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This program is made
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of Renner Ministries.
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Hey friend, this is Rick Renner
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and this week I'm continuing my series,
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which is called - A Prophetic View of the Future.
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And I asked him, young men
to join me, five of them.
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And last week I had Joseph
Z and today he is back again
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and we're discussing his book
called Punishing the Darkness.
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It is the most unique book
I've ever read on the subject
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of spiritual warfare.
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The subtitle says, Spiritual Warfare that Works.
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I like that. Don't you like that? My friend
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you will devour this book
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and the whole series this week is called A
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Prophetic View of the Future.
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We need to know what's
gonna happen between now
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and the end of the age,
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and that's what we're
talking about this week in
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this series.
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But you can find out more
about all these things
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by going online or give us a call
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and please let us know
how to pray for you.
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But hey, I'm so glad my
friend Joseph Z is back.
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So let's get started.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind
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where the word is the
anchor in uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Well, as I told you today,
we have my friend Joseph Z,
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and when I call him my friend,
he really is my friend.
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We talk very frequently.
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We always talk about very
deep spiritual things
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and I respect Joseph.
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I respect his wife, Heather,
and their whole ministry.
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But Joseph, welcome
back to today's program.
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Rick, it is so good to be with you.
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And I wanna thank the partners of Renner Ministries.
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I want to thank you all for
standing with my friend Rick.
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Rick, you've made such
an impact on my life
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and my entire ministry is really fruit
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of your teaching and your leadership.
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So thank you for having me.
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It's a great honor to be with you.
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Well, I know you've got a lot to do.
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You're going a lot of places
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and right now you're in big demand.
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So thank you for making
time for me and my friends.
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But I just read your book called, Punishing the Darkness.
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And I told you last week,
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it is absolutely the most unique book I have ever read on
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the subject of spiritual warfare.
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The subtitle is - Spiritual Warfare That Works.
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I like anything that works.
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Thank you for writing that amazing book.
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And last week we talked about CERN, the Tower of Babel,
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how the Spirit realms getting thinner as we come
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to the end of the age.
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We talked about the spirit of antichrist,
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we talked about all those things
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and the fact that we have a faith that overcomes the world.
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But today I want to talk to you about the strategies
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of the devil and the responsibility of the believer.
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Can we do that as
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I Absolutely.
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Let's do it. Read your book.
I I was really focusing on
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one part that talked about Satan's rage.
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Please talk to us about that.
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Well, you know, I like to think of it this way
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'cause the word of God talks
about that he was cast out
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of Heaven and he came down with rage
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because he knows his time is short,
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all these things. But I think about that, you know,
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in the very beginning he was Lucifer.
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He was the, the one who shined and covered
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and did all these things, the
anointed cherub who covers.
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But you recognize things about it
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that I believe when God created Adam
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and Eve, when he created
Adam, something began
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to happen in Lucifer.
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Now we can speculate
when and where he fell,
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but this could be part of this.
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That when God created the heavens
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and the earth, he created
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It says in the Book of Job
that the sons of God shouted
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for joy as God laid out the
heavens and began to build it.
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When we see this, I believe that
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that means the angels had a front row seat
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to God building everything.
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They were shouting, God created the heavens, the earth,
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the sun, the moon, the stars.
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He created this blue planet
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And when he did this, I believe they were watching intently.
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And in that moment that
he went down to the earth
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and he began to pull up
dirt and breathed into it
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and poured his very essence into it.
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And Adam came to life, I believe Lucifer was watching that
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because Adam suddenly was made not just as a creation
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of God, he was made in the exact image and likeness of God
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because God poured his breath into him.
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He put his pneuma into Adam just like Jesus did
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again when we got rebirth in John 20:22:
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where he breathed on them, it
was like a redoing a a do-over
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of what God did with Adam: reconnected him to his spirit.
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And when Adam had this moment take place,
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I believe the devil at that time, Lucifer was watching this
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and thought, wait a second - what,
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what's happening here?
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You know, I'm the one
that deserves accolades.
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I'm the one that deserves
all these things.
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And I think it put him into a fit of rage.
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When he saw that God had
elevated dirt above him.
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In other words, mankind had
been elevated above him.
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We recognize, I believe it's Psalm 8,
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and it starts talking about that what is man
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that you're mindful of him,
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you've made him a little
lower than angels.
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We realize that Hebrew
word for angels is Elohim.
