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All righty. Well, we're, we're shifting gears. We're going from chapter three to chapter 4.

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That'd Be the Gospel of Luke. And, uh, there's Warren right there, this guy right there.

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So, um, so, um, so anyway, we, uh. So, uh, we, uh, we, uh, there's Warren right there. This guy right there.

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We're looking at some serious spiritual battle here, and Jesus gives us a template how to fight this battle.

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That it's real, it's physical, it's spiritual, it's mental, it's intense.

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Have you noticed that?

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Those of you who have been walking with the Lord any time at all, you realize that, you realize that.

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this spiritual battle is really, really real. And so Jesus enters right into he's been baptized. He is,

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he's ready to go into his ministry 30 years old. And we pick it up in verse 1 of chapter 4.

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Shall we read? Then Jesus being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan,

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and was led by the spirit into the...

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This snare's rattling.

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Can we...

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Is there a thing we can push over one way or another?

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I'm going to have this little thing going on in my ear the whole time.

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They got a handle on them, don't they?

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Hey!

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Hey! Hey!

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Okay.

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We're good.

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I'm going to start over.

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Then Jesus being filled with the Holy Spirit,

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returned from the Jordan, and was led by the spirit into the wilderness,

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being tempted for 40 days by the devil,

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and in those days he ate nothing.

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And afterward, when he had ended, he was hungry.

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And the devil said to him, if you are the son of God,

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command this stone to become very.

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bread. But Jesus answered him, saying, it is written. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

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Then the devil, taking him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a

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moment of time. And the devil said to him, all this authority I will give you and their glory, for this

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has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom ever.

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I wish. Therefore, if you will worship before me, all will be yours. And Jesus answered and said,

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to him, get behind me, Satan, for it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God,

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and him only you shall serve. Then he brought him to Jerusalem, set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

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and said to him, if you are the son of God, throw yourself down from here. For it is written,

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He shall give his angels charge over you and keep you.

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And in their hands they shall bear you up lest you dash your foot against the stone.

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And Jesus answered and said to him, it has been said,

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You shall not tempt the Lord your God.

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Now, when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.

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Let's pray.

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Lord, thank you for your word that is, it's alive.

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it's sharp and it's ready to do battle. Lord, I just pray that it's in our heart in a place of

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readiness, Lord, that we would put it there. And that as we look at this today and as you are truly

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the living word, Lord, that's why we need you to invade our lives more and more each and every

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day. And so pray that you would do that now. Lord, give us understanding. Lord, we're so limited.

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And we need just supernatural help. So thank you, Holy Spirit, that you are.

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that supernatural help that will teach us and lead us in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. So here, Jesus is filled

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with the spirit. And this is interesting, right? We saw the power of the Trinity there in

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chapter 3, where at the baptism, where the son was praying, the spirit was descending,

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the father was speaking, pretty powerful stuff. And the Lord is here filled.

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with the spirit, ready to go and do what his father has called him to do.

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And it's in an unusual and public way that the Lord is filled with the spirit.

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David Guzick says, we can say certainly for the most part and perhaps entirely that Jesus

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lived his life and performed his ministry as a spirit-filled man.

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choosing not to rely on the resources of his divine nature, but willingly limiting himself to what could be done by the

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guidance of God and of God the Father and the empowering of God, the Holy Spirit.

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And so it is with you and I. God's called us to live this life, right?

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Jesus calls us to himself. Then he makes available to you and I the Holy Spirit to

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empower us to be successful in the Christian life.

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Because without the Holy Spirit, you can't be successful.

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You can't do it.

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We do not have the ability, the moxie, the wherewithal, the intestinal fortitude.

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I don't care what you want to call it to be successful in the Christian life without the hope of

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the Holy Spirit.

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And you and I are encouraged to walk in the Spirit.

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as you read through the New Testament, and it talks about it over and over again, Galatians 516, right?

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He says, I say then, the Apostle Paul, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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Walk in the spirit.

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Because they're at odds.

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If you notice that, you ever get at odds with yourself.

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They're at odds, right?

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My flesh and what I want, and the spirit and what is right, and what is right,

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They're in conflict. It talks about that there in Galatians.

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And so in Ephesians chapter 5 verse 18, and do not get drunk with wine for that is

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dissipation, but be filled with the Holy Spirit. Isn't that amazing that those two things

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are kind of in contrast here? Because why do people get drunk?

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They just want a good feeling?

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They want to try to shut.

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or forget things or it's basically self-medicating, right?

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Why do people get drunk?

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God has so much more to offer than the bottle than Jim or Jack or all those guys.

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Or like my cowboy friend says, those left-handed cigarettes.

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But we're to walk in the spirit, right?

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So to the spirit.

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You reap life.

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So to the flesh.

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You reap death and corruption.

