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Robert Jeffress - The Purpose Driven Strife

October 5, 2025 | 29:0

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Purpose Driven Strife | October 5, 2025

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From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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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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Most of us go through life unaware
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That we're caught in the middle of an epic spiritual battle.
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We wonder why we face constant struggles, temptations,
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And conflicts, never realizing there's an invisible war
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Raging around us.
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Today, i want to pull back the curtain
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And reveal the true nature of this cosmic conflict
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Between the kingdom of god and the kingdom of satan.
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My message is titled, the purpose-driven strife
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ in total praise to you ♪
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♪ amen ♪
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It was the legendary film director alfred hitchcock,
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Who said, "there are no small parts, only small actors."
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I tried to remind myself of that truth
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When i was getting ready to make my one
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And only appearance on the legendary television program
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"dallas," nearly 40 years ago,
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I'd seen an ad in the newspaper calling for people
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Who would like to be extras
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To send their pictures in.
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And so on a lark, i decided to send my picture in.
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A few weeks later,
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Got a call from the casting director saying i needed
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To be at a local hotel here in dallas
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Where they were going to film a scene.
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And so i was excited.
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Got up the next morning and got to the set of the hotel
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And i was immediately confronted with the difference
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Between actors and extras.
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(congregation laughs)
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Actors get their own trailer to change in.
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Extras were told to go to the lobby bathroom and change in.
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But i wanted to let that slight deter my enthusiasm.
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I appeared in the restaurant we were filming at
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And the assistant director explained that me
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And another extra we're going to play businessmen
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Who were pretending
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To have a conversation at a table deep in the background
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While the two main characters, cliff barnes
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And bobby ewing sat at the bar
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Having a few lines of dialogue.
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And that's a second difference between actors and extras.
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Actors actually get to speak their lines.
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Extras have to mouth it so he is not to distract.
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Well, the time came, the director said,
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"quiet on the set.
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Action."
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We did our pretend dialogue for a few seconds.
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The director yelled, "cut, print, moving on."
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The assistant director came up
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And said, thank you very much.
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Your $35 check is in the mail.
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And just a brief moment, it was all over.
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But for that brief moment, i had been part
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Of a legendary conflict between two families,
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The barnes family and the ewing family.
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It was actually of conflict
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That had begun many years earlier on the show
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And it would continue for many years
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After my scene, i was just a brief part of it
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And i thought, what a great metaphor for life that is.
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You know, whether we realize it or not,
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You and i are part of a conflict between two major
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But hardly equal forces, the kingdom of god,
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And the kingdom of satan.
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It's a conflict that began years before you were born
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And it will continue on for years after you die,
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But all of us as a part of that conflict are called
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To appear on stage for a very brief amount of time.
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70, maybe 80 years.
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We play our part and then it's gone.
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But unlike the television series "dallas," this conflict
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You and i are involved in is real, not imaginary.
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It's a conflict that is being played out
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On the front headlines of every newspaper in the world,
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And it's being played out in the human recesses
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Of every heart.
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Whether or not you know it, you're in a part
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Of this conflict.
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Let me ask you a quick true false question.
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Satan is the opposite of god, true or false.
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A mixed opinion in the congregation.
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The answer is false.
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Satan is not the opposite of god.
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Sadly, many people think he is.
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They see satan as god's evil twin.
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They see this conflict we call spiritual warfare as a battle
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Between two equally potent individuals
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Who are playing a kind of tug
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Of war while we sit on the sidelines hoping the best person
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Is going to win.
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Nothing could be further from the truth.
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First of all, god is eternal.
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In psalm 90:2 moses wrote,
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"from everlasting to everlasting, thou art god."
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Satan is not an eternal being.
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He was created in a moment in time
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As we'll see in just a few moments.
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In fact, look at ezekiel 28, beginning with verse 12.
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"you had the seal of perfection,
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Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty."
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Was the king of tyre a perfect being?
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No, far from it.
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He goes on, "you were in eden, the garden of god."
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When was the king of tyre ever in the garden of eden?
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That doesn't apply.
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Verse 14, "you were the anointed cherub who covers
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And i placed you there."
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Cherub.
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Is there any hint that the king of tyre was an angel?
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I don't think so.
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Verse 15, "you were blameless in your ways from the day
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You were created until unrighteousness was found in you."
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The king of tyre was hardly a blameless person.
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Verse 17, "your heart was lifted up because of your beauty.
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You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor,
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And i cast you to the ground.
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I put you before kings that they may see you."
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The important thing to note about lucifer
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Is that he was a created being.
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And as we read ezekiel 28,
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We find actually four characteristics of satan
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That help us understand our enemy.
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First of all, write it down.
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Satan was a created being.
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Twice in this passage, god refers to him
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As being created.
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In verse 13,
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"on the day that you were created, they were prepared."
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Verse 15, "you were blameless from the day you were created
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Until unrighteousness was found in you."
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Why does god keep hammering that home?
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He's reminding satan that he is the creature,
