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Robert Jeffress - Winning The Mind Games (Part 2)

October 15, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - Winning The Mind Games (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Winning The Mind Games (Part 2) | October 15, 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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  • Military leaders understand that victory depends not just on
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  • Superior firepower but on knowing your enemy and
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  • Understanding his tactics.
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  • Wars are won or lost long before the first battle is ever fought,
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  • And the same principle applies to spiritual battles.
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  • Satan doesn't launch random attacks against believers.
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  • He has a primary target where he concentrates his assault.
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  • Today i want to show you where that primary battlefield is
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  • Located and how you can protect yourself from his
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  • Targeted attacks.
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  • My message is titled "winning the mind games" on today's
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  • Edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Announcer: do your children and grandchildren know how to guard
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: whenever god says, "you shall not," this flawed
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  • Operating system says, "i shall."
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  • Why do we all have that system inside of us?
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  • It can be traced back to adam and eve and their rebellion
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  • Against god.
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  • When adam and eve sinned against god, romans 5:12 says their
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  • Choice became our choice, and each one of us has that natural
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  • Inclination to be rebellious against god.
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  • That means if satan were to be destroyed tomorrow, there would
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  • Still be murder, immorality, greed, and idolatry in our
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  • World, even though satan had been destroyed, why?
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  • Because he was successful in making sure that every human
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  • Being born is born in this flawed condition.
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  • Remember the temptation equation we talked about in james 1:14?
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  • James said, "but each one of us is tempted when he is carried
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  • Away and enticed by his own lust."
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  • What causes sin?
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  • Corrupt desires plus the right bait plus the wrong choice
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  • Equals sin.
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  • But notice what james talks about: the two major components
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  • Of sin.
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  • They cause us to be carried away, elkomai, that means to be
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  • Drawn with an inward power and enticed.
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  • That means to be hooked by his own lust.
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  • Remember, satan is that master fisherman.
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  • He's always dangling the right piece of bait at the wrong time
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  • To get us to bite, but that bait would have no influence on us if
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  • We didn't have a hunger for what he's dangling in front of us,
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  • And that hunger didn't come from satan directly, it came from our
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  • Old nature that he successfully made sure each one of us have.
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  • So the beginning place for sin is this inward corrupt desire
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  • For those things outside god's will.
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  • So you could say, "well, if satan has that internal
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  • Deficient system in every human being, i guess he can
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  • Just take the day off.
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  • He doesn't have to do any work," right?
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  • Well, wrong.
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  • Satan is smart enough to know that he can't rely on people's
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  • Flawed nature to do his dirty work for him.
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  • You see, there's another truth that satan understands better
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  • Than most christians, and that is when somebody trusts in
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  • Christ as his savior, he not only receives a pardon from sin,
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  • He receives the power to say no to sin.
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  • When we become a christian, we have another operating system
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  • That's installed in us.
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  • It's not defective.
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  • This operating system, we call him the holy spirit, and the
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  • Holy spirit gives us the power to override that flawed
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  • Operating system, to override our natural rebellious spirit
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  • Toward god, the power to obey god in everything.
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  • And so satan can't just rely on our corrupt desires.
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  • He has three other methods he uses to lure us into sin.
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  • Secondly, he speaks to us through other mediums, through
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  • Other mediums.
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  • Go back to adam and eve for a moment before they sinned.
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  • Remember what genesis 3:1 says?
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  • "now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field
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  • Which the lord god had made.
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  • And he said to the woman, 'indeed, has god said, "you
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  • Shall not eat from the tree of the garden"?'"
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  • When satan approached eve for the first time, he was wise
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  • Enough not to appear in his normal appearance.
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  • What is satan in his normal appearance?
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  • Revelation 12 tells us he is like a great red dragon with 7
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  • Heads and 10 horns.
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  • Now just think if that beast had approached eve, would she have
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  • Run toward him?
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  • No, she would have run from him as quickly as she could and
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  • Jumped back into adam's arms, but he didn't appear
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  • As he really is.
