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Robert Jeffress - Using Your Divine Defense

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Using Your Divine Defense | April 26, 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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It's one thing to know that god has given us spiritual armor
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To protect ourselves from the enemy,
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But it's another thing to actually put on that armor.
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Today we're going to wrap up our series called,
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The divine defense, with some practical steps
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For a diminishing satan's influence in your everyday life.
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I'm going to share six resolves that will help you
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Stand firm against the forces of darkness.
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My message is titled, using your divine defense,
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ i waited patiently ♪
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♪ waited upon the lord ♪
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♪ then he turned to me ♪
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♪ for he heard every cry ♪
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♪ my god lifted me out of the darkened pit ♪
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♪ and set me on a rock where i have built my life ♪
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♪ blessed are the ones who trust ♪
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♪ who trust upon the lord ♪
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♪ and never turn away to any other god ♪
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♪ no other one compares to all our god has done ♪
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♪ and all his plans for us ♪
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♪ his love and faithfulness ♪
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♪ i'll share with every breath ♪
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♪ i will not hide his name ♪
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♪ or righteousness within ♪
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♪ though many troubles come, my feet are on his word ♪
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♪ so i will rest in him ♪
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♪ he put a new song of praise in my mouth ♪
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♪ so i lift my hands as i am shouting it out ♪
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♪ you are my help and my defender ♪
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♪ you are my god and you great ♪
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♪ i will declare the lord's salvation ♪
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♪ worthy is your name ♪
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♪ music ♪
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♪ may all who seek you ♪
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♪ rejoice and be glad for the lord is great ♪
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♪ rejoice and be glad for the lord is great ♪
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♪ rejoice and be glad for the lord is great ♪
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♪ you are my help and my defender ♪
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♪ you are my god and you are great ♪
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♪ i will declare the lord's salvation ♪
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♪ worthy is your name ♪
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♪ you are my help and my defender ♪
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♪ you are my god and you are great ♪
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♪ i will declare the lord's salvation ♪
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♪ worthy is your name ♪
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♪ worthy, worthy, you are worthy ♪
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♪ worthy is your name, your name ♪
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(applause)
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Whether you know it or not, you are in a battle.
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Satan has a strategy to attack your faith,
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Disrupt your family, and derail your future,
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But god has given you everything you need
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To fight back and win.
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In "the divine defense," dr. robert jeffress
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Reveals six practical strategies from ephesians 6
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To defeat satan's destructive plan.
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When you put on the full armor of god,
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Satan doesn't have a prayer.
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Request, "the divine defense,"
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When you give a generous ministry gift
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To "pathway to victory."
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♪ music ♪
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A pastor friend of mine preached
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An excruciatingly long series on the book of job
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And finally when he reached the end that final sunday
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And he announced it would be the final message
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Without any cue, the audience stood up
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And applauded the announcement.
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Thank you for not doing that.
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Even though we are in the final message in our series,
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The divine defense, i understand why some people
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May be ready to move on.
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I understand why i'm ready to move on.
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I mean, it's hard hearing week after week
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That you've got an enemy who's trying to destroy
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Everything important to you, but it's true,
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And we need to be reminded of that.
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That's the bad news.
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The good news is god has given us everything we need
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To be successful in that fight against our adversary,
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The devil, and we've spent the last months in the book
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Of ephesians 6 talking about those six weapons,
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Strategies that god has given to us.
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Today as we wrap up that series, i wanted to do so
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On a practical note and today we're going to answer
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The so what question.
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What can i do to diminish satan's influence in my life?
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And i'd like to share with you six practical decisions
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Or resolves we need to make to diminish the influence
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Of our enemy.
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And the number one, the most basic decision
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Is to receive christ as your personal savior.
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Receive christ as your savior.
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Now let me be clear.
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Becoming a christian doesn't present satan's influence
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In your life, but it does prevent
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His ownership of your life.
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And there's a vast difference between ownership
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And influence.
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For example, let's say i own a hamburger stand.
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I get to control everything about that hamburger business.
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I can say what size the meat patties are going to be,
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What style of french fries are served,
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What the prices are, who works there.
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I control it all because i own it.
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What i do own are a few hundred shares
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Of mcdonald's hamburgers.
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Now, that's not a lot.
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There are millions of shares of mcdonald's.
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Like i own about 200 of them.
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Now, i have the right to go
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To the shareholders meeting every year
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Because i'm a stakeholder.
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But if i start making suggestions,
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How much attention do you think i'm going to be paid?
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Not much.
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I'm a little tiny shareholder in a big company.
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There's a difference between influence and ownership.
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My influence is limited
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To how many shares i own of the company.
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It's the same way in our relationship with satan.
