Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - War of the Worlds

October 2, 2025 | 29:0

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - War of the Worlds | October 2, 2025

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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the
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First baptist church of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress and welcome
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Again to "pathway to victory."
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When you look at the chaos and suffering in our world today,
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It's hard to believe that god is truly in control.
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Natural disasters, senseless wars, broken relationships.
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If this is really god's world, why does it seem like everything
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Is falling apart?
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The answer lies in understanding an ancient cosmic battle that
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Continues to rage today.
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My message is titled "war of the worlds" on today's edition of
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Jeffress: you may remember a song many of us learned as
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Children, a hymn.
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It's a sweet little hymn entitled, "this is my
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Father's world."
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How many of you remember that song, "this is my
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Father's world"?
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It is a song that is about the sovereignty, the control of god
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Over all of his world.
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And while it's theologically true, experientially, it doesn't
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Seem to be the case.
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I mean, if this is really god's world, isn't he doing a pretty
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Lousy job of running it?
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I mean, look around.
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All the natural disasters, tsunamis, earthquakes, wars and
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Rumors of war, the terrorist attacks, not to mention the
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Struggles we face day in and day out, and the personal issues and
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Relationship problems.
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Why is this world described as god's world?
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You know, many of us think that c. s. lewis probably has a
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Better description of this world than that hymn writer.
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He once wrote that earth is enemy-occupied territory.
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That's what this world is.
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I think that's true.
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The question is: how did this world get into the shape that
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It's in?
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How did it go from being a perfect world to the world that
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We live in?
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It's that cosmic struggle between god and his former chief
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Of staff, satan, who was known as lucifer.
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And last time we began looking at lucifer and what happened
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To him.
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We saw by looking at ezekiel 28 and isaiah 14 you can piece
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Together his story.
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First of all, he was a created being.
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As we said last time, satan, who is the name we usually refer to
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Him by now, satan is not god's opposite.
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If satan has an opposite, it's not god, it's michael
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The archangel.
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Satan was created.
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He didn't exist eternally.
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Just as god created all the angels, he created satan.
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He's a created being.
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He's unlike god, who is eternal, omnipotent and omniscient and
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So forth.
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Secondly, satan held an impressive office in
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God's kingdom.
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He was the chief cherub, the chief of the cherubim, that
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Group of angels charged with protecting the holiness of god.
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Thirdly, we saw satan possessed incomparable wisdom and beauty.
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And finally, we saw it was his pride that led him to
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His downfall.
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He began looking in the mirror too often.
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He thought he was responsible for everything good about him.
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He forgot that he was the creature and not the creator.
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And because of that pride, he led a rebellion against god, and
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Isaiah 14 tells us he was cast down to earth along with a group
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Of rebel angels we call demons today.
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And right now he's in the process of creating his own
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Shadow kingdom.
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He wants to overthrow the kingdom of god and he's working
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To accomplish that.
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And so today we're going to look at how satan is assaulting the
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Kingdom of god.
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And by the way, you're a part of the kingdom of god if you're
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A christian.
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I'm a part of it.
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If satan is going to attack god's kingdom, it means he's
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Going to attack us, and that attack against the kingdom of
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God is being fought out in three distinct rounds, and we're going
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To look at those three rounds briefly today.
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Round one of satan's battle with god is what i call deception.
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I want you to imagine with me what it was like when satan and
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His demons were cast out of heaven.
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Now, i'm just conjecturing here, but it could be that they
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Crash-landed on planet earth at just the time god was finishing
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Up his work of creation, his work of creation with his
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Crowning act of all.
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After he made the plants and the minerals and the planets and the
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Animals, his chief crowning creation was of man, and we read
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About that in genesis 1, verses 26 to 27.
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"then god said, 'let us make man in our own image, according to
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Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and
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Over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the
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Earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.'
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God created man in his own image, in the image of god he
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Created him; male and female he created them.
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God saw all that he made, and behold, it was very good."
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Everything else god created he said was good, but when he
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Finished with man, he said, "this is great.
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This is very, very good."
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Now, just imagine you were satan, you've just been cast out
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Of heaven, and you saw that creation of man take place.
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You know, if you hated god as much as satan did, the only
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Thing that could be worse for satan than having to live with
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One god would be to live with a bunch of little gods, or at
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Least little creations of god that resembled god.
