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Robert Jeffress - Using Your Divine Defense

March 24, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - Using Your Divine Defense
Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Using Your Divine Defense | March 24, 2026
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  • Announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with
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  • Dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress.
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  • Welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • It's one thing to know that god has given us spiritual armor to
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  • Protect ourselves against the enemy, but it's another thing to
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  • Actually put that armor to use.
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  • Today we're wrapping up our series called "the divine
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  • Defense" with some practical steps for diminishing satan's
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  • Influence in your everyday life.
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  • I'm going to share with you 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" on today's
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  • Edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Announcer: whether you know it or not, you're in a battle.
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  • Satan has a strategy to attack your faith, disrupt your family,
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  • And derail your future.
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  • But god has given you everything you need to fight back and win.
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  • In "the divine defense," dr. robert jeffress reveals
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  • Six practical strategies from ephesians chapter 6 to defeat
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  • Satan's destructive plan.
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  • When you put on the full armor of god, satan doesn't have
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  • A prayer.
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  • Request "the divine defense" when you give a generous
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  • Jeffress: a pastor friend of mine preached an excruciatingly
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  • Long series on the book of job.
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  • And finally, when he reached the end that final sunday and he
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  • Announced it would be the final message without any cue, the
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  • Audience stood up and applauded the announcement.
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  • Thank you for not doing that, even though we are in the final
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  • Message in our series "the divine defense."
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  • I understand why some people 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 that you've got
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  • An enemy who's trying to destroy everything important to you.
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  • But it's true, 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 to be
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  • Successful in that fight against our adversary, the devil.
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  • And we've spent the last months in the book of ephesians chapter
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  • 6 talking about those six weapons, strategies that god has
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  • Given to us.
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  • Today, as we wrap up that series, i wanted to do so on
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  • A practical note.
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  • And today, we're going to answer 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 or
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  • Resolves we need to make to diminish the influence of
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  • Our enemy.
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  • And the number one, the most basic decision is to receive
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  • Christ as your personal savior.
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  • Receive christ as your savior.
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  • Now, let me be clear, becoming a christian doesn't present
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  • Satan's influence in your life, but it does prevent his
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  • Ownership of your life.
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  • And there's a vast difference between ownership 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, what
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  • Style of french fries are served, what the prices are, who
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  • 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 100 shares 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 stock.
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  • I own about 200 of them.
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  • Now, i have the right to go to the shareholders meeting every
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  • Year because i'm a stakeholder.
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  • But if i start making suggestions, how much attention
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  • 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 to how many shares i own of
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  • 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 and
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  • Satanic influence is not just splitting 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.
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  • He can't control us, but he can influence us based on how many
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  • Shares of our life he has.
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  • Whatever portion of our life is not submitted to jesus christ is
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  • 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 to participate in any
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  • Occult activities.
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  • If we want to diminish satan's influence, we need to refuse to
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  • 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 to have
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  • A supernatural experience apart from god.
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  • The bible mentions three specific practices that we are
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  • To avoid as a christian.
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  • First of all, divinations.
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  • Divinations.
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  • Deuteronomy 18:10-11, "there shall not be found among you
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  • Anyone who makes a son or daughter pass through the fire,
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  • One who uses," there it is, "divination, one who practices
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  • Witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
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  • Or one who casts spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one
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  • 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
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  • Universe apart from god's, so we're to shun any attempt
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  • 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, he's not talking about
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  • Card tricks.
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  • He's not talking about pulling rabbits out of a hat like our
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  • Friend dr. jim wicker does every time he preaches.
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  • He has a magic trick where you don't have to go out and burn
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  • Him at the stake.
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  • That's not prohibited because what he's doing and other
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  • Magicians today do, those are illusions.
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  • We call them illusions.
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  • They are something that appear to be real, but they're
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  • Not real.
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  • Magic is real.
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  • It's a supernatural power utilizing that power apart
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  • From god.
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  • A couple of friends from college and i went to california during
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  • The summer for a few days.
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  • And while we were there, we went to the taping of a very popular
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  • Talk show.
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  • And it happened that the usual host of that program was out
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  • That night and so the substitute host was the late actor
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  • Orson welles.
