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Praise God.

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Welcome to our Sunday morning meeting here.

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We're going to turn to the Word of

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God this morning again, carrying on from last

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Sunday morning.

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We're going to look at Revelation chapter 12

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again, and this is part two of our

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message here, dealing with the blood of Jesus

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and the last days.

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Last week we began to look at Revelation

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12, and we saw in that vital chapter

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that three things come together and converge together

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in that chapter.

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The first thing is a unique prophecy, which

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I believe is for this hour, a remarkable

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prophecy of the accuser of the brethren getting

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cast out of heaven.

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The second thing that happens is the warfare

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that goes on, a spiritual invisible warfare that

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goes on in the heavenlies between Michael and

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his angels and Satan and his angels, and

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there is no more space or room found

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in heaven for them.

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They are cast out onto the earth.

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But there's a third thing that converges with

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these two other events, and it's a victory

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by the blood.

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It's born again believers, the church of Jesus

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Christ, rising up and overcoming the accuser of

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the brethren by the blood of the Lamb.

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We're turning here this morning to the Word

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of God, to Revelation chapter 12, just reading

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from verse 7 until verse 11.

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Revelation chapter 12 verse 7, and it says,

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and there was war in heaven.

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Michael and his angels fought against the dragon,

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and the dragon fought against his angels and

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prevailed not.

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Neither was their place found any more in

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heaven.

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And the great dragon was cast out, that

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old serpent called the devil and Satan, which

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deceiveth the whole world.

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He was cast out into the earth, and

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his angels cast out with him.

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And I heard a loud voice saying in

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heaven, now is come salvation and strength and

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the kingdom of our God and the power

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of his Christ.

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For the accuser of our brethren is cast

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down, which accused them before our God day

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and night, and they overcame him by the

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blood of the Lamb and by the word

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of their testimony, and they loved not their

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lives unto the death.

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Let's pray here this morning as we come

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to the Word of God.

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Father, I thank you for the power in

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Jesus' blood.

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What would we do with such an adversary

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as this old serpent, as this dragon, as

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the devil, as Satan?

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How would we stand against his accusations, this

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old serpent that was in the garden with

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Adam and Eve?

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How would we stand against his lies, his

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accusations, his falsehoods, if we didn't have the

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blood of the Lamb?

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Yet here this morning, by grace alone, by

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faith through that blood and the finished work

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of Calvary, we know that we have gained

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a victory over the accuser of the brethren.

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And my God, in faith, we know here

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this morning, Lord God, there is an hour

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where you yourself are going to cast Satan

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down and he shall accuse the saints no

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more.

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There is coming an end to every accusation,

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to the throwing of accusations against your saints.

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And Lord Jesus, we ask, let it be.

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Amen.

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Let it come to pass.

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We pray for it.

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Let your kingdom come and your will be

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done on earth, even as it is in

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heaven, in Jesus' mighty name.

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Amen.

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We come here to part two of this

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message from Revelation chapter 12, and we've called

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this the blood of Jesus and the last

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days.

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It's so vital that we see the importance,

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the power, and the place of the blood

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of Jesus in these last days.

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If ever we needed to be gripped, that

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we are in the midst of the beginning

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of sorrows, that we are in those days

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that are setting the stage for all the

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prophecy to come to pass.

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We need to be gripped by this.

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And as we do, we need to see

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the vitalness.

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We need to see the power and the

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virtue that is within the blood of Jesus

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Christ.

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We come here to part two, the blood

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of Jesus and the last days.

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We dare not face these last days.

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We dare not face the year that's ahead

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of us unless we overcome by the blood

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of the lamb.

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It must be through the blood, by the

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blood, with the knowledge of the blood and

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faith in the blood.

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It says here in Revelation chapter 12 and

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10 concerning the accuser of our brethren being

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cast down, which accused them before our God

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day and night, verse 11, and they overcame

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them by the blood of the lamb and

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by the word of their testimony.

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And they loved not their lives unto the

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death.

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I want you to see here the marvelous

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truth of scripture here, that we overcome the

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accuser of the brethren only by one way.

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Chapter 12 here is marked by the accuser

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of the brethren.

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We see the casting down for the first

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time in 6,000 years of history.

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For the first time in 2,000 years

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of church history, we see the accuser of

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the brethren that has accused the saints of

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God morning, day and night, morning and night.

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He has accused the saints of God.

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He has been regular and faithful in his

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ministry against the saints of God.

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And here we read in this chapter, for

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the first time in 6,000 years, he

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is cast out of heaven and he shall

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no longer make any accusations against the saints

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of God.

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Notice here how we overcome and get a

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victory against the accuser of the brethren.

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It is by two things, by the blood

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of the lamb and the word of our

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testimony.

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Notice here that to gain a victory against

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Satan, against the accuser of the brethren, it's

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got to be by the blood.

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The accusations of Satan, the accusations against you

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in your Christian life, you cannot stand against

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them unless you go to the blood.

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It's only by the blood of the lamb.

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Do you see that when the accuser comes

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against us, when the devil comes against us,

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you have got to be driven to the

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blood of the lamb.

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lamb.

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It is the lamb of God.

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We are laid back as we face the

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accuser of the brethren.

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We are driven to return to Calvary, to

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look to Calvary again, to remember what happened

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on the cross when Jesus was offered as

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a lamb without spot or blemish.

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Since we overcome, we gain a victory.

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We triumph over the devil.

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We subdue him under us.

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We gain a victory over the accuser, but

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only by the blood of the lamb.

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It's by the blood, through the blood, because

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of the blood that we gain a victory

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against the accuser of the brethren.

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But it goes further and it says, and

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by the word of their testimony.

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By these two things, we gain a victory

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against the accuser of the brethren, by the

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blood shed by the lamb of God on

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that old tree called Calvary, by that precious

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blood, but also by the word of our

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testimony.

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What is the word of our testimony?

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It is the spoken word.

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It is literally a testimony carried.

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It is something that you as a believer,

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you can speak out and you testify to.

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It is the word of your testimony.

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That word testimony there means evidence, true record.

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The facts are a personal report.

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In other words, through the blood and through

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our personal testimony of what that blood has

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done in our life, a real experience of

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the blood.

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There is evidence.

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I know the blood has given me a

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victory.

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I know the blood has forgiven my sins.

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I know the blood has brought me into

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relationship with God.

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I'm made righteous.

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I'm justified by faith.

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I'm made clean through the precious blood of

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the lamb.

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I'm walking in a relationship with God, but

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by the blood of the lamb, since this

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is how you gain a victory against the

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accuser of the brethren.

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I want you to realize this morning, as

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we come to this message, that our adversary

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is a vicious enemy.

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He is the accuser of the brethren.

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When we come to the Bible, we read

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that the devil comes to real Christians, real

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saints, to tempt them.

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He comes to try and sift them or

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to cut them down.

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He comes to deceive them with lies and

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falsehood.

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He comes to buffet them or to thump

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them with his fist.

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He comes to hinder them and to stop

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them where they are so that they can't

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advance in the will of God.

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He comes to gain an advantage over them

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and also to gain a foothold in some

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area of his life, knowing that this devil

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is real.

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talking about his kingdom, all his minions, fallen

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angels and demons, which are synonymous.

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We're talking about the full structure of his

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kingdom.

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When I say the devil comes, I'm not

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talking about him personally in every incident, in

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every case, but I'm saying every Christian encounters

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the kingdom of Satan, the powers of darkness,

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wicked spirits, lying spirits, tempting spirits.

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I assure you, the real Christian has to

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face the darkness.

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There is something more than this physical world.

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There is a spiritual realm and we are

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in a spiritual warfare since knowing all that

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the devil comes to do and his kingdom

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does.

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We've got to know what it means to

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be washed in the blood of the lamb

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and to be born again.

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It says in Colossians chapter one and verse

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13, listen to what Christ has done.

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Who has delivered us from the power of

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darkness.

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Have you been delivered from the power of

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darkness and have been translated into the kingdom

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of his dear son?

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This is the work of Jesus Christ in

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the born again experience.

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When you're saved by grace, when you put

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your faith in the blood of the lamb,

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these two things happen.

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Jesus himself delivers you out of the kingdom

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of darkness.

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You're not in his kingdom anymore.

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You've been delivered.

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You've been brought out and he translates you

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into the kingdom of his dear son.

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This is what God does to us in

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salvation.

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We're brought out of one kingdom and we're

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brought into another.

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We're brought out of the kingdom of Satan

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and we're brought into the kingdom of the

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son of God.

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We have been delivered.

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Since I'm not in between, I'm not half

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in and half out.

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You're in Satan's kingdom or you're in the

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kingdom of his dear son.

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It is one or the other.

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Listen, you've got to know what it means

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to be truly born again and washed in

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the blood of Jesus.

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When we go to one John, John speaks

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about this very much in his letter.

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Listen to what he says.

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He says concerning those who are born of

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God are begotten of God.

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In other words, they're born again.

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Listen to what it says.

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Those that are born of God, they keep

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themselves and the wicked one touches him not.

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A real born again Christian, do you know

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what he's going to do?

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He's going to keep himself.

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He's not going to play around with sexual

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sin or drugs or alcohol.

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I assure you, the real Christian is going

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to keep himself.

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It is a mark that you're born again,

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that you keep yourself, you guard yourself, you

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separate yourself from the darkness of this world.

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Saints, be a Christian in this world.

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The new birth is a mighty thing.

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You are born of the spirit of God

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and you keep yourself from the devil.

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You guard yourself.

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You don't just accept his lies or you

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don't just yield to his temptations.

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There is a keeping of yourself.

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Oh yes, I know there's failures along the

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way, but saints of God, get up and

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keep yourself here this morning.

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If you're really born again, you can keep

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yourself.

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You can guard yourself.

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You can watch yourself from the onslaught of

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hell.

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And it says the wicked one touches him

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not.

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If you're born again, if you're in Christ

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Jesus, the wicked one touches you not.

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Do you know what that Greek word means?

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And it's very important.

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It means the wicked one does not attach

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himself onto you.

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He cannot cling to you.

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He cannot hold you fast.

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He is not there holding you, refusing to

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let go or to have such a grip

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on your life that you can't get free.

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Do you know what?

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I reject the teaching of demonized Christians.

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There are no such thing.

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Satan can't dwell in you at the same

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time as the spirit of God.

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You're either in the kingdom of Satan or

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you're in the kingdom of God, but you

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cannot be both.

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You know, the church is filled with people,

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preachers having demons cast out of them.

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The church is more like a hospital than

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a military army.

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But I want to show you for these

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last days, let the real church of God

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arise.

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They're not having demons cast out of them.

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They're casting demons out.

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They're not there licking their wounds.

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They're going out to heal the wounds of

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others who are out there in this sin

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lost world.

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I want to assure you that real Christians

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are not indwelled.

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The devil cannot touch them.

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The evil one can.

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They can be tempted.

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They can sin.

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They can fail along the way.

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They're buffeted many times.

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But I assure you through the blood of

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Jesus, they gain a victory over the evil

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one.

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The devil cannot touch you.

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He cannot so grip himself onto you.

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Do you know what the word also means?

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It means to appropriate or handle for your

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own purpose.

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The devil can't use the same for his

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own purpose.

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It means to permanently harm.

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This word is vital because the devil cannot

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touch someone who is really born again and

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washed in the blood of Jesus.

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If ever we needed to understand that, it's

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in this hour and this generation.

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Since you the redeemed of the Lord, if

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you're born again, if you're washed in the

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blood here in this church, if you know

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Jesus Christ, do you know what?

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I want you to realize there's power, power,

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wonder working power in the blood of the

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Lamb.

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And you know what?

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There's a blood washed church that's going to

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function in one of the darkest hours in

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church history.

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This is a remarkable hour.

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We have come to the end of the

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church age.

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I believe we're right in the last chapter

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of church history.

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We are the last church that's going to

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be upon the earth before the coming of

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the Lord.

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I believe we're at the end of it

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all.

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And you know what?

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We've got to know the power of Jesus'

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blood.

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There is a victory.

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It's got to become personal.

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It's got to become our testimony.

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There's got to be evidence that we have

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a victory over the blood of the Lamb.

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When Jesus warned the church of the signs

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that they are going to see just before

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the end, the signs that would indicate that

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the last generation has come, in Matthew 24,

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he gives 10 significant signs and warnings that

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would indicate the beginning of sorrows are here.

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In other words, a period of time that's

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going to intensify, that's going to grow stronger,

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that's going to become more obvious.

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Listen to what he said in Matthew 24

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and 9.

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Ye shall be hated of all nations for

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my name's sake.

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Do you know what?

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Our world right now is changing.

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Every single nation, you're going to be hated

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for Christ's sake.

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That didn't used to be the case.

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There were nations where you'd be respected for

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being a Christian, for following Jesus Christ.

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But Jesus predicted that this would be one

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of the last signs of his coming to

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make the church look up for the redemption

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drawth now, to look for the coming of

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the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Do you know what he said?

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All nations are going to hate you, you

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the church, the redeemed of the Lord, because

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of the name of Jesus Christ.

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There's going to be a radical change in

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our culture, our society, our politics.

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All of this makes us look up.

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Saints, I'm not in defeat this morning.

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I'm not scared this morning.

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I'm not trembling this morning.

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I was born for this hour.

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Jesus warned me about this hour.

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He gave indications.

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He explained it and he showed me what

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the church is to be.

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We are going to live and we are

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living in an hour when the real people

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of God are hated for his name's sake

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in every single nation.

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He goes further and he says, and then,

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so at a time where the nations are

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literally beginning to hate real believers, and then

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shall many be offended.

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Talking about those in the church, they're going

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to be offended.

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They're going to trip over it.

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They're not going to be able to handle

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this hatred.

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They're going to say, this shouldn't be happening.

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Everyone should love me.

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I just want to love Jesus.

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They're going to get offended.

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People in the church who were happy a

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year ago are suddenly, as this hatred arises,

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they're going to become offended.

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And listen, Jesus said, and shall betray one

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another.

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Offense will lead to betrayal and shall hate

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one another.

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I believe this pinpoints people who are professing

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to follow Christ, to love Christ, to be

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in the church, but our whole world is

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going to soon change.

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The whole culture of this generation is going

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to so dramatically begin to change.

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There's going to be a progression from offense

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to betrayal, to hatred, step by step.

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We are going to see a Judas generation

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in the church arise.

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People are going to shock you.

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People who said they once loved Jesus, you're

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going to be shocked at what they're going

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to do.

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They're going to sell out Jesus for a

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lousy 30 bits of silver and shall hate

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one another.

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Do you know what hatred is?

