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...and Western civilization are entering
their final warfare before Armageddon.

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In these deliberate studies
of principalities and powers,

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we will be exposing the occult, revealing
knowledge of the doctrines, words,

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rites, eulogies, phrases, and
definitions that demon worshippers use.

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The only intelligent way to interpret
our times is to present a biblical

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interpretation. Jesus prophesied
that his church shall prevail.

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In Matthew 16, verse 18, he said,

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Upon this rock I will build my church,

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and the gates of hell shall
not prevail against it.

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Today the church must rise up to the
greatest action of its entire history.

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How many of you were in our first
deliverance class that we had?

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I want to appreciate you joining this
class of deliverance that is called

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Principalities and Powers.

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In the first class we dealt mostly with
doctrine from the word of the Lord.

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And in this session, we are dealing with
the effects and the works of Satan out

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there on the firing line,

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acquainting ourselves with what's
going on in the world today.

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And you're going to see it when
we get over into these studies,

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that they are simply dynamic.

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And you're going to see that some things
like Ouija boards around your house and

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studying astrology and
working on the Zodiac,

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it can be an open door to
Satan possessing your life.

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And you'll have weird things happening
to you, and you won't know why,

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because you've opened a door to him.

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And so these lessons are very
important to spiritual victory,

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spiritual power in our lives.

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And I just pray that God will use them
in a very specific and special way.

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In your teaching syllabus,

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which, do you like your
new syllabus there?

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Isn't that something?

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You have your papers there,

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and then you also in the same
syllabus have your tapes.

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How many usually get a tape of the lesson?

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Do you really?

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Only about half of it.

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Maybe we should have two
types of syllabus then.

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One where they had a place for the
tapes and one where they do not,

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so that you could choose. It's a little
burdensome if you don't have anything in it.

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But we thought that possibly
everyone wanted to...

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If you take the audio and you
let it be playing while you're

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looking at the notes, you
see, you've got a double...

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You've got a double header
there in your studies.

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It's a very beautiful thing to have.

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This is called lesson
two in your syllabus.

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What does God say about
principalities and powers?

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Now, I came to that because man can
say a lot of things and the church

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can say a lot of things, but
really it's a bit irrelevant.

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It's only what God says that matters.
It's only what God says that matters.

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And so if we find ourselves subjected
only to the word of God about it,

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then we will know how to
perform and how to act.

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And we won't act according to the denomination
because in this class there are many

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denominations that are present to study.

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But it won't matter about the
denomination that we may belong to.

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But it will matter that we know and understand
principalities and powers by what God

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commanded. And if we
stand on the word of God,

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we're standing on nothing but victory.

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Nothing but victory if we stand
on that. May I bless you first.

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Now, Lord, we thank you for truth.

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And we believe you right now to let that
truth just become a part of our total

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being. Let it become a part of our fiber.
Let it become a part of our bloodstream.

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God be to God, let this truth become a part
of our blood running through our brain

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and running through our heart and
running through our total being.

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And we believe you for it.
And we thank you for it.

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And we say thank you. Now, God knows
the subject of principalities and powers

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for the simple reason that God created
the person that we call Lucifer today.

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And so he knows all about him.

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God witnessed Lucifer as an archangel
of praise and worship in heaven.

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And he realizes that he was the one who
became a potentate of evil principalities

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and sinful powers. And so if there's
anyone acquainted with the subject,

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his name is God. He is not ignorant
of what's going on down here,

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and he is not ignorant of the
person that's carrying it on.

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And so we want God to speak to
us from his place of authority,

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and his seat of authority is how you and
I can handle a situation on the face of

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this earth that, remember this,
no human being can handle it.

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Did you realize that maybe one half to 50,

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one half to maybe 75 % of all people
in insane asylums are not sick?

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They're possessed of evil.

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They're possessed of evil.

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And if they were set free
by the Spirit of God,

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they would be just as normal as any of us.