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  • He appeared as the serpent.
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  • Genesis 3:1 tells us that the serpent was the most crafty.
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  • Some translate it the most beautiful of all of
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  • God's creations.
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  • No, he wasn't slithering in the grass at that time.
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  • He walked uprightly.
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  • He was beautiful and he was crafty in his appearance.
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  • That's how satan chose to spoke to eve through the medium of
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  • The serpent.
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  • What could be more enticing than him?
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  • Well, how about this?
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  • Just imagine there were a box, a talking box that was in the
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  • Center of your house.
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  • And it was able to voice in a very warm and appealing tone
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  • Great invitations to you and enticements.
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  • It could create sparkling, full-color images that enticed
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  • You and told you the lie: you can have wonderful sex without
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  • Commitment to anyone.
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  • You can have great wealth without any work whatsoever.
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  • You can disobey god without any negative
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  • Consequences whatsoever.
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  • And just imagine this talking box with these beautiful images
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  • Was on in your house an average of 8 hours a day,
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  • 365 days a year.
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  • Do you think satan could use that medium?
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  • Now, i realize that's about as subtle as a sledgehammer, but
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  • You get the picture.
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  • God can use a neutral medium like television, like
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  • The internet.
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  • He can use ouija boards to deliver his message to people.
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  • None of these mediums have power in and of themselves.
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  • A ouija board, a horoscope, has no power in and of itself, but
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  • Satan uses those things to confuse and deceive christians
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  • Just as he can use television and the internet either for
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  • Great good or for great evil.
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  • The same thing is true about artificial intelligence.
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  • It can be used for great good.
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  • It will be used for great evil as well.
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  • The point is, satan can speak through other mediums as well.
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  • Thirdly, satan speaks to us through other people.
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  • He can actually voice his enticements to sin through
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  • Other people.
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  • Remember last time we saw what jesus said to peter when peter
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  • Tried to dissuade the lord from going to the cross?
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  • Said, "lord, you don't need to die.
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  • You can have a crown without a cross."
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  • Remember matthew 16:23: "but jesus turned and said to him,
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  • 'get thee behind me, satan!
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  • For you are a stumbling block to me; for you are not setting your
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  • Mind on god's interests, but on man's.'"
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  • He didn't believe that peter was satan, but he was saying peter
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  • Was being used by satan to voice his lies.
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  • Same thing with ananias and sapphira, two christians in the
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  • Church who allowed satan to control their speech.
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  • How can i know whether the words being spoken to me by another
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  • Person are really coming from satan?
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  • I want you to write down three filters you ought to use to
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  • Evaluate anybody's words to you, whether they're words from a
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  • Mate, a parent, even a pastor.
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  • Don't take them at face value, evaluate every word spoken to
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  • You with these three filters.
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  • Number one: are the words true?
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  • Jesus said in john 8:44: "satan is a liar and he is the father
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  • Of all lies."
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  • When somebody says something to you that causes you to question
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  • The goodness of god, the wisdom of god, the sovereignty of god
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  • In your situation, you can know those words are not coming
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  • From god.
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  • Second one: do these words motivate me to faith or fear?
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  • When somebody speaks to me, is what they're saying motivating
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  • Me to obey god or to run from god?
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  • And thirdly: do these words contradict the teaching
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  • Of scripture?
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  • Do you know what the first question in the bible was?
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  • We just saw it.
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  • Genesis 3:1: "the serpent came to eve, and he said, 'now eve,
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  • Has god really said?'"
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  • The first question in all of human history was the question:
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  • Can god's word, the word of god, be trusted?
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  • And that is the same tool the enemy uses today to cause us,
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  • Even christians, to doubt the truthfulness, the validity, the
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  • Inerrancy of god's word, because if he can get us to doubt that
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  • This book, the bible, is god's word to us, then he can convince
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  • Us to violate that word.
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  • And i want to say something very clearly to our students
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  • Here today.
