May 5, 2026
"His will be done" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole
"God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power, love, and a sound mind."
We are caught in a world of hostility, where fear paralyzes us. We are challenged to not believe in the goodness of God and are afraid to use our powers to bind (forbid) and loose (permit) the will of God into the difficult situations we find ourselves in.
We wait for God to do something when God has directed us to take action to declare His will be done instead of falling for the dictates of fear. So many times, we are making a passive agreement with fear instead of "submitting to God and resisting the devil." (James 4:7-8)
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"Because There Is A War For Your Soul"
00:00 - Opening Prayer & Invocation
01:25 - Questioning Reality: Deception, AI, and Signs of the Times
02:27 - Warning Against False Doctrines (2 Peter)
02:59 - Satan’s Strategy: Confusion & Counterfeits
03:37 - Ever Learning but Never Knowing
04:05 - False Teachers & Fishing for the Hungry
05:13 - Understanding the Gospel & Sound Doctrine
06:49 - The Holy Spirit vs. Pious Deceivers
08:15 - Spirit Guides and Soul-level Deception
10:48 - Signs, Fruit, and Testing Spiritual Experiences
12:21 - Freedom from Fear vs. False Peace
13:05 - Following Jesus in Love, Not Duty
15:31 - Sorcery, Enchantment, and Pagan Influence
16:18 - Divisions in Theology & Unity in Truth
17:31 - Separation: Come Out and Be Refined
18:31 - Abiding in Christ: Rest Produces Fruit
19:16 - Joy & Delight in God’s Presence (Psalm 16)
21:09 - Culture, Pagan Roots, and Everyday Agreements
24:10 - Only Two Kingdoms: Sorting Truth from Error
25:19 - Simplicity of the Gospel & Walking in the Spirit
26:49 - Personal Accountability & Doing Exploits
28:50 - Preach the Word: Timothy’s Charge (2 Timothy 4)
30:29 - Closing Prayer & Commissioning
31:32 - ”God on Trial” Audio Drama Promo
34:12 - Outro: War for Your Soul
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I have an emergency, what is your location?
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Rescue radio, cause there's a war for your soul.
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Yes, Father God, it's a war over truth.
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Father God, it's a war over wisdom and counsel.
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It's a war discerning your will, your purposes, your gospel.
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And we thank you, Father, for giving us the revelation of who you are.
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Through Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for us,
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thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth,
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in and through us today, even now,
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that you give us eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to receive
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the revelation of your love and your purposes for which you've called us,
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our destiny, that we will complete our destiny
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because we will know our identity.
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And I thank you that you've given us power over all the power of the enemy.
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Nothing shall by any means hurt us.
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And we bind the powers of darkness, the familiar spirits,
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those who bring cunningly devised fables,
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and present them as gospel truth.
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We bind and forbid these liars.
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And we ask, Father, for divine protection now, Father God.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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You ever wonder what's real anymore?
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How can you tell the difference between what's real, what's true,
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and what's going on?
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I mean, seriously, with AI and...
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Everything else.
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Everything else.
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That's just a little cherry on top of all the deception that's been going on.
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Jesus said, of course, in Matthew 24, in the last days,
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there was going to be great deception, false prophets.
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He says, be careful.
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The greatest sign, Jesus said, the greatest thing to look for,
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take heed lest anyone deceive you.
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There are many coming as the anointed one.
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They're saying that I am Christ.
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I am an anointed one.
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I've got this anointing for this and anointing for that.
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Well, the devil has got his people that are anointed by his spirit, too.
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Well, one of the things I think that the enemy uses to deceive us
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is not just humans who come and say, I'm the Christ,
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but the false doctrines, the tampering with the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Peter writes it in 2 Peter 1, 16.
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He says, for we did not follow cunningly devised fables
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when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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but were eyewitnesses to his majesty.
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So he had that foundation that he actually saw Jesus, worked with Jesus,
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met him even after the resurrection.
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So he had a solid foundation.
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But many people are giving heed these days
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to the seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
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And this is really the plan.
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This is Satan's plan is to get so much confusion out there.
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You know, the fairy tales, the folly, the foolishness,
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the superstitious rituals, the obsessive compulsive behaviors
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that are guised as obedience or religious compliance,
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religious, rigid, legalistic interpretations of the gospel.
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And so what's happening is the truth is being counterfeited
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by from ever is being attacked from every angle possible
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so that the gospel of grace and good news is covered over,
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buried with these clever, seductive rearrangements of the truth.
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Yeah. It says the ever learning.
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And these days people are ever learning
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and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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Having a form of godliness, denying its power.
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You know, in the last days,
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it says they shall turn from their ears from the truth
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and be tamed to turn to fables.
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Well, Peter had the same thought that Timothy did.
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I mean, they were already fighting heresy
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and trying to set us up to protect us with words of counsel and wisdom.
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He says false teachers will bring in destructive heresies
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who will bring in, deny the truth,
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persuading the people who are hungry for God.
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This is actually how it always works.
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It's like fishing.
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You know, you're hungry for God, hungry for his word,
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hungry to know, hungry for the revivals, the miracles, the justice.
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And this becomes the bait, I believe,
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that Satan puts on the hook to bribe and pull in the unsuspecting,
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the hungry seekers.
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I mean, actually seeking God in some ways is quite dangerous,
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even though, of course, we have to seek him and find him.
