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War and I was well we're glad to have as our guest this evening a big meaty rather Reverend big media I guess we should say from the Ocean City Baptist Church in ocean city of Baghdad where certainly happy to have you on our telecast you for Christ youth on the minds tonight and we're glad to have you given a test a minute that people when you when you tell us whether you're really glad your question they'd like to know how you came to know Christ when you do that or sank you personally I'd be delighted back in 1932 I received the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Savior I came to Jesus as I was weary and born and sad I found in him a resting place and he has made me glad I came to Jesus and I drank of that life giving story my thirst was quenched my soul revived and now I live in him shortly after my conversion the Lord lead made to the Pine Brook Bible conference which proved to be one of the providential circumstances which God used to lead me into full time Christian service and I'm so happy tonight to stand before you as a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ happy in the service of the cave and give a why that's well you know you folks might be understood now to that we just opened our buying bread Bible conference today and we have then rolled out our cams find room shout of a good mountain brook the largest enrollment we have had in 18 years we have had them we're so glad for that and some of the weeds of past filling up and if you'd like to come to the beautiful Pocono mountains of Pennsylvania why come up near Stroudsburg it is and visit does and write to box one Philadelphia Pennsylvania for literature and we'll be happy to mail it to you there's room for everyone young people 14 years of age and of a prime broken boys and girls 6 to 14 and. 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Help bring me to the Lord Jesus write him in my birth mother. Died tonight I had been under conviction for 2 days worrying night and day about losing my life with a heart in there but God This means of mental anguish to beat me down that night I cried out to God have mercy on my soul I confessed my sins and let them in and now I have the marvelous peace that comes with being They've by grace. There is one who you are their brother Crawford just want to tell you how much we enjoy your television programs you are to be highly commended for the way that you present the gospel in song and story in such an interesting and convincing way when I was visiting 2 weeks ago my host told me that every Monday morning his business associates come into the office saying I heard your friend Percy last night these men have no church can. Actions and ordinarily have no interest in the Gospel whatsoever. Down to Crawford. And occasionally my friend and I walk to the television there were not. 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I don't and a box on the porch lot on lovely little kittens and she was playing with them and enjoying them and she went out just yesterday I believe and stooped down on the parts to pick the little kittens up in the box and our copperhead snake was wrapped around the box in behind where she didn't see them and as she picked up the box with all the little kittens and the copperhead snake reached up and just. When after. Oh I became black and then rushed to the hospital she's in there however in between life and death but they. I'd rather have that happen to my boy and have him died trusting Jesus Christ. Than to be like some of you and go through life without a whole without knowing Jesus Christ as your Savior and be lost and go to hell for all eternity and I want to talk to you about that come on now let me talk to you about that and I back up what I'm going to say I want to read to you from the Bible live the 18th chapter the temp verse to man went up into the temple to pray one of prayers and so on and one of public the public in standing on fire I would not live so much as I have been but smote upon his breast saying the mercy of both to me a sinner. And Jesus said I tell you this man went down to his house justified to man one of their see one of publican and like he had trouble he was in trouble there was a man and a man who was a problem was one who had sold out he was or do but when the Romans came in and took over he turned a tax collector he sold out to the government and as a result was collecting taxes for the Roman government from his own people and they hated it he hated them the Jews hate that he was not turncoat he'd sold out of his own people and he was hated by the Judy was hated by everyone and he was determined to take all the good in greed and sometimes they were very crooked and this man apparently was one of such and he were way down to the bottom but he wanted God He had a hungering for a god he wanted to know reality he wanted to know what sins were forgiven away down at the bottom Jesus said He came one day there prayed to man this man came down church and he stood there and he prayed and prayed God be merciful to me a sinner down the bottom and you know I was thinking as I read that today a man's extremity is God's opportunity when you reach the place where you're desperate when you lose your job when your friends turn against you when you're sick