we welcome you now to a true church perspective with pastor g Craig lewis a thief does not announce

himself not a smart but a thief does not announce himself he usually comes at an inopportune time

that's what makes him a thief matth 24 and 43 says, but know this,

if that the good man of the house had known and what watched the thief would come, he would have

watched and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. But you're going to deal with him if you

know he's coming, right? But a thief doesn't announce

himself. He comes in an inopportune time. His purpose is to rob you of something that is dear to you.

If what he wanted had no value, he wouldn't be after him. So he's coming to get something that's of value to you.

And you know, thieves make me mad.

When people steal your stuff, I mean, that's a feeling that comes over.

You're like, why you got my stuff get your own how you going to break

into somebody's house and take stuff that don't belong to you and think something good is going to come

out of it that's the crazy part they break in there get, get it, and be like, see what I got.

Dude, don't you know the law of reciprocity? Something bad is going to happen to you, especially if I catch you.

I'm the reciprocation. But he's going to rob you of something that's dear to you.

If what he wanted had no value, he wouldn't be after.

Mark 3 and 27, no man can enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods unless he will bind the strong man.

Then he will do what?

He'll do what? And this is the issue we're talking about today.

Just the strong man not being in his rightful place. What the enemy takes from us causes us to be what?

Now this is where oppression comes. When the enemy begins to take from you and that

taken from you can come in the form of you making bad decisions, bad judgments and ending up in a place

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