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Here this morning I want you to turn

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with me again to Galatians chapter 3, Galatians

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chapter 3, and we already started on this.

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I want to continue a bit, I'm not

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sure how far I will go here this

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morning, and I just want to continue preaching.

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I know it's a sad time for us

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with funerals and the loss of loved ones,

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but we do want to fix our mind

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on the Word of God and keep our

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eye fixed upon Him.

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We want to see the Word of God

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spread in this city, and we want to

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reach souls for the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And my message here this morning continuing, last

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time we dealt with witchcraft in the church,

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and if you didn't listen that or hear

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that message, please go and listen.

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It's such an important message for this hour,

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witchcraft in the church, but I want to

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go a bit further here and give three

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remedies for witchcraft in the church.

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I want to deal with three specific things

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very briefly, but very vitally in the book

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of Galatians, and I believe that witchcraft either

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obscures them or pushes them aside or covers

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them with the darkness of witchcraft, or else

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these three things destroy the power of witchcraft

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in the church.

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Reading from Galatians chapter 3 and verse 1

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here this morning, O foolish Galatians, who hath

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bewitched you?

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And listen, that ye should not obey the

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truth.

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Immediately Paul begins to show that what it

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is for witchcraft to be in the church,

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for the influence of certain teachers, suddenly within

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real churches, men stop obeying the written truth

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and commands of God.

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And he goes on, Before whose eyes Jesus

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Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among

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you, this only would I learn of you.

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Received ye the spirit by the works of

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the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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Are ye so foolish, having begun in the

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spirit?

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Are ye made perfect by the flesh?

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Let's pray here this morning together.

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Father, I do pray for this word, Lord

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God, that it would be the balm of

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Gilead to each one of our hearts.

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Father, we want a church, Lord God, that

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functions in the Holy Spirit.

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We want a church that is centered upon

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the finished work of the cross.

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We want a church that holds fast to

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justification by faith alone, in Christ alone, by

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grace alone.

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And Lord God, we do want to know

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how to walk in the spirit and by

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the power of your Holy Spirit.

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Father, I do pray to open up these

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truths, oh God, that destroy the power of

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fleshly witchcraft.

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My God, I pray that you expose it,

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that you break its power, that we would

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be a church so dominated by the finished

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work of the cross, by blood redemption, by

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a crucified life.

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Lord God, that we would be so intimate

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with the truth of justification by faith, of

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imputed righteousness, that every witchcraft, the power of

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it, the fear of it will be broken.

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Lord God, be very gracious unto us, and

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Lord God, make Christ central in all things

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this morning, that your name might be glorified.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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My second message here on witchcraft, three remedies

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for witchcraft in the church.

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We have already shown how witchcraft can be

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in the church, and it says here in

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Galatians 3, chapter 3, verse 1, Oh foolish

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Galatians, who have bewitched you?

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These were a whole group of churches within

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an entire province, and Paul writing to them

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as an entire entity, as a whole grouping

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of churches, mature as well as young, and

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saying that they had been bewitched, and we

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want to deal with this here this morning.

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In Galatians chapter 5, it says that witchcraft

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is a sin of the flesh, or a

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manifestation of the flesh.

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In other words, the witchcraft we're dealing with

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in the book of Galatians, it's a manifestation

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of the flesh.

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What is the flesh?

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It is the old nature, the uncrucified nature,

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the fallen nature of man.

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The flesh of man is that nature of

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Adam that fell in the garden.

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It's the nature we are born with, and

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that nature is utterly opposed to everything of

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God, of his word, his kingdom, and of

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his spirit.

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It says again in 1 Samuel, chapter 15

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and 23, for rebellion is as the sin

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of witchcraft.

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In our first message, we looked at King

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Saul, the first anointed king of Israel, how

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that the rebellion in his heart against authority

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led him into 38 years of sin.

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For 38 years, as he walked in rebellion,

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it was as the sin of witchcraft.

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In other words, where you get a rebellion

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in the heart, it is very similar in

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its effect to witchcraft.

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You may never cast a spell, and yet

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you're operating in a soulish spiritual power that

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attracts demonic influence.

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It's such a dangerous thing.

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We also looked at the prophet Balaam, how

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he makes the gifts of God and real

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prophecies and manifestations with that which is pure

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witchcraft.

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He made a mixture of it and led

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God's people into sin.

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Then thirdly, we looked at that convert Simon,

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who had been a sorcerer or a witch.

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When he come in, believing, being baptized in

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water, and joining the church at Samaria, we

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know that his heart was unchanged.

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That same heart motive, he wanted to bring

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right into the church, and it was pure

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witchcraft.

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Outwardly, he'd become a Christian, and yet that

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heart was still fleshly and still dominated by

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witchcraft.

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I want to warn you that witchcraft, when

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it manifests in the flesh, it is a

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very deadly thing.

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It seeks to manipulate.

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It seeks to dominate.

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It seeks to control.

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It seeks to influence by emotion, by words,

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by actions, by whatever means.

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When we look at the Old Testament, we

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see that story about Samson and Delilah.

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The Philistine soldiers couldn't conquer Samson, so what

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did they do?

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They went to Delilah, this beautiful, young-looking

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lady, and they said, Delilah, we want you

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to entice this anointed man of God, and

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we'll pay you a lot of money if

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you're able to entice him.

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And you know the story.

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It actually says she tried to get the

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secret of his strength and to steal his

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strength for the sake of money.

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She didn't love him, but she had a

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manipulative agenda to destroy that man in order

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to gain money, and yet he thought somehow

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that she loved him.

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It actually says she pressed him daily with

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her words and urged him so that his

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soul was vexed unto death.

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Do you know what that is?

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That is emotional witchcraft.

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That is witchcraft coming out of the soul

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of man, manipulating tears, pressure, maneuvering words, all

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of that.

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Why?

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To get your own means met.

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In other words, you use the power of

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psyche to bring about an effect.

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I want to warn you here this morning

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as a church, we as a church have

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to understand that we are to reject all

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control, manipulation, game playing in the religious realm,

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whether it's in a pulpit, whether it's through

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some old Christian or some young believer in

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the church.

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As soon as this witchcraft begins to manifest

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as an entity of the flesh, we better

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be aware of it.

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It is deadly if you come under its

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influence.

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What does Paul say?

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Oh foolish Galatians, you're not using your head.

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You don't have your eyes open.

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You don't have your ears open.

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You're not looking at facts or proof or

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evidence.

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You're not using your brain or your intelligence.

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You're being moved by emotions, by deception, by

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lies.

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You're being tricked.

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You're being fooled.

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I want to warn you, we need to

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come back to the scripture of God again.

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It's being devoid of common sense or biblical

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judgment.

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It's the lack of using the judgment that

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the Bible says we should.

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It's to be on sound in your mind

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or lacking in the ability to use your

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intellect and studying things with scripture.

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As we said last time, to be bewitched,

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listen what this word bewitched means.

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It means that someone comes into the church

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and they begin to malign.

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They begin to slander.

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They begin to speak against.

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Why are they doing that?

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To mislead by pretense, to bring deception.

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And they begin to fascinate or use the

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magical arts of charm and praise to deceive

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you and turn your attitude either against biblical

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doctrine or a church or preachers that are

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of God.

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This bewitchment is very dangerous.

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Listen to me as we begin to look

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at three remedies for witchcraft.

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You've got to know what witchcraft is as

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a manifestation of the flesh.

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This word listen to what it is in

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the Greek.

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Pharmakeia.

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Pharmakeia.

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Where we get our word pharmacy or drugstore.

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In other words, pharmaceia.

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To be bewitched.

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Paul saying to the Galatians, all of you

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churches somehow in a short time have become

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bewitched by certain men, certain teachers, certain preachers

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that have come down from Jerusalem claiming to

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represent the apostles.

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These certain band of men have actually bewitched

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you.

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And this word pharmaceia can be used for

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drugs or for a witchcraft spell or for

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manipulating religiously.

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All of this is summed up in this

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word pharmakeia.

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Pharmakeia.

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That's why drugs is the same as sorcery

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or witchcraft.

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When we see people in Limerick and they're

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operating in drugs, taking heroin or other drugs,

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do you realize it's the biblical word for

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witchcraft?

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Do you know why?

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Because when you begin using drugs, it actually

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draws the presence of the demonic powers.

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Where you have the use of drugs, you

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have the operation of demonic powers.

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All those drug sellers on the high street

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in Limerick, I assure you, Satan has got

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a hold of them.

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They could be religious.

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They could be Catholics.

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They could say all manners of prayers.

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But if they're selling and using drugs, they're

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under the influence of hell.

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We need to draw a clear line on

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this.

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This Greek word pharmakeia is also used in

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Revelation chapter 18 for that great city Babylon,

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or the headquarters of the last world government

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that's going to rule in our world.

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Listen to what it says about the judgment

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of Babylon.

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For by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

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Babylon is yet to arise, and I believe

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we're at the beginning of it.

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We're about to see the rise of a

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last world government, and it will be called

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Babylon.

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That's what's going to mark it.

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But do you know how this city of

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Babylon, this headquarters of Antichrist, do you know

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how it's going to deceive the nation?

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Through sorceries.

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That's why we've got to understand this as

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the church.

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We've got to understand this because I believe

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witchcraft is going to become very prominent in

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this hour, even by world politics, right down

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to the scum on the local corner of

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your street.

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I assure you that this deception is going

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to be very broad, and we the church

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have to have a remedy for it.

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We have to have a power that's greater

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than it.

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We have to have a way to fight

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it and to destroy its effects on sinners,

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because we're going to win many multitudes, many

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thousands out of it.

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Do you know Babylon uses sorceries, drugs, the

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manipulation of religion.

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It uses all of these things.

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It uses sorcery, supernatural, demonic powers, manifesting forth

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to tell the future or to call fire

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from heaven.

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Since we don't realize what's just about to

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happen in our world, world politics and world

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government is about to become very spiritual, very

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soulish, and it's going to use the power

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of witchcraft.

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I do here this morning simply want to

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give you three vital truths from Galatians that

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either witchcraft obscures in the church or the

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church rises up and destroys witchcraft by these

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three truths.

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The apostle Paul in 2 Timothy chapter 3

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and verse 8.

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Listen to what he's saying.

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He's writing to young Timothy.

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Timothy is overseeing an apostolic ministry, the church

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at Ephesus.

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Paul is writing here from his prison cell

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to the young preacher who is there filling

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in for him at the church at Ephesus

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many years after it had begun.

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Listen to what Paul says here.

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Now as Janus and Jambres withstood Moses, so

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do these also resist the truth.

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Now Paul is speaking to Timothy about certain

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men who have come into the church at

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Ephesus who are resisting the truth, certain men.

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And do you know what he's saying to

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Timothy?

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Just look back to the days of Moses.

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It's the very same thing that happened in

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Moses' day that is happening in our day

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to you, Timothy, in the church at Ephesus.

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Certain men are withstanding you, Timothy, in the

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church at Ephesus and they're coming into the

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church trying to say they're Christians.

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Well, he looked back to the days of

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Moses and he says it was the same

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with Janus and Jambres.

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Now who were they?

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Who were Janus and Jambres in the days

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of Moses?

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Listen, we read about them, not by name,

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but we have a veiled comment about them

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in Exodus chapter 7 and verse 11.

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When Moses walked into the palace of Pharaoh

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and began to challenge him and called on

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10 plagues on the nation to say, let

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my people go.

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Let Israel go out of this captivity.

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When Moses came to deliver God's people and

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set them free from the bondage of Pharaoh,

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do you know what?

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These two men, Janus and Jambres, arose.

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Listen carefully from Exodus 7.

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Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and

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the sorcerers.

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Now the magicians of Egypt, they also did

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like manner with their enchantments.

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Now I want you to notice here the

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old Jewish writing say Janus and Jambres were

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the leaders of these sorcerers, of these magicians,

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of these wise men down in Egypt who

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rose up every time Moses done a miracle.

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They rose up and they copied it.

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You produce frogs, we'll produce frogs.

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You do this, we can do the same.

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They were using witchcraft to bring this about.

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It says then in chapter 7 22, and

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the magicians of Egypt did so with their

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enchantments and Pharaoh's heart was hardened.

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Neither did he hearken unto them as the

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Lord had said.

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Do you realize Paul is looking back to

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the days of Moses and he sees these

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two men rise up who withstood the words,

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the preaching of Moses.

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And do you know what they used?

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They used witchcraft, they used enchantments, they used

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sorcery, they used tricks.

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They done all of this to deceive Pharaoh.

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And do you know what?

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As soon as they started to play their

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religious games, their games that looked like power,

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looked like the same power as God, it

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looked like their prayers would be answered.

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Do you know what?

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It hardened the heart of Pharaoh that he

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did not listen the word of God.

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I'm showing you something very important about witchcraft

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that it hardens the heart against the true

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word of God.

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We read the same in Acts chapter 13

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when Paul and Barnabas traveled to the island

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of Cyprus and they begin to travel through

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preaching from town unto town until finally they

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reached a town where the deputy of the

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country, the leader of the country, was a

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man called Sergius Paulus.

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And listen to what it says in Acts

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13.

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He was a prudent man who called for

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Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear the

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word of God.

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Now here's the leader in this region, in

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this country, and he hears about the preaching,

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he hears about the miracles, and he calls,

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I want to hear the word of God.

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But do you know who else was there

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in that palace of this great man?

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The Bible says a certain sorcerer, a false

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prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus,

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or again it says his name was Elimus,

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two names, Elimus the sorcerer.

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And listen, this false prophet, it says he

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withstood them seeking to turn away the deputy

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from the faith.

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So he's using all of his witchcraft, all

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of his powers of prophecy.

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He's claiming to be a Jew, claiming to

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be a prophet of God, claiming to be

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a representative of God.

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But you know what?

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He's operating in witchcraft.

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And what does he do?

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He opposes the preaching of Paul and Barnabas.

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But thank God that man of God Paul,

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filled with the Holy Spirit, looked upon him

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and said thou child of a devil, and

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he was struck blind.

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Oh that we could do that again in

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our meetings.

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But do you know Janus and Jambres, what

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their name means?

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Janus means to seduce, Jambres means rebellion, just

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like Saul, King Saul.

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So we see the Janus and Jambres, rebellion

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and seduction.

