Bobby Chandler - The Fight for a Silent Night

May 5, 2026 | 26:57

Pastor Bobby Chandler has found hope in Jesus and wants as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.

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Bobby Chandler: Authentic Church | Bobby Chandler - The Fight for a Silent Night | May 5, 2026

She. you
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Need jesus to cover everything in your life
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Your marriage, your mind,
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Your family, your children, your house.
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The blood of jesus should cover everything in your life.
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So i was praying over this
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Because we're going to do a little christmas
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Two part series right today and then next sunday.
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And the title of this series is a little bit different.
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And i'll explain why i titled it this, but here's the title.
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It is the fight for a silent night,
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The fight for a silent night.
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And you may be asking, pastor.
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This doesn't sound like a christmas series.
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Why are we titling it this?
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And here's the reason why.
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Here's here's what i put on my heart.
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Here's what i looked at in the scriptures.
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Because what we celebrate as a peaceful nativity scene of
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Baby jesus, all cute and snuggly in the manger, right?
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I actually dealt with a lot of spiritual warfare.
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A whole lot of spiritual warfare took place just for this
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Silent night, this, o holy night, to even be possible.
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So what i'm saying is this. listen.
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Before joseph had a dream, before mary met
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The archangel gabriel, before the holy angels appeared
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In the sky, saying to god be the glory.
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The book of john, or
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John tells us in revelation that there was a spiritual fight.
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There was this warfare that was taking place.
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And so i thought, you know what?
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If we go back like next week,
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We're going to talk about the physical threats
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That came against jesus and the birth of christ.
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I'm going to talk about king herod the great and all that.
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But what if we start with the spiritual warfare?
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And so today we're going to do something
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A little bit different in this christmas series.
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We're actually going to be in the book of genesis
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To see the start of it all.
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Then we're going to go listen to this.
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We're going to go to revelation today.
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You excited about that?
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Some of y'all are scared. it's okay. it's okay.
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All right.
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But take a journey with me
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Because i want you to see
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What all actually took place in the spiritual realm
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For a holy, silent night to even happen.
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So if you have your bibles, turn to revelation chapter 12,
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Revelation chapter 12, verses 3 to 5.
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I want you to see what john wrote and what he witnessed
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Here.
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He said, then i witnessed in heaven.
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Now listen to this.
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Another significant event.
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I saw a large red dragon
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With seven heads and ten horns,
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With seven crowns on his heads and his tail.
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Listen to this. i'll explain all this pretty soon.
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His tail swept away one third of the stars and the sky,
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And he threw them to the earth.
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Now there stood in front of him, though a woman,
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A woman, as she was about to give birth,
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And he was ready to devour her baby as soon as it was born.
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But she still gave birth to a son
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Who was to rule the nations with an iron rod.
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And her child was snatched away from the dragon
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And was caught up to god to his throne.
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So this is actually the christmas story.
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This is the background of what took place for
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O holy silent night, right?
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A dragon, a woman running for her life,
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And a lot of craziness.
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Not the christmas card you expect to get from target,
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But this is what actually happened.
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And so the title of today's message is.
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This one is talk about the unseen battle.
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I want to talk about the unseen battle and talk about the
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The spiritual warfare that took place
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For this night to even happen.
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So point number one
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Is this for the note takers in the room,
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Let's talk about the first christmas prophecy.
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The first christmas prophecy.
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And what i mean by that is the first statement out of the bible
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About the coming of jesus christ.
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It didn't happen in the manger scene, and it did
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Not even happen with the wise men following the star,
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And actually happened out of the book of genesis.
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And so adam and eve rebelled against god.
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They disobeyed the lord,
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And god gives a prophetic word hey, redemption is coming.
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You know what i love about that?
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Because we miss this.
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We miss this
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And the very
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Beginning of the bible when all humanity messes up.
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God already has a redemptive plan.
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Do you hear me on that?
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So it doesn't matter how many times
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You've messed up in the past,
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Or where you come from, or what mistakes
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That you have made, or even the things that you did last night,
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God still has a redemptive plan written for you.
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God has given you authority to see freedom in your life,
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And we see that in the very beginning.