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It is to love less, to have no

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emotion, no natural feeling, and betrayal leads to

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that.

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Betrayal always leads to no feeling.

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Before you betray a man or a woman,

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you have to be in a condition where

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you just don't feel anything anymore.

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You'll sell them out, betray them, be unfaithful,

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not be a real Christian.

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I assure you, there is something at work

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in your heart.

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It also says in Matthew 24 in verse

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12, and because iniquity shall abound, because it's

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going to multiply, it's going to explode.

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What is iniquity?

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It is lawlessness.

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It's the Greek word for lawlessness.

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In other words, an utter contempt for law.

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It means a breaking of all law.

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God's law, man's law, the tradition of law.

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It is a throwing away of all boundaries,

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all distinction, of all regulation.

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It is going beyond God's law.

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That's what Jesus said this last hour would

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be like.

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Iniquity is going to abound.

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It's going to multiply.

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This lawless spirit that we are watching right

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now in our nations, I mean the riverbanks

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are busting.

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There's no more restriction.

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There's always been iniquity.

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There's always been homosexuality.

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There's always been sin.

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There's always been abortion.

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There's always been depravity.

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But you know what?

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It's burst in its bounds.

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Welcome to the last of the last days,

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to the last chapter of church history.

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You need to be equipped, and this message

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is to start you to be equipped.

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This isn't for the light.

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This isn't for the frivolous, but this is

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for those who truly love Jesus Christ.

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It says there, and Jesus warned 2,000

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years ago.

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He warned us clearly.

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He said an hour is coming.

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I'm giving you the signs that give reach

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the last days, that you're living in the

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last hour.

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I'm showing you clearly that because iniquity abounds,

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because it begins to overflow in every nation,

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every area of society, the love, and that

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word love is agape love.

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The love of many is going to grow

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cold.

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It's going to wax cold.

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Agape love is going to become filial love.

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That's in the church, and it's talking about

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real genuine born-again believers, those that are

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born again, washed in the blood.

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You know what he says?

551
00:23:31,090 --> 00:23:33,390
The love of many is going to grow

552
00:23:33,390 --> 00:23:33,830
cold.

553
00:23:34,070 --> 00:23:36,070
I want to give you a serious warning,

554
00:23:36,430 --> 00:23:37,970
but I want to give you the remedy.

555
00:23:38,390 --> 00:23:41,370
The remedy is the blood of Jesus Christ.

556
00:23:41,870 --> 00:23:44,670
Nothing will keep you as fervent as the

557
00:23:44,670 --> 00:23:45,390
blood of Jesus.

558
00:23:45,790 --> 00:23:48,690
Nothing will keep you as fresh as the

559
00:23:48,690 --> 00:23:49,910
blood of Jesus Christ.

560
00:23:50,050 --> 00:23:52,890
I'm telling you this morning how to gain

561
00:23:52,890 --> 00:23:56,150
a victory over the accuser of the brethren.

562
00:23:56,350 --> 00:23:59,570
Who is it behind this rise of iniquity?

563
00:23:59,850 --> 00:24:03,010
Who is it behind this flood of abomination

564
00:24:03,010 --> 00:24:04,070
in this hour?

565
00:24:04,430 --> 00:24:07,010
It is the accuser of the brethren.

566
00:24:07,350 --> 00:24:09,570
Who is this accuser of the brethren?

567
00:24:09,850 --> 00:24:13,610
We're told in Revelation 12 and verse 9,

568
00:24:13,830 --> 00:24:16,870
this accuser who is going to get cast

569
00:24:16,870 --> 00:24:17,250
on.

570
00:24:17,550 --> 00:24:19,850
Saints, I've told you how dark it'll get,

571
00:24:20,050 --> 00:24:21,690
but I'm telling you of a church that's

572
00:24:21,690 --> 00:24:24,090
going to rise up in such an hour,

573
00:24:24,390 --> 00:24:27,070
in such a climate, and by the blood,

574
00:24:27,330 --> 00:24:29,250
they're going to gain a victory over the

575
00:24:29,250 --> 00:24:30,430
accuser of the brethren.

576
00:24:30,710 --> 00:24:33,770
What the devil means for evil, to annihilate

577
00:24:33,770 --> 00:24:37,090
the church, to corrupt the church, to pollute

578
00:24:37,090 --> 00:24:40,290
the church, to compromise the church, there is

579
00:24:40,290 --> 00:24:42,650
going to arise a church that's going to

580
00:24:42,650 --> 00:24:45,610
gain a victory over that same accuser.

581
00:24:45,790 --> 00:24:47,750
It is going to rise up in this

582
00:24:47,750 --> 00:24:48,570
last hour.

583
00:24:48,890 --> 00:24:51,510
It says in Revelation 12 and 9, and

584
00:24:51,510 --> 00:24:54,690
the great dragon was cast out, that old

585
00:24:54,690 --> 00:24:58,730
serpent called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth

586
00:24:58,730 --> 00:25:02,030
the whole world, he was cast into the

587
00:25:02,030 --> 00:25:05,490
earth, and his angels were cast out with

588
00:25:05,490 --> 00:25:10,010
them before the final prophecies are fulfilled, before

589
00:25:10,010 --> 00:25:12,070
the rise of Antichrist.

590
00:25:12,070 --> 00:25:15,270
There's going to be a church that overcomes

591
00:25:15,270 --> 00:25:16,770
by the blood of the Lamb.

592
00:25:17,070 --> 00:25:19,190
Saints, I'm talking to you this morning.

593
00:25:19,590 --> 00:25:21,490
We are that generation.

594
00:25:21,990 --> 00:25:23,110
We are that church.

595
00:25:23,650 --> 00:25:26,230
Prophecy is about to come to pass, and

596
00:25:26,230 --> 00:25:28,490
I assure you our time is restricted.

597
00:25:28,890 --> 00:25:31,870
Our time is limited for this casting out

598
00:25:31,870 --> 00:25:34,330
of the accuser of the brethren, the rising

599
00:25:34,330 --> 00:25:36,590
up of the church to overcome by the

600
00:25:36,590 --> 00:25:39,870
blood, for Michael and his angels to triumph

601
00:25:39,870 --> 00:25:42,370
against the accuser of the brethren.

602
00:25:42,570 --> 00:25:45,070
All of this is coming in very fast,

603
00:25:45,310 --> 00:25:46,810
and I believe we're there.

604
00:25:47,130 --> 00:25:48,450
We are going to be put in a

605
00:25:48,450 --> 00:25:51,690
situation where we'll have no choice but to

606
00:25:51,690 --> 00:25:53,690
lay hold of the blood of the Lamb,

607
00:25:53,990 --> 00:25:58,310
and by a personal experience, overcome the accuser

608
00:25:58,310 --> 00:25:59,290
of the brethren.

609
00:25:59,750 --> 00:26:02,670
Notice here concerning the accuser of the brethren.

610
00:26:02,970 --> 00:26:05,530
It gives two animals and two names.

611
00:26:05,890 --> 00:26:08,550
The two animals are the dragon and the

612
00:26:08,550 --> 00:26:08,950
serpent.

613
00:26:08,950 --> 00:26:13,010
In this chapter, chapter 12 of Revelation, the

614
00:26:13,010 --> 00:26:15,870
dragon is mentioned eight times.

615
00:26:16,070 --> 00:26:19,590
He's only mentioned 13 times in the entire

616
00:26:19,590 --> 00:26:20,650
book of Revelation.

617
00:26:20,710 --> 00:26:24,090
He's not called the dragon anywhere else in

618
00:26:24,090 --> 00:26:27,010
the Bible, but he is called the dragon

619
00:26:27,010 --> 00:26:27,510
here.

620
00:26:27,830 --> 00:26:31,050
In other words, the devil is defined as

621
00:26:31,050 --> 00:26:34,890
a dragon more in Revelation 12 than any

622
00:26:34,890 --> 00:26:37,630
other chapter of the entire Bible.

623
00:26:38,010 --> 00:26:39,590
Look at him in this chapter.

624
00:26:39,890 --> 00:26:42,990
We see his tail drawn down a third

625
00:26:42,990 --> 00:26:44,350
of the stars of heaven.

626
00:26:44,350 --> 00:26:46,870
That means a third of the angels that

627
00:26:46,870 --> 00:26:48,730
become demonic spirits.

628
00:26:49,110 --> 00:26:51,310
We see him there waiting to devour the

629
00:26:51,310 --> 00:26:51,930
man-child.

630
00:26:52,590 --> 00:26:55,410
We see him in heaven fighting Michael.

631
00:26:55,870 --> 00:26:58,670
We see him trying to destroy the woman

632
00:26:58,670 --> 00:27:00,350
and pursuing after her.

633
00:27:00,650 --> 00:27:03,050
Then after that, we see him making war

634
00:27:03,050 --> 00:27:04,850
with the remnant of her seed.

635
00:27:05,190 --> 00:27:09,590
This dragon has seven heads and 10 horns.

636
00:27:09,890 --> 00:27:12,550
This dragon is the one who is just

637
00:27:12,550 --> 00:27:17,350
about to empower a political, economic, and religious

638
00:27:17,350 --> 00:27:18,030
system.

639
00:27:18,210 --> 00:27:20,730
It's going to arise on the earth.

640
00:27:20,770 --> 00:27:23,290
Once he's cast onto the earth, he's going

641
00:27:23,290 --> 00:27:28,990
to empower and inhabit a demonically controlled political

642
00:27:28,990 --> 00:27:31,010
system across our world.

643
00:27:31,310 --> 00:27:34,190
That's who the dragon is, but it's not

644
00:27:34,190 --> 00:27:36,090
the dragon we're dealing with here.

645
00:27:36,290 --> 00:27:38,390
We're dealing with the serpent.

646
00:27:39,190 --> 00:27:42,270
The serpent is the one who comes before

647
00:27:42,270 --> 00:27:43,330
the dragon.

648
00:27:43,890 --> 00:27:46,950
We read of the serpent three times in

649
00:27:46,950 --> 00:27:47,750
this chapter.

650
00:27:48,370 --> 00:27:50,870
We read of him, of his face, and

651
00:27:50,870 --> 00:27:51,550
of his mouth.

652
00:27:51,690 --> 00:27:55,250
Notice that very carefully about the serpent in

653
00:27:55,250 --> 00:27:56,930
this hour that we live in.

654
00:27:57,210 --> 00:28:00,290
The serpent who is the dragon, who is

655
00:28:00,290 --> 00:28:02,390
the devil, who is Satan.

656
00:28:02,950 --> 00:28:06,470
As a serpent, his mouth and his face

657
00:28:06,470 --> 00:28:07,630
is very important.

658
00:28:07,630 --> 00:28:09,850
When we look for the serpent, we go

659
00:28:09,850 --> 00:28:13,070
back to Genesis chapter three and verse one.

660
00:28:13,430 --> 00:28:17,090
It says, now the serpent was more subtle

661
00:28:17,090 --> 00:28:19,290
than any beast of the field.

662
00:28:19,590 --> 00:28:23,470
That means cunning, crafty, shrewd, to be smooth

663
00:28:23,470 --> 00:28:26,170
in your words, to be crafty in your

664
00:28:26,170 --> 00:28:29,190
actions, your plans, your motives, all of the

665
00:28:29,190 --> 00:28:31,290
devices that you put into operation.

666
00:28:31,710 --> 00:28:34,270
We are dealing with a serpent that was

667
00:28:34,270 --> 00:28:36,030
in the garden of Eden.

668
00:28:36,030 --> 00:28:39,150
We are dealing with a serpent that had

669
00:28:39,150 --> 00:28:42,810
a dealing with our first parents 6,000

670
00:28:42,810 --> 00:28:43,670
years ago.

671
00:28:43,790 --> 00:28:45,950
I want you to realize that the serpent

672
00:28:45,950 --> 00:28:49,570
has been coming against a chosen man, tempting

673
00:28:49,570 --> 00:28:54,970
them, deceiving, lying, manipulating, standing against him for

674
00:28:54,970 --> 00:28:58,170
6,000 years since the garden of Eden.

675
00:28:58,570 --> 00:29:01,430
The name Satan and devil here are also

676
00:29:01,430 --> 00:29:02,110
important.

677
00:29:02,710 --> 00:29:06,270
Satan is taken from the Hebrew and has

678
00:29:06,270 --> 00:29:07,590
the meaning of adversary.

679
00:29:07,870 --> 00:29:11,550
He stands against, he resists, and this name

680
00:29:11,550 --> 00:29:14,950
Satan is used 14 times in the book

681
00:29:14,950 --> 00:29:15,430
of Job.

682
00:29:15,630 --> 00:29:18,150
If you want to understand who Satan is,

683
00:29:18,310 --> 00:29:21,610
how he operates, what his task is, remember

684
00:29:21,610 --> 00:29:23,630
name denotes character.

685
00:29:23,830 --> 00:29:26,870
If you want to understand what God means

686
00:29:26,870 --> 00:29:29,750
by calling him Satan or exposing him as

687
00:29:29,750 --> 00:29:31,030
Satan, do you know what?

688
00:29:31,110 --> 00:29:33,150
Go to the book of Job and see

689
00:29:33,150 --> 00:29:35,390
how Satan dealt with Job.

690
00:29:35,770 --> 00:29:38,170
You are looking at what it means to

691
00:29:38,170 --> 00:29:38,730
be Satan.

692
00:29:39,150 --> 00:29:41,990
You're looking at a definition of his character

693
00:29:41,990 --> 00:29:43,110
and his nature.

694
00:29:43,430 --> 00:29:45,990
He is also called the devil here, which

695
00:29:45,990 --> 00:29:48,210
is the Greek word diabolos.

696
00:29:48,650 --> 00:29:52,310
That word diabolos means false accuser or one

697
00:29:52,310 --> 00:29:54,050
who comes to slander.

698
00:29:54,410 --> 00:29:57,010
It's not just one who accuses, but he

699
00:29:57,010 --> 00:29:59,090
makes false accusations.

700
00:29:59,810 --> 00:30:02,450
It comes from the verb word or the

701
00:30:02,450 --> 00:30:07,230
action word diabolos, meaning the act of accusing

702
00:30:07,230 --> 00:30:09,690
someone or to throw darts.

703
00:30:09,890 --> 00:30:12,250
It actually is where you'd have arrows or

704
00:30:12,250 --> 00:30:13,990
darts and you would throw them.

705
00:30:14,330 --> 00:30:15,510
That's where it comes from.

706
00:30:15,690 --> 00:30:18,990
The accuser throws words and that's where we

707
00:30:18,990 --> 00:30:20,650
get the word diabolos.