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That's what marks witchcraft, a deception, a desire,

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a fleshly desire in the heart to say,

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I want to win you over to my

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side.

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I don't want you listening that preaching.

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I want you to be won over and

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I'll deceive, I'll lie, I'll use power, I'll

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claim God, I'll use prophecy, I'll do what

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it takes.

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Since when you get opposition to the real

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preaching of the gospel, when you see wicked

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men rise up and not only disbelieve or

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disagree or but they oppose it, they attack

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it.

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There is witchcraft operating in the midst of

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that.

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Witchcraft is in utter opposition to the gospel

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of Jesus Christ, to the preaching of the

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truth of God's word.

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It attacks it, it stands against it.

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In the Old Testament we read about Absalom,

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the son of David.

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He grew up in that home and when

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he reached the age of 40 years old,

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he started to get ideas.

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I should be king.

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I should have the position.

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I should have the anointing.

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I should sit in the throne.

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My father is old.

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He can't do the job like me.

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I'm able to do it far better than

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him.

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You know what pride leads to?

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A great fall.

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It is so, so dangerous.

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You know what, Absalom, this young man raised

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in a godly, godly house under a man

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who truly knew God and never tried to

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manipulate things.

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David never manipulated the situation or used the

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gifts of God to gain what he wanted.

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He never lifted a finger against Saul to

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get into that position.

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Oh, never, never.

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That's a man who's free of witchcraft.

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But look at his son, Absalom, growing up

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in his own home.

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It says that he got for himself or

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prepared chariots, horses, and 50 men to run

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before him.

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Then he began to rise early to stand

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in the gate of the city.

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And when people from other towns and villages

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came, he called to them.

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And in fact, he said, what's your problem?

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Then he said, your problem is good.

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The thing that you have is good.

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I would seek justice for you, but I

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don't have the power.

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My father has it and he can't hear

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you.

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But if I had the power, I would

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look for justice.

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It says he took them by the hand

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and he kissed them.

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He drew them in close to them.

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And it says this, so Absalom stole the

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hearts of the men of Israel.

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And so began a rebellion against his father,

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against the authority of God, against the kingdom

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of God.

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And you know what, Absalom's rebellion, it swept

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the kingdom of David to such an extent.

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David had a flea with all his faithful

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men.

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He went for the hills and there was

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a rising of rebellion.

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Joab came in on it.

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The priests came in on it.

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Many others came in on it.

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And I can assure you, it was a

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rebellion marked by witchcraft.

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You see, witchcraft is something that comes out

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of the flesh of man.

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You go, I'll use words, position, power, influence,

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the claim of the power of God.

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I'll even display gifts of the Holy Spirit.

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You know what I'm trying to do?

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I'm trying to steal your heart.

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I'm trying to, you know, if any man

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tries to claim your heart, unless he's a

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tall, handsome guy and you're a beautiful young

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girl and both of you are godly and

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he's after you, that's okay.

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But if anyone else, preacher or not, tries

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to claim your heart, instead of making you

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fall in love with the Lord Jesus Christ,

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there is an issue.

542
00:24:07,030 --> 00:24:09,770
Witchcraft, I don't care how smooth their words

543
00:24:09,770 --> 00:24:10,030
are.

544
00:24:10,210 --> 00:24:12,150
I don't care what they say about you.

545
00:24:12,310 --> 00:24:14,170
I don't care how spiritual they look.

546
00:24:14,410 --> 00:24:16,010
You better be careful.

547
00:24:16,410 --> 00:24:18,210
And this is why John says in 1

548
00:24:18,210 --> 00:24:21,710
John chapter 4 and 1, beloved, believe not

549
00:24:21,710 --> 00:24:25,550
every spirit, but try or test the spirits,

550
00:24:25,850 --> 00:24:29,210
whether they are of God, for many false

551
00:24:29,210 --> 00:24:32,110
prophets are gone out into the world.

552
00:24:32,550 --> 00:24:34,270
I want to give you three warnings here

553
00:24:34,270 --> 00:24:37,590
from the churches of Galatia that Paul warns

554
00:24:37,590 --> 00:24:37,970
about.

555
00:24:38,210 --> 00:24:42,150
He says, O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched

556
00:24:42,150 --> 00:24:42,530
you?

557
00:24:42,790 --> 00:24:46,030
Throughout the entire book of Galatians, these six

558
00:24:46,030 --> 00:24:49,090
chapters, he mentions these individuals.

559
00:24:49,550 --> 00:24:52,590
Remember, Paul had preached the gospel in Galatia.

560
00:24:52,830 --> 00:24:54,690
He is the one that brought the gospel

561
00:24:54,690 --> 00:24:55,250
to them.

562
00:24:55,370 --> 00:24:57,030
He raised up the churches.

563
00:24:57,390 --> 00:25:00,010
He done miracles among them, won them to

564
00:25:00,010 --> 00:25:02,690
Christ, showed them the truth of the gospel.

565
00:25:02,930 --> 00:25:05,670
But several years down the road, or maybe

566
00:25:05,670 --> 00:25:09,450
three years down the road, there came certain

567
00:25:09,450 --> 00:25:12,090
men, he says in Galatians 1 and 6,

568
00:25:12,350 --> 00:25:14,810
but there be some that trouble you or

569
00:25:14,810 --> 00:25:18,890
confuse you and they would pervert the gospel

570
00:25:18,890 --> 00:25:19,490
of Christ.

571
00:25:19,630 --> 00:25:22,450
In other words, turn it inside out.

572
00:25:22,710 --> 00:25:25,330
He also says in chapter 4 and 17,

573
00:25:25,670 --> 00:25:30,130
they zealously affect you, but not well.

574
00:25:30,310 --> 00:25:32,210
In other words, they get you burning, they

575
00:25:32,210 --> 00:25:34,630
get you stirred up, they get you burning

576
00:25:34,630 --> 00:25:37,390
with fire in your heart, but not in

577
00:25:37,390 --> 00:25:38,310
a good way.

578
00:25:38,570 --> 00:25:41,310
These men that have come in, Paul begins

579
00:25:41,310 --> 00:25:44,410
to say, you Galatians, when I first come

580
00:25:44,410 --> 00:25:46,850
amongst you, you treated me like an angel

581
00:25:46,850 --> 00:25:47,750
of God.

582
00:25:47,850 --> 00:25:50,010
That's how you actually treated me.

583
00:25:50,230 --> 00:25:52,530
Now you're almost treating me like a demon.

584
00:25:52,890 --> 00:25:55,010
When I first come among you, you would

585
00:25:55,010 --> 00:25:57,010
have plucked out your eyes and given them

586
00:25:57,010 --> 00:25:57,550
to me.

587
00:25:57,830 --> 00:26:01,210
Now, because I tell you the truth, preach

588
00:26:01,210 --> 00:26:03,410
to you the truth, speak to you the

589
00:26:03,410 --> 00:26:05,890
word of God out of love, but I

590
00:26:05,890 --> 00:26:08,230
cannot say anything but the truth of God,

591
00:26:08,690 --> 00:26:09,770
you hate me.

592
00:26:10,130 --> 00:26:10,970
You hate me.

593
00:26:11,170 --> 00:26:13,310
Since I'm telling you about one of the

594
00:26:13,310 --> 00:26:16,130
greatest apostles who ever walked on the earth,

595
00:26:16,290 --> 00:26:18,490
he raised up all of these churches in

596
00:26:18,490 --> 00:26:20,670
Galatia, and in case you don't know, they

597
00:26:20,670 --> 00:26:22,230
were Celts, they were Gauls.

598
00:26:22,530 --> 00:26:24,570
That's where the name Galatian comes from.

599
00:26:24,850 --> 00:26:27,190
They come from the south of France Gaul,

600
00:26:27,370 --> 00:26:29,390
they spread all the way over to Turkey,

601
00:26:29,650 --> 00:26:33,710
and in that middle region of Turkey that

602
00:26:33,710 --> 00:26:36,630
we've heard about before, these Gauls or these

603
00:26:36,630 --> 00:26:39,670
Celts settled there, and that's who Paul begins

604
00:26:39,670 --> 00:26:40,670
to evangelize.

605
00:26:41,010 --> 00:26:43,770
Paul the apostle was the first in the

606
00:26:43,770 --> 00:26:47,530
east of the entire empire to evangelize the

607
00:26:47,530 --> 00:26:50,170
Celts, and that was finished when Saint Patrick,

608
00:26:50,350 --> 00:26:54,030
300 years later, came to Ireland to preach

609
00:26:54,030 --> 00:26:56,630
the gospel from the apostle Paul in the

610
00:26:56,630 --> 00:26:59,950
first century to Saint Patrick in the fourth

611
00:26:59,950 --> 00:27:03,290
century, evangelizing an entire continent.

612
00:27:03,530 --> 00:27:04,790
What an amazing thing.

613
00:27:05,050 --> 00:27:07,310
It was the same culture and the same

614
00:27:07,310 --> 00:27:08,690
people, and you know what?

615
00:27:08,770 --> 00:27:09,630
They were fickle.

616
00:27:09,970 --> 00:27:12,530
What Paul describes here, they were a people

617
00:27:12,530 --> 00:27:15,270
who fast ran after him and said, we'd

618
00:27:15,270 --> 00:27:17,870
die for you, and very shortly they're wanting

619
00:27:17,870 --> 00:27:19,430
to take his life.

620
00:27:19,830 --> 00:27:23,370
You see, I believe in this story about

621
00:27:23,370 --> 00:27:25,990
these Judaizers, and that's what they're called.

622
00:27:26,630 --> 00:27:30,250
Judaizers, men from Jerusalem who claimed to be

623
00:27:30,250 --> 00:27:33,590
Jews converted to Christ, who believed in the

624
00:27:33,590 --> 00:27:35,330
cross, being born again.

625
00:27:35,630 --> 00:27:38,470
They believed in the ministry of the apostles,

626
00:27:38,830 --> 00:27:40,770
but they come challenging Paul.

627
00:27:40,770 --> 00:27:43,310
They come saying he's not a true apostle.

628
00:27:43,590 --> 00:27:45,210
He's not preaching the truth.

629
00:27:45,510 --> 00:27:47,610
We have a greater revelation.

630
00:27:48,190 --> 00:27:49,410
Well, do you know there was a great

631
00:27:49,410 --> 00:27:52,470
fight in these Galatian churches, and I believe

632
00:27:52,470 --> 00:27:54,430
witchcraft was primary.

633
00:27:54,790 --> 00:27:58,810
It stole the hearts of many believers in

634
00:27:58,810 --> 00:28:01,770
the churches of Galatia, and those who had

635
00:28:01,770 --> 00:28:05,350
once loved Paul now stood in great doubt

636
00:28:05,350 --> 00:28:08,070
about him, and those who once walked in

637
00:28:08,070 --> 00:28:10,910
the true gospel had now changed it for

638
00:28:10,910 --> 00:28:14,210
another gospel, and yet they still thought that

639
00:28:14,210 --> 00:28:16,890
they were walking with Jesus Christ.

640
00:28:17,090 --> 00:28:20,450
I want to give you here three things

641
00:28:20,450 --> 00:28:24,950
that either become obscured by witchcraft, or three

642
00:28:24,950 --> 00:28:28,850
things that defeat and destroy the power of

643
00:28:28,850 --> 00:28:30,650
witchcraft in the church.

644
00:28:30,950 --> 00:28:34,550
They destroy the power of manipulation, of fear,

645
00:28:34,750 --> 00:28:37,490
of control, of drug use.

646
00:28:37,710 --> 00:28:39,990
I can assure you these three things will

647
00:28:39,990 --> 00:28:42,810
destroy the use of drugs in any life,

648
00:28:43,070 --> 00:28:46,750
but it'll also destroy religious schemes using the

649
00:28:46,750 --> 00:28:50,470
gifts and positions of the Holy Spirit for

650
00:28:50,470 --> 00:28:51,670
a person's own end.

651
00:28:51,890 --> 00:28:53,910
Here's my three points here this morning.

652
00:28:54,350 --> 00:28:57,970
First of all, the centrality of the cross.

653
00:28:58,170 --> 00:29:00,690
The centrality of the cross.

654
00:29:00,790 --> 00:29:03,110
Look again, Galatians chapter three and verse one.

655
00:29:03,370 --> 00:29:07,990
Oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you that

656
00:29:07,990 --> 00:29:10,650
ye should not obey the truth before whose

657
00:29:10,650 --> 00:29:14,370
eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth,

658
00:29:14,830 --> 00:29:16,170
crucified among you.

659
00:29:16,630 --> 00:29:18,390
Do you know what Paul was saying here?

660
00:29:19,010 --> 00:29:21,410
He was saying, I know you've come under

661
00:29:21,410 --> 00:29:22,990
the power of witchcraft.

662
00:29:23,150 --> 00:29:25,690
Under the influence of these men, they were

663
00:29:25,690 --> 00:29:27,330
operating a witchcraft.

664
00:29:27,690 --> 00:29:31,490
It was a manifestation of their flesh, the

665
00:29:31,490 --> 00:29:32,450
fallen nature.

666
00:29:32,770 --> 00:29:34,490
There's nothing spiritual about it.

667
00:29:34,670 --> 00:29:35,830
Nothing of God.

668
00:29:36,130 --> 00:29:40,370
Out of their flesh came rebellion, witchcraft to

669
00:29:40,370 --> 00:29:41,250
control you.

670
00:29:41,510 --> 00:29:44,190
And they have turned not only individuals against

671
00:29:44,190 --> 00:29:47,970
me, but entire churches across an entire land,

672
00:29:48,270 --> 00:29:49,410
an entire culture.

673
00:29:49,570 --> 00:29:51,130
They have managed to turn.

674
00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:55,870
How And do you know what Paul is

675
00:29:55,870 --> 00:29:56,390
saying here?

676
00:29:56,850 --> 00:29:59,490
Oh foolish Galatians, what has happened to you?

677
00:29:59,770 --> 00:30:01,330
Who have bewitched you?

678
00:30:01,630 --> 00:30:02,630
What has gone on?

679
00:30:02,850 --> 00:30:04,590
How could you have changed sides?

680
00:30:05,030 --> 00:30:06,670
How could this have happened to you?

