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Taffi Dollar - The Wrong Enemy and The Right Enemy

April 30, 2025 | 27:29

Taffi Dollar - The Wrong Enemy and The Right Enemy
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Creflo Dollar | Taffi Dollar - The Wrong Enemy and The Right Enemy | April 30, 2025
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  • Strife and all of these things.
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  • And so, it happens when we recognize that we're not
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  • Wrestling against flesh and blood and not believing the lies
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  • Of the enemy.
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  • Taffi: let's turn in our bibles, tonight, i wanna look at
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  • Something that i believe will be a blessing to your life.
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  • We're gonna start in the book of ephesians, the book of ephesians
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  • Chapter six.
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  • And we're gonna jump around a little bit and talk about some
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  • Things concerning the enemy.
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  • Gonna shine the light, not so much wanting to give him
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  • Attention per-se, but just kind of shine some light on things
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  • That the bible says and so we can begin to live a life that is
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  • Victorious, a life that destroys the enemy, that defeats him in
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  • Our everyday walk in our everyday life.
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  • And we can begin to keep him under our feet where he
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  • Belongs, amen?
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  • All right, so we're gonna start tonight in--let's look at
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  • Ephesians chapter 6and we're gonna look at verse 12, we're
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  • Gonna talk about the wrong enemy and the right enemy.
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  • Spend a little minute here just talking about the enemy as it
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  • Relates to the things that we wanna share with you tonight.
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  • So it says here in verse 12, "for we wrestle not against
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  • Flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
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  • Against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against
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  • Spiritual wickedness in high places."
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  • And so, i want us to zero-in and just highlight if you have a
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  • Device to be able to highlight with, "for we wrestle not
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  • Against flesh and blood," because i think it's so
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  • Important and so indicative of the time in which we live to
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  • Understand who we are wrestling against.
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  • Because the enemy doesn't want us to recognize and to be aware
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  • Of the fact that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood,
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  • But he says, "we wrestle against principalities, powers and the
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  • Rulers of the darkness of this world."
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  • And so, it's vital for us to recognize that it is the enemy
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  • Who wants us to think things that are not true.
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  • He wants us to believe the lies just like he did in the garden
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  • Of eden in genesis, and when he came to adam and came to eve and
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  • Started to commune with them and to talk with them.
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  • And the bible says, in a very subtle way, in a crafty way, to
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  • Cause them to be distracted and to get into a place where they
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  • Would not recognize that it was the enemy that was talking.
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  • And so, i want us to realize this scripture--let's look at it
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  • In the amplified.
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  • This same verse in the amplified translation.
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  • Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12, "for we are not wrestling with
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  • Flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents],"
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  • Because that's one thing i think that we forget, is that it's
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  • Easy for us to see people in the natural as those who we fight
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  • Against, as our enemy, who we are wrestling against.
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  • But it's not flesh and blood, it's not your boss, it's not
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  • Your neighbor, it's the enemy that we are wrestling against
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  • And principalities, powers, and the rulers of the darkness of
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  • This world.
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  • So, first and foremost, we're gonna probably keep it pretty
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  • Simple tonight, and you're looking for the greek and the
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  • Hebrew and, you know, some other stuff you might wanna come back
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  • On sunday, but we're just gonna--just get into a place
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  • Where day-to-day we can walk in victory and deal with the enemy
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  • And keep him under our feet and not allow his plans to cause us
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  • To be tripped up and to be defeated in our life.
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  • So we are not in a wrestling match with the enemy--i mean,
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  • With people, we are wrestling against these powers that the
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  • Enemy has caused to be released as a result of him coming in the
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  • Garden of eden, i won't get into all of that.
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  • But let's look over at 2 corinthians chapter 2,
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  • Verse 14.
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  • I think this will help us, too, as it relates to recognizing
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  • The enemy.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 2, verse 11, let's back up a little
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  • Bit here and we're shining the light tonight, glory be to god.
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  • It says--in fact, we can go back a little bit more, let's
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  • Back up to verse 9.
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  • Let me see where that takes us in terms of a good starting
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  • Point here.
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  • Okay, go to verse 10 and i got y'all jumping around but--okay,
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  • "to whom you forgive any thing, i forgive also: for if i forgave
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  • Any thing, to whom i forgave it, for your sakes, forgave i--
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  • Forgave i it in the person of christ.
