Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - Touched By An Angel

May 27, 2026 | 27:29

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Touched By An Angel | May 27, 2026

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From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas,
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This is pathway to victory with dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i am robert jeffress.
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Welcome again to pathway to victory.
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Wouldn't it be nice if every person received
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A guardian angel to protect and guide them in life?
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It's a popular belief among some christians.
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And today we're going to explore
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Whether there's any biblical basis
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For the concept of guardian angels.
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Do supernatural beings protect and guide your life?
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What about the lives of unbelievers?
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My message is titled, "touched by an angel"
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On today's edition of pathway to victory.
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In her wonderful book, "the hiding place",
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The late corrie ten boom tells about how god
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Miraculously provided for her and her sister, betsie,
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While they were incarcerated
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In a german concentration camp.
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When they were transferred to ravensbruck,
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The worst of all of the camps,
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They immediately had to surrender any medicines
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That they had.
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But corrie says she was able to smuggle in
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A small bottle of liquid vitamin
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That was about half full.
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Vitamin deficiencies was one of the worst hazards
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Prisoners faced,
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And corrie's instinct was to hoard that little vial
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So she could care for her sister, betsie,
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Who was desperately sick and close to death.
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But corrie says others in the camp were sick, too.
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As she wrote,
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"it was hard to say no to eyes
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That burned with fever
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And hands that shook with chill."
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So she began to share
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That little vial of liquid vitamin.
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Soon the number receiving their daily drop was 30.
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And yet corrie says,
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"every time i tilted the little bottle,
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A drop appeared at the top of the stopper.
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Many times i lay awake
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Trying to fathom the marvel of supply lavished upon us."
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What is it that kept that little vial filled
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With that liquid vitamin?
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Corrie said she believed it was the angels
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God was using to minister to her and her sister.
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You know, accounts like that,
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Along with numerous accounts in the scripture,
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Remind us that angels are not fantasy.
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They are very real beings in the world today
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That god uses to accomplish his plan in our life.
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And yet, as wonderful as angels are,
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They should be no substitute for worshiping christ,
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Who rules over the angels.
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And that's the theme of the book of hebrews.
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This was a letter written
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To encourage jewish christians primarily.
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These were jews who had converted to christianity,
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And yet, because of persecution,
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They were being tempted to give up their christian faith
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And go back into judaism.
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"well, aren't religions all the same?"
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And that's what the writer of hebrews said.
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He said,
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"jesus christ is the superior high priest
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Who has offered a superior sacrifice
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To obtain a superior salvation."
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And so the whole letter of hebrews is written to show
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How christianity is superior
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To every element of the jewish faith.
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It's superior to the prophets,
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It's superior to the priest, to the sacrificial system.
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And yes, christianity is superior
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To one of the most important elements of judaism,
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And that is angels.
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Last time, in verses 5 to 14,
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We saw how christ is superior to the angels.
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Christ possesses a superior name.
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He's a superior object of worship.
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He will rule over a superior kingdom,
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And he enjoys a superior victory.
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Well, then, are angels not important?
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Oh no, the writer says,
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Angels are very important to christians today.
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Look at hebrews 1, verse 14.
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"are they," talking about angels,
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"are they not all ministering spirits sent out
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To render service for the sake of those
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Who will inherit salvation?"
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I call angels god's aaa service,
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Always available to assist.
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You know how aaa works?
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You're stuck on the road, you call 'em,
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And out they come with their truck.
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Well, angels are like that,
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They are ready to render service at the command of god,
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For who?
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For those who inherit salvation.
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That's you and me if we are a christian.
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And so what we're doing for a couple of weeks
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Is looking at the subject of angels and, specifically,
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How do angels render service to us
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In our everyday life?
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Now, i promise we're going to talk about that,
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But before we talk about what angels do for christians,
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Let's talk about the ministry of angels to non-christians.
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Did you know angels have a very real purpose
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In the life of unbelievers?
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In fact, the bible mentions three ways
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That angels interface with unbelievers.
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First of all, angels can be ministers of god's goodness
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To non-christians.
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Have you ever heard people say,
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"well, god doesn't hear the prayer of non-christians.
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The only prayer he can hear from a non-christian
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Is the prayer of salvation."
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Now that is sheer baloney.
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God can hear any prayer he wants to hear,
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And sometimes he does listen to
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And even answer the prayers of non-christians.
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To make no mistake about it,
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Only christians enter into heaven.
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I think we've established that pretty well.
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Not only that,
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Only christians are called children of god.
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They have that unique relationship with god the father.
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But that doesn't mean god doesn't answer the prayers
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Of non-christians.
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You see, god does not hate non-christians.
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God loves non-christians,
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And he does everything he can
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To win them to faith in christ.
