378: Barret Law – Exhortation: Helmet of Salvation

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Hello all and welcome back.

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This is Brother Benji.
This week’s talk will be an

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exhortation given by Brother
Barrett Law at the Brighton

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Ecclesia in South Australia on
the 13th of July this year to

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the theme Helmet of Salvation.
Brother Barrett’s passion is

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unmatched as he encourages us to
consider deeply the assurance of

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our salvation.
What a hope we have.

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Our brother explores the
purpose, context and reasoning

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behind the Helmet of Salvation.
He shows us a consistent message

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throughout all Scripture.
God is our salvation, it is not

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of ourselves.
Therefore, we do not need to

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worry and can rejoice.
I particularly liked his

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description of the function of a
helmet serving to protect our

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minds.
An absolutely delightful and

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exciting lesson.
With that all said, I’ll give

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you over to our brother Barrett
for his exhortation.

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Helmet of Salvation.
Well, good morning my dear

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brothers and sisters in the Lord
Jesus Christ.

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I thought we might look at the
helmet of salvation as Brother

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Ian has mentioned this morning
by way of bringing our minds to

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the emblems.
It is a very positive subject,

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brothers and sisters, and one
that that I think does well to

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that we do well to remember the
what, what it what it teaches

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us.
So if we just go to Ephesians 6

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that Paul here in Ephesians 6
gives us, gives the Ephesian

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ecclesia this little bit of
advice on taking on the whole

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armour of God.
Now, when when he’s, he’s

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talking to the Ephesian ecclesia
brothers and sisters and I.

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And I think it just does well to
to, in order to actually build

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this picture of where we
actually going here in

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Ephesians, Let’s just go back to
Acts 20, verse 29.

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Because in Acts 20, verse 29,
Paul has been at Ephesus.

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And this is what and, and the
last time he was at Ephesus,

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this is what he told them.
And I think this is actually the

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basis of this advice that he
actually gives them.

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So back in Acts 20 verse 29.
So let’s read from verse 28.

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So we know he’s talking to the
Ephesian ecclesia.

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It says that in verse 17 and
from malicious, he sent to

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Ephesus and called the elders of
the ecclesia and they came to

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him.
And then from verse 17, from

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verse 18 onwards is all the way
almost to the end of the chapter

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is what he actually tells them.
And so part of this advice is

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then verse verse 28.
Take heed, therefore, unto

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yourselves, and to all the flock
over which the Holy Spirit has

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made you overseers, to feed the
ecclesia of God, which he’s

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purchased with his own blood.
For I know this, I know this,

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says Paul.
This is what is going to happen.

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I know that after my departing,
grievous wolves are going to

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enter in among you, not sparing
the flock.

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And what are they going to do,
brothers and sisters?

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What is going to be the spirit
of these brothers and sisters in

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this Ephesian ecclesia?
OK, verse 30.

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Also of your own selves shall
men arise, speaking perverse

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things to draw away disciples
after themselves.

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So these brothers and sisters,
we’re going to seek to draw away

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disciples after themselves.
This is a very self focused

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group of brothers and sisters
within the ecclesia.

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This is the spirit of it.
They, they, they, they’re not

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interested in the Lord Jesus
Christ.

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They’re not interested in
feeding their brothers and

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sisters.
What they interested in is their

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own prestige, their own looks,
their own, that they’ve got

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disciples, people looking up to
them.

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They want to be seen as the
authority.

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They want to be seen as the ones
who people defer to when there’s

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a question or ask that brother
or ask that sister, they will

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know.
So it’s the spirit of actually

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seeking to draw away disciples
after oneself because self is

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the problem.
And I think, brothers and

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sisters, that what is what, what
Paul knew was going to permeate

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that Ephesian ecclesia is
exactly the spirit of our age,

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brothers and sisters.
It is the spirit of self where

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self is everything, where people
want to be seen as something not

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just ordinary.
They won’t have a following.

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They wanted people to look up to
them.

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They wanted people to to
reverence them as it were, and

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and to admire what they are
doing because they think they

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are important.
And that is exactly the opposite

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of the spirit of Christ.
Diametrically opposed to

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everything that is on the table
in front of us is the spirit of

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self.
And that is the spirit that was

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in this ecclesia.
And that’s what Paul is advising

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him now in his letter.
How do we counteract that?

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How do we counteract that spirit
of self?

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And it’s, and the brothers and
sisters, it’s not just in the

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ecclesia.
The ecclesia gets it because it

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is the spirit of the world
around us.

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We absorb it from society.
We absorb it from every form of

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media that that is bombarding us
daily, whether it’s YouTube or

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Facebook or Twitter or every
form of media that comes to us.

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They are all positioning us and
that because they all seek to

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draw away people after
themselves.

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And so we are being bombarded,
brothers and sisters, by the

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spirit of self from society,
which we which it’s impossible,

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but well, not impossible, but it
is so hard to resist because we

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absorb it in the spur of the
age.

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Because every part of society,
whether it’s the education

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department who’s full of left
wing ideology, or whether it’s

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the current government, which is
in in America, which is a right

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wing government, whatever, they
all have their own ideologies.

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And those ideologies, brothers
and sisters or what, or what

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we’re absorbing and they
influence our mind.

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So how do we stop that?
And this is what we want to talk

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about this morning, brothers and
sisters.

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The answer is actually really,
really simple.

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It’s a very, very simple answer,
but that is what we’re dealing

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with, brothers and sisters.
That’s the that’s the spirit of

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our age that we’re trying to
build a barrier against so we

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don’t absorb the ideologies of
the world that is coming to us

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through every form of media.
So Paul here in, in Ephesians

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actually then says to my
brethren, these are the same

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brothers and sisters that we’ve
just looked at in, in Acts 20.

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My brethren, be strong in the
Lord and in the power of his

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might.
So he’s now going to give them

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this little bit of advice.
He says put on the whole armour

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of God that you may be able to
withstand against the Wiles of

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the devil.
OK, So he says you got to put on

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this whole armour.
And now when we talk about

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armour, brothers and sisters,
obviously Paul, he has got the

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Roman soldier in his mind.
He’s thinking about, about

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physical warfare and he’s using
that as his analogy.

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OK, but we’re obviously talking
about, we’re not talking about

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physical things.
Yeah, and he does, and he does

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tell us that it’s, it’s we’re,
we’re it’s he’s spiritualizing

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these things.
So, and it’s very much like what

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the Lord does in in Luke 11.
Just come with me back to Luke

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11, verse 22 because Jesus,
Jesus talks about the strongman

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who trusts in his armour.
So Luke 11, verse 22, the the

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context of this is that the
Pharisees have just come to

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Jesus and said, ah, you just
casting out devils by Beelzebub.

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You know, the, the, the Prince
of the devils and Jesus has got

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an answer to them and he gives
them this parable of the

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strongman.
In fact, it actually should

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probably be the parable of the
stronger man, because Jesus is

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the stronger man, isn’t he?
Because look what it says in in

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Luke 11 verse 21, well, verse 20
for context.