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And a lot of times in our day, we're thinking,
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OK, if someone has a megachurch of 57,000 people or whatever,
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we think, oh, that's got to be from God.
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That's good fruit.
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Not necessarily the case.
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No, we're not knocking God working among large amounts of people.
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But the thing is, just because you have a big TV show,
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just because you write a lot of books that are bestsellers,
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just because you're popular.
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Books are popular.
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Books does not mean there's the truth.
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The thing is, too, what happens is that we turn away from the truth.
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We turn away from the truth because we don't understand the gospel,
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sound doctrine, teaching.
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People don't like that word doctrine.
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Oh, that sounds formal.
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That sounds horrible.
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Well, the doctrine is very simple.
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The doctrine is Jesus Christ.
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Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life.
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And he said, you know, he says those that don't believe are already condemned.
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You have to come to the place where believing on the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Put your belief means not just a head knowledge.
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It's a matter of putting your full trust and reliance.
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Well, in Jesus Christ.
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In Jesus Christ.
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In your salvation.
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And a lot of times people don't even believe that they're just lost and heading out for destruction.
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Well, they don't know that.
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You know what?
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This has been going on for 2000 years.
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The dissemination, the division, the deception in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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It's become because nobody really understands.
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They don't go back to the gospels and look at what Jesus was saying, how he was teaching.
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They don't read the book of Acts.
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They assume that we are a Christian nation because we have God.
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We have many churches.
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Church buildings everywhere.
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But the thing is, we're deceived.
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So the enemy, there are many levels in which he deceives.
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But the most powerful and important one that we need to detect is the one that operates right inside of us.
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The Holy Spirit was sent to lead us into all truth and triumph.
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The Holy Spirit.
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It's his job to lead us, reveal to us the revelation, the mysteries of God, give us insight and all that good stuff.
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It's his job to do that.
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But what the enemy has done, actually, is not only has he impersonated us to ourselves, he's also impersonated the Holy Spirit to us.
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What we're actually listening to is what I would call a pious deceiver.
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A lying spirit that acts as if he is the Holy Spirit and acts as if he's going to lead you into all truth and victory through more mandates and through lies and through works and through guilt and condemnation and striving instead of abiding.
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The pious deceivers do not comfort us in rest or abiding.
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They always give us something else we have to do to be OK.
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Yeah, and you talk about the term pious deceiver.
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That might be a new term for a lot of people.
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What in the world is a pious deceiver?
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Well, a pious deceiver is one who comes in the guise of spirit.
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Yes, it's a demonic spirit.
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It comes guised as Christ speaking to us as if it is a counselor, a spiritual counselor, a spirit guide, some people probably would call it, who comes to give us understanding.
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But he's using the wrong paradigm to give us that understanding.
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Well, there are a lot of people that are wanting you there, encourage you to get connected with this demon.
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They don't call it that.
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It's a spirit guide that will guide you into truth, give you wisdom, give you understanding about the future, give you peace.
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And they're and they're very and you know what?
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They're actually very entrenched in believers who are very committed, very look, very diligent, very faithful.
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And yet playing in the background of their lives, it's like they've been programmed playing in the background.
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This spiritual influence that's demonic, that is come in through some sort of an agreement that or some sort of experience.
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A lot of people have been exposed to many experiences that Satan is used to program them into believing, being seduced into believing lies.
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And so these pious deceivers, they they chime in.
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They usually they come in through our our soul.
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They don't come into our spirit often unless there's really a serious breach in that.
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So you're talking about soul.
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You're talking about our minds, our will and our emotions.
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All those things that combine, you know, our experiences affect our mind.
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Well, yes.
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And we we allow we allow our experiences to govern our decisions and govern our spiritual walk.
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We don't take the our direction from the word of God.
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We take it from our experiences that we have experienced in our soul.
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And we give those as much validity as the word of God in determining the truth that we go by our feelings.
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It's our interpretation of our experiences.
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Interpretations of our experiences.
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Guide our lives more often than the word of God and the enemies, the liar, the liar.
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He misinterprets, causes misrepresentation, causes us to think that we're thinking it, that we're is our idea.
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When, in fact, it's it's totally not the will of God or the word of God.
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And because people don't know the word of God and because the enemies himself uses the word of God many times to create all of these false doctrines,
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these, you know, the real the real sign of following the true gospel is coming through the through the signs, the peace and the fruit, the fruit.
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So it's OK for us to judge everything by the Bible.
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The thing is, there's a standard.
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You know, it's an old, old, old illustration.
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But the people in the bank don't study counterfeit money.
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They know the real is so familiar.
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They hold it up.
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You know, sometimes you you bring a bill into a store and they hold it up to the light to see to see if it's real or not.
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The thing is, too.
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But if all you know.
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Is is the counterfeit.
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That's the problem.
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The thing is, then it becomes looks like it's real and we judge everything by the counterfeit that we've experienced instead of.
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Sometimes I think we're just too we're too lazy to study the word of God.
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I don't know if it's lazy or distracted or distracted, lazy, very distracted.
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People are it's not it's not that important.
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Well, I believe we think it's important, but we go about it in our own efforts, for example.
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But the true gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel of grace and good news that yields the fruits of righteousness, peace and joy.
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It the fruit.
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Jesus said, by their fruits, you shall know them.
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Matthew 716.
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And so people have to be more discerning.
