Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. Life has.
Speaker 2: Life has its share of ups and downs no matter
Speaker 2: what you do. Flat tires, an unexpected plumbing problem at
Speaker 2: your house, even illness. It's just to name a few.
Speaker 2: You can't nerve or bubble wrap the world. It has
Speaker 2: sharp edges, and you will feel them from time to time.
Speaker 2: At times, you'll have bad or inconvenient things happen to you.
Speaker 2: It's been said, don't don't be surprised by the average
Speaker 2: things in life. You know, people will have flat tires,
Speaker 2: including you. Does that mean the enemies after you because
Speaker 2: you have a flat tire or these types of things, No,
Speaker 2: there are. You're going to have things in life that
Speaker 2: happen to you. If you get to a place where
Speaker 2: you think that it's always the devil under every stone,
Speaker 2: you miss the fact that when there really is spiritual warfare.
Speaker 1: Going off and on and on in your life.
Speaker 2: Because you've mistaken it for this or now everything is
Speaker 2: spiritual warfare, and you really miss.
Speaker 1: It when it actually is the enemy.
Speaker 2: And this is a whole different classification of trials that
Speaker 2: come your way. These are the spiritual trials. So it's
Speaker 2: not just a flat tire or plumbing problem. That's not
Speaker 2: why does this happen to me? Is not the time
Speaker 2: for that, because why does this happen to you? Because
Speaker 2: you're a human living on earth who has a home
Speaker 2: or a car, and these things happen. But this other classification,
Speaker 2: this other type of trial that comes your way, is
Speaker 2: a spiritual trial. These are attacks that, strangely enough, are
Speaker 2: often brought on by you. When you invite the enemy
Speaker 2: into your life. It's like inviting the devil for dinner.
Speaker 2: For whatever it is in your life that you're doing.
Speaker 2: There are times where you do things where you welcome
Speaker 2: the enemy. In any Christian any Christian family, can take
Speaker 2: on attacks from the enemy. But as a believer, you
Speaker 2: must remember that the knob of your spiritual door is
Speaker 2: on the inside and it's only opened by you. The
Speaker 2: devil can't truly get in your life unless you open
Speaker 2: the door and give them opportunity. This opportunity comes from
Speaker 2: you rejecting the things of God from the things of God,
Speaker 2: looking for that opportunity that you know is not godly,
Speaker 2: looking for that relationship that you know is not godly,
Speaker 2: rejecting things that you know are godly. You have opportunities
Speaker 2: in your life. They come your way and you think, well,
Speaker 2: just because they came your way, they must be of God.
Speaker 2: Not always. There are relationships that are not good for you.
Speaker 2: There's jobs that you shouldn't be at, or maybe there's
Speaker 2: another one that is coming your way that would be
Speaker 2: better for you. There are things that you do to
Speaker 2: manipulate at times so bad that you welcome the eny man.
Speaker 2: You get to that place where it doesn't matter what
Speaker 2: the consequences are, you just want what you want. You're
Speaker 2: giving the devil an opportunity when you ignore the warning signs,
Speaker 2: the red flags in your life. How many times on
Speaker 2: this very program have reopened the phone lines and talk
Speaker 2: to people that have called up and they have warning
Speaker 2: signs and relationships or situations and they ignore them. When
Speaker 2: you go through something like this, when you ignore those
Speaker 2: red flags, those warning signs, the alarms that are going
Speaker 2: off in your life, you're giving the enemy an opportunity.
Speaker 2: Ephesians four twenty seven says, and do not give the
Speaker 2: devil an opportunity, pointing out that you play a part
Speaker 2: in us, You play a part in the dance, in
Speaker 2: that interaction with the enemy. The devil himself to play
Speaker 2: a part in your life. Now you may make excuses
Speaker 2: for it. You may look for reasons and say, well,
Speaker 2: I was doing this because, well I was lonely and
Speaker 2: I wanted someone in my life. But in doing that,
Speaker 2: when the loneliness or your situation supersedes what you know
Speaker 2: to be right or good or the will of God,
Speaker 2: then you open up that door and say, come on,
Speaker 2: end devil, and you invite the devil to dinner, because
Speaker 2: that seems like a better plan than waiting on God.