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The difference between satanic or demonic possession
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And satanic influence is not just splitting
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Theological hairs.
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It's very important.
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Satan cannot own us once we become a christian.
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He doesn't own us.
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Any claims he makes of ownership are based on a lie.
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Satan can't own us, he can't control us,
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But he can influence us based on how many shares
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Of our life he has.
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Whatever portion of our life is not submitted
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To jesus christ is open to satan's influence,
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And so that's why the most important decision you can make
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Is the decision to trust in christ as your savior.
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What's the second decision we need to make?
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The decision to refuse
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To participate in any occult activities.
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If we want to diminish satan's influence,
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We need to refuse to be engaged in the occult.
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Now, the word occult means hidden or secret.
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And simply put, the occult is any attempt
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To have a supernatural experience apart from god.
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The bible mentions three specific practices
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That we are to avoid as a christian.
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First of all, divinations.
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Divinations.
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What is a divination?
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It's an attempt to ascertain information about
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The future apart from god.
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It would include things like ouija boards,
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Astrology, horoscopes.
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All of that is an attempt to receive information about
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The future from a source other than god.
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Deuteronomy 18 verses 10 to 11,
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There shall not be found among you anyone who makes a son
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Or daughter pass through the fire,
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One who uses, there it is, divination,
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One who practices witchcraft or one who interprets omens
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Or a sorcerer or one who cast spells or a medium
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Or a spiritist or one who calls upon the dead.
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God wouldn't prohibit that if it were not a reality,
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But the fact is there is supernatural power in this universe
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Apart from god's, so we're to shun
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Any attempt at divination.
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Secondly, we're to avoid magic.
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Magic.
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Now, when god talks about magic,
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He's not talking about card tricks.
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He's not talking about pulling rabbits out of a hat
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Like our friend dr. jim wicker does.
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Every time he preaches,
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He has a magic trick where you don't have to go out
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And burn him at the stake, and that's not prohibited
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Because what he's doing and other magicians today do,
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Those are illusions.
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We call them illusions.
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They are something that appear to be real,
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But they're not real.
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Magic is real.
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It's a supernatural power
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Utilizing that power apart from god.
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There is such a thing as black magic.
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Magic that utilizes satan's power
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And we're to avoid it at all times.
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Third, the occult practice word to avoid is spiritism.
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Spiritism.
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Again, leviticus 20 talks about spiritism.
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What is that?
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It's the attempt to communicate the spirits of the deceased
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To obtain comfort or knowledge of some kind.
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Spiritism is calling on the spirits
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Of those who are deceased.
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Now, does satan have the power,
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The authority over the spirits of christian
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Who are with god right now?
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Absolutely not.
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He didn't possess them while they were on earth.
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He has no mandate over their spirits
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When they're in heaven with christ.
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Thirdly, a resolve we need to make
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To diminish satan's influence in our life.
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Renounce satan and his kingdom.
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I remember experience i had when i was six years old.
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It was a saturday afternoon.
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I was having one of those parent imposed naps
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They tried to force us into.
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It was a saturday afternoon.
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I didn't want to go to sleep,
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And so i was laying on the top bunk of our bunk bed
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And thought, "what am i going to do
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To entertain myself for the next hour?"
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And i thought, "why not have a conversation with the devil?"
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So i actually pretended i was talking to satan.
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Now i can't remember anything i said,
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But i remember the feeling
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Of how wrong what i was doing was.
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Many years after that i started studying these principles
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And i went back to that experience.
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And at first i thought, oh,
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That's just harmless childhood curiosity.
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It's nothing.
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But then i thought, if it was nothing,
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Why do i remember it so vividly decades later?
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So i decided to have another brief conversation
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With the devil and i said, satan,
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I don't remember what i said to you when i was six.
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I don't remember what if any agreement i made with you,
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But i want you to know right now
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I am renouncing any commitment i've ever made to you.
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I do not serve you.
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I serve jesus christ alone.
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And to me, that was the renouncing of the devil.
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Now you know what i have found since then?
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It's not only children
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Who sometimes make deals with the devil.
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Sometimes adults, either non-christians
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Or sometimes even christians at a time of weakness
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Made a covenant with the devil
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Maybe out of some disappointment, the loss of a mate.
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Now, some of you think
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I'm just talking looney tunes right now.
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You can't imagine doing that, but some of you know
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What i am talking about.
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Making a deal with the devil out of disappointment.
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Let me just say clearly whether you're a christian or not,
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If at any time you've made any agreement with the devil,
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I think it's important that you renounce
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That agreement you've made and announce
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Your fidelity to jesus christ.
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A fourth important principle for resisting satan's influence
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Is to resist satan's attempt to influence your life.
