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Robert Jeffress - Storming The Gates of Hell (Part 1)

March 17, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - Storming The Gates of Hell (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Storming The Gates of Hell (Part 1) | March 17, 2026
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  • Jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress and welcome again to
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  • "pathway to victory."
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  • As christians, we often find ourselves in a defensive
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  • Posture, simply trying to survive the attacks that come
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  • Our way.
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  • But what if god is calling us to do more than just hold
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  • Our ground?
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  • What if he's actually inviting us to go on the offensive and
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  • Join him in advancing his kingdom?
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  • Today, we're going to look at what it means to move forward in
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  • Our faith, even when the enemy is firing everything he's got in
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  • Our direction.
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  • My message is titled "storming the gates of hell" on today's
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  • Edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: whether you know it or not, you're in a battle.
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  • Satan has a strategy to attack your faith, disrupt your family,
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  • And derail your future.
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  • But god has given you everything you need to fight back and win.
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  • In "the divine defense," dr. 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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  • Jeffress: one of the truisms of football is that the best
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  • Defense is a good offense.
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  • That same truth applies to the military as well.
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  • You know, when a soldier hears the bullets buzzing over his
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  • Head or the bombs bursting around him, his natural instinct
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  • Is to drop to the ground, protect himself, and that's a
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  • Good thing.
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  • But if the soldier is going to actually be successful in his
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  • Mission, there comes a time he has to stand up, shake off the
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  • Dust, and actually move forward to the goal.
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  • Surviving is not enough, and it's the same in
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  • Spiritual warfare.
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  • Yes, we've talked about the fact that satan has a plan to destroy
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  • Our life.
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  • We need to know how to survive those attacks, but god has
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  • Called us to do more than survive.
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  • He is actually inviting you and me to join him in overthrowing
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  • The kingdom of satan.
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  • Do you realize that as christians, we are the first
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  • Wave god has sent to soften up the soil, if you will, to
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  • Prepare it for the final invasion by jesus christ, our
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  • Commander in chief?
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  • We're just softening up the territory right now, getting it
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  • Ready for that final invasion.
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  • I mean, think about it.
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  • Every time you win somebody the faith in christ, you're
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  • Delivering them away from the enemy's power into god's army.
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  • And when you win somebody to faith in christ, you just loosen
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  • Up by a little bit more the grip satan has on this world.
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  • When you give god glory for something he's done in your
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  • Life, you help dispel the enemy's myth that there is
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  • No god.
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  • When you encourage another christian who's going through a
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  • Difficult time, you're strengthening the troops in
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  • Order that they might serve god.
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  • Every time you refuse to surrender any area of your life
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  • To satan, you throw satan into chaos and thwart his plan to
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  • Destroy your life.
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  • Again, god has called us to do more than survive
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  • Satan's attacks.
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  • He's told us to overthrow the kingdom of satan, to join him in
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  • Doing that.
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  • And that's what i mean by what i call offensive christianity
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  • Instead of defensive christianity.
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  • You say, "well this idea of overthrowing the kingdom of
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  • Satan, that sounds a little extreme.
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  • Where in the bible are we called to do that?"
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  • I'm so glad you ask.
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  • Matthew chapter 16.
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  • Remember jesus asked his disciples, "who are people
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  • Saying that i am?"
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  • And they gave various answers, and then peter said, "you are
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  • The christ, the son of the living god."
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  • And what did jesus say in matthew 16:18?
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  • He responded, "i say to you, peter, that you are peter, and
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  • Upon this rock i will build my church."
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  • The word rock there, the gender doesn't refer to peter.
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  • He's not the rock of the church.
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  • Petras, it refers to the confession that peter made, the
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  • Truth, that you are the christ, the son of the living god.
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  • It's upon that foundation, jesus said, "i will build my church."
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  • And get this, "and the gates of hades will not overpower it."
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  • We have recited that verse for so long that we've never looked
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  • At what it's really saying.