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  • Lest satan should get an advantage of us: for we are
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  • Not--" what?
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  • We are not unaware, we are not unknowing, we are not
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  • Misunderstood concerning his devices.
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  • So he says, recognize the fact that there is an enemy because
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  • If we don't recognize him, he can take advantage of us and,
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  • Particularly, if we are ignorant or unaware of his schemes, his
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  • Plans and his devices.
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  • And so, what he does is with us not being able to recognize that
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  • Our fight isn't against our coworker or our family member,
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  • We can be unaware and we could be taken advantage of.
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  • But when we realize that our fight, which jesus already won
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  • And already defeated the enemy, it's us walking it out on a
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  • Day-to-day basis, is to enforce the victory that jesus already
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  • Gave for us to receive.
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  • And so he, in many instances, will take advantage of the
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  • Ignorance in the church, the ignorance in our life, all the
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  • Things where he can find a foothold.
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  • That's what a stronghold is.
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  • It's a place where the enemy can hide-out and feel safe.
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  • It's a thought pattern.
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  • It may be passed down from generations to generations to
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  • Think that, you know, it's okay to be in poverty, it's okay to
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  • Think that the government should take care of you, or to think
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  • That, you know, i'm not--i'm inferior and i can never be what
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  • The scripture says, it's just these thoughts that the enemy,
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  • In many instances, wants us to take advantage of.
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  • And so, as a result, he can have a dwelling place and develop a
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  • Stronghold in our life.
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  • And so, we're resisting those thoughts, we are resisting the
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  • Enemy and we're coming against him when we renew our minds, and
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  • We understand who we are in christ and what the word of god
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  • Has said concerning us, amen?
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  • So the one reason that we won't prosper is, if we stop believing
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  • That we are blessed, one reason that we fail to operate in
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  • Victory in areas of our life is if we stop the blessing because
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  • We believe the lies of the enemy.
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  • And that's happened far and wide where the church, as an
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  • Institution, has latched on to the lies of the enemy, that the
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  • Church should be po--in poverty and that believers should--the
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  • More godly you are, the more in poverty you are.
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  • And just all these different things that, you know, women are
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  • Inferior to men and women are not called and women should not
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  • Be in the pulpit and all these different things where the enemy
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  • Has put these things out here and this race is inferior to the
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  • Other race.
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  • And this class of people is below this class of people.
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  • And so, if we're not in a position to renew our mind, it
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  • Will cause us to stay in a place of brokenness, to be defeated,
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  • To not experience god's best.
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  • Look at 3 john verse 2, 3 john verse 2, very
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  • Popular scripture.
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  • One that we have taught for a very long period of time, just
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  • On the fact that we must allow our souls to prosper.
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  • Our "thought-life" to prosper, because it's believed that, on
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  • An average, we have 60,000 thoughts a day and 85% of those
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  • Thoughts are considered to be negative and repetitive.
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  • And so, as a result of that, we have to renew and rewire and
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  • Reprogram our mindset and change our thinking because, primarily,
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  • Sickness, illness comes from stress.
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  • And so, if we're stressed out because of being so accustomed
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  • And conformed to the world's way of doing things, then we will
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  • Fail to operate in the blessing that god wants for our life.
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  • And i mean, you know, god wants us to not be in a place of
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  • Stress and frustration and defeat and addictions and
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  • Bondages and strife and all of these things.
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  • And so, it happens when we recognize that we're not
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  • Wrestling against flesh and blood, and not believing the
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  • Lies of the enemy.
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  • You know, when i first married creflo, i didn't know if we were
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  • Gonna stay together.
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  • I thought, at some point, i would get tired of him and he'd
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  • Get tired of me.
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  • That's just because i said, "well, you know, we'll just go
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  • For the ride and just see."
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  • But, you know, i was very ignorant, so ignorant in areas
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  • Of my life when we first got married, we just, you know,
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  • Thought that we would just live doing our other jobs and then
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  • The ministry would just be part-time and we would just
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  • Kinda try to figure it out from paycheck-to-paycheck.