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Resist.
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God wouldn't tell us to do something
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That he didn't give us the power to do.
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We have the power to resist the devil
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If we use the weapons that he's given us.
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First of all, put on the belt of truth.
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That's the strategy of replacing destructive thoughts
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With god's thoughts.
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The mind is our spiritual battlefield.
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We need to be continually replacing wrong thoughts
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With god's thoughts, and there's no better way to do that
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Than through a regular intake of god's word.
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By the way, one sermon a week, every other week isn't enough
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To give you what you need to resist the devil.
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We need a continuing daily intake through the ear gate
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Of god's word, whether it's through scripture,
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Songs, sermons, the reading of god's word.
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Let me encourage you, here's the suggestion
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To find some time during wasted time
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To get more of god's word into your life.
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Instead of when you're on the treadmill or exercising,
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Listening to secular music, listen to praise hymns.
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Get some rebecca st. james recordings
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And listen to 'em if you will.
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Or instead of in the car when you're driving,
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Instead of just listening to talk radio and getting madder
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And madder and matter, listen to a sermon.
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Listen to the word of god.
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That's what i do every morning when i'm exercising.
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I'm listening to somebody talking about the word of god.
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Put on the belt of truth.
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Replace destructive thoughts with god's thoughts.
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Secondly, the breastplate of righteousness.
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Remember what that is?
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It's doing what you know you should do.
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Righteousness means right acting.
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Put on the breastplate of righteousness.
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What's the one thing you could start doing
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Or stop doing that would bring most pleasure with god?
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I bet you already know what it is.
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Go ahead and put on that breastplate of obedience.
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Thirdly, your spiritual boots.
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Make god's business your business.
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You know, putting on your spiritual boots
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Is the preparation of the gospel of peace.
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When you make winning people to christ,
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Which is god's business, when you adopt that
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As your purpose in life, your business,
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It gives you stability,
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It gives you direction in life,
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It gives you the power to say no to temptation.
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Make god's business your business.
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Number four, the shield of faith.
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Take up the shield of faith.
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What is faith?
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It's believing that god will do
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What he's promised to do and acting accordingly.
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Don't let satan paralyze you.
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Move forward in that thing you know god wants you to do
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And leave the consequences to god.
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That's the shield of faith.
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Fifth, the helmet of salvation.
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That's the resolve to remember your power to win.
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The helmet of salvation.
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Remind yourself over and over again,
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You don't have to be a victim.
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You can be the victor.
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When god saved you, he not only saved you
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From the penalty of sin, eternity in hell.
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He saved you from the power of sin.
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Sin has no more power in your life
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Than you choose to allow it to have.
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One practical thing you can do is memorize three verses.
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Roman 6:11 through 13.
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It's about our power to say no to sin.
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And finally, the sixth weapon,
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Take up the sword of the spirit, which is the word of god.
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Strengthen your resolve to resist.
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How do you do that?
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By memorizing and meditating on specific scripture verses
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That will help you in the struggle.
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When jesus was in the wilderness being tempted by satan,
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When satan tempted him, what did jesus do?
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Did he pull out an old testament scroll and say,
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Well, i know there's something in here
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Somewhere i need to know.
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No. he went immediately without any scroll to the book
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Of deuteronomy and recorded the precise,
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Remembered and recited the precise verse
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He needed for himself to give him the power
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To say no to satan.
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We need to do the same thing.
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We need to be able to use god's word skillfully.
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Now, here's the practical suggestion.
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How do i memorize scripture?
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There's a little tool put out by the navigators
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Called the topical memory system.
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You can get it for about $11 on amazon.
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It's a little packet with 60 different cards,
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60 different verses for every situation
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You may face in life.
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Do you need comfort after a great loss?
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There's a verse for you.
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Do you need help in saying no to temptation?
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There's a verse for you.
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Are you feeling depressed?
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There's a verse to encourage you.
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There are 60 verses.
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So if you memorize one verse a week, in about a year's time,
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You'll have every verse you need
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For any foreseen circumstance that you might need the truth
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And the power of god's word.
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Strengthen your resolve to resist.
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How do i diminish satan's influence in my life?
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Number five, rely on prayer.
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Look at ephesians 6:18.
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After he talks about the weapons,
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Paul says, with all prayer and petition,
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Pray at all times in the spirit.
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You know, some people wonder, why didn't paul treat prayer
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Is another one of the spiritual weapons?
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It's kind of interesting he doesn't.
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They ask me, why don't preach a sermon
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In this series on prayer?
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Well, prayer isn't treated as one of the weapons.
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It's an assumption of paul.
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He assumes that you're going to be praying,
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Especially when you're in spiritual war.
