Robert Jeffress - The Good Fight

February 18, 2026 | 27:29

The author of “The Divine Defense” explores the realities of spiritual warfare and the awareness we must have to properly fight.

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Life Today with James Robison | Robert Jeffress - The Good Fight | February 18, 2026

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Dr. robert jeffress: first of all, satan would love to
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Discourage you from worshiping god.
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Satan is able to take natural occurrences, and sometimes
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Supernatural occurrences, to do that.
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I mean, let's face it.
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Satan, for whatever reason, is temporarily the prince of the
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Power of the world.
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He's called the god of this age.
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Announcer: dr. robert jeffress exposes satan's
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Behind-the-scenes vicious and destructive plan for each one
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Of us, next on "life today."
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Randy robison: welcome to "life today."
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I'm randy robison, blynda lane is with me, are you ready
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To fight?
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Blynda lane: i'm ready to fight, i've got my armor on.
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Randy: we are ready.
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We are ready to fight now.
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We mean that in the spiritual sense.
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And to help us, we have a wonderful guest, dr. jeffress.
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Welcome back to "life today."
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It's great to have you.
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Dr. jeffress: great to be with you, thanks for having me.
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Randy: i wanna tell people about your book, "the divine defense."
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It is on spiritual warfare, and just a little personal aside, i
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Love that a good southern baptist preacher is talking
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About spiritual warfare, because this is real, is it not?
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Dr. jeffress: it is real, and some people think if they can't
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See it, it's not real.
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And what a foolish thing to think.
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Randy alcorn has a great story about a set of twins in their
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Mother's womb the day before they're born, and one of the
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Twins says, "you know, they say there's a whole different world
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Out there, one of lakes and mountains, of zebras and
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Giraffes and skyscrapers with buildings and automobiles and
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Jet airplanes," and the other twin says, "oh, don't
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Be ridiculous.
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Everybody knows there's no such thing as life after birth."
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Well, you know, we kind of have the same tunnel
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Vision sometimes.
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We think if we can't see it, it can't be real.
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But in truth, there is a spiritual battle going on that
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Is more real than the things we can see.
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And paul said it best in ephesians 6, he said, "our
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Struggle is not against flesh and blood, but it's against the
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Unseen spiritual forces of darkness in the
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Heavenly places."
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And i wrote the book "the divine defense," not to make everybody
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Paranoid about satan and demons, but to make them aware of that
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Reality and what we need to do to resist satan's plan to
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Destroy our lives.
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Randy: so how would you position--because like you said,
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There's a balance here, right?
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When we talk about satan, when we talk about demons, what do we
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Need to know in order to fight, and what do we maybe not need to
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Do in order to get weird?
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Dr. jeffress: well, it's a great question,
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And c.s. lewis wrote about that.
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He said, and talking about the devils, he said we need to avoid
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The two extremes.
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One is to glorify them and give them more place and prominence
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Than they deserve, and the other is to ignore them.
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In fact, donald grey barnhouse basically said, "people who deny
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Or are not aware of spiritual warfare become spiritual
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Roadkill," and that's what prompted me to write this book.
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I see it in my church.
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I see it in christendom in general.
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People are being assaulted on every front.
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They're being destroyed through temptation.
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They're pulled down by depression.
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Broken relationships become the norm.
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And they think all of this is natural.
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Well, it's not natural.
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It's not part of god's original plan.
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Much of it is supernatural.
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There are other forces at work that are trying to either rob us
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Of salvation and our place in heaven, or rob us of the
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Benefits of our salvation here on earth.
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Blynda: so if somebody is experiencing opposition in their
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Life, and the temptation there would be to say, "man, i'm just
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Being attacked by the enemy on every side," how do you know
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When something that you're experiencing is, you know,
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Possibly just you're hitting a rough patch, versus there's
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Really a spiritual attack going on?
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And how do you have that radar up to know?
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Dr. jeffress: yeah, and it's hard to discern sometimes, and
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Frankly i'm not sure it's that important to discern at some
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Points, because the remedy is the same.
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I think many times satan uses natural things in life that come
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At the wrong time to pull us aside and astray.
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I can look at some things in my past that i look back and that
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Was satan.
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I mean, he was using people.
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Remember when jesus said to peter, "get thee behind me,
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Satan," which was, what was he talking about?
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Well, he wasn't saying that peter was filled with satan, but
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Peter allowed himself to be used by satan to keep jesus from
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Doing what he needed to do.
