Ezekiel (Session 24) The Origin of Evil pt2

well this is our second session on the origin of evil part 2 we could call it cosmic warfare if you like but before we get into this I would like to examine what we think of as reality we're gonna explore the spirit world and most of us tend to think of that in terms of cliches because we don't see it feeling understand it I think it'll be useful for us to try to stand back a little bit and get a perspective of what we think of as reality and we'll use it our springboard verse 12 of chapter 6 of Ephesians where Paul tells us we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against rulers of darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places that's scary stuff if you realize what it's saying we're not against flesh and blood you and I can relate to that we're talking here a whole list of things that are actually ranks of angels fallen angels at that and some of them are demons we take the view that fallen angels and demons are not the same thing fallen angels are vastly more powerful they can materialize they can engage in combat among other things demons are powerless except to the extent they can influence possess and guide and they seem to be very desperate for embodiment but be that as it may that's the details that for a subject for another time let's talk about the boundaries of reality let's take puny man and put him right in the middle if we take size is increasing to the right here the cosmos is the exploration of things bigger than ourselves that leads us into studies of largeness the universe itself that leads to astronomy astrophysics those kinds of things and the great discovery of 20th century science is its finite it has a limit that the cosmos is Allah it's not infinite the universe has a finite limit it might be expanding yes maybe but it's finite not infinite big discovery profoundly significant we're going to look at the other direction for a little bit towards smallness in fact we get so small we'll be talking about hyper spaces that's a fancy word for meaning spaces of more than three dimensions we think of three spatial dimensions we talk a little bit more about that in a minute but we're really going to explore the limits of smallness did you realize there's a limit to smallness most of us think we make something whatever we've got that small we can cut in half and make it even smaller not true this leads into the area what's called quantum physics subatomic particles and the like we discover shockingly that the universe that we know the physical world that we know is made up of units that are indivisible you can't split them up you can't make it get smaller and the implications that are staggering there are quantum physicists that committed suicide as they came to grips with the implications that are let's back up for a minute and let's talk about the smallest thing you and I have the capacity to imagine and that's an atom we've all had an atomic sketches in school we think of an atom the simplest one would be the hydrogen atom and has a nucleus around that nucleus is orbiting apparently an electron okay so we have a nucleus in the middle and electrons spinning around it this is not to scale but I do want to get across to you what the scale would have to be to make this legitimate we know that the nucleus is about ten to the excuse me yeah ten to the minus thirteen centimeters the atom itself has a radius of or a diameter the diameter of 10 to the minus 8 centimeters now you say well I can't relate to those small numbers you don't need to just look at the ratio of them in other words if if the atom is ten to the minus eight and the nucleus is 10 to the minus 13 that means then that the ratio of those is 100,000 to 1 C in other words 13 the eight that's the number of zeroes see a 10 to the minus 8 is pi you know eight of those zeros and and the other one is 13 so the difference between those two is once is five you take the difference in expert X and exponent you take the difference you with me okay so the ratio of those is 10 to the fifth 100,000 to 1 the atom is a hundred thousand times in radius or diameter either way of the nucleus now that's linear if we're gonna do a two dimensional diagram you got a square that it's square feet in area right if you're gonna do it in volume its cubed it's 10 to the fifth about ten to the fifth times it in other words your 10 to the fifth has to be you're gonna go volumetrically that's cubed right if I have a foot length in area that would be a 1 square foot foot by foot if it's cubic ly it's a foot by foot by foot right if it's 3 if it's a yard or 3 feet square it would be 3 by 3 right 9 square feet that's 27 cubic feet in acute be with me your cubed well so volumetrically the volume of of material there is one part in 10 to the 15th well what does that mean okay that is a ratio of one second to 30 million years 10 to the 15th is a mathematical way of expressing a very large number one second to 30 million years let me give you a practical example this I have a podium here okay and if I said that this is solid boy it sure feels solid that's my podium right is this solid I say it's solid marry over here says you're all washed up there's nothing here she is more right than I am by that ratio is all really just empty space if she maintained this empty space and I say it's solid conjecture number two is more descriptive than just than number one by that same ratio the ratio of one second to thirty million years is 10 to the 15th what's my point this world that we think of as being real is a simulation it turns out to be an electrical simulation it pretends to be real it feels real because the orbits of the electrons and the atoms of my hand are colliding with the orbits of electrons that make up the it feels solid it sounds solid all those physical attributes do occur but they result they come from an electronic sim we you and I are in a virtual environment let's go look at this a little further we discover in modern science that everything we know is made up of indivisible units units that cannot be divided whether you're talking about mass energy length space whatever you if I take a line of anything let's just imagine I take a line here I can obviously cut that line in half can i I