of your sound when you're sick of your sin and you're dead I mean I'm not. A year of things on you and you're all washed up like a man wrote me a while back he said I'm a washout I was right that's the place God does something for you and there are many of you deny just right in that condition Old lot of you have money a lot of you have lecture you've got a lovely television sets and you've got a lovely home your god made in Cardiff or away down the way that you're just like this man you have no job no satisfaction all of these in your heart and you need but this man his plight was desperate Jesus said He came and he stood there and he prayed and I want to swear I was just right here is a prayer he said God be merciful to me a sinner was an elaborate you know I read a while back some years ago that a man who opened Congress preacher I've made the greatest player ever prayed I don't know about that Jesus made some beautiful bears but this man made a prayer that was a hard lesson he said the most of all to me a sinner God be a Mars of all what a prayer what a prayer of prayer of desperation you know what is going to break gone toward me is that when Dollar lookers upon the mercy seat. In other words when you when you looked on the mercy seat of all did you know that there was forgiveness there and here here was forgiveness and he said not gone be that way be that toward me be merciful to me as sin that opens have them day and my brand God has brought you to that place tonight where you'd wake up to the fact that you're I really helpless in your sound again heaven and he you gotta admit defeat you've got to reach that place that he was so disgusted with him soundly beat upon his breast and said God be merciful to me 1900 years ago Jesus went to Calvary and died on the prosper centers in order to do my be taken by heaven and have your sins washed away and then the paid Jesus said this man not the other one this man I'll tell you about the other one maybe next week this man went to his house just the 5. He'd never see why because you had no tome because someone had taken his place and taken his sins and on the crash Jesus died that you might have like the would have life eternal I went through a cemetery the other day and I saw a lot of a lot of lovely. Things written on the tombstone they were beautiful but. I'd like to have on mine someday justified. Just put all the summons you want done but I won't bother me but I love flowers I won't smell of it maybe I'm bragging think anybody will but a flower on my tombstone. Doesn't make any difference but if you can put justified just visit you have never seen. A rail. And a night there by your television set my friend we offer you are Savior I care not how low down you are you need to pray the publicans prayer that this man prayed God be merciful to me a sinner if you're going to get that when you know that we've done it we're glad we have we want you to do the same thing right now may we have our heads in a word of prayer. You. Are. Heads are bowed and eyes are just before I have prayer. We have nothing to say. We have nothing to advertise on this program except the Son of God the Lord Jesus who wants to come into your heart. How many of you right there now by your television set I know you have your friends around. Don't be ashamed of the Lord. Your head right there now and say God be merciful to me a sinner. Saved me for Jesus a. 100 to doing it throughout the nation. Why don't you. Get on the track know the joy of having your sins forgiven to let us close now remember you are the . Great Father blessed be May there be a great many from coast to coast tonight looking in on this little program may they come to trust state and know that Christ died for their sins and go before the world that God was blunt and let them laugh and sneer. But May they be justified in their hearts because Christ died but we pray in Jesus by the name Amy. Friend you have written by the Reverend Percy. 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The American Broadcasting Company this is k l t t Commerce City Denver broadcasting in h.d. Digital radio and online at 670 k l t t v dot com. The truth is many people are defeated in their life every day because they are ignorant of the schemes of the devil know what is a scheme a scheme is a mob the. And plot all plan with a very specific objective in mind which is to defeat or undermine in some fashion and when we talk about the snare us there is simply a trap and that is say is that attempting to trap to catch us to capture by his scheming underhanded plotting way getting at tension all by Lord Jesus Christ or some. Welcome to in touch with Dr Charles Stanley soldiers where camouflage to prevent easy detection allowing them to get close to their target today Dr Stanley shares how Satan uses a similar method to attack the leaders learn to defeat your spiritual enemy by recognizing his tactics and avoid being smeared by the scheme. Temptation is a fact of life and it's not going away does it make a difference how young you are or how old you are temptations always going to be with us so you can't run from it that doesn't mean that you're not to fully in the midst of temptation but you can't run an escape from 10 patient in a life and the reason is because Satan has the great tempter is always going to be there