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Robert Jeffress - The Helmet and the Sword (Part 1)

March 19, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - The Helmet and the Sword (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Helmet and the Sword (Part 1) | March 19, 2026
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  • Robert jeffress.
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  • Jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome again
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  • To "pathway to victory."
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  • Every day christians face an invisible battle against the
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  • Forces of darkness, but god has not left us defenseless.
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  • Over the past few weeks, we've been examining the spiritual
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  • Armor described in ephesians 6, and today we're going to look at
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  • Two final pieces of offensive weaponry that god has provided
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  • For every believer.
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  • These aren't just for survival.
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  • They're designed to help you advance and put the enemy on
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  • The run.
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  • My message is titled "the helmet and the sword" on today's
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  • Edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • And derail your future, but god has given you everything you
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  • Need to fight back and win.
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  • In "the divine defense," dr. robert jeffress reveals six
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  • Practical strategies from ephesians chapter 6 to defeat
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  • Satan's destructive plan.
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  • When you put on the full armor of god, satan doesn't have
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  • Segment after today's message.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: someone has written, "my orders are to fight.
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  • Then if i bleed or fail or strongly win, what matters it?
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  • I was not told to win or lose, i was told to fight."
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  • Fight, fight, fight.
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  • That's the christian life, isn't it?
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  • But the battle we're in is not a fight against other
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  • Political parties.
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  • It's not really against other people.
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  • Paul says in ephesians 6 our fight is against the unseen, the
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  • Invisible, but the very real forces of darkness that are
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  • Trying to topple the kingdom of god.
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  • It's a very personal fight in that satan has a blueprint to
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  • Destroy everything that is important to you: your faith,
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  • Your future, your family.
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  • It's a fight we can't win on our own, but fortunately god has
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  • Given us the weapons we need to be successful, the weapons we
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  • Need to destroy satan's plan to destroy us.
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  • And over these last weeks, we've been looking at those weapons
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  • That are described in ephesians chapter 6.
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  • Remember, the first three weapons are
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  • More defensive in nature.
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  • They help us survive the attacks of satan.
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  • We've talked about the belt of truth, the breastplate of
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  • Righteousness, and the feet--the boots of the preparation of
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  • The gospel.
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  • But then last week we began looking at the offensive weapons
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  • That god has given us.
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  • God wants us to do more than survive satan's attacks.
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  • He actually wants us to move forward as we advance in god's
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  • Will for our life and put the devil on his heels, push him
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  • Into retreat.
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  • And for those offensive weapons, we looked last time at the
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  • Shield of faith.
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  • The shield the soldier would hold up was when he was moving
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  • Toward the enemy.
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  • He was getting closer to his goal of destroying the enemy who
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  • Wants to destroy us.
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  • And we said as a christian, the closer you get in following
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  • God's will for your life and advancing forward, you can
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  • Expect the flaming missiles to come in your direction, but god
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  • Has given us the shield of faith.
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  • What is faith?
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  • Faith is not believing that god's gonna do
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  • What you want him to do.
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  • That's positive thinking mumbo jumbo.
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  • He may or may not do what you want him to do.
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  • Faith is the assurance that god will do what he has already
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  • Promised to do and then acting accordingly.
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  • We need the shield of faith, and today we're going to look at the
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  • Other two pieces of offensive weaponry that god has given us.
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  • First of all, the helmet of salvation.
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  • He says in verse 17 the helmet of salvation.
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  • Sometimes people will ask me, "pastor, what's the hardest
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  • Thing you've ever had to do in ministry?"
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  • I don't have to think long about it.
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  • I don't have to try to recall something.
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  • The experience is burned into my mind.
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  • I will never forget it.
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  • It was on a palm sunday about two hours before our evening
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  • Performance at my former church, easter musical that we put on to
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  • Talk about the resurrection.
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  • About two hours before that, i received a telephone call
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  • Telling me that a young couple at our church had been killed in
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  • A motorcycle accident, and the extended family wanted me to go
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  • To this couple's home and tell their two grade school daughters
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  • That their parents had died and they would never see them again.
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  • Trust me it doesn't get any harder than that, and the
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  • Thought i had was if only those parents had been
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  • Wearing helmets.
