Dr. Tony Evans

Tony Evans - The Adversaries of Fellowship

February 22, 2026 | 27:29

Dr. Tony Evans is known as a relevant expositor and is a pastor of pastors and a father in the faith.

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Dr. Tony Evans | Tony Evans - The Adversaries of Fellowship | February 22, 2026

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Tony evans: god's word gives you revelation.
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The holy spirit gives you illumination
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So that there can be whatever transformation
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In the direction that's needed
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For the decisions that are made.
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That's called the grace of god.
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When he meets you when you didn't go away off base
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And it still steers you back to where you're supposed to be
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In the first place,
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That's the goodness of god, when we get back on track.
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Tony: life has a lot of twists and turns,
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A lot of things to navigate, a lot of decisions to be made,
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A lot of roads to travel,
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And god has provided a tool, a mechanism
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To help us to navigate the twists and turns of life.
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There's not many people here who doesn't know what it is
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To make a bad turn, to go in a wrong direction,
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To head down the wrong road,
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To regret the decision that was made,
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But god has a tool.
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When that tool is ignored, then it is easy to get lost.
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In 1 john 2, with the emptiness of this world order,
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This world is passing away.
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The world, like the second law of thermodynamics,
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Is going down.
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Things deteriorate, things decay when left on their own.
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In verse 18 of 1 john 2, he says,
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"children, it is the last hour,
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And just as you have heard the antichrist is coming,
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Even now many antichrists have appeared.
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From this we know that it is the last hour."
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He says we know the antichrist is coming.
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He's referring to that future individual
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Who will come, set up his shop in israel as a false christ
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In order to rule the world prior to the second coming.
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He talks about this false antichrist to come,
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But then he says, "but even now
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There are many miniature antichrists
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Running around-- "anti," "against" christ.
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He says that this world is full of many antichrists
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Who are out to deceive you to keep you from experiencing
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God's navigation of your life
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Because they are against, anti, christ.
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They are against christ,
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And this antichrist movement wants to rob christians--
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'cause he starts off with children,
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Meaning fellow christians.
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He wants to rob you.
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He can't take away your salvation
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If you're a believer,
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But he can rob you of your intimacy,
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Your fellowship, your closeness, your growth,
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Your experience of god.
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So he says what the antichrist, who is coming,
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Is going to do-- he has a lot of folk
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Already working for him now.
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He says even now there are antichrists
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Who want to subvert us.
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He says in verse 19, "they went out from us,
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But they were not really of us, for if they had been of us,
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They would have remained with us.
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But they went out so that it would be shown
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That they are not of us."
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The "us" he's referring to is the apostles
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Who set forth the truth of scripture.
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He says they didn't remain with us,
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Because they weren't part of us.
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In other words, they rejected the biblical truth,
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And because they rejected the biblical truth,
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They didn't wanna be associated with the truth,
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So they didn't wanna be associated with us.
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You and i are living in a world that doesn't want the truth.
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And if you are holding on to the truth,
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They won't want you.
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And the more the lies penetrate the culture
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And the more you hold on to the truth,
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The more the antichrist will separate from you.
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So he says they wouldn't hang with us,
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Because they would not go along with
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The biblical narrative that we were entrusted to give.
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These are also called, in scripture, false prophets.
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In 2 corinthians chapter 11, paul says this about that group.
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He's talking to the corinthian church
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About the same kind of deception.
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He says in verse 13,
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"for such men are false apostles,
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Deceitful workers disguising themselves
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As apostles of christ."
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No wonder.
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For even satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
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Therefore, it is not surprising if his servants
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Also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness
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Whose end will be according to their deeds.
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He says the antichrist put on a disguise
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And they look like they're for christ,
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But they're after--
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Or they're carrying out the program of the devil
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While looking like they're for the program of god.
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But he says you can always spot them
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When you bring the truth of god's word
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'cause they won't want that.
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They wanna look the part until they're exposed with scripture.
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They're false apostles.
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So he's talking about the deception,
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And this is why you need a guidance system.
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This is why you need something that will steer you, me, and us
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In a world that's rejecting god while still using his name,
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A world that wants to disguise itself in spiritual language,
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Using words like love and tolerance
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And unity and faith and all the "christianese"
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While injecting it with false meaning.
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He says this is the anti, against christ.
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And i want you to be protected by that
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Because if the antichrist get to you,
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They're going to deceive you,
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And when they deceive you, you're gonna get lost.
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So god has come up with a system that will keep us guided
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In a misguided world.
