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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 and
I've been waiting for you.
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And today we have a really good program
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with my friend Joseph Z.
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I'm so pleased to be
with you, Rick. Thank you.
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Being with you is so easy
because we talk all the time.
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We do. It's wonderful.
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And I wanna say thank you
for doing life with me
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and Denise, we love you.
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We love Heather, we love
your kids. Thank you Rick.
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And we love your whole ministry.
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And Joseph's ministry is so wonderful.
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If you would just see his
website there on the screen,
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you can go there and find
out all about his ministry.
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But this week, Joseph
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and I are doing a series together,
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5-parts called, Punishing The Darkness.
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Here we are in our Tulsa studio, so he could just come over
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to Tulsa while we're in America,
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and we could do these 5 programs,
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which really are about spiritual warfare that works.
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We wanna know anything that works.
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And this is just such a helpful series.
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And thank you for yesterday. Oh my goodness.
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And today we're gonna talk
about the Devil's Rage
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and conquering the Devil's Games.
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It's really gonna help you. But this is a 5-part series.
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It comes in all kinds of formats.
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It comes with a study guide,
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and Joseph's book is called, Punishing the Darkness.
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The Forewords are written
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by Mike Signorelli and Alan Didio.
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Both of them are my friends.
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And the subtitle says, Spiritual Warfare That Works.
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The back of the book says, Punish Darkness, Renew your Mind,
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Win the War that matters most.
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And this is such a complimentary book, to my own book,
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which is called, Dress To Kill, which became a classic
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on the subject
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of spiritual warfare and spiritual armor.
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But this is really a good book
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and you will just dive into it.
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It is such a new approach to the subject
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of spiritual warfare.
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And I really want you to have this
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But Joseph, let's pick up where we left off yesterday.
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Yes sir. Let's talk about Satan's fury
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and defeating the devil's games.
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Tell me what all that means.
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Well, it goes all the way back
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to the beginning when God created Adam.
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I believe there's a point in history
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or eternity past when God was creating
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that when he created Adam,
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I believe Satan saw that.
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And I believe when he saw
that it really set him off.
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I think he got very upset.
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I think he was very agitated
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because if we really look at it,
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God was making dirt above Satan.
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Absolutely. He was taking
man up out of the dirt,
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breathe his essence into it,
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and he really gave him
authority over the earth.
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He gave dirt authority over the devil
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and over everything else.
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What a ultimate insult to the devil.
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And especially Lucifer who had such ambition
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and he was looking to be like God
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and take on all these attributes
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and really become his own form of God.
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You know? And God goes ahead and he anoints dirt.
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He picks up Adam, brings
him into the world
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and sets him in authority over Earth.
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And the devil couldn't handle that.
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I think it was such a blow to his ego.
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He didn't know what to do with that.
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So he had to go and deceive
Eve and go down that road.
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I mean, he was looking for a
way to get into the garden,
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to take that man down.
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That's what he was doing. And he wanted
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to take over the earth.
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And in some ways he succeeded.
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Actually he did. He sure did.
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Romans 5:12 says that when Adam sinned,
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death came raging into the planet.
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But Jesus undid that - He sure did - the last Adam.
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Yes. It's like an action movie - The Last Adam.
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But it's reality. - It's reality.
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Jesus came and he destroyed
the works of the devil.
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I like to say it this way.
Jesus came into the devil's
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party, slapped him around
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and threw him out of his own party.
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And in that picture we see
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that the devil did gain authority over the
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territory and the earth.
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He said that to Jesus in the 3-temptations.
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He said, all this has been given to me.
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And it was given to him because
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of Adam's disobedience, 'cause of Adam.
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And Jesus came to destroy that, undo it.
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But Satan has been enraged because of this.
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He's been enraged at man, enraged at God.
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And he's upset because he's been dethroned in his own mind.
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And I believe the spirit of the Lord is saying that we need
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to recognize who we are, rise up
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and continue driving forces of God.
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Now what dethroned him? - Oh, Jesus did.
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When we got born again, when Jesus came as the last Adam,
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he came as the last Adam and said, the prince
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of this world is coming,
but he has nothing in me.
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And he is now being cast out.
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And I believe that being cast out was
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where he was the accuser of the brethren in the courts
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of heaven, so to speak.
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And he's gonna run into Jesus
now, the great intercessor
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And through the cross.