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But if I with the finger of God
cast out devils, no doubt the

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Kingdom of God has come upon you
when a strong man armed keepeth

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his palace and his his goods are
in peace.

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And the strong man is human
nature.

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It’s the flesh, it’s the devil.
But when a stronger than he

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shall come upon him and overcome
him, that’s the Lord Jesus

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Christ.
He was stronger than human

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nature, He overcame it.
It was a stronger than he

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overcame him and taketh from him
all his armour wherein he

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trusteth and divided his spoils.
And Jesus says he that is not

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with me is against me.
OK, so Jesus is that stronger

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man and he takes away because
he’s got armour and it’s armour

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fit for purpose, isn’t it?
And so you have to trust your

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armour.
And Jesus, Jesus did, He trusted

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the armour that God had given
him in order to overcome that

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strong man of human nature.
You know, just thinking about

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that, brothers and sisters, you
know, thinking about trusting in

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your armour, trusting in things
that are fit for purpose.

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This is something we, we, we
have to do.

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You know, it doesn’t matter what
profession you’re in.

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You know, like as a, as a
cabinet maker, you know, I have

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to trust my tools.
I have to know that my chisel is

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really sharp and it’s got, it’s
made out of good steel.

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You know, you might be an artist
and you paint with a brush and

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you want to, you want to buy,
you know, you know that if you

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buy a brush with sable hair that
it’ll, it’ll, the paint will

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flow perfectly.
You have to trust the thing that

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you’re working in.
There’s lots of ideas, lots of

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things that we could analogies
that we could use to trust your

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equipment.
You have to be able to place

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full confidence in your
equipment so that it’s because

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it’s got to be fit for purpose.
And I was having a discussion

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with Uncle Royce not that long
ago when I was going to put

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tires on my Prado because we go
out hunting and we go, we drive

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through the, the paddocks and
the hills and there’s rocks and

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stumps.
And also I’m going to put tires

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on my Prado so that I don’t RIP
them.

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So we’re having this big
discussion, Uncle Royce and I,

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you know, whether I put BF
Goodrich’s on or, or which is

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the American made, you know,
really good, but they’re very

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expensive, or whether I put the
Chinese made ones on there.

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And you know, like the last
thing you want to be doing is

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being in the paddock or in and
you’ve got pop tires, you know,

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2:00 in the morning or something
like that.

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So you’ve got to be able to, so
I ended up with the BF

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Goodridges and they were
fantastic, except when your

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Prada is upside down in a ditch
and the tires up in the air.

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So, but so you’ve got to be able
to trust your equipment because

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when you, when you are in a
situation where you really need

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to rely upon that equipment, you
need to be able to trust that it

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is going to be fit for purpose.
And this is the example that

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Paul’s going to give us here.
He’s saying, actually, you know

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what, I’m going to give you an
example of this armour that you

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need to put on that is fit for
purpose because it did the Lord

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Jesus Christ really well.
He was the stronger man that

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disarmed the man of the flesh,
took away his armour and

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overcame him and beat him.
And so this is now armour for

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you which is going to be fit for
purpose.

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So he says you need to put on
the whole armour of God, not

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just part of it, all of it, so
that it can help you to stand

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against the Wiles of the devil.
So back in Ephesians 6.

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And so we’re standing against
the the devil, isn’t it?

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Like it’s, and we know what that
is.

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It’s, it’s human nature and
it’s, it’s human nature in US

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individually.
But that’s not what he’s going

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to talk about.
He’s going to go on to show that

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actually it’s not just human
nature in US, It’s actually

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something else.
And we’ll get to that.

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But we have to be able to stand
against the Wiles of the devil

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because you see, and, and this
is it, brothers and sisters,

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it’s not, this is not it’s, it’s
wily.

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It’s not coming to us.
How do we say this?

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It’s deliberately trying to
deceive us.

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You know, and you see this in
the media, brothers and sisters,

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you know, if you, if you watch,
just take one example, if you

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watch Al Jazeera, you know that
Al Jazeera is owned by Iran.

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You know that they are
positioning you to accept the

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narrative that they are trying
to propound.

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It is an anti Israel narrative
that they are, that they are

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showing you.
So if you think that you’re

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getting the truth by watching Al
Jazeera, you’re wrong.

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They are positioning you in a
wrong from a wrong perspective.

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They want you to buy into their
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That is the Wiles of the devil.
They are deliberately.

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Make no mistake, brothers and
sisters, this is a calculated

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plan to deceive.
And if you watch another media

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outlet, they are positioning you
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So they, it is not we, we must,
we must not be ignorant brothers

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and sisters that these things
that, that the, the, the, that

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the information that we get
through the media is actually

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deliberately trying to position
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It is the walls of the devil.
And, you know, the dialect then

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says so.
So what is this, this devil that

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he’s actually talking about?
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He says we wrestle not against
flesh and blood, but against

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principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the

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darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high

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places.
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dialect says, for that our
conflict is not with blood and

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flesh.
In other words, we’re not

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fighting a physical battle that
that’s obvious.

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OK, This is not a physical
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that we are fighting with in
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But with so the dialogue says,
our conflict is not with blood

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and flesh, but with the
governments, with the

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authorities and potentates of
this, of this darkness and

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spiritual things, of wickedness
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So what we’re fighting against,
brothers and sisters, is worldly

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ideologies, false religious
ideologies, humanism and

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brothers and sisters.
What we need is armour that is

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going to help us to defend
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We need a helmet of salvation,
which is a brilliantly effective

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way of overcoming those
ideologies because it governs

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our thinking.
OK, so we’re we’re fighting

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against spiritual wickedness in
high places, wicked spirits in

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heaven.
And we know that the heaven is

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the government of the ruling
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So these are false ideologies,
false teachings both from the

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government and from religious,
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And we know that like I’ve said
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So even like President Trump
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he says it’s a nest of left wing
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And that’s exactly what it is.
And, and, and it’s and they both

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as bad as each other.
So we’re not taking sides here,

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OK?
But but they actually recognize

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each other for what they are.
Harvard University is a nest of

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left wing ideology because
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That’s what they that’s the
narrative that they are spewing

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out.
And that’s why you have all

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these people camping on the
lawns in front of Harvard, you

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know, waving Palestinian flags,
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And and and and you know.
Yeah, so so that these are the

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ideologies that we’re that are
coming to us through the media

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and Jesus has overcome that.
Brothers and sisters, just just

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turn back in Ephesians to
chapter one, verse 21, chapter

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one, verse 21 says reading verse
20, who he wrought in Christ

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when he raised him from the dead
and set him at his own right

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hand in heavenly places, far
above all principality and power

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and might and dominion and every
name that is named not only in

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this world, but also in the
world that is to come.

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So Jesus after his resurrection
is now above all principalities.

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Otherwise he’s above all
governments in this world.

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He controls the governments of
this world and he’s going to be

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the highest government in the
world to come.

