There’s A Snake In The House | Pastor Ethan Boggs | Vibrant Church

0:02 [Music] good morning welcome to vibrant church hey are you excited to be in the house today come on make some noise [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music]

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3:23 this is my testimony from death to life cause grace rewrote my story [Music] [Applause] [Music] this [Music] is my testimony [Music] my testimony [Music]

4:27 some noise is now jesus we put our faith in you we put our trust in you today [Music] let praise be a weapon that silences the enemy let praise be a weapon that conquers all anxiety let it rise

5:13 let praise arise we sing your name in the dark and it changes everything we sing with all we are and we claim your victory let it rise [Music] the god of breakthroughs [Music] god we praise you

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6:51 god we praise you we praise you this is what living looks like this is what freedom feels like this is what heaven sounds like we praise you we praise you this is what living looks like this is what heaven feels like this is what heaven sounds like we praise you we praise you this is what living looks like this is what freedom feels like this is what heaven sounds like we praise you we praise you this is

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19:17 thank you jesus is anybody thankful for almighty god today i mean are you real thankful that he's mighty he's strong he's not intimidated he's not scared it's good to see you this morning are you glad to be in the house today [Music] now don't be seated it's so good to see you or changing up flow a little bit today i got some good news

20:07 a few weeks ago we told you in the span of a month about the bank coming to us and informing us that we have an opportunity to pay off 2.5 million dollars if we were to come up with one million dollars of that loan this is for the lobby area of our church and so we signed the documentation and we paid five hundred thousand we needed an additional five hundred thousand so about a month ago just four sundays i stood before you and told you the situation and what god has

20:52 given us in this opportunity and in just that short time church you were able to bring in around 450 thousand dollars [Music] [Applause] and i want to let you know i want to let you know that we have the additional 50 so church today i told you we were going to do it paid off 2.5 million dollars [Music] i have it in my hand i'm going to keep this thing forever the payment

21:39 has been processed paid in full all done [Applause] what a miracle what a mighty god [Music] i said what a mighty [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i want to say thank you for sewing into a sea and sowing into what you could not see and i want to thank you for believing in the future and having confidence in us as we're moving forward you didn't have to you did you could have put that money

22:24 well you could have put that money in your gas tank honestly because it takes about 450 000 to get to caledonia now [Music] but during a time where gas prices are through the roof economy is shaky an election year groceries roth iras are down retirements are down housing markets up you showed you showed columbus mississippi we serve a mighty god so come on give yourselves a hand someone give god a praise [Applause]

23:09 [Music] i feel good now i was so excited talking with let's keep standing for just a moment talking with our cpa this this weekend and uh we have had an influx our our income has gone up through all of this which is uh even crazier to imagine that we're asking you for a half a million dollars money is hard right now and i just want to say i'm not telling you this so you stop giving okay just so you're aware like oh we're good i'm telling you this to show you the best is yet

23:55 to come i said the best is yet [Music] to come before you're seated i want to do a few more things this week we had a historic day in the united states of america where roe versus wade was overturned we are grateful i thought i would never see that i'm sure many of you would agree we are grateful today that's a step in the right direction if you want to know our stance as a church we are pro-life but we are we are grateful today however we are also graceful though we celebrate this landmark we are also caring and loving toward people who have

24:42 possibly made that decision in the past and if you have made that decision uh and i've talked to many people over the years who have regretted that decision made that decision and uh our our hearts are with you we don't shame you today you're welcome in the house of god [Music] [Applause] [Music] but just to let you know that we believe so much in life that we we support life choices pregnancy care center and we have increased our support financially to them during this season because we just don't want to be against something we want to be

25:28 for something as well [Applause] [Music] this is a local organization that mentors supports and equips men and women to take pro-life decisions and embrace parenthood or helping them choose adoption and although they never promote terminating a pregnancy they do offer post-abortion counseling to foster healing and restoration for these women that are that may be in need so just to one want to let you know that we're grateful today amen but we're also graceful so just to god be the glory that life matters in the name of jesus can i get a big amen all right [Music]

26:15 i know you've been standing don't sit just yet i like to keep you standing because you listen just a little bit longer because your ankle bones are shaking in the presence of god if you're on this slant right now wave at me are you like please let us sit down yeah i know i hate that slant let's talk for a minute i want to preach a message to you called there's a snake in the house somebody say there's a snake in the house let me read this first let me pray with you and i'll sit you down genesis chapter 3 now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast in the field that the lord had made he said to the woman did god actually say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden and the woman said to the serpent