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Yes, and through the resurrection. - Definitely.
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When you come to Revelation 1,
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and Jesus appears to John, he has the keys
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of death, hell and the grave.
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Come on Rick. I mean, when
Jesus came out of hell, oh,
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the devil was done. He was done. He was
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Done. Yep.
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And really he is, he's done right now.
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And he primarily works through deception,
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through lies, through scheming.
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He just tries to fool people.
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But Jesus has taken away from
him all of his authority.
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And Jesus gave his divine
authority to us. To us.
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We have what Adam had.
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And actually even more because
we have the name of Jesus
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and the devil is enraged about it. He
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is.
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And that's why you know the devil really is a legalist.
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He, he has to work through influence to get ahold
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of people's bodies and their minds,
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meaning their physical
access to this natural realm.
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What does that mean, he's a legalist? Well, he's a legalist,
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in other words, he can't, he can't go beyond the rules
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that God has set in order.
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So he has to use them
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and he has to get humans
to cooperate with his plan
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because God gave dominion to man.
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And so therefore whatever
happens in the natural has
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to be authorized by physical human beings.
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So the devil has to legally
work in those confines
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and he has to get cooperation of
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mankind.
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Let's use an extreme example.
Okay. Adolf Hitler. Yeah.
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He agreed with an evil plan. - He
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sure did.
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Now the devil wanted to do it,
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but he needed somebody through whom he could work.
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Yes. - So he was looking for someone
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and Adoff Hitler became a person who agreed
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with a very sinister plan.
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And that's how the devil found a way to work. - He
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did.
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And that is why Jesus had
to come in a physical body.
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He came in a physical body.
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We know John 3 when Jesus is talking
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to Nicodemus; he said you must be born
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of water and of spirit.
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And to be born of water,
I believe is involved
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with the birth of a human being from a woman -
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when the water breaks and the baby's born.
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Yes sir. And
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because of that, physical bodies have more
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authority than spiritual
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forces.
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Let's stop on that because people always
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wonder about that verse.
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Please.
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So Jesus said, you have to be born
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of water and of the Spirit.
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He's talking about two births.
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Yes - Your natural birth when your mother's water breaks
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and the baby is born.
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But then the 2nd birth later when
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you're born of the Spirit.
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That's what that verse is about. - That's right.
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Okay. Yeah. And that couples together with John 4:24,
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...God is a spirit
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and those that worship him must do
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so in spirit and in truth.
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But we recognize there's 2-things:
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there's the realm of the natural, the realm of the spirit
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and the spirit realm can't just do whatever it
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wants in the natural.
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It needs that physical access
through human beings: that
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that includes God, that includes darkness.
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And so when we stand up giving our life over
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to the Lord, we can function.
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Jesus did that. That's why he had to be
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born of a virgin.
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He had to be born. - So when we get born again
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and we give Jesus access to our life,
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then we're giving access to the spirit
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of God to work through us.
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That's right. - But people that are not saved by agreeing
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with an evil plan, they can give access
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to evil to work through them.
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They sure can. - I think about the demoniac of Gadara.
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He had a legion of demons.
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That whole region was terrorized because of one man.
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Wow. - In some way that man agreed
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with something sinister.
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Yes.
And he became a conduit
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through which the evil realm
didn't just affect him,
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it affected the whole region.
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Yes. - That's a great example. It really
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is Rick.
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And you think about this,
you know, Jesus came,
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and you never really saw demons get
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cast out in the Old Testament.
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But in the New Testament, Jesus shows up and he showed up
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I'll say it this way - legally.
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He showed up with a physical body as the last Adam.
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He came to undo the works of the devil.
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The devil has a grip on humanity.
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Jesus shows up in the
flesh as God in the flesh.
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And when he shows up, he
started driving out demons.
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Can you imagine what the demons thought?
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They thought, this isn't
fair. How are you doing this?
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You, you can't do this.
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And he's like, ah, you like
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and I'm gonna drive you out.
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He was really the reason, the example of
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what believers are
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I think he's still enraged
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because Jesus legally defeated
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He came and showed up
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as God in the flesh driving
on spiritual forces.
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and we surrender our
physical body to the Lordship
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of Jesus Christ, we believe on him.
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and we enforce the word of God,
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we enforce scriptural prayers,
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we can drive wickedness out of any
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area.
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immediately the Holy Spirit comes to live in you.