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And sometimes god uses good things.
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He sends them to an unbeliever's life
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To draw them to himself.
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We have a term in theology called common grace.
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And common grace is the goodness of god
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That falls upon non-christians as well as christians.
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Does the rain only fall on christians?
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No, it falls on non-christians, too.
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There is common grace that god extends to everyone,
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Not saving grace but common grace.
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And what is his purpose in doing that?
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Romans 2:4 says,
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"for the kindness of god leads us to repentance."
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God bestows blessings upon non-christians
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In order to lead them to accept saving grace
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From jesus.
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There's some of you here today,
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Some of you listening to this message.
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Maybe you're not yet a christian, and you're saying,
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"well, i'm not sure i need to do
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All that trusting christ thing.
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After all, i have a pretty good relationship
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With the man upstairs.
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I mean, i have a good family,
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And i'm fairly prosperous.
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Nothing bad's happened to me.
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I can even point to an example
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When god has answered my prayers,
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Or he's delivered me from a disaster.
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Everything's fine with me and god."
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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Don't confuse god's goodness with god's forgiveness.
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God may be good to you not because
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He has granted you salvation,
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But he wants you to come to faith and repentance
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And receive salvation.
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That's what we call common grace.
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And many times god will use angels
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To bring those blessings into an unbeliever's life.
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Secondly, angels also serve as ministers of judgment
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Against unbelievers.
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Turn over to acts chapter 12 for just a moment.
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You know, when you look in the bible,
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You find that angels were ministers of judgment
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Against unbelievers as a group.
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For example, genesis 19 says angels were involved
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In the destruction of sodom and gomorrah.
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In psalm 78,
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It says the angels were responsible for the 10 plagues
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That befell egypt.
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In 2 kings 19,
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There is the story about an angel
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Slaying 185,000 syrian soldiers
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Who were threatening jerusalem.
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We fast forward to the book of revelation
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Chapter 6 through 19.
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It is the angels who are instrumental
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In pouring out god's judgment upon the earth.
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You know, sometimes we read the obituaries
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Of unbelievers who have died,
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And the listed cause of death; heart attack, cancer,
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Car accident, but sometimes, not all the time,
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But sometimes perhaps there's another cause.
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What is it that caused that cell to unexpectedly begin
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To metastasize and multiply?
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What is it that caused that heart to quit beating?
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What is it that caused that other car
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To pull into an oncoming car and cause a fatality?
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Sometimes, not all the times,
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But sometimes it is an angel sent by god
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As a minister of death.
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Thirdly, angels can be ministers of eternal death,
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Not just judgment, but eternal death.
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Did you know angels will be the final executioner
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For unbelievers, the bible says.
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In revelation chapter 20,
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We have the most, i think, terrifying passage
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In all of the bible.
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It's about the great white throne judgment.
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The bible says all of the unsaved dead
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Who have ever lived were resurrected for a judgment,
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And they stood before the great white throne.
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Verse 15 says,
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"and if anyone's name was not found written
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In the book of life,
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He was thrown into the lake of fire."
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What does that mean,
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His name written in the book of life?
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The only people's names who are recorded
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In the book of life
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Are those who have trusted in jesus as savior.
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And if your name is not there when you die
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And you stand before that judgment,
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There are no second chances;
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You'll be thrown into the lake of fire.
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The bible says earlier,
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"where the beast and the false prophet are,
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And you will be tormented day and night
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Forever and ever."
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And there is no escape.
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There are no second chances after death.
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"if any man's name was not written in the book,
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He was thrown into the lake of fire."
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Who will throw the unbeliever into the lake of fire?
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Look at matthew 13:49 and 50.
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Jesus said it will be the angels who do it.
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"so it will be," jesus said,
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"at the end of the age, the angels shall come forth
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And take out the wicked from among the righteous,
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And will cast them into the furnace of fire,
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And there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
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It's a horrible thought,
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But the last thing an unbeliever sees
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Before he's cast into hell
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Will be the face of an angel.
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Angels are very real forces.
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They have a role in the life, the death,
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And the eternal judgment of unbelievers.
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But to us,
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The question is what do angels do for us
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Who are christians?
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Now i promise we're going to get to the answer
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To that question,
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But before we do,
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I want to answer an age-old question
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That perhaps you've wondered about,
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And that is, do christians have guardian angels?
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Is there one specific angel god has assigned to us
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To watch out for us?
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Is that what the bible teaches?
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Thomas aquinas, the 13th-century theologian,
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Studied angels.
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He believed there was such a thing as a guardian angel.
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But i want you to look at the scriptures with me
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For just a moment and come to your own conclusion.
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Do we have a guardian angel?
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When people talk about guardian angels,
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They usually refer to one of three passages
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That appear to teach a guardian angel
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Is assigned to each of us.