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Now, some say at first glance here, right,

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that the spirit was led by the spirit.

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I thought that the Lord's prayer,

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lead us not into temptation.

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But deliver us from evil.

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It seems like he's leading Jesus into temptation.

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Well, no.

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It doesn't say that the spirit tempted him.

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It says being tempted 40 days by the devil.

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The devil tempted him.

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It's kind of like a trainer leading a fighter to the ring.

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The fighter doesn't fight his trainer.

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He fights his opponent.

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And so too.

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the spirit will get us ready for a fight.

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And it's a guarantee that there's going to be a spiritual battle.

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And Paul reminding us at the end of his life,

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I have fought the good fight.

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He's letting us know or reminding us that the battle is real.

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and it's constant.

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And our enemy doesn't

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relent, but he keeps coming at us.

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But thanks be to God for his indescribable gift

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for he enables us to withstand

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and to be aware of the wiles of the devil.

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And the Holy Spirit teaches us when to duck.

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That was funny.

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But we just have to know and remember, right, we got an opponent, right?

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And he's taking shots at us continually.

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And the ones that hurt the most are the ones that you don't see coming.

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You've seen those guys get lit up, right, on the football field.

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When they got their head turned, and I mean,

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somebody lowers the thunder, right?

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And just, boom.

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And it's violent and it's painful and it's hurtful.

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So Peter tells us in 1st Peter chapter 5 verse 8, says,

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be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil walks about like a roaring line,

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seeking whom he may devour.

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That word for be sober.

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it means, literally means self-controlled, be self-control, have self-control.

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You know that somebody is walking in the spirit when they practice self-control.

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Because I don't know what about you, but so much of my life, I was out of control.

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And I think I've shared this story before, but, but, you know, I was taking some kids to a youth event.

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and we were in a pool playing, and this kid that was a senior in high school, he jumped up.

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My boy was, I think, in seventh or eighth grade, and he jumped up, and he just swung his four on

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across his face, busted him in the face, bloodied his nose.

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And I saw this happen.

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And I knew this kid, I'd kind of been in relationship with him, and knew some of he's passed,

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and I, uh, I about.

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lost my cool. But I didn't. I, you know, the Lord let me practice some self-control. And so I went up to him

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and, of course, my boy's looking at me like, Dad, are you going to do anything about this?

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And I said, what did you do that for? Well, he didn't know Buster was my boy. He didn't know that. He didn't

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know that. And I said, why'd you do that? He said, oh, that Buster kid. He's such a

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and, you know. Oh, really?

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And I'm telling you, everything within me, I wanted to grab the kid, put him under the

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water until he quit kicking.

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I'm just being honest, right? I really did. And, of course, then I was trouble because I didn't

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do anything. But the youth pastor, it kind of shocked me, he said. He watched this whole thing.

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And he goes, I don't think I've ever seen that kind of restraint.

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And I just knew that it was a spirit of the Lord.

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And I tried to explain to everybody, well, if I would have done what I did, obviously, I would be on death row.

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And but also, you forfeit your right, you know, to minister.

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And I've been able to minister to the family over the years.

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years and that would have made all that go away if I would have went with my initial reaction.

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And so it's a good thing to have self-control and in practice, restraint.

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And I think it's always many times misunderstood, but to be sober, to be self-controlled,

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says to be watchful, have your head on a swivel.

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know that you're in a fight spiritually speaking. Whether it's in your mind, whether it's with your

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mouth, whether it's physically, you're in, you're in a fight in this Christian life. And so to

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bear the fruit of the spirit is very important. And ultimately, right, that is love. The fruit of

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this spirit is love. So the enemy comes to Jesus. It's very important. And ultimately, right, that is love. The fruit of the spirit is love.

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The enemy comes to Jesus, and he knows where we're weak.

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And here, Jesus' weakness would be he hasn't eaten in 40 days.

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Now, I don't know if anyone here has ever done that.

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I've never done that.

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But I've had some friends that have done it.

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And I think you are, you're bordering because for the first couple,

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weeks, you feel hungry.

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But then pretty soon you don't feel hungry anymore.

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Your stomach shrinks down so much.

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And then you're not hungry anymore.

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But then you're not very far away from starvation.

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That you're actually in starvation mode.

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And so no doubt it says,

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and he was hungry.

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And so Satan comes to us.

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Well, he says, if you are the son of God,

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some believe that this should be translated since,

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Since you are the son of God, command these stones to become bread.

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Since you are.

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Since you are the son of God.

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Satan recognizes.

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Satan recognizes Jesus for who and what he is.

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And so he's telling him, take the easy way out, man.

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Just satisfy your hunger.

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Make bread.

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And so Jesus gives us the first, um,

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the first line of defense when we're in a spiritual battle.