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So now if you have your bibles,
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You can turn to genesis chapter three.
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And like i say, we'll be in genesis.
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And then in the second point, we're going to be in revelation
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Chapter 12, just so you can prepare for that.
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But genesis chapter three, verses
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One through seven, let me give the storyline here.
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It says the serpent was the shrewdest.
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Now some translations say that he was the most clever
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Or the most cunning
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Of all the wild animals that the lord god had made.
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And one day he asked the woman,
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Now listen to what he asked for.
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He said, the god really say
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The god really say
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Not to eat the fruit from the tree,
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Or listen to this
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Because he adds to it or any of the trees in the garden.
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You see how he's trying
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To manipulate the question here to god really say
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You can't eat the fruit from all the trees.
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Look at all the fruit around you.
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And so i wonder if eve kind of laughed at him
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And she said, no, no, no, of course, of course
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We can eat from the fruit.
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That's the trees in the garden, the woman replied.
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But the thing is,
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The only fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden.
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That's the one we're not allowed to eat.
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It's only the fruit from the tree.
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Where is this tree?
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In the middle of the garden.
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That's the one we can't touch.
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That's the one we can't go towards and eat the fruit.
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All right.
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Now, i think it's really interesting
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Because why is it that the tree that is forbidden
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Is in the middle of the garden?
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You ever thought about that?
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Like that's the tree you see.
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You go in to other the other trees and everything,
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But that's the tree that you see.
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And the middle of the garden.
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How come that's the one you can't touch?
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Here's why.
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Because obedience to god must always be a choice.
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To love, god must always be a choice.
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So sometimes god will allow things to be in your sight.
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Allow things to be in your life for you to make a choice on.
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If you're following the world or if you're going to follow god.
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So the tree is in the middle of the garden
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And she correct some.
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It says, god said, though you must not eat it.
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But she also adds to it or even touch it.
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For if you do, you will die.
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Now listen to what satan says. after that you won't die.
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Just look at the strategy here.
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At first he asks that god really say the second thing.
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It says you won't die.
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The serpent replied to the woman for god knows
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That your eyes will be open as soon as you eat it,
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And you can be like god, knowing good and knowing evil.
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It's a very manipulative way for satan to say this.
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He's really saying, listen, you have the right to choose
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Whether you want to follow good or follow evil.
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You have the right to choose
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If you want to live in obedience to god,
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Or if you want to live in disobedience.
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But when this happens, your eyes will be open
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And you can be like god.
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It's the same lie that we hear today.
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It's the same lies that we hear in culture today.
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You can be like god.
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You could be the god of your own life.
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You could do whatever you want to.
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You can choose whatever you want in your life.
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But let me tell you,
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Whenever you walk
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In disobedience to god's word, it brings one thing in.
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It brings pain.
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It brings heartbreak, and it brings shame.
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But listen to what happened here.
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The woman that was convinced.
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Now, why was she convinced?
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Because she saw that the tree
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Was beautiful and its fruit look delicious.
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Delicious.
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And so she wanted the wisdom that it would give her.
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And so she took from it. okay?
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She took from it.
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And then what did she do?
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She gave some to her husband.
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So let me give you some background information
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Here, because a lot of times we read the story.
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We think that eve was alone in this temptation.
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Her husband was also there.
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And i believe that adam was called to lead
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And to protect her.
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But instead, in this moment, he is being passive
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And he allows her to make a bad decision.
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And then he takes that decision upon himself as well.
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And they both disobey god together.
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And then when she gave it to him, he ate it.
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And at that moment their eyes were open.
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Now listen to this. and suddenly
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They felt what
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They felt. shame.
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Whenever you disobey god, whenever you walk away from god,
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The thing that you receive from
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This world will always be shame.
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It will always be heartbreak.
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Again, it will always be pain. and then.
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And then look at this. because of that.
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They suddenly felt shame over their nakedness.
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So they sewed fig leaves together
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And they started to cover themselves
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And spiritually what this represents,
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Because they were a married couple.
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They were one flesh and they were walking with god.
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But the moment they decided to disobey god,
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They were split up and they hid from each other to
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Because.
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So now they're
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Hiding parts of their body, which also means
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They're hiding parts of who they are from each other.
