The video titled "Basic Bible Doctrine Class 10" presented by Epic Church International focuses on the topic of angels, exploring their nature, roles, and significance in Christian theology, particularly through the lens of "angelology." The session lasts approximately 51 minutes and is characterized by a blend of scriptural references, personal anecdotes, and theological insights.
Introduction
Scriptural Foundation
Definition of Angelology
Personal Testimonies
Characteristics of Angels
Nature and Function
Types of Angels
Theological Insights
Practical Application
Conclusion
"Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by doing so some have unwittingly entertained angels."
"Angels are true life guards... They make sure nothing can happen to you until it's time."
"The finished work of Jesus Christ for both heaven and earth... interesting statement isn’t it?"
The "Basic Bible Doctrine Class 10" video provides a thorough examination of angelology within the Christian faith. By combining scriptural teachings with personal narratives, the speaker effectively communicates the relevance of angels in the life of a believer. This session not only educates the audience about angels but also encourages them to seek a deeper relationship with God and an understanding of spiritual matters.
uh welcome once again to basic bible doctrine uh we're in class number 10 and lesson number eight and we're going to be dealing with something called angels this is called angelology let's pray first father in the wonderful name of jesus we thank you for this time together we thank you for your word father that never returns void in our hearts so open our hearts now to your word father be glorified in jesus name amen and amen if you have your bible shy trust you do i want you to open up to hebrews chapter 13. i was just given this verse i believe by the holy spirit just a few minutes ago and it says something i think that a lot of us could um identify with hebrews chapter 13 uh verse one it says first of all the brotherly love continued number two so the verse do not forget to entertain strangers for by doing so some have unwittingly entertained angels wow i wonder how many of us have a testimony and could say something about how they had a situation that they have no idea how they got out of it alive or unhurt or it wasn't as bad as it could have been concept and things were just and and it had to be an angel yeah um they're alive and well aren't they but i i'm i was thought of that verse i hadn't thought about in a long time even in the lesson it's not there but um there have been i think three times in my 43 years of being saved that i could say there had to be some angels hanging out around brother joe that delivered him from a catastrophe and i'm sure you have the same uh stories what's my point there's angels there is another being if you will apart from the human race they talk about are there you know um aliens out there in space oh there's a there's there is another race of creative beings and they're called angels and that's what we're going to look at during this next hour we're going for 55 minutes we're together concerning what it means who they are i trust that this book you have been reading on your own in light of deeper research in the uh areas that we have been going over these past several weeks um dig deep what we do here in light of these lessons is basic um i try to throw some some knuckle balls at you to to to wet your appetite to go deeper and i i'm depending on you to to to want to grow further in some of these topics that we're talking about why it's only equipping you for the ministry god has down the corridor of time get yourself ready it may not look like anything happening now in light of your calling put it that way uh be faithful where you are the old baptist said bloom where you're planted i love it man bloom where you're planted be available for the pastor and for the sheep to love on them and just offer a a word of due season anyway i'll stop right there uh anyway listen number eight here we go um angelology the doctrine of angels they have two two two two twofold ministries um uh their ministry and their function uh it's two uh we're pretty much in line with this mission it's called worship and service worship and service angels have that ministry too to worship and to serve god don't we worship god with all our heart mind body and soul strength and serve um anyway um if you look at your notes real quick uh the definition there number one um i think hebrews chapter 1 verse 14 says are they not all ministering spirits rendering service to the heirs of salvation pretty much coordinates with what we just read having strangers in our lives people who just showed up and were gone the next moment before brother joe was saved had a very strange incident at the headliner nightclub in neptune new jersey on highway 35 some of you may know it it's still there right now called the headline just before the belmar bridge um it's there right now i was twisted and stoned out of my mind on saturday night not saved wasn't backsliding didn't know no jesus i am as messed up and uh i'm in the headliner just having a little drink trying to balance the cocaine with the marijuana you saw me know what i mean and uh this is back in the disco days everybody was pretty brother joe used to be