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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Warriors Way – Part 1
Publishing Date: 2023-03-19T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/warriors-way-part-1/

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Okay, Felix and Kaylee actually run the church in Houston

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that we go and visit occasionally.

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I think a few guys from here have been there before.

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Betty and Jeremy and others, so forgot to mention that.

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And then we got to pray for Roslyn.

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She was taken to hospital and there's some internal bleeding

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and the cancer hasn't gone.

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It's in fact become more invasive

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and the doctors are putting her on a timeline.

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And I know some of us have visited her

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and it's not the same Roslyn.

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She doesn't look her usual self,

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but she still is expecting to live every day

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that God has appointed to her.

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And so let's just pray that the internal bleeding stops

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and that she can come home.

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Yeah.

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So let's pray that.

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Father,

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we just want to pray for Roslyn right now.

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Her daughter wrote saying that there's internal bleeding

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and she's been taken to the hospital.

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Father, when Heidi and I met her three weeks ago,

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she still was talking about believing that

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you have all the power to heal her

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and that she is not afraid of death.

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It was both these statements that she made

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and both were true, Father.

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Right now what we ask is for the bleeding to cease.

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They don't know the source of the bleeding.

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You do.

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Her parts were wonderfully made by you.

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So in the name of Jesus Christ, we as a church,

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reach out right now to her and we speak,

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one, the identifying of the source

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and two, the drying up of the bleeding.

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So we go to Luke 8 and we remember the woman

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with the issue of blood.

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And the moment she touched you, her bleeding stopped.

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And so Father, because she's part of the body,

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we touch you.

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We touch you.

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Father, we join our hearts together.

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We agree concerning your power and we exert our faith

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and touch you on behalf of Roslyn.

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And in the name of Jesus Christ,

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command the bleeding to cease right now.

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You're the same yesterday, today and forever.

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So on one hand we reach out to you,

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on the other hand we reach out to her.

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Allow us to hear, who touched me?

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Let her be whole right now.

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In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray.

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Amen.

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Dhillon, come.

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So Jacob just asked me to share some stuff

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that's been happening in Wally.

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So like I encourage you guys to come out to Wally

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and basically just see how God is moving.

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And so like I was out yesterday

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and before we start, we see where God is leading us

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and which people God is leading us to.

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So there was a couple of people that mentioned,

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like Mark, we were praying and Mark had mentioned

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we're gonna meet someone with an oval ring.

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So just to give an example.

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And so PK and Derek and myself,

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we went out to a park and this guy just came up to us

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and just started talking to us.

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And then he came out of his car,

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we asked him what his name was, his name was Gopal

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and there was another guy in a car named Michael.

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And as we're looking at him and he's talking to us,

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we notice he has an oval ring.

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I was like, and then we started, wow, this is incredible.

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And we started sharing the gospel

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and so his name is Gopal and Michael.

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So we should pray for them and we meet so many other,

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there's so many incredible stories like that.

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So I just encourage you to come and see how God is moving.

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And it also helps you to kind of walk in the spirit.

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Like it's helping me to learn how to share the gospel

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and just be bold and also to see

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how God is preparing people.

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Like you don't have to go to people.

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People are just ready to come.

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So I just encourage you guys to come out.

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Do you wanna ask if anyone wants to come out this week?

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Anyone?

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A show of hands.

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I'm already volunteering the guys

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from Houston and Calgary.

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Amen.

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So that's three.

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Anybody else who wants to go out this week?

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What day this week, Dilna?

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Saturday.

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Saturday.

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Ruth, you look like you wanted to put your hand up.

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So Ruth, and then let's pick one from this side.

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Kamal, you just put your hand up.

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All right, Kamal and Ruth, thank you.

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No, you did this.

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Okay, it was Joan's birthday yesterday.

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And it's Kamal's 80th birthday on, I forgot,

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April 30th, March 30th.

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So just remember to be nice to them.

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All righty.

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Hey, so this week we'll begin our moving into Victoria.

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So just thought we'll go down this path

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of a two-series, a two-series sermon series

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called Warriors Way.

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And so let me start with the fact that the church

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at Antioch is the kind of church that Acts 29

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is, will be, aims to continue being.

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And so the church at Antioch in Acts 13,

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what a special place it is.

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What is special about it is it represented a governing,

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territorial, apostolic church.

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Who's playing the guitar?

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Sade?

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Okay.

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So Antioch was a governing, as in it had the ability

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to rule, it wasn't just evangelism and birthing people

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into the faith, it was more than that.

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It wasn't only discipling, it was, is it possible

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to extend God's rule into a city, a town, a nation?

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So there was this idea of governing.

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It was territorial, as in there were areas appointed to it.

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From Antioch, the gospel spread to Colosse, Corinth,

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Ephesus, the regions of Galatia.

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All these places were affected by the church in Antioch.

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And so it was governing, it was territorial,

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it was apostolic, apostolic means it was sent

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with a message.

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So the word sent, the dimension of being sent

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was very active in Antioch.

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So these three things were very specific to Antioch

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and therefore it was able to impact regions

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and it was able to impact territories.

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And these were regions and territories

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that were given into its jurisdiction.

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So if you don't know your jurisdiction,

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what do you mean by jurisdiction?

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The area that you have permission in

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and when God gives you permission in a certain area,

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he gives you authority that goes with it.

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That's what jurisdiction means.

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So any questions on just that statement?

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I may have spelled Colosse wrong, S-A-E, A-E.

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Any questions on this bit?

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So why use the word governing?

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Because can a region or a territory be affected

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by a church?

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Can its leaders be affected?

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Can its political, social, political,

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social, economic structure be affected?

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That's what governing means.

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So when the church enters into Ephesus,

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Ephesus' economy is affected.

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Ephesus' rulers shift, Ephesus' powers,

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both visible and invisible shift.

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Read the book of Acts 18, 19, you'll see it.

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So that's what we mean by governing.

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It's not just evangelism and discipling.

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We may not know the length and breadth of it,

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but we know that it was example for us

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and therefore must be imitated.

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And the people in Ephesus were as ordinary as you and I.

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So there was nothing special about that place.

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Most of them ended up in Antioch

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because of dispersion due to persecution.

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And then from there on, they began to spread.

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Territorial, territorial,

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there's a region that's allotted to you

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and it can be different places, eh?

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Very rarely has this church gone into a place

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that we don't have permission in.

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Tooney is doing a project where he's researching

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how churches that build house churches work.

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And so he's going to be sitting with Kaylee and Felix

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to talk about what they're doing in Houston.

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Different places he's going to be talking about.

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So when we looked at the number of churches

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that have been affected by what Chad is doing

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and what I'm doing and what some of his people are doing

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and what we are doing,

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there were close to 263 churches

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in the last four or five years.

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Because we don't keep account,

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we do not understand what has happened

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with this tiny seed, Colax 29.

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We don't understand.

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263 churches, and if you look at what is at present brewing

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and what has already been planted,

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you're talking about 26 nations.

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The only continent that hasn't been touched is the Antarctic.

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So we don't realize the seed and its potency

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because we are not keeping track

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and because we look very ordinary,

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so nobody keeps track.

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Japan has been on our minds for years,

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ever since Prashant got jumped out of a car.

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And so ever since then, it's been this desire, Japan,

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and now going into Japan.

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So these are territories that are allotted to a church.

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And then once you have governing and territorial,

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then it has to be apostolic,

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as in there has to be a sentness to the church,

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as in a church that's willing to go with three hours notice,

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15 hour notice.

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It's highly inconvenient.

