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Robert Jeffress - Satan's Four Favorite Lies (Part 2)

October 17, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - Satan's Four Favorite Lies (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Satan's Four Favorite Lies (Part 2) | October 17, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with
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  • Dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Satan has been deceiving humanity since the very
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  • Beginning of time.
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  • It began in the garden of eden when he convinced eve to doubt
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  • God's word and disobey god's commands.
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  • And this master deceiver has developed certain lies that are
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  • So effective, he continues to use them against
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  • Every generation.
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  • Today i want to reveal the specific falsehoods that satan
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  • Whispers into our minds to steal our joy, destroy our peace, and
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  • Damage our relationships with god and others.
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  • My message is titled "satan's four favorite lies" on today's
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  • Edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Announcer: do your children and grandchildren know how to guard
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  • Satan's influence.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: when we fall for that lie, god is not giving you what
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  • You need to be happy, we're ready to fall for his next lie,
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  • And it's built around pride.
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  • You're in control of your destiny.
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  • If god can't be depended upon to give us what we need, then we
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  • Better start looking out for number one.
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  • Nobody else is gonna look out for you.
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  • You better look out for yourself.
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  • You must control your destiny and you can control
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  • Your destiny.
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  • That's the essence of pride.
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  • You see that in the garden.
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  • Remember what satan said to eve?
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  • He said, "don't eat from this tree because," verse 5, "god
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  • Knows that in the day you eat from it, your eyes will be
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  • Opened and you will be like god, knowing good and evil."
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  • I want you to see the connection here between discontent and
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  • Pride, which leads to independence and,
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  • Ultimately, fear.
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  • Go back to the very first sin in the universe.
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  • It occurred in heaven when lucifer decided he was no longer
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  • Content with being the second banana.
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  • He wasn't content with having the second chair in the
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  • Heavenly boardroom.
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  • He wasn't content being the chief angel.
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  • He wanted to be the big banana himself.
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  • He wanted to be number one.
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  • He wanted the first chair in the heavenly boardroom.
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  • What is it that led satan to believe he was even capable of
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  • Running the universe?
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  • At the heart of it was pride.
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  • Remember what god said to lucifer before he cast him out
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  • Of heaven?
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  • Ezekiel 28:17, "your heart was lifted up because of your
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  • Beauty; you corrupted your wisdom by reason
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  • Of your splendor."
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  • Now here's the jeffress paraphrase of that verse.
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  • You became intoxicated with your god-given beauty, and you
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  • Allowed your thinking to be messed up by your
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  • God-given gifts.
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  • Psychologists have a term for that: delusional.
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  • Satan forgot he was a creature and thought he was the creator.
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  • And we make the same mistake today.
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  • It's no wonder that lucifer, after he was banished from
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  • Heaven because of his pride, tried to plant the same seeds of
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  • Discontent he felt in eve's heart.
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  • You don't have what you need to be truly happy, but guess
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  • What, eve?
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  • You don't have to settle for what god gives you or doesn't
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  • Give you.
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  • You can be like god himself.
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  • You don't have to be satisfied with being a creature.
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  • You can be like the creator.
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  • And ever since that time you and i have been tempted with the
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  • Idea, the thought that, as one positive-thinking preacher said,
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  • If it's going to be, it's up to me.
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  • I control my destiny.
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  • I'm the one who decides what happens with my life.
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  • You see it everywhere, that spirit of independence.
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  • Discontent, i'm not happy with what god's doing in my life
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  • Leads to what?
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  • Pride and independence from god, and we celebrate
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  • That independence.
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  • How many of you have ever been to a graduation ceremony before
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  • Of any kind?
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  • We've all had to sit through--i mean, we've gotten to experience
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  • The joy with others of those.
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  • Probably somewhere in one of those you heard
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  • The famous words that are often quoted at graduation
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  • Time called, "invictus."
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  • Remember how it goes?
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  • "out of the night that covers me, black from the pit from pole
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  • To pole, i thank whatever gods may be for my
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  • Unconquerable soul.
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  • It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with
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  • Punishments the scroll, i am the master of my fate, i am the
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  • Captain of my soul."
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  • No, no, no, a thousand times no.
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  • We are not the masters of our fate.
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  • We're not the captains of anything.
