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Robert Jeffress - The Truth About Angels (Part 1)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Truth About Angels (Part 1) | May 25, 2026

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From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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Christians and non-christians alike
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Are fascinated by angels.
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In today's world, thanks to hollywood,
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Sensational stories abound.
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So how do we know the difference between fact and fiction
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When it comes to angels?
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Today and over the next several days, i'm going to show you
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What the bible teaches about these mysterious beings.
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My message is titled the truth about angels,
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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People have always been fascinated
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With the subject of angels.
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Recent polls revealed that 70% of americans
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Believe in the existence of angels.
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46% of americans believe that they have a guardian angel.
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32% believe that they've had
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A personal encounter with an angel.
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Back in 1975, when billy graham
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Wrote his groundbreaking book on angels,
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He claims he couldn't find any books,
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Any material anywhere on the subject.
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But now more than 40 years later, you can go to bookstores
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And see whole sections devoted to angelology,
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The study of angels.
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But is this increase 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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Our friend, dr. david jeremiah writes,
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"the syrupy-sweet, spirit-tingling taste
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Of a little angelism can ruin people's appetite
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For the good solid food of god's word
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And his gospel of grace and truth."
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Even time magazine agrees with that assessment
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When it writes, "for those who choke too easily
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On god and his rules, angels are the handy compromise,
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All fluff and meringue.
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Kind, nonjudgmental, and they are available
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To everyone like aspirin."
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Another writer says, "angels offer spirituality
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Devoid of jesus and god."
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Belief in god has been so de-popularized in america,
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That now belief in anything can happen.
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The search is on for spirituality, but without god.
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Actually, the interest people have in angels
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And the tendency to substitute the worship of angels
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For the worship of god is nothing new.
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2,000 years ago, you'll remember, in the church at colossi,
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Paul wrote a letter to that church
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That was filled with false teachers.
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And some of the false teachers had this false humility.
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They said, oh, we are too humble to worship god,
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We'll worship the angels instead.
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There was a similar problem going on in the first century
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With the hebrew christians.
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In fact, you will remember that this letter to the hebrews
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That we're studying in the new testament,
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It was a letter that was written primarily
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To jewish believers who were suffering persecution
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Because of their belief.
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They were suffering persecution
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From their fellow jews who couldn't understand
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Why they would give judaism up for christianity.
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They were suffering at the hands of the roman authorities.
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And so, they were being tempted
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To give up their christianity
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And go back to a more comfortable judaism
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And a belief in the laws of the old testament.
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And so, the writer of the letter of the hebrews said,
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Wait a minute.
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Before you give up your christian faith
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And go back into judaism,
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Consider how christianity is superior to judaism.
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The theme of the book of hebrews is,
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Jesus is the superior priest
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Who's offered a superior sacrifice
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To accomplish a superior salvation.
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And so, the writer goes back to show how christianity
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Is superior to judaism in some key ways.
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You know, those who were being tempted
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To give up christianity to go back into judaism,
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They were really saying, well, is there much difference
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Between judaism and christianity?
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I mean, after all, judaism has prophets.
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It has the law, it has a sacrificial system.
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Well, heck, it even has angels.
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Well, why give up judaism
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To go into this new religion called christianity?
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And so, the writer of the letter to the hebrews
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Makes a meticulous argument about how jesus christ
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Is superior to every element of judaism.
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He starts with the prophets.
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Yes, the prophets were wonderful.
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The jews worship the prophets.
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But the writer points out that the prophet's message
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Was only fragmentary, no prophet had the whole picture.
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He only had bits and pieces of god's message.
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But jesus christ is god's final word to humanity.
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If you want to know what god is like
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And what he requires from you and me, look at jesus.
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Jesus said, "i and the father are one.
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He who has seen me has seen the father."
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And now the writer, having pointed out in verses 1 to 3
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Christianity's superiority to the prophets,
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Now turns to the subject of angels.
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Look at verse 4 of hebrews 1.
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Jesus is also superior to the angels.
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Look at this, "jesus having become as much better
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Than the angels, as he has inherited
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A more excellent name than they."
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Now, in what sense is jesus christ
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Superior to the angels?
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Well, the writer points out four ways beginning in verse 4
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All the way down to verse 14.
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And we're going to look at that in just a moment.
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But we're actually going to today
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Begin a little miniseries on the whole subject of angels.
