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Robert Jeffress - The Angels And You (Part 2)

August 1, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - The Angels And You (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Angels And You (Part 2) | August 1, 2025
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  • [announcer] from the pulpit of
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  • 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.
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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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  • [announcer] angels are a very real
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  • And powerful force in our world today,
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  • Dr. graham combines testimonies
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  • And accounts of those who have encountered angels
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Pastor van hoose says today he believes
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  • 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,
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  • That comes from satan.
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  • You know, a few of my comments have been in 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 seventh 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 koran
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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, who appeared to him
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  • 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 to
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  • 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.
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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, 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!
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  • People say, "oh, wait a minute. how could you say that?
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  • 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,
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  • 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!
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  • 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 and our lord said
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  • That he is the only way to safety from this burning world
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  • Into eternal life.
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • So that's why i say...
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  • When we talk about angelic revelation,
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  • Be very careful remembering that
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  • Satan can appear as an angel of light.
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  • What do angels do for us?
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  • 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 from physical
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  • 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, this particular psalm,
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  • 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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  • You say, "well, why would he want to do that?"
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  • Well, if you're not yet a christian,
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  • 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 with him in hell forever
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  • 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 all of the prophecies
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  • He had to fulfill to become the messiah,
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  • 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
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  • The afternoon of my father's funeral.
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  • We'd had the service that morning and the funeral driver
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  • Was driving us back 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 of embalming versus cremation
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  • Or something like that, you know?
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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
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  • That i'm going to die 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,
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  • Slid and crashed into a light pole in the median,
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  • Crushed the front end of that car.
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  • The passenger in there, the driver,
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  • 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."
  • 00:14:37.700 --> 00:14:43.472
  • It's angels who guarantee our immortality here on earth
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  • Until god is finished with his plan for us.
  • 00:14:48.677 --> 00:14:52.181
  • But even more amazing than the physical protection
  • 00:14:52.181 --> 00:14:54.850
  • Is the spiritual protection that angels give to us.
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  • You know, in ephesians 6:12, paul says,
  • 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:00.589
  • "for our battle, our struggle,
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  • Is not against flesh and blood."
  • 00:15:05.327 --> 00:15:08.964
  • You know, we think our biggest battles in life
  • 00:15:08.964 --> 00:15:11.000
  • Are against other people.
  • 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:12.568
  • That mate who doesn't love us like he or she should,
  • 00:15:12.568 --> 00:15:16.105
  • 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 "pale" 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, but very real,
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  • Forces of wickedness in heavenly places.
  • 00:15:36.725 --> 00:15:40.262
  • 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,
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  • Sometimes the sickness,
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  • Sometimes the temptations that come into our life
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  • Don't come out of nowhere.
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  • They're part of the demonic world that touches our lives.
  • 00:15:54.610 --> 00:15:59.515
  • 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,
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  • But i was delayed by a demonic spirit."
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  • I don't understand all that.
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  • I don't even begin to!
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  • But what i do know is there is an unseen
  • 00:16:22.037 --> 00:16:24.673
  • But very real battle going on in the other world
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  • That affects us in this world
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  • And god uses his angels to protect us and minister to us.
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  • Angels sustain and encourage us.
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  • They reveal god's will to us.
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  • They protect us from physical and spiritual harm.
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  • Finally, god uses angels to minister to us in death.
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  • You know, if you meditate on it long enough,
  • 00:16:49.198 --> 00:16:51.467
  • The idea of death can be very terrifying.
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  • I know we're not supposed to say that,
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  • But if you really think about it that there is coming a day
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  • When life is going to end and you wonder what,
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  • If anything, awaits us on the other side.
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  • It can be a terrifying experience.
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  • And yet revelation 14:13 says,
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  • "blessed, happy are those who die in the lord."
  • 00:17:13.455 --> 00:17:18.794
  • I've used that verse hundreds of times at funeral services
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  • And i used to think it meant,
  • 00:17:23.298 --> 00:17:25.400
  • "no matter how awful your experience is here on earth,
  • 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:29.004
  • You can be happy because of your final destination."
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  • I thought he was talking about
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  • The outcome of your death is a happy experience, heaven!
  • 00:17:34.710 --> 00:17:37.312
  • "blessed are those who die in the lord."
  • 00:17:37.312 --> 00:17:41.116
  • But the more i've studied it
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  • And the more i've seen in my own life,
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  • I think he's also talking about
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  • The process of death can be a happy experience
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  • For a christian.
  • 00:17:49.591 --> 00:17:50.993
  • "blessed, happy are those who die in the lord."