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  • Psalm 100 and verse 3 says, "for the lord himself is god, it is
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  • He who made us and not we ourselves.
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  • We are his people and we are the sheep of his pasture."
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  • We think we control our destiny.
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  • We think the choices we make are so important, and to an extent
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  • They can be important, but they don't have the final word in
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  • Our destiny.
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  • We're like passengers on an ocean liner on a long journey.
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  • Those passengers think they have all kinds of choices: what to
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  • Eat, what time to eat, go to play shuffleboard or cards or
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  • Take a nap.
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  • They think they can make all of these choices, but at all the
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  • Time they're exercising their free will.
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  • They're in a ship where the captain is determining the
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  • Ultimate destination, and so it is with us.
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  • We have a master of our soul, a captain of our faith, and it is
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  • God himself.
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  • That's what pride is.
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  • The idea i can control my destiny.
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  • And that thought, that belief leads to a third lie that we're
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  • Susceptible to, and that is one that is based in fear.
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  • That is, you are all alone.
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  • Now, here's the great irony of all of this.
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  • We think pride and sovereignty over our choices, we think pride
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  • And independence produces confidence in people.
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  • It gives people great confidence.
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  • It doesn't.
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  • It gives people fear.
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  • People are filled with fear when they are unshackled from the
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  • Truth that there is a god controlling their destiny.
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  • You know why that is?
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  • It's because once somebody decides that there is no god and
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  • He has no power over their lives, then it makes people
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  • Victims of random events or random circumstances in
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  • Their life.
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  • It doesn't take long living on this planet to realize you're
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  • Not in control of your circumstances.
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  • A disloyal mate, a maverick cancer cell, an unexpected
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  • Accident or illness suddenly makes you realize: you're not in
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  • Control of the situation.
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  • That's what happens and that's why people are so filled
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  • With fear.
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  • It doesn't produce confidence in people to think that
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  • Circumstances or other people are free to do to them whatever
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  • They desire to do.
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  • Does that give you any confidence?
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  • No, we need to know there is a god who is bigger than the
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  • Circumstances, bigger than the enemies in our life, but
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  • Independence always produces fear.
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  • I think it's interesting, the very first negative emotion in
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  • The bible isn't jealousy, it's not bitterness, it's not greed,
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  • It's not lust, it's fear.
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  • Did you know that?
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  • The very first negative emotion in the bible is fear.
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  • After adam and eve disobeyed god, they went and hid from god,
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  • And remember god came looking for them, and verse 10, "i heard
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  • The sound of you in the garden, and i was afraid because i was
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  • Naked; so i hid myself."
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  • That's always the result of acting independently from god.
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  • When we act independently from god, when we unshackle ourselves
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  • From the responsibility we have to obey god, we're filled not
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  • With confidence, but with fear.
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  • Are you familiar with the author named michael crichton?
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  • If you don't know his name, you know his books and movies.
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  • He's deceased now, but he was the author of, "jurassic park,"
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  • "the andromeda strain," and i remember years ago he wrote an
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  • Article that i clipped and put in my permanent file because it
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  • Made such an impression upon me.
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  • The article was titled, "let's stop scaring ourselves."
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  • And in that article he listed all the numerous things human
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  • Beings have come up to be scared by and how those things have
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  • Changed through the years.
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  • Listen to some of these fears that have seized control of our
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  • Culture over the last 60 or so years.
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  • In 1975, "newsweek" magazine warned that global temperatures
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  • Were falling and could result in a worldwide famine.
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  • Ten years later, scientists were warning of a rise in global
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  • Temperatures that threatened the survival of our planet.
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  • In the 1960s, we were warned of the dangers of overpopulation,
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  • With one global think tank predicting that by 2030, the
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  • World's population would be 14 billion people.
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  • By the end of the 20th century, fertility rates had fallen to
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  • Half of what they were in the 1950s.
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  • We once were worried that power lines cause cancer.
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  • Remember that?
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  • After $25 billion was spent in relocating power lines or the
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  • People living near them, it was discovered that not only are
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  • Power lines not harmful, but the magnetic fields that they we
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  • Feared to be carcinogenic can actually be helpful in some
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  • Medical treatments.
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  • Killer bees, cancer-inducing deodorants, swine flu epidemics,
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  • Economic collapses, giant asteroids, and the anticipated
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  • Meltdown from y2k are just some of the other manufactured fears
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  • In the last 60 years that have plagued society.
