1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,760 There we go. 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:04,760 Glad you're here today. 3 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:07,360 If you're happy to be in church, I want to hear an amen. 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:08,360 Amen. 5 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:13,900 Today we're in the book of Luke chapter number 22 in our final sermon in a sermon series 6 00:00:13,900 --> 00:00:16,440 entitled Backfire, the Death of the Devil. 7 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:20,920 But before we get to it, I have a very important question, a question that makes sense in the 8 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:27,640 dramatic nature of this sermon and the passion of this specific passage, a question that 9 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:32,440 is important for every single one of us in this room, especially considering the day 10 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:36,560 and age in which we live. 11 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:41,920 Take this question seriously. 12 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:47,840 What Saturday morning cartoons did you watch growing up? 13 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,480 I want to find out from you. 14 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:53,280 What Saturday morning cartoons? 15 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,440 How many of you watch Saturday morning cartoons growing up? 16 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:56,440 Raise your hand. 17 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:57,440 How many of you did? 18 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:58,440 Oh, yeah, very good. 19 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,440 Here's my favorite. 20 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:02,440 One of them. 21 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:03,520 One of them. 22 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:05,360 I got a bunch. 23 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:11,800 How many of you watched Saturday morning cartoon and will tell me which one was your favorite? 24 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:12,800 Who has a favorite? 25 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,960 Yeah, which one was your favorite? 26 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:16,960 Dragon Ball. 27 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:17,960 Dragon Ball. 28 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:18,960 All right. 29 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:19,960 Very good. 30 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:20,960 Dragon Ball Z. 31 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:21,960 All right. 32 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:22,960 Very good. 33 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:23,960 And what did you like about Dragon Ball? 34 00:01:23,960 --> 00:01:24,960 Oh, he's talking to his daughter. 35 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:28,480 Oh, now he's telling his daughter all about it. 36 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:29,480 It's a long plot. 37 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,600 You have to start from the beginning. 38 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:33,600 You like the action? 39 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:34,880 Are you still an anime fan? 40 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:35,880 No. 41 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:36,880 Okay. 42 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:37,880 All right. 43 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:38,880 Very good. 44 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:39,880 Yeah. 45 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:40,880 Which one? 46 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:41,880 Tom and Jerry. 47 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:42,880 Tom and Jerry. 48 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:43,880 Old school. 49 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:44,880 Wow. 50 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:45,880 And also very violent. 51 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,640 It tells us a lot about you that we needed to know. 52 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:49,640 He's old school. 53 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:50,760 He likes old violence. 54 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:51,760 Not new. 55 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:52,760 Not new. 56 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:53,760 Somebody else. 57 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:54,760 Somebody else. 58 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:55,760 I think in the back. 59 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:56,760 Yeah. 60 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:57,760 Goofy. 61 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:58,760 What's that? 62 00:01:58,760 --> 00:01:59,760 Goofy. 63 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:01,080 You like Goofy. 64 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:02,760 Like the Disney Goofy. 65 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:03,760 Yeah. 66 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:04,760 All right. 67 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:05,760 Very good. 68 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:10,480 And Mike, the more I know you, the more I can absolutely say that's probably the best 69 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:11,480 choice. 70 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:13,480 You love Goofy. 71 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:14,480 All right. 72 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:15,680 Somebody else wants to share theirs. 73 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,600 You're like, oh man, this was the one. 74 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:18,600 Yeah, right here. 75 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:19,600 Yeah, Joel David. 76 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,600 The Adventures of Johnny Quass. 77 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,600 Oh, okay. 78 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:28,280 So you just heard, all right, hold on. 79 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,520 He said his thing, which I'll tell you in a moment. 80 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:40,120 And as soon as I did, I heard a bunch of people go, oh, but they were all older voices. 81 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:44,080 He said the Adventures of Johnny Quest. 82 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:45,080 Yeah. 83 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,320 There's a couple of people. 84 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:49,200 There's a couple. 85 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:50,200 What's that? 86 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:51,200 That's it. 87 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:52,200 That's it. 88 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:53,760 I'm gonna say AARP. 89 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:54,760 Amen. 90 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,520 That's like, these are our favorite things. 91 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,080 How many of you are too young for Johnny Quest? 92 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:00,920 You don't remember Johnny Quest? 93 00:03:00,920 --> 00:03:01,920 All right. 94 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:02,920 Very good. 95 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:03,920 Man, I loved them all growing up. 96 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:06,180 We watched, man, we watched for hours. 97 00:03:06,180 --> 00:03:13,960 And one of my favorites, obviously, was the original Looney Tunes and Wiley Coyote and 98 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:15,600 the Road Runner. 99 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:23,520 And the fascinating thing about these two is that it seems as if one of them is always 100 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:24,760 going to win. 101 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,800 And it seems like the other is a born loser. 102 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,360 Who is the one that is always going to lose? 103 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,400 Who is always gonna lose every single time you watch an episode? 104 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:35,480 They're always gonna lose. 105 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:36,480 Which one is it? 106 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:37,480 Yeah, the Coyote. 107 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:38,480 Wiley Coyote. 108 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:39,480 He's never gonna win. 109 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:40,480 He's never gonna win. 110 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,480 Now you know that, and I know that, but he doesn't know that. 111 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:53,320 And what's fascinating as you watch the Road Runner and Coyote is that Wiley E. Coyote genuinely 112 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:58,600 thinks he's going to win every episode. 113 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:03,560 Like he gets his Acme box, he's got his new plan, he's got his specific trap, and every 114 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:08,400 single episode he thinks to himself, this is my moment. 115 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,560 This one's gonna be different than the rest. 116 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:24,160 How sad to be in a place where you are so delusional that you genuinely and authentically 117 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:30,800 and truly believe you're going to win when all you've ever done is proven that you lose 118 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,360 and then you lose and then you lose and then you lose. 119 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:35,960 You say, Pastor, who are we talking about today? 120 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,080 I'm talking about the devil. 121 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,960 I'm talking about Satan. 122 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:49,240 One of the biggest mistakes that we make as Christians is that we do only study our Savior 123 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,800 and we do not study our enemy. 