next week.

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We're going to pray together.

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We have one more song and then the children's and children's leaders will be released to go their lessons.

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And then one more song after that.

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And then we go to the word.

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We have a special lesson material this evening.

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Kind of be cool.

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I think God's really working in it.

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So I'm excited about it.

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All right.

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So let's pray together.

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Would you pray with me?

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In the bow of our heads.

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I'm talking to God.

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You can do it in your head.

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You can do that loud.

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Follow along with me.

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However you want to do it.

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Father in heaven, this is your Tuesday night.

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This is your lesson.

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This is your music.

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These are your teams.

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This is your church.

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This is your body.

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This is your body that came out of my mother 53 plus years ago.

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And that's Chris's body.

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And that's our big body.

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That's Solar's body.

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But Lord, it all belongs to you.

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And we give it all back to you right now.

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You use this UCFIT.

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Help us to worship you.

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Help us have a little fun together.

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Help us to work in the kingdom of God.

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And advance your will upon earth the best we can to be whatever we can be part of.

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We pray you're where we've done here.

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As it is in Jesus' name.

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And all God's people said Amen.

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Thank you very much.

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You can stand or you can sit, but you're surely going to want to sing.

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Here we go.

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For the light of your love is shining.

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Here in the midst of the dawn is shining.

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Jesus' blood of the one, shine upon us.

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That was free by the truth, do not bring us.

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Shine on, be in your light.

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Now bring us, shine on me, shine on me.

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Shine, here's a shine, fill this lake with the fall of glory,

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with spirit flames that our hearts on fire.

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The river call, the donations from grace and mercy,

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stand for the world, for you have been in line.

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Lord, I come to you, have some presence from the shadows

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and to your rails.

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By the power of the answer, your brightness,

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search, be shiny, consume all my garment,

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shine on me, shine on me.

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Shine, here's a shine, fill this land with the fall of glory,

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with spirit flames that our hearts on fire.

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The river call, the donations from grace and mercy,

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stand for the world, for you have been in line.

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As the dear presence pours, the water so much so magnificently.

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You are the one of my heart, desire is as long to worship me.

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You alone are my strength, my shield, to you alone may my spirit heal.

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You alone are my heart, desire is as long to worship me.

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You alone are my strength, my shield, to you alone may my spirit heal.

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Trust me a little bit in that if we start getting into next week's topic too heavily,

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I'm going to redirect us.

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So that we can, because we need to be able to cover what we're going to talk about today

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with relative completeness.

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We don't want to leave big holes.

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So everybody will have the information that they need.

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So the worksheet that's coming around to you, we will do first.

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So I'll just go through the worksheet and I will give you what goes in a blank

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and talk about it a little bit and you can fill it in.

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If you're not a worksheet person, you want to fill it in, you want to take notes in your own book,

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whatever this is just for your ease of use and to follow my logic.

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And yes, I did make this in case you can tell.

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Okay? So, and we do post these online and I'm not embarrassed by that at all.

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So that doesn't bother me even a bit.

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Once we've completed the worksheet, the remainder of the time together,

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we will have a panel of three individuals who will sit before you of which I will be one.

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You will be allowed to ask any questions that you want of those individuals.

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Now, there will be a disclaimer in that we don't have any experts in the house.

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Nobody's an expert here.

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Okay? So we'll cover that when the time comes.

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But that, we've got three people that the Lord led me to that have some experience in this department.

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Probably we all do and you may even have some things to share that nobody else has.

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And that's okay and if we need to do that, we will.

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But so here we go.

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All right?

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So if you're at the top of your worksheet, you will see that we're talking about three different terms.

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One of the first questions that comes up when I'm dealing with people talking about evil spirits and demons and so on,

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is what do the terms mean or how did they all connect?

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All right?

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So on the very top two lines there, the first term is demons slash devils.

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The two blanks are demons and devils.

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Okay? So the word demon comes from the Greek and it comes from daimon.

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All right?

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And so there is no other English word that comes from that word.

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So they just transliterated it to demon.

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So when you see demon in your New Testament, the Greek word there is always daimon.

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All right?

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And the devils word is really the old, kind of comes from the Old Testament word.

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But if you have a King James Bible, you'll see they always use the word devils even in the New Testament.

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So it always carries through.

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And the word there is, and I can't really think of the Hebrew word right this.

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I'm going to just slide right out of my head.

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But anyway, it's a very simple word and it really translates devils.

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And the Hebrew word translates into English devils well, whereas the Greek word for demons really didn't have a corresponding word in English.

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So they just translated it and made it daimon.

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The next line there is evil spirits.

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So two lines, evil and one blank spirits and the other.

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You can capitalize the spirits if you want.

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I never do because I'm just partial.

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I think there is only one capital spirit in the entire universe and that's God's Holy Spirit.

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So I never capitalize spirits unless I do it by accident, I suppose.

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I never intentionally do that.

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So evil spirits, when you see the term evil spirits in the New Testament, 99% of the time it is two actual words.

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It is evil and spirit.

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Or spirits.

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So it's paneras, which is evil and then numa, which is spirit or wind or breath.

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So it's literal translated evil spirits.

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And then you have unclean spirits, unclean spirits.

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And the term there is basically it's a spirit that goes against God's purposes or cannot be used by God's.

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And it's akka tarktos, which basically just means they're unclean or worthless, bad.

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All right?

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So for our purposes, as we're talking about it, and I think if you were a demon or an evil spirit,

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you might chape against us a little bit, but since I don't really care what they think, this is the bottom line.

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For our purposes, all of those terms mean the same thing.

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And there are texts, and we could go there and read them, but we're not going to do that because we have a limited amount of time,

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where in the same sentence, like someone will be speaking and they'll call it a demon,

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and then in the same sentence they'll refer to it as an evil spirit.

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So the terms are pretty interchangeable.

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So you could call...

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So like you have this vision in your mind, you watched sci-fi movies or whatever,

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a demon or like a big clawed beastie thing or whatever like that.

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And I'm not saying they can look like that, but they probably wouldn't normally look like that.

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It would look like something much more seductive or much more tricky, you manipulate that kind of thing.

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So whatever they look like, that's irrelevant.

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We're talking about what they are and what we need to do about what they are.

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And so for our purposes, if you go follow that big arrow down,

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you can put same or if you're a big spelling person, you can put interchangeable.

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And when I tried to spell interchangeable, I couldn't spell it.

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So I just put same because I couldn't figure out whether it was an E in the middle

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and I didn't have Josh at that time to ask.

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Josh is my spelling guru.

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So same.

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All right?

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So to be clear, we are not going to be talking about Satan.

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Okay?

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Now is Satan a diamond?

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Yes.

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According to the Bible, he's a diamond.

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Is he an evil spirit or a testament devil?

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Yes.

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According to the Bible, he is one of those.

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All right?

254
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And we kind of get the idea from the Bible.

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And I want to stray on to this kind of get the idea that he's kind of a higher ranking one

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or maybe the most, you know, was very powerful or possibly like that.

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There is a whole bunch of doctrine about how he fell.

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I've got it.

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How he fell from the heavens and became what he is and blah, blah, blah.

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And a lot of that is not really supported well in scripture.

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Okay?

262
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So we're not going to deal with that as we're talking about this class of thing that is a demon evil spirit, unclean spirit, devil, whatever.

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We're not really going to talk about him.

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We will talk about him a little bit more next week.

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But we're, if you want to get engaged in a lot of study on him, that is a whole topic all by itself as he is an individual.

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Okay?

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Odds are praise God, none of us will ever meet him.

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You're more likely to run into his schemes than him personally because he's just one person.

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He's going to be in one place at one time.

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He's not like God.

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He can be everywhere at once, that kind of thing.

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So he's not a human.

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When I say a person, don't get confused.

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He's not a human.

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He's a diamond.

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Right?

277
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Okay.

278
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All right.

279
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So here we go.

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Now we're down into the bottom section and you'll notice that there are three arrows because they're all the same.

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All of these things down below all apply to all of them.

282
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All right?

283
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We've got to go through fairly quickly here, but we're going to do the scripture.

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You'll notice it says on the left hand side there, it says they are real.

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While I'm doing this one, if somebody has a Bible available, would somebody look up Ephesians 6-12 and somebody look up James 2-19?

286
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Even if we overlap, it's okay.

287
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All right.

288
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So Ephesians 6-12 and James 2-19.

289
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The middle one is going to be Ephesians 6-12.

290
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The one on the right is going to be James 2-19.

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I would give you those again in a second if you need them.

292
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Okay?

293
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And then Matthew 12 is the text for the one on the left.

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Matthew 12, 27, and 28.

295
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I'm going to get there.

296
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I should have marked it properly.

297
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Okay.

298
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So in Matthew 12, 27, 28, over on the left under, they are real.

299
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This is what it says.

