"Nothing Is As It Appears" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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

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Yes, Father God, we are so aware of the war. And we thank you that you have

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won the war because you get to make the last move.

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So we have faith and confidence in your faithfulness to keep us in these very evil and wicked times.

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We thank you for tucking each one of us into the safety of the palm of your

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hand, that we will have ears to hear, eyes to see, and a heart to receive,

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and walk and follow in the fullness of who you are and your truth,

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Lord God, that we will not be deceived.

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In these last days, you said, be not deceived. Many will come in my name.

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So protect your people, Lord, the bride of Christ. Bring her together in unity.

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Bring her together in the oneness of heart and mind, Lord God,

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that we will be your body and do your work. Your kingdom come, your will be done.

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Honor us in and through us as it's being done and declared in heaven.

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We also thank you for divine favor and authority. You said, I give you power

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over all the power of the enemy.

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Nothing shall by any means hurt you. You shall tread on serpents and scorpions

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and over all the power of the enemy.

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And you said, whatever you bind is bound, whatever you loose is loose.

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We take you at your word and cause your people to go forward with their words

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to bring forth your kingdom.

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Your kingdom come, your will be done. And we thank you, Lord God,

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for the promise that no weapon formed against us will prosper,

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that no word said, deed done, or action taken, no witchcraft,

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seductions, deception, sorcery, nothing will prevail against your people.

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We will not be deceived because you are with us, Lord God. Cover our families,

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those who work for us and pray for us and love us.

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In our words and conversations, always let our conversations be rightly divided,

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and may we love and hear one another.

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Now, Father God, help us as we go forward in this time.

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Today, you know, we've got a lot of stuff going on all the time in this world.

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It's just like an avalanche constantly trying to swallow us up.

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But today we're going to talk about being prepared to be shocked.

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I think a lot of people go with face value and everything, and they believe

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what they're told, and they don't dig deeper, and they don't look at what really is going on.

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But Jesus said, Jerry, in Matthew 7.24.

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Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

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In other words— Actually, that's John 7, 24. Oh, what did I say?

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Maybe you said Matthew 7, 24. Oh, well, I like Matthew, too.

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Well, Matthew's good, too. There might be a cross-reference there,

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too, but John 7, 24. See, that's why you're good.

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You're sharp. You're listening to me. That's important. See,

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I could have deceived you just now, but I didn't. I'm so sharp. It's unbelievable.

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Okay, but let me just say this. Nothing is as it appears to be,

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and that's what Jesus is really saying. in John 7, 24.

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He says, do not judge according to appearance.

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But judge with righteous judgment. In other words, you know, we're so mesmerized.

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Yeah, seduced, deceived, yeah.

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By the illusions of what things look like. And what it appears to be or the reality.

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And a lot of times reality is the enemy of truth, as we've talked about before.

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But we don't realize how enmeshed and immersed we are in these systems that

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we live in, the systems, the government systems, the institutions,

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the educational system.

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What we've been learned and taught to trust actually may—all of these things

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that we've been brainwashed or programmed or exposed to may turn out to be our very betrayers.

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Yeah, and this is at every level.

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This is government. This is media. This is education. This is religion.

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You know, religion, even what we call Christianity. The arts, everything.

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It's laced with deception because what happens is that— Because the God of this

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world runs this world. That's why.

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Simple answer. The God of this world runs this world. And then,

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but there are things that we have accepted as true, as real, as right.

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And we get it from the medical community. We get it from almost every direction.

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Media, medical, everything. But, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, I just want to talk about

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what happens is we get illusion.

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We live according to illusions. You know,

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and basically the definition of an illusion is a distortion of sensory perception

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that can occur due to how the mind organizes and interprets information from the senses,

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leading to a misrepresentation of reality.

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In other words, it's something that we see, think, hear, through our experiences

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and so forth. to what comes at us. The way we interpret.

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Experiences, and the way that experiences are interpreted to us.

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It brings us into a place of illusion.