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  • And, you know, we had rented all of this furniture and we didn't,
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  • You know, he got some stuff off the side of the street and so,
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  • You know, we were just trying to make it work as best as we
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  • Could, you know, and until we start renewing our mind and
  • 00:13:39.387 --> 00:13:44.926
  • Understood that, you mean to tell me, god wants us to prosper
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  • And not live from, you know, paycheck and penny-to-penny and
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  • Borrowing from peter to pay paul and, you know, it was just so
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  • Foreign, this scripture here that says, "beloved, i wish
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  • Above all things that thou prosper and be in health,"
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  • Because we were so accustomed to sickness and just being passed
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  • Down from generation to generation.
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  • But it is god's best that we prosper and not believe the lies
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  • Of the enemy that say, you know, "you can't live in victory.
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  • You can't be successful living the christian life or even as a
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  • Single person or as a married person or as a widowed person."
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  • It is god's plan that, above all things, above all things, that
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  • You prosper and not believe the lies of the enemy about being
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  • Okay with being insufficient and having lack.
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  • And how many--you know, you can't be a blessing if you
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  • Haven't been blessed.
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  • And so, he says how he's called us as a part of abraham's seed
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  • Because abraham's seed is blessed.
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  • And once we understand that we are blessed and we can be a
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  • Distribution, a channel, a funnel to be able to produce and
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  • Distribute good in the lives of people.
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  • So it's when we renew our mind, when our soul prospers, is when
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  • Our life begins to prosper.
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  • Until our soul prospers, our life will not begin to change.
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  • And so, we make up in our minds that we are not stranded by the
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  • World's way, we're not stranded by our genealogy or lineage, and
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  • We looked at how rahab and-- there were many who had a past,
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  • But you know what, god can cause that thing to be turned around
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  • And transformed and, all of a sudden, you see her and others
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  • Included as the heroes of faith over in the book of hebrews.
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  • And so, god is not limited by the things that are in our past.
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  • If anything, we limit him by believing the lies of the enemy
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  • And by receiving his mistruths and the things that he wants us
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  • To believe.
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  • So the one reason that we don't prosper is if we stop the
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  • Blessing by believing a lie, amen?
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  • So you know the battle is raging, but the question is
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  • Tonight, are we fighting the right enemy?
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  • Are you fighting flesh and blood?
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  • "well, you know what they said?"
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  • And "i saw them," and "i heard them," and "they told me--"
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  • That's not your enemy.
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  • Your enemy is the devil who hides and wants to outwit and
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  • Outsmart you into thinking that that is your enemy.
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  • That person isn't your enemy.
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  • The enemy is the one that we read about here and just read in
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  • Second corinthians chapter two, that satan, he is the one who is
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  • Trying to take advantage.
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  • So the lives of the enemy have no power in our lives except for
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  • That which we give them, amen?
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  • He is continually bombarding our minds with lies in an effort to
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  • Try and take our eyes off of who god is.
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  • And that was what he did in the garden of eden with adam
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  • And eve.
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  • He wanted to take their focus off of god and onto themselves.
  • 00:17:54.041 --> 00:17:59.280
  • "has god said, has god commanded you," and, subtly and craftily,
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  • He bombarded their minds with lies in an effort to take their
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  • Eyes off of god and who god says that they were.
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  • So it's important that we not only identify that we--not
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  • Identify with those lies, but that we replace them with the
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  • Truth of god's word.
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  • We replaced them with the truth of god's word because he had
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  • Them to think that, you know, this one tree was the end of all
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  • And everything, regardless of all the other trees.
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  • But to make them think that god was holding out on them and that
  • 00:18:45.259 --> 00:18:49.664
  • They were missing out because of this one tree that they were
  • 00:18:49.664 --> 00:18:54.068
  • Told to focus their attention on, "has god said," and "because
  • 00:18:54.068 --> 00:18:58.973
  • God said, god knows that this will happen--" and this and
  • 00:18:58.973 --> 00:19:02.944
  • That, and so he consistently has done that through centuries of
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  • Time and comes in our minds in the very same way.
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  • "has this person said?
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  • Do you know that god has forgotten about you?
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  • Do you know that god doesn't love you?
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  • Don't you receive the fact that god is angry with you?
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  • Don't you know that nobody has ever done that?
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  • Haven't you realized that that promise of god is not going
  • 00:19:25.466 --> 00:19:29.437
  • To work?"
  • 00:19:29.437 --> 00:19:30.771
  • And so, it's his strategy that he wants, his scheme, his device
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  • That he wants to take advantage of us with through our lack of
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  • Knowledge, our unawareness concerning him.
