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Robert Jeffress - The Angels and You (Part 2)

May 29, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - The Angels and You (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Angels and You (Part 2) | May 29, 2026
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  • From the pulpit
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  • Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Have you ever experienced something
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  • That could only be explained
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  • Through god's supernatural intervention?
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  • Well, even though we can't see them,
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  • God's angels are working overtime to keep us from harm,
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  • Both physically and spiritually.
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  • And today we're going to learn about the tangible ways
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  • In which angels minister to us in our daily life.
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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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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • ♪ many are they increased that trouble me ♪
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  • ♪ many are they that rise up against me ♪
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  • ♪ many there be which say of my soul ♪
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  • ♪ there is no help for him in god ♪
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  • ♪ but thou, o lord, art a shield for me ♪
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  • ♪ my glory and the lifter of mine head ♪
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  • ♪ thou, o lord, art a shield for me ♪
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  • ♪ my glory and the lifter of mine head ♪
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  • ♪ i cried unto the lord with my voice ♪
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  • ♪ and he heard me out of his holy hill ♪
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  • ♪ i laid me down and slept ♪
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  • ♪ i awaked ♪
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  • ♪ for the lord sustained ♪
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  • ♪ for the lord sustained me ♪
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  • ♪ but thou, o lord, art a shield for me ♪
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  • ♪ my glory and the lifter ♪
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  • ♪ of mine head ♪
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  • ♪ my glory and the lifter ♪
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  • ♪ of mine head ♪
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  • ♪ of mine head ♪
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  • Stay tuned for a very special "ask dr. jeffress" segment
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  • After today's message.
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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 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, 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, 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, not a way,
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  • The one way to god, which is through faith in jesus christ.
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  • Jesus said, "i am the way, the truth, and the life.
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  • No man comes to the father except through me."
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  • And listen, it is no, people say, "oh, wait a minute,
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  • How could you say that those mormons are such nice people?
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  • They're such nice people.
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  • Surely you can't say that's a wrong revelation."
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  • Do you know what the title of the book of mormon is?
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  • The subtitle is "another testament of jesus christ."
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  • Paul said, "if any man preaches another gospel,
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  • Let that person be accursed."
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  • And the reason we say that loudly and clearly
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  • Is not because we hate people, it's because we love people.
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  • Just imagine, you're in a burning building
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  • And the fireman says to you, "follow me!
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  • There is one way to safety out of this burning building!"
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  • And you try to go another way, and you say,
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  • "well, i'd like to try to go-"
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  • "no, that way is blocked! it'll lead you to death!"
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  • Do you say, "mr. fireman, you're a bigot."
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  • "you're intolerant
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  • Because you won't let me follow my way out."
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  • No, if you believe that fireman,
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  • You follow him and you thank him.
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  • The reason we say all other religions are false
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  • Is not out of pride, not out of hatred of people,
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  • It is out of love for people,
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  • Because we believe what this book says,
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  • And our lord said that he is the only way to safety
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  • From this burning world into eternal life.
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  • (congregation clapping)
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  • So that's why i say,
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  • When we talk about angelic revelation, be very careful,
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  • Remembering that satan can appear as an angel of light.
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  • What do angels do for us? they sustain and encourage us.
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  • The angels can reveal god's will to us.
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  • Secondly, angels protect us
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  • From physical and spiritual harm.
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  • They protect us from physical and spiritual harm.
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  • Listen to psalm 91:11-13.
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  • Remember, this is not about jesus.
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  • This particular psalm, though satan quoted it to jesus,
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  • This is about god's care for all of us,
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  • "for he," talking about god,
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  • "will give his angels charge concerning you,
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  • To guard you in all of your ways.
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  • They will bear you up in their hands
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  • Lest you strike your foot against a stone.
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  • You will tread upon the lion and the cobra,
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  • The young lion and the serpent, you will trample down."
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  • God uses angels to protect us.
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  • First of all, from physical danger.
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  • Did you know one of satan's chief strategies,
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  • Part of his plan against you
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  • Is to cause your premature death?
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  • Say, "well, why would he want to do that?"