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You made man just a
step below God Almighty.
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And so the structure
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of the universe goes like this: God - man - angels
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demons, whatever.
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Or we could say pond scum,
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animals, all these kind of things
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then demons. So anything
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with a physical body has more authority
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than demonic activity and
specifically the devil.
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So when the devil knew
this was playing out
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and he saw this taking place,
I believe he went into a rage
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and decided, I'm going to kill this.
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I'm going to stop this. He
couldn't fight God almighty.
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So he went and took a hostage - Adam. He went
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after Adam tried to stop him, all this.
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But that has led all the way into the
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current days we're living in.
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Adam really gave over his
authority to the devil
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as we know when the devil
deceived him in the garden.
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And that has played out into
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where we are now. You know, up until
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That, see that up until
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that moment Adam was made in
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of God and God put Adam over the earth.
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Yes. - And in a certain
sense, Adam became the ruler
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of the earth and that was the
position the devil wanted.
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And that's why eventually the devil's
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called the god of this world.
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That's what he wanted. He
wanted control over the earth.
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And you are right. It was
such an insult to the devil
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that God made a man out of mud
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and gave him authority over everything
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of it, including the angel think of it.
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Yes. And Lucifer was literally infuriated
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and so he came after it.
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Thank you so much for writing
about that in your book.
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And as I read it in your
book, you explain it so,
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so well - thank you Joseph.
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Thank you Rick. Thank you for that.
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And I believe that is what Jesus ran into.
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'cause we know Jesus isn't the 2nd Adam,
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he's the last Adam.
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And he came to defeat the
devil at his own game.
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And the devil said to Jesus,
see all these kingdoms
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of the world see all this,
it's all been given to me
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and I can give it to whomever I want.
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And that was from the authority of Adam.
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I also believe that's why Revelation 5,
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when there was a seal and a scroll
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that John the Revelator began to weep greatly
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because no one was found on the earth
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or under the earth that
could open the seal
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or open the scroll,
couldn't break it open.
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And then the voice comes to John, it says,
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stop weeping: the lion of the tribe of Judah.,
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he has overcome.
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I believe that was Adam's scroll,
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his authority for the earth.
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And Jesus has the last Adam came
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to beat the devil at his own game and open the scroll.
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I think it's very powerful - Rick.
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You say in your book that
the simplest believer has the
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authority and power to route the forces
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of hell. Talk to me about that.
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Yes. - Well, we recognize if
one of us can put a thousand
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to flight, 2 of us can send the legions fleeing
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as the old song says, we recognize something about this.
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That if we just have a revelation of who Christ is in us,
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the weakest among us has more authority than all the
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powers of hell.
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All the powers of darkness.
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Because we're part of the eklesia: we're part
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of the body of Christ.
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And that means Jesus is
in you the hope of glory.
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And when you stand up in authority, I liken it to this.
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You know, back in the days when they had just one
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that could route a thousand, you recognize, I liken it
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to someone named Hillbilly Willie,
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right? They took the weakest among them
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that would just come out and do the fight.
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So I, when the fight would get going,
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all this thousand people could stand up
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and hillbilly Willie would
come running up from the back,
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maybe in his bathrobe, hitting him
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with a slipper or something.
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And it was still enough to run them away
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because ultimately this weak
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among truly had the
authority of God on them.
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And today we have the indwelling presence
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of God - in the Old Testament
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they did not. And if one could route a thousand, today,
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that means one believer has more power,
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more authority in them than
all the powers of hell.
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And it doesn't matter
how limited you feel,
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it doesn't matter how you view yourself,
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it doesn't matter all
these things, if you waken
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to a revelation of what
Christ has put in you,
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it doesn't matter if the
devil himself shows up on your
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doorstep and all his hoards with him, One believer who knows
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who they are in Christ Jesus: One believer with a revelation
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of what the Lord has done in them can route
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all the powers of
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darkness.
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You know, we're living in a day when it seems like darkness
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abounds on every side
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and sometimes even Christians become afraid.
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They just tremble. They
wanna stay in the house,
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they wanna shut the
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just hide from all of this.
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But there's no reason for us
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to hide from anything. I say that we're anointed
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like Jesus. When Jesus' boat pulled up to the country of the
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Gadarenes, Jesus knew exactly where he was going.
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And when he put his feet
out of that boat, suddenly
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there met him out of the tombs.