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  • We get this idea when we think about the gates shall not
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  • Prevail against it.
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  • We picture that it's the church and its members that are behind
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  • The gates, shivering with nervousness and fear that satan
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  • And his demons with their battering ram are going
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  • To prevail.
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  • They're gonna knock down the gate and take us captive.
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  • That's not who's behind the gate.
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  • It's not the church.
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  • It's satan and his demons.
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  • The gates of hell will not prevail against the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • Satan and his demons are scared to death that you and i will
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  • Actually act on what we believe to be true.
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  • They're scared of the church, but the church, jesus said, is
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  • To be on the offensive.
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  • We're the battering ram against the kingdom of satan.
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  • "upon this rock i will build my church, and the gates of hades
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  • Will not overpower it."
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  • And that leads to the definition of offensive christianity.
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  • You know what it means to be offensive in your faith?
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  • It means moving forward instead of standing still or retreating
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  • In god's plan for your life.
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  • Moving forward instead of standing still or retreating.
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  • You know, the fact is when you are moving forward in god's plan
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  • For your life, guess who's moving backwards?
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  • More you go forward, the more satan is the one who is forced
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  • To retreat.
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  • That's why the bible often uses the imagery of walking to
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  • Describe what the christian life is like.
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  • It's a walk.
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  • Sometimes, if the biblical writer's feeling especially
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  • Invigorated, he talks about running, but it's all the same
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  • Idea, moving forward in the plan god has for you.
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  • Just jot down some of these references comparing the
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  • Christian life to walking.
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  • Colossians 1:10, "so that you may walk in a manner worthy of
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  • The calling, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in
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  • Every good work and increasing in the knowledge of god."
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  • Or ephesians 1, paul said, "therefore, i, the prisoner of
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  • The lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling
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  • With which you have been called."
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  • Or 1 thessalonians 2:12, "so that you would walk in a manner
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  • Worthy of the god who calls you into his own kingdom and glory."
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  • Again, the goal is to walk, to move forward instead of standing
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  • Still or retreating.
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  • The writer neil anderson gives a great picture, an illustration
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  • Of this.
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  • He said, "imagine a long, narrow road.
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  • And at the end of that road, you can look, and at the end of that
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  • Road is jesus christ, the author and finisher of your faith.
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  • You're standing here...
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  • All you have to do is move down that road to finally be in the
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  • Presence of jesus.
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  • That road represents the unique path, the course jesus has for
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  • Your life."
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  • Now, what's interesting is there are no barriers in that road
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  • That keep you from coming to christ.
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  • But there's--on opposite sides of that road, there are some
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  • Apartment buildings, multi-story apartment buildings that are
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  • Inhabited by demons.
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  • And as you walk down this road toward the lord jesus christ,
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  • The demons are doing everything they can to keep you from
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  • Moving forward.
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  • They're trying to discourage you.
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  • They're saying, "you don't have the strength, you don't have the
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  • Ability to continue down that course.
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  • You're not gonna make it."
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  • Other demons try to entice you to leave the road, to come up
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  • And enjoy what they have to offer.
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  • Still other demons try to confuse you when you're on that
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  • Road, making you wonder, "am i on the right road or should i be
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  • On a different road?"
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  • But again, those demons and satan have no real power
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  • Over you.
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  • The only power they have is the power that you choose to
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  • Give them.
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  • That's what it means to walk, to move forward in the plan that
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  • God has for your life.
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  • Now that's where the spiritual weapons come in that we've been
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  • Studying in this series, "the divine defense."
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  • In ephesians 6, paul says god has given us six strategies,
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  • Six weapons.
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  • We looked at the first three, and what those first three, the
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  • Belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the feet shod
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  • With the preparation of the gospel, those weapons are more
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  • Defensive in nature.
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  • They help us stand firm.
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  • They protect us against satan's attack.
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  • But the next three weapons are more offensive.
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  • They mean going forward.