27:00 we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden but god said god said somebody say god said how many of you know it's important to listen to what god says you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden neither shall you touch it lest you die but the serpent the serpent the serpent said to the woman you sh you will not surely die for god knows when you eat eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like god knowing good and evil you know the story the rest is history they eat up the tree that god asks them not to [Music] and when god comes in the cool of the day the scripture says that

27:46 he says to adam what have you done and he looked and said it's the woman thou has given me try that when you get home with god and then god looks at the woman and the woman says it's the serpents somebody say there's a snake in the house father we ask you to bless this time together this word together and you're almighty god thank you for 2.5 million dollars paid in full we praise you we honor you today and be with our time together in jesus name and everybody said amen greet somebody be seated it's good to have you today [Music]

28:39 i have a relationship with an individual who has a pet snake and i'm just being honest if you have a pet snake we're never coming to your house i don't know they say about 500 000 people in the united states have pet snakes if you're one of them god bless you it's as close as we're getting right here as we are right now but this individual one day came home to feed the snake and noticed that the snake was missing out of the house

29:25 and this snake was not in its cage and they looked around and couldn't find it they couldn't find it all day in fact they couldn't find it all week in fact they couldn't find this snake for two weeks in their house and during that time they had individuals come over have dinner kids hang out spend the night watch movies now i just can't help but wonder isn't it interesting that you can have a snake in your house people can come over and you can go to

30:10 their house and realize they have they they not even know that they got a snake in there how do you have a snake in your house and not know it or know where it is i want to submit to you today that i believe that there are snakes slithering closer than you may think you may not be aware of them you may not see them you may not be able to identify them they may not have made their presence known but make no mistake there is something watching you observing you ready to make a move to destroy your life your family your ministry your home your faith

30:56 your worship your praise your peace your sincerity i need you to hear me this morning and this is the first thing if you want to write something down is simply this the devil is real let me let me try that one more time the devil is real i want to tell you a story that i'm not exactly sure all of you will believe and maybe some of you will think i'm exaggerating this but this is a real story that happened to me one day my wife and i were in ohio and we were they had a chick-fil-a truck we didn't have chick-fil-a in our town so this chick-fil-a truck came by and we just

31:41 bought chick-fil-a we go through another establishment getting coffee or driving away and we see a man on a bicycle that's obviously homeless and i've never seen this guy in our neighborhood and i felt drawn to him so we're getting ready to pull one way and i felt drawn to follow him to the gas station and i eat really fast i just wolf my sandwich down my wife on the other hand eats everything extremely slow she chews everything like a thousand times straight to mush and she had uh her sandwich left and uh and we went to the gas station and i said man i wish i had my sandwich to give him lena said don't worry about it just just give it mine that's that's fine i'll just we'll go back to chick-fil-a's i

32:28 don't know just yeah i'll take the sandwich to him so we go see we park the man is sitting right in front of my truck into the very low to the ground i get out my wife cannot see this entire interaction by the way i go up to the man his name is barry and i begin to share i just began i gave him the sandwich and i began to walk away i get to my truck and i immediately realized i didn't share the gospel with this guy i should go over and pray or something you know so i turned back around i said hey barry i just want to let you know man hey god loves you and he's got freedom for your life and he's got a purpose for you and and i believe that jesus loves you and when i said that and you may not believe this but the man completely contorted

33:16 right there on the sidewalk and i don't know how to describe to you i'm not trying to scare you i'm just telling you an experience because i'm trying to help you understand that the devil is real are you with me and the man completely contorted his eyes looked different and his arms were twisting and he began to move and begin to slither and begin to growl and there was a woman sitting there eating an ice cream cone and you have never seen anybody run so fast in your life the man is contorting and out of that man came a voice that was not his voice

34:04 the man looked at me was not the same man that i began to talk to spoke out of a voice and said he doesn't want to be free and i was like okay i'll see you later then i'm out of here no and because i was raised in an environment to know that the devil is real i looked back at him i said i'm not talking to you i'm talking to barry [Applause] and all of a sudden the man goes back to normal and i said barry do you want to be free because i didn't care at that point i will work with you we'll cast whatever's in you how do you on this sidewall