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And i think sometimes temptation comes into our life, we'll talk
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About that i think in the next program.
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Temptation comes at just the wrong time, when we're
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Most vulnerable.
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You know, satan is not the opposite of god.
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He's not all-knowing, he's not omnipresent, he's not
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Omnipotent, all-powerful.
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But he's been watching you and me long enough to know exactly
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When we're most vulnerable to falling.
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And james 1:14 talks about, you know, "everyone is tempted when
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He is led astray and enticed by his own lust."
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That word "enticed" is a word that means hooked.
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It refers to a fisherman who knows exactly when to put that
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Bait in front of the fish and what bait works best, and he
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Knows exactly when to dangle that fish in front of us or
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That bait.
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Randy: i love that passage in james, because it walks through
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The process of temptation, and you know, we think of temptation
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As maybe a sin, but temptation is not.
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Jesus was tempted in all manner and yet never sinned.
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And when i look at that fishing analogy of that lure hitting the
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Water and making the noise and then being enticed, and then the
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Hunger of the fish causing it to take action, and that's when it
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Gets hooked, and that leads to the sin, and that leads to
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The death.
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That, understanding that whole process, i think, is a major
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Sort of radar in the spiritual warfare where you go, "i
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Recognize that's temptation.
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That's not from god.
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God doesn't tempt us."
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And when you understand what's going on, you can better
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Fight it.
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Blynda: yeah, how do we teach believers not to take the bait?
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Dr. jeffress: yeah, well, i call it the temptation equation.
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It's laid out very clearly.
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And again, jesus was tempted beyond anything you and i will
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Ever experience, and i don't want to get ahead of myself, but
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That's why one of the primary pieces of weaponry god has given
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Us is the sword of the spirit, which is the word of god.
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Remember when satan was tempting jesus, three specific
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Temptations he gave to him, and jesus responded to each one
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With scripture.
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And i used to think, and i was wrong about it, i used to think,
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"well, the reason he did that was that would make satan
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Run away."
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You all are too young to remember this, but there used to
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Be a tv commercial for raid, you know, to get the bugs out of
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Your house.
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And there'd be a little cartoon about these rodents who were
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Having a party in the kitchen, and all of a sudden the raid
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Comes and the cockroaches go, "oh no, raid!"
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And off they run.
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I kind of thought, you know, that's how satan reacted to the
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Word of god.
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"oh no, the word of god!"
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Satan's not bothered by the word of god.
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Randy: but he used it in the temptations.
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Dr. jeffress: the reason jesus quoted scripture was not for
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Satan's benefit, it was for jesus's benefit, to strengthen
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His resolve to resist.
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And you know, a funny thing about that, jesus, as you noted,
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Quoted three times from scripture.
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It was the same book of the bible, deuteronomy.
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He knew god's word so well he knew exactly what scripture to
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Use, when and where.
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My old professor howard hendricks used to say, "men, if
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Your spiritual survival depended on how well you knew the book of
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Deuteronomy, how well would you do?"
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And he said, "maybe that's why you're not doing any better than
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You are."
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Blynda: you're talking about threes, being tempted
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Three times.
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You also talk about a threefold plan, a threefold plan that
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Satan has for ruining your life, in the book.
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And you mention discourage you from worshiping god, distract
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You from serving god, and deceive you into disobeying god.
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Can you talk about that?
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Dr. jeffress: yeah, let's unpack that.
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First of all, satan would love to discourage you from
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Worshiping god.
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Satan is able to take natural occurrences, and sometimes
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Supernatural occurrences, to do that.
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I mean, let's face it.
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Satan, for whatever reason, is temporarily the prince of the
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Power of the world.
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He's called the god of this age.
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I think many of the things that we see, like thunderstorms and
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The floods like we saw in texas last year that took the lives of
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Those little girls, all of that is orchestrated by satan to
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Discourage people from worshiping god.
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That's what he did with job.
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Just think of what job went through in a single day's time.
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He lost his livelihood, all of his animals, he lost his ten
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Children in a freak windstorm.
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He lost his own health.
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And job's wife said, "why do you keep worshiping god?
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Just curse god and die."
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Those things that come into our life, satan is trying to
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Discourage us from worshiping god.
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Secondly, he'll distract us from serving god.
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Jesus talked about, in luke chapter 4, how pleasure and
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Worry and just the business of everyday life can choke out
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Spiritual growth in our life.
