March 4, 2026 • 57 mins
Revival inspires conviction, repentance, and motivation to share the Gospel, helping others get free as well. This provokes a reaction from the kingdom of darkness, plunging us into a fight to the finish for humanity's souls. Worship, preaching, and persistent faith are forms of warfare, with the assurance that the Lord’s authority and victory empower the Church to fulfill its mission until His return.
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out with praise. I praise the Lord, my home, my salvation.
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First ball got to start there, because without that I
have nothing. I praise them for giving me back my home,
my wife, my family, and out of that my son's,
daughter in law's grandchildren, furry kids. Everything I have is
because he first rescued me. I praise him for his
provision and his protection. For the dreams and the visions.
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I praise them for divine health and healing, for His
abiding favor, for the continuing rever of the Holy Spirit,
for making me a new creation and allowing me to
live in these prophetic times and to work in the
family business. Let's pray Someone twenty two, Verse six says,
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pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who
love you. I pray for our Jewish brothers and sisters.
I pray for their protection, especially now with everything going
on in the Middle East. I pray for America. May
God forgive us our sins and shed his grace upon us.
I pray for all the people of Iran right now
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and the soldiers fighting to free them. They have suffered
horribly under a demonic oppressive regime. I pray that they
would be completely free and be able to be restored
to what they once were. I pray for the fatherless
and the widows, the persecuted and the martyrred, the innocence
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and those who are the victims of injustice. I pray
against the slaughter of the innocence, both in and out
of the wound, human and animal. Whatever it is, God
has created innocent things that we should be protecting. I
pray for the missing and exploited children that have become
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victims of human sex trafficking, a diabolical, demonic, disgusting thing
that needs to be stamped out. I pray for our
brothers and sisters around the world being slaughtered and persecuted
for their faith in Yeshuah and Jesus. That growing religious
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persecution and the anti Semitism that goes with it is
from the spirit of the Antichrist, and we need to
stand fast in the faith of the Lord against it.
I pray for divine wholeness, health and healing and you
and in me and all that needed. That we would
get back to our divine design. We would speak to
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things not as they are, but as they should be,
and believe it to be so, and believe in the
manifestation of those prayers coming true. I pray for His
protection and his inspiration the Psalm ninety one covering that
is offered to us, that we would hide under the
shadow of His wings. I pray for the remnant to
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wake up to answer the call to do what must
be done in this hour to fulfill the mission for
all the doors to open to all the projects and
plans that He's given for the Kingdom of God and
for kingdom finances to flow forth. So, Father, in the
name of yr Shah, the name above all names, your
only begotten Son, our Lord and Savior, we thank you.
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We thank you for loving us when we were unlovable.
We thank you for restoring us and to right relationship
with you so that we can come home, that we
could call you Abbah, Papa Lord. We thank you for
the cross, the empty tomb in the upper room. Without it,
we have nothing. We are nothing, and we're just beat
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down in a dark, oppressive world. But because of what
you've done, we are free. Because who the Son has
said free is free. Indeed, thank you for sending the
Holy Spirit back to walk with us, to teach us,
to guide us, to offer us counsel and power dunamus power,
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soly Spirit, protect this technology, bless and protect us. Guide
these words, and let your will be done this day
on the porch, and you shoe his name. Amen.
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registered date of the following information. So we've been talking
about revival at a time that revival is going on,
and other people are speaking of revival. So the spirit
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is speaking. He's pointing in the direction that we as
a church need to go. With revival, we become awake
and alert to our own spiritual condition, and this inspires
a reaction. We're seeing that over and over and over. Conviction, conversion,
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and then motivation to tell others about your shud Tell
him about the Lord, tell him about what he's done
for them. Hell is a warning to us, a vision
of suffering for our sins, and the redemption through the
Cross is his suffering for our freedom.
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In the book Why Revival Tarries by Leonard Ravenhill, which
I've been reading since we started this journey, he says
the sinner needs a vision of Calvary with the suffering
Savior pleading with him to repent. For after Calvary, why
should he die? William Booth of the Salvation Army is
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quoted as saying that if he could do it, he
would have finalized the training of his soldiers with twenty
four hours hanging over hell to see its eternal toyment.
Fundamentalism needs this awe striking vision again. The blustery, pompous
evangelists needs it the most. Someone thirty nine, verses seven
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and eight say where can I go from your spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend
to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed
in shee hole, the place of the dead, behold, you
are there. We can't get away from him. God encompasses
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us in time. The inescapable God awaits us in eternity,
and we had better be at peace and reconciliation with
Him now and be in the center of His will.
Ravenhill said, because the church has lost the holy ghost
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fire men go to hell fire. We need a vision
of a holy God. God is inherently holy, and the
vast Hebrew concept about holiness needs to penetrate our souls again.
And we see that characteristic of God presented to us
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in both the Old and the New Testament. As Isaiah
six verses one through four. In the year that King
Yusiah died, I saw on a vision the Lord sitting
on a throne high and exalted, with the train of
his royal robe, filling the most holy part of the temple.
Above him, Seraphim stood. Each one had six wings. With
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two wings, he covered his face with two he covered
his feet, and with two wings he flew. And one
called out to the other, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy is
the Lord of Host. The whole earth is filled with
his glory, and the foundations of the thresholds trembled at
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the voice of him who called out, and the temple
was filling with smoke. In Revelation chapter four, verse eight,
we see that again the four living creatures, each having
six wings, were full of eyes all around and within them,
and they do not rest day or night, saying Holy, Holy,
Holy Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is
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to come. I can tell you that that scripture right
there in Revelation, when I would pray, this is around
early no late two thousand and six, early two thousand
and seven, that period I called my Enoch period. I
came upon that scripture and I would pray it over
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and over and over from my heart, from my soul,
and supernatural, amazing things would happen. Holy, Holy, Holy Lord
God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.
We need to embrace his majesty and let it propel
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us into sharing the gospel so that others can know
it too. Jack Hayford wrote a song that I like
to sing in praise when I'm by myself, called Majesty.
The lyrics are Majesty, Worship his Majesty unto Jesus, be
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all glory, honor, and praise. Majesty. Kingdom authority flow from
his throne, unto his own his anthem raise. So exalt,
lift up on high the name of Jesus, magnify, come
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glorify Christ, Jesus the King. Majesty. Worship his Majesty, Jesus,
who died, now glorified King of all kings. So exalt,
lift up on high the name of Jesus, magnify, Come
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glorify Christ, Jesus the King, Majesty. Worship his Majesty, Jesus
who died, now glorified King of all Kings. There'd be
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knights in the prayer room at Christian Heritage when we
pray on Saturday nights, when that would just flow spontaneously.
Somebody would say it, and then somebody we'd all be
singing it, and then all the praise would come and
the spirit would would just fill the room. We're too
close to the end to ignore who he is, to
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not see him in his glorious splendor. Yes he's Lord,
Yes he's friend, he's savior, he's everything. But he is
majestic on his throne. I think Paul and stood this
over and over. He presents a sense of that in
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his teachings, the importance of seeing who he is. In
Romans thirteen, starting verse eleven, he says, and do this,
and do what you have to go. A couple of
scriptures before we says, loving your neighbor and fulfilling the law.
Do this knowing the time that now is the high
time to awake out of sleep. For now our salvation
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is nearer than when we first believed. The night is
far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore, let us
cast off the works of darkness and let us put
on the armor of light. This is a critical time.
It's already the hour to awaken from our sleep our
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spiritual complacency, for our salvation is nearer now than when
we first believe Messiah. The night, this present evil age,
it's almost over, it's almost gone, And the day of
Messiah's return is almost here, So let us fling away
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the works of darkness and put on the full armor
of light. Paul's encouraging a life of spiritual alertness and
moral purity. The time is short, the dispensation of grace
is ending, and the lateness of the hour demands that
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all laziness and inactivity be put away. Our salvation, our rescue,
is nearer than it's ever been before, the Savior coming
to take us to the Father's house. This present age
is like a night of sin, but it's almost over.