124 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,920 Aren't you thankful for your Savior, Jesus Christ today? 125 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:56,920 Amen. 126 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,600 You have an enemy, his name is Satan. 127 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,200 The devil, that old demon, that old dragon. 128 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:08,440 The Bible says, who arose out of the ranks of the angels and who would eventually be 129 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:12,040 damned for eternity and doomed to the lake of fire. 130 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:19,120 We know his story arc, but what we don't know is how he fights. 131 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,440 And we don't study our enemy, and because we don't study our enemy as Christians, we 132 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,320 fall to our enemy. 133 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,320 And so we must understand something about the devil. 134 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:33,360 We must understand something about Satan, and here it is. 135 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:40,440 Satan genuinely and authentically believes each time he's going to win. 136 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,200 He thinks he is, he's delusional. 137 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,200 That's why he keeps fighting. 138 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:52,680 Way back in the Garden of Eden, he thought he was going to win. 139 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:57,920 When the world became corrupt during the time of Noah, he thought he had won. 140 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:02,880 During the time of Babel, he thought he was winning. 141 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:08,400 And every step throughout human history, the devil himself believes himself to have won. 142 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:13,400 If you do not grasp this about Satan, his story arc in the Bible is going to make no 143 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:14,400 sense. 144 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,120 How in the world does he go toe to toe against Jesus himself? 145 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:31,120 And the answer to that question is, because the fool thinks he can win. 146 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,280 And that's where we pick up our story today. 147 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:38,600 Satan has entered into the heart of Judas Iscariot. 148 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,600 Jesus looked at him in the upper room and said, whatever you're going to go do, do it 149 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:43,600 quickly. 150 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,880 He turns to the disciples, and when he does, they're arguing about which one of them is 151 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:49,740 better than the other. 152 00:06:49,740 --> 00:06:55,600 And then he gives them very clear instructions, real talk for real disciples in the upper 153 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,300 room discourse. 154 00:06:58,300 --> 00:07:05,120 And then Jesus takes the 12 disciples out of the room into the late night streets of 155 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:11,840 ancient Jerusalem at this point past midnight, closer to one o'clock in the morning. 156 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:17,600 They head through the city, dark as it could be, down a valley called the Valley of Kidron, 157 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:24,280 across a small brook and up the other side in a hillside that we call the Mount of Olives, 158 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:29,320 and there was a garden that Jesus liked to go and pray. 159 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:35,760 And as he entered the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus has a battle with the devil that is 160 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:46,640 both instructive to who Satan is and how you and I can defeat him every single day. 161 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,520 If you're ready for the sermon today, give me an amen. 162 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:55,080 Three fatal mistakes of Satan, three fatal mistakes of our enemy, and if you know how 163 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,320 he makes these mistakes, it'll change your life and how you battle them. 164 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:03,600 Number one, fatal mistake of the enemy in this passage, Luke chapter 22, verse 39. 165 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,660 Number one, Satan, here's his mistake. 166 00:08:06,660 --> 00:08:09,040 He forgot the power of prayer. 167 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,320 I'm going to say number one, you say he forgot the power of prayer. 168 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:15,160 Number one, he forgot the power of prayer. 169 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:22,520 The reason why Satan loses in this passage is that Satan forgets the power of prayer. 170 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:26,280 How many of you believe that God answers prayer if you do say amen? 171 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,440 I know that some of you right now are saying amen, and I get it. 172 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,120 You're saying amen by faith. 173 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,680 You're saying amen because you hope he does hear prayer. 174 00:08:33,680 --> 00:08:37,160 And the reason is because you've been praying to God and you're saying, God, please, will 175 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:38,160 you answer this? 176 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:42,320 And part of you wants to believe, part of you does believe, but part of you has held 177 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:45,360 back and you question, is God going to answer my prayer? 178 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:50,400 And you're going to see from this passage today that Satan's fatal mistake is that he 179 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:55,280 forgets the power of prayer. 180 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:59,680 And so Jesus arrives in the Garden of Gethsemane, and look what it says in verse 39. 181 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:05,600 Coming out of the upper room, he went to the Mount of Olives as his was his custom, as 182 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:06,880 he was accustomed. 183 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:08,760 This is what Jesus would often do. 184 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:12,000 He would often go in the middle of the night to the same place. 185 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,560 This has already gone away to betray Jesus. 186 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:16,680 Does Jesus run and hide from Judas? 187 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:18,680 Does Jesus run and hide from the authority? 188 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:19,680 No. 189 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:25,160 He goes to the same place that he's always known to be. 190 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:30,240 Everybody knew that Jesus spent time in the Garden of Gethsemane, and he knew he was about 191 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,800 to be arrested, but he didn't run. 192 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:33,800 That'd be like me. 193 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,560 Somebody come to me and say, Pastor, they're after you. 194 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:38,560 I say, who's after me? 195 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:42,160 They're going to come and get you. 196 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,480 I say, oh no, I got to get out of here. 197 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,120 And then I go and sit at Starbucks. 198 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,880 Not a good idea. 199 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:51,800 As was his custom. 200 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,480 You know why Jesus just went? 201 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:54,560 Because he didn't care. 202 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:56,480 He knew this was the destiny. 203 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,280 This was God's ultimate plan. 204 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,160 Jesus knew he was headed to the cross. 205 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,040 That's where he was always headed. 206 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:04,960 He had prophesied it multiple times. 207 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,000 He was not afraid of the cross. 208 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,640 That was his destiny, and he walked toward his destiny. 209 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:12,640 I'll ask the question. 210 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:13,680 You give a response. 211 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:15,440 Was Jesus afraid of the cross? 212 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:16,840 Yes or no? 213 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:17,840 No. 214 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,840 That's important for this sermon. 215 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,200 And his disciples also followed him. 216 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:27,640 So now the 11 disciples following Jesus into the Garden of Gethsemane, and when he came 217 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:38,200 to his place, he said to them, pray that you may not enter into temptation. 218 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,720 What is it that Jesus told his disciples to do to avoid temptation? 219 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:42,720 What is it? 220 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:43,720 Say it. 221 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:44,720 Pray. 222 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:45,720 Pray. 223 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:50,760 And who is it that brings temptation? 224 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:51,760 Who is it? 225 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:52,920 Satan. 226 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,240 This is a battle between the enemy and his believers. 227 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:58,240 Come on out. 228 00:10:58,240 --> 00:10:59,240 Listen. 