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That is a word May kept using more than I'd wanted.

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But it's an inconvenient and it costs, see?

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And that's part of, sentness is inconvenient,

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but sentness was highly inconvenient for Jesus.

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And then he makes a statement in John 20 saying,

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as I have sent, as the father has sent me,

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so I sent you.

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And then we talked about jurisdiction.

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And jurisdiction is a very important part of our life.

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So jurisdiction is the area you have permission over.

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And once you know you have permission in a certain place,

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with that permission comes authority.

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And if you use that authority well, then you have immunity.

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If you don't use that authority well,

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then you don't have the kind of immunity

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that comes with authority.

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Power is not enough, eh?

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You need authority.

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Roland Tan would often tell the story of a man

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who goes and checks out farms in the UK.

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Yeah, we won't go there.

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Any questions?

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Basically, he went into a bullpen

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and realized that he has authority,

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but he didn't have power and so on.

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But it's a complicated story, it doesn't fit right now.

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Any questions on this?

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Okay.

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If that's the case, then we need to also know

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that inheritance is given.

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Inheritance is given.

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And how do we know that?

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We know that from Psalm two, verse eight,

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where God says to Jesus, and now Jesus is saying to us,

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ask of me and I will give you the nations as your inheritance.

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So inheritance is given.

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But inheritance, if it's given, must be possessed.

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It must be possessed.

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You read about that in Deuteronomy one, 20 and 21.

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It talks about Israel, I'm gonna allot you land.

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And this is the land that I have promised you.

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I'm giving you this land, but as I may,

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I don't see anything that you have come back with.

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Oh, okay, sorry.

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Oh, sorry, Betty, Betty.

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Sorry, very sorry.

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Yeah, so, sorry, very sorry, Betty.

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So it has to be possessed.

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In Deuteronomy one, verse 20 and 21,

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it says that I'm giving you this land, God says to Israel,

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but if I'm giving you this land,

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it doesn't mean you can have it

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without going in and possessing it.

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But the moment we talk about possession,

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we have another problem, because you cannot possess,

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you cannot possess till you,

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dispossess previous owners or occupiers.

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Any questions on that statement?

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May the occupiers sort of include everybody

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that occupies that land?

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We're talking spiritually.

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Yeah.

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We have to give New Testament examples for this.

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Is this true?

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Because everything has to be supported by scripture.

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This is not a good idea.

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Okay, thank you.

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Yeah, I don't know, Betty isn't doing a good job.

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Sorry, guys, this is on me.

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I apologize, if you're new here,

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if you're from Calgary or Houston, we apologize.

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This is when I go out to the screen.

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See, Derek didn't know that.

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Yeah, so do we see examples of this?

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So you go with Paul to Ephesus,

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and the first thing he deals with,

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Paul deals with Artemis,

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because he knows that if Artemis isn't dealt with,

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Ephesus cannot be taken.

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So sometimes you deal with dispossession

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in terms of actual spiritual entities.

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In Ephesus, it was Artemis,

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and in dealing with Artemis, she becomes so undone,

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and this was the deity that was famous

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throughout Asia Minor.

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And then, once Artemis is dealt with,

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50,000 drachmas, which was millions of dollars worth

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of material that was from witchcraft and sorcery

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was burnt in that city.

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Let's go to Cyprus.

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In Cyprus, there was a place called Paphos,

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and then sometimes it's not actual spiritual entities,

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it's actual spiritual people,

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and in this case, it was a man called Elimas.

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And Paphos, nothing happened in Paphos

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till Paul dealt with Elimas.

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Elimas was known as a great one.

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He used to prevent governors and rulers in Paphos

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from hearing the word of God,

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and Paul goes and confronts him.

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And once he's confronted,

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Sergius Paulus, the governor of the island,

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begins to listen to Paul and actually becomes a believer.

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Sometimes it's human entities,

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and then sometimes it is powers

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that are structural or political.

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Where do we see an example of this in the Bible?

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We see it in Revelation two,

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where Jesus actually says to the church in Pergamum,

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that I know where you dwell.

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You dwell where the throne of Satan is.

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And why did he call it the throne of Satan?

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Because in Pergamum,

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there was something called the imperial cult,

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and for the first time, at least in the history of Rome,

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Augustus actually set himself up as God,

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and there was an altar to him that was worshiped.

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And then besides that, there was another God,

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which we often see in the,

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and he was represented by a serpent,

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and it was Asclepius, which was the serpent savior.

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And so for Christians in Pergamum,

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they knew they were up against a very difficult city

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because to not worship Augustus

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was to basically be persecuted.

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And both had altars.

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As you entered Pergamum, it was built on a hill,

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and the way the altars and the temples were built from far,

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it would look like a throne.

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And so Jesus says, I know where you live.

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And so in different places,

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the entities that have to be undone are different.

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These things are not usually taught in church.

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They're usually taught at some special course or something.

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But if all of us, or at least the ones that are willing,

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we'll talk about that later.

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If all of us are planning to be a church

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that goes to the islands and begins to affect it,

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then all of us need to have an understanding

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of what we're dealing with.

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Any questions?

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Yep.

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What's the difference between like,

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I guess, the individual versus like...

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Yeah, I've got the answer.

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I've got the answer.

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I'm gonna come to that.

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So guys, you must go forth and subdue.

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You must go forth and subdue.

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You must go forth and subdue

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so that you can multiply and replenish.

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To multiply and replenish.

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It's part of the Genesis mandate.

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It's part of the Genesis mandate.

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And I've said this before, perhaps.

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I think I've said it.

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The kingdom of God is advanced

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through warfare.

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And cannot be understood apart from,

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cannot be understood apart from spiritual conflict.

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Any questions, any thoughts?

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The kingdom of God cannot be advanced

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or is always advanced through warfare

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and cannot be understood apart from spiritual conflict.

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Any questions?

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So you can't think of kingdom without thinking of warfare.

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You cannot think of warfare without thinking of kingdom.

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Both are mutually inclusive.

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So one cannot talk about kingdom without realizing

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that there are other kingdoms

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that will contest life and land.

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And you cannot think about warfare without thinking.

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It is not about casting out a demon necessarily,

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but it is about advancing the reign and the rule of God

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throughout the earth, one life at a time.

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So.

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If I can just back up to what you were talking about previously,

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how do you know that we have authority in the world?

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Okay, so how do you know you have authority

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in your office over a certain place?

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Because Jesus said.

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No, no, no, I'm talking about the office, real office now.

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Yeah, how do you know in your workplace

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what you have authority over,

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the rooms that you can enter,

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who you can ask to do things where you cannot go,

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how do you know?

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Someone has to give it to you.

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Someone gives you permission.

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So in the same way, in the kingdom,

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permission is again given through the arrangement

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that God has established.

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So in a home, it will be parents.

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In a marriage, there's a husband who's first among equals.

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In a church, it's elders.

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Among the elders, it's the one that is appointed.

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In a nation, it's the king or the president

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or prime minister and so on.

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When it comes to law, it's the police.

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In the police, it's the head honcho and so on.

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So there's an arrangement that God has established.

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God has established.

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So permission comes through an arrangement

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and if the person gets it wrong,

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then everyone under begins to struggle, strive, suffer.

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Therefore, it says righteousness exalts a nation

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while unrighteousness or wickedness tears it down.

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So we are given permission by someone over us.

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And then in the context of the kingdom,

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once permission is given, then one has to talk about it

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so that others, because God doesn't operate

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through any one man.

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He refuses to because that one man then becomes Christ.