708
00:30:20,910 --> 00:30:22,470
He is throwing accusations.

709
00:30:23,070 --> 00:30:24,450
He is throwing slander.

710
00:30:24,850 --> 00:30:26,530
He is throwing mud.

711
00:30:26,850 --> 00:30:28,810
He is the theme in your character.

712
00:30:29,170 --> 00:30:32,050
Since I'm telling you who the serpent is,

713
00:30:32,310 --> 00:30:35,130
who this accuser of the brethren is, here

714
00:30:35,130 --> 00:30:38,410
in Revelation 12, he is revealed in all

715
00:30:38,410 --> 00:30:39,090
of his fullness.

716
00:30:39,470 --> 00:30:42,070
He is defined in his character, in his

717
00:30:42,070 --> 00:30:43,930
calling, in his history.

718
00:30:44,610 --> 00:30:47,630
The cover is pulled back and we see

719
00:30:47,630 --> 00:30:48,970
who the accuser is.

720
00:30:49,270 --> 00:30:50,510
Do you know why you need to know

721
00:30:50,510 --> 00:30:51,390
this this morning?

722
00:30:51,750 --> 00:30:54,510
We are so ignorant when thoughts come to

723
00:30:54,510 --> 00:30:57,390
our mind, when somebody speaks to us the

724
00:30:57,390 --> 00:31:00,090
wrong thing or a wrong teaching, when we

725
00:31:00,090 --> 00:31:02,070
see things go on in our world, we

726
00:31:02,070 --> 00:31:04,810
don't realize who is operating there.

727
00:31:05,130 --> 00:31:08,830
We are so blind and ignorant so often

728
00:31:08,830 --> 00:31:11,790
to who it is that's working in the

729
00:31:11,790 --> 00:31:12,230
dark.

730
00:31:12,730 --> 00:31:15,010
I assure you this word devil is used

731
00:31:15,010 --> 00:31:20,370
34 times and even once of Judas in

732
00:31:20,370 --> 00:31:20,990
the gospel.

733
00:31:22,150 --> 00:31:24,650
It is a real thing that we are

734
00:31:24,650 --> 00:31:28,130
facing here as the devil hurls and throws

735
00:31:28,130 --> 00:31:31,430
a verbal assault against who?

736
00:31:31,670 --> 00:31:35,330
The brethren, the blood-washed believer in the

737
00:31:35,330 --> 00:31:35,990
Lord Jesus.

738
00:31:36,250 --> 00:31:38,190
I've got three points for you here.

739
00:31:38,770 --> 00:31:41,570
Now that I've laid a foundation, I want

740
00:31:41,570 --> 00:31:42,230
you to hear this.

741
00:31:42,330 --> 00:31:43,590
We're in the last days.

742
00:31:43,930 --> 00:31:46,190
We're in the last hour of church history.

743
00:31:46,430 --> 00:31:48,830
There is a vital role for us to

744
00:31:48,830 --> 00:31:49,670
play in the world.

745
00:31:49,970 --> 00:31:53,370
We may look small and insignificant, but I

746
00:31:53,370 --> 00:31:57,370
assure you a believer that discovers and renews

747
00:31:57,370 --> 00:31:59,510
his knowledge of the blood of the lamb

748
00:31:59,510 --> 00:32:01,770
is going to find himself in a place

749
00:32:01,770 --> 00:32:04,490
of experiential victory in this hour.

750
00:32:04,770 --> 00:32:06,830
Since the battle is coming to us, whether

751
00:32:06,830 --> 00:32:08,970
you like it or not, you better hear

752
00:32:08,970 --> 00:32:09,690
what I say.

753
00:32:09,930 --> 00:32:12,810
You better be instructed by the spirit of

754
00:32:12,810 --> 00:32:16,390
God because there is coming a flood of

755
00:32:16,390 --> 00:32:18,910
the accuser of the brethren, the like of

756
00:32:18,910 --> 00:32:22,010
which you and I have never yet seen

757
00:32:22,010 --> 00:32:23,190
in our generation.

758
00:32:23,190 --> 00:32:26,870
It's going to engulf every nation, every government,

759
00:32:27,370 --> 00:32:28,830
all legislation.

760
00:32:28,830 --> 00:32:31,630
It's going to come against our children in

761
00:32:31,630 --> 00:32:32,170
the schools.

762
00:32:32,550 --> 00:32:34,250
It's going to affect you in the workplace.

763
00:32:34,370 --> 00:32:36,770
It's going to affect you from the highest

764
00:32:36,770 --> 00:32:39,170
realms of authority to the lowest.

765
00:32:39,730 --> 00:32:42,030
I assure you the accuser of the brethren

766
00:32:42,030 --> 00:32:44,690
is bringing the battle to us, but it

767
00:32:44,690 --> 00:32:46,950
is time for the church to rise up,

768
00:32:47,190 --> 00:32:50,590
to stand by virtue of the precious blood

769
00:32:50,590 --> 00:32:53,530
and to gain the victory over the accuser

770
00:32:53,530 --> 00:32:54,210
of the brethren.

771
00:32:54,470 --> 00:32:57,330
What the means for evil, God is going

772
00:32:57,330 --> 00:32:58,270
to use for good.

773
00:32:58,610 --> 00:33:00,870
What the devil thinks is going to floor

774
00:33:00,870 --> 00:33:03,330
us and wipe us out is going to

775
00:33:03,330 --> 00:33:05,850
be used to stir us up, to stand

776
00:33:05,850 --> 00:33:08,210
up as the redeemed of the Lord.

777
00:33:08,470 --> 00:33:11,490
I've got three points here for you this

778
00:33:11,490 --> 00:33:13,650
morning as we look a bit closer at

779
00:33:13,650 --> 00:33:13,930
this.

780
00:33:14,150 --> 00:33:18,850
Number one, he is a personal accuser.

781
00:33:18,850 --> 00:33:21,630
I want to show you three different realms

782
00:33:21,630 --> 00:33:25,010
of how the accuser comes and how we

783
00:33:25,010 --> 00:33:27,030
gain the victory, but I want you to

784
00:33:27,030 --> 00:33:28,050
see this one first.

785
00:33:28,350 --> 00:33:31,370
He is a personal accuser.

786
00:33:31,430 --> 00:33:33,470
You see, I want you to stop and

787
00:33:33,470 --> 00:33:36,370
consider this for a moment, that the accusations

788
00:33:36,370 --> 00:33:39,330
of the one in Revelation 12 who's going

789
00:33:39,330 --> 00:33:42,650
to get cast down, those accusations that are

790
00:33:42,650 --> 00:33:44,750
going to come to an end, it's a

791
00:33:44,750 --> 00:33:47,690
personal accuser that you're looking at.

792
00:33:47,830 --> 00:33:51,690
You are looking at your personal accuser.

793
00:33:52,230 --> 00:33:54,850
You see, the accuser of the brethren is

794
00:33:54,850 --> 00:33:56,170
an accuser of you.

795
00:33:56,630 --> 00:33:59,510
If you're a born-again blood-washed believer,

796
00:33:59,850 --> 00:34:01,210
you are a brother.

797
00:34:01,650 --> 00:34:04,830
He is an accuser of the brethren, of

798
00:34:04,830 --> 00:34:08,889
the brotherhood of Jesus Christ, those born again

799
00:34:08,889 --> 00:34:10,130
by the grace of God.

800
00:34:10,130 --> 00:34:13,469
He is an accuser directly of you.

801
00:34:13,790 --> 00:34:16,170
And notice with me here, we know from

802
00:34:16,170 --> 00:34:19,489
scripture that the accuser of the brethren, he

803
00:34:19,489 --> 00:34:21,989
will have a direct line towards you.

804
00:34:22,270 --> 00:34:23,389
He will tempt you.

805
00:34:23,730 --> 00:34:25,010
He will speak to you.

806
00:34:25,310 --> 00:34:27,010
He will attack you.

807
00:34:27,370 --> 00:34:30,170
Since if you find yourself in a place

808
00:34:30,170 --> 00:34:34,429
of condemnation and guilt through your own personal

809
00:34:34,429 --> 00:34:38,150
sin, you've sinned against God, it is time

810
00:34:38,150 --> 00:34:39,889
to turn to the blood of Jesus.

811
00:34:40,130 --> 00:34:42,750
If you're in this gathering and you're listening

812
00:34:42,750 --> 00:34:46,250
to my words this morning, and there's condemnation,

813
00:34:46,489 --> 00:34:49,010
and there's guilt, and there's thoughts, and there's

814
00:34:49,010 --> 00:34:51,830
feelings, and you feel afar off, it is

815
00:34:51,830 --> 00:34:55,570
time for you to overcome the accuser by

816
00:34:55,570 --> 00:34:56,550
the blood of Jesus.

817
00:34:56,550 --> 00:34:58,910
You may say, I deserve this.

818
00:34:59,030 --> 00:34:59,950
Yes, you do.

819
00:35:00,250 --> 00:35:02,230
But it's time to rise up by the

820
00:35:02,230 --> 00:35:04,650
grace of God and say, God, forgive me.

821
00:35:04,870 --> 00:35:07,330
I'm so sorry for sinning against you.

822
00:35:07,590 --> 00:35:08,650
Will you wash me?

823
00:35:08,950 --> 00:35:12,670
You've just gained a victory over the accuser

824
00:35:12,670 --> 00:35:13,590
of the brethren.

825
00:35:13,950 --> 00:35:15,970
It says in 1 John chapter 3 and

826
00:35:15,970 --> 00:35:20,570
20, for if our heart condemn us, God

827
00:35:20,570 --> 00:35:22,150
is greater than our heart.

828
00:35:22,370 --> 00:35:24,850
Some of you think because your own heart

829
00:35:24,850 --> 00:35:27,290
condemns you, that you need to stay in

830
00:35:27,290 --> 00:35:27,850
that case.

831
00:35:28,090 --> 00:35:28,590
You know what?

832
00:35:28,690 --> 00:35:30,670
God is greater than your own heart.

833
00:35:31,010 --> 00:35:33,530
Your conscience may be condemning you.

834
00:35:33,870 --> 00:35:36,450
Your own heart may condemn you because of

835
00:35:36,450 --> 00:35:38,990
something you've said, or something that you've done,

836
00:35:39,290 --> 00:35:40,450
or something that you've thought.

837
00:35:40,710 --> 00:35:42,890
I want to show you God is greater

838
00:35:42,890 --> 00:35:44,110
than your heart.

839
00:35:44,390 --> 00:35:47,790
The blood of Jesus Christ washes you from

840
00:35:47,790 --> 00:35:48,550
all sin.

841
00:35:48,830 --> 00:35:50,850
There is a victory in the blood of

842
00:35:50,850 --> 00:35:51,290
Jesus.

843
00:35:51,550 --> 00:35:53,870
You may be in a battle against the

844
00:35:53,870 --> 00:35:54,490
accuser.

845
00:35:54,690 --> 00:35:56,710
He's pointing out your past sins.

846
00:35:56,910 --> 00:35:59,790
He's pointing out your lack of sanctification.

847
00:36:00,270 --> 00:36:02,990
He's pointing out something in your life this

848
00:36:02,990 --> 00:36:05,290
morning that you've been struggling with.

849
00:36:05,490 --> 00:36:06,950
You want to be like Jesus.

850
00:36:07,270 --> 00:36:08,670
You want to walk with God.

851
00:36:08,790 --> 00:36:11,250
But there's one thing you've been wrestling with.

852
00:36:11,550 --> 00:36:11,930
You know what?

853
00:36:11,990 --> 00:36:14,670
The accuser of the brethren, he'll be there

854
00:36:14,670 --> 00:36:15,990
to accuse you.

855
00:36:16,310 --> 00:36:17,870
He will come and accuse you.

856
00:36:18,090 --> 00:36:19,990
He'll say, what sort of Christian are you?

857
00:36:20,290 --> 00:36:21,470
You'll never change.

858
00:36:21,770 --> 00:36:22,890
You'll never be free.

859
00:36:23,230 --> 00:36:25,010
You'll never grow beyond this.

860
00:36:25,330 --> 00:36:27,630
You'll never get the victory over me.

861
00:36:27,890 --> 00:36:30,730
Saints, can I tell you, when the tempter

862
00:36:30,730 --> 00:36:34,050
comes, the accuser, it is time to lay

863
00:36:34,050 --> 00:36:35,590
hold of the blood of Jesus.

864
00:36:35,930 --> 00:36:37,750
You need to turn around to that devil

865
00:36:37,750 --> 00:36:40,090
this morning and say, I'm washed by the

866
00:36:40,090 --> 00:36:40,750
blood of the Lamb.

867
00:36:40,890 --> 00:36:43,850
I'm forgiven by the precious blood of the

868
00:36:43,850 --> 00:36:44,010
Lamb.

869
00:36:44,230 --> 00:36:46,610
I can gain a victory by the blood

870
00:36:46,610 --> 00:36:47,030
of the Lamb.

871
00:36:47,270 --> 00:36:48,730
I'm not the worthy one.

872
00:36:48,990 --> 00:36:50,470
I'm not the perfect one.

873
00:36:50,710 --> 00:36:53,530
But the Lamb of God died at Calvary.

874
00:36:53,790 --> 00:36:56,370
His blood was shed for me that I

875
00:36:56,370 --> 00:36:57,270
may go free.

876
00:36:57,570 --> 00:36:59,390
I want you to see that the accuser

877
00:36:59,390 --> 00:37:01,650
of the brethren has a direct attack to

878
00:37:01,650 --> 00:37:01,910
you.

879
00:37:02,130 --> 00:37:03,850
You may think it's your own thoughts.

880
00:37:04,130 --> 00:37:07,150
You may think that you're condemning yourself, but

881
00:37:07,150 --> 00:37:08,510
he is a condemner.

882
00:37:08,710 --> 00:37:09,690
He is a liar.

883
00:37:09,950 --> 00:37:10,910
He is a murderer.

884
00:37:11,330 --> 00:37:13,690
How do we know the difference between the

885
00:37:13,690 --> 00:37:16,830
devil condemning us and the Holy Spirit convicting?

886
00:37:17,230 --> 00:37:20,130
The devil says, you're done, you're out, and

887
00:37:20,130 --> 00:37:21,270
there's no hope for you.

888
00:37:21,570 --> 00:37:24,630
You know, over the past three months, I've

889
00:37:24,630 --> 00:37:27,450
had a number of emails and conversations with

890
00:37:27,450 --> 00:37:31,730
individuals, backsliders who once knew Jesus Christ, and

891
00:37:31,730 --> 00:37:34,430
they said, I've sinned and I cannot be

892
00:37:34,430 --> 00:37:34,910
forgiven.

