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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and I've been sitting in
my chair waiting for you.
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And then the other chair
is my friend Joseph Z.
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Thank you for having me,
Rick. Thank you Joseph.
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It's so good to be with you.
Oh man, Heather's here. Yes
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She is.
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We've had a wonderful
time of fellowship.
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Joseph is really my very dear friend.
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He's a brother in the Lord.
He's like a son in the faith.
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Thank you. - And we talk, we share, you know,
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you're supposed to have
a mutual benefit in your
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relationships in the body of Christ,
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and this is really a mutually
beneficial relationship.
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And I'm very grateful for you.
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Well, I, I just love the fact
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that you're like an apostle
Paul in our ministry in our
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life, and I get to be a Timothy to you.
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Wow.
And I am so honored.
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Well, that's, that's my honor.
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But this week Joseph
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and I are doing a brand new series called
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Punishing the Darkness.
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How Do You Drive Darkness
Out of Your Life?
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And yesterday's episode
was such a good beginning.
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Today we're gonna pick up
where we left off yesterday.
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But the whole series is a 5-part series: comes in all
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kinds of formats
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so you can order whatever you want
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and it comes with the study guide, and friend,
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we put so much work into these study guides
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because we truly believe
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that when you put your
eyes on the information,
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while you're seeing or hearing
it, it really causes it
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to get down deep inside you.
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And we want this to be down
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We want it to really work for you.
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And Joseph's book is called - Punishing The Darkness.
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The Forewords are by my friends Mike
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Signorelli and Alan Didio.
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By the way, I also wrote an
endorsement for this book.
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The subtitle says, Spiritual Warfare That Works.
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Well, that's what we want.
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You know, years ago I wrote
my book on spiritual warfare,
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which is called Dress To Kill.
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You may have it. It's a wonderful book.
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It's become a Christian
classic, and that's an honor.
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Thank you if you've read it.
But now you need this one.
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It is really such a
complimentary book to read,
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and it will take you in a
whole new direction about
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spiritual warfare.
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And it is spiritual warfare
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I prayed for you already this morning.
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I prayed for you last
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And when we hear from you,
we're gonna release our faith
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and Jesus is gonna do exactly
what needs to be done,
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which may be different
than what you think,
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but praise God, he knows better than us
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and Jesus will do what needs to be done.
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But call us or send us an email.
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But Joseph, today I want to go to chapter 4 of your book.
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This book is just so good.
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And I want to talk about - the prince
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of the power of the air.
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Wow - Take us there.
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Okay. Well, I think the prince of power of the air,
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and many people have this religious idea,
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a supernatural connotation
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And what I mean by that is
many people just begin to say,
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if we're gonna begin to
get change in the world
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and all that, we need to
go into intercessions.
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Some people call it
emergency warring tongues,
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or they just begin to cry
out and demand things change.
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Now there is a place for that. I deal with
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That in my book as well.
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You sure do. It's actually,
your book actually impacted me
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so much that it changed my prayer life.
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It changed the way I look at things
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and really just brought me back to a biblical foundation of
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how to walk an intercession in prayer.
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You know, the prince of the power of the air,
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Many people look at this and
of course we're referencing
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Ephesians 2,
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and it, it goes into verse 2: it says -
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In which you once walked according to the course
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of this world, according
to the prince of the power
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of the air, the spirit
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who now works in the sons
of disobedience. - Can I tell
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uou something?
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Please, sir. - When it says, according to the prince
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of the power of the air, that word - according
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to - in Greek, was kata.
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It really means - lost people don't even realize it.
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The word, kata, means to be dominated. They're dominated.
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They're being manipulated by the prince
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of the power of the air.
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It's what we were talking about yesterday. - They
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were - You have to be aware of what's working
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Yes. - And many people just
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of them and don't realize
there's something working
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And Paul here is saying, working behind culture.
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Yes. - Working behind people
is the prince of the power
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of the air that works in the sons of disobedience.
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Disobedience - And that word, works, means energizes
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the sons of disobedience, is really those who refuse to hear
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or who have never submitted their lives
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to the truth. Okay. I interrupted
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you.
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No, I think that's wonderful.
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You know, don't, don't you
just love Rick Renner. I do.
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I I just so enjoy your teaching.
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And when we talk about the prince of power of the air,
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many times people will see that
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and they think, my goodness, that means
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that the high place is
way up there in the sky.
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We have demons or dragons
or whatever flying around,
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and we've just gotta tear
those down in intercession.
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Really what it's talking
about is when you see
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that word air, and I
learned this from you,
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is the lower denser regions of the air.
