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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. Life
has Life has its share of ups and downs no
matter what you do. Flat tires, an unexpected plumbing problem
at your house, even illness. It's just to name a few.
(00:22):
You can't nerf or bubble wrap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The world.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
It has sharp edges and you will feel them from
time to time. At times, you'll have bad or inconvenient
things happen to you. It's been said, don't don't be
surprised by the average things in life. You know, people
(00:47):
will have flat tires, including you. Does that mean the
enemies after you because you have a flat tire or
these types of things, No, there are you're going to
have in life that happened to you. If you get
to a place where you think that it's always the
devil under every stone, you miss the fact that when
(01:08):
there really is spiritual warfare going off and on and
on in your life, because you've mistaken it for this
or now everything is spiritual warfare, and you really miss
it when it actually is the enemy. And this is
a whole different classification of trials that come your way.
(01:30):
These are the spiritual trials. So it's not just a
flat tire or plumbing problem. That's why does this happen
to me? Is not the time for that, because why
does this happen to you? Because you're a human living
on earth who has a home or a car, and
these things happen. But this other classification, this other type
(01:54):
of trial that comes your way, is a spiritual trial.
These are attacks that, strangely enough, are often brought on
by you. When you invite the enemy into your life.
It's like inviting the devil for dinner. For whatever it
(02:15):
is in your life that you're doing. There are times
where you do things where you welcome the enemy. In
any Christian any Christian family, can take on attacks from
the enemy. But as a believer, you must remember that
(02:36):
the knob of your spiritual door is on the inside
and it's only opened by you. The devil can't truly
get in your life unless you open the door and
give them opportunity. This opportunity comes from you rejecting the
(02:57):
things of God, stray from the things of God, looking
for that opportunity that you know is not godly, looking
for that relationship that you know is not godly, rejecting
things that you know are godly. You have opportunities in
your life. They come your way and you think, well,
(03:18):
just because they came your way, they must be of God.
Not always. There are relationships that are not good for you.
There's jobs that you shouldn't be at, or maybe there's
another one that is coming your way that would be
better for you. There are things that you do to
manipulate at times so bad that you welcome the ene man.
(03:45):
You get to that place where it doesn't matter what
the consequences are, you just want what you want. You're
giving the devil an opportunity when you ignore the warning signs,
the red flags in your life. How many times on
this very program have reopened the phone lines and talk
to people that have called up and they have warning
(04:07):
signs and relationships or situations and they ignore them. When
you go through something like this, when you ignore those
red flags, those warning signs, the alarms that are going
off in your life, you're giving the enemy an opportunity.
(04:30):
Ephesians four twenty seven says, and do not give the
devil an opportunity, pointing out that you play a part
in as you play a part in the dance in
that interaction with the enemy, the devil himself to play
a part in your life. Now, you may make excuses
(04:50):
for it. You may look for reasons and say, well,
I was doing this because, well I was lonely and
I wanted someone in my life. But when doing that,
when the loneliness or your situation supersedes what you know
to be right or good or the will of God,
then you open up that door and say, come on,
(05:12):
end devil, and you invite the devil to dinner, because
that seems like a better plan than waiting on God.
The enemy prowls around you looking for this opening, even
(05:32):
masquerading to look more pleasant to you, trying to fool you,
to look like an opportunity for relationship, to look like
a job, opportunity, to look like an opportunity to get
something easier, less stress, making something more obtainable, to satisfy
(05:54):
that quick fix. Peter five eight says, be of sober spirit,
be on the alert your adversary. The devil prows around
like a roaring line, seeking someone to devour. Don't let
(06:15):
that someone be you. Don't give the enemy the opportunity
to consume you. Secwod Corinthians eleven fourteen says, no wonder
for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
If you get caught up in that that appearance, the
way things appear to you, and it looks like, Hey,
(06:36):
here's that opportunity I've wanted. Not always is that the
right way to go. Thessalonian says, to test all things,
hold fast to that which is true. If you're constantly
running after whatever opportunity comes your way, you'll set yourself up.