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He talks about that system in two verses.
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In verse 20, after talking about the antichrist, he says,
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"but you have an anointing from the holy one,
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And you all know."
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Verse 27, "as for you, the anointing,
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Which you received from him, abides in you,
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And you have no need for anyone to teach you.
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But as his anointing teaches you about all things
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And is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you,
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You abide in him."
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He introduces us to the anointing.
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He says, "you have the anointing."
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Every christian has built inside of them
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What he calls the anointing.
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So the question is, what is the anointing
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And how does the anointing work
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Since it's a system that every christian has?
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Now, john chapter 14-- st. john chapter 14, verse 17,
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Says that the world has not received it.
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If you have directv but you don't have a receiver,
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Then that means you're not going to pick up on
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The signal.
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So he says the world does not have the capacity
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To pick up on the signal.
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It does not have the receiver. but you have the anointing.
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You have the receiver.
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If you have a receiver but it's not on,
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You won't pick up the signal.
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If you have a receiver and you're not using it,
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You won't pick up the signal.
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So every christian has the anointing,
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But every christian's system is not on.
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So every christian doesn't benefit
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From the anointing, okay?
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So what is the anointing?
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He says--he calls it, in verse 20, the holy one.
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The anointing is the work of the holy spirit
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To bring clarity in the life of the believer
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To help them navigate their movement
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Through the world.
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The world is that system headed by satan that leaves god out,
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But you have the anointing.
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You have a system inside of you
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That's designed to be a navigational device
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As you work your way through a world full of antichrists
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Who want to pull you away from intimacy with god,
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And you have the anointing.
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So once you're saved, you have the anointing.
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Now, that is the presence of the holy spirit,
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Whose job it is to be the navigational device
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For your movement in life, your decision-making,
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Your choices, your governance, your guidance.
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It is a navigational system.
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Let me go--let me explain how this works.
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Every person is made up of three parts.
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You have a body that allows you to interface
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With the external world, through your five senses.
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Your five senses allows you to navigate this world order.
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You have a soul.
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While the body helps you to interface with the world,
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Your soul allows you to interface with yourself.
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Your self-knowledge is your soul.
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You are not who you are because you have a body;
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You are who you are because you have a soul.
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'cause once the soul leaves the body, the body dies.
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The body still exists, but there's no life there
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'cause the soul is not there.
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So you know that you are here right now,
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You know you are listening to me right now
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Because you have a soul.
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The body is just the vehicle to get the information there,
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But you're able to receive it
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Because you have a life principle
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Which the bible calls the soul, okay?
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There's a third component to life.
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That is the spirit.
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The body allows you to communicate
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With the external world.
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The soul allows you to communicate with yourself.
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The spirit is designed to give you
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The capacity to communicate with god.
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Once you are converted and come to christ,
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The bible says your spirit is made alive
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And you have received the anointing.
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With your conversion came a receiver.
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With your salvation was embedded a receiver called the anointing.
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That is, the work of the holy spirit
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Immediately infiltrated your spirit.
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When you got saved,
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It's not your soul that got saved.
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I know that's how we say it. "my soul got saved."
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No.
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When you got saved, your spirit got saved.
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So you're immediately were-- received a receiver
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That gave you the capacity to make contact with god.
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The soul that you and i are born with is distorted.
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Our soul is distorted.
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Now, a lot of things lead to that distortion.
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Maybe how we were raised distorted our soul.
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So the soul gets distorted for a lot of different reasons,
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And it's the job of the anointing,
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Which is in the spirit,
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To infiltrate the soul to bring it into order.
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So the spirit is to expand in the soul--
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The anointing is expanding in the soul
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To bring it out--from out of alignment into alignment.
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The more the soul gets into alignment
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Because of the anointing the better the body functions
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'cause the body only does what the soul tells it,
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But the soul is distorted.
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If the soul is distorted,
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Then the body's not gonna do what it's supposed to do,
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'cause it's getting bad information.
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But once the anointing spreads, once the anointing takes place,
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Then the soul can get the right information.
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So much of our travel or bad navigation in life
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Is because the receiver is not being allowed to talk
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To the soul.
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He says you have the receiver.
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I love the way paul talks about it, 1 corinthians chapter 2.
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He says in 1 corinthians chapter 2
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Beginning with verse 9, "but just as it is written,