six foot four on my platform shoes i had on and and it had had that v-neck shirts hair sticking out the chest shark skin pants that was lean and mean anyways you know and the girls are as pretty as can get me in walks this what i call farmer gray girl what it was a farmer gray girl just look like farmer gray hair kind of strangling had on a knapsack dress down their ankles i said what is that doing in here that's man she's in the wrong place sandals on i said that's what he didn't belong here everybody's pretty we were disco dancing we're you know we're saturday night live we we're all over and he walks this former gray girl and i said yeah anyway so i'm talking you know whatever and and some time goes by and i see her again on the other side and she's walking around whoo she ain't a chance ain't nobody picking her up man anyway and then all of a sudden i felt sick i had to throw up it was getting that bad and i just told my boys i said i gotta go outside i'll be back man so i go outside the headliner there and and and i sit down on the on on the planter there so it's a brick planter still there i sat down on it getting ready to throw up and all of a sudden i look up hey this girl standing in front of me she says are you okay and i said no not feeling well she says can i pray for you do whatever you want girl yeah i'm just a tough guy yeah pray for me what's up your sleeve man so she said close your eyes and she laid her hand on my head i had a big fro so she put it right here right here and her brother joe had a throat as a big man i put don cornelius the shame of my pro anyway she put her hand on my forehead and began to speak in some chinese language i'm listening and she's she's talking and and she said okay now open your eyes and how do you feel so i open my eyes oh my god i am straight what in the world and as i'm bewildered as i'm looking on the ground going what in the world she was gone i looked up and she's gone and i turned to my right and i see her getting in a plymouth i i'm a mechanic my tracer no cars very well and she's getting into this old plymouth and i said whoa yo oh come here and and and just pulled out and drove out the parking lot on the highway 35 and i'm going wait wait wait wait what what happened to me how did you do that but here i am now straighter than that no more throw up no headache no high nothing so i walked back inside the headline you know of course you gotta get dragged out come straight anyway somebody messed up and i talked to the bouncer i said hey who's that girl man what was her name well the farmer great restaurant he said what girl what dress i see you know the one the one that was outside put her hand on my head and go charlie what you talking about you high i'm straight he said well you need a drink yes i do what's my point that was the beginning of god starting to work on this vessel here using somebody an angel in a human body or they do that don't they oh yes they do yes they do oh yes they do yeah that man that gathering oh doesn't he know about a spirit in him a demonic angel if you will right uh this girl i i can't wait to get to heaven to see who that girl was man anyway uh they oh goodness um they minister and they worship they serve god's purposes and a lot of it revolves around of course god's eternal plans and purposes and right now in this age of grace it revolves mostly around the elect you and i because all the father has given the son he shall lose none and the angels are now on high alert making sure every child of god predestinated before the foundation of the world will come to know jesus christ the savior amen i'll stop there everywhere let's go back to our notes brother joseph goes on a tangent again on your letter a their expressions cross that cross out psalm 104 verse 4. put hebrews chapter 1 verse 14 are they not all ministering spirits rendering service to heirs of salvation they are true life guards you've been to the beach you've seen it on the back of those wooden seats that they stand up 10 feet tall lifeguard oh baby we got the real deal these are real life guard they make sure nothing can happen to you until it's time you cannot die you cannot be curtailed in your mission you can't be stopped there's nothing in that that can happen to you no matter how many the things people throw in your way or even demonic force to try to oh no no no the angel will make sure that you finish your race with joy letter b explanations messengers they can bring messages of joy and they can bring messages of judgment oh boy yeah the old testament hebrew and new testament greek translate the word angel as really can mean ambassador messenger deputy and minister ambassador messenger deputy or minister two of those might be on your test highlight real quick all right boy brother jose ambassador messenger deputy and minister that word angel can be used in in its context in those four descriptions okay um uh human as messengers you might remember what it said there uh in luke chapter 7 verse 24 uh it talks about the messages of john um when they said to jesus because john had sent messages to jesus saying are you the coming one remember when john got arrested and he got a little shaky and we all understand that he said go and ask him are you the coming one so the messengers that could betray they'll angel but they weren't angels