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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Angels and Demons

February 11, 2026 | 27:29

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Angels and Demons | February 11, 2026

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From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i am robert jeffress
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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Have you ever felt like
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One of god's angels was watching over you?
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Maybe keeping you from harm or giving you comfort?
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Well, you're not imagining things.
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Today i'm going to explain what angels are capable of
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And the ways in which they improve
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The lives of believers and even unbelievers.
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My message is titled,
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"what every christian should know about angels and demons"
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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During the civil war
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In the days before cable television and breaking news,
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Americans had to rely on newspapers
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To get their information about the conflict.
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Newspapers, remember those?
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Newspapers would send their correspondent
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To a particular battlefield.
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The correspondent would write his story,
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But then it would take weeks to edit, to typeset,
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To print the newspaper
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And have it delivered by mail to individual homes.
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Because that lag in time,
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Most americans during the civil war
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Felt like the war was distant,
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Removed from themselves.
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They had no relationship to it
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Until the conflict landed in their front yard.
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For example, after july 3rd, 1863,
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I guarantee you no resident of gettysburg, pennsylvania
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Thought of the civil war as a distant conflict,
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The battle that occurred in their own town.
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There's a similar truth about another war
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That you and i are engaged in every day.
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It's a war that has been going on
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Since satan first rebelled against god.
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It is a spiritual war.
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And there's a battlefield correspondent
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Who describes what is happening in that spiritual war,
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His name is the apostle paul.
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And ephesians 6:12, he said,
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"for our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
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But against the rulers, against the powers,
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Against the world forces of this darkness,
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Against the spiritual forces of wickedness
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In the heavenly places."
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There is a real war going on,
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And yet when we read words like spiritual forces
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And heavenly places,
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We think as that war is being far off,
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Distant, disconnected from our everyday lives
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Until the war lands in our own front yard.
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The fact is we see evidence of this war all around us
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And we feel it within us.
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This spiritual battle isn't happening someplace else.
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It's not just happening out there,
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The battle between good and evil
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Is waging within every christian and every non-christian.
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Fortunately, for those of us who are believers,
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God has given us a supernatural resource
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For that internal conflict
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Between the will of god and the will of satan.
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That resource has a name,
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He's called the holy spirit of god,
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And we've talked about him.
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But god has also provided another resource for us
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For those attacks that come from without.
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Those attacks that come from external sources.
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And that heavenly resource is a heavenly ally,
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A group of allies we call angels.
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And today, as we continue our study
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Of the 10 basic beliefs of historic christianity,
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We're going to examine what every christian needs to know
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About angels and demons.
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Now, in theology,
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We call this the study of angelology,
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The study of angels.
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And technically angels encompass
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Two different groups of angels.
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We talk about the holy angels who are in heaven
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To do god's will.
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And then we talk about fallen angels, we call demons
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Who execute satan's will.
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What do we know about the creation of angels?
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Well, first of all, angels were direct creations of god.
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They are sometimes referred to as the sons of god,
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Never as the son of god,
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But as sons of god in this sense that
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Every angel was uniquely created by god.
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Remember, jesus said that we are like angels in this way.
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We neither give nor are given in marriage.
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We don't procreate.
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No new little angels are being born every day.
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There's a fixed number of angels.
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And by the way, don't ever tell your children
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That before they were born, they were angels in heaven
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And don't tell them when they die, they become angels.
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Secondly, angels will exist forever.
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Now, they have not always existed forever.
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Like us, there was a point of creation,
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But they will live forever.
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Some will live in heaven with god praising him.
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Other fallen angels will be in the lake of fires,
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We'll see for a moment.
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But angels will exist forever.
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Thirdly, angels have an intellect.
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They can think.
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They have understanding.
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Revelation 10 and 17
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Tell us that angels have some understanding
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Of god's prophetic future.
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Fourthly, angels have emotions.
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They feel things.
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Luke 15:10 tells us that when somebody is converted,
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When somebody trust in christ is savior,
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The angels in heaven rejoice.
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They have emotions.
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Fifth, angels have a will.
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By that i mean they can make choices.
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They have a will.