(06:58):
If you allow people in your life life that you
know aren't good for you, you set yourself up. You
open yourself up. If you disregard the things of God,
you treat people poorly, you don't follow the rules in life,
changing them always to suit your needs, you open it
(07:19):
up for the enemy. You surround yourself's self with the
things in life that are vulgar or contrary to God,
or ugly, you open up the opportunity. And each of
these opportunities are an opening, a crack, a possibility for
(07:42):
the enemy to enter Ephesians four twenty seven. Again, and
do not give the devil an opportunity, any crack, any fissure,
any little opening in your life. Life is an opportunity
for the enemy. It's not that the devil is behind
(08:07):
every bad thing that happens to you. As I said,
you live in this life. You are a human being.
You will go through things that human beings go through.
Sometimes that's sickness. Sometimes it's a flat tire. Sometimes it's
a leak that is sprung in your bathroom. All of
these things, I understand may seem like trials, but they
(08:30):
aren't necessarily of the devil. They're of the world. The
world is a place with many, many sharp edges. But
the special type of trial, this spiritual trial from the enemy,
(08:52):
often is a relationship between you and the enemy. You
are giving permission. You're opening the door to your world,
to your life by rearing the things of God, by
toying or getting too close to the creek that you
fall in. Think of that visual for a moment, of
getting so close, always trying to tempt fate, and see
(09:14):
how close you can get to doing the things that
are counter to what you know to be good and right,
and in doing so, creeping ever so closely to that line,
just a little bit each time, that sooner or later
(09:35):
you stand at the door of your spirit, of your heart,
and you hear a knock and you open and it's
not me, but the enemy looking for an opportunity to
come in to devour and destroy. You're going to have
(09:58):
issues in life. You're gonna have normal life issues that
come with life. You're going to trip, sometimes you're gonna
hurt yourself. Sometimes you're gonna break your favorite dishes. You're
going to do things that happen because you're human and
you're in the world. Some will be bigger than others.
Sometimes you may become ill, sometimes you may There may
(10:22):
be what they call acts of God, earthquakes, floods, these
types of things. You will be affected. Life will happen
to you. But there's another set of trials, of tribulations,
of problems that will come your way that have the
thumb print of the enemy. But the enemy doesn't get
(10:42):
in your life easily. The enemy gets in your life
by you doing things to attract or allow the enemy
in truly inviting the enemy to be with you. And
I know what you're thinking right now. You go absolutely not, Lord,
I would never ever ever or bring the enemy into
my life.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
But you do.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Ephesians four twenty seven even says, and do not give
the devil an opportunity. And some things that you do
in your life are giving the enemy opportunity. You have
to find ways to defend yourself from building that that
structure in your life that leaves those openings for the
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end enemy to get in. So how does the faithful
believer defend themselves against the enemy. Well, scripture says to
submit to God and resist the devil James four seven.
Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will
flee from you by resisting by first submitting to God. Also,
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the Bible instructs you to put on the whole armor
of God for the ultimate protection from evil Ephesians six eleven.
Put on the full armor of God so that you
will be able to stand firm against the schemes of
the devil. And you can read the rest of Chapter
six and Ephesians to learn about the complete armor of God.
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But finally, remember that although the devil is called the
prince of this world, when all is said and done,
God will be without a doubt. The victor Romans sixteen
twenty says, the God of Peace will soon crush Satan
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at your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you. Graham. Welcome to the Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Show are you saying, Stugram, Yes, how can I help you? Hi?
Goodness worrying to you?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yes, I was calling because I was concerned. I was considering. Uh,
you know, this is a holiday season. We've got Halloween,
We've got Christmas, and then there's all the various holidays
in the world, and you know, it's a confusing thing
because people do different things. And I studied pasts with
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the Johoah's witnesses, and I was touched by their thing
about Christmas. That really brought a light to me about
that Decetember twenty fifth business, that it isn't there. And
then I think about it and think about it, and
I did research and things, and you know, like, for example,
a lot of these cards are greeting cards, sales ployees
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like Mother's Day, Father's Day, Grandparents' Day, Secretary's Day, and
it's been at them. And you know, in scripturally, I
kind of take Romans fifteen five onward till the end
of the subject really to heart that we don't live
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for our sulverb. Well, we observe it to the Lord.
We observe whatever day we observed to God, and we
do it and give thanks, and we shouldn't be judging
our brothers, but we should just not do the things
that are blatantly.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So are you worried about celebrating holidays?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Well, yeah, because I'm not so much worried about it.
