WEBVTT 00:00:00.241 --> 00:00:06.325 Let's reach down and pick up our bibles, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad, they said. 00:00:06.325 --> 00:00:09.339 Pastor, you know that Sunday there's gonna be a lot of people missing. 00:00:09.339 --> 00:00:11.679 I said it's worth the investment in our children. 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:16.967 I mean, you know, we're not just here to have a blessed me club, we're here to raise up the next generation. 00:00:16.967 --> 00:00:21.512 Amen, let's wave our bibles around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad. 00:00:21.512 --> 00:00:25.245 Say this together, say, heavenly Father, I am glad to be here. 00:00:25.245 --> 00:00:36.448 I have a large need, and that's a need to know you better and better, and I know you by your holy written Word and by the Holy Ghost. 00:00:36.448 --> 00:00:43.182 The Word and the Spirit are working together to bring me into a higher place, a greater place. 00:00:43.182 --> 00:00:47.219 In Jesus' name, amen, you can be seated. 00:00:47.299 --> 00:00:51.151 Let's turn in our bibles to Revelation, chapter 12. 00:00:51.151 --> 00:00:55.948 We're gonna get into defeating deception, the second message, part two. 00:00:55.948 --> 00:01:05.429 We'll start with our foundation scripture, revelation 12, verse seven, and also Ephesians six. 00:01:05.429 --> 00:01:11.028 And there was war in heaven. 00:01:11.028 --> 00:01:19.766 Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels and prevailed not. 00:01:19.766 --> 00:01:23.748 Neither was their place found any more in heaven. 00:01:23.748 --> 00:01:35.375 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world. 00:01:35.375 --> 00:01:52.668 He was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him, and I heard a loud voice saying in heaven now has come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ. 00:01:52.668 --> 00:02:02.146 For the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God, day and night, and they overcame him. 00:02:02.146 --> 00:02:03.560 Who was it that overcame him? 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:06.629 Well, the brethren, the ones that were accused. 00:02:06.629 --> 00:02:08.623 They overcame him. 00:02:08.623 --> 00:02:09.347 Who the devil? 00:02:09.347 --> 00:02:13.580 By the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. 00:02:13.580 --> 00:02:15.907 And they love not their lives unto the death. 00:02:15.907 --> 00:02:18.867 Therefore, have a pity party. 00:02:18.867 --> 00:02:23.310 No rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. 00:02:23.310 --> 00:02:36.408 Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down unto you, having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. 00:02:36.408 --> 00:02:40.044 All right, in Ephesians 6, verse 10,. 00:02:40.044 --> 00:02:43.473 Ephesians 6, 10,. 00:02:43.661 --> 00:02:48.866 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. 00:02:48.866 --> 00:02:59.390 Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 00:02:59.390 --> 00:03:07.830 Wiles means military strategy, but it also means trickery, craft, deception. 00:03:07.830 --> 00:03:13.319 And then the last one is Luke 21, 8, where Jesus is answering his disciples. 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:18.925 And the last question when will be your return and what are the signs of your glorious appearing? 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:25.787 And the first thing he said before he went down the list of the signs which we're living in a lot of those today. 00:03:25.787 --> 00:03:36.108 He said take heed that you be not deceived, for many will come in my name, say, and I have sent them, that I have sent them. 00:03:36.108 --> 00:03:37.784 You know, I'm coming in the name of the Lord. 00:03:37.784 --> 00:03:39.424 The Lord sent me to you. 00:03:39.424 --> 00:03:42.686 They'll even claim to be the Messiah. 00:03:42.686 --> 00:03:51.063 David Koresh, that horrible situation in Waco and many others, many, many others that's just one example. 00:03:51.063 --> 00:03:54.269 You've got lots of these screwballs running around. 