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  • If only they had worn a helmet, it would have protected them
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  • Against their death, it would have protected their children
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  • From endless pain.
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  • Helmets are vital in surviving motorcycle accidents.
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  • Helmets have always also been a vital defense against the
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  • Enemy's attacks for anybody who's in warfare.
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  • The roman soldiers knew that.
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  • They would put on this helmet.
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  • It was made of molded metal, had steel plates in it.
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  • It was to guard against mortal wounds to the head.
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  • It would protect them against the roman broadsword that would
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  • Try to decapitate them.
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  • It might prevent them from injury in hand-to-hand combat;
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  • The blows of the daggers, the clubs, and the chains.
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  • It could actually protect them against self-inflicted problems,
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  • If they fell on a rock and injured themself.
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  • A helmet was important in warfare.
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  • Paul says we need a helmet as we combat the evil one, but the
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  • Helmet we need is the helmet of salvation.
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  • What does he mean, the helmet of salvation?
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  • Why do we need to put that on if we're already a christian?
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  • He's talking about remembering what is already true.
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  • A helmet of salvation.
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  • Salvation from what?
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  • We need a reminder that we are, first of all, saved from the
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  • Penalty of sin.
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  • That's a powerful deterrent against the evil one, a reminder
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  • That we have been saved from the penalty of sin.
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  • You know, we have people from all different backgrounds coming
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  • To first baptist church.
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  • I love that.
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  • Presbyterians, catholics, methodists, church of christ,
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  • People of no particular denomination.
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  • They're all hungry for the word of god.
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  • That's what attracts people to our church, the word of god.
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  • But coming from a different background, they'll sometimes
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  • Ask me, "now, pastor, what about all this
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  • Once-saved-always-saved stuff?
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  • Is that really true?
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  • Is it really true, no matter what i do, i'm still saved?
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  • I mean, if i believe that, what's to keep me from going out
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  • And sinning all i want to?"
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  • Haven't you heard that question?
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  • "if i'm really saved, what keeps me from sinning all i want to?"
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  • That question is flawed in two ways.
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  • First of all, it assumes that your want-tos haven't changed
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  • Since you became a christian.
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  • The fact is if you're really saved, your want-tos
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  • Have changed.
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  • It's not that you don't enjoy any sin, but you don't enjoy it
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  • Quite as much as you once did.
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  • Your desires have changed if you're truly saved.
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  • We saw that in the book of james.
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  • But that question is also flawed in that it assumes that fear of
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  • Losing salvation is necessary to keep us in line.
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  • We need god to dangle that over our head, the possibility that
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  • If we don't behave, we're going to lose our salvation.
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  • But, you know, fear never promotes intimacy in
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  • A relationship.
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  • In fact, it inhibits intimacy.
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  • Just suppose your mate was always threatening to leave
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  • You, always.
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  • Five extra pounds gained, a dirty sock left on the floor, a
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  • Word spoken in anger and he or she was out the door.
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  • How intimate could you be with your mate if you were always
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  • Fearing them?
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  • You'd be walking on eggshells.
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  • It would not be an intimate relationship.
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  • But that's not the kind of relationship we have with god.
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  • Our eternal security, the knowledge that we have been
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  • Saved forever from hell, that doesn't make us want to sin.
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  • It makes us want to obey our father in heaven.
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  • Jesus said it this way in john 10:27-28: "my sheep hear my
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  • Voice, and i know them, and they follow me; and i give eternal
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  • Life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will
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  • Snatch them out of my hand."
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  • We need that reminder that we have been saved by the blood of
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  • Jesus christ from the penalty of sin.
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  • Think about it.
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  • If after trusting in jesus as my savior i still go to hell; yes,
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  • I would lose my soul; but jesus would have lost his good name,
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  • His character, and his reputation; and he's not about
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  • To do that.
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  • He promises we are in the father's hand and nothing or no
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  • One will ever change that.
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  • We need that assurance as we go into battle.
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  • We belong to christ.
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  • We are his.
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  • We have been saved forever from the penalty of sin.
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  • Not only that, but that helmet of salvation reminds us we've
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  • Been saved from the power of sin as well, and this is where so
  • 00:11:03.085 --> 00:11:07.723
  • Many christians get confused.