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You know, if you were going to buy a book called,
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"how to dress for success,"
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You probably wouldn't expect to open that book
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And chapter one, say, remember to breathe.
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That probably wouldn't be the first chapter of the book
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Because the author would assume
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You were going to keep breathing.
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I mean, breathing's necessary to dress correctly.
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You won't have the strength
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To put on any clothes if you don't breathe,
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But that's assumed.
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It's the same way with prayer.
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Prayer is like spiritual breathing.
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In 1 thessalonians 5:17, paul said, pray without ceasing.
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We're to pray at all times.
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That phrase without ceasing, and greek means to pray
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With the persistence of a hacking cough.
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You know, sometimes i cough up here
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And as hard as i try to suppress it,
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I just can't suppress it.
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You know what that feeling is?
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Or same way with praying.
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It ought to be so natural to us that we can't suppress it.
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We have to have a continuing conversation with god.
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Learn to do that.
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Just don't wait till you're able to kneel down
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In concentrated prayer, make a conversation with god
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A part of your everyday life.
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Number six, what do we do
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To diminish satan's authority in our life?
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Remember that victory is possible.
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1 john 4:4 says, greater is he who is in you
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Than he who is in the world.
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If there's any thoughts i would like to leave you with today
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About spiritual warfare, it would be these.
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Be ready to jot these down.
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We've got 70 seconds left.
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Jot 'em down.
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Number one, spiritual warfare is real.
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This is not make belief, folks.
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This is real.
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In fact, spiritual warfare is the reality
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Behind every conflict you're facing right now.
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Spiritual warfare is real.
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Secondly, the struggle is intense.
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Any cessation in attacks by satan
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Is just a chance for him to reload.
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It's an intense study.
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He wants to lull you into complacency.
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Don't allow him to do that.
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Thirdly, remember, the enemy is determined.
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He has an actual blueprint the bible says.
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A method, a plan for your destruction.
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The christian battlefield is strewn with the corpses
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Of christians who have underestimated satan's resources
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And his resolve to destroy you.
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Number four, the stakes are high.
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Whether you win or fail in this struggle with satan
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Not only affects you, it affects others and their eternity.
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And finally, remember, you can win.
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God has already provided you everything you and i need
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To succeed in destroying satan's plan to destroy us.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for us to wake up.
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It's time to stand firm.
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It's time to put on our divine defense.
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Spiritual warfare is real and the stakes are high.
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But remember, victory has already been won
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Through jesus christ.
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Now, before we wrap up today,
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I want to share a note from lev in israel.
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He wrote, amid recent events and uncertainties in israel,
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"pathway to victory" has brought hope.
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The teachings have provided a comforting perspective
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Rooted in faith, helping me navigate
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Through challenging times.
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The program's messages have served as a constant reminder
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In these trying times.
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I'm certain i'm not the only one being blessed by them.
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Well, lev, thank you for those encouraging words.
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It's your generosity that is making an eternal difference
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As together we pierce the darkness
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With the light of god's word.
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Now please 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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That recurring temptation you can't shake,
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The doubts that creep in during your darkest moments,
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The tension in your closest relationships.
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These aren't random struggles.
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These are part of a strategic attack on your faith,
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Your family, and your future.
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Satan has a personalized plan to discourage, deceive,
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And derail you, but you don't have to live in defeat.
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God has given you access to the same power
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That raised jesus from the dead.
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In my bestselling book, "the divine defense,"
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I'll show you how to put on the full armor of god
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And use six biblical strategies to defeat satan's plan
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To destroy your life.
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On which he is warring against everything important to you.
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It is a battle that seeks to destroy your faith,
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Your family, and your future.
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Thank you for supporting "pathway to victory."
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To stand firm and live victoriously.
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Together we are piercing the darkness
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With the light of god's word.
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The enemy is relentless but not unstoppable.
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You've been equipped with armor that cannot fail,
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So put it on and stand firm.
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Well, christians today are under attack
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And it's easy to get stuck in the survival mode,
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Just trying to make it from one day to the next.
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But the life that god calls us to is so much more.
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And next time, we're going to discover 10 strategies
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For thriving in a hostile world
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In my series called, courageous.
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Stay tuned for a preview of the first message
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In this new series on "pathway to victory."
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We have an adversary, the devil who is intent
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On destroying everything important to us.
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And we have a culture that is increasingly hostile
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To the things of god.
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And if that were not enough, we all carry around us
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That fallen nature, the residuals of it anyway,
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That are opposed to everything god wants for our life.
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How can we ever hope to survive that kind of environment?
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Robert Jeffress - Using Your Divine Defense

April 26, 2026 | 27:29

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