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That's exactly right. Really, we're kind
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of the human mind is where
we think, where we process.
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So I mean, why would the
devil put his power out in the
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cosmos where there's nobody I know it.
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He brings it down low into
the lower regions of the air.
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And that's really what that word means - Yeah - the
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environment where we live - where we live,
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where it impacts our thinking, impacts our decisions,
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and tries to move people.
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You know, it's not the
antichrist proper that's,
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that's fighting us in the culture today.
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It's the spirit of antichrist.
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And that spirit of antichrist is a form of,
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as we talked about yesterday, civic insanity.
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It tries to bring a mechanism
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or an idea to the culture
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that makes people act insane, that they act
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out.
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I mean, just, just to think about it,
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the things we're seeing in society today
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it's ludicrous. It really is - transgenderism.
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when you are questioning your
identity, your gender, I mean,
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we're talking about mass, mass confusion.
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We are. - And it's on an international scale.
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It's not just happening in the United States.
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It is internationally.
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People all over the world
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It's like we're in the age of trans.
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Yeah.
There's a spirit driving it.
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There is, because mentally
it doesn't make sense.
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Logically it's crazy.
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Be it, people are embracing this delusion.
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behind this, driving this.
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I think what in the world,
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our political leaders thinking.
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They're pushing society to the brink of war.
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Yeah. And they all know it.
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Yeah, - That's right.
There's something driving it
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because it's not rational.
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Yeah. And as we know, the
Bible says there'll be days
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where people call evil good and good evil.
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That's right.
And that's what they're,
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that's what they're bringing forward.
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And the culture is embracing it. And almost
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Why in the world are they embracing it? -
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Because prince of the power of the air - prince of the power
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of the air, and that spirit of antichrist drives them.
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And it's driven also by a victim-hood where people begin
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to cry out and say, you don't understand what my life is.
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You don't know how hard it is.
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And they come against authority with a victimhood.
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Well, we have to admit, some
people have had a hard life.
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to belittle anybody that has
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Amen. But you the devil has used
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it.
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He has used it. Yeah. And,
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and again, yeah, we definitely
acknowledge people have been
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through very hard things.
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But I'm talking about a cultural thing,
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a cultural phenomenon
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where when people gather
in the streets, they begin
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to protest certain things.
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They go down these avenues.
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Some of it might have relevant,
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very important things to talk about.
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But the other side, there
really is also this,
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this mechanism that makes
people be very self-centered
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and cry out on behalf of
things that are just perverse.
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Things that are not righteous.
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things that really are anti-bible, anti gospel.
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That's happening. - It is.
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And when those happen, I believe that it is from the prince
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of the power of the air.
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It is to drive culture into insanity,
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to get civil unrest and create a mechanism for chaos.
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Let's, let's use an example.
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You know, when I was, when I was a younger man,
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and if you're my age, when you were younger,
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there was real civility in politics.
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Yes - There was.
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People could walk across the aisle,
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they could shake hands even if they disagreed.
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They were polite. They were civil with each other. Today,
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I mean, the behavior in politics today is unthinkable.
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It really is. We're living in the day of incivility.
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We are.
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And it's, it's so ugly. It is.
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I mean, it's like the devil
has just been released. Yes.
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That's what you're talking about.
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You know, and so there's,
there's two sides to this.
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The one side is that
some people say, well,
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we just gotta legislate better.
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foundation back.
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and that's true - It's very true.
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for spiritual warfare.
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to get past the silliness of it all and get to what works.
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and you begin to stand up biblically,
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and again, that comes from
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You have a saying that I really like,
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and it's this - Yhe best form
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of deliverance is ongoing healthy teaching.
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and then from the foundation
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to speak to things.
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You - Ezekiel 37 prophesied of the breath, so to speak,
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you begin to bring clarity
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with prayer from a good foundation.
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I think of Psalm 149: Let the saints be joyful in glory.
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Let the high praise of God be in their mouth
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and a double-edged sword in their hand.
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That's the word of God. And when we have that, it says,
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then we can execute punishments on the people and
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and judgments and bind their kings with chains,
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their nobles of feathers of iron.
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behind the veil.
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That when we begin to
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the way it's meant to
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with our faith, speaking it out
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and then from there, being led by the spirit
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to pray certain things,
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I had some friends that were
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they were praying and they put an altar, you know,
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a symbolic altar against a demon God there.
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to declare the word of God.
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nation when that happened.