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The most consequential choice ever made by an angel
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Was the chief angel lucifer,
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Who made a choice to rebel against the rule of god
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Over his life.
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And remember isaiah 14, ezekiel 28
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Tell us how lucifer fell from heaven.
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In isaiah 14, we find the five i wills
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That satan proclaimed in heaven.
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"i will ascend into the heavens.
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I will become like the most god."
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And on and on he went until he was cast out of heaven.
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Apparently a group of angels chose,
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They made a volitional choice
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To follow lucifer in his rebellion against god,
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And they were cast down from heaven along with lucifer.
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By the way, angels are created to inhabit certain realms.
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The holy angels, some are in heaven right now praising god.
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That's what isaiah saw.
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Some are here on the earth to minister to us,
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And some have been given actual charge
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Over specific nations.
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There's indication in scripture
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That every nation has a guardian angel
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Who executes god's will for that particular nation
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Through the angel.
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For example, michael is known as the archangel of israel.
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His job is to protect israel.
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I'd say he's been doing a pretty good job
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Of that over the years.
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And there's reason to think every nation
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Has an angel to execute god's judgment
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And will over that nation.
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They have certain realms.
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Seventhly, angels can appear to be human.
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Now remember, angels are spirit beings,
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But they can take on human form.
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And hebrews 13 gives us a warning,
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Saying, "do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers,
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For by this, some have entertained angels
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Without even knowing it."
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Angels can appear to be human at times.
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So we've seen angels are created by god.
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Secondly, and this is i know
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What you're going to be particularly interested in,
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Angels minister to believers.
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In hebrews chapter 1:13,
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The writer says, "we're not to worship angels
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Because god has given christ a special place of prominence.
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He's the one whose enemies will be made into a footstool."
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Well, then what is the purpose of angels?
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Look at hebrews 1:14.
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"are they not all ministering spirits
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Sent out to render service
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For the sake of those who will inherit salvation?"
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Who is it that inherits salvation?
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It's you and me.
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It's christians.
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We don't earn salvation, we receive it
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As a free gift of god.
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And god has sent angels
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To be ministers to those of us who are children of god.
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I like to refer to angels
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As god's triple a service for believers.
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Always available to assist.
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That's what angels are.
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And as you look through scripture,
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You discover there are at least four ways
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That angels minister to you and me.
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First of all, god uses angels to sustain and encourage us.
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They're used to sustain and encourage us.
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Remember in 1 kings chapter 19,
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After elijah had fought the battle on mount carmel
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And defeated the false prophets of baal and asherah?
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Remember jezebel announced he was going to get him
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And get him good,
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And that sent elijah running
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And he ran and he ran and he ran until exhausted.
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He planted himself under a juniper tree
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And said, "god, take my life.
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I'm ready to end it all."
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He was tired, he was depressed.
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But god knew that.
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He didn't grant elijah's request.
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Instead, what did he do?
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He sent an angel to minister to elijah.
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The same thing with jesus in matthew 4:11.
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After his temptation in the desert,
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Remember, the bible says,
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"then the devil left jesus
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And behold, angels came and begin to minister to him."
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Have you ever had anybody who ministered to you
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In a time of great discouragement,
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A great time of physical need
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Or oppression, spiritual oppression?
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It may be that was an angel that ministered to you
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Or god used an angel to prompt somebody to minister to you.
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Angels sustain and encourage us.
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Secondly, angels sometimes will reveal god's will to us.
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Now, let me be quick to say,
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This isn't the norm, but it has happened before
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That god has revealed his will through an angel.
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That's what happened to joseph
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When he discovered that mary was pregnant
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And he was not the father,
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He was tempted to end the engagement.
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But notice what happened in matthew 1:20.
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"but when joseph had considered this,
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Behold, an angel of the lord appeared to him in a dream,
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Saying, "joseph's son of god, do not be afraid
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To take mary as your wife,
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For the child who has been conceived in her
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Is of the holy spirit.
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She will bear a son
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And you shall call his name jesus,
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For he will save his people from their sins."
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Remember, it was an angel
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Who revealed the philip his plan in acts chapter eight,
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His need to leave the gaza road
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And to go and minister to an ethiopian court official.
