Feb. 10, 2026

"Are You Getting Fat?" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

"Are You Getting Fat?" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole
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"Are You Getting Fat?" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

When God's children forgot who they were and where they had come from, they indulged in their "flesh" and "grew fat." (Deut. 32:15)   They had become complacent and had started worshipping other gods and attributed their prosperity to the demons they worshipped as gods. Jeremiah warned them about offering cakes to the "queen of Heaven" to whom they had attributed their success.   Paul traces the progression of their degeneration in Romans 1:16 to rejection of their identity by rejecting the God who created them. They turned from worshipping their Creator to worshipping the creatures He had made.   This rejection of the truth forced God to turn them over to a debased mind, vile passions and the spirits of uncleanness.    Lord, God, forgive us and lift us up out of our descent into the tunnels of vile passions and a debased mind into the glorious liberty as the sons and daughters of God.

 

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00:00 - Opening: Emergency & Distress

00:24 - Theme: Rescue Radio — War for Your Soul

00:28 - Prayer: Protection and Commission

01:45 - Question: Are You Getting Fat? (Spiritual Meaning)

02:02 - Scripture: Deuteronomy 32 — Jeshurun Grew Fat

04:27 - Identity: Made in God’s Image

06:52 - Warning: Jeremiah — Idolatry and Captivity

10:01 - Romans: Wrath, Creation, and Worship

13:44 - Consequences: Given Over to Vile Passions

17:45 - Hope: Jesus Came to Seek and Save

19:01 - Parables: Sower, Wheat & Tares — Hearing and Revelation

27:15 - End Times: Harvest, Separation, Call to Repentance

31:18 - Exhortation: Repent, Confess, Walk in the Spirit

32:44 - Closing: Prayer, Resource Recommendation, Outro

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I have an emergency, what is your location?

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I can't talk, I don't know what to say.

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I don't know what to say.

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That is the look on her eye.

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I can't play, please don't say anything.

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I can't talk, I don't know what to say.

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I can't talk, I don't know what to say.

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Rescue radio.

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Cause there's a war for your soul.

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Father God, we thank you for this day, and indeed there is a war going on.

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Cover us, may your kingdom come, your will be done, both inside and outside of us, Lord God.

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And we'll walk as the ambassadors of the Most High God in our lives.

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Thank you, Jesus, for also showing us the way, breaking the curses, paying the price,

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dying in our place, giving us authority, and commissioning us to go and preach the gospel.

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We thank you for the authority that you've given us to tread on serpents and scorpions

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and over all the power of the enemy.

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We thank you for giving us your wisdom and counsel.

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We thank you for giving us your peace and direction

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through the power of your Holy Spirit who lives inside of us.

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And we also thank you for the promise, the covenant promise,

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that no weapon formed against us will prosper,

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that no words said or deed done or action taken will be able to be used by the enemy

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to bring forth any shame, trouble, or reproach.

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We bind the spirits of sorcery, witchcraft, enchantments, stupor, the provocations,

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the inciting of the enemy against us.

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We bind and forbid the enemy's attacks against us and release victory and joy and peace,

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protection, health, and direction, Father God.

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Let your truth set us free.

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We ask these things in Jesus' name, amen.

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Well, I have a question, a question for our listeners today.

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Okay, a question.

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What is the big question of the day?

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And are you getting fat?

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Are you getting fat?

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Yes, you know, there's some scriptures in the Bible that give us that kind of a question,

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actually.

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And in Deuteronomy chapter 32, where Moses is singing his song, it's kind of his final

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address to the people as he's about to go up into the mountain and die, lay down, and

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God will take his life, however that works.

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So he's kind of reminiscing.

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He's going all through their history of those years in the wilderness and being delivered

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and all of those things.

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And he said in verse 15, and I want you to read that 15, Deuteronomy 32, 15, and kind

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of then that'll set the stage for what we want to talk about.

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Yeah, and it's a prophetic song.

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It's a review of the past, like you said, and it's a prediction of what's going to be

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happening in the future as well with Israel.