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  • Well, if you're not yet a christian, he'd love to kill you
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  • Before you have an opportunity to trust in christ.
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  • He wants to have your soul
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  • With him in hell forever and ever and ever.
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  • He would love to kill you
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  • Before you have the opportunity to trust in christ.
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  • If you're a christian,
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  • Especially if you have an effective witness for god,
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  • He would love to kill you prematurely
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  • And extinguish that witness.
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  • So, how does god protect you?
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  • One way he protects you is through the angels that he sends.
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  • That's what he did with jesus.
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  • Remember, satan was always using people
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  • To try to take jesus' life before his time.
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  • He knew that if he could take him prematurely,
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  • It would keep him from fulfilling
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  • All of the prophecies he had to fulfill
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  • To become the messiah, to be recognized as the messiah.
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  • And so he wanted to take him out prematurely.
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  • You have two instances, in john 7:30, john 8:20,
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  • Where the mobs wanted to kill jesus,
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  • But he was miraculously delivered from them.
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  • And the scripture says, "for his hour had not yet come."
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  • God uses angels to protect us as well.
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  • I can point to several examples of that in my own life,
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  • But one i will never forget is the afternoon
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  • Of my father's funeral.
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  • We'd had the service that morning
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  • And the funeral driver was driving us back
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  • To my parents' home in richardson,
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  • And we were in that big funeral hearse,
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  • And i happened to be in the front seat
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  • Seated next to the funeral director
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  • Who was driving at a funeral car speed,
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  • And we were going down arapahoe road.
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  • It was lightly raining,
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  • And the funeral director wasn't paying attention
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  • To what was going on.
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  • He was engaged in a conversation with me,
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  • I think about the advantages
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  • Of embalming versus cremation, or something like that.
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  • -you know, -(congregation laughing)
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  • We're having that discussion,
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  • And we get into the left-hand turn lane
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  • To turn off of arapahoe onto waterview.
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  • Now, there was a protected turn signal there,
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  • But the light didn't have the arrow on it.
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  • It only had the green light,
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  • Which meant he was supposed to yield,
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  • But he was so engrossed in the conversation
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  • He wasn't paying attention.
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  • So he started to turn into the oncoming traffic,
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  • And we all watched as a cadillac sedan deville
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  • Was coming barrelling down waterview,
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  • The opposite direction, about 50 miles an hour.
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  • And as we turned into that oncoming car,
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  • I remember my last thought.
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  • I thought, "how ironic it is that i'm going to die
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  • On the day of my father's funeral."
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  • And we were turning into that,
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  • And i can't explain what happened next.
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  • By every calculation, that car should have hit me
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  • And decimated the car we were in,
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  • But instead, it missed us by that much.
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  • I turned around and watched that speeding cadillac.
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  • It threw on the brakes, slid and crashed into a light pole,
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  • And the median crushed the front end of that car.
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  • The passenger in there,
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  • The driver either was seriously injured
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  • Or died immediately upon the impact.
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  • We couldn't believe it.
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  • I yelled out, "didn't you see that car?!"
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  • Funeral director said, "what car?"
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  • I mean, he was oblivious to it.
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  • How do we explain what happened that day?
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  • The only explanation was there was an angel
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  • Who pushed that funeral hearse through that light
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  • Because it was not my hour yet to go.
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  • Now, we can all, probably in this room,
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  • Recount similar experiences
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  • When god has supernaturally protected us.
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  • You know, i love the saying,
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  • "every person is immortal until his work on earth is done."
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  • It's angels who guarantee our immortality here on earth
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  • Until god is finished with his plan for us.
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  • But even more amazing than the physical protection
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  • Is the spiritual protection that angels give to us.
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  • You know, in ephesians 6:12, paul says,
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  • "for our battle,
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  • Our struggle is not against flesh and blood."
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  • You know, we think our biggest battles in life
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  • Are against other people,
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  • That mate who doesn't love us like he or she should,
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  • Or that boss who mistreats us,
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  • Or that child who neglects us.
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  • We think our biggest battles are against other people.
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  • Paul said, "no, our struggle,"
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  • That word "paí in greek, death struggle,
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  • "that death struggle we face every day
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  • Is not against other people.