can take the half and take it and I can cut it in half right and whatever I have left I can cut that in half and you'd think that I could do that forever I might get so small I'm just dealing conceptually but whatever I've got left you think well no matter how small it is I can cut it in half it turns out that's not true one of the shocking discoveries and Sciences you get to a point where if you try to divide it again it loses a very interesting property it loses a property the physics called locality it suddenly becomes everywhere at the same moment it loses locality now you and I can't deal with that but turns out that that's called the plaque length in length it happens to 10 to the minus 33 centimeters I get if I get down to 10 to the minus 3 that's very very tiny but if I get down that small and try to divide it it's everywhere at once they've discovered that every photon in the universe no futons doing right now immediately there's no transmittal whoa what's that mean there's thing called Planck time there's a period of time that you cannot divide any further the shortest period of time is 10 to the minus 43 seconds that's called Planck time it'll just take a second okay you got ten to the forty three zeroes Planck times left that's a lot no that's a very small unit time I believe that's the the twinkle of an eye by the way in the Bible so the point is there is a limit to smallness that's a shocker at the macrocosm we know we're limited the universe is finite in the microcosm it's finite that has staggering implications for every one of us we have a universe that is has finite limits at both ends it can't get any bigger and you can't get smaller than these units so that means we are in a simulation and we are in a digital simulation these are not there's no such thing truly as analog units they're digital they are made up of indivisible elements scientists have been have become concerned that the constants of physics appear to be changing and there was an article in Scientific American back in June of 2005 on the subject but the conclusion the reason scientists are so concerned about the fact certain constants may be changing is because if they are and they pair we are it implies that are you their words not mine our universe is but a shadow of a larger reality Wow just because the constants aren't constant they come to this conclusion it turns out that's what the Bible has said all along in Hebrews 11:3 first Corinthians 15 and elsewhere let's take a look at Paul said to the Ephesians in chapter 3 he speaking is being about Christ dwelling in your heart so that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that ye being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with All Saints what is that breadth length depth and height and to know the love passes knowledge that she might be filled with all the fullness of God okay he's making his point but whoops did you notice what he did along the way that comprehend with All Saints what is that breadth and length and depth and height Paul whether he what rep knew it consciously or it was just holy spirit there are four dimension the universe Einstein's theory of relativity is the great discovery of 20th century science discovering that we live in four-dimensional space not three three spatial dimensions and time it's a physical property you need to understand that if you can understand your Bible we've just gone beyond the Euclid you and I had Euclidean geometry and we were in school but 1954 george riemann introduced metric tensors it took 60 years before people could apply it took 60 years for einstein to use those that mathematics to develop four-dimensional space-time and he went to his death frustrated because he couldn't go further he couldn't reconcile certain things that Clues incline and 53 did doing exactly what Einstein did go adding one dimension and and they reconciled light in super gravity and yang-mills went in 63 a decade later and and reconciled electromagnetic most nuclear so the four main forces are now reconciled at least in part since 1984 most thinkers in this region of the quantum physics believe in 10 dimensional super strings that we live in ten dimensions and I think that happens he I'm not trying to get you in the mathematics except to point out that na kumano D is a Hebrew sage in the 13th century by studying the text of Genesis came to conclusion artists our universe has ten dimensions for them are directly knowable six are not knowable and he published that to that effect and now in modern the 20th century physics the particle physicists have discovered that we live in ten dimensions four of them are directly measurable three spatial dimensions in time and one of them or I should say six of them are Curless than 10 to the minus 33 centimeters and that's our inferable only indirectly because of small in the wavelength of light so the point is we've spent millions of dollars on atomic accelerators to discover what knock none of these discovered by reading the text I think that's kind of fun but let's shift gears now having perhaps humbled ourselves a little bit about our perceptions of reality what is really real we read in the Bible the spiritual world we tend to think of this is the real world the spiritual world is this fuzzy fuzzy thing out there no it's the other way around the spiritual world is the real world we are in a special subset of it that's the point we get a few glimpses of that in the scripture and let's explore Daniel 10 it's a very illuminating preamble to a couple of chapters that we're going to pass on we're just interested the preamble here we're gonna get a glimpse of what I'll call the dark side okay okay it's Daniel chapter 10 verse 1 in the third year of Cyrus the king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel whose name is called bel Tish hazard and the thing was true but the time the point it was long and he understood the thing and had understanding of the vision so this is the first year of King Cyrus Daniels third year out of public life he's retired this is two years after the Jews have been allowed under Cyrus to return to the land so we're now several years after the time of Ezekiel they were roughly contemporaneous and that about two years after the return by only