893
00:37:35,450 --> 00:37:37,630
I don't think God can forgive me.

894
00:37:38,030 --> 00:37:40,310
Maybe I've sinned away the day of salvation.

895
00:37:40,830 --> 00:37:43,570
Do you know the Holy Spirit, when he

896
00:37:43,570 --> 00:37:46,510
convicts you of sin, he always leads you

897
00:37:46,510 --> 00:37:47,450
back to the blood.

898
00:37:47,690 --> 00:37:50,010
And he says, there's power in the blood.

899
00:37:50,370 --> 00:37:51,790
There's power in the blood.

900
00:37:52,050 --> 00:37:54,370
There's forgiveness in the blood of Jesus.

901
00:37:54,930 --> 00:37:57,310
You say, but you don't know me.

902
00:37:57,530 --> 00:37:59,450
I want to tell you, one of Christ's

903
00:37:59,450 --> 00:38:04,130
own apostles, Peter, the apostle, chosen by Christ,

904
00:38:04,270 --> 00:38:04,990
raised up.

905
00:38:05,330 --> 00:38:09,270
You remember Christ one day prophesied, Peter, there's

906
00:38:09,270 --> 00:38:11,270
a day coming, you're going to deny me.

907
00:38:11,810 --> 00:38:12,850
Peter said, never.

908
00:38:13,990 --> 00:38:16,770
All the rest might, but I will never

909
00:38:16,770 --> 00:38:17,690
deny you.

910
00:38:17,950 --> 00:38:20,430
You know, it was only days later, he's

911
00:38:20,430 --> 00:38:23,630
standing warm in his hands by the fire,

912
00:38:23,970 --> 00:38:25,050
the world's fire.

913
00:38:25,490 --> 00:38:27,310
There's Roman centurions there.

914
00:38:27,730 --> 00:38:30,650
There's little handmaidens and he's there in the

915
00:38:30,650 --> 00:38:34,750
coldness of night, standing with the ungodly, standing

916
00:38:34,750 --> 00:38:38,530
amidst their conversation, warm in his hands, seeking

917
00:38:38,530 --> 00:38:41,130
to get warm by the fire of this

918
00:38:41,130 --> 00:38:41,530
world.

919
00:38:41,750 --> 00:38:45,450
In that environment, he denied Jesus Christ three

920
00:38:45,450 --> 00:38:45,950
times.

921
00:38:46,290 --> 00:38:47,870
What a heartbreaking thing.

922
00:38:48,210 --> 00:38:49,910
Do you know what happened next?

923
00:38:50,010 --> 00:38:51,430
He was heartbroken.

924
00:38:51,690 --> 00:38:53,190
He went out and he wept.

925
00:38:53,550 --> 00:38:54,790
He went out and he wept.

926
00:38:54,990 --> 00:38:57,350
I can assure you the accuser of the

927
00:38:57,350 --> 00:38:58,570
brethren came to him.

928
00:38:58,810 --> 00:38:59,810
Do you know what he done next?

929
00:39:00,090 --> 00:39:03,130
He went and took those other fishermen apostles

930
00:39:03,130 --> 00:39:06,130
and he said, come, let's go fishing.

931
00:39:06,690 --> 00:39:08,090
You know what he gave up in the

932
00:39:08,090 --> 00:39:10,530
ministry and he went back to his fishing

933
00:39:10,530 --> 00:39:10,830
nets.

934
00:39:11,190 --> 00:39:14,070
When Christ next finds him, he's out there

935
00:39:14,070 --> 00:39:15,150
fishing again.

936
00:39:15,150 --> 00:39:18,450
He's turned away from ministry, gave up on

937
00:39:18,450 --> 00:39:18,870
preaching.

938
00:39:19,090 --> 00:39:19,370
Why?

939
00:39:19,770 --> 00:39:23,270
Three times he denied Jesus Christ and said,

940
00:39:23,410 --> 00:39:24,630
I do not know him.

941
00:39:24,850 --> 00:39:26,230
I do not know him.

942
00:39:26,470 --> 00:39:28,750
Do you realize that the devil came in

943
00:39:28,750 --> 00:39:31,430
on that as the accuser of the brethren?

944
00:39:31,830 --> 00:39:34,150
Don't you realize the devil must have said,

945
00:39:34,450 --> 00:39:35,710
I've got Peter now.

946
00:39:36,110 --> 00:39:38,450
Peter will never recover from this.

947
00:39:38,690 --> 00:39:41,310
You say, how do you know that the

948
00:39:41,310 --> 00:39:42,150
devil was there?

949
00:39:42,610 --> 00:39:46,690
Jesus said, Jesus had said previously to Peter,

950
00:39:47,050 --> 00:39:51,030
Peter, Satan has asked to sift you like

951
00:39:51,030 --> 00:39:53,590
wheat, but I prayed for you that your

952
00:39:53,590 --> 00:39:55,350
faith will not fail.

953
00:39:55,590 --> 00:39:57,730
He didn't pray that he wouldn't fail.

954
00:39:58,010 --> 00:39:59,970
He prayed that his faith wouldn't fail.

955
00:40:00,370 --> 00:40:01,450
Peter did fail.

956
00:40:01,870 --> 00:40:03,870
And I assure you the accuser was there

957
00:40:03,870 --> 00:40:04,950
to say, you're finished.

958
00:40:05,290 --> 00:40:05,990
You're finished.

959
00:40:06,110 --> 00:40:08,470
How can you call yourself a Christian?

960
00:40:08,810 --> 00:40:11,850
But that man had a new meeting with

961
00:40:11,850 --> 00:40:13,290
the Lord Jesus Christ.

962
00:40:13,330 --> 00:40:15,830
I tell you, Christ came looking for him.

963
00:40:16,050 --> 00:40:17,310
He is the good shepherd.

964
00:40:17,750 --> 00:40:20,570
He goes looking for that one sheep that's

965
00:40:20,570 --> 00:40:21,310
gone astray.

966
00:40:21,470 --> 00:40:23,710
If he'd done that for Peter, he'll do

967
00:40:23,710 --> 00:40:24,230
it for you.

968
00:40:24,310 --> 00:40:26,470
I can assure you, my friend, there is

969
00:40:26,470 --> 00:40:28,050
an accuser of the brethren.

970
00:40:28,430 --> 00:40:30,690
That great man of God on the day

971
00:40:30,690 --> 00:40:33,630
of Pentecost stood up and preached on 3000

972
00:40:33,630 --> 00:40:34,850
are born again.

973
00:40:35,170 --> 00:40:37,790
Don't tell me there isn't a victory over

974
00:40:37,790 --> 00:40:38,710
past failure.

975
00:40:38,970 --> 00:40:41,210
Don't tell me there isn't power in the

976
00:40:41,210 --> 00:40:41,470
blood.

977
00:40:41,750 --> 00:40:43,830
Don't tell me that you can't rise up

978
00:40:43,830 --> 00:40:45,690
out of the pit of guilt and of

979
00:40:45,690 --> 00:40:49,570
condemnation of hopelessness of having gone back to

980
00:40:49,570 --> 00:40:50,550
your fish and nets.

981
00:40:50,730 --> 00:40:53,630
Since when you see Christ again and all

982
00:40:53,630 --> 00:40:55,750
that he's done for you, you'll stand up

983
00:40:55,750 --> 00:40:59,030
and preach again under the power of the

984
00:40:59,030 --> 00:40:59,770
Holy Spirit.

985
00:41:00,090 --> 00:41:03,030
That's always a personal accuser.

986
00:41:03,550 --> 00:41:07,430
Satan comes to accuse you personally, but notice

987
00:41:07,430 --> 00:41:11,090
further, he doesn't only accuse you to you,

988
00:41:11,530 --> 00:41:14,670
but he accuses God about you.

989
00:41:15,190 --> 00:41:19,210
He accuses God and listen, he goes to

990
00:41:19,210 --> 00:41:23,550
God when you're innocent as the accuser of

991
00:41:23,550 --> 00:41:24,290
the brethren.

992
00:41:24,910 --> 00:41:27,750
Satan is a false accuser.

993
00:41:28,090 --> 00:41:30,450
He doesn't just go when you sin or

994
00:41:30,450 --> 00:41:32,490
you fail or something happens.

995
00:41:32,890 --> 00:41:38,250
Satan goes to God to accuse you when

996
00:41:38,250 --> 00:41:39,970
you haven't done anything wrong.

997
00:41:40,110 --> 00:41:41,770
You say, where do you get that?

998
00:41:41,950 --> 00:41:44,190
I find it in the book of Job.

999
00:41:44,450 --> 00:41:46,190
If you go to the book of Job,

1000
00:41:46,210 --> 00:41:49,150
you'll find this as clear as day.

1001
00:41:49,390 --> 00:41:52,390
It is God himself who points out to

1002
00:41:52,390 --> 00:41:55,470
Satan, the righteousness of a man of God,

1003
00:41:55,470 --> 00:41:58,230
who eschewed sin, that there was no one

1004
00:41:58,230 --> 00:42:01,490
on God's planet who was quite like Job.

1005
00:42:01,790 --> 00:42:03,490
Well, you know what Satan said.

1006
00:42:03,890 --> 00:42:06,410
Then Satan answered the Lord and he said,

1007
00:42:07,030 --> 00:42:10,890
does Job fear God for naught?

1008
00:42:11,450 --> 00:42:12,330
Do you know what he's doing?

1009
00:42:12,490 --> 00:42:16,030
He is accusing Job to God.

1010
00:42:16,650 --> 00:42:19,910
This is what Satan still does today to

1011
00:42:19,910 --> 00:42:20,990
the saints of God.

1012
00:42:20,990 --> 00:42:24,050
He makes accusations that are not true.

1013
00:42:24,470 --> 00:42:29,650
He even creates and invents scenarios of what

1014
00:42:29,650 --> 00:42:33,350
you would do in certain situations if God

1015
00:42:33,350 --> 00:42:35,190
allows it to happen in your life.

1016
00:42:35,510 --> 00:42:37,950
You know, Satan goes to God and he

1017
00:42:37,950 --> 00:42:41,370
challenges him and says, you know, this no

1018
00:42:41,370 --> 00:42:44,730
good saint of God, you just let him

1019
00:42:44,730 --> 00:42:47,110
have a bit of suffering and he'll deny

1020
00:42:47,110 --> 00:42:47,490
you.

1021
00:42:47,790 --> 00:42:50,390
That's what he's saying here about Job.

1022
00:42:50,650 --> 00:42:53,490
He says, does Job fear God for naught?

1023
00:42:53,930 --> 00:42:55,890
He said, why wouldn't he fear you?

1024
00:42:56,110 --> 00:42:59,250
He's challenging Job and he's saying that fear

1025
00:42:59,250 --> 00:43:01,730
of God isn't the real fear of God.

1026
00:43:01,970 --> 00:43:05,450
It's a fear that's birthed out of greed.

1027
00:43:05,710 --> 00:43:09,330
Actually, all he is is a greedy, selfish

1028
00:43:09,330 --> 00:43:10,230
so-and-so.

1029
00:43:10,890 --> 00:43:15,530
Satan begins to accuse Job unto God.

1030
00:43:16,030 --> 00:43:18,810
So it's not only the accuser accuses you

1031
00:43:18,810 --> 00:43:22,810
to yourself, he accuses you to God.

1032
00:43:22,990 --> 00:43:23,990
He goes to God.

1033
00:43:24,350 --> 00:43:25,050
Listen further.

1034
00:43:26,030 --> 00:43:28,390
And he says, put my forth thine hand

1035
00:43:28,390 --> 00:43:31,510
and touch Job and all that he has

1036
00:43:31,510 --> 00:43:35,650
and he will curse you to thy face.

1037
00:43:36,050 --> 00:43:38,510
What a challenge that this is Satan the

1038
00:43:38,510 --> 00:43:42,190
accuser saying to God, just you touch him,

1039
00:43:42,590 --> 00:43:44,690
let some things go wrong in his life

1040
00:43:44,690 --> 00:43:48,110
and I know he'll curse you to your

1041
00:43:48,110 --> 00:43:48,510
face.

1042
00:43:48,710 --> 00:43:52,310
This was a righteous, godly believer, a man

1043
00:43:52,310 --> 00:43:55,490
who walked with God, who had integrity, who

1044
00:43:55,490 --> 00:43:58,070
could control his speech and yet there is

1045
00:43:58,070 --> 00:44:01,730
the devil unseen to him, unknown to him,

1046
00:44:02,110 --> 00:44:06,050
invisibly at the throne of God saying, if

1047
00:44:06,050 --> 00:44:08,630
you allow these things to happen to Job,

1048
00:44:08,850 --> 00:44:11,230
he will curse you to his face.

1049
00:44:11,790 --> 00:44:13,970
Do you know that the devil makes such

1050
00:44:13,970 --> 00:44:15,790
accusations about you?

1051
00:44:16,150 --> 00:44:18,670
Do you know God has allowed certain things

1052
00:44:18,670 --> 00:44:21,390
in your life to prove that there's more

1053
00:44:21,390 --> 00:44:24,630
in you than the devil accuses you of?

1054
00:44:24,810 --> 00:44:27,730
Don't you realize that there's things in life,

1055
00:44:28,050 --> 00:44:31,470
trials and troubles and things we don't understand

1056
00:44:31,470 --> 00:44:34,770
that it is the devil accusing you at

1057
00:44:34,770 --> 00:44:38,090
the throne of God and yet God allowed

1058
00:44:38,090 --> 00:44:38,750
all of this.

1059
00:44:38,890 --> 00:44:39,390
You know why?

1060
00:44:39,570 --> 00:44:41,930
There is something real in you that he

1061
00:44:41,930 --> 00:44:42,890
is going to manifest.

1062
00:44:43,270 --> 00:44:44,530
He's going to bring it forth.

1063
00:44:44,790 --> 00:44:46,610
He knows that you're not serving him for

1064
00:44:46,610 --> 00:44:47,070
greed.

1065
00:44:47,590 --> 00:44:50,150
It's not out of a fear taught by

1066
00:44:50,150 --> 00:44:53,070
man, but there is real integrity.

1067
00:44:53,490 --> 00:44:55,170
There's real integrity.

1068
00:44:56,130 --> 00:44:59,650
The accuser of the brethren studied Job very

1069
00:44:59,650 --> 00:45:00,250
carefully.

1070
00:45:00,710 --> 00:45:02,770
He studied his lifestyle, his conduct.

1071
00:45:03,250 --> 00:45:06,370
He noticed the hedge in and around Job's

1072
00:45:06,370 --> 00:45:06,810
life.

