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Today, I want to tell you about Satan, his origins,

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and the origins of sin.

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I mentioned this before.

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I want to just state it again, that there's

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sort of three positions that are related

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to any topic dealing with satanic, demonic world.

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One is kind of this idea that there's

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a demon behind every bush, and it's

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like everything that goes wrong in one's life,

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people blame it on demons, or they blame it on Satan.

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And it's kind of the devil made me do it kind of mentality.

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The other perspective is there's not a demon behind any bush,

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and it's completely neglected.

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But the stand I think we should take

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is one of the Bereans who would say study and stand.

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I like the word study and stand.

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It says of the Bereans in Acts 17.11,

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these were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica

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in that they received the word with all readiness

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and searched the scriptures daily

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to find out whether this was the things that were so.

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So the Bereans went right to the scriptures.

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And so that's where I'm coming from.

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I'm taking what we're doing with Satan,

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the fourth dimension, the demonic.

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We're looking at scripture.

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And that's what we're going to do today.

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We're going to look at the origins of Satan,

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what we have in scripture, and the origins of sin.

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But let me just say a caveat to all of this.

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And this comes from Jude chapter 9.

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And I rarely hear people discuss this verse.

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It's kind of a cryptic verse, but it's

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been very important in my development

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in understanding the demonic.

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And here's why.

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In the 80s and 90s, when I was coming up

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through graduate school and all, there

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was a philosophy of what we called spiritual mapping,

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the idea of having the ability to discern

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what kind of demonic powers, those principalities

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and powers, were over certain cities,

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over certain parts of a city.

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And they called it spiritual mapping.

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So people would go with these prophetic words, dreams,

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and visions, and things like that, and say, well,

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oh, this part of the city has got a spirit of poverty.

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Well, it's kind of obvious.

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Everybody's poor, so it's a spirit of poverty.

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But then they would say there's a spirit of witchcraft

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over that area, or there's a spirit of this or that.

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And to put that in perspective, here's

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what we read in Jude 9.

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Yet Michael, the archangel, in contending with the devil

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when he disputed about the body of Moses,

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dared not bring against him a reviling accusation,

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but said, the Lord rebuke you.

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Now, why is that important?

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It's important because spiritual mapping

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had a tendency to give people the authority

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to speak against principalities and powers.

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And right here, we see Jude telling us to be careful.

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Even Michael, the archangel, did not rebuke Satan,

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but he said, the Lord rebuke Satan.

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And so you have to be careful in some

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of the semantics of this kind of prayer warfare.

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I'm not necessarily talking about that here right now.

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I'm talking more about how demons work, how Satan works.

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And that's really important because when

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we sent our troops over to Vietnam

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in the 60s and early 70s, we did not

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understand nearly to the degree what guerrilla warfare was.

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But the Viet Cong did.

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This was their home.

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They knew how to fight in the jungle.

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They knew how to dig tunnels.

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They knew how to battle in jungle guerrilla warfare.

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had that kind of fighting.

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We didn't have any of it in Korea.

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had to relearn from those who were used to guerrilla warfare

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how to fight.

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And that's actually where the Green Berets were developed

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and Navy SEALs.

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came because of the kind of guerrilla warfare

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we were dealing with in Vietnam.

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to understand the guerrilla warfare of the enemy,

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it's helpful in engaging him.

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And so as we look at this, again, I'm

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being a little bit cryptic because after this message,

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we're going to get way into more depth about how

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to deal with the demonic.

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But this is just to say that the battle that we're in

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is kind of a guerrilla warfare.

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It's a battle on the surface that

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seems to be only related to maybe our own fleshly sins

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and the values of this world.

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That the fleshly sins, the values of this world

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are because, John says it, that all of the world

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is held captive by Satan.

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So, Satan controls it, that's why we're looking at this.

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So, let's look at Satan, a little bit of information

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about Satan and who he is.

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First thing is that Satan is an archenemy of God.

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He's a spirit being living in the heavenlies,

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living in the fourth dimension where God and angels are.

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But here's the important thing, he's a spiritual being,

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but he's a created being.

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He was an archangel of God.

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And so, Satan can only be at one place at one time.

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So, if you're saying, well, Satan or devil made me do it,

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is an extrapolation of looking at scripture and thinking

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that Satan is more than just a created being.

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I mean, demons are all over the place,

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but Satan can only be at one place at one time.

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Now, where does Satan hang out?

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I have no idea and I really don't care.

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Been a lot of theories about that.

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So, he's a spirit being, he's a created being,

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and he's utterly evil.

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He is totally and completely evil.

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Every intention of Satan is bad and malevolent.

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He has no ethics, no morals, no honor,

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no values, no caring, no sensitivities.

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None of the qualities that we appreciate about human beings

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does Satan have.

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He's utterly and completely evil.

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His sole purpose is to dethrone and rule over God.

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Thus, he hates you.

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He hates man.

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He hates woman because we are created in the image of God.

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His sole purpose is that every human being would be dead.

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So, the driving force behind satanic power is always suicide

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and death.

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So, if you follow people that get heavy into drugs,

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heavy into alcohol, heavy into sex,

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some of these areas that enslave them,

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they will become suicidal.

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Unless they get saved, unless they get born again,

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they're going to head towards suicide.

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That's always the goal.

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So, I've said that sin is chocolate covered escarment.

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So, you bite into it, it tastes really good at first,

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and then you get into the reality of what sin is.

