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Absalom's Conspiracy Part 2
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Like! Share! Subscribe! Today we examine the start of all evil... and then the next instalment in our miniseries on Absalom's treacherous takeover of Israel!
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Introduction and Theme: The Fall of Satan
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Okay guys, here we go for today's lesson.
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right, let's start off with the Fall of Satan. Can you all see my screen clearly? Yes. Yeah, happy days.
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All right.
Lucifer's Original Role and Attributes
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Long before a Satan became called Satan, His name was Lucifer. And he was a cherub. Now, heaven has lots of different creatures, okay? You have the angels. You've got seraphim, living creatures, cherubim.
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Cherubim, they have one thing in common. They have wings. Some of them look like people. Some of them look like birds. Some of them look like animals.
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Some of them have one head. Some of them have multiple heads. Some of them and fly just by no flapping their wings.
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and Some of their wings are covered in eyeballs. Some of them travel in a gyroscope, an interlocking ring, and even their transportation machine is alive because everything in heaven is alive and has the spirit of life in it.
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Jesus does not need bodyguards or security. But there are times in the Bible when his, thank you, when his blue sapphire throne leaves heaven and comes to the earth.
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and And the cherubim surround him like bodyguards. Again, he's Jesus. He does not need security. But he's a relational God who loves doing things in relation to others. And and the cherubim are seen following him.
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So Lucifer was cherub. And one of the names for Jesus in Revelation 22, 16 is the bright morning star.
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Isaiah 14, 12 calls Lucifer the son of the morning. So the relationship that Jesus and Lucifer had was almost like father and son.
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Now, Lucifer actually means a light bearer. What is light? It can be holiness. It can be goodness. Light can also be knowledge, understanding, wisdom, insight, revelation.
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Think of in a cartoon or an animated movie when someone has a good idea, a light bulb appears over their head. they have a light bulb moment. So Lucifer...
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would basically think of Jesus as the sun and Lucifer as the moon. The sun was shining its light and the moon shines the light of the sun, reflects the light of the sun.
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So Jesus was shining his holy light and wherever Lucifer went, he was carrying that light by extension. Jesus knows literally everything all at once, all the time.
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and he would deposit it this revelation, this knowledge, wisdom, insight, understanding to Lucifer. So wherever Lucifer went, people were getting the light and revelation revelation of Jesus.
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It's the same what he does with the church today with his kids. You bring the light of Jesus wherever you go. You bring the fruit of Holy Spirit wherever you go. You bring the knowledge of Christ wherever you go. Now we're told that lu in Ezekiel 28, 13, that Lucifer was covered in precious stones. Some people picture heaven and they just imagine everything is white and colorless.
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Absolutely not a chance. He was covered in ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, beryl, jasper, sapphire, and turquoise stone.
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Now these stones were seen on the breastplate of the high priest of Israel the Old Testament. So what does that tell us? It tells us that Lucifer was the high priest of Jesus.
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Jesus, his priest to his father God, Lucifer was the priest of Jesus. And wherever he went, he was covered from head to toe in these precious stones.
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In addition to that, his heart, because yes, even spiritual beings have an internal body, his heart was a musical instrument. Ezekiel 28, 13, speaking says the workmanship of your tambourines, timbrels, I don't know if that's tabret or tabre, ah and of your pipes were created and overlaying in gold the day I produced you.
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So Jesus made Lucifer, gave him an internal body, and his internal body was like an orchestra. His internal no body was a musical instrument covered in gold.
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He was unlike any other spiritual creature the Lord ever made. But we didn't get caught up in a world of evil. Wouldn't we all be musical instruments?
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Well, see, humans, they think of it this way. If you see, it's a good question. If you see a toddler taking his or her first step, what do people automatically do?
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Or if you're at a football match, like Gaelic, soccer, basketball, American football, whatever a sport you're into, hurling, rugby, and your team scores a goal, what do you do naturally? yeah cheer.
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Worship is built into human beings. Celebration is built in human beings. That sense of looking for someone or something to honor to glorify, to deify, to celebrate.
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It is built into us. And there are Bible passages where it even says, like, you know, that a baby can literally scare away the foe, the avenger, demons.
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um And Bible verses where Jesus comes and visits people as they sleep, even like, you know, infants and young children. So and that sense of knowing the Lord is absolutely built into humans. Even John the Baptist, before he was born, he was conceived a few months before Jesus.
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And he was in Elizabeth's belly. Mary was carrying Jesus in her belly. The two cousins came together and John the Baptist actually leaped in her womb.
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um he already had that prophetic gift from his unborn, knowing he was in the presence of holiness. yeah So I'd say even babies have dreams. Yeah, we do. And we can hear music. Yeah, precisely. yeah i think that if we come into this world and we're just left to be ourselves and there was nobody be saying about sin and evil and all this, and we're all just being pure beings, there would be music within us.
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Mm. instead of all negativity and toxicity we absorbed from others. But if the first person that came on earth, if they were, you know, allowed themselves just to be pure and to be themselves, I think we'd be all sort of musical. be love and joy and song and praise in each and every one of us.
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But I think it's from when we took on all that evenness that's there and then, more you know, you're growing and we're watching it and we've all different experiences. I think that we stop listening to the music inside ourselves.
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No, it's good. And that was always God's aim with Adam and Eve was always that they, well, if they weren't actually called Adam and Eve until after the sin, they were called the man and the woman, um was that they would walk in perfect step with the Lord, would have children i would do the same. Now the kids would have to make a decision to choose holiness, make a decision to choose jesus make a decision to worship Jesus and not demons or something. But that was always as well from the very beginning.
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Yeah. But what happens is the devil is the enemy of the soul and he wounds the soul. and So even if you had the best parents anyone has ever had, the soul will still come into the world with some degree of of of wounds now. Yeah.
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Yeah. The whole thing is just very, very nefarious.
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Now, this came to me one day while I was shopping in Lidl. I live literally five-minute walk away from that supermarket. And one day, I think it Saturday, was actually shopping for the Joshua generation to make a fruit salad.
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Because I was in the fruit aisle. And next thing, the Lord just told me, dragon means seer. And I said, eh, dragon means seer.
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The only verse I could think of was Revelation 12, 9. So I got home, looked up in the Greek, and you know what? God was right. The verse starts off with the phrase, the great dragon, which in Greek is the word, droon which means to see, the seeing one, to have incredible insight.
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And it's also, of course, a fabulous animal who causes fascination. and excites people's imagination. This is talking about Lucifer.
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This is to say that Lucifer, the cherub, had a gift of special sight. To see something others couldn't.
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The see your gift operates on many levels, one of which is to see the future.
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Now, Ezekiel 28, 14 says you were anointed as a guardian cherub. Again, Jesus does not need bodyguards, but that's part of their job anyway.
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A guardian cherub. For so I ordained you. That was Jesus' plan for Lucifer all along. You were
Lucifer's Rebellion and Envy of Humans
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on the holy mount of God, and you walked among the fiery stones.
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Alright, two things here that people might be a bit confused of. One, what is the anointing? And two, what's up with the fiery stones?
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So let's break those down in a little bit more detail. So you were anointed, we're gonna look into that word, as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God, you walked among the fiery stones. Well, what's a fiery stone?
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In Ezekiel 28, 13, that's what we've just looked at. Now, Isaiah 6, 6 tells you what the fiery stone is. It says, then one of the seraphim, a seraphim is a cherubim. It just looks like a snake that's on fire and has wings.
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The God made them. They're amazing. They love the Lord. Yes, they're snakes. They're not bad. It's just how they look. Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hands, because what is a stone on fire? It's a coal.
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Which he'd taken tongs from the altar. And in the story of Isaiah, the seraphim put that fiery stone on Isaiah's mouth and that awoke his prophetic gift.
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So in heaven, the fiery stones are full of revelation. They are revelation stones. You walk on these fiery stones, and if you pick them up and they put it to your lips, you get a revelation on something no one had ever known before other than God. And 1 John 2.27 says, his anointing, so the anointing of the Lord, teaches you about all things.
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So Lucifer, the anointed cherub, would walk on the fiery stones pick one up, put it to his lips, and he would get insight into something he otherwise could not have known that beforehand he had not known.
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And because his heart was a musical instrument, he would have prophesied in worship. He would have worshiped the Lord, and while worshiping, would have gotten
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and begun prophesying future events that he hadn't otherwise been told, that had been a secret before then.
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So you might be thinking, J. Acres, this is madly supernatural. It is. It's heaven. but Everything in heaven is supernatural.
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I'm sure he was given the most stunning revelation of the future. that anyone had ever had.
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There's no time in heaven, but there are moments.
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And I'm sure he had done this on so many occasions and just came out with the most exciting news and updates, getting the news before the news.
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But one day, again, there's no time in heaven, but using human language, One day, everything changed. One day, he picked up a fiery stone in heaven, put it to his lips, and he began to sing.
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He was given a vision, but he did not like what he saw. It's recorded Hebrews 2, verses 5 to 8. It
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says, it's not to angels that God has subjected the world to come, about which we're speaking. But there is a place where someone has earnestly protested in a testimony.
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So someone saw the future and they were not happy. Now where do you share a testimony? In a courtroom. So this someone went into a courtroom and told God he had a bad idea.
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What is mankind that you are mindful of them? Human beings, that you care for them. You made them a little lower than the angels.
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You crowned them with glory and honor and put everything under their feet. So there is someone who has a vision of the future and sees that human beings are about to be created.
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This someone goes into the courtroom of heaven and tells the Lord, we angels are only ever going to be your staff, your servants, your employees.
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But you're going to create a creature who is physical in the world to come, a physical world, the world of time and space that we all live in And they're going to be your children.
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You're gonna give us jobs to do. You're gonna give human beings glory and honor. What is glory? It is the ability to show Jesus.
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Lucifer already did that. We do it in a very different way, but a very important way. And this, someone, earnestly protested.
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They were disgusted.
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The word mankind in the Hebrew is the word Enosh. What is mankind that you think about them?
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Enosh means human beings are bloodthirsty.
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They should be your servants. They should be strangers and mortal. Now humans were not made to die, but already he's thinking about our death. They're desperately sick.
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They're incurable. They're woeful, feeble, wicked, frail, melancholy. and
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What are human beings that you should care about them? That is the Hebrew word adam, which is red, ruddy, to show blood in the face. If you got the torch of your phone and you lit it up to your hand, you would see red, okay, the the blood.
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So he's ah he knows that human beings are physical creatures, and he's not physical. He knows humans will have blood, which is not something he understands.