229 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:01,240 Pray. 230 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:05,600 My father taught me years ago, for those who don't know, my father is also a pastor. 231 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:06,600 It's what I do. 232 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:08,840 It's what he does. 233 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:09,840 Family business? 234 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,720 I don't know. 235 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:21,760 He taught me years ago, he said, every day I pray, Father, lead me not into temptation. 236 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,720 Deliver me from the evil one. 237 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:29,640 He looked at me one time and he said, Josh, I don't pray that God would give me strength 238 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:31,240 in temptation. 239 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,840 I pray that God would lead me away from temptation. 240 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,400 I don't pray that God would give me power to fight the devil. 241 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:42,760 I pray that God would lead the devil away from me so that I don't get tempted. 242 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:48,040 Jesus looks at the disciples and says, you have no idea the battle you're about to face. 243 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,880 Pray so that you don't give into temptation. 244 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:53,680 Now listen, he says. 245 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:59,400 Jesus was about to, stones throw away and he knelt down and prayed. 246 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,360 Verse 41 says that Jesus leaves the disciples behind. 247 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:08,000 He walks just a, I don't know, a few yards away and he says he kneels down to pray. 248 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:15,320 Now this is significant because this kneeling down, when I kneel down at this point, you 249 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:20,160 have to understand, this is how you and I think of prayer. 250 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:25,800 We pray on our knees because of passages like this, but during the days of Jesus, it was 251 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:30,760 not the custom to kneel when you pray, it was the custom to stand when you pray. 252 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:35,080 You would stand and you would lift your arms before the Lord in the synagogue, in the temple, 253 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,720 in the marketplace, or in your home or your prayer closet. 254 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:40,880 You would stand before God to pray. 255 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,640 So the fact that he knelt is significant. 256 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:44,640 You say why? 257 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:47,920 Luke says he got to the garden and knelt to pray. 258 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:50,120 But let me tell you what Matthew says. 259 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,760 The Gospel of Matthew says that when Jesus got to the garden of Gethsemane, he fell on 260 00:12:54,760 --> 00:13:00,120 his face and collapsed in prayer. 261 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:05,200 So don't think in terms of Jesus got to the garden and he knelt to pray. 262 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:10,640 Jesus got to the garden and he fell on the ground. 263 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,040 The Gospel of Mark tells us more. 264 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:18,960 It says that he fell to the ground because he was sorrowful to the point of death. 265 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:28,000 He was so filled with sorrow that he felt like he was going to die. 266 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,800 Have you ever got to a place in your life where you felt so filled with sorrow like 267 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,640 you were going to die? 268 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:39,560 Let's stop and look at Satan for a moment. 269 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:42,760 Satan is smart. 270 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:48,040 I'm going to call Satan a fool multiple times in this sermon. 271 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:49,280 Please do not misunderstand me. 272 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,280 I am not saying he's not intelligent. 273 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:53,360 I am not saying that he's not smart. 274 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,840 I am not saying he is not a worthy adversary. 275 00:13:55,840 --> 00:14:01,960 What I am saying is that he is smart and he's very good at setting multiple traps to snare 276 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,640 his pray. 277 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,800 Satan does not just set out one lure to get you. 278 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:09,320 He sets out multiple. 279 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:13,880 And so he did with Jesus. 280 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:17,920 Satan's ultimate goal was to keep Jesus from claiming the throne of Adam. 281 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:22,440 We've talked about this for months as we've been studying the book of Luke. 282 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:28,560 The Son of Man, Jesus Christ, was coming to claim the throne of Adam. 283 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:36,200 He was coming to be the fulfillment of what Adam never could be, the King of humanity. 284 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,000 That's what Jesus was coming to be. 285 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:43,360 And Satan's ultimate goal was to keep Jesus from claiming the throne of Adam, which would 286 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:46,680 establish the kingdom of God on earth. 287 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:52,480 His first plan was to disqualify Jesus through temptation in the wilderness. 288 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:54,080 And that's what he did. 289 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:59,720 If you remember, Satan brings Jesus out into the wilderness and he fasted for 40 days and 290 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:00,720 40 nights. 291 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,160 Do you remember? 292 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:06,720 And as he fasted, at the end of it, Satan came and tempted him. 293 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:13,640 And he said to Jesus, he said, if you turn these stones into bread, you'll be able to 294 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:19,920 defeat yourself, and Jesus replied, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word 295 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,200 that proceeds out of the mouth of God. 296 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:23,760 And Satan was defeated. 297 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:28,720 And then Satan took Jesus to very high pinnacle on the top of the temple. 298 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:33,160 And he said to Jesus, if you throw yourself from here, the angels will come and they'll 299 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:34,240 capture you. 300 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:38,200 And Jesus says, you will not tempt the Lord your God. 301 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:42,440 And then Satan takes Jesus to a very high mountain and he shows them the kingdoms of 302 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:43,440 the earth. 303 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:48,360 And he says to Jesus, all of these kingdoms will follow you. 304 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:49,800 I will give them to you. 305 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:51,640 I am the prince and the power of the air. 306 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,400 I am the God of this world. 307 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,080 They follow me, not your father. 308 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:03,320 And if you bow down and worship me, then what I will do is I will give them to you. 309 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:08,960 And Jesus refused that temptation and stood true against the enemy. 310 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:13,600 And in doing so, he foiled Satan's plan. 311 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,080 But that was not Satan's only trap. 312 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:21,280 He next attempted to disqualify Jesus as you study through the gospels. 313 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:27,160 He attempted to discredit and disqualify Jesus by using the religious elite and the system 314 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,960 of religious elitism. 315 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:35,320 His next plan was to get all of the religious leaders who the devil is very good at working 316 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:41,120 with and getting them to go after Jesus and try to pull Jesus down. 317 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:42,440 The problem was it didn't work. 318 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:43,440 Why? 319 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:48,040 Because Jesus kept answering wisely and biblically and truthfully to each one. 320 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,880 You studied the book of Luke with me all year. 321 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:54,240 His final plan was to kill Jesus. 322 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,040 Satan wanted Jesus dead. 323 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:03,320 In doing so, he would end the line of kings and the messianic claim to the throne. 324 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:11,200 And so he convinced one of Jesus's followers to betray Jesus, Judas, for 30 pieces of silver. 325 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:15,560 And he used one of the disciples that had become disillusioned and discouraged and depressed. 326 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:23,520 And he convinced Judas to betray Jesus Christ, to sell Jesus to the religious elite. 