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So that’s, that’s the sense of
what Paul is saying here in

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Ephesians 6 with the, the, the,
it’s the ideologies that come

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from the ruling powers,
whichever they be left wing or

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right wing or somewhere in
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And, and, and the, the rulers of
the darkness of this world,

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religious, religious ideology as
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It’s all fleshly ideology that
we’re fighting against.

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So, so our spiritual weapons,
brothers and sisters, defend us.

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They spiritual weapons that
defend US against the world’s

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thinking and its reasoning.
And So what we’ve got to do,

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brothers and sisters, is we’ve
got to do what Paul, just come

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with me across to 2nd
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So we’ve got to bring every
thought to the obedience of

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Christ.
He says that in 2nd Corinthians

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5.
Just have a look at this second

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Corinth, sorry, not 2nd
Corinthians 5, Second

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Corinthians 10, verse 5, 2nd
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well actually we’ll read verse 4
for the weapons of our warfare

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are not carnal.
This is exactly the same

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message, but mighty through God
to the pulling down of

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strongholds.
Or what are these strongholds

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casting down imaginations?
And if you look in your centre

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margin there, it says
reasonings, casting down

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reasonings, and every hard thing
that exalteth itself against the

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knowledge of God, and bringing
into captivity every thought to

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the obedience of Christ.
So brothers and sisters, this is

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a spiritual conflict against the
spirit of this age, which seeks

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to draw away disciples after
themselves.

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And it’s wily, it’s cunning,
it’s crafty.

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They it’s, it’s, it’s a lie and
it’s deceptive.

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Just while we’re in Second
Corinthians, just turn over to

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Chapter 11.
So 2nd Corinthians 11 verse

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three, look what it says.
And this is really what the,

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the, you know, the, the answer
is, is quite simple.

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Our fear, says Paul verse
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Our fear lest by any means as
the serpent.

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Beguiled Eve through his
subtlety.

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It’s that craftiness that the
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He beguiled Eve through his
subtlety that your minds, your

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mind should be corrupted from
the simplicity that is in

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crossed.
So Paul says, I don’t want you

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to be beguiled from the
simplicity that is in Christ and

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and that is the answer, brothers
and sisters, it is a very simple

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answer.
It is the simplicity that is

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that is in Christ and that that
we’re going to talk about short

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shortly that we that will help
us to stand against the Wiles of

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the devil.
And we know back in Ephesians,

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he says that we’ve got to stand
against it.

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So back in Ephesians, he says
actually this this he uses this

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word stand a few times.
He says you’ve got it in verse

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11 that you may be able to stand
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At the end of verse 13, he says
having to withstand in the evil

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day, having done all to stand
and verse 14 to stand, therefore

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having your loins good about
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So it’s really important to
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OK.
And that, that brings to my

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mind, well, the opposite of
standing is falling down, isn’t

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it?
So in, in my mind, I’ll go back

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to Daniel 3, where you’ve got
those three friends who are, who

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are, who stay standing.
So there you’ve got

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Nebuchadnezzar setting himself
up.

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He’s, he’s the government, he’s,
he’s the religion.

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And he set up his image, which
is a representation of all his,

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his political and his religious
ideals, against the word of God.

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And he says, I want you to bow
down to that.

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I want you to, I want you to
conform to my government ideals,

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my ideology, my religious
ideology, my political ideology.

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I want you to conform to that.
And they say, no, we will not

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bow down.
We are going to stand against

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that.
And that’s exactly what Paul is

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telling us here.
We need to stand against the

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ideology of the world.
And so the answer that he gives

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us, the simplicity that is in
crossed is then outlined in

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verse 13 to 18, which is these
these various elements of of

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armour.
So back in Ephesians 6, he says,

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now let’s just take these, let’s
look at these as a big picture,

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not as not as particularly
armour itself, but let’s have a

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look at what what the what it
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So what have we got in verse 14?
We’ve got truth.

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Your loins get about with truth.
Then we’ve got righteousness at

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the end of verse 14, a
breastplate of righteousness.

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Then we’ve got feet shod with
the preparation of the gospel.

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So we’ve got the gospel and
above all, taking the shield of

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faith.
So we’ve got faith.

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And then we’ve got a helmet in
verse 17 of salvation.

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And then we’ve got in verse 17
the the sword of the Spirit with

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the Spirit word of God.
So if we look at those things,

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brothers and sisters, what have
we got?

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We’ve got truth, we’ve got
righteousness, we’ve got

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preparate the the gospel of
peace.

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We’ve got faith, we’ve got
salvation and we’ve got the

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Spirit word.
And brothers and sisters, isn’t

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that then really it’s our whole
journey in in Christ, isn’t it?

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This is the simplicity in
Christ.

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What happens first?
What happened to you first?

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You first learned the truth.
You were, you were convicted of

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the truth.
You came to understand that

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there was actual truth and it
could be defined.

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And so you espoused and you took
on the truth 1st.

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And you, you had a knowledge of
the truth and you took on the

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truth and the very.
And having learnt the truth,

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what did you do?
You were baptized, weren’t you?

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And so when you were baptized,
what happened?

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Well, you put on Christ, you
were imputed righteous.

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So you’ve got the truth.
You learned the truth, and then

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you were made righteous.
So you’ve got righteousness.

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And having learned the truth and
having been made righteous, how

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did you feel and what did you
want to do then?

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Well, didn’t you want to go and
talk to other people about it?

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Didn’t anyone go tell other
people about the gospel that

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you’ve just that you?
So you’ve got the gospel of

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peace and you and you go out and
you and in everyday life you

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want to talk about the gospel to
people that you meet.

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But what happens when you do
that?

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Do they all accept and go, wow,
we’re so excited for you, That’s

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really good.
Can we join too?

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Do they say that?
No, the fiery dots of the wicked

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come back at you, don’t they?
And so you have to have a shield

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of faith because you realize
that actually it’s not very

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popular.
And so you’ve got this, you’ve

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got faith that has to be
developed and faith that

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actually protects you then from
from the fiery darts that we get

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to come back at you.
So you’ve got the truth that

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you’ve espoused, you’ve got
righteousness that you’ve put on

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in Christ.
You, you go out and you preach

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the gospel and your faith is
developed as you come into

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conflict with others who don’t,
who don’t see things the same

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way.
And that develops now a

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relationship with God.
You, you, you’ve got this

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mindset of salvation.
It’s a perspective that that

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guards your mind and it’s, and I
and I believe it’s your

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relationship with God, your idea
of salvation, that you are

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saved.
And then you have the word of

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this, the spirit word of God,
which helps you every day as and

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you and you grow in this, in the
spirit word of God.

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And you learn to discern between
right and wrong, between flesh

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and spirit as you go through
life and you grow and your, your

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mind grows and you see things
for what they really are because

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you look at it through the lens
of the word of God and you see

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the ideologies.
You see what the root of those

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ideologies are and where they
coming from.

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It’s your critical thinking,
isn’t it?

