Dr. Tony Evans

Tony Evans - Releasing God's Protection

June 7, 2026 | 27:29

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Dr. Tony Evans | Tony Evans - Releasing God's Protection | June 7, 2026

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Tony evans: one of the reasons
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That we don't find the protection we want
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Is that we operate uncovered, even if you are a christian
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In the kingdom.
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When we are under alignment,
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Now we're under the covering of the covenant,
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And when you're in the covering of the covenant
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You're now underneath kingdom connection,
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Kingdom covering, kingdom influence,
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Kingdom protection.
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Tony: i wanna talk about releasing the protection,
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Releasing god's protection in your life that we all need
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On some level to varying degrees,
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And i wanna use as our spiritual, biblical framing
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One of the most celebrated stories in scripture.
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You know it, perhaps backwards and forwards,
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Forwards and backwards, but i'd love for you
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To walk with me through it one more time,
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And perhaps there are some nuggets and nuances
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That will illuminate your understanding
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To face that which you may or are needing to be protected.
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The story is 1 samuel 17, david and goliath.
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Israel and the philistines are on two sides of the valley.
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They're getting ready to enter into a major battle.
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The philistines send out their representative,
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Their champion.
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His name is goliath.
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His name is goliath.
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He's called, in verse 4, a champion.
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He's a champion because he'd never been beaten.
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He wins every contest.
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He doesn't know what it's like to lose.
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He is the champion for the philistines,
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And oh, what kind of champion he is.
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When you read his description from verse 4 to verse 7,
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He is 9'6" to 9'9" inches tall.
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He's an nba coach's dream.
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9'6" to 9'9" spoken in cubits, so he is gigantic.
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His name fits him.
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He's not only goliath, but he's goliath from gath.
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Goliath comes well armored, we're told,
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In verses 4 through 7.
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Houston, we have a problem
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Because we've got a giant of a problem.
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You know you're facing a giant
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When the thing you're dealing with looms large.
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It's huge.
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It's well fortified. you can't get to it.
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You don't know how to tackle it.
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You don't know how to face it,
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'cause it's a whopper of a problem.
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It's a big one.
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It's not just your ordinary thing.
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Another way you know you're facing a giant
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Is it controls your emotions because it says
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When goliath showed up, verse 11 says,
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"when saul and all of israel heard these words
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Of the philistine, they were dismayed,
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And greatly afraid."
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Verse 24 says, "when all the men of israel
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Saw the man, they fled from him,
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And were greatly afraid."
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What did the man say?
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He says, in verse 8 and 9, let's fight.
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You're scared when there isn't enough
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To cover the expenses.
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You're scared when you are abandoned.
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You're scared when a set of circumstances
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Or the combination of them come against you
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And they are well fortified.
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They are armored. you can't get to them.
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You can't get at it.
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Another way you know you're facing a giant
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Is it won't leave you alone.
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Verse 16, it says, "the philistine came forward
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Morning and evening for forty days,
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And took his stand."
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Twice a day for forty days it kept coming and kept coming
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And kept coming and kept coming, kept coming.
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It would not leave them alone.
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You're facing a giant when you're facing an obstacle,
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A challenge, that threatens your wellbeing,
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That threatens to hurt you,
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That threatens to dismantle you,
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And it won't go away.
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This won't go away.
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It just keeps coming morning and evening,
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Day after day after day after day,
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And you feel threatened.
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It's gonna hurt you, defeat you,
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And since he was out to kill, destroy you.
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That's our problem, and there was no answer.
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Except a teenager shows up--named david.
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He's a teenager in 1 samuel 17.
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He's been going back and forth from his father jesse's house
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To the front lines
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To bring refreshments to the soldiers,
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Particularly his brothers,
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And as he's coming back and forth,
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'cause he did it more than once,
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He's coming back and forth and he is seeing the threat.
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He is seeing a group of scared men,
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Terrified because the problem is so big and so fortified,
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And their whole well-being is disturbed.
