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00:12 >> It has stood the test of time. 00:15 God's Book, the Bible. Still relevant 00:20 in today's complex world. "It Is Written" -- 00:26 Sharing messages of hope around the world. 00:30 ♪♪ >> Welcome and thank you 00:40 for joining us on "It Is Written Canada." 00:43 We are here again with Lee Venden at beautiful 00:46 Pugwash, Nova Scotia, and we have been looking 00:48 at a series that he does called "All About Jesus." 00:53 And, really, that's what Christianity is all about. It's all about Jesus. 00:58 And we've been focusing on three building blocks for making that relationship real. 01:06 Three building blocks of what we can do from our side to connect with Jesus. 01:11 Number one -- connect with Him through His Word, through His written word, the Bible, 01:16 and let it speak to us personally. And, of course, prayer. 01:21 We never come to the Word of God without prayer and opening up our hearts to Him. 01:26 But also we're not just looking at a one-way communication, talking to God and giving Him 01:30 our to-do list, but rather we have this two-way communication. 01:35 So we ask Him to speak to us. And then thirdly because we have been connecting with Him, we 01:41 just want to share it with others. And so we need to share that. 01:44 And that brings joy to our hearts when we do so. So, Lee, I just want 01:49 to talk to you about that and go further with some of those questions. 01:55 I guess some people have this question in their mind, "Is Jesus enough? 02:02 Just connecting with Jesus, is that enough?" You know, just focusing on 02:07 connecting with Him through His Word, through prayer and through sharing 02:11 what He has given to us. What about James 4:7? Some have this idea 02:18 that we have our part, that we can resist the devil. We are supposed to resist him, 02:24 and perhaps we should look at that together. Rene, I wonder if you could 02:28 read that for us, James 4:7. And maybe we should look at it in its context and see what 02:34 it's really saying to us. >> Well, James 4:7 says, "Resist the devil, 02:39 and he will flee from you." >> So what does it say just before that? 02:43 >> Well, some people think that that is what we need to do. >> Yeah. 02:49 >> We need to resist the devil. Right? We need to flee from the devil 02:53 and resist him. >> And find ways to overcome. >> Overcome, yeah. 02:57 >> And put him down. >> But let's look at that verse in its context, right? 03:03 There's a part before and a part after that. Okay? 03:08 And the part before says, "Therefore, submit to God." >> Submit to God. 03:13 >> Then it says, "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." 03:18 But after that it says, "Draw near to God And He will draw near to you." 03:26 >> Yes. Yes. >> So there's running to God and drawing to God on either side... 03:32 >> Yes. >> ...of resisting the devil. >> And so that submission to 03:37 God and that drawing near to Him is through opening His Word, contemplating 03:42 what it is saying to us, and opening our hearts to Him in prayer. 03:46 And then He is the one who gives us strength, and He raises up 03:51 a standard against the enemy and protects us, I guess, from the devil, 03:57 and this is how we resist the devil, by drawing near to God. 03:59 >> Exactly, because, you know, if you really think about it, 04:02 it's ludicrous to even imagine that we could resist the devil. 04:06 He's a spirit. You just mentioned 04:09 Isaiah 59:19, where it says that when the Spirit -- when the 04:13 enemy rushes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord raises up 04:16 a standard against him. 04:18 And the reason he's got to do it is 'cause we could never resist the devil. 04:21 How are you gonna resist a spirit? You can't even see him, right? 04:24 You'd have to have a bigger spirit to fight for you. >> Absolutely. 04:27 >> In fact, it puts me in mind of earlier in the series we talked about a friend of mine 04:32 named Steve Mackey, the kickboxer. >> That's right, yeah. 04:34 >> And one October 31st, if you could imagine, it was October 31st, 04:38 he and his wife were in our home, and they had had lunch with us, 04:42 and we were spending the afternoon talking and stuff, and just around 04:46 sundown the phone rang, and there was a woman's voice on the other end of the phone 04:51 who I recognize. Now, a little background about this woman. 04:54 She was about 33 or 34 years old. And her parents were Satanists. 04:59 In fact, her father considered himself a warlock and her mother considered herself a witch. 