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And you talk to the doctors that supervise
them and they will tell you very quickly,

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says, so -and -so is quite normal
for 25 or 26 days of the month.

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But says, oh,

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those other four days.
And a lesson is coming up.

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We're going to bring to you
the Brazilian witch doctor.

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as I traveled with him throughout this
country and became very well acquainted with

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him and interrogated him, not for hours,

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but for days and weeks,
I interrogated him.

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And he was a witch doctor for 40 years,

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and I came to know the other side
of this as I had never known it,

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even though I had dealt with the problem
all over the world, including Brazil,

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where I found him. In fact, he sat in
the audience and saw me set people free

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that were people that he was manipulating.

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before he got delivered from
God's power, by God's power.

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And that man that was a witch doctor and
was working for the Brazilian government is

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now a minister of the gospel.

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And so we're going to bring
him to you in a lesson or two.

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My, don't miss it.

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Your point number one
in your syllabus says,

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God states and says that Jesus
Christ is the creator of all power.

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Now to me, that is a fundamental
thing. How did a power come to be?

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Because when you discover
how a power comes to be,

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then you know who can handle it, you see.

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If a scientist creates an atomic
power to turn on electricity,

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don't send the butcher nor the baker
to work on that thing, you know.

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You better go back and get
a man who knows what he did,

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he knows how he created it, he
knows which button to push,

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and he knows how to control it
because he made the thing, you see.

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He made the thing.

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You've got to realize this. And if you
don't, you'll find yourself in problems.

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We are dealing with God
and the creation of God.

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And God is the creator of all things
through the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And in Colossians 1,
16, it reads like this.

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For by him were all things created,
speaking of Jesus, that are in heaven,

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that are in earth, that
are visible and invisible.

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You see, that takes care of the whole
thing, demons and everything else,

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angels and whatnot. Now,
how many believe the Bible?

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Now, this is one of the most important
verses of the whole Bible, you see.

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That by him were all things created.

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You see, to believe that's taken a
big, you know, a big step in faith.

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That are in heaven and earth,
visible or invisible, you see.

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Whether they be thrones, now listen,
dominions, principalities, or powers.

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See, we're dealing in
principalities and powers.

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And it says that they were created by him.

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things were created by him and for
him and that's it in Colossians 1 16.

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And point number two, God says that
Christ is the head of all power.

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Not only is he the creator
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he is also the head of all power.

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Colossians 2 and 10, and ye are complete
in him which is the head of all

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principality and power.

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But brother, if he's the head, what
you're worrying about the tail for?

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Yeah.

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If he's the head and we're in
the head, well, we're ahead.

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I wish the church knew that, don't you?

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Did you know if you had a vote
in this city right now, tonight,

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if you went out here with some cards
and had people to vote and said,

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what are the 10 strongest
powers in this city?

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Did you know the church
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No.

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They'd say, well, the
president of the United States,

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the congressman, the mayor.

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the university, and when
they gave out of something,

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they still wouldn't mention
the church. You say, why?

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Well, they don't believe
the church is important.

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I think it's about time we made this crazy
world wake up and see how important the

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church is. That we make the world
go around and they don't know it.

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Well, unless you tell them that,
they're never going to know it.

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You have to teach them that. And
God's ready for teaching them.

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What do you say? I believe it. That God
says Christ is the head of all power.

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I believe that. And ye
are complete in Christ.

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Don't you like that? Which is, who is
the head of all principalities and power?

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He is the head.

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God elevated Christ above all
principalities and powers, Ephesians 1, 21.

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Far above all principalities and
power and might and dominion.

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He's afraid you'd miss
it, so he put it all in.

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And might and dominion and every name.

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You see, that's Satan or
devil or demons or anything.

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And that every name that is
named, not only in this world,

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but also that which is to come.

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Hey, hey, it don't matter whether it's
this world or ones of 40 billion years on

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down the line. He's already in charge.