they were people i'm just saying this this translation concept um they were messengers asking jesus if he was the coming one of course without a doubt remember the master said the blind see that the leopards are healed the dead are raised blessed are those who are offended because of me hallelujah anyway the divine number two you're in your notes they they they they bring a divine message in genesis 18 and i'll kind of highlight that for you um and we have the angels three of them showing up they have a good message and a bad message it's full of joy and then full of judgment where's the joy brother joe while they're in genesis 18 um they had they told abraham in the beginning of the text there and please read this on your own that uh sarah was going to have a baby and there's old amen 99 years old and there's sarah for the 89 uh you know 10 years apart my memory is correct and she's going to finally give birth you know god is faithful and true to his word when god gives you a word and you don't see anything happen keep your faith in what he told you from his word okay he'll bring it to pass he makes everything listen ecclesiastics he makes everything beautiful in its own time psalm 31 15 my times are in thy hands oh god don't be too pushy and too quick to jump on things without god opening up certain doors and bringing certain things into your life those who wait upon the lord shall what renew their strength they'll mount up with wings like eagles they shall run and not grow weary they shall walk and not faith god will bring it to pass and he does that there in genesis 18 of the angels say hey sarah's going to have it yep in fact she laughed didn't she isaac which would mean laughter but what's the point the angels brought great joy but in the same chapter a few verses later now all of a sudden why are these three angels there because the stench of sodom and gomorrah has gone up to the law and time is town for judgment and they're letting abraham know this is what we're going to do we're going to go see and if what we hear about it is true we will bring judgment on it so what's the point angels can bring joy and they can bring judgment can't they um from what we know in the bible uh god has given us um well let's let's look there at the description of personality um they are real personal beings um so personal just like you and i like my name is joe and and some of you you know you have your name where we're personal people with certain personalities and traits of character behavior so is angels we've got three names in the bible of three angels don't we lucifer michael and gabriel wow lucifer michael and gabriel and they have their own personality don't they sad to say lucifer you might put isaiah 14 12 down this is where we find his fall but we find that he was then his name means day star light bearer son of a morning supposedly he was illuminated and and instrumentally to uh to worship and to praise in a way that is just heavenly and that we know nothing about in light of what it really sounded looked like but it was it was pretty high level it was good stuff um and we know lucifer fell because of pride and turned into satan it said there in isaiah 14 12 how you have falls in heaven or lucifer's son of the morning how you were cut down to the ground you who weakened the nations um the next one we have is michael um and that means god-like uh it seems that michael does warfare um he's mentioned in daniel and in revelations um he says there in jude 1 9 yet michael the archangel uh contended with the devil when he disputed about the body of moses they're not bringing against him a railing accusation but said the lord rebuked you uh michael doesn't mind getting into the ring and and and taking care of god's business um then we have gabriel's name uh that means strength of god gabriel seems to be more of an announcer he seems to just dictate verbally what god wants done um this name too is found in daniel as well as in luke 1 19 announcing of all things that creates an announcement there ever was that the virgin shall conceive a child and i should call his name jesus for he will save his people from their sins his name is gabriel means strength of god um he brings prophetic words um he brought them to daniel zacharias and of course as i just said to mary and he stand i love it man he stands in the presence of god that's found in luke luke 1 verse 19 where it says and the angel answer said to him i am gabriel who stands in the presence of god and was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings hallelujah do you know i was um you know as a teacher um we study and we learn and i've always taught that there are only three names uh in the bible of angels that god had let us know about um but you know you always can learn more and sometimes out of the mouth of babes god perfects praise into himself and straightens out brother joe too anyway i say several years ago in one of my classes there's only three names in the bible and this little girl's little girl who just got saved and said raise the hands of the dog brother joe there's there's another name i said no there's only three enough there is a guy just read it last night i said you did well she got someone's book she wrote she said uh would you turn to revelation 9 i said will i teaching the teacher and again hey we're