about less than 50,000 actually took advantage of Cyrus is decreed to return and under Ezra and then later Nehemiah on all of that but okay so the Exile just returned from Babylon they had begun building the temple Daniel was still there in Babylon probably didn't return because his as a he was over 80 years old and he had a maid there he's number third ruler in the Persian Empire he was taking care of pretty well I guess in those days I daniel says was mourning three full weeks I want to notice that how long was he fasting and praying here three weeks I was in mourning three four weeks I had no Pleasant bread neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth neither did I know it myself at all till three whole weeks were fulfilled that's quite a while that's a serious fast and it's an absolute fast huh Paul most absolute fast and the four and twentieth day of the first month as I was by the side of the great river which is the hit account then I lifted up mine eyes on looked and behold a certain man clothed in linen whose loins were girded with the fine gold of us his body was also like the barrel and his faces the appearance of lightning in his eyes has lamps of fire and his arms and his feet like color - polished brass and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude and I Daniel alone saw the vision for the men that were with me saw not the vision but a great quaking fell upon them so that they fled to hide themselves therefore I was left alone and saw this great vision and there remained no strength in me and my combing this was turned into me corruption and I retained no strength yet heard I the voice of his words and when I heard the voice of his words then was I in a deep sleep on my face and my face toward the ground and the old a hand touched me which sent me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands and he said unto me o Daniel a man greatly beloved understand the words that I speak unto thee and stand upright front to thee am I now sent and when he spoken this word unto me I stood trembling got the picture so far Daniels been praying and fasting for three weeks how long as three weeks how many days 21 days let's call it that we're good reason and he's has this visitor some kind of super guy here then said he unto me fear not Daniel for from the first day that thou did set thine heart to understand and a-chasing thyself before thy God thy words were heard and I am come for thy words in other words his visitor was dispatched to see him the day he started praying and fasting and he was sent specifically to give Daniel a message that was 21 days ago but then he explains that the problem is but the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me 1 in 20 days the prince of the kingdom of Persia that's not Cyrus that's the power behind Persia will discover the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one in twenty days in other words he was trying to he was dispatched trying to get through to Daniel and this obstacle this adversary distracted him kept him fought with him whatever he withstood me one in twenty days but low Michael one of the chief Prince's came to help me then I remained there with the kings of Persia now I am come to make me understand what shall befall by people in the latter days forget the vision is for many days here's the messenger he's been specifically dispatched to communicate to Daniel when Daniel asked for him he prayed for him been fasting he's trying to get through he's withstood whatever that means that this dark presence has obstructed him until that until Michael shows up to help him Michael is one of the two angels that have names and jobs lots of angels I'm sure Gabriel is always an annunciator of something messianic where do you see him in the Old Testament or the new he's always bring a bringing an announced announcement about the Messiah that seems to be his primary job Michael is a military guy he is always at war on behalf of God's people well here this messenger is trying to get through to Daniel some creature by the called here the Prince of the power of the kingdom of Persia is obstructing him until Michael comes and aids him good so he apparently got through cuz here is right he continues here now I am come to make me understand what shall be followed by people Daniels people's what the Jews they're right what shall be helped befall thy people in the latter days for the yep the visions for many days he's got a message for them that message is chapter 11 and 12 that follows the climax of Baca Daniel chapter 11 12 is very rich full prophecy people often talk about the silent years between the Testaments last book of the Old Testament we have it as Malachi there's 400 years before the New Testament starts and many people call those the silent years because they haven't done their homework those years are in the scripture they are prophetically included from in chapter 11 verse 5 to verse 35 of chapter 11 summarized those 400 years interestingly enough and chapter 11 and 12 are so important at chapter 10 is really just the warm-up it's just the the the the the the preamble but in this preamble the messenger is going to give Daniel 11 and 12 is held up for 21 days until Michael comes along to help him that's what I want to get a picture of here let's get a little more here he was to me one in 20 days now Michael is the chief Prince he said he's a heavy dude he's a military guy his strength is in Exodus and I say all the way through in fact Michael even takes on Satan he fights Satan for the body of Moses in Jude 9 and I believe it's Michael's voice that Paul talks about in 1st Thessalonians 4 the voice of the Archangel Michael apparently is the Archangel it was a big mystery behind all this why was Moses body an issue God buried Moses personally the scripture says and yet Michael has to fight Satan over his body what is it I thought the body's gonna rot what do we need the body for we're gonna have resurrection bodies aren't we well apparently Moses body is needed because it shows up in Matthew 17 and the Transfiguration and it shows up I believe in Matthew in Revelation chapter 11 both Moses and Elijah have a special role yet in the body and so but one of the things as we beside Michael is another issue here