{"id":1402,"date":"2025-12-14T22:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/378-barret-law-exhortation-helmet-of-salvation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:35:17","slug":"378-barret-law-exhortation-helmet-of-salvation","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/378-barret-law-exhortation-helmet-of-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"378: Barret Law – Exhortation: Helmet of Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s talk is an exhortation given at the Brighton Ecclesia in Australia on July 13, 2025, by Brother Barret Law, titled “Helmet of Salvation.”<\/p>\n

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\nthis week’s talk.
\nHello all and welcome back. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is Brother Benji.
\nThis week’s talk will be an <\/p>\n

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\nexhortation given by Brother
\nBarrett Law at the Brighton <\/p>\n

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\nEcclesia in South Australia on
\nthe 13th of July this year to <\/p>\n

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\nthe theme Helmet of Salvation.
\nBrother Barrett’s passion is <\/p>\n

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\nunmatched as he encourages us to
\nconsider deeply the assurance of<\/p>\n

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\nour salvation.
\nWhat a hope we have. <\/p>\n

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\nOur brother explores the
\npurpose, context and reasoning <\/p>\n

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\nbehind the Helmet of Salvation.
\nHe shows us a consistent message<\/p>\n

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\nthroughout all Scripture.
\nGod is our salvation, it is not <\/p>\n

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\nof ourselves.
\nTherefore, we do not need to <\/p>\n

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\nworry and can rejoice.
\nI particularly liked his <\/p>\n

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\ndescription of the function of a
\nhelmet serving to protect our <\/p>\n

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\nminds.
\nAn absolutely delightful and <\/p>\n

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\nexciting lesson.
\nWith that all said, I’ll give <\/p>\n

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\nyou over to our brother Barrett
\nfor his exhortation. <\/p>\n

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\nHelmet of Salvation.
\nWell, good morning my dear <\/p>\n

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\nbrothers and sisters in the Lord
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n

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\nI thought we might look at the
\nhelmet of salvation as Brother <\/p>\n

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\nIan has mentioned this morning
\nby way of bringing our minds to <\/p>\n

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\nthe emblems.
\nIt is a very positive subject, <\/p>\n

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\nbrothers and sisters, and one
\nthat that I think does well to <\/p>\n

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\nthat we do well to remember the
\nwhat, what it what it teaches <\/p>\n

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\nus.
\nSo if we just go to Ephesians 6 <\/p>\n

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\nthat Paul here in Ephesians 6
\ngives us, gives the Ephesian <\/p>\n

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\necclesia this little bit of
\nadvice on taking on the whole <\/p>\n

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\narmour of God.
\nNow, when when he’s, he’s <\/p>\n

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\ntalking to the Ephesian ecclesia
\nbrothers and sisters and I. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I think it just does well to
\nto, in order to actually build <\/p>\n

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\nthis picture of where we
\nactually going here in <\/p>\n

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\nEphesians, Let’s just go back to
\nActs 20, verse 29. <\/p>\n

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\nBecause in Acts 20, verse 29,
\nPaul has been at Ephesus. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd this is what and, and the
\nlast time he was at Ephesus, <\/p>\n

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\nthis is what he told them.
\nAnd I think this is actually the<\/p>\n

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\nbasis of this advice that he
\nactually gives them. <\/p>\n

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\nSo back in Acts 20 verse 29.
\nSo let’s read from verse 28. <\/p>\n

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\nSo we know he’s talking to the
\nEphesian ecclesia. <\/p>\n

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\nIt says that in verse 17 and
\nfrom malicious, he sent to <\/p>\n

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\nEphesus and called the elders of
\nthe ecclesia and they came to <\/p>\n

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\nhim.
\nAnd then from verse 17, from <\/p>\n

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\nverse 18 onwards is all the way
\nalmost to the end of the chapter<\/p>\n

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\nis what he actually tells them.
\nAnd so part of this advice is <\/p>\n

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\nthen verse verse 28.
\nTake heed, therefore, unto <\/p>\n

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\nyourselves, and to all the flock
\nover which the Holy Spirit has <\/p>\n

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\nmade you overseers, to feed the
\necclesia of God, which he’s <\/p>\n

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\npurchased with his own blood.
\nFor I know this, I know this, <\/p>\n

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\nsays Paul.
\nThis is what is going to happen.<\/p>\n

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\nI know that after my departing,
\ngrievous wolves are going to <\/p>\n

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\nenter in among you, not sparing
\nthe flock. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd what are they going to do,
\nbrothers and sisters? <\/p>\n

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\nWhat is going to be the spirit
\nof these brothers and sisters in<\/p>\n

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\nthis Ephesian ecclesia?
\nOK, verse 30. <\/p>\n

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\nAlso of your own selves shall
\nmen arise, speaking perverse <\/p>\n

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\nthings to draw away disciples
\nafter themselves. <\/p>\n

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\nSo these brothers and sisters,
\nwe’re going to seek to draw away<\/p>\n

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\ndisciples after themselves.
\nThis is a very self focused <\/p>\n

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\ngroup of brothers and sisters
\nwithin the ecclesia. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is the spirit of it.
\nThey, they, they, they’re not <\/p>\n

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\ninterested in the Lord Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n

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\nThey’re not interested in
\nfeeding their brothers and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters.
\nWhat they interested in is their<\/p>\n

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\nown prestige, their own looks,
\ntheir own, that they’ve got <\/p>\n

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\ndisciples, people looking up to
\nthem. <\/p>\n

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\nThey want to be seen as the
\nauthority. <\/p>\n

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\nThey want to be seen as the ones
\nwho people defer to when there’s<\/p>\n

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\na question or ask that brother
\nor ask that sister, they will <\/p>\n

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\nknow.
\nSo it’s the spirit of actually <\/p>\n

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\nseeking to draw away disciples
\nafter oneself because self is <\/p>\n

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\nthe problem.
\nAnd I think, brothers and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters, that what is what, what
\nPaul knew was going to permeate <\/p>\n

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\nthat Ephesian ecclesia is
\nexactly the spirit of our age, <\/p>\n

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\nbrothers and sisters.
\nIt is the spirit of self where <\/p>\n

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\nself is everything, where people
\nwant to be seen as something not<\/p>\n

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\njust ordinary.
\nThey won’t have a following. <\/p>\n

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\nThey wanted people to look up to
\nthem. <\/p>\n

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\nThey wanted people to to
\nreverence them as it were, and <\/p>\n

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\nand to admire what they are
\ndoing because they think they <\/p>\n

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\nare important.
\nAnd that is exactly the opposite<\/p>\n

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\nof the spirit of Christ.
\nDiametrically opposed to <\/p>\n

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\neverything that is on the table
\nin front of us is the spirit of <\/p>\n

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\nself.
\nAnd that is the spirit that was <\/p>\n

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\nin this ecclesia.
\nAnd that’s what Paul is advising<\/p>\n

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\nhim now in his letter.
\nHow do we counteract that? <\/p>\n

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\nHow do we counteract that spirit
\nof self? <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s, and the brothers and
\nsisters, it’s not just in the <\/p>\n

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\necclesia.
\nThe ecclesia gets it because it <\/p>\n

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\nis the spirit of the world
\naround us. <\/p>\n

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\nWe absorb it from society.
\nWe absorb it from every form of <\/p>\n

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\nmedia that that is bombarding us
\ndaily, whether it’s YouTube or <\/p>\n

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\nFacebook or Twitter or every
\nform of media that comes to us. <\/p>\n

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\nThey are all positioning us and
\nthat because they all seek to <\/p>\n

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\ndraw away people after
\nthemselves. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so we are being bombarded,
\nbrothers and sisters, by the <\/p>\n

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\nspirit of self from society,
\nwhich we which it’s impossible, <\/p>\n

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\nbut well, not impossible, but it
\nis so hard to resist because we <\/p>\n

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\nabsorb it in the spur of the
\nage. <\/p>\n

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\nBecause every part of society,
\nwhether it’s the education <\/p>\n

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\ndepartment who’s full of left
\nwing ideology, or whether it’s <\/p>\n

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\nthe current government, which is
\nin in America, which is a right <\/p>\n

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\nwing government, whatever, they
\nall have their own ideologies. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd those ideologies, brothers
\nand sisters or what, or what <\/p>\n

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\nwe’re absorbing and they
\ninfluence our mind. <\/p>\n

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\nSo how do we stop that?
\nAnd this is what we want to talk<\/p>\n

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\nabout this morning, brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n

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\nThe answer is actually really,
\nreally simple. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s a very, very simple answer,
\nbut that is what we’re dealing <\/p>\n

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\nwith, brothers and sisters.
\nThat’s the that’s the spirit of <\/p>\n

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\nour age that we’re trying to
\nbuild a barrier against so we <\/p>\n

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\ndon’t absorb the ideologies of
\nthe world that is coming to us <\/p>\n

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\nthrough every form of media.
\nSo Paul here in, in Ephesians <\/p>\n

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\nactually then says to my
\nbrethren, these are the same <\/p>\n

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\nbrothers and sisters that we’ve
\njust looked at in, in Acts 20. <\/p>\n

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\nMy brethren, be strong in the
\nLord and in the power of his <\/p>\n

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\nmight.
\nSo he’s now going to give them <\/p>\n

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\nthis little bit of advice.
\nHe says put on the whole armour <\/p>\n

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\nof God that you may be able to
\nwithstand against the Wiles of <\/p>\n

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\nthe devil.
\nOK, So he says you got to put on<\/p>\n

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\nthis whole armour.
\nAnd now when we talk about <\/p>\n

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\narmour, brothers and sisters,
\nobviously Paul, he has got the <\/p>\n

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\nRoman soldier in his mind.
\nHe’s thinking about, about <\/p>\n

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\nphysical warfare and he’s using
\nthat as his analogy. <\/p>\n

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\nOK, but we’re obviously talking
\nabout, we’re not talking about <\/p>\n

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\nphysical things.
\nYeah, and he does, and he does <\/p>\n

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\ntell us that it’s, it’s we’re,
\nwe’re it’s he’s spiritualizing <\/p>\n

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\nthese things.
\nSo, and it’s very much like what<\/p>\n

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\nthe Lord does in in Luke 11.
\nJust come with me back to Luke <\/p>\n

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\n11, verse 22 because Jesus,
\nJesus talks about the strongman <\/p>\n

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\nwho trusts in his armour.
\nSo Luke 11, verse 22, the the <\/p>\n

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\ncontext of this is that the
\nPharisees have just come to <\/p>\n

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\nJesus and said, ah, you just
\ncasting out devils by Beelzebub.<\/p>\n

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\nYou know, the, the, the Prince
\nof the devils and Jesus has got <\/p>\n

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\nan answer to them and he gives
\nthem this parable of the <\/p>\n

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\nstrongman.
\nIn fact, it actually should <\/p>\n

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\nprobably be the parable of the
\nstronger man, because Jesus is <\/p>\n

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\nthe stronger man, isn’t he?
\nBecause look what it says in in <\/p>\n

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\nLuke 11 verse 21, well, verse 20
\nfor context. <\/p>\n

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\nBut if I with the finger of God
\ncast out devils, no doubt the <\/p>\n

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\nKingdom of God has come upon you
\nwhen a strong man armed keepeth <\/p>\n

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\nhis palace and his his goods are
\nin peace. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd the strong man is human
\nnature. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s the flesh, it’s the devil.
\nBut when a stronger than he <\/p>\n

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\nshall come upon him and overcome
\nhim, that’s the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n

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\nChrist.
\nHe was stronger than human <\/p>\n

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\nnature, He overcame it.
\nIt was a stronger than he <\/p>\n

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\novercame him and taketh from him
\nall his armour wherein he <\/p>\n

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\ntrusteth and divided his spoils.
\nAnd Jesus says he that is not <\/p>\n

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\nwith me is against me.
\nOK, so Jesus is that stronger <\/p>\n

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\nman and he takes away because
\nhe’s got armour and it’s armour <\/p>\n

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\nfit for purpose, isn’t it?
\nAnd so you have to trust your <\/p>\n

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\narmour.
\nAnd Jesus, Jesus did, He trusted<\/p>\n

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\nthe armour that God had given
\nhim in order to overcome that <\/p>\n

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\nstrong man of human nature.
\nYou know, just thinking about <\/p>\n