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So he may deliver a message to someone,

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but then he has to talk to him and her and me

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and now it begins to flesh out.

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The permission is given to the church.

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The permission is actually, God's hope is

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now that I've given permission to this particular tribe,

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I hope this tribe will go and do what it's supposed to do.

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So when Caleb says, give me those hills

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where the anach dwell, he's not gonna take it alone.

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Caleb belongs to a tribe.

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And so the tribe goes and takes it.

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So the tribe goes and takes it.

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So the tribe goes and takes it.

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So the tribe goes and takes it.

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So the tribe goes and takes it.

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And so the tribe goes and takes it.

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And there are people in the tribe who want to go.

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And there are people in the tribe who don't wanna go.

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There are people in the tribe who've trained to go.

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There are people in the tribe who haven't trained to go.

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There are people in the tribe that are young

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and inexperienced.

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There are people in the tribe that are veterans.

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There are people in the tribe that are afraid.

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There are people that are in the tribe who are not afraid.

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There are people in the tribe

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that are walking in obedience and purity.

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There are people in the tribe

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that are not walking in obedience and purity.

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So those things matter, but at the end of the day

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when we go and get what God has promised us,

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everyone gets a share of it.

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Nobody is left out on the basis of were they obedient,

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not obedient, pure, not pure,

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were they trained, not trained.

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No, everybody benefits from the spoils.

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If we use the arrangement that God has established,

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is that the same as the order of the Utah?

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Yeah, but whenever we use order,

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something in us begins to rebel,

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so I prefer using arrangement

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because it's the same thing,

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but when you use order, it's like...

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Okay, so the church is warfare.

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Yep.

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Yeah, you read Hebrews 13 and Romans 13,

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and you will basically get the hang of

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how to handle tyrannical masters who have...

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Because God appoints people to positions,

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but they can turn tyrannical and corrupt and nasty,

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and sometimes that ends up in us

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having to bear unfair burdens,

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and so during situations like that,

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I'm still supposed to follow the law

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except when it contravenes the law of God.

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So if you go to Romans 13,

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I'm sorry.

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Everyone must submit himself to governing authorities,

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for there is no authority

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except that which God has established.

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That sounds so contradictory sometimes.

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How could God establish such a certain thing?

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But sometimes God gives you the choice

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to accept, vote for a certain person,

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and people in their rebellion can vote for someone else.

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Sometimes people get what they deserve,

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sometimes people get what they don't deserve,

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but has been imposed on them by that which is evil

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because we live in a fallen world,

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but let's read the rest of it.

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Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities,

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for there is no authority

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except that which God has established.

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The authorities that exist have been established by God.

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Consequently, he who rebels against the authority

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is rebelling against what God has instituted,

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and those who do so will bring judgment upon themselves.

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For rulers hold no terror for those who do right.

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This is God's standard.

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But sometimes, like James is saying,

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what if they get tyrannical?

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Now, new issues arise

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when you operate under a tyrannical ruler.

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Do you stand up for justice or do you not?

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Do you stand up for someone else's justice or do you not?

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Do you stand up for things that are God's law versus

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the law of the land?

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I met a well-known actor from Hollywood recently,

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and he said there are three types of Hollywood stars.

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There's one type that are believers,

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he's talking only about believers.

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He said there's one type that are believing Hollywood stars,

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and they will keep quiet and keep acting.

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They do not speak about their Christianity,

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so that's one type.

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Then he said there's a second type

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that realized that this is too much.

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Their values are always clashing with how Hollywood operates,

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and so they eventually quit.

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That's when they kill them off in some series,

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or in the end of the movie,

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the guy has to save the girl,

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and he jumps off a building and she gets saved.

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That's usually how you know that,

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poor guy, he couldn't handle Hollywood.

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And then he says there's a third category,

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and this guy belongs to the third category,

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and he says you speak up.

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But if you speak up, you get ostracized

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by the entire Hollywood community,

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and you become like a pariah.

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Those are our choices when it comes to tyrannical,

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powers that are structural.

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And sometimes you end up in trouble

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because you speak for someone else's injustice.

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You're not being treated unjustly,

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but you cannot hold back from speaking up

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for someone else's oppression.

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So the church's warfare is Christocentric,

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as in it is centered on Christ.

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It focuses primarily on Christ.

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But how does it focus on Christ?

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It focuses on Christ as the warrior king.

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That's how it focuses on Christ.

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It doesn't focus on Christ as the gentle lamb.

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It doesn't focus on Christ as the one

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who comes riding in on a donkey.

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It focuses on Christ as the warrior king.

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When you look at the motif of scripture

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right from Genesis to the book of Revelation,

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it is replete with the portrayal of Christ as a warrior king.

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Like every book in the Bible

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has him appear as warrior king.

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There's not one book in the Bible where it's not shown.

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And so the church's warfare is Christocentric,

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or Christ-centered, and the primary focus

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is on Christ as a warrior king,

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and not on principalities and powers.

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That's not the primary focus.

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So one of the things you often hear,

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and is we have to focus on Christ,

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not on the evil powers.

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So on one hand it is true, we have to focus on Christ.

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But after focusing on Christ,

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we have to be aware of the wilds of the devil,

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the devices of the devil.

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One of the things we have to understand,

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is that it's never this or that.

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It's always held in tension.

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The sooner we get over that, the easier it is.

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So be Christocentric, but after being Christocentric,

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go examine the wilds and devices of the devil.

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Because if you don't, all you have is stock.

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So now to answer Jill's question, which I cut off.

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The church's warfare on one hand,

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Acts 29's warfare, let's say Acts 29's warfare,

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is on one hand, is one corporate.

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As in, it is,

00:32:34.800 --> 00:32:36.040
it is,

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it is,

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it is,

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it is

00:32:41.800 --> 00:32:43.680
the community

00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:45.920
that is involved,

00:32:48.080 --> 00:32:50.560
not individuals.

00:32:50.560 --> 00:32:52.800
This is a rarity in churches.

00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:56.080
The reason we have these things called

00:32:56.080 --> 00:32:57.760
deliverance ministries,

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and it's crazy common in South Africa,

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is because churches think that dealing with powers

00:33:07.360 --> 00:33:10.840
and principalities is some speciality.

00:33:10.840 --> 00:33:13.360
And Jesus' words to the church was,

00:33:13.360 --> 00:33:14.520
those that believe in me,

00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:19.600
will speak in new tongues, will cast out demons,

00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:20.720
will heal the sick.

00:33:21.800 --> 00:33:23.560
It is supposed to be a corporate affair,

00:33:23.560 --> 00:33:26.920
not highly individualized affairs.

00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:28.360
And when it becomes highly individualized,

00:33:28.360 --> 00:33:29.640
then we have this healing ministry

00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:30.960
and that deliverance ministry,

00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:34.080
and this freedom course, and that freedom course,

00:33:34.080 --> 00:33:37.040
and a few people teach it,

00:33:37.040 --> 00:33:38.400
a few people specialize,

00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:39.760
the rest of us go attend,

00:33:39.760 --> 00:33:42.320
and we really don't know whether we're doing right or wrong.

00:33:44.760 --> 00:33:46.040
That has to end,

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because this was supposed to be

00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:49.680
something that was done corporately.

00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:53.840
Strange how Israel wouldn't select a few to go and battle,

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all the men that were above 20 had to go out to war.

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Wasn't like, I'm above 20,

00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:05.000
but I want to be an environmental engineer, too bad.

00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:10.120
Both the brothers would have been registered for war.