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Not the creator.
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And we need to remember that about satan as well.
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He is not the opposite of god.
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God is omniscient, all-knowing.
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Satan is not.
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God is omnipotent.
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He's all powerful.
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Satan is not all powerful.
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God is omnipresent.
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He can be more than one place at a time.
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Satan is not omnipresent.
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Satan was a created being.
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Secondly, satan held an impressive office in god's kingdom.
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Look at verse 14.
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You were the anointed cherub who covers
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And i placed you there.
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Now, what does he mean?
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You were a cherub.
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He doesn't mean satan had pink, plump cheeks.
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That's not what he's talking about.
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The word cherub refers to a class of angels.
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The cherubim.
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Cherubim is plural of cherub.
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The cherubim were a class of angels that were tasked
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With guarding the holiness of god.
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Lucifer was the chief of the cherubim.
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He guarded the access to god.
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In today's terminology, we would say he was the gatekeeper.
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He was the one who decided
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Who was welcomed into god's presence.
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He had unparalleled access to god.
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Thirdly, satan possessed incomparable wisdom and beauty.
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Look at verse 17.
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"your heart was lifted up because of your beauty.
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You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor."
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Satan was and is a very attractive being.
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When he was cast out of heaven,
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He didn't give up his attributes.
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He was still a beautiful creature.
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How do you think he enticed eve if he had been the ugly,
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Hideous dragon figure that we picture him to be/
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Eve wouldn't have wanted to follow him at all,
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But he appeared in a very beautiful way.
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Satan is extremely beautiful.
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He's also very wise,
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At least from a worldly standpoint.
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"you corrupted your wisdom."
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He's very crafty as god said in genesis 3
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Talking about satan.
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Now, think about it.
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He's an enemy who is very appealing.
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He's very crafty.
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That is what makes him very dangerous.
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Satan possessed incomparable wisdom and beauty.
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And that leads to the fourth characteristic of satan.
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Satan's pride is what led to his downfall.
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His pride is what led to his downfall.
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Look at verses 16 and 17.
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"by the abundance of your trade, you were internally filled
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With violence and you sinned.
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Therefore, i have cast you as profane
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From the mountain of god and i've destroyed you,
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O covering cherub from the midst of the stones of fire.
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Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty.
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You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor.
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I cast you to the ground.
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I put you before the kings that they may see you."
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Here were satan's major problem.
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He forgot he was just a creature.
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He thought he was the creator and he allowed his beauty
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And his wisdom, both gifts from god
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To metastasize in his heart
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And become a pride that led to his rebellion.
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Satan's pride led to his downfall.
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That's his origin, the origin of satan.
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But when we turn to another passage, isaiah 14,
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We find a blow by blow description
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Of satan's rebellion against god.
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Now, remember i said ezekiel 28 was written to a human king,
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The king of tyre, but then it's addressed to the power
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Behind the king of tyre.
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So is isaiah 14.
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It's written to a different king,
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But a human king, the king of babylon
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Whose ambition was unbridled.
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He thought he had no need for god whatsoever.
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And so isaiah writes this prophecy to him,
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The king of babylon.
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But when we get to verse 12, it's clear
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That once again, god is addressing not the human king,
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But the power, the individual behind him.
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Look at verse 12 of isaiah 14,
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"how you have fallen from heaven, o star of the morning."
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There's the word lucifer,
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"o, star of the morning, son of the dawn,
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For you have been cut down to earth,
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You who have weakened the nations.
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But you said in your heart," will you underline
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That phrase, "in your heart."
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This is a conversation satan had with himself.
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"for you said in your heart."
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Now, i want you to underline every time
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You find the words, "i will."
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Here's what satan said in his conversation with himself.
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"self, i will ascend to heaven.
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I will raise my throne above the stars of god
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And i will sit on the mount of the assembly
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And the resources of the north.
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I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,"
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And there it is again.
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"i will make myself like the most high."
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Did you get that?
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I will, i will, i will, i will,
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I will.
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We're not told how it is that in a perfect world,
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In a perfect heaven, sin entered in to satan's heart.
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We're not told that theologians call it
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The mystery of iniquity.
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We don't know the cause of it, but we know the root of it.
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The root of all sin beginning that afternoon,
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Continuing to every sin
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You and i commit today is the false belief
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That there's another way that's better than god's way.
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Imagine what you would like to achieve in life,
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The kind of house you'd like to live in,
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The kind of car you'd like to drive,
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The kind of mate you'd like to have.
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Whatever the mind can conceive
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And believe, it can achieve.
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That's a dangerous question for a child of god.
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The real question ought to be not what do i desire,
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But what does god desire in my life?
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Now i sometimes, hopefully, those can be the same things.
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Many times, god gives us direction
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Through the desires he places in our heart.
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Psalm 37:4 says, "delight yourself in the lord,"
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And he will give you what?
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The desire of your hearts.
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Sometimes god's desire is my desire if i'm walking
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In fellowship with him,