681
00:30:07,450 --> 00:30:08,990
Do you know why he says it happened

682
00:30:08,990 --> 00:30:09,350
to them?

683
00:30:09,790 --> 00:30:13,290
He says, do you realize that this witchcraft,

684
00:30:13,530 --> 00:30:17,970
this bewitchment has blinded your eyes to the

685
00:30:17,970 --> 00:30:20,810
centrality of Christ crucified?

686
00:30:21,250 --> 00:30:22,330
That's what he's saying here.

687
00:30:22,490 --> 00:30:25,070
I know that there's a spell on you.

688
00:30:25,490 --> 00:30:27,550
I know you must've taken drugs.

689
00:30:27,950 --> 00:30:31,190
I know that you've been manipulated religiously.

690
00:30:31,390 --> 00:30:32,630
Do you know how I know that?

691
00:30:33,070 --> 00:30:36,570
I always preach the cross in your midst.

692
00:30:37,030 --> 00:30:40,130
While I was with you, when these churches

693
00:30:40,130 --> 00:30:44,310
began, we preached about Christ and him crucified.

694
00:30:44,890 --> 00:30:48,570
Paul actually says here that before whose eyes

695
00:30:48,570 --> 00:30:53,010
Jesus Christ had been evidently set forth among

696
00:30:53,010 --> 00:30:53,490
you.

697
00:30:53,790 --> 00:30:56,250
Do you know what evidently set forth among

698
00:30:56,250 --> 00:30:56,790
you means?

699
00:30:56,870 --> 00:30:59,530
I told you last time it's the word

700
00:30:59,530 --> 00:31:02,410
pro grapho.

701
00:31:02,490 --> 00:31:04,830
Another where we get our word graphic to

702
00:31:04,830 --> 00:31:08,530
display a beautiful picture, to draw a beautiful,

703
00:31:08,930 --> 00:31:12,430
clear, distinct picture right in front of your

704
00:31:12,430 --> 00:31:14,390
eyes, right in front of your face.

705
00:31:14,750 --> 00:31:15,550
You know what Paul is saying?

706
00:31:15,710 --> 00:31:18,050
When I come preaching amongst you, I so

707
00:31:18,050 --> 00:31:19,970
preach the word of God that I made

708
00:31:19,970 --> 00:31:22,650
the crucifixion of Christ to be like a

709
00:31:22,650 --> 00:31:24,130
picture set before you.

710
00:31:24,390 --> 00:31:25,830
It was set before your eyes.

711
00:31:26,090 --> 00:31:29,110
You saw Christ crucified as if you'd been

712
00:31:29,110 --> 00:31:32,450
there at the cross seeing Jesus Christ die

713
00:31:32,450 --> 00:31:33,370
for you sinners.

714
00:31:33,370 --> 00:31:35,610
He said, I so preach the gospel.

715
00:31:35,990 --> 00:31:38,690
I so arranged the churches that when we

716
00:31:38,690 --> 00:31:41,190
gathered as the church, the death of Christ

717
00:31:41,190 --> 00:31:43,510
was so evident, so real.

718
00:31:43,610 --> 00:31:46,750
It was like you're gazing upon the crucified

719
00:31:46,750 --> 00:31:47,330
Christ.

720
00:31:47,390 --> 00:31:49,850
When I preached, you could see, you could

721
00:31:49,850 --> 00:31:53,530
smell, you could feel the crucified Christ and

722
00:31:53,530 --> 00:31:54,810
it changed your lives.

723
00:31:54,910 --> 00:31:56,670
It changed your communities.

724
00:31:56,850 --> 00:31:58,710
I held it up before you.

725
00:31:58,810 --> 00:32:02,850
I placarded the message of Christ crucified.

726
00:32:02,850 --> 00:32:05,150
I held it up before your faces.

727
00:32:05,590 --> 00:32:09,030
I was faithful not to preach myself or

728
00:32:09,030 --> 00:32:10,490
a church or a denomination.

729
00:32:11,010 --> 00:32:13,130
I preach Christ and him crucified.

730
00:32:13,690 --> 00:32:16,670
I preach Christ not just glorified at the

731
00:32:16,670 --> 00:32:18,670
right hand of the father, not as a

732
00:32:18,670 --> 00:32:20,870
babe in the manger, not as a man

733
00:32:20,870 --> 00:32:21,730
doing miracles.

734
00:32:22,150 --> 00:32:24,590
Oh yes, all those things are within truth.

735
00:32:24,870 --> 00:32:28,950
But centrally, the most central message that I

736
00:32:28,950 --> 00:32:33,310
preached to you was Christ and him crucified.

737
00:32:34,130 --> 00:32:37,850
No mixture, no changing of the message, no

738
00:32:37,850 --> 00:32:40,290
addition, no subtraction.

739
00:32:40,510 --> 00:32:43,590
I preach to you Christ undiluted.

740
00:32:43,830 --> 00:32:46,390
As we said in 1 Corinthians 11 26,

741
00:32:46,770 --> 00:32:49,310
it says when we break bread together and

742
00:32:49,310 --> 00:32:52,870
drink the cup, you do show the Lord's

743
00:32:52,870 --> 00:32:54,710
death till he come.

744
00:32:55,050 --> 00:32:56,190
You show it.

745
00:32:56,610 --> 00:32:58,570
What are we doing when we break bread

746
00:32:58,570 --> 00:32:59,850
every week in our meeting?

747
00:33:00,270 --> 00:33:02,190
We are showing forth.

748
00:33:02,610 --> 00:33:07,430
We are displaying Christ crucified or the death

749
00:33:07,430 --> 00:33:10,270
of Jesus until he comes again.

750
00:33:10,510 --> 00:33:13,330
Do you realize that God has given us

751
00:33:13,330 --> 00:33:15,850
the Lord's table to keep it before our

752
00:33:15,850 --> 00:33:16,130
eyes?

753
00:33:16,350 --> 00:33:17,810
He died for you sinners.

754
00:33:18,030 --> 00:33:19,730
He suffered on your behalf.

755
00:33:19,890 --> 00:33:23,210
Since I'm talking about the cure for witchcraft,

756
00:33:23,450 --> 00:33:26,370
if you're a manipulator, if you're a liar,

757
00:33:26,530 --> 00:33:28,430
if you're a game player, there is an

758
00:33:28,430 --> 00:33:33,070
answer to destroy witchcraft, not fleshly manipulation in

759
00:33:33,070 --> 00:33:33,990
the house of God.

760
00:33:34,110 --> 00:33:35,190
You know what it is?

761
00:33:35,250 --> 00:33:37,310
It's preaching Christ crucified.

762
00:33:38,070 --> 00:33:41,010
If you really see that Jesus Christ died

763
00:33:41,010 --> 00:33:43,590
and suffered for your sins on the cross,

764
00:33:43,730 --> 00:33:45,650
you're not going to let rebellion in your

765
00:33:45,650 --> 00:33:45,910
heart.

766
00:33:46,190 --> 00:33:47,890
You're not going to turn to witchcraft.

767
00:33:48,250 --> 00:33:50,470
You're not going to manipulate lies and try

768
00:33:50,470 --> 00:33:52,450
to deceive and lie lies.

769
00:33:52,650 --> 00:33:53,750
Do you know what a lie is?

770
00:33:54,270 --> 00:33:56,270
It could be just not telling the truth.

771
00:33:56,650 --> 00:33:57,850
Oh, I didn't lie.

772
00:33:58,150 --> 00:33:59,270
I didn't tell any lie.

773
00:33:59,590 --> 00:34:01,690
Yes, but you didn't tell the truth when

774
00:34:01,690 --> 00:34:03,170
you ought to have told the truth.

775
00:34:03,290 --> 00:34:04,290
That is a lie.

776
00:34:04,590 --> 00:34:07,590
You lied in your heart to manipulate, to

777
00:34:07,590 --> 00:34:09,270
manipulate the situation.

778
00:34:09,610 --> 00:34:12,389
Our people, since when you see that Christ

779
00:34:12,389 --> 00:34:15,050
died for you, a sinner, that because of

780
00:34:15,050 --> 00:34:18,449
your sin, your fallen nature, your flesh, that

781
00:34:18,449 --> 00:34:20,489
you should go to hell eternally.

782
00:34:20,770 --> 00:34:21,190
You know what?

783
00:34:21,290 --> 00:34:22,630
You look on the man of Calvary.

784
00:34:22,870 --> 00:34:24,130
He's not a rebel.

785
00:34:24,469 --> 00:34:25,929
He wasn't a manipulator.

786
00:34:26,290 --> 00:34:27,310
He wasn't a liar.

787
00:34:27,690 --> 00:34:28,790
He wasn't a deceiver.

788
00:34:29,150 --> 00:34:32,750
He didn't pretend gifts and dreams and prophecies

789
00:34:32,750 --> 00:34:35,590
and yet use them to gain money or

790
00:34:35,590 --> 00:34:37,750
to gain power or to gain a position.

791
00:34:38,530 --> 00:34:39,550
He never done that.

792
00:34:39,810 --> 00:34:40,790
Look at the master.

793
00:34:41,250 --> 00:34:44,090
The closer he got to the cross, the

794
00:34:44,090 --> 00:34:46,350
fewer were those who followed him.

795
00:34:46,590 --> 00:34:48,110
He wasn't after the crowds.

796
00:34:48,290 --> 00:34:50,030
He preached the truth of God.

797
00:34:50,389 --> 00:34:52,070
He preached if a man's going to follow

798
00:34:52,070 --> 00:34:55,510
me, let him deny himself, take up his

799
00:34:55,510 --> 00:34:57,010
cross and follow me.

800
00:34:57,170 --> 00:34:59,290
It wasn't crowds that he was looking for.

801
00:34:59,450 --> 00:35:02,210
It was disciples of the cross.

802
00:35:02,490 --> 00:35:05,390
And that's how you discern witchcraft in a

803
00:35:05,390 --> 00:35:05,730
church.

804
00:35:05,950 --> 00:35:09,750
Are they changing or moving aside the message

805
00:35:09,750 --> 00:35:12,430
of the cross in order to fill the

806
00:35:12,430 --> 00:35:12,710
church?

807
00:35:12,970 --> 00:35:14,250
Then there's witchcraft.

808
00:35:14,670 --> 00:35:16,810
Oh, they may not cast any spell, but

809
00:35:16,810 --> 00:35:19,750
I assure you, if they obscure the cross,

810
00:35:20,010 --> 00:35:23,610
instead of seeing what the gospel is, Christ

811
00:35:23,610 --> 00:35:26,990
died for sinners, that this cross means you

812
00:35:26,990 --> 00:35:28,550
must repent to your sin.

813
00:35:28,750 --> 00:35:30,450
We must deal with your sin.

814
00:35:31,070 --> 00:35:33,410
Rebellion must be dealt with in your heart.

815
00:35:33,970 --> 00:35:37,810
Rejection of authority in home or the church

816
00:35:37,810 --> 00:35:38,790
or society.

817
00:35:38,810 --> 00:35:42,250
It's rebellion against the cross of Jesus Christ.

818
00:35:42,250 --> 00:35:43,750
Do you know what the cross does?

819
00:35:43,990 --> 00:35:46,390
It humbles you at the feet of Jesus

820
00:35:46,390 --> 00:35:46,890
Christ.

821
00:35:47,110 --> 00:35:49,970
It brings you low all through this book

822
00:35:49,970 --> 00:35:50,750
of Galatians.

823
00:35:50,910 --> 00:35:53,010
I want to tell you the message of

824
00:35:53,010 --> 00:35:56,750
crosses, of the cross of Christ crucified is

825
00:35:56,750 --> 00:36:00,710
there from Galatians chapter one all the way

826
00:36:00,710 --> 00:36:03,410
through to Galatians chapter six.

827
00:36:03,690 --> 00:36:06,810
You'll find that the cross will rescue you.

828
00:36:07,050 --> 00:36:09,890
It will remove your old sin nature.

829
00:36:09,890 --> 00:36:11,190
It'll restore you.

830
00:36:11,370 --> 00:36:14,150
It will bring reproach upon you.

831
00:36:14,490 --> 00:36:17,570
It will make you to reproduce the life

832
00:36:17,570 --> 00:36:19,950
of God and it will also make you

833
00:36:19,950 --> 00:36:20,630
to rejoice.

834
00:36:21,030 --> 00:36:24,110
Listen, in Galatians chapter one, we have the

835
00:36:24,110 --> 00:36:25,230
cross and salvation.

836
00:36:25,870 --> 00:36:29,810
In Galatians two, the cross and our personal

837
00:36:29,810 --> 00:36:30,730
experience.

838
00:36:31,250 --> 00:36:34,110
In Galatians chapter three, the cross and the

839
00:36:34,110 --> 00:36:35,470
preaching of the gospel.

840
00:36:36,010 --> 00:36:39,510
In Galatians chapter five and six, you have

841
00:36:39,510 --> 00:36:41,390
the cross and persecution.

842
00:36:41,830 --> 00:36:44,810
In Galatians three, the cross and substitution.

843
00:36:45,690 --> 00:36:49,150
And in Galatians five, the cross and holiness.

844
00:36:49,430 --> 00:36:51,670
I could keep going here telling you that

845
00:36:51,670 --> 00:36:54,210
Galatians is filled with the message of the

846
00:36:54,210 --> 00:36:54,570
cross.

847
00:36:54,810 --> 00:36:56,850
When Paul said, who has bewitched you?

848
00:36:57,110 --> 00:36:57,750
Do you know what he done?

849
00:36:57,870 --> 00:37:00,210
He went back and preached again the cross.

850
00:37:00,330 --> 00:37:01,950
Christ died for you.

851
00:37:02,230 --> 00:37:03,930
Christ died for sinners.

852
00:37:04,190 --> 00:37:07,390
Since this is the remedy to witchcraft in

853
00:37:07,390 --> 00:37:10,550
the church, all that manipulation, all the false

854
00:37:10,550 --> 00:37:15,830
manifestations of false revivals, of trying to manipulate

855
00:37:15,830 --> 00:37:18,490
your husband through tears.

856
00:37:18,850 --> 00:37:21,890
Are you husbands trying to control your wife

857
00:37:21,890 --> 00:37:23,150
through threats and abuse?