attempting to accomplish his purpose and if someone should ask you what is Satan's ultimate bottom line purpose this is it Satan's bottom line purpose in your life and mine and everyone else's is the energy in a does from God that is he wants to alienate does in this life and our fellowship with Him or a person is lost it is the alienate that person from God for all the trying to do but a nation to interfere with f l a ship and to divide us and separate us from God is always his ultimate goal. Whatever the temptation is you and I know that when Satan comes to was with that temptation he has found he already knows that there is an area of weakness there and so what does he do in his. Aiming plotting to defeat he uses what he knows will always at least get our attention so I want to title this message snared by the schemer and I want to talk about in this message what I believe is his choice this method of defeating us if you just think about all the words by which Satan is described and he's called you know the evil one the murderer of the lie the prince of the powers of the air he has many 1000000 names but it's interesting how he's described and what is alluded to him in 2nd Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 11 I want you to turn their problem and if you will 2nd Corinthians chapter 2 verse 11 and Paul is writing to the Corinthians here and talking about their conduct and so forth and he comes to the 10th verse and it's interesting how he links these 2 things together when he says but whom you forgive anything I forgive also for indeed what I have forgiven if I have forgiven anything I did for your sakes in the presence of Christ and all of that noted bandage be taken of us by Satan but we're not ignorant of his schemes and so he says forgiveness is a very important part of a Christian life in protecting ourselves from Satan schemes but notice that last phrase that I want to deal with we are not ignorant of his schemes the truth is many people are defeated in their life every day because they are ignorant of the schemes of the devil know what is a scheme a scheme is an underhanded plot all planned with a very specific objective in mind which is to defeat or undermine in some fashion and we talk about the snare as there is simply a trap and that is Satan is attempting to trap us to catch us to capture us by his scheming underhanded plotting way of getting our tension off of our Lord Jesus Christ and on to something else so what I would like for us to do is to look at the. Scheme that Satan use is and to think about it in terms of maybe how you and I have been tempted and things and how he uses this ad in the best way to describe this is the use and care it is the illustrated with some characters of the Old Testament the 1st of all let me state it say choices way to cause us to be snared in Temptation is the do this. His choice method is the get out of focus of the big picture of life and narrow it down to the one single thing he's going to use this narrow us and what he does is he simply alters their focus get it out the big picture down to the single thing you think about this for a moment when you tempted by anything the intensity of the temptation increases to the proportionate to the degree you focus on the object of temptation . That is to the degree to which your focus is geared and is directed to that object of temptation to that degree is the intensity of that temptation and so what does he do he simply attempts to get our focus narrowed down well let's start if you will in Genesis Chapter 3 with Aids. And notice what the object here is you'll notice that verse 3 the serpent was more crafty he was the schemer and that's why Paul's says inefficient Chapter 6 when to put on the whole armor of God to protect ourselves from us against the schemes the trickery those underhanded scheming tactics of say so he says to her indeed has God said You shall not eat from any tree of the garden and then they carry on the woman said to the serpent from the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden God has said You shall not eat from it or touch it lest you die the serpent said the woman you surely should not die for God knows that in the day that you eat from it your eyes will be open and you will be like God knowing good and evil Now look at this when the woman saw now that this doesn't mean she's not a glance. Because he brought her attention that in a way already when she saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes that the tree was desirable to make one wise she took from its fruit ate and she gave her husband with her and he ate the eyes of them both were opened down what did he do he did say look at this fantastic garden so wonderful garden he said Dave. Look at the fruit. And he said if you will take a bite of the fruit. Don't look at the god is not the god it's the fruit if you take a bite of the fruit you'll be like God you'll be smart so what he did is he took Eades focus and he got it all all the garden all the other trees brought it down not just the one tree but the fruit and said. If you will eat of the fruit of this tree you'll be like God knowing the difference between good and evil the 2nd thing I want you to notice and let's go to Joshua chapter 7 Look if you will in verse 20 and you recall this is when Joshua confronts aken