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  • They hear messages from the evil one that say, "you know what?
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  • In the midst of this temptation, you don't have a prayer, you
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  • Don't have a chance.
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  • You're created in such a way that you have to give in
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  • To sin."
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  • Sometimes that message comes from satan.
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  • Sometimes it comes from well-meaning christians,
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  • Well-meaning but misinformed.
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  • They'll say things like this to you: "now remember, you're
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  • Only human.
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  • You're only human.
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  • You can't be expected to forgive somebody unconditionally,
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  • Regardless of whether they ask for it or not.
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  • You can't be expected to not giving full vent to your anger
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  • And suppressing it.
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  • Well, that could hurt you not to express your vitriol towards
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  • Somebody who's wronged you.
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  • You can't be expected to keep your sex life and change and
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  • Reserve sex only for your mate.
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  • Why, that's unnatural.
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  • You might actually damage a vital organ in your body if you
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  • Repress yourself in that kind of restraint."
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  • Christians actually tell that kind of stuff and believe it.
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  • No, the bible says, we are not slaves to sin.
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  • Yes, it's true, when i come to jesus christ as my savior, jesus
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  • Invites me to come just as i am, but he never intended for me to
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  • Stay just as i was.
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  • Because when we receive god's forgiveness, he gives us the
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  • Power of the holy spirit of god who begins shaping us and
  • 00:12:36.278 --> 00:12:39.815
  • Molding us into a new person.
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  • I love romans 8, verse 2. i've cited it before.
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  • I'd encourage you to read it and memorize it for the heat
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  • Of battle.
  • 00:12:49.825 --> 00:12:51.193
  • Paul said, "and because you belong to him, the power of the
  • 00:12:51.193 --> 00:12:54.663
  • Life-giving spirit has freed you from the power of sin and death
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  • That leads to death."
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  • We have been freed forever from the power of sin.
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  • My friend, bob beale, tells a story about a day he decided
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  • Just for fun to go and work at a circus that was in town.
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  • And so he was working at the circus, and during one of his
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  • Breaks, he went over to where they kept the elephants and he
  • 00:13:16.318 --> 00:13:19.255
  • Noticed these multi-ton animals being held in place by a tiny
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  • Stake in the ground and a flimsy little chain around the
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  • Elephant's ankle.
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  • So he said to the elephant trainer, "how is it you're able
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  • To hold these massive animals in place with such a tiny chain?"
  • 00:13:31.433 --> 00:13:36.238
  • And he said, "well, it's really easy when you remember two
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  • Things about elephants.
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  • First of all, they're not very smart; but secondly, they do
  • 00:13:40.342 --> 00:13:43.979
  • Have great memories.
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  • And when these babies are real baby elephants, little baby
  • 00:13:45.981 --> 00:13:49.084
  • Elephants, only 200 pounds, we tie them down with these stakes.
  • 00:13:49.084 --> 00:13:54.356
  • And they may try a thousand times to break free and they're
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  • Not able to do so, and that's where their memory takes over.
  • 00:13:57.192 --> 00:14:01.363
  • When they grow up and become these giant animals, they still
  • 00:14:01.363 --> 00:14:04.767
  • Remember their experience, their failure to break free and they
  • 00:14:04.767 --> 00:14:08.704
  • Don't even try."
  • 00:14:08.704 --> 00:14:12.041
  • What a picture of so many christians today who used to be
  • 00:14:12.041 --> 00:14:15.844
  • Slaves to sin before they were saved.
  • 00:14:15.844 --> 00:14:18.247
  • They felt like slaves because they were slaves to habits and
  • 00:14:18.247 --> 00:14:21.951
  • Addictions and sin in their life.
  • 00:14:21.951 --> 00:14:24.954
  • But when you're saved, you are freed from that.
  • 00:14:24.954 --> 00:14:28.490
  • The same holy spirit of god who raised jesus from the dead is
  • 00:14:28.490 --> 00:14:32.494
  • Working in your life to give you power over sin.
  • 00:14:32.494 --> 00:14:35.331
  • Sin has no more power over you, christian, than you choose to
  • 00:14:35.331 --> 00:14:39.201
  • Allow it to have.