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Things which the eye have not seen
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And the ear has not heard
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And which have not been entered into the heart of man
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All that god has prepared for those who love him.
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For to us god revealed them through his spirit,
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For the spirit searches all things,
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Even the depths of god."
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So the anointing, which is the work of the holy spirit
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In your human spirit, he says, it searches god,
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And it searches god in order to bring that information to you.
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So it's a google search device that is implanted in your spirit
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That is to give the information to your soul.
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That is the anointing.
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So this anointing, like a dimmer switch--
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I mentioned this last time-- turns the light up in the soul
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So that you begin to see things more clearly.
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You have a dimmer switch if one has been planted there,
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But you know you can have it and it be turned down.
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So you're still not seeing anything
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Even though you have the switch.
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The goal of the anointing is to turn up the switch
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So that you seeing things more clearly in the soul
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So that you are better to execute with the body.
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So you have the anointing,
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But the enemies of god, the antichrists,
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Want to keep you from knowing you have it--
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Called the indwelling of the holy spirit--
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Or keep you from utilizing it
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By keeping you operating on human principles.
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He goes on in 1 corinthians chapter 2, verse 16.
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He says you've been given the mind of christ.
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That is, you have now planted within you
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The capacity to perceive things from god's point of view
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As you live in a world of antichrists
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Who want to steer you away from that point of view
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Or to change your direction.
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How powerful is this anointing?
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Verse 27 says, "and you have no need
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For anyone to teach you."
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So what he is saying is you don't need
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A non-christian frame of reference
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For your decision-making,
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'cause you have something they don't have.
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You have the anointing.
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So when he says you don't need to have a man to teach you,
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You don't need someone who rejects a divine worldview
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To be your instructor who you follow.
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So he says you don't need instruction
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From the antichrist world system to teach you,
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Because you have the anointing.
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You have a navigational system that's built into your spirit
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That, if it expands into your soul, will navigate.
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Now, i told the story before-- when i was going to fort worth.
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I had a speaking engagement at 7 o'clock in fort worth.
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Remember, i don't use a navigational system,
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So i told my assistant to print out the directions.
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I looked down.
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It said go down 20, and it told me the exit.
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So i went down 20 west, got off the exit, turned left.
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So i'm driving and i'm looking for the church
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I'm supposed to be at at 7 o'clock,
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And i'm driving and i'm driving and i'm driving.
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Now i'm in the country. there are cows.
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There are pigs. there are sheep.
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There are chickens.
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So if there's a church out here, dr. dolittle is the pastor
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'cause there--i'm telling you i'm in the country.
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So something is wrong. something is wrong.
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I turn back around, and i pull into a 7-eleven.
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I pull into a 7-eleven, and i go ask the gentleman.
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I said, "do you know where this church is?"
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Oh, he says, "yes, it's a couple of blocks
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Down on the right."
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I get back in my car.
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I go down a couple of blocks on the right.
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There is no church.
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There's no church. there's a store.
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So i'm at a light.
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I wind down my window to the man next to me...
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He winds down his window.
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I said, "i'm looking for this church.
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Do you know where this church is?"
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Oh, he said, "yeah, just go down to the next light, turn left.
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You'll see it."
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I go down to the next light. i turn left.
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If there is a church here, it's a house church
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'cause there's nothing but residences here.
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Just houses here.
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So i am totally lost listening to people,
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And i'm listening to people who's supposed to know
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'cause they live there.
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So i'm believing them based on their word,
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And i'm lost as a jaybird.
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I look back on my notes that was right there on the seat,
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And it said, "when you get off the exit, turn right."
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I got off and turned left.
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It's called leaning to my own understanding.
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I got off and turned left, and i'm lost as a jaybird.
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I'm going the wrong way,
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And then i'm listening to people and going "wronger."
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That's not a word, but you get what i'm saying.
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I'm going wronger just listening to people
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'cause they sound like they know what they were talking about.
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You know what my problem was?
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My problem was--see, the pastor gave the directions,
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So he should know where his church is.
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So the pastor gave the direction.
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I followed them to a point,
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But then i decided i'd figure the rest out on my own,
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And i was lost.
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When i looked at the paper, it said get off, turn right.
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I turned left.
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I turned--i went back to where i was supposed to turn right.
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Church was one block up the street.
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What i'm trying to say is, when the anointing gets used,
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It saves you a lot of time, saves you a lot of time.
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He says you have received the anointing,
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The navigational system that is designed
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To flow from the spirit into the soul
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To be god's guidance system to be able to detect