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  • Some of you remember orson welles, famous actor, writer,
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  • Movie director.
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  • Later in life, he got involved in the occult and he wore black
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  • All of the time.
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  • And at the beginning of that television program he asked for
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  • A volunteer from the crowd and somebody volunteered and went
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  • Down on the stage with him.
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  • And we watched as orson welles was able to levitate that person
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  • Off the ground.
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  • Now somebody watching that at home would have thought, "oh,
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  • That's an optical trick or there must be some hidden wires that
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  • The camera doesn't pick up."
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  • No, we who were there saw it for what it was, and it was such
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  • An eerie feeling of being there and witnessing that.
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  • I looked at my friend, he looked at me, and we said, "let's get
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  • Out of there as quickly as possible."
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  • And we got out of there very quickly.
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  • There is such a thing as black magic, magic that utilizes
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  • Satan's power, and we're to avoid it at all times.
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  • Third, the occult practice we're 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 to
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  • Obtain comfort or knowledge of some kind.
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  • Spiritism is calling on the spirits of those who
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  • Are deceased.
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  • Now, does satan have the power, the authority over the spirits
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  • Of christians 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, he has no
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  • Mandate over their spirits when they're in heaven with christ.
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  • Thirdly, a resolve we need to make to diminish satan's
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  • Influence in our life, renounce satan and his kingdom.
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  • Now, i want you to hear what i'm saying carefully.
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  • This is gonna sound really strange to some of you.
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  • By renouncing satan and his kingdom, i'm not saying we have
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  • The power to bind satan as you hear some people talk about.
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  • We certainly don't have the power to remove satan or demons
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  • From other christians or from ourselves, but we do have the
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  • Power to remove ourselves from satan's influence and
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  • Demonic influence.
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  • We can't remove them from us, we can remove ourselves from them
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  • By renouncing any kind of agreement or covenant we've made
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  • With satan.
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  • Now this may sound strange to some of you, "covenants with
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  • The devil?
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  • That sounds like something in third world countries or in
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  • Horror movies from hollywood."
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  • But i do believe it's possible to make a covenant with satan.
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  • And i remember an 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 they tried to force
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  • 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 and
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  • Thought, "what am i gonna do to entertain myself for the
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  • 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, 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 and at first
  • 00:11:46.896 --> 00:11:50.533
  • I thought, "oh, 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, why do i remember it
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  • So vividly decades later."
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  • So, i decided to have another brief conversation with
  • 00:12:02.211 --> 00:12:05.181
  • The devil.
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  • And i said, "satan, i don't remember what i said to you when
  • 00:12:06.749 --> 00:12:10.319
  • I was six.
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  • I don't remember what, if any, agreement i made with you, but i
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  • Want you to know right now i am renouncing any commitment i've
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  • 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, do you know what i have found since then?
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  • It's not only children who sometimes make deals with
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  • The devil.
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  • Sometimes adults, either non-christians or sometimes even
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  • Christians, at a time of weakness, made a covenant with
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  • The devil maybe out of some disappointment, the loss of
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  • A mate.
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  • Now some of you think i'm just talking "looney tunes"
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  • Right now.
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  • You can't imagine doing that, but some of you know what i am
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  • Talking about, making a deal with the devil out
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  • Of disappointment.
  • 00:13:00.369 --> 00:13:01.737
  • By the way, that's why saul did what he did.
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  • You know, we find out in 1 samuel 28:3 that saul actually
  • 00:13:04.573 --> 00:13:10.646
  • Removed all the spiritists from the land of israel.
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  • He knew it was wrong, so he asked them all to leave.
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  • Then why would he get involved in spiritism?
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  • Well, it tells us in 1 samuel 28:6, "when saul inquired of
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  • The lord, the lord did not answer him, either by dreams or
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  • By the urim or by prophets."
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  • In other words, saul had asked for supernatural guidance or
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  • Information from god.
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  • When god didn't provide it, he said, "okay, i'll go to another
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  • Source of power, the witched end door.
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  • I'll utilize satan's power."
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  • 1 samuel 15:23 says, "remember--rebellion is as the
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  • Sin of divination, and insubordination is as iniquity
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  • And idolatry."