858
00:37:23,290 --> 00:37:25,550
All of this breaks when we come back

859
00:37:25,550 --> 00:37:27,170
to the cross of Jesus Christ.

860
00:37:27,210 --> 00:37:29,430
You know, if you're a young person, a

861
00:37:29,430 --> 00:37:32,590
child, a son or a daughter in this

862
00:37:32,590 --> 00:37:35,430
meeting, and you're trying to play games in

863
00:37:35,430 --> 00:37:37,450
your home and manipulate and cry and do

864
00:37:37,450 --> 00:37:39,290
those things, you won't do that.

865
00:37:39,430 --> 00:37:41,790
If you look to Jesus down on the

866
00:37:41,790 --> 00:37:44,350
cross for you again, that is unacceptable.

867
00:37:44,950 --> 00:37:47,330
Jesus died that you could be set free

868
00:37:47,330 --> 00:37:48,650
from those things.

869
00:37:48,710 --> 00:37:51,270
But here, look, it's not only Christ down

870
00:37:51,270 --> 00:37:51,790
for us.

871
00:37:52,390 --> 00:37:54,670
The cross, the message of the cross is

872
00:37:54,670 --> 00:37:57,910
only that it's not only that Christ died

873
00:37:57,910 --> 00:37:59,950
for your sins that you could go free.

874
00:38:00,450 --> 00:38:00,850
You know what?

875
00:38:00,890 --> 00:38:03,910
It's also you were crucified with Christ.

876
00:38:04,070 --> 00:38:05,450
Are you a real Christian?

877
00:38:05,890 --> 00:38:07,990
Then why are you blind to the cross?

878
00:38:08,350 --> 00:38:10,390
Oh, why do the, why is it the

879
00:38:10,390 --> 00:38:12,470
message of the cross has been lost in

880
00:38:12,470 --> 00:38:13,310
this generation?

881
00:38:13,710 --> 00:38:16,410
They'll preach about how to feel better, how

882
00:38:16,410 --> 00:38:18,710
to be successful, how to have a good

883
00:38:18,710 --> 00:38:19,090
marriage.

884
00:38:19,250 --> 00:38:20,690
They never mentioned the cross.

885
00:38:20,910 --> 00:38:23,510
They, they, they can teach all manners of

886
00:38:23,510 --> 00:38:25,990
subject and they never take you back to

887
00:38:25,990 --> 00:38:27,750
Christ and him crucified.

888
00:38:28,110 --> 00:38:30,470
Paul said to the Corinthians, when I come

889
00:38:30,470 --> 00:38:34,930
amongst you, I determined, I set myself that

890
00:38:34,930 --> 00:38:38,930
I wouldn't know anything among you apart from

891
00:38:38,930 --> 00:38:40,810
Christ and him crucified.

892
00:38:40,890 --> 00:38:45,030
Saints in your marriage relationship know nothing but

893
00:38:45,030 --> 00:38:46,430
Christ and him crucified.

894
00:38:46,630 --> 00:38:49,690
In this church, whether you preach through the

895
00:38:49,690 --> 00:38:53,430
Lord's table, through the door, or simply sit

896
00:38:53,430 --> 00:38:56,970
there and pray and encourage, don't let any

897
00:38:56,970 --> 00:38:58,030
witchcraft in.

898
00:38:58,610 --> 00:39:01,130
For you to be in Christ, to be

899
00:39:01,130 --> 00:39:04,610
a Christian is to crucify that all fleshly

900
00:39:04,610 --> 00:39:05,110
nature.

901
00:39:05,610 --> 00:39:08,350
Listen in Galatians 2 and 20, I am

902
00:39:08,350 --> 00:39:10,350
crucified with Christ.

903
00:39:11,270 --> 00:39:14,730
Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ

904
00:39:14,730 --> 00:39:17,170
liveth in me and the life I now

905
00:39:17,170 --> 00:39:19,590
live in the flesh or in the body,

906
00:39:19,850 --> 00:39:21,950
I live by the faith of the son

907
00:39:21,950 --> 00:39:24,810
of God who loved me and gave himself

908
00:39:25,390 --> 00:39:26,050
for me.

909
00:39:26,250 --> 00:39:28,050
What is the life of a true Christian?

910
00:39:28,350 --> 00:39:29,810
I glory in the cross.

911
00:39:30,070 --> 00:39:32,190
I glory that he died for me, that

912
00:39:32,190 --> 00:39:34,490
he suffered in my place, that he died

913
00:39:34,490 --> 00:39:35,290
for my sin.

914
00:39:35,490 --> 00:39:38,410
All witchcraft of the flesh was suffered for

915
00:39:38,410 --> 00:39:42,050
at Calvary, but more than that, I was

916
00:39:42,050 --> 00:39:45,790
crucified with Christ that by faith I might

917
00:39:45,790 --> 00:39:47,130
live this new life.

918
00:39:47,350 --> 00:39:49,150
In other words, where I get things coming

919
00:39:49,150 --> 00:39:50,930
out of that flesh, I want to lie,

920
00:39:51,030 --> 00:39:52,490
I want to say things, I want to

921
00:39:52,490 --> 00:39:55,310
use spiritual things, I want to begin to

922
00:39:55,310 --> 00:39:58,370
use it to gain some sort of influence.

923
00:39:59,230 --> 00:39:59,950
Do you know what?

924
00:40:00,730 --> 00:40:03,790
You've got to crucify the flesh with its

925
00:40:03,790 --> 00:40:04,630
manifestations.

926
00:40:05,110 --> 00:40:08,610
Go back, take your old man pops up.

927
00:40:08,730 --> 00:40:09,850
Have any of you had that?

928
00:40:10,090 --> 00:40:11,810
I'm sure all of you are too perfect

929
00:40:11,810 --> 00:40:13,850
for that, but now and again, I get

930
00:40:13,850 --> 00:40:16,450
that old flesh man saying, I would like

931
00:40:16,450 --> 00:40:17,630
to say some things.

932
00:40:17,710 --> 00:40:18,290
You know what I do?

933
00:40:18,370 --> 00:40:19,750
I say, come here with me.

934
00:40:20,070 --> 00:40:22,710
We're going to the cross where you ought

935
00:40:22,710 --> 00:40:23,130
to be.

936
00:40:23,410 --> 00:40:25,790
You've reared up again, but you've got no

937
00:40:25,790 --> 00:40:26,070
right.

938
00:40:26,470 --> 00:40:28,550
No pride isn't going to have its way

939
00:40:28,550 --> 00:40:28,830
here.

940
00:40:29,250 --> 00:40:34,270
Rebellion isn't, manipulation isn't, all of that foolishness.

941
00:40:34,510 --> 00:40:34,950
You know what?

942
00:40:35,010 --> 00:40:36,550
I'm taking you to the cross.

943
00:40:36,970 --> 00:40:39,250
You're to be crucified with him.

944
00:40:39,470 --> 00:40:41,250
You don't improve the old nature.

945
00:40:41,570 --> 00:40:44,410
You crucify it with Christ, with all of

946
00:40:44,410 --> 00:40:47,010
its fleshly natures and manifestations.

947
00:40:47,810 --> 00:40:50,110
Do you find in your life that either

948
00:40:50,110 --> 00:40:53,170
in the last message or this, there's something,

949
00:40:53,730 --> 00:40:56,950
there's something rises up that you go, that's

950
00:40:56,950 --> 00:40:58,890
witchcraft coming out of my flesh.

951
00:40:59,470 --> 00:41:02,650
And believe me, even in a true genuine

952
00:41:02,650 --> 00:41:05,470
believer and not old nature, it's rotten.

953
00:41:05,630 --> 00:41:07,670
Paul says, there's no good thing in me.

954
00:41:07,730 --> 00:41:09,730
That is in my flesh.

955
00:41:09,990 --> 00:41:12,110
My flesh isn't better than the day I

956
00:41:12,110 --> 00:41:12,610
got saved.

957
00:41:12,750 --> 00:41:14,650
It hasn't improved over the years.

958
00:41:14,810 --> 00:41:16,630
It doesn't smell more beautiful.

959
00:41:16,930 --> 00:41:17,470
Not flesh.

960
00:41:17,590 --> 00:41:20,070
Every time it appears, it's stinking and it's

961
00:41:20,070 --> 00:41:20,410
rotten.

962
00:41:20,650 --> 00:41:22,370
It makes suggestions to me.

963
00:41:22,370 --> 00:41:25,630
Just say this, just do this, just ignore

964
00:41:25,630 --> 00:41:25,950
that.

965
00:41:26,270 --> 00:41:27,970
Don't get into trouble over it.

966
00:41:28,210 --> 00:41:30,390
Don't speak the truth of God or preach

967
00:41:30,390 --> 00:41:30,630
it.

968
00:41:30,870 --> 00:41:33,750
Don't preach the true gospel at that funeral.

969
00:41:34,190 --> 00:41:36,650
I have to preach the gospel whether men

970
00:41:36,650 --> 00:41:38,610
curse me or bless me.

971
00:41:38,870 --> 00:41:42,530
This is the first answer or remedy to

972
00:41:42,530 --> 00:41:43,770
witchcraft in the church.

973
00:41:44,030 --> 00:41:46,050
Paul's preaching to all of these churches of

974
00:41:46,050 --> 00:41:46,430
Galatians.

975
00:41:46,610 --> 00:41:47,570
I once knew you.

976
00:41:47,670 --> 00:41:48,570
I once loved you.

977
00:41:48,570 --> 00:41:49,470
You know what he does?

978
00:41:49,510 --> 00:41:51,490
He brings them right back to the cross.

979
00:41:51,690 --> 00:41:54,030
He again, preaches the cross and said, this

980
00:41:54,030 --> 00:41:57,890
witchcraft, the influence of these strange men, you

981
00:41:57,890 --> 00:41:58,590
know what you've done?

982
00:41:58,770 --> 00:42:01,570
You've moved away from the finished work of

983
00:42:01,570 --> 00:42:02,590
Christ.

984
00:42:03,090 --> 00:42:03,710
And you know what?

985
00:42:03,770 --> 00:42:05,470
You began to listen to men.

986
00:42:05,830 --> 00:42:07,590
You began to look to men.

987
00:42:07,910 --> 00:42:09,570
You began to care about men.

988
00:42:10,110 --> 00:42:13,030
Second of all, my second point, the second

989
00:42:13,030 --> 00:42:16,810
remedy that Paul preaches, the second remedy for

990
00:42:16,810 --> 00:42:22,130
witchcraft is justification by faith alone.

991
00:42:22,850 --> 00:42:26,210
Six times in Galatians, as Paul tries to

992
00:42:26,210 --> 00:42:29,710
deal with these bewitched Christians who have changed

993
00:42:29,710 --> 00:42:34,490
or moved their direction, six times he uses

994
00:42:34,490 --> 00:42:36,650
this word justification.

995
00:42:37,330 --> 00:42:39,950
What is justification by faith?

996
00:42:40,190 --> 00:42:41,670
It's how you get saved.

997
00:42:41,910 --> 00:42:43,590
It's how you begin this journey.

998
00:42:43,770 --> 00:42:46,910
It's how you enter a right relationship with

999
00:42:46,910 --> 00:42:47,250
God.

1000
00:42:47,390 --> 00:42:50,850
It is how your standing is, your eternal

1001
00:42:50,850 --> 00:42:53,790
standing, your destiny before God.

1002
00:42:54,010 --> 00:42:56,890
You know, the standing of being justified, it

1003
00:42:56,890 --> 00:42:57,470
doesn't grow.

1004
00:42:57,550 --> 00:42:58,310
It doesn't change.

1005
00:42:58,350 --> 00:42:59,210
It doesn't get less.

1006
00:42:59,370 --> 00:43:02,390
You're either justified or you're not justified.

1007
00:43:02,430 --> 00:43:05,910
You're either righteous before God or you're not

1008
00:43:05,910 --> 00:43:07,410
righteous before God.

1009
00:43:07,470 --> 00:43:11,110
It is the fundamental truth of the gospel.

1010
00:43:11,790 --> 00:43:15,370
In fact, Martin Luther, who fought his way

1011
00:43:15,370 --> 00:43:17,970
out of Catholicism in Germany, do you know

1012
00:43:17,970 --> 00:43:20,470
when he first come to the scriptures and

1013
00:43:20,470 --> 00:43:24,510
got born again, he actually called justification by

1014
00:43:24,510 --> 00:43:26,090
faith his wife.

1015
00:43:26,090 --> 00:43:29,350
He said, I am married to the book

1016
00:43:29,350 --> 00:43:30,170
of Galatians.

1017
00:43:30,350 --> 00:43:32,390
He said, this book of Galatians, more than

1018
00:43:32,390 --> 00:43:34,590
any book in the new Testament, I am

1019
00:43:34,590 --> 00:43:35,990
married to it.

1020
00:43:36,210 --> 00:43:39,290
The book of Galatians is my wife, my

1021
00:43:39,290 --> 00:43:40,610
constant companion.

1022
00:43:40,990 --> 00:43:41,650
You know why?

1023
00:43:41,770 --> 00:43:45,050
He'd looked at the witchcraft of Roman Catholicism.

1024
00:43:45,410 --> 00:43:47,170
They come in saying, you've got to do

1025
00:43:47,170 --> 00:43:47,450
this.

1026
00:43:47,550 --> 00:43:48,550
You've got to do that.

1027
00:43:48,810 --> 00:43:50,890
And they said, yes, we believe in Christ.

1028
00:43:51,250 --> 00:43:52,830
Yes, we believe in the cross.

1029
00:43:53,190 --> 00:43:55,930
Yes, we believe in the finished work of

1030
00:43:55,930 --> 00:43:59,510
Calvary, but beware of the buts.

1031
00:43:59,610 --> 00:44:02,370
And they began to add their own doctrines

1032
00:44:02,370 --> 00:44:03,350
and theology.

1033
00:44:03,710 --> 00:44:06,410
Do you realize in the early centuries of

1034
00:44:06,410 --> 00:44:08,910
the church, men rose up and come in

1035
00:44:08,910 --> 00:44:11,270
amongst the church and they begin to add

1036
00:44:11,270 --> 00:44:11,730
things.

1037
00:44:12,050 --> 00:44:16,970
In Galatians, in Galatia, those preachers who came

1038
00:44:16,970 --> 00:44:18,630
in begin to add circumcision.