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The first one is in matthew chapter 18, verse 10.
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Turn over to matthew chapter 18.
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The context of this passage is jesus is talking about
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How people, to be saved, need to become like children.
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Look at matthew 18, verses 3 and 4, and jesus said,
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"truly i say to you that unless you are converted
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And become like children,
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You shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.
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Whoever then humbles himself as this child,
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He is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven."
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You know, we have this idea that children,
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They're just too young to be saved.
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I hear parents say that all the time,
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"oh, i need to wait till my child gets older."
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We have this mistaken idea that children need to become
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Like adults to be saved.
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Jesus said just the opposite.
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Adults need to be like children in order to be saved.
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You know, it's much easier to be saved as a child
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Than it is as an adult.
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Statistics tell us that 85% of people
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Who ever become christians do so before the age of 15.
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The older you get, the harder it becomes to be saved.
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Children don't have all of that baggage with them.
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They're not filled with pride, too much pride to say,
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"oh, i don't need a savior, i'm good enough."
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They accept the gospel readily.
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"and whoever receives one such child in my name
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Receives me.
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But whoever causes one of these little ones
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Who believe in me to stumble,
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It's better for him that a heavy millstone
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Be hung around his neck
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And that he be drowned in the depth of the sea."
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Who is jesus talking about
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When he talks about little ones?
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Well, he's talking about children,
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But not only children.
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He's talking about new christians,
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Whether they may be 70 years old,
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But if they've just come to faith in christ,
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They're a little one in god's family.
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Like jesus is saying,
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Make sure you don't make anybody stumble,
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Especially a child or a brand new christian.
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Why?
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Verse 10, here we get to it.
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"see that you do not despise one of these little ones,
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For i say to you that their angels in heaven
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Continually behold the face of my father
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Who is in heaven."
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Don't despise these children,
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Don't despise these new christians,
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Because their angels in heaven
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Are beholding the face of god.
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Those angels in heaven are there to protect children.
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You know, i remember,
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I'll never forget an illustration in our own family.
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One day when we were in wichita falls,
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I was supposed to have lunch with somebody,
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And the lunch appointment canceled,
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And i didn't have anything else to do during lunch,
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So i went home for lunch.
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People say, "well, what's the big deal about that?"
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I never went home for lunch, ever,
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Under any circumstances, went home for lunch.
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But i walk into the kitchen,
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And amy's in the kitchen cooking,
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And dorothy was maybe three or four,
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And she was sitting there eating her lunch,
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And all of a sudden dorothy began to turn blue,
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And she was choking while amy was over cooking.
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So i went over and did a little heimlich maneuver on her,
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And the beanie weenie projectile went out of her mouth,
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Almost hit amy over there.
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And you know, we thought,
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Why is it that i just happened to be home at that day?
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What forces were at work that caused
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That lunch appointment to cancel
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And brought me home at just the right time?
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I think it was the angels
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Who were watching out for dorothy
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That brought all of that to being.
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Now, we do have angels watching over us,
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But does verse 10 actually say there is one angel
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That watched over dorothy or your child?
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No, it just simply says there are angels in heaven.
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That's not a strong argument necessarily
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For a one singular guardian angel.
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Well, here's another verse people use.
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Acts 12, verse 15.
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This is about herod.
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Before he got his case of angelus,
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He had ordered that peter be in prison
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For preaching in the name of jesus.
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Now look at verses 6 and 7.
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"and on the very night
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When herod was about to bring peter forward,
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Peter was sleeping between two soldiers,
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Bound with two chains,
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And guards in front of the door
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Were watching over the prison.
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And behold, an angel of the lord suddenly appeared
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And a light shone in the cell,
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And the angel struck peter's side and roused him,
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Saying, 'get up quickly!'
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And his chains fell off his hands."
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Now there is an angel ministering to peter,
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Releasing him from prison.
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So what does peter do?
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Well, it was wednesday night;
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Perhaps he decided to go to the church prayer meeting,
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And they were meeting in the house of mary,
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And they were there in their prayer meeting
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Praying for peter's release.
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Now this is one of the funniest scenes to me
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In the entire new testament.
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So peter goes to mary's house, he knocks on the door.
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God had answered their prayer.
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They said, "oh no, it can't be peter."
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But she kept insisting that it was so,
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And they kept saying, "it is his angel."
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Now some people actually take that verse to say,
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"oh, it was peter's guardian angel,
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He has a guardian angel."
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Is that what they were saying?
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No.
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I mean, if it was peter's guardian angel,
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Why would he look like peter
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And why would he sound like peter?
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I think what they were simply saying was
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It was his spirit that was knocking.
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It couldn't be the real peter.
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One more verse that people use
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To talk about guardian angels.