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  • Let me just say clearly, whether you're a christian or not, if at
  • 00:13:56.625 --> 00:13:59.995
  • Any time you've made any agreement with the devil,
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  • I think it's important that you renounce that agreement you've
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  • Made and announce your fidelity to jesus christ.
  • 00:14:07.036 --> 00:14:11.106
  • A fourth important principle for resisting satan's influence is
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  • To resist satan's attempt to influence your life.
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  • Resist.
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  • You know, the bible over and over again tells us to resist
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  • The devil.
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  • 1 peter 5:9, "but resist him, firm in your faith."
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  • James 4:7, "submit to the lord, resist the devil and he will
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  • Flee from you."
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  • God wouldn't tell us to do something that he didn't give us
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  • The power to do.
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  • We have the power to resist the devil if we use the weapons that
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  • 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 with
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  • 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 with
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  • God's thoughts.
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  • And there's no better way to do that than through a regular
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  • Intake of god's word.
  • 00:15:05.027 --> 00:15:07.062
  • By the way, one sermon a week every other week isn't enough to
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  • Give you what you need to resist the devil.
  • 00:15:12.634 --> 00:15:15.270
  • We need a continuing daily intake through the ear gate
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  • Of god's word.
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  • Whether it's through scripture songs, sermons, the reading of
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  • God's word.
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  • Let me encourage you, here's a suggestion, to find some time
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  • During wasted time to get more of god's word into your life.
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  • Instead of when you're on the treadmill or exercising,
  • 00:15:37.059 --> 00:15:40.763
  • Listening to secular music, listen to praise hymns, get some
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  • Rebecca saint james recordings and listen to them, if you will.
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  • Or instead of in the car when you're driving, instead of just
  • 00:15:50.305 --> 00:15:53.308
  • Listening to talk radio and getting madder and madder and
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  • Madder, 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.
  • 00:16:07.723 --> 00:16:10.526
  • 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 or stop doing that
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  • 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 is the
  • 00:16:39.288 --> 00:16:41.890
  • Preparation of the gospel of peace.
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  • When you make winning people to christ, which is god's business,
  • 00:16:44.059 --> 00:16:48.230
  • When you adopt that as your purpose in life, your business,
  • 00:16:48.230 --> 00:16:51.767
  • It gives you stability, it gives you direction in life, it gives
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  • You the power to say no to temptation.
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  • Make god's business your business.
  • 00:16:57.806 --> 00:16:59.842
  • 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 what he's promised to do and
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  • 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 and
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  • 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.
  • 00:17:24.566 --> 00:17:28.504
  • The helmet of salvation.
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  • Remind yourself over and over again, you don't have to be
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  • A victim.
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  • You can be the victor.
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  • When god saved you, he not only saved you from the penalty of
  • 00:17:35.878 --> 00:17:39.948
  • Sin, eternity in hell, he saved you from the power of sin.
  • 00:17:39.948 --> 00:17:44.453
  • Sin has no more power in your life than you choose to allow it
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  • To have.
  • 00:17:47.356 --> 00:17:48.690
  • One practical thing you can do is memorize three verses,
  • 00:17:48.690 --> 00:17:51.560
  • Romans 6:11-13.
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  • It's about our power to say no to sin.
  • 00:17:55.397 --> 00:17:59.101
  • And finally, the sixth weapon, take up the sword of the spirit,
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  • Which is the word of god.
  • 00:18:03.672 --> 00:18:05.641
  • Strengthen your resolve to resist.
  • 00:18:05.641 --> 00:18:09.378
  • How do you do that?
  • 00:18:09.378 --> 00:18:11.246
  • By memorizing and meditating on specific scripture verses that
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  • Will help you in the struggle.
  • 00:18:15.851 --> 00:18:18.053
  • You know, when jesus was in the wilderness being tempted by
  • 00:18:18.053 --> 00:18:20.889
  • Satan, when satan tempted him, what did jesus do?
  • 00:18:20.889 --> 00:18:25.227
  • Did he pull out an old testament scroll and say, "well, i know
  • 00:18:25.227 --> 00:18:28.063
  • There's something in here somewhere i need to know."