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When you begin to have the word of God
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and you, you begin to pray
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and you declare things, I
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You bind kings with chains,
nobles with feathers
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of iron punishments on
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I believe it will shake
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I really do. And I think we
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natural when we do.
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What does the word, empirically, mean?
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and you say, this is what's happening.
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You can measure the results.
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When you do proper, spiritual warfare, biblically.
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You can see the beginning,
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you pray and you see the outcome that is healthy.
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in a household, in a culture.
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You know, in this book you have one chapter
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where you talk about The Great Commission.
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Yes sir. - The Great Commission is a
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form of spiritual warfare.
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It is. - Because when you come into a territory
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where darkness is working
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and you begin to turn on the light,
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Yes - Light dispels darkness.
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Just preaching alone drives out darkness. - It does.
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I think about the Apostle Paul: here he came into Corinth -
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what a wicked city.
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He came into Athens,
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another wicked city: came into Ephesus,
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wicked, wicked, wicked city.
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Right. - He just began preaching. He turned on the light.
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And preaching the gospel is a form of pushing back
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that darkness.
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Yes. - And really, if we would just open our mouths
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and declare the truth,
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that alone would create eyes in the blind
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so they could begin to see the truth
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and it will begin to push back darkness.
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And that's some of what you're talking about -
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practical ways to drive out darkness.
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Absolutely. And we so sensationalize things as the body
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of Christ many times that we've gotta get back
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to the fundamentals of what Jesus gave us.
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but when you hear the word, Great Commission, I like
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to focus on the co-part, the co-mmission.
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In other words, many people believe
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that it's just the great mission.
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God's gonna do whatever God's gonna do
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and we're just gonna sit back and watch.
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that's not the will of God.
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But you know, God commissioned us.
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It's a co - it's a co-laboring with God Almighty
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to go into the culture, preach the gospel.
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And I think we need a whole lot more
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of the gospel being preached.
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And as a byproduct of that,
not only does it change hearts
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and minds, it'll change the culture.
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You know, we can't legislate morality
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and make people do what we say,
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not to the high level some people would preach it,
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but I think of Luke 1:17, where it says
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that the wisdom of the just when it rules the land,
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that the disobedient have to submit to that. And
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I think - that's, and that's Luke 1:17?
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Yes sir. And I think there's a submission that can happen
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through influence in a culture.
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You know, I think, you know,
it didn't work out too good
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for Constantine and different
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to just legislate Christianity and do this,
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but through influence, I believe when we preach the gospel,
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society will calm down even more when we bring influence
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of light into darkness.
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Now we know we're at the end of the age.
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We know perilous times are here, we know
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is gonna continue to rise,
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but in the midst of that, we can be a light in darkness.
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into a place where they get more civil in some areas,
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if we preach the gospel and we
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You know, Paul said that
the unbelievers are blind.
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Yes. - They don't have eyes to see - That's right.
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So how do they get eyes
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That's right. The preaching
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of the gospel turning on the light.
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The Holy Spirit uses it
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to supernaturally create
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when they finally heard the truth, the truth gave them eyes.
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They, they begin to see and they woke up to the truth.
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Yes. - And that requires you. That requires me.
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That's part of punishing the darkness.
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Rather than just let people sit there
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and you know, squander their life away in evil and darkness,
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tell them the truth. And you can't create the eyes.
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But when you begin to speak the truth,
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the Holy Spirit takes those words
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and he begins to give
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I think that is just so powerful.
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Yes.
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form of spiritual warfare.
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Preaching is a practical form of
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spiritual warfare.
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It is. Well, I think of
the work that you've done,
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that God brought you to Russia
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and all the things that the Lord's done
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through your ministry, you
know, being with you there,
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there is a grace and a power.
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and the way God is changing that part of the world
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for the good, and just being with you, I realized
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that was spiritual warfare - planting churches,
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preaching the gospel, teaching the Bible.
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As a byproduct of that,
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there's so much life that happens, you know, being with you,
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I felt more covering
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and power in the Holy Spirit than some
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of the greatest intercession circles I've ever been in.
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Hmm. - And it's just because of obedience,
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preaching the gospel, the great commission.
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And that is the formula God gave us to change the world.
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Wow. Wow.
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You know, Joseph, when Denise
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and I, our family, moved to that part of the world,
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we had first moved to the Republic of Latvia
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that people had never heard of Christmas.
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Wow. - When I said we were
gonna celebrate Christmas,
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people said, well, what is that?
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My goodness. - Even though
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it, people generally had forgotten that
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that holiday existed.
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And it had been replaced by New Year's.
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New Year's became the big holiday,
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and Christmas was forgotten.