00:03:54.269 --> 00:03:58.562 You've got people on the internet that try to let you know that they've been sent. 00:03:58.562 --> 00:04:01.521 He said don't go with them, don't believe them. 00:04:01.521 --> 00:04:05.125 Amen, all right, so take heed. 00:04:06.379 --> 00:04:12.989 And so this series of messages was inspired a number of years ago by Billy Graham, one of the foremost evangelists of our time. 00:04:12.989 --> 00:04:26.084 He's in heaven now, but before he went there, a couple of years before that, I heard him make this statement it's time for Christians to stop underestimating the power of Satan to deceive. 00:04:26.084 --> 00:04:31.505 I thought that was interesting coming in from the Baptist, because Baptists don't ever talk about the devil. 00:04:31.505 --> 00:04:36.646 They seem to think if they don't talk about him, nobody you know, maybe he'll go away. 00:04:36.646 --> 00:04:43.007 You know what we have to do is look at the Pew Research and find out that most Christians don't even believe the devil exists. 00:04:43.007 --> 00:04:48.603 How can you be a born-again Christian and deny that there's an enemy? 00:04:48.603 --> 00:04:54.146 What do we save from Some kind of idea, some kind of psychosis? 00:04:54.146 --> 00:04:59.161 A lot of people think the devil is just a symbol and all of that. 00:04:59.161 --> 00:05:06.052 So you know it's incumbent upon us to examine our enemy. 00:05:06.052 --> 00:05:07.464 You've got to know your enemy. 00:05:07.464 --> 00:05:13.148 We found out last week that a lot of warfare and of course warfare exported from heaven down to earth. 00:05:13.148 --> 00:05:16.666 We talked all about that last week. 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:25.702 Some of you looked at me with eyes wide open when I started talking about the gap theory and I started talking about pre-ademic creation, like not in the Bible. 00:05:25.702 --> 00:05:27.302 Well, you've got the Holy Ghost. 00:05:27.302 --> 00:05:30.625 You can't prove it didn't happen. 00:05:30.625 --> 00:05:31.983 I can't prove it did. 00:05:31.983 --> 00:05:35.165 But you know how, about the witness of the Spirit? 00:05:35.165 --> 00:05:42.384 The Holy Ghost can show you things that you know that are consistent with Bible teaching. 00:05:42.384 --> 00:05:44.831 And it's consistent. 00:05:44.831 --> 00:05:53.370 I mean, you know we're digging up these fossils and I've heard Christians just stumble all over themselves denying oh no, the world is only 5,000 years old. 00:05:53.370 --> 00:05:53.932 Well, you know what? 00:05:53.932 --> 00:05:55.839 You're just mistaken. 00:05:55.839 --> 00:06:00.809 It's a lot more ancient than that and there's proof that it existed. 00:06:00.809 --> 00:06:07.247 And Jesus said in Luke 10, 18, he said I saw Satan as lightning fall from heaven. 00:06:07.247 --> 00:06:10.545 So when he was kicked out of heaven, he hit the earth and lights went out. 00:06:10.545 --> 00:06:18.870 And that's why the mastodons froze with food in their belly and they're digging them up under these big glaciers and stuff. 00:06:18.870 --> 00:06:20.625 These glaciers are slow moving. 00:06:20.625 --> 00:06:25.065 It takes them, you know, thousands of years to move six inches and all of that kind of thing. 00:06:25.065 --> 00:06:29.884 All of a sudden, they discover an animal that doesn't exist anymore and has got food in his belly. 00:06:29.884 --> 00:06:30.425 What happened? 00:06:30.425 --> 00:06:39.165 Well, it froze, the lights went out, and so, really, the gap between Genesis one and two we talked about that last week. 00:06:39.165 --> 00:06:43.781 So, giving you a little further explanation of what we're dealing with. 00:06:46.303 --> 00:06:51.906 And we found discovered that deception is an important part of any military campaign. 00:06:51.906 --> 00:06:59.687 Talked about D-Day and how we deceived Hitler and all we had to do was deceive him. 00:06:59.687 --> 00:07:04.334 We didn't deceive the whole Nazi hierarchy. 00:07:04.334 --> 00:07:08.968 I mean, a lot of them knew that we were coming to Normandy, but they were ignored. 00:07:08.968 --> 00:07:11.165 See, that's prayer. 00:07:11.165 --> 00:07:16.170 God handed Hitler over to a mind-boyed of judgment. 00:07:16.170 --> 00:07:22.485 I mean, he was demon-possessed by the time he got into power and he got worse. 00:07:22.485 --> 00:07:37.951 And so we're seeing the patterns of these end times and the boiling over anger the devil has, because every decade that goes by, his time is wearing out, his time is getting shorter and he's getting more and more desperate. 00:07:37.951 --> 00:07:41.470 You know he's still holding out the idea that he can win. 00:07:41.470 --> 00:07:45.225 Well, we've already won. 00:07:45.225 --> 00:07:47.425 When are we gonna realize it? 00:07:47.425 --> 00:07:48.523 Amen. 00:07:49.521 --> 00:07:52.500 So last week we had four facts about the devil. 