  • 00:14:39.201 --> 00:14:40.903
  • We need that reminder over and over again, that we have been
  • 00:14:40.903 --> 00:14:44.173
  • Saved not only from the penalty of sin but from the power
  • 00:14:44.173 --> 00:14:47.376
  • Of sin.
  • 00:14:47.376 --> 00:14:48.744
  • How do you put on that helmet of salvation?
  • 00:14:48.744 --> 00:14:52.147
  • One way to do it is through scripture.
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  • When you're tempted to wonder about your salvation, whether
  • 00:14:55.217 --> 00:14:58.087
  • You're really going to heaven or hell, let me encourage you to
  • 00:14:58.087 --> 00:15:00.990
  • Memorize john 10:28.
  • 00:15:00.990 --> 00:15:03.192
  • Be a great assignment for this week.
  • 00:15:03.192 --> 00:15:04.960
  • I know you don't come to church to get homework, but this is
  • 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:07.629
  • Your homework for this week.
  • 00:15:07.629 --> 00:15:09.264
  • Memorize john 10:28.
  • 00:15:09.264 --> 00:15:11.533
  • Jesus said, "i give eternal life to them, and they shall
  • 00:15:11.533 --> 00:15:14.903
  • Never perish.
  • 00:15:14.903 --> 00:15:16.271
  • No man shall snatch out of my hand those whom the father has
  • 00:15:16.271 --> 00:15:19.541
  • Given me."
  • 00:15:19.541 --> 00:15:20.876
  • And then for the reminder that you've been saved from the power
  • 00:15:20.876 --> 00:15:23.345
  • Of sin, write down romans 6:11-13, three verses that will
  • 00:15:23.345 --> 00:15:28.317
  • Change your life if you'll memorize them.
  • 00:15:28.317 --> 00:15:30.686
  • "even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to god
  • 00:15:30.686 --> 00:15:35.858
  • In christ jesus.
  • 00:15:35.858 --> 00:15:37.426
  • Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you
  • 00:15:37.426 --> 00:15:42.564
  • Should obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting yourselves
  • 00:15:42.564 --> 00:15:46.668
  • As members of your body to sin as instruments of
  • 00:15:46.668 --> 00:15:50.039
  • Unrighteousness; but present yourselves to god as those alive
  • 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:55.377
  • From the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness
  • 00:15:55.377 --> 00:15:59.681
  • To god."
  • 00:15:59.681 --> 00:16:01.350
  • Simply put, you can give your body to be slaves of satan or
  • 00:16:01.350 --> 00:16:05.421
  • You can use your same body to be slaves of god.
  • 00:16:05.421 --> 00:16:09.625
  • Put on the helmet of salvation.
  • 00:16:09.625 --> 00:16:12.161
  • The final piece of weaponry that god has provided us with is in
  • 00:16:12.161 --> 00:16:17.499
  • Verse 17 as well, the sword of the spirit.
  • 00:16:17.499 --> 00:16:20.969
  • Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which
  • 00:16:20.969 --> 00:16:24.973
  • Is the word of god.
  • 00:16:24.973 --> 00:16:26.775
  • Now, let me say a word about the roman sword.
  • 00:16:26.775 --> 00:16:29.978
  • There were really two kinds of swords.
  • 00:16:29.978 --> 00:16:32.581
  • There was the roman broadsword.
  • 00:16:32.581 --> 00:16:35.050
  • That's what you would see the soldiers on horseback flailing
  • 00:16:35.050 --> 00:16:38.120
  • Around holding, hoping to hit somebody.
  • 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:40.289
  • That was the broadsword.
  • 00:16:40.289 --> 00:16:42.825
  • But then you had what was called the makhaira.
  • 00:16:42.825 --> 00:16:46.829
  • It was more like a long dagger.
  • 00:16:46.829 --> 00:16:49.665
  • It might be 12 inches, 24 inches.
  • 00:16:49.665 --> 00:16:52.634
  • It's more like a machete.
  • 00:16:52.634 --> 00:16:55.304
  • In fact, doug brady gave me one many years ago.
  • 00:16:55.304 --> 00:16:59.041
  • Still over in my office in the criswell center.