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But there is a bitterness. There is a jealousy. There is an envy in this creature, in this someone, who sees that human beings are coming, and they are going to be given a world.
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Planet Earth. that we are going to be the rulers of this planet. Yes, we're supposed to rule it in step with the Lord, which we don't do very well, but that's the job.
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um But he's absolutely...
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he He thinks humans are an abomination.
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And in the Greek, what is mankind that you're mindful of them? The word at mankind has the notion of weakness. by which man is led into mistake, are prompted into sin, the adjunct notion of contempt, and even we're pitiable. We deserve commiseration because we're so pathetic.
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Who do you think this person is or this someone is earnestly protesting? It's Lucifer. Lucifer picks up a revelation stone, puts to his lips, has a vision that the Lord is about to create planet Earth, the world of time and space, with our solar system, the Milky Way, all the constellations, and he is not going to be in charge of it.
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Human beings are a creature he does not understand, ah physical world he does not understand, filled with blood, which he does not understand,
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And he is only ever going to be Lord's servant, the Lord's priest, if you will. We're gonna be his kids. And he goes ballistic. He loses his mind.
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And he begins, even then, speaking death and destruction over us. Speaking sickness and incurable over us. Melancholy, wickedness over us.
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but it came from a stone. The word came from a revelation stone. He knows it's going to happen. Sorry, Brendan. Yep. You probably already mentioned this. Is that the only vision he's seen?
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That is the only where he went bad. He probably had had a track record. of prophesying amazing things, even things the Lord is gonna make in heaven, the Lord is gonna do in heaven.
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Maybe he was even shown that the Lord is gonna create time and space, planet Earth and planets, and God got really excited, but this is the time when he sees that human beings will be created, that the Lord's mind is
Lucifer's Fall and His Prophecy Manipulation
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consumed.
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with thoughts about us and we didn't even exist and still the lord's mind was just full of human human human human human human human human
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and that we were going to be the ones to run the planet so you didn't see the crucifixion or anything or jesus having to come down and sacrifice himself nothing like that is right question joyce I'll tell you this. We're commanded to put on the mind of Christ. Yeah. New Testament, put on the mind of Christ.
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Yeah. We are commanded in the New Testament how to think. Whatever is good. Whatever is pure. Whatever is lovely.
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Whatever is beautiful. Whatever is noble. Whatever is true. Whatever is praiseworthy. Whatever is commendable. That is how we are commanded to think. Yeah.
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And we're told to put on the mind of Christ. So that is the mind of Christ. God's mind is full of whatever is good, whatever is noble, whatever is pure, whatever is and honest, whatever is beautiful, whatever whatever is pleasing.
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They are the thoughts of God. So everything, say, that Lucifer would have seen beforehand would have been in line with God's perfection, with God's perfect man.
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Okay. a This is when he he he looks into the Revelation stone. And, i mean, let's be honest, let's you made the example witches earlier with Macbeth and, you know, bubble, bubble, toilet, trouble.
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What do witches use to tell the future? Like... Like crystal ball. crystals and... Where did they get that idea? Oh, yeah. very Yeah.
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This is where they got the idea to use crystals, to crystal ball, to use a magic stone, a revelation stone. They got it from the devil. Because in heaven, it's normal and it's fine.
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What does hell do? Well, evil can't create. It can only corrupt. It only twist. It can only corrupt. And what was the inspiration behind... Sorry, what was the inspiration behind tarot cards then? Uh... Great question. Well, i suppose with a Tyro card, you know, God will still use pictures to communicate with people in dreams and visions and the likes. Yeah. So with a Tyro card, what is it? it's's it's a It's a picture in print effectively.
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and So it would be like, it's like a counterfeit dream. It's a counterfeit vision. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, great question.
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So this would be the the first time he had a vision of human beings coming. Yeah. And so he was so he wouldn't have seen the cross of Jesus or anything else.
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This is him looking at the world to come, human beings to come. and actually begins to speak sickness over us, wickedness over us, incurable disease. And this is where it all began.
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But even then, even still, he still knew the Lord was gonna create us, because the Lord's mind was full of thoughts of us. So he thought to himself, okay,
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I will turn the prophecy of the man onto myself. So he prophesies what the Lord shows him.
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You might say he did a bad job. You might say put his own twist in it, but it's still a prophecy from God. Then he creates his own prophecy, a dark prophecy, an evil prophecy, where he declares everything that human beings were supposed to get onto himself.
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And this is Isaiah 14, 13 to 14. thirteen to fourteen I'm going to read what's in white and yellow first, because that's how most English translations phrase it.
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You, Lucifer, said in your heart. So this is God telling Lucifer, you know, I know i can read your mind. I can read thoughts. I know what's in your head.
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This is what you prophesied when you thought no one else was listening. I will ascend to the heavens. I will raise my throne above the stars of God.
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I will sit enthroned at the Mount of Assembly on the utmost heights of Mount of Saffron, wherever that is. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds. I'll make myself like the most high.
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That's how most English english translations phrase it, which is fine. But in Hebrew and in Greek, the language is very elastic. And one phrase, one word, can mean multiple things.
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So I read that a year or two ago, and I said to myself, I don't know that. I think there's more going on here than meets the eye. So I read it in the Hebrew.
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In yellow and orange, that's how it write it reads in an other Hebrew translation.
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You said, in the seat of your appetite and passions. So he's sitting around mulling on this, thinking about this day after day, smacking his lips.
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I will lift myself into a superior position. Because now he's the son of the morn. He's got like this, you know, daddy-son relationship with Jesus, which isn't good enough for him.
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He's the high priest of Jesus, which isn't good enough for him. He wants to go higher.
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I will magnify myself in a wormy, rotten way. So he knows what he's going to do with bad.
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He didn't accidentally trip and suddenly become a sinner. He knew what he was doing. Above God's omniscience. God is all-knowing, but I have a strategy. i have got a plan. Mwahaha.
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To make myself superior in a way not even God would ever imagine. Not even God could picture. her
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I will sit enthroned at an appointed time and place. So he has this idea in his head of when he wants to do it and how he wants to do it and where he wants to do it.
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The where is interesting. a lot of people say the where is heaven. Let's challenge that idea.
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On the... utmost heights is interesting. We all think of high as just, you know, up there. So a lot of people say, oh, the devil just wanted to rule heaven by himself.
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That's not really what utmost height means. Upmost heights means in the central place, I'll have authority. In the peripheral place, I'll have authority.
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In the hidden areas, I'll have authority. He wants authority where he can be seen. He wants authority where only a few people are.
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He wants authority where no one would ever think to look.
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And I will ascend over the tops the clouds. That in the Hebrew translates as I will ascend in the places of worship. Because again, his heart was a musical instrument. He was, we can assume, the lead worshiper in heaven.
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he was like a son to Jesus, who the high priest to Jesus. He was heaven's lead worshipper. I will make myself like the most high. He didn't say, neith the most high is Jesus.
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He does not say, i will make myself the most high. He says, I'll make myself like the most high.
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In what ways Is Jesus different from God the Father and Holy Spirit?
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If I were to challenge you all right now,
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in what way, what is the most specific way you can imagine, you can think of that Jesus is the most different from Father, God, and Holy Spirit?
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He's a sacrifice? Oh, you have to be sacrifice? How would could he be sacrificed? You cannot sacrifice Father God. You cannot sacrifice Holy Spirit. How could Jesus be killed? Through a blood sacrifice. It's the case of fiction.
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Okay. Why does he have blood? Because he is? Human. Exactly. Jesus has a physical body. Exactly. Oh, okay. I get you. I get you. So he says, I will make myself like the physical Jesus.
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I will make myself human.
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So Lucifer is in heaven, thinking to himself, human beings are coming, and they're gonna be given planet Earth.
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I want what they're gonna get. But in order for me to do that, in order for me to properly seize control of planet Earth,
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I need to be a human. I need to be hybrid. So he is a spiritual entity. He needs a physical body.
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Who in the entire Bible has a physical body, but the the devil lives inside of him? The Antichrist. I'll make myself an Antichrist body.
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A physical body where I run the controls. And when people talk about the Antichrist, the Antichrist, Man of Lannes is the Antichrist. That's the Antichrist is.
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A physical body with Satan in charge, Satan running controls, in his hope of stealing planet Earth. Now you might say the Antichrist won't take over until the future.
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He's always trying to.
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All right, Ezekiel 28. 15 to 19, so we're just zipping around the Old New Testaments here get the fullest picture.
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This
Satan's Nature and Human Spiritual Warfare
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is God talking about Lucifer. From the day of your creation, you were sheer perfection.
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And then imperfection, evil, was detected in you. In much buying and selling, you turned violent.
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You sinned. Okay, you buy and sell. You buy by giving people something. You sell by giving what you have.
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What did Lucifer have that no other spiritual being had apart from God? The anointing. The seer gift. The revelation of things to come.
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So what did he do now? Who is he talking to? Because humans don't exist yet. the only creatures who exist are supernatural beings. So he went to angels in heaven and said, picked up a stone, probably saw that, I don't know, maybe they were supposed to like, I don't know rescue 3,000 virgins from a human trafficker, whatever it was. And he was like, you know, oh the Lord is showing me that you will be a principality over China.
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And you're going to have your own throne and other beings will be under you. Whatever it was he back with. He began to give them false prophecies, counterfeit prophecies in exchange for loyalty.
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He gave them a word. They chose to listen to it. They chose that it tickled their ears. They chose to say, oh yes, that sounds amazing. Wait, human beings are coming and I get to kill 10,000 of them?
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What?
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And the selling was, well, I'll give you this, but you you belong to me now. You to follow me now. This is the creation of the demons. He gave false prophecies, half prophecies, counterfeit prophecies to angels.
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And they said, okay, And they joined team Lucifer.
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In much buying in sal and selling, and it says here much, okay, this was not something he did once and it was over. He convinced, if heaven has zillions of angels, he convinced trillions.
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If heaven has trillions, he convinced billions. I threw you disgraced of the mountain of God. I threw you out.
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You, the anointed angel cherub, No more strolling among the gems of fire for you. Your beauty went to your head. Keep that in mind, that's important in the David story.
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You corrupted wisdom by using it to get worldly fame. Okay? He looked the Revelation stones, he knew what the visions were, and he intentionally distorted them.
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I threw you to the ground. Well, where is the ground? Planet Earth. isn't that interesting? Satan and demons did not come here, go in volition. They got kicked out of heaven and God sent them here. Why?
