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Does Satan the Devil
really exist?
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Is he or she a real
spirit being?
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Or, is he no more than
a product of cartoon
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creators, artists, and
Hollywood film makers?
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And if that's the case,
must we conclude that
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evil is no more than time
and chance and impulses
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found in the hearts of men.
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There's always been
a fascination with
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the spirit world.
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Belief in unseen spirits
wreaking havoc on mankind
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goes back thousands of years.
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The idea of evil spirits--
ghosts, goblins, and spooks in
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the night--were taken as serious threats by the ancients, but are
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often seen as mere entertainment in our modern world.
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Yet, even now, belief in real witches, palm readers, and
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mystics prevails.
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The tools of their trade include crystal balls, tarot cards,
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and dreams and visions
crafted by an unseen world.
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On this Tomorrow's World
program, I'm asking a
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very serious question:
Is there a real Devil?
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This is important,
because if there is,
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for you and me.
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answer the question:
Is There a Real Devil?
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♪
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A warm welcome to all of
you from all of us here at
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Tomorrow's World and
the Living Church of God,
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the church behind this program.
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Today I'm asking a
very serious question:
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Is there a real devil?
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Can you know?
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And if there is, what are the ramifications for you and me?
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The ancients held many fears regarding a spirit world,
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as seen in some of their superstitious customs that have
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been handed down to us today.
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As a prime example, children
and even adults dress up in
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ghoulish costumes on the night of October 31st and they
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decorate their homes with skeletons, sheets representing
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ghosts, spiders, spider webs, and carved faces in pumpkins.
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Few understand why they do this other than following the crowd
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in an ancient tradition.
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And it's all done in
fun as people profess,
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"for the children," who go
about gathering as much
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candy as they can.
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But is this mere fun?
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Or is there a darker side
to Halloween celebrations?
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While this program is not
specifically about this
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celebration, it does show
how ideas about the unseen
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world have been handed down
to us today and how they
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have changed over time.
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From Britannica.com, we
read about the origin of
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Halloween in the Celtic
celebration of Samhain:
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"It was believed that on Samhain, during this seasonal
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transition, [that is, from summer to winter] spirits
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came to the world of the
living, and their presence
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was regarded with trepidation.
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In conjunction with All
Souls' and All Saint's Day,
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Samhain had an influence on the modern holiday of Halloween,
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and it is also celebrated
as an important holiday
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in modern Paganism."
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Notice how Samhain is an "important holiday in
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modern Paganism."
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Now for starters, do you
really think God is pleased
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with us taking part in a
pagan religious festival,
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even if the seriousness
of it has been changed?
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When God brought Israel out
of Egypt and they were ready
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to enter the promised land,
He gave them very explicit
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instructions not to borrow heathen practices in
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His service.
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Notice it in Deuteronomy 12, beginning in verse 29...
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"When the LORD your God cuts
off from before you the nations
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which you go to dispossess,
and you displace them and dwell
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in their land, take heed to yourself that you are not
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ensnared to follow them...
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and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying,
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'How did these nations
serve their gods?
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I also will do likewise.'
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You shall not worship the
LORD your God in that way....
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Whatever I command you,
be careful to observe it;
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you shall not add to it
nor take away from it."
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Most people have some
inkling that Halloween
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has a checkered past.
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And for anyone who stops
to think about it,
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isn't it rather weird to
focus on death, and ghosts,
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and evil spirits returning
to harass innocent people--
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especially if they don't
even think they exist?
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But, if evil spirits do exist, isn't that even weirder?
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What strange customs we
observe to entertain ourselves.
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It's important to note
that these customs have
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a religious background.
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It's easy to look down upon
our pagan ancestors with
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pity for their superstitious
beliefs and customs.
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After all, who today
believes such rubbish?
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But it wasn't the so-called pagans only who believed
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in the need to ward
off these evil spirits.
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Notice how the mainstream
Church blended pagan
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superstitions with their own:
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"Pope Gregory 1 (590-604) arrived in Britain from
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Rome to convert Pagan
Anglo-Saxons to Christianity.
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The Gregorian mission decreed that Samhain festivities must
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incorporate Christian saints
"to ward off the sprites
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and evil creatures
of the night"....
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All Souls Day, 2 November,
was created by the Church,
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"so people could still call
on their dead to aid them";
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All Saints Day, 1 November,
was also known as All Hallows,
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so 31 October later became
All Hallows' Eve, later
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known as Halloween."