  • 00:17:50.993 --> 00:17:55.597
  • Why is that a happy experience?
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  • Because we don't have to face the process of death alone.
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  • The bible says that when a christian dies,
  • 00:18:01.403 --> 00:18:03.772
  • God sends his angels to usher our spirit into his presence.
  • 00:18:03.772 --> 00:18:09.077
  • You say, "where do you find that in scripture?"
  • 00:18:10.012 --> 00:18:10.979
  • Well, one place is luke 16,
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  • The story of the rich man and lazarus,
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  • Both of whom died.
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  • They were two very different men
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  • Who lived two very different lives.
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  • They experienced two different eternities.
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  • The only thing they had in common is they both died.
  • 00:18:24.593 --> 00:18:28.397
  • And notice what happened to lazarus when he died.
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  • Luke 16:22.
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  • "now it came about that the poor man," that is lazarus,
  • 00:18:32.768 --> 00:18:36.271
  • "died and he was carried away by the angels
  • 00:18:36.271 --> 00:18:41.543
  • To abraham's bosom."
  • 00:18:42.010 --> 00:18:44.846
  • The bible says the angels ushered lazarus' spirit
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  • Into the presence of god.
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  • And we can know that
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  • The angels will do the same for us as well.
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  • We will not face death alone.
  • 00:18:53.755 --> 00:18:57.793
  • One of the greatest illustrations of that
  • 00:18:57.793 --> 00:18:59.695
  • From current history comes from the missionary story,
  • 00:18:59.695 --> 00:19:02.998
  • Perhaps the greatest missionary story of all time.
  • 00:19:02.998 --> 00:19:06.501
  • The story of jim elliot, nate saint,
  • 00:19:06.501 --> 00:19:08.704
  • And three other missionaries to the auca indians,
  • 00:19:08.704 --> 00:19:12.174
  • Who were killed in ecuador in 1956 by the auca indians.
  • 00:19:12.174 --> 00:19:18.180
  • And those of you who know the story know that
  • 00:19:19.081 --> 00:19:21.183
  • It was the basis for the bestselling book,
  • 00:19:21.183 --> 00:19:23.051
  • "through the gates of splendor."
  • 00:19:23.051 --> 00:19:25.587
  • After these missionary deaths,
  • 00:19:25.587 --> 00:19:27.990
  • The families of the missionaries went back to ecuador
  • 00:19:27.990 --> 00:19:30.859
  • And ministered there.
  • 00:19:30.859 --> 00:19:32.461
  • And many of those aucas who had killed the missionaries
  • 00:19:32.461 --> 00:19:35.030
  • Were won to faith in christ.
  • 00:19:35.030 --> 00:19:37.633
  • One of those missionaries who went back was steve saint,
  • 00:19:37.633 --> 00:19:41.303
  • The son of missionary nate saint who had been killed.
  • 00:19:41.303 --> 00:19:44.806
  • When nate saint was speared to death,
  • 00:19:44.806 --> 00:19:46.742
  • His son steve was only nine years old.
  • 00:19:46.742 --> 00:19:49.344
  • But when he became an adult,
  • 00:19:49.344 --> 00:19:50.746
  • Steve wanted to go back and interview those savages,
  • 00:19:50.746 --> 00:19:54.483
  • Who now were christians,
  • 00:19:54.483 --> 00:19:56.318
  • Those men and women who had murdered his father.
  • 00:19:56.318 --> 00:19:59.187
  • He wanted to find out exactly
  • 00:19:59.187 --> 00:20:00.856
  • The circumstances surrounding his dad's death,
  • 00:20:00.856 --> 00:20:04.526
  • And so he interviewed the very people
  • 00:20:04.526 --> 00:20:06.695
  • Who had speared his father to death.
  • 00:20:06.695 --> 00:20:09.264
  • They told steve of his father's courage
  • 00:20:09.264 --> 00:20:12.968
  • And the missionaries courage as they died a horrible death.
  • 00:20:12.968 --> 00:20:16.938
  • But they also described something else very unusual
  • 00:20:16.938 --> 00:20:20.942
  • That accompanied the missionaries' deaths.
  • 00:20:20.942 --> 00:20:24.546
  • Steve saint writes, "dawa, one of the three women,
  • 00:20:24.546 --> 00:20:29.885
  • Told me that she had hidden in the bush through the attack,
  • 00:20:31.053 --> 00:20:34.423
  • Hearing but not seeing the killing of my father
  • 00:20:34.423 --> 00:20:37.559
  • And of the others.
  • 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:39.061
  • She told me that she had been hit by gun pellets
  • 00:20:39.061 --> 00:20:41.630
  • In the wrist and just above the knee.