300
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And if I, this is Jesus' speaking, he says,

301
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If I, by Beelzebub, who was a daimone, cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out?

302
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Consequently, they shall be your judges.

303
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But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, capital S, Spirit of God, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you.

304
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So if you can safely assume that Jesus is saying,

305
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If I cast out demons this way, then we don't need the rest of it to know demons are real.

306
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All right.

307
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Jesus wasn't going to talk about doing it if it wasn't real.

308
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So Matthew 12, 27, and 28.

309
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There are dozens of other texts I could have chosen there.

310
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I picked one from the mouth of the Son of God on purpose because we know that.

311
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Right.

312
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So it's Matthew 12, 27, and 28.

313
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Then over under, they are enemies who has Ephesians 6, 12.

314
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RJ, nice and loud.

315
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For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world.

316
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And against the spiritual forces of this dark man, against spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly place.

317
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Okay.

318
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So you can like people will argue that that breaks down a demonic structure and like that and that those things, those other terms there.

319
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But surely you heard the spiritual forces of wickedness, right?

320
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So they're definitely in there.

321
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So they are enemies.

322
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That's clear.

323
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Which is also problematic because at times they for people who are lost, especially are people who are Christians who aren't living their faith.

324
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They can look kind of friendly or enticing and people don't realize that they're enemies, but they're clearly enemies.

325
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They're enemies of God as well as being enemies of us.

326
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Okay.

327
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And then over on the right says they are evil.

328
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They are evil.

329
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Who has James 219 Tony Tate.

330
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You believe that there is one God.

331
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Good.

332
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Even the demons believe that and show.

333
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Okay.

334
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So the demons and God both real.

335
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Right.

336
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The demons, enemies of God.

337
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We got that in the middle and now we realize the demons knowing that they are enemies of God.

338
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They believe in God and they shudder.

339
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They're fearful.

340
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They are evil.

341
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Yeah.

342
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If you're not evil, you have nothing to fear from God.

343
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Right.

344
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And some people who are evil don't fear God, but but they are wise enough in that sense to do so.

345
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Okay.

346
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So I'm going to give you the next three references that you don't already have filled in and and then couple people can grab them.

347
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So they can be spotted.

348
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We're going to read 1 John 4 1.

349
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They can be stopped.

350
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Luke 1017.

351
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Yep.

352
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1017.

353
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And they can be, I chose this word intentionally, deported, which is Matthew 12 43 to 45.

354
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Does anybody have 1 John 4 1?

355
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If not, I do.

356
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Okay.

357
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So we're going to read 1 John 4 3.

358
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Okay.

359
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So without getting into how or more of it right there, it is clear that you can tell one spirit from another.

360
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That is possible.

361
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It was written to Christians.

362
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I would submit to you that a lost person may not be able to tell, but a saved person in Christ can tell.

363
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These spirits can be spotted.

364
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Now reference was 1 John 4 1.

365
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Okay.

366
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So we're going to pause step aside for a minute before we read the next one.

367
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If somebody's getting Luke 10 17 and Matthew 12 43 solo, what do you have?

368
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What reference do you have under?

369
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They are enemies.

370
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Did you put a reference under there?

371
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Yeah.

372
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Distracted.

373
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Well, you're looking up the, what happened?

374
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Okay.

375
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So they are enemies.

376
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Nicole, do you have a reference there?

377
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Sadian.

378
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Phesians 6 12.

379
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Now remind me, I think you don't like to see roles, right?

380
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Okay.

381
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Coming back there.

382
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You'd have had that if solo hadn't interfered.

383
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Okay.

384
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All right.

385
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So they can be spotted.

386
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Okay.

387
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Now we're moving over to the middle.

388
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They can be stopped.

389
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Now this is comforting.

390
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Has provided comfort for me many times in my walk as a Christian.

391
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Cause I said real, real quick before we read this text, understand they are spiritual beings.

392
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They can go through walls.

393
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They can disappear in one place and appear in another cages.

394
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Don't stop them locks.

395
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Don't stop them lightness.

396
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The light.

397
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So I can put up a light outside.

398
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So somebody won't do drug deals on your corner anymore.

399
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That doesn't stop them.

400
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Right.

401
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Those are not the, those things don't stop them, but they can be stopped.

402
00:21:54,140 --> 00:21:55,140
Okay.

403
00:21:55,140 --> 00:21:58,140
Does anybody have Luke 10 17.

404
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Tony take it.

405
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Yep.

406
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The 72 return with joy and said Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.

407
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Right.

408
00:22:11,140 --> 00:22:13,140
So these are ordinary men.

409
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They are not pastors.

410
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They are not deacons.

411
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They are not theologically trained.

412
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Many of them were fishermen.

413
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There was a tax collector there and actually by you broaden the time you brought it out to get to the 72.

414
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Right.

415
00:22:27,140 --> 00:22:30,140
So there was a lot of people from a lot of common walks of life.

416
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And the only thing they really had going for them was the fact that they were following Jesus and they were correcting or stopping the demons, the diamonds in Jesus's name.

417
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That's still true today.

418
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Okay.

419
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So they can be stopped.

420
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Now you'll notice that I've already given you the Psalm 8 2 reference there.

421
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We're not going to go there and read that right this second.

422
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You can read it later.

423
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But I'll tell you what it says paraphrasing.

424
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Okay.

425
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What it says that from the womb, people have the ability to make the enemy cease.

426
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Now that's unsaved people.

427
00:23:03,140 --> 00:23:05,140
We don't get saved as babies.

428
00:23:05,140 --> 00:23:07,140
We get saved later when we grow up, right?

429
00:23:07,140 --> 00:23:09,140
When you can believe, you can save when you can believe.

430
00:23:09,140 --> 00:23:11,140
But from the womb, we have it.

431
00:23:11,140 --> 00:23:14,140
And that's Old Testament reference.

432
00:23:14,140 --> 00:23:15,140
So it's pre-Holy Spirit.

433
00:23:15,140 --> 00:23:18,140
You don't have the Holy Spirit until you get saved, right?

434
00:23:18,140 --> 00:23:20,140
So you can stop it.

435
00:23:20,140 --> 00:23:26,140
So obviously there's a reason why people don't do that or they only do it for a short period of time.

436
00:23:26,140 --> 00:23:37,140
And it's because these diamonds, demons, devils, evil spirits, whatever term you want to use, they're enticing, they're manipulative, they're deceptive, they look good.

437
00:23:37,140 --> 00:23:44,140
They'll come to you in sheep's clothing dressed as a lollipop, if that's what it takes to get your attention, right?

438
00:23:44,140 --> 00:23:55,140
And so people don't stop them because they don't understand, first of all, they may not accept that they're real, or they may not understand that they're enemies, or that they're evil, and they think, oh, this is working out.

439
00:23:55,140 --> 00:23:58,140
This is going to work out somehow good for me.

440
00:23:58,140 --> 00:24:01,140
And so they don't stop them, but they could stop them.

441
00:24:01,140 --> 00:24:07,140
Now they wouldn't be able to stop them permanently necessarily, as we'll see in a moment, okay?

442
00:24:07,140 --> 00:24:12,140
There's also a reference there, 1 John 2.15, and I am going to read that to you real quick.

443
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It says, yeah, first time, do not love the world nor the things in the world.

444
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If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

445
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And so there are, shut the door, Dustin, shut the door.

446
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They're going to play games, apparently.

447
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Okay, anyway, there are these demons, these evil spirits, whatever, these are all working within the world system, arguably.

448
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Don't want to get on Satan again, but arguably, they are, that Satan, you could say, that's mine.

449
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And you could say, is in control of the world, arguably.

450
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Now, I don't want to name that doctrine, right?

451
00:25:00,140 --> 00:25:05,140
But the bottom line is, he's got a lot of rank and authority, and if you choose his way, you choose the world.

452
00:25:05,140 --> 00:25:13,140
That's why it says, if you become a friend of the world, you become an enemy with God, because if you choose that route, you will be messing with God's enemies.

453
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That's where they work, okay?

454
00:25:16,140 --> 00:25:21,140
Now we're over to, can be deported, and I chose that in a particular reason, right?

455
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Because we are part of the kingdom of God.

456
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If you are a Christian, you are part of the kingdom of God, and under can be deported, the references Matthew 12, 43 to 45.

457
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Did somebody look it up? At least you got it.

458
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Alright, nice and loud.

459
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In the back, back there.

460
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Now, when the untamed spirit comes out of a person, it passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and does not find it.

461
00:25:42,140 --> 00:25:49,140
And it says, I will return to my house from which I came, and when it comes, it finds its unoccupied, swept, and put in order.

462
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And it goes and brings along with it seven other spirits, and will wicked them itself, and they come in and live there.

463
00:25:55,140 --> 00:26:02,140
And the last condition of that person becomes worse than the first, that is to say, also be with this evil generation.

