Satan has a track record of never treating us well. He's never done a nice thing for you in your life.

If Satan appears to be nice to you, it's a sitter. The Bible says he's a liar

and a murderer from the beginning. He has nothing in him but malintent for your life.

Here's what Jesus said about our adversary, the devil, and about himself.

The thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy.

But I have come that they might have life and have it more abundantly.

Hello and welcome to Destin for Victory featuring Pastor Paul Shepard.

If life has thrown a few punches your way, if you've lost friends and loved ones you care about.

You want to stay with us today for what promises to be an encouraging message about God's power to give you life and God's power to give you hope, no matter how many hits you may have

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Now, let's listen closely to Pastor Paul's Destin for Victory Message when Jesus comes.

This passage we've just read is one of the great messianic prophecies of the Old Testament.

It was fulfilled in the life and ministry of Christ.

Christ, in fact, himself confirmed that by his own words in Luke chapter 4,

when while reading the Old Testament scrolls,

he read these verses and then said,

This day are these scriptures fulfilled in your hearing?

And then he went about doing good and ministering to the needs of all who are under the power and oppression of the enemy.

Jesus is the fulfillment of these passages of scripture.

But as we have noted, not only does it tell us of what Jesus

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