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What's he do? He quotes scripture, right? It's written. And so Jesus answered him,

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verse four, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

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That's what man will live by every word of God. So what does that mean? That means you should read it.

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Right? That means you should read the word of God.

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I'm shocked at the amount of people that don't read God's word.

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I'm shocked at the amount of people who claim to be Christians that don't read God's word.

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And, well, I just go to church and I let the pastor read some passages to me.

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No, I'm going to tell you, you're just an anemic sitting duck for the enemy, if that's your mode.

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You're an enemic sitting duck for the enemy if that's your mode.

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And so he quotes actually Deuteronomy chapter 8, verse 3 is what he quotes.

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And so if you have a Bible, I want you to turn there real quick.

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And we're going to look at this.

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But it's Deuteronomy chapter 8.

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And I'm going to jump over there real quick.

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And I'm just going to read.

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I'm going to read.

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I'll include verse 3.

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but we're going to read verses 1 through 5.

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And it says, in Deuteronomy chapter 8, it says,

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every commandment which I command you today,

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you must be careful to observe that you may live and multiply

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and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers.

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And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way

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these 40 years in the wilderness to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart,

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whether you would keep his commandments or not. And so he humbled you, allowed you to hunger,

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and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you

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know that man shall not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds from the

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mouth of the Lord. Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these 40 years.

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You should know in your heart that as a man chasens his son, so the Lord, your God chastens you.

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And so it's a serious thing that man shall not live by bread alone. But so many of us do. Because

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the word of God isn't included in our life. You know, Proverbs suggest that the

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the word of God is actually health to your physical body.

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It's health to your flesh and your bones.

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And I don't know if that's literal or if it's just because the word of God

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affects the way you live your life so much, you're just healthier.

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I don't, I don't know.

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But I would suggest that it's possibly both for,

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listen to what Job said in Job, Job, 23, 12.

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I have not departed from the commandment of his lips.

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I have treasured the words of his mouth.

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Listen, more than my necessary food.

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That Job is saying, this is a, this is serious stuff.

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I think I shared with you.

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And an old cowboy guy that made a commitment to himself to read God's word.

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And so his motto was no Bible, no breakfast.

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No Bible, no breakfast.

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That man, that's a pretty good policy.

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I wonder how many people would lose weight.

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But think about it.

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When Moses was on the mount, the word of God sustained him.

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Right?

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He didn't get emaciated and, and, uh,

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skinny and gaunt.

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But he came down. He was glowing.

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But you remember, Moses did not eat or drink for 40 days and 40 nights.

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He didn't eat anything.

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But he was sitting there.

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He was in conversation with the God who invented life.

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And that the Bible says his words are life.

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Who remembers the old hymn, wonderful words of life?

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I can hear my granny singing it, right?

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Wonderful words of life.

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man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

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That should motivate us to get, get plugged in, to get tuned in to God's word, to read it,

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read it on a daily basis, commit yourself to that, make that commitment.

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You know, once it becomes a habit, it's pretty cool.

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It's kind of like eating.

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Once you go without a couple meals, something,

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Sometimes you realize it, right?

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If you go without a meal, you go, oh, I'm hungry.

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That's kind of what the way it is, spiritually speaking.

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You get into a habit of reading the word every day.

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And then you go a couple days and, man, I didn't read the word.

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I think I'm losing my mind.

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Right?

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I'm convinced you get away from the word for very long.

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Psychosis begins to set in.

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Right?

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Because it's renewing us by the word is renewing.

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us in our mind as we look at it. The second temptation comes in verse five and it says,

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then the devil taking him up on a high mountain showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment

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of time. And the devil said to him, all this authority I will give to you and their glory,

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for this has been delivered to me and I give it to whomever I wish. Therefore, if you will

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worship before me, all will be yours.

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So that's quite the dangling carry, right?

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Right before Jesus?

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And I'm wondering how he did this,

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because it says,

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then the devil, take him up on a high mountain,

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showed him all the kingdoms of the moment of time.

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Wow, so he toured Europe and Asia.

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All the kingdoms of the world,

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he showed him in a moment of time.

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Did they do it?

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Step out of time?

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Was there some kind of interdimensional

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activity?

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So he's fascinated me. This verse is fascinating to me.

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In a moment of time, he showed in the kingdoms of the world.

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Now, we know that Satan is an interdimensional being, right?

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He sees in our dimension.

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He's in heaven.

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he can go back and forth.

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Kind of wild.

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I wonder if we get to do that someday.

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I'm really excited about that.

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It'll be cool.

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But he presents this to Jesus there in the second temptation.

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All these I will give you now.

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It's interesting that Jesus didn't refute that, right?

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because Satan is called the God of this age.

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He says he gives him to whom he ever ever he will.

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So maybe that was him moving and shaking in 2020.

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Pretty interesting stuff here.