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So david the teenager asked a question.
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He asked, "what will be done for the man
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Who kills this dude?"
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David has a question.
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Now, if i were to ask you, "how did david kill goliath?"
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What would your answer be?
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Okay, i heard slingshot. is there another answer?
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Okay, sword, any 'nother answer?
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The lord, stones, okay.
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All of those are ingredients, but not the main thing.
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There's something else in the story that's key
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To the threat of goliath.
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So whatever is coming at you, against you,
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Seeking to defeat and destroy you
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From which you need protection, i want you to call it goliath,
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'cause now you know where it's gonna wind up.
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[congregation applauding]
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In two verses we find the key to his goliath and to yours,
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To ours.
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Verse 26 and 28, "then david spoke to the men
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Who were standing by him, saying, 'what will be done
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For the man who kills this philistine,
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And takes away the reproach from israel?
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For who is this uncircumcised philistine,
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That he should taunt the armies of the living god?"
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Verse 36, "your servant has killed
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Both the lion and the bear,
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And this uncircumcised philistine
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Will be like one of them,
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Since he has taunted the armies of the living god."
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All of israel looked at goliath.
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They looked up, 9'6" giant.
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David looked down and said, "he ain't been to the doctor.
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He's uncircumcised."
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That's called perspective.
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See, they were all looking at the same thing,
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But they weren't looking at it the same way.
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They were seeing the same problem,
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But they were looking at it differently.
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What started david down the road
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To dealing with that which threatened him
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Was he had a different perspective on the problem
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That everybody else had.
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They saw how big it was.
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He saw there's a missing ingredient.
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He is uncircumcised.
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So the question is, why did the circumcision issue matter?
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When a jewish boy, typically on the eighth day,
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Was circumcised, that placed him in the covenant.
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It was the act of the covenant
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To bring them under divine covering.
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A covenant is a divinely created relational bond.
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A covenant was the administrative mechanism
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Of the kingdom.
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The kingdom is the rule of god.
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The covenant was the administration of that rule.
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The goal of the covenant was to cover.
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Exodus chapter 19, verses 5 and 6, says that
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"you are my kingdom, and i want you to be with my covenant."
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He says in deuteronomy 29, verse 9,
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"my covenant is given to you so that you may prosper."
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When jesus called forth communion, he says,
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"this is my new covenant."
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This is not some small word.
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It is the word of covering.
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As you've heard me say before, it's like an umbrella.
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When it is open, it provides a covering.
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It doesn't stop it from raining.
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It just stops it from raining on you.
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Now, you can have an umbrella,
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But if it's closed, you're not covered.
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You can be in the kingdom but not operating
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Under the covenant,
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And the covenant provides covering.
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One of the reasons that we don't find
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The protection we want is that we operate uncovered,
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Even if you are a christian in the kingdom.
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This covenant, this divinely created
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Relational bond through which god operates,
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Means that you must be aligned.
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First of all, becoming a christian,
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You enter the kingdom, but when we are under alignment
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Or get realigned because we were out of alignment,
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But we get realigned,
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Now we're under the covering of the covenant,
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And when you're in the covering of the covenant,
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You're now underneath kingdom connection,
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Kingdom covering, kingdom influence,
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Kingdom protection.
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David says, "he has no divine protection."
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Baptism for the new testament christian
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Was the covenant lack.
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It was the act to say, "not only have i accepted
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Jesus christ, but when i go down and come up,
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I'm operating in alignment underneath him."
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See, it's not just an opportunity to get wet.
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It is saying, "i am now coming up out of the water
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To operate in alignment underneath him;
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Therefore, i am operating under the umbrella
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Of the covenant; therefore, i'm covered."
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Saul says to david, he says in verse 33,
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"you're not able to go against the philistine
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To fight him, for you are but a youth,
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While he has been a warrior from his youth."
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You're too small.
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Saul says, "you can't. you can't."
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David says, "yeah, i can."