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  • The more we teach people in our schools, teach our children
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  • There is no god, things are simply random, the more fear
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  • That grips our hearts.
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  • If there is no god, all we're left to do is to calculate how
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  • Many different things could go wrong in our lives and on
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  • Our planet.
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  • Now, discontent leads to independence, independence leads
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  • To fear, and fear ultimately leads to bitterness.
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  • And that's the fourth lie satan loves to convince us of, and
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  • That is you have been mistreated by god or by other people.
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  • Satan, he cannot accept the fact that he's the one responsible
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  • For his banishment from heaven.
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  • He wanted to blame somebody else for his predicament, he happened
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  • To blame god.
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  • And his unwillingness to accept blame for his rebellious heart
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  • Not only kept him from salvation and forgiveness, but it also
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  • Sowed the seeds of this cosmic battle that we're all a part of.
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  • Think about it, every problem you have in your life right now
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  • Can be traced back to the spiritual war that began with
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  • Satan's resentment, bitterness toward god.
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  • That's the fruit of bitterness.
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  • It shouldn't be any surprise to us that one of satan's favorite
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  • Mind games is to get us to believe all of our problems are
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  • The result of what other people or what god has done to us,
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  • Whether it's the situation at work we're experiencing, whether
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  • It's our financial struggles, whether it's our marital
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  • Problems, we wanna blame somebody else except instead of
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  • Receiving that blame and receiving god's forgiveness in
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  • Our life.
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  • Look, listen to this, bitterness, bitterness is a
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  • Blindfold that keeps you from receiving god's forgiveness in
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  • Your life and it also keeps you from making the necessary
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  • Changes you need to make for a better life.
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  • It should be no surprise that that's what satan did to eve.
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  • He tried to get her to blame somebody else for the
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  • Predicament she was in.
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  • It's interesting in genesis 3:12, when satan confronts this
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  • First couple, he goes to the man first and says, "adam, what have
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  • You done?"
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  • And remember adam's reply in verse 12, "the woman you gave
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  • Me," she's the one who is responsible.
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  • She gave it to me.
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  • "she gave me from the tree and i ate."
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  • "oh, god, everything was great between you and me.
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  • We were having a wonderful relationship together.
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  • Untainted by sin, and then you came up with this brilliant idea
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  • To create a woman, and now look what has happened."
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  • He blamed the woman.
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  • And so god said, "okay, what do you have to say for
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  • Yourself, eve?"
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  • In verse 13, "what is this thing you have done?
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  • And the woman said, 'that serpent,'" that you created,
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  • "'that serpent, he's the one who deceived me, and i ate.'"
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  • And so the pattern continues.
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  • When we are guilty, we have to shift the guilt somewhere and so
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  • We shift it and transform it into blame.
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  • And that blame, that refusal to acknowledge our responsibility,
  • 00:14:54.717 --> 00:15:00.322
  • Keeps us from receiving god's forgiveness, and it keeps us
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  • From making necessary changes in our life.
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  • Now, let me say quickly.
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  • Obviously, there are times that other people wrong us.
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  • There are other times that people really are to blame for
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  • What has happened in our life.
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  • Have you ever discovered that you can't control what other
  • 00:15:21.076 --> 00:15:24.747
  • People do to you?
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  • One of the most liberating things to realize is you are not
  • 00:15:26.115 --> 00:15:29.351
  • Responsible for what other people do to you.
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  • You can't control what other people do to you, but you can
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  • Control your responses to what other people do.
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  • And when somebody wrongs us, and live more than five minutes on
  • 00:15:39.061 --> 00:15:43.132
  • This planet and somebody's gonna wrong you, you'll
  • 00:15:43.132 --> 00:15:45.534
  • Experience that.
  • 00:15:45.534 --> 00:15:46.902
  • When people wrong you, you've got one of two choices.
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  • You can either hold on to, you can grip that offense.
  • 00:15:49.972 --> 00:15:54.576
  • You can turn it over and over in your mind and relive that hurt
  • 00:15:54.576 --> 00:15:57.780
  • Over and over again until that bitterness becomes a tumor, a
  • 00:15:57.780 --> 00:16:03.018
  • Spiritual tumor, and destroys everything good in your life and
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  • In the life of those around you.
