Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - The Angels And You (Part 1)

July 31, 2025 | 29:0

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Angels And You (Part 1) | July 31, 2025

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[announcer] 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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All throughout history, people have claimed
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To witness miraculous events
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That can only be explained by the divine.
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Could these supernatural occurrences be the work of angels?
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Well, we shouldn't be surprised
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When we encounter god's invisible forces.
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And today, we will look at several practical ways
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In which angels minister to christians.
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My message is titled, "the angels and you,"
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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In his book, what the bible teaches about angels,
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And david jeremiah tells the story
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Of missionary john patton and his wife
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Who served in the new hebrides islands.
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And as missionaries to those islands,
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John patton and his wife, one night,
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Found themselves surrounded by natives
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Who were intent on burning down the missionary compound
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And killing the pattons.
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John says all he knew to do was to pray,
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And so for a sleepless night,
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All he and his wife could do
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Was to pray for divine protection.
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The next morning, they looked outside,
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And to their surprise,
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That tribe had left without any explanation.
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A year later, the chief of that tribe
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That had tried to kill the pattons became a christian,
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And john patton asked the chief
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To explain what happened that night.
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"why didn't you attack us?"
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And the chief said, "oh, that's easy.
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Because of those hundreds of men
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Who were surrounding your home."
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John patton said, "what men?"
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He said, "we saw hundreds of men in white shining garments
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With swords drawn,
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And we knew we were no match for that force."
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John patton and his wife are convinced
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That what those natives saw
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Was, in fact, a band of angels god had sent to protect them.
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You know, every day,
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There are things that happen to you and me
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That really can only be explained by the presence of angels.
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Hebrews 1:14, in talking about angels, says,
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"are they not ministering spirits,
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Sent by god to render service
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On behalf of those who inherit salvation?"
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That's why stories like that should not surprise us.
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Angels are working for you and me every day
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And in every way.
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And yet as wonderful as angels are,
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They are no substitute for jesus christ.
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And that's the point paul is,
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Or the writer of hebrews is making in hebrews 1.
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Remember, the book of hebrews was written
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To show how christianity
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Is superior to every religion in the world,
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Including judaism?
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Jesus christ is the superior priest
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Who has offered a superior sacrifice
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To obtain a superior salvation.
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And so the writer is going through a detailed study
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Of how jesus and what he offers
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Surpasses every element of judaism.
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Jesus is superior to the prophets,
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Jesus is superior to the priest,
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Jesus is superior to the levitical sacrificial system,
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And yes, jesus is superior to angels.
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Nevertheless, angels are important,
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Even though they are servants of jesus christ.
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And so we've taken that occasion
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To launch into a little miniseries
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On what the bible says to us about the ministry of angels.
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Now, last time,
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We looked at what angels do in the lives of unbelievers.
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It surprises a lot of people to know
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That god has a purpose for the angels
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In the life of non-christians.
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We saw for example that angels are ministers
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Of god's judgment.
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There are occasions in the bible
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Where god renders judgment against a single unbeliever
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Or an entire community of unbelievers,
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Like sodom and gomorrah.
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Or he uses angels to kill 185,000 assyrian forces.
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God has a ministry of judgment to unbelievers.
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Secondly, angels are ministers of eternal death
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To unbelievers.
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Remember that picture in revelation 20
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Of the great white throne judgment?
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The bible says, all unbelievers from the beginning of time
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Will be raised from the dead
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For the purpose of everlasting judgment.
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And the bible says,
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"if any man's name
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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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Who is it that takes that unbeliever
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And deposits him into this very real lake of fire?
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Matthew 13:49-50 says it will be the angels.
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But finally, angels, sometimes,
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Are ministers of god's goodness
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In the life of a non-christian,
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God actually sometimes uses angels
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To bring good things into an unbeliever's life
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For the purpose of leading that unbeliever to faith.
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Romans 2:4 says, "for it is the kindness of god
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That leads to repentance."
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Now, sometimes, i get challenged when i say that.
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"god's kindness to unbelievers?
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I thought god hated unbelievers."
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No, he loves unbelievers.
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He wants them to come to faith.
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And sometimes,
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He uses angels to bring that goodness into their lives.
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Now, when people challenge me on that,
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Sometimes they'll cite 1 peter 3:12,
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Which is actually a quotation of psalm 34:15-16,
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The eyes of the lord are toward the righteous
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And his ears are open to their cry,
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But the face of the lord is against evildoers
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To cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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Some people say, "see their pastor?
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God listens to the prayers of christians, the righteous,
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But he doesn't listen to the prayers of non-christians."
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Well, these verses describe god's general attitude
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Toward unbelievers.
