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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Angels and Demons (Part 2A)

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Hi, i am robert jeffress
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And welcome again to pathway to victory.
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In the heart of every person, regardless of
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What they believe, there's an invisible battle raging.
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The battle is between heavenly forces and demonic forces,
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And neither side is willing to give up the fight.
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Today, i'm going to talk about the presence of demons
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And explain what they can and can't do to christians.
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My message is titled what every christian should know about
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Angels and demons.
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On today's edition of pathway to victory.
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It was the 19th century french priest,
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Pierre de chardin who said,
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
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We are spirit beings having a human experience.
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Now, i know technically that's not 100% accurate.
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The bible teaches we are both human and spiritual beings.
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But don't miss the point.
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The priest was saying there is a whole other
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Realm of existence that though invisible to us,
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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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And last time in our series on the 10 basic core beliefs
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Of historic christianity, we begin looking at
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What every christian needs to know about the spirit world.
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Last time we talked about
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What every christian should know about angels, angels,
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Our heavenly allies, god's servants.
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Now today we're going to switch our attention
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To another kind of angels, fallen angels,
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Our spiritual adversaries that we call demons.
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Now, as i said last time,
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There is no single verse in the bible
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That says demons are fallen angels
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Who followed lucifer, the chief angel
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And his rebellion against god.
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But there are plenty of scriptures you can piece together
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To come to that conclusion.
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The bible talks about the devil and his angels.
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And so because they are fallen angels, they share many
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Of the characteristics of the heavenly angels.
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So it would be redundant for me to go through each
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Of the characteristics of heavenly angels
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And applied them to demons.
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So instead, what i'd like
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To do is look at one account in the bible
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That shows the characteristics
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Of demons better than any other passage.
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It's found in luke 8:26-39.
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It's the account, one of the accounts of jesus' interaction
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With demons.
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Remember jesus and his disciples had finished in galilee
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And they got in a boat to sail across the sea of galilee.
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Now, if you've been on the sea of galilee,
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You quickly discover it's really not a sea, it's a lake.
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It's more like going across white rock lake,
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But they called it the sea of galilee.
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And so they made the journey from galilee to the other side,
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Which was the land of the gerizims.
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And jesus met a man there who was being tormented
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By many demons.
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And notice the characteristics of these demons
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That we derive from this passage.
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First of all, demons have intelligence.
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When they saw jesus, they said, what if we to do
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With you, the son of the most high god?
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They immediately had the intelligence to recognize jesus
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For who he was.
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Demons, by the way, are theologically orthodox.
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In fact, they believe the bible more than some liberal
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Seminary professors.
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They believe that jesus really was the son of god.
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And may i take this moment
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To say believing the right things about jesus is not
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What gets you into heaven.
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I mean the demons are very orthodox.
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They believe that jesus is the son of god.
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They believe that he died on the cross
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For the sins of the world.
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They believe that he rose again on the third day.
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In fact, they believe those things more than you do,
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More than i do, because they were eyewitnesses
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To each of those events,
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Believing the right things do not get you into heaven.
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Remember what james said in james 2:19?
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He said, you believe that god is one? congratulations.
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The demons believe that too. and they shudder.
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Literally, they tremble.
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You can believe jesus is the son of god
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Who died on the cross for the sins of the world
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And rose again on the third day
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And still go straight to hell.
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No, it's not just believing a set of facts about jesus.
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It means believing that jesus is your savior.
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It means there comes that point in time when you kneel
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Before a holy god and say, "god, i know i'm a sinner.
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I know i deserve eternal hell,
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But i believe in all my heart that jesus died for me
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And i'm trusting in him and him alone
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To save me from eternal death."
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And the bible says, when we say that to god
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And we mean it, god declares us not guilty.
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We are righteous in his sight.
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No demon has ever done that before,
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But demons have intelligence.
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Secondly, demons have emotions. they feel things.
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In this passage, it says that they beg jesus,
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"don't send us out of this man.
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And back into the abyss," what is the abyss?
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Scholars debate this.
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Some people believe it's just the hangout for demons today.
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It's where they dwell.