327 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,080 And so now his plan was coming together. 328 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,640 He would kill Jesus by having him turned over to the authorities. 329 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:35,640 But now a new opportunity has arisen from Satan's perspective. 330 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:44,880 Jesus was so burdened down with the difficulties of life that now Satan watches as Jesus walks 331 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:49,440 into a dark garden and he can't even stand up. 332 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:58,320 And he falls on his face to the point where he is too sorrowful to the point of dying. 333 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:05,360 And Satan thinks to himself, well maybe I can take him out right here. 334 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:14,160 I believe that Satan at this moment attempts to kill Jesus right here in the garden. 335 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,920 He's had many attempts to try to take out Jesus. 336 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,800 If he can take him out right here, he wins. 337 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,640 But Jesus doesn't want to die in the garden. 338 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,380 His entire life has been pointing to the cross. 339 00:18:26,380 --> 00:18:32,960 It was his destiny to go through the cross, to the crown, through the thorns, to the throne. 340 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:37,920 And in this moment of desperation, there is a battle toe to toe. 341 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:44,640 Satan versus Jesus, where Satan attempts to strangle the hope out of Jesus' life. 342 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:53,440 And Jesus fights with prayer. 343 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:57,080 There are three steps that we see in Jesus' moment of prayer. 344 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:59,720 You want to know what they are? 345 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:04,760 Oppression. 346 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:07,640 Question. 347 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,080 Submission. 348 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:16,320 In Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, it begins with oppression. 349 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:20,680 It then goes to question. 350 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:26,040 And then finally at the end, it goes to submission. 351 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:27,040 Jesus is in the Garden. 352 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:28,040 He falls upon the ground. 353 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:32,080 He cries out to the Father in prayer. 354 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:33,080 Why? 355 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:34,320 Because it was all just too heavy. 356 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,440 You say, what was heavy for Jesus? 357 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,600 Let me think about what Jesus was going through. 358 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,040 And think about it for a moment. 359 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:45,720 He had just seen one of his very best friends in the whole world named Judas. 360 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,680 Look him in the eye and say, is it I, Lord? 361 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:52,640 And Jesus said, if you say so. 362 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,200 And then Jesus looks at him and says, go and do whatever you do. 363 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,440 Go and do it quickly. 364 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:01,000 And Judas gets up to sell Jesus. 365 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,160 And he leaves the room. 366 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,200 Then he looks back to his eleven friends. 367 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,200 The eleven friends that are still here. 368 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,720 And I can imagine Jesus looking back with a smile and saying, okay, it's just us. 369 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:11,120 And you know what they are fighting about? 370 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:18,640 They are fighting about which one's greatest among them. 371 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:23,080 He's not only thinking about his disciples and Judas who is just about to betray him. 372 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,960 Peter looks at him and says, I will never leave you. 373 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:32,000 And Jesus says, buddy, you're going to deny me three times before the sun comes up. 374 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,400 Burdened. 375 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,640 Not only that, he's thinking about the crowds. 376 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:42,200 The crowds who a few days ago said, Hosanna, the king is here. 377 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,040 Are the same crowds who are about to cry out, crucify him. 378 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,640 We don't want him. 379 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:51,600 He knows this is coming. 380 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:56,640 Think about the pressure of what it's like to be an innocent man going to court. 381 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:00,160 And he's about to go through three trials. 382 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,240 One before the Jewish Sanhedrin. 383 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,360 One before the Romans. 384 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:06,480 And another before the king. 385 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:11,960 And in every single one of these trials, he himself, he's innocent, but he's going to 386 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,880 be condemned to die for the guilt of others. 387 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,320 The pressure he was under. 388 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:19,480 Imagine? 389 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:23,880 But you don't even understand the essence of the spiritual and emotional pressure he 390 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:25,920 was under. 391 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,600 Because Jesus Christ was perfect and without sin. 392 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:30,800 I'm going to ask a question. 393 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:32,360 You say yes or no. 394 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:34,360 Did Jesus ever sin? 395 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:35,360 Yes or no? 396 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:36,360 No. 397 00:21:36,360 --> 00:21:39,720 He never sinned. 398 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:45,680 Jesus was the holy vessel that had never tasted sin. 399 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:51,880 But Jesus, when he went upon the cross, was going to have the sins of mankind poured into 400 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,040 and all over him. 401 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,640 You say, well, big deal. 402 00:21:58,640 --> 00:21:59,640 It is a big deal. 403 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,720 Let me explain. 404 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:08,600 Do you all know that feeling after you sin? 405 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:12,120 Not the mistake sins, like the accident sins, like the sins you didn't even know. 406 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:15,920 The Bible says we are so human and God is so perfect that sometimes we sin and we didn't 407 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:16,920 even know we sinned. 408 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:22,160 How many of you, this guy knows. 409 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,480 How many of you have ever done like I have in this guy? 410 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,920 How many of you have ever done one of these sins you're like, yeah, I probably sin all 411 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:27,920 the time. 412 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:28,920 I don't even know what a friend's got. 413 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:29,920 How many of you do some of these sins? 414 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:30,920 Raise your hand. 415 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:31,920 I don't know. 416 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:33,560 A lot of you are really good, so you don't. 417 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,560 Actually, you probably do. 418 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:36,560 You don't even know. 419 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:37,560 That's the boy, right? 420 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,160 The accident sins. 421 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:43,400 How many of you don't just do the accident sins, but you're like me? 422 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:50,760 Sometimes you see a sin and you know you're about to sin. 423 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:51,760 You know you're about to sin. 424 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:52,760 You know it's a sin. 425 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:53,760 You know you're about to sin. 426 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:57,140 And then while you're sinning, you know it's a sin. 427 00:22:57,140 --> 00:23:03,880 And then after you sin, you're like, yep, that was a sin. 428 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,120 It's called a high-handed sin in front of God. 429 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:07,800 How many of you are like me? 430 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,000 You know what that is like. 431 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,360 How many of you have done that many times? 432 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:12,160 Yeah, come on, Vegas, you know. 433 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:13,160 Yeah. 434 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,640 So you're like, know what to me, pasta liar. 435 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,480 All right. 