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that power can work. - It's so
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awesome.
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We're fully loaded....
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I think if the word of God
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and if we came together as believers united, a united front,
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superpower, spiritually, in the world
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and really drive these forces out.
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You know, years ago I said to the Lord,
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why does it seem the devil
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Right? - Have you ever heard me tell this story?
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No. I'd love to hear it.
I said this,
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the sicker still sick.
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People are dying. The lost are still lost.
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People are tortured in their lives.
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Why is the devil winning so many victories
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if we have more power, we have the word, we have the blood.
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If we have all these things, why does it seem the devil gets
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so many victories?
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the church doesn't have.
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I said - What is that?
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And the Holy Spirit said - the devil has commitment,
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organization, and discipline.
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It's true. - Well we have more power. - Yeah.
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We have more authority. We have the word of God.
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We've got the blood of Jesus. We've got it all.
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But very often the church is disjointed.
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Yes. - And the devil is very committed.
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His forces are united.
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They're very committed to what they do.
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While the church can't even decide if it's
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gonna go to church or not.
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It's true. - It's very disjointed.
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It's not a question of power
or authority or promises
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or the blood - we have at all -
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just we haven't matched the commitment organization
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and discipline of the devil.
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And if the church would just get it together
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we have so much we could drive out the darkness.
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We could. We can.
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And when you unite as a united
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and we're empowered by
the Holy Spirit, I love
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what you just said,
commitment, discipline, doing
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what God's called us to do.
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And there's so much teaching and,
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and just a, I guess a cultural
normalcy that people begin
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to think, well, we just need to rest.
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It's all about grace.
And that's a good thing.
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But when we begin to line up with what the word of God says,
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and we unite with where God's
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every joint supplying, we would overrun darkness.
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We would absolutely drive it
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I like this scripture, Rick,
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and you know I learned this
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Okay - I love this.
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2nd Corinthians 2:11.
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It gets into this.
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This is the only way the devil
can truly get into the church
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or mess with believers.
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Okay - And it says this:
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Paul's just - I'll just jump right in -
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says - For indeed I have forgiven anything.
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I forgive that one for your sakes.
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Verse 10: in the presence of Christ, verse 11, Paul pivots
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and says - Lest Satan should take advantage of us,
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for we are not ignorant of his devices.
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And I learned this from you. It's the Greek word, noemada.
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noemada. That's right - And it means
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It's from the word nous.
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Okay. - And the word nous, means the mind.
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But when nous becomes noamada, it's mind games -
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mind games.
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I believe the devil uses mind games on believers,
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and he gets into the believers' life through mind games.
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That's why we gotta snap up our mind according
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to Romans 12:1-3 -
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Be not conformed to this world.
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Be transformed by the renewing
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of your mind.
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I was gonna say, that's why we have to renew our minds.
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Yes, sir. - A lot of people believe nonsense.
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A lot of people have a bad self-image.
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And you don't have any reason to have a bad self-image.
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You put yourself down, you badger yourself.
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You believed a lie.
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The devil's working in your head,
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pulling a mind game on you,
telling you that you're not
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as good as others.
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You're too skinny, you're too fat,
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you're not talented when
the truth is you are just
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overflowing with gifts, maybe better than others.
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But the devil sees that he is
so threatened by who you are
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that he's convinced you, you're less.
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It's a mind game. It's a noemda.
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And you've gotta pull it down. - Yes.
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And you've gotta renew your mind to believe the truth
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because the voice you listen to
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is the one you're going to believe.
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If you're listening to every foul thing the devil tells you,
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eventually you'll believe it.
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And what you believe, your faith will empower it
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to become a reality.
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Joseph, this is important. - It is.
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If you believe a lie, your
lie will become a reality.
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That's right. - It really will.
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Your faith will empower that lie.
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But if you say, I'm not gonna
listen to that lie anymore,
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and I'm gonna open my ear
to the truth of God's word,
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I'm going to hear it
and hear it, and hear it
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and hear it until I don't hear the lie any longer,
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eventually you'll begin to believe what God says about you.
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your faith will empower it and
it will become your reality.
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This issue of renewing your mind is absolutely
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paramount. - Yes.
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It's Part of spiritual warfare.
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Oh, it's, it's huge.
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I think in Romans 7, Paul said,
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I see another law warring
against the law of my mind,
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against my members, the law of my mind.
