"What's The Truth?" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole
How do we know who is telling the truth? In these days, spiritual deception is ramping up, and people are confused, who are we to believe?
Great distress is mounting over what the truth is, what the true nature of God is, and who we are. Is God good, and if He is, what about all the controversy about what He does? Why is it necessary to put the devil in the equation to make any sense of God and what is happening down here?
As the days of the Return of the True King, Jesus Christ, draw nearer, there will be more counterfeiting of the real, more confusion until the ultimate counterfeit of Christ appears as the anti-Christ. We must know the truth and be able to help others get out of the traps of deception, indoctrination, and confusion.
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"Because There Is A War For Your Soul"
00:24 - The War for Your Soul
02:26 - What is the Truth?
07:08 - Understanding God’s Character
10:08 - The Truth About Two Kingdoms
14:50 - Rules of the War
20:05 - Discerning Good and Evil
22:14 - The Battle Within
26:21 - Recognizing Demonic Influence
30:47 - Unraveling the Puzzle of Life
33:48 - Deliverance and Destiny
0:00 Music. Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul. What is your location? That's a good question. Lord Jesus, where are we at with all this? People are wondering, what is this? Where are we at in the timeline, in the end?
0:40 Where are you? What's going on? So, Father, we pray right now that you would give us clarity of understanding, give us eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to receive the truth, because the truth is not complicated. It is simple the enemy has tried to make everything full of chaos anxiety fear confusion, double-mindedness father we bind all those spirits and we also bind all of the lying spirits that have maligned your spirit that they've made you look bad confused bipolar. Deceptive unapproachable father we just ask you to forgive us for judging you based on what we are doing, and then reflect it back, flip it back onto you that you're the problem.
1:22 Lord, forgive us for doing that. And Jesus, we thank you for giving us a clear understanding of what the relationship with the Father is supposed to look like in your own submissions, humiliation, humbling yourself, and obedience even to the cross, Lord God. And we thank you for dying for us. We thank you that this is bigger than we can just reason out and figure out with our minds. We pray that the Holy Spirit will help us today day to understand what's really going on here so we will settle down and we'll be able to do the exploits you've asked us to do without fear and anxiety. Father, we thank you again for the promises of Jesus. You said, whatever you bind is bound, whatever you loose is loose. I give you power over all the power of the enemy. Lord, part of that power over the enemy, Father, is to understand the deceptions, the wiles of the devil, the persuasions of the enemy, how he tries to you deceive us and mislead us. So give us clarity.
2:14 Give us peace. Jesus, you are the faithful witness. You are the wonderful counselor. You sent the Holy Spirit to help us. So, Father God, help us now to know what is the truth in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, here we are in that big question, what is the truth? How do we know what the truth is in these last days when everybody is preaching anything that comes to them? I mean, it's just like, where do you get this stuff from? Well, even from the Bible, there are many who are confused about what's really going on. And because it's been a long time since, you know, I think it's really been spoken clearly, what is the gospel, what is who is God, and that all of these things, Jerry, they've come to bring much confusion about the two things that are the objectives in Satan's battle and war against us, and that is the goodness of God and our own identity.
3:11 Are we good? Are we unworthy? Is God good all the time? And so even now, spiritual warfare is a trending topic. Yeah, it's a trendy topic and there's all kinds of different views and slants and, you know, emphases. You know, some people emphasize one thing, some people emphasize another, and there's confusion. Yeah, that's right. But if you don't put the devil in the equation, if you only have two factors in the equation, God and me, God plus humanity, how do you explain evil? How do you explain depravity? How do you explain anything?
3:53 You know, and most, and a lot of the religions of the world, including ones we're quite familiar with, have actually taken the devil and relegated him to something else. He's not that active. He's not involved. There's not really a devil. you know we're the bad ones it's our fault we should have you know take responsibility be good try harder and all of those gospels are not the true gospel of jesus christ jesus christ actually died and said you know he said you can't do this that's why i'm coming to do this you can't be good enough to get to heaven that's why i'm laying down my life because it's not even about being good to get to heaven it's about somebody had to pay the price for sin and yet we miss that part somehow how and we go on to you know actually judge god in his character right and then and then when people do give credence to the devil a lot of people don't want to talk about that it's too negative.