about stealing the gold and silver and look if you will in verse 20 so he can answer Joshua and said Truly I have sinned against the law of the got of this one this is what I did when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shine are and 200 shekels of silver and a bar of gold 50 shekels in weight and I coveted them and took them and behold they can still in the earth and sod mountain with the silver underneath it you know what he did is what he did it took his eyes off the big picture. Because they were taking a city they were being obedient to God and all that was involved in that tremendous victory Satan got his eyes all to victory all of what God was up to an end his life the nation of Israel got to know one thing and all of a sudden he was Gruden magnetised by gold silver and those clothings that he wanted he got his focus them on the one thing and he worked on him with the goal and the silver just like he worked on even the fruit with he will make you like God you'll have position where they can it'll make you rich it'll make you a wealthy God is the big picture I want you to turn if you will to 2nd Samuel 11 chapter 2nd Samuel what's happening now that there is peace. In David's kingdom the scripture says in chapter 11 verse one then it happened in the spring at the time when kings grabbed the baton the Davidson Joevan his servants with him and all Isreal and they destroyed the sons of a man and besieged Raba But David stayed in Jerusalem now in the evening came David arose from his bed and walk around on the roof of the king's house and from the roof he saw a woman bathing and the woman was very beautiful in appearance you know what happened walking around looking over the city and all of his balcony seeing all that God had done all of a sudden his would say did he narrowed his focus down to one household and one woman taken a bath and his Satan just narratives focused down he forgot all about being a king for a moment he forgot all about the battles he'd won that he was the king of Isreal all that God had done for him he took his eyes off the big picture got it narrowed down to one woman taking a bath and it was the disaster for his life well let's keep going I want you to turn to 1st Kings Chapter 19 for a moment and 1st Kings Chapter 19. You'll recall that god. I had told him I. Told him to announce there's not going to be. Any rain and all of us are old and so there wasn't any then of course you know he told him that there would be and so this is the this is the thing that's going on but I want you to notice what happens in chapter 19 now they have told jazz avail all that in logic had done how he had killed all the prophets with the sword then Jessa bells in the messenger lodges saying so May the gods didn't they and even more if I do not make your life is the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time G.'s I'm going to kill you that's what she sent and he was afraid and rose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba which belongs to Judah and left his servant there but he himself went to Day's Journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and he requested for himself that he might die and said it is enough now oh Lord take my life around not better than my columns. Or the will happen to this giant of a prophet is what happened to him he had watched God did this amazing work he'd watch God defeat the prophets of Bale but all of us said here's what Satan did he got his focus off of all the victories that God had brought about his life and narrowed it down to one woman and a name was jazz a pail and the only thing he could think about was jazz the bell and her power to kill him her digits her Atran her animosity her hostility toward him she says you send him a message tomorrow I'm going to killing and you know what happened he got his focus all of this mighty omnipotent god who worked a miracle in his life before the nation a visceral and got to know one woman and on her position and her professed power and what happens he backsides out there thinking about the wrong thing now here's what I want to say with those will astray sions every time you and I get defeated we get to the to same way every single time we get that they did ultimately that says Saint you see this is what temptation does temptation by its very nature is magnetic. That is Satan whether it's a thing or somebody or whatever it might be Satan gets Al focused narrowed down to the one thing that he wants us to think about and once he gets your focus on that then he begins to send you all of these messages you've got to have it you wanted it to satisfy you need you ever have to work again or whatever it might be he starts pumping you with all of his lies because he is the father of lies it is the narrow focus that is his ultimate tactic his ultimate scheme if he can get you to get your focus narrowed he knows you're not going to keep the big picture in mind and if you don't here's what's going to happen 1st of all bought by you're not backing off and you get tunnel vision telescopic sight this thing did this and the begins the magnetize you draw you you get blotted out and blacked out of questions like these is this the will of God for my life how is this going to affect my life well this hand I'm a success in my wall will this get me where I'm going what are