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Robert Jeffress - What Demons Want To Do To You (Part 2)

October 13, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - What Demons Want To Do To You (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - What Demons Want To Do To You (Part 2) | October 13, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with dr.
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  • 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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  • Popular culture has turned satan into nothing more than a
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  • Cartoonish figure with a red suit and pitchfork.
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  • It makes the devil seem, well, harmless, even laughable.
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  • But in truth, a very real spiritual enemy is working
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  • Behind the scenes to destroy your life.
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  • Satan has a systematic approach for attacking believers and he's
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  • Got an army of demons to help him carry out that plan.
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  • Today, i want to show you how these dark forces operate, and
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  • More importantly, how you can protect yourself against
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  • Their attacks.
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  • My message is titled "what demons want to do to you" on
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  • Today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Jeffress: well, what did jesus do?
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  • He exorcised the demons from this person and what happened?
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  • Look at luke 8:35 through 36, "the people went out to see what
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  • Had happened, and they came to jesus and found the man from
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  • Whom the demons had gone out, sitting down at the feet of
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  • Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they
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  • Became frightened.
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  • Those who had seen it reported to them how the man who was
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  • Demon-possessed had been made well."
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  • For this man, the restoration of his mental and emotional
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  • Well-being didn't take years of therapy and drugs.
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  • It happened instantaneously.
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  • Now, please hear me, that doesn't happen every time.
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  • Not every, not even most mental disorders can be attributed to
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  • Demons, but some of them can, and we should not ignore the
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  • Spiritual element in mental disorders.
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  • A fourth way that satan and demons impact our life is
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  • Through suicide.
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  • This is one mental disorder that almost always has a spiritual
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  • Element to it.
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  • You know, in mark chapter 9, we find the story of a young boy
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  • Who continually tried to take his life by throwing himself
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  • Into the fire or into the water.
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  • Verse 22 of mark 9, the father of the boy pleads with jesus,
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  • Saying, "this demonic spirit has often thrown him both into the
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  • Fire and into the water to destroy him.
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  • But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us!"
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  • Now hear me on this.
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  • God has made us in such a way that our natural instinct is to
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  • Preserve and protect our life.
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  • That's the natural thing.
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  • It is abnormal, it is beyond the natural, it is supernatural for
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  • Us to want to kill ourselves.
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  • That is not natural.
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  • Where does this supernatural tendency come from?
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  • Certainly, again, it can be a part of a chemical imbalance, an
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  • Electrical malfunction in the brain, but it is also can be
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  • Attributed to more than that.
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  • Remember what jesus said about satan?
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  • He said he is a liar, he is a murderer, he is the thief who
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  • Has come to kill, steal, and destroy.
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  • Satan is the one or one of his demons who whispers in people's
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  • Ear, "your situation is hopeless.
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  • You are beyond help," or whispers things like, "you're no
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  • Good, you're worthless, you're of value to no one," or, "you're
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  • Becoming a burden to people.
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  • It would be better to take your own life than to keep living."
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  • That never comes from god.
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  • That is a lie from the pit of hell, and i would say to
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  • Everyone here in our worship center, everyone watching or
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  • Listening to this broadcast, if you have regular thoughts of
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  • Taking your own life, understand that is not normal.
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  • God did not intend that for you.
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  • And i would encourage you to go as quickly as you can to a
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  • Doctor, preferably a christian doctor, a christian
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  • Psychiatrist, and get the help you need, whether it's medicine,
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  • Treatment, biblical counsel, whatever you need, seek that
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  • Help now.
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  • I've been a pastor long enough to say i have witnessed the
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  • Effects of suicide more times than i would care to remember.
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  • The effects of suicide on victims is obvious, but what's
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  • Not always obvious is the effect it has on those who are
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  • Left behind.
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  • Those who are left behind in the aftermath of a person taking his
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  • Own life have unending and unbearable burdens.
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  • The cruelest thing you can do to anybody is for you to take your
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  • Own life.
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  • Don't do it.
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  • Don't listen to the lies of the evil one.