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Of course, one would put another one in front of him,

00:34:15.040 --> 00:34:16.160
and we know which one.

00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:21.400
Well, that's another person who's coming next week.

00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:24.360
The other brother's wife is coming next week.

00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:25.200
Oh, yeah.

00:34:31.200 --> 00:34:33.440
For the last month and a half,

00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:35.560
that other brother has had this constant excuse,

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I'll ask him to come to New York,

00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:39.920
ask him to come to LA, ask him to come to Timbuktu.

00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:42.440
I have to buy groceries because my wife is coming.

00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:43.280
Ah!

00:34:44.560 --> 00:34:47.200
By now, he must have a grocery store.

00:34:51.200 --> 00:34:53.800
For those of us who don't know who this brother is,

00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:54.800
could you please stand?

00:34:56.200 --> 00:34:57.760
Would the real brother stand?

00:34:57.800 --> 00:34:59.160
Would the real brother stand?

00:35:04.560 --> 00:35:06.720
So, if it's not corporate,

00:35:06.720 --> 00:35:10.440
then it becomes, it's just highly individualized,

00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:12.560
and that's not the way to go.

00:35:12.560 --> 00:35:13.400
Second,

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it is strategic.

00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:28.320
As in, it does deal with principalities and powers,

00:35:34.640 --> 00:35:37.280
and this requires

00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:40.400
us to be

00:35:41.760 --> 00:35:42.600
trained

00:35:43.600 --> 00:35:44.440
by

00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:46.280
the word,

00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:49.600
by

00:35:49.600 --> 00:35:50.440
the spirit,

00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:53.600
by

00:35:54.600 --> 00:35:58.960
practice as in going and actually being an apprentice.

00:36:03.160 --> 00:36:04.800
And the moment I say apprentice,

00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:06.760
you have to go with someone

00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:09.520
who's done it before.

00:36:15.040 --> 00:36:16.000
Who is experienced?

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Experienced in what?

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Experienced in the word,

00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:20.280
experienced in the spirit,

00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:21.680
experienced in practice.

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This is how it works,

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and if you don't do this,

00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:27.520
you can't participate in this.

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So, I guess the question doesn't work out.

00:36:33.320 --> 00:36:35.720
Yeah, so there's a third category,

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and the third category is

00:36:38.720 --> 00:36:40.920
the church's warfare is personal

00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:47.160
because spirits are personal beings.

00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:56.200
And they assault individuals.

00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:02.360
They assault individuals.

00:37:03.320 --> 00:37:04.800
So they assaulted Adam,

00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:07.200
they assaulted Judas,

00:37:08.160 --> 00:37:10.040
they assaulted Peter,

00:37:10.040 --> 00:37:11.480
and they assaulted Jesus.

00:37:13.200 --> 00:37:14.720
And so individual believers

00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:16.880
have to learn

00:37:20.160 --> 00:37:21.000
how to

00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:26.640
fight especially in the

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battlefield

00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:30.640
of the mind.

00:37:33.560 --> 00:37:34.880
2 Corinthians 10,

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verse three to five talks about it.

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Taking down every high and lofty thing

00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:44.520
that raises itself up against knowledge of God.

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And so it's on three different levels

00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:50.560
that a church needs to operate.

00:37:50.560 --> 00:37:52.440
On one hand, it's corporate,

00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:54.120
on one hand, it's strategic,

00:37:54.120 --> 00:37:55.680
on one hand, it is personal.

00:37:56.760 --> 00:37:59.120
And so on one hand,

00:37:59.120 --> 00:38:01.160
you cannot ignore someone who's demonized

00:38:01.160 --> 00:38:02.080
and needs help,

00:38:02.080 --> 00:38:04.640
and you go cast out the demon from that person.

00:38:06.560 --> 00:38:07.960
On the other hand,

00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:09.200
if you're going into a place,

00:38:09.200 --> 00:38:10.320
you have to be strategic,

00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:11.480
and you have to know

00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:13.040
what is God asking you to deal with?

00:38:13.040 --> 00:38:14.640
And you only deal with that.

00:38:14.640 --> 00:38:17.200
There may be a hundred things that you are facing,

00:38:17.200 --> 00:38:18.800
but if God says deal with one thing,

00:38:18.800 --> 00:38:20.520
you deal with that one thing.

00:38:20.560 --> 00:38:21.960
And on the third,

00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:23.320
it's corporate as in it shouldn't be

00:38:23.320 --> 00:38:25.640
a few specialized individuals.

00:38:25.640 --> 00:38:26.840
Over a period of a year,

00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:29.240
the whole church should be able to deal with it.

00:38:29.240 --> 00:38:31.640
When more people learn how to deal with it,

00:38:31.640 --> 00:38:33.560
this spreads faster.

00:38:33.560 --> 00:38:36.240
As long as you have experts that do it,

00:38:36.240 --> 00:38:39.320
everybody will have to seek out those few experts.

00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:43.200
This is what happened to media.

00:38:43.200 --> 00:38:44.880
You had amazing newspapers

00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:46.480
and a few big time reporters.

00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:49.960
Now, anybody with a phone can report news,

00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:51.320
but it spreads faster.

00:38:53.240 --> 00:38:56.120
It's as true or false as the regular media,

00:38:56.120 --> 00:38:57.680
but at least it spreads faster.

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Any questions?

00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:02.840
What?

00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:05.960
Go ahead.

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So I guess my question is about

00:39:10.760 --> 00:39:14.720
like dealing with, okay, spiritual warfare, whatever,

00:39:15.720 --> 00:39:18.120
you know, individuals who are just saying,

00:39:18.640 --> 00:39:21.880
like going to, somebody going to like a Buddha

00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:24.440
and saying, you know, spirit of Buddha

00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:26.200
is a lean kind of thing,

00:39:26.200 --> 00:39:29.880
which I don't think is quite our mandate here.

00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:30.720
No.

00:39:30.720 --> 00:39:32.120
And sometimes people get in trouble.

00:39:32.120 --> 00:39:32.960
Yeah.

00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:33.800
That kind of thing.

00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:34.640
Yeah.

00:39:34.640 --> 00:39:37.440
So then, which is why we go here?

00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:40.120
This is super important, eh?

00:39:40.120 --> 00:39:41.480
And that's why I said,

00:39:41.480 --> 00:39:44.080
without training, you cannot do this.

00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:46.160
You cannot.

00:39:46.160 --> 00:39:47.640
It's just not right.

00:39:48.160 --> 00:39:52.000
You haven't earned the right if you haven't chosen to train.

00:39:54.160 --> 00:39:56.640
That's each person's choice.

00:39:57.880 --> 00:39:59.360
And how do we train?

00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:00.720
Very simple.

00:40:00.720 --> 00:40:02.040
This is how Jesus trained them.

00:40:02.040 --> 00:40:04.520
He gave them the word.

00:40:05.560 --> 00:40:09.160
He anointed them in the spirit.

00:40:10.640 --> 00:40:13.840
He took them along with him.

00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:20.200
And once he had done this,

00:40:20.200 --> 00:40:23.120
he was able to send them out.

00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:28.120
And he sent them out two by two,

00:40:28.120 --> 00:40:32.400
so that even there, they had people to depend on.

00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:37.400
And so if these three things aren't your cup of tea,

00:40:42.080 --> 00:40:46.320
then drink coffee.

00:40:47.120 --> 00:40:47.960
So.

00:40:52.720 --> 00:40:53.800
Yeah.

00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:56.640
So, this is important.

00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:02.800
Diana, are you giving her questions?