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You know, we do due diligence when we're going to buy an appliance or an automobile.
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We check the ratings.
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We go here and there.
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We compare thoughts and prices and whatnot.
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We do more due diligence to find the right car to buy than we do following the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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But but the signs that are to follow.
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God says he confirms the word of God with signs and wonders following.
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If you don't see these signs, if you don't see genuine healings, there are many demonic psychic healings, too.
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But of course, Satan can do lying signs and wonders everywhere and all the time.
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But if we don't see true deliverances and freedom from fear, that's a big one.
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People are either you're going to live by faith or fear, either by love or fear.
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And a lot of people are operating their their salvation, their their following Jesus out of fear.
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If you are operating the basis of your following, Jesus is out of fear, like fear of going to hell or fear of God being mad at you or fear of not doing it right or fear of losing a blessing.
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That's fear.
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That's not God.
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The reason we should follow Jesus is because of love.
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I love him.
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I don't want to hurt him.
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He's done everything for me.
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I it's a response.
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It's a love response to his love.
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That's what we're to call follow Jesus through.
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And that will be, you know, that's devotion.
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The enemy sets it up as duty.
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I've got to.
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I have to.
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You know, he uses all kinds of things that are in the Bible, for example, fasting or communion.
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He uses all kinds of things and laces that Satan laces it with with duty, with, you know, ramifications.
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If you read the word of God, it's very clear on how these things are to be used or performed or participated in.
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But the enemy has attached other meanings.
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He has practiced actually sorcery over these things.
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And what is the definition of sorcery?
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It's something that is there to giving objects, magical purposes or spiritual, supernatural powers.
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It uses supernatural power, incantations and spells to influence the physical and natural world.
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It can also use that sorcery to to influence the church.
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We're so inclined to the magical and that goes along with the fairy tales and the fables.
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We're so inclined to do something enchanting.
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We're really drawn to the enchanted.
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But the enchantment came from the fallen angels who enchanted her.
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And they set up, you know, enchantment means to be drawn to something that's beautiful or pleasant.
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All of these things are using beauty.
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You never are seduced by an ugly woman, you know, and pleasure and relief from pain or relief from the pressures of the world.
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So we're looking for shortcuts.
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But enchantments, many of us are living still woke, not awake under the influence of this kind of a magical world of make believe, actually.
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That is. And I think Timothy, Second Timothy talks about this as following cunningly devised fables and doctrines of demons.
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And so the demons have got into our doctrines and they have created great confusion.
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We have also theology.
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And for example, you have the just simply the splitting of hairs or the confusing of the doctrines of predestination or free will and the love of God, the grace of God.
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And so we have men, great men, very noted men who have taken one side or the other and tried to divide the church when in fact truth is a coin and there's heads and tails.
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You have to take them both to have the complete coin.
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And so many times the devil is trying to divide us over theologies or dispositions.
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And but but the ultimate fruit of a division is what?
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It's not God.
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God is not about dividing.
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God is about separating the unjust.
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He said Satan doesn't divide his house.
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Why would Jesus want to divide his house at the same time?
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He says from those who have a form of godliness, but denies power.
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He says from such people turn away.
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So there's there's a time for a there's there's bad separation.
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There's good separation because we have to, you know, we have to follow Jesus.
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Come out from among them.
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Be separate.
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Touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you.
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I think that's going to be part of this end days process is coming out from among them and touching not the unclean thing, because so many of us have relied upon those rituals, those words, those doctrines, those groupings to think that we're OK when indeed God is calling you to a personal relationship with him.
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So back to following the signs and the fruit and the true gospel is followed by signs and fruit and peace.
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So out of that, that system of belief, the gods, the true gospel, there will be divine healings.
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There will be true freedom from fear released from the generational curses.
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There will be joy.
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That's one of the fruits of the spirit and will be at peace.
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We'll rest in the fullness of God's goodness and we won't be tormented with.
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Did I do enough?
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Am I doing enough?
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God want, you know, people, for example, this this one is very there is so much going on right now about works.
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Did I do enough?
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Do I need on the one side?
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I need to do more on the other side.
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I don't need to do anything.
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But the truth is, abiding in Christ is like the branch is doing what it's doing because it's able to do what it does because it's abiding in the vine.
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And what does the branch do?
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The branch produces the fruit.
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The fruit comes out of the connection, out of the love, out of the abiding in and trusting in the vine.
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And this is the picture that Jesus gave us.
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And he says it's out of abiding, out of being comes the doing.
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But the church oftentimes flips that around.
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You got to do something to be something.
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You know, we got a theology.
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We got religion.
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We got church stuff going on.
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We got meetings ad nauseum, really.
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And he says in Psalm 16, 11.
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Stunning.
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I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel.
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My heart also instructs me in the night seasons.
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I have set the Lord always before me because he is my right hand.
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I shall not be moved.
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Therefore, my heart is glad and my glory rejoices.
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My flesh also will rest in hope because you will not leave my soul and shield.
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Nor will you allow your Holy One to see corruption because this speaks of Jesus.
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In your presence is fullness of joy.
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At your right hand, there are pleasures forevermore.
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So who are the people that are really enjoying their God?
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It doesn't mean it's just like one big line of pleasure.
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But I mean, people that really enjoy love.
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Enjoy God.
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That's a very good way to tell.
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I mean, it's like, are you doing it for duty?