what do you suppose would have happened if Daniels fast was turned off after the 19th day he didn't go 21 days he started fasting and he fasted for 1819 and enough enough you know we don't doesn't say this but we sort of presume that the 21 days of fasting had something to do with this angel taking 21 days to fight through his resistance the angel is talking that's gonna give him chapter 11 12 had to fight through and it took him 21 days to get through you can't resist the presumption that Matthew that Daniels fasting and praying was what got him through doesn't say that but it certainly suggests that in fact the messenger goes on to talk here a little bit he says and when he had spoken such words unto me I set my face toward the ground and the Daniel Daniel speaking when he had spoken such words on me I set my face toward the ground and I became dumb and behold one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips and when I opened my mouth and spake and said unto him that stood before me o my lord by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me and I have retained no strength for how can a servant of this my Lord talk with this my Lord for as for me straightway there remained no strength in me neither as their breath left in me then there came again and touched me 1 like appearance of a man and he strengthened me and said o man greatly beloved fear not peace be unto thee and be strong a be strong and when he has spoken to me I was strengthened and he said let my Lord speak for thou hast strengthened me then said he knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee and now will I return to fight with the Prince of Persia and when I am gone forth lo the Prince of Grecia shall come but I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth that there's none that hold us with me in these things but Michael your prince I'm come therefore I've come unto thee now will I return to fight the Prince of Persia the guy that's been holding off he's got to go back and deal with him and when I went and when I'm gone forth lo the Prince of grisha shall come well you get the impression that behind the Persian Empire was a spirit being or beings plural maybe that are behind it that he's fighting with and was through with them the next Empire that rises up is Greeks the grief conquer the Persians 200 years later but the picture that's just a glimpse we get here because what happens here of course chapter 10 becomes 1112 and we're not gonna get into all that here this is just a prelude to chapter 2 Daniel 11 and 12 but we've just gotten a glimpse here you get the impression that behind these big empires is a spirit spiritual conflict going on and that getting messages to us requires resources in that spirit world to get through to us and that's somehow linked to our praying and fasting let's get it we have another glimpse that's worth taking a look at in second Kings 6 I love this one it's kind of fun second Kings 8 that's 6 starting at verse 8 the king of Syria Ward against Israel you got these they got the Syrians you got Israel the king of Assyria Ward against Israel and took counsel with the servants saying in such and such a place shall be my camp and the man of God a prophet sent unto the king of Israel saying beware that thou pass not such a place for the Syrians are come down here's a situation that doesn't Curtis once many times apparently the king of Syria is making his plans and he's going to set up a situation to his camp in a certain place and the prophet of God sends an email maybe it's an email to the to his benefactors the king of Israel say by the way watch it there's an ambush being set up that happened so often the king of Syria is getting upset in verse 10 the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of them saved him there not once or twice but this happens again and again and again is the point and therefore the heart of the king of Syria was more troubled for this thing that he called a servant said of them will ye not show me which of us is for the king of Israel he assumes he's got a mole on the staff he has these meetings that makes these plans and the king of Israel somehow always knows this is the first recorded case of telephone taps so he thinks he's got a spy in his own garage here one of the servants said none none my lord o king but Elisha the Prophet that is in Israel tell if the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber so that's you know that that's the explanation that he gives the king of syria he said go and spy where he is that is where Elijah is that I may send and fetch him they was told him well he's behold he isn't Duffin therefore said he vivir horses chariots tanks bazookas no and a great host and they came by night and compass the city roundabout so the king of syria realizes that his weak link is somehow this prophet of Israel so he's going to go after the prophet of Israel so he circled against forces circled often over night and I love this morning get this morning even when the servant of the man of God was risen early and gone forth behold a host compass the city both with horses and chariots cut up early in the morning looks out the window or whatever whoa the whole gang or surrounded the servant said of him alas my master how should we do and Elisha says fear not for they that be with us are more than they that be with them I assume the servant just wasn't the mood for some you know glib cliche he can hear them revving their engines out there okay so he's nervous and frightened and I visualize Elijah here being very patient but sort of the end of his wits in a way Elijah prayed and said Lord I pray thee open his eyes that he may see and the Lord opened the eyes of the young man and he saw and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha interesting we have no idea what's surrounding us Elijah knew the young man did not Lord's show him Shawn give him a break Sherwin so he does now Satan his origin his agenda and his destiny quick snapshot it's interesting that Satan has always addressed indirectly not always most of times it directly indirectly even God announced at 3:15 we saw him addressed indirectly in Isaiah 14 Matthew 16 and other places he is our accuser remember job 1 the whole saga of job is his result