00:07:52.500 --> 00:07:53.944 The devil is a fallen angel. 00:07:53.944 --> 00:07:56.319 He's in the angelic class. 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:59.879 He's not all present, all powerful, all knowing. 00:07:59.879 --> 00:08:03.124 He is not, not like God, he's not like us. 00:08:03.124 --> 00:08:07.850 We're not those things either, but we're in Christ, who is. 00:08:07.850 --> 00:08:13.560 And so we found out that he is a murderer from the beginning. 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:15.846 He's also a slanderer, a liar. 00:08:15.846 --> 00:08:18.206 He's the father of lies. 00:08:18.206 --> 00:08:22.728 We found out that he deceives the whole world. 00:08:22.728 --> 00:08:26.428 And then we have authority. 00:08:26.428 --> 00:08:29.408 Revelation 12 said they overcame him. 00:08:29.408 --> 00:08:31.339 See, yeah, he's powerful. 00:08:31.339 --> 00:08:33.708 Yeah, michael had to fight him. 00:08:33.708 --> 00:08:34.221 Guess what? 00:08:34.221 --> 00:08:35.927 We overcome him by what? 00:08:35.927 --> 00:08:38.000 Well, our blood covenant rights. 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:38.943 We have to know them. 00:08:38.943 --> 00:08:40.706 That's why I've been teaching on the blood. 00:08:41.081 --> 00:08:43.480 This year is the year of God's power. 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:49.710 We need to be fully acquainted with God's power and the fact that he has invested his power in the church. 00:08:49.710 --> 00:08:58.610 I'm not gonna be part of some second Chronicles 714 prayer meeting at Begg and God to do something about our government. 00:08:58.610 --> 00:09:00.539 Oh God, come, heal our land. 00:09:00.539 --> 00:09:01.604 You're just goofy. 00:09:01.604 --> 00:09:03.544 That's not gonna happen. 00:09:03.544 --> 00:09:06.187 He's not gonna come down here and do what he did already. 00:09:06.187 --> 00:09:09.307 He's already defeated the devil. 00:09:09.307 --> 00:09:13.190 He has given the church his power. 00:09:13.190 --> 00:09:19.246 So if the land of America is ever gonna be healed, the church gonna have to rise up and demand something. 00:09:19.246 --> 00:09:21.364 That's what we're doing. 00:09:21.364 --> 00:09:21.806 Amen. 00:09:21.806 --> 00:09:24.184 And there's a lot of them. 00:09:24.184 --> 00:09:25.605 There's more and more like us. 00:09:25.605 --> 00:09:26.162 Amen. 00:09:26.162 --> 00:09:27.307 We're not the only ones. 00:09:27.307 --> 00:09:28.844 So we have authority. 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:37.779 So, and then we have to answer every lie with God's truth, the word of our testimony. 00:09:37.779 --> 00:09:41.860 We defeat him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. 00:09:41.860 --> 00:09:47.788 We've got to know what the blood has purchased is doing now, what it will do in the future. 00:09:47.788 --> 00:09:53.246 The blood, and we've got to know that word, we've got to use it against the devil. 00:09:53.246 --> 00:09:59.388 And then living our lives in obedience to God we love, not our lives unto the death. 00:09:59.388 --> 00:10:04.160 In other words, we are going to obey God, amen. 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:12.750 So this week I wanna get into another offshoot of this subject defeating demonic tactics. 00:10:12.750 --> 00:10:15.667 Defeating demonic tactics. 00:10:15.667 --> 00:10:25.648 Let's look, turn in our Bibles to 1 John, chapter two, and also why you're turning, get 1 Corinthians, chapter 10. 00:10:25.648 --> 00:10:29.811 1 John two, verse 15. 00:10:29.811 --> 00:10:38.687 John is writing to the church and he says love, not the world, neither the things that are in the world. 00:10:38.687 --> 00:10:46.926 If any man loved the world, the love of the father is not in him For all that is in the world. 00:10:46.926 --> 00:10:49.607 And then he describes what's in the world. 00:10:49.607 --> 00:10:50.062 What is it? 00:10:50.062 --> 00:11:02.267 The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is of the world, is not of the father, but is of the world. 00:11:02.267 --> 00:11:03.542 Amen. 00:11:03.542 --> 00:11:14.710 And the world passeth away and the lust thereof, all that's gonna pass away, but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. 