the consequences of such an act or if I get this or receive that or go there what are the consequences how is it going to affect me in the future and I'm going to have guilt and my going to feel pain am I going to hurt other people who are around me is going to suffer as a result of this. Well it hurt my relationship to Christ Well I'll be glad I did oh sorry I did you see how many times that you said Gadahn knew better. You sure did but your focus got an errand and friend let me tell you something that's exactly the scheme of the devil he's always used it because it's always work why should he do anything else narrows our focus then I think about people who read pornography Here's a good example people who read pornography for example. They get their focus and say it narrows their focus down and says this is what you want to would you like to have this to whatever it might be in the only thing that matters is in those moments a narrow and penetrating intense focus this this and nothing else I want to happens there's defeat Satan's always done that that's the way he operates but I want you to go back to Genesis 39. And Genesis Chapter 39 and here's a young man who had the same kind of temptation it was an intense one and you see with a that was the temptation for power with a can it was a temptation for material possessions money with David it was the temptation was a Marl temptation a sexual temptation and with Elijah it was fear to forget all that God had done and get concentrated on one wall man's threat but I want you look in the 39th chapter of Genesis you remember this is the story of Joseph and you recall how part of his wife had. Attempted to seduce him and verse 7 says it came about after these events that his master's wife looked with desire at Josephs knows she's the one who got to focus all narrowed down and she was the one who was coming on saying live with me live with me live with me. Joseph couldn't let his focus get all narrowed down on this woman but here's here's what he did he backed off and he said. God has put me in this place God has intrusted to me and your husband is intrusted to me all that I'm responsible for your His wife he's in trust that everything to me but you. He's keeping the big focus and then here's his big line listen to what he says he says How can I do this great evil and sin against God. You know what he was thinking about he was thinking about how it affects him how it would have that his master how would it take God's plan for his life whatever that is and listen Joseph not even knowing this awesome fantastic unbelievable historical plan that God had prison life to save the nation of the Egypt to make him the prime minister and make him a man who would be written up in scriptures and thousands of years later we're still talking about it he didn't know that but he kept the big picture. That whatever God wanted to do with his life he didn't want it messed up and my friend the only thing that will save us in temptation is keeping the b. Picture those who wise enough to back all and asked the good questions the best questions the real questions God. What is the wise thing to do God has this going to take my life God How is this going to affect what you will is for my life has this going to affect those around me when you start asking those questions it's amazing what happens I want you to turn if you will to Colossians chapter 3 Listen to what he says since you've been raised up with Christ let it be your lifestyle to keep own seeking the things above that is spiritual things and knowledge and wisdom and give some god where Christ is seated at the right hand of God set your mind on the things above not on the things that are on earth for you die out of these things your life is hidden with Christ and God and Christ is that life is revealed then you'll also be revealed with him. Set your mind on the things about go back if you will to Philippians chapter 4 for a moment live in chapter 4. Paul says in verse a fine libretto whatever is true. Whatever is honorable whatever is right whatever is pure whatever is lovely whatever is of good repute if there is any excellence and anything worthy of praise let your mind dwell on these things the mind of man is Satan's battlefield that's where all the battles go on the battle does not go in with your hands and if he or even your eyes or your ears or your lips the battle is in your mind will you allow Satan to snare you by narrowing your focus down to what he wants you to have known to destroy you or would you back off and get the big picture and ask yourself the question. Is this pure is this lovely Is this good is this right is this godly Is this a part of God's perfect plan for my life set your mind of the things above and disable bit more narrow set your mind on Christ. And my friend listen Satan have a hard time defeating you in temptation when you keep the big picture. Father we love and praise you and thank you the simplicity of the award for the faces in the successes of the a Saints in the past who are a beautiful and exciting challenging comforting reassuring pattern to all of us who walk in the same kind of a lifestyle that they walked in and a life where there is temptation trials and heartaches and. We love in praise you for loving is enough to give someone the Holy Spirit to live on the inside of us to give us the sun and to speak to us there in the one isn't to sound the signal the alarm when temptation is coming. And also to enable us. To back off. And ask the right questions. Father would you give us wisdom to know how to keep the big picture in mind in every single area and circumstance of our life but we ask it in Christ's name. 