Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - Touched By An Angel

July 30, 2025 | S25 E363 | 29:0

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Touched By An Angel | July 30, 2025

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[narrator] from the pulpit
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Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i'm robert jeffress and welcome again
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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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[narrator] angels are a very real and powerful force
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In our world today,
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And one of the most influential books
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Ever written on this fascinating subject is
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"angels: god's secret agents"
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By the reverend billy graham.
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Dr. graham combines testimonies and accounts
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Of those who have encountered angels
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With clear and concise truth from scripture.
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And you're invited to request
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An exclusive special edition of dr. graham's classic book,
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Featuring a brand-new forward from dr. jeffress
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When you give a generous gift to "pathway to victory".
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In her wonderful book, "the hiding place",
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The late corrie ten boom tells
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About how god miraculously provided
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For her and her sister betsie
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While they were incarcerated in a german concentration camp.
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When they were transferred to ravensbrück,
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The worst of all of the camps,
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They immediately had to surrender
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Any medicines 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 that burned with fever
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And hands that shook with chill."
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So she began to share 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 remind us
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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
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For worshiping christ,
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Who rules over the angels.
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And that's the theme of the first portion of hebrews.
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This was a letter written to encourage
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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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That's not the writer of hebrews said.
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He said jesus christ is the superior high priest
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Who has offered a superior sacrifice to obtain
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A superior salvation.
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And so the whole letter of hebrews is
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Written to show how christianity is
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Superior to every element of the jewish faith.
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Last time in verses five 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, really, very important to christians today.
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Look at hebrews 1:14.
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Are they, talking about angels,
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Are they not all ministering spirits
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Set out to render service
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For the sake of those 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,
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You call 'em 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
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At the command of god 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 is
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Looking at the subject of angels
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And specifically how do angels render
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Service to us 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
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A very real purpose in the life of unbelievers?
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In fact, the bible mentions
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Three ways that angels interface with unbelievers.
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First of all, angels can be
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Ministers of god's goodness 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
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From a non-christian 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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Now, 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, only christians are
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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
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The prayers 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
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Saving grace 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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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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Of 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, don't confuse
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God's goodness with god's forgiveness.
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God may be good to you
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Not because 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 to bring
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Those blessings into an unbeliever's life.
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Secondly, angels also serve
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As ministers of judgment against unbelievers.
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Turn over to acts 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
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Ministers of judgment against unbelievers as a group.
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For example, genesis 19 says
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Angels were involved
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In the destruction of sodom and gomorrah.
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In psalm 78, it says the angels were responsible
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For the 10 plagues that befell egypt.
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In 2 kings 19, there is the story
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About an angel slaying
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185,000 assyrian 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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Chapters six 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
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The obituaries of unbelievers
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Who have died and the listed cause of death,
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Heart attack,
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Cancer,
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Car accident,
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But sometimes, not all the time,
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But sometimes
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Perhaps there's another cause.
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What is it that caused that cell
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To unexpectedly begin 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
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The final executioner for unbelievers, the bible says?
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In revelation 20, we have the most, i think,
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Terrifying passage 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
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For a judgment and they stood before the great white throne.
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Verse 15 says and if anyone's name was
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Not found written 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, his name written in the book of life?
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The only people's names who are
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Recorded in the book of life are
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Those who have trusted in jesus as savior.
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And if your name is not there,
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When you die and you stand before that judgment,
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There are no second chances,
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You will 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 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 13:49-50.
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Jesus said it will be the angels who do it.
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So it will be, jesus said, at the end of the age,
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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 believer 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,
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The death and the eternal judgment of unbelievers.
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But to us the question is
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What do angels do for us who are christians?
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Now, i promise we're going to get
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To the answer 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 and that is,
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Do christians have guardian angels?
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Is there one specific angel
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God has assigned to us 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, 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
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To one of three passages that appear
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To teach a guardian angel is assigned to each of us.
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The first one is in matthew 18:10.
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Turn over to matthew 18.
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The context of this passage is
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Jesus is talking about how people to be saved need
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To become like children.
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Look at matthew 18:3-4.
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And jesus said,
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Truly i say to you
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That unless you are converted 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 had this mistaken idea
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That children need to become 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
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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,
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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 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 be
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Hung around his neck and that he be drowned
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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, but not only children.
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He's talking about new christians.
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Well, 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 are a little one in god's family.
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What 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
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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 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 saw,
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Remember, i'll never forget an illustration
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That 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,
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Ever, 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 the,
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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
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That caused 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 be.
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Now, we do have angels watching over us,
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But does verse 10 actually say
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There is one angel 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, acts 12:15.
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This is about herod.
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Before he got his case of angelitis,
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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 six and seven,
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And on the very night when herod was
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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 were
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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, saying,
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"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, perhaps.
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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.
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(dr. jeffress knocks)
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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, 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 91:11-13,
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This is the passage we read in our scripture reading.
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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
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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,
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Worked for braniff airlines.
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And one of the perks of working with an airline is
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You got to travel free
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And 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, you know, going
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To airports thinking 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 the 29th,
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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,
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Was ready to get on,
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When a paying passenger showed up
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At the last moment 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
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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
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Over buffalo, texas,
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The left wing of that electro turbo jet
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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,
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It was the angels who were caring for him.
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And not that god loved my father
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More 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
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One specific angel assigned to us
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Really isn't that important.
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Calvin says if anyone does not think it enough
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To know that all the orders of the heavenly host are
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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
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The idea of one guardian angel is great,
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How much better is knowing there are
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A whole legion of angels available to meet
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Whatever need you have in your life?
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The god who controls the fate of nations,
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Of america, of israel,
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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
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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
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At three specific ways
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The angels minister to us in our everyday life.
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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,
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I want to take a moment to acknowledge
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Our pathway partners
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And the many others who support this ministry.
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It's my voice you hear on "pathway to victory",
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But it's friends like you who help us send
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This program out every day across our nation
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And around the world.
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The darkness in our world is overwhelming,
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But the light of the gospel shines bright.
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Thank you so much for helping us bring
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Light into this darkness
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Through bold, biblical and practical bible teaching.
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Now stay right there,
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I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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In just a moment.
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I want to speak tonight on angels
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Because i want to answer the question
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Are there angels?
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We have whole bookshelves on demons,
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The occult and satan,
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But you can hardly find a book on angels.
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But i do know that this book teaches
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From genesis to revelation the existence of angels.
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To the great patriarchs, angels appeared,
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And the angels appeared
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All the way through the new testament.
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People have always been fascinated
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With the subject of angels.
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There are television shows,
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There are movies about angels.
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People are interested in angels,
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But is this increase
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In interest in angels in our country,
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Is it a sign of a growing spirituality in our country
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Or is it an indicator of something else?
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The tendency to substitute
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The worship of angels for the worship of god is nothing new.
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Angels are wonderful,
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They are helpful,
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But they are never to be taken as superior to jesus christ.
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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 to see
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The realities of the unseen world.
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God uses his angels to accomplish his purposes in our lives
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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
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At the specific ways that we're touched
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By an angel in today's world.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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In our series, "the truth about angels".
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You know every day there are
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Things that happen to you and me
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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,
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You have the assurance 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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Robert Jeffress - Touched By An Angel

July 30, 2025 | S25 E363 | 29:0

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