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  • The shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, the sword of the
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  • Spirit, which is the word of god.
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  • So, we're gonna look at the first of those three offensive
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  • Weapons today, the shield of faith.
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  • Look at ephesians 6:16.
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  • Paul says, "in addition to all," some translations say, "above
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  • All else," meaning this is really important, "take up the
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  • Shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all
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  • The flaming missiles of the evil one."
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  • Shields are always important in battle.
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  • One of my favorite tv shows i used to watch when it was on
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  • Was "24."
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  • How many of you ever watched "24" with jack bauer who every
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  • Hour was facing a terrorist threat that he would try to
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  • Protect the world from?
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  • And i remember in one episode there were some terrorists holed
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  • Up in a house in los angeles with some hostages who were
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  • Scared to death, and jack bauer's out there strategizing
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  • About how to get inside and rescue the hostages.
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  • And finally he says to the police, to the swat team, "bring
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  • In the shield."
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  • And they bring in this mammoth shield.
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  • And once jack bauer has a shield, he's able to move
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  • Forward in spite of the barrage of bullets, and he's able to
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  • Save the world yet another time.
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  • Shields are important, and guess what?
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  • Shields predated jack bauer in "24."
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  • They actually existed during paul's time.
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  • A roman shield was an important weapon, an offensive weapon for
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  • When soldiers were moving forward.
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  • As they started moving forward toward the presence of the
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  • Enemy, the enemies would use flaming arrows.
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  • They would take a normal arrow, they would take the tip of that
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  • Arrow, and they would dip the tip of it in pitch.
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  • Try saying that three times without something--
  • 00:12:28.003 --> 00:12:30.606
  • They would dip the tip of the arrow in pitch, and once they
  • 00:12:30.606 --> 00:12:34.176
  • Had the pitch on it, they would set it afire and it would burn.
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  • So, when the soldier sent it, it was a flaming arrow, a
  • 00:12:37.746 --> 00:12:42.051
  • Flaming missile.
  • 00:12:42.051 --> 00:12:43.919
  • Now, interestingly, the closer you got to the enemy, the more
  • 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:48.757
  • Missiles came flying at you.
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  • That's when the enemy got desperate.
  • 00:12:51.093 --> 00:12:52.862
  • And by the way, one way to know you are in god's will is all the
  • 00:12:52.862 --> 00:12:56.699
  • Trouble you may be experiencing.
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  • The troubles you experience individually, the troubles
  • 00:12:59.201 --> 00:13:02.104
  • Sometimes a church experiences, is because they're getting close
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  • To threatening the enemy, and he's going to launch every type
  • 00:13:05.941 --> 00:13:09.245
  • Of attack he can.
  • 00:13:09.245 --> 00:13:10.946
  • Well, what do you use in order to extinguish those
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  • Flaming arrows?
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  • It was the shield.
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  • In paul's day, the roman shield was 4 1/2 feet tall,
  • 00:13:17.486 --> 00:13:21.056
  • 2 1/2 feet wide, and it was covered in leather
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  • That had been soaked in water.
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  • And therefore, when the missiles started coming, the flaming
  • 00:13:27.429 --> 00:13:30.933
  • Arrows, all the soldier had to do was hold up the shield, and
  • 00:13:30.933 --> 00:13:34.637
  • As soon as that flaming tip met the water-soaked leather, it
  • 00:13:34.637 --> 00:13:39.008
  • Would be extinguished immediately.
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  • In the same way, we have a shield as christians that
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  • Protect us from the many different flaming arrows, arrows
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  • Of doubt, disobedience, discouragement.
  • 00:13:50.019 --> 00:13:53.222
  • We have a shield.
  • 00:13:53.222 --> 00:13:54.590
  • It's not a shield of weather--or of water--of leather, it is a
  • 00:13:54.590 --> 00:13:59.361
  • Shield of what?
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  • Faith.