05:04 They attended the First Church of Satan, and they used for their Bible 05:07 a book called The Satanic Bible, which is just -- it's like -- 05:12 and they even have the Ten Commandments in the Satanic Bible, 05:15 but they are the Satanic Ten Commandments. And so it's like kind of 05:18 just the opposite of what God's Ten Commandments are. Anyway, so, this girl had been 05:24 raised from a baby in the Church of Satan. And there were all kinds 05:29 of horrific things that were attached to that, which I'm not even going to mention, 05:31 but I'm just going to say that in her early 30s, she had decided she did not want 05:37 the faith of her parents any longer, but she didn't know how to get out of that. 05:41 >> So she was in bondage to a spirit that was very evil. >> Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 05:47 But she looked in the yellow pages of the phone directory -- 05:51 at the time we were living in Kansas City -- to see if she could find a pastor 05:55 to talk to about how to escape the bondage of Satanism. And she just picked me 06:02 at random out of the phonebook, you know, and she called me up one day. 06:06 >> Good choice, I think. >> Well, I wasn't so sure it was a good choice when she called 06:11 'cause I was like, "Oh, my word, do I want to interact with that?" 06:16 Anyway, she asked for an appointment. She came in. 06:19 She told me her background and her story. And then she asked me, 06:23 "Is there any way I can get free from this?" Because it's very very difficult 06:27 to break loose from. I said, "Well, you know, in the Bible, it says 06:31 that if the Son sets you free, you are free, indeed." And we begin to talk with her 06:37 about the very things that you just summarized here a moment ago, those three basic 06:42 elements that we as Christians can do to seek to know Jesus and to draw near to Him. 06:46 And it was really neat to see that she began to have that experience with God, 06:51 and she began attending our church. And it was all fine. 06:55 We were excited, but the devil was not a happy camper. >> No. 07:01 >> And he had -- There had been many experiences in her life serving the Church of Satan 07:06 with her parents where what we would refer to as demon possession had been 07:10 an active part of the worship. I mean, the taking over by another power 07:15 and all kinds of stuff. So, anyway, back to this phone call. 07:19 So, on October 31st, I got a phone call just at sundown and it's her. 07:23 And she said, "Pastor Venden, would you please come to my house right now 07:26 and pray for me?" Now, she lived alone. And she said, "Would you please 07:31 come and pray for me? Because the devil has told me he is going to kill me tonight. 07:37 He's going to take me out, and it's going to be gruesome and he's going to do it tonight. 07:41 Would you please come and pray for me?" She says, "This isn't a joke. 07:44 This isn't a joke. Will you come and pray for me?" And before I could even say 07:49 anything back, all of a sudden -- and she lives alone -- all of a sudden, the voice on 07:53 the other end of the phone changed, and I won't even try to impersonate it 07:57 because it's just hideous and I couldn't do a good job, but I would tell you that 08:01 it sounded -- first of all, it was very deep. It was a very bass-ish, 08:06 like wolf-ish, bass-ish. It was like a guttural growling, snarling. 08:12 It was like if a wolf was trying to speak English, and it was swearing and cursing. 08:17 And this is what it said. It said, "Don't pray for her. She belongs to me. 08:20 She is mine. She is all mine. Don't talk to Jesus about her. 08:25 She is all mine." >> That would be terrifying. >> Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. 08:31 And then the phone went click. It hung up on me. And I can tell you right now, 08:35 man, you've heard people say, "I felt the hair on the back of my neck," you know? 08:40 I really did. I literally did. I felt my -- those whatever -- 08:45 follicles going, "Frrt!" And then I felt my legs going weak. 08:50 I can feel adrenaline surging through my body. I remember thinking, as that 08:54 blood was draining from my face, I remember thinking, "Oh, man, last thing in the 08:59 world I want to do is go -- Why did I ever become a pastor? I don't want to go meet that." 09:05 You know? And I turned around. Now, remember, just 09:09 for the sake of -- if a viewer is watching right now that didn't hear the story about 09:12 Steve Mackey earlier, he was the world heavyweight kickboxing champion 09:16 at that time. He'd taken the title in Tokyo, Japan, in the 09:19 Tokyo Dome, on international satellite television, and then I had 09:23 the privilege of meeting him and actually introducing him to a personal friendship 09:27 with Jesus Christ, and he'd become a Christian, and so anyway, 09:30 that's some of the background. And he and his family are having dinner with us, 09:34 and that's the background there. So, I get off the phone with my adrenaline surging, 09:40 and I'm thinking, "The last thing in the world I want to do is go to meet this girl or meet 09:43 that voice." And then I turn around and I see Steve Mackey, 09:48 the world heavyweight kickboxing champion in my living room. >> Exactly. 