34:50 scare everybody in this whole city barry looked back at me with his own voice with his own demeanor with his own face and said i don't want to be free i walked away heartbroken knowing that the devil is real and the devil means business and people like barry today maybe to not that extreme maybe to not that severity but there are people that have to understand that the devil is real by far one of the most sinister things and effective moves that the enemy could make is to convince you that he's not real because if he's not real he's not a

35:36 threat there's nothing to worry about there's nothing to think about but the bible says in ephesians chapter 6 for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against rulers against the authorities against the cosmic powers of over this present darkness against the spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places hear me today church the devil demons darkness is real the scripture lets us know that he's called satan the devil the tempter the evil one the enemy the liar the father of wise ruler of this world first peter 5 calls him the roaring lion

36:22 and revelation we find he's referred to as a dragon and right toward the end of the book of revelation he's called the old serpent from genesis to revelation you see the enemy's present work his existence influencing people and influencing decisions the devil is real but not only is the devil real point number two for you today is this is that the devil has an agenda john chapter 10 10 says the thief comes only to steal and kill

37:09 and to destroy his endgame so to speak his his priority in your life is to destroy your life i i want you to understand today that the enemy does not play does not have a the devil does not have junior demons for your kids the devil doesn't have introductory classes the devil is on an all-out onslaught moving through homes

37:55 in families and churches and businesses and marriages he has an agenda and it is to steal and it is to kill and it is to destroy but i need you to hear something today that that i heard many years ago that i want to share with you in the year 1965 a man named paul harvey had a radio show that where he read this thing called if i were the devil and it's so chilling to be so many years ago and i believe it rings true for today

41:42 foreign 1965. now you may be like well pastor ethan we came to church today to hear about jesus we want to hear about grace and we want to hear about life-giving the life-giving spirit we need a message to encourage us and i'm all for that and i do a whole lot of that but hear me today the bible teaches that we are not to be ignorant of the devil's devices i need to show you today some some characteristics of a snake

42:29 snakes as you can see on the screen behind me they are they are forking tongue they pick up chemical information with their tongues by flicking them in and out some snakes also track their prey by sensing body heat and ambushing or stalking not only do they their tongues come in and out but their jaw most a lot of the snakes can unhinge their jaw or they have a very wide like they could really open their mouth and their teeth are curved inward so that they can swallow prey that are bigger than them and draw them into their mouth with the curved in teeth on the prey they can open that mouth and move that

43:14 tongue what i find interesting in genesis chapter 3 what we just read the first time we find the devil he's mentioned all through scripture we get all the way to revelation we're still hearing about the old serpent but what blows my mind is that even in the book of genesis the first characteristic we find about the devil is that he's talking he's moving that jaw and moving that tongue and he's looking at eve and he's saying did god really say the enemy was deceiving her lying to her whispering to her misleading her i believe that the enemy is on an all-out onslaught against truth

44:01 the devil hates the truth because he's the father of lies he wants us to be indoctrinated with cultural norms around us he wants us to just accept ideas that are being pushed in our children's schools theories that are being pushed in our children's universities subjects that are being perpetrated on the mainstream media am i talking to anybody [Applause] first timothy chapter 4 verse 1 says now the holy spirit tells us clearly that in the last time some will turn away from the true faith and they will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from

44:46 demons did you hear this today that come from demonic influences speaking and whispering and moving that jaw and shooting that tongue out i don't only think it's as a corporate thing it's also as individuals that the enemy can lie to us and say that you're no good or that you're a failure or that nobody loves you or nobody shook your hand at church or nobody see they didn't care about you though when he came to this service or this funeral or you understand what i'm saying that the enemy can use moments of frustration and all of a sudden just sneak into a family

45:32 situation that now the tongue of the serpent begins to hit your ear and whisper into your ear and say things like that nobody loves you or that god never forgave you if you were really a true christian if you really cared about god am i talking to anybody on a sunday morning who has heard the whispers of the devil himself i need you to hear me today is that the enemy doesn't care if you're 60 or you're six he will deceive you and the older i get i am less afraid of demons and more afraid of deception did you hear that one thing i've noticed the enemy has done

46:18 is that anyone who speaks truthful is categorized as ignorant uneducated and foolish and the result is the people who know the truth don't speak the truth but jesus said sanctify them through thy word thy word is truth [Applause] jesus said that you will know the truth and the truth will set you oh 9am you need to wake up you're too tired today [Applause] i don't know what the university is