4:44 Well it's just like someone talking coach preparing his football team for the next sunday but we don't want to talk about the team we don't want to talk no we don't want to talk about the team we're going to play we don't want to know we don't want to know anything about them because we're just going to come and play the game. Yeah, but if we... It's like, that would be ridiculous. Ignorance is not bliss. So, you know, a lot of times, you know, for example, I just, the example that comes to me, well, let's just talk this most recent event with, everybody saw this in the whole world where, you know, there was this assassination attempt on Trump or however you want to call it. Somebody took and shot a couple of bullets and people actually died. But the thing is.
5:27 How do we explain this? How did God, we all agree pretty much, well, he was saved, he didn't die, God must have protected him. On the one hand, and on the other hand, we say, well, why did God even, God permitted this? Okay, so we have a problem here. How does God permit something, then he has to save us from it? It's like, if we don't put in that equation, the understanding of one, number Number one, there is a demonic spirit force war that we're up against. And secondly, that we have a free will. We cannot answer that question. For example, the premise has to be and must be the basic bottom line premise on spiritual warfare. One of the truths we must agree with is that God is good all the time.
6:13 If God isn't good all the time and he's good only once in a while, then we can't trust him. We don't know when he's good and when he's not good. And so what happens there is we have this doubt, double-mindedness, unbelief, and people who are anxious and walking away from God, who is their only source of help and hope because they don't know that he's good all the time. But on the other hand, we say God is love. When we read, God says, forgive one another. God says, be kind to one another. God says, bear one another's burdens. And if God is telling us to forgive and love one another, and God is love, then how can we relegate or ascribe to God unloving things? So the question becomes, what goes on here? How does this work if God is good all the time, and yet we see him doing things like the deluge, which is called the flood, or, you know, other things in the Old Testament, or the New Testament, where it doesn't seem to make sense.
7:08 How do we understand God with all of that? God gets a bad rap for a lot of things. And the thing is, too, what do people, if they're in trouble, they have a tragedy happens, a lot of people just blame God. That's right. Because he could have stopped that. But here's the thing. Number one, we're going to realize that God is good all the time. Second of all, that there is a devil and he is operating against God. And his one operation principle is to get us to turn against God, to believe lies about God, to judge God, to believe God isn't good all the time, to make us to believe that all the bad things that are happening just as a result of our exercising our free will in a stupid way, that all of those consequences and bad things are God's fault.
7:52 For example, if you, you know, go back to the parenting analogy. A parent has a child. Is the parent responsible for everything the child does? Is the parent allowing everything? Is he promoting everything that child does? if the child is breaking the law and hurting himself and making bad choices. The parent doesn't want the child to do that. But because the child has a free will, at least at this point, God has given us a free will to exercise. He does not stop us from exercising our free will, but he also then is very gracious to bring us out of that problem. But he forbids the enemy. He's given us actually power to do the same thing, bind and loose, say no to what the devil wants to to do.
8:35 And some people actually use that authority and power and actually get some things done for the kingdom of God. But most of us feel like helpless, like, oh, who's, you know, was it God? Was it the devil? Who was doing this? Well, the thing is, the truth is that they're both operating in the same place at the same time to do the opposite thing. Satan was operating in that event to kill a person or kill or assassinate. And God was operating in that place to protect someone. And yet God permitted what the enemy, through the evil intentions of human beings, wanted to do. God permits the operation of our free will, but he also intervenes in those situations because he can and because he is for us.
9:20 So God is for us, and so we have to understand, put the enemy in the equation. God is good all the time, and we make choices. And if you're going to understand the war. You have to understand the rules. God has given us a free will. Why did he do that? He lets us do that. He doesn't want robots to worship him. And he's not on some big ego trip where you got to worship him. He knows that what's best for us is to be connected with him in faith and love. Not in coercion, not in fear, not as slaves. The devil is the one who enslaves us. God is the one who saves and delivers and frees us. Makes us his children.