of an accusation and apparently Satan has access to the throne of God for that purpose he's a tempter we saw that when we opened up our series in Luke chapter 4 there's a summary of all of us in Revelation 12 we have the woman with the son of the Moon stars at her feet who she's with child we have the red dragon with seven heads ten horns and seven Crown's who's trying to devour the manchild as soon as he's born we have the manchild himself who's going to rule all the nations the rod of iron and he's caught up to God and his throne the woman then flees into the wilderness for 1260 days we have Michael in his angels who fights the dragon within his angels and then the dragon is cast to the earth and he persecutes the woman for three and a half years and so on very summary when he's over all wrap-up summaries in Revelation 12 who is the woman woman's not the church some people think she's the church if she's the church she's in bad company because she's pregnant no church is a virgin bride no this is woman is Israel in the sense that it began with Eve the Messianic line the Sun Moon and stars Jacob himself interprets who she is but from the dream that Joseph had she's with child Church didn't bring forth Jesus Christ Israel did had the we celebrated every Christmas the manchild the adversary is the red dragon here seven heads ten horns seven crowns and who is that in verse 9 of chapter 12 he's identified for you he's the serpent the devil Satan and he's trying that he tries to destroy the manchild the moment he's born the murderer of the innocence and Bethlehem and so on the man who's the manchild the kinsman redeemer the Messiah how mushiya he's going to rule all the nations with a rod of iron that's used all through the scripture that way old and new Testament but he's caught up to God and his throne I believe was GH Pember that first suggested that particular event may not just be limited to the Ascension it may include the harpazo the rapture well that's just one person yeah so was the body of Christ one person then the woman flees into the wilderness $0.12 1260 days and so forth then Michael his angels come and fight the dragon finding the Dragons cast to the earth persecutes the woman and so forth see God expelled Satan from the Mount of God we learn in the Ezekiel 28 that is in heaven the the mountain the the the organisation the government of God Satan was cast from God's government in heaven but he still is allowed access to God to accuse we sit in job 1 in Zechariah 3 and elsewhere in the tribulation Satan will be cast from heaven and restricted to the earth going to be a climactic time from the her pot so till the wrap up he's got a short window of opportunity it's gonna have to move and move fast when that happens during the Millennium he's going to be chained incarcerated man will be without excuse for a thousand years Satan's bound can't blame it on him he'll be in the bottomless pit and I believe that's geocentric after a brief release at the end of millennium he will be cast in the lake of fire forever to his destiny is sealed that's the scenario but it has a beginning in that gap between verse 1 and 2 of Genesis 1 what are his strategies during this interval now well he tried to corrupt Adams line knew that when when as God reveals his plans he revealed that the both heaven and earth are going to be read deemed by a man from the line of Adam so Satan's attack is on Adams line in Genesis 4 as well as Genesis 6 but definitely Genesis 6 that's what led to the flood when it's God focuses his really reveals his plan a little more detail it's going to come through Abraham then suddenly Abraham's seed are a primary target of Satan in Genesis 12 and 20 notes where the famine in Genesis 50 and so on the destruction of the male line in Exodus 1 but you know Moses's is miraculously salvaged and so on faris pursuit even after he reels them he goes after them in Exodus 14 after the Passover all of these are attempts by Satan to wipe out to thwart God's plan as God reveals his plan it allowed Satan to focus his energies when God tells Abraham that after 400 years his descendants are going to come back here to the land of Canaan that gave Satan for centuries to lay down a minefield and that's why the Nephilim and all of that were replanted there again and that's why josh was told to wipe out every man woman and child of force for key tribes because there was a gene pool problem there and then as God further refines his it explains that he's going to do it through the line of David that makes David's line a special target of Satan Satan is able to focus attack as God incrementally reveals his plans in in 2nd Samuel 7 and so on in David's line Jerome kills all his brothers they except one the Raven slew them all but a Isaiah falaya kills all but gos skits is always a little miraculous child or what have you that thoughts Satan's attempt to wipe out the Messianic line that's what Haman was all about in the days of Persia Hezekiah is assaulted and all that Haman's attempts and Persian s and Esther is well known and worth your attention this doesn't end in the Old Testament New Testament Joseph's spheres with Mary our foot are fatal if he'd follow the law Herod's attempts to wipe out the babes in Bethlehem trying to throw Jesus synagogue of nazareth when he announces his ministry they try to throw him off a cliff and there are the storms at sea there were two of them and I don't think they were natural storms these were fishermen who were used to fishing on those waters and they were terrified for their lives no those weren't just tough storms those I believe that's why Jesus rebukes the wind I think they were supernaturally in the origin and of course the element one is the cross the cross and we have that summary in revelation 12 that I just went through and he's not through yet he's still at it and we need to understand what his agenda is and what his resources because he's not through and you and I are both the pawns and the prize in this drama his titles remind you he's the prince of this world we said he's the Prince of the power of the air he's the head of the world you know and it's a shock to realize how in step and how managed our diverse media is you think there was competition no they are in