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Because we were the ones that they were offended at. Their animosity was towards humans. So we had a job to tread on them.
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We had a job to stamp on them. We had a job to keep them down. Some people think, oh wow, I wish Adam and Eve had never sinned, and then my life would be so much easier. Ugh.
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Maybe, to an extent. But human beings were always made for war. We were always supposed to fight. We were always supposed to be in the fight against evil.
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Your body is a fighting machine. I ran a karate competition in Ashburn yesterday. um I'm a black belt in karate. I've done world championships around the globe and came back and went medals and trophies and things.
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The body is built to fight. Humans have always made weapons. We were always made for war, 100%.
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Spiritual war, first and foremost.
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I threw you to the ground, says God, sent you sprawling before an audience of kings, and let them gloat over your demise. Well, who are the kings? Well, Adam and Eve.
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Adam and Eve were created to rule and reign over the earth as kings and priests. So they were able to see demons, and they would rebuke the demons.
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By sin after sin after sin, by your corrupt ways of doing business, you defiled your holy places of worship Okay, so even worshipping angels, or especially worshipping angels, turned against the Lord and joined Team Lucifer.
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So I set a fire around you and within you. I burned you up. Sorry, it, the fire. It burned you up. I reduced you to ashes.
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All anyone sees now when they look at you is ashes. a pitiful mound of ashes. On your worst day, when it feels like the devil is having a field day, I want you to look at your enemy and say, you are nothing but a pitiful mound of ashes.
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All who once knew you threw up their hands. This can't have happened. This has happened. For someone who was so amazing, and so powerful, and had so much going over him, he lost everything.
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And John chapter one, verse five. The light, that's Jesus, shines the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. Overcome is a warring word.
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The light and the darkness have been at war ever since.
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You and I were all born into a world at war. The war will continue after we're dead and gone. but we have to play our part while we're here.
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Now, Luke 10, 18, Jesus says, I saw Lucifer fall from heaven and like a lightning bolt. Personally, I think Jesus probably threw a lightning bolt at him.
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and That's how he fell, like one, as well as all the other demons who joined him. But when they fell, the earth was still just a ball of water.
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where lot of the primeval primordial earth. Land had not come up yet. Humans were not here yet. So because the demons went sp into the water, a lot of demons now have marine aquatic features.
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In a deliverance, it's very common to say you know for a human to say you know, what's your name? Leviathan, octopus, shark, or whatever.
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They take on marine qualities.
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Genesis 1-2 says, now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was over the source of the deep, spiritual darkness, of the demons. And the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
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Now, you don't just say water, says waters. Waters in Hebrew means primeval waters, because land didn't exist yet.
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waste, urine, because where there are demons, you know, things look pretty disgusting, and it even means semen.
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So it's possible, not saying it, it's true, but it's possible that even
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in that world before time, where, you know, when the first first day of creation, Lucifer was already trying to create the Antichrist, was already trying to create a human vessel.
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Now, Revelation 12.9 gives us the fullest, most detailed description of how the devil works. He's called the Great Dragon, which means to see, because he is a seer, the seeing one.
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Exercising his subtle, indirect impact on heathen governments. Don't we see that on the earth every single day?
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To have incredible insight.
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Unlike Jesus, the devil cannot read your mind. But he's very good at reading body language.
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to be able to spot prey in adding a hunting place, and the prey are humans, a fabulous animal who causes fascination.
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He's also called the ancient serpent.
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Ancient, as you can probably imagine,
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means that has been from the beginning.
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The your original, he is the original big bad.
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Primeval.
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And the word serpent, again is a seer. Sharpness of vision.
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Sly.
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Cunning.
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Artfully malicious. Someone who turns wickedness into an art form.
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a symbol of danger. Deception. Evil. And even wisdom or prudence. Because again, he he did have wisdom. He got it from Jesus. He was Lucifer. he he would by extension of close proximity to Jesus, he would get the wisdom.
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But he corrupted the wisdom. what? Think of it, you know, knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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Knowledge is information. Wisdom is making good decisions. The devil has a lot of knowledge, lot of information, but he abuses it to encourage people to make bad decisions, detrimental decisions, self-national destructive decisions.
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The great dragon was hurled down that ancient serpent called the devil. What is the devil? A lot of people just picture a red man with pointy ears and black horns. The devil means a false accuser.
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Where to accuse people? In a courtroom. This is why we say, do you have any legal ground for the enemy to attack you? Because he has books and books and binders and binders of information on you of things to use against you.
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And then there are things he's crafted himself that he wrote which are not true. He's a slanderer.
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A calumnator or a traducer. Probably not words you hear all that often. It just means someone who maliciously attacks or damages another person's reputation through false spoken or written statements.
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It means a backbiter. Someone who stabs you in the back.
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And someone who makes charges, not because they're a victim, but because they want to bring you down or destroy you.
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So whenever you see that happening, friends, you know it is a satanic attack.
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The great dragon was hurled down. That ancient serpent called the devil or Satan. What is Satan?
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A personal, supernatural adversary.
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It's not evil as some unknowable cosmic force. He has an identity. He has thoughts. He has feelings.
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He knows what he's doing. And he's doing it on purpose because he's doing it with the intention of eliminating the human race and having this world for himself.
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It means an accuser.
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Satan means consistently hostile, deceptive, and destructive.
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It means a tempter, someone causes temptation. Why? Because the best way to destroy someone is to make them complicit in their own destruction.
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It means a deceiver, one who tells lies.
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An opposer, someone who 110% against you.
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An executioner.
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He's a being who thwarts evangelistic travel. tries to stop the plans of God, tries to stop the word of Jesus getting out there,
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and who blinds unbelievers, the people you're supposed to get. That's why when I pray, God, remove the scales from their eyes, I always specify the dragon scales, because they're put there by a dragon.
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You might sometimes wonder how some people can be such idiots, making the same mistake again again again again again and again and again, just can't see facts. Now you know why.
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One who inflicts physical suffering, sickness, disease.
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One who can cause people to stab each other. One who can cause power crashes.
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He's been a murderer from the beginning.
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And he is the energizer of evil.
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If the realm of evil, the Empire Darkness needed to run on a battery, Satan would be that battery.
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The great dragon was hurled down. That ancient serpent called the devil or Satan who leads the world astray.
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Who leads the world into deception.
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Who leads people from safety, truth, or moral uprightness.
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who leads the world through seduction.
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The reason so many people do bad things is because they really like the feeling of it. It feels good.
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He causes the human race, who he wants to steal, kill, and destroy, to roam or wander into error.
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And he deviates people from the correct path.
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He was hurled to the earth and his angels with him.
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And how does he encourage so many people to, and this includes Christians,
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to be complicit with him? to fraternize with him, to serve him, to walk alongside him.
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is very crafty. In 2 Corinthians 11, 14, this is one of the most commonly phrased or repeated Bible verses about the devil among Christian circles.
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There's nothing surprising in that. For the adversary, Satan himself, masquerades as an angel of light.
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The same thing he said to the angels who side with him. Ooh, you're going to have so much money if you do this. Oh yes, that person will totally fall in love with you if you cast this love spell on them, which is more common than you would think.
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Kill this many children and I will give you a throne in the afterlife when you die. Hell's not a scary place, it's wonderful.
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Perhaps you would not be surprised by how many politicians have fallen for that one.
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it's just a little bit of pornography, it's a little bit of adultery, it's a little bit of gambling. Your marriage will be fine, your kids won't fall out of love with you. You deserve this.
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An angel of light tells people with one to hear, God is so boring, but Kundalini, oh my goodness, I mean, that is where real enlightenment is.
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That's the real creative source of power and oneness and unity of the divine. Puts a twist or a spin on things to deceive people and they fall for that counterfeit light.
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What is a counterfeit light? Darkness. and that is how he bewitches be devils the nations.
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All right, we're gonna have a look in a moment at the Absalom Conspiracy, where you're gonna see how David's son took inspiration from Satan in his attempt to steal the nation of Israel.
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We'll pause just for a moment. Are there any thoughts, comments, questions, queries or concerns on any of that? cause I know there's a lot in that, but important to know.
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there any comments or questions thus far before we look at part two?
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Thank you.
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You're very welcome. Well, I think was great go back over that because... I haven't read any of that stuff in a very long time, you know, that early stuff. And it's good just to, and you know, recap on that because, you know, you learn that at stage in life when you're forced to learn it and whatever, and it's just, you know, but it's good to recap to make yourself totally aware of what's going on around around you.
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Yeah. Thank you. And I find most people oversimplify all of this. They just say, oh, one day... You know, the angel was the was a worshipping angel. and one day said, wow, i want people I want angels to worship me instead. I want to be God.
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And they actually eliminate his whole obsession on planet Earth. It feels like we're just collateral damage in a cosmic war. But i to actually know that taking this planet for himself was the goal, was the aim, and still is.
00:55:18
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and and how it ties into the Antichrist during the apocalypse and everything else. Yeah, it's um the destruction of all human life was always his intention.
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where we're We're not a bad idea he got once. We are the original bad idea he had.
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Do I think people simplify things in a way that can manage it in a way? That can happen too, yeah. you know, you read and really read into it, you can get overwhelmed with it. So I suppose as you try and break it into bits and try and implement them into your life.
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You'll be aware, but, you know, I think sometimes that you can get overwhelmed with all of it because it's vast. It's vast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But guys, if there's nothing else you remember from today, i want you to remember that line.
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You are nothing but a pile of ashes. And every wicked word that comes into your minds this week, you don't meditate on it, don't ponder on it, don't say, oh yeah, I am a scumbag, yeah, I am going nowhere in life. Nope.
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You turn whatever direction you heard bad boys come from, and you say demon. It probably will not be Satan himself, doesn't matter. You say demon. You are nothing but a pile of ashes.
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And I remember you. You are nothing but a pile of ashes. Get behind me. You are nothing but a pile of ashes.
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I have been crowned with glory and honor by Jesus Christ. Amen. Hallelujah. A pile of ashes.
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I am a son or a daughter of God. Most high, yeah. Nothing but a pile of ashes. Yet Jesus has no spirit of chosen to live in me.
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I'll be saying that all day. I believe you will. I'll be looking at them. 100%. Yeah. 100%. I prayed and I prayed like her. He asked me to write notes when she was giving her evidence. Sure. But other than that, I prayed and I prayed and I'm, you know, sometimes I knew. was aware of my lips when you were me. That's okay. That's okay. And I'm sure. That's okay.