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Is it duty or delight or duty?
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If you do so, I got to do this.
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I got to read my Bible.
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No, you get to.
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I got to do.
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I got to go witnessing.
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You get to.
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I want to.
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I'm in love with God.
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they get obsessed with each other.
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You know, or they're willing to do anything for each other.
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They're willing to do anything.
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Like for your children too.
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They want to be in each other's presence.
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They want to do things together.
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Move past fear.
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If we could just get the religion off of us.
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And get into the delight and the enjoyment of the Lord God.
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And this takes a lot of, I don't know what, focus or walking in the spirit.
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Because nowadays everything is geared to create anxiety and fear and confusion and many gospels and mix and mingle the truth with error.
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This is absolutely, for example, even, even things so, you know, so simple and common and every day, like buying your coffee at Starbucks, which is dedicated to look at the symbol.
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Water spirits.
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The water spirits, the mermaids.
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And so you are actually participating by buying your cup of coffee there or whatever you get there.
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You're actually in, in essence, giving an agreement consent, supporting a lying spirit.
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And this is not good.
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I mean, people say, oh, that's just a little thing.
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But that little thing is everywhere.
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It's not that we have to be paranoid about, I can't drink this coffee now or whatever.
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It's not about that.
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It's about knowing the roots of things and then pulling away, not participating in those things.
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That was just one little example.
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But that is pretty much everywhere because this world is totally heathen.
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It is totally pagan.
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There is such an emerging, if you look at the architecture, for example, all of the Roman columns and pillars and pantheons and all the things that over in Greece and over in Washington, D.C.
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There's a mingling of that.
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That's all.
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Those are all spaces that were dedicated to deities, foreign gods, principalities.
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And yet this is so mingled in our culture that we consider it beautiful architecture.
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Now, I'm not saying we're going to go after these temples and chop them down.
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I'm just using that as an example to show you how mixed and mingled our true gospel.
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Jesus Christ has been so immersed in this fallen world, in paganism, even our cars.
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Everything is named after Mercury or Artemis or, you know, even our moon launchings.
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Everything is, you know, dedicated to the goddess world.
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And I know that we're not going to get super paranoid about that because, you know, I know who I am and I know what I do.
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But at the same time, we have to see the emerging of the two, the merging of the two.
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And here's the other problem.
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You know, even in some very famous Christian books that have been recently published, they don't know that there's only two kingdoms.
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There are only two kingdoms, heaven and hell.
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God and the devil.
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Truth and lies.
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Good and evil.
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Light and darkness.
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Hot and cold.
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God and mammon.
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All of these things.
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And Jesus, you know, really clearly identifies the kingdom of heaven versus the kingdom of hell.
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And yet we are so committed to that idea of a third kingdom where it's the junk box of I don't know.
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And we put in there all kinds of things that we don't deal with because we say, I don't know.
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And we have all of the remedies that the world offers in these conditions of fear and confusion.
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And I don't know.
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And so, people, you have to know that there's only heaven and hell.
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And with that revelation, begin to sort out the things that don't belong.
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Jesus said, by the fruit you shall know them.
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This is very simple.
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Is it giving you peace?
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Is it leading to righteousness?
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Peace and joy?
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And, you know, the peace of God.
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Then people say, well, what is the peace of God?
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Can you have a false peace?
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I believe the devil can concoct any kind of counterfeit he wants, including false peace.
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There's a lot of new agers that have a false peace and they think they're just fine and wonderful.
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And, you know, a lot of times when you're in that place of the false peace, what it really is happening is the devil is leaving you alone so that you think everything is well as well with your soul.
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Everything's going good.
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He's leaving.
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You think he's leaving you alone as he's taking you over?
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Leave the sleeping dogs lie, so to speak.
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And so we you know, what is all this about?
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Do I want.
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Do we want you paranoid?
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Do we want you apprehensive?
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We want you to live in God's peace.
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There is a simplicity in the gospel of grace and good news that Jesus that Paul talks about in Second Corinthians 11.
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He says, I fear less as the devil deceived Eve.
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He will bewitch you or, you know, move you away from the simplicity of the gospel that's in Christ.
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Jesus really, truly the Holy Spirit has been sent to lead, you know, to not your own ideas, not reality, not reasoning, but abiding and being and walking in the spirit.
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Because if you walk in the Holy Spirit, God's spirit bearing witness with your spirit, you're going to walk in a spirit of the ability, having the ability to discern things.
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And this is what we need these days.
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Super discerning of spirits because the counterfeits, again, are so close to the real.
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And the word of God is the measure of everything.
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Just like a tape measure is a measure of everything.
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When people are doing or they do laser measuring now, they do, you know, tape measures that shows, you know, that you put the truth.
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Oh, no, that one's off an inch.
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Well, that one's off.
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And so we are called really to discern and basically judge everything according to the Holy Spirit, according to the Holy Spirit, according to the Bible properly.
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Rightly divided, rightly divided, not just chopped up in some weird.
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You know, we'll take a little bit here and a little bit there.
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One of the things we ultimately must know is that I individually, as a person made by God, made in his image and likeness, I will have to give an account of my life to God.
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Not, you know, what I did with my church or not how I I have to give an account.
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And I want God's truth and I want his Holy Spirit.
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And he's going to ask me, what did you do with my son?