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  • Look at romans chapter 12, verse 1 and 2, chapter 12 of the
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  • Book of romans, "lies are costly as they steal life from all who
  • 00:19:53.094 --> 00:20:00.268
  • Embrace them.
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  • If i believe a lie, i empower the liar, the devil is the enemy
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  • Of our souls.
  • 00:20:10.278 --> 00:20:12.380
  • He wants to trip us up through lies, through intimidation,
  • 00:20:12.380 --> 00:20:16.384
  • Accusation and seduction.
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  • His aim is to get us to question who god really is."
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  • And that's what we were just referencing in genesis chapter
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  • 3, verse 4 and 5.
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  • Even in chapter 3 of genesis verse 15, i encourage you to
  • 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:35.803
  • Look at that when you get home because these are things that
  • 00:20:35.803 --> 00:20:40.541
  • Have not changed and this is his scheme and he is a
  • 00:20:40.541 --> 00:20:47.048
  • Thief, klepto.
  • 00:20:47.048 --> 00:20:52.186
  • You don't know what a kleptomaniac is, they steal,
  • 00:20:52.186 --> 00:20:55.556
  • They take things, they are robbers.
  • 00:20:55.556 --> 00:20:59.694
  • So romans chapter 12, verse 2 is where we wanna look at this.
  • 00:20:59.694 --> 00:21:06.300
  • I'll read it here in the king james and, it says, "be not
  • 00:21:06.300 --> 00:21:09.370
  • Conformed to this world: but be ye--" what?
  • 00:21:09.370 --> 00:21:12.440
  • "transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove
  • 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:18.679
  • What is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will
  • 00:21:18.679 --> 00:21:24.685
  • Of god."
  • 00:21:24.685 --> 00:21:26.887
  • So i had to renew my mind about being a godly wife to be a
  • 00:21:26.887 --> 00:21:33.594
  • Christian wife, to be a christian mom, to be a christian
  • 00:21:33.594 --> 00:21:40.134
  • Example, a christian leader.
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  • And, as a result, i had to get rid of all the things that were
  • 00:21:43.003 --> 00:21:48.075
  • Contrary to that, you know, holding on to fear and holding
  • 00:21:48.075 --> 00:21:53.814
  • On to pride and, you know, allowing the enemy to have this
  • 00:21:53.814 --> 00:22:01.389
  • Place where he could dwell in my mind thinking that, you know,
  • 00:22:01.389 --> 00:22:05.693
  • Any time my husband asked me to do something, "he trying to take
  • 00:22:05.693 --> 00:22:08.863
  • Advantage of you, don't you let him take advantage of you?"
  • 00:22:08.863 --> 00:22:14.802
  • That fear that was trying to maintain that stronghold in my
  • 00:22:14.802 --> 00:22:20.541
  • Life because of what i had seen and what i believed and what i
  • 00:22:20.541 --> 00:22:25.880
  • Fought and those were all lies.
  • 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:30.418
  • And so, as long as he can get us to believe the lie, we are
  • 00:22:30.418 --> 00:22:34.655
  • Empowering the liar.
  • 00:22:34.655 --> 00:22:38.692
  • And when we don't recognize that it is not flesh and blood, it's
  • 00:22:38.692 --> 00:22:43.864
  • Not our spouse, it's not our kids.
  • 00:22:43.864 --> 00:22:46.600
  • It's the enemy that wants you to believe the lies that he is
  • 00:22:46.600 --> 00:22:54.375
  • Really the one behind saying all these things and he wants you to
  • 00:22:54.375 --> 00:22:58.546
  • Catch it.
  • 00:22:58.546 --> 00:22:59.880
  • He wants you to believe it.
  • 00:22:59.880 --> 00:23:02.983
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  • Just cuss them, just punch him, kick them.
  • 00:23:06.954 --> 00:23:11.158
  • I mean, who do they think they are talking to you like that?
  • 00:23:11.158 --> 00:23:15.596
  • I mean, you've got to--" and the enemy subtly makes you think
  • 00:23:15.596 --> 00:23:22.736
  • Things that are not true because we're not wrestling--our
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  • Wrestling match is not with flesh and blood but with
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  • Spirits, amen?
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