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The day of eternal glory is about to dawn for
all believers. So that means we should consciously and deliberately
cast off the filthy garments of worldliness, everything associated with
unrighteousness and evil. It should repulse us, and at the
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same time put on the armor of light, that protective
covering of a holy, sanctified life, that armor of Ephesian six.
Be strong in the Lord and the power of his might.
Put on all of God's armor, so that you'll be
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able to stand firm against the strategies of the devil.
But we are not fighting against flesh and blood enemies,
but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen war
against mighty powers in this dark world and against the
evil spirits in the heavenly places. Therefore, put on every
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piece of God's armor, so that you will be able
to resist the enemy in the time of evil, and
then after the battle you will still be standing firm,
stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth in
the body armor of God's righteousness for shoes. Put on
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the peace that comes from the Good News, so that
you will be fully prepared. In addition to all of these,
hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery
arrows of the devil. Put on salvation as your helmet,
and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the
Word of God. Pray in the Spirit at all times
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and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in
your prayer for all believers everywhere. If he's in six
ten through eighteen, all believers everywhere. There are believers in
the Middle East, there are believers in Iraq, there are
believers in Iran, there are believers in Syria. There are
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believers in Israel. Pray for them. They're in the middle
of a real war and a supernatural war at the
same time. We are in a fight. We're in a
fight to the finish against the works of darkness, and
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that's the message today. I wasn't sure where I was
going to go. I had a lot of different ideas,
but I let the spirit lead, and the Lord put
that phrase in my mind in my spirit, fight to
the finish. What does it mean? Fight to the finish
is a fight that goes on until one side is
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completely defeated. Well, thee is not going to be completely
defeated until the Lord returns, so as long as we're here,
we fight. It's a competition or a struggle that continues
until one side is completely defeated. It implies a determined
effort to win, regardless of the challenges faced, a fight
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that remains closely and vigorously fought until one side is
totally defeated at the very final moment. The fight isn't
over until the war is done. But when the war
is done, you have fought to the finish. Paul understood
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that one Timothy six twelve. He tells Timothy, fight the
good fight of faith. They hold on eternal life, to
which you are also called, and have confessed the good
confession in the presence of many witnesses. Fight the good
fight of faith in conflict with evil. Well, he's at
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the end of his ministry. His life is coming to
a close, and before he before he knows, his time
is up. In Second Timothy, he gives Timothy a final exhortation.
And don't think it's just for Timothy, It's for us too,
he says, two Timothy fourth twenty verse one. I charge
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you therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah,
who will judge the living and the debt at his
appearing in his kingdom, preach the word. Be ready in
season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort with all
long suffering and teaching, for the time will come when
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they will not endure a sound doctrine, but according to
their own desires, because they have itching years, they will
heap up for themselves teachers, and they will turn their
ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.
But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do
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the work of an evangelist. Fulfill your ministry. And he
closes this out by saying, for I am already being
poured out as a drink offering, and the time of
my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight.
I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.
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Finally there was laid up for me the crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, will give to me
on that day, and not to me only, but to
all who have loved His appearing. I have fought the
good fight. I've finished the race. I've kept the faith.
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That's faith in motion and warfare for the sake of
the Kingdom of God. Not for our sake, now for
for somebody's brand, or not for what somebody else's building.
It's for the kingdom. You're doing this for the Lord,
the King of Kings, your Savior. So preach the word.
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Be ready when the time is right, and even when
it's not. Have a sense of urgency, and whether the
opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable, convenient or inconvenient, welcome, art welcome.
Do it correct those who are in error of doctrine
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of behavior one, those who sin, If you love them,
wouldn't you warn them, wouldn't you scream don't go out
in the road you're gonna get hit, or don't step
in that hole. Or there's a there's a snake, or
there's a predator. Wouldn't you wouldn't you want to rescue
them from that? Why? Why should we do this? We're
running out of time. The signs of the times are blaring.
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Oh my gosh, everything that's happening, the blood, red moon,
the planets all aligning, what's going on in the Middle
East at the same time, pureim was happening, Just so
many things lining up. He's saying, are you watching? Are
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you ready? That word evangelist, it's only used three times
in scripture, so relatively little is concluded about that role.
Now we have Philip, who planted churches, he was an evangelist.
In according with Acts twenty one to eight, Timothy, who
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was in charge of a church, was instructed to do
the work of an evangelist. We know from scripture that
the gift of evangelism is given to the church Ephesians
four eleven and twelve. And he himself gave some to
be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and
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teachers for the equipping of the saints, for the work
of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Messiah.
He did this to fully equipped and perfect the saints
who are God's people for the works of service and
to build up the body, to build up the church.
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So the root meaning of evangelists is to bring good
tidings or to bring the gospel message. So whenever you
share the Gospel, whether with an individual, with a group,
whether you give them their testimony, whatever it is, you're
being an evangelist. You are evangelizing. And I know people
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get afraid of label and I don't want to do it.
You know you are in the New Testament. The evangelist
just goes to unbelieving people and he attempts to win
them to Messiah. I sam a better at it than others,
but I will tell you you just tell the truth
from your heart, you'll get it done. Sole winning is
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the responsibility of all believers, regardless of their spiritual gifts
or offices or ministries. No, we're in a transition time.
There's a battle going on. Like I said over the
last couple of weeks, revival for the Kingdom of God
means his revival in the kingdom of darkness, both preparing
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for the same end, but not the same ending. And
the transition from darkness to light brings a fight. Mark
three twenty seven, No one can enter the strong man's
house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the
strong man, and then he will plunder his house. No
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one can enter the strong man's house to steal his
property unless he first overpowers and ties up the strong man,
and then he will ransack and rob him of everything
that he has. Well, Satan is the strong man, the
house is his dominion as the god of this age,
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and his goods are the people over whom he holds sway.
Yashu is the one who binds Satan and plunders his house.
And through the word and through the power of his name,
we're able to bind up the powers of darkness and
to plunder the people from them. And at Messiah's second coming,
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Satan will be graphically bound in chains and cast into
the bottomless pit for a thousand years. So the casting
out of demons during his ministry on Earth was a
forecast of the eventual complete binding of the devil. And
every time we do it, we remind the enemy of
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their fate. This is what's coming for you. It will happen.
So what are we plundering souls? People? See Mark paints
this mosaic of the ministry of the Lord as a
relentless progression of events destined to reach their climax at
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the cross. That cross, which is a stumbling block to
those who don't understand, but to those of us that
we understand, it makes him Messiah. It makes him a
victorious king. So the crucifixion of the Lord is the
fulfillment of God's plan in the destruction of the powers
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of darkness. In the cross, he's revealed as Messiah, the
Son of God, and through his death, through his blood,
we have obtained salvation. And that's why we commit ourselves
to him in discipleship. If you look at that progression,
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you can see it's a military campaign. It was planned
out to destroy the work of the enemy, set the
captives free. And so what does the wicked do. They
attack the source, They attack the Bible, they attack our faith,
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and they do this to inspire a rejection of its truths.
So the primary focus of the attacks of the ungodly
is on the things that would set the people free.
Two Corinthians ten, starting verse three. For though we for
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though we walk in the flesh, we do not war
according to the flesh. The weapons of our warfare are
not carnal they're not fleshy, but they're mighty in God
for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments, and every high
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thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing
every thought into captivity to the obedience of Messiah, and
being ready to punish all disobedience when our obedience is fulfilled.