00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:06.320
No, but I'm silently cheering her on.

00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:07.160
Okay.

00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:10.840
I'm highly suspicious if you're sitting behind her

00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:13.640
and being completely quiet and she's asking all of it.

00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:17.680
I'm just like, I don't know.

00:41:17.680 --> 00:41:19.600
All righty, go ahead.

00:41:19.600 --> 00:41:23.320
So, I knew I raised this system a quick before,

00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:27.400
but we do have examples in modern missionary history

00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:32.400
of, say, a Japanese looser or the little woman.

00:41:34.040 --> 00:41:34.880
Gladys.

00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:35.720
Gladys Edwin.

00:41:35.720 --> 00:41:36.560
Yeah, yeah.

00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:40.160
People that didn't go by themselves.

00:41:40.160 --> 00:41:44.560
So how do you, and there's other people that,

00:41:44.560 --> 00:41:46.640
they got a call to go somewhere and.

00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:52.960
These two ladies tried like crazy.

00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:59.400
They begged, they pleaded, they manipulated

00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:06.960
mission boards to send them and send them with a team.

00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:11.880
And the man dominated mission boards at those times,

00:42:11.880 --> 00:42:14.920
refused, and got to go.

00:42:16.560 --> 00:42:20.320
It's not his preferred method, but he took over.

00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:22.400
And then they trained people under them

00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:26.080
so that that would not happen to them.

00:42:26.080 --> 00:42:27.520
These women were exceptional.

00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:32.080
Gladys Edwin, when it begged, she would try to give her age

00:42:32.080 --> 00:42:34.760
as less than what it was, or more than what it was

00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:36.960
so that she could be selected.

00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:40.800
But women are only supposed to be prayer warriors

00:42:40.840 --> 00:42:43.880
who intercede in the basement of the church.

00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:46.520
It's men who go, ah.

00:42:50.040 --> 00:42:54.560
So that's what happened with Gladys Edwin

00:42:54.560 --> 00:42:57.520
and with Jackie Pullinger.

00:42:57.520 --> 00:42:59.360
And then they changed it around, eh?

00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:02.360
When they had their turn, when they were established.

00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:06.680
And they, I mean, Gladys changed how China used to raise

00:43:06.680 --> 00:43:07.920
its babies, man.

00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:10.040
Leave alone the evangelism that happened through her.

00:43:10.040 --> 00:43:13.640
Jackie Pullinger changed Hong Kong's triad gangs

00:43:13.640 --> 00:43:15.040
and changed the drug culture.

00:43:15.040 --> 00:43:18.560
One woman, just by the sheer power of the Spirit of God.

00:43:18.560 --> 00:43:21.240
Always remember, guys, I remember preaching on this.

00:43:21.240 --> 00:43:23.440
It's always one man, one woman.

00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:24.760
Starts there.

00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:26.160
It is God's way of starting.

00:43:27.200 --> 00:43:29.360
It is not to show that this man is a champion

00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:30.280
or this woman is a champion.

00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:33.280
It's to show how powerful he is

00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:35.680
because one woman or one man cannot achieve it.

00:43:35.680 --> 00:43:36.520
Thank you.

00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:40.320
And Jacob, just so we know, I don't know

00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:42.160
if Gladys' story is, I'm gonna read that,

00:43:42.160 --> 00:43:46.040
but Jackie, when she got there and she ran a big difficult,

00:43:46.040 --> 00:43:48.760
she encountered other Christians again.

00:43:48.760 --> 00:43:49.840
Support her.

00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:52.120
It's a fabulous book if you haven't read it, eh?

00:43:52.120 --> 00:43:53.120
Chasing the Dragon.

00:43:53.120 --> 00:43:54.440
That's really good.

00:43:56.040 --> 00:43:58.520
I've got a copy of it.

00:43:58.520 --> 00:43:59.360
Yeah.

00:44:00.120 --> 00:44:00.960
Excellent.

00:44:04.520 --> 00:44:07.960
So these are the three ways the church must battle.

00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:09.160
Any questions on that?

00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:16.120
Okay, so Christ the Warrior King.

00:44:16.120 --> 00:44:19.240
Christ the Warrior King.

00:44:19.240 --> 00:44:22.800
There are very few songs written about the Warrior King

00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:24.480
because the church cannot relate to Christ

00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:25.480
as the Warrior King.

00:44:26.480 --> 00:44:29.240
The max we go to is Lion of Judah.

00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:33.200
But then we don't know what to do after that.

00:44:33.200 --> 00:44:37.800
Christ the Warrior King continues his mission today

00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:42.800
against Satan and an army of demonic forces.

00:44:48.080 --> 00:44:53.080
And he does it amazingly through the church

00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:55.840
or through us.

00:44:57.760 --> 00:45:00.360
And when he finds that a church is not willing to rise

00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:02.480
to this, he has to find a few people.

00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:07.760
But he would prefer doing it through the church

00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:09.720
because it is his body.

00:45:13.200 --> 00:45:15.000
Remember one thing, that in the world,

00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:18.920
there is only one thing under attack, the body of Christ.

00:45:19.680 --> 00:45:22.000
But that shouldn't give us a victim mentality

00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.400
because the one thing that is under attack

00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:26.920
is the only thing that remains standing.

00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:29.960
It's very odd how this works.

00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:32.600
There is nothing else on the earth

00:45:32.600 --> 00:45:35.320
that everybody seeks to attack

00:45:36.160 --> 00:45:38.600
because the systems of the world have only one intent.

00:45:38.600 --> 00:45:43.600
Can we undo, damage, destroy, kill, steal from the body

00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:47.320
because it belongs to Christ, the King of the universe.

00:45:47.600 --> 00:45:49.520
Everything in the world is geared towards that.

00:45:50.680 --> 00:45:52.720
But what they don't realize is, at the end of the day,

00:45:52.720 --> 00:45:55.680
it is the only thing that remains standing.

00:45:57.080 --> 00:45:58.880
So the mentality is not that of a victim.

00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:06.080
So Christ the Warrior King wants to fight

00:46:06.080 --> 00:46:07.720
with and through the church.

00:46:07.720 --> 00:46:11.000
And there are some things he does that he wants us to do.

00:46:12.040 --> 00:46:16.000
He wants us to thwart subversion, as in,

00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:20.480
can you prevent the subversion of the kingdom?

00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:23.600
Can you prevent it from being contaminated, adulterated,

00:46:23.600 --> 00:46:27.840
diluted, polluted, hybridized, mutated, distorted?

00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:31.520
Can you prevent that thwart subversion of the kingdom,

00:46:31.520 --> 00:46:32.640
of the kingdom of God?

00:46:34.440 --> 00:46:37.040
Second thing he wants us, can you advance the kingdom?

00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:39.400
Advance the kingdom of God?

00:46:42.360 --> 00:46:45.400
Because the gates of hell must not prevail against.

00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:47.000
There must be an advancement.

00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:48.840
What does advancement look like?

00:46:48.840 --> 00:46:51.080
Advancement doesn't look like a Republican

00:46:51.080 --> 00:46:52.280
being in the White House.

00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:56.800
Advancement looks like people being brought into the kingdom

00:46:56.800 --> 00:46:59.120
and raised to be sons of the kingdom,

00:46:59.120 --> 00:47:00.680
so that they can be sent out.

00:47:04.040 --> 00:47:06.080
Third, can you assault darkness?

00:47:12.240 --> 00:47:14.840
Isaiah 49, 44.

00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:19.240
And lastly, can you rescue prisoners?