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So many of us live by illusion, live in basically a fantasy world filled with lies.

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Right. And we want to live in that fantasy world because we think it's safe

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and it's fun and it's enticing and it's beautiful.

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Well, we think that's the way it is. I mean, we say it is what it is.

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That terrible statement.

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Yeah, don't use that. It's not good for you. So all the world systems,

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you know, are still run or completely, they're still operating as they were when Jesus was here.

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We just have a little more sophisticated level of technology and whatnot.

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But so Jesus is seeing and facing the same things.

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And he recognizes and teaches us that the world basically is saturated with evil.

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And it's used to promote evil and entrap every soul that carries the breath of God.

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This is because why? Because Satan is the god of this world,

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the prince of the power of the air.

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They are the ruling deities in this world, even Jesus in the temptations.

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Satan says, I'll give you all these kingdoms.

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So obviously Satan had access to all these kingdoms, although he had got them

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illegally and they were not rightfully his.

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And the whole process of this war is for us to get those kings,

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by the grace of God, to get the kingdom back for the Lord God through obedience

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and through the power of our words and the power of His Spirit working through us.

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The key thing then is how to live in a godly way.

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In the midst of all this illusion and all these deceptions and so forth.

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Well, speaking of deceptions, look at the mysteries. There's mysteries everywhere.

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The world, life is shrouded in that mystery. There's mysteries of godliness,

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mysteries of iniquity, mysteries of lawlessness, mystery of the will of God,

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the mysteries of the kingdom.

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Everything is presented, you know, Jesus, why he talked, that's why he talked

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in parables, because everything can be understood in a parable,

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but it's a deep spiritual mystery many times.

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So the mystery of our good, The thing, Jerry, that's been hidden here is the

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mystery of our goodness and our value to God and God's goodness.

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These are all lost in the misery of being caught in this dragnet of deception

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where we find ourselves caught in. It's just deception everywhere.

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And this is foundational right here, is that we as people, as human beings,

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we've been created in the likeness and image of God.

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What does that mean? That means we are unique.

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Each of us are unique, a unique spiritual being.

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We have basically a moral, intellectual likeness to God, spiritual,

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moral, and intellectual likeness to God. That means...

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We have an inherent dignity, value, and purpose.

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We have a capacity for reason. We have a capacity to communicate and make choices.

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And even though that image has been horribly marred by us believing lies and

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living in sin and allowing ourselves to be under the control of the evil one,

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we can be restored and renewed through faith in Jesus Christ and the spiritual

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transformation that occurs when we trust him and walk in his word.

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Right. And that's truly accurate.

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We have been deceived, mesmerized, and tricked because there's many counterfeits,

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because Satan is a counterfeiter.

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So he makes the real look, you know, the things that look real,

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He makes those appear to be real when they're actually the illusion.

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Right. He makes the bad look good and the good look bad. That's exactly right.

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That's called deception, divination.

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So what is the mystery of God's will?

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And how can we walk in that and understand the mysteries of iniquity?

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Because in the end, if we don't, the mysteries of lawlessness,

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as it's talked about in 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 9-10, If we don't catch on,

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if we don't realize what we've been lied about,

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lied walking in, we will be snatched up in that end-time, absolute destruction.

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So we need to know and seek God on the purposes and the revelation of His truth,

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remembering that Satan is a liar. He's the father of lies.

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Every level. And this is serious. I mean, the more we work with people,

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the more we see how fragmented and layered and multifaceted and this variegation

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of evil is at every level.

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And it's like, it's just almost incomprehensible that people have been so shattered, lied to.

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Snatched and scattered in their own lives, that this healing and bringing people

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back to restoration and knowing who they are, made in the image of God,

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in His likeness to love what He loves and hate what He hates.

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This is the process of deprogramming. This is the process of reclaiming.

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This is the process of recovering our lives.

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Yeah, and it's a very intense process, and, you know, the idea of making disciples,

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it's like, well, you know, have people come to Jesus, and that's,

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of course, vital, and then help them to walk with Jesus.