1073
00:45:07,170 --> 00:45:10,690
He studied his family very carefully.

1074
00:45:11,070 --> 00:45:12,570
He counted his possessions.

1075
00:45:12,890 --> 00:45:14,790
He knew where it all was.

1076
00:45:14,870 --> 00:45:17,110
He was able to attack it and he

1077
00:45:17,110 --> 00:45:20,310
also noted the work of his hands and

1078
00:45:20,310 --> 00:45:22,430
his influence on that generation.

1079
00:45:22,830 --> 00:45:25,490
Oh, what a thing to challenge and yet

1080
00:45:25,490 --> 00:45:27,470
it was all in God's plan.

1081
00:45:27,470 --> 00:45:31,050
God actually had a plan in drawing Satan's

1082
00:45:31,050 --> 00:45:32,210
attention to him.

1083
00:45:32,430 --> 00:45:34,050
It wasn't out of God's control.

1084
00:45:34,390 --> 00:45:37,030
God was using the accuser.

1085
00:45:37,250 --> 00:45:38,930
God was using Satan.

1086
00:45:39,170 --> 00:45:42,050
God was using the devil in Job's life.

1087
00:45:42,270 --> 00:45:44,190
It's hard to accept that I know.

1088
00:45:44,530 --> 00:45:47,030
It's hard to see and understand that and

1089
00:45:47,030 --> 00:45:49,630
yet at the end of the story, what

1090
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we see of Job is he comes forth

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as gold out of the trough.

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God will never allow the accuser to stand

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and accuse you without having a plan and

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00:46:01,090 --> 00:46:02,210
a purpose in it.

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00:46:02,570 --> 00:46:06,190
We read about another man who he wasn't

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00:46:06,190 --> 00:46:09,030
an innocent man who the devil accused, but

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actually there was an issue in his life.

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00:46:12,710 --> 00:46:17,610
Listen, the accuser also accuses God when there

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is something in your heart and life.

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In chapter three, we read a very important

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chapter there.

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Zachariah is all about the people of Israel

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00:46:30,230 --> 00:46:32,750
after the 70 year captivity.

1104
00:46:33,350 --> 00:46:36,410
They make that long journey from Babylon back

1105
00:46:36,410 --> 00:46:39,950
into the city of Jerusalem to begin to

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00:46:39,950 --> 00:46:42,710
rebuild the house of God, the temple of

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00:46:42,710 --> 00:46:43,030
God.

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00:46:43,410 --> 00:46:44,630
There are two leaders.

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00:46:45,150 --> 00:46:48,990
Zerubbabel is the political leader, the governor, the

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00:46:48,990 --> 00:46:51,830
one with royal blood in his veins and

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00:46:51,830 --> 00:46:54,410
by his side is the high priest called

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00:46:54,410 --> 00:46:57,590
Joshua, a man of God, a spiritual man.

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00:46:57,890 --> 00:47:00,770
These two men led the people of God

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00:47:00,770 --> 00:47:01,170
back.

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00:47:01,490 --> 00:47:04,890
They're two leaders who love God and want

1116
00:47:04,890 --> 00:47:07,430
to walk with God, but in Zachariah chapter

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00:47:07,430 --> 00:47:11,870
three, the prophet comes to Joshua with a

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00:47:11,870 --> 00:47:14,350
open vision, a prophecy for him.

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00:47:14,690 --> 00:47:16,530
Listen to what it says in Zachariah three

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and one.

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00:47:17,650 --> 00:47:20,750
And he showed me Joshua, the high priest

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00:47:20,750 --> 00:47:24,490
standing before the angel of the Lord.

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00:47:24,590 --> 00:47:27,350
And I believe that's Jesus Christ, the angel

1124
00:47:27,350 --> 00:47:28,110
of the Lord.

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00:47:29,050 --> 00:47:32,610
He was standing before him and Satan standing

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00:47:32,610 --> 00:47:35,410
at his right hand to resist him.

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00:47:35,770 --> 00:47:37,910
I want you to see here, here is

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00:47:37,910 --> 00:47:41,570
the high priest, the most religious and spiritually

1129
00:47:41,570 --> 00:47:43,350
alive man in the nation.

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00:47:43,630 --> 00:47:45,570
The man that's going to lead them back

1131
00:47:45,570 --> 00:47:48,070
to restore the house of God, a man

1132
00:47:48,070 --> 00:47:49,630
who longs for revival.

1133
00:47:50,010 --> 00:47:52,510
He is a leader who desires the spirit

1134
00:47:52,510 --> 00:47:53,550
of God to move.

1135
00:47:53,850 --> 00:47:54,410
But you know what?

1136
00:47:54,510 --> 00:47:57,510
As he stands before the Lord, at his

1137
00:47:57,510 --> 00:48:02,090
side stands Satan and Satan is there at

1138
00:48:02,090 --> 00:48:04,510
his right hand to resist him.

1139
00:48:04,850 --> 00:48:08,110
The word resist means to attack, to accuse,

1140
00:48:08,330 --> 00:48:09,250
or to condemn.

1141
00:48:09,630 --> 00:48:13,250
The devil is standing beside him, accusing him,

1142
00:48:13,650 --> 00:48:14,730
accusing him.

1143
00:48:15,010 --> 00:48:17,750
I believe he's accusing him before God.

1144
00:48:18,050 --> 00:48:21,870
I believe Satan was standing as these men

1145
00:48:21,870 --> 00:48:24,690
make their way back to have another revival,

1146
00:48:24,790 --> 00:48:26,290
to rebuild Jerusalem.

1147
00:48:26,650 --> 00:48:27,770
You know where Satan is?

1148
00:48:27,930 --> 00:48:30,070
He is standing at the right hand of

1149
00:48:30,070 --> 00:48:30,490
Joshua.

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00:48:30,950 --> 00:48:32,410
Joshua cannot see it.

1151
00:48:32,650 --> 00:48:34,410
The prophet has to reveal it.

1152
00:48:34,630 --> 00:48:36,710
The preacher has to make it clear.

1153
00:48:37,430 --> 00:48:39,970
But there is Satan at his side, accusing

1154
00:48:39,970 --> 00:48:41,690
him, accusing him.

1155
00:48:41,970 --> 00:48:43,270
You know what I believe he was saying?

1156
00:48:43,650 --> 00:48:45,810
How can you use a man like this

1157
00:48:45,810 --> 00:48:47,370
to bring revival?

1158
00:48:47,670 --> 00:48:49,710
How could you use a man like this

1159
00:48:49,710 --> 00:48:52,090
in a position of ministry?

1160
00:48:52,270 --> 00:48:54,850
How can you use a man like this

1161
00:48:54,850 --> 00:48:57,270
to restore the house of God?

1162
00:48:57,570 --> 00:49:01,110
I believe he was accusing Joshua before the

1163
00:49:01,110 --> 00:49:02,230
presence of God.

1164
00:49:02,590 --> 00:49:05,930
And yet Joshua did not know until the

1165
00:49:05,930 --> 00:49:07,450
prophet revealed it.

1166
00:49:07,670 --> 00:49:09,770
Do you know what happens here as Satan

1167
00:49:09,770 --> 00:49:12,910
is accusing him and resisting him?

1168
00:49:12,910 --> 00:49:14,770
Listen to what the Lord says.

1169
00:49:15,150 --> 00:49:18,090
The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan.

1170
00:49:18,570 --> 00:49:19,130
You know what?

1171
00:49:19,290 --> 00:49:22,450
He is dealing with the accuser of the

1172
00:49:22,450 --> 00:49:26,410
brethren, just like Christ prayed for Peter that

1173
00:49:26,410 --> 00:49:27,770
his faith would not fail.

1174
00:49:28,110 --> 00:49:31,430
Here is the Lord standing with Joshua.

1175
00:49:31,810 --> 00:49:32,270
Do you know what?

1176
00:49:32,410 --> 00:49:34,670
Thank God the Lord doesn't leave us in

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the hands of the accuser.

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00:49:36,650 --> 00:49:39,430
He says, the Lord rebuke thee, O Satan.

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00:49:40,550 --> 00:49:42,690
And it says in verse three, now Joshua

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00:49:42,690 --> 00:49:47,510
was clothed with filthy garments and stood before

1181
00:49:47,510 --> 00:49:48,570
the angel.

1182
00:49:49,150 --> 00:49:51,170
You know, this is one of the holiest

1183
00:49:51,170 --> 00:49:52,190
man in the nation.

1184
00:49:52,650 --> 00:49:54,750
And yet in the vision, we see filthy

1185
00:49:54,750 --> 00:49:55,390
garments.

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00:49:55,910 --> 00:49:58,250
There was an issue here, maybe a lack

1187
00:49:58,250 --> 00:50:02,270
of sanctification, maybe some issue with his wife

1188
00:50:02,270 --> 00:50:05,130
at home, maybe some issue, he's trying to

1189
00:50:05,130 --> 00:50:07,030
work through it in his own heart, maybe

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00:50:07,030 --> 00:50:08,290
something with his children.

1191
00:50:08,510 --> 00:50:11,290
I don't know, but his garments were filthy.

1192
00:50:11,670 --> 00:50:12,290
And you know what?

1193
00:50:12,470 --> 00:50:15,490
Satan took opportunity and he says, God, you

1194
00:50:15,490 --> 00:50:17,110
can't use this man.

1195
00:50:17,510 --> 00:50:19,770
You can't lay your hand on this man.

1196
00:50:20,170 --> 00:50:21,470
But do you know what the Lord done?

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00:50:21,810 --> 00:50:25,070
Yes, the Lord reveals the filthy garments.

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00:50:25,550 --> 00:50:28,090
Maybe this was something in Joshua's life he

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wasn't even aware of.

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00:50:29,670 --> 00:50:32,910
Maybe his heart was sincere and pure and

1201
00:50:32,910 --> 00:50:35,830
he wasn't aware of issues going on in

1202
00:50:35,830 --> 00:50:38,650
his life, of some blemish that the devil

1203
00:50:38,650 --> 00:50:39,570
was using.

1204
00:50:40,050 --> 00:50:41,970
You know what the Lord, the Lord's never

1205
00:50:41,970 --> 00:50:45,710
scared to expose and reveal something that is

1206
00:50:45,710 --> 00:50:46,050
hidden.

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00:50:46,550 --> 00:50:50,350
God does reveal sin or filthy garments.

1208
00:50:50,730 --> 00:50:53,010
Listen to what the Lord says, take away

1209
00:50:53,010 --> 00:50:54,670
the filthy garments.

1210
00:50:54,930 --> 00:50:57,870
I believe this high priest was trusting to

1211
00:50:57,870 --> 00:50:58,890
the blood of the lamb.

1212
00:50:59,110 --> 00:51:02,270
I believe this is him overcoming by the

1213
00:51:02,270 --> 00:51:03,030
blood of the lamb.

1214
00:51:03,230 --> 00:51:05,510
I believe this is him gaining a victory

1215
00:51:05,510 --> 00:51:07,770
against the accuser of the brethren.

1216
00:51:08,110 --> 00:51:09,030
What does the Lord say?

1217
00:51:09,350 --> 00:51:10,990
Take away his filthy garments.

1218
00:51:11,370 --> 00:51:13,730
And he said, this shall pass.

1219
00:51:13,870 --> 00:51:16,930
This high iniquity will pass from me and

1220
00:51:16,930 --> 00:51:19,470
I will close thee with the change of

1221
00:51:19,470 --> 00:51:20,070
Raymond.

1222
00:51:20,370 --> 00:51:22,410
He given new clean garments.

1223
00:51:22,710 --> 00:51:25,010
That's what the blood of the lamb does.

1224
00:51:25,290 --> 00:51:28,130
Next of all, he given a new fair

1225
00:51:28,130 --> 00:51:29,510
miter for his head.

1226
00:51:29,890 --> 00:51:31,690
You know what was written on the miter

1227
00:51:31,690 --> 00:51:32,790
of the high priest?

1228
00:51:33,750 --> 00:51:35,650
Holiness unto the Lord.

1229
00:51:36,030 --> 00:51:38,870
What a remarkable thing that amidst the battle

1230
00:51:38,870 --> 00:51:41,990
with Satan, the accuser of the brethren, just

1231
00:51:41,990 --> 00:51:44,970
as Satan comes to accuse the lamb of

1232
00:51:44,970 --> 00:51:48,390
God, our great high priest, our advocate comes

1233
00:51:48,390 --> 00:51:49,590
to bring deliverance.

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00:51:49,830 --> 00:51:52,510
Since he'll meet with you this morning, he'll

1235
00:51:52,510 --> 00:51:53,650
give you new garments.

1236
00:51:53,950 --> 00:51:55,910
He'll give you a new hat for your

1237
00:51:55,910 --> 00:51:56,350
head.

1238
00:51:56,570 --> 00:51:59,390
He'll anoint your head with the oil of

1239
00:51:59,390 --> 00:52:00,290
gladness.

1240
00:52:00,610 --> 00:52:03,610
He rebukes Satan on the basis of his

1241
00:52:03,610 --> 00:52:04,550
own righteousness.

1242
00:52:05,150 --> 00:52:08,130
He changes this man of God and close

1243
00:52:08,130 --> 00:52:09,550
him in holiness.

1244
00:52:10,110 --> 00:52:12,210
And then he instructs him, if you walk

1245
00:52:12,210 --> 00:52:14,670
with me, if you obey me, then I'll

1246
00:52:14,670 --> 00:52:15,330
bless you.

1247
00:52:15,570 --> 00:52:18,230
That is the first point here this morning.

1248
00:52:18,870 --> 00:52:22,310
The devil is a personal accuser.

1249
00:52:22,590 --> 00:52:25,330
We see it with Peter, with Joshua, with

1250
00:52:25,330 --> 00:52:25,710
Job.

1251
00:52:26,150 --> 00:52:28,930
Sometimes he brings false accusation.

1252
00:52:29,170 --> 00:52:31,070
Sometimes true accusations.

1253
00:52:31,070 --> 00:52:34,710
And sometimes he's trying to prophesy something into

1254
00:52:34,710 --> 00:52:35,470
place.

1255
00:52:35,750 --> 00:52:38,050
This is the accuser of the brethren.

1256
00:52:38,590 --> 00:52:41,470
Sometimes he is accusing you of what is

1257
00:52:41,470 --> 00:52:42,390
real in your life.

1258
00:52:42,730 --> 00:52:45,450
Sometimes he just lies about you.

1259
00:52:45,690 --> 00:52:47,790
The accuser of the brethren, how do you

1260
00:52:47,790 --> 00:52:48,490
overcome him?