47:05 telling you but the truth is that marriage is between one man and one woman i don't know what school what the schools are producing and saying but the word of god says that there are only male and female that's that's the truth [Applause] i don't know what movie streaming service in your house says but there are only to be uh men to be men i need to just say that one again i i think i don't know if i'm

47:51 done with it that i think we need to remember that it's that society needs men to play a role and we don't need to feminize men am i going too far come on i preached on untamed for three weeks i hope you can handle me today trying to downplay the significance of men in the home when study after study after study after study proves that when a man is not present it destabilizes the family so we want men but yet we want to castrate them okay yeah we need to call this one untamed i messed up i should have been calmer i don't know what the media says but the

48:37 truth says that life starts at the moment of conception now hear me i'm not trying to be ugly like my dad used to say that when he would preach he would say i'm not trying to be ugly and then he'd say i know i am uglier so i'm not going to say that he could say that because he is but i'm not going to say i understand that these issues are complicated and there are a lot of debates surrounding them but hear me i want to find myself and my family on the right side of the word of god that's as simple as i can make it for you we're talking about there's a snake in the house and as a minister

49:23 i'm not asked by god to reconcile the word of god with cultural theology or cultural ideas [Applause] i am not asked to find the middle ground to better appeal to a broader audience i'm supposed to preach the word in season and out of season i'm supposed to preach the word when the country's red or the country's blue i'm supposed to preach the word when it's popular and when it's not popular i'm supposed to preach the word when the room is full and when the room is empty you have to want to church and be hungry for somebody to tell you the truth through the word of god

50:10 i like this sermon and i'm not even done we need truth the bible says that in later times people will heap unto themselves teachers having itching ears looking for someone to confirm their biases but i hate to hurt anybody's feelings that the word of god will assault your arrogance your childhood your belief system but we are not called to argue with the word the word is called to argue with us change us adjust us help us

50:56 lord help nine am second corinthians chapter 11 says this but i am afraid that a that as the serpent deceived eve by his cunning your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to christ he's saying just as the devil whispered in the garden to eve and led her astray it was through deception it was in her thoughts it wasn't in sickness it it wasn't an it was through her her thoughts deception another thing about snakes is that they have no eyelids

51:42 the eyes that they remain open at all times and they're covered by a transparent membrane and and and there they have vertical pupils that helps them to see really well in dark places let me help you understand something the enemy is always watching you there's a reason i believe that the enemy is called a serpent the serpents have no eyelids we can use that characteristic to know that the enemy is watching you has been watching your every move those vertical pupils that are notorious and snakes that help

52:28 them with night vision can i tell you something the devil wants to draw you into the dark he he wants you to to draw you he wants to draw your family away from the church he wants to draw you to do things you thought you would never do say things you thought you would never say believe things you thought you would never believe that is the tactic of the enemy is to draw you in the dark and let me go a little further if you got to hide it you're in the dark if you got to delete it you're in the dark if you got to deny it you're in the dark the enemy is sneaking and slithering and and whispering in the ears of people in marriages and families and businesses

53:16 to steal to kill and to destroy not only do they have the fork in tongues and the eyes that don't have eyelids they also are very hard to hear they almost make no noise unlike most animals snakes make very little sound other than hissing in certain types of rattles they make almost no sound at all can i tell you today you oftentimes don't hear the devil coming that negative relationship that is pulling you down guess what they're not going to announce to you that they're bad for you am i talking to anybody i've never met anybody who got into a relationship with a man or a woman that when they got in that relationship they

54:02 were like hey by the way i know this is our first day but i'm the devil for you like i'm the worst thing that will ever happen in your life and in three years we're gonna get in a fight and i'm gonna hit you you don't hear the devil the devil coming easy you don't know the devil is there half the time i've just i'm just trying to help you today i want to bring awareness i'm not trying to scare you i'm not trying to intimidate you i'm not trying to freak you out i just need you to understand the devil is real and the devil has an agenda to destroy your life snakes have very good camouflage and many snakes live close to the ground or

54:48 in dens or a nest and are not easily visible to the human eye there are numerous snakes that also blend in with their surroundings making them less visible to their prey the it's even harder to see them to find them to locate them interesting thing about snakes is that they watch you and they'll observe you and these snakes they'll stalk in fact i read one study said that snakes will stalk you for hours and hours they will watch the prey and attempt to wait you out

