The Enemy in Front of Me

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1:21godless, satanic, child-destroying material into your house, when I said the Christian is complicit in the world system, a preponderance of commenters have taken this and exploded it. I know that the world system is widespread. I know that there are many, many companies that are involved in this. I am aware of that. But there is a huge difference between paying money to be entertained. I'm going to move this just a little bit. Why edge out there is kind of mess with my OCD. There is a huge difference between going to Walmart and you suspect that Walmart is part of the system. And I think it is. But I think most of them are.

2:21But you still have to buy this, Washington, they do it. You still have to buy a loaf of bread. You are taking your money and buying a necessity for your house. That's what you're doing. That is not even remotely, remotely related to pulling out your credit card and paying for a streaming prescription on television. Now some people say, Dwayne, they also have good content too. They're taking your money that you are willingly, deliberately paying for something you don't need and using it as their war chest against God and against Christians. There's a huge difference between that and pulling up to a gas station and filling your

3:21car with gasoline so you can keep going. If you were a warrior on a battlefield in real life, in a huge battle, you're concerned would be that enemy warrior directly in front of you. That is something you can do something about. Now if you take your focus away from the thing you can do something about and you look at the scope of the battle and you look at all the other combatants and what they're doing. And you look over at the generals and the king over there and the choices that they are making. When you look at all this, the enemy that is directly in front of you is the one that's going to destroy you and you're out of the fight. That is the difference. You can turn off your television. You cannot take your children to Disney World.

4:25You cannot rent movies and still live life very, very well and not be willingly, knowingly complicit in this. You have that choice. You don't have a choice on whether you're going to feed your family or not. And you don't have a choice on how the people you buy your groceries from spend that money that you used to buy down a milk and hope for bread. You don't have a choice. You don't have a choice whether to feed your family or not. That's not even here. A lot of you and I'm not being unkind. And I think a lot of you don't realize what you're doing but you're deflecting. There is something very specific that's been pointed out in your life and instead of looking at that enemy that you're piping into your home and saying this, this I can address, this

5:31I can deal with. Oh, but look at all this out here. Look at all the evil. It's hopeless. It's helpless. I can't fight that. What should I do? Should I not? You shouldn't worry about that. You should worry about the enemy that's in front of you that you can fight. You should worry about your choices. Your choices. And it's your choices for things that are not necessary. You see the difference? Now people are talking about taxes. Taxes has nothing to do with this. You said, well, the government has taken our tax money and spending on this. Yes, they are. Okay. But you can't just say, well, I'm not paying my taxes. You can say that and you can try it. But ask Willie Nelson how that works out. Okay. Ask people when the RS comes after you for not paying your taxes. Then stop and think, please, please, people, before you get on here and post, please stop

6:35and think. When the Roman Empire, when Rome came to Peter and said, does your master not pay his taxes its tax time? And Peter came to Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, the Savior, the Son of the living God, the Creator, with this troubled about this, Jesus said, go catch a fish, take the coin out of his mouth and go pay our taxes, Jesus paid taxes. Now who did he pay taxes to? He paid taxes to the Roman Empire. Jesus Christ paid taxes to the Roman Empire. What did the Roman Empire do with those taxes? It wasn't his concern and he was not concerned about it. The Roman Empire was an empire of idolatry and false God.

7:35It was a Roman Empire that was rife with sexual immorality and licentiousness. It was a Roman Empire that was the same empire that wound up putting Christians in the arena. Jesus paid taxes to them. The temple that Jesus went into when he was here on earth and the apostles used, who built that temple? Herod the Great built that temple. Herod the Great was an idolman and he was a lackey of Rome and he was one of the most evil men on the face of the earth. Not Julius Caesar, the Caesar at the time. Caesar said of Herod the Great, it is safer to be his pig than it is to be his child. Jesus did not say that system is evil and therefore we avoid that system.

8:41It is the government and the government answers to God. We are not held responsible for that. I am not saying in so many books I have brought, well you have to live like Elijah making your own clothes out of deer skin and everything if you are not going to be part of the system. If you are not going to be complicit, that is foolishness. You are not thinking, you are not thinking. The Apostle Paul, our Bible today, the New Testament today, 13 of the books in the New Testament were written by the Apostle Paul. They were letters. Those letters were meld out all around the known world at that time. What postal system did Paul use? He used the postal system that was set up by the Roman government.

9:42It was the system and the Roman government was as evil, just as evil as our government today. But Paul did not say I cannot be complicit in this thing that I must do. What is the difference between me bringing you the gospel on YouTube and bringing you the truth on YouTube and using YouTube which I do not pay for it and you do not have to pay for it either. Now, you get YouTube prime or whatever it is so you do not have to watch ads but you can watch ads and you can adjust the ads that you get. What is the difference between that and Paul using the Roman Empire's road system or shipping system or postal system to spread the gospel throughout the world? You are not thinking. You are so busy looking at all the things out there that you are ignoring that enemy that's right there in front of you, fixing to kill you, fixing to destroy your family

10:46and you're paying them to do it. It's deflection. I don't want to change this little thing that I can change because it hurts because I'm addicted to this because my wife won't like it because my children will be disappointed. So instead of saying, Duane, you're right, this enemy here in my home that I can do something about instead of doing that, you're saying, oh, look at the Roman Empire and since I can't do anything about that, since I can't not buy groceries and not buy gasoline, I had somebody get on here and say, Duane, you probably wear clothes that are made in China and trying to purchase Cooch Christian, therefore what you're saying has no value because you're complicit in the system. That is foolish. That is foolish and it's not biblical, it's not historical. Jesus Christ paid taxes to the very people who nailed him to a cross, okay?

11:53Not bellyache and about the things you can't change until you've changed all the things that you can't change. And you can change what goes on in your home and what goes on in your heart and what goes on in your mind. You cannot change what Walmart or BP or whoever, you can't change how they spend their money against God, but you can change how you spend your money against God, okay? There's a huge difference between buying a loaf of bread and a rotisserie chicken and piping godless satanic demon worship, LGBTQ A plus godless satamy into your home, piping

12:56it in. There's a huge difference, all right, stop deflecting. What are you doing about your house? And until you fix that, you cannot deflect into what the Rothschilds are doing about their house, about what these Hollywood stars are doing about their house. You're paying them to stop paying them, stop piping that garbage into your house, take the time that you would spend setting in front of the television, what would happen if you spent more of that time studying your scripture and reading your Bible and looking up, godly teaching and preaching and encouragement and help on channels like YouTube. You're not using your heads, okay? There's no room in Christianity.

13:57There's no room in Christianity for shallow, carnal Christians and there is no place and no room and no purpose in Christianity for Christians who cannot stop and think. We are told to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves and many of you are being extremely unwise. It's not my brother, it's not my sister, but it's me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer. You're worrying so much about everybody else and you're not cleaning up your own life. It's time to get serious. Folks, the time of play is over. The time of shallow carnality is over. The time of pretending Christianity is over and if I will face the enemy, the one standing directly in front of me and defeat him and if the soldier to my left will face the enemy

15:03standing directly in front of him and defeat him and if we will all do that individually one at a time, guess what? The battle will then be won, but that's not what we're doing, is it? That's not what we're doing. So I just wanted to get on here and clarify that today and I want to encourage you, stop casting your eyes all over the world about things that you can't change, things you don't have a choice in until you have dealt with the things that you do have a choice in. All right, wish you guys all the best and some of you need to spend some time in prayer, letting Holy Spirit clarify your mind because your mind is muddled, your mind is muddled, it is not clear. All right, do what you will with it, I'll catch you guys next time.