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And he says,

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and all this authority, I will give you and their glory.

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For this has been delivered to me.

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When did that happen?

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In the garden.

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When Adam gave it up, he knew he was naked.

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And he surrendered the dominion of the world to the enemy.

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And it's been downhill ever since.

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So Satan thought he would offer this to Jesus, but it was a shortcut.

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He was offering Jesus a shortcut.

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Because Psalm 2, verse 7 and 8 says, I will declare the decree.

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The Lord has said to me, you are my son today.

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I have begotten you.

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Ask of me and I will give you the nations for your inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possessions.

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But he had to go and suffer at the cross.

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first. Right? Revelation says the kingdom of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ.

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And he shall reign forever and ever. But Satan was going to give him these way. Hey, just come this way.

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You don't have to suffer and die on the cross. I'll just give it to you. But you got to worship me.

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Thank you, Lord Jesus, that you didn't bow the knee to Satan.

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Have you heard of people that have done that?

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I've heard like horror stories of people actually bowing the need to Satan.

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They actually openly and blatantly worship Satan.

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They just give their heart, soul, all that they are.

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They give it to him.

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They give them an invitation into their life.

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I don't know about you.

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That's creepy.

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That's just creepy.

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Why would be?

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you do that? Why would you play with these things? It's as though they have these tentacles and they just

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invade your life and they take you down this path that ends in nothing but misery and death.

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And yet I've heard of people. I've heard of people in the entertainment world, right, offering themselves

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to Satan. And here, Satan tries to convince Jesus. And here, Satan tries to convince Jesus.

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to bow the knee to him.

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And I love how he responds.

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And Jesus answered and said to him,

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get behind me, Satan.

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It's like he's taking his authority right here

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as the son of God.

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Get behind me, Satan.

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For it is written.

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You shall worship the Lord your God,

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and him only shall you serve.

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Him only.

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Now some people are convinced, right,

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that they can love God and still pursue riches and fame and power and glory.

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No, you can't.

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You can't pursue those.

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If God wants to give those to you, that's one thing.

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But it's quite another to pursue them.

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he's the one that you put your focus on.

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Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

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All these things will be added unto you.

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If God wants to give you a platform, he will.

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And if not, I promise you, you don't want that platform.

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Him only shall you serve.

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Jesus here fulfills what James encourages us to do.

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It's actually the Lord's half-brother when he writes his epistle.

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It says, therefore, submit to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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Jesus resists that.

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No, I'm not going to worship.

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I'm not going to worship you.

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And so the Lord uses scripture again.

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This is Deuteronomy 6, where he says, you shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.

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I'm wondering how often could you refute lies with Scripture?

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I mean, sometimes we have a check, right?

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People call it a check.

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You have a check.

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Something's not right here.

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And that's probably because you know the truth.

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You know Christ.

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You've been born again.

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But if you haven't been putting the word in on a case,

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consistent basis. I think it's really important to try to read through the Bible once every year.

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Year and a half, maybe. I usually have to do a year and a half because I'm a slow reader.

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And maybe more. And the older I get, the more it seems I need of the word of God.

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But over the years, I've gotten quicker when I hear lies.

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I've gotten quicker to speak truth toward that lie and to dissolve it, which truth does, right?

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And so, him only shall you worship and shall you serve.

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Then the third temptation comes.

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It says, then he brought him to Jerusalem, set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him,

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if or since you are the son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written.

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Oh, Satan now uses the phrase, for it is written.

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Oh.

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And this is probably one of the saddest things about looking through this right now is Satan

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knows the Bible better than 90% probably of the people sitting in this room.

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Satan knows the Bible better.

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And that's scary

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because then you've got that wild crazy group

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called twisted scripture.

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Big hair.

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But he can twist.

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He can take it out of context.

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He can browbeat people with it.

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It's crazy.

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It's interesting.

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How often people quote scripture and they do it out of context.

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Right.

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And so what Satan does here, he does quote scripture, right?

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And it just shows what a conniving, wicked, backstabbing, sneak.

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he really is. He quotes Psalm 91, 11, and 12. And so notice what he says there. For it is written,

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he shall give his angels charge over you to keep you. And, oh, he skipped some. If you're looking at that in

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Psalm 91, right, he shall keep you what, in all your ways. God will keep you in all your ways.

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and in their hands they shall bear you up lest you dash your foot against the stone.

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And Jesus answered and said to him, it has been said,

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you shall not tempt the Lord your God.

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Right? Satan just conveniently left that little part out to keep you in all your ways.

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God desires to keep us in all our ways.

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It's Satan that wants to come in and get us off of the right way.

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So the pinnacle was probably a high point at the southeast corner of the temple, far above the Kidran Valley.

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Satan contempt us even in the holy city at the highest part of the holy temple.

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Following the example of Jesus, Satan decided to quote scripture and selected Psalm 91.