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We are in such critical days right now that those who know their God will do exploits.
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We're in Daniel right now.
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We're getting into that place of tribulation and the end is upon us.
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And those who know their God will do exploits.
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But you've got to know your God and you've got to know that you know your God.
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And you can't be all fooled by all the seductions, the sorcery, the deliberate, intentional deceptions of the of the enemy, because the writers in the in the in the epistles, they in the last days, all these people are going to come deceiving Jude.
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They're there. He's had some deceiving and being this.
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Yeah. Well, to them who have gone after the way of Cain and running greedily to the air of Balaam for profit, their sports spots in your feast.
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They feast without fear, serving only themselves or clouds without water carried away by the wind, raving, raging waves, wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
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These are murmurs, complainers walking according to their own lusts and their mouth and with their mouth and their mouth.
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Great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.
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But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, who told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.
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These are sensual persons who cause divisions, not having the spirit.
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But you, beloved, building yourself up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
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And so he's he's really giving them that final commissioning about how to be or abide in this very difficult and fallen world.
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And we are in that place.
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Let me just kind of summarize this a little bit here in Second Timothy, Chapter four.
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I charge you.
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Paul is writing to Timothy now as a basically a pastor and overseer in the church in Ephesus.
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That's where he was.
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Mostly I charge you, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and in his kingdom.
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Preach the word.
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Be ready in season and out of season.
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Convince, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and teaching for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.
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But according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.
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And then it says, here's an important thing.
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And there's important thing for all of us here.
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This is what's going on.
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This is the prevalence in the spiritual world, the religious world, whatever he says in verse five.
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But you be watchful in all things.
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Endure afflictions.
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Do the work of an evangelist.
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Fulfill your ministry.
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This is in all this.
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But we we got all this stuff going on.
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All this evil stuff, confusion, deception.
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But we.
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But we.
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But you.
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But you that are listening here.
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You be watchful in all things.
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Endure afflictions.
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Just you're going to have affliction.
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Just you get through it.
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OK.
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You get through them.
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Do the work of an evangelist.
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In other words, share the good news of Christ.
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Fulfill your ministry.
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What is God calling you to do?
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Just do do that.
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Fulfill your ministry.
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So, Father God, we thank you for the grace.
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The revelation of your love.
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Your grace that you shed on for us when you died on the cross.
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When you just you revealed to us that you had paid the price.
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It was finished.
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And now we follow you.
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That's all you said to do.
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Follow me and I will perfect that which concerns you.
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So comfort each one today that remove any kind of obsessive,
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compulsive, fearful roots that cause them,
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compel them, control them to do things that they don't want to do or that
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they're confused about.
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Lord God, remove the confusions.
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Make your church.
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Bring your bride.
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You said you'd have a bride without spot or ankle.
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It's time to bring that bride into the place of refinement.
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And you are doing that very thing.
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So we praise you and thank you that you are in control.
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You've got this all taken care of and that we can just rejoice in the beauty
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of your goodness and be thankful.
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And rejoice in everything that you've given us to do.
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Amen.
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War for your soul.
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I have an emergency, what is your location?
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Rescue radio, cause there's a war for your soul.
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Yes, Father God, it's a war over truth.
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Father God, it's a war over wisdom and counsel.
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It's a war discerning your will, your purposes, your gospel.
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And we thank you, Father, for giving us the revelation of who you are.
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Through Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for us,
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thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth,
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in and through us today, even now,
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that you give us eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to receive
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the revelation of your love and your purposes for which you've called us,
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our destiny, that we will complete our destiny
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because we will know our identity.
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And I thank you that you've given us power over all the power of the enemy.
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Nothing shall by any means hurt us.
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those who bring cunningly devised fables,
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and present them as gospel truth.
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We bind and forbid these liars.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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You ever wonder what's real anymore?
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How can you tell the difference between what's real, what's true,
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and what's going on?
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there was going to be great deception, false prophets.
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He says, be careful.
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The greatest sign, Jesus said, the greatest thing to look for,
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take heed lest anyone deceive you.
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There are many coming as the anointed one.
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They're saying that I am Christ.
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I've got this anointing for this and anointing for that.
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is not just humans who come and say, I'm the Christ,
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but the false doctrines, the tampering with the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
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when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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but were eyewitnesses to his majesty.
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to the seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
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buried with these clever, seductive rearrangements of the truth.
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it says they shall turn from their ears from the truth
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who will bring in, deny the truth,
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persuading the people who are hungry for God.
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hungry to know, hungry for the revivals, the miracles, the justice.
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that Satan puts on the hook to bribe and pull in the unsuspecting,
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the hungry seekers.
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sound doctrine, teaching.
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The doctrine is Jesus Christ.
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Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life.
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In Jesus Christ.
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The dissemination, the division, the deception in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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It's become because nobody really understands.
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They don't read the book of Acts.
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Church buildings everywhere.
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So the enemy, there are many levels in which he deceives.
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The Holy Spirit was sent to lead us into all truth and triumph.
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The Holy Spirit.
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It's his job to lead us, reveal to us the revelation, the mysteries of God, give us insight and all that good stuff.
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It's his job to do that.
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But what the enemy has done, actually, is not only has he impersonated us to ourselves, he's also impersonated the Holy Spirit to us.
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What we're actually listening to is what I would call a pious deceiver.