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A man with an unclean spirit.
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I'm getting right back in this boat
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and I'm hightailing it back
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other people actually summoned
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Jesus and Jesus moved forward.
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It was his time to act.
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greater one really does live
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inside us.
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it says far, far greater: far, far greater than he
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that is in the world.
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That's who lives on lives in us. Yes.
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we're talking about a prophetic view to the end of the age.
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I think between now and the end
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of the age when darkness is going to increase, it's more
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and more important that believers really know who they are.
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They know what kind of spiritual weaponry they have,
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that they understand the blood of Jesus,
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the name of Jesus.
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We really have the upper hand. Amen. We
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Sure do Rick.
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You know, I think of this, the fact
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that you have a physical
body, you dear viewer,
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you have a physical body
gives you more authority than
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spiritual forces.
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It gives you more authority
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because of John 3: Jesus said you gotta be born
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of water and of spirit.
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Nicodemus, you gotta be born
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of a woman in the natural
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and that's the reason
you can be born again.
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of authority on this terrestrial earth.
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as God in the flesh.
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and all these things are taking place,
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Jesus walks on the scene
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and for the first time,
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the first time, a man stood on the the ground
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that looked at darkness,
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and they weren't just looking at a man,
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they were looking at the spirit of the living God inside
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of a man that suddenly had the legal access
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to this natural world
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the God had created it.
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And basically he was
saying, how you like me now?
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How you like what you're looking at now?
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Now there's some real
authority, some real voltage.
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And I'm here legally as a man,
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I brought God into the natural
and I'm gonna drive you out.
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I think they were terrified of
Jesus and they thought, it's
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before our time, you can't do this to us.
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and he accessed the realm of
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and that gave him authority.
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And he was the prototype for
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what you dear believer is supposed to be.
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He was the prototype: as he is so are we in this world.
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the hope of glory, demons ought to come screaming out
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when you walk into a room. The power
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of the Lord should come through your life.
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You explain this so well in your book,
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but as you're talking my mind is going to John 1:11,
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which says - But as many has received him in verse 12,
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to them, you gotta receive him.
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Yes, yes. And if you receive
him, it says to them,
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gave he power to become the sons of God.
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And that word power is the word exousia.
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It really means he gave
them the authority.
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But that word exousia also carries the idea of influence.
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He gives you authority,
he gives you power,
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he gives you influence, which
means the moment the spirit
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of God moves into the heart of a believer,
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he doesn't just become a child of God - he does -
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but it puts him in a position
where he has the upper hand
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because now he has power and
he has spiritual influence.
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Every child of God has authority
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and influence to make a
difference in our environment.
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And we don't have to
hightail it out of anywhere.
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We can take authority in any
place where we find ourself.
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example is that of Jesus.
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He didn't hightail it
back across the lake.
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He has moved forward and
dealt with those dark forces.
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And that's what we have to do in our time.
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But this leads me to
something else you write
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about in your book.
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You write a lot about spiritual weaponry.
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Can you talk to us about that?
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Well the weapons, of our warfare are not carnal.
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They're mighty in God for the pulling down of strongholds.
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We recognize that you get into Ephesians 6,
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the full armor of God.
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And I'll tell you Rick, nobody has written on Ephesians 6
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like you have powerful.
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Well thank you Joseph - so powerful.
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But the weaponry that we are equipped with,
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I believe is activated
more than any other thing
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by two elements:
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1: reading the Bible. You read the Bible
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until it starts talking back to you.
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You pray in tongues for
long amounts of time
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until it begins to move your heart
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or until you begin to really
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solidify the Bible you're reading.
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When you're reading the Bible
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and you're praying in
the spirit, the weapons
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of your warfare becomes strong.
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the number one place of battle
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for the believer or anyone is the mind - is the mind.
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that we are not ignorant
of the enemy's devices.
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it, Rick, that that,
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I think it's the word noemata.
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I think it's that word where it talks about
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that it is mind games: that the enemy comes
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to play mind games. The fiery darts
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of the enemy bring mind games against believers.
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So what do we do? We take
every thought captive.
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We punish disobedience under
the authority of Jesus.
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And that simply means
read your Bible till it
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starts talking back to you.
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Really exercise a disciplined prayer life,
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which involves a lot of speaking in tongues.
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And you begin to grow.