Speaker 2: The enemy prowls around you looking for this opening, even
Speaker 2: masquerading to look more pleasant to you, trying to fool you,
Speaker 2: to look like an opportunity for relationship, to look like
Speaker 2: a job, opportunity, to look like an opportunity to get
Speaker 2: something easier, less stress, making something more obtainable, to satisfy that.
Speaker 1: Quick fix.
Speaker 2: One Peter five eight says, be of sober spirit, be
Speaker 2: on the alert your adversary. The devil prows around like
Speaker 2: a roaring line, seeking someone to devour. Don't let that
Speaker 2: someone be you. Don't give the enemy the opportunity to
Speaker 2: consume you. Second Corinthians eleven fourteen says, no wonder for
Speaker 2: even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. If
Speaker 2: you get caught up in that that appearance, the way
Speaker 2: things appear to you, and it looks like, Hey, here's
Speaker 2: that opportunity I've wanted. Not always is that the right
Speaker 2: way to go. Thessalonian says, to test all things, hold
Speaker 2: fast to that which is true. If you're constantly running
Speaker 2: after whatever opportunity comes your way, you'll set yourself up.
Speaker 2: If you allow people in your life that you know
Speaker 2: aren't good for you, you set yourself up. You open
Speaker 2: yourself up. If you disregard the things of God, you
Speaker 2: treat people poorly, you don't follow the rules in life,
Speaker 2: changing them always.
Speaker 1: To suit your needs, you open it up for the enemy.
Speaker 2: You surround yourself's self with the things in life that
Speaker 2: are vulgar or contrary to God, or ugly, you open
Speaker 2: up the opportunity. And each of these opportunities are an opening,
Speaker 2: a crack, a possibility for the enemy to enter Ephesians
Speaker 2: four twenty seven. Again, and do not give the devil
Speaker 2: an opportunity, Any crack, any fissure, any little opening in
Speaker 2: your life is an opportunity for the enemy. It's not
Speaker 2: that the devil is behind every bad thing that happens
Speaker 2: to you. As I said, you live in this life.
Speaker 2: You are a human being. You will go through things
Speaker 2: that human beings go through. Sometimes that's sickness. Sometimes it's
Speaker 2: a flat tire. Sometimes it's a leak that is sprung
Speaker 2: in your bathroom. All of these things, I understand may
Speaker 2: seem like trials, but they aren't necessarily of the devil.
Speaker 1: They're of the world. The world is a place with many,
Speaker 1: many sharp edges.
Speaker 2: But the special type of trial, this this spiritual trial
Speaker 2: from the enemy, often is a relationship between you and
Speaker 2: the enemy. You are giving permission. You're opening the door
Speaker 2: to your world, to your life, rejecting the things of
Speaker 2: God by toying or getting too close to the creek
Speaker 2: that you fall in. Think of that visual for a moment,
Speaker 2: of getting so close, always trying to tempt fate, and
Speaker 2: see how close you can get to doing the things
Speaker 2: that are counter to what you know how to be
Speaker 2: good and right, and in doing so, creeping ever so
Speaker 2: closely to that line, just a little bit each time,
Speaker 2: that sooner or later.
Speaker 1: You stand at the.