10:03 Yes. And yet people, you know, we are servants. We're sons and daughters. We're soldiers. We're sheep. We're a lot of things, you know, various things in our relationship. But here's an interesting, how do you explain this? So if God in 2 Thessalonians, I think that was quoted recently in an interview I saw, 2 Thessalonians 2.11, you know, where God sends them a strong delusion that they should believe a lie because they refuse the love of the truth. Okay. So, so it sounds like God is deceiving them. God is sending a delusion to, so that they will believe the lie because they refuse the love of the truth. But how do you match that or coordinate that with James 1.13, where it says, God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he himself tempt anyone.
10:50 So if he can contempt no one with evil, how can he send them a strong delusion to believe a lie without contradicting himself? I don't know. How does that work? Well, there has to be an answer. When you have a situation, it has to agree. You know, when you're putting things together, they have to agree with themselves. Ultimately, they can't work at cross purposes to themselves. Think, for example, about your body, how it's all put together. It's individualized, but everything works together with each other. And as they're assigned in there as members to do this or that, they work together. They don't work at cross purposes. So you have one unified whole, one life, one living being. So here's the thing so god cannot tempt anyone he but he allows he allows satan remember in job he satan went up to god and said can i i want to test job and and i proved i'll prove he's not righteous so satan's agenda was to tempt job to prove to god that job was not really loving god serving god and so god didn't say okay yeah that's a good idea god just said don't touch his body with that implication.
11:56 Satan dove right into the opportunities to take his life, take, or take his family, I should say, and take his, his kids, his finances. And so, but you see the whole discussion in the book of Job goes back and forth where everybody's trying to make Job, you know, explain Job's problems because God was mad at him. But if you look at the very first chapter, it says God was calling Job a righteous man. He says, have you seen my righteous servant Job. He was not mad at him. He was not trying to test him. He knew that he was loved, and Job was loving and serving him. And so Satan was the one who had the issue, and he was the one who was trying to bring forth the confusion. But at the end, all the friends, they kept looking through Job's life.
12:38 He must have done something wrong to make God so mad. And in the end, God says, you know what? Those guys have not spoken that which is right concerning me. Job, go pray for them so i can forgive them and job too he got at the end of all this illness and the whole. Trial he he just he learned too he had to repent and slack off in ashes well he got a deeper revelation because he got a deeper revelation he hadn't you know god doesn't really fault us because we don't have a deep enough revelation you know it's it's an ongoing revelation and so So he got a great, through that whole thing, one of the great benefits.
13:20 Was that Job got a greater revelation. Of the goodness of God. He prayed for his friends that had missed the boat on it, and God restored his family and his household again, his wealth and everything like that. But he says, I've known you, Lord, by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes see you. So that revelation was so significant for him. And it is for us as well. So if we go back to this idea of the delusions, the deceptions, We have to go back to answer that question. Where are all these deceptions coming from? And in Romans chapter 1, it says God gave them over. You know, when they refused the love of the truth, they refused to be thankful. They refused to acknowledge him as God.
14:01 When they went off into idolatry and they had all these other things they were worshiping, including the lies and whatever, God gave them over to a debased mind. God had to let go of them. God had to give them up. Just like sometimes you have to let your children go because they don't want to do the right thing right now. They've got to learn it the hard way, so to speak. speak and so by that in that journey which is a dangerous journey you pray pray pray for them but you you you so this is what god is saying he he's he sent them he permitted the deceptions of the son of perdition in the book of thessalonians is talking about the son of perdition is coming because they refuse over and over they harden themselves they refuse the love of the truth but let's go back to one thing let's understand in the spiritual war and everybody's talking about spiritual warfare there are rules and we must understand that the rule of the of the war is Romans 6.16, whom we yield ourselves servant to obey.
