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Robert Jeffress - The Good Fight

March 2, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - The Good Fight
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 | March 2, 2026
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  • Of life outreach international and the friends
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  • And partners of tbn.
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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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  • ♪♪♪
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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.
  • 00:11:38.954 --> 00:11:41.023
  • That, i mean, the doubt and the deceit, those are real kind of
  • 00:11:41.023 --> 00:11:46.495
  • Heady games.
  • 00:11:46.495 --> 00:11:48.430
  • 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
  • 00:11:55.204 --> 00:11:58.674
  • Mind, and that's why i call it, it's the battlefield for
  • 00:11:58.674 --> 00:12:01.544
  • Spiritual warfare.
  • 00:12:01.544 --> 00:12:03.012
  • And that's why what we put into our mind is so important.
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  • Randy: daily.
  • 00:12:06.015 --> 00:12:07.349
  • Dr. jeffress: daily, and--but you know, and i think you
  • 00:12:07.349 --> 00:12:09.718
  • Alluded to this earlier.
  • 00:12:09.718 --> 00:12:11.220
  • You know, temptation in and of itself is not a sin.
  • 00:12:11.220 --> 00:12:14.690
  • Somebody said, you know, "we can't control the birds flying
  • 00:12:14.690 --> 00:12:17.827
  • Over our head, but we can keep them from building a nest in
  • 00:12:17.827 --> 00:12:21.197
  • 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.
  • 00:12:25.868 --> 00:12:27.236
  • And that's really why paul says, "the first piece of spiritual
  • 00:12:27.236 --> 00:12:30.639
  • Weaponry is the belt of truth."
  • 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:33.876
  • You know, in paul's day, the roman soldier had the
  • 00:12:33.876 --> 00:12:36.879
  • Free-flowing tunic, and it could easily trip him up or give the
  • 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:40.749
  • Enemy an unfair advantage when he would grab hold of it.
  • 00:12:40.749 --> 00:12:44.019
  • So any soldier going into battle, the first thing he would
  • 00:12:44.019 --> 00:12:46.689
  • Do would be to tuck the tunic into the belt.
  • 00:12:46.689 --> 00:12:49.558
  • And paul is saying we need to do the same thing.
  • 00:12:49.558 --> 00:12:52.461
  • Loose thoughts can have a way of giving the enemy an advantage in
  • 00:12:52.461 --> 00:12:56.398
  • Our life, and we need to confront every loose thought
  • 00:12:56.398 --> 00:12:59.635
  • With the truth of god's word.
  • 00:12:59.635 --> 00:13:01.971
  • Blynda: so when we're thinking about the thoughts, because i
  • 00:13:01.971 --> 00:13:04.273
  • Can imagine, i think about a time in my life maybe where, i
  • 00:13:04.273 --> 00:13:06.942
  • Try to always make it practical for me, where i've struggled
  • 00:13:06.942 --> 00:13:10.779
  • With something that i felt like i just keep getting hit by
  • 00:13:10.779 --> 00:13:14.049
  • The enemy.
  • 00:13:14.049 --> 00:13:15.751
  • I can't do enough self-talk.
  • 00:13:15.751 --> 00:13:17.186
  • I can't--so obviously we know the word of god.
  • 00:13:17.186 --> 00:13:19.088
  • We know we have to put truth into us.
  • 00:13:19.088 --> 00:13:21.223
  • But practically, how do we walk this out in a community
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  • With people?
  • 00:13:24.126 --> 00:13:25.461
  • How do we actually take steps where we get free from kind of
  • 00:13:25.461 --> 00:13:28.964
  • That bondage that we feel we're kind of getting hit on all sides
  • 00:13:28.964 --> 00:13:32.968
  • From the enemy?
  • 00:13:32.968 --> 00:13:34.303
  • Dr. jeffress: well, i think you mentioned several things.
  • 00:13:34.303 --> 00:13:36.705
  • First of all, the word of god.
  • 00:13:36.705 --> 00:13:38.807
  • You know, it's no longer, and i don't think it was ever enough
  • 00:13:38.807 --> 00:13:41.911
  • For people to hear god's word once a week for 30 minutes in a
  • 00:13:41.911 --> 00:13:45.481
  • Sermon on sundays.
  • 00:13:45.481 --> 00:13:47.182
  • But just think, for generations, that was all of god's word
  • 00:13:47.182 --> 00:13:50.953
  • They got.
