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Real life presents the Jack Hibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth,

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equip the saints and impact our culture.

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What if I were to tell you that Jesus Christ from the Word of God has the answer to temptations,

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temptations that lead us into the worst of life's troubles?

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What if God's got the answer?

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Stay tuned, we're going to find out what it is.

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So in any strategy, there's a plan.

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For any strategy, there is first the deliberation, there is the plain it out, there is the what could

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go wrong.

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For example, our U.S. military forces, especially our special forces, before they ever go into

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the battle, did you know that they know very well where they're going to such a point

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that what is known as intel on the ground intel, we wind up here, stateside, building

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a replica of that town, building, or that little city, and our special forces rehearse

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and rehearse and rehearse again until they've got the strategy nailed down so well that

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when they are deployed into that hostile environment, it's second nature.

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And that's the point I want to make today, that Jesus Christ Himself was tempted and

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Jesus gave us the very technique, the very order, the strategy, the plan on how to deal

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with temptation.

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Every time Jesus was tempted, guess what He did?

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It's recorded in the Bible.

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He quoted the Scripture.

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He quoted the Bible and He stood resisting Satan's temptations.

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Can you imagine?

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Head on, meeting Satan Himself, you and I have never done that.

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Satan took on Jesus in his earthly form, Jesus is standing there, and what does He do?

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Having all the power in the universe, right?

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Jesus could have said, you're gone, over for you.

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He didn't do that.

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This leaned back on the Word of God and brought it forward, right in full face of Satan's

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attack.

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The strategies of spiritual warfare are no secret.

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The Bible tells us, then Jesus being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan

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and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness.

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Imagine that, the Holy Spirit, and being tempted 40 days by the devil, Luke chapter

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four, verses one and two, that's remarkable.

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The Bible tells us, here's the strategy, fight the enemy that's coming against your marriage,

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your children, your husband, your wife, your mom, your dad, your kids, your job, your witness,

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your country.

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Fight by knowing the strategies of the enemy.

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Satan, the Bible tells us, Jesus said it so clearly.

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It's amazing.

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He said, Satan has come to rob us, to kill us, and to destroy us.

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But I have come to give you life.

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So the fact is that temptation, and the temptation of Jesus himself, was a test to prove that

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he was the very perfect, sinless Lamb of God.

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And if you think about the beauty of that, as Satan is really laying on Jesus, these incredible

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temptations, they come at a time when Jesus was at his weakest, having been tempted

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by hunger, exposure, 40 days in the wilderness, then the Bible tells us that at an opportune

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time, Satan comes.

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So remember that, to resist temptation and to fight it is to know the strategies Satan

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will seek to come after you at your weakest point.

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I like to put it this way to you.

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Satan is a great devil.

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Lucifer is the best devil they'll ever be.

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He knows our weaknesses, and you and I might think that, because Jesus was God in addition

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to all of that being a man, that he wasn't really tempted, that it's just a story, that

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the gospel's it's a story, that he's God, true.

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But the Bible says he's man, but we begin to think that he's some sort of a superhuman

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in the sense that he wasn't really tempted, that's just for the narrative to make us feel

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good, not true.

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There's a tremendous doctrine known in the Bible as Kenosis.

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The word Kenosis means that Jesus Christ took upon Himself flesh, that He was 100% God,

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100% man, but Jesus chose to be exposed just like you and I are.

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He chose to not pick up supernatural powers to blow the devil up like some action figure.

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Jesus chose to be tested so that you and I would know what it's like to experience the

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attacks of the enemy.

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When we pray and cry out to God, Jesus knows exactly what's going on.

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So my friend, listen, make no mistake about it, that the onslaught against Jesus was entirely

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real.

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It was a fact, it was powerful, more powerful than what you and I will ever experience.

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Satan hit Jesus with every bit of temptation that he could throw at him to entice Jesus

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to disobey the will of his father.

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And Jesus did firm to the Word of God.

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You go back in the gospels and you read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and see how Jesus fought.

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That's what he tempts you and I to do as well.

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The exact same tactic, strategy of Satan, he will launch against you and I.

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It may not be with the intensity that he did against Jesus, but it doesn't matter.

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It's absolutely crazy intense for you and I, right?

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And so the more that we have Scripture, the more that we know it, the more that we're

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able to use it against the enemy.

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That's vitally important.

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So know this, that the strategies of Satan's attack against us are answered with the strategies

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of Jesus using the Word of God.

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It's remarkable.

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The very same Word of God, he's given to us in print so that we can utilize this Word,

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this sword of the Spirit, which now brings us access to the faith that you and I have,

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the Word of God.

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And by knowing the Word, we go forward in this battle, understanding Satan has his strategy.

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Well guess what, we've got ours and we pattern ours after the Lord Jesus Christ himself.

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So we're looking at what Satan did to our Lord Jesus Christ, which, listen, had to happen.

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It's interesting to us and we take great, great encouragement to know that when Jesus was

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in his most vulnerable state, the attack came.

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After 40 days of fasting, the Bible tells us that Jesus was weakened.