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I think the law of the mind
is kinda like an incubation
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center where you begin
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to meditate on things, think about things.
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And just like you're saying, suddenly
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what you're thinking about
is where you're going,
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what you're creating in your life.
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And the devil wants that.
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He wants to influence believers in their
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mind, in their believing.
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So he can have access
through their physical body.
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And you know, I'm not saying,
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Forgive me, but I'm thinking the
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mind is like a theater.
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Yes sir.
The devil's like showing you
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images all the time.
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Yes. - This is where strife
begins. You begin to see it.
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You begin to imagine it,
you begin to focus on it.
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You see it in your mind.
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It's very often where sickness begins.
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Very often divorce begins in the mind. - It does.
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You begin to think of thought.
Now you can see that thing.
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The devil's trying to
pull a mind game on you.
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What goes on in your
head is very important.
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for you to understand
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that when you called Jesus Lord, my friends,
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you were not just giving him your heart,
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you were giving him your mind.
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And you need to say, Lord,
I've given you my heart.
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I'm consecrating to you my mind.
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I want you to show me the images of who I am.
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I want your word to work in my head,
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not the lies of the devil.
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Lord, I want to hear the truth
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and put an into strife,
put an end into conflict,
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put an end into all these things.
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You gotta see it and see it
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and see the truth until you believe it.
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And then it's gonna change your reality.
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You can sculpt your world by believing the truth - Powerful
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Rick. When we do that,
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and we fortify our mind with the word of God,
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now you're in a position
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to actually do real spiritual warfare.
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So now the devil's no
longer working through you
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because you're believing false things. That's
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right.
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But you're becoming aligned with the truth. - Yes.
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So the power of God can flow through you.
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Oh yes. And then now with your,
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what we call free moral
agency, your physical body,
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your ability in the natural, you take
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that born again station
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and begin to just step out in the natural,
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in the spirit realm and release faith.
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Begin to speak things, begin to pray, intercede, call things
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that be not as though they
are, or speak to darkness
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and command it down.
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You can really take authority when
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you're on that foundation.
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And Satan, he just hates that.
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It makes him angry, full
of rage. All those things.
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Joseph, how can somebody protect their mind?
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I would say by reading the Bible,
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till it starts talking back to you.
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And if your thoughts are
running away with you,
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I've learned, open your mouth.
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Start speaking the word of
God to seize those thoughts,
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to stop those thoughts and build a new foundation.
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I think it's 30 days it takes to build a new habit.
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And if you take 30 days of reading the Bible,
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speaking the word, mixing
it with your faith,
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it'll begin to fortify your mind.
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You know, I had a moment in my life,
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it's been decades ago, when a lie was really
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trying to affect me.
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It was really trying to tell me who I am,
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what I would never do.
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And Joseph, I took time
off to bend my brain. Wow.
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And I mean to bend my brain in
submission to the Bible.
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And I would read reams of the Bible every day.
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I took time off. I said I've gotta fix this.
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I'm believing something that's not true. Joseph,
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I would bend my brain so hard, now I'm not exaggerating,
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I could physically feel something moving in my mind.
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Is that right? - You know the mind has a plasticity
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and you literally remold,
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you renew your mind to think in a new way.
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I could literally feel molecules moving
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as I was bending my
brain to the word of God.
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And if you have had a lie embedded in your head,
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well, pulling it down is gonna require something
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very intentional.
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Most people are not set free
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because they just are not committed enough to be set free.
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They're accustomed to
an old way of thinking.
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It's too hard to change.
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If you want to be set free,
you've gotta bend your brain
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to read this and read this
and believe it and believe it.
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You gotta make your mind submit - Yes -
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You're gonna make it submit.
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And when you submit your
mind to the word of God,
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it literally has the power to re-sculpt your mind.
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It causes you to think differently.
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And this is a big part
of spiritual warfare.
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And this is the part that
nobody can do for you.
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You're the only one that can do so.
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So good. I think of this, you know,
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James talks about a man looks into
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the law of liberty - right -
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like a mirror. And then when they walk away,
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they forget what they look like.
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The Bible shows us what we're
supposed to look like. The
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Bible's supposed to bring you liberty.
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That's right. It's the
law that produces liberty.
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That's right. And the way
that you begin to maintain
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that image be transformed
into Christ's image is
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to read the Bible, continue
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to bend your brain to the word of God.