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A lying spirit that acts as if he is the Holy Spirit and acts as if he's going to lead you into all truth and victory through more mandates and through lies and through works and through guilt and condemnation and striving instead of abiding.
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The pious deceivers do not comfort us in rest or abiding.
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They always give us something else we have to do to be OK.
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Yeah, and you talk about the term pious deceiver.
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That might be a new term for a lot of people.
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What in the world is a pious deceiver?
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Yes, it's a demonic spirit.
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It comes guised as Christ speaking to us as if it is a counselor, a spiritual counselor, a spirit guide, some people probably would call it, who comes to give us understanding.
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But he's using the wrong paradigm to give us that understanding.
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Well, there are a lot of people that are wanting you there, encourage you to get connected with this demon.
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They don't call it that.
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It's a spirit guide that will guide you into truth, give you wisdom, give you understanding about the future, give you peace.
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And they're and they're very and you know what?
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They're actually very entrenched in believers who are very committed, very look, very diligent, very faithful.
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And yet playing in the background of their lives, it's like they've been programmed playing in the background.
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This spiritual influence that's demonic, that is come in through some sort of an agreement that or some sort of experience.
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A lot of people have been exposed to many experiences that Satan is used to program them into believing, being seduced into believing lies.
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And so these pious deceivers, they they chime in.
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They usually they come in through our our soul.
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They don't come into our spirit often unless there's really a serious breach in that.
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So you're talking about soul.
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You're talking about our minds, our will and our emotions.
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All those things that combine, you know, our experiences affect our mind.
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And we we allow we allow our experiences to govern our decisions and govern our spiritual walk.
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We don't take the our direction from the word of God.
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We take it from our experiences that we have experienced in our soul.
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And we give those as much validity as the word of God in determining the truth that we go by our feelings.
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It's our interpretation of our experiences.
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Interpretations of our experiences.
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Guide our lives more often than the word of God and the enemies, the liar, the liar.
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He misinterprets, causes misrepresentation, causes us to think that we're thinking it, that we're is our idea.
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When, in fact, it's it's totally not the will of God or the word of God.
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And because people don't know the word of God and because the enemies himself uses the word of God many times to create all of these false doctrines,
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these, you know, the real the real sign of following the true gospel is coming through the through the signs, the peace and the fruit, the fruit.
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So it's OK for us to judge everything by the Bible.
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The thing is, there's a standard.
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You know, it's an old, old, old illustration.
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But the people in the bank don't study counterfeit money.
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They know the real is so familiar.
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They hold it up.
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You know, sometimes you you bring a bill into a store and they hold it up to the light to see to see if it's real or not.
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The thing is, too.
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But if all you know.
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Is is the counterfeit.
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That's the problem.
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The thing is, then it becomes looks like it's real and we judge everything by the counterfeit that we've experienced instead of.
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Sometimes I think we're just too we're too lazy to study the word of God.
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I don't know if it's lazy or distracted or distracted, lazy, very distracted.
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People are it's not it's not that important.
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Well, I believe we think it's important, but we go about it in our own efforts, for example.
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But the true gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel of grace and good news that yields the fruits of righteousness, peace and joy.
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It the fruit.
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Jesus said, by their fruits, you shall know them.
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Matthew 716.
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And so people have to be more discerning.
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You know, we do due diligence when we're going to buy an appliance or an automobile.
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We check the ratings.
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We compare thoughts and prices and whatnot.
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We do more due diligence to find the right car to buy than we do following the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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But but the signs that are to follow.
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God says he confirms the word of God with signs and wonders following.
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If you don't see these signs, if you don't see genuine healings, there are many demonic psychic healings, too.
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But of course, Satan can do lying signs and wonders everywhere and all the time.
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But if we don't see true deliverances and freedom from fear, that's a big one.
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People are either you're going to live by faith or fear, either by love or fear.
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And a lot of people are operating their their salvation, their their following Jesus out of fear.
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If you are operating the basis of your following, Jesus is out of fear, like fear of going to hell or fear of God being mad at you or fear of not doing it right or fear of losing a blessing.
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That's fear.
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That's not God.
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The reason we should follow Jesus is because of love.
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I love him.
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I don't want to hurt him.
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He's done everything for me.
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I it's a response.
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It's a love response to his love.
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That's what we're to call follow Jesus through.
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And that will be, you know, that's devotion.
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The enemy sets it up as duty.
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I've got to.
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You know, he uses all kinds of things that are in the Bible, for example, fasting or communion.
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He uses all kinds of things and laces that Satan laces it with with duty, with, you know, ramifications.
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If you read the word of God, it's very clear on how these things are to be used or performed or participated in.
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But the enemy has attached other meanings.
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He has practiced actually sorcery over these things.
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And what is the definition of sorcery?
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It's something that is there to giving objects, magical purposes or spiritual, supernatural powers.
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It uses supernatural power, incantations and spells to influence the physical and natural world.
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It can also use that sorcery to to influence the church.
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And we don't catch on to this sorcery.
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We're so inclined to the magical and that goes along with the fairy tales and the fables.
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We're so inclined to do something enchanting.
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We're really drawn to the enchanted.
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And that is part of the original, original, original plot.
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But the enchantment came from the fallen angels who enchanted her.
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And they set up, you know, enchantment means to be drawn to something that's beautiful or pleasant.
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And what is the use of drugs?