436 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,200 You know it's a sin. 437 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,400 It's a sin. 438 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:23,720 You knew it was a sin. 439 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:24,720 Okay. 440 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:30,240 So on the other side of that, remember that feeling? 441 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:36,080 The guilt, the shame. 442 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,240 Okay. 443 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:54,280 Jesus, who never felt that, is going to be filled with that shame, guilt, sinful feeling. 444 00:23:54,280 --> 00:24:00,280 The sinless cup is about to be filled with grime and grumb. 445 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,280 Do you understand? 446 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,880 Filth. 447 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:10,560 You even know the feeling not just when you sin, but when you think about somebody who's 448 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,480 hurt somebody else. 449 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:19,200 You think, have you ever been so disturbed by what somebody else did to somebody else 450 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,360 and you think, oh, that's terrible. 451 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:28,400 And you weren't even part of it, but you felt the shame of it. 452 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:36,360 Jesus was filled with that shame. 453 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:45,480 The holy deity was covered in the shame of mankind and he knew he was about that pressure. 454 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,280 Imagine. 455 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:53,360 So much sin would be placed upon Jesus Christ at the cross just hours later that the Bible 456 00:24:53,360 --> 00:25:01,480 says that the holy father God could bear not the iniquity and in doing so turned his back 457 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:07,760 on the Son of God and was separated from the Son of God to the Father of God for the first 458 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:12,960 time in eternity's history. 459 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:19,440 To where Jesus himself cries out when the sin is placed upon him, Eli, Eli, I almost 460 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,920 a bucket tonight. 461 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:27,800 Which is to say, my God, my God, you've forsaken me. 462 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,960 And Jesus knows all of this he's about to go through. 463 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:39,040 And so he falls upon the ground in agony, oppression. 464 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:43,680 Have you ever been to a place in your life where it was just one thing after another, 465 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:48,840 after another, after another, after another, where you can barely stand anymore? 466 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,000 This is where real prayer begins. 467 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,160 Real prayer begins not with everything's going great. 468 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:58,800 And so now, oh, Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 469 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,760 Real prayer begins with oppression, after oppression, after oppression, and you can't 470 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:03,920 handle it anymore. 471 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:08,840 So the only thing you can do is fall to your knees and say, oh, God, you got to do something. 472 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,360 That's what he says in the next verse. 473 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:13,320 Look at what it says in verse number 44. 474 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:17,680 And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. 475 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:25,360 Then his sweat became like great drops of blood falling to the ground. 476 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:35,000 He was under so much stress and agony that the capillary vessels in his forehead burst. 477 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,000 It's called hematidrosis. 478 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:43,400 It's a medical condition that you can see even to this day. 479 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:48,440 It's a condition in which the capillary blood vessels that feed the sweat glands rupture, 480 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,720 causing them to exude blood occurring under conditions of extreme stress. 481 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:59,360 And it's described 2,000 years ago in the Gospels. 482 00:26:59,360 --> 00:27:03,920 This is how his prayer began, oppression, but then it leads to a question. 483 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,840 What was the question Jesus brought? 484 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,880 What was the question Jesus brought? 485 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:13,920 Is there another way? 486 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:23,360 He says in verse 42, Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from me. 487 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:27,480 We're ease dropping in on a conversation between God the Father and God the Son. 488 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:35,080 And God the Son in agony says, okay, Dad, hey, can you please, is there another way? 489 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:39,120 Let me just stop and say this. 490 00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:43,520 It is not wrong to question the heavenly Father. 491 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,720 Jesus demonstrates that it's okay. 492 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:52,800 You're so filled with oppression and problems, it's not wrong for you to go to God and say, 493 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,440 God, this is not great. 494 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:59,240 I don't know what to do. 495 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,840 Is there an alternate timeline we can... 496 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,480 Is there another way? 497 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,040 What was the cup that Jesus wanted passed from him? 498 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:14,000 This I believe has been misunderstood throughout history. 499 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,800 People sometimes assume that Jesus was saying, God the Father, is there any way I don't have 500 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:19,800 to go to the cross? 501 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,040 But that makes no sense because throughout the entire story of the book of Luke, all 502 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,920 Jesus has been doing is talking about, I'm going to Jerusalem, I'm going to be lifted 503 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,760 up, I'm going to be crucified, I'm going to be buried and rise from the grave. 504 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,520 No, Jesus was not saying, God the Father, spare me from the cross. 505 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:38,280 In fact, the book of Hebrews says that he was running toward the cross for the joy that 506 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:39,400 was set before him. 507 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,400 He endured the cross, despised the shame, but then was set down at the right hand of 508 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:44,560 the throne of God. 509 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,720 He knew that the only way to the throne was through the thorns. 510 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,400 He wasn't praying that he wouldn't have to go to the cross. 511 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,280 Then what cup was he praying? 512 00:28:54,280 --> 00:29:01,640 Well, I believe he was fighting Satan's plan, the alternate plan, the aha moment plan where 513 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,920 Satan says, maybe I can kill him right here. 514 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:12,280 Jesus goes to the Father and says, Father, I am sorrowful to death. 515 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:21,880 Please don't let my life expire here. 516 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:26,880 Oppression question leads to what? 517 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,600 Submission. 518 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,560 That's what Jesus says at the end of his prayer. 519 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:33,560 It's so good. 520 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,480 Father, let this cup pass for me. 521 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:41,240 And then he says, nevertheless, not my will be done. 522 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,800 Thy will be done. 523 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,240 This is how your prayers ought to begin and end. 524 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,920 God, I'm under so much stress, so many problems, so many situations. 525 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,080 I don't know what I'm going to do. 526 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:54,240 Is there another way? 527 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,080 Can you figure out another way? 528 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,760 These answers, is there another way? 529 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:04,040 But if there's no other way, then I'm fine with whatever you say. 530 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:08,400 Submission. 531 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,520 And notice what happens the moment Jesus is done praying. 532 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:12,680 Look at verse 43. 533 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:17,760 Then an angel appeared to him from heaven strengthening him. 534 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:24,200 Notice the moment Jesus prays, the heavens send him comfort. 535 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,920 There's only two times in all of the Bible that an angel comes to comfort Jesus. 536 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,400 The first one was when Jesus was in the wilderness being tempted by Satan. 537 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,520 After the 40 days, the Bible says that an angel came to minister unto Jesus. 