09:52 If you're going to fight against the devil, who is going to be stronger than Steve Mackey? 09:58 >> I said to Steve, I said, "Yo, Steve, how would you like to go meet the devil?" 10:05 Now, I won't tell you exactly what Steve said because Steve was a pretty 10:10 new Christian and his language wasn't always what you might call King James English. 10:16 So maybe I'll give you kind of a summary and paraphrase of what he said. 10:20 It would be like, maybe this. It would be like, "Yeah, I'd love to kick his behind." 10:24 That's about as close as I'm going to get to what he really said. 10:27 And I say, "Whoa, Steve, one thing's for sure. You and I are not gonna kick his 10:32 behind, but I'd sure love to have someone come with me to pray." 10:36 And he said to me, "You got it, Rev." Called me Rev, as in short for 10:41 Reverend. "You got it, Rev." I said, "Steve, get your sword." 10:45 And he said, "Sword?" And I held up my Bible. And he goes, "Right on, Rev," 10:48 and gets his sword. And we get in the car, and we drive to this woman's house. 10:52 By the time we get there, it's dark. There's no lights on in her 10:55 house. There's no lights on the outside of her house. 10:58 We pull into the driveway, and I say, "Steve, before we get out the car, I just want to say a 11:03 prayer." So I said, "Lord Jesus, we're not here because we think 11:07 we're some kind of exorcists. We're here because one of Your kids is asking for prayer. 11:15 I am no match for the enemy. I already know that up front, but I also know 11:19 that he is no match for You. So would You please go into this place ahead of us 11:25 on behalf of a child of Yours who is desperately crying out for You?" 11:30 And then I said, "Amen." And I remember Steve Mackey saying, "So may it ever be." 11:34 [ Laughter ] We got out of the car. I walked up to the front door, 11:39 and I knocked on the door, and nobody answered. I rang the doorbell. 11:43 Nobody answered. I checked the knob, and it was unlocked, so I opened 11:46 the door, and I pushed it open, and I can tell you right now my heart was pounding. 11:50 It was pounding. And I'm thinking she said it was gonna be ugly if he took her 11:54 out. The devil had said, "I'm gonna take you out, and it's gonna be 11:57 really ugly." And so I thought, "If I walk in here, 12:00 what if he's already done that?" I'm thinking to myself "What if I walk on to some 12:06 sort of grotesque mutilation of some sort and here's this person 12:10 who's been killed?" I'll never have that out of my head. 12:13 It'll be -- I was there and first one on the scene, so to speak. 12:17 "Oh, man." And so I called her name. No answer. 12:20 So I stepped in very gingerly into the front door, you know, and I turned on the light, 12:24 the first light I could find. And I kept moving in, calling her name, turning on lights 12:28 as I moved farther and farther in, right? I'm turning on lights. 12:31 Meanwhile, and I wish I could get up in my chair here and show you 12:34 how it worked, but I'll just try to do it from my seat. The world heavyweight kickboxing 12:38 champion was behind me, and he was going like this. [ Laughter ] 12:46 Anyway, we finally found her. She was lying on the floor in a back room 12:50 in the fetal position, but she wasn't injured. And she seemed 12:53 like she was asleep. And so I nudged her shoulder, and she looked up, 12:57 and I said to her, "You asked us to come and pray. I brought another church member 13:01 with me, and that's why we're here." And she sort of seemed a little 13:04 groggy, and then she said, "Oh, thanks." And then I said, "Could 13:09 we go into your living room?" So I helped her to her feet. We walked into her living room, 13:13 and we sat down. There was a couch there. She sat at one end. 13:16 I sat at the other end of the couch. And then Steve Mackey 13:21 sat in this little barrel chair. I turned to her, and all of a sudden, the same 13:25 voice I'd heard over the phone begins speaking from her. Her mouth didn't move, 13:29 but that deep wolfish snarl said, "She's all mine. Don't pray for her. 13:33 She belongs to me. Don't talk to Jesus about her. She is all mine." 13:36 Curse, curse, swear, swear. I started singing, "Jesus loves me 'cause I know." 13:43 I looked over at the world heavyweight kickboxing champion and he said, "For the Bible 13:48 tells me so." And then we started praying, and I am so excited to tell you 13:54 that when Jesus