Speaker 2: Door of your spirit, of your heart, and you hear
Speaker 2: a knock and you open and it's not me, but
Speaker 2: the enemy looking for an opportunity to come in to
Speaker 2: devour and destroy. You're going to have issues in You're
Speaker 2: gonna have normal life issues that come with life. You're
Speaker 2: gonna trip, sometimes you're gonna hurt yourself. Sometimes you're gonna
Speaker 2: break your favorite dishes. You're going to do things that
Speaker 2: happen because you're human and you're in the world. Some
Speaker 2: will be bigger than others. Sometimes you may become ill,
Speaker 2: sometimes you may there may be what they call acts
Speaker 2: of God, earthquakes, floods, these types of things. You will
Speaker 2: be affected. Life will happen to you. But there's another
Speaker 2: set of trials, of tribulations, of problems that will come
Speaker 2: your way that have the thumb print of the enemy.
Speaker 2: But the enemy doesn't get in your life easily. The
Speaker 2: enemy gets in your life by you doing things to
Speaker 2: attract or allow the enemy in truly inviting the enemy
Speaker 2: to be with you.
Speaker 1: And I know what you're thinking right now.
Speaker 2: You go, absolutely not, Lord, I would never ever ever
Speaker 2: bring the enemy into my life. But you Doians Ephesians
Speaker 2: four twenty seven even says, and do not give the
Speaker 2: devil an opportunity. And some things that you do in
Speaker 2: your life are giving the enemy opportunity. You have to
Speaker 2: find ways to defend yourself from building that that structure
Speaker 2: in your life that leaves those openings for the enemy
Speaker 2: to get in. So how does the faithful believer defend
Speaker 2: themselves against the enemy. Well, scripture says to submit to
Speaker 2: God and resist the devil James four seven. Submit therefore
Speaker 2: to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from
Speaker 2: you by resisting by first submitting to God. Also, the
Speaker 2: Bible instructs you to put on the whole armor of
Speaker 2: God for the ultimate protection from evil Ephesians six eleven.
Speaker 2: Put on the full armor of God so that you
Speaker 2: will be able to stand firm against the schemes.
Speaker 1: Of the devil.
Speaker 2: And you can read the rest of Chapter six and
Speaker 2: Ephesians to learn about the complete armor of God. But finally,
Speaker 2: remember that although the devil is called the prince of
Speaker 2: this world, when all is said and done, God will
Speaker 2: be without a doubt.
Speaker 1: The victor.
Speaker 2: Romans sixteen twenty says, the God of Peace will soon
Speaker 2: crush Satan at your feet. The grace of our Lord
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ be with you. Graham. Welcome to the Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: Show are you saying Stugram, Yes, how can I help you? Hi?
Speaker 3: Good morning to you. Hi. Yes, I was calling because
Speaker 3: I was concerned. I was considering, Uh, you know, this
Speaker 3: is a holidays even we've got Halloween, we've got Christmas,
Speaker 3: and then there's all the various holidays in the world,
Speaker 3: and you know, it's a confusing thing because people do
Speaker 3: different things. And I studied past with the Johoah's witnesses,
Speaker 3: and I was touched by their thing about Christmas. That
Speaker 3: really brought a light to me about that Deptember twenty
Speaker 3: fifth business, that it isn't there. And then I think
Speaker 3: about it and think about it, and I did research
Speaker 3: and things, and you know, like, for example, a lot
Speaker 3: of these cards are greeting cards, sales eployees, like Mother's Day,
Speaker 3: Father's Day, Grandparents' Day, Secretary's Day, and it's been at them.
Speaker 3: And you know, in scripturally, I kind of take Romans
Speaker 3: fifteen five onward till the end of the subject really
Speaker 3: to heart that we don't live for our subverb. Well,
Speaker 3: we observe it to the Lord. We observe whatever day
Speaker 3: we observed to God, and we do it and give thanks.
Speaker 3: And we shouldn't be judging our brothers, but we should
Speaker 3: just not do the things that are blatantly.
Speaker 2: So are you worried about celebrating holidays?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, because I'm not so much worried about it.
Speaker 3: I personally have totally embraced each day is a blessing
Speaker 3: and do the best you can with it. And you know,
Speaker 3: because everybody knew how old they were, you know, in
Speaker 3: the Bible.