lockstep to his March strength whether they realize it or not head of the world rulers of darkness he's the god of this age who what's our present predicament let's take a step back America is in moral freefall have you noticed you and I are victims not of the Democrats of the Liberals what have you no no no were victims of spiritual warfare we have a media that's masking truth that's Hyde going out of its way to hide from you the truth of things that you need to know to survive we have courts without justice corruption everywhere we have anger that replaces what used to be patriotism our schools are deliberately dumbing down our youth goes 2,000 on our deliberate attempts to have a malleable electorate they are deliberately dumbing down and teaching lies in our schools because we let them we've replaced our traditional heritage that we were founded on with multiculturalism revisionism and values relativism it used to be that even the simplest peasant in this country these kids to college had the dream that at least they learned right from wrong how ironic it is that our colleges deny the existence of right neuron our government is now the purveyor of immorality if you notice that I'll come to you I'll tell you why in a minute why should we be surprised governments have always loved crises they provide the rationale for increased budgets and bureaucracies and subjugating the population crises do most new dictators create external crises to consolidate their internal powers called wars in our country we long ago learned that social crises serve as well as military ones and there's an insight that you need to have that supplies the missing link in morality results in social crises is it ain't surprised to learn that governments have an enormous incentive to promote a morality let me diagram for this for you governments love military crises because they lead to budgets and bureaucracies and a curtailment of our freedoms ok in our country we've learned something very useful you don't have to have a military crisis social crises work just as well a war on poverty a war on terror you know whatever save the environment you name it what creates social crises immorality with a pill in 1960 boy did that change our morality ok Roe vs. Wade where's the most dangerous place for an American to be in the womb of the mother 1 chance and for being murdered immorality creates social crises that's why we have one parent families and all the other aspects of that okay well if governments benefit from social crises and immorality called social crises is it any surprise that government has an incentive to crew to promote immorality no wonder they're promoting homosexuality and it's the this you know the sodomist lifestyle and on it goes in government increasing morality increase in social crisis Virginia and you're on that self-feeding spiral that's one of the many reasons that our founding fathers tried to avoid us having a democracy the democracy is mob rule we had at one time a republic which has democratic features but had safeguards separation of powers due process of law and a lot of other issues well what is our resource then individually the armor of God the armor of God Paul sorry in verse 10 says finding my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might not your might his might put on the whole armour of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles the devil the whole armour not just your favorite pieces the whole armour why here's our threat assessment right here we started off with that in this whole session for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against rulers of darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places wherefore take unto you the whole armour there he says that a second time take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand stand therefore having your loins gird about with truth that's your first that's your belt that's the thing upon which everything else depends and hangs on having your loins Girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness not your righteousness his righteousness now a lot of people always assume that Paul is drawing these idioms from the the praetorian guard that's chained to him that as he looks at him he's sort of using that as his model no he's quoting this from the Old Testament everybody perplexed to build that model it's not true the breastplate of righteousness the sword of the Spirit all virtually all these idioms are traceable quotes from the Old Testament but let's keep the able to stay on the track here heavier on the breastplate of the breastplate is critical that's life-threatening you can take you can lose either you can get other kinds of wounds you don't want a wound that the breastplate protects you against so you need to be sure of your security have your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace free shod with the preparation you know if you've taken any martial arts or if you had any wrestling or boxing you know the importance of footwork at the Academy Naval Academy you have a year of for the first several years you have a year of boxing a year of wrestling as part of the program and then you get that all comes together later in the hand-to-hand but I happen to hate boxing I just don't like boxing and just some people I just don't like it fortunately I happen to have kind of a long reach so I didn't get in too much trouble but I used to hate that but the one thing you really learn is footwork heel to toe the whole thing your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace very very graphic if you're going to be in combat you better be prepared above all taking the shield of faith the Roman soldiers had a shield and they would spend their time making sure it was in repair they didn't wait for the battle to plug the holes if it had a problem from a previous engagement they would fix that right away well are there holes in your shield of faith are there problem areas that bother you fix them now double back on those get the answers you need if there's a hole that needs repair do it now don't wait until you're in the battle because you're in the battle right now you're on enemy territory as it stands about taking the shield of faith wherewith he shall be able to quench the