goes against the enemy, He's still the winner. And that wolfish snarling, 13:59 cursing, swearing voice actually went across the room, angrily swearing, opened the 14:06 door. I never saw anything physical, but I heard it go, and the door 14:11 opened and it slammed as it left. And so she'd been set free. 14:14 Well, when it was all over, I said to Steve Mackey in the car as we were leaving, 14:19 "What did you think of that?" And this is what he said. He said, "You know, when I was 14:23 sitting there looking at her, all of a sudden, I felt like what I would call 14:28 a heavy hand slam into my chest that pressed me against the back of the chair with such power 14:33 that it pushed all the air out of my lungs. I couldn't inhale 14:37 because it kept pushing me." And he said, "I heard a very distinct voice in my ear 14:40 and it said these words. 'So you think you're going to kick my behind, do you?'" 14:45 And he said, "When I heard that, I started singing with you." Jesus loves me, this I know. 14:51 And the reason I tell that story -- on the tale of James 4:7, is it's ludicrous to 14:55 think we're going to resist the devil. There is no way. 14:58 So if we're going to have a fight to fight, it's gonna have to be a different kind of fight. 15:02 >> Yes. Yes. As Isaiah says, you know, you referred to it earlier 15:07 that when the enemy comes in like a flood, and he does. He's gonna come in like a flood. 15:11 He's not going to come in easy. The Lord raises up a standard. The Spirit of the Lord raises 15:17 up a standard against him. So it's not my spirit that can resist. 15:22 >> Exactly. >> It's the Spirit of the Lord that can raise up a standard, 15:27 and as we draw nigh to God as we draw near to Him, as you did and drawing near 15:32 to Him through prayer, through taking up the sword of the Spirit, 15:36 you had the strength to resist the devil. >> And she was okay afterwards? 15:40 >> Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the good news, is that she continued to grow closer 15:44 and closer to Jesus. >> Wow. >> So, we're going to take 15:47 a break and we'll come back and we're going to look at how this is war. 15:52 This really is war every day. 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We have been looking at this verse from the 17:11 Scriptures, James 4:7, that talks about resist the devil and he will flee from you. 17:17 But when we look at it in context, it says just before that, 17:20 "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will 17:26 flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. 17:30 And clearly we are no match for the devil. 17:34 We cannot fight against him in our own strength. 17:36 But another verse that I think we should really look at 17:39 is 1 Timothy 6:12 that says, "Fight the good 17:44 fight of faith." And when we look at that word 17:47 faith, a synonym for the word "faith" 17:49 or in other words a word that means the same 17:52 is the word "trust." 17:53 Now, how do you get to trust someone? Well, over time you see that 17:58 they are absolutely trustworthy unless they're not trustworthy and then you do not trust them. 18:03 But if someone is perfectly trustworthy, then you have no problem trusting them. 18:08 I have no problem trusting Rene. She is my wife, and I have gotten to know her over many 18:13 years, and through those interactions, I have come to know that 18:17 she is completely trustworthy. The same with God. The way we get 18:21 to know that He is trustworthy is to get to know Him, to spend time with Him. 18:27 And so, Lee, we're going to talk about this fighting the good fight of faith. 18:33 >> Yeah, yeah, I think you're making a really good point. My dad -- we've referred to him 18:37 in one of the earlier segments that we shot -- my dad used to say, "There's two 18:41 kinds of fights in the Bible. There's the fight of sin and Satan, and then 18:45 there's the fight of faith." And then he tried to clarify just a little bit further 18:48 by putting this spin on it. He said, "The fight of sin and Satan is the bad fight, 18:53 and the fight of faith is the good fight." And the reason there's that 18:58 distinction is the truth is in Scripture, God's never asked us to fight 19:02 the fight of sin and Satan. The Bible is full of stories of God saying, "I want to fight 19:07 for you." Not with you. Not through you. 19:11 "I want to fight for you," and we can't take the time right now, but there's just hundreds 19:14 of stories and examples of where God says, "Stand still and watch me fight for you. 19:19 This battle is not yours. This is mine. I will fight for you." 19:23 Pharaoh's coming down. The Red Sea. He doesn't say, "Okay, Moses, 19:27 get your soldiers out there and you hold them off while we get the people across." 