464
00:26:02,140 --> 00:26:10,140
Okay, so we know that, remember, remember Psalm 8, even people who don't know the Lord could have victory.

465
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They never know anybody who didn't know Jesus, but they gave up a horrible habit that was dominating their life.

466
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It's all made.

467
00:26:17,140 --> 00:26:19,140
They have the ability to make something cease.

468
00:26:19,140 --> 00:26:20,140
Yeah, absolutely.

469
00:26:20,140 --> 00:26:21,140
Right?

470
00:26:21,140 --> 00:26:22,140
So they can do it.

471
00:26:22,140 --> 00:26:23,140
People can do it.

472
00:26:23,140 --> 00:26:33,140
They can do it through counseling, through study, through psychology, through volunteering, through medication, in so many ways that people can get help to overcome what we're talking about.

473
00:26:33,140 --> 00:26:41,140
Then they get cleaned up and they get to be okay, and then they have no way of keeping that from coming back, or worse.

474
00:26:41,140 --> 00:26:42,140
Right?

475
00:26:42,140 --> 00:26:58,140
And according to what we just read, they look at like, they go wandering in the wilderness, and then they come, they decide to come back, and they find the house all neatly arranged, and boom, they move back in and bring seven more wicked spirits in the way of that person is worse in the end than before.

476
00:26:58,140 --> 00:27:00,140
Okay?

477
00:27:00,140 --> 00:27:07,140
These spirits that we're talking about can be topped.

478
00:27:07,140 --> 00:27:09,140
I think that reference is wrong.

479
00:27:09,140 --> 00:27:18,140
Let me double check myself real quick.

480
00:27:18,140 --> 00:27:20,140
Yes, it's supposed to be 1st John 4-4.

481
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I apologize for that.

482
00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:30,140
The lack of references says 1st John 2-15, you can cross that out, and write 1st John 4-4.

483
00:27:30,140 --> 00:27:34,140
I think my mind just got stuck on the previous reference when I was making this.

484
00:27:34,140 --> 00:27:36,140
1st John 4-4.

485
00:27:36,140 --> 00:27:37,140
Okay?

486
00:27:37,140 --> 00:27:45,140
And that says, you are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

487
00:27:45,140 --> 00:27:52,140
Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, and who is in the world, these spiritual forces of wickedness.

488
00:27:52,140 --> 00:27:53,140
Right?

489
00:27:53,140 --> 00:27:54,140
That's what he's talking about.

490
00:27:54,140 --> 00:27:56,140
So we're safe, if you will.

491
00:27:56,140 --> 00:27:59,140
We can top them, we can stop them, we can deport them.

492
00:27:59,140 --> 00:28:13,140
In fact, we can deport them even before we're saved, but now where we're at right now, to this point, is we can deport them, but then when they try to come back, we don't really have a defense, except possibly to deport them again, and then that becomes a constant battle.

493
00:28:13,140 --> 00:28:15,140
Back and forth, I'm trying to quit, I'm trying to quit.

494
00:28:15,140 --> 00:28:16,140
I quit.

495
00:28:16,140 --> 00:28:17,140
I quit for three days.

496
00:28:17,140 --> 00:28:18,140
Oh, I didn't quit.

497
00:28:18,140 --> 00:28:19,140
I quit for a month.

498
00:28:19,140 --> 00:28:20,140
Oh, I didn't quit.

499
00:28:20,140 --> 00:28:22,140
Oh, I stopped doing that years ago, and now I'm doing it again.

500
00:28:22,140 --> 00:28:24,140
Plus, I stopped doing these other things.

501
00:28:24,140 --> 00:28:25,140
Right?

502
00:28:25,140 --> 00:28:32,140
And so it becomes a constant battle to deport the evil spirit if you don't have a way of stopping them from coming back.

503
00:28:32,140 --> 00:28:33,140
Okay?

504
00:28:33,140 --> 00:28:38,140
So unfortunately, these evil spirits, et cetera, can also be summoned.

505
00:28:38,140 --> 00:28:42,140
The reference there is Mark 720.

506
00:28:42,140 --> 00:28:44,140
720.

507
00:28:44,140 --> 00:28:45,140
20.

508
00:28:45,140 --> 00:28:49,140
Mark 720.

509
00:28:49,140 --> 00:28:50,140
Okay?

510
00:28:50,140 --> 00:29:06,140
And it says, and he was saying, this is Jesus speaking, that which precedes out of the man.

511
00:29:06,140 --> 00:29:09,140
That is what defiles the man.

512
00:29:09,140 --> 00:29:12,140
And I'll go on to 21.

513
00:29:12,140 --> 00:29:19,140
From within, out of the heart of men, precede the evil thoughts, fornication, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality.

514
00:29:19,140 --> 00:29:21,140
You get the idea, right?

515
00:29:21,140 --> 00:29:25,140
And 23 says, all these evil things precede from within and defile the man.

516
00:29:25,140 --> 00:29:34,140
So the bottom line is, if you will engage in an activity that God would consider wickedness, you are literally inviting evil spirits to come and take part.

517
00:29:34,140 --> 00:29:35,140
Does that make sense?

518
00:29:35,140 --> 00:29:43,140
So there's one in your house and you get on the phone and lie to your mother, you can't come help you today because of whatever blah blah blah.

519
00:29:43,140 --> 00:29:45,140
You literally made him comfortable.

520
00:29:45,140 --> 00:29:47,140
Pull up a chair, let me get you a Coke, right?

521
00:29:47,140 --> 00:29:50,140
You've invited that evil spirit in doing that.

522
00:29:50,140 --> 00:29:52,140
Now that should not have come out of your heart.

523
00:29:52,140 --> 00:29:56,140
If your heart is following Jesus, you don't want to do things like that.

524
00:29:56,140 --> 00:30:00,140
But we still do, because we have the flesh, with less little flesh, less the eye pride of life.

525
00:30:00,140 --> 00:30:01,140
We still have those struggles.

526
00:30:01,140 --> 00:30:03,140
We still do bad things.

527
00:30:03,140 --> 00:30:08,140
And we do, we are essentially summoning them, making them feel comfortable and that kind of thing.

528
00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:10,140
And that's what will make us unclean.

529
00:30:10,140 --> 00:30:12,140
It will not make you unsaved.

530
00:30:12,140 --> 00:30:13,140
If you're saved, you're saved.

531
00:30:13,140 --> 00:30:14,140
Right?

532
00:30:14,140 --> 00:30:15,140
We're not talking about losing your salvation.

533
00:30:15,140 --> 00:30:17,140
We're talking about who you're hanging out with.

534
00:30:17,140 --> 00:30:19,140
Okay.

535
00:30:19,140 --> 00:30:21,140
So, all right.

536
00:30:21,140 --> 00:30:23,140
So let's go back up to the top for a second.

537
00:30:23,140 --> 00:30:26,140
I'm going to run through these in case anybody has lost on the references.

538
00:30:26,140 --> 00:30:27,140
So they are real.

539
00:30:27,140 --> 00:30:30,140
That was Matthew 12, 27 to 28.

540
00:30:30,140 --> 00:30:31,140
They are enemies.

541
00:30:31,140 --> 00:30:32,140
Ephesians 6, 12.

542
00:30:32,140 --> 00:30:34,140
They are evil.

543
00:30:34,140 --> 00:30:36,140
James 219.

544
00:30:36,140 --> 00:30:39,140
They can be spotted.

545
00:30:39,140 --> 00:30:41,140
1 John 4, 1.

546
00:30:41,140 --> 00:30:45,140
And by the way, 2 and 3 there will give you like the exact how to spot them.

547
00:30:45,140 --> 00:30:47,140
It gives you the parameters to look for.

548
00:30:47,140 --> 00:30:51,140
We'll talk about that probably in our panel time.

549
00:30:51,140 --> 00:30:53,140
They can be stopped.

550
00:30:53,140 --> 00:30:55,140
There's three references there.

551
00:30:55,140 --> 00:30:57,140
Psalm 8, 2, Luke 10, 17.

552
00:30:57,140 --> 00:30:59,140
And that actually, you know what?

553
00:30:59,140 --> 00:31:03,140
The bottom one there should be 1 John 4, 4 also.

554
00:31:03,140 --> 00:31:08,140
So you can just cross off to 2, 15 and put 4, 4.

555
00:31:08,140 --> 00:31:10,140
They can be deported.

556
00:31:10,140 --> 00:31:12,140
So we can kick them out.

557
00:31:12,140 --> 00:31:14,140
However, keeping them away is another problem.

558
00:31:14,140 --> 00:31:16,140
Also, they can be summoned.

559
00:31:16,140 --> 00:31:17,140
That's how far we are.

560
00:31:17,140 --> 00:31:22,140
The reference under they can be deported was Matthew 12, 43 to 45.