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Luckily, but I just thought I do not care. No. Because I need to focus. There's so much evil. Yeah. In that quarter. And you could see it blatantly. Even lurching the faces. And the face of the more pulling and expression. And just, oh my God. Every time. And I kept saying to him, when you're going in there, surround yourself with the white light of Christ, of protection. I said around yourself. To get that. That evil does not stick. That they cannot penetrate. Yeah. Whatever. But he has great faith, but he doesn't talk the way I talk. I mean, he keeps it to himself, he just believes in God. But I was surrounding myself with the fire of Christ. Amen. I said, you know, the light, the love, the life, you know, the protection of God. I was covering myself with that all the time. even I would go into the bathroom, you know, go to the toilet before I'd leave there, going back out there. And this woman was watching me because I physically sort of do it. And she looked at me and started stepping back and I said, I just said to this place is full of evil. And I think she probably said, oh, what's wrong with that one? No, I was surrounding myself, light of protection all around me.
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go pick well i can When he was, you know, he's over there, he's the Sith. Yeah. Once we had no, And I kept visualising a light, the fire of Christ all around him.
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Please God, it pays off. Amen. No, that's... Excellent, excellent. And you're right, what once you know what evil looks like and you know your enemy, you will see demons manifesting people. And when i say manifesting, I don't always mean... but Even the distortion of their face.
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You can see it particularly in their eyes. The eyes are the windows of the soul. Yeah. The windows the I mean, I'd say in more recent times, um one of the most,
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don't how to say, famous or infamous examples was a couple of years ago, they were Joe Biden, for instance. And it was, you know, full of demons. But at one point, he leaned over on a podium,
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And his eyes turn black and his eyes like to slits, his pupil slits. In his speech, goes, I'm like hissing like a snake. Or in our country, how let's say, her name is on the tip of my tongue there a moment ago, Helen McEntee, the Minister for Injustice, as I like to call her. a And a there are times I've looked at her and her face just, the word I get is is goblin.
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um and she's been a big part of the corruption this country, the perpetuation of corruption, and then does her propagandist videos in Dublin and pretend that everything is totally safe while she's surrounded by her you know personal security guards. and But yeah, there are times you'll just look in someone's eyes and you'll literally see the demons looking back at you.
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And even their face can distort. and Other there are women I've known who maybe in their early 50s or whatever. and But they had a Jensabelle spirit, a demon of
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control and dominance that is rigged against the prophetic word of God. And I've seen these beautiful women age right before my eyes like they were in their mid-90s.
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I've seen that happen, I most recently seen that happen at the revival we had back in February. A certain woman, and just her face was totally morphed. And her body, and she even was like down on the ground like she had just totally been depleted of all energy and couldn't stand up.
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And just aged about 40, 45 years before my eyes. and it's a Once you know, you're going to see it far more regularly. Before that, people were just like, oh, it's just normal. Oh, it's just who they are.
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Oh, there's something a bad day. And you make excuses for it. But when you know, know. You know. yeah You feel the coldness from people that are living in darkness.
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That's true too. I sense it a lot, you know, when I'm around people. I think the more i I cover myself every morning with the armor. Yes, the armor. And I pray who enters my house. Because I have friends that I'm not walking in Christ, but I keep bringing who I am and they respect that. and that's the reason they're still friends because they respect who I am. I'm not going to give up preaching and praying over them. You know, that's who I am. That's what we're called to do.
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And because, you know, and that's all you can feel, but you have to pray over who enters and you leave your home and where you're going. And I think, Catherine, you do amazing to you have to cover yourself.
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Because the darkness is all around us out there. But he who is with us is greater than those darkness. And we have to keep pressing in and believing in fate. It's the fate that gets us through all things.
01:03:18
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Amen. thank much And that's even a good point about who you let into your home. There are people, let's say, who... I think that's huge. It is. Like, they really may not be in Christ yet, but God has put them in your lane for you to win for him. That's fine.
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and There are people who God has not sent into your life, but somehow they're there. And you have to make decisions in the immediate and no more.
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Or i have to put a very healthy separation here and keep them out of certain spaces in my life. i am i remember last year, obviously for the discipleship, i it's a different WhatsApp chat. At some point I might merge it all into this one, it might be the most sensible option, but at the moment there are two different WhatsApp chats.
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But with the discipleship one, a I'll be honest, ah someone joined it and she was a practicing witch. Which God only revealed to me a few weeks after she joined.
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And at that point, to we had to expose, it was three witch infiltrations, actually, in a very short space of time. was just like, God, this is absolutely nuts. Well, with one of them, sometimes you have to do little tests.
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There's one thing you know God tells you something in a dream or a vision, but it's good to have, you know, the the physical evidence or a hoarding or something more solid to go with. And on one occasion, we a little test and said, all right, I'm going share your salvation story.
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And, well, there wasn't one. And she could talk the talk, but actually the whole thing was just a lot of waffles. ah And then there was an attempt to buy access. I have no problem people trying to give them money.
01:05:28
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But this was about purchasing access. And said, well. And um while she was sharing her sal they tell her salvation story, because she wasn't in Christ, again, aged to about maybe years of age,
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from th thirty s or vs to 80, and I'm talking about unhealthy 80-something-year-old, and because it was the spirits of witchcraft in her manifesting in the natural.
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And always that's something we had to lop off and and deal with very decisively. um And whether it's online, whether it's in your home, you have to be vigilant.
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And you have to be okay with people calling you rude. You have to be okay with people are saying you're curt. You have okay with people condemning you and slandering you and saying this, that and the other.
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Because above all things, the word of God says, you guard your heart. Fourth wellspring of life. And your home is an extension of your heart. and So you have to be vigilant.
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You are a gatekeeper. And you are in charge of what goes in. You're in charge of what goes out. You're in charge of who comes in. You're in charge of who comes out.
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And you have to build very healthy boundaries. and Walls of fortification. Defensive walls of war to protection. It's necessary to live a successful, healthy, and prosperous life.
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And sometimes that means evicting people. Sometimes that means evicting so many people, you're only left with a few. And since we're on top, I wasn't going to say it until the end, but since it's it's come up, even on our own WhatsApp chat, I'm aware that there are certain people there who literally have never joined once.
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and Or perhaps they joined and thought it was the right fit for them at the time. But now they're somewhere else and that that's okay. um In the next week, I will be doing an eviction.
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um Because... For a Josh generation, it was always meant to be a ministry of people who were a family, would build each other would encourage people, who would be one.
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a People just sitting there in the shadows doing nothing, isn't doing anything. And when it comes to oneness, when it comes to family, it comes to church, you are as strong as your weakest link. And if someone's never here or never engages in the chats or anything,
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um Well, i they probably are the weakest links, and I can't be responsible for that. um So ah just know, those of you who are you're safe.
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But um when you start seeing people's names vanishing from it, and just know that it's a healthy detox, it's a healthy eviction. and Because i don't need...
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a WhatsApp chat full of inactive members because it's just a counterfeit number. And the thing that would do is tickle my ego, but actually that would a self-deception.
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So that's coming to this week. I'm always surprised when you see the numbers decrease, it'll be just healthy, clean in the house.
Parallel to Biblical History: Absalom's Rebellion
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um All right, so we've looked at what the nature of evil looks like in the supernatural realm.
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Now let's turn attention to an historical usurpation or insurrection of how this played out in Bible times the life of King David.
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Now, last week we read a couple chapters. and We read until the end of 2 Samuel 14. But today we're going to look at part of 2 Samuel 14 again.
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having looked at Lucifer, you're going to see some big connections, all right? So there'll be a little bit of a rewind, little bit of a replay, and that's all right. But let's turn off with 2 Samuel, chapter 14, verse 25. 2 Samuel, chapter 14, verse 25. So over here last week, there'll be a bit of ah a review, bit of revision, that's okay. Mm-hmm.
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Okay, 2 Samuel chapter 14, verse 25. In all of Israel, there was not a man so highly praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom.
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Absalom is David's son. Well, one of David's sons.
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From the top of his head to the sole of his foot, there was no blemish in him.
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Whenever he cuts the hair of his head, he used to cut his hair once a year because it became too heavy for him. He would weigh it and its weight was 200 shekels by the Royal standards.
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All right, so he's an incredibly handsome and beautiful man. How is that similar to Lucifer based on what we looked at today?
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Well, he would have gotten a lot of positive attention. And he was in a prime of place because he was David's son. So already had Extantus. Okay, good. Yeah, Extantus. Yeah, good. Yeah. And would have had a lot of supporters and the likes.
01:11:48
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Yeah. And the same way in Ezekiel 28, 15, when God's talking about Lucifer, from the day of your creation, you were, did he call Lucifer?
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Sheer perfection.
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Or Lucifer. verse 13, was covered in rubies, topaz, emeralds, crystallite onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, beryl.
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Lucifer was the best-looking angel or cherub. So again, you have this sense of they're letting their physical beauty go to their head. They've taken pride. It's okay. You can say, you know, you can take pride.
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Pride is one of those funny words that can be a bad thing or a good thing. I mean good pride. You can take pride in your appearance. You look well, you dress well, it's all great. And then negative pride, you take pride in your appearance, you become in love with yourself, self-obsessed, self-absorbed.
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That was true for Lucifer. Absalom the same.
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Three sons and a daughter were born to Absalom. His daughter's name was Tamar and she became a beautiful woman. He named his daughter after his sister. Now his sister got raped and she said, Absalom, help me.
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And Absalom's response was shut up, zip it, say nothing, do nothing, tell nobody. Live here with me. And then he murdered her rapist later on.
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But um he obviously named his daughter after his sister.
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Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the king's face after he had committed a murder and then come back home again.
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Then Absalom sent for Joab, David's military commander, in order to send him to the king. so basically he's getting the military commander to visit him.
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And the prince is telling the commander, Get me an audience with my father. He will see me.
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But Job refused to come to him.
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So he sent a second time for a Job to come.
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Job refused second time. Then he said to his servants, Look, Job's field is next to mine, and he has barley there.
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Go set it on fire. So Absalom's servants set the field on fire. That got Job's attention.
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Then Joab did go to Absalom's house and he said to him, Why have your servants set my field on fire? So they didn't do a very subtle job. um He intentionally, he wanted Joab to know it was him.
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Absalom said to Joab, Look, I sent word to you and said... He almost makes this sound like this was just, you know, by happenstance. It was just like a normal thing. I mean, I told you this and you didn't answer me, so I had to resort to drastic decision. I mean, you put this on me. You forced me to do this.