1261
00:52:48,770 --> 00:52:50,510
By the blood of the lamb.

1262
00:52:50,870 --> 00:52:51,950
You accuse him.

1263
00:52:52,270 --> 00:52:55,750
You overcome him when the accusation is true.

1264
00:52:56,030 --> 00:52:58,230
Are you there this morning and the devil

1265
00:52:58,230 --> 00:52:59,290
is accusing you?

1266
00:52:59,530 --> 00:53:01,650
How dare you sing the songs of Zion?

1267
00:53:01,830 --> 00:53:04,010
How dare you pray this morning?

1268
00:53:04,270 --> 00:53:06,710
How dare you approach the Lord this morning?

1269
00:53:06,950 --> 00:53:09,030
How dare you break bread this morning?

1270
00:53:09,490 --> 00:53:11,530
Someone like you, you know what, you can

1271
00:53:11,530 --> 00:53:13,010
gain a victory this morning.

1272
00:53:13,270 --> 00:53:15,890
By saying, oh God, forgive me, cleanse me,

1273
00:53:16,090 --> 00:53:16,690
wash me.

1274
00:53:17,050 --> 00:53:19,830
Maybe there's nothing in your heart, but the

1275
00:53:19,830 --> 00:53:23,090
accuser's coming, saying you're proud, you're arrogant.

1276
00:53:23,450 --> 00:53:26,830
Maybe he's accusing God about your lack of

1277
00:53:26,830 --> 00:53:29,570
sanctification and your growth in Christ.

1278
00:53:30,250 --> 00:53:32,350
Overcome him by the blood of the lamb.

1279
00:53:32,590 --> 00:53:34,230
I do want to be like Jesus.

1280
00:53:34,550 --> 00:53:35,790
I do want to mature.

1281
00:53:36,190 --> 00:53:37,890
I do want complete victory.

1282
00:53:38,290 --> 00:53:40,750
Then rest in the precious blood of the

1283
00:53:40,750 --> 00:53:41,050
lamb.

1284
00:53:41,230 --> 00:53:45,090
The accuser that we overcome by the blood

1285
00:53:45,090 --> 00:53:47,030
of the lamb and our word of our

1286
00:53:47,030 --> 00:53:50,850
testimony is overcome by the precious blood.

1287
00:53:50,850 --> 00:53:53,330
It is the blood, the lamb of God

1288
00:53:53,330 --> 00:53:54,950
that gives us the victory.

1289
00:53:55,790 --> 00:53:59,050
Second of all, a brotherly accuser.

1290
00:53:59,650 --> 00:54:02,370
A brotherly accuser.

1291
00:54:02,530 --> 00:54:05,150
He's not only a personal accuser.

1292
00:54:05,610 --> 00:54:08,750
He is a brotherly accuser.

1293
00:54:09,150 --> 00:54:12,930
What do I mean by the accuser of

1294
00:54:12,930 --> 00:54:16,010
the brethren being a brotherly accuser?

1295
00:54:16,450 --> 00:54:18,510
Do you realize he will go to your

1296
00:54:18,510 --> 00:54:21,490
brothers in the church and accuse you?

1297
00:54:22,150 --> 00:54:23,270
He will go to them.

1298
00:54:23,550 --> 00:54:26,530
He will speak sentences or points up and

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00:54:26,530 --> 00:54:26,630
out.

1300
00:54:26,870 --> 00:54:30,530
He is an accuser of the brethren, but

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00:54:30,530 --> 00:54:32,610
also he can go to you.

1302
00:54:32,770 --> 00:54:35,130
He can come to you with thoughts, with

1303
00:54:35,130 --> 00:54:39,970
feelings, with ideas, pointing things out, and he

1304
00:54:39,970 --> 00:54:43,050
can actually begin to accuse your brother in

1305
00:54:43,050 --> 00:54:45,230
Christ without foundation.

1306
00:54:45,670 --> 00:54:48,650
Like with the first point, sometimes it may

1307
00:54:48,650 --> 00:54:49,230
be true.

1308
00:54:49,630 --> 00:54:52,590
Sometimes it is utterly false.

1309
00:54:53,230 --> 00:54:56,050
First of all, where there is no issue,

1310
00:54:56,610 --> 00:54:59,550
you can become an accuser of your brother

1311
00:54:59,550 --> 00:55:03,810
at the instigation of Satan stirring you up.

1312
00:55:04,370 --> 00:55:04,890
You know what?

1313
00:55:05,030 --> 00:55:06,990
And there is no issue.

1314
00:55:06,990 --> 00:55:09,010
There's no biblical issue.

1315
00:55:09,270 --> 00:55:11,110
There's nothing they're doing wrong.

1316
00:55:11,690 --> 00:55:13,630
You may not like the way they look,

1317
00:55:13,830 --> 00:55:16,030
the way they dress, the way they speak,

1318
00:55:16,190 --> 00:55:18,330
or their humor, or their temperament.

1319
00:55:18,750 --> 00:55:21,730
Your heart might rise up against someone, and

1320
00:55:21,730 --> 00:55:23,510
yet if I ask you, what's the issue?

1321
00:55:23,890 --> 00:55:25,910
You can't even point it at anything.

1322
00:55:26,490 --> 00:55:29,930
You know, in Mark chapter 7, in Christ

1323
00:55:29,930 --> 00:55:32,810
speaking, he speaks about an evil eye.

1324
00:55:33,210 --> 00:55:34,490
Do you know what an evil eye is?

1325
00:55:34,490 --> 00:55:37,010
It is to be an accuser of the

1326
00:55:37,010 --> 00:55:37,570
brethren.

1327
00:55:37,970 --> 00:55:39,890
An evil eye is to look on someone

1328
00:55:39,890 --> 00:55:42,490
else with an evil heart or with a

1329
00:55:42,490 --> 00:55:43,150
wrong heart.

1330
00:55:43,270 --> 00:55:49,110
It's placed alongside fornication, adultery, and murder.

1331
00:55:49,450 --> 00:55:52,190
If you are there with an evil eye

1332
00:55:52,190 --> 00:55:55,670
against a genuine believer in Christ, and yet

1333
00:55:55,670 --> 00:55:58,910
there's no good reason, and you don't deal

1334
00:55:58,910 --> 00:56:01,370
with it biblically, but yet you look on

1335
00:56:01,370 --> 00:56:04,430
them, you have attitudes, you have thoughts, and

1336
00:56:04,430 --> 00:56:06,870
you tolerate it, and you never deal with

1337
00:56:06,870 --> 00:56:07,110
that.

1338
00:56:07,470 --> 00:56:09,310
You don't come to the blood of Jesus.

1339
00:56:09,750 --> 00:56:11,990
You don't plead the blood of Jesus over

1340
00:56:11,990 --> 00:56:13,210
the situation.

1341
00:56:13,670 --> 00:56:14,570
Do you know what it's called?

1342
00:56:14,810 --> 00:56:17,250
It's called an evil eye, and it's like

1343
00:56:17,250 --> 00:56:18,010
murder.

1344
00:56:18,450 --> 00:56:20,630
Do you realize how much rises up in

1345
00:56:20,630 --> 00:56:21,030
the church?

1346
00:56:21,270 --> 00:56:23,770
And really, it's the accuser of the brethren

1347
00:56:23,770 --> 00:56:24,550
behind it.

1348
00:56:24,810 --> 00:56:27,470
Do you know the devil loves to divide

1349
00:56:27,470 --> 00:56:28,470
and to conquer?

1350
00:56:28,850 --> 00:56:30,010
Do you know he loves to set a

1351
00:56:30,010 --> 00:56:33,070
real Christian against another real Christian?

1352
00:56:33,430 --> 00:56:36,730
He'll stir up David's brothers to accuse him

1353
00:56:36,730 --> 00:56:38,130
of pride in his heart.

1354
00:56:38,390 --> 00:56:40,270
That's why you've come to the battlefield.

1355
00:56:40,830 --> 00:56:46,330
He'll stir up Joseph's brothers with envy towards

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00:56:46,330 --> 00:56:49,230
their brother, saying, look at this arrogant little

1357
00:56:49,230 --> 00:56:49,690
boy.

1358
00:56:49,970 --> 00:56:51,030
Look at his attitude.

1359
00:56:51,430 --> 00:56:53,130
He's trying to rule over us.

1360
00:56:53,130 --> 00:56:56,110
I assure you there is an accuser of

1361
00:56:56,110 --> 00:56:56,770
the brethren.

1362
00:56:57,110 --> 00:56:59,250
He not only goes to God to accuse

1363
00:56:59,250 --> 00:57:01,650
you, he not only accuses you of your

1364
00:57:01,650 --> 00:57:04,250
own sin, but he actually comes to you

1365
00:57:04,250 --> 00:57:06,630
to try and split you from your brothers

1366
00:57:06,630 --> 00:57:09,350
and your sisters in Christ Jesus.

1367
00:57:09,690 --> 00:57:11,430
I want to exhort you here for a

1368
00:57:11,430 --> 00:57:11,690
moment.

1369
00:57:12,010 --> 00:57:14,530
Be very careful of the thoughts that come

1370
00:57:14,530 --> 00:57:15,170
to your mind.

1371
00:57:15,510 --> 00:57:17,490
Test everything by the word of God.

1372
00:57:17,870 --> 00:57:21,130
Only deal with your brother and sister according

1373
00:57:21,130 --> 00:57:22,870
to the written scriptures.

1374
00:57:23,350 --> 00:57:26,330
It says in Exodus 20 and verse 16,

1375
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:31,870
thou shalt not bear false witness against thy

1376
00:57:31,870 --> 00:57:32,410
neighbor.

1377
00:57:33,110 --> 00:57:35,010
You shall not bear false witness.

1378
00:57:35,550 --> 00:57:38,510
Again in Exodus 23 and one, thou shalt

1379
00:57:38,510 --> 00:57:41,170
not raise a false report.

1380
00:57:42,150 --> 00:57:45,210
Put not thine hand with the wicked to

1381
00:57:45,210 --> 00:57:47,150
be an unrighteous witness.

1382
00:57:47,610 --> 00:57:49,490
Do you realize if you make a false

1383
00:57:49,490 --> 00:57:53,290
accusation and you can claim the covenant of

1384
00:57:53,290 --> 00:57:55,610
the blood, but if you make a false

1385
00:57:55,610 --> 00:57:59,170
accusation against a brother and you harbor it,

1386
00:57:59,450 --> 00:58:01,830
or you share it with others, and you've

1387
00:58:01,830 --> 00:58:04,050
never dealt with it in a right way,

1388
00:58:04,450 --> 00:58:07,190
do you realize it is something that God

1389
00:58:07,190 --> 00:58:08,250
detests?

1390
00:58:08,630 --> 00:58:11,450
It is something that God is against to

1391
00:58:11,450 --> 00:58:13,130
bear a false witness.

1392
00:58:13,130 --> 00:58:17,250
In other words, lie or to misrepresent or

1393
00:58:17,250 --> 00:58:20,030
to claim that things are in their heart

1394
00:58:20,030 --> 00:58:21,690
that are not in their heart.

1395
00:58:22,010 --> 00:58:24,090
Friends, you don't know what is in a

1396
00:58:24,090 --> 00:58:26,870
man's or a woman's heart unless their words

1397
00:58:26,870 --> 00:58:30,730
explicitly reveal it or their actions reveal it.

1398
00:58:30,910 --> 00:58:31,990
And then it's in the open.

1399
00:58:32,350 --> 00:58:35,010
You don't know what's in someone's heart and

1400
00:58:35,010 --> 00:58:38,730
you better take heed to yourself rather than

1401
00:58:38,730 --> 00:58:41,250
delving into other people's lives.

1402
00:58:41,390 --> 00:58:42,890
Be very careful.

1403
00:58:43,370 --> 00:58:45,750
There is an accuser of the brethren that

1404
00:58:45,750 --> 00:58:49,070
would love to divide Christians and be also

1405
00:58:49,070 --> 00:58:50,110
very careful.

1406
00:58:50,430 --> 00:58:53,210
Do you realize the accuser of the brethren

1407
00:58:53,210 --> 00:58:58,470
likes to stir up backbiting, slander, gossip, lying,

1408
00:58:59,050 --> 00:59:00,210
false accusation.

1409
00:59:00,470 --> 00:59:01,830
He loves to do it in the home.

1410
00:59:02,210 --> 00:59:03,630
He loves to do it in the church.

1411
00:59:03,910 --> 00:59:06,070
He loves to do it amidst brethren.

1412
00:59:06,430 --> 00:59:10,610
It says in Proverbs 6 and 16, these

1413
00:59:10,610 --> 00:59:12,890
six things does the Lord hate.

1414
00:59:13,130 --> 00:59:14,750
In other words, they're an enemy.

1415
00:59:15,010 --> 00:59:16,090
He hates them.

1416
00:59:16,670 --> 00:59:17,530
Six things.

1417
00:59:18,210 --> 00:59:22,390
Yea, seven are an abomination unto him.

1418
00:59:23,050 --> 00:59:25,270
Why would he say he hates six, but

1419
00:59:25,270 --> 00:59:27,030
there's seven that's an abomination?

1420
00:59:27,770 --> 00:59:29,730
Well, he goes on to list six things,

1421
00:59:30,030 --> 00:59:33,530
idolatry and other things that God hates.

1422
00:59:34,030 --> 00:59:35,050
But there is a seventh.

1423
00:59:35,230 --> 00:59:36,650
Listen to what the seventh is.

1424
00:59:37,130 --> 00:59:40,390
He that soweth discord among brethren.

1425
00:59:40,910 --> 00:59:43,270
If you ever find a Christian and he

1426
00:59:43,270 --> 00:59:48,070
goes about sowing discord, sharing things, and he's

1427
00:59:48,070 --> 00:59:49,970
never dealt with it in a right way,

1428
00:59:50,210 --> 00:59:53,810
in a biblical way, he's just causing division

1429
00:59:53,810 --> 00:59:54,610
in the church.

1430
00:59:54,870 --> 00:59:56,950
I want to show you the devil is

1431
00:59:56,950 --> 00:59:58,070
using that man.

1432
00:59:58,070 --> 01:00:01,290
The accuser of the brethren is using that

1433
01:00:01,290 --> 01:00:01,530
man.

1434
01:00:01,730 --> 01:00:03,690
No, let me say something more.

1435
01:00:04,030 --> 01:00:06,510
I want to tell you that that man,

1436
01:00:06,610 --> 01:00:10,570
what he's doing, sowing discord or division among

1437
01:00:10,570 --> 01:00:13,310
brethren, that God says he not only hates

1438
01:00:13,310 --> 01:00:15,150
it, but it's an abomination.