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That whole process now of discipleship has been more...

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How can I say it, complicated? Compromised, too.

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Well, compromised, but that whole process has become more intense because those

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who are making disciples need the power and the wisdom and the grace of the

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Holy Spirit and need to be understanding spiritual warfare,

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the warfare that we're dealing with here, because there's so many strongholds

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of darkness in the people's lives that we are here to, as ministers,

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in a sense we're here as kind of like surgeons or physicians to address the

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spiritual needs. Or rescuers.

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Yeah, rescuers. That's what it is. Rescue people and get them back on the oxygen of the— Holy Spirit.

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And the restoration in the recovery. I mean, the church needs to be part of

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the operation of the church these days is that being a rescue mission,

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a rescue operation like the EMTs and the paramedics, and then bringing them

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into intensive care and recovery,

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and the recovery room, surgery.

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Bringing them back, and getting them up again to serving the Lord.

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Where they've never, you know, really never been before. Let me read, can I read this?

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I'm thinking about where Paul wrote,

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It encourages the church at Ephesus in Ephesians 5, verses 8 through 14.

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For you were once darkness. There you go.

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They were, you know, idolatry, unbelief, fear, whatever. They were involved

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with sexual perversion.

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But now, you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.

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Walk as children of light. For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and

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righteousness and truth, finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.

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And he says, go ahead, honey. Well, I was going to comment on the darkness.

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You know, Jesus said, by their fruits, you shall know them. So in discerning

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what's really going on, so you're not being deceived, we have to look at the fruit.

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And he lists the fruit in 2 Timothy 3, verse 1, the fruit of much of what we

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can just explain and describe and point out today as being very much among us.

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But he says, chapter 3, verse 1, But know this, that in the last days,

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perilous times will come, times of stress.

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For men will be what? Lovers of themselves, lovers of money,

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boasters, proud, blasphemous.

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Disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving.

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Slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good.

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Traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

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having a form of godliness but denying its power, and from such turn away.

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For of this sort, he goes on to say an example of people who are drawn away

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by their lusts and enticed, ever learning, never coming to the knowledge of the truth.

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But this is the fruit of the God of this world and his intentions in setting us up in that darkness.

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And if the light that is in you be darkness, Jesus said. How great is that darkness?

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It's going to be something that the fog, the dark, is keeping us held hostage in this snare of death.

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Yeah, and that's part of the illusion.

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He said, if the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness?

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In other words, if what you think is true and right is actually totally wrong, you're in bad shape.

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And Paul is saying to the church here, he says, come out of this.

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He says, but now, he says, finding out, the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness,

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righteousness, and truth.

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Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. Okay, let's find out what is acceptable

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to the Lord and what's unacceptable.

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We do that, we discover that by meditating in the Word of God and rightly dividing it.

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He says, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather

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expose them not rather expose them expose them you know we're in a time now where,

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There's exposure. There's more and more exposure.

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However, people are not experiencing the judgment, the consequences for their

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evil that is being exposed. Well, I think the reason for that— At least not now.

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I think the reason is, first of all, God has to give us the truth,

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and then we can make a clear decision whether we're going to reject the truth or not.

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So all the hidden works of darkness, the wickedness that's been plotted and

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programmed and going on—

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for generations, probably from the beginning, is now being brought to the surface,

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and people are seeing the hidden works of darkness.

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But we have been really programmed or formatted, if you will,

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to live in darkness. We're used to darkness.

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We're used to being deceived. It says in Ephesians 5, 6, let no one deceive

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you with empty words, lies about theology or ethical entrapments.

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People are just playing with things like morality and ethics and trying to trap

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people to get them to agree with their arguments.

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He says, and you just read this, For you were once darkness,

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but now you are light in the Lord.

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So God doesn't want us to give up, but he wants us to walk in the light.

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He says, walk in the light, follow the light.

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Jesus is the light. He says, you are the light of the world.