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Jeshurun, which is another name for Israel, grew fat and kicked or rebelled.

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You grew fat and you grew thick.

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You are obese.

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Then he forsook God who made him and scornfully esteemed the rock of his salvation.

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They provoked him to jealousy with foreign gods, with abominations.

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They provoked him in anger.

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They sacrificed to demons and not to God, to gods they did not know, to new gods, new

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arrivals that your fathers did not fear.

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Of the rock who begot you, you are unmindful and have forgotten the God who fathered you.

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And when you saw it, he spurned them.

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And when the Lord saw it, my son.

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Yeah, when the Lord saw it, he spurned them because of the provocation of his sons and

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daughters.

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And he said, I will hide my face from them.

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I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom

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there is no faith.

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But they have provoked me to jealousy by what is not God.

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They have moved me to anger by their foolish idols, he said, but I will provoke them to

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jealousy by those who are not a nation.

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I will move them to anger by a foolish nation for a fire is kindled in my anger and shall

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burn from to the lowest hell and shall consume the earth with her increase and set on fire

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the foundations of the mountains.

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So this is a kind of a synopsis or a snapshot of the whole process and what happens in verse

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that same chapter in verse six, he says, is he not your father?

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Moses is asking this question.

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Is he not your father who brought you, who bought you?

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Has he not made you and established you?

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Remember the days of old.

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So he's telling them that, you know, in Genesis 1, 26 and seven, God says, let us make man

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in our image and likeness.

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And in his image and likeness, he created the male and female, he created them.

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And so we are established in our true identity as coming from God, originating from God,

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where God's idea, God's creation, God brought us forth.

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And yet through all of the trouble in the snake pit and the calamities and the distractions

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and the injustices and the I don't know what you call it, the bitter things of life, we

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have lost our identity.

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And that's why.

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And then and here he's talking to them, just sure, and grew fat.

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You know, he says, my Bible says you are covered with fat years, I think, said something a

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little different.

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But what thick and obese, obese.

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Those are good words.

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You know, like you.

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I know a lot of people in this country are obese there.

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And that's just a physical symptom of a spiritual sickness.

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He said they were sacrificed to demons, to gods they did not know.

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They even made up new gods.

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Their fathers did not fear the Lord.

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They were unmindful of him and forgotten the God who had fathered them.

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Yeah, and let me just read verses twenty eight and twenty nine.

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Of that same chapter, for they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding

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in them or that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider

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their ladder and.

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And this is the whole point.

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If you don't know your beginning and you're unsure and confused about your identity, which

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of course, Satan has tried to confuse and corrupt and destroy the narrative of narrative

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of truth by telling us we come from monkeys and God doesn't exist and God's mad at us

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and we got to be perfect to get to heaven.

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All these things.

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Satan is kind of done to corrupt and distract and divide and separate us from our relationship

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with God.

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And so to the point of the latter and in the end, the mountains are going to be the foundations

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in the mountains.

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They're going to be on fire.

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And, you know, we're looking and going towards that place.

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And you don't have to end up in that place.

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You can end up in the place where God is in a relationship with God.

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So again, you know, in another example of that, that rebellion is in Jeremiah, where

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he's pleading with the people, telling them they're going to go into captivity and we're

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kind of in that same spot, really, again, only it's not just the captivity of a nation.

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It's actually the captivity of the nations going into that final battle, as we read about

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in the book of Revelations.

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But he says in Jeremiah 44, 25, now this verse is coming out of a conversation Jeremiah is

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having with the people over the course of several chapters where they were, he was,

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you know, reprimanding them for burning incense to the to the gods, the other gods, the women

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are, you know, burning incense to the queen of heaven.

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And they're there.

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He's telling him, don't do this.

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Stop this.

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It's going to get you in trouble.

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And then he stopped burning incense to the god of heaven.

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But they they came they came back and says, but verse 18.

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But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings

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to her, we have lacked everything and have been continually consumed by the sword and

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the famine.