00:11:14.710 --> 00:11:16.092 Hallelujah. 00:11:16.092 --> 00:11:18.826 Let's not be short-sighted. 00:11:20.340 --> 00:11:26.303 I think about all these global warming nut jobs, these environmentalists that worship the creation more than the creator. 00:11:26.303 --> 00:11:28.585 They're all worried about. 00:11:28.585 --> 00:11:30.289 The world is gonna come to an end. 00:11:30.289 --> 00:11:32.988 We've gotta get rid of fossil fuels. 00:11:32.988 --> 00:11:35.727 I mean, god bless this America. 00:11:35.727 --> 00:11:46.883 God bless America with hundreds and hundreds of years of energy under our feet, and we're worried about going over there and getting China and Russia and everybody else to sell us oil. 00:11:46.883 --> 00:11:48.442 Venezuela. 00:11:48.442 --> 00:12:00.986 We're actually got oil coming from Venezuela is thicker than tar and they're over there in Deer Park and Baytown refining it here in Houston and we're breathing all the fumes from that. 00:12:00.986 --> 00:12:03.727 That's the cremiest oil on the planet. 00:12:03.727 --> 00:12:05.065 We've got the best oil. 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:10.219 Crazy people, they've got a religion. 00:12:10.219 --> 00:12:11.865 They believe in the creation more than the creator. 00:12:11.865 --> 00:12:14.466 They love the things that are in the world. 00:12:14.466 --> 00:12:16.585 They worship the world. 00:12:16.585 --> 00:12:17.644 They worship it. 00:12:17.644 --> 00:12:19.979 See, that's where we're different. 00:12:19.979 --> 00:12:21.837 Are we better? 00:12:21.837 --> 00:12:25.340 Be All right, all right. 00:12:25.460 --> 00:12:31.014 And then let's look at first Corinthians, chapter 10. 00:12:31.014 --> 00:12:40.528 Praise God, defeating demonic tactics. 00:12:40.528 --> 00:12:43.200 You gotta know your enemy and you gotta know his ways. 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:45.225 You gotta know the way he works. 00:12:45.225 --> 00:13:07.972 Now, and I'm gonna start reading with verse 11, because he went through the sins of Egypt, or sins that Israel committed when they were delivered from Egypt, and how they hurt themselves by disobeying God. 00:13:07.972 --> 00:13:19.009 And it says in verse 11, now all these things happened unto them for an example, that they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the age are come. 00:13:19.009 --> 00:13:24.679 Wherefore, therefore, say they're written, so we'll learn from their mistakes, learn from Israel's mistakes. 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:25.938 They got deceived. 00:13:25.938 --> 00:13:29.679 They didn't believe God, they believed their eyes. 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:34.318 They believed the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, the pride of life. 00:13:34.318 --> 00:13:35.966 That's what they believed. 00:13:37.888 --> 00:13:40.222 So I just said well, if I can't see it, I can't believe it. 00:13:40.222 --> 00:13:43.951 Well then you can't be saved, then you don't know God. 00:13:43.951 --> 00:13:45.044 You need to get saved. 00:13:45.044 --> 00:13:48.625 Have you ever seen your brains? 00:13:48.625 --> 00:13:57.283 Well, you must not have any then, according to your logic. 00:13:57.283 --> 00:13:58.967 Amen, that's stupid. 00:13:58.967 --> 00:14:02.784 We got card carrying Christians that don't know these things. 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:04.826 Pastor, this seems a basic. 00:14:04.826 --> 00:14:05.601 Well, you know what's? 00:14:05.601 --> 00:14:06.988 That's what the devil does. 00:14:06.988 --> 00:14:11.989 He comes after the basics, he tries to erode your foundation. 00:14:11.989 --> 00:14:19.067 Wherefore, let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed, lest he fall. 00:14:19.067 --> 00:14:25.863 I've seen it for over 40 years, 43 years since I've been saved. 00:14:25.863 --> 00:14:32.245 I've seen people that were solid, seem to be solid citizens of the kingdom of God, seem to be doing a lot of good. 00:14:32.245 --> 00:14:38.147 And the next thing, you know, I look for them and they're back, slid, and they're going back to where they started, and even worse. 00:14:38.147 --> 00:14:41.660 Why? 00:14:41.660 --> 00:14:43.144 Because they fell. 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:47.065 You know, people don't start off serving God planning on falling. 