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And...

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But he didn't fool the Lord.

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And I hope that he doesn't fool the Lord.

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when scripture comes your way that's out of context and it's been twisted or manipulated by the enemy.

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He would love nothing more than to keep us all in a place of compromise.

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Right?

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We just can justify it.

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We can listen to the masses because they do it.

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We can be convinced by friends and family.

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maybe not very good friends or very good family members.

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But compromise.

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If he can keep you in a place of compromise,

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he can keep you off balance spiritually.

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And so,

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Jesus throws it right back at him.

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It is said,

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you shall not tempt the Lord your God.

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And that's found.

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in Deuteronomy chapter 6.

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Just a few verses from the previous one, and I want to read those to you.

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Deuteronomy has been called the second law, right?

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And so you'll read things in Deuteronomy that you won't see in the book of Leviticus.

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But it's almost like it sheds a little more light on some stuff than the book of

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Leviticus does.

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But Deuteronomy 6, verses 13 through 16, it says,

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You shall fear the Lord your God and serve him.

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and shall take oaths in his name.

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You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you.

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For the Lord, your God is a jealous God among you.

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Lest the anger of the Lord your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.

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You shall not tempt the Lord your God.

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And then he says, as you tempted him in Masa.

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And so the children of Israel had tempted the Lord.

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And every time this children of Israel got off course, people died.

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Right?

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When the Cora and Datham and Abiram came against Moses and Aaron, what happened?

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Right?

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They were questioning their authority.

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And so Moses goes, okay, guys, question our authority.

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Tell you what?

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If you live to be an old man, if you live to be an old man, if you live to,

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to be an old man and old women in these three families and die naturally, then God hasn't called me.

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But if God does something strange and he opens the ground and swallows you up, you and your

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family, wives, kids, all your stuff, God's going to just swallow you up, then God's called me and

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Aaron to do what we're doing. And what happened? You know the story. They're in numbers.

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all gone.

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Just like that.

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It's good not to tempt the Lord.

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Because anything you tempt him out,

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many times the repercussions are a whole lot more than you bargain for.

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Right?

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And so we come to this place where there's three things,

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basically that Satan's questions in these temptations.

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00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:12,040
And Satan always brings a question mark to God's word.

472
00:36:12,220 --> 00:36:13,560
He started that clear back in the garden.

473
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:14,020
Remember?

474
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:19,280
Right, when him and Eve are bantering there at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

475
00:36:20,860 --> 00:36:25,320
And he said, oh, no, we can't touch the tree or we're going to, oh, world, die.

476
00:36:27,100 --> 00:36:28,240
Well, God didn't say that.

477
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,380
So that must have been.

478
00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:37,340
some kind of a misinterpretation between Adam and Eve. I don't know. He says, no, the day you eat

479
00:36:37,780 --> 00:36:42,760
of the tree, you shall surely die. Didn't say if you touched it. The only thing is, if you're touching it,

480
00:36:42,820 --> 00:36:48,920
it's kind of like that wet paint or it's that line you draw on the sand, right, for your child,

481
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,940
and they run their little four-year-old toe over there and throw it across the line.

482
00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:57,420
What's you going to do? You ever have that happen, right?

483
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:04,500
Dr. Dobson used to say, when they do that, they're looking for a fight and it's a good idea to not disappoint them.

484
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:19,940
But he says, has God said, you won't surely die?

485
00:37:22,580 --> 00:37:25,540
Listen, he's been lying a long time.

486
00:37:25,740 --> 00:37:26,500
He's good at it.

487
00:37:27,060 --> 00:37:28,780
And if you're not up on your games,

488
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:30,960
and the word of God,

489
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,360
there's a good chance you're going to get duped.

490
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,560
The first thing, Satan questions, right?

491
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:42,540
He questions the father's love when he tempted Jesus to turn the stones into bread.

492
00:37:42,860 --> 00:37:46,280
Man, if God really loved you, you'd be fat, dumb and happy.

493
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,440
Here you are, having eaten in 40 days.

494
00:37:49,980 --> 00:37:51,720
Go ahead and turn those stones into bread.

495
00:37:53,060 --> 00:37:54,200
If God really cared,

496
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,560
how many people you talked out over the years?

497
00:37:58,340 --> 00:37:59,680
I had a family I was with yesterday.

498
00:37:59,860 --> 00:38:03,680
And I know in their hearts, just by the way, their body language is,

499
00:38:04,100 --> 00:38:05,960
they're questioning the goodness of God.

500
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,040
How come there's so much death?

501
00:38:08,860 --> 00:38:10,460
There's been so much death in their family.

502
00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:13,320
Two of the boys have lost children.

503
00:38:15,420 --> 00:38:17,500
One of the girls miscarried a baby.