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It's true that generally,
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God does not listen to the prayers of unbelievers.
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That is his general pattern,
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But that doesn't mean he does it every time.
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Sometimes, god acts against that general pattern
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And he does something exceptional.
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I'd like to illustrate it this way.
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Anybody who knows me well at all
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Knows i would rather endure a root canal
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Than sit down and watch a three-hour football game
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On television.
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That is one of my least favorite things to do.
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That's my general disposition toward football on television.
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But that doesn't mean i never watch a football game.
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It would surprise some of you to know
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That there's sometimes a game i'm interested in,
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And i'll turn on the television, and i'll watch it briefly.
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Whenever amy walks into the living room
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And if she hears a football game
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Blaring from the television,
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She is convinced that an intruder has broken into our home,
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Killed her pastor, and seized control of the remote control.
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That's my general attitude, but it's not always my attitude.
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It's the same here with the angels
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And god listening to the prayers of unbelievers.
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God generally does not hear the prayers of unbelievers,
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But sometimes, he acts in an opposite way.
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But even though god has a plan
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For the angels and unbelievers,
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What i want you to see today is angels' major purpose
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Is in the lives of believers like you and me.
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And in the few minutes we have this morning,
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I would like to look at four very specific ministries
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Of angels in your life and in my life.
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First of all, god uses angels to sustain and encourage us.
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That means to provide for our physical needs,
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Especially in times of stress.
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Ken and suzy ware were ministers to lausanne, switzerland.
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And on a particular saturday morning they had no money
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And had no way to have groceries
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For themselves and their infant child.
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And so suzy ware says all that she knew to do was to pray,
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And she prayed very specifically.
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She said, "lord, we need five pounds of potatoes.
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We need two pounds of flour.
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We need pears, carrots, and veal cutlets.
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Please send them. amen."
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That was her prayer.
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A few hours later,
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She says they heard a knock at their door,
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And she opened the door,
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And there was a strange man there
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In his 30s or early 40s, she said,
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With a radiant glow about him.
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And she said, he said to her,
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"i'm bringing what you ordered,"
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And he had a basket with him.
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She said, "what are you talking about?
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I didn't order anything."
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He said, "i brought you what you ordered."
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She ushered him in, he emptied the basket,
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And it was exactly what she had prayed for.
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She and her husband were so astounded that when he left.
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They went to the apartment window to watch him leave.
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They never saw him exit the apartment building.
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They opened their door from the apartment
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And looked down the only hallway.
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He wasn't there as well.
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They were convinced even to this day
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That what they experienced was the provision of god
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Sent through an angel.
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Now, we listen to those fantastical stories and say,
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"i just can't believe that.
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I just don't believe that happens."
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I see some of you are skeptical as well.
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Why should we be skeptical?
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If we know that god uses angels
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To bring judgment and death against a single person
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Or 185,000 assyrian soldiers,
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Why should we be surprised that those same angels
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Don't have the ability to provide for our needs?
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We see that in the life of jesus, by the way,
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The angels' provision for his physical needs.
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Matthew 4:11 says after 40 days of testing in the wilderness
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In which jesus had been fasting,
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The bible says, "then the devil left him;
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And behold, the angels came
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And they began to minister to him."
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We shouldn't be surprised
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That angels do the same for us as well.
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You know, one of the greatest illustrations
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Of the angels' ability to sustain and encourage us
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Occurs in 1 kings 19.
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Turn there for just a moment, would you, to 1 kings 19.
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Now, we're not going to belabor this
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Because we looked at this passage in depth last year
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In our study of the book of...
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Or the character of elijah.
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But just remember the setting in 1 kings 19.
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Elijah has just had that successful battle on mount carmel
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To prove who was the true god,
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The god of israel.
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And remember, he had killed the 850 prophets
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Of baal and asherah.
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It was the high point of his life and ministry,
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But there was one person
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Who wasn't excited about the outcome of that battle:
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Queen jezebel.
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When she heard that her false prophets
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Had been killed by elijah,
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She set her sights on god's prophet,
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And said, "within 24 hours, this guy is dead."
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And when elijah heard that, he began to run.
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Verse 3 of 1 kings 19 says he became afraid
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And he ran for his life,
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And he came to beersheba, which belongs to judah,
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And he left his servant there.
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Verse 4, and he himself went a day's journey
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Into the wilderness,
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And came and sat down under a juniper tree;
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And he requested for himself that he might die,
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And he said, "it is enough now, o lord,
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Take my life, for i am not better than my fathers."
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How do you explain elijah's wanting to die?
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You know, i often say
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That he wasn't really serious about that.
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If he had wanted to die,
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He could have stayed right there with queen jezebel.