00:14:47.065 --> 00:14:59.706 It's just like the little frog, you know, you throw it in a boiling hot water, it's going to hop out of there real fast, but if you just give him a little warm water, he'll just swim around. 00:14:59.706 --> 00:15:02.445 I've never tried this, by the way, because I don't really like frogs. 00:15:02.445 --> 00:15:08.663 I don't think I could get by with cooking a frog in my kitchen. 00:15:08.663 --> 00:15:12.590 I think my wife would probably overrule me. 00:15:12.590 --> 00:15:22.201 But you know the proverbial frog you just gently get the water hotter and hotter, and until it's too hot, and then that's it, they're gone. 00:15:22.201 --> 00:15:23.864 See, and that's the way it is. 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:27.767 The devil comes a little at a time, a little at a time, a little at a time. 00:15:27.767 --> 00:15:28.543 Take heed. 00:15:28.543 --> 00:15:32.604 You think that you're so high and mighty that you can't fall. 00:15:32.604 --> 00:15:36.524 You better think again and you better take heed. 00:15:36.524 --> 00:15:38.827 Take heed that you be not deceived. 00:15:38.827 --> 00:15:43.249 Time to stop underestimating the power of Satan to deceive. 00:15:43.249 --> 00:15:44.826 That doesn't mean we're building him up. 00:15:44.826 --> 00:15:50.368 That just means we recognize what he is and who he is and what he's done for thousands of years. 00:15:50.368 --> 00:15:52.105 He's kind of practiced at it. 00:15:53.700 --> 00:15:57.791 So, and then it all goes down to verse 13. 00:15:57.791 --> 00:15:58.952 There's no temptation. 00:15:58.952 --> 00:16:02.448 That word temptation means temptation, test or trial. 00:16:02.448 --> 00:16:05.508 Say not just temptation to sin, but it means a test. 00:16:05.508 --> 00:16:06.322 It means a trial. 00:16:06.322 --> 00:16:10.509 A temptation is when you get a bad doctor's report. 00:16:10.509 --> 00:16:13.784 A temptation is when you owe the IRS more than money than you can pay them. 00:16:13.784 --> 00:16:15.284 That's a temptation. 00:16:15.284 --> 00:16:17.407 See that's, you know, as a giant. 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:21.246 I spoke about giants defeating giants. 00:16:21.246 --> 00:16:27.067 You know, recently, on Wednesday night, and sometimes we all face those giants. 00:16:27.067 --> 00:16:28.325 We don't have to be afraid of giants. 00:16:28.325 --> 00:16:29.946 Israel was afraid of the giants. 00:16:29.946 --> 00:16:35.461 They underestimated God and overestimated the enemy man. 00:16:35.461 --> 00:16:36.825 That's completely backwards. 00:16:36.825 --> 00:16:43.543 Amen, so it was written down in there, not to shame them but to help us. 00:16:43.543 --> 00:16:45.589 To help us. 00:16:45.589 --> 00:16:47.225 We've got examples. 00:16:48.659 --> 00:16:51.789 There's no temptation taking you, but such as common demand. 00:16:51.789 --> 00:17:03.086 But God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you're able, but will, with the temptation, also make a way of escape that you may be able to bear up under it. 00:17:03.086 --> 00:17:09.250 There is no temptation, but such as common to man. 00:17:09.250 --> 00:17:18.787 The devil is limited to things that are common to man, that is, the things of this world that your five senses have access to. 00:17:18.787 --> 00:17:27.325 If the devil's gonna tempt you, he's gonna tempt you in your five senses your eyes, your ears, your nose, your taste, your feel, your touch. 00:17:27.325 --> 00:17:32.326 He will tempt you in the five areas and of course, first John that we read. 00:17:32.326 --> 00:17:35.606 You know the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. 00:17:35.606 --> 00:17:38.548 That's the only weapons the devil has. 00:17:38.548 --> 00:17:39.865 He has no other ones. 00:17:39.865 --> 00:17:42.126 He doesn't need any new ones. 00:17:42.126 --> 00:17:43.884 He's got those and they work. 00:17:43.884 --> 00:17:50.292 They work perfectly, especially if we're doofuses. 00:17:50.292 --> 00:17:58.664 Walk down the road, you know, just acting like you know it all and you have it all and you can't be tempted. 00:17:58.664 --> 00:18:00.086 Oh no, I'm a Christian. 00:18:00.086 --> 00:18:03.623 Well, you know what Anybody can be. 00:18:03.623 --> 00:18:04.827 Anybody is tempted. 00:18:04.827 --> 00:18:06.506 Anybody can be tempted Because why? 00:18:06.506 --> 00:18:09.428 Eyes, ears, nose you've got all the five senses. 00:18:09.428 --> 00:18:13.141 He's got access. 