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Critical thinking viewed through
the lens of the Word of God, and

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you discern human nature as the
root of all these ideologies

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that come to us.
And so, brothers and sisters,

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isn’t that just the simplicity
that’s in Crossed?

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So simple, isn’t it?
And yet we’ve got to have these

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things, truth, righteousness,
the gospel, faith, salvation and

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the word and the Spirit word of
God.

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And that is the armor which is
fit for purpose.

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You can trust it.
Let’s let’s just come back with

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me to, I want to just focus a
little bit on this idea of

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salvation for a few minutes,
this idea of the, the helmet of

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salvation, because I think this
is really important, one of

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these not more important than
all the rest, but it’s just a

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very important one.
Just come back to first

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Thessalonians 5 verse 8, because
Paul is sort of he explains what

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this little, what this helmet of
salvation is a little bit more

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so First Thessalonians 5 verse
8.

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So First Thessalonians 5, verse
8, he says, let us who are of

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the day and be sober, putting on
the breastplate of faith and

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love, and for an helmet the hope
of salvation.

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So he actually adds that word
hope there.

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The hope of salvation is now the
thing that we wear to protect

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our mind.
So this is the thing that’s in

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the natural sense, the helmet’s
protecting the head.

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The helmet is is the hope of
salvation.

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Our view of salvation is what’s
protecting our mind, of course.

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Now look, he expands on this, So
he says in verse 9, for God has

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not appointed us to wrath, but
to obtain salvation by our Lord

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Jesus Christ.
So that’s our perspective.

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We have been appointed.
We have been appointed to obtain

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salvation.
That is really positive,

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brothers and sisters, we have
not been appointed to wrath.

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We have been appointed to obtain
salvation by Christ who died for

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us, that with a wake or sleep we
should live together with Him.

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That is our perspective on
salvation.

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We have been appointed to
salvation.

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Just turn over the page to 2nd
Thessalonians, the Second

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Thessalonians 2 verse 13.
In 2nd Thessalonians 2, verse

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13, he says, But we are bound to
give thanks all the way to God

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for you, President beloved of
the Lord, because God has from

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the beginning chosen you to
salvation through the

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sanctification of the Spirit and
belief of the truth.

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God has chosen us, brothers and
sisters, from the very

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beginning.
God’s chosen us to salvation.

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We have not been appointed to
wrath.

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We’ve been chosen.
We’ve been appointed to

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salvation.
We’ve been chosen to salvation.

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And that is the thing that
should protect our minds, how we

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view salvation, how we view what
God has done for us.

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You know, as I was thinking
about this, it actually what

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came back to me.
And it’s so funny.

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It’s ironic that our brother
Steve is here because I was

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thinking that we had our, we had
our, our special 11 with Uncle

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Steve on forgiveness.
And, and one of the sort of the

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great things that came out of
that was that we live in a

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perpetual state of forgiveness.
Incredible.

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We have been chosen from the
very beginning to salvation.

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We have not been appointed to
wrath.

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We’ve been appointed to
salvation and we live in a

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perpetual state of forgiveness.
And that’s how we have to see it

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individually.
Incredible.

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So let’s have a look at the
salvation.

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Let’s just quickly flick through
a few scriptures just to get

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this perspective on how so
because it’s our view of

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salvation that then governs how
how it protects us from all

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00:30:22,320 –> 00:30:24,800
these other things that come to
us through the media.

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So salvation, brothers and
sisters, has always been a work

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of God.
Always.

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It’s God’s work.
It’s not our work.

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It’s something that God has done
because we are not capable of

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doing it.
It has to be a work of God.

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OK, so salvation has always been
a work of God.

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Think back to Genesis 315.
Man’s just sinned, big problem.

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Can’t extradite, extricate
himself out of it.

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God says don’t worry, I’ve got
the solution, OK.

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And there’s the first prophecy
of salvation.

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I will send one who’s going to
have armour fit for purpose and

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he’s going to crush that.
Your head, the serpent’s head,

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there’s your salvation.
I’m the one who’s going to do

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that.
OK, so God is always the the,

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the the operator of salvation.
So there’s the first one, the

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next great act of salvation.
You’ve got Noah.

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He’s he’s, he’s the only little
family in a world that that’s,

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there’s millions of people,
possibly even a billion people

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in the world.
And he’s this one little family

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who’s righteous before God.
How’s he going to save himself?

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He cannot.
How’s he going to get himself

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out of that situation?
He cannot.

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00:31:44,040 –> 00:31:46,880
God says, don’t worry, Noah,
I’ll work it out.

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You just build an ark.
You do that because that’s what

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you can do.
You can build an ark and I will

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flood the world.
I will do the humanly

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impossible.
That’s God’s salvation.

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God does the humanly impossible
because we can’t.

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We can’t do the humanly
impossible.

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God’s.
God’s the one who works out

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salvation.
Think about another example.

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What about Israel?
When, when, when, when they’re

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in Egypt, They’re generations of
slavery in Israel and, and there

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00:32:23,840 –> 00:32:25,040
they are.
What, what were they going to

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do?
This, this, this, this, this

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nation of all this, this group
of people who was who

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generations were slaves?
What what happens if they just

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00:32:33,760 –> 00:32:38,720
got up on mess and ran out,
stormed out or great, they got

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nowhere to go.
Humanly impossible situation.

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There would have been a whole
group of displaced people with

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with nowhere to go.
It was an impossible situation.

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What does God do?
Takes them out and he says now

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you stand still.
You stand still and see my

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you’ve got the Red Sea in front
of you.

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You’ve got the Egyptian army
behind you.

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Now you stand still and see my
salvation, says God.

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I will do the humanly impossible
for you.

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God is the one that always works
out salvation.

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Think about just come with me to
this one to to to David and to

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not to David to Jonathan first
Samuel 14 verse 6.

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I love this one on Jonathan
because you see, this is this

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creative tension.
Sometimes God actually,

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sometimes God actually just says
stand still and see my

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salvation.
At other times God actually

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00:33:31,600 –> 00:33:35,120
works with individuals and gets
them to do a little bit and then

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00:33:35,120 –> 00:33:37,480
he works the salvation through
them.

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And so the human actually
becomes the agent of salvation.

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And this is a a classic example
of this in in first Samuel 14

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where Jonathan first Samuel 14
verse 6 where Jonathan and his

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armour bearer are facing this
impossible, humanly impossible

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situation of this Garrison of
the Philistines.

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And Jonathan says in in first
Samuel 14 verse 6.

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And Jonathan said unto the young
man that bear his armour, come,

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let us go over unto the Garrison
of these uncircumcised, that it

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may be that Yahweh will work for
us.

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For there is no restraint to
Yahweh to save by many or by

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few.
Wow.

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So you see, there is, is
Jonathan’s understanding that

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salvation is the is the work of
God alone.

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God alone can work out
salvation.

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But here Jonathan is actually
doing his little part, his

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little faithful part.
And he’s saying, look, God can

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do it with with many or few, but
it’s going to be God’s work

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ultimately at the end of the
day.