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And so as he looked at the creation of adam and eve, he had
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This insidious thought, a sinister thought.
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What if i were able to take these servants of god and
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Convince them to become my slaves?
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What if i were able to flip them from building god's kingdom to
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Being part of my kingdom?
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What if i could enlist them to rebel against their heavenly
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Father and follow me?
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What if i could turn god's grandest creation into his
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Biggest mistake?
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And so he decided to try to deceive them into following him.
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He used a plan that we'll examine in weeks ahead, the same
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Plan he uses against us, but in short, his plan was very simple.
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He would whisper into adam and eve's ears, "there is a way
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Better than god's way."
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Now, how do you think god responded?
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When he saw his first two children, adam and eve, he had
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Put them in a perfect setting and they chose to rebel
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Against him.
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He could have been filled with anger.
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He could have said, "if this is the way this new creation is
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Going to treat me, i'm just gonna wipe them off the face of
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The earth and start over again."
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He could have been filled with anger or a sense of injustice,
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But the bible doesn't say that.
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The bible says when he saw what had happened to humanity and
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What would be the future for adam and eve and all of us who
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Would follow after them, his heart was filled
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With compassion.
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He was moved in his being.
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There's something that wanted to reach out to us and show us
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His love.
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That's why ephesians 2, verses 4 and 5 say, "but god, being rich
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In mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
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Even when we were dead in our transgressions, he made us alive
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Together with christ (for by grace you have been saved)."
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Remember this, ladies and gentlemen, your salvation, my
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Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with us, but it has
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Everything to do with god.
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It's all about the compassion and love and grace of god.
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That's the reason he saved us, and that explains round two.
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Satan, we'll have to be honest, won round one: deception.
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He was successful in deceiving adam and eve, but then god
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Instituted a deliverance program, and what a plan it was.
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There are 600 soldiers.
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Who will never forget thanksgiving day, november
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27, 2003.
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There were soldiers serving in the war in iraq in 2003, and it
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Was thanksgiving day and they had been summoned to a makeshift
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Mess hall at the baghdad international airport to have a
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Thanksgiving meal.
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As they gathered together that thursday at noon, little did
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They know what had been happening the night before.
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Halfway around the world in crawford, texas, president
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George w. bush left his home in crawford at 7 p.m.
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In an unmarked car, went to the airport north of waco, boarded
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Air force one for an all-night secret journey to baghdad.
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It was a dangerous journey.
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In fact, as the plane descended into the baghdad airport, they
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Had to turn out all the interior lights, pull down the shades.
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They went into a corkscrew descent as quickly as they could
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To avoid missile fire.
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Meanwhile, in the mess hall, the soldiers were completely unaware
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Of what was happening.
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The us administrator in iraq, paul bremer, stood up to read a
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Proclamation from president bush, a thanksgiving
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Proclamation, but before he read the proclamation, he said, "you
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Know, it's protocol for the officer, the most senior officer
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In the room to read a proclamation from the president.
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So i wonder, is there anybody in this room who is higher than i
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Am in the chain of command?"
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And that was the cue.
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President bush emerged from behind the curtain to the
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Thunderous standing ovation of the soldiers there.
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They were thrilled to see that their commander in chief cared
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About them.
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Somebody asked president bush after that, "why did you go to
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All that trouble?"
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And this is what he said, i thought it was great.
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He said, "it's got to be lonely for the soldiers.
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I thought it was important to send that message: that we care
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For them."
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You know, even though mankind wandered away from god, god
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Never stopped loving us, and for hundreds, thousands of years he
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Sent and communicated that love through miracles and messages.
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But then 2000 years ago, he did the unthinkable.
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He decided to actually visit our war-torn planet, planet earth,
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In the person of his son jesus christ.
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But his journey to earth was different than president bush's
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Journey to iraq in two specific ways.
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The president's journey to iraq was planned that he might
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Escape death.
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I mean, after all, the temporary morale boost from seeing the
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President isn't worth him sacrificing his life.
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That would have dispirited the troops.
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The president's journey was planned to escape death.
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Jesus's journey to earth was planned that he might
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Experience death.
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Experiencing death was the ultimate objective of christ's
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Visit here.
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He was a baby born in bethlehem, a baby born to die.
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It was all part of god's plan.