00:18:13.141 --> 00:18:15.940 Are you with me now? 00:18:17.444 --> 00:18:34.663 So everybody say his tactics are common to man, but our weapons, according to 1 Corinthians, chapter 10, the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, they're not carnal, but they're mighty through God. 00:18:34.663 --> 00:18:38.320 Glory to God, amen. 00:18:38.320 --> 00:18:44.121 We've got the way to turn everyone of his tactics back on him. 00:18:44.121 --> 00:18:46.547 Amen. 00:18:46.547 --> 00:18:48.499 So that's what we're talking about today. 00:18:48.499 --> 00:18:52.737 So remember now. 00:18:52.737 --> 00:18:53.922 He deceives the whole world. 00:18:53.922 --> 00:19:04.440 I mean, it's not like he doesn't have a whole lot of company and we saw an entire world deceived during the COVID crisis. 00:19:05.855 --> 00:19:07.059 Do we need any more proof? 00:19:07.059 --> 00:19:09.742 All they have to do is throw out a fear. 00:19:09.742 --> 00:19:11.375 That's what happened. 00:19:11.375 --> 00:19:16.846 Throw out a fear and people will trade all of their rights and privileges for protection. 00:19:16.846 --> 00:19:19.513 Oh, protect me from it. 00:19:19.513 --> 00:19:20.693 I wanna be safe. 00:19:20.693 --> 00:19:27.775 I wanna be safe, safe, you know, like you're in a baseball game or something Safe. 00:19:27.775 --> 00:19:31.275 What does it even mean? 00:19:31.275 --> 00:19:34.090 Man has no ability to make you safe. 00:19:34.090 --> 00:19:37.093 There's only one safety and that's the blood. 00:19:37.093 --> 00:19:45.575 Praise God, and if you've got the blood, you don't need man, you don't need man's tactics. 00:19:46.631 --> 00:19:48.365 So let's just go through a couple of Bible examples. 00:19:48.365 --> 00:19:54.666 I wanna use the garden Eve in the garden, genesis, chapter two. 00:19:54.666 --> 00:20:06.025 I mean, she's out there in the garden and Satan comes up to her and evidently he's upright because later he was cursed by God and he's like I'm gonna go through the Bible and I'm gonna go through the Bible and I'm gonna go through the Bible. 00:20:06.025 --> 00:20:08.502 And later he was cursed to crawl on his belly. 00:20:08.502 --> 00:20:11.798 So he's, a creature came. 00:20:11.798 --> 00:20:13.022 You know this is Satan. 00:20:13.022 --> 00:20:13.696 It's the same guy. 00:20:13.696 --> 00:20:14.681 He got kicked out of heaven. 00:20:14.681 --> 00:20:15.323 The lights went out. 00:20:15.323 --> 00:20:16.539 Now the lights are back on. 00:20:16.539 --> 00:20:18.480 God recreated everything. 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:22.439 Now he's got a man made in his image this time, just like ourselves. 00:20:22.439 --> 00:20:24.642 Let's let him make a masters of all of life. 00:20:24.642 --> 00:20:27.875 The living Bible says so. 00:20:27.875 --> 00:20:34.603 They were in charge, adam was in charge and he was in charge of Eve and he's standing there and the Bible says with her. 00:20:34.603 --> 00:20:43.402 So he's not like across the garden, someplace else, he's right there with her and he comes up, not to Adam, to Eve. 00:20:45.335 --> 00:20:48.680 See, the devil knows where your hot buttons are, where your weaknesses are. 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:49.277 He knows. 00:20:49.277 --> 00:20:51.002 He watches you for a long time. 00:20:51.002 --> 00:20:54.805 He just apprises you not the devil, but his demons do. 00:20:54.805 --> 00:21:00.480 You're probably not ever gonna encounter the devil, why? 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:01.595 Cause he's one entity. 00:21:01.595 --> 00:21:03.402 He can only be in one place at one time. 00:21:03.402 --> 00:21:04.961 That's probably not in your living room. 00:21:04.961 --> 00:21:13.402 You know you're not doing that much for him to be paying attention. 00:21:13.402 --> 00:21:20.364 So he's delegated to some demon somewhere, some little purple, fuzzy thing sitting on your shoulder. 00:21:20.364 --> 00:21:24.718 They do watch you. 00:21:24.718 --> 00:21:29.769 They figure out where are their weaknesses, what do they tend to do? 00:21:29.769 --> 00:21:31.098 What do they? 00:21:31.098 --> 00:21:31.559 How do they? 00:21:31.559 --> 00:21:36.096 They can't read your mind, because they can watch you live, they can look at your countenance, they can. 00:21:36.096 --> 00:21:46.839 They can throw a thought at your mind and read the way you're looking, and if you don't say anything when that thought comes, you don't say anything back. 00:21:48.295 --> 00:21:52.915 You know Jesus answered the devil, all right. 