  • 00:18:28.063 --> 00:18:31.066
  • No, he went immediately without any scroll to the book of
  • 00:18:31.066 --> 00:18:34.203
  • Deuteronomy and recorded the precise--remembered and recited
  • 00:18:34.203 --> 00:18:38.941
  • The precise verse he needed for himself to give him the power to
  • 00:18:38.941 --> 00:18:43.445
  • 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.
  • 00:18:46.615 --> 00:18:49.484
  • Now, here's the practical suggestion.
  • 00:18:49.484 --> 00:18:51.587
  • How do i memorize scripture?
  • 00:18:51.587 --> 00:18:53.755
  • There's a little tool put out by the navigators called the
  • 00:18:53.755 --> 00:18:56.892
  • Topical memory system.
  • 00:18:56.892 --> 00:18:59.494
  • You can get it for about $11 on amazon.
  • 00:18:59.494 --> 00:19:02.931
  • It's a little packet with 60 different cards, 60 different
  • 00:19:02.931 --> 00:19:07.135
  • Verses for every situation you may face in life.
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  • Do you need comfort after a great loss?
  • 00:19:10.872 --> 00:19:12.908
  • There's a verse for you.
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  • Do you need help in saying no to temptation?
  • 00:19:14.376 --> 00:19:16.878
  • There's a verse for you.
  • 00:19:16.878 --> 00:19:18.280
  • Are you feeling depressed?
  • 00:19:18.280 --> 00:19:19.648
  • There's a verse to encourage you.
  • 00:19:19.648 --> 00:19:21.350
  • There are 60 verses, so if you memorize one verse a week, in
  • 00:19:21.350 --> 00:19:25.887
  • About a year's time, you'll have every verse you need for any
  • 00:19:25.887 --> 00:19:30.993
  • Foreseen circumstance that you might need the truth and the
  • 00:19:30.993 --> 00:19:34.730
  • Power of god's word.
  • 00:19:34.730 --> 00:19:36.465
  • Strengthen your resolve to resist.
  • 00:19:36.465 --> 00:19:39.701
  • How do i diminish satan's influence in my life?
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  • Number five, rely on prayer.
  • 00:19:41.970 --> 00:19:44.473
  • Look at ephesians 6:18.
  • 00:19:44.473 --> 00:19:46.875
  • After he talks about the weapons, paul says, "with all
  • 00:19:46.875 --> 00:19:49.745
  • Prayer and petition pray at all times in the spirit."
  • 00:19:49.745 --> 00:19:54.416
  • You know, some people wonder why didn't paul treat prayer as
  • 00:19:54.416 --> 00:19:57.185
  • Another one of the spiritual weapons.
  • 00:19:57.185 --> 00:19:59.121
  • It's kind of interesting, he doesn't.
  • 00:19:59.121 --> 00:20:00.822
  • They asked me why i don't preach a sermon in this series
  • 00:20:00.822 --> 00:20:03.258
  • On prayer.
  • 00:20:03.258 --> 00:20:04.826
  • Well, prayer isn't treated as one of the weapons.
  • 00:20:04.826 --> 00:20:07.863
  • It's an assumption of paul.
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  • He assumes that you're going to be praying, especially when
  • 00:20:10.098 --> 00:20:13.802
  • You're in spiritual war.
  • 00:20:13.802 --> 00:20:15.837
  • You know, if you were going to buy a book called "how to dress
  • 00:20:15.837 --> 00:20:19.675
  • For success," you probably wouldn't expect to open that
  • 00:20:19.675 --> 00:20:23.178
  • Book and chapter one say, "remember to breathe."
  • 00:20:23.178 --> 00:20:27.316
  • That probably wouldn't be the first chapter of the book
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  • Because the author would assume you were gonna keep breathing.
  • 00:20:29.985 --> 00:20:33.288
  • I mean, breathing's necessary to dress correctly.
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  • You won't have the strength to put on any clothes if you don't
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  • Breathe, but that's assumed.
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  • It's the same way with prayer.
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  • Prayer is like spiritual breathing.
  • 00:20:43.365 --> 00:20:45.667
  • In 1 thessalonians 5:17, paul said, "pray without ceasing."