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Sometimes, not all the time,
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Sometimes god uses angels to communicate god's plan for us.
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Now, we need to be very careful
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Because angels can be deceptive.
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And second corinthians 11:14, the apostle paul says,
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"satan can appear as an angel of light
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To deceive people."
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Be careful with angelic revelations.
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Any so-called revelation we after an angel
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Must align with the teaching of the word of god.
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If it does not align with god's word,
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If it contradicts god's word,
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It's not a holy angel, it is a satanic angel
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That has brought that message.
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Thirdly, angels protect us from physical and spiritual harm.
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As startling as it may seem to you,
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Did you know satan's strategy
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Is to cause your premature death?
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He would love to kill you prematurely before god's time.
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If you're not a christian yet,
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Satan wants to destroy you
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Before you have the opportunity
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To trust in christ as your savior and receive eternal life.
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He wants to take you to hell with him forever and ever.
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If you're a christian,
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Satan knows he can't take your eternal soul,
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But he wants to kill you
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So that he can destroy your witness for christ.
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He would love to do that.
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How does god protect us from our premature death?
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He does so through angels.
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Psalm 91 verses 11 and 12,
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Here's a promise for all believers.
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For god will give his angels charge,
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Concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
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They the angels will bear you up in their hands
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That you should not strike your foot against a stone.
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Do those verses sound familiar to you?
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Remember they were the verses that satan quoted
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When he was tempting jesus in the wilderness.
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He said, "jesus, why not go
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To the height place of the temple, the pinnacle
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And throw yourself down from the temple?
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Because after all, you're the son of god
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And the bible promises that god will protect you.
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The angels will protect you
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From even dashing your foot against the stone."
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By the way, satan knows the bible
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Better than most christians do today.
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So he tempted him with god's word.
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And of course, jesus knew god's word too.
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In deuteronomy 6:12, he quoted,
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"thou shall not put the lord thy god to the test."
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You're not supposed to god.
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But there is a promise that god will protect us.
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Now, as you know,
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We had a little mishap on our vacation.
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Amy did not strike her foot against a stone,
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But she struck it on a hotel hazard
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That was out in the middle of the sidewalk
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And she fell and got banged up pretty badly.
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Now, it's easy for us to ask,
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Where was amy's guardian angel?
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Was he on vacation too?
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What happened?
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Well, remember, there is no guarantee in scripture
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That you're going to be protected
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From any harm whatsoever or any mishap.
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Too many christians can testify
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Of accidents they've experienced.
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Here's what this psalm is promising.
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God will protect you from premature death.
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There's a great saying i read one time,
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"every christian is immortal
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Until his work on earth is done."
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Did you know you have god's supernatural protection?
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You're not going to leave this world one second
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Before your ordained time,
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Until god is finished with his plan for you here on earth.
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And how does god ensure that we don't die prematurely?
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He does it through the protection of angels.
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There is an invisible war that is going on all around us
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That affects us every day.
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Although it's invisible, it is very, very real.
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And one way god protects us from this demonic warfare
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Is through the ministry of angels.
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A fourth way angels minister to us
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Is they minister to us in death.
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Revelation 14:13 says,
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Blessed, happy are those who die in the lord.
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You know why we can be happy if we're christians
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In the face of death?
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Well, certainly because we know our destination.
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We know we're going to be welcomed into the presence of god.
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To be absent from the body is to be at home with the lord,
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But also it's the process of death
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That we can take comfort in.
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No christian dies alone.
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Do you know it is the angels of god
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Who will usher you into the presence of god
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When your time comes.
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You do not have to fear dying alone.
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Where do i get that in scripture from luke 16:22.
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Jesus told the story
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About the death of a righteous man, lazarus
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And of a unrighteous man, the rich man.
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And in luke 16:22, jesus said,
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Now the poor man lazarus died
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And was carried away by the angels to abraham's bosom.
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And the rich man also died and was buried.
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But thirdly, finally,
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Angels are also ministers to unbelievers.
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Yes, their primary purpose is to those of us
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Who inherit salvation christians.
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But angels do have a role in the lives of unbelievers.