always learning aren't we all of us including brother joe that's why if you know something that i teach that that that i wasn't correct on or didn't have all the facts you feel free to call me here at the church or you you can email me here anyway i said what what another name no she's oh yeah i ran left and smiling little beanie little girl what she wasn't being obnoxiously disrespectful she said no there's another name i read it last night that's where revelation that she got a little thing she said chapter 9 she said verse 11 uh reverend joe very respectful revelation 9 11 and you get your bible too and look what it says and they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit whose name in hebrew is abaddon but in greek he has the name apollyon can i do young lady you get a plus for this class there are four names just we always talk three didn't we uh i know something so i knew that brother joe no you didn't anyway if you did god bless you but there are four names aren't there now anyway just go to show you we don't know everything and always be open for people to give you quote correction or instruction anyway personalities look at your notes there i think we just went over that as personal being they have their own character and their own behavior i wonder if they do a temperamental profile huh would be nice to see that within just joking for you who know about temperament anyway their organization uh i don't mean in sense of a corporate organization i mean they have a heavenly body they are organized they um they they have a body um letter c uh says the enumeration in other words uh hebrews 12 22's they are uncountable they uh are so many um i guess what's the shocking thing is that one third of the uncountable left that's a lot of fallen angels if you will but the other two thirds did not join lucifer in his rebellion in heaven just a note of consideration in light of the two-thirds uh not following satan or since that time of rebellion and having all of them been kicked out what has kept the two-thirds from doing another revolt um you know being kind of come off the streets when i see that you failed and got busted by the cops on something i learned from your mistakes so i won't make that mistake so i come up with a new plan to get away with what you didn't get away with so in my thinking two-thirds just run with me a minute the two-thirds you know one of the big boys and the angels would have said hey you know satan didn't do it right let's do it this way and maybe we can take over heaven and what seems in in my understanding of the finished work of jesus christ for both heaven and earth interesting statement isn't it the finished work of jesus christ what do you mean by the finished work this cross is not just for earth it's also for heaven what do you mean brother oh yeah god's gonna make a new heaven and a new earth when jesus returns have you read the book of revelation anyway these two thirds my point is this and my understanding it looks like and again i don't mind dialogue about it that the two-thirds who did not follow satan but stayed in their abode and and and and with god their creator were now locked they graduated into what we call sinless perfection locked in locked into sinless perfection where they cannot sin they cannot rebel it's impossible because of the finished work of jesus christ so it should be with you and i when the master comes back and we're resurrected with him with his new body and our new spirits and we'll be locked into what they call sinless perfection will be just like jesus we will never be able to sin when the master comes back and makes all things new where righteousness dwells oh god i can't wait getting a little older now and looking for that new body and some of you know exactly what i mean anyway i trust that stirs you up to dig deeper into what i'm saying about the eternal estate of them and us because of our master on the cross of calvary locked into can never be unlocked out of god sinless perfection it'll happen sooner than you think i think john said come soon lord jesus and things around our world right now are looking uh maybe the beginning of what they call birth pains as the master said i wonder anyway back to our notes you can call me up on that one right their habitation they inhabit the heavenlies both the third heaven second heaven and they come to earth and take on human form as we will see okay as god wants it done they don't pick and choose when they want to come to earth and just hang out man and go have a smoke no no no no no they are there they are created to worship and to serve anyway okay let's go letter e their characterization um their spirits um uh it says they're hebrews 1 7 it's a reference to a psalm that says who makes his angel spirit and his minister's flames of fire i trust you're on fire for jesus amen i like what spurgeon said about uh getting excited about jesus he said get on fire for jesus let people come watch you burn anyway there's spirits number two there corporal they they can take on a body is a human body with blood i don't know how they do that god's in charge of that because it says there in john 2012 uh when mary magdalene saw two angels in white sitting at the head uh one of the head and the other at the feet of the tomb where the master had been laid down they were sitting there