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Hmm. No one even had heard of a Christmas tree.
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No one understood about the nativity.
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And when we began to preach,
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this is just one example about Christmas,
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it's like the lights begin to be turned on.
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You can literally see darkness moving out of people's minds
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as light begins to infiltrate them.
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But I'm thinking about parents who have children
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that have embraced something wrong.
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How, how do they preach to their kids or to their friends
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without just being turned off by them.
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How can they make that connection so they have eyes
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to see?
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I think our lives are the best message.
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You know, don't say
things you're not living,
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don't preach things you're not doing.
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I think to your family, especially, you have
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to be a demonstration more than a preacher.
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And I'm appreciative of that statement,
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I think it was St. Francis who said, you know,
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preach the gospel and if necessary use words.
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Well I think most of the time we need to use words.
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But in our family
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or areas where our children might be running in a direction
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we don't appreciate
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or approve of, we need to
live the life in front of them
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and then preach from that. - And that is a form
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of spiritual warfare.
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It sure is. - It really is.
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You know, people want to yell at the devil,
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bind this, bind that.
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And by the way, that's a part of it's that
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that re rebuking the devil.
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It's binding. This binding.
That's a part of it.
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It is.
But another very real form
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of spiritual warfare is just demonstrating the gospel.
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That's right. That is a powerful form of spiritual warfare
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that anybody can do.
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Anybody can do that.
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Yeah, I agree with that.
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And you know, I'm so grateful for what you
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and Denise have done - you know, being on this program
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with you, seeing all this,
you're a great example of
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what it is to not just,
you know, intercede
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and take territory that way,
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but to really stand up in a
culture and bring the truth.
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And that is what really transforms people.
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Well, we intercede too.
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Oh, I know you do. I've been with you.
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We, we do a lot of praying. You sure do.
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I think you gotta do both.
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So if you're an intercessor, your role is
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so very important.
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But you gotta do more than pray. Yes.
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You got, you gotta put some work to
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it as well.
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speaking of intercession,
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there are times the Holy
Spirit will lead you
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to speak things, speak
from the word of God,
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declare and decree thing.
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You know, I'm a a prophetic individual
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and there are times the Lord
will actually have me speak
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to governmental authority,
have me speak to things
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that are about to be ruled on.
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Have me speak to different
towns and cities.
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are very important
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to do in our intercession.
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But if we're gonna change family, we have to have the life
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and then speak from that.
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In other words, the
demonstration of the character
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of a believer, I believe
witnesses to those around you.
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place, yes, we intercede.
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And when we pray together,
when you pray together
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with your loved ones
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or you pray together,
powerful things happen.
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Our daughter, Ali, she
comes to over many times.
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And we pray together. We pray for you.
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We pray for the partners of Renner Ministries.
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Thank you. - And we, and we just
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so appreciate what you're doing.
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But when you agree with people
that are in the same process
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with you, the same faith,
you can move mountains.
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You really can in prayer.
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And I really like that in this book,
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you actually give us prayers to pray.
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Yes. - I like it because people hear this.
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They say, I want to do that.
I dunno how to do that.
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I dunno how to pray against this.
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I dunno how to decree that.
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Well, hey, in this book, he actually shows you how to do it.
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Tells you what to say.
I think it's so helpful.
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I call it paint by numbers praying. Wow.
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Because people don't know
how to pray sometimes,
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but you just show them the scripture
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and show them how to
pray out that scripture
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and it will begin to
move mountains when you
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apply faith to it.
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Mm.
And God's word is not void.
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It will go forward and it
will break through things.
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And when you begin to do that,
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you really drive darkness
back across the line.
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That's right. You know, I want people
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to really understand that when they were translated out
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of the kingdom of darkness, they were literally removed out
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of darkness and placed into the kingdom of God's dear son.
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Yes - And in his kingdom, there's not supposed
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to be a hint of darkness.
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That's right - zero. Darkness was in your old world.
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And if darkness is trying
to get in your life
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through sickness, or maybe
it's coming through strife
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or it's coming through something in your finances,
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that's darkness.
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That's from the old life.
That's the old world.
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And it's trying to seep into the new life.
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It does not belong to you.
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And you can punish it
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and literally push it
back across the line.
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There is really spiritual warfare that works. - That's
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right.
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It works. And I'll tell you
what, a lot of people walk
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around acting like they
don't have anything,
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but we are fully loaded in Jesus.
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Greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world.
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That's right. We got overcoming, raw spiritual horsepower
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to push back against this present evil age.