I personally have totally embraced each day is a blessing
and do the best you can with it. And you know,
because everybody knew how old they were, you know, in
the Bible.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I will tell you this. There's nothing wrong with holidays.
Are they the holy days of the past.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Are a lot of them, at bare minimum, embellished by
the greed card companies. Absolutely, But that doesn't mean that
you can't celebrate a mother, or someone's birth or any
of these things. I think that there are some groups,
some may consider them fringe groups, that take this to
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a degree where they don't celebrate anything, and to me,
that is more militant and un Christian in the attitude
of celebrating all things. I mean, first, Thessalonians five sixteen
and eighteen rejoice, always pray without ceasing, give thanks in
all circumstance, for this is the will of God in
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Christ Jesus.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
For you.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
There's do you need a special day? No? But then
you could say the same about the Sabbath. You don't
need a special day for that either. It's just a
matter of taking the time and rejoicing and celebrating people.
And sometimes it's easier to put something on the calendar
than it is because people put it off all the time.
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You do it with relationships of any kind. You do
it with friendships, with getting together for coffee or tea
or lunch or dinner or whatever it might be. You
put them off constantly, and sometimes it's easier to just
get something on the calendar and say this is the
day that we're going to celebrate mothers or fathers or
family or friends or whatever it might be. And some
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of them may feel silly and you don't have to
celebrate them. And yes, you can go back to the
origins of Christmas and Eastern and you can look that
they weren't celebrated by the early Church. And of course
I wasn't born in December. It wouldn't make sense biblically
based on what was taking place during the time of
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my birth. All those things absolutely true. However, there's nothing
wrong with taking a time putting it on the calendar.
In the case of things like Christmas and Easter, there
were pagan holiday during that time. The Early Church wanted
to try and root those pagan holidays out, so they
kind of plopped My Birth and my Resurrection into those
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slots to try and squelch or squash the pagan religious
ceremonies or festivals or things like that. And that was
the way of the Early Church trying to kind of
get their way. I get all that, but it doesn't matter.
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It doesn't matter, It doesn't even matter. There's pagan ties
in when it comes to Christmas and it comes to Easter,
the bunny rabbits, the eggs, all that stuff comes from
pagan roots. The Christmas tree itself is tied to pagan roots.
But it doesn't matter because that's not what people are celebrating.
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And so to take a time of celebration to enjoy
any more than people are celebrating, you know, Pagans on Halloween,
they're just not No kid is looking at the theological
significance of Halloween. They're thinking, I get to dress up,
which kids love to do, and run around and get
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candy for for free. That's it. No theological you know,
And I know that there's a lot of churches and
Christian organizations that put on harvest dances or harvest events
to try and sidestep the Halloween situation and holiday. But
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the truth is that the harvest was an incredibly pagan
part of their ritual. That's where the you know, they
were tied into the earth and to Mother Earth and
it's fruits and all of these things, and you just
start looking for the devil under every rock and that
doesn't help anybody. So celebrating birthdays, celebrating Christmas, Easter, the
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upcoming Halloween, any of these things is fine. It depends
how you celebrate them. If you celebrate Christmas by you know,
you know, killing a baby animal, probably not putting a
smile on God's face. But if you enjoy family, come together,
hear music, have food, praise God in the process, there's
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nothing wrong with any of these days. I think. I
think there's this attitude of this attitude of giving up
things that people assume is automatically christ like, that if
you give up anything or you sacrifice something, that it's
christ Like. And there are times where you're called to
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give things up. There's times where you're called to give
up relationships or maybe move jobs or whatever it might be,
But that doesn't mean you need to sacrifice all the time.
There was this young lady that I knew many years
ago who was very devout and wanted to give her
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life to God. Her mother had passed away, and she
had things from her mother that meant so much to
her that she assumed that they were idols in her life.
And as she started to dedicate her life to God,
she started giving up these things, I mean mementos that
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were the last vestige and connection she had with a
person in her life, her mother, and she threw them
in a dumpster to show God how much she loved God.
And years later she was so resentful towards God that
she fell away. Now you may say, well, then those
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things were idols. No, that's not That's not the point.
The point is that that God is not asking you
to do some grand gesture every moment. God is asking
you to live a life that glorifies God. And these
big acts of book burning and getting rid of records
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and all these, you know, it's not about any of that.