504
00:38:17,980 --> 00:38:19,280
The grandma just passed away.

505
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:20,600
The grandpa passed away.

506
00:38:21,540 --> 00:38:25,960
Death just seems to be come at them like a freight train.

507
00:38:27,260 --> 00:38:28,040
And if you don't know,

508
00:38:28,100 --> 00:38:34,100
the word of God. If you don't know the hope of heaven and the power of the resurrection.

509
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:43,340
Yeah, just each up. Does God really care? When we go through those things?

510
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:51,980
So first he questions the father's love. Second, he questioned his hope when he offered Jesus the

511
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:57,080
world's kingdom on this side of the cross. Oh, come on, Jesus. You don't have to go to the drug.

512
00:38:57,260 --> 00:39:03,060
just come on. God's given me the authority in these, these kingdoms, I can give them to whoever I want.

513
00:39:07,980 --> 00:39:14,340
He's saying, you don't have to do that. But don't you realize that affects you and I.

514
00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:21,160
Because if Jesus foregoes the cross, then you and I are hopeless. Because if he foregoes the cross,

515
00:39:21,300 --> 00:39:27,200
like we just read Wednesday in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, if there's no resurrection, we are,

516
00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:28,240
to be pitied.

517
00:39:29,940 --> 00:39:30,680
We're pathetic.

518
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:31,320
People.

519
00:39:32,420 --> 00:39:33,440
If there's no resurrection.

520
00:39:38,220 --> 00:39:40,200
So he questioned

521
00:39:41,700 --> 00:39:44,580
the hope that Jesus was going to be,

522
00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:47,460
he was going to rule the kingdoms of the world

523
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:53,560
after he paid for man's sin on Calvary's Cross.

524
00:39:54,180 --> 00:39:57,180
Thirdly, Satan questions the Father's Faith.

525
00:39:57,220 --> 00:40:03,680
when he asked Jesus to jump from the temple to prove that the Father would keep his promise.

526
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:11,800
Thus, the enemy attacked the three basic virtues of the Christian life, faith, hope, and love.

527
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:14,980
He brings to question those things.

528
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:20,100
Is there faith? Is there hope? Is there love? Is there love from God the Father?

529
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:27,180
And in fact, there is. When Paul tells us that in 1st Corinthians 13, here about,

530
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:34,100
by these three, faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love. Say the greatest thing

531
00:40:34,220 --> 00:40:39,480
that God does towards us and what we do towards each other. It's a fulfillment of those two

532
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:45,540
great commandments that Jesus quoted there when they ask him, what is the greatest commandment?

533
00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:49,400
He said, to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your

534
00:40:49,740 --> 00:40:53,700
mind, with all your strength. And the second is like it. Jesus just added that one.

535
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,160
Right? Because a lot of people say, oh, it's easy to love God. With all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength. And the second is like it. Jesus just added that one. Right?

536
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,720
I love God, he's so good, right?

537
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:01,420
He's so benevolent.

538
00:41:02,340 --> 00:41:03,580
He's blessed so much.

539
00:41:04,540 --> 00:41:06,840
But my neighbor as myself, come on.

540
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:08,020
He's a jerk.

541
00:41:09,860 --> 00:41:10,020
Right?

542
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,280
Her voice is so irritating.

543
00:41:14,380 --> 00:41:15,420
I just can't stand her.

544
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:22,760
That's why Jesus added that, right?

545
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:24,620
It's because that's going to be you

546
00:41:24,700 --> 00:41:26,960
and I's greatest challenge is loving one another.

547
00:41:29,220 --> 00:41:34,680
And Satan wants to call that into question over and over and over again.

548
00:41:39,180 --> 00:41:42,340
When we're filled with the Holy Spirit, like we see Jesus here,

549
00:41:43,660 --> 00:41:50,480
he gives you and I the ability to counter every attack, every question the enemy would bring

550
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:50,900
our way.

551
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:54,660
And you guys, it never ends.

552
00:41:56,780 --> 00:42:06,380
I was really hoping that I'd get a place of maturity, you know, 61, 62, I'll be 63 in July.

553
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:11,540
I was hoping it would come then, but I'm realizing, no, I don't ever arrive.

554
00:42:12,060 --> 00:42:12,780
This side of heaven.

555
00:42:13,340 --> 00:42:20,040
I still have this battle, this angst, this, this abrasiveness between the spirit and the flesh,

556
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,760
and then it's constant, and it's going to be constant until I'm with him.

557
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,400
And so you ready yourself.

558
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:27,700
you be prepared for that.

559
00:42:28,020 --> 00:42:29,380
Don't throw in the towel now.

560
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:35,440
But ask for his help.

561
00:42:37,380 --> 00:42:39,980
Jesus knew that we were going to need help, right?