in their angelical body i can't explain it more than that i've never seen that brother joe i've never seen an angel i have had their presence help me especially when i got saved and that woman laying her hand on my head but i've never seen anything yet no telling what's going to happen tomorrow or even today amen anyway uh their perfection um let me just turn my notes here a little bit uh let's see here yeah they are deathless um let's read luke 20. i want to read that because it's interesting here uh luke 20. i just love the word of god and i just thank god for giving us all the information we need for life and godliness luke 20. huh starting in verse 35 the master um the sadducees are questioning him with some ridiculous question about the resurrection his brother had his wife and then he dies for several other brothers have her because that was their their their law then to raise up seed and yet all died whose husband will she be the resurrection and the master says there in verse 34 um the sons of this age marion are given in marriage that's now but those who are counted worthy to attain that age and the resurrection from the dead neither married nor are given in marriage uh looks like i'll stop then it looks like either you get married now are you gonna happen later on in in eternity i'll leave that alone number 36 verse 36 nor can they die anymore for they are equal to the angels and the sons of god in other words angels don't die they they they they're they're they're deathless it's the point number two um in your notes they're unchangeable in other words they don't grow old and weary they stay who they are number three a local uh not not local like crazy as we say in in in the mexican language logo my logo no no no illogical in other words they're not confined to any particular place they seem to be able to go wherever they need to um but they're not omnipresent okay not all plays at all times anyway they're mighty uh but not almighty um second thessalonians chapter 1 verse 7 it says and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the lord jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels they're coming back with him when that sky rolls back like a scroll and he comes up with the call clouds of glory i mean we see clouds oh we haven't seen clouds of glory they must sparkle and brother joe doesn't have any good vocabulary in light of you know eloquent words but i like sparkles and that fascinates my thinking that opened to yours but there's a glow going on with these glory clouds but there's mighty angels with him to begin executing judgment on the earth anyway they're subordinate i like that they're subordinate the subject to god i i i trust that we are too first peter chapter uh verse 22. you might write that down it says this who has gone to heaven at the right hand of god angels and authorities and powers have been made subject to him they are quick to obey god i trust you and i are the same we're working on it right okay there are types if you will the angel of the lord um uh you might put down genesis 16 verse 7. uh the angel is present as no other angel he is generally accepted as an old testament appearance of jesus christ there's speculation on that maybe yes in certain areas there's a whole lot of area that doesn't seem to warrant it but we'll give it as consideration okay um um it's called the angel of the lord number two cherubims genesis 3 24 um it's the angel who god placed at the at the doorway if you will the entrance let me use that word entrance to the garden to where the tree uh of life was at and when god expelled adam and eve out he did not want them in his grace and mercy to get back in to get to that tree of life because had they eaten from the tree of life they would have been an eternal sinner locked in like those one-third angels who are now waiting for judgment along with lucifer so the master in his grace put a cherubim uh exodus i'm sorry genesis 3 24 says this so he drove out man and of course woman and he placed a cherubim at the east of the garden of eden and a flaming sword was turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life wow you know sometimes god stops us from going in the thing that you know are going to hurt us and i say that to you who have relationships where it didn't work out the way you thought it would maybe you or i were too far ahead of god's program or we didn't see all the red lights the warning signals about him or her and things just got messy and now it's over and what happened to me you know you can always first of all thank god for another chance i love that about our master not just a third chance but as many chances as we need he will make available the key is to learn from the last one and make sure we don't make it again in the second one and god kind of shuts something down in our lives he closes doors no man can open don't go out and try to get a battering ram or a blow torch to cut the door open wait upon so he puts a cherub with a flaming sword so i'd rather kill you adam in your ability to be saved and regenerated than then see you go in there and get that fruit from the tree of life oh how awesome and protective our father is for us just contemplate that later on number three there's a type called the anointed cherub oh boy anointed cherub that's what satan was called in ezekiel 