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\nthat, brothers and sisters, you
\nknow, thinking about trusting in<\/p>\n

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\nyour armour, trusting in things
\nthat are fit for purpose. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is something we, we, we
\nhave to do. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know, it doesn’t matter what
\nprofession you’re in. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know, like as a, as a
\ncabinet maker, you know, I have <\/p>\n

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\nto trust my tools.
\nI have to know that my chisel is<\/p>\n

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\nreally sharp and it’s got, it’s
\nmade out of good steel. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know, you might be an artist
\nand you paint with a brush and <\/p>\n

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\nyou want to, you want to buy,
\nyou know, you know that if you <\/p>\n

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\nbuy a brush with sable hair that
\nit’ll, it’ll, the paint will <\/p>\n

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\nflow perfectly.
\nYou have to trust the thing that<\/p>\n

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\nyou’re working in.
\nThere’s lots of ideas, lots of <\/p>\n

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\nthings that we could analogies
\nthat we could use to trust your <\/p>\n

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\nequipment.
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\nfull confidence in your
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\nit’s got to be fit for purpose.
\nAnd I was having a discussion <\/p>\n

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\nwith Uncle Royce not that long
\nago when I was going to put <\/p>\n

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\ntires on my Prado because we go
\nout hunting and we go, we drive <\/p>\n

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\nthrough the, the paddocks and
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\nstumps.
\nAnd also I’m going to put tires <\/p>\n

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\non my Prado so that I don’t RIP
\nthem. <\/p>\n

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\nSo we’re having this big
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\nyou know, whether I put BF
\nGoodrich’s on or, or which is <\/p>\n

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\nthe American made, you know,
\nreally good, but they’re very <\/p>\n

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\nexpensive, or whether I put the
\nChinese made ones on there. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd you know, like the last
\nthing you want to be doing is <\/p>\n

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\nbeing in the paddock or in and
\nyou’ve got pop tires, you know, <\/p>\n

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\n2:00 in the morning or something
\nlike that. <\/p>\n

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\nSo you’ve got to be able to, so
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\nGoodridges and they were
\nfantastic, except when your <\/p>\n

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\nPrada is upside down in a ditch
\nand the tires up in the air. <\/p>\n

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\nSo, but so you’ve got to be able
\nto trust your equipment because <\/p>\n

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\nwhen you, when you are in a
\nsituation where you really need <\/p>\n

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\nto rely upon that equipment, you
\nneed to be able to trust that it<\/p>\n

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\nis going to be fit for purpose.
\nAnd this is the example that <\/p>\n

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\nPaul’s going to give us here.
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\nwhat, I’m going to give you an
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\nneed to put on that is fit for
\npurpose because it did the Lord <\/p>\n

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\nJesus Christ really well.
\nHe was the stronger man that <\/p>\n

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\ndisarmed the man of the flesh,
\ntook away his armour and <\/p>\n

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\novercame him and beat him.
\nAnd so this is now armour for <\/p>\n

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\nyou which is going to be fit for
\npurpose. <\/p>\n

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\nSo he says you need to put on
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\njust part of it, all of it, so
\nthat it can help you to stand <\/p>\n

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\nagainst the Wiles of the devil.
\nSo back in Ephesians 6. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so we’re standing against
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\nLike it’s, and we know what that
\nis. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s, it’s human nature and
\nit’s, it’s human nature in US <\/p>\n

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\nindividually.
\nBut that’s not what he’s going <\/p>\n

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\nto talk about.
\nHe’s going to go on to show that<\/p>\n

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\nactually it’s not just human
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\nsomething else.
\nAnd we’ll get to that. <\/p>\n

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\nBut we have to be able to stand
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\nbecause you see, and, and this
\nis it, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n

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\nit’s not, this is not it’s, it’s
\nwily. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s not coming to us.
\nHow do we say this? <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s deliberately trying to
\ndeceive us. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know, and you see this in
\nthe media, brothers and sisters,<\/p>\n

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\nyou know, if you, if you watch,
\njust take one example, if you <\/p>\n

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\nwatch Al Jazeera, you know that
\nAl Jazeera is owned by Iran. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know that they are
\npositioning you to accept the <\/p>\n

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\nnarrative that they are trying
\nto propound. <\/p>\n

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\nIt is an anti Israel narrative
\nthat they are, that they are <\/p>\n

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\nshowing you.
\nSo if you think that you’re <\/p>\n

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\ngetting the truth by watching Al
\nJazeera, you’re wrong. <\/p>\n

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\nThey are positioning you in a
\nwrong from a wrong perspective. <\/p>\n

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\nThey want you to buy into their
\nnarrative. <\/p>\n

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\nThat is the Wiles of the devil.
\nThey are deliberately. <\/p>\n

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\nMake no mistake, brothers and
\nsisters, this is a calculated <\/p>\n

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\nplan to deceive.
\nAnd if you watch another media <\/p>\n

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\noutlet, they are positioning you
\non the other side. <\/p>\n

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\nSo they, it is not we, we must,
\nwe must not be ignorant brothers<\/p>\n

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\nand sisters that these things
\nthat, that the, the, the, that <\/p>\n

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\nthe information that we get
\nthrough the media is actually <\/p>\n

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\ndeliberately trying to position
\nus according to their position. <\/p>\n

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\nIt is the walls of the devil.
\nAnd, you know, the dialect then <\/p>\n

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\nsays so.
\nSo what is this, this devil that<\/p>\n

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\nhe’s actually talking about?
\nWell, he goes on to explain it. <\/p>\n

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\nHe says we wrestle not against
\nflesh and blood, but against <\/p>\n

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\nprincipalities, against powers,
\nagainst the rulers of the <\/p>\n

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\ndarkness of this world, against
\nspiritual wickedness in high <\/p>\n

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\nplaces.
\nSo brothers and sisters, the <\/p>\n

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\ndialect says, for that our
\nconflict is not with blood and <\/p>\n

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\nflesh.
\nIn other words, we’re not <\/p>\n

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\nfighting a physical battle that
\nthat’s obvious. <\/p>\n

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\nOK, This is not a physical
\nbattle against physical people <\/p>\n

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\nthat we are fighting with in
\nthat sense. <\/p>\n

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\nBut with so the dialogue says,
\nour conflict is not with blood <\/p>\n

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\nand flesh, but with the
\ngovernments, with the <\/p>\n

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\nauthorities and potentates of
\nthis, of this darkness and <\/p>\n

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\nspiritual things, of wickedness
\nin the heavenlies. <\/p>\n

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\nSo what we’re fighting against,
\nbrothers and sisters, is worldly<\/p>\n

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\nideologies, false religious
\nideologies, humanism and <\/p>\n

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\nbrothers and sisters.
\nWhat we need is armour that is <\/p>\n

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\ngoing to help us to defend
\nourselves against that. <\/p>\n

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\nWe need a helmet of salvation,
\nwhich is a brilliantly effective<\/p>\n

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\nway of overcoming those
\nideologies because it governs <\/p>\n

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\nour thinking.
\nOK, so we’re we’re fighting <\/p>\n

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\nagainst spiritual wickedness in
\nhigh places, wicked spirits in <\/p>\n

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\nheaven.
\nAnd we know that the heaven is <\/p>\n

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\nthe government of the ruling
\npower. <\/p>\n

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\nSo these are false ideologies,
\nfalse teachings both from the <\/p>\n

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\ngovernment and from religious,
\nreligious entities. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we know that like I’ve said
\nthis before, like you. <\/p>\n

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\nSo even like President Trump
\nsays of, of Harvard University, <\/p>\n

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\nhe says it’s a nest of left wing
\nideology. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd that’s exactly what it is.
\nAnd, and, and it’s and they both<\/p>\n

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\nas bad as each other.
\nSo we’re not taking sides here, <\/p>\n

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\nOK?
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\neach other for what they are.
\nHarvard University is a nest of <\/p>\n

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\nleft wing ideology because
\nthat’s what they propound. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s what they that’s the
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\nout.
\nAnd that’s why you have all <\/p>\n

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\nthese people camping on the
\nlawns in front of Harvard, you <\/p>\n

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\nknow, waving Palestinian flags,
\netcetera. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd and and and you know.
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\nideologies that we’re that are
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\nand Jesus has overcome that.
\nBrothers and sisters, just just <\/p>\n

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\nturn back in Ephesians to
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\none, verse 21 says reading verse
\n20, who he wrought in Christ <\/p>\n

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\nwhen he raised him from the dead
\nand set him at his own right <\/p>\n

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\nhand in heavenly places, far
\nabove all principality and power<\/p>\n

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\nand might and dominion and every
\nname that is named not only in <\/p>\n

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\nthis world, but also in the
\nworld that is to come. <\/p>\n

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\nSo Jesus after his resurrection
\nis now above all principalities.<\/p>\n

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\nOtherwise he’s above all
\ngovernments in this world. <\/p>\n

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\nHe controls the governments of
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\nthe highest government in the
\nworld to come. <\/p>\n

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\nSo that’s, that’s the sense of
\nwhat Paul is saying here in <\/p>\n

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\nEphesians 6 with the, the, the,
\nit’s the ideologies that come <\/p>\n

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\nfrom the ruling powers,
\nwhichever they be left wing or <\/p>\n

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\nright wing or somewhere in
\nbetween. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd, and, and the, the rulers of
\nthe darkness of this world, <\/p>\n

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\nreligious, religious ideology as
\nwell as as political ideology. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s all fleshly ideology that
\nwe’re fighting against. <\/p>\n

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\nSo, so our spiritual weapons,
\nbrothers and sisters, defend us.<\/p>\n

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\nThey spiritual weapons that
\ndefend US against the world’s <\/p>\n

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\nthinking and its reasoning.
\nAnd So what we’ve got to do, <\/p>\n

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\nbrothers and sisters, is we’ve
\ngot to do what Paul, just come <\/p>\n

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\nwith me across to 2nd
\nCorinthians 5. <\/p>\n

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\nSo we’ve got to bring every
\nthought to the obedience of <\/p>\n

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\nChrist.
\nHe says that in 2nd Corinthians <\/p>\n

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\n5.
\nJust have a look at this second <\/p>\n

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\nCorinth, sorry, not 2nd
\nCorinthians 5, Second <\/p>\n

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\nCorinthians 10, verse 5, 2nd
\nCorinthians 10, verse 5 says, <\/p>\n

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\nwell actually we’ll read verse 4
\nfor the weapons of our warfare <\/p>\n

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\nare not carnal.
\nThis is exactly the same <\/p>\n

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\nmessage, but mighty through God
\nto the pulling down of <\/p>\n

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\nstrongholds.
\nOr what are these strongholds <\/p>\n

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\ncasting down imaginations?
\nAnd if you look in your centre <\/p>\n

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\nmargin there, it says
\nreasonings, casting down <\/p>\n

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\nreasonings, and every hard thing
\nthat exalteth itself against the<\/p>\n

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\nknowledge of God, and bringing
\ninto captivity every thought to <\/p>\n

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\nthe obedience of Christ.
\nSo brothers and sisters, this is<\/p>\n

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\na spiritual conflict against the
\nspirit of this age, which seeks <\/p>\n

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\nto draw away disciples after
\nthemselves. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s wily, it’s cunning,
\nit’s crafty. <\/p>\n

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\nThey it’s, it’s, it’s a lie and
\nit’s deceptive. <\/p>\n

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\nJust while we’re in Second
\nCorinthians, just turn over to <\/p>\n

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\nChapter 11.
\nSo 2nd Corinthians 11 verse <\/p>\n

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\nthree, look what it says.
\nAnd this is really what the, <\/p>\n

322
\n00:20:01,560 –> 00:20:04,640
\nthe, you know, the, the answer
\nis, is quite simple. <\/p>\n

323
\n00:20:04,640 –> 00:20:07,960
\nOur fear, says Paul verse
\nChapter 11, verse three. <\/p>\n

324
\n00:20:08,160 –> 00:20:12,640
\nOur fear lest by any means as
\nthe serpent. <\/p>\n

325
\n00:20:13,080 –> 00:20:16,320
\nBeguiled Eve through his
\nsubtlety. <\/p>\n

326
\n00:20:17,400 –> 00:20:21,560
\nIt’s that craftiness that the
\nthe whiles of the devil. <\/p>\n

327
\n00:20:22,960 –> 00:20:29,000
\nHe beguiled Eve through his
\nsubtlety that your minds, your <\/p>\n