14:50 That's who slave we become. So there are rules and God honors the rules. He doesn't cheat. He doesn't manipulate, doesn't use his power. He doesn't try to deceive us with his glory. He allows us to receive his love and glory as a part of our relationship with him and in covenant with him. He doesn't try to pull his strings and bribe us with big, wonderful. And benefits like Satan does. So we have to realize there's a war, there's rules, whom you yield yourself servant to obey his slave you become. We also have to realize in this war, there's another rule that both Satan and God have to abide by. And that is that we human beings have a free will. So the question, the issue then becomes God votes for you. The devil votes against you. There are only two kingdoms. There's not a third kingdom.
15:36 So I don't have a kingdom. And all the things we throw in that junk box of, I don't know, are not operating outside of the sovereignty of God, like coincidences and fate and good luck and bad luck and mental illness and aliens. All of those things are submitted to the same parameters that we are in this world. But we have a free will. God allows Satan to tempt us. And so when we're exercising our free will to choose the lie, the result of the lie, the fruit of the lie is demonic judgments. We say, oh, no, no, no, I got in trouble. God's mad at me. Yes, you got in trouble. And yes, God is not happy with you.
16:17 God does not hate you, but Satan does. And he's putting these judgments upon us to make us think that God hates us and that there's no hope now. And how do I ever get out of this horrible place I'm in? Because God's mad at me. God's not mad at you. God loves you and wants you to know that and wants you to come back to him and know he's good. God created us with a free will. He respects our free will, but Satan exploits our free will. He says, okay, they've got a free will. I'm just going to infuse them with lies, and get them off course in their thinking and their behavior, and as you say so often, break that relationship, blow up the bridge of that connection between us and the Lord God.
17:04 Well, you know, the thing is, too, there are only two kingdoms, but we don't understand that. We think everything is the way we think it is, and we don't go back to what the Bible says. So there's heaven or hell, there's good or evil, there's God or the devil, there's light and darkness, there's all these kinds of things that we kind of don't realize that this is the way that our two kingdoms. So we have framed God as one who dishes out the trouble, the calamities, the bad things that are happening. And if we do not get a satisfactory answer for all of these questions, we will not be able to live in the peace of God or the abundant life of God, the love of God, the trust of God.
17:50 We will continue to be anxious and unsure. Uncertain about life the root of this is the foundation of this is coming to know the the true character of god exactly who who is he really because if we don't know that his character if we don't know this goodness that he can't he can't live in opposition himself we will not we will live in anxiety we will not be able to be at peace and another thing you you alluded to Marjorie just a moment ago is about if we have this third kingdom, we throw everything into a third kingdom. The things that we don't understand, we think, oh, it's just fate. It was just an accident.
18:32 It's something we just don't understand. It's luck. It's an enigma. It's luck. It's karma. It's whatever it is. A coincidence. A coincidence. All this sort of thing. How much confusion, How much confusion does that bring us? And how much does that drain away any hope that we have if we've got this third category where so much of life drops into that? Exactly. Because we don't want to deal with it. Because we don't want to figure it out. Because we've been taught, programmed to believe there are three kingdoms and we're in control of things. But the thing is.
19:14 So Jesus said, how are you going to discern this? How are you going to know the truth? How are you going to know what is the truth? Well, rightly dividing the holy word of God, which by the way, has been many times divided incorrectly all along the way, deliberately by the enemy or by the confusions he's put in the hearts of men. But rightly dividing that word has to bring a single conclusion that agrees with itself, so to speak. So there are two kingdoms. So this means means, Jesus said that this way, Matthew 7, 13, I think, by their fruits, you shall know them. By you see what's coming out of a person, by their lifestyle, by their behavior, by their words, by their decisions, you will see who and what they're listening to. It's either going to be God or the devil.
19:59 It's either going to be confusion, anxiety, fear, self-preservation, or it's going to be rest, truth, and trust in God. So by their fruits, you shall know them. so there can only be two kingdoms for that declaration to actually work. So you say, where's this from? You're troubled with something. Someone's saying something. Something's coming out of your own mouth. You're hearing something on the TV. You say, okay, what is that reduced down to? What is what they're saying reduced down to? Does it bring me peace? Does it bring me hope? Does it bring me joy? Does it bring me hope in the future? Or does it bring terror and fear and dread? You know that's one thing so there's only two kingdoms there's one rule whom you yield yourself servant to obey and then there's this other thing that we try to avoid talk around and and don't embrace is that a christian a believer a follower in jesus can actually be we will call it demonized they can have demons they can have to live not agreeing with that you have no explanations for or anything.