28 14 you who were as the scriptures you who you were the anointed cherub who covered and established you you were on the holy mountain of god you walked back and forth and missed the fiery stones he was anointed lucifer was anointed not satan lucifer was anointed um he didn't value what he had to his shame and lost that quote anointing i won't go any further on that okay number four is seraphims in isaiah 1 2. um these are the fiery ones they're mentioned in isaiah 6 verses 2 through 3 and verse 6 through 7. the word means fire or fierce ones and illusion is supposed that they're they have burning love for their creator they are represented as standing above the king as he sits upon his throne ready at wants to minister unto him their form appears to have been human with the addition of wing very interesting uh another type is archangels um jude 1 1-9 watch what it says here yet michael the archangel not just angel archangel in contention with the devil when he disputed about the body of moses dared not bringing him a revealing reviling accusation said the law rebuked you so there's archangels then in number six there there's thrones um which means authorities colossians chapter 1 uh verse 16 it says for by for by him all things were created that are in heaven and on earth visible and invisible whether thrones dominions principality or powers all things created through him and for jesus christ hallelujah uh the next three are satan's army the dominion principalities and powers uh the dominion there ephesians 1 20 says which he worked in christ when he raised him and didn't see them at the right hand in heavenly places they have authority principalities in romans 8 verse 38 for i am persuaded neither life nor death or angels nor principalities or powers or any present thing can suffer us the love of god number nine there are powerful angels ephesians 3 10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of god might be known by the church to the principalities and powers in heavenly places we don't get to see these things visually but we know there is something going on in the atmosphere if you will it can be good and it can be evil i'm sure some of you could testify to when you knew the presence of evil was there in a roomy that you went into or it came into where you were and there's this there's this sense uh spiritually speaking now that you go oh oh something right here and you begin to look around but you can't see it but you know it's there there's a presence of a power there's a presence of a principality that that can be good or bad anyway uh number 10 uh they're almighty psalm 82 verse 1 it says god stands in the congregation of the mighty angels he judges among the gods number 11 authorities first peter 3 verse 22 it says who has gone into heaven and is the right hand of god angels and authorities and powers have been made subject to him don't forget all these types bow at the feet at the name at the command of the lord jesus christ of course number 12 dignities first peter 2 10 says this and especially those who walk according to flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authorities they are presumptuous self-willed and they're not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries all these types all bow at the name of jesus they have there's there's a division and your notes there um on page four for me let me just turn they're divided into two groups these angels holy angels uh and and evil angels uh letter a good angels holy angels uh their adoring adoration hebrews 1 verse 6 they adore it says there that all the angels worship him uh number two they carry the will of god daniel 3 25 and then number three they ministered to the saints and we saw that in hebrews 1 verse 14 that says oh they got all ministering spiritual service to the heirs of salvation i wonder we need to recognize their presence a little more in our daily walk as we go in through life we sometimes forget we do have help or we have the help of the holy spirit the helper the capital h-e-l-i-p-e-r um and along with that our angels waiting to to be used upon and are recognizing their presence i think is very helpful for us because they're there to minister and render service to errors of salvation uh letter b evil angels their designation um matthew 8 28 they look to possess men these angels the good ones don't look to possess us they know we have been possessed by the lord jesus christ and the holy ghost but these evil angels they look to possess their power these evil angels in matthew 5 in your notes there verses 8-13 it's the gadarene they can control the ones they possess i don't fully understand if you do please let me know how they gain control of certain people and not just anyone they want um interesting that it's seeing that as the will of man in the duration of time gets weaker and weaker gives up his right to control himself and if you've got a greater hand on us please let me know um i know as i was getting higher on drugs my willingness to control myself was not anywhere near what it should have been and i was sensing at times a wickedness around me probably waiting for the moment when my will would invite that in at that time in my life before i was saved of course um i do never and don't believe uh that the saved person can be possessed by evil spirits they can be