538 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:38,360 This is the second time in his entire life that we see in the Bible that an angel comes 539 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,040 from heaven to minister unto Jesus. 540 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:41,040 Why? 541 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,720 Because he's just battled the devil and he battled him through prayer. 542 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,400 Here's what the devil forgets. 543 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,480 Here's the fatal mistake of Satan. 544 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:56,440 And don't you dare make the mistake by forgetting the power of prayer. 545 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:01,760 The way out of your situation is not your mind figuring out the next detail. 546 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:07,200 The way out of your situation is to bring your oppression before God and ask the question, 547 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,400 is there another way? 548 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:13,200 And then end in submission that says, whatever you want, I'm fine with because I know you 549 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,600 know what you're doing. 550 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,600 That's prayer. 551 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,560 Because Satan doesn't understand the power of prayer because all he can see is the power 552 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,960 of pride. 553 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,360 Number one, what was it that really messed up Satan? 554 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,320 His fatal mistake, number one, is he forgot the power of prayer. 555 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:37,400 Number two, he underestimated the love of Jesus. 556 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,280 I'm going to say number two, you say underestimated the love of Jesus. 557 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:44,040 Number two, underestimated the love of Jesus. 558 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,320 Satan underestimated how much love Jesus had. 559 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:52,600 So Jesus finishes his prayer and as he does, as he's finishing praying, the Bible tells 560 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:58,520 us that the enemies led by Judas were coming to take Jesus. 561 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:03,240 I'll never forget whenever I was a child, it was Easter Sunday and they were doing a 562 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:09,720 passion play at our church where they had a Jesus guy and a cross and he had blood and 563 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,160 then there was Roman soldiers and they were like hitting them and they're coming down 564 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:17,720 and I'm sitting like in the back of a church like this and I watched as these soldiers 565 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:23,000 were coming by and he's carrying the cross and as like a seven year old I got so angry 566 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:30,360 at these Roman soldiers and I thought to myself, if I could, I would pick up one of these chairs 567 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,480 and hit this Roman soldier. 568 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:38,480 Now in reality, it wasn't really a Roman soldier, it was like Deacon Bill, you know 569 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,240 what I mean? 570 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,880 Deacon Bill who's like a contractor, he's just trying to help, you know what I mean? 571 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:54,920 But I'm so bad that Deacon Bill is killing Jesus, you know what I mean? 572 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:56,040 That's what's going on here. 573 00:32:56,040 --> 00:33:01,360 The enemies of Jesus are not really the enemies of Jesus, there's an enemy behind the enemy, 574 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:02,440 Satan. 575 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:09,000 And Judas is filled with Satan and he's leading the temple guards to come and arrest Jesus 576 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,600 Christ in the garden. 577 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:15,360 Look at what it says in verse 47, and while Jesus was still speaking, behold a multitude, 578 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:22,040 this multitude in other passages tells us that they had swords and they had spears and 579 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:27,800 they had torches and it was again one o'clock in the morning, middle of the night, and they 580 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:35,480 arrive in the garden to come and they were led by a man called Judas, one of the twelve, 581 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:43,160 before them and drew near to Jesus, notice what it says, to kiss him. 582 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,440 In the other gospels it tells us that Judas looked at the guys, some of them were just 583 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:52,120 normal police officers, they're just doing their job, they're temple guards, they don't 584 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,800 know who Jesus is, they weren't interested in Jesus. 585 00:33:55,800 --> 00:34:00,280 They had no idea how to identify him, plus it was the middle of the night, dark outside. 586 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,880 So Judas says to them, okay, you won't know who it is, but this is how to know. 587 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:12,920 The one I go up and I kiss on the cheek, that's the one that is Jesus, arrest that guy. 588 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:25,880 Imagine betrayal with something as affectionate as a kiss. 589 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:30,880 And Jesus said to him as he came and kissed him, Jesus looks at him, can you imagine this 590 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:40,880 moment Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss? 591 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:49,520 Do you know why this was such a terrible thing? 592 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:55,160 Because Jesus loved Judas. 593 00:34:55,160 --> 00:35:01,400 People hurt so badly because you love somebody so deeply. 594 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:08,400 But notice the beauty of Jesus, he never allows his love for Judas to turn to hate. 595 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,840 He just asks a question. 596 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:20,800 Friend, this is the thing that Satan will never understand, because Satan doesn't love others, 597 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,120 Satan uses others. 598 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:29,400 Jesus has such unfathomable beautiful love that he even loved Judas. 599 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:35,200 I believe even in this moment Jesus is saying to Judas, buddy, pal, you don't have to go 600 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,560 this way. 601 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:43,880 The love of Jesus is not only demonstrated toward Judas, it's also demonstrated toward 602 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:44,880 Peter. 603 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:51,160 Look what it says in verse 49, and when those arose around him, those around him saw what 604 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:57,920 was happening, they said to him, Lord, shall we strike with the sword? 605 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:04,320 Okay, I just love the disciples, especially Peter, because he's such an idiot. 606 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,800 Jesus is going through one of the most emotionally distressing things he will ever experience 607 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:09,880 as a human. 608 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:14,520 His close, one of his closest friends betrays him with a kiss, and the guys wake up, and 609 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,680 Peter wakes up, he's got a sword, you know what I mean? 610 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,760 He's got that sword, he's ready to go, and he wakes up and he says, is this it? 611 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:21,760 Should we get the swords? 612 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,640 We have two of them. 613 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:33,040 Lord, shall we strike with the sword? 614 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:39,600 And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear. 615 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,880 Now this is interesting to me. 616 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,520 All the gospels talk about this part of the story. 617 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,400 Most of the gospels say one of the disciples. 618 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:52,040 In the book of John, John says, it was Peter. 619 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,720 If you read all four of the gospels, John always, there's always somebody saying something 620 00:36:55,720 --> 00:36:57,960 dumb, and John's always like, oh, you didn't know, it was Peter. 621 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,320 Peter always is the dumb one. 622 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,400 And Peter does. 623 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,840 He grabs the sword, and he thinks, this is the moment we've been waiting for. 624 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,960 All these years have led to this moment. 625 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,760 Jesus wants us to kill everybody. 626 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,080 That's Peter's plan. 627 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:19,320 And he grabs a sword, and he goes to swing his sword. 628 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:23,440 And as he goes to swing his sword, I don't think that Peter was trying to cut off an 629 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:24,440 ear. 630 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:25,440 You know what I mean? 631 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:30,240 Like I don't think he was like, okay, should I go for a finger, a toe, or an ear. 632 00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:32,160 I think Peter was going for the head. 633 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:33,160 You know what I mean? 634 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:34,360 How many of you would understand that? 635 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:35,360 You're that way too. 636 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,240 You're like, I'm not going for the ear. 637 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:38,800 It's for the head, right? 