21:03 Oh, here's the explanation is that it's problems with your flesh. Oh yeah. It's your, it's your sinful human nature. Here's my problem. That's popping out. Okay. Here's my problem. Okay. If my problems in my body, I have a body. Okay. And my problem with my body is that it's my liver. My liver always gets me in trouble. My liver always disobeys. My liver doesn't do anything to help me. So how am I going to live without my liver? I don't know. How am I going to live in this natural body by being mad at my flesh. The Bible says, in my flesh dwells no good thing, in my flesh, in. He says, then he says, the flesh, the body, is fearfully and wonderfully made. So two sides, opposite sides of the same coin. So which is it?
21:45 In my flesh. Paul says he figured this out. Paul actually figured this out in Romans chapter seven. I love God. I agree with the law of God that is good, but I see this war going on inside of me. And he's a Christian at this time. Inside of me, the one who wills to do good. He says, with my inward man, I agree with the law of God that is good. He says, but I see this war going inside of me, causing me to do what I do not want to do. He says, and then in verse 720 and 717, if I'm doing what I do not want to do, it's not me doing it. Oh, what? It's a sin that dwells within me. Oh, but we've erased that. We've obscured that because we want everybody to to take responsibility so that Satan wants us to take responsibility for the sin we are doing or believing or participating in so we can lay guilt on us, so he can play his demonic judgment upon us and make us think it's God.
22:32 Now, if I sin, when I sin, Jesus said, you will, when you sin, confess your sin. First John, he was talking to believers. He says, when you sin, God is faithful and just. Confess your sin, repent. Those two things. And God is faithful to forgive us. But the devil says, no, no, no, no. We're not going to do it that way. We're not going to confess and repent. We're going to try harder to be good. And we're going to feel really bad and guilty. And we're going to accept all this demonic judgment of pain and poverty and infirmity on our bodies until we pay for the sin we just committed. So it's all about people think they have to pay for your sin. No, no, no. Jesus paid it all. He paid it all. He paid in full 2,000 years ago before you even got sick, before you even had pain, before you even had issues, Jesus bought and paid for all of our afflictions.
23:19 But so what is this then? A Christian can have a demon. Well, you can surely have a tumor. You can have a, you know, but what is this? A Christian who is addicted, a Christian who's trying to quit, stop using what they can't stop. People, Christians full of perversions, life controlling habits, suicidal ideation, self-injury, anorexia, gossip, bitterness. What is that? Is that from heaven? Or is that from hell? And if it's, where is it from? Well, it's from, obviously. Not heaven. And it's from hell. Yeah. And it's the influence of Satan. It's basically lies and lies that we believe and behaviors that have affected us, affected our DNA from generations past as well. Here's the deal.
24:07 We can't explain our demonic behavior and activity and all of these afflictions that are upon us without putting the devil in the equation. And also without putting the devil in us because he's acting in us, promoting his agenda in us and through our weakness, the weakness of our flesh. Our flesh is not bad, but it is weak and vulnerable. We need things, and so Satan uses our need and our lack to put pressure on us to do things to fix and take away the pains and the afflictions he's put upon us. Does that make sense? Yeah, it makes sense. And so what happens is. We've got this influence upon us. We're so vulnerable. Like you said, we're so vulnerable to the lies of the enemy.
24:48 We don't even believe these are lies. He's affecting our thoughts. He's implanting thoughts. You know, it's like, can the devil read your mind? People ask that, can the devil read your mind? That's a pointless question to ask. It really is, but the thing is what happened. He doesn't have to read your mind if he's just putting his thoughts in your mind. But see, here's the problem. We've caught it. We've painted ourself into a corner. We're saying a Christian cannot have a demonic influence or can't be tempted, but you're tempted all the time. Where are you tempted? In your mind. Where's your brain? Where's your head? Where's your mind? Inside of you. So the devil is in there stirring up your thoughts, creating, impersonating you, getting you to think your thoughts are your thoughts, but they're actually his thoughts presented to you as your thoughts.