1439
01:00:15,830 --> 01:00:18,050
It's an abomination unto him.

1440
01:00:18,310 --> 01:00:20,070
I mean, there's nothing worse.

1441
01:00:20,270 --> 01:00:21,850
It is worse than murder.

1442
01:00:22,150 --> 01:00:23,730
You think murder is bad?

1443
01:00:24,090 --> 01:00:27,790
God says someone who sows discord is far

1444
01:00:28,070 --> 01:00:28,610
worse.

1445
01:00:29,110 --> 01:00:30,930
Now I know we live in a generation.

1446
01:00:31,330 --> 01:00:32,850
It says don't judge.

1447
01:00:33,130 --> 01:00:34,410
You're not allowed to judge.

1448
01:00:34,610 --> 01:00:36,930
Now I'm not of those because I've done

1449
01:00:36,930 --> 01:00:40,370
a whole teaching, 15 messages on how to

1450
01:00:40,370 --> 01:00:41,370
judge biblically.

1451
01:00:41,690 --> 01:00:44,130
I'm not of those who say you can

1452
01:00:44,130 --> 01:00:47,510
never accuse your brother because the Bible says

1453
01:00:47,510 --> 01:00:49,870
there's a time when you ought to point

1454
01:00:49,870 --> 01:00:51,390
out your brother's sin.

1455
01:00:51,710 --> 01:00:54,670
There's a time when we ought to judge

1456
01:00:54,670 --> 01:00:55,430
one another.

1457
01:00:56,230 --> 01:00:58,810
In fact, it says in John 7, 24,

1458
01:00:58,990 --> 01:01:02,710
Jesus talking, he says, judge righteous judgment.

1459
01:01:03,150 --> 01:01:06,050
Again, in 1 Corinthians 5 and 12, Paul

1460
01:01:06,050 --> 01:01:09,190
the apostle says, ye judge them that are

1461
01:01:09,190 --> 01:01:10,710
within the church.

1462
01:01:11,190 --> 01:01:14,210
In Deuteronomy 1 and 16, it says, and

1463
01:01:14,210 --> 01:01:17,190
I charged your judges at that time saying,

1464
01:01:17,550 --> 01:01:21,490
hear the causes between your brethren and judge

1465
01:01:21,490 --> 01:01:25,470
righteously between every man and his brother.

1466
01:01:25,670 --> 01:01:28,570
Since there's an entire teaching that says we

1467
01:01:28,570 --> 01:01:32,230
are meant to judge, there are verses that

1468
01:01:32,230 --> 01:01:35,210
show that we ought to make an accusation

1469
01:01:35,210 --> 01:01:39,030
where there is something viable, but you better

1470
01:01:39,030 --> 01:01:42,610
be very careful that you're on scripture ground.

1471
01:01:42,610 --> 01:01:45,310
It says in Galatians 2 and 11, but

1472
01:01:45,310 --> 01:01:48,750
when Peter was come to Antioch, I, Paul,

1473
01:01:49,210 --> 01:01:50,230
withstood him.

1474
01:01:50,930 --> 01:01:53,130
Meaning I was against him.

1475
01:01:53,410 --> 01:01:54,250
I resisted him.

1476
01:01:54,390 --> 01:01:57,950
I opposed him to his face publicly because

1477
01:01:57,950 --> 01:01:59,490
he was to be blamed.

1478
01:01:59,830 --> 01:02:02,770
This is Paul publicly to the face of

1479
01:02:02,770 --> 01:02:04,850
Peter in a church at Antioch.

1480
01:02:05,090 --> 01:02:05,710
You know why?

1481
01:02:06,150 --> 01:02:10,690
Because Peter was compromising and bringing something into

1482
01:02:10,690 --> 01:02:11,310
that church.

1483
01:02:11,570 --> 01:02:13,630
I assure you there's a right time to

1484
01:02:13,630 --> 01:02:16,130
deal with issues in the body of Christ.

1485
01:02:16,570 --> 01:02:19,590
We read in Romans 16, 17, now I

1486
01:02:19,590 --> 01:02:23,870
beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions

1487
01:02:23,870 --> 01:02:29,410
and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you

1488
01:02:29,410 --> 01:02:31,290
have learned and avoid them.

1489
01:02:31,590 --> 01:02:35,910
Notice here, he says only avoid or separate

1490
01:02:35,910 --> 01:02:39,110
yourself from those who make divisions and offenses

1491
01:02:39,110 --> 01:02:40,950
that are contrary to doctrine.

1492
01:02:41,470 --> 01:02:43,910
In other words, it might be right to

1493
01:02:43,910 --> 01:02:47,550
divide yourself or cause an offense when it

1494
01:02:47,550 --> 01:02:50,910
is according to scripture or on the basis

1495
01:02:50,910 --> 01:02:51,730
of scripture.

1496
01:02:52,210 --> 01:02:54,410
You know, sometimes if you don't separate from

1497
01:02:54,410 --> 01:02:56,250
a brother, you're sinning.

1498
01:02:56,510 --> 01:02:59,310
Other times, if you do separate from a

1499
01:02:59,310 --> 01:03:01,090
brother, you are sinning.

1500
01:03:01,490 --> 01:03:03,590
How are you meant to know whether it

1501
01:03:03,590 --> 01:03:07,490
is a sin to separate or a sin

1502
01:03:07,490 --> 01:03:08,610
not to separate?

1503
01:03:08,850 --> 01:03:10,850
You've got to know doctrine.

1504
01:03:11,330 --> 01:03:13,490
You've got to know what the Bible actually

1505
01:03:13,490 --> 01:03:14,070
teaches.

1506
01:03:14,530 --> 01:03:16,090
You've got to understand it.

1507
01:03:16,330 --> 01:03:16,830
You know what?

1508
01:03:17,250 --> 01:03:20,650
There are divisions that are sinful and there

1509
01:03:20,650 --> 01:03:21,350
are divisions.

1510
01:03:21,670 --> 01:03:24,690
Christ, when he preached, he caused a division

1511
01:03:24,690 --> 01:03:26,390
and yet it was right.

1512
01:03:26,770 --> 01:03:28,770
This is the second great point here.

1513
01:03:29,050 --> 01:03:30,710
And I believe in the last days in

1514
01:03:30,710 --> 01:03:34,470
the generation, brothers are going to betray you

1515
01:03:34,470 --> 01:03:36,450
and become Judas's in this hour.

1516
01:03:36,670 --> 01:03:38,830
People in the church are going to get

1517
01:03:38,830 --> 01:03:41,770
so offended with what's changing in our world.

1518
01:03:41,970 --> 01:03:45,070
They're going to begin to betray one another.

1519
01:03:45,210 --> 01:03:48,090
Do you realize we better be careful not

1520
01:03:48,090 --> 01:03:49,730
to be an accuser of the brethren.

1521
01:03:49,730 --> 01:03:52,210
I believe we're going to see many rise

1522
01:03:52,210 --> 01:03:53,770
up in this hour who are going to

1523
01:03:53,770 --> 01:03:59,030
become accusers, false accusers and liars of the

1524
01:03:59,030 --> 01:03:59,430
brethren.

1525
01:03:59,610 --> 01:04:00,350
And you know what?

1526
01:04:00,410 --> 01:04:02,510
It's the devil working in them.

1527
01:04:02,870 --> 01:04:05,730
But third and lastly, the devil is a

1528
01:04:05,730 --> 01:04:07,350
divine accuser.

1529
01:04:07,570 --> 01:04:10,610
This might sound strange, but I want you

1530
01:04:10,610 --> 01:04:13,290
to hear as we close here, and we've

1531
01:04:13,290 --> 01:04:16,650
got to overcome this kind of accusation and

1532
01:04:16,650 --> 01:04:19,950
this form of the attack of the accuser

1533
01:04:19,950 --> 01:04:20,590
of the brethren.

1534
01:04:20,930 --> 01:04:23,630
He not only accuses you, not only your

1535
01:04:23,630 --> 01:04:26,110
brother, but he is a divine accuser.

1536
01:04:26,490 --> 01:04:27,310
You know what he does?

1537
01:04:27,810 --> 01:04:30,850
He accuses God to you.

1538
01:04:31,830 --> 01:04:33,690
He accuses God.

1539
01:04:33,990 --> 01:04:36,990
He not only stops at accusing you, he

1540
01:04:36,990 --> 01:04:38,170
accuses God.

1541
01:04:38,390 --> 01:04:39,570
He points the finger.

1542
01:04:39,570 --> 01:04:42,490
He actually will come to you with thoughts,

1543
01:04:42,970 --> 01:04:47,510
with ideas, with imaginations, and he will accuse

1544
01:04:47,510 --> 01:04:47,910
God.

1545
01:04:48,110 --> 01:04:50,050
If you're not aware of this, you need

1546
01:04:50,050 --> 01:04:51,570
to wake up to this this morning.

1547
01:04:52,090 --> 01:04:55,030
The devil, the accuser of the brethren will

1548
01:04:55,030 --> 01:04:57,170
not only point the finger at your brother

1549
01:04:57,170 --> 01:05:00,310
and encourage you to hold a grudge or

1550
01:05:00,310 --> 01:05:00,810
a bitterness.

1551
01:05:01,470 --> 01:05:01,990
You know what?

1552
01:05:02,110 --> 01:05:05,110
He'll come to you and he'll say, God

1553
01:05:05,110 --> 01:05:07,670
is not doing good by you.

1554
01:05:08,030 --> 01:05:10,050
Now, I want you to see here that

1555
01:05:10,050 --> 01:05:12,610
Jesus Christ in the book of Hebrews, time

1556
01:05:12,610 --> 01:05:16,830
after time, is called our brethren, or we

1557
01:05:16,830 --> 01:05:18,250
are his brethren.

1558
01:05:18,530 --> 01:05:21,150
He took on us our flesh.

1559
01:05:21,630 --> 01:05:24,690
He took on a human body to become

1560
01:05:24,690 --> 01:05:25,930
our brethren.

1561
01:05:26,210 --> 01:05:27,870
And in fact, in Hebrew, it says he

1562
01:05:27,870 --> 01:05:31,490
is not ashamed to be called or to

1563
01:05:31,490 --> 01:05:33,430
call us his brethren.

1564
01:05:33,630 --> 01:05:35,690
He is not ashamed.

1565
01:05:36,370 --> 01:05:39,830
Can you imagine that Jesus Christ is not

1566
01:05:39,830 --> 01:05:43,230
ashamed to call you and I brethren?

1567
01:05:43,730 --> 01:05:44,430
You know why?

1568
01:05:44,550 --> 01:05:47,230
We're redeemed by the precious blood of the

1569
01:05:47,230 --> 01:05:47,510
lamb.

1570
01:05:47,770 --> 01:05:49,990
But look, I want you to see that

1571
01:05:49,990 --> 01:05:53,230
the accuser of the brethren will accuse God

1572
01:05:53,230 --> 01:05:54,110
to you.

1573
01:05:54,630 --> 01:05:57,610
Going back to the Garden of Eden, when

1574
01:05:57,610 --> 01:05:59,950
Satan, the serpent, approached Eve.

1575
01:06:01,030 --> 01:06:02,050
Listen to what he said.

1576
01:06:02,510 --> 01:06:05,170
Yea, hath God said.

1577
01:06:05,790 --> 01:06:08,050
First of all, he asked a question.

1578
01:06:08,730 --> 01:06:10,890
Well, that's all he done was raise a

1579
01:06:10,890 --> 01:06:11,450
question.

1580
01:06:11,990 --> 01:06:14,610
You know, when you get the devil coming,

1581
01:06:14,610 --> 01:06:17,710
question of the Bible, you know who you're

1582
01:06:17,710 --> 01:06:18,230
dealing with.

1583
01:06:18,350 --> 01:06:19,830
He is an accuser.

1584
01:06:20,150 --> 01:06:23,070
He'll start doubting the word of God.

1585
01:06:23,210 --> 01:06:26,070
Then I'll lead to an accusation against God

1586
01:06:26,070 --> 01:06:26,630
himself.

1587
01:06:26,970 --> 01:06:28,170
But you know where it begins?

1588
01:06:28,450 --> 01:06:31,050
Before the devil, the accuser of the brethren,

1589
01:06:31,290 --> 01:06:34,450
before he ever brings an accusation, before he

1590
01:06:34,450 --> 01:06:36,830
speaks to you and says, look at God

1591
01:06:36,830 --> 01:06:38,830
and accuses God of something.

1592
01:06:39,190 --> 01:06:40,090
You know where he starts?

1593
01:06:40,190 --> 01:06:43,050
He starts with the written scripture, with a

1594
01:06:43,050 --> 01:06:45,670
promise or a certain teaching.

1595
01:06:46,270 --> 01:06:49,990
He actually draws your attention to the promises

1596
01:06:49,990 --> 01:06:52,930
of God or what God has spoken.

1597
01:06:53,470 --> 01:06:54,790
That's where he begins.

1598
01:06:55,130 --> 01:06:59,490
And he begins to say, hath God said.

1599
01:07:00,190 --> 01:07:02,250
Do you know what he says straight after

1600
01:07:02,250 --> 01:07:02,650
that?

1601
01:07:03,290 --> 01:07:07,730
In Genesis chapter three and verse one, he

1602
01:07:07,730 --> 01:07:09,210
utterly denies.

1603
01:07:09,870 --> 01:07:12,810
Ye shall not surely die.

1604
01:07:13,330 --> 01:07:16,390
He goes from simply raising a question.

1605
01:07:16,830 --> 01:07:17,950
Hath God said.

1606
01:07:18,730 --> 01:07:21,510
He raises a question over the word of

1607
01:07:21,510 --> 01:07:23,770
God, whether it's true or not in your

1608
01:07:23,770 --> 01:07:25,230
life, in your experience.

1609
01:07:25,290 --> 01:07:28,170
And then he begins to say, you will

1610
01:07:28,170 --> 01:07:29,030
not die.

1611
01:07:29,170 --> 01:07:30,610
It will not happen.

1612
01:07:30,830 --> 01:07:32,050
It's not true.

1613
01:07:32,310 --> 01:07:35,590
Then in verse five, for God does know.

1614
01:07:35,650 --> 01:07:38,730
In other words, Eve, God knows, and he

1615
01:07:38,730 --> 01:07:39,750
hasn't told you.

1616
01:07:40,290 --> 01:07:42,110
He's hiding something from you.

1617
01:07:42,350 --> 01:07:45,310
He's trying to keep something good back from

1618
01:07:45,310 --> 01:07:45,630
you.