00:21:52.915 --> 00:21:58.829 So he first thing he did was he accused God to Eve. 00:21:58.829 --> 00:21:59.896 He said yeah, half. 00:21:59.896 --> 00:22:03.226 God said that you can't eat the tree. 00:22:03.226 --> 00:22:07.281 He knows if you eat of this tree. 00:22:07.281 --> 00:22:11.857 Oh, he knows he's trying to keep something good from you, can't you see? 00:22:12.757 --> 00:22:28.421 And she, and the Bible says, when she saw that the tree was good for food to eat, lust of the flesh, and then she had the lust of the eye, she, she looked at that fruit so, ooh, this is pretty fruit. 00:22:28.421 --> 00:22:29.881 It's not like that dragon fruit. 00:22:29.881 --> 00:22:31.339 Have you ever seen a dragon fruit? 00:22:31.339 --> 00:22:32.202 You don't want to eat that. 00:22:32.202 --> 00:22:33.700 That's the ugliest thing you ever saw. 00:22:33.700 --> 00:22:36.303 Tee-wees, all hairy. 00:22:36.303 --> 00:22:38.394 You know, you don't want to eat that. 00:22:38.394 --> 00:22:39.218 You got to cut it open. 00:22:39.218 --> 00:22:41.881 Then you find out, well, that's not so bad. 00:22:41.881 --> 00:22:44.862 There's a lot of, there's a lot of fruit that you know. 00:22:44.934 --> 00:22:50.040 You go down the line and now that they import all this stuff, they import all these, they've got warts all over it. 00:22:50.040 --> 00:22:54.094 You know, I don't know, I don't choose to eat that kind. 00:22:54.094 --> 00:22:56.963 I mean apples and pear, you know just normal fruit. 00:22:56.963 --> 00:22:59.844 I don't care for the exotic stuff. 00:22:59.844 --> 00:23:02.318 I mean it might be great, I don't know, I might, you know. 00:23:02.318 --> 00:23:05.221 But she saw that and she said, you know I hadn't had that. 00:23:05.355 --> 00:23:13.057 I kind of see lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and it'll make you wise for knowledge You're going to be. 00:23:13.057 --> 00:23:15.605 This is what God's trying to do. 00:23:15.605 --> 00:23:17.101 He's trying to keep you under. 00:23:17.101 --> 00:23:18.499 He doesn't want you. 00:23:18.499 --> 00:23:21.221 He wants you to break through that glass ceiling. 00:23:21.221 --> 00:23:24.700 He wants you promoted. 00:23:24.700 --> 00:23:25.857 He wants you up there. 00:23:27.383 --> 00:23:37.105 See, you know, he knows kind of how to deceive because he has he deceived one third of the angelic hosts to follow him. 00:23:37.105 --> 00:23:39.498 See, there you go. 00:23:39.498 --> 00:23:43.198 He's not stupid in that way, he's brilliant. 00:23:43.198 --> 00:23:46.340 In that way we like to say the devil's stupid. 00:23:46.340 --> 00:23:47.577 Well, it's really not. 00:23:47.577 --> 00:23:49.644 He's pretty smart. 00:23:49.644 --> 00:23:51.019 He knows how to deceive. 00:23:51.019 --> 00:23:54.400 He's been successful at it. 00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:59.285 You got to admit, most of the planet is deceived. 00:23:59.285 --> 00:24:07.001 And he says we live on, we're playing catch up to try to bring the gospel to people that haven't heard the name of Jesus. 00:24:07.001 --> 00:24:14.143 And I mean, boy, it's just, it's going to take on influx of money and people, laborers, to get the job done. 00:24:15.654 --> 00:24:26.258 But anyway, getting back to her, the pride of life, he appealed to the pride of life and she ate of the fruit and gave it to Adam. 00:24:26.258 --> 00:24:28.439 That was with her and he ate the fruit. 00:24:28.439 --> 00:24:31.923 She was deceived, but he did it because she did it. 00:24:31.923 --> 00:24:36.580 Really, if you want to get down to it, he was guilty of idolatry. 00:24:36.580 --> 00:24:39.262 He loved Eve more than God. 00:24:39.262 --> 00:24:42.740 He couldn't stand to be without her. 00:24:42.740 --> 00:24:44.642 I mean, here he is, right next to her boy. 00:24:44.642 --> 00:24:48.721 I mean, he's watching every move she made Didn't correct her, so get away from him. 00:24:48.721 --> 00:24:50.799 Satan, you get out of here. 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:55.784 He was in charge and he didn't use his authority. 00:24:55.784 --> 00:24:59.664 Boy, you noodle head why. 00:24:59.664 --> 00:25:02.582 I got some questions to ask him. 00:25:02.582 --> 00:25:12.645 Amen, me and I have to get in line because there's about a billion of other people that can ask him the same thing. 