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Pleasant. You're drawn to some euphoric kind of relief from pain and beauty, seduction, the seductress, the seductive woman, the immortal woman.
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All of these things are using beauty.
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You never are seduced by an ugly woman, you know, and pleasure and relief from pain or relief from the pressures of the world.
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So we're looking for shortcuts.
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But enchantments, many of us are living still woke, not awake under the influence of this kind of a magical world of make believe, actually.
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And so we have to realize there is sorcery in the church.
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That is. And I think Timothy, Second Timothy talks about this as following cunningly devised fables and doctrines of demons.
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And so the demons have got into our doctrines and they have created great confusion.
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We have also theology.
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And for example, you have the just simply the splitting of hairs or the confusing of the doctrines of predestination or free will and the love of God, the grace of God.
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And so we have men, great men, very noted men who have taken one side or the other and tried to divide the church when in fact truth is a coin and there's heads and tails.
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You have to take them both to have the complete coin.
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And so many times the devil is trying to divide us over theologies or dispositions.
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And but but the ultimate fruit of a division is what?
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It's not God.
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God is not about dividing.
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God is about separating the unjust.
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He said Satan doesn't divide his house.
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Why would Jesus want to divide his house at the same time?
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You know, he calls us to turn away.
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He says from those who have a form of godliness, but denies power.
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He says from such people turn away.
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So there's there's a time for a there's there's bad separation.
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There's good separation because we have to, you know, we have to follow Jesus.
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I think that's going to be part of this end days process is coming out from among them and touching not the unclean thing, because so many of us have relied upon those rituals, those words, those doctrines, those groupings to think that we're OK when indeed God is calling you to a personal relationship with him.
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So back to following the signs and the fruit and the true gospel is followed by signs and fruit and peace.
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So out of that, that system of belief, the gods, the true gospel, there will be divine healings.
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There will be true freedom from fear released from the generational curses.
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There will be joy.
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That's one of the fruits of the spirit and will be at peace.
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We'll rest in the fullness of God's goodness and we won't be tormented with.
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Did I do enough?
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God want, you know, people, for example, this this one is very there is so much going on right now about works.
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Did I do enough?
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I don't need to do anything.
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But the truth is, abiding in Christ is like the branch is doing what it's doing because it's able to do what it does because it's abiding in the vine.
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The branch produces the fruit.
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The fruit comes out of the connection, out of the love, out of the abiding in and trusting in the vine.
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And he says it's out of abiding, out of being comes the doing.
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You got to do something to be something.
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I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel.
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My heart also instructs me in the night seasons.
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I have set the Lord always before me because he is my right hand.
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I shall not be moved.
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My flesh also will rest in hope because you will not leave my soul and shield.
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Nor will you allow your Holy One to see corruption because this speaks of Jesus.
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In your presence is fullness of joy.
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At your right hand, there are pleasures forevermore.
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But I mean, people that really enjoy love.
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That's a very good way to tell.
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I mean, it's like, are you doing it for duty?
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Is it duty or delight or duty?
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If you do so, I got to do this.
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I got to read my Bible.
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I got to do.
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they get obsessed with each other.
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You know, or they're willing to do anything for each other.
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They're willing to do anything.
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They want to be in each other's presence.
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They want to do things together.
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And get into the delight and the enjoyment of the Lord God.
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And this takes a lot of, I don't know what, focus or walking in the spirit.
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Because nowadays everything is geared to create anxiety and fear and confusion and many gospels and mix and mingle the truth with error.
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This is absolutely, for example, even, even things so, you know, so simple and common and every day, like buying your coffee at Starbucks, which is dedicated to look at the symbol.
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The water spirits, the mermaids.
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You're actually in, in essence, giving an agreement consent, supporting a lying spirit.
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I mean, people say, oh, that's just a little thing.
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It's not that we have to be paranoid about, I can't drink this coffee now or whatever.
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It's not about that.
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It's about knowing the roots of things and then pulling away, not participating in those things.
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That was just one little example.
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There is such an emerging, if you look at the architecture, for example, all of the Roman columns and pillars and pantheons and all the things that over in Greece and over in Washington, D.C.
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Those are all spaces that were dedicated to deities, foreign gods, principalities.
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Now, I'm not saying we're going to go after these temples and chop them down.
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Jesus Christ has been so immersed in this fallen world, in paganism, even our cars.
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And I know that we're not going to get super paranoid about that because, you know, I know who I am and I know what I do.
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But at the same time, we have to see the emerging of the two, the merging of the two.
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And here's the other problem.
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You know, even in some very famous Christian books that have been recently published, they don't know that there's only two kingdoms.
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There are only two kingdoms, heaven and hell.
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God and the devil.
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Truth and lies.
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Good and evil.
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Light and darkness.
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Hot and cold.
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God and mammon.
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All of these things.
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And Jesus, you know, really clearly identifies the kingdom of heaven versus the kingdom of hell.
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And yet we are so committed to that idea of a third kingdom where it's the junk box of I don't know.
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And we put in there all kinds of things that we don't deal with because we say, I don't know.
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So we have accidents.
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We have assaults.
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We have coincidences.
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We have bad luck.
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And we have mental illnesses.
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And we have all of the remedies that the world offers in these conditions of fear and confusion.
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And I don't know.
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And so, people, you have to know that there's only heaven and hell.
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And with that revelation, begin to sort out the things that don't belong.