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  • There's a fifth way that demons influence our life, and that is
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  • Through other people.
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  • Satan can many times use other people to accomplish
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  • His purpose.
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  • Now, let me give you an extreme example of that.
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  • It's found in revelation 18, verses 2 and 24.
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  • John is describing how many christians will be slaughtered
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  • During the great tribulation.
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  • Verse 2 says, "and he cried out with a mighty voice, saying,
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  • 'fallen, fallen is babylon the great!
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  • She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every
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  • Unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird.'
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  • There are gonna be many demons in this rebuilt city of babylon.
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  • "and in her," verse 24, "was found the blood of the prophets
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  • And of saints of all who have been slain on the earth."
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  • Demons will inspire human beings to take the lives of christians
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  • During the great tribulation.
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  • We've seen that happen before.
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  • If you've ever gone to jerusalem and visited the holocaust
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  • Museum, you see the atrocities, the unspeakable atrocities
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  • Committed against the jewish people.
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  • Every time i take a group there, it's the same reaction.
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  • People are so stunned and sickened by what they've seen,
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  • They walk out and they can't speak.
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  • Everybody just gathers outside in silence.
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  • It is such a horrible sight.
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  • We saw that recently, a couple of years ago, in israel when
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  • Hamas invaded israel.
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  • What did they do?
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  • They committed atrocities against men, women, children,
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  • Little babies that i couldn't speak of from the pulpit.
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  • Where does that come from?
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  • Things too horrible to even describe.
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  • That's not natural, that's supernatural, beyond
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  • The natural.
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  • It's demonic.
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  • I remember speaking at a breakfast in denver, colorado
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  • Some years ago and afterwards an fbi agent talked to me.
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  • They were having a string of murders in denver, and he told
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  • Me, "pastor, i've been involved in investigating these murders,
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  • And they all have ties to witchcraft and sorcery.
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  • There's a demonic element involved in it."
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  • Of course nobody wants you to know that and hear that, but the
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  • Dark world, the demonic world is real.
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  • And many times, satan uses other people to accomplish
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  • His purpose.
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  • But it's not always in that dramatic of a fashion.
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  • Demons can use other people in more subtle ways to deceive us
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  • Into disobedience.
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  • I've heard this story so many times.
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  • I imagine you have too.
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  • Here's a husband or wife in an unfulfilling relationship.
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  • They feel lonely and they just accidentally happen to run into
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  • A high school or college flame from the past, or they just
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  • Happen, by accident, to connect with them on social media and
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  • They begin an affair that destroys their relationship.
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  • That's not circumstantial, that's not coincidental, that's
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  • Part of the demon's plan to deceive christians
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  • Into disobedience.
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  • Sometimes satan will use other people to bring discouragement
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  • Into our life.
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  • It can be well meaning christians who bring
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  • Discouragement into our life, and satan will use that.
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  • I remember in my previous church after a deacon's meeting, one of
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  • The deacons asked if he could visit with me in my office.
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  • I said, "well, certainly."
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  • And so, we visited and for the next hour, he spewed out every
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  • Accusation you could imagine.
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  • He told me everything that was wrong with my preaching,
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  • Everything that was wrong with my theology, everything that was
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  • Wrong with my leadership in the church, and on and on and on
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  • He went.
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  • You know the effect that had on me?
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  • It absolutely paralyzed me for about 24 hours.
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  • I mean, i couldn't think anything else about anything
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  • Else other than, "is this man telling the truth here?
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  • Does he have a point to make?
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  • Does he represent other people?
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  • Do the leaders of the church feel the way this man does?"
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  • But as i listened and thought more about what he said, i
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  • Realized this wasn't legitimate.
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  • Now, i'm not saying no criticism is legitimate.
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  • We ought to listen to people's criticism and suggestions.
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  • In fact, proverbs 13:18 says, "poverty and shame will come to
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  • Him who neglects discipline, but he who regards reproof,
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  • Correction will be honored."
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  • Anytime somebody has a criticism, listen to it,
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  • Evaluate it.