561
00:31:22,140 --> 00:31:26,140
The reference under they can be topped was 1 John 4, 4.

562
00:31:26,140 --> 00:31:29,140
They can be summoned was Mark 7, 20.

563
00:31:29,140 --> 00:31:32,140
And now they can be stored.

564
00:31:32,140 --> 00:31:41,140
Now this where they can be stored is another telling of the Jesus talking about the wandering spirit from Matthew 12, 43 to 45.

565
00:31:41,140 --> 00:31:43,140
But it's over in Luke.

566
00:31:43,140 --> 00:31:48,140
So this reference under stored is Luke 11, 24 to 26.

567
00:31:48,140 --> 00:31:55,140
And it's going to sound very similar to what Alicia read.

568
00:31:55,140 --> 00:32:02,140
When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest and not finding any.

569
00:32:02,140 --> 00:32:05,140
It says, I will return to my house from which I came.

570
00:32:05,140 --> 00:32:09,140
And when it comes, it finds it's swept and put in order.

571
00:32:09,140 --> 00:32:14,140
Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself.

572
00:32:14,140 --> 00:32:16,140
And they go in and live there.

573
00:32:16,140 --> 00:32:20,140
And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.

574
00:32:20,140 --> 00:32:24,140
I submit to you a couple of things applied there.

575
00:32:24,140 --> 00:32:28,140
One, evil spirits can live in people.

576
00:32:28,140 --> 00:32:30,140
That is possible.

577
00:32:30,140 --> 00:32:33,140
Not saved people about that separately in a second.

578
00:32:33,140 --> 00:32:39,140
But in people who do not know Jesus, evil spirits can live inside them.

579
00:32:39,140 --> 00:32:42,140
And they could be canceled and kicked out deported.

580
00:32:42,140 --> 00:32:45,140
If the person figures out that's the best thing to do and they get them out.

581
00:32:45,140 --> 00:32:49,140
But then there's nothing to keep them out.

582
00:32:49,140 --> 00:32:56,140
So then he leaves, he comes back and he brings a whole bunch of worse evil spirits with him.

583
00:32:56,140 --> 00:33:06,140
And then the last one is, and this is the most important one I think to get this point and then we'll go to the panel after a little summary,

584
00:33:06,140 --> 00:33:10,140
is they can be declined.

585
00:33:10,140 --> 00:33:20,140
That's Luke 10 21 to 23 is the first reference.

586
00:33:20,140 --> 00:33:29,140
At that very time, he rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit and said,

587
00:33:29,140 --> 00:33:37,140
Now this is Jesus speaking, I praise the Father, Lord of heaven and earth about its height, these things from the wise and intelligent and just reveal them to babes.

588
00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:47,140
For thus it was well pleasing in thy sight, all things have been handed over to me by my father and no one knows who the son is except the father and who the father is except the son,

589
00:33:47,140 --> 00:33:50,140
and anyone to whom the son wills to reveal him.

590
00:33:50,140 --> 00:33:56,140
And turning to the disciples, he said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see.

591
00:33:56,140 --> 00:34:04,140
For I say to you that many prophets and kings wish to see the things which you see and did not see them and to hear the things which you hear and did not hear them.

592
00:34:04,140 --> 00:34:06,140
We are not unaware.

593
00:34:06,140 --> 00:34:10,140
There's an old saying that says, poor warned is poor armed.

594
00:34:10,140 --> 00:34:15,140
Even before you came in here, even before I said they are real, you already knew they were real.

595
00:34:15,140 --> 00:34:17,140
And everybody does.

596
00:34:17,140 --> 00:34:21,140
Okay, so even people who are lost, there's no God, they know, right?

597
00:34:21,140 --> 00:34:23,140
They already know.

598
00:34:23,140 --> 00:34:25,140
We already know that they can be rebuked.

599
00:34:25,140 --> 00:34:28,140
We already know that they can be kicked out and so on.

600
00:34:28,140 --> 00:34:33,140
And back in when we read Luke 10 17, which is a little bit before this,

601
00:34:33,140 --> 00:34:41,140
or on the page, I'll say the seven D returned, which you're always saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in their name, in your name.

602
00:34:41,140 --> 00:34:46,140
Satan then Jesus says, I was watching and Satan fell from the heaven like lightning.

603
00:34:46,140 --> 00:34:53,140
Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions and know that that is a reference to the evil spirits right there.

604
00:34:53,140 --> 00:34:57,140
And over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall injure you.

605
00:34:57,140 --> 00:34:58,140
You hear that?

606
00:34:58,140 --> 00:35:00,140
We can say no.

607
00:35:00,140 --> 00:35:02,140
As Christians, we can say no.

608
00:35:02,140 --> 00:35:05,140
We can say we're not going to let this happen.

609
00:35:05,140 --> 00:35:09,140
And there's Ephesians 6 16 is our final reference.

610
00:35:09,140 --> 00:35:13,140
Ephesians 6 16.

611
00:35:13,140 --> 00:35:25,140
Okay, now, earlier in this same passage, we were talking about how we're not against people, right?

612
00:35:25,140 --> 00:35:29,140
We're against principalities, powers, spiritual forces, wickedness, right?

613
00:35:29,140 --> 00:35:40,140
And then in 16, in addition to all taking up the shield of faith, which which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming missiles of the evil one.

614
00:35:40,140 --> 00:35:46,140
I was I read on the internet that somebody put that that this describes Satan is throwing flaming arrows.

615
00:35:46,140 --> 00:35:47,140
I think we know better.

616
00:35:47,140 --> 00:35:48,140
It's figurative language, right?

617
00:35:48,140 --> 00:35:50,140
It's talking about the way he comes after us.

618
00:35:50,140 --> 00:35:56,140
If we can stop his plans, by the way, who carries out his plans, the demons, evil spirits, etc.

619
00:35:56,140 --> 00:36:04,140
And so if you can believe and have faith in that moment, you can rebuke them and they cannot come back.

620
00:36:04,140 --> 00:36:07,140
There's a passage of scripture that talks about the strong man.

621
00:36:07,140 --> 00:36:17,140
And basically, if a strong man guards the house, no one can enter and steal what's inside, right?

622
00:36:17,140 --> 00:36:21,140
Let's see if I can find that real quick.

623
00:36:21,140 --> 00:36:29,140
And we have the ultimate strong man in the Holy Spirit.

624
00:36:29,140 --> 00:36:35,140
Or else who can enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods except he first bind the strong man.

625
00:36:35,140 --> 00:36:40,140
And then he will spoil the house except who would bind the Holy Spirit of God.

626
00:36:40,140 --> 00:36:42,140
And the answer is no one.

627
00:36:42,140 --> 00:36:45,140
You have the Holy Spirit of God in you, your set.

628
00:36:45,140 --> 00:36:47,140
He that is not with me.

629
00:36:47,140 --> 00:36:54,140
I love this because people get confused about the transition here, but if you think of it in the context of the lesson that we're studying right now, it works perfectly.

630
00:36:54,140 --> 00:36:57,140
It says, he that is not with me is against me.

631
00:36:57,140 --> 00:37:00,140
And he that gather, if not with me, scatter abroad.

632
00:37:00,140 --> 00:37:06,140
Jesus is saying, if you'll stick with me, you'll be alright.

633
00:37:06,140 --> 00:37:07,140
Okay?

634
00:37:07,140 --> 00:37:12,140
So they're real, they're enemies, they're evil, they can be spotted, they can be stopped, they can be deported.

635
00:37:12,140 --> 00:37:17,140
In fact, you can even do that if you're not a Christian, you just don't have a way of keeping them at bay.

636
00:37:17,140 --> 00:37:18,140
You can't keep them away.

637
00:37:18,140 --> 00:37:21,140
They can be topped, greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world.

638
00:37:21,140 --> 00:37:23,140
They can be summoned by our choices.

639
00:37:23,140 --> 00:37:28,140
When you end up indulging wicked choices, you're making them feel comfortable and say, come on, hang out with me.

640
00:37:28,140 --> 00:37:29,140
Right?

641
00:37:29,140 --> 00:37:34,140
They can be stored, not just one, because if you manage to kick one out because it's bothering you,

642
00:37:34,140 --> 00:37:37,140
when he comes back, it's going to bring seven more, even more evil and wicked with him.

643
00:37:37,140 --> 00:37:38,140
Right?

644
00:37:38,140 --> 00:37:41,140
And then they can be declined.

645
00:37:41,140 --> 00:37:43,140
So you can say no.

646
00:37:43,140 --> 00:37:44,140
Alright?

647
00:37:44,140 --> 00:37:50,140
One thing I want to cover real quick, and then we're going to go to the panel portion.

648
00:37:50,140 --> 00:37:51,140
Okay?

649
00:37:51,140 --> 00:37:53,140
And so it is this.

650
00:37:53,140 --> 00:37:57,140
And first down, four, where it says, test the spirits.