328
\n00:20:29,000 –> 00:20:33,200
\nmind should be corrupted from
\nthe simplicity that is in <\/p>\n

329
\n00:20:33,200 –> 00:20:37,880
\ncrossed.
\nSo Paul says, I don’t want you <\/p>\n

330
\n00:20:37,880 –> 00:20:41,040
\nto be beguiled from the
\nsimplicity that is in Christ and<\/p>\n

331
\n00:20:41,240 –> 00:20:45,000
\nand that is the answer, brothers
\nand sisters, it is a very simple<\/p>\n

332
\n00:20:45,320 –> 00:20:47,480
\nanswer.
\nIt is the simplicity that is <\/p>\n

333
\n00:20:47,480 –> 00:20:50,120
\nthat is in Christ and that that
\nwe’re going to talk about short <\/p>\n

334
\n00:20:50,120 –> 00:20:54,320
\nshortly that we that will help
\nus to stand against the Wiles of<\/p>\n

335
\n00:20:54,320 –> 00:20:56,840
\nthe devil.
\nAnd we know back in Ephesians, <\/p>\n

336
\n00:20:56,840 –> 00:20:59,240
\nhe says that we’ve got to stand
\nagainst it. <\/p>\n

337
\n00:20:59,960 –> 00:21:03,240
\nSo back in Ephesians, he says
\nactually this this he uses this <\/p>\n

338
\n00:21:03,240 –> 00:21:06,680
\nword stand a few times.
\nHe says you’ve got it in verse <\/p>\n

339
\n00:21:06,680 –> 00:21:10,800
\n11 that you may be able to stand
\nagainst the Wiles of the devil. <\/p>\n

340
\n00:21:12,000 –> 00:21:17,600
\nAt the end of verse 13, he says
\nhaving to withstand in the evil <\/p>\n

341
\n00:21:17,600 –> 00:21:22,600
\nday, having done all to stand
\nand verse 14 to stand, therefore<\/p>\n

342
\n00:21:22,600 –> 00:21:24,120
\nhaving your loins good about
\nwith truth. <\/p>\n

343
\n00:21:24,320 –> 00:21:28,280
\nSo it’s really important to
\nstand against this. <\/p>\n

344
\n00:21:28,920 –> 00:21:30,240
\nOK.
\nAnd that, that brings to my <\/p>\n

345
\n00:21:30,240 –> 00:21:33,600
\nmind, well, the opposite of
\nstanding is falling down, isn’t <\/p>\n

346
\n00:21:33,600 –> 00:21:35,440
\nit?
\nSo in, in my mind, I’ll go back <\/p>\n

347
\n00:21:35,440 –> 00:21:38,960
\nto Daniel 3, where you’ve got
\nthose three friends who are, who<\/p>\n

348
\n00:21:38,960 –> 00:21:41,960
\nare, who stay standing.
\nSo there you’ve got <\/p>\n

349
\n00:21:42,120 –> 00:21:44,360
\nNebuchadnezzar setting himself
\nup. <\/p>\n

350
\n00:21:44,480 –> 00:21:47,360
\nHe’s, he’s the government, he’s,
\nhe’s the religion. <\/p>\n

351
\n00:21:47,480 –> 00:21:51,240
\nAnd he set up his image, which
\nis a representation of all his, <\/p>\n

352
\n00:21:51,440 –> 00:21:56,560
\nhis political and his religious
\nideals, against the word of God.<\/p>\n

353
\n00:21:58,600 –> 00:22:00,280
\nAnd he says, I want you to bow
\ndown to that. <\/p>\n

354
\n00:22:00,280 –> 00:22:04,640
\nI want you to, I want you to
\nconform to my government ideals,<\/p>\n

355
\n00:22:04,640 –> 00:22:08,520
\nmy ideology, my religious
\nideology, my political ideology.<\/p>\n

356
\n00:22:08,680 –> 00:22:12,080
\nI want you to conform to that.
\nAnd they say, no, we will not <\/p>\n

357
\n00:22:12,080 –> 00:22:13,920
\nbow down.
\nWe are going to stand against <\/p>\n

358
\n00:22:13,920 –> 00:22:16,040
\nthat.
\nAnd that’s exactly what Paul is <\/p>\n

359
\n00:22:16,040 –> 00:22:19,480
\ntelling us here.
\nWe need to stand against the <\/p>\n

360
\n00:22:19,480 –> 00:22:23,360
\nideology of the world.
\nAnd so the answer that he gives <\/p>\n

361
\n00:22:23,360 –> 00:22:26,960
\nus, the simplicity that is in
\ncrossed is then outlined in <\/p>\n

362
\n00:22:26,960 –> 00:22:32,720
\nverse 13 to 18, which is these
\nthese various elements of of <\/p>\n

363
\n00:22:32,720 –> 00:22:37,920
\narmour.
\nSo back in Ephesians 6, he says,<\/p>\n

364
\n00:22:37,920 –> 00:22:41,640
\nnow let’s just take these, let’s
\nlook at these as a big picture, <\/p>\n

365
\n00:22:42,120 –> 00:22:45,240
\nnot as not as particularly
\narmour itself, but let’s have a <\/p>\n

366
\n00:22:45,240 –> 00:22:47,760
\nlook at what what the what it
\nrepresents. <\/p>\n

367
\n00:22:48,680 –> 00:22:55,000
\nSo what have we got in verse 14?
\nWe’ve got truth. <\/p>\n

368
\n00:22:56,280 –> 00:23:02,640
\nYour loins get about with truth.
\nThen we’ve got righteousness at <\/p>\n

369
\n00:23:02,640 –> 00:23:05,440
\nthe end of verse 14, a
\nbreastplate of righteousness. <\/p>\n

370
\n00:23:06,240 –> 00:23:08,880
\nThen we’ve got feet shod with
\nthe preparation of the gospel. <\/p>\n

371
\n00:23:09,520 –> 00:23:14,280
\nSo we’ve got the gospel and
\nabove all, taking the shield of <\/p>\n

372
\n00:23:14,280 –> 00:23:15,800
\nfaith.
\nSo we’ve got faith. <\/p>\n

373
\n00:23:17,040 –> 00:23:19,760
\nAnd then we’ve got a helmet in
\nverse 17 of salvation. <\/p>\n

374
\n00:23:20,360 –> 00:23:23,960
\nAnd then we’ve got in verse 17
\nthe the sword of the Spirit with<\/p>\n

375
\n00:23:23,960 –> 00:23:26,720
\nthe Spirit word of God.
\nSo if we look at those things, <\/p>\n

376
\n00:23:26,720 –> 00:23:28,000
\nbrothers and sisters, what have
\nwe got? <\/p>\n

377
\n00:23:28,000 –> 00:23:31,360
\nWe’ve got truth, we’ve got
\nrighteousness, we’ve got <\/p>\n

378
\n00:23:31,360 –> 00:23:33,520
\npreparate the the gospel of
\npeace. <\/p>\n

379
\n00:23:33,720 –> 00:23:36,720
\nWe’ve got faith, we’ve got
\nsalvation and we’ve got the <\/p>\n

380
\n00:23:36,720 –> 00:23:39,520
\nSpirit word.
\nAnd brothers and sisters, isn’t <\/p>\n

381
\n00:23:39,520 –> 00:23:44,480
\nthat then really it’s our whole
\njourney in in Christ, isn’t it? <\/p>\n

382
\n00:23:44,760 –> 00:23:46,760
\nThis is the simplicity in
\nChrist. <\/p>\n

383
\n00:23:47,440 –> 00:23:51,480
\nWhat happens first?
\nWhat happened to you first? <\/p>\n

384
\n00:23:52,200 –> 00:23:56,640
\nYou first learned the truth.
\nYou were, you were convicted of <\/p>\n

385
\n00:23:56,640 –> 00:24:00,320
\nthe truth.
\nYou came to understand that <\/p>\n

386
\n00:24:00,320 –> 00:24:05,080
\nthere was actual truth and it
\ncould be defined. <\/p>\n

387
\n00:24:05,920 –> 00:24:08,880
\nAnd so you espoused and you took
\non the truth 1st. <\/p>\n

388
\n00:24:08,880 –> 00:24:11,200
\nAnd you, you had a knowledge of
\nthe truth and you took on the <\/p>\n

389
\n00:24:11,200 –> 00:24:13,640
\ntruth and the very.
\nAnd having learnt the truth, <\/p>\n

390
\n00:24:13,640 –> 00:24:18,080
\nwhat did you do?
\nYou were baptized, weren’t you? <\/p>\n

391
\n00:24:19,000 –> 00:24:20,720
\nAnd so when you were baptized,
\nwhat happened? <\/p>\n

392
\n00:24:20,720 –> 00:24:24,080
\nWell, you put on Christ, you
\nwere imputed righteous. <\/p>\n

393
\n00:24:24,280 –> 00:24:26,440
\nSo you’ve got the truth.
\nYou learned the truth, and then <\/p>\n

394
\n00:24:26,440 –> 00:24:29,440
\nyou were made righteous.
\nSo you’ve got righteousness. <\/p>\n

395
\n00:24:30,280 –> 00:24:34,160
\nAnd having learned the truth and
\nhaving been made righteous, how <\/p>\n

396
\n00:24:34,160 –> 00:24:37,800
\ndid you feel and what did you
\nwant to do then? <\/p>\n

397
\n00:24:38,200 –> 00:24:40,480
\nWell, didn’t you want to go and
\ntalk to other people about it? <\/p>\n

398
\n00:24:41,040 –> 00:24:43,400
\nDidn’t anyone go tell other
\npeople about the gospel that <\/p>\n

399
\n00:24:43,400 –> 00:24:45,720
\nyou’ve just that you?
\nSo you’ve got the gospel of <\/p>\n

400
\n00:24:45,720 –> 00:24:48,520
\npeace and you and you go out and
\nyou and in everyday life you <\/p>\n

401
\n00:24:48,520 –> 00:24:51,320
\nwant to talk about the gospel to
\npeople that you meet. <\/p>\n

402
\n00:24:53,160 –> 00:24:54,640
\nBut what happens when you do
\nthat? <\/p>\n

403
\n00:24:57,040 –> 00:24:59,440
\nDo they all accept and go, wow,
\nwe’re so excited for you, That’s<\/p>\n

404
\n00:24:59,440 –> 00:25:00,520
\nreally good.
\nCan we join too? <\/p>\n

405
\n00:25:01,400 –> 00:25:06,960
\nDo they say that?
\nNo, the fiery dots of the wicked<\/p>\n

406
\n00:25:06,960 –> 00:25:09,880
\ncome back at you, don’t they?
\nAnd so you have to have a shield<\/p>\n

407
\n00:25:09,880 –> 00:25:12,760
\nof faith because you realize
\nthat actually it’s not very <\/p>\n

408
\n00:25:12,760 –> 00:25:15,600
\npopular.
\nAnd so you’ve got this, you’ve <\/p>\n

409
\n00:25:15,600 –> 00:25:18,120
\ngot faith that has to be
\ndeveloped and faith that <\/p>\n

410
\n00:25:18,120 –> 00:25:21,240
\nactually protects you then from
\nfrom the fiery darts that we get<\/p>\n

411
\n00:25:21,240 –> 00:25:25,320
\nto come back at you.
\nSo you’ve got the truth that <\/p>\n

412
\n00:25:25,320 –> 00:25:27,920
\nyou’ve espoused, you’ve got
\nrighteousness that you’ve put on<\/p>\n

413
\n00:25:27,920 –> 00:25:29,920
\nin Christ.
\nYou, you go out and you preach <\/p>\n

414
\n00:25:29,920 –> 00:25:32,160
\nthe gospel and your faith is
\ndeveloped as you come into <\/p>\n

415
\n00:25:32,160 –> 00:25:35,360
\nconflict with others who don’t,
\nwho don’t see things the same <\/p>\n

416
\n00:25:35,360 –> 00:25:36,840
\nway.
\nAnd that develops now a <\/p>\n

417
\n00:25:36,840 –> 00:25:39,360
\nrelationship with God.
\nYou, you, you’ve got this <\/p>\n

418
\n00:25:39,360 –> 00:25:43,880
\nmindset of salvation.
\nIt’s a perspective that that <\/p>\n

