Ed Young - Fighting Evil

July 23, 2025 | S25 E176 | 29:0

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Fighting Evil | July 23, 2025

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Ed young: albert camus, an author, a scholar, an atheist,
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Wrote a little bitty book years ago called "the fall."
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Small book.
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Camus tells about a lawyer from paris, very fine, very moral,
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Very ethical, very intelligent, did a lot of work for a lot of
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People pro bono.
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Well respected, but one night he was walking in darkness along a
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Path and he went over a bridge over the river of seine, and as
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He walked over the bridge, he saw a woman there leaning over
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The side, and he just knew she was disturbed.
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And he walked on by in the darkness, and when he got just a
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Short distance away, he heard a scream and a splash.
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He knew what had happened.
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Camus says he had to make a decision.
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Whether to go back and jump in the seine and try to save her or
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To run and get help that people would come and maybe get her out
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Or he could just in the darkness, nobody's around, just
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Walk away.
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He decided to just walk away.
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But he could not get out of his mind the scream and the splash.
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And he rationed a lot, he said, "well, if i had jumped into the
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Seine to save her, it's dark and i may have drowned myself."
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He said, "if i'd gone to get help, could somebody come and
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Get her out of the river?"
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He said, "i'm a lawyer.
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I know how the courts operated.
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I would've been involved in maybe some kind of plan of
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Hurting her or i was a part of her jumping over."
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And he said, "i knew that didn't work."
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And he said, "the wisest thing to do was to walk away."
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But years went by and he couldn't forget it.
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He said, "you know, i thought of myself as respectable and
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Honorable and okay and i did a lot of things for a lot
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Of people."
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But he said, "suddenly i saw myself as i really happened
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To be."
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He said, "i saw that i'd never done anything good or noble or
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Fine or given anything that people didn't know about it."
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And he said, "i discovered that who i really am is who i am in
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The dark when nobody else is around."
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And ladies and gentlemen, that's who you are, that's who i am.
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Where our mind goes, where our thoughts go in the dark when
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Nobody else is around.
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And he said, "i saw myself with my mask off."
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And he said, "i didn't like that which i saw."
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Years later, camus says he was walking on another path and went
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Over another bridge.
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And he said all of this came to his mind and he felt so guilty
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And so ashamed that his life was phony in every way you could
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Define it, though everybody would say he's a good man.
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And he said, "i began to think.
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You know i'm better than," and he called the name of a friend.
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"i'm better than he is."
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Then he called the name of somebody else, he said, "i'm a
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Lot better than he is."
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Then he said, "i thought of a woman," he said, "boy, i'm sure
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Better than she is."
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And he said he went through all the people that he knew, he
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Decided that he was way above average, he was better than
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Almost all of them, and he said the minute he thought about
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That, he heard sinister laughter.
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He said, "i looked around and nobody was there."
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And camus said then he realized there was something going on in
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His life that he could not explain.
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Even an atheist like camus saw that in a life there is a battle
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Going on between good and evil that's hard to understand.
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So we back up and we ask the question about evil.
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We say, "i know the word evil, it showed up in the garden of
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Eden," correct.
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But where did evil come from?
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There's all kind of theories, all kind of thesis that you can
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Find, but it seems that theologians have not
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Dogmatically but found sort of a place for evil to come in
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The world.
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In genesis 1:1, "in the beginning, god created the
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Heavens and the earth."
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And then in genesis 2 it says, "the earth was void, it was
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Chaotic, it was dark."
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And theologians said, "that doesn't sound like anything god
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Would create."
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"in the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth."
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And then just one verse later, there's chaos in the cosmos,
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It's dark.
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And therefore they say there must be a gap there.
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There's a gap there. there's a gap there.
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And looking for that gap, you can find it, i think, in isaiah
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Chapter 14.
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You can find it i think in daniel, you can find it in
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Revelation, you could find other places in the bible.
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What happened is we discover there's a war going on, there's
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A war in the heavenlies and there's a war on this earth.
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There's a war that we can't see there and a war that we can't
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See here.
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And in that war, there's a battle between good and evil,
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There's a battle between god and the sinfulness that we see in
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Our world and our society expressed internally by the mask
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That was taken off when that lawyer saw himself as he
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Really was.
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The gap, what is that gap?
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We know that god created everything that is in existence
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And we know that he created angels.
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He created angels to serve, angels to be messengers, and he
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Had evidently in his creation according to scriptural truth,
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There was one angel he took in a particular prestigious position.