19:30 No. He said, "I'm going to part the Red Sea. 19:33 I'm gonna deal with Pharaoh on my own, all by myself." And so we're back to this idea. 19:39 We can't resist the devil. But that's why the Spirit of God comes in and fights him for us. 19:43 So if we're going to have a fight, because there is a war. This is a war. 19:48 But what do we do in the war? And we fight the good fight of faith. 19:54 And you just made it clear that the good fight of faith is the effort that we put into 20:00 seeking to know Jesus daily. >> Yes. >> And it is a fight. 20:04 Because as soon as the -- Because the devil knows that that's square one. 20:07 The devil knows that that is the flour for the baker. He knows that is the money 20:12 for the banker. He knows that's the parachute for the skydiver. 20:16 That time alone with Jesus daily is the core of the Christian life. 20:20 So the devil does everything he can to keep us from that. And it's interesting 20:27 that so many times we think of the devil as he's trying to get us to be evil, 20:30 wicked, mean, bad, or nasty. But he's much more subtle than that. 20:34 >> Oh, yeah. >> You know? >> Yeah, he's not happy at all. 20:39 And so that's why he will make it -- It's a struggle. 20:45 It's a struggle to resist him, and his deceptive, subtle ways. Right? 20:51 >> Deceptive is right. He's a snake, yeah. >> We have to struggle daily, 20:55 you know, because he's going to try and draw us away from that. You know, like you said, 21:03 it's the flour to the baker, and he wants to remove that. >> Right. 21:06 >> But he's not going to just snatch it. He's going to do it subtly. 21:09 >> Yeah, he doesn't knock on the door and say, "I'm the devil. How about you neglect Jesus 21:13 today?" >> Yeah, exactly. >> So, practically, 21:16 Do you struggle with it? >> I struggle with it every day. I have for as long as 21:19 I've been a Christian. Yeah, the fight of faith, that effort to take time for Jesus -- 21:24 One of the things the devil does is he's very slick about trying to get me distracted 21:29 with even things that have to do with working for God. So I'm so distracted 21:33 trying to work for God, I don't have time for Jesus. For example, you said 21:38 you struggle with it every day. Well, you know, we're doing this little filming thing 21:42 here at Pugwash. >> Yes. >> And you got your camera crew 21:44 on deck here with us. And as you know, I thought it might be helpful 21:49 if we had a countdown timer and we were using my iPad to kind of keep us aware of 21:53 where we were. >> Keep us on track, yeah. >> Yeah. 21:56 And that iPad app that we were using, it had some things to be desired. 22:00 As you know, it wasn't working as smoothly and slickly as we would like it to, 22:04 and so yesterday morning I thought, "You know, I'm going to get up early because 22:09 we're shooting early here. I'm going to get up early because I want 22:13 to spend time with Jesus because there's no sense in going down to talk about 22:16 how important it is to spend time with Jesus without spending time with Jesus first." 22:18 >> Exactly. >> So I go off to a little quiet place 22:21 with my Bible. I have my iPad and my iPhone with me because we're going to 22:26 be using them later at the shoot in just an hour or so. And so I have them with me. 22:31 I open up my Bible, and then I think to myself, "You know, I wonder if the iPhone app store 22:37 has a better app for a countdown timer." There's something in my mind 22:41 that said, "You don't need to do that right now. You can check that out later." 22:46 But I thought, "It won't take long. I've got my phone here. 22:50 I'll just hook up the phone to be a hot spot and then I'll turn on my iPad 22:54 and I'll go to the store and I'll see if there's a timer there that I can use. 22:57 Oh, I found one. Okay, I'm gonna download that. Oh, it didn't download quite so 23:01 easily. I have to go back and redo that. Okay, I'm gonna try again. 23:04 Oh, it needs a password. Okay, I got that. I got it downloaded. 23:07 Finally got it downloaded." I did a quick graph to try to see how it works. 23:10 "Oh, that's going to be good. They're going to like my app." And then I close it all down 23:16 and I said, "Okay." All of a sudden, I realized. I had a whole lot less time 23:20 for Jesus than I had intended to have that morning. And I'm thinking, "Oh, isn't 23:24 that slick?" I'm getting this app ready for us to tape about 23:28 taking time for Jesus, and I'm not taking time for Jesus because I'm getting the app 23:33 ready for that. And I thought, "Oh, man, forgive me, Jesus." 