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I like Galatians 1:4, Rick. God's will is
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that we be delivered from this present evil age.
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That's right. - Then Jesus came to do that
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and when we enforce that and we agree with the word of God
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and we use our faith and yes, intercede
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and pray, we can see anything happen
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according to God's will.
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Oh, it's so good. Joseph,
thank you for being here.
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Thank you Rick. - We're out of time, but Joseph
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and I will be back in a moment
and we're gonna pray for you.
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What are the signs of a false prophet?
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Well, there are real important verses about this in 2
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Peter 2, where Peter describes false revelators
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who will make merchandise of you.
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I've written a book which is called, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
and a World Gun Crazy.
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I would advise you to read that book
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because that book really
help you to understand
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if the person speaking to you is bonafide
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or whether they are false.
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But false profits usually want control
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and they want to prophesy money out
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of your pocket into theirs.
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They have come to make
merchandise for you.
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And in 1 Peter 2, it says they mold their words
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for their own purposes.
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That is the sign of a false prophet.
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As culture is driven toward
chaos by unseen forces,
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believers must learn
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to use every spiritual
tool God has provided.
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But how do you fight an
enemy you cannot see.
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While the lost may be dominated by the ruler of this world,
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the saved can close doors to deception when their ability
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to trust outweighs their
need to understand.
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today.
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This is Rick Renner, and
today I'm in the Tulsa office
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and this is another part
of our new TV studio.
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This is where Denise
is filming TV programs
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and how wonderful the now we
have two little studios, one
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for her and one for me where
we can interview guests
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who can't come all the way to Russia
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to be interviewed in our studio there.
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So when we're in the United States,
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we can interview them here.
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And that's what we've been doing all week
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in this wonderful facility,
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which God gave us in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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We're so grateful for this building,
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it was really a gift from the Lord
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and it's almost paid for. We've already retired, 86%
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of the debt.
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We just need to go a
little ways to finish this.
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We call it the Ministry Expansion Project
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because when this is finished, it's going
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to allow the ministry to
really expand financially,
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to wrap our arms around the whole world
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where people need the trusted
teaching of the Bible.
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And we know that's our calling.
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And if you're a part of
the Giving team, I want
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to say thank you for helping us
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to retire the debt on this facility
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and to release those finances.
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And if you're not a part
of the Giving Team yet,
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I'm inviting you today to join us,
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to help us finish this project.
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Wow, what a shout, a victory
we're gonna give to God on
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that day when it's done.
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And just think of the people
that are going to be reached.
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So thank you for being a part
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of the Ministry Expansion Project.
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Well, today we've had a wonderful program
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with my dear friend, Joseph Z.
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And we're doing a series called, Punishing the Darkness.
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It's a 5-part series.
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It comes in every imaginable format
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with a wonderful study guide.
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And I wanna also tell you
about Joseph's book called
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Punishing the Darkness.
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And there you have a picture of an angel
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with a snake under its foot.
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But the good news is we've
got the devil under our feet.
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Amen. We're not trying to get him there.
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He's already been placed there by Jesus.
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Now we need to keep him there.
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And if he tries to get out from underneath our feet, we need
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to do what is required to
keep him under our feet.
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We're not trying to get the victory,
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we are reinforcing the victory
that already belongs to us.
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But this book is just amazing.
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But if you wanna know more about these resources, go online
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or call the number on the screen.
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And as I always tell you,
when you call that number
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or write to us, we want to
know how to pray for you.
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And we're praying for you anyway.
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We're already praying for you.
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So if you'll just let us know how to pray,
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we're gonna do a better job of praying.
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In 1 John 5:14
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and 15 says, if we pray anything according to God's will,
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that means if you pray scripturally according
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to Bible promises, it opens
the ears of God to hear us.
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And if God hears us, then
he's gonna do what we ask.
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So if you'll reach out to
us, we will pray for you.
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Biblically scripturally, God will hear us
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and God will do what needs to be done.
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But thank you for being with us today.
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Tomorrow we're gonna come back
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and we're gonna be
talking about Satan's rage
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and conquering the devil's games.
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It's going to be so good.
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But we wanna pray for you right now.
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Father, in the name of Jesus. Yes sir.
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Joseph and I release the
power of God to our friends.
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Yes. - And we say deliverance is yours
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and you can push darkness
back across the line.
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Yes.
In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
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We'll see you tomorrow. But remember Ecclesiastes 8:
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4 says, "Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received Jesus
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as your Savior and Lord,
now is the time for you
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to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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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 faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners of Renner Ministries.