  • 00:16:59.041 --> 00:17:00.943
  • If i'm ever allowed back in there again, i'll get it because
  • 00:17:00.943 --> 00:17:04.313
  • It was very handy for me, that machete, especially at
  • 00:17:04.313 --> 00:17:06.882
  • Deacon's meeting.
  • 00:17:06.882 --> 00:17:08.217
  • And i--man, i miss it so much.
  • 00:17:08.217 --> 00:17:12.955
  • Can't wait to be back over there.
  • 00:17:12.955 --> 00:17:14.923
  • The makhaira, it was very important in
  • 00:17:14.923 --> 00:17:18.026
  • Hand-to-hand combat.
  • 00:17:18.026 --> 00:17:19.394
  • You couldn't flail it around and hit something.
  • 00:17:19.394 --> 00:17:21.163
  • You had to be up close to your enemy, and you had to know
  • 00:17:21.163 --> 00:17:23.932
  • Precisely how to use it for it to be effective.
  • 00:17:23.932 --> 00:17:27.769
  • Well, he says we have a sword.
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  • We have a broadsword.
  • 00:17:30.706 --> 00:17:32.074
  • We have a makhaira, a dagger.
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  • It's called the word of god.
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  • Take the sword of the spirit, which is the word of god.
  • 00:17:37.646 --> 00:17:43.785
  • Now, i'm gonna have to confess something to you.
  • 00:17:43.785 --> 00:17:45.821
  • I was preparing the message this week, and i got to that and i
  • 00:17:45.821 --> 00:17:48.991
  • Thought, "the word of god.
  • 00:17:48.991 --> 00:17:51.894
  • Wait a minute.
  • 00:17:51.894 --> 00:17:53.262
  • Hasn't paul already talked about the word of god?
  • 00:17:53.262 --> 00:17:55.631
  • We talked about the belt of truth and we said the belt of
  • 00:17:55.631 --> 00:17:59.501
  • Truth represents the word of god.
  • 00:17:59.501 --> 00:18:01.637
  • And you take the loose thoughts in your mind like the loose
  • 00:18:01.637 --> 00:18:04.873
  • Places of a tunic and you tuck them in so you don't trip up
  • 00:18:04.873 --> 00:18:08.043
  • Over them.
  • 00:18:08.043 --> 00:18:09.411
  • It was compared to a belt, the word of god.
  • 00:18:09.411 --> 00:18:11.880
  • And now he's talking about the word of god again as a sword.
  • 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:15.784
  • What's the difference?
  • 00:18:15.784 --> 00:18:17.186
  • And how am i going to explain that difference?
  • 00:18:17.186 --> 00:18:19.221
  • And how am i gonna explain what paul is doing here,
  • 00:18:19.221 --> 00:18:22.024
  • Repeating himself?"
  • 00:18:22.024 --> 00:18:23.792
  • And then i thought, "why do i have to explain it?"
  • 00:18:23.792 --> 00:18:27.062
  • He's repeating himself because he's under inspiration of the
  • 00:18:27.062 --> 00:18:30.265
  • Holy spirit, and perhaps he's telling us something
  • 00:18:30.265 --> 00:18:33.535
  • Very important.
  • 00:18:33.535 --> 00:18:34.870
  • By talking about the word of god twice as a weapon, he's saying
  • 00:18:34.870 --> 00:18:39.675
  • To us the word of god is twice as powerful as any other
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  • Instrument god gives you.
  • 00:18:44.313 --> 00:18:46.815
  • He starts with the word of god as the belt of truth.
  • 00:18:46.815 --> 00:18:49.785
  • He finishes with the sword of the spirit.
  • 00:18:49.785 --> 00:18:52.854
  • It's both an offensive and defensive weapon.
  • 00:18:52.854 --> 00:18:56.858
  • We read just a few moments ago from hebrews 4, verse 12: "for
  • 00:18:56.858 --> 00:19:00.729
  • The word of god is living, it's active, it is sharper than any
  • 00:19:00.729 --> 00:19:05.367
  • Two edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of the soul
  • 00:19:05.367 --> 00:19:09.204
  • And the spirit, of both the joints and the marrow, and able
  • 00:19:09.204 --> 00:19:12.274
  • To judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart."