fiery darts of the wicked you want that to be bulletproof and take the helmet of salvation the helmet of salvation you get there again you need to know you need to know the three tenses of salvation the past tense called justification the present tense called sanctification and the future tense call glorification do your homework find out about that and just owning a helmet isn't any good you've got to be wearing you can tell the ones who aren't wearing it by the bandages on here's the one that we all know and love the sword of the Spirit every one of us know that's the Word of God that's the only offensive weapon you have everything else listed is defensive your shields your helmet and so forth the sword is two-edged it is it is your your offensive weapon the sword of the Spirit it's interesting the technology of those days the early centuries seemed to favor a long curved sword most armies were equipped with a longsword the Roman army did something rather different they developed the machaira 24 inches short double-edged sword and with that short sword they conquered the world but there's two things you need to know about the machaira he had to know how to use it and you had to practice practice practice practice practice because it was for the whole idea was to close in close and same thing is true with the Word of God it doesn't do any your Bible doesn't do any good if it's getting dust on your bookshelf you got to be in it every day and just knowing your Bible ain't enough you got to put it into practice got to know where to go to find what you're looking for and you got to be able to present the message that God has given you to present so it takes practice practice practice in execution and everybody talks about Ephesians chapter 6 verses 10 to 17 the armour of God and everybody misses the most important one I've seen lists from Ephesians 6 that do not include verse 18 and that's stupid I'm sorry I can't be more hospitable because this is your heavy artillery this is your weapon for action at a distance praying always with prayer and supplication in the spirit Wow and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for All Saints you can participate in helping the Christians that are being assassinated in the Sudan and you can do that without getting their plane ticket you can do that in your living room or in your bedroom by kneeling by your bedside and praying for them everybody's upset about the election right now there's all kinds of concerns let me tell you your prayer closet is more powerful than our ballot boxes praying always bosses praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for All Saints and I want you to notice what Paul prays for praying always yes and for me pray for me says I want you to pray for me gang it is a warfare pray for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly can you imagine Paul asking for boldness I'm always amused as I visualize him writing this thing he's got a praetorian guard chained to him you know why so the guard couldn't get away can't you imagine being chained to Paul for a full shift remember what Woody Allen said his definition of Hell was to be stuck in an elevator with a life insurance salesman pic cute little sound bite but can you imagine we change upon that and and many of them came to faith we learned that from the epistles household of faith is refers to the Praetorians and that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador and bonds that there and I may speak boldly as I ought to speak that's Paul talking he's praying for boldness you've got to be kidding I praise God for Paul that I may open my mouth boldly well we've been talking a lot about Satan and dark things let's see let's let's talk a little bit about not Satan but our guy I love this this is one of my favorite physics verses in the Bible it's a physics first John first John 3:2 John says beloved now are we the sons of God and it does not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is now you can draw a lot of inferences from that that are perfectly legitimate and appropriate but I don't think you can fully understand what he's saying unless you have a background in advanced math or physics and what I mean by that is what he's saying here does not yet appear what we shall be he's talking the resurrection body we don't quite understand what it's all about we know that the sons of God does not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he Christ shall appear we shall be like him because we shall see him as he is if I had a camera here and I took a picture of you you're a three-dimensional being and I end up with a two-dimensional representation of you if I have a hologram I can get a three-dimensional representation of you but I can best see you by also being a three-dimensional being with you now the question that people speculate how many dimensions does Christ have we know he has more than four more than three for sure he goes through walls and all that stuff more than for a lot of reasons if you're into that kind of analysis most people that get into that seriously come to the conclusion he has to have had at least 11 dimensions but whatever it is though speculate we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him why for we shall see him as he is what that's saying to me is that whatever dimensionality he presently enjoys we will - I'm not say we're gonna be equal to them don't misunderstand me but I think we will be able to comprehend him because we will be in that sense like him exciting exciting stuff we know what he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is and what's he really up to see writer hebrews what I believe is Paul he quotes some eight verse five now made some for a little while lower than the Angels dock ransom with glory and honor and did sent him over the works of thy hands see Adam through sin forfeited his dominion to Satan but did he ever have dominion over the Angels know thou crowns him this last Adam was going honor and did set him over the works of thy hands which include the Angels the last Adam gained dominion over everything that was put all things in subjection under his feet for in that he put all in the subjection under him he left nothing that has not put under him but now we see