Speaker 1: I will tell you this. There's nothing wrong with holidays.
Speaker 1: Are they the holy days of the past.
Speaker 2: No, are a lot of them, at bare minimum, embellished
Speaker 2: by the greeting card companies. Absolutely, But that doesn't mean
Speaker 2: that you can't celebrate a mother, or someone's birth or
Speaker 2: any of these things. I think that there are some groups,
Speaker 2: some may consider them fringe groups, that take this to
Speaker 2: a degree where they don't celebrate anything, and to me,
Speaker 2: that is more militant and Unchristian in the attitude of
Speaker 2: celebrating all things. I mean, first Thessalonians five sixteen and
Speaker 2: eighteen rejoice, always pray, without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstance,
Speaker 2: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 2: For you there's do you need a special day?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: But then you could say the same about the Sabbath.
Speaker 2: You don't need a special day for that either. It's
Speaker 2: just a matter of taking the time and rejoicing and
Speaker 2: celebrating people. And sometimes it's easier to put something on
Speaker 2: the camp calendar than it is because people put it
Speaker 2: off all the time. You do it with relationships of
Speaker 2: any kind. You do it with friendships, with getting together
Speaker 2: for coffee or tea or lunch or dinner or whatever
Speaker 2: it might be. You put them off constantly, and sometimes
Speaker 2: it's easier to just get something on the calendar and say,
Speaker 2: this is the day that we're going to celebrate mothers
Speaker 2: or fathers or family or friends or whatever it might be.
Speaker 2: And some of them may feel silly and you don't
Speaker 2: have to celebrate them. And yes, you can go back
Speaker 2: to the origins of Christmas and Eastern and you can
Speaker 2: look that they weren't celebrated by the early Church. And
Speaker 2: of course I wasn't born in December. It wouldn't make
Speaker 2: sense biblically based on what was taking place during the
Speaker 2: time of my birth. All those things absolutely true. However,
Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with taking a time putting it on
Speaker 2: the calendar. In the case of things like Christmas, Easter,
Speaker 2: there were pagan holidays during that time. The Early Church
Speaker 2: wanted to try and root those pagan holidays out, so
Speaker 2: they kind of plopped My Birth and my Resurrection into
Speaker 2: those slots to try and squelch or squash the pagan
Speaker 2: religious ceremonies or festivals or things like that. And that
Speaker 2: was the way of the Early Church trying to kind
Speaker 2: of get their way. I get all that, but it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. It doesn't matter, It doesn't even matter. There's
Speaker 2: pagan ties in when it comes to Christmas and it
Speaker 2: comes to Easter, the bunny rabbits, the eggs, all that
Speaker 2: stuff comes from pagan roots. The Christmas tree itself is
Speaker 2: tied to pagan roots. But it doesn't matter because that's
Speaker 2: not what people are celebrating. And so to take a
Speaker 2: time of celebrate to enjoy any more than people are celebrating,
Speaker 2: you know, Pagans on Halloween, they're just not No kid
Speaker 2: is looking at the theological significance of Halloween. They're thinking,
Speaker 2: I get to dress up, which kids love to do,
Speaker 2: and run around and get candy for for free. That's it.
Speaker 2: No theological you know. And I know that there's a
Speaker 2: lot of churches and Christian organizations that put on harvest
Speaker 2: dances or harvest events to try and sidestep the Halloween
Speaker 2: situation and holiday. But the truth is that the harvest
Speaker 2: was an incredibly pagan part of their ritual.
Speaker 1: That's where the.