00:25:12.645 --> 00:25:14.894 All right, you get anything out of this now? 00:25:14.894 --> 00:25:15.481 All right. 00:25:15.542 --> 00:25:19.045 Example number two Jesus and the wilderness. 00:25:19.045 --> 00:25:21.454 Luke, chapter four, verse two. 00:25:21.454 --> 00:25:24.795 He'd been baptized in the river Jordan. 00:25:24.795 --> 00:25:34.107 The Holy Ghost had come upon him like a dove and the Bible says the Spirit drove him into the wilderness. 00:25:34.107 --> 00:25:36.255 Isn't that interesting. 00:25:36.255 --> 00:25:37.492 He didn't get to hang around. 00:25:37.492 --> 00:25:42.055 The Spirit compelled him to be tempted of the devil. 00:25:42.055 --> 00:25:42.989 Why? 00:25:42.989 --> 00:25:46.808 Because he needed to be tempted in every point, like as we are, yet without sin. 00:25:46.808 --> 00:25:49.875 He had to lay the thing on the line. 00:25:49.875 --> 00:25:58.227 He had to begin his ministry being subject to temptation and overcoming and showing us how to do the same thing. 00:26:01.660 --> 00:26:11.387 And the Bible says in Luke four or two he was hungry and the devil came to him and said well, command that these stones be made bread. 00:26:11.387 --> 00:26:17.811 Well, you know, if he'd have done that he would have sinned. 00:26:17.811 --> 00:26:25.292 He would have been written off, see, and it was a legitimate temptation, because he was hungry. 00:26:25.292 --> 00:26:27.035 His flesh was crying out for food. 00:26:27.035 --> 00:26:28.193 There's nothing wrong with that. 00:26:28.193 --> 00:26:29.307 Our bodies are made like that. 00:26:29.307 --> 00:26:31.815 I mean, you get hungry sometimes. 00:26:31.815 --> 00:26:36.048 That's when you eat, hopefully, unless you're fasting. 00:26:36.048 --> 00:26:39.273 And it seems like when you're fasting you're hungry all the time. 00:26:39.273 --> 00:26:41.585 You're getting hungry or hungry. 00:26:41.585 --> 00:26:46.633 I wasn't hungry until I started fasting. 00:26:46.633 --> 00:26:46.934 Now I'm hungry. 00:26:46.934 --> 00:26:47.718 Now I'm hungry. 00:26:47.718 --> 00:27:02.522 I had a six egg omelet and a rasher of bacon and a five pounds of hash brown potatoes, and I declared it a fast, and now I'm hungry. 00:27:07.714 --> 00:27:11.154 So he said man shall not live by bread alone. 00:27:11.154 --> 00:27:16.738 It is written man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word it proceeds out of the mouth of God, that shall man live. 00:27:16.738 --> 00:27:32.422 So he answered that temptation, he answered that test, and so then the devil took him up to a high mountain and said okay, look out there, look at all these kingdoms and their mind to give you, and I'll give them all to you If you'll just bow down and worship me. 00:27:32.422 --> 00:27:37.778 I've heard one preacher say oh, that one, that one, right, he doesn't have. 00:27:37.778 --> 00:27:38.461 Yes, he does. 00:27:38.461 --> 00:27:40.040 He was the God of this world. 00:27:40.040 --> 00:27:41.756 Because? 00:27:41.756 --> 00:27:42.519 Why? 00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:44.000 Because Adam gave it to him. 00:27:44.714 --> 00:28:00.182 When the minute Adam sinned and committed high treason against God and he obeyed his wife's example and ate that fruit, that was when the devil got hold of the authority that belonged to mankind. 00:28:00.182 --> 00:28:12.473 So and Jesus said you know, it is written you shall worship God alone. 00:28:12.473 --> 00:28:13.728 Him only shall you serve. 00:28:13.728 --> 00:28:16.193 So he answered the devil again. 00:28:16.193 --> 00:28:19.848 It was a legitimate. 00:28:19.848 --> 00:28:21.275 It was a legitimate temptation. 00:28:21.275 --> 00:28:22.564 It was a legitimate temptation. 00:28:23.602 --> 00:28:31.471 He could have taken the devil's place, but he would not have been king of kings and Lord of lords, he wouldn't have been our redeemer. 00:28:31.471 --> 00:28:33.313 Well, that's impossible. 00:28:33.313 --> 00:28:34.474 He was God. 00:28:34.474 --> 00:28:36.548 Yeah, he was God. 00:28:36.548 --> 00:28:37.394 But he wasn't here as God. 00:28:37.394 --> 00:28:41.474 He was here as a man anointed by God. 00:28:41.474 --> 00:28:44.894 He was our high priest. 00:28:44.894 --> 00:28:47.288 You gotta understand. 00:28:47.288 --> 00:28:48.234 I mean, it takes God to do this. 00:28:48.234 --> 00:28:58.326 He laid aside his station, he laid aside his authority and became, as a man, subject to temptation. 00:29:01.317 --> 00:29:05.018