25:30 And so he can get you to act on them. So it's not, it's, you know what our bottom line fears? That if I have a demon, I am a demon. That's the bottom line. But I'm not a demon. I'm never going to be a demon. I'm always going to be a human, even if I go to hell. And the fact is, I can have a rat in my house without being a rat. Now, I can live with the rat, I can deny the rat, I can feed the rat, or I can get rid of the rat. What do you want to do? Paul, in Romans chapter 7, saw the separation between himself and the sin that dwells within him. And the thing is, too, we just recently, a friend of ours just really got this revelation going that some of this stuff that's been going on in his life, a bulk of it, the bulk of it, was not him.
26:13 And if we don't, yeah. Well, you can see the difference between who you are, who you are, and what's going on within you. See, that's the problem. People can never resolve their sinful behavior by, you know, within themselves. They cannot, you know, if we're made in the image of God, and yet we're saddled with a sinful human nature, and I hate the things that I do. If I do the things I hate, then to get rid of the things I hate, I've got to get rid of myself. This doesn't work. This does not work to solve the problem. This works to create suicidal ideation. So we have to realize that in my flesh, as Paul says, there's something going on inside of me that's not me, that's causing me to do what I don't want to do.
26:55 And I need to recognize that. I need to take the responsibility to recognize that thing is not me and has done this. The devil, the demons actually, they project their appetites, their perversions onto us, and they actually can take over people's bodies, literally. It only happens if we have been persuaded through fear to give them permission to do that. And most people are persuaded to give fear place in their lives when they're tiny, when they're little, when they're even in the womb, when they're being sexually abused at four years old, whatever it is. There is no way they're going to resist the devil because they don't even know what the deal is.
27:36 They don't even know what the war is. They don't even know what the devil is doing. They don't know there is a devil. But then when we get older, we grow up, then Satan wants to indoctrinate us with, oh, well, it's your sinful human nature because you have a sinful human nature. So they use that term, which is not even in the Bible. The Bible says we sin. Yes, we sin. Human beings sin. But the Bible says we're made in the image of God. Therefore, we have a divine nature. That means our first nature, our one true nature is to love what God loves and hate what he hates because God made us in his image, in his likeness. He did not make us to be perverted. He did not make us to be bipolar. He did not make us to be hateful. He made us to know and love the truth. And the two things we hate, because we love what God loves and hate what he hates, are the same two things God hates.
28:18 He hates injustice and he hates sin. When we sin, we feel guilty. When things aren't fair, we get mad. So we have a divine nature, but we're thrown into the snake pit down here. And we believe that we are what we do. We believe that the mud, and everybody says, look at the mud on you. Oh, it is your fault. You did it on purpose. You fell in the mud. You're bad. And so Satan wants us to believe we're bad. And so he can help us to be good. He wants to save us in his way. Satan's salvation message is work harder, try harder. You're never going to make it, but work hard anyway. And then you give up. You get fearful. Then you don't like God anymore because where's God? Why isn't God helping me? Because you're not listening to him, basically. You try to do the reprogram yourself with self-help books and recovery programs, good works.
29:04 Treatment. That just basically makes it worse. Makes it worse. It makes it worse. So if something is getting worse, go back to the principle, by their fruits, you shall know them. So if something is not working, guess what? It is not working. And therefore it is not working. So therefore stop doing it. Go back to the book, go back to settle down. You know, here's what we need to do. Make your peace with God. First of all, by knowing that God loves you, he is good and he is for you, not against you. And all the things that he has made to look out like he's bad and, you know, doing all these crazy things, he is doing those actually to protect us. His purposes, his actions were always and always are for our good, for our salvation, for our redemption, to protect us even in the flood.