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So saul gives david his uniform.
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Verse 36, 38, "then saul clothed david with his garments,
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And put a bronze helmet on his head,
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And he clothed him with armor."
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He fortified him. said, "okay, you insist."
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"then david girded his sword over his armor,
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And tried to walk, for he had not tested them.
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So david said to saul, 'i cannot go with these,
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For i have not tested them,' and david took them off."
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In other words, you can't go to battle
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With somebody else's anointing.
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When you're under attack, you need to know
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What god has given you to use, 'cause it may not be
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What somebody else has, and the only reason
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Saul could give it to him was because saul
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Wasn't gonna use it, 'cause he was scared too.
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David says, "i've not used this.
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I don't have any experience with this.
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I don't know--i--this is not me. this is not me.
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I--this is outside of my realm of knowledge and experience,"
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And so he goes to the water brook,
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And he took his stick, his slingshot in his hand,
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Verse 40, "and chose for himself five smooth stones
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From the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag."
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Five smooth stones,
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That's 'cause goliath has four brothers,
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And he will take on the whole family if he has to.
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I don't know armor. i know slingshots.
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When you're coming against
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Something that is coming against you
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For which you need protection, god doesn't expect you
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Just to sit down and pray,
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But what has he placed in your hand
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To use against that which is coming against you?
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So he takes up his slingshot against a giant of a problem
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That's well-fortified, that is causing fear everywhere,
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That is threatening everyone,
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Took out his slingshot, and the end of verse 40, says,
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"he approached the philistine."
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Hm, "he approached the philistine."
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He went on offense.
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He went to the problem.
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Everybody else was running from it.
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He went and faced it.
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When the philistine comes, he approaches david,
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And in verse 42, it--look, "he looks on david with disdain,
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'cause he was but a youth, ruddy, and cute."
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Says he was handsome in appearance.
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"you're too cute to fight."
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He says, "am i a dog, that you come to me," verse 43,
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"with sticks," slingshot?
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"and this philistine cursed david by his gods."
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Bam, that's what you want.
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That's what you want.
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"and this philistine cursed david by his gods."
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So what the philistine did
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Was he made the battle spiritual.
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He cursed him, but by his gods.
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That's what you want.
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You want your god fighting the problems' god,
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'cause now we talking about a whole different kind
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Of battle.
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What is the spirit behind the problem,
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The spirit behind the person, the spirit behind the challenge,
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The spirit behind what's coming against you?
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What is that spirit?
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'cause now we got god fight on man territory.
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That's why you always wanna be in touch with the spiritual,
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Because you want god to get in the brawl of whatever it is
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That is challenging you, causing you to be afraid,
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Needing protection from because it is seeking to hurt,
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Hinder, or destroy.
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He says he cursed him by his gods.
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Well, david responds.
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Philistine says in verse 44, "come to me.
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I'm going to feed your flesh to the birds," and all of that.
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"i'm going to wipe you out."
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David, verse 45, says, "you come to me with a sword,
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A spear, and a javelin, but i come to you
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In the name of the lord of hosts,
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The god of the armies of israel,
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Whom you have taunted.
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You just cussed out god.
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You may have called us names, but you did it by your gods.
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You just cussed out god."
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So, "i come to you"-- here it is--
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"in the name of jehovah tsaba."
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That's the hebrew-- jehovah tsaba,
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Lord of hosts, lord of the armies.
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"i got folk fighting for me you can't see.
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I come to you in the name of the lord of hosts."
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In the bible, names were normally tied to meaning, okay?
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He says to goliath, "i come to you in the name,"
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By identification and authority or influence,
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"of the god of hosts," jehovah tsaba.
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David says, "the lord's gonna deliver you into my hands,
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And i will strike you down, and remove your head from you,
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And i will give the dead bodies of the army
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Of the philistines this day to the birds of the sky,
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And the wild beasts of the earth,
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And all the earth-- that all the earth may know
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That there is a god in israel.