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He's called the shining one, and somehow in the freedom that god
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Gives to everything he created that has life, free choice,
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That angel, as he was receiving the worship of people and the
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Worship of angels, somehow that angel wanted the worship
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For himself.
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And then he wanted to ascend the bible tells us, to take the
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Place of god.
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Pride, ego, and therefore in his path to ascension, other angels,
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About a third of the angelic hosts fell with this shining one
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And they fell all around and made their habitation on the
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Earth and its cosmos and this environment, and that is the
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Fall of the angels.
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And that is where evil came into being.
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Right there in the gap, genesis 1, genesis 2.
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And therefore we get to genesis 3 and we see the snake.
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By the way, many people think that's the wrong name for the
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Devil, and i think it is.
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The snake we're repulsed, but a better translation, the hebrew
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Would be the shining one, the shining one, the shining one.
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And the devil and all of his emissaries are all around us in
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The world today, fighting all kind of battles and skirmishing,
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Trying to corrupt and destroy you and me as we are created in
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The image of god.
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Destroy everything that is of god.
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You say now wait a minute, this is the 21st century, you're
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Gonna tell me that evil is not just an adjective.
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There's an evil person, there's an evil act, there's an
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Evil event.
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You mean you're gonna tell me that evil is a noun?
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A person?
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Do you mean you're gonna tell me that there's a devil that's
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Dressed up in a red suit and a pitchfork and has horns?
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No, but i'm gonna tell you the devil is an adjective and is a
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Noun and all of his league of armies are seeking to bring down
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And destroy the world in which we live, especially destroy
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Those who call the name of jesus christ.
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C.s. lewis said it correctly.
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He said, "there's two problems with the devil.
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Some people think the devil is a myth, the devil's not real, and
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That's the liberals.
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Oh man, that's old wives tale.
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That's middle eastern mysticism, that's silly.
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Other people say the devil's under every bush.
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There's a demon everywhere you go."
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And lewis says, "that's exactly what satan wants us to think.
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That he is a myth or that he is everywhere."
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Understand the devil does not have the characteristics of god.
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God is omnipotent, all powerful, the devil is not.
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God is omniscient, all knowing, the devil is not.
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God is omnipresent, the devil is not.
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But yet the devil does have these supernatural powers as a
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Fallen angel and all of his emissaries and demons and
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Whatever you call them in this world are active.
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So we have to understand that we are in a war and the war is real
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And--let's look at our opponents.
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What are we fighting against?
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The bible tells us.
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The world, the flesh, and the devil.
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And personally, hopefully, the devil doesn't fool with many of
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Us because the world and flesh brings us down, correct?
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So we talk about the world.
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Caught up in the world culture, the world environment, that
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Which gives the applause of the world, that's which gives
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Success in the world.
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We see this is the same temptation, the same strategy
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That satan used with eve, the evil forces still use
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With all of us, have you noticed it?
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And there was the apple.
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She said, "man, it's beautiful."
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Read it.
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She said, "you know, it would taste, it would satisfy hunger,
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And besides that, it'll make me wise.
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I'll be able to run my own life and god won't have to run
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My life.
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I can have my own kind of life."
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Same temptation comes to us.
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Oh yeah, it's beautiful.
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The world, oh, it's beautiful.
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Oh, it tastes good, it satisfies basic drives in our life.
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And look, i'll run my own life, i'll be free.
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I can do what i wanna do, say what i wanna say, go where i
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Wanna say, live the way i want to live, and that's what the
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Devil calls freedom and that's what ends up in slavery and
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Bondage, that kind of phony, false freedom.
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So, we realize we're in a war, we see who our enemy is.
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It is frightening, it is staggering, it is real, it
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Is present.
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So we have to prepare for battle, do we not?
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Had to prepare for this battle.
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The book of ephesians.
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Paul's told the church of ephesus, he's saying, you come
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To christ, you have the body of christ, you fellowship, you
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Serve, you work, but he says also, if you're going to be
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Successful, in other words, if we're going to have an abundant
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Life, we'd better understand how to live this life as god in
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Christ planned for us to live this life.
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And then ladies and gentlemen, he tells us how to win the
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Battle with the devil who is the shining one, who is the
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Beautiful one, who is the deceiving one, who tells good
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Things and half truths.
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He is so skilled, he's so talented, and here he tells us
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The strategy of satan, ephesians chapter number 6.
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Look what he says in the latter part of verse 11.
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He said, "against the schemes of the devil.
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For our struggle," there's the battle, verse 12.
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"it's not against flesh and blood," he said, "we struggle
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With flesh and blood and evil."
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Do we not?
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He said, "that's not our only opponent."