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Imagine 40 days that he had been brought to this place of extreme thirst and extreme hunger,

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then Satan attacks.

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We always want to be careful that we do not put ourselves in a vulnerable situation.

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I like to put it this way, where we leave the door open for Satan to come on in.

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For too many times we do that.

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Whenever you and I are in a vulnerable situation, Satan will leverage that to his advantage.

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Frankly, he's not dumb.

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He's very, very smart.

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And he expects to succeed.

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Satan won't give up.

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It's an interesting truth.

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He is defeated, the Bible says so.

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You say, well, Jack, if he's defeated, why did he just go home?

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Because Satan hates your guts.

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Satan hates me, Satan hates you.

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And he wants to inflict pain in the heart of God.

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That's how much you are loved, by the way.

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If Satan's defeated, why did he just quit?

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Because he delights in hurting the heart of God.

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How does he do that to try to lure away you and I?

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Because we are the focus of God's love.

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But our Savior showed us how to fight by His example.

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This is absolutely important.

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Jesus fought with the Word of God.

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He leaned upon the power of the Holy Spirit,

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and that He looked to God His Father in His flesh as it were,

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like you and I, to be the power to get through the temptation of the enemy.

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So never forget that.

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Jesus Christ showed us how to fight by example.

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Next we want to understand that Jesus made this incredible statement

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that we need to always keep in the forefront of our spiritual lives.

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In Luke chapter 4 verse 4, Jesus said, it is written.

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That's how we fought.

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He answered Satan by saying, it is written.

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It is written.

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It is written.

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What's he doing?

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Jesus, listen, friends, this is so important,

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because I hope I don't hurt anybody's feelings,

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but if look, if the shoe fits where it, or change it,

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if you're going to a church, and there's not a high view of the Bible,

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if you're being told that, well, there's some parts of the Bible

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that are inspired, others we don't know about.

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This part of the Bible is poetic, or it's somehow typological.

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It's not real.

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Listen, you need to get out of that church.

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You need to get back to the Bible.

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You want to know why?

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I'm not telling you why.

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Jesus is telling you why.

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Jesus said it is written.

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Our Jesus used the word of God in his battle.

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You and I need to do the same thing.

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So we move on to the next thing, and that is that our strategy

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if we want to overcome the temptations of the devil.

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This is critical.

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It's to utilize the sort of the spirit.

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The sort of the spirit, the Bible says, is the word of God.

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That is our strength, the sort of the spirit.

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The word of God, imagine that.

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Think of Roman days, think of Roman times.

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The sort of the spirit is the word of God.

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Can I ask you how sharp is your sword?

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Do you have a sword?

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See, what do you mean by that?

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When Satan's tempting you, what do you do?

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Crack open a fortune cookie.

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When Satan's attacking you, do you look at the horoscope

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which is paganism?

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When Satan's attacking you, do you have a wishful,

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happy thought?

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Is it like a Jiminy cricket moment

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where you just think a happy thought?

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Listen, or do you go to the word of God?

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To do the word of God properly in spiritual battle

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is to do this.

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The word's a macaera.

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It's to take the word of God and it's to use it accurately.

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And I gotta be honest with you.

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When God says, take up the sort of the spirit

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which is the word of God and use it.

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My friends, listen, we're talking about bloody,

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bloody hand-to-hand combat.

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That's the only way that we can win

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is by using the sword of the spirit, God's word.

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By using the sword of the spirit means we take this word

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and we use it against every attack of the enemy.

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Friend, let me tell you what William Grinnell

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had to say about this.

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He was a tremendous author.

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He knew something about spiritual battle

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and let me give you this quote from his great book,

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The Christian Classic,

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that is the Christian and complete armor.

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He said the sword is the weapon

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of most universal use in battle.

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And also that whereby the greatest execution

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is done in battle.

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Now such a weapon is the word of God Grinnell said

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in the Christian's hand by the sword of this,

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his enemies fall,

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and all his great exploits are done.

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That is an awesome statement.

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That is a tremendous quote from this man

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who knew something about warfare.

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And by the way, he wrote that so many centuries ago

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and it is true, think about that,

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that if you are skilled and equipped,

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you can fight the battle.

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So this is why it is so vitally important for you

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and I to memorize and internalize scripture.

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There's no substitute for this.

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The Holy Spirit will use what's inside of us.

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Supernaturally, Christian, listen,

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I know this sounds so simple that it's not workable.

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No, listen, it's simple and that's why it works.

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God does not complicate this life and death moment

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and this life and death battle.

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He will take the supernatural word of God

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that you've simply put inside of you

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and that he will use it coming out of you

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to deal with the attacks of the enemy.

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It's so absolutely essential that for you and I,

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as Christians depend upon the Holy Spirit,

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the word of God as we fight to honor

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and glorify Jesus Christ in this world.

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This is how we bring our minds to this place

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of being used by God.

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It's most needed, memorize, scripture.

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There's no substitute for that.

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So friends, listen, here's what I want you to watch out for.

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And by no means is this an exhaustive list, of course not.