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So they're saying our good fortune, our good luck, our, you know, benefits are coming from

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the from sacrificing to the queen of heaven.

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And Jeremiah saying, no, you don't understand.

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If you don't stop doing that, these calamities are going to come upon you because you're

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provoking the God of Israel, the God of all creation.

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So there's a real confusion there because they're attributing their gifts and blessings

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and fatness and full tables and all of the assumed blessings to their worshiping demons.

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And that's exactly what many people are doing today.

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They're thinking that their benefits and blessings come from, you know, falling away from God,

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disobeying God, you know, worshiping demons.

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And then he says in verse 25, but thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,

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you and your wives have spoken with your own, with your mouths and filled your hands by

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saying, we will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the queen

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of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.

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You will surely fulfill your vows and perform your vows.

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He's saying, okay, this is what you want.

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You're going to, you're going to have what you get then.

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And so they refuse to take the correction.

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They refuse to bow.

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They refuse to give up their false gods.

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And we have false gods, lots of them.

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The number one false God, I believe in this nation and in the world is called fear.

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We are so afraid.

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And then with fear comes insecurity.

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And then with that comes witchcraft because now I have to take care of myself and do it

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myself and find my own way because God doesn't answer me because either God's mad at me or

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God doesn't care.

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And so therefore we just have to find our own path.

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And so that's how they were making their way more profitable by worshiping their idols.

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So it's, it's really, it's, it's really appalling.

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It's a, it's appalling.

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Deceptive.

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All of the above because you know, God gave the revelation to his people, you know, he

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gave the word of God.

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He gave the law, the, we had the prophets speaking the word of God to the people over

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and over and over and over and over again.

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And so finally it said until there was no remedy, well, and God just turned them over.

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He turned them over.

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And so this is what we have, you know, in our day, in Romans, we have the exact description

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of that.

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First of all, we have Paul talking about, he's not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ

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and declares that Jesus Christ is the son of God.

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So his first declaration is to that commitment to the spirit of holiness and the resurrection

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of Jesus Christ from the dead.

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And then he says in verse 16, I'm not ashamed of this gospel.

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It's the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes to the Jew and also to the Gentile

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or the Greek.

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Then he goes on to say in verse 18, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against

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all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.

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So if you stop right there, you see that God is giving us, that he created us.

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He's giving us the ways of holiness, the ways of righteousness, the ways to prosper.

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And Satan has come in, kind of interjected his path and his false comforts and his false

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deceptions or his deceptions to lure us into a place where we give up our identity and

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we begin to operate in ungodliness and in a reprobate mind.

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Then he goes on to say, for since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes are

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purely seen being understood by the things that are made, even as eternal power and Godhead,

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so that they are without excuse.

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In other words, so the creation, the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament

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declares his his power.

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So so in the creation of the stars and moon, the sun is not to be worshipped, but to recognize

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the one who created all these things.

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There has to be a God.

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And there is a consciousness worldwide that there is a God somewhere.

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And so all these things just didn't happen, just didn't happen.

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What happens, though, is we worship the creation rather than the creator.

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And their foolish hearts were darkened.

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Their minds became futile.

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Their thoughts were futile.

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And so they were beginning to be led astray, professing to be wise, they became fools because

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they gave up the true glory of God and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an

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image made with made like corruptible man.

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How many nations and peoples and religions worship, you know, elephants or monkeys, monkeys,

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snakes, dragons?

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Yeah, it is ridiculous because you're putting those things over above you.

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You are made in the image of God.

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These things were made as, you know, accessories to the earth, so to speak, animals and whatnot.

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But we're to be the ones who operate and govern this planet.

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But we have so slipped in our identity that we do not know who we are.

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And it's because we have rebelled against the truth, changed the glory of God, Satan's

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done this.

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He's misled us.

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He's deceived us.

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He's seduced us and caused us to create these idols and images and sticks and stones that

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we worship and attribute to them the things that belong to God, the favor, the blessing

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and the deliverance.