1039
00:44:18,630 --> 00:44:21,190
Oh yes, you can be born again, but

1040
00:44:21,190 --> 00:44:23,190
you must be circumcised.

1041
00:44:23,630 --> 00:44:26,730
Oh yes, it's all about the cross, but

1042
00:44:26,730 --> 00:44:29,810
you must do this and you must do

1043
00:44:29,810 --> 00:44:30,130
that.

1044
00:44:30,410 --> 00:44:32,450
And we'll take you back like it's written

1045
00:44:32,450 --> 00:44:33,410
in Galatians three.

1046
00:44:33,530 --> 00:44:37,870
The only place that deals with curses in

1047
00:44:37,870 --> 00:44:41,250
connection with the Christian church is Galatians three.

1048
00:44:41,390 --> 00:44:44,250
And it says, if you are justified by

1049
00:44:44,250 --> 00:44:46,770
faith, there is no curse on your life.

1050
00:44:46,990 --> 00:44:48,470
It is broken.

1051
00:44:48,630 --> 00:44:51,010
But these teachers came in and said, oh

1052
00:44:51,010 --> 00:44:51,610
no, no, no.

1053
00:44:52,030 --> 00:44:54,130
You need to go back to the law,

1054
00:44:54,410 --> 00:44:55,890
back to the Old Testament.

1055
00:44:56,610 --> 00:44:59,230
Or maybe there's a curse over your life.

1056
00:44:59,490 --> 00:45:02,370
Maybe there's a generational curse that come down

1057
00:45:02,370 --> 00:45:04,990
from your Freemason grandfather.

1058
00:45:05,710 --> 00:45:07,350
You need this curse broken.

1059
00:45:07,830 --> 00:45:10,210
Can I tell you, Rory who's in this

1060
00:45:10,210 --> 00:45:13,250
meeting, the day he got born again, the

1061
00:45:13,250 --> 00:45:15,850
day he put faith in Christ, the day

1062
00:45:15,850 --> 00:45:20,510
he experienced justification by faith alone, all the

1063
00:45:20,510 --> 00:45:23,050
curses of Freemasonry were broken.

1064
00:45:23,470 --> 00:45:25,470
When he come in that door and told

1065
00:45:25,470 --> 00:45:27,570
us he had been a Freemason, I didn't

1066
00:45:27,570 --> 00:45:30,670
start swishing his back or looking into his

1067
00:45:30,670 --> 00:45:33,950
ancestry or saying, have you renounced all of

1068
00:45:33,950 --> 00:45:34,730
these curses?

1069
00:45:35,050 --> 00:45:37,590
No, I just want to know, have you

1070
00:45:37,590 --> 00:45:41,590
believed on Jesus Christ to be justified by

1071
00:45:41,590 --> 00:45:42,370
faith alone?

1072
00:45:42,630 --> 00:45:45,550
Since I'm telling you about the power to

1073
00:45:45,550 --> 00:45:48,390
break witchcraft, not only the finished work of

1074
00:45:48,390 --> 00:45:50,990
the cross, not only the centrality of the

1075
00:45:50,990 --> 00:45:55,190
cross, but justification by faith alone.

1076
00:45:55,610 --> 00:45:57,490
Paul hammers it and we don't have time

1077
00:45:57,490 --> 00:45:58,270
to look at it all.

1078
00:45:58,490 --> 00:46:01,770
But six times he mentions this beautiful word,

1079
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justification.

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What does justification mean?

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It means just as if you'd never sinned.

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It means when you believe in the finished

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work of the cross, you are made perfectly

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righteous.

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Day one, day one, God himself imputes to

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you the perfect righteousness of Christ and that

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becomes your righteousness, your means of salvation, your

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means of standing before God, not how well

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you've done the past week.

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And I'm not talking about license, you know

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that, but I'm talking about what is the

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basis of your relationship with God?

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How do you know that you're born again?

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How do you know that your sins are

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forgiven?

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Because I believed on Christ, what he done

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on the cross, and when I put my

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faith in him, God the father took his

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perfect righteousness and he put it into my

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bank account.

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Do you know Paul in this letter gives

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a very tragic story, but a very important

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00:47:02,970 --> 00:47:03,570
testimony.

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He's speaking to the Galatian churches and you

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know what he does?

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He gives them an example in chapter two.

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He takes them back a few years previous

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and he tells them a testimony and a

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story about when he was a Bible teacher

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in the church at Antioch.

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Him and Barnabas had raised up a glorious

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church, a wonderful church through the preaching of

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the gospel.

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And while they were there, we're told that

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Peter came to preach at the church and

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they were having wonderful times around the tables,

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eating together.

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And Peter would sit with the young Gentile

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Christians saved out of paganism and all manners

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of sinfulness.

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And they were sitting there and Peter would

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eat with them.

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But listen, listen to chapter two, verse 12.

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For before that certain came from James, he

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did eat with the Gentiles.

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But when they come, he withdrew and separated

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himself.

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Now look what's happening here.

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I believe this was witchcraft in operation.

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00:48:09,730 --> 00:48:12,610
These were religious men who came down from

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00:48:12,610 --> 00:48:17,090
Jerusalem and it affected Peter, the apostle here

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00:48:17,090 --> 00:48:19,110
in the church at Antioch.

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00:48:19,190 --> 00:48:21,770
He was glad to sit with the sinners,

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00:48:22,070 --> 00:48:23,430
glad to eat with them.

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But when those old religious Judaizers, these Christians

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00:48:28,730 --> 00:48:31,450
who still held on to the law as

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the means of salvation.

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00:48:32,890 --> 00:48:34,630
In other words, they said, you must be

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00:48:34,630 --> 00:48:35,870
circumcised to be saved.

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00:48:36,090 --> 00:48:37,270
You must keep the law.

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00:48:37,550 --> 00:48:38,810
You must keep the Sabbath.

1142
00:48:39,090 --> 00:48:40,550
You must keep the feast days.

1143
00:48:40,770 --> 00:48:42,790
You must look to the moon and calculate

1144
00:48:42,790 --> 00:48:43,570
the right date.

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00:48:43,750 --> 00:48:45,590
You've got to do all of these things.

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00:48:46,110 --> 00:48:47,170
Do you know what Peter done?

1147
00:48:47,230 --> 00:48:49,350
As soon as he saw them walking in

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00:48:49,350 --> 00:48:50,990
the door, you know what he done?

1149
00:48:51,350 --> 00:48:54,250
It says that he withdrew himself.

1150
00:48:54,950 --> 00:48:57,510
And then he separated himself.

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00:48:57,830 --> 00:48:58,430
You know what he done?

1152
00:48:58,570 --> 00:49:01,530
He slowly stood up and began to move

1153
00:49:01,530 --> 00:49:03,090
away from the tables.

1154
00:49:03,470 --> 00:49:05,050
He become very cautious.

1155
00:49:05,510 --> 00:49:07,050
He began to shrink back.

1156
00:49:07,270 --> 00:49:09,010
He made a tactical retreat.

1157
00:49:09,290 --> 00:49:12,950
He then separated himself from these Gentile Christians.

1158
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In other words, he totally separated himself.

1159
00:49:16,130 --> 00:49:18,330
He put up a barrier, a boundary.

1160
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He kept his distance.

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00:49:20,330 --> 00:49:23,510
Don't think that this keeping a meter apart

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00:49:23,510 --> 00:49:26,450
or two meter apart is only new this

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00:49:26,450 --> 00:49:26,790
year.

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00:49:27,030 --> 00:49:27,550
Oh no.

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00:49:27,910 --> 00:49:30,330
Do you realize the spirit of witchcraft and

1166
00:49:30,330 --> 00:49:32,410
religion can do the same?

1167
00:49:32,790 --> 00:49:34,730
It's like the COVID virus.

1168
00:49:34,850 --> 00:49:37,890
I assure you, suddenly everyone's staying away from

1169
00:49:37,890 --> 00:49:38,070
you.

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00:49:38,510 --> 00:49:40,570
I'm in Christian brothers and sisters.

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00:49:40,810 --> 00:49:42,350
They've never spoken to you.

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00:49:42,570 --> 00:49:43,930
They've never come to you.

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00:49:44,210 --> 00:49:46,750
They've never raised a biblical issue, but suddenly

1174
00:49:46,750 --> 00:49:48,150
their words change.

1175
00:49:49,090 --> 00:49:51,350
Their attitude towards you changes.

1176
00:49:51,530 --> 00:49:53,950
Now they distance themselves and you go, what's

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00:49:53,950 --> 00:49:54,290
wrong?

1178
00:49:54,490 --> 00:49:55,270
What's wrong?

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00:49:55,530 --> 00:49:57,310
You see that's witchcraft friends.

1180
00:49:57,510 --> 00:49:59,990
That is witchcraft in the church and it

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00:49:59,990 --> 00:50:00,910
is devilish.

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00:50:01,150 --> 00:50:04,150
We're talking about justification by faith alone.

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00:50:04,570 --> 00:50:07,250
If God has justified a sinner, if he

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00:50:07,250 --> 00:50:10,030
has made him righteous, if I'm a true

1185
00:50:10,030 --> 00:50:12,930
brother in Jesus Christ, don't you allow all

1186
00:50:12,930 --> 00:50:16,290
of that religious manipulative game plan to come

1187
00:50:16,290 --> 00:50:16,550
in.

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00:50:16,810 --> 00:50:19,330
We're told that Peter began to fear because

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of these men.

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00:50:20,630 --> 00:50:23,330
Be very careful when you begin to fear

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00:50:23,330 --> 00:50:27,410
and withdraw yourself and become all conscious, even

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00:50:27,410 --> 00:50:29,950
though you know in your heart, these Christians

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00:50:29,950 --> 00:50:31,610
are justified by faith.

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00:50:31,730 --> 00:50:33,190
They haven't done anything wrong.

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00:50:33,750 --> 00:50:35,670
You're being influenced by witchcraft.

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00:50:36,070 --> 00:50:37,910
You're being manipulated.

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00:50:38,390 --> 00:50:40,150
It goes on to say in chapter 2

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and 13, and not only Peter and the

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00:50:44,350 --> 00:50:47,530
other Jews dissembled, but Peter's doing it.

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00:50:47,890 --> 00:50:48,970
It must be okay.

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00:50:49,750 --> 00:50:50,350
It must be.

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00:50:50,450 --> 00:50:51,750
Look at this preacher.

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00:50:52,430 --> 00:50:53,570
Be very careful.

1204
00:50:53,910 --> 00:50:55,870
Test everything by the word of God.

1205
00:50:56,410 --> 00:50:59,410
Stand fast in justification by faith.

1206
00:50:59,650 --> 00:51:01,210
You know, if you do or say something

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00:51:01,210 --> 00:51:02,690
to me, I'm going to come talk to

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00:51:02,690 --> 00:51:02,830
you.

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00:51:03,010 --> 00:51:03,970
I don't want to hurt you.

1210
00:51:04,270 --> 00:51:05,350
Maybe I've made a mistake.

1211
00:51:05,470 --> 00:51:07,410
Maybe I misheard, but you know what?

1212
00:51:07,450 --> 00:51:09,550
If some issue arises, I want to go

1213
00:51:09,550 --> 00:51:10,990
to you as my brother and sister.

1214
00:51:11,270 --> 00:51:12,030
You know what this is?

1215
00:51:12,110 --> 00:51:15,250
This is standing and protecting the teaching of

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00:51:15,250 --> 00:51:16,730
justification by faith.

1217
00:51:16,950 --> 00:51:21,710
After Peter had said other Jews dissembled likewise,

1218
00:51:22,170 --> 00:51:23,030
you know what that means?

1219
00:51:23,070 --> 00:51:24,710
To act hypocritically.

1220
00:51:24,830 --> 00:51:27,330
They didn't believe this, but they begin to

1221
00:51:27,330 --> 00:51:28,670
act like hypocrites.

1222
00:51:28,850 --> 00:51:30,670
They do it outwardly.

1223
00:51:30,950 --> 00:51:34,690
They come into unity with these infiltrators.

1224
00:51:35,130 --> 00:51:37,970
I'm talking about the power of witchcraft can

1225
00:51:37,970 --> 00:51:40,190
begin to make you act hypocritically.

1226
00:51:40,470 --> 00:51:42,410
In your heart, you know the truth, but

1227
00:51:42,410 --> 00:51:43,670
you are scared.

1228
00:51:43,970 --> 00:51:46,170
You're scared to say or defend someone.

1229
00:51:46,410 --> 00:51:48,130
You're scared to stand for truth.

1230
00:51:48,270 --> 00:51:50,110
You're scared to expose error.

1231
00:51:50,350 --> 00:51:53,190
You're scared to say, Peter, that's not right.

1232
00:51:53,710 --> 00:51:54,290
You know what?

1233
00:51:54,330 --> 00:51:56,850
When we get there, the church is coming

1234
00:51:56,850 --> 00:51:59,230
under the influence of witchcraft.

1235
00:51:59,510 --> 00:52:01,310
It says, and all of this went on

1236
00:52:01,310 --> 00:52:04,970
in so much that even Barnabas also was

1237
00:52:04,970 --> 00:52:07,590
carried away with their dissimulation.

1238
00:52:08,110 --> 00:52:11,470
Paul's co-labor in the church at Antioch,

1239
00:52:11,830 --> 00:52:14,790
even he, first Peter, then the Jews, now

1240
00:52:14,790 --> 00:52:17,970
Barnabas, one of the main leaders in the

1241
00:52:17,970 --> 00:52:20,930
local church, even he got carried away with

1242
00:52:20,930 --> 00:52:21,050
it.

1243
00:52:21,250 --> 00:52:23,130
I mean, this was like a flood coming

1244
00:52:23,130 --> 00:52:24,570
into the church at Antioch.

1245
00:52:24,730 --> 00:52:28,470
It just breezed through, catching Peter, Barnabas, and

1246
00:52:28,470 --> 00:52:29,130
many others.

1247
00:52:30,050 --> 00:52:30,710
But you know what?

1248
00:52:30,730 --> 00:52:32,390
There was a man there who stood against

1249
00:52:32,390 --> 00:52:34,490
it, and his name was Paul.

1250
00:52:35,090 --> 00:52:37,630
He was a Bible teacher then, not an

1251
00:52:37,630 --> 00:52:38,010
apostle.

