Jonathan 'JP' Pokluda
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first heard Feb 2025
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Yeah. Yes. C.S. Lewis says there's two mistakes we make about the devils. One is, you know, being believing that they don't exist. The other is, you know, believing that they are involved in everything that we do. I think there's a third mistake, which is believing that they exist and not caring like that belief, like just this idea that there's a there's something.
devil and he may be devils as C.S. Lewis says and that just having no implications for our lives and the reality is the spiritual is the eternal and so the world is temporary like the world as we know it at least is temporary the things that we love in the world is temporary and so I think that's the battle is Satan is trying to keep us from having an intimate relationship a deep
closeness with God. That's what he started in the garden in Genesis chapter three. And that's still what he's, that is still what he's doing today is he's trying to prevent us from having a close relationship with God. So when somebody's listening right now or watching, says, you know, when I go to pray, I'm just so distracted. All these thoughts come into my mind with spiritual warfare.
When I read the Bible, it just doesn't always make sense. You know, the words, I'm like, oh man, I don't really know what I'm reading. My mind wanders with that spiritual warfare. He does not want you growing that relationship with God. What you see in the garden is Adam and Eve. They were able to commune with God and talk with him.
And he talked back and they heard him and there was a relationship there. And then the serpent comes in between there and says, hey, God's trying to keep something from you. You know, if you eat from this, you're going to be like him. And ultimately, when God comes up and he says, Adam, where are you? Well, God knows where Adam is. He's omnipotent. He knows everything. He knows Adam's mind.
But when he says, where are you? It's not so much disappointment as much as it is distance. And then when we sin, we feel far from God. And so that's the feeling that we have whenever we sin. And so what's the solution? Again, spiritual warfare is, It's confession. It's repentance. It's like, hey, I'm going to turn from this. I'm going to make it really difficult for me to continue in this sin.
And so there's people watching and listening right now. You know, there's some stuff that owns you. You know, there's some things that you keep going back to like a dog to his vomit. And we've got to say, all right, don't. This is the enemy. He's trying to lure me away and hinder me because 2 Corinthians 4, verse 4 says that Satan is the God of this world, the lowercase g, God of this world.
But 1 John 4, verse 4 says, greater is he who is in me than he who is in the world. And so I have everything that I need for victory. Satan's not afraid of me, but he's terrified of my God. He's terrified of my Jesus. So the solution is for me to remain close to Jesus and to foster my relationship with God and grow that relationship with God.
And that's ultimately what's going to protect me from the enemy.
Yeah, it just came out.
It's been really fun. I mean, probably the most significant work I've been a part of. This is my sixth book, but it debuted, you know, top 50 on Amazon on all the books, which is, you know, a milestone for me at least. And then people, you know, I got an email saying, Or a text message rather this morning just said, I started reading it last night. He goes, thanks a lot. I'm so tired today.
I couldn't put it down until 3 a.m. And I think it's because, you know, John 10, 10 says that the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy. But I've come to have to give life that they might. I've come for life so they might have it abundantly. And, you know, there's a longing in all of our hearts for the abundant life that Jesus offers.
And it's, you know, I think that there's just people out there that think there's a bunch of church folks playing games and pretending to talk to this invisible deity and just going and feeling good. And, hey, that's good. That works for you. You sing your feel good songs. It's like, no, man, there's a creator of the heavens and the earth. And you're going to face him.
You're going to be with him forever. Or you're going to be somewhere forever and ever and ever and ever and ever. And he wants to get his children back. And like, yeah, he lost his children to sin and death and disease. But he's, man, he's gone to great lengths to get us back and allowing his one and only son, Jesus, to die for our sins and raise him from the dead.
And like, yeah, there's an aspect to the spiritual war that's scary. You know, I mean... And in the book, I tell this crazy story of being in a country club and this guy just going wild on me. And I had never seen anything like that.
I'd been in the Amazon jungle three times, I'd been to Africa multiple times, I'd been to Haiti six times, and I had never seen what was happening in this country club with this guy. And so I just think Satan's going to show up more and more.
He's showing his hands as we're seeing revivals, as we're seeing college campuses and college students come into a relationship with Jesus, as we're seeing revivals in prison. I don't think the enemy's too happy about it. If we can get somebody to believe in the devil and, then they're going to believe in God. And so I think he does his best work in hiding.
It says that he masquerades like an angel of light. He's a deceiver. He hides. He tries to stay in the shadows and tries to just convince us that he's this spooky guy. But he's a fallen angel, and they're outnumbered two to one. There's more heavenly angels than there are demonic angels. demons.
That'll preach. Yeah, no, he definitely. I think Christianity is a communal religion. It's a communal faith. And the greatest commandment is to love God and love people. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. And right now it's so popular not to. It's like, oh, I don't like people. I don't want to be.
And it's like, well, then you're not going to like Christianity. And I mean, I think this appeals. This is part of the appeal of Doug Dynasty and your family and just you guys doing life together and people watching from afar. And they're they long for that. I mean, there's there's people at home.
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