651
00:37:57,140 --> 00:37:59,140
Okay?

652
00:37:59,140 --> 00:38:04,140
This is a spirit that is of the Spirit of God.

653
00:38:04,140 --> 00:38:10,140
It recognizes who Jesus is that he came in the flesh, dotted across, and rose again.

654
00:38:10,140 --> 00:38:15,140
If you're in this room right now, and you have not accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior,

655
00:38:15,140 --> 00:38:20,140
you need to understand, you're never going to be saved from evil spirits and demons.

656
00:38:20,140 --> 00:38:23,140
They literally have a purpose.

657
00:38:23,140 --> 00:38:28,140
They want to work God's plan, what is God's plan, to have a proper relationship with everybody.

658
00:38:28,140 --> 00:38:30,140
You know, God wants to have a relationship with you.

659
00:38:30,140 --> 00:38:31,140
He wants to spend eternity with you.

660
00:38:31,140 --> 00:38:32,140
He wants you to spend eternity with him.

661
00:38:32,140 --> 00:38:35,140
He wants to come and live in you and you to abide in him.

662
00:38:35,140 --> 00:38:36,140
That's what he wants.

663
00:38:36,140 --> 00:38:41,140
So you never be safe unless you have the strong man that is the Holy Spirit of God,

664
00:38:41,140 --> 00:38:43,140
that he protects you permanently.

665
00:38:43,140 --> 00:38:44,140
Right?

666
00:38:44,140 --> 00:38:46,140
And then things bounce off.

667
00:38:46,140 --> 00:38:52,140
But also, there is still your mind, and you will always have your ears open as long as you're alive and can hear,

668
00:38:52,140 --> 00:38:56,140
and your eyes open as long as you're alive and can see, and your flesh still touches things,

669
00:38:56,140 --> 00:38:58,140
and it feels good or it feels bad.

670
00:38:58,140 --> 00:38:59,140
Okay?

671
00:38:59,140 --> 00:39:01,140
Because of that, thoughts come into your head.

672
00:39:01,140 --> 00:39:02,140
You can't stop that.

673
00:39:02,140 --> 00:39:07,140
There's scientific studies that if you go into a sound deprivation chamber,

674
00:39:07,140 --> 00:39:10,140
like at like 23 hours, you literally start to go nuts.

675
00:39:10,140 --> 00:39:14,140
Human beings have constant stuff coming at them, and you need that.

676
00:39:14,140 --> 00:39:16,140
And so, that's part of who we are.

677
00:39:16,140 --> 00:39:18,140
It's how we interact with the world.

678
00:39:18,140 --> 00:39:21,140
And so, you're always going to have thoughts coming into your head.

679
00:39:21,140 --> 00:39:26,140
Some of those thoughts are not going to be of God, and you need to learn how to sort them.

680
00:39:26,140 --> 00:39:27,140
Okay?

681
00:39:27,140 --> 00:39:29,140
And once you learn, if something comes into your head,

682
00:39:29,140 --> 00:39:32,140
if your heart belongs to Jesus, something comes into your head that doesn't fit,

683
00:39:32,140 --> 00:39:34,140
your heart has the strength to say,

684
00:39:34,140 --> 00:39:36,140
no, thank you.

685
00:39:36,140 --> 00:39:37,140
Right?

686
00:39:37,140 --> 00:39:38,140
Leave me alone.

687
00:39:38,140 --> 00:39:39,140
I don't want to think that.

688
00:39:39,140 --> 00:39:40,140
I don't want to respond to that thought.

689
00:39:40,140 --> 00:39:41,140
I don't want to do that.

690
00:39:41,140 --> 00:39:42,140
Right?

691
00:39:42,140 --> 00:39:46,140
And you can even do that in and for other people.

692
00:39:46,140 --> 00:39:49,140
And we're going to talk a little bit more about that, but not right now.

693
00:39:49,140 --> 00:39:50,140
Okay?

694
00:39:50,140 --> 00:39:54,140
So, at this time, I'm going to ask Perry and Tony Tate are going to be our panel.

695
00:39:54,140 --> 00:39:57,140
And so, one of you on each side over here, and I'll go in the middle.

696
00:39:57,140 --> 00:40:03,140
RJ is going to emcee for us, which means he has questions that he can ask.

697
00:40:03,140 --> 00:40:07,140
If no one asks any questions, then he has questions that have been prepared,

698
00:40:07,140 --> 00:40:10,140
like the crib sheets or whatever I call it.

699
00:40:10,140 --> 00:40:15,140
So, I have to read this statement in advance, because this is going out to all over the world,

700
00:40:15,140 --> 00:40:18,140
and there are people all over the world who know a lot better on these topics,

701
00:40:18,140 --> 00:40:20,140
maybe even than us in this room.

702
00:40:20,140 --> 00:40:22,140
And so, it says this, we are men.

703
00:40:22,140 --> 00:40:23,140
We are not better men.

704
00:40:23,140 --> 00:40:25,140
We are not better equipped men.

705
00:40:25,140 --> 00:40:28,140
We are not more able to deal with evil spirits and demons.

706
00:40:28,140 --> 00:40:32,140
As you will see by the time we're done with this topic these two Tuesday nights,

707
00:40:32,140 --> 00:40:36,140
Jesus Christ and his presence in a willing, born-again Christian is everything necessary

708
00:40:36,140 --> 00:40:43,140
to have victory over evil spirits and demons in this present life, and of course, for eternity.

709
00:40:43,140 --> 00:40:48,140
The one and only reason this is the three people who have been chosen for this particular panel

710
00:40:48,140 --> 00:40:51,140
is because as pastor of New Heights, I prayed about tonight,

711
00:40:51,140 --> 00:40:57,140
and the lesson series I was led to use this format, and the Lord seemed to me to be leading to this assortment of people.

712
00:40:57,140 --> 00:41:02,140
I really don't know exactly where we'll go from here, but I know God is leading us there.

713
00:41:02,140 --> 00:41:07,140
So, at this time, RJ is going to conmediate, and so if you have a question,

714
00:41:07,140 --> 00:41:10,140
and you think you need something to make an answer, ask the question,

715
00:41:10,140 --> 00:41:15,140
you can direct it to one of us, and if nobody asks any questions, then he has questions he can ask.

716
00:41:15,140 --> 00:41:19,140
You're going to sit over here because you're going to have that microphone.

717
00:41:19,140 --> 00:41:22,140
Okay. Sorry.

718
00:41:24,140 --> 00:41:26,140
I'm wearing a microphone.

719
00:41:26,140 --> 00:41:28,140
Okay.

720
00:41:30,140 --> 00:41:33,140
We're ready. Who's got a question?

721
00:41:36,140 --> 00:41:38,140
One more.

722
00:41:39,140 --> 00:41:43,140
Jeremiah. RJ, Jeremiah, Jefferson.

723
00:41:43,140 --> 00:41:50,140
I'm wondering how would you repellent human if said not a follower?

724
00:41:50,140 --> 00:41:52,140
Is it that last part?

725
00:41:52,140 --> 00:41:54,140
If said not a follower.

726
00:41:54,140 --> 00:41:56,140
If a person is not?

727
00:41:56,140 --> 00:41:59,140
If someone is not a follower, how would you repellent human?

728
00:41:59,140 --> 00:42:01,140
Okay.

729
00:42:02,140 --> 00:42:05,140
You want to direct it to one of us, and for the third?

730
00:42:05,140 --> 00:42:07,140
No.

731
00:42:07,140 --> 00:42:08,140
No matter what.

732
00:42:08,140 --> 00:42:12,140
How would you repellent human if the person is not a follower? I can answer.

733
00:42:12,140 --> 00:42:14,140
I can answer.

734
00:42:14,140 --> 00:42:16,140
Okay.

735
00:42:16,140 --> 00:42:18,140
Do you have any questions?

736
00:42:18,140 --> 00:42:21,140
I'm not going to repeat the name of Jesus.

737
00:42:21,140 --> 00:42:24,140
You may as well pray over them, and some of the demons won't come out, right?

738
00:42:24,140 --> 00:42:28,140
You have to actually fast and pray continuously to drive it out.

739
00:42:28,140 --> 00:42:31,140
By the power of the Holy spirit that resides in a saved person,

740
00:42:31,140 --> 00:42:34,140
you have the authority of the Holy spirit to drive that,

741
00:42:34,140 --> 00:42:37,140
to drive that out of the Holy spirit, out of the spirit, out of the person.

742
00:42:37,140 --> 00:42:40,140
They call it exercism, whatever you want to call it.

743
00:42:40,140 --> 00:42:45,980
said that we could do greater things than him, you know, and through the Holy Spirit.

744
00:42:45,980 --> 00:42:49,660
When he sends it to us, so we're embodied with the Holy Spirit and the living inside

745
00:42:49,660 --> 00:42:54,220
of us reside in us and we're walking out our faith and we're strong and we have that faith.