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  • Whether you're in kindergarten, whether you're in grade school,
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  • Junior high or high school, at some point in your educational
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  • Career, you're going to go to a school, maybe a college, maybe a
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  • College like i went to about 90 miles south of here, that is a
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  • Religious school.
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  • Notice i didn't say christian school.
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  • I said a religious school.
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  • And it's filled with learned professors, and you will hear
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  • Them say, and they will say things like, "you know, the
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  • Bible is a good book, no piece of literature like it, but it
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  • Has contradictions in it," and they'll talk to you about the
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  • Contradictions of the bible.
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  • Or they'll talk about the scientific errors in the bible,
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  • And they will say, "the bible was never meant to be taken
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  • Literally, but it's a good book.
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  • It's a collection," this is what i heard, "of man's thoughts
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  • About god."
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  • And the person who's saying this, now remember this, the
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  • Person saying this to you is so appealing and appears to be
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  • Such a humble servant of god and only wants god's best for you
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  • And has all of these degrees on his or her wall.
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  • Remember that, that professor who sounds so appealing and so
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  • Christlike is nothing but a slimy slithering snake who is an
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  • Enemy of almighty god.
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  • Remember that.
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  • That is what the enemy wants you to know.
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  • He wants you to believe that god's word cannot be trusted.
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  • And let me just say one of the great legacies, the greatest
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  • Legacy of the first baptist church of dallas is that god
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  • Used my predecessor, dr. w. a. criswell and his associate
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  • Paige patterson.
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  • God used them to orchestrate the event that turned around the
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  • Largest protestant denomination in the world and turned them
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  • Back to a belief, turned us back to a belief in the
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  • Inspiration and integrity of the scripture.
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  • Dr. criswell's favorite verse was isaiah 48: "the grass
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  • Withers, the flower fades, but the word of our god shall
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  • Stand forever."
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  • And first baptist dallas for its 155 years and going on of
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  • History will always be remembered as the church that
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  • Turned back the southern baptist convention to a belief in god,
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  • And that's a heritage we can all be proud of, don't you think?
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  • God bless those who went before us and those who have fought for
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  • The inerrancy of the bible.
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  • No, this isn't a theological minor issue like how many angels
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  • Can dance on the head of a needle.
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  • The truth is whether god's word can be trusted or not is the
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  • Single most important issue of all time, because if we can't
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  • Trust the bible, what do we trust to lead us to salvation,
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  • To lead us to faith in jesus christ?
  • 00:14:01.964 --> 00:14:04.934
  • So ask yourself, do these words contradict
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  • The teaching of scripture?
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  • You know, it's interesting.
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  • Even eve realized god had said it.
  • 00:14:10.239 --> 00:14:12.408
  • She quoted what god had said to the satan, "god said i
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  • Will die."
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  • And what did satan say?
  • 00:14:18.013 --> 00:14:20.015
  • He just issued the boldest contradiction he could.
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  • He said, "god was wrong.
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  • What god said was wrong.
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  • You shall not die."
  • 00:14:26.455 --> 00:14:29.024
  • And when somebody tries to contradict the teaching of
  • 00:14:29.024 --> 00:14:31.493
  • Scripture, if they can't get you to distrust the bible, they will
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  • Try to get you to just blatantly deny that what the bible says
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  • Is true.
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  • People who come into our lives and say, as an employer, "you
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  • Can fudge the law here.
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  • You don't have to keep this like the law requires.
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  • You can have a little variance in your accounting," or they say
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  • To us like, "god doesn't deserve your full attention
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  • And allegiance.
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  • I'm your husband, i'm your wife.
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  • I demand that you be solely faithful to me and to me alone."
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  • Or a temptor or a temptress comes to you and tries to entice
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  • You to sin and says, "that's okay, nobody will know.
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  • Nobody will get hurt."
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  • That's always the voice of satan channeling his appeal through
  • 00:15:19.174 --> 00:15:23.979
  • The lips of others.
  • 00:15:23.979 --> 00:15:25.981
  • And number four, how does satan speak to us?