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But sometimes there's a difference between what i want
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And what god wants.
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And remember, just as the tempter whispered into the ears
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Of the king of tyre
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And the king of babylon, he whispers into our ear.
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And that is the lie,
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That there's a better way than god's way.
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We've talked about the origin of our enemies, satan,
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The fall of satan.
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Now, let's look at the revenge of satan.
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As a result of satan's misguided visionary,
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Dreaming about the future, god cast him
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And a group of renegade angels who agreed,
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We're tired of living under the tyranny of this god.
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He cast them out of heaven.
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What must that have been like?
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You know, i tried to imagine
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What that rebellion must have been like,
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And i thought about the movie jerry mcguire.
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Now don't write me any letters.
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I'm not recommending the movie jerry mcguire,
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But for those of you who saw the movie,
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You know it's about a sports agent played by tom cruise,
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Who's very successful, works
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For the biggest sports agency in the country,
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And he gets the idea one day
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That he'll start his own rival company.
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And that he'll do so based on a manifesto
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That he's written up.
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And so there's that climactic movie
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In the moment in the movie when he says
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To all of his fellow workers what his dream is.
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And he says, "now, who will come
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And join me in starting this new company?"
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And nobody responds except one mousey secretary
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And her pet goldfish.
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And they walk out of the building together,
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Just the two of them.
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And she says to jerry mcguire,
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"you are going to provide health benefits, aren't you?"
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I mean, in an instant, she realized what she had given up.
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I think about the scene in heaven.
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When satan led the rebellion,
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He actually did better than jerry mcguire.
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He didn't just have one,
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But he had a multitude of angels who decided to join
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With him in the rebellion.
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Now, we don't know how many.
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Some of you said, "oh, preacher,
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Don't you know your bible?
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It was a third of the angels who followed him."
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Maybe, maybe not.
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We'll see in a few weeks.
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Revelation 12 is the key verse,
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And it's how you interpret that.
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But a large number of angels did choose to follow him.
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They were cast out of heaven, they landed on earth.
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And i imagine those angels who now became demons,
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That's where demons came from.
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The fallen angels.
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I imagine they said to satan in effect,
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"what's next, einstein?
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You got us thrown out of this beautiful heaven
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And now we're on this earth.
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What's next?"
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And so he had to rally the troops.
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And so he continued his speech to the demons by saying,
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"we will still overcome.
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We will build a kingdom better than god's,
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Larger than god's.
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We will rule the universe."
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He said, "did satan really believe that?"
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Never forget, the power of self-delusion is limitless.
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He doesn't really believe god's going to carry out
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What he's promised to do.
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In the same way, many of us don't really believe it.
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Oh, we say we believe there's a god.
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We say we believe that the only way to heaven
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Is by faith in jesus christ.
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We say we believe that one day as christians,
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We're going to stand before the judgment seat of christ
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And give an evaluation of our life
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And experience god's rewards or lack of rewards.
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We say one day, we believe the kingdom
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Of god will prevail forever and ever.
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We believe it to an extent,
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But if we really believed it,
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Wouldn't we live differently than we live right now?
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That was satan.
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He kind of believed, but he really didn't believe.
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And satan's desperation
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To rebuild his former kingdom, coupled
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With his doubt about god's ability to reclaim
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What was lost through sin have caused satan
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To launch a full scale attack on the kingdom of god
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And every one of us who is a part of that kingdom.
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That kingdom of satan is built on the lie.
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That life apart from god is both possible and preferable.
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He believes that one day, he's going to be able
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To overtake the kingdom of god.
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And so right now, he is launching an attack on god's kingdom
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And every one of us who is a part of it.
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It's an assault
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That's being played out in three distinct rounds.
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And next week we're going to look at those three rounds
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Of attack and discover satan's blueprint
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For your destruction.
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Understanding our enemy's origin
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In the spiritual battle we face.
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Satan is not god's equal.
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He's merely a created being whose pride led to his defeat.
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As together, we pierce the darkness
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With the light of god's word.
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Satan's deception worked in the garden of eden,
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And he's still using the same lie today,
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That there's a better way than god's way.
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And while satan may be incredibly crafty, appealing
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And dangerous, remember, he's already been defeated
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At the cross.
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Christ's death and resurrection proved
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That satan's demise is certain.
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Well, satan has two primary objectives
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In his desperate assault against god's kingdom.
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He wants to blind unbelievers to salvation,
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And he also wants to rob believers
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Of their spiritual benefits from salvation.
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Next time, we'll uncover his specific strategy
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For accomplishing both goals.
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And so today, we're going to look at
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How satan is assaulting the kingdom of god.
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And by the way, you're a part of the kingdom of god.
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If you're a christian, i'm a part of it.
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If satan is going to attack god's kingdom,
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That means he's going to attack us.
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And that attack against the kingdom of god
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Is being fought out in three distinct rounds.
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And we're going to look at those three rounds briefly today.
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Robert Jeffress - The Purpose Driven Strife

October 5, 2025 | 29:0

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