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And then they start to hide from god.
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A separation took place in their marriage,
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And bit of separation took place with god.
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And in genesis chapter three.
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And that's when you keep reading, you see that
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It says that the lord was walking in the garden
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And he asked the question, where are you?
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Where are you?
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And the thing is, the lord knew exactly where
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Adam and eve were.
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He knew what they were hiding.
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But like we just said in the prophetic moment, god
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Was asking them this question so that they would repent
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And reveal where they were in their life.
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When's the last time you told god where you really were?
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When's the last time you
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Really cried out to god and say, god, i've been.
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I've been hiding.
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I've been hiding from you.
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I've been chasing the wrong things.
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I'm in the middle of this mess because i believe the lies of
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The enemy.
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Instead of following you.
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And god had a redemptive plan.
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So here's what i want to do. i want to stop you for a second.
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And i want us to see what we can learn from satan's tricks.
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His attacks and deception, so that we can
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Overcome these things.
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And the first thing that i want you
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To see out of this story of the genesis chapter
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Three story, is this satan is going to attack
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God's word before he attacks you.
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Satan will always attack god's word before he attacks you.
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Genesis chapter three, verse one.
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Did god really say you cannot eat from the fruit
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Of any of the trees in the garden?
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So notice that his first strategy
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Wasn't hey, take a bite.
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It looks delicious.
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It's the thing you want. no, no, no.
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He planted a question and he planted a seed of doubt.
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Did god really say you can't do that?
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You think god would really hold back from you?
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And somehow, within culture, we started to believe the lie
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That god is holding back from us.
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You ever had those arguments with god?
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God, i want that relationship
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Because everybody else has a relationship.
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But at the same time,
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God is protecting you because he's a good father,
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Because he knows that relationship is not for you,
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And it's going to break your heart.
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But a lot of times we're deceived
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By the things that we were, but the things that we look at.
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We go after things that are beautiful,
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That are shiny, that are glistening.
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And so satan plants a seed of doubt in our mind
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That god really say
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So. here's a revelation for you today.
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Every spiritual battle begins with confusion
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Over what god has said.
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You know what's scary about that?
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Here's what's scary.
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Satan looks at a lot of us today and says to god, really say.
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And the thing is,
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He already knows that we don't know what god said.
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For the truth is, many of us have not been in
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The bible for months.
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Many of us have not been in the bible for years.
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We don't even know the word of god.
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And so when satan comes up and says
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That god really say, you may not even know.
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And so what he does, he takes the scripture
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And he twist it to make it sound right.
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But again, it's going to bring heartbreak into your life.
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When's the last time you were in the word of god?
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I mean, really in it?
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Not for other people,
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Not for a relationship with somebody else,
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But to actually be in it, to fall in love with god.
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This is how you see protection.
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This is the covering over your life.
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It's by his word.
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It's living in his breathing
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Because there's going to come a day.
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I'm telling you where satan comes into your mess
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And says, but god, the god will say.
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And again, we see it in our culture.
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So many people are falling for it.
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The god really say, you can't sleep around before marriage.
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Come on, everybody's doing it now.
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And that like an old school idea.
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Or did god really say you can't hate a person back?
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They hurt you, didn't they?
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They came after you like shit, and you get revenge.
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Or did god really say that?
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You can't listen to this?
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That you can't live a life that brings you happiness?
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Choose whatever you want.
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Become whoever you want,
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Whatever identity you want, love whoever you want.
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All these things.
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And we see it within our culture.
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It seems right. it sounds right.
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But it's manipulation again.
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That only leads to shame.
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And there's something,
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Something i want to show you about the devil, though
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That seems appealing when you look into the hebrew.
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And we'll get into that in the second point.
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Okay.
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But the second thing i want to show you as well is
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This is that temptation works in your life.
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Temptation gets the best of you
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When you convince yourself it's harmless.
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See, that's that's the mind game right there.
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I like to say it like this.
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It's the small compromises that matter the most in your life.
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Because if you're giving in to small compromises,
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Guess what you'll do with the bigger ones?
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Okay. because why?
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Because you're training yourself with the small things.
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A little lie, a little lust, a little greed, a little pride.