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  • He speaks to us sometimes through direct means.
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  • Have you ever had this happen?
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  • You're just driving along, or maybe even seated in church, and
  • 00:15:35.858 --> 00:15:40.396
  • Some horrible thought comes into your mind.
  • 00:15:40.396 --> 00:15:44.867
  • Some vile thought.
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  • Maybe even a blasphemous thought.
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  • And you wonder, where in the world did that come from?
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  • I mean, it's just not my corrupt nature.
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  • I mean, that's part of it, but i would never come up with
  • 00:15:59.982 --> 00:16:03.118
  • Something like that on my own.
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  • Where did that come from?
  • 00:16:04.653 --> 00:16:06.221
  • Many times it can be traced to satan himself.
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  • Where do you get that in scripture, pastor?
  • 00:16:09.425 --> 00:16:11.527
  • So glad you asked.
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  • 1 chronicles 21, verses 1 to 3.
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  • There was no man closer to god's heart than king david.
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  • He was a man after god's own heart, but listen to 1
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  • Chronicles 21, beginning with verse 1: "then satan stood up
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  • Against israel and moved david to number israel."
  • 00:16:29.211 --> 00:16:34.049
  • That means to take a census of israel.
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  • "so david said to joab and to the princes of the people, 'go,
  • 00:16:37.686 --> 00:16:41.056
  • Number israel from beersheba even to dan, and bring me word
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  • That i may know their number.'
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  • And joab said, 'may the lord add to his people a hundred times as
  • 00:16:47.963 --> 00:16:52.067
  • Many as they are!
  • 00:16:52.067 --> 00:16:53.402
  • But, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants?
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  • Why does my lord seek this thing?
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  • Why should he be a cause of guilt to israel?'"
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  • You see, god had told them not to take a census.
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  • Why?
  • 00:17:07.316 --> 00:17:08.650
  • Because they would tend to depend upon the number of people
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  • They had in their country to protect them against their enemy
  • 00:17:12.321 --> 00:17:16.358
  • Rather than depending upon god.
  • 00:17:16.358 --> 00:17:18.894
  • That was the problem with taking a census.
  • 00:17:18.894 --> 00:17:22.164
  • Now, who enticed david to sin against god?
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  • Well, it's very clear here.
  • 00:17:27.536 --> 00:17:29.037
  • Verse 1 says: "then satan stood up against israel and he
  • 00:17:29.037 --> 00:17:33.108
  • Moved david."
  • 00:17:33.108 --> 00:17:35.777
  • He was able to speak to david directly.
  • 00:17:35.777 --> 00:17:39.615
  • Now here's what's interesting.
  • 00:17:39.615 --> 00:17:41.183
  • In 2 samuel chapter 24, there's a parallel account of this.
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  • The writer of 2 samuel says that god was displeased with israel
  • 00:17:46.455 --> 00:17:51.894
  • For some unspecified sin.
  • 00:17:51.894 --> 00:17:53.729
  • They were all always doing things that ticked god off so
  • 00:17:53.729 --> 00:17:56.565
  • There was no telling what it was this time.
  • 00:17:56.565 --> 00:17:58.934
  • Samuel didn't tell us, but something made god mad and so he
  • 00:17:58.934 --> 00:18:02.404
  • Decided to judge israel and so what did god do?
  • 00:18:02.404 --> 00:18:06.842
  • He moved them to take a census.
  • 00:18:06.842 --> 00:18:10.279
  • "wait a minute, pastor, you preached from james 1.
  • 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:13.048
  • God doesn't tempt anybody with evil.
  • 00:18:13.048 --> 00:18:15.851
  • Only satan does that.
  • 00:18:15.851 --> 00:18:17.619
  • How do you reconcile those two accounts?"
  • 00:18:17.619 --> 00:18:19.521
  • It's very easy.