  • 00:13:50.953 --> 00:13:52.288
  • They may read the bible, but i'm talking about being taught
  • 00:13:52.288 --> 00:13:54.657
  • The bible.
  • 00:13:54.657 --> 00:13:56.025
  • That's not enough in today's world.
  • 00:13:56.025 --> 00:13:57.626
  • We need a regular intake of god's word through the ear gate,
  • 00:13:57.626 --> 00:14:01.630
  • And that's why, you know, i tell people, you know, to redeem
  • 00:14:01.630 --> 00:14:06.902
  • Those free moments in your life, when you're driving.
  • 00:14:06.902 --> 00:14:09.672
  • I had one man in my church say, "pastor, i'm just so angry all
  • 00:14:09.672 --> 00:14:13.208
  • The time.
  • 00:14:13.208 --> 00:14:14.576
  • I don't know why i'm so angry."
  • 00:14:14.576 --> 00:14:15.911
  • Well, i asked him a few questions.
  • 00:14:15.911 --> 00:14:17.279
  • He was listening to talk radio four hours a day.
  • 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:19.548
  • I mean, i'd be angry too, you know, listening to that.
  • 00:14:19.548 --> 00:14:22.418
  • Why not listen to a message or some worship music or something
  • 00:14:22.418 --> 00:14:26.422
  • That will feed your soul?
  • 00:14:26.422 --> 00:14:27.756
  • So i think we need the regular intake of god's word.
  • 00:14:27.756 --> 00:14:31.026
  • You mentioned community.
  • 00:14:31.026 --> 00:14:32.661
  • You know, satan loves to separate us from our
  • 00:14:32.661 --> 00:14:35.130
  • Spiritual community.
  • 00:14:35.130 --> 00:14:36.598
  • He wants to do everything he can to isolate us, and then attack
  • 00:14:36.598 --> 00:14:40.302
  • And destroy us.
  • 00:14:40.302 --> 00:14:41.804
  • We need a community of believers to be in who will hold us
  • 00:14:41.804 --> 00:14:45.407
  • Accountable, who will encourage us when we need encouragement.
  • 00:14:45.407 --> 00:14:48.711
  • Randy: it's funny that you say that because you talk about it
  • 00:14:48.711 --> 00:14:52.247
  • Being a battlefield of the mind, and yet i have found myself
  • 00:14:52.247 --> 00:14:56.719
  • Sometimes just like letting the world, not like going out and
  • 00:14:56.719 --> 00:15:00.089
  • Seeking it, but just everyday noise and world, and it takes
  • 00:15:00.089 --> 00:15:03.959
  • Effort to say, "okay, you know what, no, i'm gonna maybe listen
  • 00:15:03.959 --> 00:15:07.663
  • To scripture while i'm driving," or "i'm gonna change the station
  • 00:15:07.663 --> 00:15:10.466
  • And put on some music that's a lot more hopeful."
  • 00:15:10.466 --> 00:15:13.936
  • And then the other aspect of it is that sometimes i think,
  • 00:15:13.936 --> 00:15:18.273
  • Especially here at a ministry, if i can be brutally honest,
  • 00:15:18.273 --> 00:15:21.176
  • Don't tell anyone, don't tell my pastor, but i'll be like, you
  • 00:15:21.176 --> 00:15:23.645
  • Know, "i was working in ministry kind of stuff all week and i'm
  • 00:15:23.645 --> 00:15:27.149
  • Kind of tired this weekend.
  • 00:15:27.149 --> 00:15:28.684
  • I think i'll just skip church, just this one weekend."
  • 00:15:28.684 --> 00:15:32.154
  • And every time i go, no, i need to go be a part of the
  • 00:15:32.154 --> 00:15:36.658
  • Fellowship, a body of believers, right, it seems like the
  • 00:15:36.658 --> 00:15:40.229
  • Pastor's speaking something right into my life, and filling
  • 00:15:40.229 --> 00:15:44.033
  • My mind with the scripture and the truth that i needed to hear.
  • 00:15:44.033 --> 00:15:49.705
  • I don't know--as a pastor, of course you're gonna say you
  • 00:15:49.705 --> 00:15:52.341
  • Should go to church, but i mean, it's way beyond just filling up
  • 00:15:52.341 --> 00:15:56.045
  • The pews, it's filling our minds.
  • 00:15:56.045 --> 00:15:57.880
  • Dr. jeffress: that's right.