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It's evident that our ancestors, whether ignorant heathens,
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or those claiming their
beliefs are founded in the
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Sacred Scriptures, believed
in a spirit world filled with
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"evil creatures of the night."
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We must therefore ask
these important questions:
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Is there a real devil?
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Does he have evil
spirit assistants?
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What about embracing the
spirit world with palm
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readers and mystics?
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Or are we to leave such alone?
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And what about those cartoon figures with a little fellow
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in a red jumper suit sitting
on someone's shoulder and an
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angel sitting on the other?
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Is that fellow carrying
a pitchfork real, or only
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a symbol of evil?
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No matter how we answer
these questions, there is
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an underlying question--
is there a spirit world?
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Is there a real devil?
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And if so, what are the ramifications for you and me?
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Is modern Christianity
immune to his influence?
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Welcome back.
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The question of evil is much debated among philosophers,
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and it's no small question
for the common man.
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Not whether evil exists,
but its source.
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What was the cause of
the holocaust in Europe
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during World War II?
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And what about the war itself that killed an estimated
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70 to 85 million?
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Why the Cambodian and
Rwandan genocides?
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Why are children exploited, raped, brutally beaten,
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and murdered?
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In Dialogues Concerning
Natural Religion (1779),
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the Scottish philosopher
David Hume asked these
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probing questions but
drew a flawed answer:
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"Is [God] willing to prevent evil, but not able?
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then is he impotent.
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Is he able, but not willing?
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then is he malevolent.
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Is he both able and willing?
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whence then is evil?"
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Since well before Hume's
time, the problem has been
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the basis of a positive
argument for atheism:
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If God exists, the he is
omnipotent [all powerful]
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and perfectly good; a perfectly good being would eliminate
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evil as far as it could;
there is no limit to what
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an omnipotent being can do; therefore, if God exists,
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there would be no evil in
the world; there is evil
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in the world; therefore,
God does not exist.
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In this argument and in the problem of evil itself, evil
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is understood to encompass
both moral evil (caused by
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free human actions) and natural
evil (caused by natural
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phenomena such as disease,
earthquakes, and floods)."
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That evil exists in our
world, is indisputable,
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unless you believe
there is no god.
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And is that not the irony
in atheist's conclusions?
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If there is no God, evil could be no more than personal
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opinion--there could be
no universal consensus.
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Rapists and murderers would have a very different view of evil.
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And when whole nations commit genocide, who is to say that
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that is evil?
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You and I would, but that is merely our opinion if there is
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no God, no higher power to determine good and evil.
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However, in the minds of most
of us, God does exist and He
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determines good and evil.
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Therefore, the questions:
What is the source of evil?
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Are some people born
more evil than others?
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Are they only the product
of their upbringing?
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Is it a combination of
genetics and upbringing?
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And, can evil
people be redeemed?
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The existence of a
very real spirit being,
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called variously as Lucifer,
Satan, or the Devil is verified
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in the pages of the Bible
from Genesis to Revelation.
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Our first introduction to
him is in the very beginning
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of the Scriptures--
the book of Genesis.
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After God created mankind,
He instructed our first parents
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to leave one tree
alone in the garden.
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Only one was off limits, and that is where an evil being,
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disguised as a serpent, challenged God's authority.
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Genesis 3:1...
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"And he [that is, the
serpent] said to the woman,
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"Has God indeed said,
'You shall not eat of
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every tree of the garden'?"
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Now Eve knew what God had
commanded and she replied...
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"We may eat the fruit of
the trees of the garden;
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but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of
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the garden, God has said,
"You shall not eat it,
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nor shall you touch it,
lest you die."
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Then came the lie...
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"Then the serpent
said to the woman,
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"You will not surely die.
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For God knows that in the
day you eat of it your
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eyes will be opened, and
you will be like God,
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knowing good and evil."
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His sales pitch was that
God had lied to them.
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They did not need Him
telling them what was
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right and wrong.
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They could determine
that for themselves.
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And Eve bought the lie...
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"So when the woman saw that
the tree was good for food,
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that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable
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to make one wise, she took
of its fruit and ate.
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She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate."
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Four millennia later,
Jesus was challenged by
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carnally minded Jews about
what they wrongly understood
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about His birth--questioning
who was His Father.
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In response, He rebuked them.
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John 8:44...
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"You are of your father the devil, and the desires of
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your father you want to do.
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He was a murderer from the
beginning, and does not stand
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in the truth, because there
is no truth in him.