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  • It's against the unseen,
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  • But very real forces of wickedness in heavenly places."
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  • There is a spiritual war going on that we don't see,
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  • But we feel it every day.
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  • The oppression, the depression, sometimes the sickness,
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  • Sometimes the temptations
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  • That come into our life, don't come out of nowhere,
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  • They're part of the demonic world that touches our lives.
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  • You know, a great illustration of that is in daniel 10.
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  • Daniel was feeling oppressed.
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  • He was discouraged and he prayed to god,
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  • But he prayed for three weeks and no answer came.
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  • When suddenly an angel appeared to him and said,
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  • "i would've come sooner,
  • 00:13:48.417 --> 00:13:50.219
  • But i was delayed by a demonic spirit."
  • 00:13:50.219 --> 00:13:53.589
  • I don't understand all that.
  • 00:13:53.589 --> 00:13:54.590
  • I don't even begin to,
  • 00:13:54.590 --> 00:13:56.425
  • But what i do know is there is an unseen
  • 00:13:56.425 --> 00:13:59.061
  • But very real battle going on in the other world
  • 00:13:59.061 --> 00:14:02.531
  • That affects us in this world.
  • 00:14:02.531 --> 00:14:04.633
  • And god uses his angels to protect us and minister to us.
  • 00:14:04.633 --> 00:14:10.139
  • Angels sustain and encourage us.
  • 00:14:10.773 --> 00:14:13.175
  • They reveal god's will to us.
  • 00:14:13.175 --> 00:14:14.743
  • They protect us from physical and spiritual harm.
  • 00:14:14.743 --> 00:14:17.579
  • Finally, god uses angels to minister to us in death.
  • 00:14:17.579 --> 00:14:22.484
  • You know, if you meditate on it long enough,
  • 00:14:23.419 --> 00:14:25.688
  • The idea of death can be very terrifying.
  • 00:14:25.688 --> 00:14:30.192
  • I know we're not supposed to say that,
  • 00:14:30.192 --> 00:14:32.561
  • But if you really think about it
  • 00:14:32.561 --> 00:14:34.530
  • That there is coming a day when life is going to end,
  • 00:14:34.530 --> 00:14:38.434
  • And you wonder, what, if anything,
  • 00:14:38.434 --> 00:14:40.102
  • Awaits us on the other side?
  • 00:14:40.102 --> 00:14:41.704
  • It can be a terrifying experience.
  • 00:14:41.704 --> 00:14:45.474
  • And yet revelation 14:13 says,
  • 00:14:45.474 --> 00:14:47.776
  • "blessed, happy are those who die in the lord."
  • 00:14:47.776 --> 00:14:53.115
  • I've used that verse hundreds of times at funeral services.
  • 00:14:54.316 --> 00:14:57.619
  • And i used to think it meant,
  • 00:14:57.619 --> 00:14:59.822
  • No matter how awful your experience is here on earth,
  • 00:14:59.822 --> 00:15:03.225
  • You can be happy because of your final destination.
  • 00:15:03.225 --> 00:15:06.762
  • I thought he was talking about the outcome of your death
  • 00:15:07.896 --> 00:15:09.865
  • Is a happy experience, heaven,
  • 00:15:09.865 --> 00:15:11.533
  • "blessed are those who die in the lord."
  • 00:15:11.533 --> 00:15:15.337
  • But the more i've studied it
  • 00:15:15.938 --> 00:15:17.406
  • And the more i've seen in my own life,
  • 00:15:17.406 --> 00:15:19.475
  • I think he's also talking about the process of death
  • 00:15:19.475 --> 00:15:22.244
  • Can be a happy experience for a christian.
  • 00:15:22.244 --> 00:15:25.147
  • "blessed, happy are those who die in the lord."
  • 00:15:25.147 --> 00:15:29.752
  • Why is that a happy experience?
  • 00:15:29.752 --> 00:15:32.021
  • Because we don't have to face the process of death alone.
  • 00:15:32.021 --> 00:15:35.691
  • The bible says that when a christian dies,
  • 00:15:35.691 --> 00:15:38.093
  • God sends his angels to usher our spirit into his presence.