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But the most blatant way satan tries to destroy our life is in
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Overt disobedience.
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He wants us to--he deceives us into disobeying god, and that's
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Where that temptation equation comes in.
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You know, he doesn't come up with anything new.
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The old ways work just fine, and that's why satan will do
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Anything he can to deceive us into disobeying him.
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You know, he deceives us just like he did the woman in
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The garden.
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You know, god said to eve, "you can eat of any tree in the
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Garden, hundreds if not thousands of trees, but this one
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Tree is off limits."
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And what does satan do?
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He zeros her focus on that one forbidden piece of fruit.
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Why?
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Well, he said, "god has a reason.
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He's keeping you from that fruit.
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He knows it's gonna make you like him, and god is paranoid,
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And you'll not have what you really need to feel successful
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And fulfilled in life," and he does the same thing with
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Us today.
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This thing that is off limits is, satan says, the one thing
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You need to make you fulfilled.
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Randy: yeah, you know, the other thing he says there, and this
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Happens a lot, it's another word that starts with a d, so we're
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Talking about discourage, distract, deceive, but there's
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Doubt, because he said, "did god really say that?"
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Dr. jeffress: that's right.
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Randy: and that's where you're talking about knowing the word
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Makes all the difference in the world.
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Dr. jeffress: that's the first question in the bible, "has god
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Really said?"
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Randy: has god-- that's fascinating.
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That, i mean, the doubt and the deceit, those are real kind of
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Heady games.
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How much of this spiritual warfare is a mind game?
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Dr. jeffress: all of it.
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Randy: is it?
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Dr. jeffress: all sin begins in the mind.
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There's no action that we take that doesn't begin with the
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Mind, and that's why i call it, it's the battlefield for
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Spiritual warfare.
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And that's why what we put into our mind is so important.
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Randy: daily.
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Dr. jeffress: daily, and--but you know, and i think you
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Alluded to this earlier.
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You know, temptation in and of itself is not a sin.
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Somebody said, you know, "we can't control the birds flying
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Over our head, but we can keep them from building a nest in
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Our hair."
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And it's not having the thought that's the sin, it's what you do
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With that thought.
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And that's really why paul says, "the first piece of spiritual
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Weaponry is the belt of truth."
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You know, in paul's day, the roman soldier had the
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Free-flowing tunic, and it could easily trip him up or give the
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Enemy an unfair advantage when he would grab hold of it.
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So any soldier going into battle, the first thing he would
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Do would be to tuck the tunic into the belt.
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And paul is saying we need to do the same thing.
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Loose thoughts can have a way of giving the enemy an advantage in
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Our life, and we need to confront every loose thought
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With the truth of god's word.
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Blynda: so when we're thinking about the thoughts, because i
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Can imagine, i think about a time in my life maybe where, i
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Try to always make it practical for me, where i've struggled
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With something that i felt like i just keep getting hit by
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The enemy.
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I can't do enough self-talk.
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I can't--so obviously we know the word of god.
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We know we have to put truth into us.
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But practically, how do we walk this out in a community
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With people?
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How do we actually take steps where we get free from kind of
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That bondage that we feel we're kind of getting hit on all sides
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From the enemy?
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Dr. jeffress: well, i think you mentioned several things.
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First of all, the word of god.
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You know, it's no longer, and i don't think it was ever enough
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For people to hear god's word once a week for 30 minutes in a
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Sermon on sundays.
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But just think, for generations, that was all of god's word
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They got.
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They may read the bible, but i'm talking about being taught
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The bible.
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That's not enough in today's world.
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We need a regular intake of god's word through the ear gate,
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And that's why, you know, i tell people, you know, to redeem
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Those free moments in your life, when you're driving.
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I had one man in my church say, "pastor, i'm just so angry all
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The time.
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I don't know why i'm so angry."
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Well, i asked him a few questions.
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He was listening to talk radio four hours a day.
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I mean, i'd be angry too, you know, listening to that.
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Why not listen to a message or some worship music or something
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That will feed your soul?
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So i think we need the regular intake of god's word.
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You mentioned community.
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You know, satan loves to separate us from our
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Spiritual community.
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He wants to do everything he can to isolate us, and then attack
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And destroy us.
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We need a community of believers to be in who will hold us
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Accountable, who will encourage us when we need encouragement.