not yet all things put under him not quite yet because it goes on here there's some unfinished business that remains eventually you and I are gonna be joint heirs with him aren't we that's exactly Paul's to said in first Corinthians 15 but now it's Christ risen from the dead and become the firstfruits of them that slept for since by man came death by man came also resurrection from the dead for as in Adam all die even so Christ shall in Christ shall all be made alive every man in his own order Christ the firstfruits afterward they that are Christ's at his coming then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the father when he shall put down all rule and all authority and power for he must reign till death hath put all enemies under his feet and the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death delivered up the kingdom there we've started with the kingdom here we are again for he hath put all things on his feet but he's when he saith all things put under him it is manifest that is he is excepted which did put all things under him and when all things shall be subdued unto Him then shall the son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be what all in all that's the goal the astonishing discoveries that's going to take Christ a thousand years to get it in that shape Wow interesting well Paul so I can't I can never resist I want to get away from Satan and all the sub we talking about leaving a higher note here what shall we then say to these things if God be for us who can be against us he that spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect it is God to justify earth who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died here Rather's risen again who is even at the right hand of God who maketh intercession for us that who shall separate from the love of Christ Sheldon tribulation distress persecution famine nakedness peril or sword nay if as it is written for thy sake we were killed all day long all the day long we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us for I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers there they are again aren't they nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord okay we've been talking about kingship I'm gonna just wrap it up by talking about our King as most of you know I'm not a Republican or Democrat I'm a monarchist I want to tell you about my candidate he's a king of the Jews yes he is going to play the racial card here he's the king of the Jews he's the king of Israel he's a national king Wow my king is a racial King my king is a national king he's the king of all the ages the king of heaven the King of glory and king of kings and Lord of lords and the real issue for each of us do you know him do you really know him he was a prophet before Moses a priest after Melchizedek a champion like Joshua and offering the place of Isaac a king from the line of David a wise counselor above Solomon he was beloved rejected and an exalted son like Joseph but yet far more the heavens declare his glory the firmament shows his handiwork II who is who was and always will be the first and last the Alpha and the Omega the Alpha Tau they am the Z yes he was the firstfruits of them that slept he's the ego eimi the if you are sheriff yuck me I am that I am he was the voice of the burning bush yes he was the captain of Lords host he was the Conqueror of Jericho despite what the music says he's enduringly strong entirely sincere eternally steadfast he's a morally graceful impart apparently powerful impartial II merciful in him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily the very god of very God he's our kinsman redeemer but he's also our Avenger blood he's our city of refugees a performing high priest our personal prophet our reigning king he's the lofty study in literature he's the highest personality in philosophy he's the fundamental doctrine of theology he's a supreme problem and higher criticism he's a miracle of all the ages the superlative of everything good we you and I are the beneficiaries of a lovely love letter it was written in blood on a wooden cross erected in Judea some 2,000 years ago he was crucified on a cross of wood and yet he made the hill on which it stood by him were all things made that were made without him was not anything made it was made by him are all things held together questioned what held him to that cross who wasn't the nails that anytime he gonna set enough already I am out of here what held him to that cross there was his love for you and me he was born of O and so you and I could be born again he humble himself so the we could be lifted up he became a servant so that we could be joint heirs with him he suffered rejection so that we could become his friends he denied himself so that he we could freely receive all things he gave himself so he could bless us in every way he's available to the temptin cried he blesses the young he cleanses the lepers he defends the feeble he delivers the captives he discharges the debtors he forgives the sinners he franchises the meek he guards the besieged he heals the sick he provides strengths of the weak he regards the agent he rewards the diligent he sympathizes and he saves his offices are manifold his reign is righteous his promises are sure his goodness is limitless his light as matchless his grace is sufficient his love never changes his mercy is everlasting his word is enough his yoke is easy and his burden is light I wish I could describe him to you he's indescribable he's incomprehensible he's irresistible he's invincible the heaven of heavens cannot contain him man cannot explain him the Pharisees couldn't stand him it soon learned that couldn't stop him the personal representative of the rule of the world could not find fault with him the witnesses could not agree against him Herod couldn't kill him the death couldn't handle him the grave couldn't hold him he's always been and always will be he had no predecessor and he will have no successor you can't beat him any ain't can resign his name is above every name that at the name of Yeshua every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord his is the kingdom the power and the glory forever and ever amen god bless you

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