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We are studying one of the greatest themes

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in the entire Bible.

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For any person to try to go through life
and not realize there is a negative

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and a positive force in the
world, we'll find disasters,

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we'll find disappointments,

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discouragements, depressions,
and all kind of things.

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So we must understand the
world that we live in.

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And this group of studies that we
are bringing to this class and to

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our

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television audience is related
to demons and deliverance,

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principalities and
powers. It's volume one.

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Volume two is already completed and
is dealing with things like yoga

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and superstitions and
witchcraft and sorceries and

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so forth. And this, we're dealing
primarily with the doctrine side.

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Who is the devil? Where did he
come from? What are demons?

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Where did they come from?

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And in this lesson, which is
lesson 13 in this series,

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we have come to Christ and
his relationship with demons.

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If you do not have the teaching syllabus,

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I certainly wish you had it
where you could make notes.

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because it is so important to
follow closely and also to

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review. You don't get
everything the first time.

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And, you know, a teacher that has gone
through these things maybe a hundred times or

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two hundred times sometimes forgets that
in the first time he went through them,

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it wasn't all so clear to him.

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And so we must have patience
with those who are...

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entering into the learning process,
that we bring you slowly, carefully,

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exactly, so that you will
fully understand, reveal truth.

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Now, there is an enemy in the
world. You must know that.

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You must realize that. It is the devil.
He has many helpers, and they are demons.

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They were in heaven one time. Because of
rebellion, they were thrown out of heaven.

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And they are, he is the prince and the power
of the air, and they function with him.

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They wish to hurt those that
God loves, God's people.

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They are hurters. And
so when you know that,

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then you understand life as you must
understand it if you're going to be successful

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in life. Now, Christ had a
relationship to this thing.

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He was not above it. He was not beyond it.

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Christ had a personal relationship
with the devil and with demons.

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In his life and in his ministry,

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He was constantly in a direct

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confrontation with the
devil and with demons.

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First, we will speak of his
indirect relationships with him,

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or you could say an indirect warfare.

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For example, in Matthew 2 and 16,

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we read where King Herod
commanded that all the

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boy babies...

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in Bethlehem be slain
because the three wise men

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had come and said, there is born
one king of the Jews in Bethlehem.

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He tried to deceive the three
wise men, but they were wise men.

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He said, when you have found him, come
and tell me that I might worship him.

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He didn't mean that at all. He meant
that I might kill him, you see.

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But

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all the boy babies in Bethlehem that were
born in that month or three months or

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whatever, they were killed.

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What a cry must have gone up into
heaven. Now, Jesus wasn't there.

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An angel again had appeared to Joseph and
Mary and says, take the child into Egypt.

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And so they were already dwelling
very comfortably in Egypt.

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When we take our people to Egypt,

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we take them to one of the
oldest synagogues in the world.

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And it is supposed to be the synagogue
where Joseph and Mary worshipped with the

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little child Jesus when they were living in
Egypt at the time when Herod was seeking

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to destroy his life.

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But Jesus Christ, being
such a sensitive person,

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no doubt for the rest of his life, was
constantly thinking about the boys that were

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his own age that had to die in
Bethlehem. Because he was born there.

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Only because he was born there, they died.

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And it must have been something that constantly
went through his mind and his spirit

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that here were several hundred, possibly,

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of boys that died in that whole area
because they would go out into the perimeter

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and they wouldn't know but what Jesus had
moved five miles out of town or something,

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or three miles. And so the many
that died because he was...

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So here we have an indirect warfare.

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It didn't directly relate to
him because he was already gone,

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but because of him, the devil moved
in and destroyed so many lives.

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And then we see in Luke's
gospel, chapter 4 and verse 29,

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that after he had read
from the book of Isaiah,

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and after he had said, this day, this
prophecy is fulfilled in your ears,

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and sat down such a hatred of him.

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I rose up, and the religious leaders,

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religion is such a dangerous thing.

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Yes, politics can be bad, but
possibly religion can be worse.

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These religious leaders, it
was not the mayor of the city.

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It was not the magistrate
that was set there by Rome.

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It was the religious leaders of
the synagogue that grabbed him

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right out of church, right out of worship.