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Randy: it's funny that you say that because you talk about it
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Being a battlefield of the mind, and yet i have found myself
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Sometimes just like letting the world, not like going out and
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Seeking it, but just everyday noise and world, and it takes
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Effort to say, "okay, you know what, no, i'm gonna maybe listen
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To scripture while i'm driving," or "i'm gonna change the station
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And put on some music that's a lot more hopeful."
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And then the other aspect of it is that sometimes i think,
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Especially here at a ministry, if i can be brutally honest,
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Don't tell anyone, don't tell my pastor, but i'll be like, you
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Know, "i was working in ministry kind of stuff all week and i'm
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Kind of tired this weekend.
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I think i'll just skip church, just this one weekend."
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And every time i go, no, i need to go be a part of the
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Fellowship, a body of believers, right, it seems like the
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Pastor's speaking something right into my life, and filling
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My mind with the scripture and the truth that i needed to hear.
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I don't know--as a pastor, of course you're gonna say you
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Should go to church, but i mean, it's way beyond just filling up
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The pews, it's filling our minds.
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Dr. jeffress: that's right.
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And the reason hebrews 10 tells us, "don't forsake the
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Assembling together of yourselves as has become the
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Habit of some," you know, during covid, a lot of people got into
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Some very bad habits of, yeah, it was great they were on zoom
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And worshiping, but they were separated from the body.
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Just think about this hand.
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If i were to cut this hand off, how long would this hand be able
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To move?
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It would cease to function because it didn't get the blood
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And oxygen it needs.
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The most common image in the bible for the church is the body
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Of christ.
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We need one another.
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We're kind of like those two porcupines in northern canada
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Who huddled together in the sub-zero temperature.
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They needed one another even though they needled one another.
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You know, it's the same way with christians.
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Yeah, christians aren't perfect.
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Some people bother us, but we do desperately need one another.
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And i'll go one step further, and there may be somebody
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Watching today who's in this situation.
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You've gone through a terrible tragedy.
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You've lost a loved one.
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You've gone through a divorce.
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And you just think, "well, i'm gonna take a vacation from
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Church for a while so i can heal from this."
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My friend david jeremiah says when you're going through a
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Trial, there's only one person who thinks you need to take a
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Vacation from church, and that's satan.
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I mean, the time we need the body most is when we've gone
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Through a tremendous loss.
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Randy: yeah, because that's the time
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Of spiritual warfare the most.
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Dr. jeffress: that's right. blynda: when you're vulnerable.
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Dr. jeffress: and satan put those doubts in your mind about
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The goodness of god.
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"if god is really there, why did he allow you to go
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Through this?"
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Randy: and lord knows you're discouraged when you're going
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Through some tough things.
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All right, there's a lot of things we haven't talked about.
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You touched on some of the strategies to win, because
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That's the good news, is when we fight we win.
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Can we talk about-- can we unpack some of those
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In another program maybe?
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Dr. jeffress: let's do it. i'm here, i'm ready.
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Randy: you're ready to go? okay, well, but there is hope.
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I mean, your radio show, your television show is "pathway
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To victory."
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So i'm guessing you think there is hope for victory, yes?
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Dr. jeffress: there is hope for victory.
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The bible says, "greater is he who is in you than he who is in
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The world."
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And don't let satan tempt you into thinking that there's
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Nothing you can do to be free of his grasp, that we're destined
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To be prisoners of sin as long as we're alive, until we go to
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Heaven one day.
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No, the bible says sin has no more power over our life than we
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Choose to allow it to have, but we have to use the weapons, the
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Strategies god has given us, and that's what we'll talk about.
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Randy: okay, i'm looking forward to that.
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I'm looking forward.
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I hope you guys will come back for the other program, but i
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Want to show you another situation where we're fighting a
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Battle, and yes, there is a spiritual component to this,
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Because all the work that you see us doing here at life
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Outreach international to help people with food, water,
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Rescuing from sex trafficking, there's a physical aspect, but
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There is a spiritual component to it.
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We have an opportunity to bring some other
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People out of pain, literal pain.
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When you go to these places where i've been, you see the
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Dedication of a lot of these mothers, and some fathers,
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To go to provide for their children.
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They'll do whatever they can, and the rivers are contaminated,
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You know?
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Sometimes there's plenty of water, but none of it's clean.
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They'll try to strain it, sometimes boil it.
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Most of them don't have much to boil with.
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And in some cases it's a dry season.
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There's just no water around.