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  • But as i evaluated this man's criticism, i realized it
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  • Wasn't legitimate.
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  • When somebody comes spewing out accusations against you that are
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  • Not based on truth, but are bathed in bitterness, you can
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  • Know for sure that doesn't come from god.
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  • God's correction leads to healing and restoration.
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  • Satan's condemnation leads to paralysis.
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  • Well that begs the question, "well, pastor, is it possible
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  • For a christian not only to be demon influenced, but to
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  • Actually be demon-possessed?"
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  • That's an important question.
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  • Let's look at that term demon-possessed.
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  • Did you know the words demon-possessed never appears in
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  • The bible anywhere, never.
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  • You say, "well, wait a minute, pastor, in your old age, you've
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  • Just forgotten.
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  • You quoted a verse that said demon possessed."
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  • Luke 8:27, "when jesus came out onto the land, he was met by a
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  • Man from the city who was possessed with demons."
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  • There it is, right there in the bible.
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  • What you need to understand is that's an english translation of
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  • A greek word that doesn't really say demon-possessed.
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  • It means literally to demonize.
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  • Here is a man who was demonized.
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  • Now, can a non-christian be possessed by a demon?
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  • Absolutely.
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  • Non-christians can be possessed by demons.
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  • In fact, what most non-christians don't know is
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  • They're already possessed by a demon.
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  • They're possessed by satan.
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  • Everybody who is born into this world is born a captive of satan
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  • Because of the fallen adam and eve.
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  • But when we become a christian, god frees us from
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  • Satan's captivity.
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  • We no longer are his possession, we become a child of god, and
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  • We're a part of the domain of light of jesus christ.
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  • But yes, non-christians can be possessed by demons, but
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  • Not christians.
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  • Look at ephesians 1, verses 13 and 14, "in him," talking
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  • About christ, "you also, after listening to the
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  • Message of truth, the gospel of your salvation--also having
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  • Believed, you were sealed in him with the holy spirit of promise
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  • Who has given us as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to
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  • The redemption of god's own possession."
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  • The moment you trust in christ as your savior, you are sealed
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  • With the holy spirit of god.
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  • In paul's day, the seal was a sign of possession.
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  • If a roman official wanted to send an authentic document, he
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  • Would seal it with a piece of wax with the roman insignia
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  • On it.
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  • Remember when the roman guards were guarding the tomb of jesus,
  • 00:13:24.760 --> 00:13:27.563
  • It was sealed, meaning a piece of string was run across the
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  • Opening and it was held in place by a piece of wax with a roman
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  • Insignia, meaning this belongs to rome.
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  • Well, when you and i trust in christ as our savior, we are
  • 00:13:38.173 --> 00:13:41.810
  • Sealed with the holy spirit, meaning we are owned by god.
  • 00:13:41.810 --> 00:13:46.448
  • And listen to me, god doesn't share his ownership
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  • With anybody.
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  • He is the sole owner of every christian.
  • 00:13:50.486 --> 00:13:53.889
  • No, we cannot be possessed by demons or by satan, but we can
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  • Be influenced by them.
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  • It is possible for a christian to be used by satan to
  • 00:14:02.498 --> 00:14:07.169
  • Accomplish his purpose.
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  • How do i know that?
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  • Let me give you two examples.
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  • First of all, the example of the apostle peter.
  • 00:14:11.607 --> 00:14:14.176
  • Remember in matthew 16, jesus was telling his disciples how it
  • 00:14:14.176 --> 00:14:17.813
  • Was part of god's plan for him to go to jerusalem, be tried, be
  • 00:14:17.813 --> 00:14:20.916
  • Convicted, be crucified, and be raised again from the dead.
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  • And what was peter's reaction?
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  • "no, lord, you don't have to do that.
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  • You're too good to be crucified.
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  • No, don't do that."
  • 00:14:31.994 --> 00:14:34.163
  • Probably thinking that "he gets crucified, not gonna be good
  • 00:14:34.163 --> 00:14:37.700
  • For me either," but he doesn't say that.