  • 00:16:06.855 --> 00:16:08.690
  • You can hold on to that bitterness or you can choose to
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  • Release, let go of that bitterness.
  • 00:16:12.728 --> 00:16:15.164
  • I'm not talking about rationalizing what the other
  • 00:16:15.164 --> 00:16:17.699
  • Person did or denying what they did.
  • 00:16:17.699 --> 00:16:20.869
  • To forgive, though, means literally to let go.
  • 00:16:20.869 --> 00:16:24.306
  • When you forgive, you let go of your right to hurt that person
  • 00:16:24.306 --> 00:16:28.811
  • For hurting you.
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  • When you forgive, you're basically saying, god, you take
  • 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.649
  • This person and you settle the score.
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  • You do what's right, but i wanna be free to get on with my life.
  • 00:16:36.618 --> 00:16:42.057
  • That's what satan never wants you to do.
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  • He wants you to hold on to that bitterness, turn that offense
  • 00:16:44.560 --> 00:16:49.331
  • Over and over again in your mind.
  • 00:16:49.331 --> 00:16:51.800
  • Demand your pound of flesh from that other person who has
  • 00:16:51.800 --> 00:16:54.937
  • Wronged you, because satan knows as long as he can keep you
  • 00:16:54.937 --> 00:16:58.474
  • Gripping your bitterness, you will never be free to serve god.
  • 00:16:58.474 --> 00:17:03.812
  • You know, i remember reading one time an interesting article
  • 00:17:03.812 --> 00:17:06.915
  • About how africans caught wild monkeys.
  • 00:17:06.915 --> 00:17:10.853
  • You know how they do it?
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  • They take a coconut and they clean it out and it's a hollowed
  • 00:17:12.187 --> 00:17:17.292
  • Out coconut in which they place peanuts, and when the wild
  • 00:17:17.292 --> 00:17:21.396
  • Monkeys come, they sniff those peanuts and they stick their
  • 00:17:21.396 --> 00:17:25.400
  • Hand in the opening of that coconut and they grab hold of
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  • Those peanuts.
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  • But a strange thing, once they grab hold, they've created a
  • 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:33.976
  • Fist that keeps them from being able to extricate their hand
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  • From the coconut.
  • 00:17:38.280 --> 00:17:39.615
  • They're caught.
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  • And what is their response?
  • 00:17:40.949 --> 00:17:42.951
  • They just hold on to those peanuts tighter and tighter
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  • And tighter.
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  • You say, "what stupid monkeys.
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  • I'm glad i'm not as stupid as those monkeys are."
  • 00:17:49.858 --> 00:17:55.364
  • Don't say that because you and i do the same thing.
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  • When somebody wrongs us, what do we wanna do?
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  • We wanna hold on to them.
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  • We wanna hold on to that offense.
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  • We wanna remember every painful emotion we had and we wanna
  • 00:18:07.609 --> 00:18:12.314
  • Visualize what it's gonna be like to get even with that
  • 00:18:12.314 --> 00:18:15.384
  • Person and we hold on and on and on and grip that person in
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  • Their offense.
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  • And all the time we don't realize we're
  • 00:18:21.657 --> 00:18:24.126
  • Enslaving ourselves.
  • 00:18:24.126 --> 00:18:26.228
  • The only way to experience freedom is by letting go.
  • 00:18:26.228 --> 00:18:33.035
  • Letting go.
  • 00:18:33.035 --> 00:18:34.770
  • How do i do that?
  • 00:18:34.770 --> 00:18:36.905
  • How do i defeat the lies of satan that comes into my mind?
  • 00:18:36.905 --> 00:18:42.077
  • God hasn't given me what i really need to be happy.
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  • I'm gonna control the destiny of my life.
  • 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:49.818
  • I'm fearful because i'm all alone in the world.
  • 00:18:49.818 --> 00:18:53.789
  • I'm bitter because i think god has forsaken me and mistreated
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  • Me or others have mistreated me.
  • 00:18:58.560 --> 00:19:00.996
  • I'm bitter and unforgiving.
  • 00:19:00.996 --> 00:19:03.131
  • How do i conquer those lies?