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But Satan is going to try to tempt you

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to get your mind and your spirit,

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your thinking away from God, not only away from God,

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but what he tries to do is he tries to insert doubt

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or try to accuse the authority of God.

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He'll say something like this to you.

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You know, you could do it a lot better

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if you just did it this way.

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You'd be done quicker.

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Yeah, you know what, God will forgive you.

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I know the Bible says this, but why don't you try it this way?

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He will launch at you things like this.

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Oh, I don't have the time.

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I know I should pray, but there's so much going on.

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I got to get it and go.

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That's an attack of the enemy.

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It doesn't seem like it, right?

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Because we deal with that every day.

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Well, the enemy's attacking us every day.

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Anything that he can do to get you and I

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to lean on our own strength,

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that's when we get into trouble.

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When we lean upon our own wisdom

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is when we begin to trust in ourselves.

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And look, the more miles you have behind you as a Christian,

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doesn't make you invincible against Satan's attacks,

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but it does give you great wisdom

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on how to detect his attacks,

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whereby the fight, the warfare becomes incredibly intense.

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Because now you've got a mature, strong Christian believer

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that we're all striving to be.

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And at the same time, Satan ups his game

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by tempting us in very subtle ways.

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When we are young in the Lord,

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or we don't know much about the Bible,

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he will come very, very obviously.

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But I've noticed in my own life,

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45 years plus of being a Christian.

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Now, everything that comes in my life,

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I've got to stop, take a breath, pray,

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ask God for wisdom and discernment.

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Because I notice in my life,

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he's not coming with these obvious temptations.

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He's not coming with money, or like Billy Graham said,

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girls, glory, and gain.

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He doesn't come like that.

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Now it's much more subtle.

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He brings things out that look like it comes from God.

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Do you remember when Joshua was tricked?

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Joshua, the wonderful general of the Israeli army,

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leading the children of Israel into the promised land.

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There was that group of people

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who were terrified of Israel, terrified of Joshua,

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and they lived only over the hill.

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But they dressed themselves up

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as though they traveled from a great distance.

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They took moldy bread and they put it in their backpacks

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and they put on their junkiest shoes.

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They went over this top of the hill

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and they said, hey Joshua, we know that God's with you.

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We've come from a long journey.

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Look, when we left, this bread was fresh

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and our shoes were brand new.

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Look at them, they're thrashed.

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We've come all this way to make a peace treaty with you.

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Joshua didn't pray, he didn't stop, he didn't pause.

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It looked good, everything looked fine.

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And by the way, can I add this?

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Looked kind of flattering, felt flattering.

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Wow, instead of having to fight everybody,

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these guys have come a long way to make peace with us

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because they're afraid of us.

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That's amazing.

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So Joshua signs a peace deal with them

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and gets in a whole lot of trouble with God

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because he didn't consult with God.

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Friend, as you grow along, don't ever think for a moment.

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Well, I've been a Christian for years.

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I can kick back a little bit, watch out, be on guard.

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Today, you and I live at a time where the Bible tells us

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that there are spirits that are out there

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teaching doctrines of demons and leading people astray.

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It's happening now.

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Jesus said these days would be coming.

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We wanna be watchful.

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Just the very fact that in our world today,

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all of us can see and hear about fake news, fake posts,

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websites, Facebook pages, articles being mimicked

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or corrupted, duplicated, and used to rob or to pillage.

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All kinds of things are going on right now.

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There's something that is, for example, called deep fake.

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It was created by the CIA and we've used it for decades

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and it tricks people.

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It's crazy, it's amazing.

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But if you look at deep fake,

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how it's used today in movies and in presentations,

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you're like, what is going on?

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Listen, Satan is a master at deep fake

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and he'll even use the Bible to try to trick you

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so know your Bible well.

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So think about this level of deception

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that was used by the enemy.

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When the Greeks were tired and worn out,

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they didn't think that they could in any way defeat the Trojans.

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What they wound up doing was presenting a gift

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that gift was the Trojan horse.

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Receiving that gift brought it in past the gates

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into the enemy capsule to speak, right?

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But inside that Trojan horse were the famed warriors

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that wound up defeating the enemy.

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Today in combat and it's always been the same,

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if you can deceive your enemy before the war ever begins,

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half your battle is over.

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And if that's true in our world around us,

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how much more so is it true in the spiritual realm

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for the enemy to come alongside you?

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Maybe even try to gift you something

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to wrap it up in such a way that it's so appealing

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or it's such a nice gesture,

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something to let your guard down.

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Oh, she's just a friend.

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Oh, he's just an old high school buddy.

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Whatever it might be, it seems so innocent.

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But things happen.

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Christian, be on guard, stand strong, assume nothing.

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Don't be paranoid.

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No, we've got God on our side.

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We're with him.

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And he's given everything that you and I need to be

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successful warriors against temptation.

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We just need to get into the battle

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and to use his strategies that we might live

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and conduct ourselves in a way that honors God,

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brings about the victory.

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And I might add, cause others without hope

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to look to us and say, I want to know your God too.

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