419
\n00:25:43,880 –> 00:25:46,600
\nguards your mind and it’s, and I
\nand I believe it’s your <\/p>\n

420
\n00:25:46,600 –> 00:25:51,480
\nrelationship with God, your idea
\nof salvation, that you are <\/p>\n

421
\n00:25:51,480 –> 00:25:55,160
\nsaved.
\nAnd then you have the word of <\/p>\n

422
\n00:25:55,160 –> 00:25:58,800
\nthis, the spirit word of God,
\nwhich helps you every day as and<\/p>\n

423
\n00:25:58,800 –> 00:26:02,120
\nyou and you grow in this, in the
\nspirit word of God. <\/p>\n

424
\n00:26:02,120 –> 00:26:06,440
\nAnd you learn to discern between
\nright and wrong, between flesh <\/p>\n

425
\n00:26:06,440 –> 00:26:10,440
\nand spirit as you go through
\nlife and you grow and your, your<\/p>\n

426
\n00:26:10,440 –> 00:26:14,480
\nmind grows and you see things
\nfor what they really are because<\/p>\n

427
\n00:26:14,480 –> 00:26:17,760
\nyou look at it through the lens
\nof the word of God and you see <\/p>\n

428
\n00:26:17,760 –> 00:26:21,440
\nthe ideologies.
\nYou see what the root of those <\/p>\n

429
\n00:26:21,440 –> 00:26:23,800
\nideologies are and where they
\ncoming from. <\/p>\n

430
\n00:26:23,920 –> 00:26:25,440
\nIt’s your critical thinking,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n

431
\n00:26:26,280 –> 00:26:29,800
\nCritical thinking viewed through
\nthe lens of the Word of God, and<\/p>\n

432
\n00:26:29,800 –> 00:26:34,280
\nyou discern human nature as the
\nroot of all these ideologies <\/p>\n

433
\n00:26:34,280 –> 00:26:37,480
\nthat come to us.
\nAnd so, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n

434
\n00:26:37,480 –> 00:26:39,840
\nisn’t that just the simplicity
\nthat’s in Crossed? <\/p>\n

435
\n00:26:40,760 –> 00:26:43,960
\nSo simple, isn’t it?
\nAnd yet we’ve got to have these <\/p>\n

436
\n00:26:43,960 –> 00:26:49,440
\nthings, truth, righteousness,
\nthe gospel, faith, salvation and<\/p>\n

437
\n00:26:49,440 –> 00:26:50,960
\nthe word and the Spirit word of
\nGod. <\/p>\n

438
\n00:26:51,120 –> 00:26:54,240
\nAnd that is the armor which is
\nfit for purpose. <\/p>\n

439
\n00:26:56,440 –> 00:27:03,840
\nYou can trust it.
\nLet’s let’s just come back with <\/p>\n

440
\n00:27:03,840 –> 00:27:06,560
\nme to, I want to just focus a
\nlittle bit on this idea of <\/p>\n

441
\n00:27:06,560 –> 00:27:10,000
\nsalvation for a few minutes,
\nthis idea of the, the helmet of <\/p>\n

442
\n00:27:10,000 –> 00:27:13,240
\nsalvation, because I think this
\nis really important, one of <\/p>\n

443
\n00:27:13,240 –> 00:27:16,360
\nthese not more important than
\nall the rest, but it’s just a <\/p>\n

444
\n00:27:16,360 –> 00:27:18,600
\nvery important one.
\nJust come back to first <\/p>\n

445
\n00:27:18,600 –> 00:27:23,840
\nThessalonians 5 verse 8, because
\nPaul is sort of he explains what<\/p>\n

446
\n00:27:23,840 –> 00:27:26,680
\nthis little, what this helmet of
\nsalvation is a little bit more <\/p>\n

447
\n00:27:26,920 –> 00:27:29,720
\nso First Thessalonians 5 verse
\n8. <\/p>\n

448
\n00:27:35,960 –> 00:27:41,080
\nSo First Thessalonians 5, verse
\n8, he says, let us who are of <\/p>\n

449
\n00:27:41,080 –> 00:27:44,200
\nthe day and be sober, putting on
\nthe breastplate of faith and <\/p>\n

450
\n00:27:44,200 –> 00:27:47,800
\nlove, and for an helmet the hope
\nof salvation. <\/p>\n

451
\n00:27:47,800 –> 00:27:49,240
\nSo he actually adds that word
\nhope there. <\/p>\n

452
\n00:27:49,560 –> 00:27:54,160
\nThe hope of salvation is now the
\nthing that we wear to protect <\/p>\n

453
\n00:27:54,160 –> 00:27:57,520
\nour mind.
\nSo this is the thing that’s in <\/p>\n

454
\n00:27:57,520 –> 00:27:59,680
\nthe natural sense, the helmet’s
\nprotecting the head. <\/p>\n

455
\n00:28:00,800 –> 00:28:03,360
\nThe helmet is is the hope of
\nsalvation. <\/p>\n

456
\n00:28:04,160 –> 00:28:08,760
\nOur view of salvation is what’s
\nprotecting our mind, of course. <\/p>\n

457
\n00:28:08,760 –> 00:28:12,400
\nNow look, he expands on this, So
\nhe says in verse 9, for God has <\/p>\n

458
\n00:28:12,400 –> 00:28:17,800
\nnot appointed us to wrath, but
\nto obtain salvation by our Lord <\/p>\n

459
\n00:28:17,800 –> 00:28:21,080
\nJesus Christ.
\nSo that’s our perspective. <\/p>\n

460
\n00:28:21,200 –> 00:28:25,680
\nWe have been appointed.
\nWe have been appointed to obtain<\/p>\n

461
\n00:28:25,680 –> 00:28:28,840
\nsalvation.
\nThat is really positive, <\/p>\n

462
\n00:28:28,840 –> 00:28:31,680
\nbrothers and sisters, we have
\nnot been appointed to wrath. <\/p>\n

463
\n00:28:32,120 –> 00:28:37,600
\nWe have been appointed to obtain
\nsalvation by Christ who died for<\/p>\n

464
\n00:28:37,600 –> 00:28:40,040
\nus, that with a wake or sleep we
\nshould live together with Him. <\/p>\n

465
\n00:28:40,280 –> 00:28:42,760
\nThat is our perspective on
\nsalvation. <\/p>\n

466
\n00:28:42,760 –> 00:28:45,000
\nWe have been appointed to
\nsalvation. <\/p>\n

467
\n00:28:45,240 –> 00:28:49,040
\nJust turn over the page to 2nd
\nThessalonians, the Second <\/p>\n

468
\n00:28:49,040 –> 00:28:56,640
\nThessalonians 2 verse 13.
\nIn 2nd Thessalonians 2, verse <\/p>\n

469
\n00:28:56,640 –> 00:29:00,240
\n13, he says, But we are bound to
\ngive thanks all the way to God <\/p>\n

470
\n00:29:00,240 –> 00:29:04,600
\nfor you, President beloved of
\nthe Lord, because God has from <\/p>\n

471
\n00:29:04,600 –> 00:29:09,640
\nthe beginning chosen you to
\nsalvation through the <\/p>\n

472
\n00:29:09,640 –> 00:29:11,880
\nsanctification of the Spirit and
\nbelief of the truth. <\/p>\n

473
\n00:29:12,280 –> 00:29:15,960
\nGod has chosen us, brothers and
\nsisters, from the very <\/p>\n

474
\n00:29:15,960 –> 00:29:18,640
\nbeginning.
\nGod’s chosen us to salvation. <\/p>\n

475
\n00:29:19,120 –> 00:29:20,800
\nWe have not been appointed to
\nwrath. <\/p>\n

476
\n00:29:20,800 –> 00:29:22,800
\nWe’ve been chosen.
\nWe’ve been appointed to <\/p>\n

477
\n00:29:22,800 –> 00:29:25,000
\nsalvation.
\nWe’ve been chosen to salvation. <\/p>\n

478
\n00:29:25,240 –> 00:29:29,160
\nAnd that is the thing that
\nshould protect our minds, how we<\/p>\n

479
\n00:29:29,160 –> 00:29:32,680
\nview salvation, how we view what
\nGod has done for us. <\/p>\n

480
\n00:29:33,640 –> 00:29:35,960
\nYou know, as I was thinking
\nabout this, it actually what <\/p>\n

481
\n00:29:35,960 –> 00:29:37,280
\ncame back to me.
\nAnd it’s so funny. <\/p>\n

482
\n00:29:37,280 –> 00:29:39,400
\nIt’s ironic that our brother
\nSteve is here because I was <\/p>\n

483
\n00:29:39,400 –> 00:29:42,040
\nthinking that we had our, we had
\nour, our special 11 with Uncle <\/p>\n

484
\n00:29:42,040 –> 00:29:44,320
\nSteve on forgiveness.
\nAnd, and one of the sort of the <\/p>\n

485
\n00:29:44,320 –> 00:29:47,360
\ngreat things that came out of
\nthat was that we live in a <\/p>\n

486
\n00:29:47,360 –> 00:29:51,920
\nperpetual state of forgiveness.
\nIncredible. <\/p>\n

487
\n00:29:52,120 –> 00:29:56,320
\nWe have been chosen from the
\nvery beginning to salvation. <\/p>\n

488
\n00:29:56,480 –> 00:29:58,360
\nWe have not been appointed to
\nwrath. <\/p>\n

489
\n00:29:58,360 –> 00:30:02,040
\nWe’ve been appointed to
\nsalvation and we live in a <\/p>\n

490
\n00:30:02,040 –> 00:30:05,000
\nperpetual state of forgiveness.
\nAnd that’s how we have to see it<\/p>\n

491
\n00:30:05,360 –> 00:30:07,880
\nindividually.
\nIncredible. <\/p>\n

492
\n00:30:08,000 –> 00:30:09,600
\nSo let’s have a look at the
\nsalvation. <\/p>\n

493
\n00:30:09,600 –> 00:30:12,800
\nLet’s just quickly flick through
\na few scriptures just to get <\/p>\n

494
\n00:30:12,800 –> 00:30:17,120
\nthis perspective on how so
\nbecause it’s our view of <\/p>\n

495
\n00:30:17,120 –> 00:30:22,320
\nsalvation that then governs how
\nhow it protects us from all <\/p>\n

496
\n00:30:22,320 –> 00:30:24,800
\nthese other things that come to
\nus through the media. <\/p>\n

497
\n00:30:25,880 –> 00:30:31,200
\nSo salvation, brothers and
\nsisters, has always been a work <\/p>\n

498
\n00:30:31,200 –> 00:30:33,440
\nof God.
\nAlways. <\/p>\n

499
\n00:30:34,640 –> 00:30:37,200
\nIt’s God’s work.
\nIt’s not our work. <\/p>\n

500
\n00:30:37,960 –> 00:30:42,000
\nIt’s something that God has done
\nbecause we are not capable of <\/p>\n

501
\n00:30:42,000 –> 00:30:44,280
\ndoing it.
\nIt has to be a work of God. <\/p>\n

502
\n00:30:44,840 –> 00:30:48,120
\nOK, so salvation has always been
\na work of God. <\/p>\n

503
\n00:30:48,120 –> 00:30:52,840
\nThink back to Genesis 315.
\nMan’s just sinned, big problem. <\/p>\n

504
\n00:30:53,160 –> 00:30:55,360
\nCan’t extradite, extricate
\nhimself out of it. <\/p>\n

505
\n00:30:55,360 –> 00:30:59,840
\nGod says don’t worry, I’ve got
\nthe solution, OK. <\/p>\n

506
\n00:31:00,120 –> 00:31:02,120
\nAnd there’s the first prophecy
\nof salvation. <\/p>\n

507
\n00:31:02,320 –> 00:31:06,880
\nI will send one who’s going to
\nhave armour fit for purpose and <\/p>\n

508
\n00:31:06,880 –> 00:31:09,680
\nhe’s going to crush that.
\nYour head, the serpent’s head, <\/p>\n

509
\n00:31:09,920 –> 00:31:12,680
\nthere’s your salvation.
\nI’m the one who’s going to do <\/p>\n

510
\n00:31:12,680 –> 00:31:18,240
\nthat.
\nOK, so God is always the the, <\/p>\n

511
\n00:31:18,280 –> 00:31:22,240
\nthe the operator of salvation.
\nSo there’s the first one, the <\/p>\n