  • 00:18:19.521 --> 00:18:21.290
  • It was satan who directly enticed david to take the
  • 00:18:21.290 --> 00:18:26.995
  • Census, but 2 samuel says ultimately it was god who
  • 00:18:26.995 --> 00:18:32.367
  • Allowed satan to tempt david and experience judgment for
  • 00:18:32.367 --> 00:18:38.340
  • Their sin.
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  • God never tempts anybody.
  • 00:18:39.741 --> 00:18:41.977
  • Satan tempts us, but god can sometimes judge our own sin and
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  • Make the judgment of our sin feeling the full effects of
  • 00:18:48.650 --> 00:18:52.354
  • Satan's temptation.
  • 00:18:52.354 --> 00:18:53.889
  • Sometimes god removes the guardrails of protection against
  • 00:18:53.889 --> 00:18:58.126
  • Satan's temptation as a way of judging us for our sin.
  • 00:18:58.126 --> 00:19:02.764
  • The important point here is satan can directly speak
  • 00:19:02.764 --> 00:19:07.236
  • To christians.
  • 00:19:07.236 --> 00:19:08.804
  • How do i evaluate whether something is coming through
  • 00:19:08.804 --> 00:19:11.740
  • Satan or not into our minds?
  • 00:19:11.740 --> 00:19:14.109
  • Use those same three filters i just gave you for other people.
  • 00:19:14.109 --> 00:19:18.447
  • Are the words true?
  • 00:19:18.447 --> 00:19:20.282
  • Do the words motivate me to faith and obedience or to fear?
  • 00:19:20.282 --> 00:19:24.353
  • And do these words violate any teaching from god's word?
  • 00:19:24.353 --> 00:19:30.425
  • Now, satan has an endless number of lies he would love to put
  • 00:19:30.425 --> 00:19:36.131
  • Into our minds, but he has four that are his top favorite lies
  • 00:19:36.131 --> 00:19:41.803
  • Because they do the most damage most reliably in people's lives.
  • 00:19:41.803 --> 00:19:46.975
  • And next time, we're going to examine and explain satan's four
  • 00:19:46.975 --> 00:19:52.180
  • Fatal lies and how to avoid them.
  • 00:19:52.180 --> 00:19:56.818
  • Jeffress: the battle for your mind is real, and satan has a
  • 00:20:01.056 --> 00:20:04.826
  • Strategic plan to influence your thoughts, but when you
  • 00:20:04.826 --> 00:20:08.297
  • Understand his tactics, you can resist his attacks.
  • 00:20:08.297 --> 00:20:12.834
  • Now in closing today, i want to share a note from susan in
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  • Connecticut who wrote: "i listen to 'pathway to victory' messages
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  • On my lunch break at work.
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  • Convictions and integrity in his teaching.
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  • He wants us to live."
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  • Susan, thank you for those encouraging words, and to
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  • Now please stay right there.
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  • Jeffress: gary, that's a great question.
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  • Fortunately, the bible doesn't stutter in answering
  • 00:22:48.356 --> 00:22:50.892
  • That question.
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  • In 1 corinthians 12:13, paul was writing to a group of carnal
  • 00:22:52.227 --> 00:22:56.765
  • Christians, backslidden, who were involved in immorality.
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  • They were terrible excuses and examples of christians, and yet
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  • Paul said in 1 corinthians 12:13: "for by one spirit we
  • 00:23:04.506 --> 00:23:09.244
  • Were all baptized into one body."
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  • The baptism with the holy spirit is not just reserved for a
  • 00:23:12.814 --> 00:23:16.751
  • Special group of superior christians.
  • 00:23:16.751 --> 00:23:20.121
  • The baptism with the holy spirit is a part of the basic package
  • 00:23:20.121 --> 00:23:24.359
  • That each one of us receives when we trust in christ
  • 00:23:24.359 --> 00:23:27.596
  • As savior.
  • 00:23:27.596 --> 00:23:28.930
  • The baptism with the holy spirit is that act of god by which god
  • 00:23:28.930 --> 00:23:33.802
  • Connects us to the head of the body of christ, jesus christ,
  • 00:23:33.802 --> 00:23:38.206
  • And to other members of the body, the church.