746
00:42:54,220 --> 00:42:58,780
The important thing is to have that faith and that belief. We can say to a mountain,

747
00:42:58,780 --> 00:43:03,100
move and then to move if we have the faith to a mustard seed. So to drive out of spirit is nothing.

748
00:43:04,300 --> 00:43:07,580
If you have the Holy Spirit reside in you, but some of them are stubborn

749
00:43:07,580 --> 00:43:13,340
and so we have to find out when we find ourselves in that situation, you're going to have to fast

750
00:43:13,340 --> 00:43:18,380
and pray and it's always best to come in more than one person to do that and save them.

751
00:43:21,020 --> 00:43:29,740
Yeah, so I would add to that. I agree. I would add to that that the individual who might have the demon

752
00:43:29,740 --> 00:43:33,340
or might be dealing with the demon because everybody so there's demon possession, which means

753
00:43:33,340 --> 00:43:37,500
a demon goes and lives in the person. There's demon oppression, which means the person is being

754
00:43:37,500 --> 00:43:41,020
affected by the demon, but not necessarily in them. And that's about all that's about the

755
00:43:41,020 --> 00:43:45,100
worst thing that even you can do to a Christian to suppress you. It cannot possess you because

756
00:43:45,100 --> 00:43:49,980
you're possessed by the Holy Spirit. Okay, so the person who's being either oppressed or

757
00:43:51,180 --> 00:43:59,660
possessed is also part. If they don't want that demon to go, even if you manage to cast the demon

758
00:43:59,660 --> 00:44:05,740
out, it's just going to come back stronger. In fact, I share a brief story where we got called on

759
00:44:05,740 --> 00:44:12,060
the phone, New Heights got called on the phone and was asked to go and deal with basically this guy

760
00:44:12,060 --> 00:44:16,300
thought he was being haunted by his dead wife and he said there's a demon spirit in my house and

761
00:44:16,300 --> 00:44:20,540
pretty sure it's my dead wife and she got up seven mil and night before him. She's playing a cover,

762
00:44:20,540 --> 00:44:25,820
getting a refrigerator. I'm sitting in my chair watching TV and this cold spot comes across the

763
00:44:25,820 --> 00:44:31,740
room from where she used to sit. I said, well, okay, we'll come and talk to you. And I went

764
00:44:31,740 --> 00:44:35,340
talk to my share of the gospel and he did not want to accept Jesus. He did not want to become a

765
00:44:35,340 --> 00:44:40,700
Christian. And I said, well, we can do it. And actually it was a brother to a mental and myself

766
00:44:40,700 --> 00:44:45,500
went for the first time. So we can do it. So we prayed and we passed out to the other one a second

767
00:44:45,500 --> 00:44:48,940
or are they okay? If you want to go find out what his question is now, so you're ready.

768
00:44:48,940 --> 00:44:57,980
Anyway, then we did. So we prayed and we read the Spirit and it went away for about two weeks.

769
00:44:57,980 --> 00:45:03,500
For about two weeks, he had no trouble. And then after it came back, he said, well, it's back

770
00:45:03,500 --> 00:45:09,020
and it's worse than ever. Now let's do this and it's worse than ever. So I went back to him and I

771
00:45:09,020 --> 00:45:13,340
said, and the second time I went back, he was he was claiming to be Muslim. So the second time I

772
00:45:13,340 --> 00:45:20,940
went back to Perry, I remember he sat in his guy's living room and Perry especially, Monk Ron,

773
00:45:20,940 --> 00:45:25,820
and he didn't know anything about the problem. And he admitted eventually he wasn't a Muslim. He

774
00:45:25,820 --> 00:45:30,300
just used not as an excuse not to become a Christian, which is a lot by the way, case anybody

775
00:45:30,300 --> 00:45:39,500
didn't realize that. Anyway, and so then I showed him again. And he did not accept Christ, but he

776
00:45:39,500 --> 00:45:46,140
was definitely closer. And so we prayed and reviewed the experience in the house and and he went away.

777
00:45:46,140 --> 00:45:49,660
About 10 days later, he had a man come and lived with him. He had upstairs bedroom office

778
00:45:49,660 --> 00:45:55,580
living room and man came and lived with him. And that man was a Christian. And then he lived there

779
00:45:55,580 --> 00:46:00,940
for about two months and the quote unquote evil spirit never came back into the spirit of his

780
00:46:00,940 --> 00:46:06,140
wife. He said never came back. And during that time, and then the guy went on vacation and when

781
00:46:06,140 --> 00:46:11,660
he came back, he was going to move out. And the night that he went on vacation, the evil spirit

782
00:46:11,660 --> 00:46:17,660
was back in his house and it was worse than ever. He said he couldn't sleep and he felt it hovered

783
00:46:17,660 --> 00:46:23,340
over the bed and all the while. And so we went again and let him to accept Jesus Christ as the

784
00:46:23,340 --> 00:46:29,580
Lord and Savior, which he did to you. And we reviewed people's spirit. We never met the evil spirit.

785
00:46:29,580 --> 00:46:33,580
We never sensed it felt that Eric. I mean, I've sensed it maybe it felt weird.

786
00:46:33,580 --> 00:46:39,820
It was a place. But anyway, so then we we were afraid of you and it fled. He called me about

787
00:46:41,100 --> 00:46:45,740
seven months later and he said he had never, never felt a problem again. I was engaged with

788
00:46:45,740 --> 00:46:50,060
a woman and she was a Christian woman. And he wanted to donate money to the church to pay for

789
00:46:50,060 --> 00:46:56,860
the exorcism. And I declined. And I said, no, I said, you want to do it? I said, don't do it

790
00:46:56,860 --> 00:46:59,500
through me. I don't want nothing to do with that. So you come to church and put an offering for

791
00:46:59,500 --> 00:47:04,620
a prayer or something. I don't want to get paid for fighting demons. And so he never,

792
00:47:04,620 --> 00:47:08,700
that he never had a problem after that, after he professed Christ. He never came to New Heights

793
00:47:08,700 --> 00:47:12,220
either. They never were able to baptize him. I don't know what actually happened. But

794
00:47:12,860 --> 00:47:17,100
they were due to get married and he was both of them were progressing Christians.

795
00:47:17,100 --> 00:47:21,260
So we were able to do it for him, but they kept coming back and it kept getting worse.

796
00:47:23,500 --> 00:47:29,260
So the man that you said of the human, does it? How do you repell it? If it's not a

797
00:47:29,260 --> 00:47:38,860
follower. So in Christ, any Christian believer, any Christian believer can just say cast out or

798
00:47:38,860 --> 00:47:45,020
or send out or drive out or whatever it is can do that. But as a person that's not a believer,

799
00:47:45,020 --> 00:47:49,660
like yes, they can repell these things, they can entertain them, a lot of things. And I always

800
00:47:49,660 --> 00:47:53,900
say this. So if you would think about this is that everybody has different relationships. We

801
00:47:53,900 --> 00:47:59,740
talk about demons and evil spirits. You know, it's what people think their opinions and religions.

802
00:47:59,740 --> 00:48:04,300
I don't know if I believe in that. Like for me, I still don't believe in demons. I get attacked

803
00:48:04,300 --> 00:48:10,380
all the time. Like I don't have a reason to believe in demons. But I was a taxist. I was an early age.

804
00:48:10,380 --> 00:48:15,980
I get attacked every day. And God tells me that that's the way I see it. Like I don't,

805
00:48:15,980 --> 00:48:20,380
I know people that literally can see evil spirits can and I don't see it. God is telling

806
00:48:20,380 --> 00:48:25,580
us being said and I'll go, okay, by faith, I trust you, I'm going to go do that. And so

807
00:48:26,140 --> 00:48:30,620
like everybody has different relationships. But when it comes down to God's relationship to us,

808
00:48:30,620 --> 00:48:36,220
what he's shown us, what he has taught us is that that's why we have the ability through the Holy

809
00:48:36,220 --> 00:48:42,220
Spirit to drive out demons. So as a follower in Christ, any of us can drive out evil spirits or

810
00:48:42,220 --> 00:48:49,020
begin to show people that evil spirits are not here. Truth can trump false love can trump hate,

811
00:48:49,020 --> 00:48:55,180
darkness, light can be trumped by darkness, all this stuff begin to show that God is here through

812
00:48:55,180 --> 00:49:00,460
every born again, believer. So I really think like when we're also doing that, and I don't get into a

813
00:49:00,460 --> 00:49:05,260
big tangent about just say a quick verse, Jesus is talking to a Phoenician woman, her daughter is

814
00:49:05,260 --> 00:49:09,740
possessed by a demon. And this is Jesus, this isn't a Christian, a Christian could do it differently.