638 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,120 Some of you love Peter so much. 639 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,120 You're like Peter Pastor. 640 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:43,120 I just want you to know. 641 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,400 I've had so many of you say, Pastor, I want you to know. 642 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:53,120 If anything goes down, I'm packing. 643 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:59,440 Yeah, you and like 400 other people in the room right now are packing. 644 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,840 This is one church I'm telling you, no bad guy wants to come in. 645 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:08,600 Because I've got like 400 Peters in this room right now. 646 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:09,600 It's true. 647 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,120 And you're all like, is this the time for the sword? 648 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:13,960 No, no, no. 649 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,280 They're coming up to ask about coffee and getting saved. 650 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:18,280 Relax. 651 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:19,600 Okay, all right. 652 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,880 Okay, just so you know, I'm here. 653 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:22,880 I got it, Peter. 654 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:23,880 Thank you very much. 655 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:24,880 I got it. 656 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,000 Really appreciate that. 657 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,000 I do. 658 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:30,000 I love Peter. 659 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:35,600 And Peter goes to swing and as he swings, the guy ducks and as he ducks, the ear comes 660 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:36,600 off. 661 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:47,800 And I could just picture Peter like, and Jesus in another gospel corrects him and says, stop. 662 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:56,920 Peter and Jesus loves Peter so much, he corrects Peter and says, Peter, what are you doing? 663 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:02,280 Those who live by the sword die by the sword. 664 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:10,240 And then Peter, then Jesus leans down into the dirt and he says to them, allow this, 665 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:11,800 please, I'm not doing it. 666 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:12,800 Just talk. 667 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,920 And he grabs the ear of Malchus. 668 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:21,080 Say who's Malchus, the guy with the ear off. 669 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:31,160 And he takes the ear and the very hands that formed Malchus in the womb, put the ear right 670 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:39,320 back on his head. 671 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:44,480 Don't you understand in this story, you see the love of Jesus poured out on Jesus. 672 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:49,760 You see the love of Jesus poured out on Peter, but you also see the love of Jesus poured 673 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:53,600 out on some random guy named Malchus. 674 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,320 You know why? 675 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:59,880 Because Jesus was there when Malchus was formed in the womb. 676 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:03,880 Jesus understood the moment being God that Malchus was born. 677 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,800 Jesus knew little Malchus when he was a little boy. 678 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,040 Jesus knew Malchus throughout his entire life. 679 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,520 And then when he first got that job to be a temple guard and he came home and told his 680 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:16,880 parents how proud he was that he was going to be a temple security guard to take care 681 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,440 of God's house. 682 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:22,840 Jesus knew his entire back story and Jesus loved him. 683 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,000 He loved him. 684 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,880 And to you and I, he's just some random name. 685 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:33,160 And so this was Jesus's moment to show, stop! 686 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:38,880 I love him! 687 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:43,720 This is what Satan will never understand. 688 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:46,520 Jesus loves every single one of them. 689 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,600 He loves all the ones on this side and he loves all the ones on this side. 690 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:51,600 He loves all of them. 691 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:57,000 He wants them all to be saved. 692 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,960 I find in life that there are two kinds of people. 693 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:06,160 There are sushi people. 694 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:10,160 And there are non-sushi people. 695 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,800 There's no in between. 696 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,200 Not nobody. 697 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,120 How many people are sushi people like I am? 698 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:18,120 You love the sushi? 699 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:19,120 Raise your hand. 700 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:20,120 Hallelujah. 701 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:21,120 God bless. 702 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:22,120 Sushi. 703 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:23,120 It's so good. 704 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:29,400 How many of you are not the sushi people? 705 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:30,400 Raise your hand. 706 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,520 See how passionate they are? 707 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:41,160 Is this raw fish or are you raw fish? 708 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:42,600 The chef doesn't do his job. 709 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,720 All he does is cut it up, cook the stuff. 710 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:47,320 My wife is a non-sushi person. 711 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,680 I'm a sushi person. 712 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:53,520 I converted my children two out of three. 713 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,720 There are now followers of the sushi way. 714 00:41:55,720 --> 00:41:56,720 Amen. 715 00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:57,720 Pray for my wife. 716 00:41:57,720 --> 00:41:58,720 I don't think she'll ever be saved. 717 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:01,280 I don't. 718 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:06,760 I remember when I first became a sushi man, my friend Angelo. 719 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:07,760 He's in heaven now. 720 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,440 He's passed away, but Angelo said to me, he's like, you don't like sushi? 721 00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,000 I said, why would I want sushi? 722 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:17,480 He said, buddy, you got to try sushi. 723 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,040 And I felt like I was being converted. 724 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:21,360 You know what I mean? 725 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:22,960 Like he's like, come to Starbucks with me. 726 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:27,840 I'll explain to you all the reasons why sushi is the way. 727 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:31,360 So we went to a sushi restaurant and we sat down and he said, try this and try that. 728 00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:35,760 And the first time I'm like, I don't think I want it. 729 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:36,760 Man. 730 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:44,960 I underestimated how good it would be because I'd never tried it. 731 00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,400 You know what the Bible says about God? 732 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:57,320 For those who don't know, okay, the Bible says, taste and see that the Lord is good. 733 00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,720 He loves you. 734 00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:01,560 He don't you understand? 735 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,680 The reason why you're turned off by him is because you have an image and an idea of what 736 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,000 he is and he's not that thing. 737 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:09,480 He loves you. 738 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:14,000 And so whether or not you're a villain like Judas, you're an idiot like Peter or you're 739 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:20,760 some rando that nobody knows like Malchus. 740 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:21,760 He loves you. 741 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:22,760 And here's where Satan messed up. 742 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,720 He messed up because he forgot the power of prayer. 743 00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:31,300 He misunderstood the love of Jesus. 744 00:43:31,300 --> 00:43:41,440 And lastly, in this passage, Satan's fatal mistake, lastly, he ignored the word of God. 745 00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:50,160 Satan was the biggest fool because he ignored everything that was written about this moment. 