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So salvation has always been a
work of God.

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And, and there’s another classic
example, isn’t there, in the

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life of Jehoshaphat.
Actually, let’s go to that one

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as well.
So just over second Chronicles,

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come to the Second Chronicles,
chapter 20.

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So Second Chronicles chapter 20,
Jehoshaphat again here is facing

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a, a massive army that’s come
against him.

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And there’s there’s no human
solution to this.

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It’s an impossible situation.
He’s going to be defeated,

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humanly speaking.
And the prophet comes to him and

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says in verse 15, So the prophet
says, and he said, Hearken ye

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all Judah and inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and thou King

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Jehoshaphat, thus saith Yahweh
unto you, be not afraid nor

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dismayed by reason of this great
multitude.

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For the battle is not yours, but
gods.

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It’s not your battle.
Salvation is God’s work.

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Salvation is God’s problem.
He’s the one who’s going to work

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it out because you can’t.
And so verse 17.

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And you shall not need to fight
in this battle.

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Set yourselves, stand ye still.
Well, we’ve heard that before,

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haven’t we?
Back on the shores of the Red

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Sea.
Stand ye still and see the

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00:36:07,280 –> 00:36:12,480
salvation of Yahweh.
Isn’t that just amazing Joshua

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that’s told to stand still and
see the salvation of Yahweh.

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So, so this is just salvation
has always been a work of God.

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And so that’s why, brothers and
sisters, we can feel so

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confident, you know, and brother
Ian read from Psalm 27 verse

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one.
Just let’s just go there, Psalm

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27 verse one and read that
again.

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This is why we can feel so
confident, because salvation is

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not our work, it’s God’s work.
So Psalm 27 verse one says

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Yahweh is my light and my
salvation.

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And because Yahweh is my
salvation, the psalmist says

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well, well whom shall I fear?
Yahweh is the strength of my

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life.
I don’t need to fear all the

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00:37:02,560 –> 00:37:06,840
ideologies of the world.
I don’t need to worry about the

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00:37:06,840 –> 00:37:09,760
left wing and the right wing of
politics and where they trying

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00:37:09,760 –> 00:37:12,920
to position me.
I don’t I can see through all of

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00:37:12,920 –> 00:37:16,960
that.
Yahweh is my we see the lens

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00:37:16,960 –> 00:37:19,960
that we look at all of that is
that God rules in the kingdoms

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00:37:19,960 –> 00:37:23,480
of men.
God is in control, totally in

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00:37:23,480 –> 00:37:26,800
control.
He’s in control in in the in the

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00:37:27,000 –> 00:37:31,120
in the international sphere and
he’s in his control in my own

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00:37:31,120 –> 00:37:34,840
personal life.
Yahweh is my light and my

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00:37:34,840 –> 00:37:36,880
salvation.
Whom shall I fear?

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And so that then brings to our
life a we don’t need to be

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00:37:40,880 –> 00:37:43,640
tormented by depression or by
anxiety.

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When we know that Yahweh is on
our side and that He is strong

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and He has worked out salvation
for us, it is absolutely, 100%

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00:37:55,840 –> 00:37:59,160
guaranteed.
That’s the confidence, brothers

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and sisters, and I think that’s
what Paul is trying to show, is

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00:38:02,000 –> 00:38:03,080
you’ve got a helmet on your
head.

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It’s a helmet of salvation.
It protects your thinking.

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00:38:05,520 –> 00:38:07,320
What do you think about
salvation?

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00:38:07,640 –> 00:38:10,160
Do you doubt it?
Do you think God can’t get you

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00:38:10,200 –> 00:38:13,400
into the Kingdom?
Absolutely not.

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00:38:13,480 –> 00:38:18,360
It is 100% guaranteed, brothers
and sisters, that you will be in

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00:38:18,360 –> 00:38:21,880
the Kingdom, 100% guaranteed.
Do you know how?

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You know how the, the rest of
Scripture talks about this in

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Psalm 18, it talks about a
shield that just imagine a

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00:38:28,080 –> 00:38:31,520
person and, and, and Psalm 18
says there’s a shield of

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00:38:31,520 –> 00:38:33,200
salvation.
So we’ve got a shield over here

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00:38:33,400 –> 00:38:36,400
of salvation.
Then Isaiah 59 talks about a

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00:38:36,400 –> 00:38:38,240
helmet of salvation.
So you’ve got a helmet on you to

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00:38:38,240 –> 00:38:39,640
put a shield.
You’ve got a helmet of

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00:38:39,640 –> 00:38:42,280
salvation.
Then Isaiah 61 talks about

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00:38:42,280 –> 00:38:44,320
garments of salvation.
So now you’re wrapped up in

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00:38:44,320 –> 00:38:46,720
salvation.
And then Isaiah 60 says you’ve

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00:38:46,720 –> 00:38:49,520
got walls of salvation.
So can you see this person?

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00:38:50,080 –> 00:38:52,480
He’s got a shield of salvation,
he’s got a helmet of salvation,

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00:38:52,600 –> 00:38:56,080
He’s wrapped up in salvation,
and he’s in a city of salvation.

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00:38:56,360 –> 00:39:02,040
How guaranteed is salvation?
It’s 100% guaranteed.

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00:39:03,280 –> 00:39:05,120
Isn’t that just amazing,
Brothers and sisters?

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00:39:06,880 –> 00:39:14,200
Salvation is 100% guaranteed.
So what should our response be

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to that brothers and sisters?
I just turn over to Isaiah 12.

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Our response to that in Isaiah
12 is just is that we should

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00:39:23,880 –> 00:39:28,160
sing and we should praise and we
should thank God with from the

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00:39:28,160 –> 00:39:31,440
bottom of our hearts.
Look at this Isaiah 12.

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00:39:33,600 –> 00:39:38,720
This is this is this is the the
the human response to salvation

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00:39:38,720 –> 00:39:43,760
should be this in Isaiah 12
verse verse verse one to three

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00:39:44,280 –> 00:39:47,560
in that day, in the day of the
Kingdom, OK, when we finally

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00:39:47,560 –> 00:39:51,240
made immortal, thou shalt say, O
Yahweh, I will praise thee

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00:39:52,000 –> 00:39:54,360
because you see we’re living.
We know that we are going to be

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00:39:54,360 –> 00:39:56,280
in the Kingdom.
We know we are saved.

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00:39:57,440 –> 00:40:00,840
O Yahweh, I will praise thee.
Thou wast angry with me.

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00:40:00,840 –> 00:40:03,360
Thine anger is turned away.
Thou has comforted me.

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00:40:03,360 –> 00:40:08,400
Behold God is my salvation.
I will trust.

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00:40:09,040 –> 00:40:13,760
I will not be afraid.
Yahweh is this my strength and

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00:40:13,760 –> 00:40:16,040
my song.
He’s become my salvation.