We cannot do anything until we are obedient. So Paul
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is using military metaphors to describe our life in ya Sure.
And when he uses the word flesh, when we talk
about the flesh, we're not just talking about the natural
human abilities. We're talking about spiritual So we have a choice.
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So we're going to walk in natural ability, we're going
to walk in natural intellect, or we're going to do
it in this spirit. Because our warfare has to be
conducted in the realm of the spirit, not with physical weapons,
though that may become a part of it. We saw
that at the end of the Ministry of the Lord
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when he told them to get a sword to protect
themselves while they were preaching the gospel. So our weapons
are spiritual. That's why in Ephesian six, when we talk
about the whole armor of God, we're talking about the
elements of the armor. We're talking about it, what it represents,
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and we've taught on that. We took weeks to talk
about the armor of God. You can find it in
the archived shows truth, righteousness, peace, faith, salvation, the Word
of God, prayer, it's all there. He gave us everything
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we needed to do what needed to be done. But
what happens, for some strange reason, the church decides going
to do God's way through the flesh through great organizations,
through entertainment, through wisdom and philosophy, beautiful facilities, facilities or
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glamorous advertising. That those are carnal weapons. They're not the
weapons provided by the Lord. Those aren't the things that
helped build the early Church or drove any of the
great revivals and awakenings that we've talked about. When used
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those fleshly ones I just mentioned, we are setting ourselves
up for defeat. Oh, the outward appearance might be impressive
and we have some momentary excitement, but it won't stick.
Those won't be keepers. Those won't be ones that the
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roots go deep. They'll be the ones that the enemy
comes in quickly and steals. Natural wisdom won't get it done.
So God has given us spear virtual weapons to a
society and they make no sense. But to us who
know better, they make a lot of sense. It allows
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us to pull down the strongholds of the mind, humanistic
reasoning imaginations, and the leaders of the world's educational and
political systems that promote those things. Natural weapons are easy
for the enemy to defeat. Supernatural ones not so much.
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Colossians two, verse eight seed to it that no one
takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, pseudo intellectual babble.
According to the tradition and musings of mere men following
the elementary principles of this world rather than following the
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truth the teachings of Messiah. You're not going to get
it done with life coaches and social principles. Trust the word,
lean on the word, use the word. When somebody tells
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me that they're a life coach, I realize they're not
serious about this. We need to get serious. We need
to grab a hold of those spiritual weapons, especially the
offensive one, the sword of the spirit, the word of God. Otherwise,
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you're not going to do anything about the blinded minds
of those who have rejected God's word and claim them
for Messiah. You're in a fight to the finish with
the God of this world, who has blinded the minds
of those who don't believe. They are unable to see
the glorious light of the good News. They don't understand
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this message about the glory of Christ, who is the
exact likeness of God. They don't understand the cross those
tewod Corinthians four four. By the way, they don't understand.
It's foolishness to them. Why would God make a man
supposedly his son shed all of his blood. Well, you
need to understand sin, you need to understand what he
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put in place to cover that sin. And there was
no animal, there was no man of this world that
was going to get that done. Our battle, our fight
is for the human mind, the human psyche, the human soul,
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and it is going to take some really powerful spiritual
weapons given to us, like in the Armor of God
Ephesian six, to break them out of their prisons. Because
that's what you're doing. You're shattering the locks, you're cutting,
you're cutting the chains and the shackles off of them.
You're rescuing them from the lion's mouth. So preaching the gospel,
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sharing the gospel, speaking the Gospel is God's ordained divine
means to show the truth and to prevent defecting from it.
So teachers who appeal to itching ears, who tell people
what they want to hear but not what they need
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to hear, they're helping them in their rebellion. They are
a part of the rebellion. So evangelism, as viewed by
the New Testament writers, is a vital task of the
New Testament Church. We all have a place in the calling.
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So that's what Paul's doing. Paul's reminding Timothy that the
Lord will you show it? Jesus will return in judgment.
He came as the suffering lamb. Now he's coming as
the line of the tribe of Judah. So he charges
him preach the Word in season out. Doesn't matter if
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it's convenient, doesn't matter what the timing is. You do
it because the foundation of any ministry is God's Word.
That's why I tell you read the Bible. Get it
in your spirit, because you may get an opportunity the
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Lord opens the door to share something with somebody. You
won't have it on you. You need to have the
scriptures in your head and in your spirit, so that
the Holy Spirit can bring it up, bring it forth,
be ready, be ready to take a stand. And that
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requires perseverance and courage. Oh my gosh, does that require courage? Hobe,
I don't scare anybody off of that one. You're living
in a world that doesn't want it. Although I have
found when I've been obedient, at the moment he gives
the command, he knows who's ready to hear. Because I
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believe we're living at a time, the time that he
warned about, where people are seeking out false teachers who
will tickle their ears tell them what they want to hear.
They won't convict them, they won't challenge them, they won't
tell them what they're doing is wrong. They won't point
out to them about holy righteous living, and they won't
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be telling them the truth. I will tell the truth
no matter what if it steps on your toes. I've
always said, check the foot. Stepping on your toes may
have a nail hole through it. But telling the truth
brings resistance. It's not easy, it brings attack. The enemy
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doesn't like it, the world doesn't like it. We have
just got to resolve ourselves to the fact that we
don't care what it likes. One Peter five, verses eight
and nine. Stay alert, watch out for your great enemy,
the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking
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for someone to devour. Stand for them against him, Resist him,
and be strong in your faith. Remember that your brothers
and sisters all over the world are going through the
same kind of suffering you are. Oh, he's is prowling
for easy food. He's prowling for those that are a
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threat to him. To be tempered, be balanced. I have
a sober mind. Be vigilant, cautious at all times. That
means proactive in your prayers, not waiting for the enemy
to attack, but being proactive against him. Because this enemy
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roams like a roaring lion, fierce and hunger, seeking someone
to seize upon and devour to tear apart Withstand him.
Be firm in your faith against the onset, rooted, established heels,
dug in, strong, immovable, and determined, knowing that the same
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identical sufferings are being suffered by your brotherhood, the whole
body of Messiah throughout the world, who are doing the
same thing now. One Peter five, eight through nine was
written thirty years after the Death, Resurrection and Ascension of
the Lord. So unless something has occurred since then to
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remove the threat we're talking about, it's ongoing. It's still happening,
and I have seen over all these years of ministry
more people get caught off guard and torn apart by
the enemy because they didn't heed the warning, they didn't
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pay attention to where they were walking. So we see
that this hatred for mankind began in Genesis chapter three.
And interestingly enough, I noticed something that I had never
clicked on before in Genesis six, when the sons of
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God saw the daughters of Adam went into them and
created the race of giants and set the things in
motion for the flood. The infiltration into humanity began, and
mankind began willingly consorting with the enemy and subjecting themselves
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to the corrupt rule of the fallen angels in their
demonic offspring. It took a little time, but it infiltrated.
It got man to choose who they would walk with
and to choose their own destruction. See that's this war.
God realized. Both sides are at war. Both sides have
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plans and military campaigns. You have battles, you have sieges
which are part of a larger military campaign, and we
understand the campaign is the Kingdom of God against the
Kingdom of Darkness. The Kingdom of God's really already won,
but the Kingdom of Darkness is trying to inflict as
much damage before its final defeat. So if we see
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this militaristically, which of course I do and always have,
this siege is a prolonged military assault on a city
or a fortress with the intent of completely conquered it
by force and slow destruction. So let's look at this
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supernaturally and react accordingly. Phase one of the final campaign
purst the birth of the Messiah the King. That's phase one.
The second phase of this final campaign is the crucifixion
massive victory on Calvary, and the third and final phase
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of this campaign begins thirty three a d Book of Acts.