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Jesus said, by the fruit you shall know them.
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This is very simple.
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Is it giving you peace?
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Is it leading to righteousness?
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Peace and joy?
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And, you know, the peace of God.
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Then people say, well, what is the peace of God?
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Can you have a false peace?
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I believe the devil can concoct any kind of counterfeit he wants, including false peace.
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There's a lot of new agers that have a false peace and they think they're just fine and wonderful.
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And, you know, a lot of times when you're in that place of the false peace, what it really is happening is the devil is leaving you alone so that you think everything is well as well with your soul.
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Everything's going good.
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He's leaving.
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You think he's leaving you alone as he's taking you over?
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Right.
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Leave the sleeping dogs lie, so to speak.
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And so we you know, what is all this about?
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Do I want.
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Do we want you paranoid?
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No.
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Do we want you apprehensive?
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No.
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We want you to live in God's peace.
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There is a simplicity in the gospel of grace and good news that Jesus that Paul talks about in Second Corinthians 11.
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He says, I fear less as the devil deceived Eve.
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He will bewitch you or, you know, move you away from the simplicity of the gospel that's in Christ.
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Jesus really, truly the Holy Spirit has been sent to lead, you know, to not your own ideas, not reality, not reasoning, but abiding and being and walking in the spirit.
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Because if you walk in the Holy Spirit, God's spirit bearing witness with your spirit, you're going to walk in a spirit of the ability, having the ability to discern things.
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And this is what we need these days.
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Super discerning of spirits because the counterfeits, again, are so close to the real.
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And the word of God is the measure of everything.
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Just like a tape measure is a measure of everything.
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When people are doing or they do laser measuring now, they do, you know, tape measures that shows, you know, that you put the truth.
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Oh, no, that one's off an inch.
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Well, that one's off.
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And so we are called really to discern and basically judge everything according to the Holy Spirit, according to the Holy Spirit, according to the Bible properly.
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Rightly divided, rightly divided, not just chopped up in some weird.
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Yeah.
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You know, we'll take a little bit here and a little bit there.
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One of the things we ultimately must know is that I individually, as a person made by God, made in his image and likeness, I will have to give an account of my life to God.
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Not, you know, what I did with my church or not how I I have to give an account.
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And I want God's truth and I want his Holy Spirit.
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And he's going to ask me, what did you do with my son?
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We are in such critical days right now that those who know their God will do exploits.
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We're in Daniel right now.
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We're getting into that place of tribulation and the end is upon us.
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And those who know their God will do exploits.
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But you've got to know your God and you've got to know that you know your God.
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And you can't be all fooled by all the seductions, the sorcery, the deliberate, intentional deceptions of the of the enemy, because the writers in the in the in the epistles, they in the last days, all these people are going to come deceiving Jude.
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They're there. He's had some deceiving and being this.
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Yeah. Well, to them who have gone after the way of Cain and running greedily to the air of Balaam for profit, their sports spots in your feast.
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They feast without fear, serving only themselves or clouds without water carried away by the wind, raving, raging waves, wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
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These are murmurs, complainers walking according to their own lusts and their mouth and with their mouth and their mouth.
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Great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.
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But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, who told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.
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These are sensual persons who cause divisions, not having the spirit.
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But you, beloved, building yourself up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
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And so he's he's really giving them that final commissioning about how to be or abide in this very difficult and fallen world.
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And we are in that place.
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Let me just kind of summarize this a little bit here in Second Timothy, Chapter four.
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I charge you.
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Paul is writing to Timothy now as a basically a pastor and overseer in the church in Ephesus.
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That's where he was.
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Mostly I charge you, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and in his kingdom.
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Preach the word.
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Be ready in season and out of season.
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Convince, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and teaching for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.
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But according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.
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And then it says, here's an important thing.
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And there's important thing for all of us here.
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This is what's going on.
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This is the prevalence in the spiritual world, the religious world, whatever he says in verse five.
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But you be watchful in all things.
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Endure afflictions.
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Do the work of an evangelist.
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Fulfill your ministry.
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This is in all this.
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But we we got all this stuff going on.
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All this evil stuff, confusion, deception.
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But we.
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But we.
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But you.
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But you that are listening here.
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You be watchful in all things.
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Endure afflictions.
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Just you're going to have affliction.
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Just you get through it.
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OK.
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You get through them.
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Do the work of an evangelist.
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In other words, share the good news of Christ.
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Fulfill your ministry.
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What is God calling you to do?
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Just do do that.
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Fulfill your ministry.
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So, Father God, we thank you for the grace.
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The revelation of your love.
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Your grace that you shed on for us when you died on the cross.
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When you just you revealed to us that you had paid the price.
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It was finished.
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And now we follow you.
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That's all you said to do.
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Follow me and I will perfect that which concerns you.
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So comfort each one today that remove any kind of obsessive,
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compulsive, fearful roots that cause them,
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compel them, control them to do things that they don't want to do or that
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they're confused about.
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Lord God, remove the confusions.
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Make your church.
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Bring your bride.
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You said you'd have a bride without spot or ankle.
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It's time to bring that bride into the place of refinement.
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And you are doing that very thing.
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So we praise you and thank you that you are in control.
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You've got this all taken care of and that we can just rejoice in the beauty
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of your goodness and be thankful.
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And rejoice in everything that you've given us to do.
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Amen.
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