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  • Faith is our shield that immediately extinguishes the
  • 00:14:02.932 --> 00:14:08.504
  • Flaming missiles of satan and allows us to keep moving further
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  • Down god's road for our life.
  • 00:14:13.008 --> 00:14:15.678
  • What do you mean when you talk about faith?
  • 00:14:15.678 --> 00:14:17.680
  • Don't you agree that's the key word in this passage?
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  • Take up the shield of faith.
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  • Now, i want you all to listen to me.
  • 00:14:22.785 --> 00:14:24.720
  • Don't be thinking about my birthday party right now.
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  • I want you to listen to what i'm gonna say.
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  • "man, he preaches good for 45."
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  • Don't be thinking that.
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  • I want you to think about what really faith is.
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  • If you listen to some television preachers, they will give you
  • 00:14:38.500 --> 00:14:43.005
  • The idea that faith is just this positive emotion you conjure up
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  • In yourself, making yourself believe that god will do what
  • 00:14:48.310 --> 00:14:52.314
  • You want him to do.
  • 00:14:52.314 --> 00:14:54.083
  • And if you simply will declare in power, "i claim this, god
  • 00:14:54.083 --> 00:14:59.655
  • Must do this."
  • 00:14:59.655 --> 00:15:01.190
  • If you say that loudly enough and often enough and with enough
  • 00:15:01.190 --> 00:15:04.326
  • Persistence, god will be forced to do what you want him to do.
  • 00:15:04.326 --> 00:15:08.731
  • That's what they call faith.
  • 00:15:08.731 --> 00:15:10.265
  • Faith is the assurance they believe that god will do what
  • 00:15:10.265 --> 00:15:12.968
  • You want him to do.
  • 00:15:12.968 --> 00:15:15.137
  • Anytime i hear that, i think about a story i used to read the
  • 00:15:15.137 --> 00:15:18.540
  • Triplets when they were little.
  • 00:15:18.540 --> 00:15:20.242
  • "the little engine that could."
  • 00:15:20.242 --> 00:15:21.910
  • Do you remember that story?
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  • The little tiny engine and it's got a big hill to go up.
  • 00:15:23.712 --> 00:15:27.349
  • It's not sure it can make it, but it keeps saying to itself,
  • 00:15:27.349 --> 00:15:31.153
  • "i think i can. i think i can.
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  • I think i can. i think i can.
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  • I think i can."
  • 00:15:36.458 --> 00:15:37.793
  • Gets to the top of the hill and it's downhill after that,
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  • Everything's great.
  • 00:15:40.329 --> 00:15:41.663
  • A lot of christians actually think that that's kind of what
  • 00:15:41.663 --> 00:15:43.565
  • Faith is.
  • 00:15:43.565 --> 00:15:44.933
  • It's this belief that if we just say something, chant something,
  • 00:15:44.933 --> 00:15:48.103
  • It'll make god want to do it.
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  • If we will just believe hard enough that god will heal my
  • 00:15:50.406 --> 00:15:53.108
  • Marriage, if we believe strongly enough that god will heal my
  • 00:15:53.108 --> 00:15:56.812
  • Body, if we believe that god will answer this request or this
  • 00:15:56.812 --> 00:16:00.783
  • Request, if we just have enough faith, that god will do what i
  • 00:16:00.783 --> 00:16:05.287
  • Want him to do, he must act.
  • 00:16:05.287 --> 00:16:07.322
  • Ladies and gentlemen, that is not faith.
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  • That is presumption.
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  • Here's what faith is.
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  • Faith is the assurance that god will do what he has promised to
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  • Do and acting accordingly.
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  • I don't know all the time if it's god's plan to heal, or
  • 00:16:23.806 --> 00:16:27.943
  • God's plan to take care of a financial need, or it's god's
  • 00:16:27.943 --> 00:16:31.713
  • Will to give you a job or not.
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  • You can ask for those things, but faith means quietly resting
  • 00:16:33.882 --> 00:16:37.252
  • In whatever god's answer is.