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That's because Satan and demons are always empowering us into

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behavior that leads to death.

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So, suicide, murder, and the complete destruction of

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the image of God is what Satan is all about.

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He hates God because God has authority over him.

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He hates you if you're a believer because you have power

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and authority over him.

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He's exceedingly violent.

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Jesus said he was a murderer from the beginning.

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So, when Jesus was describing Satan,

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he said he was a murderer from the beginning.

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Peter said, goes about like a roaring lion seeking someone to

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devour.

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So, this roaring lion of Satan is always trying to devour those

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men and women that are created in the image of God.

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John calls him a destroyer.

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Michael Green, in his commentary on Satan,

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calls him a killer by instinct.

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Let me quote Michael Green.

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His intelligence lacks originality.

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He travels along God's pathways.

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He does not create a situation.

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He corrupts it.

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He has been called the ape of God.

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But though not original, his mental powers are massive.

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He is uncannily crafty, subtle, and cunning.

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Think of him tempting the first Adam in the garden.

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Think of him tempting the second Adam in the desert.

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He is quick to gain advantage over us.

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He is apt at catching us like birds in his nest.

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It is like comfort.

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It is little comfort that his intelligence may be strictly

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second class, but the same is true of our own.

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So, Christ, in confronting Satan,

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deals with him head on with Scripture.

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And that's one of the things we'll cover in the later talks

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is how important Scripture is.

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Because left to your own devices,

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Satan is definitely smarter than any of us.

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So, who was or is Satan?

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Well, if you have your Bible, look at Ezekiel 28.

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Ezekiel 28, 12 through 14 is the seminal passage in the Bible

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that talks about the origins of Satan.

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And here's what we read,

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Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of

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Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God,

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You are the seal of perfection,

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full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

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You are in Eden, the garden of God.

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So, a couple of things here.

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Number one is that Satan or Lucifer was this beautiful,

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we believe that,

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A beautiful angel was in the garden, and we don't know how long Adam and Eve were in the

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garden before the temptation occurred, but definitely Lucifer was there, the shining

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one was in there, and it's said up here that he had the seal of perfection, full of wisdom,

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and perfect in beauty.

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So I don't know what perfect in beauty exactly means, but the image I have is something that's

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really stunning, really gorgeous, and I think that when you look at the serpent coming to

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Eve, and it means shining one, serpent there means shining one, that it must have been

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some kind of a beautiful creature that came to Eve.

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Every precious stone was your covering.

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The sardis, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onks, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald

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with gold, the workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day

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you were created.

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So again, he's a created being.

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Timbrels and pipes gives the idea of some kind of a worshiping angel.

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You are the anointed cherub who covers.

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So again, that's where we get the angel idea, cherub.

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I establish you, meaning God established you.

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You were on the holy mountain of God, and you walked back and forth in the midst of

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fiery stones.

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So this is a picture of heaven.

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This is a picture of the heavenly world that all of the mountain of God is there.

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That's why theologians and commentators believe that Lucifer was the chief archangel over

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all the angels, and that the worship of the angels toward God came to him, and then he

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was kind of an intercessor of worship back up to God on the holy mountain of God.

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So an elevated archangel who's a worship leader in heaven.

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Karl Marx said, if you give me the poetry, art, and music of a nation, I will control

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So something happened.

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Something then happened in Lucifer.

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Well, it continues, verse 15, you are perfect in your ways from the day you were created

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till iniquity was found in you.

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By the abundance of your trading, you became filled with violence within and you sinned.

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So sin was birthed in Satan.

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Therefore I cast you out as a profane thing out of the mountain of God.

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I destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the fiery stones.

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So sin was birthed in, was some kind of a regeneration of sin was in Satan, and then

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he's cast out from heaven, outside of heaven.

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So then we pick it up, Isaiah 14 explains to us what happened in the heart of Satan.

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Isaiah 14, 12 through 14, O how you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the

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morning.

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How you are cut down to the ground, you who weaken the nations.

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For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven.

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I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.

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I will sit on the mount of the congregation on the further sides of the north.

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I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, and I will be like the most high.

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So we call it the five I wills.

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So pride welled up within Lucifer, and he wanted to be like God.

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He wanted to take the position of God, and so God had to cast him out of heaven.

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Well, it's what's interesting about this is exact same temptation that Lucifer brought

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He said you can be like God and never die, and so the root of all sin is always pride.

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The beginning of sin was in the heart of Lucifer, Satan, and this self-will and rebellion is

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always the seedbed.

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It's the root structure of all sins, and so this is where it all started, the five I wills,

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this raising up of pride within the heart of Satan.

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Well, then it's from that that being cast to the earth that Satan began to do the same

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thing with all of us, and I've often said that the beginning of sin is saying my will

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be done instead of thy will be done, and so that's where it all started.

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So when we start to study here about demons and how they infiltrate our lives and how

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we cast them out, we're always going to go back to pride.

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We're always going to go back to rebellion against authority.

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It's always the struggle of our lives is how we can stay humble.

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because God's placed authority over us.

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There's always, everybody's under somebody.

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You know, whether it's our fathers or our mothers

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or a pastor or a leader or a government,

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there's something within us that always wants

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to rebel against that, and that began with Satan.

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And that's the beginning of all sin is independence from God.

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So, let's go forth and we're going to look at how

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that manifests itself in individual lives.

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God bless you.

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Look forward to the rest of the studies

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that we're going to have together.