746 00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,600 Look what happens at the end of the story, verse 52. 747 00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,960 And Jesus said to the chief priests and the captains and the temples and the elders who 748 00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,160 had come to him, so all of this is going on. 749 00:43:58,160 --> 00:43:59,480 It's a very tense moment. 750 00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:00,920 People are drawing swords. 751 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:01,920 Spears are up. 752 00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:05,440 And Jesus stops them and says, hold on. 753 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:13,600 Have you really come out as against a robber with swords and with clubs? 754 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,520 When I was with you daily in the temple, you did not try to seize me. 755 00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:29,280 He very calmly says, fellas, you saw me every day in the temple teaching. 756 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,280 And you're taking me like I'm a violent criminal. 757 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:38,520 And then Jesus says one of the most mysterious and dark things in all of the Bible. 758 00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,160 Jesus looks at them. 759 00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:46,560 And I believe he says this not to them, but those who are powerful behind them. 760 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:58,320 He says these words, but this is your hour, the power of darkness. 761 00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:03,920 This is whose hour? 762 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:08,000 This is the hour of Satan. 763 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:12,160 Satan gets his moment in the sun. 764 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:21,280 This is Satan's opportunity to win. 765 00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:29,760 Satan in this moment is going to get exactly what he's always wanted, Jesus bloodied and 766 00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:35,440 beaten on a tree. 767 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:41,280 And Jesus is going to let Satan have exactly what he wanted. 768 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:54,560 And that fool ends up just triggering a trap that himself would be damned because it was 769 00:45:54,560 --> 00:46:03,560 the death of Jesus Christ on the cross that would doom the devil for eternity anyway. 770 00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:08,760 Backfired the death of the devil. 771 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,760 Satan is a worthy adversary. 772 00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:18,480 Yet one night in a series of fatal mistakes in the span of 12 hours, his ultimate plan 773 00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:21,920 became his eventual demise. 774 00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:29,280 As he possessed Judas, he betrayed Jesus and he had him arrested. 775 00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:35,600 This sermon series is the story of the devil's death and the dark plan that famously backfired. 776 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:43,840 All because Satan didn't read the Word of God. 777 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,200 See all of this was prophesied. 778 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:47,760 The fool. 779 00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:54,000 All the way back in Genesis chapter 3 in verse 15, God himself said to Satan, God himself 780 00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:58,920 says to Satan, look, the seed of the woman is going to come against your seed and one 781 00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:04,400 day you're going to bruise his heel and he's going to crush your skull. 782 00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:09,040 It's not even that it was prophesied by God himself back in Genesis. 783 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:13,100 Even the book of Leviticus told Satan exactly how it would happen. 784 00:47:13,100 --> 00:47:15,080 It would be through the shedding of blood. 785 00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:18,440 Leviticus chapter 17 verse 11, God made it very clear. 786 00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,640 The life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you upon the altar to make 787 00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,160 atonement for your souls. 788 00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:27,240 For it is in the blood that makes atonement for your souls. 789 00:47:27,240 --> 00:47:32,640 Satan wanted Jesus bloodied on a cross yet he had no idea that the Word of God very clearly 790 00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:37,360 prophesied that it would be the blood that would actually atone for the souls of men. 791 00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,800 He said, well, that's kind of vague. 792 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,440 Satan may have not known that yet he thinks himself so smart. 793 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:48,040 Why did he ignore the prophecy of Isaiah that came 700 years before the Garden of Gethsemane 794 00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:54,280 when Isaiah said very clearly and very obviously that the Messiah would be despised and rejected 795 00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,360 by man, a man of sorrows acquainted with grief. 796 00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:04,560 Surely he will bear our griefs and carry our sorrows yet we wounded him for our transgressions. 797 00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:07,120 We bruised him for our iniquities. 798 00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:13,240 The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we would be healed. 799 00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:21,440 Satan had access to every one of these prophecies but he ignored them because he's a fool. 800 00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:28,920 He lost the game and he lost the war. 801 00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:32,360 Why because he ignored the Bible? 802 00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:39,560 My dear friend, why do I say all this to you today? 803 00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:46,320 Because you need to understand that you fight a defeated enemy. 804 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:47,320 Look up here. 805 00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:48,520 Look up here. 806 00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:54,280 You should have no reason in your heart to be afraid of Satan. 807 00:48:54,280 --> 00:49:01,920 He's a loser. 808 00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:04,960 We get to October 29th. 809 00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:09,360 Tomorrow's October 30th. 810 00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:11,760 Two days later, November 1st, the Devil's Day. 811 00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:16,760 Some of you are really nervous. 812 00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,960 We watched a scary movie when you were a kid and you still think the Devil makes people's 813 00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:26,600 heads turn around and throw up green stuff. 814 00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:28,040 I'm not being funny here. 815 00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:33,120 Some of you genuinely think you need a holy man to come into your house and wave branches 816 00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,120 around. 817 00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,840 Let's get rid of the Devil. 818 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:42,800 Friend, the Devil is already defeated. 819 00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:46,480 Friend is a child of God purchased by the blood of Christ. 820 00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:51,520 He has no power over you. 821 00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:55,640 None that you don't give him. 822 00:49:55,640 --> 00:50:00,200 You don't need somebody like me coming into your life saying, get out of here, demons. 823 00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:04,200 All you have to do is a child of God to say, I'm a child of God. 824 00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:06,840 You have no business here. 825 00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:08,180 Out! 826 00:50:08,180 --> 00:50:09,720 You have that power. 827 00:50:09,720 --> 00:50:12,720 You have that power. 828 00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:16,800 You've been freed from sin and death and the Devil and Satan himself. 829 00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:27,040 He has no power over you because he was the one who tipped over the domino that led to 830 00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:29,580 his ultimate defeat. 831 00:50:29,580 --> 00:50:35,880 Because the moment Jesus Christ dies upon the cross and sheds his blood for mankind 832 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:42,320 is sealed the fate of Satan for eternity. 833 00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:50,840 And now he is declawed and he knows it and he's angry. 834 00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:53,560 But he has no power over us. 835 00:50:53,560 --> 00:51:05,400 Friend, as you go from here, please remember this truth. 836 00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:12,080 The power that you have and ought respect in this world is that of one and one alone, 837 00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:17,400 the God of heaven who sent his son to pay for the sins of mankind. 838 00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:23,280 He has shown the way of defeat and how to destroy the works of the villain. 839 00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:27,360 And all we must do is the exact opposite of what Satan has done. 840 00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:32,840 We must remember the power of prayer. 841 00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:39,280 You must follow the truths of the Word of God. 842 00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:43,320 He must trust this plan every step of the way and in doing so you'll defeat the Devil 843 00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:44,320 too. 844 00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:45,320 Let us pray. 845 00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:46,320 Father, say,