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Psalm 91, verses 11 to 13.
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Look at verse 11.
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"for god will give his angels charge concerning you,
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To guard you in all your ways.
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They will bear you up in their hands,
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Lest you strike your foot against a stone.
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You will tread upon the lion and cobra,
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The young lion and the serpent you will trample down."
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This is a promise that god gives all of us.
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He has given his angels charge concerning you and me
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To guard us in all of our ways.
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And that's one of the things angels do for us.
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They guard our steps in all of our ways.
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You know that my dad, i've said it many times,
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Had one job all of his adult life;
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Worked for one company, worked for braniff airlines.
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And one of the perks of working with an airline
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Is you got to travel free, you and your family,
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As long as there was space available,
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As long as there was an empty seat.
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But you know, i grew up going to airports thinking
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We were going to get on a flight,
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And at the very last moment,
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A paying passenger shows up and takes away your seat.
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On september 29, 1959,
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I was just a few months away
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From turning four years of age
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When my dad made a day trip on a pass to houston, texas.
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He was scheduled to come back
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On the very last flight from houston hobby that night.
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He was at the ticket counter,
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Had received his boarding pass, was ready to get on,
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When a paying passenger showed up at the last moment
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And took his seat.
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My dad was so disappointed;
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He wanted to get home that night.
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He called my mom and said that he had missed the flight.
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That night, braniff flight 542 took off at 10:44 pm
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From houston hobby airport.
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25 minutes later, over buffalo, texas,
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The left wing of the electra turbojet tore off the plane,
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Sending the plane careening into the field below,
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Killing everybody on board.
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What is it that prevented my father
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From getting on board that plane?
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He believed until the day he died it was the angels
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Who were caring for him,
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And not that god loved my father more
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Than he did the man who died on the plane,
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But he understood that it wasn't god's plan
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For him to go at that time.
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So, pastor, do we have a guardian angel?
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You know, i don't agree with john calvin on everything,
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But i think he's right when he says
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That whether or not there is one specific angel
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Assigned to us really isn't that important.
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Calvin says, "if anyone does not think it enough to know
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That all the orders of the heavenly host
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Are perpetually watching for our safety,
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I don't see what he could gain by knowing
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That he has one angel as a special guardian."
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Translation: if you think the idea of one guardian angel
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Is great, how much better is knowing
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There are a whole legion of angels available
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To meet whatever need you have in your life.
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The god who controls the fate of nations, of america,
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Of israel, and everything that is happening in the world,
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That same god controls the fate of your life as well.
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A couple of weeks ago, during the invitation time,
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A woman came forward and she said to me,
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"i would like to join first baptist dallas."
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She said, "i've been listening to pathway to victory,
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And i know this is the church where i want to be.
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A year ago, i was diagnosed with cancer
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And told i just have a few months to live,"
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But she said, "i've got great peace about this
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Because i know that my life is in god's hands."
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Your life is in god's hand,
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And the great promise we have is that of jeremiah 29:11.
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"for i know the plans i have for you, declares the lord,
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A plan for your welfare, not for your calamity,
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A plan to give you a future and a hope."
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God uses angels to accomplish that plan.
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How is it the angels minister to us specifically?
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Next time we're going to look at three specific ways
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The angels minister to us in our everyday life.
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♪ music ♪
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You are not alone in this life.
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God often uses angels to come alongside of us
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With comfort and protection.
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Well, in closing today, i want to take a moment
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To acknowledge our pathway partners
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As you've been watching today's program,
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We've been praying that god would enlighten you
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To see the realities of the unseen world.
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God uses his angels to accomplish his purposes
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In our lives and in the lives of unbelievers as well.
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While there's not a solid biblical argument
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For the existence of one guardian angel for every person,
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Angels do minister to us.
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And next time we're going to look at the specific ways
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That we're touched by an angel in today's world.
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Stay tuned for a preview
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Of what's coming up next in our series,
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The truth about angels.
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You know, every day there are things that happen
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To you and me that really can only be explained
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By the presence of angels.
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Angels are working for you and me every day
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And in every way.
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If you're a christian, you have the assurance
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You won't be alone,
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But you'll have the ministry of angels
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To usher you into heaven.
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Set your dvr and join us next time for the message,
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"the angels and you", here on pathway to victory.
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The apostle paul sailed these waters, walked these streets,
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And the church was never the same.
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I'm inviting you to follow in paul's footsteps
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On the pathway to victory "journeys of paul cruise"
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Through the stunning greek islands
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And the ancient ephesus and many other destinations
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As well.
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This is purposeful travel at its finest.
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Set sail may 14, 2027.
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Call 888-280-6747 or visit ptv.org.
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Robert Jeffress - Touched By An Angel

May 27, 2026 | 27:29

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