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Therefore, in verse 24, God was forced, basically, as he was in Deuteronomy, forced to allow

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the bad things to happen, to give them up to uncleanness in the lusts of their hearts,

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to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

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What does this all look like?

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We see this every day.

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Not only are we dishonoring our own bodies, but we're also dishonoring the bodies of the

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innocent, you know, the lusts of their hearts, the lusts of the flesh.

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Lust means I want more.

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It's always connected with sexual perversion.

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Basically, this is this is talking about a descent into total perversion and corruption.

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And we're there, folks, we exchange the truth of God for the lie and worshiped and served

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the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever.

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There's only two choices, heaven or hell.

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We're going to serve the creature or the creator.

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that we make the right choice.

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use for what is against nature.

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Likewise, also the man leaving the natural use of the woman, in other words, having proper

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relationships with women, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing

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what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error, which was due.

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So there is a consequence or homosexuality and perversions and misusing and operating

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outside of rebelling and operating outside of the gift of God, even in human sexuality.

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So Satan was using sexual, you know, that's the first sin really after they ate the fruit.

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The next sin after the killing of Cain and Abel was the the descending of the angels

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and creating this this corrupt generation of Nephilim and demons and and bad DNA.

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So, you know, it's all a war for our souls, but it all is fought basically in our minds,

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our souls and our DNA.

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Doesn't this sound like the headlines of the world today?

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Verse twenty nine of Romans one being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality,

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wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness,

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their whispers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud bolsters, inventors of evil

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things.

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Disobedient to parents, even if even if the parents, you know, parents aren't even around

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for the most part, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful.

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This is knowing the righteous, just righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such

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things are deserving of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those things.

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Those who practice them.

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So we get the, we approve of this perversion and wickedness.

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So it begins out as a gentle pulling away from God and then becomes a mixture, a mingling

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of truth and error, the truth and error.

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And then we ultimately go to that place of abomination where we're comfortable with living

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in this rotten place.

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He is forced because he won't force you to love him, serve him, follow him.

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He gives us the rules, the ways to righteousness, the way to peace, the way to eternal life.

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He gives us the path.

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But if we choose to go the other way, then God is forced to give us up to uncleanness

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and vile passions and a debased mind.

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So when you want to have that debased mind, you can't, nothing, I mean, it's like, it's

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like a glass.

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It's full of pure, muddy water, very, very thick, muddy water.

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Once it's all muddy, you know, you can pour a little milk and a little pure something

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and it doesn't matter because it all turns muddy and debased.

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So we, in our choosing to side with the devil, disobey God, make our own way, rebel against

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God.

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We are forcing God to let us go.

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He says he's come to seek and say that which is lost.

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And so he's not comfortable giving us up so easily.

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So he is working all the time to bring us back to the truth through the calamities,

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the situations that happen in our life to bring us back to the revelation of truth.

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So Luke 1910 says that the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.

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So what happens is when Jesus comes to earth, right, leaves the glories of heaven, comes

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to earth, he's coming into a hellhole of perversion and evil and dead religion and rebellion.

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And it's like...

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Hopelessness, despair, blindness.

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The only hope.

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The only hope for mankind is Jesus Christ, his cross, his resurrection, his life, his

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truth.

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And the thing is, here we are, Marjorie, in this time in 2026, we're living as believers.

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Now, let's say we're talking, say some people are listening here today are true believers.

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Here we are in this horrible last day's mess.

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And a question is...

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Can we stay pure in that mess?

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Can we make a difference in that mess?

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Jesus said, can we bring a light enough in this muddy glass full of mud and slime?

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You have to dump the glass out, rinse it out with the word of God and start over.

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But Matthew, in Matthew, on all the gospels, you see Jesus is confronting this slime pit.

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And he says in Matthew 12, after he'd been scolded for healing a man in his withered

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hand on the Sabbath by the religious leaders who were finding that to be a sin, that he

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broke the law by healing a man on the Sabbath.