815
00:49:09,740 --> 00:49:15,020
But this is Jesus on the scene. He is God and only God. And he comes in there and she says,

816
00:49:15,020 --> 00:49:21,100
there's a drenn of this demon out. And he says, I'm only here for the children, the dogs. But

817
00:49:21,100 --> 00:49:25,740
he was just being insane. Like I've come for them. Well, she's like, well, I'm like a little dog.

818
00:49:25,740 --> 00:49:30,620
Could you help me out? I don't get in the verses. But the idea is that she's wanting to believe that

819
00:49:30,620 --> 00:49:36,220
God can do this. And she's believing that God can help her. So Jesus does cast it out of her.

820
00:49:36,220 --> 00:49:41,100
So the idea is that every demon experience, everything we go through, it should draw us

821
00:49:41,100 --> 00:49:45,420
either back to God or draw us that there is a God and that is Jesus.

822
00:49:47,420 --> 00:49:49,340
So for me, I have to simplify it.

823
00:49:51,580 --> 00:49:53,420
All right, I got to make that a thought from you.

824
00:49:55,580 --> 00:50:02,220
To simplify the first question was, you said that, you said the evil spirit was his ex-part.

825
00:50:02,220 --> 00:50:11,580
Or how would he know that that's his ex-part? Or can a spirit be like a dead person?

826
00:50:11,580 --> 00:50:16,300
Yeah. So biblically speaking, there are no such things as ghosts.

827
00:50:18,380 --> 00:50:22,860
But people talk about ghosts all the time. The Bible says absent with the body, from the body

828
00:50:22,860 --> 00:50:26,700
present with the Lord. So if you think you're dealing with the ghost of your uncle, you're dealing

829
00:50:26,700 --> 00:50:32,540
with an evil spirit. Even if, I mean, you could stretch your mind and say if by some chance,

830
00:50:32,540 --> 00:50:36,140
an evil, a dead person was a ghost, you'd expect it to be evil in any case.

831
00:50:36,860 --> 00:50:42,140
But the Bible says there is no such thing as ghosts. There are only one instance anywhere in the Bible

832
00:50:42,140 --> 00:50:47,900
where quote unquote ghosts were ever dealt with. And it was when Saul summoned up the ghost of

833
00:50:47,900 --> 00:50:54,460
Samuel or whatever, and it was done through a witch, but you can clearly see in that text that

834
00:50:54,460 --> 00:51:00,460
was not him, right? It was something representing. So demons will play that game to try to get people

835
00:51:00,460 --> 00:51:00,940
to listen.

836
00:51:00,940 --> 00:51:25,580
So I mean, there's a couple of different ways. I've see God could have been a vision,

837
00:51:25,580 --> 00:51:30,140
right? I assume it didn't look like a real person. So, but it also could have been an

838
00:51:30,140 --> 00:51:33,900
evil. It's nothing I would want to mess with. I don't know for sure. I wouldn't play with it.

839
00:51:38,540 --> 00:51:42,620
Yeah, I mean, I'm not trying to get on that tangent, but I thought you had to get to prophecy

840
00:51:42,620 --> 00:51:46,540
for a while. So it's possible your dreams are telling you things. You need to start a dream journal

841
00:51:46,540 --> 00:52:02,460
or keep track because you're going to find out that it connects with things that are going on.

842
00:52:02,460 --> 00:52:13,980
Okay.

843
00:52:15,740 --> 00:52:19,660
Yeah. So you're talking about the Trinity, right? And so I actually, I think Chris did a pretty good

844
00:52:19,660 --> 00:52:26,620
job explaining this the other day. But yeah, so we have a belief that a person is one thing,

845
00:52:26,620 --> 00:52:33,340
right? So when I look at Josh, I see his flesh. That's what I see. You know, I talked to Josh,

846
00:52:33,340 --> 00:52:38,540
I hear his personality. I observed in that way. That doesn't make him just one thing, right? We're

847
00:52:39,420 --> 00:52:45,580
heart, mind, soul, we're more than one thing. God is a Trinity. He's one person. He's one person.

848
00:52:45,580 --> 00:52:52,140
But because he's God, he can be everywhere at once, right? And then he chose to become a man,

849
00:52:52,140 --> 00:52:58,300
which we call God the Son. And this is kind of a separate personality, if you will, right? He

850
00:52:58,300 --> 00:53:03,340
chose to become a man and live in the flesh and then die for sin. That's something to do. So they

851
00:53:03,340 --> 00:53:10,860
were all three present in heaven, already, and then God the Son came to earth. The Trinity is a

852
00:53:10,860 --> 00:53:16,140
whole other topic. And it's kind of a deep topic. But essentially, it's something you have to accept

853
00:53:16,140 --> 00:53:23,340
on faith. There's God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, and they're all one person.

854
00:53:25,980 --> 00:53:34,620
Right. It does. Yes. So maybe or maybe it's Tuesday night. I have a great material I can send you.

855
00:53:34,620 --> 00:53:38,220
I think I'm going to try to do it. Feel free to ask me anytime I love me and some questions. Yeah,

856
00:53:38,220 --> 00:53:42,700
that's fun stuff. I love talking about stuff. Even the evil spirits, we've got like five minutes max.

857
00:53:42,700 --> 00:53:49,740
Fair enough. Fair enough. I should point out to ask this much, but I was wondering about the

858
00:53:49,740 --> 00:54:00,700
week you ordered. So what does it exactly do? It's inviting demons. That's exactly what it's doing.

859
00:54:00,700 --> 00:54:06,460
You're calling on demons. Like you said in the handout, you can call on them. They'll come.

860
00:54:06,460 --> 00:54:11,900
They'll be happy to come. Check out with you, all that stuff. But once you invite them, be aware

861
00:54:11,900 --> 00:54:16,380
because they're going to hang out. They're going to be chill and they're going to torment you

862
00:54:16,380 --> 00:54:23,820
beyond belief. You invite them in. Yeah. I know a young lady who actually was, and I don't know

863
00:54:23,820 --> 00:54:27,100
her personally. Now she's a friend of mine on Facebook, but I haven't talked to her over a decade,

864
00:54:27,100 --> 00:54:32,860
but she was possessed by a demon while at a birthday party while playing with a weekend

865
00:54:32,860 --> 00:54:35,740
board. Now, I also know people that say they play with them and nothing ever happened.

866
00:54:35,740 --> 00:54:42,940
But the bottom line is it is inviting in the old spirit. I'm going to share on the personal level

867
00:54:42,940 --> 00:54:47,580
the way we all think about this. Let's say you're a football player, baseball player, basketball

868
00:54:47,580 --> 00:54:52,620
player, which is a football player. You're in the game and you decide to put on a baseball glove.

869
00:54:52,620 --> 00:54:59,100
You've got a baseball bat. You're not going to be in the game very long. Because it's very sad

870
00:54:59,100 --> 00:55:03,980
because some things are near to our heart. We've seen visions. We've seen ghosts. We've seen things

871
00:55:03,980 --> 00:55:11,900
that might be surreal. In our soul, it is surreal. But when you get into the game, when

872
00:55:11,900 --> 00:55:17,340
they're distractions, they're keeping you from what you really can do, who you really are,

873
00:55:17,340 --> 00:55:23,580
who God is. Because all it is is because the honest truth is no matter if you love something or not,

874
00:55:23,580 --> 00:55:29,100
if you don't keep your focus on something, it's when things go, you slip. So it's always keeping

875
00:55:29,100 --> 00:55:33,740
your focus. Anybody who even says that evil spirits are like familiar spirits. Because

876
00:55:33,740 --> 00:55:38,460
they're familiar, they're familiar. But they're like an angel of light. They're disguised. They look

877
00:55:38,460 --> 00:55:44,140
like something that looks great to you and stuff like that. And they've been doing it for years.

878
00:55:44,140 --> 00:55:48,620
If you even think about it, it wasn't a demon, but it was definitely Satan that said, look at that

879
00:55:48,620 --> 00:55:53,500
apple again. What's that look like? And everybody would know that I wouldn't want to eat an apple,

880
00:55:53,500 --> 00:55:58,860
but if it looked like a video game or a cartoon or something, they would like, oh man,

881
00:55:58,860 --> 00:56:04,460
just let me get my hands on it for a second. Can I eat this thing? It's like, that would have got

882
00:56:04,460 --> 00:56:10,860
my attention. So what they do is they draw attention for you to go get it. So the Ouija board's all

883
00:56:10,860 --> 00:56:17,260
that stuff. It seems cool, but you're just drawing attention to what they really want to do is get

884
00:56:17,260 --> 00:56:27,900
a hold of you and your life. So how would spirits be stronger, not as strong, and also in any

885
00:56:27,900 --> 00:56:36,060
way? In scripture, what we have first of all, they are definitely stronger than others.