  • 00:14:37.700 --> 00:14:39.468
  • He said, "lord, you don't have to do it.
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  • There's another way.
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  • There's a way to have the crown without the cross."
  • 00:14:43.372 --> 00:14:45.607
  • And remember jesus's reaction in matthew 16:23?
  • 00:14:45.607 --> 00:14:49.144
  • "jesus turned to peter and said, 'get behind me,'" who?
  • 00:14:49.211 --> 00:14:54.350
  • "'satan!
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  • For you are a stumbling block to me; for you are not setting your
  • 00:14:55.684 --> 00:14:59.321
  • Mind on god's interests, but on man's.'"
  • 00:14:59.321 --> 00:15:03.292
  • Now, was jesus saying peter was possessed by a demon, possessed
  • 00:15:03.292 --> 00:15:07.896
  • By satan?
  • 00:15:07.896 --> 00:15:09.231
  • No, but he was saying he was allowing himself to be used by
  • 00:15:09.231 --> 00:15:12.301
  • Satan to discourage jesus from fulfilling his purpose
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  • Of redemption.
  • 00:15:16.038 --> 00:15:17.706
  • Now, some of you theologians out there would say, "well, that's a
  • 00:15:17.706 --> 00:15:20.175
  • Little different because that was before the day of pentecost
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  • When the holy spirit came and indwelt every christian who
  • 00:15:23.212 --> 00:15:27.683
  • Believed in christ and trusted him for salvation.
  • 00:15:27.683 --> 00:15:30.853
  • But now that we are indwelt by the holy spirit, we can't be
  • 00:15:30.853 --> 00:15:34.623
  • Controlled by satan or used by satan."
  • 00:15:34.623 --> 00:15:37.059
  • Well, wrong on that.
  • 00:15:37.059 --> 00:15:38.660
  • Just think about acts 4 and 5, the story of ananias
  • 00:15:38.660 --> 00:15:41.764
  • And sapphira.
  • 00:15:41.764 --> 00:15:43.132
  • Remember there were a couple and they were so overwhelmed by the
  • 00:15:43.132 --> 00:15:48.103
  • Praise others got for giving money to the church, they
  • 00:15:48.103 --> 00:15:51.840
  • Decided to sell a piece of real estate and they pledged to the
  • 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:54.610
  • Church they were gonna give all of the proceeds to the church,
  • 00:15:54.610 --> 00:15:58.580
  • But they held back, secretly, a portion for themselves.
  • 00:15:58.580 --> 00:16:02.584
  • Now, their sin wasn't that they didn't give everything to the
  • 00:16:02.584 --> 00:16:05.320
  • Church, the sin was they lied about what they were going
  • 00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:09.191
  • To do.
  • 00:16:09.191 --> 00:16:10.526
  • And remember acts 5:3, peter confronted them and said,
  • 00:16:10.526 --> 00:16:13.662
  • "ananias, why has satan filled your heart to lie to the holy
  • 00:16:13.662 --> 00:16:18.734
  • Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?"
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  • There's no indication they weren't christians.
  • 00:16:22.738 --> 00:16:24.640
  • Every indication is ananias and sapphira were christians.
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  • They had been indwelt by the holy spirit on the day of
  • 00:16:27.776 --> 00:16:30.212
  • Pentecost, but they were allowing themselves to be used
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  • By the evil one.
  • 00:16:34.516 --> 00:16:36.151
  • It's important to understand there is a difference between
  • 00:16:36.151 --> 00:16:39.488
  • The baptism with the holy spirit and the filling with the
  • 00:16:39.488 --> 00:16:43.225
  • Holy spirit.
  • 00:16:43.225 --> 00:16:44.693
  • The baptism of the holy spirit is that one time action that
  • 00:16:44.693 --> 00:16:49.164
  • Occurs at the moment of salvation when we are joined by
  • 00:16:49.164 --> 00:16:52.601
  • The holy spirit of god to jesus christ and his body, the church.
  • 00:16:52.601 --> 00:16:57.473
  • There is a one time act.