00:47:24.040 --> 00:47:25.840
We must say, no, this God can do.

00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:26.680
Why should we do that?

00:47:26.680 --> 00:47:27.920
Can't we just worship the Lord

00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:31.040
and just focus on discipling and evangelism?

00:47:31.040 --> 00:47:33.000
Hey, someone did this for you.

00:47:34.080 --> 00:47:35.280
Colossians 1.13.

00:47:37.080 --> 00:47:39.040
That someone was Jesus, but besides Jesus,

00:47:39.040 --> 00:47:40.480
people had to do this for you.

00:47:41.400 --> 00:47:43.680
Colossians 1.13, you have been transferred,

00:47:43.680 --> 00:47:45.640
removed, rescued from where?

00:47:45.640 --> 00:47:47.000
From the kingdom of darkness.

00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:47.840
Into what?

00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:49.200
Into the dominion of the sun.

00:48:02.160 --> 00:48:05.880
There was this guy called Daniel Igali from Nigeria.

00:48:07.080 --> 00:48:09.400
Through many hardships, he came to Canada.

00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:11.600
He was a wrestler.

00:48:12.600 --> 00:48:16.280
He was able to go to the Olympics as a Canadian wrestler.

00:48:17.120 --> 00:48:18.400
He wins the gold medal.

00:48:19.680 --> 00:48:21.520
First thing he does after he wins the gold medal

00:48:21.520 --> 00:48:23.800
is grab a Canadian flag.

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He puts it, and it's just automatic.

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He isn't even thinking.

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He grabs a Canadian flag that someone throws,

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puts it in the ring in the middle,

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and he runs around it, and he's so happy for Canada.

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And he kisses the flag.

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Why was he doing it?

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Because he knew what he came out of,

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and he knew what he came into.

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And bearing that flag was a matter of honor.

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So I'm asking you, do you bear this with honor?

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And will you bear it with honor the way God has prescribed?

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There should be a passion for the bride and the kingdom

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that arises in our hearts by this time,

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at least in this church.

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These are four things that we will have to begin to think

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along the lines of.

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And when it comes to strategic,

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I don't use the word strategic just to make things sound

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good, because there is something called

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strategic-level spiritual warfare,

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which requires us to find things

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that God wants us to deal with.

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And let's say God shows us something that we can't do.

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Let's say God shows us something about a territory

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that has to be dealt with.

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As he showed Paul, as he showed Paul in Cyprus,

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as he showed Paul in Ephesus,

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as he showed the church in Pergamum.

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Then, can our prayers, it starts with prayer, eh?

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It starts with prayer, so everybody can at least start there.

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Starts with prayer, and our prayers have to be sustained.

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As in, it's not a one-time thing.

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Our prayers have to be incisive,

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as in penetrating.

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It can't be these general prayers.

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And how do we avoid general prayers?

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It's very easy.

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Take orders.

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If you're going to a restaurant and say,

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I want something with meat.

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Doesn't work.

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You have to give an order.

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I want a, not Beyond Burger, what's the...

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Yeah, you have to be specific.

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Once you're specific, you get what you need.

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How do you pray incisive prayers?

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Incisive prayers are prayed by listening first to God,

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and then asking whoever is in charge,

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how do you want us to pray?

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And then stick with it.

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I've taken people with me.

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I'm not talking about this church.

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I remember going to a place

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where really nasty stuff was happening,

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and we're sitting in a church in the middle of nowhere.

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The church is called the Church in the Wilderness.

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It's St. John's Baptist Church in the Wilderness.

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That's the name of the church,

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and it's actually in the wilderness.

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And we're sitting and we're praying,

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and very specifically told people how to pray.

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And three other people prayed specifically.

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The other two went and prayed for everything under the sun.

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I'm waiting to think, why?

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Why can't you take orders?

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What is it in us that begins to rebel

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every time we are told to take orders?

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Even if you don't agree, deal with it after the fight.

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You're not in the thick of the battle.

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And this is only found out when you take a person with you.

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Tigab, it's easy for you to say you're in charge

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and so you get away with anything you want to say.

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Yes, but I also went through not being in charge and serving.

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I didn't get here, I didn't drop out of heaven,

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obviously you know that.

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Let there be no question about that.

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But I had to serve and I had to learn how to take orders.

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Sometimes things that I didn't like, but you do it

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because you can ask the questions later.

00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:15.800
I had to trust those I didn't trust.

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Yeah, then know that you can say,

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do you think this is a good idea?

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And then just follow.

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Because you will be the only one that's safe

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because you did it right.

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There's something about following the arrangement of God

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that protects you, even if the person in charge

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gets it wrong.

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It's crazy how this works.

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God says.

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I'll give you an example from Elmer and Anne's life

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that they shared publicly.

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Elmer and Anne had to make a decision

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and it was a decision that would be financially

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affecting them.

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And Elmer said, I want to make this decision.

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Anne said, no, I don't think it is.

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But Elmer said, no, I think this is the right way to go.

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This is simple decision making.

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And Anne remembers going and talking to the Lord

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and then she comes and says to Elmer,

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you know, I don't think this is the way to go

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and I do not necessarily agree with you,

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but I recognize you as the first among equals

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and so we are going to go with your decision.

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The decision was wrong.

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But because this woman went about it right way,

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they had no loss.

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If that can happen in finances,

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you can't imagine how it works in the spiritual.

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It has to be incisive.

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It has to be strategic.

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As in, what is the Holy Spirit saying?

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Why does he, why did he not allow Paul and Barnabas

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to go to Bethinia, to Mycea?

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Why?

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It doesn't even say that the visa guy

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did not stamp the visa.

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It says the Holy Spirit forbade him from entering Mycea.

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Why?

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It has to be cohesive, as in together.

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Not done in isolation.

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Sometimes it's symbolic, our prayers.

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We do things that are symbolic.

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It's often declarative.

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You should read Psalm 29, declarative.

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The voice of the Lord thunders.

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The voice of the Lord tears the sedders of Lebanon.

00:54:40.760 --> 00:54:43.680
The voice of the Lord causes the floods to subside.

00:54:43.680 --> 00:54:46.880
The voice of the Lord splits the deserts open.

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The voice of the Lord causes the streams to flow.

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The voice of the Lord dries up the seas.

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The voice of the Lord.

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And what am I supposed to do with that?

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Take the words of the Lord and become his voice here on earth.

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The church is supposed to be both the pillar of truth

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and the announcer of truth.

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Sometimes the way we fight is so simple.

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What do you mean by prayer is so simple?

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Sometimes what you do is just,

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I mean you're not even praying much,

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but you do something symbolic like carrying,

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Israel would carry the ark into the water first.

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Why?

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Why carry the ark into the water?

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And yet the waters would part.

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It was just a symbol of God.

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It wasn't God.

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Why does Moses lift up his hands and sit on a mountain

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with Aaron and her holding up his hands?

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Some things that God advises just have to do

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even if it's foolish.

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Yep.

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So when you say symbolic,

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would it be like something physical you have to do?

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Something physical that God asks you to do.

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Yeah, because otherwise you can have a lot of people

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doing symbolic things.

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I went for one service where a woman was flying

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like a plane saying this is symbolic.

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And then another lady was setting a cannon on fire

00:56:10.760 --> 00:56:12.480
like saying we got to blow up the thing.

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So boom, she kept doing that.

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Then she looked at me and I wasn't participating in it

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so she asked me if I was a Hindu.

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So, no, it really happened, I'm not kidding you.

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Actually, not a word of exaggeration there.

