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[391.10 --> 392.42] and there were people who prayed for them, |
[392.50 --> 393.28] and the spirit was gone. |
[393.94 --> 395.84] One person that I know very well |
[395.84 --> 397.74] had an experience of a demon leaving them, |
[397.92 --> 399.28] and what was so heartbreaking to me |
[399.28 --> 401.32] is they didn't share for years that this happened |
[401.32 --> 402.38] because they were afraid |
[402.38 --> 404.16] of what Christians might think of them, |
[404.30 --> 405.64] or how they might judge them, |
[405.68 --> 406.72] or think that they're strange |
[406.72 --> 407.80] for having this experience. |
[407.80 --> 411.18] But even if I didn't have these experiences |
[411.18 --> 412.04] and conversations, |
[412.70 --> 414.62] the scripture is so abundantly clear. |
[415.30 --> 417.04] Satan tempts Jesus, that's in the word. |
[417.40 --> 420.16] Jesus and his ministry is constantly casting out |
[420.16 --> 421.70] and showing his authority over demons, |
[422.02 --> 423.96] and throughout the church today, |
[425.04 --> 425.92] demons are real. |
[426.50 --> 427.68] Pastors cast them out. |
[428.22 --> 430.10] Churches need to deal with the forces of darkness |
[430.10 --> 430.96] that are at work in them, |
[431.02 --> 432.52] and that's just reality, |
[432.94 --> 435.34] whether we normally talk about it or not. |
[435.34 --> 438.72] But I want to just name something |
[438.72 --> 440.26] that has already been asked to me, |
[440.50 --> 441.78] and maybe you've thought it. |
[442.26 --> 443.42] And the question comes like this. |
[443.50 --> 444.56] It came to me like this. |
[444.60 --> 445.30] Okay, Dave, like, |
[445.38 --> 447.60] we believe that personal demonic forces are real, |
[447.68 --> 449.06] that people have spiritual attacks, |
[449.18 --> 449.88] these things are real, |
[449.96 --> 450.72] Christians in the church. |
[451.08 --> 453.14] Why don't we see that very often in Canada? |
[454.12 --> 454.36] Right? |
[454.42 --> 455.26] Have you asked that question? |
[456.24 --> 456.96] Some of you did. |
[456.98 --> 457.74] I know you asked me. |
[458.06 --> 460.20] Or why is this not more normal in Canada? |
[460.28 --> 462.08] Like, what's with the way Satan |
[462.08 --> 463.36] might operate in our culture? |
[463.50 --> 464.78] And I just want to invite you |
[464.78 --> 466.10] and how I've been working this out |
[466.10 --> 467.22] and struggling through this. |
[467.80 --> 468.74] I believe, number one, |
[468.80 --> 470.52] that personal demonic attacks are real. |
[470.58 --> 471.96] So I just want to say that unequivocally, |
[472.08 --> 473.08] even here in Canada. |
[473.82 --> 474.56] But secondly, |
[474.70 --> 476.42] I want to suggest that Satan knows |
[476.42 --> 478.60] how to operate in every single culture. |
[479.42 --> 480.36] He's very smart. |
[481.06 --> 481.94] He's very clever. |
[482.06 --> 483.48] He's been around for a long time. |
[483.54 --> 484.72] He knows the systems |
[484.72 --> 486.68] and the cultures that we operate in. |
[486.68 --> 487.74] And I want to suggest |
[487.74 --> 489.82] that there's a very dark, insidious way |
[489.82 --> 491.16] that Satan works in Canada |
[491.16 --> 492.02] and other places |
[492.02 --> 493.62] that's right under your nose |
[493.62 --> 495.16] and you'd never even notice it. |
[495.80 --> 497.72] And I'm going to put it this way. |
[498.42 --> 499.40] There are lies. |
[499.52 --> 501.06] Remember, Pastor Jonathan mentioned that |
[501.06 --> 503.04] Satan's primary mode of operation |
[503.04 --> 504.56] is actually lies. |
[505.10 --> 505.30] Right? |
[505.78 --> 507.48] Deceiting, sort of twisting the truth. |
[507.56 --> 508.52] And that lie gets sort of |
[508.52 --> 510.04] sown in societies. |
[510.16 --> 511.36] It gets sown in human lives. |
[511.48 --> 513.22] And then it sort of just grows up |
[513.22 --> 514.00] into society |
[514.00 --> 515.76] and becomes a normal part of how we live. |
[516.62 --> 518.00] Some of Satan's best work |
[518.00 --> 519.12] is the stuff that we just think |
[519.12 --> 520.64] is the normal stuff of life. |
[521.08 --> 522.40] The way society operates. |
[522.52 --> 523.56] The way people live. |
[524.18 --> 526.18] That scripture clearly describes as sin. |
[527.48 --> 529.30] Let me give you four specific examples. |
[529.44 --> 530.52] And these I've built out |
[530.52 --> 532.56] off of some of the wisdom of other people. |
[533.56 --> 534.92] Here are four questions. |
[535.28 --> 535.58] First, |
[536.26 --> 537.44] why would Satan worry |
[537.44 --> 539.08] about whispering lies in your ear |
[539.08 --> 539.94] about lust |
[539.94 --> 541.80] when he could help form |
[541.80 --> 544.08] a multi-billion dollar industry, |
[544.34 --> 545.96] that is the pornography industry, |
[545.96 --> 547.98] that will enslave people, |
[548.50 --> 549.58] destroy relationships |
[549.58 --> 551.50] under the insidious lie |
[551.50 --> 553.22] that we're just enjoying ourselves |
[553.22 --> 555.28] and having personal expression? |
[557.36 --> 559.52] Why would Satan worry about lying |
[559.52 --> 560.68] or whispering in your ear |
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