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And we find in scripture in revelation 9
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And other passages that in the end times, groups
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Of demons will be released from the abyss.
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Some people equate the abyss with tartarus,
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Another name for hell that's found in second peter 2:4,
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That this is a place of special judgment for a special group
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Of fallen angels who committed a heinous sin
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Of cohabitating with human beings.
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And they are being held right now in this horrible place.
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We can't say with certainty where it is,
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But here's one thing we do know.
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It is such a horrible place that the demons beg jesus
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Not to send them to.
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And it's just a taste of what the lake of fire,
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The final judgment place will be for the devil, his angels
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And every human being who has not received god's forgiveness
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Through christ, they had emotions.
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Thirdly, they have a will. they have a will.
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They proposed to jesus an alternative solution.
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If he's going to cast them out of the man,
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They say, "send us into this herd of swine.
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Let us reside in this herd of pigs
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So that we might have some place to indwell."
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And so jesus agrees to that.
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He sends the spirits into these swine.
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And one way you know they are possessed is they start acting
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In a maniacal way and as a herd, they run over the cliff
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And fall into the sea and drown
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Because they had been possessed by demons.
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This is the first instance in the bible of deviled ham.
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You find it? no.
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Just seeing if you're paying attention.
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(audience laughing)
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No, they have a will. they proposed a solution.
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And finally demons have names. they are real beings.
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This chief demon and this man identified himself
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As a demon named allegion.
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A roman legion was 6,000 soldiers.
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So apparently this demon had authority
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Over a group of demons.
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There is a hierarchy of demons
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Just like there is a hierarchy
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Of heavenly angels.
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And that's easy to read passages like this
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And critics of the bible will say,
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"oh, demons, they're not real.
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They are just crude first century attempts
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To explain what we sophisticates know
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As mental illness like schizophrenia and psychosis."
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They didn't know about any of that,
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So they just talked about demons.
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Well, if that's true, then remember,
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Jesus interacted with demons.
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He talked to demons, he commanded demons.
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If he was talking to imaginary beings,
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Then jesus should have been locked up in a mental asylum.
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He was out of his mind.
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No, demons are real,
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And people who ignore the reality of demons do so
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To their own hurt.
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Demons are real
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And they have a very real plan to destroy your life
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As we'll see in just a moment.
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Well, if they are real, what is their agenda?
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Well, with unbelievers, demons attempt
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To lead unbelievers astray
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To keep them from accepting christ as savior.
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In the old testament, there are only two references
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To demons in the old testament,
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And both references say that demons
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Are behind false gods.
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For example, in deuteronomy 32:17, moses said,
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They that is the israelite, sacrifice to demons
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Who were not god, to gods whom they have not known,
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Knew gods who came lately, whom your fathers did not dread.
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When the israelites finally got into the promised land,
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What did they do?
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They started worshiping the gods of the canaanites
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And the inhabitants of the land.
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Instead of influencing the canaanites
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To worship the true god,
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The canaanites influenced god's people
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To worship false gods.
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And so the israelites offered sacrifices to demons.
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Now you think, "no, wait a minute.
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What jew would offer a sacrifice to a demon?"
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That's the point.
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They didn't know they were offering
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Sacrifices to demons.
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They thought they were offering a sacrifice
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To an alternative god like moloch or asherah or baal.
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But the bible is telling us
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Behind every false religion,
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There is a demonic spirit.
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False religions, other religions other than christianity
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Are an attempt by demons to lead people away from the truth.
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That means behind allah, behind krishna,
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Behind the gods of false religions, there is a demon
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Who is using that false god
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To solicit people into eternal death.
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And we see that,
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And i mentioned last week in 610 ad,
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The prophet muhammad who was a false prophet, a pedophile,
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He says he had a vision from gabriel
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And gabriel gave him a series of visions
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That became the koran.
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And we say, "oh, that's just another way of looking at god.
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That's just another equal religion to christianity."
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No, the bible says, islam is a religion
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From the pit of hell.
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It is a deception of god that has led hundreds of millions
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Of people away from the truth.
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Or in 1827, joseph smith says the angel moroni,
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Which i guess means moron, the angel moroni,
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Appeared to joseph smith
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And delivered to him the gold tablets he says,
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Which became the basis for the book of mormon,
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The book of mormon.