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"but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world
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Forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of
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Wickedness in heavenly place."
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In other words, paul is telling us there is a real battle going
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On for the heart, the soul, the mind, the life of each and every
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One of us.
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Jeremiah, "the heart is wicked, it's deceptive, who can know it?
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Who can understand it?"
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And he's saying this is a battle, and we understand
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Something of the strategy of satan.
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He doesn't say, "hey, let's go down and rob the bank."
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He didn't start there.
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He starts with padding your income tax.
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You know, overcharging, exploiting.
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He starts with the little bitty things.
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The rats get through the smallest little places, just the
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Smallest little places.
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And suddenly we wake up and we say, "who is that person i'm now
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Looking at in the mirror?
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What happened to me?
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Did it happen suddenly or gradually?"
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And so we see the strategy and we see what we ought to do
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About it.
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Look at the verses there, verse 10.
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He said, "finally, be strong in the lord and in the strength of
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His might."
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Now boy, i gotta be strong, i gotta fight the battle.
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He said, "no, be strong in the strength of his might."
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What is the might of jesus?
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We don't fight with our own strength, our own determination,
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Our own ability.
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I'm gonna defeat the devil.
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Man, i'm gonna cast out the devil.
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No, we fight the devil with the strength of the might of jesus.
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What kind of might did jesus have?
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What was the power of jesus?
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The devil said, "i'm gonna go up on top and i'm gonna rule
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Like god."
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God said, "no, i'm gonna go down on the bottom."
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And god became a man.
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"let this mind be in you which was also in christ jesus, who
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Being in the form of god made himself no reputation, took unto
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Him the form of a servant.
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Was obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."
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Where was jesus demonstrating his power better than any other
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Place that was on the cross?
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The cross of jesus christ.
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Jesus on that cross took all of our garbage on him.
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You remember the name that jesus gave the devil?
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Beelzebub, you know what that name means?
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Lord of the garbage, the flies.
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So it was on the cross that jesus took all of our trash and
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All of our garbage and he died, shameful, painful,
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Embarrassing death.
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You see, we use the might of the cross.
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And therefore, when you're dealing with the devil, you're
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Dealing with evil forces.
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You just lift up jesus, lift up the cross and i'll tell you,
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He'll run from you as the book of james tells us.
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Because the cross looked like god had lost, but god in christ
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Had won a great victory.
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And by the way, what happened to the weakness of the cross?
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There was easter.
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You can't have the power of easter unless first of all
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There's a death.
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Death is the beginning, the introduction to life.
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We die.
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Anyone who would come out to me said jesus, "take up your cross
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And follow me."
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We have to die to self in order to have the resurrection power
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Of god, and when we have that power, we even overwhelm and
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Defeat satan by the power that's been given us, the victory that
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Has already happened on calvary's tree.
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Now, now, we see what we have, we be strong in his might, not
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In our might, then he gives us his resurrection power.
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What else are we to do?
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We're to, "put on the full armor of god, so that you'll be able
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To stand firm against his scheme."
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Put on, what do we put on?
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We put on what we already have.
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I've heard people preach this passage.
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"get up in the morning, you put this on."
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Oh no, no, no, we just put on jesus, we already have him.
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The armor is already there.
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You take off yourself, you put on jesus christ and that's the
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Whole armor of god.
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And then he says, on top of that verse 13, we take up, we put it
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On, and then we move out with that armor.
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We're confident, we're strong in christ, the resurrection power
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Is within us.
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Then we put on that armor that's putting on jesus, taking off
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Ourselves, and then we take it up and then we move out.
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And then he tells us a beautiful thing of what we have.
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He says, verse 14, "stand firm therefore, having done," and he
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Lists six things that we have to do.
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Six things that we already have.
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Be strong, put on, take up,
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Stand firm in the evil world in
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Which we live.
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What enables us to stand firm?
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Paul knew about roman armor.
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He knew how they clothed themselves.
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He says, "put on the belt of truth."
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You see it there in your bible?
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That is truth of god.
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That is a true view of the world.
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If we don't have an understanding of this world as
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God created it, as god wants to operate it, we can't
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Move forward.
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You have to build everything on truth.
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That's our worldview.
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That's how we make decisions.
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That's how we discover who am i? where do i come from?
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Why am i here? where am i going?
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Biblical answers to that and bingo, we've got a worldview.
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That's truth.
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If you don't have a worldview based on truth, you're gonna
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Limp and you're gonna be a victim of satan and his wiles
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For the rest of your life.
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You put on the belt of truth.
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Then you put on the breastplate of righteousness.
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What is that?
