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Robert Jeffress - The Truth About Angels (Part 1)

July 28, 2025 | S25 E359 | 29:0

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Truth About Angels (Part 1) | July 28, 2025

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[announcer] 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 am 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,
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I'm going to show you what the bible teaches
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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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[announcer] angels are a very real
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Dr. graham combines testimonies and accounts of those
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People have always been fascinated
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With the subject of angels.
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Recent polls reveal that 70% of americans believe
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In the existence of angels, 46% of americans believe
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That they have a guardian angel,
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32% believe that they've had a personal encounter
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With an angel.
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Back in 1975,
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When billy graham 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 on god
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And his rules, angels are the handy compromise,
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All fluff and meringue, kind, nonjudgmental,
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And they are available 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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That said, "oh, we are too humble to worship god.
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We'll worship the angels instead."
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And there was a similar problem going on
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In the first century with the hebrew christians.
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In fact, you'll 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 from their fellow jews
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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 home
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At the hands of the roman authorities.
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And so they were being tempted 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 judaism
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And the laws of the old testament.
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And so the writer to the hebrews,
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The writer of the letter of the hebrews said,
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"wait a minute, 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 jesus
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Is the superior priest 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
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To show how christianity is superior to judaism
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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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We talked about that last sunday night
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At the reagan library.
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Is there really that much difference?
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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
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About how jesus christ is superior
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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
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That the prophet's message was only fragmentary.
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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
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In verses one to three,
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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 four of hebrews chapter one.
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Jesus is also superior to the angels.
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Look at this, "jesus,
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Having become as much better than the angels,
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As he has inherited a more excellent name than they."
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Now, in what sense is jesus christ superior to the angels?
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Well, the writer points out four ways
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Beginning in verse four, 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 mini series,
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I call it a series within a series,
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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 triple a 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 four 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
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Everything i learned 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
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Who overestimate 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 to assume that something
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That is not visible 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 were nevertheless real.
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So 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 refused
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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, 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 chapter five.
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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 we just sang about, 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,
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"but an angel of the lord, during the night,
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Opened the gates of the prison 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, where do they go?
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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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-(congregation laughing) -yeah, they're real,
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Even though we can't see them.
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Now i want you to look at several things the bible tells us
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About angels, first of all, about their creation.
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Angels have not are 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,
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Whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities,
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All things have been created 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 chapter 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 seven,
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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 created sometime
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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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"10 thousands upon 10 thousands."
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In fact, in revelation chapter 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 10 thousands upon 10 thousands,"
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There are literally hundreds of millions of angels.
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What is interesting is the number of angels
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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 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
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In luke chapter 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
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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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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 or given in marriage and we can't die anymore,"?
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I mean, i know some people you know wish they were dead
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-who are married right now. -(congregation laughing)
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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
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Is 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 when they die,
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They become angels, they don't become angels.
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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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Say, what do you mean by that?
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I want you to think for a moment, think about the difference
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Between me 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, this podium has no personality.
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I have a 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, 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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Did you know angels
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Have 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, why?
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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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In 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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In 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, they believe
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That jesus died for the sins of the world, they know that.
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They believe that jesus arose from the dead.
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You know, this should forever dispel the idea
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That just believing intellectually the right things
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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 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 in the cross
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When he said, 'it is finished,'
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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
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About why the great god of the universe
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Would humble himself, send his son to calvary,
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To die of humiliating death on our behalf.
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In 1 peter 1:11 to 12, 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, 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
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Didn't understand 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
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Of the chief reasons christ saved you
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Was so that all creation, ephesians 2 says,
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All creation in heaven, 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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Maybe 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
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And saying, "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 that i created,
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The human race."
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That's what the angels don't get.
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We are exhibit as of god's love and compassion.
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Angels have intellect, secondly, angels have emotion.
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And 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,
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"that they rejoice 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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And i hope you'll join us for the remainder of this series
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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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Now, in closing, let me say a word of thanks
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To our pathway partners
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And everyone who supports "pathway to victory."
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Not a day passes without hearing from someone
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Who is grateful for the teaching they hear on this program.
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Recently, carol from wisconsin wrote
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To share how she uses "pathway to victory"
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To help mentor her three teenage granddaughters.
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She wrote, "every week we study and memorize god's word
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And learned to pray for each other and our nation.
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Mentoring my granddaughters has given me renewed joy
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And sense of purpose since my husband died.
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I'm so grateful for 'pathway to victory.'"
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Well, carol, thank you for your encouraging note
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And all that you're doing to invest in the lives
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Of your three granddaughters
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And thanks to all who make this program possible.
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Your efforts are bearing much fruit.
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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, are there angels?
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♪ music ♪
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We have whole bookshelves on demons, 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, their movies about angels.
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People are interested in 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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The tendency to substitute the worship of angels
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For the worship of god is nothing new.
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Angels are wonderful, they are helpful,
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But they are never to be taken as superior to jesus christ.
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Many christians are surprised to learn
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That the bible contains so many reverences to angels.
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Some of us assume that angels are a little more than a myth
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Or perhaps a divine force that no longer operates today.
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Well, the bible is clear,
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Angels are real and they're actively working
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To carry out god's purpose on earth.
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And next time, we'll continue
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To see 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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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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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)

July 28, 2025 | S25 E359 | 29:0

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