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And we say, "isn't that beautiful?
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The mormons are such wonderful people."
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No, they are deluded people. mormonism is a cult.
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It is a false religion that is leading hundreds of millions
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Of people away from the true god and the only way to heaven.
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That's what the bible says.
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All false religions behind them have a demonic element
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To it, but even a more insidious way
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That demons lead people away from the truth
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Is by taking christianity
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And changing it just enough,
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Where it is no longer the gospel.
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There are elements of the christian church today,
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Denominations, other groups that have taken the gospel
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And polluted it.
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They've added to it to where it is no longer the gospel.
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You had that happening in paul's day.
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There was a group of false teachers named the judaizers,
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Who came into the churches at galatia
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And they said, "oh, we revere jesus christ.
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Jesus is the son of god.
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He died on the cross for the sins of the world.
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Yes, we believe that.
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We believe in the reality of christ's death,
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But we don't believe in the sufficiency of it."
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To become a christian to be saved, you do need
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To trust in jesus christ, but that's not enough.
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"you need to," they said, the judaizers,
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"keep the old testament laws.
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You need to be circumcised."
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And they added and added and added
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And added to what you must do to be saved.
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How did paul take that kind of teaching?
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What did he say about it?
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In galatians 1:8 he says,
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But even if we are an angel from heaven should preach
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To you a gospel contrary
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To that which we have preached to you.
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That person is to be accursed.
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That word accursed is anathema.
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Literally it means to be damned.
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Any religious person who says the death
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Of christ is not sufficient, it is the death of christ
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And something else is a heretic,
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And should be sent to hell forever and ever and ever.
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Now, what we're talking about are not just minor doctrinal
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Disagreements, anything added to the name of jesus christ
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And his work on the cross is heresy.
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And that's what deludes and confuses
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So many people that say, "well, this religion,
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This church, it believes in jesus.
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It believes in the cross, it believes in the resurrection,
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But it's not the gospel."
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Listen, the gospel of jesus christ is that,
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Well, you heard it.
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It is finished. it was done on the cross.
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When jesus died for our sins, he said,
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"tetelestai, i paid in full."
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There is nothing you and i can add to the gospel.
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If there's something we can add to it,
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How do we ever know if we've done enough?
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We can't know it.
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The gospel is the death of christ alone
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For the payment of our sins.
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Demons will try to obscure people to that
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By either creating a whole false religious system,
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Or changing the true gospel just enough
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To send people to hell.
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Secondly, demons attempt to harm believers.
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They have a ministry in the life of believers as well.
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If satan can't rob you of your eternal soul,
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He'll do everything he can to rob you of your joy,
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Your effectiveness for christ, your physical life,
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Anything he can steal from you.
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In john 10:10, jesus said, "for the thief, satan comes
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To kill, steal, and destroy.
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But i have come that you might have life
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And have it more abundantly."
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Well, how is that pastor that demons can work in our lives?
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Well, first of all, they can work through nature.
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Ephesians 2:2 says, "satan is the prince
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Of the power of the air."
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I don't understand that,
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But i do understand
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That god has given satan certain authority in this world.
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That means he has limited authority over natural elements in
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The world like wind, rain, hurricanes, tornadoes.
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Remember in job 1, satan asked for permission to test job
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And god gave him that permission.
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And one of the tests satan brought into job's life
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Was a tornado that destroyed his home and the roof caved in
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And killed all of his children.
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I don't understand that,
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But i understand even though satan has limited authority,
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He is still under god's sovereignty.
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As martin luther said, the devil is god's devil.
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Somebody said that satan is a like a junkyard dog
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On a very long chain.
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Although his power to destroy is considerable,
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It's also limited.
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Nothing can come into your life, my life
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That has not been allowed by the spirit of god.
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Secondly, demons can work through physical illness.
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Now, not all illness is a result of satan and his demons,
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But some of it is, remember in second corinthians 12,
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Paul talked about a thorn in the flesh,
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A physical ailment that he had,
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And he prayed three times that god would remove it
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And god said no,
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And he identified this thorn in the flesh
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In second corinthians 12:7 as "a messenger of satan."