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rushed him to a precipice, you can
still see there that goes sheer down

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into the valley of Megiddo,

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to throw him over it hundreds of feet
below down a rock that he might die.

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And the Bible says he just went
through the midst of them.

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Nobody knew where he was.
Where is he? Where is he?

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Who's holding him now? Where
is he now? And nobody had him.

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He was gone. And so he must have,
you know, had thought of this.

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That here was a group of religious
people that were going to take his

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life, and his great
ministry had not come yet.

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His mighty ministry had not
been cast into the world yet,

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and yet the devil was already
seeking to destroy him.

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It was an indirect warfare
of Satan against him.

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It was in the hearts of
the religious leaders,

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and they sought to kill him, but it
was the devil working through them.

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because religious leaders normally
certainly don't want to kill people.

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They are supposed to be teachers of
righteousness and teachers of justice and

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teachers of love, you see.

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And here those in Nazareth sought to
destroy the Lord Jesus simply because

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he read from the book of Isaiah and
said, this prophecy is fulfilled.

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They didn't say, well, praise
God, let's observe it and see.

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No, they said, let's kill him.

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And so there was an indirect
warfare that he was involved in.

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before his total confrontation
came with him and Satan.

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Also, we see this
demonstrated in Mark chapter

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5, verses 1 to 9, where
there is a demoniac

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of Gadara.

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He went over to the land of the
Gadarenes, and as he got off the boat,

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this madman, this madman
came rushing at him,

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no doubt with stones
in his hand or a club.

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to kill him. He came up out
of the cemetery with anger,

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screaming and bellowing to kill him.

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And Jesus spoke and said, just
a minute here, who are you?

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And they responded back, we are legions.

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It's bad to meet one soldier. When
you meet 2 ,000, it's different.

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It's strong enough to meet one devil.

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When you meet 2 ,000 of them,
you know, that is something else.

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But Jesus had such command of the
situation that he said, come out of him.

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And instantly the man
collapsed at his feet.

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And being naked, one of the
disciples gave him a garment.

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And the Bible says that he was seated
and in his right mind and listening to

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the Lord and said, may I go
with you wherever you go?

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And the Lord said, no, you go back to your
kinspeople and tell them all the great

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things that I have done.

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And so here was a confrontation that was
presented to Jesus coming out of a man,

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you know, toward the Lord Jesus.

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It was an indirect warfare, and I would like
to tell you that the devil works mostly

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in indirect warfare. He's a
subterfuge, and he's a chameleon.

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If he can do anything and you can't identify
him, that's the way he wants to do it.

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That's his way of doing business.

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So you have to, as Paul says, we understand
and we know the tricks of the devil,

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the wiles of Satan. So you
must come to understand them.

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And so we have, before
the direct confrontations,

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we have the indirect
battles one after the other.

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A very remarkable one you will find
in the Gospel of Matthew chapter

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8 and verse 25. After he had
completed his mission across the lake

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and had healed and blessed many
people, he got in a boat and said,

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let's go to the other side.

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And while he slept in the boat,

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the devil brought an enormous
storm on that body of water and

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tried to drown him. And the
disciples cried out, Master,

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don't you care that we
perish? I mean, it was bad.

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It was bad. They didn't see any
hope of reaching the other side.

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So not only did the devil
thought he could kill him,

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down in Bethlehem as a boy, and could cause
the people of Nazareth to want to throw

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him over a cleft and kill him, and a
demoniac, a madman, running at him,

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screaming and bellowing with
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with his hair matted and naked, possibly
with stones in his hand to smite him.

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And he got delivered. But even as he
slept, the devil says, I'll get him now.

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I'll drown him while he's asleep.

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And so there was positively this
indirect warfare against Jesus Christ

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so that he would not be able to fulfill
the mission with which he was sent to this

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earth to perform. We find
further in Matthew's gospel,

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chapter 26, verses 3 and 4, that
the people that are called the

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Pharisees, who were those among
the Jews that adhered to the

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law of Moses and tried to do the
things that were in the law of Moses,

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and sometime in an exaggerated form,
they were the super -religious people.

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The Bible shows you here in Matthew
26 that they put out a death plot

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to catch him and to destroy him.

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Their hatred of him...

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was so intense that they got
together to plot his death

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and said, we will do anything to
take him off the face of this earth.