1619
01:07:45,950 --> 01:07:47,150
You know what the devil is doing?

1620
01:07:47,370 --> 01:07:49,390
He is accusing God.

1621
01:07:49,610 --> 01:07:52,130
He is accusing the Lord Jesus Christ.

1622
01:07:52,350 --> 01:07:54,030
He's saying your God isn't good.

1623
01:07:54,350 --> 01:07:55,350
He isn't kind.

1624
01:07:55,730 --> 01:07:57,430
He isn't answering your prayers.

1625
01:07:57,670 --> 01:07:58,830
He isn't merciful.

1626
01:07:58,870 --> 01:08:01,450
He is a hard task master.

1627
01:08:01,910 --> 01:08:04,130
The devil comes to accuse God.

1628
01:08:04,430 --> 01:08:06,530
Do you realize how many times the devil

1629
01:08:06,530 --> 01:08:08,330
has accused God to you?

1630
01:08:08,530 --> 01:08:11,030
I mean, the accuser of the brethren, and

1631
01:08:11,030 --> 01:08:12,310
you think it's just you.

1632
01:08:12,670 --> 01:08:15,290
When you think it's just you, you don't

1633
01:08:15,290 --> 01:08:15,870
respond.

1634
01:08:16,170 --> 01:08:17,130
You don't overcome.

1635
01:08:17,510 --> 01:08:20,510
You don't gain a victory over the accuser

1636
01:08:20,510 --> 01:08:21,229
of the brethren.

1637
01:08:21,590 --> 01:08:22,069
You know what?

1638
01:08:22,130 --> 01:08:23,529
You need to begin to fight.

1639
01:08:23,870 --> 01:08:26,090
When the devil comes to raise a question

1640
01:08:26,090 --> 01:08:28,350
over the word, you need to be very

1641
01:08:28,350 --> 01:08:29,970
careful in that hour.

1642
01:08:30,270 --> 01:08:33,350
Like Eve, she didn't realize she's being led

1643
01:08:33,350 --> 01:08:36,090
by the news down a certain pathway.

1644
01:08:36,550 --> 01:08:38,510
For God does know that in the day

1645
01:08:38,510 --> 01:08:41,189
ye eat thereof, your eyes shall be open

1646
01:08:41,189 --> 01:08:44,090
and ye shall be as God's, knowing good

1647
01:08:44,090 --> 01:08:44,970
and evil.

1648
01:08:45,330 --> 01:08:45,850
You know what?

1649
01:08:45,870 --> 01:08:47,490
You're going to be as wise as God.

1650
01:08:47,609 --> 01:08:49,470
You're going to have knowledge like God.

1651
01:08:49,470 --> 01:08:53,750
You're going to have divine wisdom, but God's

1652
01:08:53,750 --> 01:08:56,270
word is keeping you away from that.

1653
01:08:56,470 --> 01:08:58,529
Or what about in Job chapter 2?

1654
01:08:58,890 --> 01:09:00,290
You remember Job's wife?

1655
01:09:00,890 --> 01:09:04,710
You see, God had told Satan, you can

1656
01:09:04,710 --> 01:09:07,370
touch Job, but don't touch his flesh.

1657
01:09:08,170 --> 01:09:09,050
Do you know his wife?

1658
01:09:09,229 --> 01:09:10,149
They're one flesh.

1659
01:09:10,649 --> 01:09:11,649
They're one flesh.

1660
01:09:12,290 --> 01:09:15,069
Satan actually couldn't kill Job's wife.

1661
01:09:15,550 --> 01:09:16,609
They're one flesh.

1662
01:09:17,470 --> 01:09:20,410
He was forbidden and he dare not cross

1663
01:09:20,410 --> 01:09:21,010
that line.

1664
01:09:21,390 --> 01:09:23,770
But it doesn't mean that he didn't use

1665
01:09:23,770 --> 01:09:24,630
Job's wife.

1666
01:09:25,010 --> 01:09:27,050
You see, if the devil can't take something

1667
01:09:27,050 --> 01:09:29,710
off you, he'll use what you have there

1668
01:09:29,710 --> 01:09:30,550
in the house.

1669
01:09:30,810 --> 01:09:33,750
If he can't split this church, then he'll

1670
01:09:33,750 --> 01:09:37,470
use things within the church or use individuals

1671
01:09:37,470 --> 01:09:38,729
that stay in the church.

1672
01:09:38,729 --> 01:09:41,189
If he can't split up a marriage, then

1673
01:09:41,189 --> 01:09:44,670
he'll use the partners to say certain things

1674
01:09:44,670 --> 01:09:45,330
to each other.

1675
01:09:45,569 --> 01:09:47,830
If he can't get you to a divorce

1676
01:09:47,830 --> 01:09:52,390
court, then he'll just raise up accusations within

1677
01:09:52,390 --> 01:09:53,530
that very home.

1678
01:09:53,770 --> 01:09:55,650
That's what the devil done with Job.

1679
01:09:56,030 --> 01:09:58,650
You see, he took his children, his wealth

1680
01:09:58,650 --> 01:10:00,890
and his health, but he couldn't touch that

1681
01:10:00,890 --> 01:10:01,210
lady.

1682
01:10:01,510 --> 01:10:02,770
He couldn't kill her.

1683
01:10:03,090 --> 01:10:04,050
But do you know what he done?

1684
01:10:04,310 --> 01:10:06,270
He used her as a mouthpiece.

1685
01:10:06,530 --> 01:10:10,750
I'm talking about accusations from Satan against God.

1686
01:10:11,570 --> 01:10:14,090
Do you remember what she done in turning

1687
01:10:14,090 --> 01:10:16,390
to her husband and what she said?

1688
01:10:16,790 --> 01:10:20,510
Listen, then said his wife unto him, does

1689
01:10:20,510 --> 01:10:23,790
thou still retain thine integrity?

1690
01:10:25,210 --> 01:10:27,070
Curse God and die.

1691
01:10:27,930 --> 01:10:29,430
Do you know where we first hear that

1692
01:10:29,430 --> 01:10:31,030
statement of curse God and die?

1693
01:10:31,090 --> 01:10:34,390
In the mouth of the accuser of the

1694
01:10:34,390 --> 01:10:37,990
brethren, in the throne of God, in heaven,

1695
01:10:38,770 --> 01:10:42,210
Satan is there in heaven, accusing Job.

1696
01:10:42,810 --> 01:10:44,830
He will curse you and die.

1697
01:10:45,590 --> 01:10:49,350
Now on earth, in Job's home, Job's wife

1698
01:10:49,350 --> 01:10:50,430
has picked this up.

1699
01:10:50,690 --> 01:10:52,790
She is looking at everything happening to his

1700
01:10:52,790 --> 01:10:55,570
life, from the loss of children through to

1701
01:10:55,570 --> 01:10:56,650
the loss of his health.

1702
01:10:57,110 --> 01:10:57,730
And you know what?

1703
01:10:57,810 --> 01:11:01,110
The accuser of the brethren has not only

1704
01:11:01,110 --> 01:11:02,730
gone to the throne of God, but has

1705
01:11:02,730 --> 01:11:05,670
come to her and she is now speaking

1706
01:11:05,670 --> 01:11:08,010
the words of the accuser of the brethren.

1707
01:11:08,350 --> 01:11:10,610
Maybe that began with a thought and she

1708
01:11:10,610 --> 01:11:14,410
is accusing God and she is accusing the

1709
01:11:14,410 --> 01:11:15,270
man of God.

1710
01:11:15,850 --> 01:11:18,310
And she is saying, do you still retain

1711
01:11:18,310 --> 01:11:19,270
your integrity?

1712
01:11:19,830 --> 01:11:21,870
Curse God and die.

1713
01:11:22,530 --> 01:11:25,850
Don't you realize lady that the devil is

1714
01:11:25,850 --> 01:11:28,790
using your lips as the accuser against God?

1715
01:11:28,990 --> 01:11:30,250
That God is good?

1716
01:11:30,530 --> 01:11:32,310
I want to tell you, God is good.

1717
01:11:32,670 --> 01:11:35,470
Even in the midst of Job there, scraping

1718
01:11:35,470 --> 01:11:37,190
the boils on the ash heap.

1719
01:11:37,470 --> 01:11:38,990
God is good.

1720
01:11:39,490 --> 01:11:40,530
God is good.

1721
01:11:40,930 --> 01:11:43,850
And Job knew enough not to deny God

1722
01:11:43,850 --> 01:11:45,350
and to hold that tongue.

1723
01:11:45,990 --> 01:11:47,530
You know, I want to tell you, the

1724
01:11:47,530 --> 01:11:49,530
accuser of the brethren will come to you

1725
01:11:49,530 --> 01:11:51,530
and say, God isn't being good to you,

1726
01:11:51,790 --> 01:11:54,110
or faithful, or providing for you.

1727
01:11:54,230 --> 01:11:56,790
He's not kind and he's not answering your

1728
01:11:56,790 --> 01:11:57,130
prayer.

1729
01:11:57,130 --> 01:11:58,750
Do you know who you're dealing with?

1730
01:11:58,810 --> 01:12:00,430
The accuser of the brethren.

1731
01:12:00,850 --> 01:12:02,410
And you know, there's only one way to

1732
01:12:02,410 --> 01:12:05,590
respond, not with arguments, but with the blood

1733
01:12:05,590 --> 01:12:07,130
of Jesus Christ.

1734
01:12:07,410 --> 01:12:09,810
How do I gain a victory over the

1735
01:12:09,810 --> 01:12:13,350
accuser when he accuses God's word and the

1736
01:12:13,350 --> 01:12:16,050
character of God and the person of Christ?

1737
01:12:16,890 --> 01:12:17,850
Do you know how I do it?

1738
01:12:18,150 --> 01:12:19,850
By the blood of the lamb.

1739
01:12:20,130 --> 01:12:21,330
I look to Calvary.

1740
01:12:21,730 --> 01:12:23,690
Do you doubt that he loves you here

1741
01:12:23,690 --> 01:12:24,370
this morning?

1742
01:12:24,550 --> 01:12:27,050
Then look to Calvary's lamb again.

1743
01:12:27,510 --> 01:12:29,850
Do you doubt that he's kind and he's

1744
01:12:29,850 --> 01:12:30,670
considerate?

1745
01:12:30,690 --> 01:12:33,210
Look to the bleeding lamb this morning.

1746
01:12:33,590 --> 01:12:35,630
Do you doubt that he's answering your prayer?

1747
01:12:35,890 --> 01:12:38,570
Are you here with your sins forgiven?

1748
01:12:38,950 --> 01:12:40,370
He's answered your prayer.

1749
01:12:40,630 --> 01:12:42,570
All of your sins are forgiven.

1750
01:12:42,850 --> 01:12:45,350
You're made clean and white in the blood

1751
01:12:45,350 --> 01:12:45,750
of the lamb.

1752
01:12:46,010 --> 01:12:47,970
You're free by the grace of God.

1753
01:12:47,970 --> 01:12:51,270
Don't let the devil accuse God in your

1754
01:12:51,270 --> 01:12:54,430
mind, in your heart, or in your emotions.

1755
01:12:54,870 --> 01:12:55,210
Amen.

1756
01:12:55,390 --> 01:12:56,790
Will you bow here?

1757
01:12:57,250 --> 01:12:59,890
Pray with me as we close this gathering

1758
01:12:59,890 --> 01:13:00,570
this morning.

1759
01:13:00,810 --> 01:13:03,550
Father, I pray in the mighty name of

1760
01:13:03,550 --> 01:13:04,650
Jesus Christ.

1761
01:13:05,050 --> 01:13:07,610
Lord God, I pray for all of us

1762
01:13:07,610 --> 01:13:09,970
here this morning that we are going to

1763
01:13:09,970 --> 01:13:12,750
gain a victory by the blood of the

1764
01:13:12,750 --> 01:13:15,650
lamb and by the word of our testimony.

1765
01:13:16,090 --> 01:13:18,630
Loving not our lives, even unto the death.

1766
01:13:19,010 --> 01:13:21,330
I pray that everyone in this meeting this

1767
01:13:21,330 --> 01:13:24,210
morning is going to gain a victory against

1768
01:13:24,210 --> 01:13:27,610
the personal attack of the accuser of the

1769
01:13:27,610 --> 01:13:28,070
brethren.

1770
01:13:28,310 --> 01:13:30,570
That we are going to gain a victory

1771
01:13:31,130 --> 01:13:34,910
over the accuser who accuses our brother or

1772
01:13:34,910 --> 01:13:37,130
our brothers who accuse us.

1773
01:13:37,470 --> 01:13:40,110
I pray through the blood that we're going

1774
01:13:40,110 --> 01:13:41,190
to gain a victory.

1775
01:13:41,730 --> 01:13:44,710
Third and lastly, I pray that you'd help

1776
01:13:44,710 --> 01:13:47,270
us by the blood of the lamb, by

1777
01:13:47,270 --> 01:13:49,770
the grace of God, to gain a victory

1778
01:13:49,770 --> 01:13:53,390
over the accuser when he comes and accuses

1779
01:13:53,390 --> 01:13:58,210
you, challenges your word, lies about your character,

1780
01:13:58,810 --> 01:14:01,230
lies about your goodness in your work in

1781
01:14:01,230 --> 01:14:01,710
our lives.

1782
01:14:01,970 --> 01:14:04,610
I pray, O God, give us a victory

1783
01:14:04,610 --> 01:14:06,630
this morning in this meeting.

1784
01:14:07,010 --> 01:14:10,290
Give us a victory over the accuser of

1785
01:14:10,290 --> 01:14:13,070
the brethren in Jesus' mighty name.

1786
01:14:13,230 --> 01:14:15,970
Saints, I'm telling you this morning, this morning

1787
01:14:15,970 --> 01:14:17,850
you need to draw the bloodline.

1788
01:14:18,190 --> 01:14:21,490
This morning you have to say enough is

1789
01:14:21,490 --> 01:14:21,890
enough.

1790
01:14:22,290 --> 01:14:22,890
That's it.

1791
01:14:23,090 --> 01:14:23,910
No further.

1792
01:14:24,210 --> 01:14:26,170
I've allowed thoughts against my brother.

1793
01:14:26,630 --> 01:14:28,630
I've allowed thoughts against God.

1794
01:14:28,930 --> 01:14:31,230
I've tolerated thoughts against myself.

1795
01:14:31,610 --> 01:14:34,690
But this morning it must be quenched in

1796
01:14:34,690 --> 01:14:36,690
the precious blood of the lamb.

1797
01:14:37,110 --> 01:14:37,890
Praise God.