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Come here, so I can send you to the king to ask, why have I come from Gesher? After he had murdered, he went to stay with his maternal grandfather. It would be better for me if I were still there.
01:15:35
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Now then, I want to see the king's face. And if I'm guilty of anything, if he knew he was, let him put me to death, which he knew David wouldn't. He knew David would not kill his own son.
01:15:51
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So Joab went to the king and told him this. Then the king summoned Absalom. And he came in and bowed down his face to the ground before the king. Fault's humility.
01:16:06
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And the king kissed Absalom.
01:16:14
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All right, so this is where we finished off last week. So Absalom's incredibly beautiful, just like Lucifer was. And Lucifer has this plan to take the throne, to take rulership, to take control, just like Lucifer had. Lucifer wanted control of the earth.
01:16:33
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Absalom wants control of of Israel, his father's nation. is za In 2 Samuel chapter 15, in the course of time, Absalom provided himself with a chariot and horses and with 50 men to run ahead of him.
01:16:52
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So this is like a parade, his entourage. wherever Wherever he goes, people are going to run in front of him And it's going to look like the king is coming, not just a prince.
01:17:08
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He wants to create this sense of expectancy, of urgency, of celebration. Whenever people see 50 men running, they're going to stop going, oh, wow, who's this? What's going on?
01:17:24
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He would get up early and stand by the side of the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone came with a complaint to be placed before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out to him, What town are you from?
01:17:44
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he would answer, Your servant is from Bethlehem, ram nazare from from Hebron, from one of the times in Galilee, of the tribes.
01:17:57
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Then Absalom say to him Look, he loved the word look, doesn't he? Your claims are valid and proper. Your offence is legitimate.
01:18:11
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Your needs are authentic. Your distress is real. My heart breaks for you.
01:18:19
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But there's no representative of a king to hear you. Now that's sneaky. Because they had to go through the gate to get into the palace to tell the king their problem. And David was like was like a judge. He'd hear them out and make a decision.
01:18:35
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And any other time someone wanted to see David in 2 Samuel, he's made that possible. Absalom is catching them before they can get there. So he's saying, oh, no one cares about you.
01:18:48
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You're all alone in the world and no one has any interest in your misery, your aches and your pains, but I do. I have a vested interest in what you've gone through.
01:18:59
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I hear your heart. Let me fix this problem for you.
01:19:07
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And Absalom would add, if only i were appointed judge in the land, then Everyone who has a complaint or case could come to me and I would see that they received justice.
01:19:22
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So no one cares about you. No one's interested. But don't you know, my middle name is Mr. Fix-It. My nickname in college was Mr. Problem and Solver.
01:19:36
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I am the solutions guy. If you put your faith in me, you put your trust in me, you give me power, you give me a title... All your problems will go away.
01:19:49
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Also, whenever Annan approached him to bow down before him, because he was a prince, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him.
01:20:06
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Absalom behaved in this way towards all the Israelites who came to the king asking for justice. And so, He stole the hearts of the people of Israel.
01:20:19
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He was a sycophant. He was an emotional abuser. He heard a good expression recently, which kind of describes this, a drama whore.
01:20:31
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He loved people who were going through problems, so he could listen. So he could probably did give them, you know, solution that worked because he was trying to convince them he could be trusted. i um bit of a drama llama.
01:20:44
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Yeah. and Almost had an addiction for people going through hard times so he could set himself up as God. And he was everyone's emotional crutch.
01:20:57
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And they would all lean on him and he would answer them. But he was getting them at the city gate before they get into the palace to convince them.
01:21:09
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Well, no one else cares. Well, no one else is here for you. Well, no one else is interested.
01:21:19
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At the end of four years. Okay, Absalom was playing the long game. He was in no rush. At the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, Let me go to Hebron and fulfill a vow I made to the Lord. it While your servant was living at Gesher in Aram,
01:21:42
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So when I was in exile, living with my mother's father, I made this vow. If the Lord takes me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the Lord in Hebron.
01:21:55
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So basically, he creates this fake vow or covenant with the Lord, rewrites history. I mean, David wasn't there for any this. David was in Israel, not Gesher. So David can prove that that's a lie. he just assumed it's true.
01:22:11
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The king said to him, go in peace. So Absalom went to Hebron.
01:22:19
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Then Absalom sent secret messengers throughout the tribes of Israel to say, as soon as you hear the sound of the trumpets, then say, Absalom is king in Hebron.
01:22:37
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You might think that all sounds very easy. He's been working this for four years.
01:22:46
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200 men from Jerusalem had accompanied Absalom. So he's gone from having an entourage of 50 men, and now 200 are following him. They had been invited as guests and went quite innocently, knowing nothing about the matter. These men did not know what his plan was.
01:23:07
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While Absalom was offering sacrifices, he also sent for Ahitophel the Gilaunite, David's counselor, to come from Gilelo, his hometown.
01:23:20
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So Ahitophel is David's counselor, David's friend, one of David's confidants, one of the men who would know David the best, who David trust the most.
01:23:35
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And now this man, is seen with Absalom. So everything Absalom does, and from this point onward, it looks above board. It looks legit. It looks holy. It looks righteous. It looks proper.
01:23:51
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And so the conspiracy gained strength. And Absalom's following kept on increasing. He has stolen the hearts of the people away,
01:24:04
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by setting himself up as Mr. Fix-It. He has stolen the heart of the people away by telling them, well, no one else loves you. No one else is there for you.
01:24:17
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No one else would do this for you. No one else has any interest in you. No one else in leadership or in power cares about you. I am Mr. Compassionate. And then he's also lift up you the hugs and the kisses and the high fives.
01:24:31
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I'm the relational one in the family. I'm, you know they're all busy with our politics. I actually love the people, don't you know?
01:24:40
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And now he's got people who work for his father, validating what he's doing.
01:24:48
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Verse 13. a messenger came and told David, the hearts of the people of Israel are with Absalom.
01:25:00
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So someone runs to David and they say, David, the entire kingdom has turned against you. coup is happening. An insurrection.
01:25:12
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usurpation. You have already lost. If this becomes a war,
01:25:22
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the people are Absalom's side.
01:25:28
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The sun you raised... The son you taught to walk. The son you taught to speak. The son who was one of your priests. The son who, you know, you did. That's another thing in common with Lucifer.
01:25:40
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The son that, you know, you did everything for. You created this amazing life for him. You brought him open up in a palace. You forgave him when he committed murder. That son, he has stolen the hearts of every everyone away.
01:25:52
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And verse 14. Then David said to all his officials who were with him in Jerusalem, Come, we must flee, or none of us will escape from Absalom.
01:26:07
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thank yeah We must leave immediately, or he will move quickly to overtake us and bring ruin on us and put the city to the sword.
01:26:23
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The king's officials answered him. Your servants are ready to do whatever our Lord, the King, chooses.
01:26:34
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If you want to pray a very brave prayer, highlight verse 15. Underline it, circle it, and start praying this.
01:26:47
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Father God, your servant, and insert your own name, don't pray this over other people, but Your servant is ready to do whatever our capital L Lord and capital K King chooses.
01:27:02
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These people said it to David. Start praying back to the Lord and see what big, mighty, amazing, unexpected things he might start challenging you to do. But i only do it only pray that if you're ripe.
01:27:15
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The king set out with his entire household following him. But he left ten concubines to take care of the palace. So the king set out with all the people following him, and they halted at the edge of the city, the anti the city of Jerusalem.
01:27:37
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All his men marched past him, along with all the Keratites and the Pelletites and all the 600 Gittites who accompanied him from Gath marched for the king. So even enemy nations or foreign nations see him as an amazing king and have sided with him and joined up with him.
01:28:02
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The king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why should you come along with us? Go back and stay with the King Absalom. You're a foreigner, an exile from your homeland.
01:28:17
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You came only yesterday. and today, shall i make you wander about with us when I don't even know where I'm going? Go back and take your people with you.
01:28:31
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May the Lord show you kindness and faithfulness. You came here looking for blessing and prosperity. You're not becoming an exile. You came here looking to build a new life.
01:28:43
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You're not living in the wilderness, you know, hunting down wild animals for food, thirsting for water, hiding away in deserts. I'm not going to put you through that.
01:28:55
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Everything you want, You can still get under this this wicked false king. when you just stay here. Very compassionate response. But Ittai replied to the king, as surely as the Lord lives, and as my Lord the King, David, lives, in wherever my Lord the King may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be.
01:29:27
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Even if I die, the anointing of the Lord is on you, and I will not serve a counterfeit king.
01:29:44
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David said to Etai, go ahead, march on. Because all the men had marched on already, so you know keep up with the others.
01:29:55
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So Ittai the Gittite marched on with all his men and the families that were with him.
01:30:03
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The whole countryside wept aloud as all the people passed by.
01:30:10
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The king also crossed the Kidron Valley and all the people moved on toward the wilderness. Zadok was there too. And that's ah the the priest.
01:30:23
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And all the Levites who were with him were carrying the Ark of the Covenant of God, the metal, sorry, the golden chest, the presence of the Lord dwells within.
01:30:37
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They set down the Ark of God and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had finished leaving the city. Abiathar is the high priest.
01:30:49
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and You might remember his father was the priest who helped David, who gave David Goliath's weapons. Saul had killed Abiathar's father, and then Abiathar joined David. Okay, this is dating back several months ago this stage of Bible teachings.
01:31:11
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Then the king said to Zadok, take the Ark of God back into the city. If I find favour in the Lord's eyes, he will bring me back and let me see it and his dwelling place again.
01:31:29
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But if he says, I'm not pleased with you, then I'm ready. Let him do to me whatever seems good to him.
01:31:39
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It's a curious thing for David to say, but very humble. David is not bold enough right now to say, innocent.
01:31:49
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He's actually is saying, God, am I being punished? Have I done something e offensive to you? Am I i as am i being rebuked for something?
01:32:00
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He actually, he might not, he doesn't fully know that this is like a satanic plot against him. At the moment, he's like, okay, God, is there like an open door in my life here? Is there something I need to repent of or announce?
01:32:14
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ah He does actually keep the door open that maybe he is to blame.
01:32:20
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But he says, take the eye of the covenant back to the city. And if God wants me to live long enough, I will go back and I'll see it again.
01:32:30
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The king also said to Zadok the priest, do you understand? Go back to the city with my blessing. Now, the fact he says that, Zadok's answer probably, no, David, no!