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to call those things at be not,
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when you stand up against evil, we realize James 4:6
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and 7, it says - Submit yourself to God.
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Resist the devil and he'll flee from you.
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You know, most believers
don't know they need
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to resist the devil.
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When you get a thought, when
you get something coming
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against you, what you
need to do is stand up
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and say, I'm submitted to God.
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I'm repenting of whatever
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I'm getting right before the Lord,
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making sure I'm in a good place.
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No open doors.
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and your spiritual authority,
you resist the devil.
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'cause he has nothing to
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I actually think most spiritual warfare is in the mind.
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I really do. I believe that people
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that struggle in their thought, I call it the computer.
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You got the computer of your mind.
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You you're thinking things,
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you're working things out in
whatever controls the mind,
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controls the destiny in the
future and decision making.
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which means reading the
Bible, praying in the spirit,
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and then standing up
against dark powers, man,
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it doesn't stand a
chance against a believer
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that's not moved by their emotions,
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but moved by the truth of
the word and moved in faith
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and stands up against, resists
the devil in his devices.
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I think that's how winning is done, Rick. - You know, I
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have a group of men in my life
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and every single day I ask them 3-
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questions and you're one of them.
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I ask, did you read your Bible,
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did you pray in tongues and did you exercise? That's right.
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If you're failing to do those three things,
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you're making a critical mistake.
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You need to be feeding your spirit
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the word of God every day.
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It strengthens you, it reinforces you.
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You need to be be praying in tongues.
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It really exercises your spirit: communication happening
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between you and the spirit of God.
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And exercise is also very
important by the way.
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You know people quote 1 Timothy 4:
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7, and here's how they quote it.
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Well, you know, exercise profits
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little, that's what they say.
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But the first part of the
verse says, exercise profits,
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it's profitable.
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The word little means it's temporal,
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it has a short term effect.
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But Paul did not deny that
exercise is profitable.
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And when you physically exercise, do you know
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that in the ancient world when Paul was writing
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that very word, it was believed, it was really believed
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that when you physically exercise, your body is stronger,
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your mind is stronger and your spirit is sharper.
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And I will tell you from my
own life that when I exercise,
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I'm brighter in every dimension.
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And reading our Bible, praying in tongues,
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physically exercising,
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these are three essentials
if you wanna be spiritually
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strong to the very end.
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But I like what you keep
saying about reading the Bible
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until it speaks to you.
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You know, I've got a rule
that if I don't read my Bible,
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then that day I don't eat.
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It's not a Bible rule, it's just my rule
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because I needed that rule.
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And so when I get up in the
morning, if I want to eat,
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then I gotta read my Bible first.
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I'm making it the priority in my life.
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And just like you say, I read
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until the scripture speaks to me.
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I'm not just checking a box.
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I want those verses to speak to me.
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I want them to read me, show
me where I need to change.
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And by the way, when the
word of God is reading you,
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it's adjusting you, it's fixing you,
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it changes the way you think.
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The mind realm, that's
where the devil works.
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And it's really hard for the
devil to work in your head
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when the word of God is
working in your head.
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That is so true, man.
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I like that old analogy of, you know,
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everybody has like two dogs on the inside
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and one is carnal, one is spiritual.
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And they say, well, if they
fight, who's gonna win?
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Well, the one you feed is gonna win.
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And God is really calling us to feed that.
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And I like what you say outta the book of Jude, Rick,
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when it talks about building
yourself up in your most holy
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faith, praying in the spirit.
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And if I understand how
you say it, right, it means
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to build out the walls of a house
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to expand the capacity of a house.
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When you're praying in tongues,
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you're sowing into your future.
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You're building the capacity
for a future that God can work
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with and advance with.
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And honestly, if we just
do these simple things,
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and I love the topic of discipline
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because we're disciples of Jesus
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and disciples means disciplined followers of Christ Jesus.
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And if we're disciplined in these areas - there's
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so many preachers and believers that are undisciplined.
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And Rick, quite frankly, I know you
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and you are such a great
example of discipline.
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You're disciplined in your
eating, your discipline,
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in your time, your discipline in exercise.
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You're such a great example for so many of us who follow you
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and stand with you.
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And I'm just, I admire the
way that you lead your life.
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And I wanna say this to everybody.
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If you're disciplined, that
is already half the battle
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of spiritual warfare.
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You don't let emotionalism take you.