29:55 He was washing away all of the vile confusion in the DNA, all the hybridization and the cross-pollination of human beings to preserve the true identity of a human being through Noah, to bring us to Bethlehem, to bring us to the place where Jesus could be born. And so here, you know, there's much to this. There's much more we can say about this, and we always seem to be talking about this. But there's so many things we can say. But I want to just end this with a little piece of an analogy of a puzzle. A puzzle. puzzle okay this is kind of how where we're at the we're commissioned to put together a thousand piece puzzle it's called life okay and you've got all these pieces laying around in this box some people are better at than others they know how to start it out and get the border going blah blah.
30:47 What happens if you are missing pieces? How are you going to get the full final picture of your life and what it's supposed to be if you're, number one, missing pieces, or you're forcing pieces to fit into places where they don't fit, or the worst of all, you're being handed pieces from another puzzle that don't belong in the picture in the first place. Satan is handing a lot of these theological explanations and puzzle pieces out that don't even and match the original picture, plan, or purpose of God. And he's promoting these as pieces of the true gospel, the true story of Jesus Christ in our life, but they're not. So that's what happens then. Well, we get sick of the puzzle.
31:31 We let the puzzle just sit unfinished. So we never get the whole picture. We never get the truth. And we never know the beauty of what God has for us. So, what can we say? In defense of human beings, part of our deal is we need to understand that God loves us. We are good. We don't do good things all the time, and the reason we don't is because we're tempted and we fall for the lies of the devil because we believe the lies that what he is saying is more important than what God is saying, and that's bottom line. The bottom line, the two kingdoms, God and Satan, are trying to get us to leverage our free will to vote for them, and when you vote for God, you get blessed. When you vote for the devil, you get in trouble.
32:12 And then the devil says, oh, but it's God's attitude. And so you see the confusions here. So going back to rightly dividing the word of God and the truth, we could speak on this all day. We could speak on this all day. But for now, we're just going to say, it's time for you to be quiet. Seek the Lord. Take off your religious glasses and read the Bible. Get a clean copy, without all the commentaries. Please avoid the commentaries. They're just worthless. They're somebody else's ideas, and some of them are helpful. I know. The concordance is sometimes helpful because you can find the verses faster. But let us just be quiet and listen to the Lord and let the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit who's been sent to live in us, to help us to rightly divide the Word of God's truth.
32:58 Lord, help us to have that revelation of your true character, Victor, who you really are and who we really are and what that relationship is all about. Help us open our eyes to see that, Lord. Lord, deliver us from the theological clutter, from the lies that we've believed, the traditions that we maybe have held to. So, Lord, just pray that you'd clear that debris out of our lives, out of our minds, out of our hearts that we will see you for who you really are. That we'll see your word for what it really is. And so we thank you, Lord, for each one that's listening at this time.
33:44 And thank you, Father, for the good work that you're doing in us, Lord. You came to set us free. You came to love us. You came to bring us into our full destiny, the plan that you have for us. We reject the plans of the enemy. We receive, Lord, your plan, your purpose. us one step at a time, one time, one moment at a time. Help us to hear your voice and do what you say, because you always have the very best in mind for us. And we thank you for that, Father, in Jesus' name. Yes, Father God. And we thank you for the opportunities to speak and share and preach and pray and declare the goodness of God.
34:27 Father God, I pray that you give people ears to hear this, a heart to receive it, to exchange the lie and the programming of the enemy for the truth. And thank you, Paul, for telling us that not everything that we think, see, feel, say, and do is us, although it is acting and operating through us, which makes it look like us. So, Father God, we pray that you'd give us wisdom to discern that, the difference, and that we would truly respond to the call of your heart to follow you and enter into that love covenant it with you, Father, in Jesus' name, because we're going to need it in the days to come. Amen. Marjorie, tell us about your latest book. I just did. Spiritual Warfare. It's all in there about the rules of the war, the free will.
35:12 Can I even begin to explain it all, Lord? There's so much. It's very simple, actually. If you want to really get a simplified, clear, clean understanding and explanation of what's going on in the war, spiritual warfare and how deliverance can change your life is the way to go. You can get it on amazon.com and we encourage you to do that. Have a great day. Music.
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