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He is the light of the world. where his reflections now in this true,

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in this world, where death and deception and lies permeate.

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But if we have the courage to just stop for a minute, so many of us hold on to what we have.

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We hold on to what we think. We hold on to what we know.

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We don't want to change. We don't want to rock the boat, whatever it is,

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economically, relationally.

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We just kind of go on doing what we're doing, although we know in our spirits

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it's not the truth, but we don't realize that this,

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treachery, these slick imitations of truth, this perversion of the Word of God

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is actually crafted by the devil.

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So much of what we believe is God is actually the devil's counterfeit of who

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God is and what God said to do.

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Jesus said, follow me. He said, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,

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raise the dead, cast out demons.

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He says, preach the gospel, but the gospel has also been perverted into a gospel

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of works and getting rid of your sin, which is actually not what Jesus said

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at all. He said, he says, you're all sinners.

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You can't be saved without my redemption, without my blood. So the salvation

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he's given us is a free gift of grace. But,

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We have to realize, you know, that we are bought with His blood.

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We have been fully adopted, restored, redeemed.

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And our identity comes from the Lord.

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And He is our light. He is our life, our truth, our purpose.

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And He is the light of the world.

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So, you know, people make up lies.

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They flash around, you know, lies as if it's truth. They cut down,

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destroy the truth. They attack the truth.

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And there are only a few that are courageous enough to stand in the truth because they know the truth.

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Jesus put that in us. The Spirit of God put it in your spirit to know the truth.

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And that's what he wants us to walk in. And the truth sets us free, you know.

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And I just think of, there's a story told years ago about when the coal mines,

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they used to have mules that they would lower into these coal mines and they'd

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just leave them there. They'd feed them and leave them there.

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And finally, when they got too old to work anymore, pulling the coal carts,

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they would bring them up.

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And they would out into the light of day, and they found out they were totally blind. Yeah.

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Because they had been in the dark so long. It had no light.

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No light, and the blindness became permanent there. But the thing is, too.

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The light of God heals blindness.

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Exactly, exactly, exactly. So no matter how long you have been in the dark or

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anybody's been in the dark, when the light of Jesus Christ comes,

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the darkness flees, and the light of the revelation of Christ comes, and then—,

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It's a process. There's an awakening. You know, he says, awake.

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Well, we have been walking in the darkness and the futility of our minds.

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Our understandings have been darkened, being alienated from the life of God

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because of the ignorance that is in us, because of the hardening of our hearts.

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That's Ephesians chapter 4.

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Being past feeling, given over to licentiousness to work on cleanness and greediness.

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This is where those fruits of lawlessness come from. And what is the ultimate

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result of that comes from Romans chapter 1, where he talks about verses around

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they suppress the truth in unrighteousness.

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People don't want the truth.

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Why? Because Satan has taught them to believe that the lie is better than the

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truth, and it's too much work to give up the lie and walk in the truth.

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So therefore, it says they turned away from the truth. They were not thankful.

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They did not glorify God, but became futile in their thoughts,

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and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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And so this is, you know, if you want to live in the dark, be prepared to be

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shocked, because at the end, when the light reveals the hidden works of darkness.

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Where will you be? Which side will you be on? There's only two sides.

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There's only heaven and hell. There's not a third kingdom, and you don't have

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a kingdom, so you're going to be in one of those two kingdoms.

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So today is the day, you know, and if you're having a hard time trying to walk

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in the light, you know, you keep tripping up and stumbling.

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The light is the Word of God. And the more you walk in the light,

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the more you live in the light, the more you read the Word of God,

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the more you will have true guidance and discernment.

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But you have to also desire it. You cannot, don't let anybody else make up your mind for you.

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Follow Jesus Christ because no one else is going to stand before you or with

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you in the judgment to give an explanation of why you did what you did.

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You're going to have to receive your own judgment according to the works and

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the things that you did and chose to do or rejected and refused to do.

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Every one of us shall give account of ourselves before God.