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Let me mention three of those ways.
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First of all, angels are ministers
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Of god's goodness to unbelievers.
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God sometimes blesses unbelievers
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To lead them to repentance.
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And angels are the vehicle
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By which god can bless a non-christian.
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There's some of you watching or listening right now.
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You're not yet a christian
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And you really question whether or not you need
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Jesus christ in your life.
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You may be thinking,
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Well, things are going pretty well for me.
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My family's doing great,
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My career is soaring,
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My bank account is going up every day.
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Why do i need god?
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You know, the apostle paul said,
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"it is the grace of god that leads us to repentance."
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Sometimes god sends good things into your life
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To remind you of your need for him,
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And that's what he did for hagar and for ishmael.
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Angels are ministers of god's goodness to unbelievers.
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Secondly, angels are ministers of judgment to unbelievers.
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We see that throughout the bible.
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God used angels to deliver his judgment.
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In psalm 78:49,
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"the psalmist said, it was angels who unleashed
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The 10 plagues upon egypt."
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In two kings, 19:35,
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God used angels to slaughter 185,000 assyrian soldiers.
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Remember the story of king herod and acts 12:23?
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Herod refused to give glory to god, and what happened?
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Verse 23 says, "immediately an angel of the lord struck him
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Because he did not give god the glory
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And he was eaten by worms and died."
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Third, this may surprise some of you.
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Angels are ministers of eternal death to unbelievers.
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In matthew 13:49-50,
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Jesus said, so it will be at the end of the age,
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The angels will come forth
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And take out the wicked from among the righteous
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And will throw them into the furnace of fire
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In that place where there will be weeping
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And gnashing of teeth."
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In matthew 25:41, jesus talked about the lake of fire
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That was prepared for the devil and his angels.
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Gehenna, the lake of fire, the eternal hell
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Was originally prepared not for human beings,
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But for satan and his followers.
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But those of us who refuse to ever accept god's forgiveness
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Are making a default decision to follow satan.
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And that's why in revelation chapter 20,
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The bible says, "at the end of the great final judgment,
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The great white throne judgment,
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If any man's name was not found written in the book of life,
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He was cast into the lake of fire
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And tormented there day and night, forever and ever."
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Don't miss this, ladies and gentlemen.
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It is not god's will that any should perish,
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But all should come to repentance.
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God's desire is that everyone come to salvation
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Through faith in jesus christ.
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But if you refuse that salvation,
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The bible says you're end to certain,
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You will be cast into this furnace of fire.
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This isn't some baptist evangelists saying it,
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It's jesus himself.
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In a place where there will be weeping
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And gnashing of teeth.
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And here is the horrific thought
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That jesus is telling us.
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The one who will cast unbelievers into the lake of fire
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Will be the angels.
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That is their final assignment,
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To dispatch every unbeliever to an eternity of hell.
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Think about this.
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The last face any unbeliever sees
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Before he's cast into hell
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Will be the face of an angel.
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We've looked today at what god says about angels,
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God's holy angels.
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Our time is out, but next time we're going to see
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What god says about the other group of angels,
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Fallen angels we call demons.
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That's a sobering note to end on today,
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But it's a truth every single person needs to hear.
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The decision we make in this life about jesus
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Will determine whether we spend eternity with god
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Or without him.
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I have more to tell you about angels and demons.
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So make plans to join us again next time.
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Well, today we've looked at what god says
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About his holy angels.
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But next time we're going to see
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What god says about the other group of angels,
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The fallen angels we call demons.
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What damage can demons inflict upon non-christians?
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What can they do to christians?
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Is it possible for christians to be demon possessed?
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Are rituals like exorcisms valid for today?
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And finally, how can we win in satan's war
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To destroy our faith, our family, and our future?
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That's all next time as we discover
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What every christian should know about demons.
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On "pathway to victory."
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There is a whole other realm of existence
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That though invisible to us is very real.
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It is the realm where god and satan,
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Demons and angels exist.
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It is a world that although is invisible to the naked eye,
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It impacts our lives every day.
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It's the spirit world.
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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Angels and Demons

February 11, 2026 | 27:29

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