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That shows you how ridiculous that law really had evolved, devolved into.

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Anyway, he says in verse 33, either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make

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the tree bad and its fruit bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

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Then he says, brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things?

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For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

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A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things.

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An evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil things.

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Now listen to this.

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How simple is this?

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Listen to what your mouth is saying.

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The heart, what the heart is full of, the mouth speaks.

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So out of an evil heart, you're going to have words of cursing and murmuring and complaining

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and negativity and judgment and bitterness and retaliation.

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But out of a good heart, you're going to hear words of God is good, forgiveness, let's believe

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the positive hopeful words of truth.

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So he says, so we get to choose whether we're going to let our heart, it's our heart, it's

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our mouth, it's our mind, it's our body.

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We are ultimately the ones who get to make the choice.

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However, most of us are being deceived and controlled, handled by the ones who've hijacked

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our lives.

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The devil's living his life, the demons are living their lives through us.

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We think that those things are us.

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He says, but for every idle word man speaks, they will give account of it in the day of

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judgment or by your words, you'll be justified by your words will be condemned.

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So we see here that there is an option, the good tree, the evil tree.

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You don't have to be stuck with what the devil is doing through.

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You can say, Lord God, help me, forgive me.

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I see this is not how I've been created to live.

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Every time you sin, here's a good clue to where you're at.

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When you sin, do you feel guilty?

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If you feel guilty, the very fact that you feel guilty for sinning proves that you weren't

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made to sin.

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Because if you were made to sin and were vile and depraved, then sinning wouldn't be a big

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deal to you.

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It'd be the same as everything else.

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That's who you are.

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But he says, because we feel guilty, that is a good sign, actually, that you are recognizing

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something and you're still recognizing the fact that that's not who you are or what you

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want to do or what you should have done or the lie that you listen to.

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So if you're feeling guilty, use that as an opportunity to say, God, now show me who I

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Because in chapter 13 of Matthew, where he's, remember, Jesus is down here hitting head

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on this religious garbage filth destruction.

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And yet he's pulling out of this mess his disciples and he's teaching them and giving

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them words of understanding.

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And in Matthew 13, he's just told them the parable of the sower and the soil.

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And then he says, therefore, they want to understand that parable.

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He says, he's answered and said that because it has been given to you to know the mysteries

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of the kingdom of heaven, but to them has not been given.

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And though he goes on to say, if you got a little, God will give you more.

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If you exercise what he's given you, he speaks in parables.

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Parables are given for two reasons, to reveal and conceal.

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So if you have the Holy Spirit, the parable is going to be revealed to you and not concealed.

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But if you're speaking to the unregenerate, you know, scoffers, it's going to be hidden.

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And so he says to them, this is the prophecy of Isaiah, hearing you'll hear and not understand,

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seeing you'll see and not perceive, for the heart of this people has grown dull.

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In other words, he's fat and obese.

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Their ears are hard of hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with

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their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and

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turn so that I should heal them.

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But blessed are you, your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear.

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For surely I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you

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see and did not see it and to hear what you hear and did not hear it.

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Therefore hear the parable.

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He goes on to say, if we don't understand what he's saying, then the wicked one comes

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and snatches away that revelation.

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And then there's no fruit that comes out of that.

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So he's saying there's a real battle going on for truth, revelation.

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We have to come out of that place of enchantments and sorceries to receive the word of God and

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be blessed in hearing and seeing and knowing.

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You already know it in your spirit.

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You already know the truth in your spirit.

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You know what we're saying to you is the truth in your spirit.

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Now in your soul, you may feel condemnation and guilt and shame because I didn't do this.

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I should have done that.

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God's mad at me.

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That's the enemy, the body of death operating software in your soul that's trying to shut

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down your spirit.

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But in your spirit, you know the truth.

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You know the Bible is the word of God.

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You know it's true because his spirit is bearing witness with your spirit.

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So it's time to walk in the spirit and not listen to all the debate that goes on between

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your soul and spirit, but walk in the spirit and clearly know the truth about God's word.