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Remember, seven weeks after the crucifixion and resurrection,
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Peter preached to the very group that had crucified christ.
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He spoke to them on the southern steps in jerusalem, the sermon
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Of pentecost, and in acts 2:23, peter said, "this man," jesus,
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"was delivered over by the predetermined plan and knowledge
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Of god, you nailed him to the cross by the hands of godless
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Men and put him to death."
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What would cause god to devise an elaborate plan that would end
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In the torture and execution of his own son?
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Well, that leads to the second difference between the
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President's visit to iraq and god's visit to earth.
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The president came to reassure the troops, but jesus christ
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Came to rescue the troops.
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That's what we just read about in colossians 1 a few moments
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Ago, verses 13 and 14, "for god rescued us from the domain of
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Darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved son,
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In whom we have redemption and forgiveness of sins."
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Ladies and gentlemen, when we are born into this world, we're
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Automatically a part of the kingdom of satan.
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Because of adam's fall, we are born, whether we know it or not,
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Whether we choose or not, we are born servants of satan, but we
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Don't have to remain that way.
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God sent jesus to pay the ransom so that we could be delivered
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From satan's kingdom to god's kingdom.
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He bought us with his own blood, why?
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So that we could be free to do whatever we want to do?
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No, god has no interest in freeing you from doing what you
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Wanna do.
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He doesn't want that.
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He has saved you so that you could serve him instead of
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Serving satan.
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That's what paul meant in 1 corinthians 6, verses 19 and 20.
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He said, "do you not know you are not your own?"
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You are not the captain of your ship, the master of your fate.
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You are not your own, "for you have been bought with a price."
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That was the plan to redeem us, so that we could serve christ.
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Now, satan was fully aware of that plan, and he did everything
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He could do to thwart it.
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Remember when mary was told by gabriel that she had conceived
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The christ child?
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What did satan try to do?
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He tried to persuade joseph to divorce mary so that she would
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Be stoned for adultery, not only losing her own life, but her
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Child would be killed as well.
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That didn't work, and so satan put it in the heart of herod to
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Kill every jewish baby two years of age and younger.
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Maybe that would extinguish the christ child.
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That plan backfired as well.
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Then satan thought, well, maybe i can disqualify jesus from
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Being the messiah by enticing him to sin in the wilderness.
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That didn't work.
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Then he filled the hearts of the religious leaders to prematurely
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Kill christ before he could fulfill some of the necessary
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Prophecies that showed him to be the messiah.
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That didn't work.
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And remember friday afternoon as christ hung on the cross on that
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Good friday, what did he say?
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John 19:30, "it is finished."
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Tetelestai, paid in full.
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At that moment, satan was defeated in his plan.
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And three days later, the resurrection of christ from the
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Dead is proof to the world that god accepted the payment of
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Jesus on our behalf.
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That cross, that death on friday, and that empty tomb
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Represent satan's defeat.
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And even though he was, in truth, defeated that weekend, he
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Isn't waving the white flag of surrender.
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He hasn't given up, and that leads to round three of satan's
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Assault on the kingdom of god, and that is desperation.
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You know, you read today's headlines, you look at the
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Struggle in your own heart, and it's hard to believe that satan
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Has been defeated.
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I remember a book that came out years ago by the late hal
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Lindsey, entitled, "satan is alive and well on planet earth."
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How many of you remember that book?
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"satan is alive and well on planet earth."
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Well, lindsey got it only half right.
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It is true satan is alive, but he's not very well.
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He's been mortally wounded, but that doesn't keep him from
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Trying to stage one final assault on the kingdom of god.
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He wants to do everything he can to defeat those of us who are
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Followers of jesus christ.
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You see, the date for satan's final judgment is already on
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The calendar.
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John alludes to it in revelation 20, verse 10.
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After the final rebellion, after the millennium, satan stages one
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Final rebellion and god snuffs it out as soon as it begins.
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I don't even know if he used bunker busting bombs or how he
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Did it, but revelation 20, verse 10 tells us, "and the devil who
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Deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone,
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Where the beast and the false prophet are; and they will be
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Tormented day and night forever and ever."
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That's his ultimate fate.
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What is his plan?
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His strategy is very simple.
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It's twofold, write this down.
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First of all, blinding the unbelievers to god's offer
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Of salvation.