562
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,640
In John chapter 16, verse 12 through 14, he says,

563
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:45,960
I still have many things to say to you,

564
00:42:46,220 --> 00:42:47,520
but you cannot bear them now.

565
00:42:48,180 --> 00:42:52,080
However, when he, the spirit of truth has come,

566
00:42:52,380 --> 00:42:54,480
he will guide you into all truth.

567
00:42:54,820 --> 00:42:56,400
And he will not speak on his own.

568
00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:05,040
authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak. And he will tell you things to come. He will glorify me,

569
00:43:05,740 --> 00:43:13,220
for he will take of what is mine and declare it to you. That's why we should ask for the Holy

570
00:43:13,380 --> 00:43:19,640
Spirit. I think I talked about that last week. Ask for the Holy Spirit. Because this is what he does.

571
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:25,780
He helps you. He's also called the Comforter. He'll comfort you. He'll comfort you. He'll comfort you.

572
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:27,440
He leads you into all truth.

573
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:29,520
He'll put that check in your spirit.

574
00:43:30,300 --> 00:43:32,320
Even when you don't know the word of God like you should.

575
00:43:33,180 --> 00:43:34,820
So get your nose in that book.

576
00:43:36,580 --> 00:43:38,460
The more you put God's word in your heart,

577
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,500
the more the Holy Spirit has to work with.

578
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:41,520
Right?

579
00:43:42,060 --> 00:43:44,260
The more you put God's word in your heart,

580
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,280
the more the Holy Spirit has to work with.

581
00:43:47,380 --> 00:43:49,500
Notice what he says there.

582
00:43:50,220 --> 00:43:51,900
He will not speak of his own authority,

583
00:43:52,020 --> 00:43:54,000
but whatever he hears, he will speak.

584
00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:56,000
Listen, and he will tell you.

585
00:43:56,080 --> 00:44:04,980
you things to come. The Holy Spirit will prepare you for the future. He'll reveal these things.

586
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:14,140
John 1426, but the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you

587
00:44:14,380 --> 00:44:20,300
all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. When you read through the

588
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:25,980
Gospel of John, you get a very clear picture of this, because John mentions over and over and

589
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:27,300
over and over again.

590
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,740
Oh, we didn't know what was going on then.

591
00:44:30,060 --> 00:44:30,740
But now we do.

592
00:44:30,860 --> 00:44:33,180
The Holy Spirit is revealing that to us.

593
00:44:33,300 --> 00:44:38,120
It recalled the words of Jesus that they had heard him speak through that three-year

594
00:44:38,340 --> 00:44:38,880
period of time.

595
00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:41,060
And he brought it right back to him.

596
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:43,220
I remember when I got saved.

597
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:48,020
I started remembering scriptures that my grandma had spoken to me.

598
00:44:48,720 --> 00:44:49,920
I had totally forgot them.

599
00:44:50,020 --> 00:44:52,680
I could have never quoted some of those scriptures.

600
00:44:53,580 --> 00:44:55,800
And all of a sudden, I started remembering these scriptures.

601
00:44:55,860 --> 00:44:58,260
that my grandma had spoke to me when I was a little boy.

602
00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:01,220
I'm going, wow, that's kind of strange.

603
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:04,340
But I was so thankful for it.

604
00:45:06,060 --> 00:45:08,720
Because even though I had heard it from my grandma,

605
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:10,880
the Holy Spirit had something to work with.

606
00:45:11,820 --> 00:45:13,700
Because she had put it in my heart.

607
00:45:18,540 --> 00:45:24,020
Jesus resisted these temptations because he walked in the word and in the spirit.

608
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:25,780
You need those two things, right?

609
00:45:26,180 --> 00:45:27,020
need the word of God.

610
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:32,680
And you need the Holy Spirit to teach you the word of God as you read it.

611
00:45:33,260 --> 00:45:35,020
And he will line upon line.

612
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,400
Precept upon precept, it says in the Old Testament,

613
00:45:39,060 --> 00:45:40,400
here a little, there a little.

614
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:45,600
Just keep doing it over and over and over and over and over again.

615
00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:49,440
And you'll be spiritually healthy.

616
00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:53,720
The combination of those two things, the word and the spirit.

617
00:45:54,700 --> 00:46:01,660
So if you get too much word and you don't really have an outlet for the old saying is,

618
00:46:01,860 --> 00:46:02,800
then you get puffed up.

619
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:04,900
Yeah, I know the word of God.

620
00:46:06,740 --> 00:46:07,580
Just ask me.

621
00:46:09,540 --> 00:46:10,600
Right, you get puffed up.

622
00:46:10,700 --> 00:46:11,520
It's a sense of pride.

623
00:46:11,620 --> 00:46:12,480
It's spiritual pride.

624
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:13,860
And it's just nasty.

625
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:18,180
Spiritually prideful people are just a stench.