  • 00:16:37.252 --> 00:16:39.455
  • But there are some things god has promised to do, and faith
  • 00:16:39.455 --> 00:16:43.826
  • Means believing those things that he has promised to do and
  • 00:16:43.826 --> 00:16:47.029
  • Acting accordingly.
  • 00:16:47.029 --> 00:16:48.430
  • Jot down hebrews 11:1.
  • 00:16:48.430 --> 00:16:50.299
  • This is the definition of faith that the writer gives, "now
  • 00:16:50.299 --> 00:16:53.969
  • Faith is the," what?
  • 00:16:53.969 --> 00:16:56.738
  • Say it out loud.
  • 00:16:56.738 --> 00:16:58.774
  • What?
  • 00:16:58.774 --> 00:17:00.576
  • "it's the assurance of things hoped for," it is the what?
  • 00:17:00.576 --> 00:17:06.215
  • "conviction of things not seen."
  • 00:17:06.215 --> 00:17:09.785
  • Will you notice that real biblical, god-pleasing faith
  • 00:17:09.785 --> 00:17:13.489
  • Is first of all, not a hope, wish, or desire,
  • 00:17:13.489 --> 00:17:16.358
  • It is an assurance.
  • 00:17:16.358 --> 00:17:18.160
  • That greek word assurance refers to the concrete foundation of a
  • 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:21.630
  • Massive building.
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  • It is concrete.
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  • It is the assurance of things hoped for.
  • 00:17:24.333 --> 00:17:27.035
  • It is, secondly, the conviction.
  • 00:17:27.035 --> 00:17:29.404
  • That word conviction refers to the result of our faith, actions
  • 00:17:29.404 --> 00:17:33.876
  • You take because of your faith.
  • 00:17:33.876 --> 00:17:36.178
  • Let me illustrate that for you.
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  • Think about noah.
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  • He believed with all of his heart what god said that there
  • 00:17:39.982 --> 00:17:43.285
  • Was gonna be a flood, and he acted accordingly.
  • 00:17:43.285 --> 00:17:46.455
  • He built a boat.
  • 00:17:46.455 --> 00:17:47.856
  • Or think about abraham.
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  • Abraham believed that god would make him the father of a great
  • 00:17:49.491 --> 00:17:52.594
  • Nation and he acted accordingly by moving his family to a land
  • 00:17:52.594 --> 00:17:56.899
  • That god would show him.
  • 00:17:56.899 --> 00:17:58.700
  • Think about rahab the harlot.
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  • She believed what god said, that god was gonna give the
  • 00:18:00.302 --> 00:18:03.172
  • Israelites victory over the canaanites.
  • 00:18:03.172 --> 00:18:06.241
  • And what did she do?
  • 00:18:06.241 --> 00:18:07.576
  • She hid those two hebrew spies risking her own life.
  • 00:18:07.576 --> 00:18:10.445
  • Again, faith is believing god will do what he he has promised
  • 00:18:10.445 --> 00:18:14.183
  • To do and acting accordingly.
  • 00:18:14.183 --> 00:18:17.152
  • And in the realm of spiritual warfare, faith means moving
  • 00:18:17.152 --> 00:18:22.024
  • Forward and following god's plan for your life in spite of the
  • 00:18:22.024 --> 00:18:26.261
  • Flaming missiles of doubt, discouragement, depression, or
  • 00:18:26.261 --> 00:18:29.531
  • Whatever else satan may fire in your direction.
  • 00:18:29.531 --> 00:18:34.002
  • A great illustration of somebody who held up that shield of faith
  • 00:18:34.002 --> 00:18:38.240
  • When he was under attack is the old testament patriarch job.
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  • Remember job?
  • 00:18:42.511 --> 00:18:44.079
  • He was having, in chapter 1, what we would call a really bad,
  • 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:47.382
  • Horrible day.