It's about trying to connect with people, be kind to them. Now,
is that going to get you into heaven? No, you
have to have a relationship with God. But these things
on this world, on this planet, are important, and that
is to connect with one another, to love and to
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be kind to one another, and and not look for
religiosity at every turn. There are times for that. There
are times for reflection. There are times for deep prayer, obviously,
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and to sit and to ponder the things of God,
whether it be through meditation, godly biblical meditation, or to
connect with God in those ways all wonderful. However, these
big grand gestures and people in the Philippines that during
Easter are nailing themselves to crosses does nothing for God
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and his will and his movement and his cause. So
giving up something that someone enjoys, like a birthday, and
to be celebrating life and enjoying one another and all
these things, it means nothing to God. There is no Oh,
my goodness, Well look what they're giving up. It means nothing.
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It is it's an outward It's something to stir up
other people and to say, look how different I am.
If you want to show people how different you are,
be kind, connect with people, put them first, be selfless.
But there's nothing wrong with celebration. And if you want
to make it about your your mother on your birthday.
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That's fine too, But there's nothing wrong with celebrating and
finding excuses to celebrate and putting it on the calendar.
Absolutely nothing, Anthony. Welcome to the Jesus Christ show.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I am. When God cast out the angels down to earth?
Did they land in the land of Earth? Best Samerians
because their Bible is exactly like ours. I've been studying
history and our ten commandments can be found Moses law
and an obvious law books or spell one point six
of the Egyptian Bible paraphrases are ten commandments.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
And that's not the and that's not the only similarities.
There are great similarities throughout other civilizations as well, by Greece.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And Methra and Kabalonism. And the way that they preach
transcendence is the exact same cycle as what Jesus went
toward you.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Well well wait wait wait wait wait, transcendence in what form.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
The the depth and the resurrection is Their final stage is transcendence.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
But there's but there's also there's also pre cycles that
are much different than Christianity by far, so be careful
not to confine them. And just because there's similarities. Last uh.
Last week we talked about counterfeits, and there gets to
be a point where similarities don't mean the same. There
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are counterfeit dollar bills that are very similar, but I
wouldn't try and pass them.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Okay, But what I was saying is when God casts
out the angels, if they landed in the land of
Earth years ago and the flood happened, is six thousand
years ago, and then the Egyptian culture had the exact
same thing that the variants had and all that, and
then Jesus came back to teach us that that was
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the wrong way of worship, and this is the right
way to set the records trade. As you would if
you're taking map and map out all the religions, the
timelines in which they existed and were created, and mapped
out all the similarities in one color marker, all the
differences in a different color marker, all the similarities between
You can see how religion its migration distorted it, and
(25:27):
its birth was with the fallen angels. And then Jesus
came back to set the records trade because we were
worshiping essentially the Book of Lists. They essentially took our
Bible and made themselves the gods of it.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
There are theories based on similar notions. The problem is
that the timeline is based on the timeline is when
it becomes difficult when you're dealing with fallen angels and
the concept of fallen angels. You talk about Revelation twelve
seven through nine, talking about the battle with Michael and
(26:05):
his angels fighting against the dragon or Satan. There's no
specific time as a matter of fact, when something's happening
in heaven. In that concept, it's really outside of time.
So if you're using that as a basis to say, okay,
well it's started here and there's similarities, no doubt, similarities
(26:26):
may point to a standard through point where you have
a belief system starting here, moving through here. Some parts
are taken, some parts are removed, some of it's polluted,
some of it's added to what have you. I get that,
and that has most certainly taken place, But to try
and trace it back entirely to the fallen angels might
(26:51):
be a little difficult from a historical or timeline perspective,
But absolutely no doubt that with the falling of the
angels and the angels coming to Earth as it says
in scripture. It says in that very scripture, Revelation twelve
seven through nine talks about that he was thrown down
(27:12):
to the earth and his angels were thrown down with him,
that in that process that there wasn't counterfeits and destruction
and things that went along with it. So I get
the big picture of where you're going and how you
look at it. It looks like here you had a faith,
and then pow, you have those that would be motivated
(27:36):
to destroy that faith, causing pollution and counterfeits and all
these things that would twist it around. And that you
say that you can kind of trace that back, but
I think you're dealing with other things that are outside
the timeline of history and then within the timeline of history,
and that post is kind of a problem to figure
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out as to what took place when and where man
stands in in that whole equation as well.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
KFI A M six forty on demand M
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. Life
has Life has its share of ups and downs no
matter what you do. Flat tires, an unexpected plumbing problem
at your house, even illness. It's just to name a few.