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How many of you find angels interesting, the topic?
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I mean, we all do.
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I mean, 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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And so, for the next couple of weeks,
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We're going to look and see what the bible says in general
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And what hebrews says specifically about angels.
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I'm calling this series within a series,
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The truth about angels,
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God's aaa service for believers.
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That's what angels really are, we'll see in just a moment.
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But before we look at verses 4 to 14,
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Let's talk about the bible in general
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And what it says about angels.
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Did you know there are 275 references in the bible
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To the subject of angels?
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When i was in seminary,
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We had a course that every seminary student had to take
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On angelology, the study of angels.
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It's such a major topic and subject,
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There's a whole course devoted to it.
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Now, i'm not going to make you enroll in seminary,
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I'm going to tell you in about 20 minutes everything i learned
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In a semester, okay?
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You can get it in 20 minutes,
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Everything you need to know about angels.
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And so, do you have your pen ready?
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You have your piece of paper?
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I've got it down on the outline,
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Just some basic things we need to know about angels.
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First of all, the reality of angels.
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You know, there are some people who overestimate
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Angels and their importance.
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But there are other people who deny the existence of angels.
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They think, oh, this is just mythology.
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Angels, why, they're invisible.
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And they think invisible means not real.
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You know, that's a tragic mistake,
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To assume that something that is not visible
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To the naked eye is not real.
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I mean, electricity is invisible.
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But just stick your finger in a socket,
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You'll discover the reality of electricity.
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You can't see it, but it's certainly there, isn't it?
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Now, think of other things we can't see.
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Germs, genes, chromosomes,
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So many of the foundations of science
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Are invisible to the naked eye,
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But they are nevertheless real.
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So it is with the angels.
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Now, interestingly, there was a whole sect of judaism
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That did not believe in angels.
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They were called the sadducees.
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And this sect of judaism
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Refused to believe in anything supernatural.
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They didn't believe in angels,
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They didn't believe in heaven.
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They didn't believe in hell,
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They didn't believe in the resurrection.
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And if you don't think god has a sense of humor,
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Just listen to this account from acts 5.
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The bible says that this group
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That didn't believe in angels, the sadducees,
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Arrested the apostles for preaching
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In the name of jesus.
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And what happened to the apostles while they were in prison?
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Acts 5:19 says, "but an angel of the lord,
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During the night, opened the gates of the prison
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And took the apostles out."
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Now, just think about this. can you see these apostles?
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They get sprung from jail by an angel.
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Where do they go? they go to see the sadducees.
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And with the chains still dangling from their arms,
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They say to the sadducees, now tell us one more reason
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And one more time why you don't believe in angels.
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(congregants laughing)
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Yeah, they're real even though we can't see them.
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Now, i want you to look at several things
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The bible tells us about angels.
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First of all, about their creation.
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Angels have not always existed.
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They're not like god the father, the son,
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And the holy spirit who've existed from eternity past.
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There was a point in time in which angels were created.
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Colossians 1:16 says, "for by him," that is jesus,
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"all things were created both in heavens and on earth,
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Visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions
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Or rulers or authorities, all things have been created
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By jesus and for jesus."
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Jesus created everything we see,
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And those things we don't see,
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Including the invisible angels.
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The phrase thrones, dominions, rulers
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Is a reference to angels.
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When did this happen?
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At what point in history did god create the angels?
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Well, remember in job 38:4,
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God asked job a question?
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He said, "where were you
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When i laid the earth's foundation?"
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And then he adds in verse 7,
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"when the morning stars sang together
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And all of the angels shouted for joy."
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Now, we know god formed the foundation of the earth
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On the third day of creation.
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So that means the angels had to be in existence by then.
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So they were sometime before the third day of creation.
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How many of them are there?
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Hebrews 12:22 speaks of thousands upon thousands.
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But the bible also speaks of, in psalm 68:17,
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Ten thousands upon ten thousands.
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In fact, in revelation 5:11, john says,
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"and i looked and i heard the voice of many angels
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Around the throne and the living creatures and the elders,
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And the number of those angels was myriads of myriads
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And thousands of thousands."
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That greek word myriad represented the highest level
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Of number in the greek system, 10,000.
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And so, when john says, "i saw myriads upon myriads,"
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He was saying, i saw ten thousands upon ten thousands,
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There are literally hundreds of millions of angels.