Church is born in the upper room, Holy Spirit is given,
it's empowered, and the church begins mopping up the defeated.
Would have been nice had the enemy just laid down
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and said, ho home, we lost, but they didn't. An
enemy that has been wounded has to be finished off.
This ongoing battle has spiritual implications and it drives me.
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I'll call say crazy, how people don't understand that. They
don't understand the implications of the cross, of the empty tomb,
of the Upper Room, of everything that's ever been done,
of prophecy being fulfilled, and eschatology and the things that
are going on, and the signs of the Messiah, that
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they are oblivious. It says it in scripture over and
over and over and over again, First John five, verses
four and five. For every child of God, that's you
and me, Every child of God defeats this evil world.
And we achieve this victory through our faith. And who
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can win this battle against the wor world? Only those
who believe that Jesus, that you're sure, is the Son
of God. No other religion, no other man, no other
worshiped person has that kind of power, has that kind
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of influence. And the wicked, with all their worldly wisdom,
will attack the very foundation of what we believe in
our life. It will attack just the very desire to
walk this out. Oh, you can't say that here, Well,
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I just want to pray, Nope, illegal, you can't pray silently. Nope.
If I think you're praying, I'm going to arrest you.
When you see that, when you hear that you know
who's behind it. You have to learn to be covert undercover.
Raise your hands like you're stretching, and you really praising
and praying, leaning on something like you're looking for at
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the view or having your picture taken. But maybe your
hand was anointed and you're praying. You're binding. You're loosing
everywhere you go, everything you do, where you sit down,
you are an emissary. You are an evangelist. You are
a soldier of the King. And taking background Colossians three,
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starting verse one. Since you have been raised to new
life with Messiah, set your sights on the realities of heaven,
where Messiah sits in the place of honor at God's
right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the
things of earth. For you died to this life, and
your real life is hidden with Messiah in God. And
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when Messiah, who is your life, is revealed to the
whole world, you will share in his glory. When they
see him, they'll see his majesty, they'll see his glory.
Since you have been raised to new life, I'll say,
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if you have been raised to new life with Messiah,
which means you've been born again, means you're in a
war you're born into a war zone. You can out
ignore it. It won't ignore you. You're either a victor
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or a victim, and the fires of revival are the
fuel that propels us forward. I'm praying and believing that
all these college students and others around the world that
have gotten saved, He'll and delivered in these events, have
gotten baptized, are taking the word out there, taking the
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experience out there. Even if they just rescue one at
a time, principalities will fall. But we can never ignore that.
From Genesis to Revelation, we've been into war. Isaiah forty
two thirteen. The Lord shall go forth like a mighty man.
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He shall stir up his zeal, like a man of war.
He shall cry out, yes, shout aloud. He shall prevail
against his enemies. Psalm eighteen, verses thirty one through thirty nine.
For who is God, accept the Lord, and who is
a rock except our God. It is God who arms
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me with strength and makes my way perfect. He makes
my feet like the feet of deer, and he sets
me on high places. He teaches my hands to make war,
so that my arms can bend a bow or bronze.
You've also given me the shield of your salvation. Your
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right hand has held me up. Your gentleness has made
me great. You enlarged my path under me, so my
feet did not slip. I have pursued my enemies and
overtaken them. Neither did I turn back again until they
were destroyed. I have wounded them so that they could
not rise. They have fallen under my feet. For you
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have armed me with strength for a battle. You have
subdued under me those who rose up against me. Now
we know David is talking about actual warfare and talking
about actual people. But if you just look at this
spiritually and in your mind, picture the enemy and understand
those words some verses one and two. Praise the Lord.
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It is my rock. He trains my hands for war.
It gives my fingers skill for battle, my loving ally
and my fortress, my tower of safety, my rescuer. He
is my shield, and I take refuge in him. Put
your hands together in prayer. You have hands for war,
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fingers for battle. Someone forty nine, verse six, Let the
high praises of God be in their mouth, and a
two edged sword in their hand. Praise, worship, warfare, testimony,
the high praises of God Majesty, worship his Majesty, Kingdom authority.
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Whatever hymns or worship music that you can sing or
just repeat the lyrics, or whatever it is out loud,
edify yourself, put the enemy onnoice, change the atmosphere. That
two edged sword in your hand is the word of God.
Worship is warfare. So you would think Satan lost the
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battle on Calvary. What's he fighting for? Well, one, he's delusional.
He thinks he can still win. But even if he doesn't,
he's fighting for the spoils of war. He's fighting for
the souls of humanity. He's fighting to take as many
with him into that lake of fire as possible. That's
why the Lord told his disciples and us in Matthew
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twenty eight, verses eighteen and nineteen, all authority has been
given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore.
And I tell you that that is an implied dispensation
of his authority as King of Kings and Lord of lords.
All authority has been given to him in both heaven
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and earth. Go Therefore, I've given you the authority make
disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father. And the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
In Matthew twenty four fourteen, he said, the Gospel of
the King will be preached in all the world as
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a witness to all the nations, and then the end
will come. Evangelism speeds up his return. Of course, he
knows again from the beginning. But our job is to
preach the gospel, the good News, as a witness to
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all the nations, and then the end will come. I
wish I could tell you that there would be no
resistance and it would be easy, but I'm not going
to do that. I will never mislead you a water down.
There is a horrible, horrible resistance against us, But the
reward is so great, it's so worthy of what we endure.
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And we're not yet giving up our life to do this,
like our brothers and sisters around the world. Someday that
may make it here. So the resistance that began in
Genesis finishes in Revelation, the culmination of the story Redemption,
final Redemption, Restoration. But until the war ends at the
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Second Coming, we're right in the middle of it. You
can't escape it, you can't run from it. You're either
a victor or a victim you choose, and know this,
I'm not saying that you have any any power in this.
The ultimate victory belongs to God. It comes from the Lord.
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But we get to participate in the battle for souls,
relying on spiritual, on supernatural means, not worldly ones. So
worship him, praise him, share the good news of what
he did for you with others. Be persistent in your faith,
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and recognize that that is warfare and you're doing it
with the full assurance of His authority and victory empowering you,
empowering the church to fulfill its mission until he returns.
That's what it means that we are in a fight
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to the finish, until the enemy is completely destroyed, shut down,
power broken. We're in a battle. We know how it
turns out, but we've got to stay the course and
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finish the fight. Father Abba, you never said it was easy.
It wasn't easy for you, It wasn't easy for your shoe.
It broke your heart and broke his body, and we
have not yet had to shed blood for our faith
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as he did. But I, for one, want to finished
the race strong. I want to do everything that you
need me specifically to do before you come. I don't
want it to be cut short. I don't want to
leave before my time. I've begun to pray. Lord, you've
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Moses was one hundred and twenty years old. His eyes
did not dim nor was his strength diminished. If that's
what it takes, that's what it takes. But I want
to know that I did everything I was called to do.
I ran the race, I fought the fight, and I
did it in faith. So speak to us, Holy spirits.
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Speak to my brothers and sisters. I know you've stirred
them up. I'll give them the confidence to do something
with it. To tell people about your shoe, tell them
about Jesus. Now, Lord, right now, I bind the enemy
in every way, shape and form, every lying spirit, every
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attack on the mind or the heart or the body,
anything the enemy would do to try to steal this word,
or to hinder it or keep it from going forth.
Stating you the fallen and your demonic offspring, you are defeated.
You are defeated by the Cross, by the blood, by
the power of the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room,
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and by the resurrected Savior who sits at the right
hand of God, whom we sit with in the heavenly placeness,
in fullness and empower and grace and glory, and we
thank you for that. We thank you, and we thank
you from our hearts and your Shower's name. If you
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agree with me, if you receive this, if you come
into active applied agreement, say amen, May the Lord bless
you and keep you. May the Lord may I don't
I make his face to shine upon you, and be
gracious to you. May the Lord I don't know. You're
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Suhamashiah Jesus the Messiah, King of Kings and Lord of lords.
Lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
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daughter in law's grandchildren, furry kids. Everything I have is
because he first rescued me. I praise him for his
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I praise them for divine health and healing, for His
abiding favor, for the continuing rever of the Holy Spirit,
for making me a new creation and allowing me to
live in these prophetic times and to work in the
family business. Let's pray Someone twenty two, Verse six says,
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pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who
love you. I pray for our Jewish brothers and sisters.
I pray for their protection, especially now with everything going
on in the Middle East. I pray for America. May
God forgive us our sins and shed his grace upon us.
I pray for all the people of Iran right now
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and the soldiers fighting to free them. They have suffered
horribly under a demonic oppressive regime. I pray that they
would be completely free and be able to be restored
to what they once were. I pray for the fatherless
and the widows, the persecuted and the martyrred, the innocence
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and those who are the victims of injustice. I pray
against the slaughter of the innocence, both in and out
of the wound, human and animal. Whatever it is, God
has created innocent things that we should be protecting. I
pray for the missing and exploited children that have become
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victims of human sex trafficking, a diabolical, demonic, disgusting thing
that needs to be stamped out. I pray for our
brothers and sisters around the world being slaughtered and persecuted
for their faith in Yeshuah and Jesus. That growing religious
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persecution and the anti Semitism that goes with it is
from the spirit of the Antichrist, and we need to
stand fast in the faith of the Lord against it.
I pray for divine wholeness, health and healing and you
and in me and all that needed. That we would
get back to our divine design. We would speak to
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things not as they are, but as they should be,
and believe it to be so, and believe in the
manifestation of those prayers coming true. I pray for His
protection and his inspiration the Psalm ninety one covering that
is offered to us, that we would hide under the
shadow of His wings. I pray for the remnant to
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wake up to answer the call to do what must
be done in this hour to fulfill the mission for
all the doors to open to all the projects and
plans that He's given for the Kingdom of God and
for kingdom finances to flow forth. So, Father, in the
name of yr Shah, the name above all names, your
only begotten Son, our Lord and Savior, we thank you.
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We thank you for loving us when we were unlovable.
We thank you for restoring us and to right relationship
with you so that we can come home, that we
could call you Abbah, Papa Lord. We thank you for
the cross, the empty tomb in the upper room. Without it,
we have nothing. We are nothing, and we're just beat
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down in a dark, oppressive world. But because of what
you've done, we are free. Because who the Son has
said free is free. Indeed, thank you for sending the
Holy Spirit back to walk with us, to teach us,
to guide us, to offer us counsel and power dunamus power,
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soly Spirit, protect this technology, bless and protect us. Guide
these words, and let your will be done this day
on the porch, and you shoe his name. Amen.
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about revival at a time that revival is going on,
and other people are speaking of revival. So the spirit
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is speaking. He's pointing in the direction that we as
a church need to go. With revival, we become awake
and alert to our own spiritual condition, and this inspires
a reaction. We're seeing that over and over and over. Conviction, conversion,
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and then motivation to tell others about your shud Tell
him about the Lord, tell him about what he's done
for them. Hell is a warning to us, a vision
of suffering for our sins, and the redemption through the
Cross is his suffering for our freedom.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
In the book Why Revival Tarries by Leonard Ravenhill, which
I've been reading since we started this journey, he says
the sinner needs a vision of Calvary with the suffering
Savior pleading with him to repent. For after Calvary, why
should he die? William Booth of the Salvation Army is
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quoted as saying that if he could do it, he
would have finalized the training of his soldiers with twenty
four hours hanging over hell to see its eternal toyment.
Fundamentalism needs this awe striking vision again. The blustery, pompous
evangelists needs it the most. Someone thirty nine, verses seven
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and eight say where can I go from your spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend
to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed
in shee hole, the place of the dead, behold, you
are there. We can't get away from him. God encompasses
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us in time. The inescapable God awaits us in eternity,
and we had better be at peace and reconciliation with
Him now and be in the center of His will.
Ravenhill said, because the church has lost the holy ghost
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fire men go to hell fire. We need a vision
of a holy God. God is inherently holy, and the
vast Hebrew concept about holiness needs to penetrate our souls again.
And we see that characteristic of God presented to us
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in both the Old and the New Testament. As Isaiah
six verses one through four. In the year that King
Yusiah died, I saw on a vision the Lord sitting
on a throne high and exalted, with the train of
his royal robe, filling the most holy part of the temple.
Above him, Seraphim stood. Each one had six wings. With
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two wings, he covered his face with two he covered
his feet, and with two wings he flew. And one
called out to the other, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy is
the Lord of Host. The whole earth is filled with
his glory, and the foundations of the thresholds trembled at
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the voice of him who called out, and the temple
was filling with smoke. In Revelation chapter four, verse eight,
we see that again the four living creatures, each having
six wings, were full of eyes all around and within them,
and they do not rest day or night, saying Holy, Holy,
Holy Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is
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to come. I can tell you that that scripture right
there in Revelation, when I would pray, this is around
early no late two thousand and six, early two thousand
and seven, that period I called my Enoch period. I
came upon that scripture and I would pray it over
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and over and over from my heart, from my soul,
and supernatural, amazing things would happen. Holy, Holy, Holy Lord
God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.
We need to embrace his majesty and let it propel
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us into sharing the gospel so that others can know
it too. Jack Hayford wrote a song that I like
to sing in praise when I'm by myself, called Majesty.
The lyrics are Majesty, Worship his Majesty unto Jesus, be
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all glory, honor, and praise. Majesty. Kingdom authority flow from
his throne, unto his own his anthem raise. So exalt,
lift up on high the name of Jesus, magnify, come
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glorify Christ, Jesus the King. Majesty. Worship his Majesty, Jesus,
who died, now glorified King of all kings. So exalt,
lift up on high the name of Jesus, magnify, Come
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glorify Christ, Jesus the King, Majesty. Worship his Majesty, Jesus
who died, now glorified King of all Kings. There'd be
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knights in the prayer room at Christian Heritage when we
pray on Saturday nights, when that would just flow spontaneously.
Somebody would say it, and then somebody we'd all be
singing it, and then all the praise would come and
the spirit would would just fill the room. We're too
close to the end to ignore who he is, to
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not see him in his glorious splendor. Yes he's Lord,
Yes he's friend, he's savior, he's everything. But he is
majestic on his throne. I think Paul and stood this
over and over. He presents a sense of that in
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his teachings, the importance of seeing who he is. In
Romans thirteen, starting verse eleven, he says, and do this,
and do what you have to go. A couple of
scriptures before we says, loving your neighbor and fulfilling the law.
Do this knowing the time that now is the high
time to awake out of sleep. For now our salvation
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is nearer than when we first believed. The night is
far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore, let us
cast off the works of darkness and let us put
on the armor of light. This is a critical time.
It's already the hour to awaken from our sleep our
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spiritual complacency, for our salvation is nearer now than when
we first believe Messiah. The night, this present evil age,
it's almost over, it's almost gone, And the day of
Messiah's return is almost here, So let us fling away
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the works of darkness and put on the full armor
of light. Paul's encouraging a life of spiritual alertness and
moral purity. The time is short, the dispensation of grace
is ending, and the lateness of the hour demands that
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all laziness and inactivity be put away. Our salvation, our rescue,
is nearer than it's ever been before, the Savior coming
to take us to the Father's house. This present age
is like a night of sin, but it's almost over.