55:34 they will patiently wade and observe they'll put people around you individuals in your world families posts offenses just waiting you out the enemy can use something when you're five and mess you up when you're 35. he'll wait you out am i talking to anybody in columbus this morning not only does do they stalk they they strike after they have stalked you for a while

56:19 when they find the opportune time when they find the best moment when they find the perfect thing to their advantage they will strike you it could be when you travel alone it could be when you're just trying to live your life it could be at the family dinner it could be here at church if a fence can pick up at work situations can happen in your family and the enemy can strike you and you thought you could handle it and now you've relapsed thought you could handle it now you're settling in court in divorce thought you could handle it things happen and now here you are the enemy has struck again many times after they have struck their prey they release vism venom which

57:05 often times neutralizes the nerves and will paralyze them for a moment they then will begin to wrap themselves around the prey are you still with me and begin to squeeze the prey and every breath that prey has and exhales the squeezing gets tighter every time that the prey exhales the squeezing gets a little more intense choking and squeezing the breath the life i need you to hear me right now the

57:51 enemy wants your life he's trying to choke out the bible says that god breathed the breath of life into us and so the enemy is trying to choke your faith choke your worship choke your prayer life just one squeeze of condemnation at a time and it won't be long before you don't darken the doors ever again just another just another squeeze on your marriage and it won't be long before you're sleeping in different rooms and and it won't be long i mean this is just textbook the enemy has done this millions of times squeezes and squeezes and squeezes this invisible force many of you can

58:37 relate to is squeezing you in your marriage and choking your joy and your life and your happiness and your faith and your joy normally i don't like it this quiet but good god am i loving this right now second peter chapter 2 says for if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the lord and savior jesus christ they are again entangled wrapped up tangled up in them and overcome and the latter end is worse for them than the beginning let me tell you something what that verse is saying that before you came to christ you were a mess but if you walk away from christ you're opening yourselves up to things

59:24 that are much much more difficult for you to deal with later i've heard it maybe you've heard me share it before but i heard a man that worked in a zoo said the story that when you pick up or handle snakes the most dangerous time was when you actually put them down not when you picked them up picking them up is different than when you put them down more bites happen in the zoo when they were putting down a snake you got to be careful what you pick up because it's not as easy to put it down as you may think the enemies the enemy will stalk and strike and squeeze and after all of that is said and done will swallow

1:00:10 swallows you first peter 5 8 says stay alert watch out your great enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lying looking for someone he can devour and in the greek that means to swallow up not just take bites out of but to completely consume and finish off their life the enemy has an agenda pastor ethan you have freaked everybody out you've said too much people are too scared people don't want to hear this people are not wanting to hear this kind of reality we're living in but i wish i could preach something that that just was a little more appealing but i just want you to understand

1:00:56 we just got out of a series talking about untamed right and what we have easily done is we can almost think that the enemy is tame we could almost just assume that because we don't deal with it in our home that it doesn't exist but let me tell you something there are people literally strung out on in houses and broken and shattered you could go to graveyards you can go to rehab centers you can go in these rows right now you can go in every home and the devil's going into warfare and he's not tame why are we tame why if the devil has gone crazy and literally has the world flipped upside

1:01:44 down and we want to sit in our churches and just be it's nice little soft little don't disturb nobody here's what i think it's just time for the church to stop being afraid of everything and say you know what the kingdom of god suffers violence but the violent take it by force james says this what are we supposed to do after you've scared the crap out of us pastor ethan what are we supposed to do shouldn't have said that word james chapter 4 verse 7 says so submit to the authority of god resist the devil

1:02:29 stand firm against him and he will flee oh yeah he will flee from you you resist the devil but you can't resist until you first submit when you submit to god and his government you have the authority and the in the empowerment to resist the onslaught of demonic power in your life resist the enemy tempting you resist the enemy trying to deceive you resist the enemy trying to discourage you resist the enemy trying to distract you you can

1:03:16 do that and the bible says he will then flee from you this is not a sick this is not a guest myth this is the word of the living god for you to know that when i resist you you have no right in my family in my home in my marriage i stand firm against you somebody say resist the devil i recently was messaging my pastor we were talking about this series and we were going back and forth about some things and he ended up preaching some of this and because i preached some of this at his church and and we began to share articles about snakes back and forth