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And that's going to be a shock for a lot of people that think,

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well, there is no God, or God doesn't care, or I can live any way I want and

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still be saved. Not true.

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All of us are going to stand in judgment before God. And as a believer,

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you're going to be judged. We're going to be judged as believers.

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We're going to be judged according to our works.

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You know, we're not saved by our works. We're saved through the work of Christ

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on the cross, but the results of our faith, a living faith, as James makes clear, would be works.

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The expression of the Spirit of God through our lives, this is the fruit of

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being a true believer in Christ.

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Yeah, and the key is actually for most of us, it's surrender,

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it's repenting, it's confessing the fact, believing and knowing that you have

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been had, you've been lied to,

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you've been deceived, you've been going the wrong direction,

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or fumbling, fumbling in the right direction and not, you know,

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very confused and doubtful. So what does God want to do?

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Clarify his love for you, his truth, the power of his love and truth,

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which brings freedom in your life, which brings righteousness,

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which brings us back into walking in our true identity, back in focus.

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You know, many of us, you know, we're made in the image of God to love holiness

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and righteousness and peace and purity and truth and what has happened and justice.

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But we have been immersed in this snake pit.

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And so we've been compromised. we've been confused, we've been misled.

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And so we have to, number one, stop making an agreement with the lie,

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whatever that lie is, and cry out to God to reveal to you himself,

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his truth, his life, his freedom,

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his salvation, because that is the only way you're not going to be shocked when

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you know the truth of what God said.

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And that truth is on so many levels. I mean, it's just,

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It's just easy to not change. It's just easy to keep going.

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But that's why in some of your lives, it's gotten to be so hard,

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difficult, that you can't keep going.

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In a way, that's a blessing because now you have to stop and you have to ponder

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your direction and say, okay, Lord, I'm lost.

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What's going on? I surrender. I give my life to you because you and I,

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we've had many years to live our life the way we thought we should live it and

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the way we wanted to live it and kind of tried this and tried that.

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And we got ourselves into a dead end, basically.

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Now it's time to surrender and go back to the truth. It's not too late.

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It's never too late until you're dead. So it's not too late to turn around,

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repent, turn around and confess that you've been believing lies and walking

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in your own counsel and surrender to the Lord God.

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Accept his free gift of salvation, the full payment for your sins,

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which gets you off the chopping block of Satan and bring you into the place

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of true purpose and love and devotion and meaning and joy and peace and blessing and prosperity in God.

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It's important for us, vital for us, to see the good news of the gospel.

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Christ has died. Christ has come. He's died. He's risen. He's coming again.

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And I think of 2 Corinthians 4, beginning with verse 3, but even if our gospel

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is veiled, the King James Version says hid, it is veiled or hidden to those who are perishing.

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Whose minds the God of this age has blinded, who do not believe,

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lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

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So, the reason that maybe you've been caught in all the evil you've been caught

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in is because you've been blinded.

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And the God of this age has blinded the minds.

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Maybe you have teenagers like that. You have relatives, friends, co-workers like that.

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The God of this age has blinded their minds, and they have to—the only hope

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for them is that— They have the light.

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They see the light. They have the light. And you are the light, too.

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If you know the Lord, you can be the light in their darkness.

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What we read in Ephesians 5.8, it says, You were once darkness,

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but now you are light in the Lord.

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So, let me think about this for a minute. I'm going to go into these hostile

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situations, maybe a gathering, you know, over Thanksgiving or Christmas.

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You know, maybe you can't say much.

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Maybe there's many topics that are off limits, but you can be the light.

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That light will be gracious and kind. That light will be loving and listening.

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That light will be compassionate.

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That light will bring peace and joy.

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So let your light, you know, you once were darkness, we once were darkness.

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Now let us be the light and so that people will not be shocked in the end that

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they will see before it's too late what is the truth of what's really going on.

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So he says, and again, 2 Corinthians 4, 6, for it is the God who commanded light

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to shine out of darkness.