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The day of eternal glory is about to dawn for
all believers. So that means we should consciously and deliberately
cast off the filthy garments of worldliness, everything associated with
unrighteousness and evil. It should repulse us, and at the
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same time put on the armor of light, that protective
covering of a holy, sanctified life, that armor of Ephesian six.
Be strong in the Lord and the power of his might.
Put on all of God's armor, so that you'll be
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able to stand firm against the strategies of the devil.
But we are not fighting against flesh and blood enemies,
but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen war
against mighty powers in this dark world and against the
evil spirits in the heavenly places. Therefore, put on every
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piece of God's armor, so that you will be able
to resist the enemy in the time of evil, and
then after the battle you will still be standing firm,
stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth in
the body armor of God's righteousness for shoes. Put on
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the peace that comes from the Good News, so that
you will be fully prepared. In addition to all of these,
hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery
arrows of the devil. Put on salvation as your helmet,
and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the
Word of God. Pray in the Spirit at all times
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and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in
your prayer for all believers everywhere. If he's in six
ten through eighteen, all believers everywhere. There are believers in
the Middle East, there are believers in Iraq, there are
believers in Iran, there are believers in Syria. There are
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believers in Israel. Pray for them. They're in the middle
of a real war and a supernatural war at the
same time. We are in a fight. We're in a
fight to the finish against the works of darkness, and
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that's the message today. I wasn't sure where I was
going to go. I had a lot of different ideas,
but I let the spirit lead, and the Lord put
that phrase in my mind in my spirit, fight to
the finish. What does it mean? Fight to the finish
is a fight that goes on until one side is
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completely defeated. Well, thee is not going to be completely
defeated until the Lord returns, so as long as we're here,
we fight. It's a competition or a struggle that continues
until one side is completely defeated. It implies a determined
effort to win, regardless of the challenges faced, a fight
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that remains closely and vigorously fought until one side is
totally defeated at the very final moment. The fight isn't
over until the war is done. But when the war
is done, you have fought to the finish. Paul understood
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that one Timothy six twelve. He tells Timothy, fight the
good fight of faith. They hold on eternal life, to
which you are also called, and have confessed the good
confession in the presence of many witnesses. Fight the good
fight of faith in conflict with evil. Well, he's at
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the end of his ministry. His life is coming to
a close, and before he before he knows, his time
is up. In Second Timothy, he gives Timothy a final exhortation.
And don't think it's just for Timothy, It's for us too,
he says, two Timothy fourth twenty verse one. I charge
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you therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah,
who will judge the living and the debt at his
appearing in his kingdom, preach the word. Be ready in
season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort with all
long suffering and teaching, for the time will come when
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they will not endure a sound doctrine, but according to
their own desires, because they have itching years, they will
heap up for themselves teachers, and they will turn their
ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.
But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do
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the work of an evangelist. Fulfill your ministry. And he
closes this out by saying, for I am already being
poured out as a drink offering, and the time of
my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight.
I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.
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Finally there was laid up for me the crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, will give to me
on that day, and not to me only, but to
all who have loved His appearing. I have fought the
good fight. I've finished the race. I've kept the faith.
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That's faith in motion and warfare for the sake of
the Kingdom of God. Not for our sake, now for
for somebody's brand, or not for what somebody else's building.
It's for the kingdom. You're doing this for the Lord,
the King of Kings, your Savior. So preach the word.
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Be ready when the time is right, and even when
it's not. Have a sense of urgency, and whether the
opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable, convenient or inconvenient, welcome, art welcome.
Do it correct those who are in error of doctrine
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of behavior one, those who sin, If you love them,
wouldn't you warn them, wouldn't you scream don't go out
in the road you're gonna get hit, or don't step
in that hole. Or there's a there's a snake, or
there's a predator. Wouldn't you wouldn't you want to rescue
them from that? Why? Why should we do this? We're
running out of time. The signs of the times are blaring.
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Oh my gosh, everything that's happening, the blood, red moon,
the planets all aligning, what's going on in the Middle
East at the same time, pureim was happening, Just so
many things lining up. He's saying, are you watching? Are
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you ready? That word evangelist, it's only used three times
in scripture, so relatively little is concluded about that role.
Now we have Philip, who planted churches, he was an evangelist.
In according with Acts twenty one to eight, Timothy, who
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was in charge of a church, was instructed to do
the work of an evangelist. We know from scripture that
the gift of evangelism is given to the church Ephesians
four eleven and twelve. And he himself gave some to
be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and
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teachers for the equipping of the saints, for the work
of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Messiah.
He did this to fully equipped and perfect the saints
who are God's people for the works of service and
to build up the body, to build up the church.
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So the root meaning of evangelists is to bring good
tidings or to bring the gospel message. So whenever you
share the Gospel, whether with an individual, with a group,
whether you give them their testimony, whatever it is, you're
being an evangelist. You are evangelizing. And I know people
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get afraid of label and I don't want to do it.
You know you are in the New Testament. The evangelist
just goes to unbelieving people and he attempts to win
them to Messiah. I sam a better at it than others,
but I will tell you you just tell the truth
from your heart, you'll get it done. Sole winning is
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the responsibility of all believers, regardless of their spiritual gifts
or offices or ministries. No, we're in a transition time.
There's a battle going on. Like I said over the
last couple of weeks, revival for the Kingdom of God
means his revival in the kingdom of darkness, both preparing
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for the same end, but not the same ending. And
the transition from darkness to light brings a fight. Mark
three twenty seven, No one can enter the strong man's
house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the
strong man, and then he will plunder his house. No
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one can enter the strong man's house to steal his
property unless he first overpowers and ties up the strong man,
and then he will ransack and rob him of everything
that he has. Well, Satan is the strong man, the
house is his dominion as the god of this age,
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and his goods are the people over whom he holds sway.
Yashu is the one who binds Satan and plunders his house.
And through the word and through the power of his name,
we're able to bind up the powers of darkness and
to plunder the people from them. And at Messiah's second coming,
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Satan will be graphically bound in chains and cast into
the bottomless pit for a thousand years. So the casting
out of demons during his ministry on Earth was a
forecast of the eventual complete binding of the devil. And
every time we do it, we remind the enemy of
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their fate. This is what's coming for you. It will happen.
So what are we plundering souls? People? See Mark paints
this mosaic of the ministry of the Lord as a
relentless progression of events destined to reach their climax at
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the cross. That cross, which is a stumbling block to
those who don't understand, but to those of us that
we understand, it makes him Messiah. It makes him a
victorious king. So the crucifixion of the Lord is the
fulfillment of God's plan in the destruction of the powers
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of darkness. In the cross, he's revealed as Messiah, the
Son of God, and through his death, through his blood,
we have obtained salvation. And that's why we commit ourselves
to him in discipleship. If you look at that progression,
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you can see it's a military campaign. It was planned
out to destroy the work of the enemy, set the
captives free. And so what does the wicked do. They
attack the source, They attack the Bible, they attack our faith,
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and they do this to inspire a rejection of its truths.
So the primary focus of the attacks of the ungodly
is on the things that would set the people free.
Two Corinthians ten, starting verse three. For though we for
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though we walk in the flesh, we do not war
according to the flesh. The weapons of our warfare are
not carnal they're not fleshy, but they're mighty in God
for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments, and every high
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thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing
every thought into captivity to the obedience of Messiah, and
being ready to punish all disobedience when our obedience is fulfilled.
We cannot do anything until we are obedient. So Paul
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is using military metaphors to describe our life in ya Sure.
And when he uses the word flesh, when we talk
about the flesh, we're not just talking about the natural
human abilities. We're talking about spiritual So we have a choice.