  • 00:19:03.131 --> 00:19:07.035
  • Well, ephesians 6 holds the answer because in ephesians 6,
  • 00:19:07.035 --> 00:19:12.274
  • God gives us the resources for the spiritual war that we're
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  • All fighting.
  • 00:19:16.812 --> 00:19:18.180
  • And of the six strategies, paul calls them weapons that god has
  • 00:19:18.180 --> 00:19:22.684
  • Given us.
  • 00:19:22.684 --> 00:19:24.019
  • The very first one deals with the mind.
  • 00:19:24.019 --> 00:19:28.056
  • Replacing satan's thoughts with god's thoughts.
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  • Paul calls it putting on the belt of truth.
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  • And next time, we're gonna look at how to do just that.
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  • Jeffress: satan's lies are masterfully crafted to trap us
  • 00:19:46.875 --> 00:19:50.746
  • In cycles of discontent, pride, fear, and bitterness.
  • 00:19:50.746 --> 00:19:56.018
  • The key is learning to identify these deceptions so we can
  • 00:19:56.018 --> 00:19:59.621
  • Reject them and cling to god's truth instead.
  • 00:19:59.621 --> 00:20:03.525
  • Now, as we close today's program, i wanna share a
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  • Powerful testimony from ken in louisiana.
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  • Ken wrote, "i really wanna thank you for the way you present the
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  • Bible in your weekly sermons.
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  • No nonsense and straight to the point.
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  • I believe this is exactly what jesus christ would have wanted.
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  • I enjoy pathway magazine and read it daily."
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  • Light of god's word.
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  • Jeffress: laura, thank you for that question.
  • 00:22:36.711 --> 00:22:38.380
  • It's one we're receiving more and more frequently here at
  • 00:22:38.380 --> 00:22:41.116
  • "pathway to victory."
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  • You know, the apostle john said, "i have no greater joy than
  • 00:22:42.617 --> 00:22:46.121
  • This, than to know that my children walk in the truth."
  • 00:22:46.121 --> 00:22:50.659
  • Conversely, the greatest pain we parents have is when we see our
  • 00:22:50.659 --> 00:22:54.796
  • Children not walking in the truth, and especially when
  • 00:22:54.796 --> 00:22:58.733
  • They're overcome with gender confusion or
  • 00:22:58.733 --> 00:23:02.571
  • Homosexual relationships.
  • 00:23:02.571 --> 00:23:05.507
  • What do we say to a child who's living a lifestyle that is
  • 00:23:05.507 --> 00:23:09.678
  • Contrary to what scripture says?
  • 00:23:09.678 --> 00:23:12.247
  • As parents, we have the obligation to speak the truth
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  • But to speak it in love.
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  • We should never hesitate in affirming what the bible says
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  • About sin, but at the same time i think it is very important
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  • That we do everything we can to keep that bridge of
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  • Communication open with our children.
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  • I don't believe what some parents believe, that we need to
  • 00:23:33.034 --> 00:23:36.438
  • Turn our back on our children until they repent.
  • 00:23:36.438 --> 00:23:39.741
  • I don't find that anywhere in scripture.
  • 00:23:39.741 --> 00:23:42.143
  • Now, i'm not saying if you have gay children that if they,
  • 00:23:42.143 --> 00:23:45.814
  • Quote, "get married," you need to attend the ceremony.
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  • I would never do that.
  • 00:23:48.917 --> 00:23:50.285
  • That's condoning something god has condemned, but it doesn't
  • 00:23:50.285 --> 00:23:54.723
  • Mean you cease relationship with your children.
  • 00:23:54.723 --> 00:23:57.759
  • You continue to pray for them, to make them know your door is
  • 00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:01.429
  • Always open to talk with them and help them.
  • 00:24:01.429 --> 00:24:04.766
  • You know, one of the greatest illustrations of that is in the
  • 00:24:04.766 --> 00:24:07.736
  • Story of the prodigal son.
  • 00:24:07.736 --> 00:24:09.604
  • You remember the son said basically to his father, "i wish
  • 00:24:09.604 --> 00:24:13.275
  • You were dead, but since you're not dead yet, i want my portion
  • 00:24:13.275 --> 00:24:16.378
  • Of the estate," and he got his money and went to the
  • 00:24:16.378 --> 00:24:19.381
  • Far country.