  • 00:19:12.274 --> 00:19:17.713
  • Whether it was the broadsword or the dagger, the machete, the
  • 00:19:17.713 --> 00:19:22.284
  • Makhaira, it was two-edged.
  • 00:19:22.284 --> 00:19:25.554
  • It was sharp on both edges.
  • 00:19:25.554 --> 00:19:27.889
  • And when a soldier would use it, he would use it to, one sweep of
  • 00:19:27.889 --> 00:19:31.360
  • The hand, slice through his opponent, and then he would come
  • 00:19:31.360 --> 00:19:36.064
  • Back the other direction and finish him off.
  • 00:19:36.064 --> 00:19:39.334
  • That's exactly how sharp god's word is, but what i want you to
  • 00:19:39.334 --> 00:19:43.972
  • Hear from me this morning is this.
  • 00:19:43.972 --> 00:19:46.275
  • The effectiveness of the word of god in spiritual warfare is not
  • 00:19:46.275 --> 00:19:52.047
  • In what the word of god does to other people.
  • 00:19:52.047 --> 00:19:55.417
  • It's what it does to you and me.
  • 00:19:55.417 --> 00:19:58.854
  • It's an instrument for us, not to others.
  • 00:19:58.854 --> 00:20:01.590
  • Yes, i know speaking the word of god, god can use that to bring
  • 00:20:01.590 --> 00:20:05.060
  • Conviction to people, but the conviction is to come
  • 00:20:05.060 --> 00:20:08.196
  • To individuals.
  • 00:20:08.196 --> 00:20:09.531
  • The power of the word of god is what it does to us.
  • 00:20:09.531 --> 00:20:14.236
  • Jeffress: the helmet of salvation is a powerful reminder
  • 00:20:18.340 --> 00:20:21.610
  • That you've been saved not only from the penalty of sin but from
  • 00:20:21.610 --> 00:20:25.514
  • The power as well.
  • 00:20:25.514 --> 00:20:27.716
  • Before we close today, though, i wanna share a note from bettye
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  • In tennessee.
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  • She wrote, "i am 88 years old and i'm no longer able to attend
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  • My local church because of severe hearing loss.
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  • I am so thankful for 'pathway to victory' and for the biblical
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  • Resources you provide.
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  • Thank you for caring and for all you do.
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  • You are in my prayers."
  • 00:20:48.437 --> 00:20:50.238
  • Well, bettye, your words mean more to me than you'll
  • 00:20:50.238 --> 00:20:52.774
  • Ever know.
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  • And, friends, it's because of your faithful generosity that
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  • We're able to reach people like bettye with the truth of
  • 00:20:56.845 --> 00:21:00.015
  • God's word.
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  • Now, please stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory" in just a moment.
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  • Announcer: that recurring temptation you can't shake, the
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  • Doubts that creep in during your darkest moments, the tension in
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  • Your closest relationships; these aren't random struggles,
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  • These are part of a strategic attack on your faith, your
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  • Family, and your future.
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  • Jeffress: satan has a personalized plan to discourage,
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  • Deceive, and derail you, but you don't have to live in defeat.
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  • God has given you access to the same power that raised jesus
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  • From the dead.
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  • In my bestselling book "the divine defense," i'll show you
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  • How to put on the full armor of god and use six biblical
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  • Strategies to defeat satan's plan to destroy your life.
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  • Jeffress: your mind is the devil's battlefield on which he
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  • Is warring against everything important to you.
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  • It is a battle that seeks to destroy your faith, your family,
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  • And your future.
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  • Together, we're piercing the darkness with the light of
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  • God's word.
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  • Jeffress: if you've been living under the weight of condemnation
  • 00:22:59.634 --> 00:23:02.337
  • Or feeling powerless against temptation, i hope today's
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  • Message has brought you encouragement.
  • 00:23:06.107 --> 00:23:08.710
  • The helmet of salvation assures you that your eternal destiny is
  • 00:23:08.710 --> 00:23:12.781
  • Secure and that sin no longer has dominion over your life.
  • 00:23:12.781 --> 00:23:18.119
  • Well, next time we're going to examine the sword of the spirit,
  • 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:21.556
  • Which is the word of god.