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I love that, Rick,
until you really take on
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that image in your mind, in your heart.
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And when you do that, you'll
begin to have authority
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and power in that space.
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But it really is the enemy
that wants to get us off track
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and not get down that avenue.
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And it takes effort. It really does.
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And this is where people
may not understand
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that you've gotta commit to this
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and really let the word of
God work in you massively.
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Mm. And that's how you change.
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And you cover all of that in this wonderful book.
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I sure do.
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You know, we get into the last chapter,
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and we've talked about this, but we do a paint-
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by-numbers way of praying scripture
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so you can get breakthrough.
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You know, the only thing
worse than no teaching
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is bad teaching.
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And we've gotta have healthy teaching,
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which comes straight from the word of God
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and helps us walk our
spiritual disciplines out
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and we will see victory that
just shines in darkness.
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I like it that the subtitle says,
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This is spiritual warfare that works.
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When I read this book,
I thought, wow, this is,
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he has done it again.
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He has done it again.
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Joseph, your books are so good.
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Well Rick, you've been a great
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Example.
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And I gotta say this, can I,
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can I just say something to your
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Partners? - Okay.
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Yeah. I wanna just look
right at you for a moment.
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I want to thank you for being
a part of this ministry.
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If you're partnering
here and you support Rick
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and Denise, this ministry
has changed my life.
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It's changed my whole
team and our ministry.
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Rick Renner is one
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of the finest Bible teachers in the world.
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And I just wanna say to you,
if you're looking for a place
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to sew, a place to connect with,
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this is just the finest ministry I know of.
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And we're so grateful for you Rick.
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And I want to thank those of
you who do partner and stand
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and pray for this ministry.
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There's so much happening here
that's changing the world.
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I personally wanna say thank you to you.
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Thank you, Joseph.
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Yes, sir. - And thank you for being a friend
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and for being a partner.
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But we're out of time. So Joseph,
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and I'll be back in just a moment.
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And together we're gonna pray for you.
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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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In his 5-part series - Ultimate Spiritual Warfare,
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with spiritual ignorance - The motivation for delusion
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and chaos in the world -
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and The Devil's strategy for success. Available in digital
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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 that 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, which God gave us
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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 dead 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, we have just wrapped
up today's program.
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That's me and Mr. Joseph Z.
I'm so glad you're with me.
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Thank you for the opportunity, Rick,
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And thank you for letting us come into your space.
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I know you've got a lot to
do, and it means a lot to me
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and Joseph, that you
made time for us today.
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And today we've been talking
about the Devil's Fury
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and about becoming an instrument through which the power
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of God can push back evil
and how to renew your mind.
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This is spiritual warfare that works.
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But the Hulk series is called, Punishing The Darkness.
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It's 5-parts: comes
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with multiple formats and a study guide.
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And Joseph's book is so wonderful.
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It's called, Punishing the Darkness:
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Apiritual Warfare that works.
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I think it's one of the
best books I've ever read on
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spiritual warfare.
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I've read all of Joseph's
books, I review them
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before he writes them and prints them.
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I go over it because I
get so much out of it.
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This is one of his best.
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Now, maybe you have my book called, Dress to Kill.
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And if you do, I wanna say thank you.
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Yes, - You need to add
this one to your collection.
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And when you get it, don't
just put it on the shelf.
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This is a book you need to read
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because God will use it to
help you punish the darkness
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and drive it out of your
family, out of your life.
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But you can find out about all
these things by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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And please, we want to pray for you.
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We really want to pray for you.
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We're waiting for the
telephone to ring right now.
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So call that number or send us an email
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and we're gonna pray for you.
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And Joseph and I are gonna join hands
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and we're gonna pray for you right now.
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Amen. Joseph, would you pray? - Yes,
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I'd love to.
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Lord, I just thank you for
our friend watching right now.
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I speak life and victory to
you that every evil thing
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that's resisting you well,
we resist that right now,
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and we speak life to you.
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We speak peace to you and
that you know what to do.
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And I'm just gonna quote Rick right now.
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Whatever's going on in your
life, you're gonna be okay.
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God is with you and he is for you.
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Amen. Amen. Amen. Well,
we'll see you tomorrow.
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We're gonna pick up right
here. Don't miss it.
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It's gonna really be good tomorrow.
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But remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word
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of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you 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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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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through every available media avenue
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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