WHEN GOD KICKED THE DEVIL OUT OF HEAVEN, HE COULD HAVE JUST SENT HIM STRAIGHT TO HELL AND WE COULD HAVE BEEN A HAPPY FAMILY FROM THE BEGINNING. WHY DID GOD PUT HIM HERE ON EARTH FOR US TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH?
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- We are going to diveright into questions.
We've got this one from Kim.
She asked, "when God kickedthe devil out of heaven,
he could have just senthim straight to hell
and we could have been at happyfamily from the beginning.
Why did God put the devil here on earth
for us to have to deal with?"
Great question, Kim.
- Well, I think we're like exhibit a,
before the principalities and powers
and what God wanted toshow that they were people
that he would create in his image,
who would love him despitethe temptation of Satan.
And so you and I, and allof us together as Christians
throughout this world, are exhibit a.
So, God is King, look at the church,
this is my body and they are exhibit a,
and the fact that thereare people who love me,
despite the devil and thetrouble they go through.
And as we affirm him, whatwe're doing was saying,
God we exalt you and thedevil you lose, all right?
- Amen, all right, Susan says, "hi Pat,
during prayers for viewers,
I was wondering if theyare spontaneous prayers
for anyone or for peoplewho send in prayer requests
to your station? God bless you all."
- Well, we get prayer requestsall the time from people,
but when we were praying, a lot of times,
the word of knowledge comes
and it's somebody we've never heard of,
don't know anything about,and God just identifies them
and they're in the audienceand then the Lord touches them
and they get healed, all right?
- All right, Larry says, "I tryto read Psalms 91 every day.
In there it says, He willcommand His angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways.
Do we have certain angels assigned to us
or is it just random angels that we get?"
- I think it's sort of random.
I don't think the art ofhaving a guardian angel,
is biblical, but you know, I used to pray,
I'd say, God send the angels.
We'd go out to a telephonethat's in a distance city,
I would say, send the angels.
And we'd ask for thesurrounding of the angels
and the angels are thereand we ask God to send them,
but it's not, I don't believe in the idea
of a guardian angel, each one's got it.
But Jesus said that there'reangels always look at the faces
of my father in heaven.
So safe are the littleones that come under me
because they're angels behold the face
of my father in heaven.
So anyhow, that's the Bible.
- And the angels, okay.
Dave says, "is it vainfor me to dye my mustache
at the age of 64? Is itokay for me to do that?"
- Hey listen, if it's not okay,there are millions of women
who dye their hair allthe time (laughing).
If they're sinning we'dhave a country of sinner,
if you wanna dye yourmustache, be my guest.
- And if it looks betterand if your wife likes it
or your girlfriend.
- If you don't wanna look like an old man,
I mean, so what's wrong with dying.
It doesn't really look real good.
I mean, if you try todye your hair, you know,
I tried that a longtime ago and forget it,
I mean, it's just too much trouble.
So, what you see iswhat you get, all right.
- All right, Deborah says,
"since our country is in so much debt,
where is more stimulus money coming from?"
- You know, I think oneof the greatest, you know,
we've served the God ofmammon and mammon is money
and the money thing is gonna collapse.
And that's going to bringone of the greatest problems
on the face of the earth,
when there is a universal collapse.
where's the money coming from?
Does it come a timethere is no more money?
You cannot just spend it from nothing.
And only God has limitless funds, okay?
So, where is it coming from?
We're skirting on the edgeof a financial collapse.