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00:40:16,040 –> 00:40:19,320
Therefore, with joy He shall
draw waters out of the wells of

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00:40:19,320 –> 00:40:23,120
salvation.
In that day He shall say praise

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00:40:23,120 –> 00:40:25,840
Yahweh, call upon His name,
declare His doings among the

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people.
You see, brothers and sisters,

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00:40:27,200 –> 00:40:31,360
this should be our response to
our understanding of salvation.

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00:40:32,160 –> 00:40:35,080
We we are assured that God is my
salvation.

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00:40:35,080 –> 00:40:37,080
I will trust, I will not be
afraid.

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00:40:37,280 –> 00:40:39,320
And this is the mindset that we
should have.

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00:40:39,560 –> 00:40:42,120
This is the helmet of salvation.
God is my strength.

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00:40:42,320 –> 00:40:44,760
God is my song.
God is my salvation.

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00:40:45,000 –> 00:40:49,120
He’s worked it all out.
That does.

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00:40:49,240 –> 00:40:51,960
You know, we just turn over
because Paul’s got this idea,

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brothers and sisters, from
Isaiah.

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So, so let’s just turn over to
Isaiah 59 because this is where

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he gets it from.
Even the Messiah himself put on

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the helmet of salvation.
You know, we talk about

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00:41:08,720 –> 00:41:13,280
salvation being 100% guaranteed.
And of course, you know that the

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perspective that that’s coming
from, it’s, it’s not saying that

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we don’t sin or we don’t
recognize our sin.

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00:41:18,400 –> 00:41:20,400
And of course, that’s, that’s
axiomatic.

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00:41:20,400 –> 00:41:24,160
We, we understand that.
OK, so as I 59 starts with

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behold, Yahweh’s hand is not
shortened that it cannot save.

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00:41:28,480 –> 00:41:31,760
God is able to work out
salvation at this point.

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00:41:31,760 –> 00:41:34,080
It hadn’t been done yet, but it
was as good as done.

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00:41:34,280 –> 00:41:38,160
As I 59 verse one, Yahweh’s hand
is not shortened that it cannot

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00:41:38,160 –> 00:41:41,720
save, neither is ear heavy that
it cannot hear, but it’s your

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00:41:41,720 –> 00:41:44,480
iniquities that have separated
between you and your God.

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00:41:44,600 –> 00:41:46,560
Your sins have hit his face from
you.

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00:41:46,960 –> 00:41:51,840
And of course, yes, we
understand that we and God is we

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00:41:51,840 –> 00:41:54,840
understand that we do still sin.
But God has dealt with that.

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00:41:55,000 –> 00:41:59,360
God has solved that problem in
Christ because he says in verse

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00:41:59,360 –> 00:42:03,440
16, God waited for 4000 years
and then God and then God

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00:42:03,440 –> 00:42:06,440
implemented his solution.
And he says in verse 16 and he

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00:42:06,440 –> 00:42:09,240
saw that there was no man and he
wondered that there was no

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intercept.
It says intercessor.

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00:42:11,480 –> 00:42:15,360
Therefore his arm brought
salvation unto him.

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00:42:15,520 –> 00:42:21,640
So God’s arm brought salvation
to Christ and his righteousness.

697
00:42:21,720 –> 00:42:24,200
That’s God’s righteousness.
It sustained him.

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00:42:24,200 –> 00:42:26,840
That is Christ.
God’s righteousness sustained

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00:42:26,840 –> 00:42:31,600
Christ, and he, that is Christ,
put on righteousness as a

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00:42:31,600 –> 00:42:35,120
breastplate and then helmet of
salvation on his head.

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00:42:35,960 –> 00:42:38,920
So, so Jesus put on God’s
righteousness.

702
00:42:38,960 –> 00:42:42,760
Jesus upheld God’s
righteousness, knowing that God

703
00:42:42,760 –> 00:42:46,720
would do the humanly impossible.
God would take him out of the

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00:42:46,720 –> 00:42:51,760
grave three days later, so he
put on the helmet of salvation.

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00:42:51,760 –> 00:42:53,520
That was the thing that governed
his thinking.

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00:42:53,520 –> 00:42:58,360
Even the Messiah’s thinking was
governed by the idea that

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00:42:58,360 –> 00:43:03,720
salvation was 100% guaranteed.
You know, just turn back to

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00:43:03,720 –> 00:43:06,800
Psalm 16 quickly.
We see this.

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00:43:07,480 –> 00:43:11,200
We see this in Psalm 16 where
this is the mindset that we’re

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00:43:11,200 –> 00:43:14,880
talking about, the mindset of
Messiah here.

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00:43:14,880 –> 00:43:19,840
He knew that God based on God’s
own righteousness, God would

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00:43:19,840 –> 00:43:23,800
never, God could not leave him
in the grave.

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00:43:25,880 –> 00:43:31,440
Salvation was 100% guaranteed.
And so this is the mindset that

714
00:43:31,440 –> 00:43:35,120
then drives him forward.
This is the mindset that that

715
00:43:35,120 –> 00:43:40,880
enables him now to overcome.
So look at Psalm 16 verse 8 to

716
00:43:40,920 –> 00:43:43,360
11.
It says I’ve set Yahweh.

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00:43:43,480 –> 00:43:48,920
This is the Messiah speaking.
He says I’ve set Yahweh always

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00:43:48,920 –> 00:43:53,080
before me.
He’s a helmet of salvation on my

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00:43:53,080 –> 00:43:54,360
head.
That’s what it is.

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00:43:54,360 –> 00:43:56,680
He’s always before me.
He’s right in front of me.

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00:43:56,680 –> 00:44:02,280
He’s in the front of my mind.
I’ve set Yahweh always before me

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00:44:02,280 –> 00:44:06,720
because He is at my right hand.
I shall not be moved.

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This is the confidence.
It’s 100% guaranteed.

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00:44:11,120 –> 00:44:14,120
Therefore my heart is glad.
This is my perspective.

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00:44:14,320 –> 00:44:18,560
My, my glory rejoices.
My flesh shall rest in hope,

726
00:44:19,280 –> 00:44:22,560
100% based on the righteousness
of God.

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00:44:22,560 –> 00:44:23,760
My flesh is going to rest in
hope.

728
00:44:23,960 –> 00:44:26,480
I am coming out of the grave in
three days time.

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00:44:27,600 –> 00:44:31,160
And that perspective took him
through the ordeal of the

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00:44:31,160 –> 00:44:34,880
crucifixion, doesn’t it?
For thou wilt not leave my soul

731
00:44:34,880 –> 00:44:38,280
in the grave, neither wilt thou
suffer the Holy one to to seek

732
00:44:38,280 –> 00:44:41,120
corruption.
Thou wilt show me the path of

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00:44:41,120 –> 00:44:44,400
life and in our presence is
fullness of joy forevermore.