(00:22):
You can't nerf or bubble wrap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The world.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
It has sharp edges and you will feel them from
time to time. At times, you'll have bad or inconvenient
things happen to you. It's been said, don't don't be
surprised by the average things in life. You know, people
(00:47):
will have flat tires, including you. Does that mean the
enemies after you because you have a flat tire or
these types of things, No, there are you're going to
have in life that happened to you. If you get
to a place where you think that it's always the
devil under every stone, you miss the fact that when
(01:08):
there really is spiritual warfare going off and on and
on in your life, because you've mistaken it for this
or now everything is spiritual warfare, and you really miss
it when it actually is the enemy. And this is
a whole different classification of trials that come your way.
(01:30):
These are the spiritual trials. So it's not just a
flat tire or plumbing problem. That's why does this happen
to me? Is not the time for that, because why
does this happen to you? Because you're a human living
on earth who has a home or a car, and
these things happen. But this other classification, this other type
(01:54):
of trial that comes your way, is a spiritual trial.
These are attacks that, strangely enough, are often brought on
by you. When you invite the enemy into your life.
It's like inviting the devil for dinner. For whatever it
(02:15):
is in your life that you're doing. There are times
where you do things where you welcome the enemy. In
any Christian any Christian family, can take on attacks from
the enemy. But as a believer, you must remember that
(02:36):
the knob of your spiritual door is on the inside
and it's only opened by you. The devil can't truly
get in your life unless you open the door and
give them opportunity. This opportunity comes from you rejecting the
(02:57):
things of God, stray from the things of God, looking
for that opportunity that you know is not godly, looking
for that relationship that you know is not godly, rejecting
things that you know are godly. You have opportunities in
your life. They come your way and you think, well,
(03:18):
just because they came your way, they must be of God.
Not always. There are relationships that are not good for you.
There's jobs that you shouldn't be at, or maybe there's
another one that is coming your way that would be
better for you. There are things that you do to
manipulate at times so bad that you welcome the ene man.
(03:45):
You get to that place where it doesn't matter what
the consequences are, you just want what you want. You're
giving the devil an opportunity when you ignore the warning signs,
the red flags in your life. How many times on
this very program have reopened the phone lines and talk
to people that have called up and they have warning
(04:07):
signs and relationships or situations and they ignore them. When
you go through something like this, when you ignore those
red flags, those warning signs, the alarms that are going
off in your life, you're giving the enemy an opportunity.
(04:30):
Ephesians four twenty seven says, and do not give the
devil an opportunity, pointing out that you play a part
in as you play a part in the dance in
that interaction with the enemy, the devil himself to play
a part in your life. Now, you may make excuses
(04:50):
for it. You may look for reasons and say, well,
I was doing this because, well I was lonely and
I wanted someone in my life. But when doing that,
when the loneliness or your situation supersedes what you know
to be right or good or the will of God,
then you open up that door and say, come on,
(05:12):
end devil, and you invite the devil to dinner, because
that seems like a better plan than waiting on God.
The enemy prowls around you looking for this opening, even
(05:32):
masquerading to look more pleasant to you, trying to fool you,
to look like an opportunity for relationship, to look like
a job, opportunity, to look like an opportunity to get
something easier, less stress, making something more obtainable, to satisfy
(05:54):
that quick fix. Peter five eight says, be of sober spirit,
be on the alert your adversary. The devil prows around
like a roaring line, seeking someone to devour. Don't let
(06:15):
that someone be you. Don't give the enemy the opportunity
to consume you. Secwod Corinthians eleven fourteen says, no wonder
for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
If you get caught up in that that appearance, the
way things appear to you, and it looks like, Hey,
(06:36):
here's that opportunity I've wanted. Not always is that the
right way to go. Thessalonian says, to test all things,
hold fast to that which is true. If you're constantly
running after whatever opportunity comes your way, you'll set yourself up.