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And so many times the Satan that
you have a battle with was using an

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indirect method to come
around and fight him.

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And he used religious
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Ah, if we could just get religious
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care for one another. And even though we
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yet we can have compassion on one
another and pray one for another.

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This world passes away, and all
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What seemed to be very important a few
years ago is not important anymore.

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And it's very necessary that we
have compassion one for another,

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to reach out to help
and to love one another.

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and not to be an instrument of the
devil to hurt, to hurt God's people.

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God help me, I just don't want to be an
instrument in the devil's hands to hurt

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anybody. I don't want to be part of that.

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But here these very religious
people, called the Pharisees,

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cooked up a death plot in order that they
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So Satan was using them as a ploy in
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Jesus. And this is true also.

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in the betrayal of Judas Iscariot.

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In Matthew's Gospel, chapter
26, verses 14 and 15,

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we saw that Judas sold the Lord Jesus
Christ for the price of a slave.

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I mean, he didn't even get
a good price on his head.

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You could buy a slave
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and he took the price of a slave.

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He didn't say, hey, wait a
minute, I got something big here.

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I got a big fish.

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I have an important
person. I have a dignitary.

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I have a person that
everybody's praising here.

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If I hand him over, I want big
money. No, he took little money.

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He took little money. And so Judas and
his betrayal of the Lord Jesus was another

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means of indirect warfare, seeking
to destroy Jesus without a personal

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confrontation directly with him. I
think that is sufficient to show you.

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Not only will he do the Lord Jesus this
way, but you too will suffer the same.

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There will be indirect confrontations into
your life seeking to hurt you and the

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devil coming around another
way in order to do it.

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Now, the devil also challenged
Jesus for a direct battle

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and a direct assault. You read that
in Matthew's Gospel, chapter 4.

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Maybe you should open to chapter 4.

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You will discover that when he
came to tempt the Lord Jesus,

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and it was a time when the Lord
had fasted for 40 days and nights.

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Now, the devil doesn't know hardly
anything about spiritual things.

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He does not know that your spiritual man
gets stronger when your natural man gets

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weaker. You see, there's a
lot of things he doesn't know.

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He thought the Lord Jesus, after he
had fasted for 40 days and nights,

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was a good prey. Man, he
says, I'll catch him now.

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His belly is flat and his
physical being is weak.

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I got him. I got him.

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now. And the devil will
do you the same way.

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In his direct confrontations with
you, he'll seek your weakest moment.

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That's right. He'll come to you
in your moments of depression,

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in your moments of hurt.
Oh, nobody loves you.

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Nobody cares for you. And
he'll start fighting you.

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In the moments of your weakness and in
the moments of where you are the weakest.

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So you have to watch him.

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To be a victor and to be a winner, you
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In this Matthew's Gospel, chapter 4,

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at the temptation of
the Lord Jesus Christ,

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he was attacked with his frontal
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different areas, in three different
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was in the area that I will
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Now, they tell me that the strongest
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-preservation. You feed yourself, you
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you're very careful with yourself, and
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strongest instincts, and it's
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is that power and that
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I've got to take care of
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I can't live if I don't
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So he came to Jesus. After he had fasted,

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had no food for 40 days and 40 nights,
and he spoke to him and said, say,

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here's a stone. Why don't you take
this stone and make it into a nice

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piece of delicious French
bread with that good

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heavy coating around it, you know,
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and inside is so fluffy why don't you
why don't you right now make yourself a

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delicious and delightful lunch
out of that stone now it it seemed

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all right what is wrong with
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one thing and that is that you're
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Jesus would not make bread for himself,

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but he would make bread for 4 ,000 and
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opposite ends of the Sea of
Galilee. And so he would do it.

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He could do it, you see.
He could multiply bread,

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but he would not do it
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So he responded to the
devil, not with an argument.

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Not was saying, well, I
tell you now, I am hungry.

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I haven't had any food for 40 days.

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But, well, anyway, I'm not
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He didn't respond in
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If you're going to argue with
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You still there?

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You can't do that. And the devil will
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Here was his weakest
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Says, come on here. Now,
you need food. And he did.