  • 00:20:41.630 --> 00:20:43.965
  • Random warning shots fired to scare the attackers.
  • 00:20:43.965 --> 00:20:48.070
  • She told me that after the killing,
  • 00:20:48.070 --> 00:20:50.906
  • She saw what she called,
  • 00:20:50.906 --> 00:20:52.174
  • 'the coatis above the trees singing.'
  • 00:20:52.174 --> 00:20:56.678
  • She didn't know what this kind of music was
  • 00:20:56.678 --> 00:20:59.715
  • Until later she heard the records of my aunt rachel's
  • 00:20:59.715 --> 00:21:03.118
  • And became familiar with the sound of a church choir.
  • 00:21:03.118 --> 00:21:07.122
  • Mintke and kimo also confirmed that they heard the singing
  • 00:21:07.122 --> 00:21:11.026
  • And saw what dawa seems to describe as angels
  • 00:21:11.026 --> 00:21:14.629
  • Along the ridge above palm beach.
  • 00:21:14.629 --> 00:21:17.632
  • Another one of the natives verified
  • 00:21:17.632 --> 00:21:19.835
  • Hearing the strange music,
  • 00:21:19.835 --> 00:21:21.737
  • Though he describes what he saw
  • 00:21:21.737 --> 00:21:23.505
  • More like lights moving around and shining,
  • 00:21:23.505 --> 00:21:27.442
  • A sky full of jungle beetles similar to fireflies
  • 00:21:27.442 --> 00:21:31.480
  • With a light that is brighter and doesn't blink.
  • 00:21:31.480 --> 00:21:35.050
  • Apparently, all the participants saw this bright multitude
  • 00:21:35.050 --> 00:21:39.221
  • In the sky and felt that they should be scared
  • 00:21:39.221 --> 00:21:42.991
  • Because they knew it was something supernatural."
  • 00:21:42.991 --> 00:21:47.362
  • In the inevitable hour of your death,
  • 00:21:48.196 --> 00:21:52.901
  • Who's going to be there to minister to you, to comfort you?
  • 00:21:54.035 --> 00:21:58.907
  • If you're a christian,
  • 00:21:59.408 --> 00:22:00.642
  • You have the assurance you won't be alone,
  • 00:22:00.642 --> 00:22:03.111
  • But you'll have the ministry of angels
  • 00:22:03.111 --> 00:22:05.881
  • To usher you into heaven.
  • 00:22:05.881 --> 00:22:08.617
  • You remember that passage we read a few minutes ago?
  • 00:22:08.617 --> 00:22:11.953
  • 2 kings 6?
  • 00:22:11.953 --> 00:22:14.523
  • Elisha the prophet and his servant,
  • 00:22:14.523 --> 00:22:17.359
  • Living in the little village of dothan,
  • 00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:19.394
  • Family found themselves surrounded by
  • 00:22:19.394 --> 00:22:22.464
  • Hundreds of soldiers of the king of syria
  • 00:22:22.464 --> 00:22:24.966
  • Intent on destroying the prophet.
  • 00:22:24.966 --> 00:22:28.637
  • And remember the servant cried out,
  • 00:22:28.637 --> 00:22:30.138
  • "elisha, what shall we do?
  • 00:22:30.138 --> 00:22:31.740
  • We're surrounded. there's no way out."
  • 00:22:31.740 --> 00:22:34.443
  • And elisha said, "calm down, it's all going to be okay.
  • 00:22:35.544 --> 00:22:39.281
  • For those who are with us
  • 00:22:39.281 --> 00:22:40.982
  • Are greater than those who are with them."
  • 00:22:40.982 --> 00:22:44.052
  • And the servant said, "those who are with us?
  • 00:22:44.052 --> 00:22:46.054
  • Are you out of your gourd, elisha?
  • 00:22:46.054 --> 00:22:47.923
  • What are you talking about?
  • 00:22:47.923 --> 00:22:49.458
  • It's just you and me here! and look at all of them!"
  • 00:22:49.458 --> 00:22:53.094
  • The bible says elisha prayed,
  • 00:22:53.728 --> 00:22:55.530
  • "lord, open his eyes that he might see."
  • 00:22:55.530 --> 00:23:00.168
  • And god opened the eyes of the servant
  • 00:23:00.168 --> 00:23:02.337
  • And suddenly he saw hundreds of men in chariots of fire
  • 00:23:02.337 --> 00:23:07.676
  • Ready to protect them against the attacks of those
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  • Who wanted to destroy them.