23:36 I did have time with Him. I had meaningful time. I just didn't have as much time 23:41 as I would have if I had overcome that, if I had been more successful 23:45 with the good fight of faith that morning. And then the irony of it 23:49 is when I got down here I said, "Okay, guys, I got this new app for you." 23:53 And I turned it on. I had no idea that the app had advertisements 23:58 built into it to try and get you to pay money, and the advertisement 24:02 came on the screen. A bunch of half naked women running around on the screen, 24:07 and I'm going, "Oh, my word, I'm showing these guys my new app, and stop, stop, stop." 24:12 It was like I heard the Holy Spirit almost chuckle in my ear and say, "You know what? 24:18 If you had succeeded at the good fight to start with, you wouldn't have had to worry 24:22 about all that wasted time." Anyway, that's what I'm talking about. 24:25 >> Every day. >> Every day. >> Every day is a struggle. 24:27 >> And so as you're struggling with that every day, how do we overcome that struggle? 24:33 I mean, what is the, for you, the ingredient that really helps you? 24:38 Is it just memory? You know you've been through this so many times. 24:41 It's just the Holy Spirit coming to you and say, "Ah, you know, Lee, you need to get on track 24:49 here," or what is it that's going to say, "Get into the Word. 24:53 Do it now. Put that guy on pause." Or do you just stop and pray 24:57 and say, "Lord, give me strength"? >> I do do that. 25:01 Yeah, I do. I say prayers every morning. I say, "Lord Jesus, 25:04 I don't want to short-change the time I'm here to spend with you." 25:09 I don't want to short circuit it. And I say prayers. 25:12 And I say, "Lord, get me back on track." It's real easy for me. 25:16 My iPad is what I use to read my Bible on. It's also where my e-mail comes 25:20 through. And I can be reading my Bible, and all of a sudden a little 25:23 message comes through, so I have to say a prayer then too. I say, "Lord Jesus, save me from 25:27 getting distracted with my e-mail. Save me." 25:29 It's -- I guess what I'm trying to say is it's an ongoing, everlasting effort and battle 25:36 and fight, but the fight isn't to try to overcome Satan. The fight is to try 25:40 to overcome my propensity to neglect Jesus. >> Yeah. 25:45 So, Jesus says, "When you abide in me and I abide in you, without me, you can do nothing." 25:51 >> Nothing. >> But what is it? In Philippians 4:18, is it? 26:00 4:13. Sorry. 26:02 He says -- Paul says to us, "I can do all things through Christ 26:06 who strengthens me." 26:07 So this is not a do-nothing religion we're talking about. This is a do-everything to be 26:14 with Jesus. >> Right. >> Because with Jesus, we can do 26:19 all things. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> But then when we spend time 26:24 with Him and we read our Bibles and we pray, then He -- It's so exciting that we just 26:32 can't help feeling that third leg by sharing, right? And so it's so beautiful 26:37 when we're able to do that. >> Yeah. >> We gain so much. 26:41 It's such a blessing to be able to do those three legs of the stool. 26:46 >> Exactly. Exactly. So, Lee, we've come to the end of this episode and the end of 26:51 this series. And so, Lee, I wanted to thank you for coming and sharing all 26:56 about Jesus because it's really all about Jesus here at beautiful Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 27:01 and thank you for being with us. And, friends, I also want to encourage you to look on our 27:07 website, and you can watch the entire series where he was telling about the conversion of 27:12 his father, his own conversion, about those three legs of the stool, about connecting 27:17 with God through His Word, connecting with Him through prayer, and then sharing the 27:21 good news that God has given to us and the joy that that brings to us. 27:27 And when we fall and fail, how we can get up and how He gives us constant 27:32 encouragement to overcome. And this final one, where we have been talking about 27:37 how we can fight the good fight of faith. And so, Lee, I'm going to ask 27:41 you to pray for us as we close off. Can you do that for us? 27:44 >> Okay, yeah, sure. Lord Jesus, thank you for being everything. 27:49 I think of this song, "You are our all and all." And I praise You that You want 27:55 to be our friend and that we can seek You daily. Of course, there's an enemy 27:59 that would like to get in the way of that. And I just pray 28:02 that You'd strengthen us to fight the good fight of faith until the day we see You face to 28:06 face. In Jesus' name, amen. >> Amen, amen. 28:10 >> So, friends, I just want to remind you again of the words of Jesus where He says, "It is 28:15 written: 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth 28:21 of God.'" 28:23 ♪♪ ♪♪ 28:41 ♪♪ ♪♪ |
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