Speaker 2: You know, they were tied into the earth and to
Speaker 2: Mother Earth and it's fruits and all of these things,
Speaker 2: and you just start looking for the devil under every
Speaker 2: rock and that doesn't help anybody. So celebrating birthdays, celebrating Christmas, Easter,
Speaker 2: the upcoming Halloween, any of these things is fine. It
Speaker 2: depends how you celebrate them. If you celebrate Christmas by
Speaker 2: you know, you know, killing a baby animal, probably not
Speaker 2: putting a smile on God's face. But if you enjoy family,
Speaker 2: come together, hear music, have food, praise God in the process,
Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with any of these days. I think.
Speaker 2: I think there's this attitude of this attitude of giving
Speaker 2: up things that people assume is automatically christ like, that
Speaker 2: if you give up anything or you sacrifice something, that
Speaker 2: it's christ like. And there are times where you're called
Speaker 2: to give things up. There's times where you're called to
Speaker 2: give up relationships or maybe move jobs or whatever it
Speaker 2: might be. But that doesn't mean you need to sacrifice
Speaker 2: all the time. There was this young lady that I
Speaker 2: knew many years ago who was very devout and wanted
Speaker 2: to give her life to God. Her mother had passed away,
Speaker 2: and she had things from her mother that meant so
Speaker 2: much to her that she assumed that they were idols
Speaker 2: in her life. And as she started to dedicate her
Speaker 2: life to God, she started giving up these things, I mean,
Speaker 2: mementos that were the last vestige and connection she had
Speaker 2: with a person in her life, her mother, and she
Speaker 2: threw them in a dumpster to show God how much
Speaker 2: she loved God. And years later she was so resentful
Speaker 2: towards God that she fell away. Now you may say, well,
Speaker 2: then those things were idols. No, that that's not the point.
Speaker 2: The point is that that God is not asking you
Speaker 2: to do some grand gesture every moment. God is asking
Speaker 2: you to live a life that glorifies God. And these
Speaker 2: big acts of book burning and getting rid of records
Speaker 2: and all these, you know, it's not about any of that.
Speaker 2: It's about trying to connect with people, be kind to them. Now,
Speaker 2: is that going to get you into heaven? No, you
Speaker 2: have to have a relationship with God. But these things
Speaker 2: on this world, on this planet, are important, and that
Speaker 2: is to connect with one another, to love and to
Speaker 2: be kind to one another, and and not look for
Speaker 2: religiosity at every turn. There are times for that. There
Speaker 2: are times for reflection. There are times for deep prayer, obviously,
Speaker 2: and to sit and to ponder the things of God,
Speaker 2: whether it be through meditation, godly biblical meditation, or to
Speaker 2: connect with God in those ways all wonderful. However, these
Speaker 2: big grand gestures and people in the Philippines that during
Speaker 2: Easter are nailing themselves to crosses does nothing for God
Speaker 2: and his will and his movement and his cause. So
Speaker 2: giving up something that someone enjoys, like a birthday, and
Speaker 2: to be celebrating life and enjoying one another and all
Speaker 2: these things, it means nothing to God. There is no
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Well look what they're giving up. It
Speaker 2: means nothing. It is it's an outward It's something to
Speaker 2: stir up other people and to say, look how different
Speaker 2: I am. If you want to show people how different
Speaker 2: you are, be kind, connect with people, put them first,
Speaker 2: be selfless. But there's nothing wrong with celebration. If you
Speaker 2: want to make it about your your mother, on your birthday.
Speaker 2: That's fine too, but there's nothing wrong with celebrating and
Speaker 2: finding excuses to celebrate and putting it on the calendar.
Speaker 2: Absolutely nothing, Anthony. Welcome to the Jesus Christ show.
Speaker 4: I am. When God cast out the angels down to earth?
Speaker 4: Did they land in the land of Earth? Best Samerians
Speaker 4: because their Bible is exactly like ours. I've been studying
Speaker 4: history and our ten commandments can be found Moses law
Speaker 4: Cannanabbi's law books or spell one point six of the
Speaker 4: Egyptian Bible paraphrases are ten commandments.
Speaker 2: And that's not the and that's not the only similarities.