01:32:44
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And David's like, yeah, hello. We're talking strategy here. Do you understand what I'm saying? You know, nod once, you know, give him give me a wink. Go back the city with my blessing.
01:32:56
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You're not turning on me. You're not betraying me. You're not offending me. You're not hurting my feepies. Take your son Ahimaaz with you. And also Abiathar's son, Jonathan.
01:33:11
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You and Abiathar return with your two sons. I will wait at the ford in the wilderness until a word comes from you to inform me. So he's sending them back as informants.
01:33:26
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He's sending them back to talk strategy. He's sending them back so they can send people to him to say, all right, This happening, this is happening.
01:33:39
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Absalom said this, he's plotting this, he's plotting this.
01:33:47
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So Zadok and Abiathar took the Ark of God back to Jerusalem and stayed there.
01:33:57
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But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went. His head was covered and he was barefooted. All the people with him covered their heads too and were weeping as they went up.
01:34:20
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Okay, any thoughts, comments, questions or observations at the moment? Are that all clear? That all good?
01:34:30
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But it still seems to have some of the life today. Where people see an opportunity, take it, deceptive, whatever it is, yeah that's all about the power. a Even in families. The greed, the control.
01:34:44
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Yeah, 100%. Absolutely.
01:34:52
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Can we go again, Mandy? I was just wondering there, in chapter 15 there, was it twelve ah while Absalom was offering sacrifices, you know, to get people on his side. and What would he be in offering them, do you think?
01:35:11
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Sure. So it would depend it if, let's say, they were, you know, Thanksgiving sacrifices and because there there are four or five different sacrifices and in their culture.
01:35:25
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Most of them would either have been burnt animal sacrifices or grain. They would be the main sacrifices. But you're right, to get the people inside, it had to look holy.
01:35:38
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It had look above board. It had to look godly. Because Satan comes as an angel of light, and the best way to deceive people is to make it look like it's God-approved.
01:35:54
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The best way to teach people is you do something, say, that looks nice. I mean, let's go. He was helping people for four years. not We have no reason to believe that one person came to him and left with their life worse off than it had been before.
01:36:13
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He probably gave them stellar advice. If they had an issue with someone else, he probably told them exactly how to resolve the issue. um because he had to convince them that he actually was their saviour. was like a consultant. He was a consultant, exactly, and like like a lawyer, right? Yes.
01:36:36
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I will get you that thing that you want. And then he makes it look all holy with his animal and or grain sacrifices, and he gets, you know, David's council, I hope the love side. Well, mean, everything I'm doing is...
01:36:51
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AA, Ahitofel approved. i And you know, i mean, this guy works for my dad and he doesn't have a problem what I'm doing. So he covered all of his bases. A lot of strategy went into this. a lot of calculating, a lot of planning.
01:37:07
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And he was willing to play the long game. He was patient.
01:37:14
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Yeah. It's a bit like the corruption today. They get bribes and the whole story, you know, and... Thinking of you, Catherine, as you say, how did she get into ah politics and governments? It's all because they're getting some bribe of corruption still going on.
01:37:35
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Yeah, there's payoffs, Mandy. Yes. yeah So we have to be on our guard. Always. Yeah. And there's nothing new under the sun. Yeah, I don't think i would have understood that story completely without your and look into it and helping us to understand you know I don't think I ever understood the story before so sure you've made it I get that because it's it's a lot of you know this happened and this happened and this happened and this and this and this and this there's so much in it but it's easy actually to get a bit overwhelmed by the sheer volume of he said she said he did he did this work yeah that name like happened in a place I don't know where it is geographically there's just so much
01:38:21
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stuff so yeah it's it's overwhelming for for me you know as humans i only take in so much information and then my brain's like i said it goes in one ear and out the other it's like i gotta ask you next week remind me i'm half of that you know what i mean so much we're all like that yeah we're all like that mandy i wouldn't worry about it it's getting worse the older i get too But I do believe no matter what I pick up and I learn from the Bible, I do believe God puts in our hearts where he brings us, where he has his work for each and every one of us. I, as much as I i can carry and remember scriptures, I do know the Bible is overwhelming how much I'd love to be able to study the Bible. and
01:39:13
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and God hasn't given me that gift as yet. you know yeah I just know what he puts in my heart, you know, what and I follow that.
Personal Reflection: Guarding the Heart
01:39:22
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a man But I love the way we spoke as well of today, that how to guard our hearts, as you had said, it's like cleaning out the house, what you're going to do later on. I absolutely, I held on to that. Like, yeah, I cleaned the house, but cleaning out the house, as you say, on who's online, who's not, who's just,
01:39:42
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You know, we really have to do that with the people in our lives. And painfully, I've gone through that before, where even close Christians. but Sure, yes. Especially the happy people. had let go because I didn't think they were Christian.
01:39:56
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You know, they were acting like Christians, but not behaving like Christians. And that's actually harder than the person that's not walking in Christ, I think, as well.
01:40:06
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It is. Yeah, because the person's not in Christ, you know, the dragon scales are over their eyes, you anticipate a level of blindness and nonsense and everything that they say and do.
01:40:18
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When someone actually has sat under the word, has read the word of God, has participated in a building his house, and and actively chooses...
01:40:35
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to do damage to God's kids. Because we're totally, that's like when we do communion.
01:40:41
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Do I tell you all to take a moment to take stock and like ignore the fact you're part of the body of Christ or the bodies of Christ?
01:40:52
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Body. One body. All people are part of one organism. Okay, we might have a little clumps of cells here and there, that's fine. We're all part of one.
01:41:03
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ah breathing body of Christ, his flesh on the earth today. So for one Christian to damage another Christian, it is the, and I'm not saying that there aren't times to correct people, of course there are. There are times to have certain conversations that aren't very pleasant.
01:41:21
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But to go out the way to damage another believer, it is the equivalent of self-harming. It's the equivalent of of of stabbing your your yourself or taking it or punching yourself in the jaw.
01:41:33
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That's what it's like to go out of your way to be ruthless and rude and nasty and damage God's kids. And I've had times where God's given me dreams and just said, yeah, Christian, cut the money with your life.
01:41:48
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And I said, oh, god she's so fun to be around. And God said, yeah, when she's gossiping. But, you know, Christians, you have fun gossiping with when you're not there.
01:42:03
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The gossiping about you. The gossiping about Don't think the gossip ends just because you leave the room. na no, no, no, no. You become the type of conversation. there have been people who perhaps I love them very much, but they just were not men and women of their words.
01:42:24
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You just know couldn't trust them. They could pave paths of good intentions, but there's no follow through. i I find it always more difficult in your own family.
01:42:38
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yeah Yes. Very, very difficult. Very, very difficult. We think of like blood is ticker than water, but technically I don't think it's more. You know, I know that you protect your family, ah but at the end of the day, I'm finding brothers and sisters.
01:42:57
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And i love my I love my two sisters that I've left. and no And I love the ones that have i've gone, you know, Please God, they're at the rest to be with the Lord. no But living up this world and the people that are around you can be closer to other people than your actually family can hurt you. Hurt you really bad. But I've had true Christian friends that it talk and I and I've wept for several months and I mean even longer because of the hurt of taught, oh, I have really good Christian family here in my life sharing.
01:43:34
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And and then to be deeply hurt. Yeah. Was a shock, a shock to my system. I find I'm very gullible. And that, you know, where others will say in the family they can see through that person. And I can't.
01:43:49
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I tried to see the better. And I keep asking God for wisdom because, well, I don't have it. I still don't have that gift. You know what I mean? I learn a hard way, unfortunately, maybe.
01:44:01
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I put it down to then if I learn the hard way that God will turn it around that I'll be able to use that or hurt me to help somebody else.
01:44:12
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i don't know. Yeah, to to to redeem those moments. Yeah. But you know what? I pray that God will, even as of this week, give you more wisdom.
01:44:25
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Because wisdom is what you do with the knowledge you have. Yes. More discernment. They're related, to they're not the same. Wisdom is when you have knowledge and God tells you how to use it.
01:44:40
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Discernment, you might not have the knowledge to begin with, but you will know right from wrong, good from evil, someone can be trusted, someone who needs to be avoided. And remember when God really woke my discernment gift I would have felt like I was the most critical person in the world.
01:45:07
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I had everyone lining up to tell me the most critical person in the world. I'd have people challenging me. But why you not like that person? I don't know. No, you need to have a reason.
01:45:18
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i don't have one. You said that thing it was horrible. You've justified yourself now, Brendan. I can't. But um three years later, one of us was proven right and it was mine.
01:45:30
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And that's discernment. You're not going to know why. You'll just know who. You'll just know what. You'll just know when. And it can...
01:45:46
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The danger is you feel like you got to get a demonic critical spirit. It's actually God showing you, criticizing what's in them. and You might just hear a someone's name go, oh, I'm going to get a Holy Spirit shark.
01:46:01
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or you get this turning in your stomach you're like well I can't be around that person there's something there a little i Holy Spirit groaning within you and it's a game changer it's a lifesaver and you actually don't have to learn the lesson the hard way because choose you can't be around them for them to hurt in the first place you just can't I have felt that too but then I i guess If that was the Holy Spirit giving me them signs, and I didn't, it did like but it didn't click with me, Brenda, that I should be aware.
01:46:39
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So does that make me a bit foolish or what? I don't know. No, because you can't be expected to know something until you've been told it. Right. felt this for years and years and years and years and years and years and and no one had ever told me what the spirit of discernment was, what the gift of discernment was.
01:46:58
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They might have thrown around Christianese language. yeah But no one ask ever sat me down and just said, right, this is what it can look like. This is what it can feel like. and You get the Holy Spirit, ick to use 2026 vernacular.
01:47:16
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ah But actually, it is God telling you, warning, warning, warning, warning. Yeah. Or you'll just feel an overwhelming sense of peace.
01:47:29
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And start saying, thumbs up. This is God approved. A-okay. So no, I would have heard people using these phrases, but they never actually explained it to me.
01:47:40
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yeah I just thought that I was critical and judgmental and that I just really disliked people. and And I would have spoken that over myself.
01:47:51
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I really like, people are the worst, I hate people, people so disgusting, I want to let the cabin fire away from even race, ugh. And all then only years later, actually realised I didn't hate people, there were things in those people that I hated. That you hated, I get that.
01:48:09
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But no one had actually ever submitted to me, so I can sit around feeling you know disgusted myself when you're a bad person. I don't judge myself for something I didn't ignorance.
01:48:21
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For something I didn't have the tools to articulate understand. So the same for yourself. Thank you. Very interesting. notice Don't beat your yourself up for not knowing it.