  • 00:15:38.093 --> 00:15:43.399
  • You say, "where do you find that in scripture?"
  • 00:15:44.333 --> 00:15:45.267
  • Well, one place is luke 16,
  • 00:15:45.267 --> 00:15:48.270
  • The story of the rich man and lazarus, both of whom died.
  • 00:15:48.270 --> 00:15:52.608
  • They were two very different men
  • 00:15:52.608 --> 00:15:54.209
  • Who lived two very different lives.
  • 00:15:54.209 --> 00:15:56.412
  • They experienced two different eternities.
  • 00:15:56.412 --> 00:15:58.881
  • The only thing they had in common is they both died.
  • 00:15:58.881 --> 00:16:02.618
  • And notice what happened to lazarus when he died.
  • 00:16:02.618 --> 00:16:05.287
  • Luke 16:22, "now it came about that the poor man,
  • 00:16:05.287 --> 00:16:09.558
  • That is lazarus, died, and he was carried away
  • 00:16:09.558 --> 00:16:13.929
  • By the angels, that abraham's bosom."
  • 00:16:14.763 --> 00:16:19.034
  • The bible says the angels ushered lazarus spirit
  • 00:16:19.034 --> 00:16:22.905
  • Into the presence of god.
  • 00:16:22.905 --> 00:16:24.773
  • And we can know that the angels
  • 00:16:24.773 --> 00:16:26.308
  • Will do the same for us as well.
  • 00:16:26.308 --> 00:16:27.976
  • We will not face death alone.
  • 00:16:27.976 --> 00:16:31.980
  • One of the greatest illustrations
  • 00:16:31.980 --> 00:16:33.515
  • Of that from current history
  • 00:16:33.515 --> 00:16:35.717
  • Comes from the missionary story,
  • 00:16:35.717 --> 00:16:37.286
  • Perhaps the greatest missionary story of all time.
  • 00:16:37.286 --> 00:16:40.789
  • The story of jim elliot, nate saint,
  • 00:16:40.789 --> 00:16:42.958
  • And three other missionaries to the auca indians,
  • 00:16:42.958 --> 00:16:46.428
  • Who were killed in ecuador in 1956 by the auca indians.
  • 00:16:46.428 --> 00:16:52.468
  • And those of you who know the story know
  • 00:16:53.335 --> 00:16:55.270
  • That it was the basis for the bestselling book,
  • 00:16:55.270 --> 00:16:57.372
  • "through the gates of splendor."
  • 00:16:57.372 --> 00:16:59.842
  • After these missionary deaths,
  • 00:16:59.842 --> 00:17:02.077
  • The families of the missionaries went back to ecuador
  • 00:17:02.077 --> 00:17:05.080
  • And ministered there.
  • 00:17:05.080 --> 00:17:06.682
  • And many of those aucas who had killed the missionaries
  • 00:17:06.682 --> 00:17:09.251
  • Were one to faith in christ.
  • 00:17:09.251 --> 00:17:11.854
  • One of those missionaries who went back was steve saint,
  • 00:17:11.854 --> 00:17:15.491
  • The son of missionary nate saint, who had been killed.
  • 00:17:15.491 --> 00:17:19.027
  • When nate saint was speared to death,
  • 00:17:19.027 --> 00:17:20.963
  • His son steve was only nine years old.
  • 00:17:20.963 --> 00:17:23.565
  • But when he became an adult,
  • 00:17:23.565 --> 00:17:24.967
  • Steve wanted to go back and interview those savages
  • 00:17:24.967 --> 00:17:28.704
  • Who now were christians,
  • 00:17:28.704 --> 00:17:30.506
  • Those men and women who had murdered his father.
  • 00:17:30.506 --> 00:17:33.408
  • He wanted to find out exactly the circumstances
  • 00:17:33.408 --> 00:17:36.445
  • Surrounding his dad's death.
  • 00:17:36.445 --> 00:17:38.680
  • And so he interviewed the very people
  • 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:40.916
  • Who had speared his father to death.