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That's putting on jesus christ.
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What does that breastplate do?
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It protects your heart.
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It protects your emotions.
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It protects your will.
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Boy, putting on this armor is great, isn't it?
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Truth, a true worldview.
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A breastplate protects us, and you put on your shoes of peace.
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The gospel of peace.
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In other words, where you walk, you bring peace, you bring the
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Power of god, you bring humility, you bring
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Understanding, you bring all that
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You and i are equipped with.
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We walk in the gospel of peace.
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We're putting on the armor.
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This is the armor.
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And then what do we do?
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We pick up the shield.
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The shield is next.
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And the shield is something of faith that keeps all those fiery
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Darts of evil and criticism and negativism and shame and fear,
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It protects us.
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That's the faith we have that we have on that we're secure
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In christ.
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We have abundant assurance that we've already sung about.
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That is that shield of faith that we have.
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Then we put on a helmet of salvation.
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What does the helmet do? it protects our mind.
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That's where evil comes in.
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It protects our minds and our thoughts.
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Our heart is protected.
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We're walking properly.
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We have a shield that keeps off the dark of the evil one, and
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There's some kind of tar in that shield when the evil one sends
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His fiery darts, they are put out, protective.
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And the helmet of faith, helmet of salvation.
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We know i'm with god, i'm with christ, i'm secured him, i'm
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His property.
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And god is for me, nobody can be against me.
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We got on that helmet of salvation.
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And then the final thing we pick up that sword, the sword of the
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Spirit which is the word of god.
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And this is our offensive weapon.
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Jesus, when he is tempted in the wilderness, what did he do?
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He just quoted the scripture.
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The power of the word of god is there.
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And that is the sword that we have.
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Look where we are, ladies and gentlemen.
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We're in a world where obviously there is evil.
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We're in a world where obviously so many people are victims of
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That evil.
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What do we do?
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We have to be strong in the strength of his might.
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We get that from the cross.
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We have to be strong.
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What else do we do?
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We have to take up and we have to put on this whole armor.
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We've named all the parts of it and therefore when we come to
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Christ, understand we receive christ, we become w-h-o-l-e.
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We become whole people, whole people.
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But the evil one is always looking for a weak spot, a hole.
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And so therefore, if we are to be successful, we have to keep
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On asking the holy spirit to show up in my life and
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Your life.
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Where are there any holes there?
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Any holes in your life?
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That's where slew foot wants to get in.
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You're off just one thing, oh lord, i'm just one degree off.
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That's where evil wants to invade.
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So we are to march in this world for the lord jesus christ
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With confidence.
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And guess what can happen to us?
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Would everyone bow your head for a moment and just close your
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Hands like this?
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Would you pray these words after me?
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"our father, who are in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is
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In heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as
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We forgive those who trespass against us and deliver us
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From evil.
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For thine is the kingdom
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And the power and the glory forever."
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Ed: everybody in the world is hungry for something that gives
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Them assurance about the future and comfort about what we are
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Facing right today.
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What all of us are looking for can only be found in god's word.
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That's why now is the time to do all we can to share the proven
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Truth of scripture with as many people as possible.
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And so with a gift today which will worth double thanks to a
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Special matching grant, we can help reach millions through the
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Broadcast and resources of "the winning walk," and it's a
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Winning walk, as you know, with jesus christ.
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I'm excited about today, i'm excited about tomorrow, and
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Thank you through your contributions,
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Through your prayers we scatter seeds
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Of god's truth everywhere and lives are changed.
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Congratulations, thank you for being a part
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Of the "winning walk" family.
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Ed: satan is a terrible enemy.
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No one can stand against the spiritual forces of evil in
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Their own strength, not even for a moment.
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God has made provision for you and a provision for me in this
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Battle, this warfare we're all engaged in.
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And all we have to do is to put on the full armor that he
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Provides and just stand firm.
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But listen, we cannot wait for the enemy to be in the camp
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Before we put on our armor.
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We need to be ready in advance.
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Then when the battle is over and the smoke of war clears, we will
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Still be what?
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Standing.
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You can be equipped right now.
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Call the number on your screen, let us share with you how to win
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The battle for life today.
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And i want to take just a minute to say thank you to those who
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Have been faithful supporting this broadcast, this ministry
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With your prayers and your financial gifts,
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Your partnership with us to share the good news of jesus
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Christ with people all over the globe.
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And thank you for watching, being family.
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And i look forward to a time again next week as we take
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Another exciting step on the winning walk with jesus christ.
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - Fighting Evil

July 23, 2025 | S25 E176 | 29:0

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