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But he responded that man
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but by every word that proceeds
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What a rebuke. What a total rebuke.
It hit him so hard he laid down flat.

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The Word of God knocked him down.

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Are we ever going to learn to answer
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Are we ever going to learn to use the
Word as our sword and as our shield?

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that the Word of God is strong and
powerful, sharper than a two -edged sword.

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If we can ever learn that,
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Eve, who had the same type of temptation,

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and on her case it was
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and she knew God had said that you would
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you won't surely die.

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And God knows you won't. He
knows that you'll be clever.

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You'll be smart. This world's been
trying to get smart for 6 ,000 years.

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Look at the mess it's in right now.
It don't know how to govern itself.

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It don't know how to supply
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Just look over the whole world. You think
the church is not getting along too well.

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Talk to these politicians and
see how they're getting along.

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Talk to these world bankers and
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Talk to these philosophers of universities
and see how they're getting along.

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We're not doing bad in the
church. You better believe it.

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This world out there is a
confused place. You say, why?

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of god god's holy word and so the first
attack was at his weakest while he

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had no food within him for 40 days and said
self -preservation i'll attack him with

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that certainly he'll fall with that no he
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live by bread alone but by every word that
comes from god and the devil left off

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tempting him and then we find in
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matthew chapter 4 the second attack
came It might have been, you know,

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within several hours or
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The devil came back around, and
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He took him up to the
pinnacle of the temple.

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We understand at the pinnacle
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down to the bottom was about 72 feet.

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He took him to the top where he could see
the whole area with all the people and

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said,

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now you have an evangelistic
society called the Jesus Society,

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and you don't have many members.
And you're not doing too well.

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And nobody in Jerusalem at
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I haven't seen your name
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You certainly haven't made the
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I've seen quite a bit in there about
John, especially when he lost his head.

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But I haven't seen anything
in there about you.

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And now listen. It says,
why don't you do something?

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It says, why don't you jump from
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It says, now, Doesn't the Bible
say, doesn't the Word say,

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you better watch the devil when he starts
quoting the Bible, he's a misquoter.

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He is a misquoter every time.

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He says, doesn't the Word say that
his angels will take charge over you?

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He was quoting the Bible
for a man to commit suicide.

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Can you imagine it?

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Did Jesus respond back and say, now, I
don't need my name in the newspapers,

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and I don't need a big
headline saying, Hey,

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Jesus jumped 72 feet down to the pavement,
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and now he is asking for followers.

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He says, everybody wants to follow a man
that can jump 72 feet into a pavement and

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not get killed. Come along and follow me.

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He said, that's not the
kind of notoriety I need.

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That's not the kind of thing I desire.

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And so he said, the Bible also says,
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He used the word and cut him to
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And the third attack came in verse
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He created the first moving picture
machine and projector and showed him,

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the Bible says, all the nations
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And he says, and all the riches thereof.

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And he said, wouldn't you like to
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Well, he was.

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He made that creature that was talking to
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It all belonged to him anyway. And he
says, wouldn't you like to boss that?

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He says, you know, I got control
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I have control of it. Wouldn't you like me
to give you control over all the nations

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of the world? He says, if you will
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I'll give them to you.

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And Jesus says, I rebuke you.

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I rebuke you.

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And it says, the Lord thy
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And so, in this mighty confrontation,

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the Lord Jesus Christ was the
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Now, you're going to discover in your own
lives that there will be indirect warfare

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and there will be direct
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and then you will know how to win.

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Now, the Lord Jesus Christ understood
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He identified deafness as a spirit in
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He identified dumbness in Mark 9
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So he came directly against
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You come out!

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And he was the winner. And
many of the other diseases,

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he understood them, that he could have a
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Christ even knew the numbers. of these
evil spirits that was in a person.

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In Mark 1, 26, it was one evil spirit.

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But in Mark 1 and 32, there
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And in Mark 5, 1 to 19, there
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And in Mark 5, 1 to 19, it
also, he brought out thousands.

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And so he could handle one or he
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It didn't matter with him.

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He could handle them by
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which means that you can do the same.

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You see, now what was the relationship
with the devil and these demons toward the

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Lord Jesus Christ?

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In Matthew 8 and 29, it
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They feared him. Hey, brother, you
live right and they'll fear you too.