1252
00:52:38,470 --> 00:52:40,450
And he said, they all got carried away

1253
00:52:40,450 --> 00:52:41,750
with dissimulation.

1254
00:52:42,150 --> 00:52:43,170
Do you know what he done?

1255
00:52:43,430 --> 00:52:46,570
It says, I stood Peter to his face,

1256
00:52:46,710 --> 00:52:50,370
and I said it unto Peter before them

1257
00:52:50,370 --> 00:52:50,630
all.

1258
00:52:50,630 --> 00:52:53,490
In other words, publicly, he exposed it.

1259
00:52:53,770 --> 00:52:54,190
And you know what?

1260
00:52:54,210 --> 00:52:56,650
He began to preach to Peter, and now

1261
00:52:56,650 --> 00:52:58,950
to the Galatians, he said, not only did

1262
00:52:58,950 --> 00:53:01,450
it rescue Peter and Barnabas and the others,

1263
00:53:01,630 --> 00:53:04,110
and it saved the church at Antioch, now

1264
00:53:04,110 --> 00:53:06,030
I'm going to preach it again to you,

1265
00:53:06,370 --> 00:53:07,710
the Galatian churches.

1266
00:53:08,050 --> 00:53:08,610
You know why?

1267
00:53:08,830 --> 00:53:10,970
You're under the influence of witchcraft.

1268
00:53:11,050 --> 00:53:12,330
You've turned against me.

1269
00:53:12,530 --> 00:53:13,710
I've never hurt you.

1270
00:53:13,930 --> 00:53:15,770
I've never done anything against you.

1271
00:53:16,010 --> 00:53:16,550
And you know what?

1272
00:53:16,570 --> 00:53:20,050
When you turn against good Christians, godly, upright,

1273
00:53:20,050 --> 00:53:23,050
and preachers who preach truth, when you turn

1274
00:53:23,050 --> 00:53:25,670
against them, witchcraft is operating.

1275
00:53:26,010 --> 00:53:27,230
I'm going to show you about that.

1276
00:53:27,310 --> 00:53:28,810
I've seen it too many times.

1277
00:53:29,110 --> 00:53:30,590
I've seen it too many times.

1278
00:53:31,010 --> 00:53:33,930
What does Paul now preach to Peter and

1279
00:53:33,930 --> 00:53:35,230
to the churches of Galatia?

1280
00:53:35,530 --> 00:53:39,030
Knowing this, chapter 2, verse 16, knowing this,

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00:53:40,010 --> 00:53:43,370
that a man is not justified by the

1282
00:53:43,370 --> 00:53:46,670
works of the law, but by the faith

1283
00:53:46,670 --> 00:53:48,430
of Jesus Christ.

1284
00:53:48,990 --> 00:53:51,830
Even we have believed in Christ that we

1285
00:53:51,830 --> 00:53:55,210
might be justified by the faith of Christ

1286
00:53:55,210 --> 00:53:57,270
and not by the works of the law,

1287
00:53:57,690 --> 00:54:00,010
for by the works of the law shall

1288
00:54:00,010 --> 00:54:02,310
no flesh be justified.

1289
00:54:02,570 --> 00:54:05,070
He began to preach to Peter and Barnabas

1290
00:54:05,070 --> 00:54:07,310
and the church at Antioch, and now to

1291
00:54:07,310 --> 00:54:08,810
the Galatians, he's writing to them.

1292
00:54:09,130 --> 00:54:13,350
He keeps preaching every chapter, justification by faith.

1293
00:54:13,610 --> 00:54:16,870
This is the fundamental principle of the Christian

1294
00:54:16,870 --> 00:54:17,150
life.

1295
00:54:17,390 --> 00:54:22,070
I was made righteous by faith in Christ,

1296
00:54:22,190 --> 00:54:23,710
by the grace of God.

1297
00:54:23,950 --> 00:54:25,090
It's not by works.

1298
00:54:25,290 --> 00:54:26,590
I believe in holiness.

1299
00:54:26,850 --> 00:54:28,090
I preach holiness.

1300
00:54:28,510 --> 00:54:30,450
I command what the Bible commands.

1301
00:54:30,490 --> 00:54:31,970
You know I do in this church.

1302
00:54:32,230 --> 00:54:34,070
But I want to tell you, that is

1303
00:54:34,070 --> 00:54:35,330
not the foundation.

1304
00:54:35,730 --> 00:54:37,570
That does not save you.

1305
00:54:37,890 --> 00:54:41,070
You're saved by grace alone, through faith alone,

1306
00:54:41,170 --> 00:54:43,810
in Christ alone, in the finished work of

1307
00:54:43,810 --> 00:54:44,730
the cross alone.

1308
00:54:44,730 --> 00:54:47,670
And it's the Holy Spirit that enables you

1309
00:54:47,670 --> 00:54:48,410
to do that.

1310
00:54:48,670 --> 00:54:50,990
Do you know that Peter got recovered, and

1311
00:54:50,990 --> 00:54:53,550
a few years later, he's writing about Paul

1312
00:54:53,550 --> 00:54:56,830
the agent, my dear brother Paul, and all

1313
00:54:56,830 --> 00:54:57,630
of his letters.

1314
00:54:57,910 --> 00:55:00,650
Isn't it wonderful that Peter, that great preacher

1315
00:55:00,650 --> 00:55:03,930
Pentecost, had to be withstood to his face

1316
00:55:03,930 --> 00:55:06,590
and say, Peter, you're acting the hypocrite.

1317
00:55:06,990 --> 00:55:10,970
Peter, we taught justification by faith, but you're

1318
00:55:10,970 --> 00:55:14,570
bringing other regulations in, which are in the

1319
00:55:14,570 --> 00:55:18,270
law, but not in Christ, under grace.

1320
00:55:18,590 --> 00:55:22,170
You know, I'm against all this Judaistic Christianity

1321
00:55:22,170 --> 00:55:24,090
that's come into the church in our day.

1322
00:55:24,590 --> 00:55:25,110
Skullcaps.

1323
00:55:25,510 --> 00:55:27,570
The Bible says no man is to pray

1324
00:55:27,570 --> 00:55:28,550
with his head covered.

1325
00:55:28,810 --> 00:55:31,110
And you have them with prayer shawls and

1326
00:55:31,110 --> 00:55:32,790
Jewish skullcaps.

1327
00:55:33,130 --> 00:55:35,350
And they begin to say, you've got to

1328
00:55:35,350 --> 00:55:37,130
keep the feasts of Israel.

1329
00:55:37,830 --> 00:55:39,130
No, you do not.

1330
00:55:39,290 --> 00:55:40,570
I don't keep Passover.

1331
00:55:41,030 --> 00:55:43,550
Christ is my Passover.

1332
00:55:44,110 --> 00:55:46,790
You know, justification by faith lifts you out

1333
00:55:46,790 --> 00:55:49,550
of religion and out of the attempts of

1334
00:55:49,550 --> 00:55:51,410
the flesh to be good enough for God.

1335
00:55:51,570 --> 00:55:53,830
And it puts you in faith alone, by

1336
00:55:53,830 --> 00:55:54,690
Christ alone.

1337
00:55:55,010 --> 00:55:57,790
This is the foundational doctrine of this church.

1338
00:55:57,890 --> 00:56:00,110
Not the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

1339
00:56:00,510 --> 00:56:02,590
Not that we believe in healing.

1340
00:56:02,950 --> 00:56:05,570
Not that we believe in evangelizing the world.

1341
00:56:05,570 --> 00:56:08,270
We preach Christ and him crucified.

1342
00:56:08,770 --> 00:56:11,450
That if any man believes in Christ, he

1343
00:56:11,450 --> 00:56:12,890
will be made righteous.

1344
00:56:13,290 --> 00:56:14,870
And can I tell you, any drug addict

1345
00:56:14,870 --> 00:56:17,010
in this city of Limerick, I don't care

1346
00:56:17,010 --> 00:56:18,210
if they're a heroin addict.

1347
00:56:18,530 --> 00:56:20,710
I don't care if they're the worst criminal

1348
00:56:20,710 --> 00:56:21,370
on the streets.

1349
00:56:21,690 --> 00:56:25,250
If they hear the real gospel, believe in

1350
00:56:25,250 --> 00:56:28,330
the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be

1351
00:56:28,330 --> 00:56:28,650
saved.

1352
00:56:28,930 --> 00:56:29,350
You know what?

1353
00:56:29,410 --> 00:56:31,410
That drugs addiction will be broken.

1354
00:56:31,410 --> 00:56:32,990
It will be broken.

1355
00:56:32,990 --> 00:56:35,830
If you believe in Christ, you're going to

1356
00:56:35,830 --> 00:56:39,090
be saved and delivered from the power of

1357
00:56:39,090 --> 00:56:39,410
drugs.

1358
00:56:39,550 --> 00:56:39,950
What is it?

1359
00:56:40,270 --> 00:56:40,810
Witchcraft.

1360
00:56:41,350 --> 00:56:42,490
It is witchcraft.

1361
00:56:42,890 --> 00:56:43,990
It is pharmacia.

1362
00:56:44,410 --> 00:56:47,210
It is that binding of hell.

1363
00:56:47,370 --> 00:56:49,550
It's demonic power trying to bind you.

1364
00:56:49,830 --> 00:56:52,730
It'll be broken by the message of believe

1365
00:56:52,730 --> 00:56:54,070
in the Lord Jesus Christ.

1366
00:56:54,330 --> 00:56:56,190
Oh, Brother Keith, no, we need inner healing.

1367
00:56:56,470 --> 00:56:57,630
We need deliverance.

1368
00:56:57,710 --> 00:56:59,230
We need to cast demons out.

1369
00:56:59,510 --> 00:57:01,550
We need to go back to your childhood.

1370
00:57:01,990 --> 00:57:03,410
We need to counsel you.

1371
00:57:03,770 --> 00:57:06,630
I had a pastor, a very sincere man,

1372
00:57:06,690 --> 00:57:07,590
just some months ago.

1373
00:57:07,650 --> 00:57:09,490
He said, if you want me to counsel

1374
00:57:09,490 --> 00:57:12,190
you, just let me know, and I can

1375
00:57:12,190 --> 00:57:13,170
counsel you.

1376
00:57:13,670 --> 00:57:17,050
Someone said to Candice, if Keith needs someone

1377
00:57:17,050 --> 00:57:19,990
to counsel him during this time, just tell

1378
00:57:19,990 --> 00:57:22,170
me and I'll do it.

1379
00:57:22,490 --> 00:57:24,870
Can I tell you here, at this stage,

1380
00:57:25,530 --> 00:57:27,870
you, my wife's a great counselor.

1381
00:57:27,870 --> 00:57:29,410
She gives me the word of God.

1382
00:57:29,990 --> 00:57:32,470
Says, Keith, you know what the Bible said.

1383
00:57:32,530 --> 00:57:33,630
That's a great counselor.

1384
00:57:33,910 --> 00:57:35,770
I don't need psychology.

1385
00:57:36,330 --> 00:57:38,150
I don't need someone going back to my

1386
00:57:38,150 --> 00:57:38,510
childhood.

1387
00:57:38,910 --> 00:57:40,370
Just give me the word of God.

1388
00:57:40,490 --> 00:57:41,970
That's the kind, any one of you in

1389
00:57:41,970 --> 00:57:43,490
this church can remind me of the word

1390
00:57:43,490 --> 00:57:43,770
of God.

1391
00:57:43,850 --> 00:57:46,090
I thank you for godly counsel.

1392
00:57:46,450 --> 00:57:47,370
I do need that.

1393
00:57:47,530 --> 00:57:50,690
All these new movements, beware, because there's a

1394
00:57:50,690 --> 00:57:53,790
power of witchcraft behind them saying, oh, you

1395
00:57:53,790 --> 00:57:54,950
need to add this.

1396
00:57:55,310 --> 00:57:58,450
Third and finally, we said, these are the

1397
00:57:58,450 --> 00:58:00,290
three points that destroy witchcraft.

1398
00:58:00,630 --> 00:58:03,010
First of all, the centrality of the cross.

1399
00:58:03,730 --> 00:58:07,530
Second of all, justification by faith alone and

1400
00:58:07,530 --> 00:58:08,290
Christ alone.

1401
00:58:08,610 --> 00:58:11,950
But third of all, walking in the spirit.

1402
00:58:12,550 --> 00:58:14,910
Paul presents these three things as well as

1403
00:58:14,910 --> 00:58:17,890
other things, but these three things mainly as

1404
00:58:17,890 --> 00:58:19,510
the answer to the Galatians.

1405
00:58:19,510 --> 00:58:22,130
He is in a crisis, a rescue mission.

1406
00:58:22,350 --> 00:58:25,550
I'm trying to save you from these Judaizers,

1407
00:58:25,890 --> 00:58:28,910
from these men who brought you under witchcraft,

1408
00:58:29,110 --> 00:58:32,270
who've manipulated you and have turned you aside

1409
00:58:32,270 --> 00:58:35,450
from the true gospel of Jesus Christ and

1410
00:58:35,450 --> 00:58:38,730
have separated you from me, that burst you

1411
00:58:38,730 --> 00:58:40,990
in the gospel, that prayed for you, that

1412
00:58:40,990 --> 00:58:42,290
carried you in my heart.

1413
00:58:42,530 --> 00:58:44,790
You've been separated and turned aside.

1414
00:58:44,790 --> 00:58:46,910
You used to treat me like an angel.

1415
00:58:47,190 --> 00:58:49,970
Now you despise me and I have become

1416
00:58:49,970 --> 00:58:50,970
your enemy.

1417
00:58:51,330 --> 00:58:54,930
But third and finally, in Galatians chapter five,

1418
00:58:55,010 --> 00:58:59,990
verse 16 to 25, we actually have this

1419
00:58:59,990 --> 00:59:01,950
walking in the spirit.

1420
00:59:02,350 --> 00:59:04,390
It says in verse 16, and this is

1421
00:59:04,390 --> 00:59:06,490
the answer for witchcraft.

1422
00:59:07,110 --> 00:59:10,150
Walk in the spirit and ye shall not

1423
00:59:10,150 --> 00:59:12,390
fulfill the lust of the flesh.