Speaker 2: There are great similarities throughout other civilizations as well, by
Speaker 2: Greece and.
Speaker 4: Methra and Kabalonism. And the way that they preach transcendence
Speaker 4: is the exact same cycle as what Jesus went towards.
Speaker 2: Well well wait wait wait wait wait, transcendence in what form.
Speaker 4: The the death and the resurrection is their final stage of.
Speaker 2: Sens But there's but there's also there's also pre cycles
Speaker 2: that are much different than Christianity by far, so be
Speaker 2: careful not to confine them. And just because there's similarities,
Speaker 2: last uh, last week, we talked about counterfeits, and there
Speaker 2: gets to be a point where similarities don't mean the same.
Speaker 2: There are counterfeit dollar bills that are very similar, but
Speaker 2: I wouldn't try and pass them.
Speaker 4: Okay, But what I was saying is when God casts
Speaker 4: out the angels, if they landed in the land of
Speaker 4: Earth years ago and the flood happened, is six thousand
Speaker 4: years ago, and then the Egyptian culture had the exact
Speaker 4: same thing that experience had and all that. And then
Speaker 4: Jesus came back to teaches that you know that that
Speaker 4: was the wrong way of worship, and this is the
Speaker 4: right way to set the records trade. As you would
Speaker 4: if you take a map, and he mapped out all
Speaker 4: the religions, the timelines in which they existed and were created,
Speaker 4: and mapped out all the similarities in one color marker,
Speaker 4: all the differences in a different color marker, all the
Speaker 4: similarities between You can see how religion its migration distorted it,
Speaker 4: and its birth was with the fallen angels. And then
Speaker 4: Jesus came back to set the records trade because we
Speaker 4: were worshiping essentially the Book of Lists. They essentially took
Speaker 4: our Bible and made themselves the gods of it.
Speaker 2: There are theories based on similar notions. The problem is
Speaker 2: that the timeline is based on the timeline is when
Speaker 2: it becomes difficult when you're dealing with fallen angels and
Speaker 2: the concept of the fallen angels you talked about twelve
Speaker 2: seven through nine talking about the battle with Michael and
Speaker 2: his angels fighting against the dragon or Satan. There's no
Speaker 2: specific time as a matter of fact, when something's happening
Speaker 2: in heaven. In that concept, it's really outside of time.
Speaker 2: So if you're using that as a basis to say, okay,
Speaker 2: well it's started here and there's similarities, no doubt, similarities
Speaker 2: may point to a standard through point where you have
Speaker 2: a belief system starting here, moving through here. Some parts
Speaker 2: are taken, some parts are removed, some of it's polluted,
Speaker 2: some of it's added to what have you. I get that,
Speaker 2: and that has most certainly taken place, But to try
Speaker 2: and trace it back entirely to the fallen angels might
Speaker 2: be a little difficult from a historical or timeline perspective.
Speaker 2: But absolutely no doubt that with the falling of the
Speaker 2: angels and the angels coming to earth, as it says
Speaker 2: in scripture, it says in that very scripture, Revelation twelve
Speaker 2: seven through nine talks about that he was thrown down
Speaker 2: to the earth and his angels were thrown down with him,
Speaker 2: that in that process that there wasn't counterfeits and destruction
Speaker 2: and things that went along with it. So I get
Speaker 2: the big picture of where you're going and how you
Speaker 2: look at it. It looks like here you had a faith,
Speaker 2: and then pow, you have those that would be motivated
Speaker 2: to destroy that faith, causing pollution and counterfeits and all
Speaker 2: these things that would twist it around. And that you
Speaker 2: say that you can kind of trace that back, but
Speaker 2: I think you're dealing with other things that are outside
Speaker 2: the timeline of history and then within the timeline of history,
Speaker 2: and that post is kind of a problem to figure
Speaker 2: out as to what to place, when and where man
Speaker 2: stands in in that whole equation as well.
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