  • 00:23:38.206 --> 00:23:41.610
  • We receive that the moment we trust in god.
  • 00:23:41.610 --> 00:23:44.880
  • There's no command ever to be baptized with the spirit.
  • 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:48.984
  • That's something god does.
  • 00:23:48.984 --> 00:23:50.519
  • It's not something we do, but what the bible does command in a
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  • Relationship to the holy spirit is to be filled with the
  • 00:23:54.256 --> 00:23:57.959
  • Holy spirit, ephesians 5:18.
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  • What is the filling of the holy spirit?
  • 00:24:00.729 --> 00:24:02.531
  • It means to be controlled by the holy spirit of god.
  • 00:24:02.531 --> 00:24:06.601
  • It's a greek word "pléroó," that was used to describe the wind
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  • Filling up the mast of a ship and driving that ship in a
  • 00:24:11.206 --> 00:24:15.243
  • Particular direction.
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  • To be filled with the spirit means to be controlled by the
  • 00:24:16.811 --> 00:24:20.348
  • Spirit of god, and that's a continual process.
  • 00:24:20.348 --> 00:24:24.152
  • Think of it this way.
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  • The moment you're saved, you receive all the holy--of the
  • 00:24:25.520 --> 00:24:29.324
  • Holy spirit of god.
  • 00:24:29.324 --> 00:24:30.859
  • There's no more to receive.
  • 00:24:30.859 --> 00:24:32.694
  • You are baptized with the holy spirit.
  • 00:24:32.694 --> 00:24:35.297
  • So the question is no longer do we have all of the holy spirit?
  • 00:24:35.297 --> 00:24:39.401
  • The question is, does the holy spirit have all of us?
  • 00:24:39.401 --> 00:24:44.072
  • And that's what being filled with the spirit talks about.
  • 00:24:44.072 --> 00:24:47.208
  • So if you're a christian today, you've been baptized with the
  • 00:24:47.208 --> 00:24:50.412
  • Holy spirit of god and there is no greater gift.
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  • Jeffress: satan's primary target is your mind, where he plants
  • 00:24:55.917 --> 00:24:59.854
  • Destructive thoughts to lead you into sin, but you don't have to
  • 00:24:59.854 --> 00:25:03.892
  • Be defenseless against his attacks.
  • 00:25:03.892 --> 00:25:06.695
  • Remember those three simple questions: are the words true?
  • 00:25:06.695 --> 00:25:10.932
  • Do they motivate faith or fear?
  • 00:25:10.932 --> 00:25:13.234
  • And do they contradict scripture?
  • 00:25:13.234 --> 00:25:15.537
  • When you filter every thought through these biblical tests,
  • 00:25:15.537 --> 00:25:19.474
  • You can protect yourself from the enemy's deception.
  • 00:25:19.474 --> 00:25:23.178
  • Well, satan has four specific lies that he returns to
  • 00:25:23.178 --> 00:25:27.515
  • Repeatedly, and next time we're going to expose these fatal
  • 00:25:27.515 --> 00:25:31.252
  • Falsehoods and learn how to recognize them.
  • 00:25:31.252 --> 00:25:34.623
  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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  • Series, "spirit wars."
  • 00:25:37.158 --> 00:25:40.395
  • Jeffress: "whatever satan speaks," jesus said in john
  • 00:25:40.395 --> 00:25:42.797
  • 8:44, "is a lie.
  • 00:25:42.797 --> 00:25:45.800
  • He speaks from lies."
  • 00:25:45.800 --> 00:25:48.136
  • In fact, in john 8:44, jesus called satan "a liar and the
  • 00:25:48.136 --> 00:25:54.009
  • Father of all lies."
  • 00:25:54.009 --> 00:25:56.211
  • You can't trust a word he says.
  • 00:25:56.211 --> 00:25:58.980
  • Well, what lies does he want to implant in my heart?
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  • The list is endless.
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