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He's already the super one.

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He's already in command.

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How many believe the Bible?

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You see, if you can't believe
the Bible, this is far out.

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But if you do believe the Bible, it's the
fundamental of the victory of the church

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of Jesus Christ.

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All right, and your point number three,

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God says that Christ
destroyed the devil's power.

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I see we're just moving, you might
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laying block upon block and layer
upon layer for you to fight with.

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And if you go into a force with the devil,

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just take these and go right
straight down the line.

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And in Colossians 2 and 15, it says that
having spoiled principalities and power,

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when he went into the heart of the earth
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right foot over on the devil's head,

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and then began to turn it until blood was
gushing out every direction and grabbed

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the keys and took them away from him and
walked back up the corridors of the damned

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and the doomed back into the golden
sunlight of the resurrection day

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upon his upon his side he
carried the keys of death

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and hell and he had all power he
had destroyed the tempter Well, now,

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if he has destroyed him, it says, and having
spoiled the principalities and power.

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They're rotten. They're
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They're defeated. You believe it tonight?

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Having destroyed or spoiled
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he made a show of them openly,

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ramping over them. Don't
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That'll send you out to battle.

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Your point number four, God reveals wisdom
to the church in Ephesians 3 and 10.

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Those are great. Little books in there,
you know, Colossians and Ephesians and all.

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Paul was really working hard to write
down all the Holy Ghost told him.

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And Ephesians 3 and 10, to the
intent, this is a great verse,

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to the intent that now unto
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see that's the reason we named these
lessons principalities and powers,

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and now unto the principalities
and powers in heavenly places,

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he locates them for you. You know,
they're not in Georgia or Tennessee,

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they are in heavenly places.

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that it might be known by the church.

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See, you got to catch every word of it.
That it might be known by the church.

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Nobody else is going to tell this story.
Nobody else is going to publish this story.

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This is known by the church,
the manifold wisdom of God.

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If the world ever knows the truth
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it has been revealed to the church and it
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world. We are the only
messengers that God has.

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We'll never find the mass media
telling the people how to go to heaven.

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You say, why? The devil's
not going to let them do it.

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He'd choke them to death if they tried.

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And the only one that's ever going to do
it is the body of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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It's our job, and bless
God, I'm glad to be in it.

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Point number five, God reveals the
believer's position in this power.

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Don't you like the way it's growing?

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And God reveals the believer's
position in this power.

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Nay, in all these things,
in all these things,

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We are more than conquerors through
him that loved us in every battle,

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in every resistance. We
are more than conquerors.

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We're better than a conqueror.
We're higher than a conqueror.

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You say, how can you be
higher than a conqueror?

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A conqueror is the one who meets an
equal force, and he happens to win.

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He's a conqueror. You'd call
the San Francisco giants?

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Is that what they are?
Huh? Oh, they're 49ers.

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That's a little out of date, but... You
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But now what if the Bengals had
folded their arms and all the 49ers

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fell down defeated? Hey, that'd have
been more than a conqueror, you see.

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What if they'd have just lifted their
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You see, you can't do that. No, not
unless God puts it over for you.

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The Bible says the church is more than
a conqueror and a conqueror is one that

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fights and wins and the church is one
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And they've already won.

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Hey, I'm glad I'm on his side.

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We are more than conquerors.

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Verse 38 says, For I am persuaded
that neither death, nor life,

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nor angels, nor
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That's all the devil's work, you see.
No things present, no things to come.

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We're not afraid of the present. It don't
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We're not afraid of
it. Are things to come?

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We're not afraid of what's going
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we are not afraid say we're not afraid and
and don't let people set up fear in you

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we have some people in america telling you
you better get you some some some secret

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vitamins and hide them away from the
great tribulation i don't like this word

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hogwash you say why well i'll tell you why

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if i had a barrel of them and you needed
them what kind of a christian would i be if

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i didn't give them to you so i wouldn't
have any after the first day after saving

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them

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And wouldn't it be nice for God to
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I am not a damned up system to where stuff

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runs in and gets located in
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I am just a little ditch.