(06:58):
If you allow people in your life life that you
know aren't good for you, you set yourself up. You
open yourself up. If you disregard the things of God,
you treat people poorly, you don't follow the rules in life,
changing them always to suit your needs, you open it
(07:19):
up for the enemy. You surround yourself's self with the
things in life that are vulgar or contrary to God,
or ugly, you open up the opportunity. And each of
these opportunities are an opening, a crack, a possibility for
(07:42):
the enemy to enter Ephesians four twenty seven. Again, and
do not give the devil an opportunity, any crack, any fissure,
any little opening in your life. Life is an opportunity
for the enemy. It's not that the devil is behind
(08:07):
every bad thing that happens to you. As I said,
you live in this life. You are a human being.
You will go through things that human beings go through.
Sometimes that's sickness. Sometimes it's a flat tire. Sometimes it's
a leak that is sprung in your bathroom. All of
these things, I understand may seem like trials, but they
(08:30):
aren't necessarily of the devil. They're of the world. The
world is a place with many, many sharp edges. But
the special type of trial, this spiritual trial from the enemy,
(08:52):
often is a relationship between you and the enemy. You
are giving permission. You're opening the door to your world,
to your life by rearing the things of God, by
toying or getting too close to the creek that you
fall in. Think of that visual for a moment, of
getting so close, always trying to tempt fate, and see
(09:14):
how close you can get to doing the things that
are counter to what you know to be good and right,
and in doing so, creeping ever so closely to that line,
just a little bit each time, that sooner or later
(09:35):
you stand at the door of your spirit, of your heart,
and you hear a knock and you open and it's
not me, but the enemy looking for an opportunity to
come in to devour and destroy. You're going to have
(09:58):
issues in life. You're gonna have normal life issues that
come with life. You're going to trip, sometimes you're gonna
hurt yourself. Sometimes you're gonna break your favorite dishes. You're
going to do things that happen because you're human and
you're in the world. Some will be bigger than others.
Sometimes you may become ill, sometimes you may There may
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be what they call acts of God, earthquakes, floods, these
types of things. You will be affected. Life will happen
to you. But there's another set of trials, of tribulations,
of problems that will come your way that have the
thumb print of the enemy. But the enemy doesn't get
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in your life easily. The enemy gets in your life
by you doing things to attract or allow the enemy
in truly inviting the enemy to be with you. And
I know what you're thinking right now. You go absolutely not, Lord,
I would never ever ever or bring the enemy into
my life.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
But you do.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Ephesians four twenty seven even says, and do not give
the devil an opportunity. And some things that you do
in your life are giving the enemy opportunity. You have
to find ways to defend yourself from building that that
structure in your life that leaves those openings for the
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end enemy to get in. So how does the faithful
believer defend themselves against the enemy. Well, scripture says to
submit to God and resist the devil James four seven.
Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will
flee from you by resisting by first submitting to God. Also,
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the Bible instructs you to put on the whole armor
of God for the ultimate protection from evil Ephesians six eleven.
Put on the full armor of God so that you
will be able to stand firm against the schemes of
the devil. And you can read the rest of Chapter
six and Ephesians to learn about the complete armor of God.
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But finally, remember that although the devil is called the
prince of this world, when all is said and done,
God will be without a doubt. The victor Romans sixteen
twenty says, the God of Peace will soon crush Satan
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at your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you. Graham. Welcome to the Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Show are you saying, Stugram, Yes, how can I help you? Hi?
Goodness worrying to you?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yes, I was calling because I was concerned. I was considering. Uh,
you know, this is a holiday season. We've got Halloween,
We've got Christmas, and then there's all the various holidays
in the world, and you know, it's a confusing thing
because people do different things. And I studied pasts with
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the Johoah's witnesses, and I was touched by their thing
about Christmas. That really brought a light to me about
that Decetember twenty fifth business, that it isn't there. And
then I think about it and think about it, and
I did research and things, and you know, like, for example,
a lot of these cards are greeting cards, sales ployees
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like Mother's Day, Father's Day, Grandparents' Day, Secretary's Day, and
it's been at them. And you know, in scripturally, I
kind of take Romans fifteen five onward till the end
of the subject really to heart that we don't live
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for our sulverb. Well, we observe it to the Lord.
We observe whatever day we observed to God, and we
do it and give thanks, and we shouldn't be judging
our brothers, but we should just not do the things
that are blatantly.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So are you worried about celebrating holidays?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Well, yeah, because I'm not so much worried about it.