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This is that we read about in the creation, Genesis 1, who has shown in our

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hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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So no matter how much darkness there is in our lives, in the lives of the people around you, the hope is.

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That God will strip off the veil, the blindness that the enemy has placed upon them.

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This is our only hope. Come against the enemy that has placed the darkness.

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Come against that enemy in your prayers, in your intercession.

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Bind the power of the God of this world and loose the Spirit of God to give

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that revelation of the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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We loose the power of the revelation of Jesus Christ and bind the darkness and

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cause your people, Lord, to shine as lights in this world.

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You know, lights don't say much. Lights just show a lot of stuff.

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They reveal the hidden works of darkness. So let your people be courageous and brave.

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Let us stand, and having done all, to stand in your truth, Lord God,

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and bless us with deep and powerful revelations of your truth, Lord.

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Pour out the spirit of wisdom and revelation and even supplication that we might

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cry out to you, that we might receive answers to prayer, that we might see things

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change for the better, that people that we pray for might be delivered,

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that we ourselves might be delivered.

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So, Father, we ask these things in Jesus' name because of your grace and your

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goodness and your faithfulness to us.

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Amen. Amen. Hey, there's...

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Something that really shows, reveals this multi-layered, variegated deception

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that's going on in this world.

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And it's a series that you have put together called God on Trial. Oh, yeah. Oh, my.

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This is, I keep thinking there's a word to describe this, honey.

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And it's not just because, you know, you're my wife and I think you can do no

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wrong or anything like that. Thank you, thank you.

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But you are my wife, and you hardly do anything wrong ever.

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Anyway, but it's called God on Trial.

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What is God on Trial? And I think it's been a secret for too long.

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We've talked about it, but a lot of people don't listen to it.

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Once you listen to it, you get hooked, because you see the multi-level deceptions that are going on.

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And the truth. It's basically an entertaining way of describing and bringing out the spiritual word.

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Talk a little bit about that. Well, it's a 28-episode, 30-minute-per-episode

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audio drama with a Satan...

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Taking God to court. He's trying him, charging him with criminal neglect of

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the universe, abuse, abuse of power, conflict of interest, etc.

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And he's trying to distort and present God as a criminal and that he does not

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have a right to rule the world.

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And so there are characters taken from the Old Testament.

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There's actors, there's drama, there's dialogue, there's the court scenes.

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There's also the whole sub-story, subplot of Jesus Christ being taken to the cross.

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It's really told from a spiritually dark point of view, where the enemy,

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we're hearing it from the enemy's point of view.

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In other words, you're seeing how the devil thinks and how he's taking God down, wants to take God down.

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But anyway, you can find these only, actually, on our website, liferecovery.com.

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Like I said, They're 28-minute episodes, 30-minute episodes of 28 episodes, and they're very cheap.

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I think they're $5 or something for a download, and they're super entertaining,

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and they're educational, entertaining, inspirational, and evangelistic.

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They can do all those things because they answer very deep theological questions

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in a very fun way by the various testimonies that are brought forth in the court

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of heaven. And let me say this, too.

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These are very professionally put together.

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Yes, they are. This is not just some little bathrobe drama.

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This is put together very professionally by highly skilled people from many

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different levels and places.

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It's just quality. And once you get into it, it's like, well, and children love it.

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You know what I think we should do, honey, is I think we're going to do this,

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actually, He's kind of a Christmas present, maybe.

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We should play some. We're going to play excerpts of them.

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In our radio shows, maybe from now until Christmas, we're going to play excerpts

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starting with episode one.

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And we're going to just play an excerpt, part of the show. Give you a taste.

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Give you a taste and then talk about it a little bit and then go on to the rest of the show.

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So that we can kind of mix this in with because you can talk about things for

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100 years and people still don't do nothing about it until they actually taste and see.

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Or in this case, hear and experience.

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So, again, that's probably what we're going to do in between now and the end of the year.

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So join us and tell your friends about us. And if you love us,

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let us know. God bless you.