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She would've finished him off. he ran.
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The reason he was so discouraged and depressed
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Was he was physically exhausted.
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Vince lombardi, one time, said,
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"fatigue makes cowards of us all."
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Whenever we get run down physically,
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It affects our emotions.
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It affects us spiritually as well.
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Elijah had just expended great emotional strength
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In that battle for the gods on mount carmel.
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When he ran, he had become physically exhausted.
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God understood that; he knew what elijah needed.
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What elijah needed most
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Was not to read a chapter out of his bible.
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He didn't need to pray.
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Instead, he needed sleep and he needed nourishment.
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Look at 1 kings 19:5-7.
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And elijah laid down and he slept under a juniper tree;
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And behold, there was an angel touching him,
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And he said to him, "arise and eat."
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Then he looked and behold,
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There was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones,
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And a jar of water.
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So he ate and he drank and he laid down again.
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What happened there?
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He was by himself out in the wilderness.
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The first thing he did was go to sleep.
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You know, somebody once said,
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"sometimes, the most spiritual thing you can do
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Is take a nap."
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Some of you right now are discouraged.
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It's because you're not getting enough sleep.
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It changes your perspective on everything.
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We need to rest.
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But he also needed to eat, and once again,
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The angel provided a bread cake baked on hot stones.
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You've heard me say before,
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This is the first case of angel's food cake
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Ever found in history right here.
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The angel baked the cake for elijah.
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God knew what he needed,
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And the important point is he used an angel
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To provide for elijah's physical need.
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But it wasn't just his physical need.
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By this miraculous provision by the angel,
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God was saying to elijah, "i'm not through with you yet.
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I still have my eye on you,
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I know where you are,
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And i'm still going to continue to use you."
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We shouldn't be surprised
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That angels do that for us as well.
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Secondly, angels can reveal god's will to us.
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The bible says sometimes,
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God will use an angel to reveal his will to us.
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You know, we saw in hebrews 1 that this book, the bible,
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Is god's complete and final revelation.
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Everything we need to know about god is found in this book.
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There is no new doctrine.
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There is no new revelation
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That people are receiving from god.
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Jude verse 3 says, "the faith, the body of faith,
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Has been, once for all, delivered to the saints."
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When somebody gets on television
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Or somebody stands in an arena and says,
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"god has given me a fresh revelation,
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A new revelation about himself,"
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Turn off the television set.
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That's a heretic speaking.
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God hasn't given any new revelation about himself.
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It's all right here in the book,
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Everything we need to know about god.
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But it is true.
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God gives us personal revelation
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Of how we should conduct our lives.
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Every day, we need the leadership of god,
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In our work, in decisions about our family,
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Our finances, our education, in 1,000 other areas,
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And the question is:
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How does god provide that leadership that we need?
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Romans 8:14 says,
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"all of those who are being led by the spirit of god,
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These are the sons of god."
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If you're a child of god, you know the holy spirit,
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The spirit of god is going to lead you.
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But how does he provide that leadership?
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Well, sometimes,
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He does it through the principles in his words.
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Sometimes, he does it through the wise counsel
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Of other believers.
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Sometimes, he does it through the desires
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That he places in our hearts.
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Sometimes, he does it through circumstances.
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But sometimes, he actually will use an angel
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To reveal his will to us.
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I'll admit that's not the norm, but it does happen.
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If you don't believe me,
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Just consider these examples in the bible,
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Where an angel revealed god's will.
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Matthew 1:20-21.
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It was an angel who revealed to joseph
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That he was to take mary as his wife.
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It was an angel who revealed to the women
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That they needed to come to the empty tomb
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Where jesus had been.
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It was an angel who guided philip where to go
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On his way to gaza,
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Between jerusalem and gaza in acts 8:26.
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Remember, in acts 27, paul was on a ship headed to rome,
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And they got involved in a storm,
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And the people were afraid they were going to die,
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And an angel revealed to paul that they would not die.
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It's not the norm,
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But i do believe sometimes angels are used
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To reveal god's will to us.
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I was reading this week the account of that pastor,
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A.d. vanhoose, of the bible center in evansville, indiana.
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Pastor vanhoose says
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That he had gotten to the place in his ministry
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Where he'd become tremendously discouraged.
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The church was growing, but the finances were drying up.
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And he said one afternoon,
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He locked himself in his church study,
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And he demanded that god give him an answer
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Whether he was to stay or leave his ministry.
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He said suddenly, he felt a presence in the room,
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And he demanded that whoever it was
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Reveal himself immediately.
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The pastor says he saw the chair in front of his desk
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Suddenly become illuminated.
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A bright light enveloped it,
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And he said right in the center,
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There was a black dot that grew, and grew, and grew,
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Until it became the image of a man.