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What's legitimate and what's illegitimate.
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Now, the reason this is important--
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You know, we're all looking at the news now
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Because of everything that's happening.
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And if you look on cable--
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You know, the cnn or fox or msnbc--
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You're looking at national news.
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You're seeing--they're talking about the big stories.
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When you go to 4 or 5 or 11, well, now that's local news.
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They will discuss national issues,
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But then they'll bring it down to what's happening more locally
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In the city or in the various communities.
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My sermon today is national news.
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This is national news
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'cause you all are hearing the same thing broadly.
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But when you leave, you're going to need local news
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'cause you need stuff that applies to where you're going,
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What you're doing,
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Things in your life, things in your family,
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Things in your career, things with your finances.
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You're gonna need things personalized to you.
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The bible gives you national news.
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The holy spirit gives you local news.
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His job is to take the truth of god
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Based on the bible and from the bible
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But to apply it to your unique experience,
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And he localizes, or personalizes,
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The application of the bible to your personal situation.
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But if the receiver is not on or you're not attuned to it
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Or too much of the world's static gets on the line--
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You ever been looking
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If you have directv or one of those satellite systems
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And there's a storm and it says "searching for signal"?
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It's--you got it on,
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But there's been an interruption in the atmosphere so it--
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You can't pick it up even though your system is on.
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So you can have the anointing, you can have it on,
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But you got so much interference from the wrong source
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That is blocking you picking up the signal
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That god wants to say.
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The anointing is what the holy spirit does
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In the spirit of the believer
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To transfer the information to the soul
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So that the body picks up the signal
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For the negotiation of your uniqueness in life.
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My plan wasn't to be in dallas.
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My plan was to go to winona lake, indiana,
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To grace theological seminary.
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I applied. i'd been accepted.
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It was--now i'm finishing my last semester in college
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To go up to indiana to a well-known seminary
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In indiana.
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That was the plan,
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And i had done everything to prepare for that,
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Went up, found the apartment,
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Knew where we would be going for seminary, done.
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Except, in my last semester, near the end of that semester,
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A professor comes across my path and he says to me,
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"had you ever thought about dallas seminary?"
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And i--you know, i knew about it, but i--
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No, i hadn't because i was targeted toward indiana.
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I said, "no, but i-- you know, i think i'm good.
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I'm going to grace seminary."
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He said, "you know, something's telling me
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You really should be going to dallas.
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I tell you what.
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If i pay the application fee,
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Will you at least make the application?"
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I said, "if you're going to pay for it,
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I can write some... words on a paper."
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So he just threw out paying the application fee.
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So i filled out the application, he wrote the check for the fee,
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And i sent it in.
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A week later, they wrote back and said,
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"you have now been accepted at dallas seminary."
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That led to a whole thinking, a whole checking,
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And a whole finding out.
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So what the holy spirit did
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Was he brought somebody across my path
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Who gave me an idea i wasn't thinking about
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That wind up registering in my soul,
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And that's why i'm standing up here before you today.
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Because the anointing changes things
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And maneuvers things and twist things
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And turn things but--
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And he does it through a lot of ways.
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He does it through circumstances and people
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And strategies and thoughts he brings to you
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And things you didn't think of,
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But that's what the anointing does.
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So to the degree that it is free to express itself,
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You can now have god's navigational system
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Moving you through the manipulations
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Of a world that wants to keep you--antichrist--
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From being able to make that link,
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And you, if you're christian, have the anointing.
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And then he says, "and just as it has been taught you,"
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Verse 27, "you abide in him."
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There's that word again-- abide, hang out.
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The more you hang out with the lord,
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The better the system works.
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Abide means, "don't just come to church on sunday;
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Hang out with me."
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Abide means to hang out, stay, or remain.
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"so i want you to hang out with me.
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I want us to be road dawgs. i want us to roll together.
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I want to be included in all of life.
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And if you will abide, hang out with me,
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The anointing will spread."
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He says you have the anointing,
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But you experience it by the abiding.
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"so the more you're hanging out with me,
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The more you'll hear from me."
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Now, little children, verse 28, abide in him,
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Hang out with him so that, when he appears,
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We may have confidence
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And not shrink away from him in shame
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In his appearing.
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In other words, if you start using the anointing,
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He says when he comes back you won't be ashamed to see him.
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Tony Evans - The Adversaries of Fellowship

February 22, 2026 | 27:29

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