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But join me now. And we've been talking about spiritual warfare here on Children Generation Radio with a gentleman I can't think of someone who's better equipped to have this conversation with. He and I, he taught me about deliverance. I've been involved in deliverance ministry now for over 20 years.

He's been doing it for over 40 years. And it is my sincere pleasure to welcome to the program, Ken Thornburg and Freedom Encounters. Ken, welcome. Good to have you. Well, it's always great to be with you, Greg.

Always. Thank you, sir. Thank you. I want to remind our listeners very quickly that last time that you were with us, we talked about the power of the name of Jesus Christ. Just this past Saturday in India, we had 58 people that received Jesus Christ. We had 30 people that received healings during our prayer time and our meeting. We had three people in particular that said that they were delivered from an evil spirit.

And one of the weapons that we use there in India is Galatians 2.20. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. Yet not I, but Christ lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God. Folks, if you're in any kind of challenge at all, and I think most everyone is, when you get up in the morning, just lay your hands as you pray on your own temples and recite that verse.

Christ in you, his faith in you, that's how you overcome. We want to talk to you about that and about perseverance today. And, Ken, I'm going to read the first portion of this and then we'll get into it. This is out of Hebrews 10, chapter 10, verse 32. But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings. Ken?

Yeah. You know, the operative word there, Greg, is word after. I wonder how many of our listeners who are followers of Christ noticed that they lived one particular way and it seemed like, well, it had some satisfaction and not a lot of opposition. And then they learned the truth about the Gospel. And they asked the Lord Jesus to come into their heart to transform them, change them, forgive their sin, move them on towards a new life, and suddenly, literally, all hell broke loose. And they're like, wait a minute, the person praying for me said I would have a better life and that things would go better. And they're like totally confused. But, you know, this word really kind of sums it up.

After you were illuminated, after you were enlightened, meaning the point in time when you recognized and learned that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God, you endured a great struggle with sufferings. And you're supposed to say, oh boy, isn't this fun? Not.

Hello? And you were made a spectacle, both by reproaches from obviously other people and tribulations of all types, see? And partly while you became companions of those who were so treated. In other words, maybe you didn't know it, but everybody else who was in a position of being a follower of Jesus Christ was experiencing a lot of the same thing.

And you're like, what's for this? Why would I be experiencing more trouble, more tribulation, after making truly the most important decision of my life? Well, prior to that, you were no threat to the realm of darkness and Satan and his emissaries. But as soon as you became a Christian, and because you were made in the image of God, something that Satan hates and despises, suddenly you went from the outer rings of the target to the bullseye. It's automatic.

Now, if you go to Revelation 12, 11 grade, it says he was overcome by the blood of the lamb. That's already a moot point. That's already happened.

Okay? That's over and done. And by the word of the testimony, and often that's where preachers stop. They don't continue on. The rest of the verse says, and to those who don't love their lives unto death. See, Satan doesn't mind bleeding sheep, bleaching, not bleeding, bleaching sheep. He is afraid of roaring lions, that lion of Judah, because every single one of us who knows Jesus Christ has that lion of Judah within us that can overcome. And as a later scripture here says, can endure. You see, when the enemy is coming at us, it's like, dude, is that the best you've got? Because I have the power and authority of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth who came in the flesh. That one. I have that within me to overcome anything you throw and to help take down the realm of darkness and usher in the kingdom of God. And that goes for every single person who's listening to us, by none. 100%.

They are in that place. So the writer of Hebrews is recognizing that. Hey, yeah, you have had this problem. Yeah, you've had struggles. You've had tribulations. You've had reproaches.

People going, how in the world could you do that at a time like this? You shouldn't be thinking about God. I mean, how ridiculous, yada, yada, yada. However, the scripture goes on, doesn't it? You add compassion on me in my chains.

And here he is in chains, writing this. Joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, of things that you own, your possessions, things like that. Knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven. Don't cast away your confidence, which has great reward. The reward, a lot of it, is coming. It's already there. It's sewn up. You've got it.

And it's not going anywhere. But then he says, you have need of endurance. That means moving forward and developing character in spite of the weariness, in spite of the defeat, in spite of the hassle that you appear to be receiving. It says after you've done that, well with God, you're going to receive the promise. And that's where we just have to recognize that because of society as it is, and because of the day and hour that it is, that we're really, we're beyond the last days.

Okay? We're in the last moment, and the pressure and the tension and the opposition's going to be greater now than it's ever been. And we have to have that faith that you're speaking of. We have to have that faith in Christ. We have to have the endurance.

We have the capability of it. And I'm encouraging everybody to do what it says in the Ephesians 6. After having done all to stand, stand. Any final thoughts before we go to break that, Greg?

Well, just the completion of what it says in Revelations 12, where it says, for the devil's come down to you having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time. We're back to talk about that right after this. Yep.

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My guest is Ken Thornburg. You know, Ken, as we talk about this, the other thing that I think is important to understand is the historical context of this and even understanding John and where he's writing from. John is writing from the island of Patmos. John has been taken to the island of Patmos and dropped there as a prisoner. And they put him there. It was like going to Alcatraz folks.

Okay. It was like being stuck out on Alcatraz only you're stuck out on Alcatraz by yourself alone. You're it. And they left him there to die. It was like being shipwrecked. They left him there to die. Christians were being told by both the Romans and by the religious leaders of Israel, stop worshiping this Jesus. They outlawed it. They said it's against the law.

You can't meet. It was one of the reasons that they had some of the different emblems and symbols and means by which they communicated with one another. And if you were caught, I mean, every single one of the disciples, save John, and I think there was one other one, but every one of them was, you know, crucified, murdered for their faith. And they're the martyrs we know of. There are others. The Christians were thrown.

They were collected. Remember that Paul's road to Damascus experience came after, after he had been going into Christian communities that they would discover and taking those people captive and delivering them to die at this time. Yeah. Yes. They didn't have a false hope, false expectation of some rapture that's going to zap them out of where they are right now, today, this hour and send them to heaven. They knew that tribulation was going to come. They knew it.

Yes. And we kind of have a phrase around this house, out of the pews and into the shoes. And that's what the Lord is looking for, for the followers of Christ that we just spoke of to those who don't love their lives under death. Those people spoken of in Revelation there, those are the ones who have taken up the truth and it says, if not now, when? If we don't get up and speak and get active and endure and break through this now, when? Because every, you know, there might be some of our listeners that are thinking, well, I know it's going to get better.

No, it isn't. It isn't going to get better. It's going to get much worse first. And let's keep in mind too, you know, we've got Coptic Christians in Egypt beheaded, being beheaded. We've got right now, Nigerian Christians, right this instant folks that are being murdered, girls being raped. You heard just last week, Dee Dee Logison talking about these girls who are taken and wedded off.

Well, they're wedded off for 24 hours at a time to a different man every 24 hours, 12 year old girls. And here we sit in America, you know, acting as though we're just kind of comfortable in our churches and we'll put on our masks and we'll take our vaccines. Or we won't even go to our church. We'll say, oh, that's okay.

Go ahead. Close the church. You know, we won't meet all of these things. Folks, we have got to stand for Christ or we will.

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