01:48:33
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Yeah, you've opened my eyes there. Definitely opened my eyes. Like I said, there was times... You know, i I'm foolish. I i give people a benefit the doubt. But I have experienced some of that you've said. But yeah still didn't click. But now I have the wisdom to be a servant to that. Yeah.
01:48:51
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yeah Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord. Thank you. Happy days. Nice one.
01:48:58
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All right, guys. Please go forward in your Bibles now
Psalm 3: David's Plea and Faith
01:49:03
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to Sam. Not Samuel. Sam, the Book of Songs. And it's Psalm number three.
01:49:11
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This is a Holy Spirit song that David sang while all of this was taking place. So Psalm, chapter three.
01:49:23
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Do you have the music version of it? No, but there's a channel on YouTube that puts all the songs. And actually, they're well worth listening to.
01:49:35
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They do a really, really good job.
01:49:40
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All right, so Psalm chapter 3, psalm of David when he fled from his son Absalom. Joyce, are you free to read out loud? Sorry, Brendan, not at the moment, if that's okay. yeah You're all right, that's fine.
01:50:04
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What you do, please? yes Yeah, okay. A psalm of David when he fled from his son Absalom. Lord, how many are my foes? How many rise up against me?
01:50:19
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Many are saying of me, God will not deliver him. But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the one who lifts my head high.
01:50:31
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I called out to the Lord and he answered me from his holy mountain. I lie down and sleep. I wake again. because the Lord sustains me.
01:50:42
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I will not fear through tens of thousands, assail me on every side. Arise, Lord, deliver me, my God. Strike all my enemies on the jaw.
01:50:54
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Break the teeth of the wicked.
01:50:57
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From the Lord comes deliverance. May your blessing be on you to your people. Let that be your prayer this week in that courtroom. Amen.
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Okay, those of you got your Bibles on your laps, I'm going to read one verse from 2 Samuel 15, but keep some open because we're going to go straight back there. 2 Samuel 31. 31.
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Yep. ye So 2 Samuel 15, 31. Now David had been told Ahitophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.
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So David prayed, Lord, that's going to be your prayer this week as well. Lord, turn Ahitophel's counsel into foolishness, into idiocy, into stupidity.
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He was such a great counselor to me, gave me super advice, super special, awesome, amazing advice in the national interest. Now, Lord, may his reputation be stupidity.
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May his name go down history as Ahitofel the dunce.
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And Psalm 55.
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He sings another Holy Spirit-prompted song. Holy Spirit put a song in his belly that married his feelings, his emotions, his thoughts, his perspectives with the will of God.
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And now he begins to sing prophetically. The same way Lucifer had sung prophetically. David's now singing prophetically. Psalm 55. And it's about this betrayal.
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For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A masculine of David. Listen to my prayer, oh God.
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Don't ignore my plea. Hear me and answer me. My thoughts trouble me and I'm distraught because of what my enemy is saying, because of the threats of the wicked.
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For they bring down suffering on me and assail me in their anger. I think sometimes when we read the Bible, we just picture beautiful yellow beaches A blue sky that may or may not have one or two perfectly shaped white clouds.
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Everyone's always wearing clean clothes and everyone speaks in slow motion and no one really has any feelings or emotions whatsoever. Not true. We're talking about the real world here.
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And David's heart was breaking. And the betrayal of his son. The betrayal of his cancer. The betrayal of just about the whole nation turning against him.
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thank my heart is in anguish within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me. He was literally afraid that this would be the thing to take him out. We saw that when he said, if I survive, I'll see the Ark of the Covenant again. If God rescues me, I'll see the Ark of the Covenant again. He has no guarantee of survival.
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In fact, He's fairly certain to some degree this is the threat that kills him.
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Fear and trembling have beset me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
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I said, oh, that I had the wings of a dove. I would fly away and be at rest. I think we've all been there at one point or another.
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If I could just be somewhere else, the grass is greener and through the sides. If I had another family. If I lived in a different country. if If I just died now and woke up in someone else's body living someone else's life.
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Jesus, take me now. Can the rapture happen already?
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I would flee far away and stay in the desert. I would hurry, because in the desert there aren't any people who are causing him distress. I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the tempest and storm.
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He just wants to get away from people, just wants to get away from palace life, wants to get away from his family, wants to get away from his problems. He just wants to be an animal living somewhere else where none of this has to affect him.
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It's all just a long distant memory.
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Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their word. Who is he talking about? His counselor Ahitophel. Because he's just prayed in 2 Samuel 15, God confused him. So now he's singing about Ahitophel, Ahitophel down his mind.
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For I see violence and strife in the city. So either things are going back crap cray cray and violence has erupted,
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or they have violence in their hearts and they're out for blood. Possibly both.
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Day and night they prowl about on the walls. Describes them as wild cats and animals. Which is probably a pretty accurate description of the demons within them.
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Malice and abuse are within it. To this the walls of the city of Jerusalem, the city where he is ruled and reigned, has become this wicked, evil, corrupt, morally bankrupt place.
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Destructive forces are at work in the city. Threats and lies never leave its streets. If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it.
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if Someone hated me, and I knew that they hated me, and they had long hated me, and they insulted me. yeah Whatever. It's just normal. just It is what it is.
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If a foe were rising against me, i could hide. but it's you. man like myself.
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My companion, my close friend. Ahi Tofu, the counsellor.
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with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship, I'm sure it happened a lot more than once, at the house of God, as we walked about among the worshippers, just like Mandy said, church hurt.
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It stings like nothing else can, because it is a supernatural relationship that God's created between people. So when it's broken, it stings on a vicious, vitriolic level.
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Swahitofl had been a godly man before this. Otherwise, why would he you be in the tent of meeting with the Ark of the Covenant? Why would he be in the presence of worshippers and other believers?
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So David's thinking about all the wonderful times they had, praising God together, worshiping God together, talking with the Lord together, having sweet fellowshipping BFFs, best friends, which, let's be honest, after Jonathan's death, David's actual best friend, I'm sure he was desperately in need,
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of that kind of brotherly bond, and it's just been dashed to pieces.
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Bible trivia question. I know I'm asking you some think about questions today more than normal. What is the most
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infamous example of betrayal in the Bible? So much that of all the Hebraic names that people find unpronounceable, everyone in the Western Hemisphere can pronounce this Hebrew name with no difficulty.
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Judas Iscariot, exactly. So what David's going through right now, yes, it was true for David. This is also a prophecy about Judas betraying Jesus.
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Sometimes saying, gosh, Jesus knows everything. He wasn't even surprised when Judas betrayed him. Still, it broke his heart.
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Jesus hung on a tree on that cross for Judas and for all of us to watch all us our sins. And Judas, one of his best friends, was hanging from another tree where he committed suicide.
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Jesus was like, Judas, I'm doing this for you. And one of the twelve apostles is right now, this very moment, burning in hell. This also describes how Jesus felt perfectically.
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Let death take my enemies by surprise. Let them go down alive to the realm of the dead for evil finds lodging among them.
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As for me, I call to God. And the Lord saves me. So yes, he has his moments when he's terrified of dying. But he has moments and he's like, no, God will rescue me.
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I was wondering i in two minds. Do I deserve this? Am I guilty of something? Do i have a secret sin? No, God's going rescue me. Evening, morning and noon, I cry out in distress and he hears my voice.
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Some people have a set time of the day to pray. That's okay. Don't limit it to that. Pray to God the whole way through your day. Evening, morning, and noon.
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He rescues me. Oh, I love this. Unharmed. David is not saying Absalom is going to batter me black and blue.
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Cut off seven of my ten fingers. Stab me in the gut. Shoot me with an arrow. I'll be within an inch of life. And God's rest. Nope. He says God can rescue me unharmed.
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There will not be the smell of smoke off my clothes after this fire. There will not be the drench of water on my socks when I walk through this flood.
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There will be no hint of this attack on my body.
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He rescues me unharmed for the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me. Just about the whole nation at this point. God who is enthroned from of old, who does not change.
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God is no respecter of persons. I don't mean God doesn't respect you. I mean he does not discriminate against you. What he did for David, I want you all to take this captive, take so take this captive take hold of this.
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We take captive evil words. Take hold of this. And say that what God has done for David, he will do for me. God who is enthroned from of old, who does not change.
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Even if in your notes, write down. Whether you choose God, Jesus, or Holy Spirit. Just say God, like the collective God. God is the same.
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Yesterday, today, and forever. God is the same. yesterday, today, and forever.
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God who is enthroned from of old, who does not change. He will hear them and humble them because they have no fear of God. If they did, they would not be doing the evil that they do.
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My companion, Ahitophel, or if you can't spell his name, just write a capital H, My companion attacks his friends. He violates his covenant.
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We had a covenant of friendship. Best friends forever. He's broken it.
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His talk is smooth as butter. Yet war is in his heart. He's itching for a bloodbath.
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His words are more soothing than oils. Yet they are drawn swords. He is looking for an opportunity to be violent.
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He wants blood on the streets, blood on the walls.
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Cast your cares on the lords and he will sustain you. He will never let the righteous be shaken. Underline, circle, circle. Explanation points highlight.
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Claim that as your portion. Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you. He will never let the righteous be shaken.
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there That does not say there won't be earthquakes. There will be earthquakes. but your house remains standing. That's not to say people will not light fires, but you will not burn to the diamond ground.
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It's not to say there won't be flash floods, but your house will not be swept away.
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But you, God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of decay. Hell.
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The bloodthirsty and deceitful will not live out half their days. You are going to cut their timeline short.
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Because if the fullness of the evil they want to see is complete, none will survive.
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I believe you're gonna this one
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with your own eyes. in the days of justice and revival that we're stepping into. There are many wicked evil people, especially in positions of power, even in our own country, and who have wicked evil nefarious intentions, who just want to see people's lives destroyed en masse, and they want to use Leinster House to do it.
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If the fullness of what they want is brought to being, it will eclipse the number of babies that they abort year in year out. They've mastered a lot of us. So you're going see the hand of God come off their lives and some will go to bed and they will not get up in the morning.
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But as for me, I trust in you. Amen. Yeah. And that Sam right there, that is a prayer and a half.
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If some of you find your prayer life has gotten a bit stale and it needs some shaking up or to get little more flowery, you've got tons of super phrases in that, Sam, to start incorporating your prayer life.
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All right, let's bring this teaching to a close, everybody. Back to 2 Samuel verse 32. fifteen verse thirty two Back to 2 Samuel 15, verse 32.