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And the only way you can know that is to read it.

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Yeah, the truth.

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The truth sets people free.

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That's what Jesus made very, very clear.

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So truth, you know, you can have truth, but if you don't have revelation, you know, you

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have to be able to see the truth.

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In other words, yeah, you're totally right.

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There can be light shining all around you, but you can't see a thing.

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And so what happens is that it's when the truth comes forward into the midst of this

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snake pit. Some will receive it, some will reject it, you know.

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And along with that, there has to be the only hope we have is the revelation of Jesus

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Christ. In other words, him showing us who he is.

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The Lord has to break through the blindness in our hearts, and we can't do that

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ourselves. It has to be the mercy of God, the spirit of God, the truth of God that

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breaks through the blindness, because the God of this world, small God, small God, the

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God, Satan, the little God of this world has blinded the minds of the people so they

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can't see.

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They can't really hear the gospel of Christ, but the gospel of Christ is the only hope

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and it has to be presented with with authority, with revelation.

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Confirmation. Some will be glad when it comes.

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Some will be mad when it comes.

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He says, blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear.

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So and then he goes on to tell another parable in Matthew 13 is a very interesting one

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about the wheat and the tares.

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And he says, you know, the wheat, the tares grow among the wheat.

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The tares are the lookalike, the counterfeit, the false humans, whatever you want to

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call them, the good seed and then the seeds of Satan are growing up together and the

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grain sprouts. And you can't tell the difference until the actual grain appears, the

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fruit appears, then you can see what they are.

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And so he says that the servants wanted to separate, he said, the wheat from the tares.

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He said, let them grow together until harvest.

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And then he says the reapers will come.

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going to the end.

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Moses was in the beginning.

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He talked about Jeshurun growing fat and waxing, you know, obese and and wallowing in

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his blessings without giving glory to God.

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But here at the end of this parable, he says, the field is the world.

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The good seeds are the sons of the kingdom.

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The tares are the sons of the wicked one.

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The enemy who sowed them is the devil.

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The harvest is the end of the age and the reapers are the angels.

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Therefore, as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so will be at the end of

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this age. The son of man will send out his angels and they will gather out of his

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kingdom all things that offend and those who practice lawlessness and will cast them

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into the furnace of fire.

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They'll be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

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Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their God.

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He has ears to hear.

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Let him hear.

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And then he goes on. He is.

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So it will be at the end of the age.

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Verse forty nine. Angels will come forth, separate the week, the wicked from among the

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just and cast them into the furnace of fire.

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And there should be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

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So here we hear we have the ultimate warning that this is coming.

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We are in this place.

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We may not have another 400 years or a thousand years to do this all again and make

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this cycle again.

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We are here. It is your life.

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There's the most.

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There's a lot of people that are going into eternity quite suddenly.

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They don't know. They haven't not heard this.

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They don't know this. I don't know what's going to happen to them.

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Only God knows. But you're hearing this and you have still an opportunity.

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I don't care if you're sick and on death's door or you're just beginning your life.

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You still have an opportunity to live whatever is left of your life or what's set before

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you for the glory of God and to make the decision to follow Jesus.

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Because ultimately, nothing is as it appears down here.

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Satan makes everything look lovely, fun, glamorous.

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And the other side of that coin is everybody is trying to escape their lives.

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You know, you waste your time.

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You look for escapes.

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You kill your time when your video games are on your TV or your phone or whatever you

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know, just frivolous things.

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Not to say you can't do.

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You know, there are times of rest, there are places and, you know, where we can seek God

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and rejoice. And it's not just all a forced march, but at the same time, be diligent to

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know that the enemy is lurking.

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He's looking for every little crack, every little crevice, every little place where

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you're uncommitted, every little hidden sin that you're trying to keep secret.

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So in that that still becomes an open door for the devil to discourage you or destroy

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you. So if you have those those open doors, if you have those access points where the

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enemy still has access to your soul, repent, confess.