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He wants to blind unbelievers to god's offer of salvation.
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Remember, the whole world is born in servitude to satan, and
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What he wants to do--he's upset you've defected to the dark
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Side--to god's side, but he wants to prevent as many people
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As possible from hearing, accepting, and trusting in the
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Gospel, so he's blinding people to salvation.
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Let me tell you right now how you can guarantee you'll go to
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Hell when you die.
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You know what you have to do to ensure that when you die you
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Will end up in hell forever and ever?
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Here's what you have to do.
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Nothing. nothing.
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You're already headed to hell if you're not a christian.
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You're on that broad way that jesus talked about that leads
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To destruction.
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Just keep doing what you're doing and you'll find yourself
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Eternally separated from god.
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But if you've come to the place in your life that you realize
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You and i are sinners, we need god's forgiveness--if you
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Believe that jesus is the savior who came to die for your sins,
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You didn't come to that conclusion on your own.
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God has taken the blinders off your eyes so that you can see.
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But just because you see and understand that now doesn't mean
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You always will.
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Most people don't reject the gospel for intellectual reasons.
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It's for spiritual reasons they cannot understand, they
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Cannot receive.
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2 corinthians 4, verses 3 and 4 says, "and even if our gospel is
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Veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case
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The god of this world," satan, "has blinded the minds of the
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Unbelieving so that they may not see the light of the gospel of
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The glory of christ."
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Satan wants to blind unbelievers to god's offer of salvation.
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And secondly, he wants to rob believers, people like you and
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I, of the benefits of our salvation.
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If he can't have us for all eternity, he wants to make our
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Lives as miserable and as meaningless as possible while
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We're here.
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Remember what jesus said about satan?
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He called him a thief.
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"the thief," john 10:10.
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"the thief comes to kill, steal, and destroy."
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"but i have come," jesus said, "that you might have life, and
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Have it more abundantly."
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Satan wants to steal every good thing he can out of your life.
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He wants to steal the joy out of your life that comes from being
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In fellowship with god.
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He wants to steal the benefits that come in this life when you
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Follow god.
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He wants to steal the influence you have for leading other
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People to come to worship and serve jesus christ and he wants
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To rob you of the eternal rewards that can be yours in
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Faithfulness to christ.
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You say, "well, if satan has been disarmed, how does he go
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About accomplishing those two objectives, blinding
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Unbelievers, robbing believers?"
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Remember this: when satan fell from heaven, he didn't give up,
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He didn't lose his attributes.
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He's still incredibly crafty, he's incredibly appealing, and
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He's incredibly dangerous.
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And next time, we're going to unroll, unravel that
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Personalized blueprint satan has already devised for the
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Destruction of everything important to you, your faith,
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Your family, and your future.
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♪♪♪
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Jeffress: satan may be desperately trying to build a
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Shadow kingdom, but we know how this story ends.
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The enemy's fate is already sealed, and victory belongs to
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The lord.
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Now, before we close today, i want to share how god is using
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"pathway to victory" to strengthen believers.
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A man from new hampshire shared this.
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"thank you for your wise words.
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It's a constant struggle for me to feel that i'm doing my utmost
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To follow jesus.
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I want every part of my life to reflect genuine love for christ,
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And i often find myself asking, 'can i do more?'
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My heart is open to jesus, whom i gladly accept as my savior."
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What a powerful testimony of someone who is earnestly
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Pursuing christ.
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Thank you for partnering with us in this mission to pierce the
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Darkness 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" in just a moment.
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But he hasn't given up the fight.
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He wants to blind unbelievers to the gospel and rob believers of
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The joy and rewards that come from following christ.
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But here's the sobering truth: satan doesn't use the same
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Tactics on everyone.
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He has a personalized blueprint for your destruction.
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And next time we'll expose his threefold strategy, how satan
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Tries to discourage you from worshiping god, distract you
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From serving god, and deceive you into disobeying god.
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Who is intent on destroying you?
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Do you realize that you have an enemy who is determined to
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Deceive you about his power, or lack thereof, to deprive you of
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Your privileges as a child of god, to destroy your
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Effectiveness as a witness for god, and to deny you of the
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Rewards that god wants to grant you in heaven?
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Robert Jeffress - War of the Worlds

October 2, 2025 | 29:0

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