512
\n00:31:22,240 –> 00:31:24,640
\nnext great act of salvation.
\nYou’ve got Noah. <\/p>\n

513
\n00:31:25,640 –> 00:31:29,560
\nHe’s he’s, he’s the only little
\nfamily in a world that that’s, <\/p>\n

514
\n00:31:29,560 –> 00:31:32,280
\nthere’s millions of people,
\npossibly even a billion people <\/p>\n

515
\n00:31:32,280 –> 00:31:34,840
\nin the world.
\nAnd he’s this one little family <\/p>\n

516
\n00:31:35,960 –> 00:31:39,200
\nwho’s righteous before God.
\nHow’s he going to save himself? <\/p>\n

517
\n00:31:39,320 –> 00:31:42,440
\nHe cannot.
\nHow’s he going to get himself <\/p>\n

518
\n00:31:42,440 –> 00:31:43,840
\nout of that situation?
\nHe cannot. <\/p>\n

519
\n00:31:44,040 –> 00:31:46,880
\nGod says, don’t worry, Noah,
\nI’ll work it out. <\/p>\n

520
\n00:31:47,000 –> 00:31:50,440
\nYou just build an ark.
\nYou do that because that’s what <\/p>\n

521
\n00:31:50,440 –> 00:31:54,240
\nyou can do.
\nYou can build an ark and I will <\/p>\n

522
\n00:31:54,240 –> 00:31:56,960
\nflood the world.
\nI will do the humanly <\/p>\n

523
\n00:31:56,960 –> 00:32:01,520
\nimpossible.
\nThat’s God’s salvation. <\/p>\n

524
\n00:32:02,560 –> 00:32:08,240
\nGod does the humanly impossible
\nbecause we can’t. <\/p>\n

525
\n00:32:09,160 –> 00:32:11,160
\nWe can’t do the humanly
\nimpossible. <\/p>\n

526
\n00:32:11,880 –> 00:32:13,720
\nGod’s.
\nGod’s the one who works out <\/p>\n

527
\n00:32:13,720 –> 00:32:16,080
\nsalvation.
\nThink about another example. <\/p>\n

528
\n00:32:16,080 –> 00:32:18,120
\nWhat about Israel?
\nWhen, when, when, when they’re <\/p>\n

529
\n00:32:18,120 –> 00:32:23,840
\nin Egypt, They’re generations of
\nslavery in Israel and, and there<\/p>\n

530
\n00:32:23,840 –> 00:32:25,040
\nthey are.
\nWhat, what were they going to <\/p>\n

531
\n00:32:25,040 –> 00:32:27,600
\ndo?
\nThis, this, this, this, this <\/p>\n

532
\n00:32:27,600 –> 00:32:30,840
\nnation of all this, this group
\nof people who was who <\/p>\n

533
\n00:32:30,840 –> 00:32:33,760
\ngenerations were slaves?
\nWhat what happens if they just <\/p>\n

534
\n00:32:33,760 –> 00:32:38,720
\ngot up on mess and ran out,
\nstormed out or great, they got <\/p>\n

535
\n00:32:38,720 –> 00:32:42,360
\nnowhere to go.
\nHumanly impossible situation. <\/p>\n

536
\n00:32:42,360 –> 00:32:44,960
\nThere would have been a whole
\ngroup of displaced people with <\/p>\n

537
\n00:32:45,120 –> 00:32:48,760
\nwith nowhere to go.
\nIt was an impossible situation. <\/p>\n

538
\n00:32:48,880 –> 00:32:54,200
\nWhat does God do?
\nTakes them out and he says now <\/p>\n

539
\n00:32:54,200 –> 00:32:58,360
\nyou stand still.
\nYou stand still and see my <\/p>\n

540
\n00:32:58,480 –> 00:32:59,960
\nyou’ve got the Red Sea in front
\nof you. <\/p>\n

541
\n00:32:59,960 –> 00:33:01,680
\nYou’ve got the Egyptian army
\nbehind you. <\/p>\n

542
\n00:33:01,840 –> 00:33:05,040
\nNow you stand still and see my
\nsalvation, says God. <\/p>\n

543
\n00:33:05,800 –> 00:33:08,320
\nI will do the humanly impossible
\nfor you. <\/p>\n

544
\n00:33:09,200 –> 00:33:12,040
\nGod is the one that always works
\nout salvation. <\/p>\n

545
\n00:33:12,720 –> 00:33:16,400
\nThink about just come with me to
\nthis one to to to David and to <\/p>\n

546
\n00:33:16,400 –> 00:33:19,600
\nnot to David to Jonathan first
\nSamuel 14 verse 6. <\/p>\n

547
\n00:33:20,640 –> 00:33:23,240
\nI love this one on Jonathan
\nbecause you see, this is this <\/p>\n

548
\n00:33:23,240 –> 00:33:25,640
\ncreative tension.
\nSometimes God actually, <\/p>\n

549
\n00:33:26,240 –> 00:33:29,080
\nsometimes God actually just says
\nstand still and see my <\/p>\n

550
\n00:33:29,080 –> 00:33:31,600
\nsalvation.
\nAt other times God actually <\/p>\n

551
\n00:33:31,600 –> 00:33:35,120
\nworks with individuals and gets
\nthem to do a little bit and then<\/p>\n

552
\n00:33:35,120 –> 00:33:37,480
\nhe works the salvation through
\nthem. <\/p>\n

553
\n00:33:37,720 –> 00:33:40,320
\nAnd so the human actually
\nbecomes the agent of salvation. <\/p>\n

554
\n00:33:40,320 –> 00:33:45,200
\nAnd this is a a classic example
\nof this in in first Samuel 14 <\/p>\n

555
\n00:33:46,400 –> 00:33:52,360
\nwhere Jonathan first Samuel 14
\nverse 6 where Jonathan and his <\/p>\n

556
\n00:33:52,360 –> 00:33:56,480
\narmour bearer are facing this
\nimpossible, humanly impossible <\/p>\n

557
\n00:33:56,480 –> 00:33:59,520
\nsituation of this Garrison of
\nthe Philistines. <\/p>\n

558
\n00:33:59,880 –> 00:34:03,440
\nAnd Jonathan says in in first
\nSamuel 14 verse 6. <\/p>\n

559
\n00:34:03,440 –> 00:34:07,600
\nAnd Jonathan said unto the young
\nman that bear his armour, come, <\/p>\n

560
\n00:34:08,199 –> 00:34:13,239
\nlet us go over unto the Garrison
\nof these uncircumcised, that it <\/p>\n

561
\n00:34:13,239 –> 00:34:17,679
\nmay be that Yahweh will work for
\nus. <\/p>\n

562
\n00:34:18,320 –> 00:34:23,239
\nFor there is no restraint to
\nYahweh to save by many or by <\/p>\n

563
\n00:34:23,239 –> 00:34:24,960
\nfew.
\nWow. <\/p>\n

564
\n00:34:25,120 –> 00:34:28,440
\nSo you see, there is, is
\nJonathan’s understanding that <\/p>\n

565
\n00:34:28,440 –> 00:34:31,239
\nsalvation is the is the work of
\nGod alone. <\/p>\n

566
\n00:34:31,600 –> 00:34:33,800
\nGod alone can work out
\nsalvation. <\/p>\n

567
\n00:34:34,080 –> 00:34:37,040
\nBut here Jonathan is actually
\ndoing his little part, his <\/p>\n

568
\n00:34:37,040 –> 00:34:40,120
\nlittle faithful part.
\nAnd he’s saying, look, God can <\/p>\n

569
\n00:34:40,120 –> 00:34:43,679
\ndo it with with many or few, but
\nit’s going to be God’s work <\/p>\n

570
\n00:34:43,679 –> 00:34:45,120
\nultimately at the end of the
\nday. <\/p>\n

571
\n00:34:45,520 –> 00:34:48,040
\nSo salvation has always been a
\nwork of God. <\/p>\n

572
\n00:34:48,719 –> 00:34:51,080
\nAnd, and there’s another classic
\nexample, isn’t there, in the <\/p>\n

573
\n00:34:51,080 –> 00:34:53,880
\nlife of Jehoshaphat.
\nActually, let’s go to that one <\/p>\n

574
\n00:34:53,880 –> 00:34:56,080
\nas well.
\nSo just over second Chronicles, <\/p>\n

575
\n00:34:56,920 –> 00:34:58,880
\ncome to the Second Chronicles,
\nchapter 20. <\/p>\n

576
\n00:35:03,520 –> 00:35:07,720
\nSo Second Chronicles chapter 20,
\nJehoshaphat again here is facing<\/p>\n

577
\n00:35:07,720 –> 00:35:11,120
\na, a massive army that’s come
\nagainst him. <\/p>\n

578
\n00:35:11,120 –> 00:35:13,840
\nAnd there’s there’s no human
\nsolution to this. <\/p>\n

579
\n00:35:14,400 –> 00:35:17,760
\nIt’s an impossible situation.
\nHe’s going to be defeated, <\/p>\n

580
\n00:35:18,000 –> 00:35:20,800
\nhumanly speaking.
\nAnd the prophet comes to him and<\/p>\n

581
\n00:35:20,800 –> 00:35:24,880
\nsays in verse 15, So the prophet
\nsays, and he said, Hearken ye <\/p>\n

582
\n00:35:25,000 –> 00:35:27,760
\nall Judah and inhabitants of
\nJerusalem, and thou King <\/p>\n

583
\n00:35:27,760 –> 00:35:33,120
\nJehoshaphat, thus saith Yahweh
\nunto you, be not afraid nor <\/p>\n

584
\n00:35:33,120 –> 00:35:35,880
\ndismayed by reason of this great
\nmultitude. <\/p>\n

585
\n00:35:36,320 –> 00:35:41,400
\nFor the battle is not yours, but
\ngods. <\/p>\n

586
\n00:35:42,600 –> 00:35:46,680
\nIt’s not your battle.
\nSalvation is God’s work. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:35:46,960 –> 00:35:50,120
\nSalvation is God’s problem.
\nHe’s the one who’s going to work<\/p>\n

588
\n00:35:50,120 –> 00:35:53,840
\nit out because you can’t.
\nAnd so verse 17. <\/p>\n

589
\n00:35:53,960 –> 00:35:56,320
\nAnd you shall not need to fight
\nin this battle. <\/p>\n

590
\n00:35:56,560 –> 00:36:01,720
\nSet yourselves, stand ye still.
\nWell, we’ve heard that before, <\/p>\n

591
\n00:36:01,720 –> 00:36:03,880
\nhaven’t we?
\nBack on the shores of the Red <\/p>\n

592
\n00:36:03,880 –> 00:36:07,280
\nSea.
\nStand ye still and see the <\/p>\n

593
\n00:36:07,280 –> 00:36:12,480
\nsalvation of Yahweh.
\nIsn’t that just amazing Joshua <\/p>\n

594
\n00:36:12,480 –> 00:36:15,640
\nthat’s told to stand still and
\nsee the salvation of Yahweh. <\/p>\n

595
\n00:36:16,360 –> 00:36:21,440
\nSo, so this is just salvation
\nhas always been a work of God. <\/p>\n

596
\n00:36:22,240 –> 00:36:25,280
\nAnd so that’s why, brothers and
\nsisters, we can feel so <\/p>\n

597
\n00:36:25,280 –> 00:36:30,040
\nconfident, you know, and brother
\nIan read from Psalm 27 verse <\/p>\n

598
\n00:36:30,040 –> 00:36:31,480
\none.
\nJust let’s just go there, Psalm <\/p>\n

599
\n00:36:31,480 –> 00:36:33,320
\n27 verse one and read that
\nagain. <\/p>\n

600
\n00:36:33,560 –> 00:36:39,320
\nThis is why we can feel so
\nconfident, because salvation is <\/p>\n

601
\n00:36:39,320 –> 00:36:46,120
\nnot our work, it’s God’s work.
\nSo Psalm 27 verse one says <\/p>\n

602
\n00:36:46,120 –> 00:36:50,400
\nYahweh is my light and my
\nsalvation. <\/p>\n

603
\n00:36:51,360 –> 00:36:54,840
\nAnd because Yahweh is my
\nsalvation, the psalmist says <\/p>\n

604
\n00:36:54,840 –> 00:36:59,400
\nwell, well whom shall I fear?
\nYahweh is the strength of my <\/p>\n