  • 00:17:40.916 --> 00:17:43.485
  • They told steve of his father's courage
  • 00:17:43.485 --> 00:17:47.156
  • And the missionary's courage as they died a horrible death.
  • 00:17:47.156 --> 00:17:51.160
  • But they also described something else very unusual
  • 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:55.197
  • That accompanied the missionary's deaths.
  • 00:17:55.197 --> 00:17:58.800
  • Steve saint writes, "dawa, one of the three women,
  • 00:17:58.800 --> 00:18:04.072
  • Told me that she had hidden in the bush through the attack,
  • 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:08.410
  • Hearing but not seeing the killing of my father
  • 00:18:08.410 --> 00:18:11.580
  • And of the others.
  • 00:18:11.580 --> 00:18:13.081
  • She told me that she had been hit by gun pellets
  • 00:18:13.081 --> 00:18:15.684
  • In the wrist and just above the knee.
  • 00:18:15.684 --> 00:18:18.020
  • Random warning shots fired to scare the attackers.
  • 00:18:18.020 --> 00:18:22.090
  • She told me that after the killing,
  • 00:18:22.090 --> 00:18:24.960
  • She saw what she called the "cowodis"
  • 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:27.663
  • Above the trees, singing.
  • 00:18:27.663 --> 00:18:30.766
  • She didn't know what this kind of music was
  • 00:18:30.766 --> 00:18:33.735
  • Until later she heard the records of my aunt rachel's
  • 00:18:33.735 --> 00:18:37.339
  • And became familiar with the sound of the church choir.
  • 00:18:37.339 --> 00:18:41.343
  • Mincaye and kimo also confirmed that they heard the singing
  • 00:18:41.343 --> 00:18:45.280
  • And saw what dawa seems to describe as angels
  • 00:18:45.280 --> 00:18:48.884
  • Along the ridge above palm beach.
  • 00:18:48.884 --> 00:18:51.887
  • Another one of the natives
  • 00:18:51.887 --> 00:18:53.088
  • Verified hearing the strange music,
  • 00:18:53.088 --> 00:18:55.958
  • Though he describes what he saw
  • 00:18:55.958 --> 00:18:57.726
  • More like lights moving around and shining,
  • 00:18:57.726 --> 00:19:01.597
  • A sky full of jungle beetles similar to fireflies,
  • 00:19:01.597 --> 00:19:05.634
  • With a light that is brighter and doesn't blink.
  • 00:19:05.634 --> 00:19:09.204
  • Apparently, all the participants
  • 00:19:09.204 --> 00:19:11.273
  • Saw this bright multitude in the sky
  • 00:19:11.273 --> 00:19:14.643
  • And felt that they should be scared
  • 00:19:14.643 --> 00:19:17.045
  • Because they knew it was something supernatural."
  • 00:19:17.045 --> 00:19:21.416
  • In the inevitable hour of your death,
  • 00:19:22.251 --> 00:19:26.922
  • Who's going to be there to minister to you, to comfort you?
  • 00:19:28.056 --> 00:19:32.961
  • If you're a christian,
  • 00:19:33.462 --> 00:19:34.763
  • You have the assurance you won't be alone,
  • 00:19:34.763 --> 00:19:37.299
  • But you'll have the ministry of angels
  • 00:19:37.299 --> 00:19:40.068
  • To usher you into heaven.
  • 00:19:40.068 --> 00:19:42.838
  • You remember that passage we read a few minutes ago,
  • 00:19:42.838 --> 00:19:46.174
  • 2 kings 6?
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  • Elijah the prophet and his servant,
  • 00:19:48.744 --> 00:19:51.580
  • Living in the little village of dothan,
  • 00:19:51.580 --> 00:19:53.615
  • Family found themselves surrounded
  • 00:19:53.615 --> 00:19:56.018
  • By hundreds of soldiers of the king of syria,
  • 00:19:56.018 --> 00:19:59.187
  • Intent on destroying the prophet.
  • 00:19:59.187 --> 00:20:02.824
  • And remember, the servant cried out,
  • 00:20:02.824 --> 00:20:04.359
  • "elijah, what shall we do?!