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And the man spoke to the pastor and said,
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"i am here from god, and i'm to tell you,
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You are to stay in this church.
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God has many things he still wants to do from you."
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Pastor vanhoose says today
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He believes he had received an angelic visitation.
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Again, that's not the norm,
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But we know from scripture it has happened before,
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And god can reveal himself any way he chooses to do so.
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Now, one word of caution here.
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When it comes to angels visiting us
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And giving messages to us,
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Remember 2 corinthians 11:14 says,
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"for even satan can appear as an angel of light."
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Any so-called leadership or message we receive from an angel
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Must be measured against the word of god,
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And any message that comes from an angel
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That contradicts the word of god,
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That doesn't come from god, that comes from satan.
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You know,
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A few of my comments have been in the news recently.
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They've pulled up some of my greatest hits from the past
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And pulled those out again in reference to other religions.
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Perhaps you've seen some of them,
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And i mentioned two religions, islam and mormonism,
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And i said, "they came from the pit of hell."
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Why would i make such a statement like that?
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I wasn't just spouting off.
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There is a reason i singled out those two religions.
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You know what those two religions have in common?
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They both claim to have received their message
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From an angel.
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Muhammad in the 7th century
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Says it was a series of angelic visitations
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That gave him the revelation that we find now in the quran
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And became the basis of islam.
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He says an angel delivered that to him.
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Joseph smith says in 1823 that it was an angel,
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The angel moroni,
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Who appeared to him and was the keeper of the golden tablets
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That became the basis for mormonism.
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Those two leaders of religions
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That are diametrically opposed
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To the christian gospel of jesus christ
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Both have, as a common point,
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The claim of angelic revelation.
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Now, listen to what the apostle paul says in galatians 1:8.
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"if anyone,
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If even an angel from heaven
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Preaches to you another gospel other than christ jesus,
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Let that person be accursed.
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Literally, let him be anathema, let him be damned."
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Paul was a lot harder than i was on those kind of faiths.
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Listen to me.
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The bible says satan is a liar and a deceiver.
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He is doing everything he can
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To keep people from finding the one way,
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Not a way, the one way to god,
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Which is through faith in jesus christ.
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♪ music ♪
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It's absolutely critical
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That we understand the truth about angels,
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Lest we be led astray by false teaching.
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Yes, the angels do minister to us,
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But nothing they do or say
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Should ever contradict the word of god.
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Well, in the time we have left today,
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Let me share a note i receive from a friend in california.
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This person wrote, "i listen to 'pathway to victory'
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Every day at lunchtime.
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I look forward to it so much
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Because it gets me ready to go back to work,
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And i share the wisdom i get with my friends and family.
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God bless you for making a difference in my life."
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Well, to those of you who support "pathway to victory,"
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I hope you receive encouragement from this note.
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You are truly impacting others for the kingdom of god.
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Thank you so much for partnering with us
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To reach even more people
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With the good news of jesus christ.
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Now, stay right there.
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I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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In just a moment.
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I want to speak tonight on angels
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Because i want to answer the question, "are there angels?"
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We have whole bookshelves on demons,
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The occult, and satan,
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But you can hardly find a book on angels.
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But i do know that this book pitches,
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From genesis to revelation, the existence of angels.
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To the great patriarchs, angels appeared,
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And the angels appeared
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All the way through the new testament.
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People have always been fascinated
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With the subject of angels.
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There are television shows, there are movies about angels.
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People are interested in angels.
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But is this increase in interest in angels in our country,
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Is it a sign of a growing spirituality in our country,
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Or is it an indicator of something else?
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The tendency to substitute the worship of angels
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For the worship of god is nothing new.
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Angels are wonderful, they are helpful,
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But they are never to be taken as superior to jesus christ.
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♪ music ♪
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Angels are a very real and powerful force
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In our world today,
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And i believe that understanding the reality
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And the ministry of angels
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Will help us more fully appreciate
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How much god really loves us
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And how he's working in our lives every day.
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Well, angels sustain and encourage us,
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They reveal god's will to us.
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And next time, we'll look at two more specific ways
00:25:45.967 --> 00:25:48.737
That angels minister to christians today.
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Stay tuned for a preview
00:25:51.973 --> 00:25:53.241
Of what's coming up next in our series,
00:25:53.241 --> 00:25:55.443
"the truth about angels."
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Who's going to be there to minister to you, to comfort you?
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If you're a christian,
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You have the assurance you won't be alone,
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But you'll have the ministry of angels
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To usher you into heaven.
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Robert Jeffress - The Angels And You (Part 1)

July 31, 2025 | 29:0

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