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And God just keeps flowing his
blessings through it, you see.

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And all I do is just say, Lord,
enlarge the ditch and let it flow.

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And the more he can flow through
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And that's what God wants us all to be.

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He wants us to be a channel of
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He doesn't want us to be a dead sea.

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Yeah, yeah. Everybody says how rich
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You better believe it.

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Now principalities, no powers, no
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And then he says, no height,
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We'll fight anything. No depth,
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We understand they're dirty
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shall be able to separate you and me from
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our Lord. Now that's our position of
power in the Lord Jesus Christ who is our

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Savior and who is our
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God wants believers such as you
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principalities. And here's a magnificent
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That now under the principalities and
powers and heavenly places might be known

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by the church the manifest
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They might be known by the church. The
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The manifest wisdom of God.

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And the manifest wisdom of God is the
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the devil.

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Just think what a nice
world we would have.

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What a beautiful world we would
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Did you know it cost billions of
dollars to keep people in jail?

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Wouldn't it be nice if
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I was reading to the audience yesterday,

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the billions of dollars it cost America,

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it's even 10 % of the total national
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hospital bills.

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Can you imagine? 10 % of the total income
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medical bills. And we've got the best
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medicine in the history of
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You say, what does that mean?
You better see who's causing it.

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I think you'll find him. He's the
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I don't think sickness is a normal
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And most of the time it's caused by
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I think we should resist
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But who are you going to get to do that?

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The first time we feel a little bad, we
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counting all those tablets. Blue ones and
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And we say, shall I gobble
four or should I gobble six?

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The pains in the head and
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And they may never meet.

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Well, bless God.

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Hope you folks on television wish you were
here with us and should enjoy it more.

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God wants us to have an
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of these powers and and he says these
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church and they will reveal the manifold
wisdom of God and God's wisdom is this that

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we must set prisoners free that we must
bless the needy that we must help those that

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the devil is hurt and set them free by his
mighty power number seven God says this

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is the armor Ephesians 6 and 10 finally my
brethren be strong in the Lord and in the

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power of his might you don't want to
search anyplace else for secrets of power

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the word of god says be strong in
jesus christ be strong in jehovah

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god that our strength is in god it's
not in organizations it's not in teams

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it's not in teams it's
not in committees our

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strength is in god and we need strength
we go directly to the strong one and we

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receive our strength directly from god and
we have it in the power of his might the

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power of his might and number eight god
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the battle that we fight is involved
with these principalities and

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powers that the major battle
of our lives is nowhere else

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excepting in these principalities and
powers that we're studying about i've done

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something here that i hope that you will
enjoy i don't bother with translations very

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often as most of you know but i have put
eight translations here And you may have

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some more with you of
this tremendous verse of

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Ephesians 6 and 12. If there's any verse
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print and put on your wall, nail it up in
your bathroom and read it every morning.

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It's this verse here, Ephesians 6 and 12.

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The great apostle said, we wrestle
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Our battle is not with
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Our battle is not with
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Our battle is with things
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Our battle happens to be with things
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We wrestle not against flesh and blood.

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But we wrestle against what
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Principalities and against powers. Against
the rulers of the darkness of this world.

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Against spiritual
wickedness in high places.

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Now, it would take you a long time to
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But I believe if we look at several
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it would get more beautiful.

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Weymouth, a great translator of the New
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He says, ours is not a conflict
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That means anything human, anything
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that our great conflict in this life.

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If we could only get
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We could win the whole world if we
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We ought to say it in
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Our battle is not with flesh and blood.

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Raymond said it, our conflict is not with
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Now you see, that's the only way that I use
these various translations is to open up

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something beautiful. Our
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Well, that's a mighty strong word.