  • 00:18:47.382 --> 00:18:49.585
  • In just 24 hours, think of all that happened to him.
  • 00:18:49.585 --> 00:18:52.621
  • There was a fire that destroyed all of his livestock,
  • 00:18:52.621 --> 00:18:55.324
  • His livelihood.
  • 00:18:55.324 --> 00:18:56.959
  • Then there was that freak windstorm that killed all of his
  • 00:18:56.959 --> 00:18:59.795
  • Ten children.
  • 00:18:59.795 --> 00:19:01.163
  • And if that weren't enough, there were these illnesses that
  • 00:19:01.163 --> 00:19:04.299
  • Were incurable.
  • 00:19:04.299 --> 00:19:07.002
  • Job was discouraged, rightly so, but he held up the shield
  • 00:19:07.002 --> 00:19:12.174
  • Of faith.
  • 00:19:12.174 --> 00:19:13.775
  • There are three truths that made up job's shield, three truths
  • 00:19:13.775 --> 00:19:18.480
  • That constructed his shield of faith that it's vital you and i
  • 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:22.751
  • Have in our shield of faith, three convictions and
  • 00:19:22.751 --> 00:19:27.189
  • Appropriate actions that followed.
  • 00:19:27.189 --> 00:19:30.025
  • First of all, job believed that god is in control.
  • 00:19:30.025 --> 00:19:34.963
  • Therefore, he could trust him.
  • 00:19:34.963 --> 00:19:37.199
  • If you're going to have a shield of faith that allows you to move
  • 00:19:37.199 --> 00:19:40.535
  • Forward in spite of satan's flaming arrows, your shield of
  • 00:19:40.535 --> 00:19:44.439
  • Faith has to be an assurance that god is in control and
  • 00:19:44.439 --> 00:19:48.844
  • Therefore you can trust him.
  • 00:19:48.844 --> 00:19:51.313
  • It's hard to believe god is in control sometimes, isn't it?
  • 00:19:51.313 --> 00:19:55.083
  • We look at what's happening in the world in general or in our
  • 00:19:55.083 --> 00:19:57.953
  • World in particular, and we think, "god, are you asleep at
  • 00:19:57.953 --> 00:20:02.524
  • The switch?
  • 00:20:02.524 --> 00:20:03.859
  • Don't you know what's going on?
  • 00:20:03.859 --> 00:20:05.761
  • I mean, if there really is a god in control, why doesn't he
  • 00:20:05.761 --> 00:20:09.631
  • Reconcile my marriage?
  • 00:20:09.631 --> 00:20:11.600
  • Why doesn't he return that prodigal child?
  • 00:20:11.600 --> 00:20:14.202
  • Why doesn't he heal my illness or the illness of a loved one?
  • 00:20:14.202 --> 00:20:17.639
  • If god is in control, why do these things happen?"
  • 00:20:17.639 --> 00:20:21.810
  • And we're tempted to think a lot of things.
  • 00:20:21.810 --> 00:20:24.146
  • Maybe god is apathetic.
  • 00:20:24.146 --> 00:20:26.715
  • He doesn't care.
  • 00:20:26.715 --> 00:20:28.050
  • That's what the greeks thought about their gods.
  • 00:20:28.050 --> 00:20:29.785
  • They were apatheos, without feeling.
  • 00:20:29.785 --> 00:20:35.524
  • Maybe god doesn't care, or maybe god is impotent.
  • 00:20:35.524 --> 00:20:39.528
  • He wishes he could help, he'd love to help, but there are
  • 00:20:39.528 --> 00:20:43.065
  • These natural laws that preclude him from doing
  • 00:20:43.065 --> 00:20:46.168
  • Anything supernatural.
  • 00:20:46.168 --> 00:20:48.236
  • That was the thoughts of rabbi harold kushner, the famous
  • 00:20:48.236 --> 00:20:51.807
  • Jewish rabbi in the 1980s and '90s who wrote that book "when
  • 00:20:51.807 --> 00:20:56.011
  • Bad things happen to good people."