I personally have totally embraced each day is a blessing
and do the best you can with it. And you know,
because everybody knew how old they were, you know, in
the Bible.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I will tell you this. There's nothing wrong with holidays.
Are they the holy days of the past.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Are a lot of them, at bare minimum, embellished by
the greed card companies. Absolutely, But that doesn't mean that
you can't celebrate a mother, or someone's birth or any
of these things. I think that there are some groups,
some may consider them fringe groups, that take this to
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a degree where they don't celebrate anything, and to me,
that is more militant and un Christian in the attitude
of celebrating all things. I mean, first, Thessalonians five sixteen
and eighteen rejoice, always pray without ceasing, give thanks in
all circumstance, for this is the will of God in
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Christ Jesus.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
For you.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
There's do you need a special day? No? But then
you could say the same about the Sabbath. You don't
need a special day for that either. It's just a
matter of taking the time and rejoicing and celebrating people.
And sometimes it's easier to put something on the calendar
than it is because people put it off all the time.
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You do it with relationships of any kind. You do
it with friendships, with getting together for coffee or tea
or lunch or dinner or whatever it might be. You
put them off constantly, and sometimes it's easier to just
get something on the calendar and say this is the
day that we're going to celebrate mothers or fathers or
family or friends or whatever it might be. And some
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of them may feel silly and you don't have to
celebrate them. And yes, you can go back to the
origins of Christmas and Eastern and you can look that
they weren't celebrated by the early Church. And of course
I wasn't born in December. It wouldn't make sense biblically
based on what was taking place during the time of
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my birth. All those things absolutely true. However, there's nothing
wrong with taking a time putting it on the calendar.
In the case of things like Christmas and Easter, there
were pagan holiday during that time. The Early Church wanted
to try and root those pagan holidays out, so they
kind of plopped My Birth and my Resurrection into those
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slots to try and squelch or squash the pagan religious
ceremonies or festivals or things like that. And that was
the way of the Early Church trying to kind of
get their way. I get all that, but it doesn't matter.
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It doesn't matter, It doesn't even matter. There's pagan ties
in when it comes to Christmas and it comes to Easter,
the bunny rabbits, the eggs, all that stuff comes from
pagan roots. The Christmas tree itself is tied to pagan roots.
But it doesn't matter because that's not what people are celebrating.
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And so to take a time of celebration to enjoy
any more than people are celebrating, you know, Pagans on Halloween,
they're just not No kid is looking at the theological
significance of Halloween. They're thinking, I get to dress up,
which kids love to do, and run around and get
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candy for for free. That's it. No theological you know,
And I know that there's a lot of churches and
Christian organizations that put on harvest dances or harvest events
to try and sidestep the Halloween situation and holiday. But
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the truth is that the harvest was an incredibly pagan
part of their ritual. That's where the you know, they
were tied into the earth and to Mother Earth and
it's fruits and all of these things, and you just
start looking for the devil under every rock and that
doesn't help anybody. So celebrating birthdays, celebrating Christmas, Easter, the
(19:10):
upcoming Halloween, any of these things is fine. It depends
how you celebrate them. If you celebrate Christmas by you know,
you know, killing a baby animal, probably not putting a
smile on God's face. But if you enjoy family, come together,
hear music, have food, praise God in the process, there's
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nothing wrong with any of these days. I think. I
think there's this attitude of this attitude of giving up
things that people assume is automatically christ like, that if
you give up anything or you sacrifice something, that it's
christ Like. And there are times where you're called to
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give things up. There's times where you're called to give
up relationships or maybe move jobs or whatever it might be,
But that doesn't mean you need to sacrifice all the time.
There was this young lady that I knew many years
ago who was very devout and wanted to give her
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life to God. Her mother had passed away, and she
had things from her mother that meant so much to
her that she assumed that they were idols in her life.
And as she started to dedicate her life to God,
she started giving up these things, I mean mementos that
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were the last vestige and connection she had with a
person in her life, her mother, and she threw them
in a dumpster to show God how much she loved God.
And years later she was so resentful towards God that
she fell away. Now you may say, well, then those
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things were idols. No, that's not That's not the point.
The point is that that God is not asking you
to do some grand gesture every moment. God is asking
you to live a life that glorifies God. And these
big acts of book burning and getting rid of records
(21:24):
and all these, you know, it's not about any of that.