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But it says if you confess your faults one to another, pray one for another, you'll be

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healed. So we're just going to pray right now that these these these terrible, treacherous

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things that are set up in your life to destroy you would be exposed by the goodness of

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God and that you'd have the courage to repent and come back to Jesus.

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And even if it's a small thing, it's just a little thing at any point where the where

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the Holy Spirit is convicting you, turn to God, confess your sins, repent, because if

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it doesn't, you know, if you don't do that, that little thing will become ultimately a

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big thing and Satan will wedge his way into your father.

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Those that are listening here today, I pray that you'd give them discernment or that

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they will recognize what's going on.

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Because Paul says we are not ignorant of his devices.

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Yes, there's all kinds of devices that the enemy has.

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And the thing is, you might be going in the right direction here today with with the

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Lord. But I'll tell you what, there's there's snares, there's traps, there's web fields

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everywhere, there's webs, there's entanglements, entanglements, relationship

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entanglements. Yes, all this stuff.

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Traps, booby traps, ambushes, don't just don't just cruise thinking everything is cool

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with me. I'm loving Jesus.

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I'm following. But we say this not to bring fear to your heart, but just to bring

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diligence, be aware of things that are there to pull you away.

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This is a war living God.

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I think about it like this. If you were in a war and you know there was an enemy all

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around you, you're alert, you're going to watch, you're going to be aware of what's

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going on, the movements, the sounds, the things that, you know, I mean, you're just

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going to be more cautious and aware, not that we should be afraid, but just to be aware

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spiritually. And the good news is the Holy Spirit is inside of you to guide you.

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So if the Holy Spirit is telling you, get rid of this, get this out of your house, don't

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do this anymore. Lay this down.

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Don't spend so much time on your on your phone or on the Facebook or whatever.

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Do it. Do what God says, because we don't have any time left to drag our feet and, you

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know, delay what God is saying.

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Seek earnestly and immediately to turn from whatever it is God is showing you through

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His Holy Spirit and turn away from it.

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And of course, there's always a lie at the bottom of every misbehavior, every sin.

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There's a lie. So ask, Lord, what is the lie in believing that's causing me to be drawn

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back to this, back to this, back to this?

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Because nothing is new under the sun.

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And don't be deceived by the appearance of the way things look.

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And so, Father, we praise you and thank you for the outpouring of your Holy Spirit right

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now and everyone who's listening and all of the things that concern them, their families,

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their children, their relationships, their finances, their health, that you will pour

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out your love, your direction, your deliverance, your healing, your truth, that they

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will find the place, they will get to understand your word, they'll get drawn into the

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Word of God, they'll start to read it, read the Gospels, read about Jesus.

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If you can't find anywhere else to read, read the stories about Jesus and Matthew, Mark,

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Luke and John. Read them, read them, read them, read them and read them again until you

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get to know Jesus, who he really is and how he really acts towards people, what how he

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handles and what he does.

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Father God, we thank you for drawing us by your spirit because we know the enemy's

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drawn everyone away from you.

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Now it's your turn to make a move.

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Draw them back by the power of your Holy Spirit through the angelic forces of the

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Almighty God. Draw us out of the pit, draw us away from the snares, draw us into

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confession, contrition, repentance and sober us up.

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Wake us up, Father, and remove the destructive enchantments and sorceries and open our

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eyes that we can truly see what's going on.

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Father, we ask these things in Jesus name.

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Amen. Amen.

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Well, we have a tool, a wonderful tool that will help you with discerning what's going

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on in your life and what's happening in this war.

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And so it's a book called Spiritual Warfare and How Deliverance Can Change Your Life.

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Tell us a little bit about that.

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Well, it's one of the seven books I've written so far, Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance

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Can Change Your Life, really is just all about the backstory, about what's going on

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right now and how to get out of these snares and entrapments that the enemy has set up

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in our lives. And by the way, you can also find that book on LifeRecovery.com.

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OK, so God bless you and thank you for joining us.

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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.