605
\n00:36:59,400 –> 00:37:02,560
\nlife.
\nI don’t need to fear all the <\/p>\n

606
\n00:37:02,560 –> 00:37:06,840
\nideologies of the world.
\nI don’t need to worry about the <\/p>\n

607
\n00:37:06,840 –> 00:37:09,760
\nleft wing and the right wing of
\npolitics and where they trying <\/p>\n

608
\n00:37:09,760 –> 00:37:12,920
\nto position me.
\nI don’t I can see through all of<\/p>\n

609
\n00:37:12,920 –> 00:37:16,960
\nthat.
\nYahweh is my we see the lens <\/p>\n

610
\n00:37:16,960 –> 00:37:19,960
\nthat we look at all of that is
\nthat God rules in the kingdoms <\/p>\n

611
\n00:37:19,960 –> 00:37:23,480
\nof men.
\nGod is in control, totally in <\/p>\n

612
\n00:37:23,480 –> 00:37:26,800
\ncontrol.
\nHe’s in control in in the in the<\/p>\n

613
\n00:37:27,000 –> 00:37:31,120
\nin the international sphere and
\nhe’s in his control in my own <\/p>\n

614
\n00:37:31,120 –> 00:37:34,840
\npersonal life.
\nYahweh is my light and my <\/p>\n

615
\n00:37:34,840 –> 00:37:36,880
\nsalvation.
\nWhom shall I fear? <\/p>\n

616
\n00:37:37,000 –> 00:37:40,880
\nAnd so that then brings to our
\nlife a we don’t need to be <\/p>\n

617
\n00:37:40,880 –> 00:37:43,640
\ntormented by depression or by
\nanxiety. <\/p>\n

618
\n00:37:43,760 –> 00:37:49,920
\nWhen we know that Yahweh is on
\nour side and that He is strong <\/p>\n

619
\n00:37:50,280 –> 00:37:55,840
\nand He has worked out salvation
\nfor us, it is absolutely, 100% <\/p>\n

620
\n00:37:55,840 –> 00:37:59,160
\nguaranteed.
\nThat’s the confidence, brothers <\/p>\n

621
\n00:37:59,160 –> 00:38:02,000
\nand sisters, and I think that’s
\nwhat Paul is trying to show, is <\/p>\n

622
\n00:38:02,000 –> 00:38:03,080
\nyou’ve got a helmet on your
\nhead. <\/p>\n

623
\n00:38:03,200 –> 00:38:05,400
\nIt’s a helmet of salvation.
\nIt protects your thinking. <\/p>\n

624
\n00:38:05,520 –> 00:38:07,320
\nWhat do you think about
\nsalvation? <\/p>\n

625
\n00:38:07,640 –> 00:38:10,160
\nDo you doubt it?
\nDo you think God can’t get you <\/p>\n

626
\n00:38:10,200 –> 00:38:13,400
\ninto the Kingdom?
\nAbsolutely not. <\/p>\n

627
\n00:38:13,480 –> 00:38:18,360
\nIt is 100% guaranteed, brothers
\nand sisters, that you will be in<\/p>\n

628
\n00:38:18,360 –> 00:38:21,880
\nthe Kingdom, 100% guaranteed.
\nDo you know how? <\/p>\n

629
\n00:38:22,120 –> 00:38:24,840
\nYou know how the, the rest of
\nScripture talks about this in <\/p>\n

630
\n00:38:24,840 –> 00:38:28,080
\nPsalm 18, it talks about a
\nshield that just imagine a <\/p>\n

631
\n00:38:28,080 –> 00:38:31,520
\nperson and, and, and Psalm 18
\nsays there’s a shield of <\/p>\n

632
\n00:38:31,520 –> 00:38:33,200
\nsalvation.
\nSo we’ve got a shield over here <\/p>\n

633
\n00:38:33,400 –> 00:38:36,400
\nof salvation.
\nThen Isaiah 59 talks about a <\/p>\n

634
\n00:38:36,400 –> 00:38:38,240
\nhelmet of salvation.
\nSo you’ve got a helmet on you to<\/p>\n

635
\n00:38:38,240 –> 00:38:39,640
\nput a shield.
\nYou’ve got a helmet of <\/p>\n

636
\n00:38:39,640 –> 00:38:42,280
\nsalvation.
\nThen Isaiah 61 talks about <\/p>\n

637
\n00:38:42,280 –> 00:38:44,320
\ngarments of salvation.
\nSo now you’re wrapped up in <\/p>\n

638
\n00:38:44,320 –> 00:38:46,720
\nsalvation.
\nAnd then Isaiah 60 says you’ve <\/p>\n

639
\n00:38:46,720 –> 00:38:49,520
\ngot walls of salvation.
\nSo can you see this person? <\/p>\n

640
\n00:38:50,080 –> 00:38:52,480
\nHe’s got a shield of salvation,
\nhe’s got a helmet of salvation, <\/p>\n

641
\n00:38:52,600 –> 00:38:56,080
\nHe’s wrapped up in salvation,
\nand he’s in a city of salvation.<\/p>\n

642
\n00:38:56,360 –> 00:39:02,040
\nHow guaranteed is salvation?
\nIt’s 100% guaranteed. <\/p>\n

643
\n00:39:03,280 –> 00:39:05,120
\nIsn’t that just amazing,
\nBrothers and sisters? <\/p>\n

644
\n00:39:06,880 –> 00:39:14,200
\nSalvation is 100% guaranteed.
\nSo what should our response be <\/p>\n

645
\n00:39:14,200 –> 00:39:17,400
\nto that brothers and sisters?
\nI just turn over to Isaiah 12. <\/p>\n

646
\n00:39:18,000 –> 00:39:23,880
\nOur response to that in Isaiah
\n12 is just is that we should <\/p>\n

647
\n00:39:23,880 –> 00:39:28,160
\nsing and we should praise and we
\nshould thank God with from the <\/p>\n

648
\n00:39:28,160 –> 00:39:31,440
\nbottom of our hearts.
\nLook at this Isaiah 12. <\/p>\n

649
\n00:39:33,600 –> 00:39:38,720
\nThis is this is this is the the
\nthe human response to salvation <\/p>\n

650
\n00:39:38,720 –> 00:39:43,760
\nshould be this in Isaiah 12
\nverse verse verse one to three <\/p>\n

651
\n00:39:44,280 –> 00:39:47,560
\nin that day, in the day of the
\nKingdom, OK, when we finally <\/p>\n

652
\n00:39:47,560 –> 00:39:51,240
\nmade immortal, thou shalt say, O
\nYahweh, I will praise thee <\/p>\n

653
\n00:39:52,000 –> 00:39:54,360
\nbecause you see we’re living.
\nWe know that we are going to be <\/p>\n

654
\n00:39:54,360 –> 00:39:56,280
\nin the Kingdom.
\nWe know we are saved. <\/p>\n

655
\n00:39:57,440 –> 00:40:00,840
\nO Yahweh, I will praise thee.
\nThou wast angry with me. <\/p>\n

656
\n00:40:00,840 –> 00:40:03,360
\nThine anger is turned away.
\nThou has comforted me. <\/p>\n

657
\n00:40:03,360 –> 00:40:08,400
\nBehold God is my salvation.
\nI will trust. <\/p>\n

658
\n00:40:09,040 –> 00:40:13,760
\nI will not be afraid.
\nYahweh is this my strength and <\/p>\n

659
\n00:40:13,760 –> 00:40:16,040
\nmy song.
\nHe’s become my salvation. <\/p>\n

660
\n00:40:16,040 –> 00:40:19,320
\nTherefore, with joy He shall
\ndraw waters out of the wells of <\/p>\n

661
\n00:40:19,320 –> 00:40:23,120
\nsalvation.
\nIn that day He shall say praise <\/p>\n

662
\n00:40:23,120 –> 00:40:25,840
\nYahweh, call upon His name,
\ndeclare His doings among the <\/p>\n

663
\n00:40:25,840 –> 00:40:27,200
\npeople.
\nYou see, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n

664
\n00:40:27,200 –> 00:40:31,360
\nthis should be our response to
\nour understanding of salvation. <\/p>\n

665
\n00:40:32,160 –> 00:40:35,080
\nWe we are assured that God is my
\nsalvation. <\/p>\n

666
\n00:40:35,080 –> 00:40:37,080
\nI will trust, I will not be
\nafraid. <\/p>\n

667
\n00:40:37,280 –> 00:40:39,320
\nAnd this is the mindset that we
\nshould have. <\/p>\n

668
\n00:40:39,560 –> 00:40:42,120
\nThis is the helmet of salvation.
\nGod is my strength. <\/p>\n

669
\n00:40:42,320 –> 00:40:44,760
\nGod is my song.
\nGod is my salvation. <\/p>\n

670
\n00:40:45,000 –> 00:40:49,120
\nHe’s worked it all out.
\nThat does. <\/p>\n

671
\n00:40:49,240 –> 00:40:51,960
\nYou know, we just turn over
\nbecause Paul’s got this idea, <\/p>\n

672
\n00:40:51,960 –> 00:40:53,440
\nbrothers and sisters, from
\nIsaiah. <\/p>\n

673
\n00:40:53,440 –> 00:40:57,800
\nSo, so let’s just turn over to
\nIsaiah 59 because this is where <\/p>\n

674
\n00:40:57,800 –> 00:41:01,560
\nhe gets it from.
\nEven the Messiah himself put on <\/p>\n

675
\n00:41:01,560 –> 00:41:08,720
\nthe helmet of salvation.
\nYou know, we talk about <\/p>\n

676
\n00:41:08,720 –> 00:41:13,280
\nsalvation being 100% guaranteed.
\nAnd of course, you know that the<\/p>\n

677
\n00:41:13,280 –> 00:41:16,480
\nperspective that that’s coming
\nfrom, it’s, it’s not saying that<\/p>\n

678
\n00:41:16,480 –> 00:41:18,400
\nwe don’t sin or we don’t
\nrecognize our sin. <\/p>\n

679
\n00:41:18,400 –> 00:41:20,400
\nAnd of course, that’s, that’s
\naxiomatic. <\/p>\n

680
\n00:41:20,400 –> 00:41:24,160
\nWe, we understand that.
\nOK, so as I 59 starts with <\/p>\n

681
\n00:41:24,160 –> 00:41:27,720
\nbehold, Yahweh’s hand is not
\nshortened that it cannot save. <\/p>\n

682
\n00:41:28,480 –> 00:41:31,760
\nGod is able to work out
\nsalvation at this point. <\/p>\n

683
\n00:41:31,760 –> 00:41:34,080
\nIt hadn’t been done yet, but it
\nwas as good as done. <\/p>\n

684
\n00:41:34,280 –> 00:41:38,160
\nAs I 59 verse one, Yahweh’s hand
\nis not shortened that it cannot <\/p>\n

685
\n00:41:38,160 –> 00:41:41,720
\nsave, neither is ear heavy that
\nit cannot hear, but it’s your <\/p>\n

686
\n00:41:41,720 –> 00:41:44,480
\niniquities that have separated
\nbetween you and your God. <\/p>\n

687
\n00:41:44,600 –> 00:41:46,560
\nYour sins have hit his face from
\nyou. <\/p>\n

688
\n00:41:46,960 –> 00:41:51,840
\nAnd of course, yes, we
\nunderstand that we and God is we<\/p>\n

689
\n00:41:51,840 –> 00:41:54,840
\nunderstand that we do still sin.
\nBut God has dealt with that. <\/p>\n

690
\n00:41:55,000 –> 00:41:59,360
\nGod has solved that problem in
\nChrist because he says in verse <\/p>\n

691
\n00:41:59,360 –> 00:42:03,440
\n16, God waited for 4000 years
\nand then God and then God <\/p>\n

692
\n00:42:03,440 –> 00:42:06,440
\nimplemented his solution.
\nAnd he says in verse 16 and he <\/p>\n

693
\n00:42:06,440 –> 00:42:09,240
\nsaw that there was no man and he
\nwondered that there was no <\/p>\n

694
\n00:42:09,240 –> 00:42:11,160
\nintercept.
\nIt says intercessor. <\/p>\n

695
\n00:42:11,480 –> 00:42:15,360
\nTherefore his arm brought
\nsalvation unto him. <\/p>\n