1424
00:59:12,550 --> 00:59:17,230
Remember witchcraft is a manifestation, one of the

1425
00:59:17,230 --> 00:59:18,810
marks of the flesh.

1426
00:59:19,550 --> 00:59:20,490
What does Paul say?

1427
00:59:20,690 --> 00:59:22,390
If you don't want that flesh to operate,

1428
00:59:22,810 --> 00:59:25,350
if you don't want witchcraft to come through

1429
00:59:25,350 --> 00:59:29,030
in whatever diverse manner, if you don't want

1430
00:59:29,030 --> 00:59:30,770
it to have an effect on your life

1431
00:59:30,770 --> 00:59:33,070
or to arise, do you know what?

1432
00:59:33,650 --> 00:59:35,370
Walk in the spirit.

1433
00:59:36,070 --> 00:59:40,010
Walk in the spirit and ye shall not

1434
00:59:40,010 --> 00:59:41,970
fulfill the lust of the flesh.

1435
00:59:42,210 --> 00:59:43,430
Or look at verse 25.

1436
00:59:43,790 --> 00:59:46,950
If we live in the spirit, let us

1437
00:59:46,950 --> 00:59:49,830
also walk in the spirit.

1438
00:59:50,090 --> 00:59:51,910
What does it mean to walk in the

1439
00:59:51,910 --> 00:59:52,250
spirit?

1440
00:59:53,150 --> 00:59:54,630
Now I know we've got a lot of

1441
00:59:54,630 --> 00:59:56,910
people in our churches in this hour and

1442
00:59:56,910 --> 00:59:58,890
they think walking in the spirit is to

1443
00:59:58,890 --> 00:59:59,430
have feelings.

1444
00:59:59,650 --> 01:00:02,630
The spirit told me that isn't walking in

1445
01:00:02,630 --> 01:00:03,130
the spirit.

1446
01:00:03,690 --> 01:00:05,770
That is not what it's talking about here.

1447
01:00:06,650 --> 01:00:08,530
People who walk in the spirit in this

1448
01:00:08,530 --> 01:00:10,630
hour, they think I had dreams, I had

1449
01:00:10,630 --> 01:00:12,130
visions, I had revelations.

1450
01:00:12,310 --> 01:00:14,610
God told me this is walking in the

1451
01:00:14,610 --> 01:00:14,930
spirit.

1452
01:00:15,290 --> 01:00:16,790
You know, a lot of those people who

1453
01:00:16,790 --> 01:00:19,930
operate like that, I find they actually operate

1454
01:00:19,930 --> 01:00:20,910
in witchcraft.

1455
01:00:21,510 --> 01:00:22,870
Does the Holy Spirit speak today?

1456
01:00:23,310 --> 01:00:24,610
Yes, he does.

1457
01:00:25,110 --> 01:00:27,090
He does speak in a very real way,

1458
01:00:27,390 --> 01:00:29,410
but that isn't what it's speaking about here.

1459
01:00:29,810 --> 01:00:32,050
There's lots of people who claim guidance by

1460
01:00:32,050 --> 01:00:35,210
the Holy Spirit and they're manipulating through their

1461
01:00:35,210 --> 01:00:36,030
soul realm.

1462
01:00:36,370 --> 01:00:38,710
It is their soul that is trying to

1463
01:00:38,710 --> 01:00:42,810
control and is pretending or counterfeiting the Holy

1464
01:00:42,810 --> 01:00:43,170
Spirit.

1465
01:00:43,510 --> 01:00:44,470
It is witchcraft.

1466
01:00:44,630 --> 01:00:46,870
It is demonic and the devil comes in

1467
01:00:46,870 --> 01:00:47,630
in the back of that.

1468
01:00:47,630 --> 01:00:50,050
But I'm talking about the cure that breaks

1469
01:00:50,050 --> 01:00:53,010
the power of witchcraft in a life, in

1470
01:00:53,010 --> 01:00:54,750
a church, in a ministry.

1471
01:00:55,150 --> 01:00:58,150
It destroys it and Paul preaches it here.

1472
01:00:58,630 --> 01:01:00,230
Walk in the spirit.

1473
01:01:00,730 --> 01:01:02,090
What is walking in the spirit?

1474
01:01:02,370 --> 01:01:04,730
It means to keep in step with the

1475
01:01:04,730 --> 01:01:05,010
spirit.

1476
01:01:05,450 --> 01:01:08,230
The direction the Holy Spirit walks in, you

1477
01:01:08,230 --> 01:01:10,570
choose to walk in the same direction.

1478
01:01:11,370 --> 01:01:15,450
You step in his footsteps, the steps that

1479
01:01:15,450 --> 01:01:15,890
he makes.

1480
01:01:16,030 --> 01:01:19,930
In other words, every situation, every circumstance, every

1481
01:01:19,930 --> 01:01:23,990
relationship, what does the Holy Spirit say in

1482
01:01:23,990 --> 01:01:24,890
the scriptures?

1483
01:01:26,150 --> 01:01:27,550
Do you know this Bible is given by

1484
01:01:27,550 --> 01:01:28,230
the Holy Spirit?

1485
01:01:28,390 --> 01:01:29,110
He has spoken.

1486
01:01:29,510 --> 01:01:31,970
He's given commands on every area of life,

1487
01:01:32,230 --> 01:01:34,930
in church, society, our family.

1488
01:01:35,210 --> 01:01:37,770
He's given us all this teaching, the Holy

1489
01:01:37,770 --> 01:01:40,570
Spirit saith, all this instruction.

1490
01:01:40,910 --> 01:01:43,210
And I've met thousands of Christians.

1491
01:01:43,390 --> 01:01:45,310
I've tried to talk to so many.

1492
01:01:45,770 --> 01:01:46,830
And you know what they say?

1493
01:01:46,950 --> 01:01:47,930
I've got the spirit.

1494
01:01:48,170 --> 01:01:49,230
I'm walking in the spirit.

1495
01:01:49,450 --> 01:01:50,990
And you try to show them what the

1496
01:01:50,990 --> 01:01:52,550
Holy Spirit said in the word of God

1497
01:01:52,550 --> 01:01:53,410
very clearly.

1498
01:01:53,510 --> 01:01:54,770
And they say, oh, no, no, no.

1499
01:01:54,770 --> 01:01:57,510
I disagree with that.

1500
01:01:57,750 --> 01:01:59,330
No, I'm going to go do this.

1501
01:01:59,650 --> 01:02:00,170
You know what?

1502
01:02:00,310 --> 01:02:03,110
You're choosing to walk outside the spirit and

1503
01:02:03,110 --> 01:02:05,630
you're leaving yourself wide open to witchcraft.

1504
01:02:05,850 --> 01:02:08,650
You're either going to walk, if you're looking

1505
01:02:08,650 --> 01:02:10,750
for the real, you're either going to walk

1506
01:02:10,750 --> 01:02:11,790
in the spirit.

1507
01:02:12,230 --> 01:02:15,010
You're going to walk with the spirit in

1508
01:02:15,010 --> 01:02:16,890
agreement with the Holy Spirit.

1509
01:02:17,170 --> 01:02:18,690
But as soon as you make a conscious

1510
01:02:18,690 --> 01:02:21,550
choice to walk out a step with him

1511
01:02:21,550 --> 01:02:23,710
and not to walk in unity with him,

1512
01:02:23,950 --> 01:02:28,350
you're opening yourself up for deceiving spirits or

1513
01:02:28,350 --> 01:02:30,790
witchcraft to influence your life.

1514
01:02:31,030 --> 01:02:33,050
You know, the Galatians, they got tricked out

1515
01:02:33,050 --> 01:02:33,490
of this.

1516
01:02:33,630 --> 01:02:36,110
They got tricked out of this rather than

1517
01:02:36,110 --> 01:02:37,210
walking in the spirit.

1518
01:02:37,330 --> 01:02:38,210
What did Paul say?

1519
01:02:38,650 --> 01:02:39,970
Ye did run well.

1520
01:02:40,330 --> 01:02:43,250
Who did hinder you from walking in the

1521
01:02:43,250 --> 01:02:43,690
truth?

1522
01:02:44,070 --> 01:02:45,870
Do you realize what he says here?

1523
01:02:46,250 --> 01:02:48,850
And even in Galatians chapter three and one

1524
01:02:48,850 --> 01:02:52,950
again, oh foolish Galatians, who have bewitched you

1525
01:02:52,950 --> 01:02:55,570
that ye should not obey the truth.

1526
01:02:55,790 --> 01:02:57,150
What is running and walking?

1527
01:02:57,330 --> 01:02:59,210
It is obedience to the truth.

1528
01:02:59,470 --> 01:03:01,890
These Galatians, they began to say, we've got

1529
01:03:01,890 --> 01:03:03,050
to do this and we've got to do

1530
01:03:03,050 --> 01:03:04,330
that and we've got to do this.

1531
01:03:04,370 --> 01:03:05,910
They begin to add things.

1532
01:03:06,290 --> 01:03:08,130
You don't need to add anything that isn't

1533
01:03:08,130 --> 01:03:08,650
in this book.

1534
01:03:09,010 --> 01:03:11,770
Walk in the truth as it's revealed in

1535
01:03:11,770 --> 01:03:12,830
the person of Christ.

1536
01:03:13,210 --> 01:03:15,010
Grow in the things of truth.

1537
01:03:15,670 --> 01:03:18,650
Walk in justification by faith alone.

1538
01:03:19,010 --> 01:03:20,430
But do you know what the Galatians done?

1539
01:03:20,670 --> 01:03:22,930
They got bewitched away from this.

1540
01:03:23,270 --> 01:03:25,050
They got told you've got to do this

1541
01:03:25,050 --> 01:03:25,910
and you've got to do that.

1542
01:03:26,110 --> 01:03:28,050
It's not the Holy Spirit in it.

1543
01:03:28,210 --> 01:03:31,090
They begin to listen to men rather than

1544
01:03:31,090 --> 01:03:32,050
the Holy Spirit.

1545
01:03:32,430 --> 01:03:34,510
And the Holy Spirit is very clear in

1546
01:03:34,510 --> 01:03:35,890
Galatians 5 and 18.

1547
01:03:36,030 --> 01:03:38,090
But if ye be led of the Spirit,

1548
01:03:38,410 --> 01:03:40,170
you're not under the law.

1549
01:03:40,470 --> 01:03:42,570
Do you realize being led by the Holy

1550
01:03:42,570 --> 01:03:45,630
Spirit, walking in agreement with the Holy Spirit,

1551
01:03:45,910 --> 01:03:48,530
you'll walk in the covenant of grace and

1552
01:03:48,530 --> 01:03:50,230
not the covenant of law.

1553
01:03:50,450 --> 01:03:53,810
You'll be deceived if you turn back to

1554
01:03:53,810 --> 01:03:56,650
that covenant of the law again.

1555
01:03:57,010 --> 01:03:59,670
You know in Galatians it begins to talk

1556
01:03:59,670 --> 01:04:02,910
here about this fight between the Holy Spirit

1557
01:04:02,910 --> 01:04:04,350
and the flesh of man.

1558
01:04:04,770 --> 01:04:06,750
You see the guests of the Holy Spirit

1559
01:04:06,750 --> 01:04:09,830
in the real Holy Spirit is very different

1560
01:04:09,830 --> 01:04:12,050
than witchcraft in the flesh and yet it

1561
01:04:12,050 --> 01:04:14,270
could look the same in the local church.

1562
01:04:14,630 --> 01:04:18,130
You could have some old lady prophesying over

1563
01:04:18,130 --> 01:04:22,770
younger believers, controlling them, using prophecy, looking very

1564
01:04:22,770 --> 01:04:23,390
spiritual.

1565
01:04:23,850 --> 01:04:24,690
You know what she is?

1566
01:04:24,750 --> 01:04:25,530
She's a witch.

1567
01:04:25,950 --> 01:04:27,270
She's a witch in the church.

1568
01:04:27,550 --> 01:04:29,110
She's manipulating you.

1569
01:04:29,530 --> 01:04:30,870
She's making you to fear.

1570
01:04:31,210 --> 01:04:32,350
Oh she's threatening you.

1571
01:04:32,610 --> 01:04:34,970
We know an old lady in one particular

1572
01:04:34,970 --> 01:04:35,450
church.

1573
01:04:35,710 --> 01:04:37,970
The first thing a young convert or a

1574
01:04:37,970 --> 01:04:40,710
young lady walks in that church, the first

1575
01:04:40,710 --> 01:04:42,770
thing before she even says God bless, she'll

1576
01:04:42,770 --> 01:04:44,070
look at you from the top of your

1577
01:04:44,070 --> 01:04:45,510
head to the sole of your feet.

1578
01:04:45,990 --> 01:04:48,530
You know what that look is to intimidate

1579
01:04:48,530 --> 01:04:48,770
you.

1580
01:04:49,090 --> 01:04:51,210
That look is to manipulate you.

1581
01:04:51,630 --> 01:04:52,770
That is just the beginning.

1582
01:04:52,870 --> 01:04:55,510
I'm telling you about real things church and

1583
01:04:55,510 --> 01:04:58,090
it's utterly unacceptable in our means.

1584
01:04:58,470 --> 01:05:01,650
Don't you go correcting people and other people's

1585
01:05:01,650 --> 01:05:03,870
lives in this church when you're not right.

1586
01:05:04,110 --> 01:05:04,950
You know what that is?

1587
01:05:04,990 --> 01:05:06,010
That's a flesh.

1588
01:05:06,410 --> 01:05:07,070
That's the flesh.

1589
01:05:07,270 --> 01:05:09,090
When you're trying to sort out other people

1590
01:05:09,090 --> 01:05:11,430
and you're pointing things out and you're doing

1591
01:05:11,430 --> 01:05:12,210
the same thing.

1592
01:05:12,450 --> 01:05:12,870
You know what?

1593
01:05:12,950 --> 01:05:14,410
You're in very dangerous ground.

1594
01:05:14,730 --> 01:05:17,030
You're trying to manipulate them and you're trying

1595
01:05:17,030 --> 01:05:19,070
to control them and get them to do

1596
01:05:19,070 --> 01:05:20,450
things that you won't even do.