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We also need our gospel shoes on.

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And the sword of the word.

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These are the things that prayer should look like.

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And so over the next little while

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we will shift to this at Encounter.

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We can start taking more.

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Stuff like this then begins to shake

00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:07.160
the foundations

00:57:07.160 --> 00:57:08.000
of

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political

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systems and structures.

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You know, we don't know these people, but the generation, not my generation, the generation

00:57:24.760 --> 00:57:31.760
before me, there were hundreds and hundreds praying for the fall of the Berlin Wall, for

00:57:31.880 --> 00:57:38.880
the end of the Iron Curtain. Hundreds of them prayed, praying for years on end they would

00:57:38.880 --> 00:57:45.880
pray, and then in one minute the whole thing begins to collapse. We don't realize it. We're

00:57:48.880 --> 00:57:55.680
not a generation that prays, right, because everything has to be instant. Now Jesus is

00:57:55.680 --> 00:58:02.680
selling prayer on Facebook, meaning the chosen Jesus. I dislike it when people who represent

00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:09.840
Jesus in a movie then start selling stuff. Not a problem, I'm just saying. I find it

00:58:12.440 --> 00:58:19.440
odd when Jesus is selling things. Okay, this is a super important statement if you haven't

00:58:19.440 --> 00:58:26.440
heard it before. In the Old Testament, I'll end at 1.15 guys, regardless of how far we

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get. In the Old Testament, the warfare, Israel's warfare, in the Old Testament Israel's warfare

00:58:39.120 --> 00:58:46.120
was about preserving the messianic seed, preserving the seed of the woman. So let me explain that.

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So throughout the Old Testament, every battle that Israel had was only about one thing,

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Genesis 3.15. In Genesis 3.15 it was about the war between Israel and Israel. It was

00:59:03.760 --> 00:59:10.760
about the war between Israel and Israel. The war between Israel and Israel was about

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one thing. Genesis 3.15. Genesis 3.15 it was said that the seed of the woman will crush

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the head of the serpent. That was what it said in Genesis 3.15. The seed of the woman

00:59:25.040 --> 00:59:32.040
will crush the head of the serpent. The moment that was said, there was only one intent the

00:59:32.440 --> 00:59:39.440
woman will live. And so Israel was the woman through whom the seed would come, the Messiah.

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And so every battle since the beginning of time that has been launched against the Jewish

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people has been with one intent only. If the woman can be undone, then the seed will not

00:59:55.080 --> 01:00:00.840
come. And if the seed does not come, the head of the serpent will not be crushed. Every

01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:07.200
battle has been about that. When Haman wants to exterminate the Jews, when the Philistines,

01:00:07.200 --> 01:00:14.200
Canaanites, Heavies, Jebusites want to destroy them, when Pharaohs and Herod's want to destroy.

01:00:14.720 --> 01:00:18.440
What is the intent always? The intent is can the seed of the woman be stopped from being

01:00:18.440 --> 01:00:25.440
birthed? To the point that even Herod who had Jewish ancestry is now being used to do

01:00:26.440 --> 01:00:33.440
what? Can the king be stopped from being birthed? Let's go slay every child that is less than

01:00:33.520 --> 01:00:40.520
two year old in Ramah. Send midwives so that as soon as the Egyptian women give birth,

01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:47.040
Israelite women give birth, these children can be killed. The intent was very simple

01:00:47.040 --> 01:00:50.800
throughout the Old Testament. Prevent the seed of the woman from being born so that

01:00:50.840 --> 01:00:56.400
the head of the serpent will not be crushed. And then the seed of the woman is born. He

01:00:56.400 --> 01:01:03.400
bruises the heel of the seed, but the seed crushes the head of the serpent. So that's

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the Old Testament scenario. Any questions on that? May this be heavy? May this be heavy?

01:01:21.120 --> 01:01:28.120
May this be heavy on you? This message should be heavy on you. It should change your thinking.

01:01:34.720 --> 01:01:40.080
This shouldn't be taken lightly. What is the intent now? What are the New Testament

01:01:40.080 --> 01:01:47.080
battles about? The New Testament battle is can the body of Christ be prevented from proclaiming

01:01:47.760 --> 01:01:54.080
the Messiah? That's the battle now. Can the body of Christ be prevented from proclaiming

01:01:54.080 --> 01:02:01.080
the Messiah? In NT, in the New Testament, can the proclamation of the Messianic Kingdom,

01:02:06.560 --> 01:02:13.560
of the Messiah be prevented from proclaiming the Messiah? Can the body of Christ be prevented

01:02:17.820 --> 01:02:24.820
from proclaiming the Messiah? Can the body of Christ be prevented from proclaiming the

01:02:26.560 --> 01:02:33.560
Messiah? Can the body of Christ be prevented from proclaiming the Messiah? What are the

01:02:39.700 --> 01:02:46.700
Gospels' intentions about Jesus' kingdom? Be stopped. That's the intent now.

01:02:47.080 --> 01:02:56.520
flesh and blood. In the New Testament, the battle is not against flesh and blood.

01:02:56.520 --> 01:03:01.960
Huge difference. But the strategies that were used in the Old Testament for war

01:03:01.960 --> 01:03:09.040
are wonderfully used in prayer in the New Testament. And we don't know how to

01:03:09.040 --> 01:03:18.440
do that. That is part of the training. Any questions?

01:03:18.440 --> 01:03:30.440
So just to clarify, like Winning said that it's not against flesh and blood now, so that means the verse that's talking about is about physicality and darkness.

01:03:31.440 --> 01:03:35.440
Yeah, Ephesians 6, 10 onwards.

01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:54.440
So what is the church doing now? In Christ, we are trying to crush the head of the serpent. In Christ, we are trying to, not in Christ, we are crushing the head of the serpent.

01:03:54.440 --> 01:04:06.440
Trying, yes, but we are. How do we know that? Because Romans 16, 19 says that. Romans 16, 19 says, remember that song that you learned when you were young?

01:04:07.440 --> 01:04:10.440
Be excellent in all things.

01:04:13.440 --> 01:04:24.440
It wasn't around when you and I were in youth groups. It was a song written after Diana.

01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:40.440
And it says, and Christ will soon crush Satan under your feet. Not under his feet, under your feet. Under our feet, yeah.

01:04:40.440 --> 01:04:49.440
So in Victoria's strategic, I mean I can see this is Victoria needs a strategic for all of BC because that's where the government is.

01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:53.440
Yeah, and we'll be talking about that in the future, but it might be off camera.

01:04:53.440 --> 01:04:54.440
Yeah.

01:04:57.440 --> 01:05:10.440
Guys, maybe we'll end with this thought. That one of the first, the way Jesus began, the way Jesus began his conflict, once he came on the earth, Jesus began his conflict.

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With a personal, yet cosmic victory, as in universal victory.

01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:32.440
This is just at the beginning of his missionary when Jesus is finally coming on stage. That's another fascinating thing.

01:05:32.440 --> 01:05:44.440
We know he's born. We know at 12 he's in the temple. And then we don't see him for 18 years. It's crazy. This is the savior of the world.

01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:57.440
There's no clue about his growing up. There's no clue about his carpentry. About him being a small time businessman, having to take care of four sisters, two brothers and a mother.

01:05:58.440 --> 01:06:03.440
No, nothing about him. 18 years he's silent and now he comes on stage.

01:06:03.440 --> 01:06:10.440
One of the first things that happens once he's revealed after the baptism is he's led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness.

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And that is where he has his first conflict. But it is so telling.