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I've seen people try to get water out of the side of a hill
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Where it would sort of seep into a low place, or there's a
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Hand-dug well where contaminants can blow in, and it's really not
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Deep enough to draw the pure water.
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But we can change that.
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Together you and i can go in, and this year our goal is 350
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Wells in 20 different nations, because the need is great.
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And that's because we drill the wells right.
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We go in deep enough, like i said, to get that pure
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Drinking water.
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This is water for life,
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The average cost is about $4,800,
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If some of you could do that.
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A gift of $48 right now will, on average, provide ten people with
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Blynda, i know the results are great when we do.
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But dr. jeffress, we've been so blessed today, thank you.
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Blynda, i'm looking forward to him coming back.
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Blynda: i know, i'm really excited to hear because we're
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Gonna talk about strategies to defeat the enemy.
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Dr. jeffress: there is victory.
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Blynda: there is victory.
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Randy: there is victory, and we're gonna talk about it.
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So come back next time on "life today."
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[music]
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Anita phillips: hi, friends, my name is dr. anita phillips, and
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I'm a trauma therapist, but i'm also a disciple of jesus.
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I have many years of education and experience under my belt
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Helping people recover from the things that have hurt them, but
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I did not want to do that work without understanding how god
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Created us, not just how we break, but what we look like
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When we are well.
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And can i tell you, i found the answer in an amazing place, a
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Garden.
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Our bodies, our biology is designed to reflect gardens.
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I wrote all about this in a book called "the garden within," and
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What i found was that god didn't just plant a garden around us.
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He planted a garden inside of us.
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And just as jesus explains in the parable of the sower, the
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Soil of our lives is our heart.
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Our emotional life is the soil of our lives.
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The seed is the word.
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It falls on the soil of our heart.
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The plant that springs up, that's our mind.
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And then the fruit is what we do.
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Seed, soil, plant, fruit.
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Words, feelings, thoughts, behaviors.
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That's how we are designed by god to function.
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And so, if you have been ignoring your emotional life, i
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Want you to stop.
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If your mind has been giving you problems, if you have been
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Having anxious thoughts or worrisome thoughts and you've
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Been just trying to think differently, i want you to work
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On how you feel, because the soil influences the plant.
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Your mind cannot go where your heart has not been.
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I want you to give credence to the sadness or the anger or the
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Fear you may be struggling with, not to say that it is how you
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Will always feel, but be honest about the fact that right now it
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May be how you feel, because when we allow our emotional
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Truth to come to the surface and we let the cry out, we let the
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Tears out, we let the frustration out, we admit that
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Sometimes we're scared and we need to feel safer, suddenly you
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Will find that your mind clears when you allow your heart to
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Be authentic.
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And so, hear me, my brothers and sisters.
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You are amazing gardens, and the heart is the soil of your life.
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I know it sounds crazy, but i promise, if you embrace this
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Truth, it'll change everything.
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Check out this book i wrote called "the garden within."
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It dives deep into this, and i believe it will bring you closer
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To god in your everyday walk.
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I love you so much, and i want you to be well.
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God bless you.
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Announcer: for over 60 years, life outreach international has
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Shared the transforming truth of god's love in both word
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And deed.
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We are forever grateful to everyone who has joined us in
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Our mission of providing water to the history, food to the
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Hungry, shelter to the orphan, and meeting the various needs of
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Those who are struggling.
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Our ministry to the lost and hurting is only made possible
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Because of the prayers and generous gifts of our friends
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And partners who provide consistent, faithful support.
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Become a friend for life partner with your recurring financial
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Gift, and we'll send you our monthly newsletter, along with
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Encouraging spiritual resources to uplift and inspire you in
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Your daily christian walk.
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Best of all, you'll be blessed to know that your ongoing gift
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Is helping make possible the outreaches of life.
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Your monthly support will help us continue to bring god's love,
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Hope, and healing to a world in need, one life at a time.
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Announcer: tomorrow, learn how to fight the invisible war that
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Satan wages.
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Randy: can christians be possessed by the devil or by
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A demon?
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Announcer: "life today" is made possible by the supporters of
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Life outreach international.
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Your gift will be used exclusively for the exempt
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Purposes of life.
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The ministry features specific outreaches as examples of the
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Programs it supports and conducts.
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Gifts are considered to be without restriction as to use
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Unless explicitly stipulated by the donor.
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The ministry is a member of the ecfa.
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Robert Jeffress - The Good Fight

February 18, 2026 | 27:29

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