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00:44:46,000 –> 00:44:49,120
That’s the perspective, brothers
and sisters, that is the the

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00:44:49,120 –> 00:44:54,600
mindset, the the helmet of that
protects our mind that salvation

736
00:44:54,600 –> 00:45:00,280
is 100% guaranteed.
And you know, so, so God takes

737
00:45:00,280 –> 00:45:04,360
us into these these humanly
impossible situations.

738
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And when we realise, brothers
and sisters, that there is no

739
00:45:07,560 –> 00:45:12,720
human solution, he then saves
us, teaching us that the the

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00:45:12,720 –> 00:45:16,600
only source of salvation is
himself and that we cannot save

741
00:45:16,600 –> 00:45:19,920
ourselves.
That’s the the teaching of

742
00:45:19,920 –> 00:45:21,680
salvation as it runs through
Scripture.

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00:45:22,600 –> 00:45:24,760
Well, just in by way of
conclusion, brothers and

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00:45:24,760 –> 00:45:28,200
sisters, I I just want to go
back to one last quote in first

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00:45:28,280 –> 00:45:31,800
in first Samuel 17.
I think this is probably one of

746
00:45:31,800 –> 00:45:35,240
the greatest.
You know, you think, well maybe

747
00:45:35,240 –> 00:45:38,000
this is like a perspective that
we have having seen the Lord

748
00:45:38,000 –> 00:45:41,160
Jesus Christ, him having
accomplished salvation in that

749
00:45:41,160 –> 00:45:44,160
sense, you know, brothers and
sisters, there have been

750
00:45:44,280 –> 00:45:47,000
brothers and sisters down
through the ages that have

751
00:45:47,040 –> 00:45:49,920
absolutely seen this all the way
through.

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00:45:50,160 –> 00:45:52,960
Just have a look at this
perspective from this young man.

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00:45:52,960 –> 00:45:57,600
When we talk about a helmet of
salvation that protects the mind

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00:45:57,840 –> 00:45:59,880
and an understanding of
salvation.

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00:46:00,360 –> 00:46:03,160
Look at, look at David’s
understanding of this in First

756
00:46:03,160 –> 00:46:08,760
Samuel 17.
So first Samuel 17, what, what,

757
00:46:08,760 –> 00:46:11,160
what is the whole context of
first Samuel 17?

758
00:46:11,160 –> 00:46:13,240
Well, it’s David fighting
Goliath, isn’t it?

759
00:46:13,880 –> 00:46:19,360
And, and so we, so we see this
young man who’s been, who’s been

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00:46:19,360 –> 00:46:23,240
brought up by faithful parents
and he’s out there shepherding

761
00:46:23,240 –> 00:46:26,680
the sheep and he’s fought to
lion and he’s fought to bear.

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00:46:27,120 –> 00:46:30,160
And he’s, and he’s overcome them
with the, with the Spirit of God

763
00:46:30,160 –> 00:46:34,480
that moved in an impossible
situation without the Spirit of

764
00:46:34,480 –> 00:46:36,600
God to take on a lion and to
take on a bear.

765
00:46:36,720 –> 00:46:39,600
And so this has generated this,
this faith and this reassurance

766
00:46:39,600 –> 00:46:43,880
and this confidence in him.
And, and so now he comes and did

767
00:46:43,880 –> 00:46:46,800
he know, did he know that that
day when he was going towards

768
00:46:46,800 –> 00:46:48,440
the army, did he know he was
going to face Goliath?

769
00:46:48,560 –> 00:46:51,600
He had no idea.
But because of the, the, these

770
00:46:51,600 –> 00:46:54,480
things that God’s worked in his
life, all of a sudden it’s

771
00:46:54,480 –> 00:46:56,280
giving him the faith and the
confidence now.

772
00:46:56,520 –> 00:46:59,200
And so he comes to this, he
comes to the situation in the

773
00:46:59,200 –> 00:47:02,760
battle then and, and, and he
sees this, this, this goal,

774
00:47:02,760 –> 00:47:06,840
this, this, this giant
blaspheming and defying the

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00:47:06,840 –> 00:47:10,440
armies of the living God.
Verse 26 Look at the end of

776
00:47:10,440 –> 00:47:16,120
verse 26, David says for who is
this uncircumcised Philistine

777
00:47:16,120 –> 00:47:19,400
that he should defy the armies
of the living God?

778
00:47:19,560 –> 00:47:22,680
And so this is his perspective
that this uncircumcised

779
00:47:22,680 –> 00:47:26,160
Philistine is defying the armies
of the living God.

780
00:47:26,680 –> 00:47:29,320
OK.
Verse 36 and and so this is his

781
00:47:29,320 –> 00:47:32,440
words to Saul.
Now thy servant slew both a lion

782
00:47:32,440 –> 00:47:36,360
and a bear, and this
uncircumcised Philistine shall

783
00:47:36,360 –> 00:47:39,200
be as one of them, seeing that
he has defied the armies of the

784
00:47:39,200 –> 00:47:41,680
living God.
You see, brother, because he had

785
00:47:41,680 –> 00:47:46,840
this understanding that this,
these people here are the people

786
00:47:46,840 –> 00:47:49,560
of God, the and he’s a living
God.

787
00:47:50,000 –> 00:47:53,800
Salvation for them is 100%
guaranteed.

788
00:47:55,200 –> 00:47:57,440
That’s his perspective, isn’t
it, brothers and sisters?

789
00:47:57,760 –> 00:48:05,040
He knew he was going to win
absolutely, 100% guarantee that

790
00:48:05,040 –> 00:48:10,360
giant is dead because these are
the armies of the living God.

791
00:48:11,640 –> 00:48:14,360
And you, you think, well surely,
did he really think that?

792
00:48:14,360 –> 00:48:17,000
Did he really believe that?
Absolutely.

793
00:48:17,120 –> 00:48:19,480
So look what Saul does in verse
38.

794
00:48:20,040 –> 00:48:24,240
Saul says as Saul tries to arm
David and he says, and so Saul

795
00:48:24,240 –> 00:48:27,800
in verse 38 says and Saul armed
David with his armour and he put

796
00:48:27,800 –> 00:48:32,920
a helmet of brass on his head
and he also armed him with a

797
00:48:32,920 –> 00:48:36,080
coat of mail.
You see, there’s a person who

798
00:48:36,080 –> 00:48:39,240
doesn’t have the spiritual
perspective that salvation is

799
00:48:39,240 –> 00:48:42,760
100% guaranteed because he puts
a helmet of brass on his head.

800
00:48:43,480 –> 00:48:46,960
And we and we understand Goliath
himself, we had had a helmet of

801
00:48:46,960 –> 00:48:49,800
brass on his head as well.
And so Saul here is saying,

802
00:48:49,800 –> 00:48:53,200
well, well actually you can
fight flesh with flesh.

803
00:48:53,760 –> 00:48:57,560
And David’s saying no, you
cannot fight flesh with fish.

804
00:48:58,200 –> 00:49:00,760
The weapons of our warfare are
not carnal.

805
00:49:01,520 –> 00:49:04,960
They are spiritual, mighty to
the pulling down of strongholds.