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So we're going to walk in natural ability, we're going
to walk in natural intellect, or we're going to do
it in this spirit. Because our warfare has to be
conducted in the realm of the spirit, not with physical weapons,
though that may become a part of it. We saw
that at the end of the Ministry of the Lord
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when he told them to get a sword to protect
themselves while they were preaching the gospel. So our weapons
are spiritual. That's why in Ephesian six, when we talk
about the whole armor of God, we're talking about the
elements of the armor. We're talking about it, what it represents,
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and we've taught on that. We took weeks to talk
about the armor of God. You can find it in
the archived shows truth, righteousness, peace, faith, salvation, the Word
of God, prayer, it's all there. He gave us everything
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we needed to do what needed to be done. But
what happens, for some strange reason, the church decides going
to do God's way through the flesh through great organizations,
through entertainment, through wisdom and philosophy, beautiful facilities, facilities or
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glamorous advertising. That those are carnal weapons. They're not the
weapons provided by the Lord. Those aren't the things that
helped build the early Church or drove any of the
great revivals and awakenings that we've talked about. When used
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those fleshly ones I just mentioned, we are setting ourselves
up for defeat. Oh, the outward appearance might be impressive
and we have some momentary excitement, but it won't stick.
Those won't be keepers. Those won't be ones that the
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roots go deep. They'll be the ones that the enemy
comes in quickly and steals. Natural wisdom won't get it done.
So God has given us spear virtual weapons to a
society and they make no sense. But to us who
know better, they make a lot of sense. It allows
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us to pull down the strongholds of the mind, humanistic
reasoning imaginations, and the leaders of the world's educational and
political systems that promote those things. Natural weapons are easy
for the enemy to defeat. Supernatural ones not so much.
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Colossians two, verse eight seed to it that no one
takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, pseudo intellectual babble.
According to the tradition and musings of mere men following
the elementary principles of this world rather than following the
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truth the teachings of Messiah. You're not going to get
it done with life coaches and social principles. Trust the word,
lean on the word, use the word. When somebody tells
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me that they're a life coach, I realize they're not
serious about this. We need to get serious. We need
to grab a hold of those spiritual weapons, especially the
offensive one, the sword of the spirit, the word of God. Otherwise,
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you're not going to do anything about the blinded minds
of those who have rejected God's word and claim them
for Messiah. You're in a fight to the finish with
the God of this world, who has blinded the minds
of those who don't believe. They are unable to see
the glorious light of the good News. They don't understand
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this message about the glory of Christ, who is the
exact likeness of God. They don't understand the cross those
tewod Corinthians four four. By the way, they don't understand.
It's foolishness to them. Why would God make a man
supposedly his son shed all of his blood. Well, you
need to understand sin, you need to understand what he
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put in place to cover that sin. And there was
no animal, there was no man of this world that
was going to get that done. Our battle, our fight
is for the human mind, the human psyche, the human soul,
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and it is going to take some really powerful spiritual
weapons given to us, like in the Armor of God
Ephesian six, to break them out of their prisons. Because
that's what you're doing. You're shattering the locks, you're cutting,
you're cutting the chains and the shackles off of them.
You're rescuing them from the lion's mouth. So preaching the gospel,
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sharing the gospel, speaking the Gospel is God's ordained divine
means to show the truth and to prevent defecting from it.
So teachers who appeal to itching ears, who tell people
what they want to hear but not what they need
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to hear, they're helping them in their rebellion. They are
a part of the rebellion. So evangelism, as viewed by
the New Testament writers, is a vital task of the
New Testament Church. We all have a place in the calling.
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So that's what Paul's doing. Paul's reminding Timothy that the
Lord will you show it? Jesus will return in judgment.
He came as the suffering lamb. Now he's coming as
the line of the tribe of Judah. So he charges
him preach the Word in season out. Doesn't matter if
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it's convenient, doesn't matter what the timing is. You do
it because the foundation of any ministry is God's Word.
That's why I tell you read the Bible. Get it
in your spirit, because you may get an opportunity the
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Lord opens the door to share something with somebody. You
won't have it on you. You need to have the
scriptures in your head and in your spirit, so that
the Holy Spirit can bring it up, bring it forth,
be ready, be ready to take a stand. And that
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requires perseverance and courage. Oh my gosh, does that require courage? Hobe,
I don't scare anybody off of that one. You're living
in a world that doesn't want it. Although I have
found when I've been obedient, at the moment he gives
the command, he knows who's ready to hear. Because I
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believe we're living at a time, the time that he
warned about, where people are seeking out false teachers who
will tickle their ears tell them what they want to hear.
They won't convict them, they won't challenge them, they won't
tell them what they're doing is wrong. They won't point
out to them about holy righteous living, and they won't
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be telling them the truth. I will tell the truth
no matter what if it steps on your toes. I've
always said, check the foot. Stepping on your toes may
have a nail hole through it. But telling the truth
brings resistance. It's not easy, it brings attack. The enemy
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doesn't like it, the world doesn't like it. We have
just got to resolve ourselves to the fact that we
don't care what it likes. One Peter five, verses eight
and nine. Stay alert, watch out for your great enemy,
the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking
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for someone to devour. Stand for them against him, Resist him,
and be strong in your faith. Remember that your brothers
and sisters all over the world are going through the
same kind of suffering you are. Oh, he's is prowling
for easy food. He's prowling for those that are a
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threat to him. To be tempered, be balanced. I have
a sober mind. Be vigilant, cautious at all times. That
means proactive in your prayers, not waiting for the enemy
to attack, but being proactive against him. Because this enemy
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roams like a roaring lion, fierce and hunger, seeking someone
to seize upon and devour to tear apart Withstand him.
Be firm in your faith against the onset, rooted, established heels,
dug in, strong, immovable, and determined, knowing that the same
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identical sufferings are being suffered by your brotherhood, the whole
body of Messiah throughout the world, who are doing the
same thing now. One Peter five, eight through nine was
written thirty years after the Death, Resurrection and Ascension of
the Lord. So unless something has occurred since then to
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remove the threat we're talking about, it's ongoing. It's still happening,
and I have seen over all these years of ministry
more people get caught off guard and torn apart by
the enemy because they didn't heed the warning, they didn't
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pay attention to where they were walking. So we see
that this hatred for mankind began in Genesis chapter three.
And interestingly enough, I noticed something that I had never
clicked on before in Genesis six, when the sons of
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God saw the daughters of Adam went into them and
created the race of giants and set the things in
motion for the flood. The infiltration into humanity began, and
mankind began willingly consorting with the enemy and subjecting themselves
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to the corrupt rule of the fallen angels in their
demonic offspring. It took a little time, but it infiltrated.
It got man to choose who they would walk with
and to choose their own destruction. See that's this war.
God realized. Both sides are at war. Both sides have
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plans and military campaigns. You have battles, you have sieges
which are part of a larger military campaign, and we
understand the campaign is the Kingdom of God against the
Kingdom of Darkness. The Kingdom of God's really already won,
but the Kingdom of Darkness is trying to inflict as
much damage before its final defeat. So if we see
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this militaristically, which of course I do and always have,
this siege is a prolonged military assault on a city
or a fortress with the intent of completely conquered it
by force and slow destruction. So let's look at this
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supernaturally and react accordingly. Phase one of the final campaign
purst the birth of the Messiah the King. That's phase one.
The second phase of this final campaign is the crucifixion
massive victory on Calvary, and the third and final phase
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of this campaign begins thirty three a d Book of Acts.
Church is born in the upper room, Holy Spirit is given,
it's empowered, and the church begins mopping up the defeated.
Would have been nice had the enemy just laid down
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and said, ho home, we lost, but they didn't. An
enemy that has been wounded has to be finished off.
This ongoing battle has spiritual implications and it drives me.