696
\n00:42:15,520 –> 00:42:21,640
\nSo God’s arm brought salvation
\nto Christ and his righteousness.<\/p>\n

697
\n00:42:21,720 –> 00:42:24,200
\nThat’s God’s righteousness.
\nIt sustained him. <\/p>\n

698
\n00:42:24,200 –> 00:42:26,840
\nThat is Christ.
\nGod’s righteousness sustained <\/p>\n

699
\n00:42:26,840 –> 00:42:31,600
\nChrist, and he, that is Christ,
\nput on righteousness as a <\/p>\n

700
\n00:42:31,600 –> 00:42:35,120
\nbreastplate and then helmet of
\nsalvation on his head. <\/p>\n

701
\n00:42:35,960 –> 00:42:38,920
\nSo, so Jesus put on God’s
\nrighteousness. <\/p>\n

702
\n00:42:38,960 –> 00:42:42,760
\nJesus upheld God’s
\nrighteousness, knowing that God <\/p>\n

703
\n00:42:42,760 –> 00:42:46,720
\nwould do the humanly impossible.
\nGod would take him out of the <\/p>\n

704
\n00:42:46,720 –> 00:42:51,760
\ngrave three days later, so he
\nput on the helmet of salvation. <\/p>\n

705
\n00:42:51,760 –> 00:42:53,520
\nThat was the thing that governed
\nhis thinking. <\/p>\n

706
\n00:42:53,520 –> 00:42:58,360
\nEven the Messiah’s thinking was
\ngoverned by the idea that <\/p>\n

707
\n00:42:58,360 –> 00:43:03,720
\nsalvation was 100% guaranteed.
\nYou know, just turn back to <\/p>\n

708
\n00:43:03,720 –> 00:43:06,800
\nPsalm 16 quickly.
\nWe see this. <\/p>\n

709
\n00:43:07,480 –> 00:43:11,200
\nWe see this in Psalm 16 where
\nthis is the mindset that we’re <\/p>\n

710
\n00:43:11,200 –> 00:43:14,880
\ntalking about, the mindset of
\nMessiah here. <\/p>\n

711
\n00:43:14,880 –> 00:43:19,840
\nHe knew that God based on God’s
\nown righteousness, God would <\/p>\n

712
\n00:43:19,840 –> 00:43:23,800
\nnever, God could not leave him
\nin the grave. <\/p>\n

713
\n00:43:25,880 –> 00:43:31,440
\nSalvation was 100% guaranteed.
\nAnd so this is the mindset that <\/p>\n

714
\n00:43:31,440 –> 00:43:35,120
\nthen drives him forward.
\nThis is the mindset that that <\/p>\n

715
\n00:43:35,120 –> 00:43:40,880
\nenables him now to overcome.
\nSo look at Psalm 16 verse 8 to <\/p>\n

716
\n00:43:40,920 –> 00:43:43,360
\n11.
\nIt says I’ve set Yahweh. <\/p>\n

717
\n00:43:43,480 –> 00:43:48,920
\nThis is the Messiah speaking.
\nHe says I’ve set Yahweh always <\/p>\n

718
\n00:43:48,920 –> 00:43:53,080
\nbefore me.
\nHe’s a helmet of salvation on my<\/p>\n

719
\n00:43:53,080 –> 00:43:54,360
\nhead.
\nThat’s what it is. <\/p>\n

720
\n00:43:54,360 –> 00:43:56,680
\nHe’s always before me.
\nHe’s right in front of me. <\/p>\n

721
\n00:43:56,680 –> 00:44:02,280
\nHe’s in the front of my mind.
\nI’ve set Yahweh always before me<\/p>\n

722
\n00:44:02,280 –> 00:44:06,720
\nbecause He is at my right hand.
\nI shall not be moved. <\/p>\n

723
\n00:44:07,440 –> 00:44:10,960
\nThis is the confidence.
\nIt’s 100% guaranteed. <\/p>\n

724
\n00:44:11,120 –> 00:44:14,120
\nTherefore my heart is glad.
\nThis is my perspective. <\/p>\n

725
\n00:44:14,320 –> 00:44:18,560
\nMy, my glory rejoices.
\nMy flesh shall rest in hope, <\/p>\n

726
\n00:44:19,280 –> 00:44:22,560
\n100% based on the righteousness
\nof God. <\/p>\n

727
\n00:44:22,560 –> 00:44:23,760
\nMy flesh is going to rest in
\nhope. <\/p>\n

728
\n00:44:23,960 –> 00:44:26,480
\nI am coming out of the grave in
\nthree days time. <\/p>\n

729
\n00:44:27,600 –> 00:44:31,160
\nAnd that perspective took him
\nthrough the ordeal of the <\/p>\n

730
\n00:44:31,160 –> 00:44:34,880
\ncrucifixion, doesn’t it?
\nFor thou wilt not leave my soul <\/p>\n

731
\n00:44:34,880 –> 00:44:38,280
\nin the grave, neither wilt thou
\nsuffer the Holy one to to seek <\/p>\n

732
\n00:44:38,280 –> 00:44:41,120
\ncorruption.
\nThou wilt show me the path of <\/p>\n

733
\n00:44:41,120 –> 00:44:44,400
\nlife and in our presence is
\nfullness of joy forevermore. <\/p>\n

734
\n00:44:46,000 –> 00:44:49,120
\nThat’s the perspective, brothers
\nand sisters, that is the the <\/p>\n

735
\n00:44:49,120 –> 00:44:54,600
\nmindset, the the helmet of that
\nprotects our mind that salvation<\/p>\n

736
\n00:44:54,600 –> 00:45:00,280
\nis 100% guaranteed.
\nAnd you know, so, so God takes <\/p>\n

737
\n00:45:00,280 –> 00:45:04,360
\nus into these these humanly
\nimpossible situations. <\/p>\n

738
\n00:45:04,880 –> 00:45:07,560
\nAnd when we realise, brothers
\nand sisters, that there is no <\/p>\n

739
\n00:45:07,560 –> 00:45:12,720
\nhuman solution, he then saves
\nus, teaching us that the the <\/p>\n

740
\n00:45:12,720 –> 00:45:16,600
\nonly source of salvation is
\nhimself and that we cannot save <\/p>\n

741
\n00:45:16,600 –> 00:45:19,920
\nourselves.
\nThat’s the the teaching of <\/p>\n

742
\n00:45:19,920 –> 00:45:21,680
\nsalvation as it runs through
\nScripture. <\/p>\n

743
\n00:45:22,600 –> 00:45:24,760
\nWell, just in by way of
\nconclusion, brothers and <\/p>\n

744
\n00:45:24,760 –> 00:45:28,200
\nsisters, I I just want to go
\nback to one last quote in first <\/p>\n

745
\n00:45:28,280 –> 00:45:31,800
\nin first Samuel 17.
\nI think this is probably one of <\/p>\n

746
\n00:45:31,800 –> 00:45:35,240
\nthe greatest.
\nYou know, you think, well maybe <\/p>\n

747
\n00:45:35,240 –> 00:45:38,000
\nthis is like a perspective that
\nwe have having seen the Lord <\/p>\n

748
\n00:45:38,000 –> 00:45:41,160
\nJesus Christ, him having
\naccomplished salvation in that <\/p>\n

749
\n00:45:41,160 –> 00:45:44,160
\nsense, you know, brothers and
\nsisters, there have been <\/p>\n

750
\n00:45:44,280 –> 00:45:47,000
\nbrothers and sisters down
\nthrough the ages that have <\/p>\n

751
\n00:45:47,040 –> 00:45:49,920
\nabsolutely seen this all the way
\nthrough. <\/p>\n

752
\n00:45:50,160 –> 00:45:52,960
\nJust have a look at this
\nperspective from this young man.<\/p>\n

753
\n00:45:52,960 –> 00:45:57,600
\nWhen we talk about a helmet of
\nsalvation that protects the mind<\/p>\n

754
\n00:45:57,840 –> 00:45:59,880
\nand an understanding of
\nsalvation. <\/p>\n

755
\n00:46:00,360 –> 00:46:03,160
\nLook at, look at David’s
\nunderstanding of this in First <\/p>\n

756
\n00:46:03,160 –> 00:46:08,760
\nSamuel 17.
\nSo first Samuel 17, what, what, <\/p>\n

757
\n00:46:08,760 –> 00:46:11,160
\nwhat is the whole context of
\nfirst Samuel 17? <\/p>\n

758
\n00:46:11,160 –> 00:46:13,240
\nWell, it’s David fighting
\nGoliath, isn’t it? <\/p>\n

759
\n00:46:13,880 –> 00:46:19,360
\nAnd, and so we, so we see this
\nyoung man who’s been, who’s been<\/p>\n

760
\n00:46:19,360 –> 00:46:23,240
\nbrought up by faithful parents
\nand he’s out there shepherding <\/p>\n

761
\n00:46:23,240 –> 00:46:26,680
\nthe sheep and he’s fought to
\nlion and he’s fought to bear. <\/p>\n

762
\n00:46:27,120 –> 00:46:30,160
\nAnd he’s, and he’s overcome them
\nwith the, with the Spirit of God<\/p>\n

763
\n00:46:30,160 –> 00:46:34,480
\nthat moved in an impossible
\nsituation without the Spirit of <\/p>\n

764
\n00:46:34,480 –> 00:46:36,600
\nGod to take on a lion and to
\ntake on a bear. <\/p>\n

765
\n00:46:36,720 –> 00:46:39,600
\nAnd so this has generated this,
\nthis faith and this reassurance <\/p>\n

766
\n00:46:39,600 –> 00:46:43,880
\nand this confidence in him.
\nAnd, and so now he comes and did<\/p>\n

767
\n00:46:43,880 –> 00:46:46,800
\nhe know, did he know that that
\nday when he was going towards <\/p>\n

768
\n00:46:46,800 –> 00:46:48,440
\nthe army, did he know he was
\ngoing to face Goliath? <\/p>\n

769
\n00:46:48,560 –> 00:46:51,600
\nHe had no idea.
\nBut because of the, the, these <\/p>\n

770
\n00:46:51,600 –> 00:46:54,480
\nthings that God’s worked in his
\nlife, all of a sudden it’s <\/p>\n

771
\n00:46:54,480 –> 00:46:56,280
\ngiving him the faith and the
\nconfidence now. <\/p>\n

772
\n00:46:56,520 –> 00:46:59,200
\nAnd so he comes to this, he
\ncomes to the situation in the <\/p>\n

773
\n00:46:59,200 –> 00:47:02,760
\nbattle then and, and, and he
\nsees this, this, this goal, <\/p>\n

774
\n00:47:02,760 –> 00:47:06,840
\nthis, this, this giant
\nblaspheming and defying the <\/p>\n

775
\n00:47:06,840 –> 00:47:10,440
\narmies of the living God.
\nVerse 26 Look at the end of <\/p>\n

776
\n00:47:10,440 –> 00:47:16,120
\nverse 26, David says for who is
\nthis uncircumcised Philistine <\/p>\n

777
\n00:47:16,120 –> 00:47:19,400
\nthat he should defy the armies
\nof the living God? <\/p>\n

778
\n00:47:19,560 –> 00:47:22,680
\nAnd so this is his perspective
\nthat this uncircumcised <\/p>\n

779
\n00:47:22,680 –> 00:47:26,160
\nPhilistine is defying the armies
\nof the living God. <\/p>\n

780
\n00:47:26,680 –> 00:47:29,320
\nOK.
\nVerse 36 and and so this is his <\/p>\n

781
\n00:47:29,320 –> 00:47:32,440
\nwords to Saul.
\nNow thy servant slew both a lion<\/p>\n

782
\n00:47:32,440 –> 00:47:36,360
\nand a bear, and this
\nuncircumcised Philistine shall <\/p>\n

783
\n00:47:36,360 –> 00:47:39,200
\nbe as one of them, seeing that
\nhe has defied the armies of the <\/p>\n

784
\n00:47:39,200 –> 00:47:41,680
\nliving God.
\nYou see, brother, because he had<\/p>\n

785
\n00:47:41,680 –> 00:47:46,840
\nthis understanding that this,
\nthese people here are the people<\/p>\n

786
\n00:47:46,840 –> 00:47:49,560
\nof God, the and he’s a living
\nGod. <\/p>\n