  • 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:05.994
  • We're surrounded! there's no way out!"
  • 00:20:05.994 --> 00:20:09.164
  • And elijah said, "calm down, it's all going to be okay.
  • 00:20:09.164 --> 00:20:13.502
  • For those who are with us are greater
  • 00:20:13.502 --> 00:20:15.871
  • Than those who are with them."
  • 00:20:15.871 --> 00:20:18.307
  • And the servant said, "those who are with us?!
  • 00:20:18.307 --> 00:20:20.275
  • Are you out of your gourd, elijah?
  • 00:20:20.275 --> 00:20:22.010
  • What are you talking about?
  • 00:20:22.010 --> 00:20:23.578
  • It's just you and me here! and look at all of them."
  • 00:20:23.578 --> 00:20:27.215
  • The bible says, elijah prayed,
  • 00:20:27.849 --> 00:20:29.651
  • "lord, opened his eyes that he might see."
  • 00:20:29.651 --> 00:20:34.556
  • And god opened the eyes of the servant,
  • 00:20:34.556 --> 00:20:36.725
  • And suddenly he saw hundreds of men
  • 00:20:36.725 --> 00:20:40.028
  • And chariots of fire ready to protect them
  • 00:20:40.028 --> 00:20:43.732
  • Against the attacks of those who wanted to destroy them.
  • 00:20:43.732 --> 00:20:47.369
  • You know, my prayer is for each of you
  • 00:20:48.203 --> 00:20:49.938
  • That these few weeks of talking about angels
  • 00:20:49.938 --> 00:20:52.641
  • Has opened your eyes so that you can see the reality
  • 00:20:52.641 --> 00:20:57.979
  • Of those ministering spirits god has sent to render service
  • 00:20:59.147 --> 00:21:02.384
  • To you who have inherited the gift of salvation.
  • 00:21:02.384 --> 00:21:07.022
  • ♪ music ♪
  • 00:21:07.356 --> 00:21:10.926
  • This concludes our study on the truth about angels.
  • 00:21:11.927 --> 00:21:15.097
  • And my prayer is that these messages have opened your eyes
  • 00:21:15.097 --> 00:21:18.266
  • To the ministering spirits that god has sent
  • 00:21:18.266 --> 00:21:21.169
  • To render service to you
  • 00:21:21.169 --> 00:21:23.105
  • Who have inherited the gift of salvation.
  • 00:21:23.105 --> 00:21:25.574
  • Now, before we go today,
  • 00:21:25.574 --> 00:21:26.708
  • I want to share this powerful note
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  • I received from a friend in texas who wrote,
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  • "pastor jeffress, your teaching helped me
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  • Through a very difficult time.
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  • After 33 years of marriage, i found myself divorced,
  • 00:21:35.984 --> 00:21:39.755
  • Needing to forgive my ex-spouse for years of abuse.
  • 00:21:39.755 --> 00:21:43.825
  • Thank you for helping me find power
  • 00:21:43.825 --> 00:21:45.827
  • And victory in jesus christ."
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  • Karen, your question is a great one,
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  • And it's the most frequently asked question
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  • At "pathway to victory."
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  • Cremation is certainly becoming more popular
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  • With the increasing cost of funerals.
  • 00:23:48.884 --> 00:23:52.187
  • With covid,
  • 00:23:52.187 --> 00:23:53.588
  • That changed the way people treated their loved ones
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  • Who had died.
  • 00:23:56.391 --> 00:23:57.692
  • But let me cut to the chase on this,
  • 00:23:57.692 --> 00:23:59.961
  • Now the fact is our bodies are temporary.
  • 00:23:59.961 --> 00:24:03.865
  • God made them as temporary dwelling places.
  • 00:24:03.865 --> 00:24:06.902
  • They were never meant to be our eternal home.
  • 00:24:06.902 --> 00:24:10.372
  • And the bible tells us
  • 00:24:10.372 --> 00:24:11.873
  • That one day we're going to leave our bodies at home.