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I'll call say crazy, how people don't understand that. They
don't understand the implications of the cross, of the empty tomb,
of the Upper Room, of everything that's ever been done,
of prophecy being fulfilled, and eschatology and the things that
are going on, and the signs of the Messiah, that
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they are oblivious. It says it in scripture over and
over and over and over again, First John five, verses
four and five. For every child of God, that's you
and me, Every child of God defeats this evil world.
And we achieve this victory through our faith. And who
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can win this battle against the wor world? Only those
who believe that Jesus, that you're sure, is the Son
of God. No other religion, no other man, no other
worshiped person has that kind of power, has that kind
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of influence. And the wicked, with all their worldly wisdom,
will attack the very foundation of what we believe in
our life. It will attack just the very desire to
walk this out. Oh, you can't say that here, Well,
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I just want to pray, Nope, illegal, you can't pray silently. Nope.
If I think you're praying, I'm going to arrest you.
When you see that, when you hear that you know
who's behind it. You have to learn to be covert undercover.
Raise your hands like you're stretching, and you really praising
and praying, leaning on something like you're looking for at
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the view or having your picture taken. But maybe your
hand was anointed and you're praying. You're binding. You're loosing
everywhere you go, everything you do, where you sit down,
you are an emissary. You are an evangelist. You are
a soldier of the King. And taking background Colossians three,
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starting verse one. Since you have been raised to new
life with Messiah, set your sights on the realities of heaven,
where Messiah sits in the place of honor at God's
right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the
things of earth. For you died to this life, and
your real life is hidden with Messiah in God. And
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when Messiah, who is your life, is revealed to the
whole world, you will share in his glory. When they
see him, they'll see his majesty, they'll see his glory.
Since you have been raised to new life, I'll say,
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if you have been raised to new life with Messiah,
which means you've been born again, means you're in a
war you're born into a war zone. You can out
ignore it. It won't ignore you. You're either a victor
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or a victim, and the fires of revival are the
fuel that propels us forward. I'm praying and believing that
all these college students and others around the world that
have gotten saved, He'll and delivered in these events, have
gotten baptized, are taking the word out there, taking the
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experience out there. Even if they just rescue one at
a time, principalities will fall. But we can never ignore that.
From Genesis to Revelation, we've been into war. Isaiah forty
two thirteen. The Lord shall go forth like a mighty man.
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He shall stir up his zeal, like a man of war.
He shall cry out, yes, shout aloud. He shall prevail
against his enemies. Psalm eighteen, verses thirty one through thirty nine.
For who is God, accept the Lord, and who is
a rock except our God. It is God who arms
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me with strength and makes my way perfect. He makes
my feet like the feet of deer, and he sets
me on high places. He teaches my hands to make war,
so that my arms can bend a bow or bronze.
You've also given me the shield of your salvation. Your
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right hand has held me up. Your gentleness has made
me great. You enlarged my path under me, so my
feet did not slip. I have pursued my enemies and
overtaken them. Neither did I turn back again until they
were destroyed. I have wounded them so that they could
not rise. They have fallen under my feet. For you
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have armed me with strength for a battle. You have
subdued under me those who rose up against me. Now
we know David is talking about actual warfare and talking
about actual people. But if you just look at this
spiritually and in your mind, picture the enemy and understand
those words some verses one and two. Praise the Lord.
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It is my rock. He trains my hands for war.
It gives my fingers skill for battle, my loving ally
and my fortress, my tower of safety, my rescuer. He
is my shield, and I take refuge in him. Put
your hands together in prayer. You have hands for war,
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fingers for battle. Someone forty nine, verse six, Let the
high praises of God be in their mouth, and a
two edged sword in their hand. Praise, worship, warfare, testimony,
the high praises of God Majesty, worship his Majesty, Kingdom authority.
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Whatever hymns or worship music that you can sing or
just repeat the lyrics, or whatever it is out loud,
edify yourself, put the enemy onnoice, change the atmosphere. That
two edged sword in your hand is the word of God.
Worship is warfare. So you would think Satan lost the
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battle on Calvary. What's he fighting for? Well, one, he's delusional.
He thinks he can still win. But even if he doesn't,
he's fighting for the spoils of war. He's fighting for
the souls of humanity. He's fighting to take as many
with him into that lake of fire as possible. That's
why the Lord told his disciples and us in Matthew
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twenty eight, verses eighteen and nineteen, all authority has been
given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore.
And I tell you that that is an implied dispensation
of his authority as King of Kings and Lord of lords.
All authority has been given to him in both heaven
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and earth. Go Therefore, I've given you the authority make
disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father. And the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
In Matthew twenty four fourteen, he said, the Gospel of
the King will be preached in all the world as
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a witness to all the nations, and then the end
will come. Evangelism speeds up his return. Of course, he
knows again from the beginning. But our job is to
preach the gospel, the good News, as a witness to
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all the nations, and then the end will come. I
wish I could tell you that there would be no
resistance and it would be easy, but I'm not going
to do that. I will never mislead you a water down.
There is a horrible, horrible resistance against us, But the
reward is so great, it's so worthy of what we endure.
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And we're not yet giving up our life to do this,
like our brothers and sisters around the world. Someday that
may make it here. So the resistance that began in
Genesis finishes in Revelation, the culmination of the story Redemption,
final Redemption, Restoration. But until the war ends at the
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Second Coming, we're right in the middle of it. You
can't escape it, you can't run from it. You're either
a victor or a victim you choose, and know this,
I'm not saying that you have any any power in this.
The ultimate victory belongs to God. It comes from the Lord.
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But we get to participate in the battle for souls,
relying on spiritual, on supernatural means, not worldly ones. So
worship him, praise him, share the good news of what
he did for you with others. Be persistent in your faith,
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and recognize that that is warfare and you're doing it
with the full assurance of His authority and victory empowering you,
empowering the church to fulfill its mission until he returns.
That's what it means that we are in a fight
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to the finish, until the enemy is completely destroyed, shut down,
power broken. We're in a battle. We know how it
turns out, but we've got to stay the course and
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finish the fight. Father Abba, you never said it was easy.
It wasn't easy for you, It wasn't easy for your shoe.
It broke your heart and broke his body, and we
have not yet had to shed blood for our faith
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as he did. But I, for one, want to finished
the race strong. I want to do everything that you
need me specifically to do before you come. I don't
want it to be cut short. I don't want to
leave before my time. I've begun to pray. Lord, you've
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Moses was one hundred and twenty years old. His eyes
did not dim nor was his strength diminished. If that's
what it takes, that's what it takes. But I want
to know that I did everything I was called to do.
I ran the race, I fought the fight, and I
did it in faith. So speak to us, Holy spirits.
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Speak to my brothers and sisters. I know you've stirred
them up. I'll give them the confidence to do something
with it. To tell people about your shoe, tell them
about Jesus. Now, Lord, right now, I bind the enemy
in every way, shape and form, every lying spirit, every
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attack on the mind or the heart or the body,
anything the enemy would do to try to steal this word,
or to hinder it or keep it from going forth.
Stating you the fallen and your demonic offspring, you are defeated.
You are defeated by the Cross, by the blood, by
the power of the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room,
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and by the resurrected Savior who sits at the right
hand of God, whom we sit with in the heavenly placeness,
in fullness and empower and grace and glory, and we
thank you for that. We thank you, and we thank
you from our hearts and your Shower's name. If you
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agree with me, if you receive this, if you come
into active applied agreement, say amen, May the Lord bless
you and keep you. May the Lord may I don't
I make his face to shine upon you, and be
gracious to you. May the Lord I don't know. You're
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Suhamashiah Jesus the Messiah, King of Kings and Lord of lords.
Lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Give you shall home. I'm Richard Grund. This has been
the Porch on Firefall Talk Radio.
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