  • 00:20:56.011 --> 00:20:58.013
  • He had a young son who died from a terrible illness.
  • 00:20:58.013 --> 00:21:01.216
  • And rabbi kushner came to the conclusion that god would have
  • 00:21:01.216 --> 00:21:04.553
  • Loved to have helped him, but he was just incapable of doing so
  • 00:21:04.553 --> 00:21:08.056
  • Because of the natural laws of the universe.
  • 00:21:08.056 --> 00:21:10.659
  • Another jewish rabbi in reading that, responded, "if that's who
  • 00:21:10.659 --> 00:21:14.096
  • God is, then he ought to resign and let somebody more competent
  • 00:21:14.096 --> 00:21:17.432
  • Take over."
  • 00:21:17.432 --> 00:21:19.101
  • Is god impotent?
  • 00:21:19.101 --> 00:21:20.435
  • Not the god that i serve.
  • 00:21:20.435 --> 00:21:22.804
  • Maybe it's that god doesn't even exist.
  • 00:21:22.804 --> 00:21:25.073
  • Maybe we've just conjured up this god to make us feel better,
  • 00:21:25.073 --> 00:21:29.111
  • But in fact he doesn't answer because he can't answer.
  • 00:21:29.111 --> 00:21:32.948
  • But to have faith means that god is in control even when we see
  • 00:21:32.948 --> 00:21:37.819
  • Evidence to the contrary.
  • 00:21:37.819 --> 00:21:40.589
  • That's the conclusion, by the way, job came to.
  • 00:21:40.589 --> 00:21:43.225
  • It's interesting, when you read the book of job, job did not
  • 00:21:43.225 --> 00:21:46.695
  • Immediately come to the right answer.
  • 00:21:46.695 --> 00:21:49.765
  • It took him some time to process things.
  • 00:21:49.765 --> 00:21:52.701
  • He had some questions he wanted to ask god.
  • 00:21:52.701 --> 00:21:56.171
  • You know what?
  • 00:21:56.171 --> 00:21:57.539
  • God is not troubled by your questions.
  • 00:21:57.539 --> 00:22:00.442
  • God's not bothered by you asking questions.
  • 00:22:00.442 --> 00:22:03.478
  • What he's bothered by are not difficult questions, but it's
  • 00:22:03.478 --> 00:22:06.681
  • Wrong answers.
  • 00:22:06.681 --> 00:22:08.817
  • God doesn't mind you asking the question as long as you come to
  • 00:22:08.817 --> 00:22:12.687
  • The right biblical answer.
  • 00:22:12.687 --> 00:22:15.190
  • And in job 42:2, after suffering all of these losses, listen to
  • 00:22:15.190 --> 00:22:19.594
  • What job said, "i know that you can do all things, and that no
  • 00:22:19.594 --> 00:22:25.033
  • Purpose of yours can be thwarted."
  • 00:22:25.033 --> 00:22:28.203
  • That's the shield of faith.
  • 00:22:28.203 --> 00:22:31.406
  • "i know that you're going to do all things, and that no purpose
  • 00:22:31.406 --> 00:22:35.744
  • Of yours can be thwarted."
  • 00:22:35.744 --> 00:22:37.412
  • Do you believe that?
  • 00:22:37.412 --> 00:22:38.914
  • Do you believe that god has a plan for your life and that
  • 00:22:38.914 --> 00:22:42.517
  • Nothing is going to change that plan?
  • 00:22:42.517 --> 00:22:44.686
  • Do you have that assurance?
  • 00:22:44.686 --> 00:22:46.788
  • Nobody leaves this earth one second sooner or one second
  • 00:22:46.788 --> 00:22:51.326
  • Later than god's ordained time.