886
00:56:36,060 --> 00:56:40,380
Strong is a weird word for this because we're talking about spirituals. We think strong like

887
00:56:40,380 --> 00:56:46,860
pump and iron. But if you mean strong, more effective, the primary way of spirit is going to

888
00:56:46,860 --> 00:56:51,500
be, an evil spirit can be more effective on you is if they can work in your area of preference.

889
00:56:51,500 --> 00:56:55,260
So for example, if they're knowledgeable and successful in the area of pornography,

890
00:56:55,260 --> 00:56:59,660
and you're playing with pornography, then that is going to be a really strong spirit to you.

891
00:56:59,660 --> 00:57:03,740
It's going to be really strong. And if for example, if they're not, but they can handle it for a little

892
00:57:03,740 --> 00:57:10,060
while, then later they're going to invite somebody who's really strong in that area. So that's the

893
00:57:10,060 --> 00:57:15,100
first thing. The second thing is, the Bible, like he said, is quoting a particular passage, but

894
00:57:15,100 --> 00:57:18,940
that you might have to use prayer and fasting to get some out where others will come out easily

895
00:57:18,940 --> 00:57:22,940
when rebuked. And some actually pray and fast. And Jesus actually said this kind of comes out by

896
00:57:22,940 --> 00:57:28,940
prayer and fasting. So if it's harder to get rid of, if that's what you mean by strong, then yes,

897
00:57:28,940 --> 00:57:34,460
you know, then they can be like that because they're harder to get rid of. And it probably just has to

898
00:57:34,460 --> 00:57:39,660
do with how people see that they get. And what was the second part? What was the second part?

899
00:57:39,660 --> 00:57:45,020
And then physically, part of it. Yeah. So we only have one story in the Bible of physical harm and

900
00:57:45,020 --> 00:57:50,540
that and they use a person. Well, yeah. So now let's be careful with Joe, great. We're staying away

901
00:57:50,540 --> 00:57:56,220
from the topic of Satan. Okay, all right. So we don't have anything in the Bible that says demons

902
00:57:56,220 --> 00:58:01,980
can cause you physical harm. They can make you sick. They can cause ailments. Absolutely mental

903
00:58:01,980 --> 00:58:07,660
and physical ailments. Absolutely. And then when they're cast out, those those those ailments would

904
00:58:07,660 --> 00:58:11,180
go away. And that's what happened. And then the disciples are casting out the spirits, people

905
00:58:11,180 --> 00:58:19,900
heal. But the seven sons of Ski were casting out demons by Jesus's name. And the guy said, well,

906
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you know, Paul, Jesus, I know, Paul, I know, but who are you? And then beat the snot out of them so

907
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that they ran out of the ring in their underwear. I'll be done. And so the problem is, and I would,

908
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I would remember, we mentioned, I mentioned earlier that people have to be willing to try to cast a

909
00:58:35,100 --> 00:58:39,980
demon out of somebody and they're not willing to be careful. They might get mad. You know, and then

910
00:58:39,980 --> 00:58:45,260
they can do bad things. So it's wise to not try to cast demons out of somebody unless they're willing.

911
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Although you might need to if that's your only defense. You know, that's what some of you really

912
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love. And then you get rid of the demon, you might go talk to them about Jesus, they might actually

913
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go to hear you. Yeah, I think we were, but we'll do it again next week. I know some people might not

914
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be able to be here, but we'll do it again next week. And we'll have a little bit more time at the end.

915
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And next we're going to get into the hierarchy and the Satan part a little bit.

916
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Yeah, there are no lasting physical protections against demons, period. Not salt, that's a joke.

917
00:59:31,980 --> 00:59:38,860
Not sage, none of that. None of that. Now, let me ask you this. Based on what we've learned here,

918
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somebody else answered the question. We'll put somebody else on spot. If a person thought salt

919
00:59:43,900 --> 00:59:58,300
would work and they lay down salt and it worked, what happened? Okay. It could be, right? Because

920
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then it can really get you later. So it could be like a repose, like a trick. But remember salt made?

921
01:00:05,980 --> 01:00:11,820
From the womb, human beings have the ability to rebuke the enemy. That's what it said.

922
01:00:14,380 --> 01:00:19,660
So for a moment in time, that person got up their courage, decided really that what they wanted,

923
01:00:19,660 --> 01:00:25,660
and they backed that up with action, and they were able to stop that evil spirit demon for a period

924
01:00:25,660 --> 01:00:30,780
of time. And then they thought it and it became an idol. So salt becomes something. So that salt

925
01:00:30,780 --> 01:00:35,340
becomes the way instead of what God would do to a person. There you go. Real quick, I just want to

926
01:00:35,340 --> 01:00:38,380
narrate something real quick. I thought Lord put his heart, especially since it's going live.

927
01:00:39,420 --> 01:00:43,340
Everyone knows the song, My Frozen, Let It Go. It's very serious about the scriptures,

928
01:00:43,340 --> 01:00:49,260
about how the word is used. If you said, let that go, then that song means whatever your

929
01:00:49,260 --> 01:00:55,260
point in it, that's what you let go. But since it's called let it go, that means whatever it is,

930
01:00:55,260 --> 01:01:00,860
you can let it go. So there's a verse, I can't say another word, but Jesus tells Peter, get behind

931
01:01:00,860 --> 01:01:05,580
me. And it was an evil spirit, we'll talk about that. But the idea is that those words are very

932
01:01:05,580 --> 01:01:11,020
critical. He said, get behind me. And when we say scripture, we need to go like, I would say word

933
01:01:11,020 --> 01:01:15,660
for word. If you say it so fast, you won't understand. He said, get behind me. He's telling

934
01:01:16,220 --> 01:01:21,580
that spirit that you need to get behind me. I am the place of authority. You're never going to be

935
01:01:21,580 --> 01:01:26,700
in front of me. Get behind me. So the idea is everything that we go through, it's not supposed

936
01:01:26,700 --> 01:01:31,740
to be in front of us. In the name of Jesus, it's supposed to be behind us because of who we are

937
01:01:31,740 --> 01:01:36,620
in Christ, who God is already, the authority over all evil spirits, demons, and others.

938
01:01:37,260 --> 01:01:40,460
Okay, so we're going to have to conclude our conversation at this point in time. We'll do

939
01:01:40,460 --> 01:01:45,580
one more session of this next week. And it also gives you an opportunity to think about it. I

940
01:01:45,580 --> 01:01:49,340
will give you this word of caution. Do not go out freaked out about demons and evil spirits.

941
01:01:49,340 --> 01:01:54,300
Okay, don't do that. If you don't know that you're a Christian, except you described your Lord and

942
01:01:54,300 --> 01:01:58,460
Savior today, and let Him accept you and start living for Jesus, and you'll be safe. And if you

943
01:01:58,460 --> 01:02:01,580
do know that you're a Christian, then you have nothing to freak out about. Greater is he that is

944
01:02:01,580 --> 01:02:05,820
in you than he that is in the world, and you're going to be okay. All right, there are snacks and

945
01:02:05,820 --> 01:02:11,580
drinks in the cafeteria, and we're just leaving this room to go to fellowship. But we're going to pray.

946
01:02:13,260 --> 01:02:17,580
Even though we're late, we're going to pray. God goes first. Okay, so here we go. We're praying.

947
01:02:17,580 --> 01:02:25,900
Here we go. In the back. Here we go. Here we go. Father in heaven, we love you. We thank you. We

948
01:02:25,900 --> 01:02:30,700
thank you that you open our eyes and make us aware of the spiritual realm. Lord, I know it's at the

949
01:02:30,700 --> 01:02:35,420
end of my fingertips most of the time. I know what I hear and what I see. I'm grateful, Lord, that we

950
01:02:35,420 --> 01:02:43,820
can see with regenerated hearts, be aware, make choices, and reviewed and put away those things

951
01:02:43,820 --> 01:02:47,820
that would affect us on this level. God go with it. If there's somebody in this room who's walking

952
01:02:47,820 --> 01:02:52,540
out right now not believing in Jesus Christ, not knowing that Jesus died across their sentence,

953
01:02:52,540 --> 01:02:56,220
just pray to them, please, carry with them, please help them, please be patient with them,

954
01:02:56,220 --> 01:03:00,060
and with us, because we sure screw something up. If they're hanging out with us, learning about

955
01:03:00,060 --> 01:03:03,980
evil spirits and demons, and they don't know Jesus, and so we pray, Lord, that you be patient

956
01:03:03,980 --> 01:03:08,060
with us. One of your words says that you are, and there's somebody that knows somebody that's

957
01:03:08,060 --> 01:03:12,300
affected, knows somebody that needs to know about this material or this lesson or what God teaches

958
01:03:12,300 --> 01:03:17,660
on this subject, and let us be bold and deliver that truth and stand up for you and fight the

959
01:03:17,660 --> 01:03:43,020
real enemies. I would pray to you the same. Amen.