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Satan can use illness to discourage us
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And harm us in other ways.
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Thirdly, demons can work
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Through mental illness.
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Now, i want to be very careful here. this is very important.
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Not all mental illness is from satan.
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Not at all.
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God created us as body, soul, and spirit.
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We're all three. we're not just spirit beings.
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We're human beings and our physical bodies
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Because of the fall that we will talk about next week,
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It has caused all of our bodies to deteriorate.
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Do i hear an amen to that?
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And not operate in exactly the way god intended
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It to operate?
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And that can affect our thoughts and our emotions.
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Our brain consists of a series of chemical
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And electrical impulses.
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And when those chemicals
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And electrical impulses are not functioning like they
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Should, it can present depression and anxiety
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And other common elements.
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I remember talking to a friend of mine
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Who is a christian psychiatrist,
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And i said, do you think
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That things like schizophrenia and psychosis
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Are demonically caused?
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And she had a very good reply to that.
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She said, if they are simply the result
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Of demonic oppression,
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Then why do the symptoms almost always disappear
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When treated with the right medicine?
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Doesn't matter whether it's a christian or non-christian.
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You take the right medicine,
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Those things disappear most times.
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Why is that? and that's a good point.
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Sometimes those things are the result
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Of a physical problem that can be corrected by medicine,
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But there's also a spiritual element
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That we can't not address.
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The spiritual world can affect the natural world,
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Including our thoughts and emotions.
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Let me give you an illustration of that,
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And philippians 4, 6, 7, paul says,
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"in all things through prayer and supplication,
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Let your request be made known to god
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And the peace of god shall guard your hearts
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And minds in christ jesus."
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If you have an emotional problem like worry, paul says,
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It's possible for a positive spiritual practice like prayer
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To affect your physical emotions.
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If that's true, doesn't it stand to reason
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There are negative spiritual forces out there
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That can impact our emotions as well?
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We can't discount the world of demons
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And satanic attack in mental illness,
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And that leads to another way that demons work,
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And that is through suicide.
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You see that in mark chapter nine, there was a boy
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Who was afflicted.
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He kept throwing himself into the fire.
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He started tried to drown himself.
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He was trying to take his own life,
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And the bible says it was because of demonic influence.
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It is a natural impulse
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We have to take care of ourselves to preserve our life,
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To want to take our life is a super above natural response,
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And in this case, it is a negative spiritual influence
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That causes us to want to take our lives.
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Is that a physical problem? is it an emotional problem?
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Is it a spiritual problem?
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You know, somebody has said the body, soul,
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And spirit are so closely related to one another
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That if one catches cold, the other sneezes.
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It's very difficult sometimes
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To know if it is a spiritual problem or a physical problem.
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But hear me, anytime you begin thinking,
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My life is hopeless, nobody cares about me,
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I'd be better off dead than alive,
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I'd become a burden to my family.
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Those thoughts do not come from god.
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♪ music ♪
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There's much more i need to share
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With you about our spiritual adversaries,
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So please make plans to join me again next time.
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Now, before we go today, i want to encourage you
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With a remarkable comment i received
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From a friend named charles.
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Satan's demons are a formidable force,
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And while we don't need to live in fear,
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We do need to take them seriously.
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Demons are working 24/7 to lead unbelievers astray
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And to harm believers.
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Today we looked at several different ways in which demons
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Attempt to harm those who are in christ jesus.
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And you likely are wondering,
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Can a christian be demon possessed?
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Well, i'm going to put your mind at rest
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And let you know right now the answer is no,
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And i'm going to explain why i believe that next time.
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Of what's coming up next in our series,
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"what every christian should know."
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If i were going to boil it down into one suggestion
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To protect yourself against satan
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And his demons, it would be what james says,
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Submit your life to god and resist the devil.
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Those two are related.
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Any area of your life that has not been submitted
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To god is open to satan's influence.
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For part two of the message.
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What every christian should know about angels
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And demons here on pathway to victory.
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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Angels and Demons (Part 2A)

February 12, 2026 | 27:29

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