  • 00:15:57.880 --> 00:15:59.248
  • And the reason hebrews 10 tells us, "don't forsake the
  • 00:15:59.248 --> 00:16:03.085
  • Assembling together of yourselves as has become the
  • 00:16:03.085 --> 00:16:06.355
  • Habit of some," you know, during covid, a lot of people got into
  • 00:16:06.355 --> 00:16:10.159
  • Some very bad habits of, yeah, it was great they were on zoom
  • 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:14.363
  • And worshiping, but they were separated from the body.
  • 00:16:14.363 --> 00:16:18.033
  • Just think about this hand.
  • 00:16:18.033 --> 00:16:19.368
  • If i were to cut this hand off, how long would this hand be able
  • 00:16:19.368 --> 00:16:22.938
  • To move?
  • 00:16:22.938 --> 00:16:24.273
  • It would cease to function because it didn't get the blood
  • 00:16:24.273 --> 00:16:26.442
  • And oxygen it needs.
  • 00:16:26.442 --> 00:16:28.744
  • The most common image in the bible for the church is the body
  • 00:16:28.744 --> 00:16:31.814
  • Of christ.
  • 00:16:31.814 --> 00:16:33.148
  • We need one another.
  • 00:16:33.148 --> 00:16:34.650
  • We're kind of like those two porcupines in northern canada
  • 00:16:34.650 --> 00:16:37.519
  • Who huddled together in the sub-zero temperature.
  • 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:40.889
  • They needed one another even though they needled one another.
  • 00:16:40.889 --> 00:16:44.393
  • You know, it's the same way with christians.
  • 00:16:44.393 --> 00:16:46.328
  • Yeah, christians aren't perfect.
  • 00:16:46.328 --> 00:16:47.930
  • Some people bother us, but we do desperately need one another.
  • 00:16:47.930 --> 00:16:51.934
  • And i'll go one step further, and there may be somebody
  • 00:16:51.934 --> 00:16:54.169
  • Watching today who's in this situation.
  • 00:16:54.169 --> 00:16:56.505
  • You've gone through a terrible tragedy.
  • 00:16:56.505 --> 00:16:58.340
  • You've lost a loved one.
  • 00:16:58.340 --> 00:16:59.708
  • You've gone through a divorce.
  • 00:16:59.708 --> 00:17:01.310
  • And you just think, "well, i'm gonna take a vacation from
  • 00:17:01.310 --> 00:17:04.379
  • Church for a while so i can heal from this."
  • 00:17:04.379 --> 00:17:07.916
  • My friend david jeremiah says when you're going through a
  • 00:17:07.916 --> 00:17:10.486
  • Trial, there's only one person who thinks you need to take a
  • 00:17:10.486 --> 00:17:13.722
  • Vacation from church, and that's satan.
  • 00:17:13.722 --> 00:17:16.325
  • I mean, the time we need the body most is when we've gone
  • 00:17:16.325 --> 00:17:19.161
  • Through a tremendous loss.
  • 00:17:19.161 --> 00:17:20.729
  • Randy: yeah, because that's the time
  • 00:17:20.729 --> 00:17:22.197
  • Of spiritual warfare the most.
  • 00:17:22.197 --> 00:17:23.732
  • Dr. jeffress: that's right. blynda: when you're vulnerable.
  • 00:17:23.732 --> 00:17:25.467
  • Dr. jeffress: and satan put those doubts in your mind about
  • 00:17:25.467 --> 00:17:27.269
  • The goodness of god.
  • 00:17:27.269 --> 00:17:28.837
  • "if god is really there, why did he allow you to go
  • 00:17:28.837 --> 00:17:30.672
  • Through this?"
  • 00:17:30.672 --> 00:17:32.274
  • Randy: and lord knows you're discouraged when you're going
  • 00:17:32.274 --> 00:17:33.909
  • Through some tough things.
  • 00:17:33.909 --> 00:17:35.444
  • All right, there's a lot of things we haven't talked about.
  • 00:17:35.444 --> 00:17:37.179
  • You touched on some of the strategies to win, because
  • 00:17:37.179 --> 00:17:41.049
  • That's the good news, is when we fight we win.
  • 00:17:41.049 --> 00:17:44.620
  • Can we talk about-- can we unpack some of those
  • 00:17:44.620 --> 00:17:46.288
  • In another program maybe?
  • 00:17:46.288 --> 00:17:47.623
  • Dr. jeffress: let's do it. i'm here, i'm ready.