It's about trying to connect with people, be kind to them. Now,
is that going to get you into heaven? No, you
have to have a relationship with God. But these things
on this world, on this planet, are important, and that
is to connect with one another, to love and to
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be kind to one another, and and not look for
religiosity at every turn. There are times for that. There
are times for reflection. There are times for deep prayer, obviously,
(22:08):
and to sit and to ponder the things of God,
whether it be through meditation, godly biblical meditation, or to
connect with God in those ways all wonderful. However, these
big grand gestures and people in the Philippines that during
Easter are nailing themselves to crosses does nothing for God
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and his will and his movement and his cause. So
giving up something that someone enjoys, like a birthday, and
to be celebrating life and enjoying one another and all
these things, it means nothing to God. There is no Oh,
my goodness, Well look what they're giving up. It means nothing.
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It is it's an outward It's something to stir up
other people and to say, look how different I am.
If you want to show people how different you are,
be kind, connect with people, put them first, be selfless.
But there's nothing wrong with celebration. And if you want
to make it about your your mother on your birthday.
(23:16):
That's fine too, But there's nothing wrong with celebrating and
finding excuses to celebrate and putting it on the calendar.
Absolutely nothing, Anthony. Welcome to the Jesus Christ show.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I am. When God cast out the angels down to earth?
Did they land in the land of Earth? Best Samerians
because their Bible is exactly like ours. I've been studying
history and our ten commandments can be found Moses law
and an obvious law books or spell one point six
of the Egyptian Bible paraphrases are ten commandments.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
And that's not the and that's not the only similarities.
There are great similarities throughout other civilizations as well, by Greece.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And Methra and Kabalonism. And the way that they preach
transcendence is the exact same cycle as what Jesus went
toward you.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Well well wait wait wait wait wait, transcendence in what form.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
The the depth and the resurrection is Their final stage is transcendence.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
But there's but there's also there's also pre cycles that
are much different than Christianity by far, so be careful
not to confine them. And just because there's similarities. Last uh.
Last week we talked about counterfeits, and there gets to
be a point where similarities don't mean the same. There
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are counterfeit dollar bills that are very similar, but I
wouldn't try and pass them.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Okay, But what I was saying is when God casts
out the angels, if they landed in the land of
Earth years ago and the flood happened, is six thousand
years ago, and then the Egyptian culture had the exact
same thing that the variants had and all that, and
then Jesus came back to teach us that that was
(25:04):
the wrong way of worship, and this is the right
way to set the records trade. As you would if
you're taking map and map out all the religions, the
timelines in which they existed and were created, and mapped
out all the similarities in one color marker, all the
differences in a different color marker, all the similarities between
You can see how religion its migration distorted it, and
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its birth was with the fallen angels. And then Jesus
came back to set the records trade because we were
worshiping essentially the Book of Lists. They essentially took our
Bible and made themselves the gods of it.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
There are theories based on similar notions. The problem is
that the timeline is based on the timeline is when
it becomes difficult when you're dealing with fallen angels and
the concept of fallen angels. You talk about Revelation twelve
seven through nine, talking about the battle with Michael and
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his angels fighting against the dragon or Satan. There's no
specific time as a matter of fact, when something's happening
in heaven. In that concept, it's really outside of time.
So if you're using that as a basis to say, okay,
well it's started here and there's similarities, no doubt, similarities
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may point to a standard through point where you have
a belief system starting here, moving through here. Some parts
are taken, some parts are removed, some of it's polluted,
some of it's added to what have you. I get that,
and that has most certainly taken place, But to try
and trace it back entirely to the fallen angels might
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be a little difficult from a historical or timeline perspective,
But absolutely no doubt that with the falling of the
angels and the angels coming to Earth as it says
in scripture. It says in that very scripture, Revelation twelve
seven through nine talks about that he was thrown down
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to the earth and his angels were thrown down with him,
that in that process that there wasn't counterfeits and destruction
and things that went along with it. So I get
the big picture of where you're going and how you
look at it. It looks like here you had a faith,
and then pow, you have those that would be motivated
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to destroy that faith, causing pollution and counterfeits and all
these things that would twist it around. And that you
say that you can kind of trace that back, but
I think you're dealing with other things that are outside
the timeline of history and then within the timeline of history,
and that post is kind of a problem to figure
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out as to what took place when and where man
stands in in that whole equation as well.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
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