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  • You know my prayer is for each of you
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  • That these few weeks of talking about angels
  • 00:23:15.517 --> 00:23:18.220
  • Has opened your eyes
  • 00:23:18.220 --> 00:23:20.989
  • So that you can see the reality of those ministering spirits
  • 00:23:20.989 --> 00:23:25.927
  • God has sent to render service to you
  • 00:23:25.927 --> 00:23:29.364
  • Who have inherited the gift of salvation.
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • This concludes our study on, "the truth about angels."
  • 00:23:37.506 --> 00:23:41.376
  • And my prayer is that these messages
  • 00:23:41.376 --> 00:23:43.411
  • Have opened your eyes to the ministering spirits
  • 00:23:43.411 --> 00:23:46.448
  • That god has sent to render service to you
  • 00:23:46.448 --> 00:23:49.351
  • Who have inherited the gift of salvation.
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  • Now, before we go today, i want to share this powerful note
  • 00:23:52.454 --> 00:23:55.824
  • I received from a friend in texas, who wrote,
  • 00:23:55.824 --> 00:23:58.693
  • "pastor jeffress,
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  • Your teaching helped me through a very difficult time.
  • 00:24:00.061 --> 00:24:02.664
  • After 33 years of marriage, i found myself divorced,
  • 00:24:02.664 --> 00:24:06.635
  • Needing to forgive my ex-spouse for years of abuse.
  • 00:24:06.635 --> 00:24:10.572
  • Thank you for helping me find power
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  • And victory in jesus christ."
  • 00:24:12.607 --> 00:24:15.510
  • Isn't that great?
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  • I'll be back with one final word in just a moment.
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  • I want to speak tonight on angels
  • 00:24:34.262 --> 00:24:38.433
  • Because i want to answer the question, "are there angels?"
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  • We have whole bookshelves on demons,
  • 00:24:46.274 --> 00:24:49.544
  • The occult, and satan!
  • 00:24:49.544 --> 00:24:53.114
  • But you can hardly find a book on angels!
  • 00:24:53.982 --> 00:24:57.319
  • But i do know that this book teaches,
  • 00:24:58.119 --> 00:25:00.822
  • From genesis to revelation, the existence of angels.
  • 00:25:00.822 --> 00:25:04.793
  • To the great patriarchs, angels appeared!
  • 00:25:04.793 --> 00:25:07.896
  • And the angels appeared
  • 00:25:08.396 --> 00:25:09.798
  • All the way through the new testament.
  • 00:25:09.798 --> 00:25:12.834
  • People have always been fascinated with
  • 00:25:12.834 --> 00:25:15.937
  • The subject of angels.
  • 00:25:15.937 --> 00:25:18.306
  • There are television shows, there are movies about angels,
  • 00:25:18.306 --> 00:25:21.343
  • People are interested in angels.
  • 00:25:21.343 --> 00:25:25.347
  • But is this increase and interest in angels in our country,
  • 00:25:26.548 --> 00:25:31.886
  • Is it a sign of a growing spirituality in our country?
  • 00:25:32.988 --> 00:25:36.491
  • Or is it an indicator of something else?
  • 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:40.362
  • The tendency to substitute the worship of angels
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  • For the worship of god is nothing new.
  • 00:25:44.733 --> 00:25:48.670
  • Angels are wonderful, they are helpful,
  • 00:25:49.537 --> 00:25:53.041
  • But they are never to be taken as superior to jesus christ.
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  • ♪ music ♪
  • 00:26:01.683 --> 00:26:03.184
  • I can personally point to
  • 00:26:03.184 --> 00:26:04.552
  • Several examples of god's angelic intervention
  • 00:26:04.552 --> 00:26:07.756
  • In my own life.
  • 00:26:07.756 --> 00:26:09.224
  • And as you think back on your experience,
  • 00:26:09.224 --> 00:26:11.726
  • I hope some similar stories begin to emerge as well.
  • 00:26:11.726 --> 00:26:15.530
  • Stay tuned for a preview of our next series,
  • 00:26:15.530 --> 00:26:18.166
  • "7 marks of a disciple."
  • 00:26:18.166 --> 00:26:21.369
  • As you read through the whole of the new testament,
  • 00:26:22.404 --> 00:26:25.573
  • Can you really say that,
  • 00:26:25.573 --> 00:26:26.875
  • "all god really wants for me is to receive
  • 00:26:26.875 --> 00:26:29.678
  • That free get-out-of-hell card,
  • 00:26:29.678 --> 00:26:31.980
  • And that's all that really matters?
  • 00:26:31.980 --> 00:26:34.549
  • Does he care about anything else?"
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  • Again, the stakes are too high to get this wrong.
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