  • 00:17:47.623 --> 00:17:50.459
  • Randy: you're ready to go? okay, well, but there is hope.
  • 00:17:50.459 --> 00:17:52.494
  • I mean, your radio show, your television show is "pathway
  • 00:17:52.494 --> 00:17:55.164
  • To victory."
  • 00:17:55.164 --> 00:17:56.532
  • So i'm guessing you think there is hope for victory, yes?
  • 00:17:56.532 --> 00:17:59.201
  • Dr. jeffress: there is hope for victory.
  • 00:17:59.201 --> 00:18:00.936
  • The bible says, "greater is he who is in you than he who is in
  • 00:18:00.936 --> 00:18:04.373
  • The world."
  • 00:18:04.373 --> 00:18:05.707
  • And don't let satan tempt you into thinking that there's
  • 00:18:05.707 --> 00:18:08.644
  • Nothing you can do to be free of his grasp, that we're destined
  • 00:18:08.644 --> 00:18:12.314
  • To be prisoners of sin as long as we're alive, until we go to
  • 00:18:12.314 --> 00:18:15.817
  • Heaven one day.
  • 00:18:15.817 --> 00:18:17.186
  • No, the bible says sin has no more power over our life than we
  • 00:18:17.186 --> 00:18:20.956
  • Choose to allow it to have, but we have to use the weapons, the
  • 00:18:20.956 --> 00:18:25.127
  • Strategies god has given us, and that's what we'll talk about.
  • 00:18:25.127 --> 00:18:28.997
  • Randy: okay, i'm looking forward to that.
  • 00:18:28.997 --> 00:18:30.666
  • I'm looking forward.
  • 00:18:30.666 --> 00:18:32.000
  • I hope you guys will come back for the other program, but i
  • 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:33.769
  • Want to show you another situation where we're fighting a
  • 00:18:33.769 --> 00:18:36.605
  • Battle, and yes, there is a spiritual component to this,
  • 00:18:36.605 --> 00:18:41.043
  • Because all the work that you see us doing here at life
  • 00:18:41.043 --> 00:18:43.645
  • Outreach international to help people with food, water,
  • 00:18:43.645 --> 00:18:47.182
  • Rescuing from sex trafficking, there's a physical aspect, but
  • 00:18:47.182 --> 00:18:50.719
  • There is a spiritual component to it.
  • 00:18:50.719 --> 00:18:52.988
  • We have an opportunity to bring some other
  • 00:18:52.988 --> 00:18:54.756
  • People out of pain, literal pain.
  • 00:18:54.756 --> 00:18:58.560
  • When you go to these places where i've been, you see the
  • 00:18:58.560 --> 00:19:03.498
  • Dedication of a lot of these mothers, and some fathers,
  • 00:19:03.498 --> 00:19:07.269
  • To go to provide for their children.
  • 00:19:07.269 --> 00:19:09.771
  • They'll do whatever they can, and the rivers are contaminated,
  • 00:19:09.771 --> 00:19:13.675
  • You know?
  • 00:19:13.675 --> 00:19:15.043
  • Sometimes there's plenty of water, but none of it's clean.
  • 00:19:15.043 --> 00:19:18.447
  • They'll try to strain it, sometimes boil it.
  • 00:19:18.447 --> 00:19:20.749
  • Most of them don't have much to boil with.
  • 00:19:20.749 --> 00:19:23.452
  • And in some cases it's a dry season.
  • 00:19:23.452 --> 00:19:25.721
  • There's just no water around.
  • 00:19:25.721 --> 00:19:27.889
  • I've seen people try to get water out of the side of a hill
  • 00:19:27.889 --> 00:19:31.260
  • Where it would sort of seep into a low place, or there's a
  • 00:19:31.260 --> 00:19:34.896
  • Hand-dug well where contaminants can blow in, and it's really not
  • 00:19:34.896 --> 00:19:39.835
  • 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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  • 00:19:57.753 --> 00:20:02.958
  • And that's because we drill the wells right.
  • 00:20:02.958 --> 00:20:07.362
  • We go in deep enough, like i said, to get that pure
  • 00:20:07.362 --> 00:20:10.666
  • Drinking water.
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  • I just believe it's important that we do something, and
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  • Blynda, i know the results are great when we do.
  • 00:20:37.225 --> 00:20:40.495
  • Blynda: and it is amazing how our money can just multiply when
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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,
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  • A 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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