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And then it becomes bigger and bigger and bigger.
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Because what you feed grows.
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You know that, right?
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And so a little compromise
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Is not a little compromise because you're feeding it
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And it's just going to grow and get bigger.
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If you do not give it over to the lord.
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Temptation works when you convince yourself it's harmless.
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Genesis chapter three, verse six.
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For she saw that the tree was
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Beautiful and the fruit looked delicious.
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By the way, it's not an apple, okay?
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The bible never says it's an apple.
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I believe it's some, like, crazy looking fruit
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That truly was just beautiful to look at.
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And again, it's in the middle of the garden.
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And she went after it because it looked good.
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Let me let me also make this statement.
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If you base all the decisions in your life on what looks good,
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What looks beautiful, what shines the biggest to you?
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Listen, you will make a lot of mistakes
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And you will allow a lot of heartbreaks,
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A whole lot of heartbreaks into your life.
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As samson on that, you want to dive deeper into that.
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And judges chapter 14, verse two.
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Samson said to his parents, look at the first line right here.
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This philistine woman caught my eye and timna,
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First of all, if you know
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The story, you know that samson should not have been in timna,
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But because he's in a place he shouldn't be, in a territory
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He shouldn't be in, he's now looking at what
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A young philistine
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Woman, the philistines, is, who he was called to fight.
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He was called to fight them,
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But instead he's falling in love with him.
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There are some things in your life,
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Maybe some addictions,
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That you are called to fight and be set free from,
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But instead, you're falling in love with them
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Because you're not guarding your
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Your eyes.
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You're not guarding your heart.
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You're not guarding your mind.
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We have to be aware of these things.
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Because. what did he say? she caught my eye.
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I'm in love.
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Now this kind of makes me laugh. he said i want to marry her.
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Go get her.
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You know, i go get her. mom and dad.
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I'm ready.
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And by the way, kids, that's not how it works.
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So things have changed.
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I but but that's what destroys us, right?
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When you're not guarding your eyes.
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And so satan again, he plants this,
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This question, this this doubtful seed in your head.
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Did god really say.
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And then the more you look at it,
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The more bad decision making happens in your life.
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Let's talk about it in a few different other areas.
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What about like, that car is beautiful,
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But you know that car is going to put you in that,
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Right?
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Somebody will say amen to that.
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Somebody needs to hear that today.
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The very thing you want right now.
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You can't afford.
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And if she's beautiful, listen, you can't afford the heartbreak
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That comes with her.
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And you
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Can't afford the the shattering of your heart
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That he may bring into your life as well.
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See the enemy weaponizes what looks harmless.
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Oh, you.
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Let me just prove this by looking at kid shows today,
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Right?
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There's a reason in the fairy tales.
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There's a reason.
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And the cartoons and the the shows
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That are teaching our children how to read,
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While they're also teaching them to give in to agendas.
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Right.
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We're seeing this more and more being pushed
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Upon our children. why?
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Because the enemy is coming after your children.
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So we must know the word of god because satan's going to ask
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To god.
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Really? say though,
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Did he really say,
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Yeah, he did.
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He did say.
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And he said it to protect my heart
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And to protect my family and for me and my house.
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We will serve the lord and every area.
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See, temptation
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Starts in the eyes, but it moves to the mind.
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It starts with the eyes and then it moves to the mind.
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And then it lands in the heart.
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And the truth is,
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Your greatest battles in life will seem very small at first,
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Will seem like something you can just overcome,
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Something that seems harmless or or
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And the cultural sanders fun.
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I it's fun until you can't escape it anymore.
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The small compromises again like i've seen it so many times.
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And just as a i'm just speaking as a pastor right now.
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Listen, stop compromising.
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If you're struggling
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With alcohol, stop compromising with one drink,
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Because that drink will lead to another drink and
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It will lead to another drink. and then you keep giving in.
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This is how you get to set yourself free.
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So guard your eyes now.
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Now, the last thing i want to show you
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Out of this story right here, is this is sin
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Will always over promise and under deliver
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Will always over promise.
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You want this. you want fun.
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You want joy.
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You want all these things.
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Okay, this will satisfy you.
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But it won't because it under delivers.