  • 00:16:57.473 --> 00:16:59.842
  • The baptism with the holy spirit isn't something that happens
  • 00:16:59.842 --> 00:17:02.845
  • Just to a few select christians, to a few super spiritual
  • 00:17:02.845 --> 00:17:07.082
  • Christians, it happens to everyone who is truly saved.
  • 00:17:07.082 --> 00:17:11.453
  • We're all baptized with the spirit, but we're not all filled
  • 00:17:11.453 --> 00:17:16.325
  • With the spirit.
  • 00:17:16.325 --> 00:17:17.993
  • Did you know there is no command in the bible for us to be
  • 00:17:17.993 --> 00:17:21.096
  • Baptized with the spirit?
  • 00:17:21.096 --> 00:17:22.698
  • That's something god does at the moment we're saved, but there
  • 00:17:22.698 --> 00:17:26.135
  • Are command after command in the bible to being controlled by the
  • 00:17:26.135 --> 00:17:30.572
  • Holy spirit of god, be filled with the spirit.
  • 00:17:30.572 --> 00:17:33.976
  • Now, let me illustrate that for you if i can.
  • 00:17:33.976 --> 00:17:36.311
  • Let's say these two glasses represent two christians.
  • 00:17:36.311 --> 00:17:41.316
  • Both have been saved, both have been baptized with the
  • 00:17:41.316 --> 00:17:44.253
  • Holy spirit.
  • 00:17:44.253 --> 00:17:45.587
  • The question is not, "do they have the holy spirit or all of
  • 00:17:45.587 --> 00:17:48.357
  • The holy spirit?"
  • 00:17:48.357 --> 00:17:49.725
  • They do, but does the holy spirit have all of them?
  • 00:17:49.725 --> 00:17:52.227
  • That's the issue.
  • 00:17:52.227 --> 00:17:53.562
  • Are they controlled with the holy spirit?
  • 00:17:53.562 --> 00:17:56.832
  • Now, this water represents the control, the power of the
  • 00:17:56.832 --> 00:18:03.472
  • Holy spirit.
  • 00:18:03.472 --> 00:18:04.806
  • And let's say this first christian says, "i want my life
  • 00:18:04.806 --> 00:18:09.111
  • To completely be under god's control.
  • 00:18:09.111 --> 00:18:11.346
  • I want every area of my life to be under the control of
  • 00:18:11.346 --> 00:18:15.017
  • The spirit."
  • 00:18:15.017 --> 00:18:16.351
  • By the way, we all know what that means.
  • 00:18:16.351 --> 00:18:18.787
  • In most situations, the dilemma is not, "what is god's will
  • 00:18:18.787 --> 00:18:22.791
  • For me?
  • 00:18:22.791 --> 00:18:24.126
  • What does god want me to do?"
  • 00:18:24.126 --> 00:18:25.460
  • The real issue is, "am i going to do what i know god wants me
  • 00:18:25.460 --> 00:18:27.829
  • To do?"
  • 00:18:27.829 --> 00:18:29.198
  • That's the battle we face a thousand times every day.
  • 00:18:29.198 --> 00:18:32.067
  • But here's a christian who says, "i'm gonna follow the spirit's
  • 00:18:32.067 --> 00:18:35.571
  • Direction in my life, and i'm gonna follow it in every area of
  • 00:18:35.571 --> 00:18:39.942
  • My life.
  • 00:18:39.942 --> 00:18:41.310
  • No area of my life is not going to be under the control of the
  • 00:18:41.310 --> 00:18:44.680
  • Holy spirit."
  • 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:46.048
  • Now, let me ask you, is this cup full?
  • 00:18:46.048 --> 00:18:50.953
  • Say yes.
  • 00:18:50.953 --> 00:18:54.523
  • Can i get anything else in this?
  • 00:18:54.523 --> 00:18:56.692
  • Say no.
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  • That's right.
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  • What's filled cannot be filled with anything else.
  • 00:19:00.295 --> 00:19:02.965
  • It's full.
  • 00:19:02.965 --> 00:19:04.299
  • Nothing else can enter in.