1:04:03 and i read something interesting that he we and him were sharing back and forth that they're the king cobras largest is the largest venomous snake in the world could be between 18 and 20 feet they could kill someone with one bite in 30 minutes as powerful as the king cobra and others like them are there is one particular animal in the animal kingdom that they fear there's one specific animal that researchers have watched and observed and filmed and studied and that is the mongoose the mongoose the a mongoose could be

1:04:49 anywhere between the size of seven inches to 25 inches on the largest size of them these venomous snakes will avoid the mongoose because these mongoose hear me have an immunity to their venom they when they are bitten within a reasonable dosage those mongoose will not can have that venom run through their system and those mongoose are not of faith it could kill a person and it will not affect them one study i read said that it uh that a was it called a black mamba snake

1:05:35 could kill 15 men with one bite by the way there's enough venom shock could kill 15 men can bite a mongoose in the mongoose like is that all you got something in the mongoose something on the inside of the mongoose is just different something on the inside of the mongoose is just this unique and it's not just their dna it's not just their it's not just their makeup it's it's also their attitude they're known for being fearless they will fight a snake at the drop of a hat they're good at defense they're protective they're they will destroy any

1:06:21 threat is when one article said they have thick fur i love that they have thick fur maybe the reason many people can get offended so easily is that they just have thin fur when the strike of a fence come you gotta have some thick skin they have a strong jaw they're really tough really tough skin to the point that they are resistant to fangs and one one video i watched this morning said that they have guts of steel they will go straight for the head of a snake and try to break its neck real fast and you go online and watch these mongoose will grab the head of a snake and do a quick move and these snakes fall down dead so what's

1:07:08 something on the inside of this these mongoose blow my mind because they can't they cannot be affected by what's on the outside because something's so potent is on the inside [Applause] let me say it like this greater is he that is in you than the power that's in the bite [Music] greater is he that is in you than the power of of of that offense greater is he that is in you than the power of that discouragement greater is he that is in you than the power of that distraction greater you can't you may get somebody else but i got a mongoose anointing and you can't get me like

1:07:53 you've got everybody else in my family there's something on the inside that you can't see on the outside that makes me the bible says it like this thanks be unto god who always causes us to triumph so when the enemy comes in like a flood the spirit of god raises a standard against it and what the enemy does for evil to destroy your life god can turn it for the good am i talking to anybody so the enemy tried to destroy you you're here today because of what god has put in you you're not perfect you don't have it all together but thanks be unto god who always causes us to try out

1:08:38 [Music] [Applause] [Music] you can stay standing they go straight for the head go straight for the throat there's a video online where they fight off four lions they're like psycho little boogers [Music] one study said this did you hear me if a mongoose gets in a fight with a snake the mongoose wins 80 of the time it's really two things it's what's on the inside and it's their tenacity to fight

1:09:28 this rough little squirrel ugly creature has something in them that's like no no no we're not watching that in my house i need to talk to a mongoose mama in a room that says you know no no we we don't we don't talk like that in our house no no we're not letting you stand there with your wife or your husband and you say you know what we're not letting that come between us because we have a mongoose attitude and though the enemy tries to come to divide us something on the inside unites us and we just push back we resist the devil you don't have right in my family in my mind where are the fighters in 2022 that will not let

1:10:16 the enemy take your home your church your mind your joy your peace [Music] all right i'm done yelling the mongoose will travel in a pack they're called gangs which is really crazy mongoose gang i'd be and i would be scared i would be scared i'd be scared of one but at 50 the mongoose are often known to work together here's my final thought for you today we're gonna we're gonna close is that if the devil fights your family

1:11:04 if the devil fights you bobby if the devil fights you steve he's fighting all of us because we're in this together if discouragement and grief comes into your heart the bible says we weep with those that weep we come alongside because we fight together we're in this together if our church could keep the spirit

1:11:49 of togetherness there's not one thing the devil can do i couldn't imagine fifteen hundred two thousand mongoose people we would kill everybody can you imagine worshiping leading a team serve teams preaching children's ministry families with a mongoose attitude that says this is my church this is my home we fight together we love one another

1:12:34 i'm in their corner and when they're hurting we're there for them that's small groups there for you this church is here for you you may be thinking well nobody knows me well get to be known i don't know what else to tell you make your presence known talk to somebody meet one of the pastors connect call the office do anything make your we want to know you because we got to do this together because the is doing it with his army and his forces john 10 10 the thief come to steal to kill and to destroy but the bible says he came to give us life

1:13:22 in life more abundantly isn't that good no need to fear the devil greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world