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The Bible says in Romans 828 then God causes all things they work together for good to those who love Him Those are called according to his purpose now you may say but what about loneliness he said all things not some things you see he will cause your loneliness to work together for good if you will respond to him correctly instead of becoming better resentful hostile and angry if he wants us to walk through these difficult isn't hardships and Trials in life and do what and respond by allowing them to drive us to himself and when we do what happens we get. To Him we begin to see that God has something in mind we. I began to see that God's going to cause this in some fashion in some way to work for a good and solid to encourage you that in the lonely times of your life set your focus upon him begin to talk to him rely upon him let him drive you to himself playing to him and you know what will happen you will become aware that he is with you every single moment of your time in your day no matter what's going on and therefore while you may feel lonely at times you're not alone and the more you and I focus on the fact that I'm not alone that he's with me what happens that loneliness just disappears and that's my prayer for you that God will cure you of that relieve you of it set you free of it and set your focus on the Lord Jesus Christ himself. A Christian looks forward to eternity with God and enjoys the perfect friendship here and now learn more that in touch. 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If you don't know President Trump has been hammered repeatedly by this pair on m s n b c Joe Scarborough by the way he claims to be a Republican but really the guy is pretty liberal as far as m s n b c standards ago he's fairly conservative but as far as conservative standards ago he's pretty liberal anyway they regularly hammer and attack and insult President Trump Well as you know and anyone surrounding the president knows Donald Trump a somebody who as they say fights fire with fire you come at him with a knife he comes at you with a bazooka you come at him with a gun he comes at you with a Sherman tank he throws everything at you including the kitchen sink this is what he's known for well he went on a pretty vicious Twitter attack against a Brzezinski and Scarborough on m.s.n. B.c. He said quote On Twitter I heard poorly rated morning Joe speaks badly of me don't watch anymore then how come low i.q. Crazy Mika along with psycho Joe came to Mar a Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve and insisted on joining me she was bleeding badly from a facelift I said no. All right so he's insulting her he points out the fact that she had a facelift and she was bleeding from this was mocking her for having a facelift he's accusing her of having a low i.q. He calls Joe Scarborough a psycho. And so as expected the mainstream press and the Democrats and some Republicans are hammering President triumph over this now I'm not going to kid you folks when I see tweets like this I wince I do because truth be told this is beneath the dignity of the presidency it really is and I think President Trump is wrong for doing stuff like this even though I am a huge supporter and huge defender of the president's So what I see here honestly is President Trump still allowing some of his old ways to occasionally creep through and slip through the cracks for the most part if you look at the president since he's been in office he really has done a much better job being more presidential being a little bit more polished he's still blunt he's still direct but he hasn't usually gotten this petty and this personally insulting the way that he did back before he was president so sometimes his emotions get the best of him and let stuff like this creep through it's wrong I'm not defending it I'm not justifying it but what I am saying is s let's put this into proper perspective Ok if you go back and you look at every tweet that he sent out since he's been inaugurated the hundreds and hundreds of tweets you know something you're going to be able to count maybe on one hand the times where he's done something this wins worthy It really is extremely rare sometimes we tend to focus on the one percent of the mistakes that he makes and we get him Nisha to the other 99 percent of his tweets and his statements that don't cross the line like this so I think he crossed the line but I don't think that we identify as entire presidency by this also to me the issue is not the tweeting itself remember he could say these very same kind of reckless things to a reporter or in an interview as well or in a statement that he sends off to the media so the issue isn't the vehicle that he uses of Twitter the issue is. Disciplining itself to stop doing this kind of stuff he's done for the most part he just needs to get from 99 percent to 100 percent. Politics and. Its affiliates ownership. Stake or. The design of this commemorative.