  • 00:24:11.873 --> 00:24:14.743
  • 2 corinthians 5:8 says,
  • 00:24:14.743 --> 00:24:16.144
  • "for a christian to be absent from the body
  • 00:24:16.144 --> 00:24:18.747
  • Is to be at home with the lord."
  • 00:24:18.747 --> 00:24:20.482
  • And it really doesn't matter how you die.
  • 00:24:20.482 --> 00:24:23.418
  • Whether you're blown up in an airplane
  • 00:24:23.418 --> 00:24:25.554
  • Over the pacific ocean, you're in a car crash,
  • 00:24:25.554 --> 00:24:28.690
  • Or your organs deteriorate,
  • 00:24:28.690 --> 00:24:30.959
  • One day this temporary dwelling place
  • 00:24:30.959 --> 00:24:33.795
  • Is going to be reduced to dust.
  • 00:24:33.795 --> 00:24:36.131
  • Our bodies were formed out of the dust,
  • 00:24:36.131 --> 00:24:38.667
  • They're going to return to dust.
  • 00:24:38.667 --> 00:24:40.702
  • Cremation only accelerates the process.
  • 00:24:40.702 --> 00:24:44.239
  • Now, it used to be in the first century
  • 00:24:44.239 --> 00:24:46.641
  • When the bible new testament was written
  • 00:24:46.641 --> 00:24:49.544
  • That the romans and other pagans
  • 00:24:49.544 --> 00:24:52.447
  • Would stack bodies on top of one another and burn them.
  • 00:24:52.447 --> 00:24:56.017
  • They weren't expecting any resurrection,
  • 00:24:56.017 --> 00:24:58.553
  • But christians carefully buried their dead
  • 00:24:58.553 --> 00:25:02.090
  • As a sign that they were looking to a future resurrection.
  • 00:25:02.090 --> 00:25:05.927
  • Now, in truth, remember this,
  • 00:25:05.927 --> 00:25:07.896
  • Our bodies are going to be made new.
  • 00:25:07.896 --> 00:25:10.732
  • What we haul into heaven with us isn't going to be this body.
  • 00:25:10.732 --> 00:25:14.436
  • Thankfully, it's going to be a brand new body.
  • 00:25:14.436 --> 00:25:17.973
  • 1 corinthians 15 describes that new body
  • 00:25:17.973 --> 00:25:21.343
  • And what it's going to be like.
  • 00:25:21.343 --> 00:25:22.877
  • It's going to be free from sin, from sickness,
  • 00:25:22.877 --> 00:25:25.614
  • From broken relationships, and we all look forward to that.
  • 00:25:25.614 --> 00:25:29.317
  • So my short answer now to your question is,
  • 00:25:29.317 --> 00:25:32.454
  • There's nothing in the bible that prohibits cremation.
  • 00:25:32.454 --> 00:25:36.224
  • It doesn't matter how your natural body dies.
  • 00:25:36.224 --> 00:25:39.194
  • One day god's going to give you a brand new body.
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  • ♪ music ♪
  • 00:25:43.365 --> 00:25:44.666
  • I can personally point to several examples
  • 00:25:44.666 --> 00:25:47.002
  • Of god's angelic intervention in my life.
  • 00:25:47.002 --> 00:25:50.271
  • And as you think back on your own experiences,
  • 00:25:50.271 --> 00:25:53.141
  • I hope similar stories begin to emerge as well.
  • 00:25:53.141 --> 00:25:57.045
  • Well, god designed and created each one of us,
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  • And he gave us his word, the bible,
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  • To tell us how to get the most out of life.
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  • So, what's the secret to enjoying a blessed life?
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  • The best place to start
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  • Is with god's most foundational instructions,
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  • The 10 commandments.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of my upcoming series, "the 10."
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  • God made us, he wants us to enjoy life now,
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  • In the here and now, and in the hereafter as well.
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  • And that's why he's given us his owner's manual.
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  • We call it the bible.
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  • Set your dvr and join us next time
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  • For the start of a brand new study
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  • On the 10 commandments called "the 10,"
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  • Here on "pathway to victory."
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  • What if your next vacation changed
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  • The way you read your bible forever?
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  • Join me for nine nights sailing the mediterranean
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