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verse thirty two Okay, 2 Samuel 15, verse 32. When David arrived at the summit, so that he's climbing the Mount of Olives,
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where people used to worship God. So in his distress, what's he doing? He's going back to a place where the name of the Lord had been worshiped, where the name of the Lord had been lifted up.
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Even for myself, there are certain old churches or church ruins, whether in Stokillin, which is just out Ardy, or um even ones like in new the Mourn Mountains or whatever,
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I love going to church ruins or old churches and saying, wow, God, people worshipped here centuries ago. And now... And they would have prayed no further, a viable violin. They would have prayed, you know, God, you know, may young people love you and may your name be famous forever and ever, ever, and blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, God, I get to walk in the prayers that they prayed.
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I know you because someone who lived... Hundreds, a thousand, thousand and a half years ago, prayed that the name of Jesus would always be carried in this country.
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I love going to those places too. So when everything is falling apart, he goes back to a place where the Lord had been worshipped.
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Hushai the Archite was there to meet him, his robe torn and dust on his head. David said to him, if you go with me,
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You will be a burden to me. So he's not in the best of conditions, basically. And if he goes with David, David's going have to look after him. So again, David chooses strategy.
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A divine download. A Holy Spirit solution.
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Even when your back is against the wall. Even when the flaming fiery darts the enemy are being sent to direction. That is no excuse to be passive.
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That is no excuse not to adopt divine solutions and strategies. It's in those moments the enemy will want your head going, up, up, up
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you need to take a cho help David keeps singing to the Lord, keeps worshiping the Lord, keeps praying the tells God absolutely everything he's going through, declares God's goodness over his own life, declares God's justice against his enemies, but he still makes sure to have a clear thought and say, how can I use everything that's happening to my advantage?
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And that's what he does. If you go with me, you'll be a burden to me. If you stay with me, you're going to slow us down. But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, your majesty, you know, really lay it on thick. Pretend this guy is like, you know, the crown prince of planet Earth. i will be your servant.
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I was. but Underline was. I was your father's servant in the past. Only in the past. But now. I'll be your servant.
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Your father is dead to me. Your father means nothing to me. and Your father, yeah he was a great guy but he's passed his cell by date. you He was a prototype, Absalom. You are the new improved model.
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Then you can help me by frustrating Ahitophel's advice. Win him over. Use unctuous language.
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Be really sycophantic. Pretend that he's the bee's knees. You want to kiss his feet on the very ground he walks on. Get close to him through flattery. Win him over with charm.
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Win him over by telling him how wonderful he is. And when he trusts you, when you have his ear, when you have his counsel, turn him against Ahitofo.
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Won't the priests, Zadok and Abiathar, be there with you? Now, this is not a hush I could have known, but David's like, you won't be alone in this. I have spies.
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I've got people there that I trust. I've got people there who are working for me. They're inside the lion's den.
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Tell them everything you hear in the king's palace. Because they were the ones who would be sending people to David with the inside scoop.
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So I don't need ten people leaving the palace to come to me in the wilderness come back in. Relay to them, and they'll send one or two people to give me all the des all details.
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Their are two sons, Ahimaz, son of Zadok, and Jonathan, son of Abathar, are there with them. Send to me, sorry, send them to me with everything that you hear.
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So Hushai, you go back, tell Absalom he's fabulous, gain his trust. Sow dissension between Absalom and Ahitophel.
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Tell the priest everything that you learn. They will tell their sons, their sons will tell me. So it's this complex network, this spider web of deception in the deceivers camp.
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So Hushai, David's confidant, so just in case you're a bit confused with what's going on, all these names you can't pronounce, the Bible's reminding you this is a good guy, you can trust this guy.
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So Hushai, David's confidant, arrived at Jerusalem as Absalom was entering the city. Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. Roll the EastEnders theme tune. Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun.
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So... Last week, things were not looking great in the family. This week, you see that Absalom has totally turned the entire kingdom against David, and it took him four years, but he did it. He was willing to play a long game.
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And although things are incredibly difficult and dangerous, David is still saying, okay, there has to be a way that I can use some of this to my advantage, and I need to have people...
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on the inside. i need to have people in the lion's den. So what happens next? You'll find out next week in Chapter 16. Dun dun dun dun dun. Alright
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all alright guys, any thoughts or comments on that story so far before we start to pray? prayers you didn't get away get the graph comem communityion yeah on there You know what? The communion might be a nice entry point into the prayer, actually. That could be a nice idea. Thank you. Yeah, it's a good idea. they kind get the three answers yeah and yeah Okay, guys. If there are no questions on the Bible story, and please grab your communion elements, okay?
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Whether that's bread or cracker, bar. 21st century, I'm very liberal. Whatever you want And a wine, juice, water, milk, whatever your liquid of choice is. Go for it, okay? Okay.
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Thank you. Cheers.
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Let's have a look at the chat box, which has been very energetic today. it was good to see. Thank you.
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Okay, lovely. Yeah, okay, so Lucy has said, God vindicate, and would say his name until after turn off recording, but him, we know who it is, in Jesus' name. Wow, Catherine, I really feel compassion for right now. believe the Lord will make a way in this situation. Let's see, Priya and John.
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Praise be the name of the Lord forever and ever. Wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons. He deposes kings and raises up others.
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He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. reveals deep and hidden things. He knows what lies in darkness and light dwells with him.
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I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors. You've given me wisdom and power. You have made known to me what we've asked of you. You have made known to us the dream of the king. God will give justice to us and he is a promise keeper.
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Amen. That's Daniel 2, 20 to 24. So you can write that down. Yeah, you know, sorry, Brandon. Don't apologize. advice When Catherine was telling what is going on and Holy Spirit just put that in my mind and I thought better to put it there.
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Because ah in Daniel, when the the dream was revealed and Daniel revealed that dream, God gave Daniel that dream. And he instantly sat in praises and says, and this is, I find this is going to happen for you, Catherine.
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and No matter what is going on, Lord is already taking control just to make you know, he can change anything and everything seasonally. And there, every time, I feel strongly you have a great guardian angel and the Lord angel has been d dispatched.
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I hope yeah I'm saying the right word. Dispatched. You are, you are. On your behalf to fight that case. you Maybe you are not seeing it, but in few days, you will see it's going to overcome and you don't know. It will be like this. And then when I was writing this and Lord showed me some 33, 9, whatever you say with that mouth, because in Genesis 1 verses 1 to 5, Lord spoke and in five days he he created everything.
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Lord spoke and did it. So whatever happened in Genesis, what happened in ah in ah John 1, 1, the word, the word came to to to dwell among us and the dwell the word which is is spiritual became physical, which is Jesus.
Conclusion: Faith, Prayer, and Unity
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Jesus. So the Psalm 33, 9 said, whatever we said, it would not come void. So it strongly believe and affirm in the name of Jesus, they are coming into physical and the physical, whatever you're going to say,
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in wherever, for whatever situation it is. In Jesus' name, it's happened. Right now, not later, right now. Now it's happened, now in the spiritual, but then in the physical, it will manifest. Don't look, don't turn back. It is happened.
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Whatever you want, the hard desire, whatever you want to overcome, wherever you want this world to overcome, to happen, It happened in Jesus' name right now, instantly in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you. Amen. Amen. Amen. Good woman.
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Much appreciated, Priya. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Because myself, I'm going through tough time. And... ah Right now, for four weeks, I have no job, no money, nothing. But every day I say, Lord, thank you.
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Thank you for for your abundance. Thank you, Jehovah Jireh. Thank you. Every day I ask for prayer, but then it needs to be an agreement. That's why we say we pray in one accord, in one agreement. We all suffer, but then we all have to work into prayer.
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one army in one group one can break and declare but when a group pray and declare it is strong bond nobody will break it so this is what the lord want and this is the lord said no matter what happen it's happening and like i'm saying that it's happening for myself because i know tomorrow is monday and the hr will call me to come to work and i know Even for four weeks, I did not. Four months, I haven't been working. I don't know how I survived, but Lord has provided for me day by day.
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And the last time, last week, I said to Brandon, we we went for the dairy more. Lord gave me a word, said, if I can't feed the bird, why could I not feed you?
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Why could I not take care of you? And since then, it's a week I hold on on that word. And one week I have seen things changing little by little.
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The H.O. called me. I called the H.O. and they did not want to call back to me. Then I called and then I used the wisdom of the Lord. Then they came back to me. Then said, Priya, we are going to do that right now, right now, right now, right now.
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Thursday, Friday. And it happened. They gave me papers that I need. They gave me the form that I need. Then Saturday, Sunday came like a gap. And I say, in that gap, Lord, sit in that gap.
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Holy Spirit, sit in that gap because it will be declared and kick off in on Monday. So this is for you too. Today we are in the gap. We are standing in the gap.
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The Lord is standing in the gap for us. But tomorrow is Monday. Family of God, God will kick off for us. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Good woman.
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Amen. oh you know what? After that, I don't even think I need to teach communion because Bria has just done it spontaneously. The power of agreement.
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Amen. Of unity. Lots of different people as one body joined together by the body of Jesus Christ that was broken for us same physical body the enemy said was frail, melancholy, bloodthirsty, disgusting, a slave to sin.
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And the blood that the enemy did not understand.
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But we understand that blood has washed us clean of sin, has adopted us into the family of God, It is protection from the destroyer.
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It is a barrier the darkness and the enemy cannot cross the bloodline.
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And an any enemy even try. It would be like acid to its flesh. In Jesus name. Amen.
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This song has just come to my mind. was there as was praying before, taking the bread and the blood of Christ. yeah Nothing but the blood of Jesus, wash away our sins.
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Thank you, Lord. Amen. Amen. Amen.
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goodmen and
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What can wash the way see? What can make me whole again?
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Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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what can a mean as snow, welcomed as the friends of God, nothing but your blood, nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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feel God saying anything those two lines those three times. What can wash away our sins?
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What can make us whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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Snow. What can make us white as snow? Welcomed as the friends of God.
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Nothing but the blood. Nothing but the blood. Jesus. And one more time. that one more time
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What can wash away our sin? What can make us whole again?
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Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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Light and white, sorry, make us white as snow. Welcomed as the friends of God.
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Nothing but the blood. Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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a in his notton
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Thank you, Mandy. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Amen. Well, Father God, i do not just pray that you make Mandy's body whole, Lord.
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Amen. For our whole family, including David Jr., Lord Actually, I'm going to stop recording this when start to pray.