  • 00:23:21.556 --> 00:23:23.225
  • I'll explain why this weapon must be used with skill and
  • 00:23:23.225 --> 00:23:26.928
  • Precision, and how jesus himself modeled this for us while he was
  • 00:23:26.928 --> 00:23:31.466
  • Tempted in the wilderness.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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  • Series "the divine defense."
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  • Jeffress: we need the right word at the right moment from god,
  • 00:23:39.908 --> 00:23:44.646
  • And that's why when we take up the sword of the spirit, we've
  • 00:23:44.646 --> 00:23:47.916
  • Got to know the scriptures.
  • 00:23:47.916 --> 00:23:49.718
  • We've got to memorize scriptures.
  • 00:23:49.718 --> 00:23:51.286
  • We had--need go-to verses for when we feel forsaken by god,
  • 00:23:51.286 --> 00:23:56.291
  • Verses when we go through a trial, verses when we need to
  • 00:23:56.291 --> 00:23:59.794
  • Remember the promises of god, a verse when we're confused and
  • 00:23:59.794 --> 00:24:03.398
  • Wonder what god's doing in our life.
  • 00:24:03.398 --> 00:24:05.867
  • That's what it means to use the word of god skillfully.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for part two of the
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  • To victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Julianne thompson: hi, dr. jeffress.
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  • Jeffress: hi, julianne.
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  • Julianne thompson: our question today comes from a viewer who is
  • 00:24:30.458 --> 00:24:32.260
  • Seeking biblical guidance on women serving in ministry.
  • 00:24:32.260 --> 00:24:36.031
  • "what are the biblical pros and cons of women in leadership
  • 00:24:36.031 --> 00:24:40.435
  • Roles in the church?"
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  • Jeffress: let's be clear.
  • 00:24:41.870 --> 00:24:43.204
  • There's one and only one thing that women are not allowed to do
  • 00:24:43.204 --> 00:24:46.441
  • In the church, and that's to be a pastor or an elder.
  • 00:24:46.441 --> 00:24:49.744
  • In 1 timothy 3, paul says one of the qualifications for a pastor
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  • Or elder is that he's to be the husband of one wife.
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  • But outside of that one restriction, women are free to
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  • Do anything and everything.
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  • You know, the reason for that restriction is not because women
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  • Are inferior to men.
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  • There are a lot of women who are better speakers than a lot
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  • Of men.
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  • But that's a restriction god has put in place for his reason.
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  • I remember one of my daughters asked me a long time ago when
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  • She was a little girl, "dad, why can't i be a pastor?"
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  • I said, "the same reason i can't have a baby.
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  • God's created us for different roles."
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  • And so that's the one restriction.
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  • Somebody asked the late john macarthur, "what do you say
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  • About a church that has a woman as a pastor?"
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  • And he answered very quickly, "that church has no pastor."
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  • We have to follow the biblical guidelines, but we need to
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  • Recognize that there are all kind of things that women can do
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  • In the church.
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  • And i think, julianne, the mistake we've made in
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  • Conservative churches, it's just harping on the one thing they
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  • Can't do instead of talking about
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  • All the things they can do.
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  • They can be missionaries.
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  • They can lead women's ministries.
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  • They can lead children's ministry.
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  • There are a whole host of things they can do, and the fact is had
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  • It not been for women, christianity would have never
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  • Gotten off the ground.
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  • I mean, look in history.
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  • It was women who carried the news of the resurrection for the
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  • First time.
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  • You had businesswomen like lydia in the book of acts who started
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  • The church at philippi.
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  • Women have been instrumental in the spread of christianity.
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  • So i would just encourage us to start thinking about what women
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  • Can do and encouraging them in their ministry.
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  • At our church, first baptist dallas, a few years ago, i
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  • Recognized there's something we need to legitimately recognize,
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  • Women who have been called to ministry.
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  • We ordain men to become pastors, but at our church, we've started
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  • Commissioning women who have been called into ministry.
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  • We have a commissioning service.
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  • We allow them to share their testimony of their call to
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  • Ministry and then we lay hands on them and pray for them and
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  • Encourage them in their call.
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  • Again, i think we ought to be encouraging women, not
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  • Discouraging them, by talking about all the things they can do
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  • Instead of the one thing they can't do.
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  • Julianne: thank you, dr. jeffress.
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