uh influenced to do evil to do wrong to do sin how's that get rid of the word evil but to sin but they cannot be possessed um only unsaved people can be possessed and that gathering that had lesions in him my god wasn't just one well mary magdalene had seven devils wow seven devils in that one i would not one have met her on the corner out there on the streets she must have been something seven i mean woman one that was enough am i controlling they control uh like i said uh mark five eight through thirteen uh there was that gallery who's in the tombs naked crying out and cutting himself you've lost control of yourself you need jesus i know some are psychological i don't want to bypass the human element that can look like demonic possession but i think sometimes we are too quick to say it's it's mental when it's demonic and we need to have good discernment how to discern and then to apply the word of god for that person anyway number two inflicting uh that wonderful chapter there luke 13 16 uh where this woman who was a child of abraham jesus said she said that she was bound for 18 years by satan bendova i wonder some of these people we see on the streets in asbury neptune jersey city north new york city who are bent like this oh some may be physical i'll grant you that i wonder um this woman jesus said she was bent that way because of satan see when you're not in christ you bent that get it i know about being bent that wasn't physically my whole life was bent out of shape anyway uh the master center phrase straight didn't anyway uh they produce moral impurity you can read that in in mark five verse two uh look at these uh uh titles and meanings of satan um he's he's he's an adversary he's a devil his name is also jazzable lord of the flies um number five the wicked one number six prince of this world number seven god of his age number eight he is the prince of the power of the air that's why certain things come in your mind at times aren't they number nine serpent just using that term for the garden in a body of an animal think about that right well he went to the pigs he was out of the demoniac right the only place he really should be anyway apart from the bottomless pit number 10 dragon uh number 11 another title for satan is the evil one uh number 12 is the angel of light that's deception right there it says there in second corinthians i think it's chapter four that he appears as an angel of life know i did excuse me angela he's the father of lies number seven on 14 he's a murderer jesus called from the beginning he's a roaring lion like a lion about a lion and number 16 he's the ruler of darkness satan's work here we go letter b number one he is the author of sin he did it in heaven then tempts man here on earth adam fails the temptation but jesus passed it with flying colors amen number two the devil produces sickness acts chapter 10 verse 38 says that jesus was going around doing good and healing all those who were oppressed and made sick by the devil number three he robs the word matthew 13 19. that's why you got to teach people to get a hold on the word quick when he first gets saved get him get young converts into the new testament as soon as they get saved get them in the gospel of john as quickly as we are able to that's why epic church sends out a new testament uh to every person who professes christ the savior we want them in the word why the devil wants to rob it from their minds and hearts there number four he blinds the minds of those who are unsaved there's a veil according to ii corinthians 4 4. but how many know that there is removed when they come to jesus hallelujah once it was black right right now we can see uh number five the accuser remember in revelations 12 10 um that he can accuse but he can't prosecute because jesus has paid it all on all to him we are event uh satan's limitations uh he is as a sister in your nose he is omni nothing he can only be at one place at a time because he's a creative being he's not omni science he's not all wise he does possess some knowledge and is easily able to sometimes outwit the unregenerated he does not function in wisdom except that the driving force behind the wisdom of the world which god almighty calls foolishness he's not omnipotent he is not all powerful he is um need nothing and we are free from his power to blind eyes and to deceive us thank you lord jesus for the victory over the enemy thank you for the good angels that render the service of theirs of salvation let's pray father we just thank you for this awesome time we've had together looking at your word and angelology thank you for those ministering spirits that render our service as heirs of salvation in jesus name amen can't wait to see you next week we're going to look at some of those things that i talked about at the beginning of a basic bible doctrine i think you might remember terms called calvinism and romanism things that martin luther and john calvin are put together and i promise you i'd go a little more in explaining how that all works and what that all means so that you and i as fully equipped believers can build bridges with people who may not see things as we do and tear down these walls of division and remember only two things last for eternity the word and people put word into people and you have a double investment in eternity god bless you