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You don't get caught up in,
in tragedy or difficulty.
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You rise above it, you come through it
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and honestly, it's just your daily routine
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and discipline that will help you do that.
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It'll help you conquer spiritual warfare.
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Actually, the more disciplined you are,
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the more control you have,
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the more victory you have in your life.
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Come on Rick. - You know a river
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with no banks just runs all over the place.
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It just makes a mess.
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But when a river has banks, it flows.
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It's got power, it's got direction.
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And that's what discipline
does in a person's life.
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And people who have no
discipline, they just kind
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of spread all over the place
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and they, they really can't point out
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what they're accomplishing
with their life.
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But when you're focused,
when you're disciplined,
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you become like a mighty force.
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It really is very important.
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And you talked about the word disciple,
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and this is a little off
track, but I wanna share it.
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It's the Greek word mathetes. That word mathetes,
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few people attained that term.
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The word mathetes described the learners
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who were committed to a rabbi.
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And for you to qualify to be in that rabbi's circle, you had
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to make the commitment that you would obey that rabbi
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and do absolutely anything that rabbi told you
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to do without question
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or dispute.
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That rabbi's word had ultimate authority.
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And for you to be a disciple,
it required the highest level
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of obedience and submission.
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Most Christians aren't there yet
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and that's why they don't
have authority in their lives.
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But when you got discipline
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and when the word of God
is working in your head
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and when you're praying in tongues
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and you're exercising your human spirit,
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it just puts you into a new level.
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It really does. And in that level, then you can really begin
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to operate in spiritual weaponry.
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Amen. Amen. I like what you say too.
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Sometimes you get to bend your brain
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to receive the word of God.
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You gotta bend your brain till
nearly the molecules you can
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feel them moving in your brain.
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In other words, you so inundate yourself with the word
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of God that it bends your thinking.
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It begins to submit your
carnality to the Lord.
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And that's how you begin to win.
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You know, the devil eats dust.
And what do I mean by that?
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In the Book of Genesis? That's
what the Lord said to him.
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He said that you will strike his heel,
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he will crush your head,
but the serpent will
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crawl and eat dust.
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Well, what is man made out of?
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We are made from the dust
we're made from the earth.
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It's a, it's an understanding.
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When you get into the the New Testament
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where we see scriptures
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that say the devil's a
roaring lion seeking whom he
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made devour out of Peter.
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We recognize he is looking
for whom he may devour.
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He can't just come eat
anybody. He can't do it.
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But what he's looking for
is to devour what he eats
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and that is dust.
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The roaring lion is the
serpent from the Book
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of Genesis looking for what he can eat.
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That means the dust, our
carnality, our flesh.
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When you allow your flesh to run wild,
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you are feeding the darkness,
you are feeding the devil.
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And he's looking for what he may devour.
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And it is the dust, our carnality, our way of thinking.
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Carnality is also the works of the flesh.
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We think about Galatians 5:16 - Walk in the Spirit,
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you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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Romans 8, it talks about the flesh
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and the spirit are at war with one another.
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But that flesh is a way of thinking.
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People think the flesh is sin.
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No, sin is a byproduct
of a way of thinking
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that is contrary to the word of God.
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That is the flesh, that
is what the devil's after.
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And he wants to devour you in that space.
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So to the point Rick
is making everybody and
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and dear viewer, when you
begin to discipline your mind,
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you begin to get in the word
of God, tell speaking back
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to you, you are punishing every thought.
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You're taking it captive.
That's how you do it.
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You don't do it with willpower.
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You know, if you just sit there and think about thoughts,
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thoughts, trying to fight thoughts,
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you look like a crazy person, right?
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Your thoughts are
wrestling with themselves.
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No, you've gotta go to the
word of God, open your mouth
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with the word of God and defeat bad thinking by the word
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of God that will put the flesh down
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and bring the spirit to life.
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Well Joseph, all of this is so good.
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You know, I don't think people know,
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but you're really very theologically trained.
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You went to Bible school
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and I hear so much coming out
of you from your training,
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and I respect you so much
as a serious brother,
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as a prophetic voice.
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And I wanna say thank you for being
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with me today and thank you for writing.
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Thank you, sir. This amazing
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We're out of time. But Joseph,
thank you for being with me
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and I'll be back in this moment.
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I love you, Rick. Thank
you. I love you too.
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But I'll pray with you in just a moment.
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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