  • 00:20:45.667 --> 00:20:51.773
  • We're to pray at all times.
  • 00:20:51.773 --> 00:20:53.975
  • That phrase "without ceasing" in greek means to pray with the
  • 00:20:53.975 --> 00:20:57.979
  • Persistence of a hacking cough.
  • 00:20:57.979 --> 00:21:01.183
  • You know, sometimes i cough up here and as hard as i try to
  • 00:21:01.183 --> 00:21:04.353
  • Suppress it, i just can't suppress it.
  • 00:21:04.353 --> 00:21:06.555
  • You know what that feeling is.
  • 00:21:06.555 --> 00:21:08.557
  • The same way with praying.
  • 00:21:08.557 --> 00:21:09.925
  • It ought to be so natural to us that we can't suppress it.
  • 00:21:09.925 --> 00:21:13.428
  • We have to have a continuing conversation with god.
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  • Learn to do that.
  • 00:21:16.264 --> 00:21:17.632
  • Just don't wait till you're able to kneel down and concentrate in
  • 00:21:17.632 --> 00:21:20.268
  • Prayer, make a conversation with god a part of your
  • 00:21:20.268 --> 00:21:23.672
  • Everyday life.
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  • Number six, what do we do to diminish satan's authority in
  • 00:21:25.607 --> 00:21:29.578
  • Our life?
  • 00:21:29.578 --> 00:21:30.912
  • Remember that victory is possible.
  • 00:21:30.912 --> 00:21:34.149
  • First john 4:4 says, "greater is he who is in you than he who is
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  • In the world."
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  • If there's any thoughts i would like to leave you with today
  • 00:21:41.223 --> 00:21:45.093
  • 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.
  • 00:21:50.298 --> 00:21:53.902
  • Jot them down.
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  • Number one, spiritual warfare is real.
  • 00:21:55.537 --> 00:21:59.908
  • This is not make-believe, folks.
  • 00:21:59.908 --> 00:22:02.277
  • This is real.
  • 00:22:02.277 --> 00:22:03.879
  • In fact, spiritual warfare is the reality behind every
  • 00:22:03.879 --> 00:22:08.483
  • Conflict you're facing right now.
  • 00:22:08.483 --> 00:22:11.153
  • Spiritual warfare is real.
  • 00:22:11.153 --> 00:22:12.521
  • Secondly, the struggle is intense.
  • 00:22:12.521 --> 00:22:15.857
  • Any cessation in attacks by satan is just a chance for him
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  • To reload.
  • 00:22:20.662 --> 00:22:22.497
  • It's an intense study.
  • 00:22:22.497 --> 00:22:24.266
  • He wants to lull you into complacency.
  • 00:22:24.266 --> 00:22:26.701
  • Don't allow him to do that.
  • 00:22:26.701 --> 00:22:28.537
  • Thirdly, remember the enemy is determined.
  • 00:22:28.537 --> 00:22:31.273
  • He has an actual blueprint, the bible says, a method, a plan for
  • 00:22:31.273 --> 00:22:35.777
  • Your destruction.
  • 00:22:35.777 --> 00:22:37.446
  • The christian battlefield is strewn with the corpses of
  • 00:22:37.446 --> 00:22:41.049
  • Christians who have underestimated satan's resources
  • 00:22:41.049 --> 00:22:45.153
  • And his resolve to destroy you.
  • 00:22:45.153 --> 00:22:47.689
  • Number four, the stakes are high.
  • 00:22:47.689 --> 00:22:50.559
  • Whether you win or fail in this struggle with satan not only
  • 00:22:50.559 --> 00:22:55.397
  • Affects you, it affects others and their eternity.
  • 00:22:55.397 --> 00:22:59.901
  • And finally, remember you can win.
  • 00:22:59.901 --> 00:23:04.372
  • God has already provided you everything you and i need to
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  • Succeed in destroying satan's plan to destroy us.
  • 00:23:08.777 --> 00:23:13.982
  • Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for us to wake up.
  • 00:23:13.982 --> 00:23:17.285
  • It's time to stand firm.
  • 00:23:17.285 --> 00:23:19.855
  • It's time to put on our divine defense.