  • 00:19:04.299 --> 00:19:05.667
  • But let's say you have christian number two.
  • 00:19:05.667 --> 00:19:08.537
  • He's saved, he's been baptized with the holy spirit, and he's
  • 00:19:08.537 --> 00:19:12.074
  • Willing to give some of his life over to god's control, but
  • 00:19:12.074 --> 00:19:16.044
  • There's areas of his life, they're under his control.
  • 00:19:16.044 --> 00:19:20.882
  • He's not ready to submit to the leadership of the holy spirit.
  • 00:19:20.882 --> 00:19:25.220
  • Let me ask you, is this glass full?
  • 00:19:25.220 --> 00:19:28.590
  • It's not full, is it?
  • 00:19:28.590 --> 00:19:29.958
  • There's still room left in it, right?
  • 00:19:29.958 --> 00:19:32.427
  • Well just as nature abhors a vacuum, so do our lives.
  • 00:19:32.427 --> 00:19:36.465
  • Our lives aren't going to be empty.
  • 00:19:36.465 --> 00:19:39.134
  • Our lives are always going to be controlled by something.
  • 00:19:39.134 --> 00:19:42.304
  • And if i choose not to allow the holy spirit to control and fill
  • 00:19:42.304 --> 00:19:46.074
  • My life, then that's gonna make room for something else to
  • 00:19:46.074 --> 00:19:49.778
  • Fill it.
  • 00:19:49.778 --> 00:19:51.146
  • You know what this is?
  • 00:19:51.146 --> 00:19:52.481
  • This is demon juice, also known as diet coke.
  • 00:19:52.481 --> 00:19:56.285
  • And there's room for the influence of demons, of satan.
  • 00:19:59.488 --> 00:20:06.261
  • Whatever the spirit is not filling and controlling, satan
  • 00:20:06.261 --> 00:20:11.033
  • Moves in and has his way in our life.
  • 00:20:11.033 --> 00:20:14.936
  • That's why it's important that we learn to be filled,
  • 00:20:14.936 --> 00:20:18.840
  • Controlled with the holy spirit of god because any area of your
  • 00:20:18.840 --> 00:20:22.611
  • Life that is not controlled by the holy spirit is open to be
  • 00:20:22.611 --> 00:20:27.082
  • Controlled by demonic influence.
  • 00:20:27.082 --> 00:20:30.018
  • How do we make sure that our lives are completely under
  • 00:20:30.018 --> 00:20:32.954
  • Control of the holy spirit?
  • 00:20:32.954 --> 00:20:35.090
  • If we have allowed satan to gain a foothold in our life, is it
  • 00:20:35.090 --> 00:20:39.094
  • Ever possible to reclaim that area back for god?
  • 00:20:39.094 --> 00:20:43.231
  • Well, that's what we're gonna talk about next week because the
  • 00:20:43.231 --> 00:20:46.435
  • First step into having a spirit controlled life is to learn how
  • 00:20:46.435 --> 00:20:50.739
  • To win the mind games that satan plays with every christian.
  • 00:20:50.739 --> 00:20:57.279
  • Jeffress: the reality of spiritual warfare is not
  • 00:21:01.249 --> 00:21:03.518
  • Something we can ignore or laugh off.
  • 00:21:03.518 --> 00:21:06.421
  • Satan and his demons are actively working to discourage,
  • 00:21:06.421 --> 00:21:10.392
  • Distract, and deceive every believer, but as christians, we
  • 00:21:10.392 --> 00:21:15.030
  • Belong to god, and he's given us everything we need to stand firm
  • 00:21:15.030 --> 00:21:19.868
  • Against the enemy's attacks.
  • 00:21:19.868 --> 00:21:22.003
  • Now, before our time is up today, i want to share a note i
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  • She wrote, "i live in a small town in minnesota and don't have
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  • A regular church nearby.
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  • I was raised in church and have wandered off course at times.
  • 00:21:34.049 --> 00:21:38.120
  • I want to get closer to the lord and find his will for my life.
  • 00:21:38.120 --> 00:21:42.724
  • I truly want to deepen my personal relationship with him.