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When he speaks a lie, he
speaks from his own resources,
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for he is a liar and
the father of it."
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So, we see that the Devil
is the father of lies,
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but where did he come from?
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How did he come to be?
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Did God create an evil being?
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Or is there more to the story?
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We'll look at the origin
of this evil being in
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the next portion of
this program, but I
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"So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old,
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called the Devil and Satan,
who deceives the whole world;
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he was cast to the earth,
and his angels were cast
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out with him."
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Now consider that the
largest religion on earth,
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some 2.6 billion strong,
is called Christianity.
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But of course, Christianity
as we know it is divided,
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confused, and a mixture of Biblical, pagan practices,
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and human philosophies.
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Is it just possible that most
of what we call Christian
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is not Christian at all?
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from the Bible who this evil
being we call the devil is,
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and where he came from.
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Today I am asking and
answering the question,
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"Is There a Real Devil?"
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So far, according to the
Bible, we've seen that
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there is a real
evil spirit being.
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But who is he?
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Where did he come from?
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We're not left in the dark
for the answers as the
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Bible reveals the plain
truth of the matter.
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However, we must go back
to the beginning, and that
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is not found in Genesis,
but in the gospel of John.
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There we find two Beings
who are described as God.
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John 1:1-2...
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"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
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and the Word was God.
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He was in the
beginning with God."
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So there was God, who later
became known as the Father;
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and there was the Word or Spokesman, who later became
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known as the Son--Jesus Christ.
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And that's evident from
verse 14 where it tells us...
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"And the Word became flesh
and dwelt among us, and we
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beheld His glory, the
glory as of the only
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begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth."
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Now verse 3 reveals something
that many church-goers fail to
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understand, though it's laid
out in the simplest of terms...
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"All things were made through Him [that is, the Word--Christ],
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and without Him nothing
was made that was made."
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There are several scriptures that confirm that the God
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of the Old Testament was
none other than the one who
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emptied Himself of His Divine privileges to become a human
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being, born of a woman.
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Now lest there be any doubt about this, Paul also explained
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in 1 Corinthians 10,
beginning in verse 1...
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"Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that
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all our fathers were under
the cloud, all passed through
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the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the
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sea, all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same
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spiritual drink.
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For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and
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that Rock was Christ."
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Now notice what Paul explains
is meant by all things.
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Colossians 1:15...
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"He [that is, Christ] is the image of the invisible God,
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the firstborn over all creation.
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For by Him all things were created that are in heaven
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and that are on earth,
visible and invisible,
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whether thrones or dominions
or principalities or powers.
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All things were created
through Him and for Him."
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Revelation 1:20 shows us
that stars are sometimes used
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in scripture to symbolize
angels and we read of a
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time in Job 38:7...
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"When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons
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of God shouted for joy?"
19:53.358 --> 19:57.129
What was it that these angels
of God were so happy about?
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The context of this passage
in Job is the creation
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of the earth.
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We must therefore conclude
that the angels were created
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prior to the creation of
the heavens and Earth.
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So, the Bible introduces
us to two spirit beings
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known as God and the Word,
and both are God.
20:18.483 --> 20:21.720
We next see that God
created the angelic realm,
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and sometime later,
the universe.
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However, in all the universe, our planet is of special
20:29.127 --> 20:33.065
importance to God and to
the angels He created.
20:33.131 --> 20:35.100
Why was that so?
20:35.167 --> 20:39.538
Why did the angels shout for
joy when Earth was created?
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As we shall see elsewhere,
it was to be their home.
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Ezekiel 28 fills in a
portion of the story.
20:48.447 --> 20:51.650
The chapter begins with
a rebuke by God for the
20:51.717 --> 20:53.118
"prince of Tyre."
20:53.185 --> 20:56.688
Tyre was a prominent city
along the coast of what
20:56.755 --> 20:58.991
is today known as Lebanon.
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The prince of Tyre was the
human leader of the city,
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but later in the chapter we
read about the "king of Tyre."
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We'll learn who this "king of Tyre" is, in the last portion
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of this program, but do you realize that what we think
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of as Christianity today is a far cry from the religion of
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Jesus, His apostles, and His first century disciples?
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That folks is not speculation, it is not opinion, it is
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pure fact for any willing
to look into it.
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beginning in verse 10...
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"Receive my instruction,
and not silver,
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And knowledge rather
than choice gold;
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For wisdom is better
than rubies,
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And all the things one
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We left off in the last
section of this program
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with a prophecy in Ezekiel
of the prince of Tyre,
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and the King of Tyre.