  • 00:23:19.855 --> 00:23:24.526
  • Jeffress: spiritual warfare is real and the stakes are high,
  • 00:23:28.763 --> 00:23:32.601
  • But remember, the victory has already been won through
  • 00:23:32.601 --> 00:23:35.670
  • Jesus christ.
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  • Now, before we wrap up today, i want to share a note from lev
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  • In israel.
  • 00:23:40.675 --> 00:23:42.043
  • He wrote, "amid recent events and uncertainties in israel,
  • 00:23:42.043 --> 00:23:46.014
  • "pathway to victory" has brought me hope.
  • 00:23:46.014 --> 00:23:48.283
  • The teachings have provided a comforting perspective rooted in
  • 00:23:48.283 --> 00:23:51.620
  • Faith, helping me navigate through challenging times.
  • 00:23:51.620 --> 00:23:55.624
  • The program's messages have served as a constant reminder
  • 00:23:55.624 --> 00:23:59.628
  • Of god's presence and unwavering love.
  • 00:23:59.628 --> 00:24:02.297
  • "pathway to victory" has been a refreshing reprieve in these
  • 00:24:02.297 --> 00:24:05.534
  • Trying times.
  • 00:24:05.534 --> 00:24:06.968
  • I'm certain i'm not the only one being blessed by them."
  • 00:24:06.968 --> 00:24:11.139
  • Well lev, thank you for those encouraging words.
  • 00:24:11.139 --> 00:24:14.276
  • And to everyone who supports "pathway to victory," your
  • 00:24:14.276 --> 00:24:17.579
  • Generosity is making an eternal difference in the lives of
  • 00:24:17.579 --> 00:24:21.316
  • People just like lev.
  • 00:24:21.316 --> 00:24:23.385
  • Thank you for standing with us as together we pierce the
  • 00:24:23.385 --> 00:24:26.655
  • Darkness with the light of god's word.
  • 00:24:26.655 --> 00:24:29.658
  • And please stay right there.
  • 00:24:29.658 --> 00:24:31.092
  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory" in just a moment.
  • 00:24:31.092 --> 00:24:35.463
  • Announcer: that recurring temptation you can't shake, the
  • 00:24:35.530 --> 00:24:38.366
  • Doubts that creep in during your darkest moments, the tension in
  • 00:24:38.366 --> 00:24:41.836
  • Your closest relationships, these aren't random struggles,
  • 00:24:41.836 --> 00:24:45.373
  • These are part of a strategic attack on your faith, your
  • 00:24:45.373 --> 00:24:48.310
  • Family, and your future.
  • 00:24:48.310 --> 00:24:49.945
  • Jeffress: satan has a personalized plan to discourage,
  • 00:24:49.945 --> 00:24:53.448
  • Deceive, and derail you.
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  • But you don't have to live in defeat.
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  • God has given you access to the same power that raised jesus
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  • From the dead.
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  • In my bestselling book, "the divine defense," i'll show you
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  • How to put on the full armor of god and use six biblical
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  • Strategies to defeat satan's plan to destroy your life.
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  • Jeffress: your mind is the devil's battlefield on which he
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  • Is warring against everything important to you.
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  • It is a battle that seeks to destroy your faith, your family,
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  • And your future.
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  • Together, we're piercing the darkness with the light of
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  • God's word.
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  • Jeffress: the enemy is relentless but not unstoppable.
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  • You've been equipped with armor that cannot fail, so put it on
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  • And stand firm.
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  • Well, this concludes our in-depth study on our divine
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  • Defense, and next time we're going to turn our attention to
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  • The transfiguration, one of the most supernatural events in
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  • Jesus's life outside the resurrection.
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  • We'll discover why god allows three apostles to witness this
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  • Miraculous display of christ's deity and what it means
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  • For us today.
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  • Jeffress: you know, supernatural experiences by definition are
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  • Rare, but they are sometimes necessary to confirm our faith
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  • In an invisible and sometimes seemingly distant god.
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  • Today, we're going to look at a supernatural experience that
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  • Three of the apostles had.
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  • In fact, it was the greatest supernatural experience they
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  • Would have outside of the resurrection of jesus himself.
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