  • 00:22:51.326 --> 00:22:55.564
  • Ladies and gentlemen, when those fiery missiles come into your
  • 00:22:55.564 --> 00:22:59.267
  • Life, you need to know that god is in control, and you can trust
  • 00:22:59.267 --> 00:23:04.940
  • Him, even though in the darkness you cannot see what god
  • 00:23:04.940 --> 00:23:09.110
  • Is doing.
  • 00:23:09.110 --> 00:23:10.512
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:23:11.012 --> 00:23:14.149
  • Jeffress: moving forward in faith requires courage,
  • 00:23:15.617 --> 00:23:18.286
  • Especially when the enemy's attacks intensify, but god has
  • 00:23:18.286 --> 00:23:22.991
  • Equipped you with everything you need to advance his kingdom.
  • 00:23:22.991 --> 00:23:27.529
  • There's more i want to teach you about this topic, but right now
  • 00:23:27.529 --> 00:23:30.699
  • I wanna share a powerful testimony from rachel
  • 00:23:30.699 --> 00:23:33.635
  • In indonesia.
  • 00:23:33.635 --> 00:23:35.337
  • She wrote, "i live in a country with the world's largest muslim
  • 00:23:35.337 --> 00:23:38.807
  • Population and feel increasing hate and aggression from radical
  • 00:23:38.807 --> 00:23:43.311
  • Muslims around me.
  • 00:23:43.311 --> 00:23:45.080
  • I watch "pathway to victory" online and dr. jeffress'
  • 00:23:45.080 --> 00:23:48.750
  • Messages have reminded me to remain hopeful and faithful in
  • 00:23:48.750 --> 00:23:52.787
  • These troubling times.
  • 00:23:52.787 --> 00:23:54.756
  • Thank you to all who stand for truth.
  • 00:23:54.756 --> 00:23:57.425
  • The world needs to hear
  • 00:23:57.425 --> 00:23:58.760
  • It more than ever before."
  • 00:23:58.760 --> 00:24:01.363
  • Friends, rachel's words from indonesia remind us why this
  • 00:24:01.363 --> 00:24:05.567
  • Ministry matters.
  • 00:24:05.567 --> 00:24:07.569
  • Because of your faithful support, we're able to reach
  • 00:24:07.569 --> 00:24:09.938
  • Believers like rachel who are standing firm for christ in
  • 00:24:09.938 --> 00:24:13.775
  • Hostile environments.
  • 00:24:13.775 --> 00:24:15.544
  • Your generosity is making it possible for us to pierce the
  • 00:24:15.544 --> 00:24:19.381
  • Darkness with the light of god's word, even in the most difficult
  • 00:24:19.381 --> 00:24:23.785
  • Places on earth.
  • 00:24:23.785 --> 00:24:25.720
  • Thank you for partnering with us in this mission.
  • 00:24:25.720 --> 00:24:28.924
  • Now, stay right there.
  • 00:24:28.924 --> 00:24:30.258
  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory" in just a moment.
  • 00:24:30.258 --> 00:24:34.596
  • Announcer: that recurring temptation you can't shake, the
  • 00:24:34.663 --> 00:24:37.465
  • 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.
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  • 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,
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  • Your family, 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: are you playing defense when god wants you
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  • On offense?
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  • Remember, jesus said the gates of hell will not prevail against
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  • His church.
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  • If gates are defensive structures, then we're the ones
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  • Who should be advancing.
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  • Friends, it's time to stop merely surviving the enemy's
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  • Attacks and start advancing in the mission god has given you.
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  • And next time, we'll continue building our shield of faith
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  • With two more truths that will empower you to keep moving
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  • Forward no matter what the enemy throws your way.
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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: decide who your god is and serve him with all of
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  • Your heart.
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  • But if yahweh is god, serve him.
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  • The bible says the shield of faith that we have to raise up
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  • In order to move forward is a shield that is built on trusting
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  • God, believing he's in control, obeying god, believing that he
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  • Rewards the righteous, and serving him and him alone.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for part two of the
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