Hi, I'm Robert Jeffress and I'm glad to serve as your Bible teacher every day on this great radio station on today's edition of Pathway to Victory.

There are many things that happen to us every day that can only be explained through the ministry of angels and all of the Bible says we are never to worship the angels.

The fact is we need to understand the reality and the power and when we do so, it only encourages us to worship the God who created them for our benefit.

Welcome to Pathway to Victory with author and pastor Dr. Robert Jeffress.

You know, all throughout history, people have claimed to witness miraculous events that can only be explained by the divine.

Could these supernatural occurrences be the work of angels?

Today on Pathway to Victory, Dr. Robert Jeffress explains why we shouldn't be surprised by encounters with God's invisible forces.

Now here's our Bible teacher to introduce today's message. Dr. Jeffress?

Thanks David and welcome again to Pathway to Victory. In this brief window between Christmas and the New Year, I've chosen to address an uplifting topic, the truth about angels.

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Right now, it's time to open our Bibles to let God's Word teach us the truth about angels. I titled today's message The Angels and You.

One of the most often recounted stories about the work of angels in the life of believers concerns the true story of John Patton, a missionary in the new Hybrid East Islands.

This is the story. Hostel natives surrounded John Patton's mission headquarters one night intent on burning the Pattons out and killing them.

John Patton and his wife prayed all during that terror-filled night that God would deliver them. When daylight came, they were amazed to see that, unaccountably, the attackers had left. They thanked God for delivering them.

A year later, the chief of the tribe was converted to Jesus Christ. And Mr. Patton, remembering what had happened that night, asked the chief what had kept him and his men from burning down the house and killing them.

The chief replied in surprise, who were all of those men you had with you that night? The missionary answered, there were no men there, just my wife and I.

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