806
00:49:05,720 –> 00:49:08,760
OK, so we cannot fight flesh
with flesh.

807
00:49:08,760 –> 00:49:10,600
So he takes off the brass
helmet.

808
00:49:11,360 –> 00:49:13,240
I need a spiritual perspective
here.

809
00:49:13,480 –> 00:49:17,480
And so he goes out and, and, and
of course he goes unarmed,

810
00:49:17,800 –> 00:49:20,520
unarmed with conventional
weapons into that fight.

811
00:49:21,000 –> 00:49:23,920
He’s armed with the perspective
that this is the these are the

812
00:49:24,040 –> 00:49:26,680
armies of the living God.
OK.

813
00:49:26,920 –> 00:49:30,240
And in verse, look.
And so we know this story had

814
00:49:30,240 –> 00:49:33,440
ends.
He he, he, he kills Goliath and

815
00:49:33,440 –> 00:49:35,760
he cuts off his head.
And you think, well, is that

816
00:49:35,760 –> 00:49:39,000
where the story ends?
Is that where the end of David’s

817
00:49:39,000 –> 00:49:41,120
perspective ends?
Do you know, brothers and

818
00:49:41,120 –> 00:49:45,240
sisters, in David’s mind, this,
this helmet of salvation, seeing

819
00:49:45,240 –> 00:49:49,280
salvation here was far, far
deeper than all of this.

820
00:49:49,720 –> 00:49:51,600
Do you look what he does with
that head?

821
00:49:51,600 –> 00:49:54,680
Brothers and sisters, I find
this absolutely amazing.

822
00:49:55,600 –> 00:49:57,280
What does he do with Goliath’s
head?

823
00:49:57,880 –> 00:50:02,680
The thinking of that serpent,
the thinking of the flesh, the

824
00:50:02,680 –> 00:50:07,400
thinking of the diabolos, the
thinking that the Saviour was

825
00:50:07,400 –> 00:50:12,120
going to going to crucify and
crush right from Genesis 315,

826
00:50:12,480 –> 00:50:13,960
what what is David’s
perspective?

827
00:50:13,960 –> 00:50:18,360
Look what he does.
And David verse 54 took the head

828
00:50:18,360 –> 00:50:21,240
of the Philistine and he brought
it to Jerusalem.

829
00:50:22,080 –> 00:50:26,000
Now how on earth did David know
to take that head to Jerusalem?

830
00:50:28,440 –> 00:50:32,120
He took the head to Jerusalem, a
Canaanite city.

831
00:50:33,920 –> 00:50:36,760
Jerusalem doesn’t become until
David’s king much later on.

832
00:50:36,920 –> 00:50:40,040
He took the head to Jerusalem,
but he put the armour in his

833
00:50:40,040 –> 00:50:43,000
tent.
Do you know, brothers and

834
00:50:43,000 –> 00:50:47,160
sisters, the reason why he took
that head and all of what that

835
00:50:47,160 –> 00:50:50,600
head represented?
He took that to Jerusalem

836
00:50:51,720 –> 00:50:55,600
because that is where Abraham
offered Isaac.

837
00:50:55,880 –> 00:51:00,880
That is where Abraham where God
said to Abraham, you take your

838
00:51:00,880 –> 00:51:03,200
son and you go offer him for a
burnt offering on one of the

839
00:51:03,200 –> 00:51:04,880
mountains of Moriah that I’m
going to show you.

840
00:51:05,120 –> 00:51:07,680
It’s Jerusalem.
You go offer him there because

841
00:51:07,680 –> 00:51:10,320
that’s where I am going to work
out salvation.

842
00:51:12,200 –> 00:51:16,000
This is my problem, says God.
I am going to do, you can’t do

843
00:51:16,000 –> 00:51:20,480
it, I’m going to do it.
So you so David takes that head

844
00:51:21,160 –> 00:51:24,480
because he says this is where
God is going to answer the

845
00:51:24,480 –> 00:51:26,320
things.
This is where God is going to

846
00:51:26,320 –> 00:51:29,320
work out salvation.
This is where the son of God is

847
00:51:29,320 –> 00:51:32,720
going to go and he’s going to
crucify the thinking of the

848
00:51:32,720 –> 00:51:36,120
flesh and everything that it
represents and everything that

849
00:51:36,120 –> 00:51:39,400
it comes from it principalities
and powers and spiritual

850
00:51:39,400 –> 00:51:42,600
wickedness in high places.
It’s all going to be destroyed

851
00:51:43,120 –> 00:51:46,360
on that mountain at Jerusalem.
And you see brothers and says

852
00:51:46,360 –> 00:51:51,000
that’s why in all through every
four gospel records it says and

853
00:51:51,000 –> 00:51:54,080
they took him out to the till
Golgotha, the place of the

854
00:51:54,080 –> 00:51:56,280
skull.
Isn’t that amazing?

855
00:51:56,280 –> 00:51:58,200
Brothers and sisters, They took
him out and that’s where they

856
00:51:58,200 –> 00:52:01,280
crucified him at the place of
the skull, because that’s the

857
00:52:01,280 –> 00:52:04,320
skull of Goliath that was there.
And David knew that.

858
00:52:05,080 –> 00:52:07,280
You see what a spiritual
perspective does, brothers and

859
00:52:07,280 –> 00:52:10,160
sisters, a spiritual
perspective, a helmet of

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00:52:10,160 –> 00:52:12,200
salvation.
The way you look at your own

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00:52:12,200 –> 00:52:15,760
personal life.
Do you see yourself in the

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00:52:15,760 –> 00:52:18,320
Kingdom?
If you see yourself in the

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00:52:18,320 –> 00:52:22,760
Kingdom, you see that salvation
is 100% guaranteed.

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00:52:23,080 –> 00:52:26,280
Yes, we own our sins and no, we
don’t think about anybody else

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who’s not living according to
the Spirit of Christ.

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Don’t worry about that.
You yourself personal, your

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relationship with this sacrifice
right here.

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That’s all that matters.
This morning, brothers and

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00:52:38,560 –> 00:52:45,120
sisters, is how you view this
sacrifice that that is 100%

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00:52:45,120 –> 00:52:49,680
salvation.
Helmet, shield, garments, strong

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00:52:49,680 –> 00:52:52,800
walls, 100% salvation,
guaranteed.

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00:52:52,920 –> 00:52:56,360
You’re in the Kingdom.
It’s your relationship with

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00:52:56,360 –> 00:52:58,200
that.
That’s all that matters,

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00:52:58,200 –> 00:53:01,560
brothers and sisters.
And it’ll take you cutting off

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00:53:01,560 –> 00:53:03,960
Goliath’s head and taking it to
Jerusalem.

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00:53:04,160 –> 00:53:07,040
That’s where that thinking,
brothers and sisters, that’s

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00:53:07,040 –> 00:53:09,000
where what that thinking can do
for you.

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00:53:10,240 –> 00:53:28,230
Amen.
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