787
\n00:47:50,000 –> 00:47:53,800
\nSalvation for them is 100%
\nguaranteed. <\/p>\n

788
\n00:47:55,200 –> 00:47:57,440
\nThat’s his perspective, isn’t
\nit, brothers and sisters? <\/p>\n

789
\n00:47:57,760 –> 00:48:05,040
\nHe knew he was going to win
\nabsolutely, 100% guarantee that <\/p>\n

790
\n00:48:05,040 –> 00:48:10,360
\ngiant is dead because these are
\nthe armies of the living God. <\/p>\n

791
\n00:48:11,640 –> 00:48:14,360
\nAnd you, you think, well surely,
\ndid he really think that? <\/p>\n

792
\n00:48:14,360 –> 00:48:17,000
\nDid he really believe that?
\nAbsolutely. <\/p>\n

793
\n00:48:17,120 –> 00:48:19,480
\nSo look what Saul does in verse
\n38. <\/p>\n

794
\n00:48:20,040 –> 00:48:24,240
\nSaul says as Saul tries to arm
\nDavid and he says, and so Saul <\/p>\n

795
\n00:48:24,240 –> 00:48:27,800
\nin verse 38 says and Saul armed
\nDavid with his armour and he put<\/p>\n

796
\n00:48:27,800 –> 00:48:32,920
\na helmet of brass on his head
\nand he also armed him with a <\/p>\n

797
\n00:48:32,920 –> 00:48:36,080
\ncoat of mail.
\nYou see, there’s a person who <\/p>\n

798
\n00:48:36,080 –> 00:48:39,240
\ndoesn’t have the spiritual
\nperspective that salvation is <\/p>\n

799
\n00:48:39,240 –> 00:48:42,760
\n100% guaranteed because he puts
\na helmet of brass on his head. <\/p>\n

800
\n00:48:43,480 –> 00:48:46,960
\nAnd we and we understand Goliath
\nhimself, we had had a helmet of <\/p>\n

801
\n00:48:46,960 –> 00:48:49,800
\nbrass on his head as well.
\nAnd so Saul here is saying, <\/p>\n

802
\n00:48:49,800 –> 00:48:53,200
\nwell, well actually you can
\nfight flesh with flesh. <\/p>\n

803
\n00:48:53,760 –> 00:48:57,560
\nAnd David’s saying no, you
\ncannot fight flesh with fish. <\/p>\n

804
\n00:48:58,200 –> 00:49:00,760
\nThe weapons of our warfare are
\nnot carnal. <\/p>\n

805
\n00:49:01,520 –> 00:49:04,960
\nThey are spiritual, mighty to
\nthe pulling down of strongholds.<\/p>\n

806
\n00:49:05,720 –> 00:49:08,760
\nOK, so we cannot fight flesh
\nwith flesh. <\/p>\n

807
\n00:49:08,760 –> 00:49:10,600
\nSo he takes off the brass
\nhelmet. <\/p>\n

808
\n00:49:11,360 –> 00:49:13,240
\nI need a spiritual perspective
\nhere. <\/p>\n

809
\n00:49:13,480 –> 00:49:17,480
\nAnd so he goes out and, and, and
\nof course he goes unarmed, <\/p>\n

810
\n00:49:17,800 –> 00:49:20,520
\nunarmed with conventional
\nweapons into that fight. <\/p>\n

811
\n00:49:21,000 –> 00:49:23,920
\nHe’s armed with the perspective
\nthat this is the these are the <\/p>\n

812
\n00:49:24,040 –> 00:49:26,680
\narmies of the living God.
\nOK. <\/p>\n

813
\n00:49:26,920 –> 00:49:30,240
\nAnd in verse, look.
\nAnd so we know this story had <\/p>\n

814
\n00:49:30,240 –> 00:49:33,440
\nends.
\nHe he, he, he kills Goliath and <\/p>\n

815
\n00:49:33,440 –> 00:49:35,760
\nhe cuts off his head.
\nAnd you think, well, is that <\/p>\n

816
\n00:49:35,760 –> 00:49:39,000
\nwhere the story ends?
\nIs that where the end of David’s<\/p>\n

817
\n00:49:39,000 –> 00:49:41,120
\nperspective ends?
\nDo you know, brothers and <\/p>\n

818
\n00:49:41,120 –> 00:49:45,240
\nsisters, in David’s mind, this,
\nthis helmet of salvation, seeing<\/p>\n

819
\n00:49:45,240 –> 00:49:49,280
\nsalvation here was far, far
\ndeeper than all of this. <\/p>\n

820
\n00:49:49,720 –> 00:49:51,600
\nDo you look what he does with
\nthat head? <\/p>\n

821
\n00:49:51,600 –> 00:49:54,680
\nBrothers and sisters, I find
\nthis absolutely amazing. <\/p>\n

822
\n00:49:55,600 –> 00:49:57,280
\nWhat does he do with Goliath’s
\nhead? <\/p>\n

823
\n00:49:57,880 –> 00:50:02,680
\nThe thinking of that serpent,
\nthe thinking of the flesh, the <\/p>\n

824
\n00:50:02,680 –> 00:50:07,400
\nthinking of the diabolos, the
\nthinking that the Saviour was <\/p>\n

825
\n00:50:07,400 –> 00:50:12,120
\ngoing to going to crucify and
\ncrush right from Genesis 315, <\/p>\n

826
\n00:50:12,480 –> 00:50:13,960
\nwhat what is David’s
\nperspective? <\/p>\n

827
\n00:50:13,960 –> 00:50:18,360
\nLook what he does.
\nAnd David verse 54 took the head<\/p>\n

828
\n00:50:18,360 –> 00:50:21,240
\nof the Philistine and he brought
\nit to Jerusalem. <\/p>\n

829
\n00:50:22,080 –> 00:50:26,000
\nNow how on earth did David know
\nto take that head to Jerusalem? <\/p>\n

830
\n00:50:28,440 –> 00:50:32,120
\nHe took the head to Jerusalem, a
\nCanaanite city. <\/p>\n

831
\n00:50:33,920 –> 00:50:36,760
\nJerusalem doesn’t become until
\nDavid’s king much later on. <\/p>\n

832
\n00:50:36,920 –> 00:50:40,040
\nHe took the head to Jerusalem,
\nbut he put the armour in his <\/p>\n

833
\n00:50:40,040 –> 00:50:43,000
\ntent.
\nDo you know, brothers and <\/p>\n

834
\n00:50:43,000 –> 00:50:47,160
\nsisters, the reason why he took
\nthat head and all of what that <\/p>\n

835
\n00:50:47,160 –> 00:50:50,600
\nhead represented?
\nHe took that to Jerusalem <\/p>\n

836
\n00:50:51,720 –> 00:50:55,600
\nbecause that is where Abraham
\noffered Isaac. <\/p>\n

837
\n00:50:55,880 –> 00:51:00,880
\nThat is where Abraham where God
\nsaid to Abraham, you take your <\/p>\n

838
\n00:51:00,880 –> 00:51:03,200
\nson and you go offer him for a
\nburnt offering on one of the <\/p>\n

839
\n00:51:03,200 –> 00:51:04,880
\nmountains of Moriah that I’m
\ngoing to show you. <\/p>\n

840
\n00:51:05,120 –> 00:51:07,680
\nIt’s Jerusalem.
\nYou go offer him there because <\/p>\n

841
\n00:51:07,680 –> 00:51:10,320
\nthat’s where I am going to work
\nout salvation. <\/p>\n

842
\n00:51:12,200 –> 00:51:16,000
\nThis is my problem, says God.
\nI am going to do, you can’t do <\/p>\n

843
\n00:51:16,000 –> 00:51:20,480
\nit, I’m going to do it.
\nSo you so David takes that head <\/p>\n

844
\n00:51:21,160 –> 00:51:24,480
\nbecause he says this is where
\nGod is going to answer the <\/p>\n

845
\n00:51:24,480 –> 00:51:26,320
\nthings.
\nThis is where God is going to <\/p>\n

846
\n00:51:26,320 –> 00:51:29,320
\nwork out salvation.
\nThis is where the son of God is <\/p>\n

847
\n00:51:29,320 –> 00:51:32,720
\ngoing to go and he’s going to
\ncrucify the thinking of the <\/p>\n

848
\n00:51:32,720 –> 00:51:36,120
\nflesh and everything that it
\nrepresents and everything that <\/p>\n

849
\n00:51:36,120 –> 00:51:39,400
\nit comes from it principalities
\nand powers and spiritual <\/p>\n

850
\n00:51:39,400 –> 00:51:42,600
\nwickedness in high places.
\nIt’s all going to be destroyed <\/p>\n

851
\n00:51:43,120 –> 00:51:46,360
\non that mountain at Jerusalem.
\nAnd you see brothers and says <\/p>\n

852
\n00:51:46,360 –> 00:51:51,000
\nthat’s why in all through every
\nfour gospel records it says and <\/p>\n

853
\n00:51:51,000 –> 00:51:54,080
\nthey took him out to the till
\nGolgotha, the place of the <\/p>\n

854
\n00:51:54,080 –> 00:51:56,280
\nskull.
\nIsn’t that amazing? <\/p>\n

855
\n00:51:56,280 –> 00:51:58,200
\nBrothers and sisters, They took
\nhim out and that’s where they <\/p>\n

856
\n00:51:58,200 –> 00:52:01,280
\ncrucified him at the place of
\nthe skull, because that’s the <\/p>\n

857
\n00:52:01,280 –> 00:52:04,320
\nskull of Goliath that was there.
\nAnd David knew that. <\/p>\n

858
\n00:52:05,080 –> 00:52:07,280
\nYou see what a spiritual
\nperspective does, brothers and <\/p>\n

859
\n00:52:07,280 –> 00:52:10,160
\nsisters, a spiritual
\nperspective, a helmet of <\/p>\n

860
\n00:52:10,160 –> 00:52:12,200
\nsalvation.
\nThe way you look at your own <\/p>\n

861
\n00:52:12,200 –> 00:52:15,760
\npersonal life.
\nDo you see yourself in the <\/p>\n

862
\n00:52:15,760 –> 00:52:18,320
\nKingdom?
\nIf you see yourself in the <\/p>\n

863
\n00:52:18,320 –> 00:52:22,760
\nKingdom, you see that salvation
\nis 100% guaranteed. <\/p>\n

864
\n00:52:23,080 –> 00:52:26,280
\nYes, we own our sins and no, we
\ndon’t think about anybody else <\/p>\n

865
\n00:52:26,280 –> 00:52:27,880
\nwho’s not living according to
\nthe Spirit of Christ. <\/p>\n

866
\n00:52:28,120 –> 00:52:32,120
\nDon’t worry about that.
\nYou yourself personal, your <\/p>\n

867
\n00:52:32,120 –> 00:52:35,520
\nrelationship with this sacrifice
\nright here. <\/p>\n

868
\n00:52:36,520 –> 00:52:38,560
\nThat’s all that matters.
\nThis morning, brothers and <\/p>\n

869
\n00:52:38,560 –> 00:52:45,120
\nsisters, is how you view this
\nsacrifice that that is 100% <\/p>\n

870
\n00:52:45,120 –> 00:52:49,680
\nsalvation.
\nHelmet, shield, garments, strong<\/p>\n

871
\n00:52:49,680 –> 00:52:52,800
\nwalls, 100% salvation,
\nguaranteed. <\/p>\n

872
\n00:52:52,920 –> 00:52:56,360
\nYou’re in the Kingdom.
\nIt’s your relationship with <\/p>\n

873
\n00:52:56,360 –> 00:52:58,200
\nthat.
\nThat’s all that matters, <\/p>\n

874
\n00:52:58,200 –> 00:53:01,560
\nbrothers and sisters.
\nAnd it’ll take you cutting off <\/p>\n

875
\n00:53:01,560 –> 00:53:03,960
\nGoliath’s head and taking it to
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n

876
\n00:53:04,160 –> 00:53:07,040
\nThat’s where that thinking,
\nbrothers and sisters, that’s <\/p>\n

877
\n00:53:07,040 –> 00:53:09,000
\nwhere what that thinking can do
\nfor you. <\/p>\n

878
\n00:53:10,240 –> 00:53:28,230
\nAmen.
\nThank you for listening to the <\/p>\n

879
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\n00:53:33,110 –> 00:53:35,470
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