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Angels have a specific ministry in the life of the Christian. They are dispatched from heaven

to assist us, to encourage us to minister to us sometimes to protect us. They're sort of

like God's secret agents. Pastor Greg Lawreys' angels are real. The Bible says so.

And there may be an angel or two near you right now. Angels are ministering spirits

sent to serve those who will inherit eternal life.

Angels, unfortunately, suffer from a good deal of bad press, fake news, inaccurate reporting.

They're not plump little babies sitting on clouds playing harps. They don't have two wings

in a glowing halo. And not all angels are the good guys. What's the truth about these heavenly

beings? Well, Pastor Greg Lawreys has the answer today on a new beginning, directly from God's word.

And one of the most requested messages of the past year, part of our top 10.

You know, right now, all around us is a supernatural world. It's an invisible world.

And around us right now, are thousands of mysterious created beings called angels. Most of them are

holy. I'm sorry to say some of them are not. Some of them are fallen. But you find what the

Bible says about angels and both the old and the New Testament. In fact, the Bible mentions angels

nearly 300 times. And there's so many misconceptions about angels. Let me just say first off,

the job of an angel is to kind of work undercover. I like to compare angels to Navy seals.

You know, Navy seals are that elite force that we dispatch in certain situations to take care

of business. They go and do things all the time and we often don't hear about what they did.

They just get the job done. That's sort of a good description of angels. They get the job done

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