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A despot is an autocrat that rules over
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Our battles with despots.

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But look at the next word. How many
of you still believe the Bible?

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You may have a hard time when I'm through
this reading, believing the Bible,

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you know. It says our
conflict is with empires.

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Hey, you didn't think you
were so important, did you?

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You thought you were just
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And it got over into your yard, you know.

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No, the devil might have made him jump over
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to get you fighting with your neighbor.
Better just forgive him and fill it back in.

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We are struggling with empires. The forces
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The spiritual hosts of evil arrayed
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Isn't that gracious? Isn't that beautiful?

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Let's look at Cony Bear, what he says.

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He says the adversaries with whom
we wrestle are not flesh and blood.

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Now, he's calling them
adversaries, you see.

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And I like that even better,
you see. You can understand.

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The other said, we wrestle
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Our conflict is not flesh and blood.

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But he says, the adversaries
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Now, our enemies with which we fight.

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With their principalities, the
powers. And they are the sovereigns.

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A sovereign is a king that rules over a
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The spirits of evil in the heavens.
You see, it even locates them.

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The spirit of evil in the heavens.

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Dr. James Moffat, that all of you have
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It's very beautiful. Many educators carry
Moffat's translation in their pocket

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because it just flows so sweetly.

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We have to struggle not with flesh and
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Angelic authorities, potentates
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Not just that you say.
Potentates of the dark present.

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Look at the trouble that's
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Look at the trouble between
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You see, the potentates
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They're not those men
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It's the devil that's behind them, making
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And saying that one or two
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And that is not true.
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They're the spirit forces of
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So take God's armor praying
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Isn't that very beautiful?

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The Revised Standard Version
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Now, I like that word. You see, I'd put
a little circle around contending and

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another one around struggle and
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And you can begin up there with wrestle.

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But you see, we're getting down through
there into some fine definitions.

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We are not contending with flesh
and blood in our supreme battle.

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We are against principalities, against
the powers, against the rulers,

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against the world rulers
of this present darkness.

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Now, he said it on a different, you see.

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In the Greek language, as you
study Greek deeper and deeper,

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it has little reflections
that are, you know,

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that may not mean much until
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And those reflections bring us greater
truth, for which we are very thankful.

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Of this present darkness against
the spiritual hosts of wickedness.

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Now, I like that. Against the spiritual
hosts of wickedness in heavenly places.

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Dr. Phillips, in his translation,
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This is number six. For our fight
is not against any physical enemy.

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Don't you like that? Isn't that sweet?

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It is against organizations
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Now that's even stronger, you
see, for your everyday thinking.

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We are against organizations
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You see, they're not natural. They
don't belong to the community.

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They don't belong to the nation.

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But they are organized and they
are powerful in the spirit world.

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And one day we will learn to fight
spiritual forces just like we fight.

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And that's what your Star Wars
is all about on television.

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Sometime these guys on television
are ten years ahead of the church.

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Well, thank you very much.

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We are against the unseen power
that controls this dark world.

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Isn't that beautiful? It says, we are
against the unseen power that controls this

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dark world and spiritual agents
from the very headquarters of evil.

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Hey, that may be the best
one. Isn't that great?

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Isn't that great? From
the new Bible, it says,

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put on the armor of God which provides that
ye may be able to stand firm against the

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devices of the devil. For our
fight is not against human foes.

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Hey, I like that, don't you?
Put a little circle right there.

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But against cosmic powers.
I kind of like that too.

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That's very modern, isn't it?

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cosmic powers against authorities and
potentates of this dark world against the

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superhuman forces of evil in the heavens
hey now that's dynamic isn't it until

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we see this picture as we should see it we
will not know how to resist the devil and

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we do it with our voices we just speak it
right out speak it right up it comes out

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of our spirit being within us and we can't
lose for winning how many are glad for

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that you can't lose for winning