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And that all the assembly may know that the lord
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Does not deliver by sword or spirit,
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For the battle is the lord's,
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And he will give you into our hands."
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Why is the lord gonna show up in that which threatens you?
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So that everybody else will know:
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Don't mess with god about that which is coming against you,
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So that it becomes a testimony,
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So that he says all of israel will know.
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Now, remember, the goal of the battle
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Was whoever loses becomes your servant,
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And that's what threats do.
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What threats want us to do is serve the threat,
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Whatever it happens to be, but once you're in covenant,
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You are to only serve the lord your god,
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And when he takes his stand,
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He takes it with confidence, that i don't have to bow
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To the threat.
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The threat no longer holds me hostage.
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It is real.
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Don't believe anybody who tells you
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Pretend it ain't real.
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"you're not really sick. you're not really sick."
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Look, if your stomach is hurting, you're sick.
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If your head is hurting, it's a headache.
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It's not a figment of your imagination.
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Goliath was real.
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So anything that's so super spiritual
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That you're kind of wishing away that, you know,
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You're rebuking something that is real.
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The issue is not dismissing it like it's not real.
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Goliath is real.
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He's just not all there is.
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He's not the sum total of what you're facing.
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That's why the spiritual must always be brought to bear.
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Now, i'm reminded of the threat
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That came across the three hebrew boys.
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Nebuchadnezzar said, "bow to my image,
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And if you don't bow, you're gonna burn."
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Bow or burn, okay?
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The three hebrew boys said, "o king, we're gonna be respectful,
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But we don't bow to idols.
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That's not how we roll up in here, up in here.
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We don't bow to idols.
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We can't, because our god has not given us permission
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To bow to idols, so we go--we can work.
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We can work for you,"
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'cause they work for the government of babylon,
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"but we can't worship you, so we can't bow."
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Nebuchadnezzar said, "if you don't bow,
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I'm going to throw you in the fire.
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In fact, boys, heat the fire up seven times hotter than it is,
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'cause i want to roast these guys."
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Can you imagine the threat of being thrown into a fire?
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Here's what they said, though.
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"our god, whom we serve."
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So not just "our god, who i go to church to hear about,"
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Not just "our god, who i say grace to everyday before i eat."
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"our god, who we roll with;
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Our god, whom we serve, is able to deliver us."
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Anybody who can open up the red sea
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Can throw water on your fire.
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"our god is able to deliver us."
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Oh, but that's not the full statement.
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"but if he does not," ah.
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Protection can come in more than one form.
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Protection can come because god delivers you out of it
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Or protection can come because god joins you in it.
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It is a misnomer to think god is going to take you out
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Of everything that threatens you,
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That it's gonna just poof,
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"puff, the magic dragon," and disappear.
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That may happen, that could happen,
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But there's no guarantee that that will happen,
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But they were thrown into the fire.
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Nebuchadnezzar came to the glass
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That lets him see inside the fire,
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And he said, "uh, uh, whoa nelly.
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We put in three, and they were bound
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When we put them in,
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But i'm looking through this glass
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And i see four,
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And the fourth one is like the son of god,
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And they are walking around in the fire."
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They're still in the fire,
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But the fire no longer has control,
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No longer has them toe up from the floor up,
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No longer has them bound.
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The hardest statement in my life,
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The hardest phrase i have ever heard in my life
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Was when i was kneeling by lois evans's bed
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As time began to wind down.
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I remember it now as i broke out in tears
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When she said, "you gotta let me go,"
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'cause we were fighting and fighting and fighting
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And fighting, and she said, "you gotta let me go.
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Don't keep me here."
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What she was telling me was "god's got me.
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God's got me. god's got me."
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And he did. he had her.
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So you're going to face those times.
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You're going to face those times where you're gonna be hit
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With something from which you need protection.
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Get realigned. get in covenant.
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♪♪♪
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Tony Evans - Releasing God's Protection

June 7, 2026 | 27:29

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