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Jesus begins his conflict with a personal, yet cosmic victory in the wilderness by resisting temptation.

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This is such a critical part of what this church must learn how to do. Resist temptation. But look at what he resists.

01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:50.440
This is eye-opening. He resists temptation towards provision, towards protection, towards possessions.

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Read this in Matthew 4, 1 to 11.

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It is not possible to be walking the warrior's way.

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It is not possible to step up into being a warrior until I overcome the three things that prevent us from serving.

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And those are our temptation as in a pull towards taking care of provisions, finding our own security and protection.

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And three, getting what we think is our right in terms of possessions.

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The three temptations that happen is, hey, you have the power to make bread out of stones.

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Hey, take a chance. God will protect you. Hey, I'll give you what you've come for.

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This is why Paul later on says to Timothy, in 2 Timothy, he says, no soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs.

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No soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs.

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Three things that soldiers don't get entangled in. Provision, protection, possession.

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That's it.

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Then we'll continue next week with part two.

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There's a lot of interesting stuff in part one.

01:08:39.440 --> 01:08:44.440
There'll be one or two visits to the island this week.

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I'll ask some of you to just visit the island and tell you where exactly to go.

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I just want us to pray for two things before we leave.

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The first one is, can we pray from Exodus 14.20?

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Can we pray from Acts 20.28 and 29?

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Can we just pray that and then we can go?

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Yeah, if you turn to Exodus 14.20 and see what it says in Acts 20, verse 28 and 29.

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Exodus says that when Israel was crossing the Red Sea, God came as a pillar and stood behind Israel.

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To the Israelites, he was light. To the Egyptians, he was darkness and confusion.

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One of the prayers that I want us to pray is, Father, as we step into this command as a church beginning to affect the island,

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could you please be our rear guard so that to us things are clear, but to the enemy, he's not able to track our steps.

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There's confusion in the enemy camp. They know that God is leading this church into something, but they can't track.

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So can we pray that? So that's one prayer.

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Then if you go to Acts 20, verse 28 and 29, it says that Paul is at the beach in Ephesus and he's talking to the leaders.

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And he says to the leaders, guys, I'm leaving, but after I leave, just be careful because there'll be savage wolves that come to destroy the flock.

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And then before that in 28, what does it say in 28?

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Take careful attention to yourself.

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Yeah, as we do this, we don't leave Ziklag unguarded.

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If you remember 1 Samuel 30, David went out for a conquest, but he left Ziklag unguarded.

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And Ziklag was where his wives and children were. When he comes back, the city is burnt and all their families are taken.

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So just pray these two prayers that the church remains protected and that the enemy remains confused.

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So let's just pray that.

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Okay.

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So I'll just ask a couple of people to pray.

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So last Derek and Jane and Tilly and let's throw in the other brother too.

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Okay.

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If you guys can take the mic and pray.

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And since you didn't do much today, can you just give the mic to different people?

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You can choose who wants to, who should start.

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Now you have power.

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Father, I want to first pray from Acts 20, 28, 29.

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Jesus, this church belongs to you and this church families.

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All of us, we belong to you. We are blood bought. You bought us.

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We are not, we are people who were paid for by your blood.

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And so this church is yours. This embassy is yours.

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And so we establish and declare your rule ship over our lives.

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Everything that we have belongs to you.

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Everything that we are comes out of you.

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And so we come under your covering, Jesus Christ.

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And we also recognize the arrangement as we heard today that you have established for us.

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As we go into the places you invite us into, we follow you by following your ways on earth.

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So Jesus, we speak protection over every single person at Acts 29 and our families.

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That comes from your, it is blood bought. It is blood bought.

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So we thank you, Jesus, that you have already defeated the devil.

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And now we participate with you in your work. In Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Holy Spirit, help us to conspire with you so that you illuminate the lay of the land for us as we enter Victoria.

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Would you illuminate the lay of the land? Give us the blueprint.

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When the Israelites crossed, they didn't know initially, but you knew exactly where they were going to go.

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You knew exactly where they were going to go. But we have the ability now to call on your Spirit.

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Holy Spirit, we want to conspire with you. Show us the lay of the land.

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Show us the lay of the land and then make it dark for the other side so that they don't see anything.

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It is a privilege that you are giving to us. A preview. Access to your blueprints.

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And I just cast darkness on the other side. That our steps are hidden. That the plans are hidden.

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That they walk in darkness. The enemy walks in darkness as we enter every step of the way.

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That they see nothing. They see nothing. And that's what I declare in the name of Jesus.

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They see nothing.

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Awesome.

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Father, we thank you that one thing as we go in this is that we'll walk in high awareness.

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Because as we walk in awareness, we can be aware of both the camp that we're going out to and our home base.

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Father, it's so highly aware that as we go, we walk with your strategic planning.

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Your awareness of, okay, this is how the camp needs to be guarded.

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This is what needs to be set in place. This is how you need to function this time.

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Because it can't become a method, but it has to be a high awareness of, hey, this time this is what needs to be done.

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This time, as these people go, this is who needs to stay in guard.

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And may as we go, we not put more weight over one than the other.

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May we be aware of, hey, there's an importance to both.

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There's an importance to both. And it's not more important to go. It's not more important to stay.

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There's no room for conflict to come in this time, Father.

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Because we need to walk in a unity. A unity of body as we go and as we stay, Father.

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It's critical because otherwise we're opening doors to things that should not be opened.

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So we thank you for your pillar of cloud that goes before us and comes behind us, Father.

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It surrounds us. But in that we commit, we say we will walk in unity.

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We will walk in unity. We will not let pride. We will not let conflict.

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We will not let comparison come in our way.

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Because that will open doors to things that are not permitted here, Father.

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So may we resist those three things that we talked about at the end.

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May we be so highly aware that our provision has to come from you.

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Our protection has to come from you.

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And our possessions have to come from you, Father.

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That in this there cannot be comparison. In this there cannot be conflict.

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Because we will not let those wolves come into this camp.

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We will guard against it. We will guard against it in your name, Jesus.

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And right now we acknowledge that this is something we will be highly aware of.

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Because we are aware of you.

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And you are the one that we are running after.

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You are the one who we are letting say, hey, when something comes up we'll quickly shut it down and say, no.

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This is not the focus. This is what God is up to.

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And this is the truth that I stand on.

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So we thank you, Jesus.

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Father, thank you for the opportunity.

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As a church to do the things that you have planned for us in Victoria in the name of the Father,

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we thank you because you are our King. You are our Lord.

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We are doing things with you.

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We are not doing things on our own.

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But we are doing things with you.

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You lead and we follow.

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You are our Father.

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You own everything that we have.

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Everything that we are, you own it, Father.

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This church has always been your plan.

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The way we are raised is by you.

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We will follow your voice.

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The sheep will follow the shepherd's voice.

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And the voice of the stranger, they will not follow, Father.

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So we will listen to your voice.

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We will follow you.

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We will listen to your strategies.

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And when we do all of this, Father, in humbleness, we will follow you.

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In humbleness, Father, in humble obedience, when we do all of this,

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we know that we will be taken care of by you.

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Our home base and people who go out will all be under your protection, Father.

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Your fence will be around us.

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The wolves will not attack us.

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You will be a covering and shield around us, Father.

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For your angels will be surrounding us.

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We declare this because we know your nature and we know your plans for us.

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In your precious name, Jesus, I pray. Amen.

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Thank you, guys. Bless you.

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If you need groceries, you know who to approach.

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If you have a problem, talk to the guys from Houston.

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And I think that should be it.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.