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What is interesting is,
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The number of angels has never changed.
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Angels never die.
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They're neither added to,
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Nor is their number subtracted from.
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And all angels that were created will exist forever.
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Some will exist in heaven praising god,
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As revelation 5 says.
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The fallen angels, those who chose to follow lucifer,
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Satan, in his rebellion against god
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Will exist forever in the lake of fire
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Being tormented day and night forever and ever.
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Revelation 20 says that is the fate of every human being
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Who dies without accepting god's forgiveness through christ.
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But, again, they exist for eternity
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And their numbers neither decrease or increase.
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By the way, that's what jesus was talking about in luke 20.
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Turn over there for a moment to luke 20.
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Here's another case where the sadducees,
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Who didn't believe in the resurrection,
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Decided to try to stump jesus with a theological question.
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They said, now, jesus suppose there's a woman
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And she's married to a guy who dies
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And she marries another guy and another one and another one.
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And she ends up with seven different husbands.
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Now, in the resurrection when they get to heaven,
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Which by the way, we don't believe in,
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But when they get to heaven,
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Whose husband will be her husband?
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Boy, they thought they had tricked jesus with that question.
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But notice what jesus says in verse 34.
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"and jesus said to them, the sons of this age marry
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And are given in marriage.
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But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age
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And the resurrection from the dead,
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That is they neither marry nor are they given in marriage."
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When he talks about the resurrection from the dead,
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He's talking about in our resurrected bodies,
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We neither marry nor are given in marriage, why?
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"for neither can they die anymore, for they are like angels
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And are sons of god, being sons of the resurrection."
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Now, i'll have to tell you, i never really understood this
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Till i put this together this week.
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I always wondered, you know,
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Why it is jesus associates marriage with death.
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Why does he say, in heaven we neither marry
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Nor are given in marriage and we can't die anymore?
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I mean, i know some people, you know,
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Wish they were dead who are married right now.
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But, you know, why did jesus associate death with marriage?
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Listen to what jesus is saying.
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He is saying, the reason we don't marry in heaven is,
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We don't need to procreate in heaven.
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The population of heaven will never change.
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We do not die in heaven.
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Therefore, we are going to be like the angels in this sense,
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The number of redeemed believers never changes.
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It's always the same.
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And that's why believers don't reproduce in heaven.
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The number is fixed in heaven.
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In that sense, we are like angels.
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And by the way, will you notice he says,
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We are like angels in this one way?
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Parents don't tell your children,
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When they die, they become angels.
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They don't become angels. we don't become angels.
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We become much better than the angels,
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And as we'll see in just a moment.
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The personality of angels.
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We've talked about their reality and their creation,
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Let's talk about their personality.
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Did you know angels have a personality?
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You say, "what do you mean by that?"
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I want you to think for a moment,
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Think about the difference between me
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And this wooden podium.
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Hopefully you can see a difference between the two of us.
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But beyond physiology,
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This podium has no personality.
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I have personality like you do.
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You see, there are three elements
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That constitute a personality.
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To have a personality, you have to have,
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First of all, intellect.
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You have to know things.
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You have to have accumulated knowledge.
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This podium knows absolutely nothing.
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Secondly, you have to have emotion.
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You have to be able to feel things.
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This podium can't feel anything.
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Thirdly, you have to have a will.
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That is the ability to make a choice,
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To make a plan, and to execute that plan.
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I do that, this podium can't do that.
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This podium, while i'm preaching, cannot be thinking,
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Gee, i wonder what i'll do for lunch today.
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It's not thinking that, but i'm thinking that right now.
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(congregants laughing)
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And i know some of you are thinking that right now.
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There's a difference between me and this podium.
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Did you know angels have
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All three elements of a personality?
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First of all, the bible says that they have intellect.
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They know things.
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In some ways, their intellect is greater than ours
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Because they've been around a longer period of time.
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They've accumulated certain knowledge.
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Ezekiel 28:17 tells us that satan,
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Originally god's chief angel, was corrupted.
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Why? because of his wisdom.
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He became proud over his wisdom.
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According to revelation 10:17,
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They know something about god's future.
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Did you know that even the fallen angels,
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The demons, have intelligence, intellect?
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They understand things about jesus christ
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That many humans don't understand.