626
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:20,060
It's just gross.

627
00:46:21,100 --> 00:46:23,740
And that was Satan's issue.

628
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:24,560
you remember, right?

629
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,740
I will ascend above the throne of the most high.

630
00:46:28,540 --> 00:46:28,680
Right?

631
00:46:28,860 --> 00:46:30,080
I will be glorified.

632
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,260
And God says, not.

633
00:46:33,140 --> 00:46:33,280
Right?

634
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:36,120
That was Satan's deal.

635
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:42,240
Too much of the spirit and not enough of the word and you blow up.

636
00:46:43,420 --> 00:46:43,580
Right?

637
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:46,080
That's when you get all this crazy stuff going on.

638
00:46:47,140 --> 00:46:49,740
I remember when the whole Toronto blessing thing, you know,

639
00:46:49,820 --> 00:46:53,720
people are laughing in the spirit and cackling and doing all kinds of

640
00:46:53,740 --> 00:46:59,660
weird things. And it was funny because they interviewed this one lady that was all caught up into the

641
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:05,600
whole roaring in the spirit and doing all the strange things. And they say, well, we can't help with

642
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:12,100
the Holy Spirit comes upon us. And I'm, and so the, an interviewer asked, so does the Holy Spirit

643
00:47:12,260 --> 00:47:19,180
come upon you at work? Well, no. And I'm going, and I'm thinking, what person doesn't want the Holy Spirit

644
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:23,620
upon them at work? Right? To be a witness and to proclaim.

645
00:47:23,660 --> 00:47:26,260
the word of the Lord to be to be salt and light.

646
00:47:26,420 --> 00:47:29,420
What person doesn't want the Holy Spirit upon them at work?

647
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:31,680
That's so silly.

648
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:33,560
But that's what happens.

649
00:47:33,820 --> 00:47:40,380
They just got caught up in this whole charismania, they call it.

650
00:47:41,140 --> 00:47:41,300
Right?

651
00:47:41,940 --> 00:47:43,700
And it was bearing no fruit.

652
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:48,860
It just destroyed some churches because people got so stinking weird.

653
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,620
I know we are a peculiar people, but we don't have to be blatant.

654
00:47:53,640 --> 00:48:06,320
weirdos to walk with Jesus. Right? You don't have to be a weirdo. So too much word,

655
00:48:06,460 --> 00:48:10,300
not enough spirit, you get puffed up. Too much spirit, not enough word, you blow up.

656
00:48:10,780 --> 00:48:17,980
With the word in the spirit together, you grow up. Right? You grow up. And then you're just

657
00:48:18,240 --> 00:48:23,620
ready. Be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. That is such a great way to live your life, you guys.

658
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:29,140
And why is it that we forget that that simple instruction there in the book of James, right?

659
00:48:29,940 --> 00:48:32,220
Be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to wrap.

660
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:34,100
You don't have to say anything.

661
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:36,640
Let people watch your life.

662
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:41,080
Because it usually, usually our lives speak so loud.

663
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,000
People can't hear what you're saying.

664
00:48:45,380 --> 00:48:48,520
And so there you have it.

665
00:48:49,460 --> 00:48:50,560
Walking in this spirit.

666
00:48:51,220 --> 00:48:52,300
The battle is real.

667
00:48:52,860 --> 00:48:55,700
Please read Ephesians 6 this week.

668
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:02,160
Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand all those wiles of the devil

669
00:49:02,300 --> 00:49:05,000
that will come at you every single day that you live.

670
00:49:06,180 --> 00:49:08,980
And so what a great example.

671
00:49:09,420 --> 00:49:15,000
Our Lord is here where he says, it is written, it is written, it is written.

672
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:15,800
Let's pray.

673
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:17,020
Lord, thank you.

674
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,200
Thank you for your word that is so powerful.

675
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:25,480
Lord, it is written for us.

676
00:49:26,340 --> 00:49:29,500
And I just pray that we would write up on the pages of our heart.

677
00:49:29,660 --> 00:49:32,320
Lord, as your word says, that we might not sin against you.

678
00:49:32,940 --> 00:49:33,620
Bless your people.

679
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:40,700
Lord, this week, I just pray that you would bring to mind those things that we've observed in your word.

680
00:49:40,940 --> 00:49:42,560
Lord, that we could apply them to our lives.

681
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,560
And that our lives would truly be that salt and light.

682
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,240
That the world needs, that the world would know.

683
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:49,760
Lord, would know. Lord, what we know.

684
00:49:50,220 --> 00:49:53,140
that we have eternal life because of the things that you've written for us.

685
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:55,500
And we pray it in Jesus' mighty name. Amen.

686
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:58,220
Hey, God bless you guys. Have a great week in Jesus.

687
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:00,380
Shake somebody's hand, would you?