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Genesis chapter three, verse seven.
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Their eyes were open. that's what satan said, right?
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Your eyes will be open.
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But when it was open, they suddenly felt
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Shame at their nakedness.
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So satan promised wisdom, but he produced shame.
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What do you think he's going to do with you?
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I don't know why we listened so much to the culture
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Of why we listen so much
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To demonic voices, or even our own flesh.
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When god is trying to protect you.
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And so again, they hid from the lord.
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And god asked the question, where are you?
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And they said, we're here.
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They started to blame each other to look at that
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Within the relationship.
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If you really want to learn about your relationships,
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Be obedient
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To the lord and fight the devil together,
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Because instead you're going to fight each other
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Because what they started to do was blame each other.
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Adam said, that woman you gave me.
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She did it.
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God was probably going to say it like, know you.
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You already started off the wrong way. you know what i mean?
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This is not going to go well for you.
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I but they felt shame.
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Let me also say the same
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Will always show you the bait, but never the bill.
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Okay,
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But adam and eve messed up.
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But in the very beginning, god prophesies
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And he speaks the first
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Prophetic moment of jesus christ coming to this earth.
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And again, it didn't happen in the manger.
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It didn't happen with the wise men following the star.
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It happened in genesis chapter three verse 15.
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And god said, now speaking to satan here
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I will cause hostility between you and the woman
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And between your offspring.
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Now let's
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Look at that right there between your offspring
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And her offspring, he will strike your head.
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He's talking about jesus christ here.
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Jesus is going to come.
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And how do you kill a snake?
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You crush the head of the serpent.
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So jesus is coming.
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He's going to crush the head of the serpent,
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But you're only going to strike his heel.
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Satan will come after jesus, but jesus will die on the cross
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For our sins and raised from the grave,
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And of course, the head of the serpent.
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So god already had a redemptive plan.
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But god is essentially saying,
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From this moment on, satan, you're going to try,
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You're going to try to attack the lineage of jesus christ.
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You're going to try to attack the seed.
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And we see it throughout the old testament of pharaoh in egypt,
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The canaanite nations haman and esther,
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The assyrians, the babylonians, herod the great.
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We still see this hate today against god's people,
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Against god's nation. why?
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Because satan is always come after the seed.
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But he can't stop. but god has spoken.
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He cannot stop what god is doing
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Because no matter what, satan tried over and over again.
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Again, read the bible.
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Look at how many people were taken into captivity,
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How many times,
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That god allowed the enemy to come in the temple
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Being destroyed no matter what satan tried to do.
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The lineage of abraham, isaac and jacob never stopped,
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All pointing to jesus christ.
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All right, guys, that's all the time we have for today.
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But i pray that today's message bless your life.
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There is a reason you heard this word today.
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It's not by mistake.
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You're here for a reason and god has a plan for you.
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So thank you for watching today
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And i can't wait to see you again very soon.
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All right, before you go, i got one more announcement to make.
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And this one's a big one.
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Okay.
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This year
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We held our very
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First awaking conference in hickory, north carolina
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For authentic church and we saw people come out
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From everywhere, from all over the nation
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And even outside of the country
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To experience what god is doing here.
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So we're doing it again in 2026, from june 4th to june 7th.
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We would love for you to plan and be here with us.
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And if you want to look into more details
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Over the conference,
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All you have to do is click the link below.
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In fact, here's a recap video to show you what all god did.
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And the
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Reason i even bring it up tonight
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Is because when it comes to you knowing jesus
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The man, the gospel message is all about
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Your understanding of the message about the man
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Who will inform your methods of getting to know the man. who?
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Left his job doesn't work out for me.
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What if i move my life by faith and it all just
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Crumbles to the ground? what if it works?
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What if god shows up and changes your life forever?
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But i would rather move by faith
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And even fail and fail and fail and know that i follow god.
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And i ended up exactly where i needed to be.
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You know what today is
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Pentecost sunday,
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Pentecost sunday.
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We are.
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You better
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Not ask a holy ghost preacher to preach on pentecost sunday.
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I came here to remind you
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You need the holy spirit.
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Bobby Chandler - The Fight for a Silent Night

May 5, 2026 | 26:57

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