  • 00:21:42.724 --> 00:21:46.661
  • With your help, i believe i can do that."
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  • Kelly, thank you for those encouraging words.
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  • Talking about a theoretical situation, they're talking about
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  • Somebody they knew.
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  • We all know people who grew up in the church, made a profession
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  • Of faith in christ, but somewhere along the way, they
  • 00:24:07.002 --> 00:24:10.171
  • Turned away from god and they no longer profess to be a believer
  • 00:24:10.171 --> 00:24:14.476
  • In christ.
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  • Can a christian lose his salvation?
  • 00:24:15.844 --> 00:24:17.946
  • The short answer is no.
  • 00:24:17.946 --> 00:24:20.215
  • Jesus said, "i give eternal life to them, and they shall
  • 00:24:20.215 --> 00:24:24.085
  • Never perish.
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  • No man shall snatch out of my hands those whom the father has
  • 00:24:25.420 --> 00:24:29.057
  • Given me."
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  • Paul said in romans 11:29, "the gifts and the calling of god
  • 00:24:30.392 --> 00:24:34.396
  • Are irrevocable."
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  • So, how do we explain these people who once professed to be
  • 00:24:36.731 --> 00:24:40.702
  • Believers, but now dismiss the christian faith?
  • 00:24:40.702 --> 00:24:44.539
  • Well, john had an answer in 1 john 2.
  • 00:24:44.539 --> 00:24:46.808
  • He said, "they went out from us because they were not of us.
  • 00:24:46.808 --> 00:24:51.546
  • Had they been of us, they would not have gone out from us."
  • 00:24:51.546 --> 00:24:55.550
  • Simply put, christians don't lose their salvation.
  • 00:24:55.550 --> 00:24:59.955
  • But if they renounce jesus christ, they turn their back on
  • 00:24:59.955 --> 00:25:04.759
  • The gospel, and they die in that state, it's not that they've
  • 00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:08.129
  • Lost their salvation, it's if they were never saved to
  • 00:25:08.129 --> 00:25:12.000
  • Begin with.
  • 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:13.368
  • Now, we need to be careful here.
  • 00:25:13.368 --> 00:25:15.170
  • Christians have ups and downs in their spiritual walk with god,
  • 00:25:15.170 --> 00:25:19.140
  • And there can be a period of time, maybe weeks, months,
  • 00:25:19.140 --> 00:25:22.711
  • Perhaps even years that christians don't walk with god,
  • 00:25:22.711 --> 00:25:26.081
  • But they come back to god.
  • 00:25:26.081 --> 00:25:28.216
  • But the bible offers no hope for those who die denying jesus
  • 00:25:28.216 --> 00:25:33.655
  • Christ as their lord and savior.
  • 00:25:33.655 --> 00:25:36.324
  • Jeffress: christians cannot be demon possessed because we're
  • 00:25:37.959 --> 00:25:41.796
  • Sealed with the holy spirit, but we can be demon influenced.
  • 00:25:41.796 --> 00:25:46.901
  • Any area of your life not surrendered to god's control
  • 00:25:46.901 --> 00:25:50.872
  • Becomes vulnerable to the enemy's attacks.
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  • I hope you'll take time to examine your own heart and
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  • Identify what parts of your life you're still trying to manage on
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  • Your own.
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  • Well, the primary battlefield for spiritual warfare isn't the
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  • Church or the home, it's the mind.
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  • And next time, we'll discover how satan tries to control our
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  • Thoughts through four specific channels.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview what's coming up next in our series
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  • "spirit wars."
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  • Jeffress: and they believe the enemy's lie that we are
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  • Effectually powerless against satan's attacks.
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  • No wonder so many christians today are falling into
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  • Immorality, experience the dissolution of their marriage,
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  • Are controlled by depression, or end up wandering away from the
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  • Faith itself.
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  • With such a passive attitude towards satan, they have no
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  • Chance of winning.
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  • Male announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for the
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  • Message "winning the mind games" here on "pathway to victory."
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