23:27.272 --> 23:30.142
The prince of Tyre is
clearly the human leader
23:30.208 --> 23:33.879
of the City, but
what about its king?
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The Bible leaves us
without any doubt.
23:37.048 --> 23:42.554
This king is not human--
he was not born, but created.
23:42.621 --> 23:45.223
He was also in the Garden
of Eden which ceased to
23:45.290 --> 23:47.726
exist millennia ago.
23:47.793 --> 23:50.462
Notice carefully the
description of this king,
23:50.529 --> 23:54.366
in Ezekiel 28:11-13...
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"Moreover the word of the
LORD came to me, saying,
23:56.935 --> 24:00.539
"Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king
24:00.605 --> 24:04.876
of Tyre, and say to him,
'Thus says the Lord GOD:
24:04.943 --> 24:07.846
"You were the seal
of perfection,
24:07.913 --> 24:11.082
Full of wisdom and
perfect in beauty.
24:11.149 --> 24:14.085
You were in Eden,
the garden of God;
24:14.152 --> 24:16.988
Every precious stone
was your covering...
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The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes [in other words,
24:21.092 --> 24:24.896
he possessed great musical talent] Was prepared for you
24:24.963 --> 24:27.666
on the day you were created.'"
24:27.732 --> 24:32.137
He is further referred to as
a powerful angel, a cherub.
24:32.204 --> 24:35.674
Even a casual reading of this passage indicates that he was
24:35.740 --> 24:40.478
not any ordinary human being, but the spirit power influencing
24:40.545 --> 24:41.947
the human leader.
24:42.013 --> 24:46.618
Let's continue in Ezekiel 28, beginning in verse 14...
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"You were the anointed
cherub who covers;
24:49.454 --> 24:52.657
I established you;
You were on the holy
24:52.724 --> 24:54.226
mountain of God;
24:54.292 --> 24:58.463
You walked back and forth
in the midst of fiery stones.
24:58.530 --> 25:01.733
You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created,
25:01.800 --> 25:04.035
Till iniquity was
found in you.
25:04.102 --> 25:06.238
By the abundance
of your trading
25:06.304 --> 25:09.307
You became filled
with violence within,
25:09.374 --> 25:12.410
And you sinned;
Therefore I cast you
25:12.477 --> 25:15.680
as a profane thing
Out of the mountain of God;
25:15.747 --> 25:18.550
And I destroyed you,
O covering cherub,
25:18.617 --> 25:20.952
From the midst
of the fiery stones.
25:21.019 --> 25:24.289
Your heart was lifted up
because of your beauty;
25:24.356 --> 25:28.326
You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor;
25:28.393 --> 25:31.263
I cast you to the ground..."
25:31.329 --> 25:35.333
Scripture often blends ideas
and quickly changes as it does
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here by reverting back to
the human leader of Tyre.
25:39.137 --> 25:43.375
We learn more about this powerful being--even his name
25:43.441 --> 25:47.112
and further motivations for rebelling against his Creator--
25:47.178 --> 25:48.747
in the book of Isaiah.
25:48.813 --> 25:52.217
Note that this spirit
being was not satisfied
25:52.284 --> 25:54.386
with ruling only on Earth.
25:54.452 --> 25:57.622
He wanted to knock God off
His throne and take over
25:57.689 --> 25:59.557
rulership of the universe.
25:59.624 --> 26:02.294
He was the first narcissist.
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Count the "I's," and notice
also that he has a throne
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and it is on the earth.
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Isaiah 14:12-14...
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"How you are fallen from
heaven, O Lucifer,
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son of the morning!
26:16.608 --> 26:18.710
How you are cut
down to the ground,
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You who weakened the nations!
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For you have said
in your heart:
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"I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above
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the stars [or angels] of God;
I will also sit on the mount
26:32.724 --> 26:36.394
of the congregation On the
farthest sides of the north;
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I will ascend above the
heights of the clouds,
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I will be like
the Most High."
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As with Ezekiel, the
dialog once again fades
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back to apply to the human
leader who is influenced
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by this fallen cherub.
26:50.942 --> 26:55.246
Why is it that artists portray cherubs as chubby little
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babies shooting love arrows?
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What better way to deceive
people than to convince them
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that there is no real devil
and that if there is,
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he's harmless as a babe?
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Yes, dear friends, there is
a real devil, and he is far
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more powerful and crafty than most people begin to imagine.
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He is the great deceiver,
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