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And mark 1:24 and 34,
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The demons recognize jesus as the son of god.
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Did you know demons are very orthodox in their theology?
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They believe all of the right things about jesus.
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They believe that jesus was the son of god.
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And mark 1, again, many times they will say,
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"we know who you are, you are the son of god."
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They believe in the deity of christ,
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They believe that jesus died for the sins of the world.
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They know that. they believe that jesus arose from the dead.
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You know, this should forever dispel
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The idea that just believing intellectually
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The right things about jesus will get you to heaven.
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We have this intellectual christianity.
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Well, as long as i believe these certain facts
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About jesus, i will go to heaven.
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Listen to me, you can believe that jesus is the son of god
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Who died for the sins of the world
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And rose again on the third day.
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You can believe those and go straight to hell when you die,
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Because the demons believe those things as well.
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In fact, did you know the demons believe those things
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More than you do or i do?
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Because they were eyewitnesses.
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They saw him on the cross, they saw his miracles.
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They were there when the tomb was empty.
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It's not enough to believe that jesus is the son of god
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Who died for the sins of the world
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And rose again on the third day.
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There has to be a time in your life, in my life,
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When i say, i believe that jesus died for my sins.
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And i believe that my only hope of heaven
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Is trusting in what he did on the cross when he said,
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"it is finished," and he paid my sin debt forever.
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Without christ, i only deserve hell.
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I am clinging to, trusting in, believing in jesus
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And what he did for me for eternal life.
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And the bible says the moment we do that,
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Our name is in the book of life
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And it shall never be erased.
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That's what it means to be a christian.
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But demons understand the right things about jesus,
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But they've never trusted in jesus for their salvation.
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You know, even though angels understand a lot of things
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Perhaps better than we do,
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There's one thing they have no clue about
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And that is our salvation.
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The angels are curious about
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Why the great god of the universe would humble himself,
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Send his son to calvary
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To die a humiliating death on our behalf.
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In 1 peter 1:11 to 12,
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Peter's talking about the prophets,
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How they had limited knowledge.
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He says, "the prophets, seeking to know what person
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Or time the spirit of christ within them was indicating
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As he predicted the sufferings of christ
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And the glories to follow.
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It was revealed to the prophets
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That they were not serving themselves, but you
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In these things which now have been announced to you
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Through those who preach the gospel to you
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By the holy spirit sent from heaven,
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Things into which the angels long to look."
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What peter is saying is, the prophets didn't understand
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Everything they were writing about.
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But now the apostles had preached to you the story of christ
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And his redemption, the salvation he offers,
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Subject matter which the angels long to look into.
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They don't get it, they don't understand it.
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In fact, did you know one of the chief reasons
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Christ saved you was so that all creation,
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Ephesians 2 says, "all creation in heaven,
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On earth, and under the earth
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Can see what a magnificent god we serve."
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Jesus christ in his coming to earth is exhibit a
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To all of the created being both in heaven and in earth,
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May be on other planets.
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I know i'll get letters about that.
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I don't know if there are other people out there or not.
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But what i do know is, if there's life in other places
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In the universe, god is pointing to planet earth and saying,
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If you want to know what kind of god i am
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And how much i love humanity, look and see what i did
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In sending my son jesus to die for this race
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That i created, the human race.
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That's what the angels don't get.
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We are exhibit a's of god's love and compassion.
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Angels have intellect. secondly, angels have emotion.
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Job 38:7 says they express joy.
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Isaiah 6:3 says they have the ability to worship.
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Luke 15 says, verse 10, that they rejoice
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When somebody comes to faith in christ.
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♪ music ♪
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This is going to be a fun and fascinating study
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As we learn the truth about angels.
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As we learn what the bible says about angels
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And their role in our lives.
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To carry out god's purpose on earth.
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What the bible in general
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And the book of hebrews specifically teaches
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About god's ministering servants.
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In our series, the truth about angels.
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Do you know interestingly, the only person in the bible
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Whoever encouraged somebody else to worship
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Or speak to angels was satan?
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Remember when jesus was being tempted in the wilderness,
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What did satan say to jesus?
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Oh, go to the angels. they will minister to you.
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They will protect you. seek help from the angels.
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No, we're to never worship angels.
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Robert Jeffress - The Truth About Angels (Part 1)

May 25, 2026 | 27:29

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