  • 00:24:19.381 --> 00:24:20.715
  • And the bible says when he hit a low point, that son said, "you
  • 00:24:20.715 --> 00:24:24.252
  • Know, my father's servants have more than i have.
  • 00:24:24.252 --> 00:24:27.289
  • I shall get up and go back to my father."
  • 00:24:27.289 --> 00:24:30.158
  • And the bible says when the father looked out on the horizon
  • 00:24:30.158 --> 00:24:33.728
  • And he saw his son walking toward him, the father ran to
  • 00:24:33.728 --> 00:24:38.500
  • Embrace his son.
  • 00:24:38.500 --> 00:24:40.268
  • He hugged him and he kissed him, and the son began that speech,
  • 00:24:40.268 --> 00:24:43.972
  • "father, i've been wrong and," and he cut him off.
  • 00:24:43.972 --> 00:24:47.242
  • He didn't need to hear any more speeches.
  • 00:24:47.242 --> 00:24:49.578
  • His son was home and that's all he needed to know.
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  • You know, i've often wondered how is it that that father just
  • 00:24:53.148 --> 00:24:56.751
  • Happened to be on the front porch looking out when his son
  • 00:24:56.751 --> 00:25:01.122
  • Appeared on the horizon?
  • 00:25:01.122 --> 00:25:02.891
  • I don't think that was an accident.
  • 00:25:02.891 --> 00:25:04.926
  • I think the father sat on that front porch every day starting
  • 00:25:04.926 --> 00:25:09.230
  • Early in the morning waiting till late at night looking for
  • 00:25:09.230 --> 00:25:12.634
  • Some sign of his son's return, hoping this may be the day,
  • 00:25:12.634 --> 00:25:18.373
  • Perhaps this is the day my son will return.
  • 00:25:18.373 --> 00:25:21.910
  • And i think that ought to be our attitude toward our children who
  • 00:25:21.910 --> 00:25:24.980
  • Are living apart from god.
  • 00:25:24.980 --> 00:25:26.982
  • We keep looking, we keep hoping, we keep praying for the return.
  • 00:25:26.982 --> 00:25:31.620
  • And when they do return, we rejoice in it.
  • 00:25:31.620 --> 00:25:34.889
  • So my best advice to you, laura, is don't give up hope don't give
  • 00:25:34.889 --> 00:25:39.094
  • Up praying and always keep the communication lines open with
  • 00:25:39.094 --> 00:25:43.264
  • Your child because very possibly that day will come when
  • 00:25:43.264 --> 00:25:47.435
  • They return.
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  • Jeffress: satan's four favorite lies all work together to
  • 00:25:50.105 --> 00:25:53.308
  • Destroy our relationship with god, but god's truth sets us
  • 00:25:53.308 --> 00:25:57.846
  • Free from every one of these deceptions.
  • 00:25:57.846 --> 00:26:00.982
  • Well, messages about the end times often focus on war,
  • 00:26:00.982 --> 00:26:05.186
  • Famine, and economic turmoil rather than on the one who is
  • 00:26:05.186 --> 00:26:08.990
  • Revealed in those events.
  • 00:26:08.990 --> 00:26:10.959
  • So next time i wanna share why prophecies about the last days
  • 00:26:10.959 --> 00:26:15.063
  • Should fill us with amazement for our great god and hope in
  • 00:26:15.063 --> 00:26:19.868
  • The return of our savior jesus christ.
  • 00:26:19.868 --> 00:26:23.138
  • Stay tuned for a preview of our upcoming series "jesus revealed
  • 00:26:23.138 --> 00:26:27.776
  • In the end times."
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  • Jeffress: when you understand who jesus will be when he comes
  • 00:26:30.078 --> 00:26:33.114
  • In the end, that is the answer to the most basic questions we
  • 00:26:33.114 --> 00:26:38.353
  • Have in life.
  • 00:26:38.353 --> 00:26:39.688
  • Questions like, what is my purpose?
  • 00:26:39.688 --> 00:26:42.724
  • How can i have a relationship with god?
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  • And what does the future hold for me?
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  • "jesus: the subject of prophecy" here on "pathway to victory."
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  • Wilderness on the 2026 pathway to victory cruise to alaska.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: make plans to set sail for an unforgettable week
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  • Of adventure, june 13 through 20, 2026.
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