1597
01:05:20,610 --> 01:05:22,570
There's no power in your life and you're

1598
01:05:22,570 --> 01:05:27,950
trying to shed your conviction and your condemnation

1599
01:05:27,950 --> 01:05:30,470
by telling them that you know the right

1600
01:05:30,470 --> 01:05:31,250
thing to do.

1601
01:05:31,510 --> 01:05:32,090
You know what?

1602
01:05:32,290 --> 01:05:34,850
When you walk in the spirit, you know

1603
01:05:34,850 --> 01:05:37,050
it's not by the law that you're saved.

1604
01:05:37,270 --> 01:05:39,710
You walk by the power of the Holy

1605
01:05:39,710 --> 01:05:41,550
Spirit and this isn't licensed.

1606
01:05:41,910 --> 01:05:43,310
You obey the truth.

1607
01:05:43,610 --> 01:05:44,650
You obey the truth.

1608
01:05:44,770 --> 01:05:48,010
If you find people in today's church and

1609
01:05:48,010 --> 01:05:49,890
they say, I believe in Christ crucified.

1610
01:05:50,770 --> 01:05:52,910
I believe in justification by faith.

1611
01:05:53,310 --> 01:05:55,210
I believe in being led by the spirit.

1612
01:05:55,550 --> 01:05:56,150
I'm free.

1613
01:05:56,390 --> 01:05:59,790
I am under grace and they do not

1614
01:05:59,790 --> 01:06:03,030
keep the truth of God or obey the

1615
01:06:03,030 --> 01:06:05,150
word of God and they say to you,

1616
01:06:05,250 --> 01:06:06,590
no, no, I'm under grace.

1617
01:06:06,870 --> 01:06:08,250
No, no, no, I'm justified.

1618
01:06:09,330 --> 01:06:10,910
I'm right with God.

1619
01:06:11,270 --> 01:06:11,810
Do you know what?

1620
01:06:12,070 --> 01:06:12,850
They're bewitched.

1621
01:06:13,050 --> 01:06:15,930
They've been deceived by a false gospel.

1622
01:06:15,930 --> 01:06:18,630
And just like the worst Catholic in the

1623
01:06:18,630 --> 01:06:21,450
city, if you find someone who came in

1624
01:06:21,450 --> 01:06:24,030
here and said, I believe in Christ and

1625
01:06:24,030 --> 01:06:26,390
they're still getting drunk and they're not a

1626
01:06:26,390 --> 01:06:28,610
member of a church and they're out there

1627
01:06:28,610 --> 01:06:32,530
using drugs or they're sleeping around or one

1628
01:06:32,530 --> 01:06:35,870
week they're blaspheming and the next week they're

1629
01:06:35,870 --> 01:06:37,950
witnessing to others and saying you're going to

1630
01:06:37,950 --> 01:06:38,530
go to hell.

1631
01:06:38,870 --> 01:06:39,870
You know what they are?

1632
01:06:39,870 --> 01:06:40,890
They're bewitched.

1633
01:06:41,310 --> 01:06:44,670
The devil is influencing their life.

1634
01:06:44,810 --> 01:06:45,390
And you know what?

1635
01:06:45,750 --> 01:06:50,170
Like with Jambreeson jammers, you cannot speak to

1636
01:06:50,170 --> 01:06:50,410
them.

1637
01:06:50,970 --> 01:06:52,590
Do you know what happens when you go

1638
01:06:52,590 --> 01:06:53,910
to speak to them and say, no, no,

1639
01:06:54,310 --> 01:06:55,970
one saved, always saved.

1640
01:06:56,310 --> 01:06:57,550
I know I'm getting drunk.

1641
01:06:57,930 --> 01:06:58,230
I know.

1642
01:06:58,370 --> 01:06:58,650
I know.

1643
01:06:58,830 --> 01:06:59,170
Don't.

1644
01:06:59,270 --> 01:07:00,050
I know.

1645
01:07:00,370 --> 01:07:00,950
I know.

1646
01:07:01,210 --> 01:07:01,670
You know what?

1647
01:07:01,730 --> 01:07:03,210
That's a bewitched person.

1648
01:07:03,670 --> 01:07:05,570
And Paul here dealing with the Galatians.

1649
01:07:05,690 --> 01:07:07,470
He said, I am pleading with you.

1650
01:07:07,830 --> 01:07:08,710
I'm calling you.

1651
01:07:10,150 --> 01:07:13,450
The centrality of the cross, a crucified life

1652
01:07:13,450 --> 01:07:15,570
to justification by faith alone.

1653
01:07:15,810 --> 01:07:16,230
Hey, sure.

1654
01:07:16,330 --> 01:07:17,130
We know that.

1655
01:07:17,430 --> 01:07:18,570
No, you don't.

1656
01:07:18,750 --> 01:07:19,950
There is a power.

1657
01:07:20,230 --> 01:07:23,330
There is a power and justification by faith.

1658
01:07:23,410 --> 01:07:26,470
Don't tell me, you know, this simple elementary

1659
01:07:26,470 --> 01:07:29,330
truth, since I need grip by it once

1660
01:07:29,330 --> 01:07:29,790
more.

1661
01:07:29,930 --> 01:07:31,710
And I need to be led by the

1662
01:07:31,710 --> 01:07:32,470
spirit of God.

1663
01:07:32,790 --> 01:07:36,610
Anyone not obeying the truth is not being

1664
01:07:36,610 --> 01:07:39,250
led by the spirit of God.

1665
01:07:39,490 --> 01:07:42,430
Saints, if we stick with these three truths,

1666
01:07:43,030 --> 01:07:47,090
the centrality of the cross, justification by faith

1667
01:07:47,090 --> 01:07:50,210
and being led by the spirit are walking

1668
01:07:50,210 --> 01:07:52,210
in step with the spirit.

1669
01:07:52,750 --> 01:07:53,290
You know what?

1670
01:07:53,730 --> 01:07:59,110
Witchcraft manipulations, lies, false operations of the spirit,

1671
01:07:59,830 --> 01:08:00,770
necromancy.

1672
01:08:01,490 --> 01:08:03,270
None of this will have any place here

1673
01:08:03,270 --> 01:08:04,310
because you know what?

1674
01:08:04,350 --> 01:08:06,110
As soon as it appears, if it should

1675
01:08:06,110 --> 01:08:09,710
appear like Paul, the apostle will withstand it

1676
01:08:09,710 --> 01:08:11,870
to the face publicly.

1677
01:08:11,950 --> 01:08:13,970
I'm going to say, brother, that's not okay

1678
01:08:13,970 --> 01:08:14,210
here.

1679
01:08:14,270 --> 01:08:15,149
We don't do that.

1680
01:08:15,470 --> 01:08:16,830
Sister, that's not okay.

1681
01:08:17,069 --> 01:08:19,609
Talking behind people's back without going to them.

1682
01:08:19,970 --> 01:08:23,170
You know, you'll know about the Morris shell

1683
01:08:23,170 --> 01:08:26,229
and Candace has said this before that the

1684
01:08:26,229 --> 01:08:29,930
Morris shell, that the daughter, the oldest daughter

1685
01:08:29,930 --> 01:08:33,609
of William Booth of the salvation army.

1686
01:08:34,090 --> 01:08:38,069
Once she cured someone of gossip and slander

1687
01:08:38,069 --> 01:08:38,670
and lies.

1688
01:08:38,830 --> 01:08:40,170
They come to her and said, do you

1689
01:08:40,170 --> 01:08:40,729
know this?

1690
01:08:41,069 --> 01:08:43,069
And she grabbed them by the hand and

1691
01:08:43,069 --> 01:08:44,950
said, no, you come with me.

1692
01:08:45,210 --> 01:08:47,890
Let's go speak to that person and find

1693
01:08:47,890 --> 01:08:48,930
out if that is true.

1694
01:08:49,330 --> 01:08:51,750
Well, she gave the biggest shock of that

1695
01:08:51,750 --> 01:08:52,689
lady's life.

1696
01:08:53,229 --> 01:08:55,069
Can it, can I tell you walking in

1697
01:08:55,069 --> 01:08:57,870
the spirit is a wonderful and a beautiful

1698
01:08:57,870 --> 01:08:58,250
thing.

1699
01:08:58,510 --> 01:09:00,130
Everything is in the open.

1700
01:09:00,470 --> 01:09:02,630
Many years ago, there was a lady who

1701
01:09:02,630 --> 01:09:06,029
went along, her son had joined the army.

1702
01:09:06,350 --> 01:09:08,810
He had served 10 weeks and it was

1703
01:09:08,810 --> 01:09:10,050
his pass side parade.

1704
01:09:10,350 --> 01:09:12,529
And they all prayed out there, a hundred

1705
01:09:12,529 --> 01:09:17,050
men, all marching rank and file, all abreast,

1706
01:09:17,350 --> 01:09:18,710
all in the same step.

1707
01:09:19,310 --> 01:09:20,390
And do you know what she said?

1708
01:09:20,470 --> 01:09:22,210
She had her sister with her and they

1709
01:09:22,210 --> 01:09:23,390
had a bit of a dispute.

1710
01:09:23,670 --> 01:09:26,470
They're always competing with one another, but she

1711
01:09:26,470 --> 01:09:30,689
turned to her sister and she said, look,

1712
01:09:30,890 --> 01:09:34,310
Daisy, my Jimmy is the only one in

1713
01:09:34,310 --> 01:09:34,550
step.

1714
01:09:34,689 --> 01:09:36,350
All the rest of them are out of

1715
01:09:36,350 --> 01:09:38,910
step, but my Jimmy is in step.

1716
01:09:38,990 --> 01:09:40,490
The only one, you know what?

1717
01:09:40,529 --> 01:09:42,529
That's like an awful lot of Christians that

1718
01:09:42,529 --> 01:09:43,910
I've met in the church.

1719
01:09:44,210 --> 01:09:46,390
They're going, I'm in step and all of

1720
01:09:46,390 --> 01:09:47,450
you are out of step.

1721
01:09:47,630 --> 01:09:49,010
They're out of step with the word of

1722
01:09:49,010 --> 01:09:51,390
God, with the spirit of God, with the

1723
01:09:51,390 --> 01:09:55,030
church of God, but they blindly keep saying

1724
01:09:55,030 --> 01:09:57,110
that they're in step with the spirit of

1725
01:09:57,110 --> 01:09:57,410
God.

1726
01:09:57,850 --> 01:09:59,050
Let's walk in the spirit.

1727
01:09:59,450 --> 01:10:02,870
Thank God for being justified, made righteous, not

1728
01:10:02,870 --> 01:10:05,550
by my good deeds, not by my holiness,

1729
01:10:05,750 --> 01:10:07,650
not by my obedience through the earth.

1730
01:10:07,730 --> 01:10:09,370
That doesn't make me right with God.

1731
01:10:09,470 --> 01:10:10,710
That is the fruit.

1732
01:10:10,710 --> 01:10:13,290
That is the fruit of being made righteous.

1733
01:10:13,810 --> 01:10:15,970
And you can't separate those things, but that

1734
01:10:15,970 --> 01:10:17,830
is not what it means to be born

1735
01:10:17,830 --> 01:10:18,290
again.

1736
01:10:18,590 --> 01:10:19,330
And you know what?

1737
01:10:19,370 --> 01:10:20,950
I want to stay with the cross.

1738
01:10:21,650 --> 01:10:23,930
I want to make my boast this morning

1739
01:10:23,930 --> 01:10:26,430
in the cross of Jesus Christ.

1740
01:10:26,510 --> 01:10:29,410
We've got an answer for the sinners in

1741
01:10:29,410 --> 01:10:33,230
this city to break the witchcraft, the drugs,

1742
01:10:33,810 --> 01:10:35,950
the manipulations, and the lies.

1743
01:10:36,050 --> 01:10:36,930
Let's pray together.

1744
01:10:36,930 --> 01:10:39,570
Father, I thank you for this message at

1745
01:10:39,570 --> 01:10:41,770
a time where our hearts are heavy because

1746
01:10:41,770 --> 01:10:45,150
of things happening in family, but we are

1747
01:10:45,150 --> 01:10:47,170
in a warfare for the city.

1748
01:10:47,590 --> 01:10:49,370
We are in a warfare in this church.

1749
01:10:49,550 --> 01:10:51,810
We have been for seven years and we

1750
01:10:51,810 --> 01:10:53,850
will be if you should tarry for another

1751
01:10:53,850 --> 01:10:54,690
seven years.

1752
01:10:55,150 --> 01:10:57,390
Lord God, we're in the conflict, having to

1753
01:10:57,390 --> 01:11:00,250
rebuke and withstand and expose.

1754
01:11:00,710 --> 01:11:03,630
Lord God, because we love the gospel, we

1755
01:11:03,630 --> 01:11:06,430
love the truth, we love Jesus Christ.

1756
01:11:06,630 --> 01:11:09,590
My God, I'm saved by grace alone and

1757
01:11:09,590 --> 01:11:10,430
faith alone.

1758
01:11:10,550 --> 01:11:12,790
Lord God, we make our stand in the

1759
01:11:12,790 --> 01:11:14,550
finished work of the cross.

1760
01:11:14,770 --> 01:11:16,570
And Lord God, we don't want our eyes

1761
01:11:16,570 --> 01:11:17,330
to be blind.

1762
01:11:17,690 --> 01:11:19,530
We know it has to be witchcraft.

1763
01:11:19,650 --> 01:11:23,150
If we ever become blind, if we ever

1764
01:11:23,150 --> 01:11:25,590
take our eyes off the cross, if we

1765
01:11:25,590 --> 01:11:29,110
begin to start disobeying the word of God

1766
01:11:29,110 --> 01:11:32,230
and walking in the flesh and operating the

1767
01:11:32,230 --> 01:11:36,630
manipulations, witchcraft, rebellion, and all of the sins

1768
01:11:36,630 --> 01:11:39,090
of the flesh, it is a sign that

1769
01:11:39,090 --> 01:11:41,090
we've taken our eyes off the cross.

1770
01:11:41,370 --> 01:11:44,510
By faith, we come here this morning to

1771
01:11:44,510 --> 01:11:46,090
fix our eyes on you.

1772
01:11:46,450 --> 01:11:49,450
Lord God, shine upon us here this morning.

1773
01:11:50,170 --> 01:11:53,930
In Jesus' mighty name, amen, amen.