Another Look Podcast
Another Look Podcast is a podcast where we discuss our splinters and planks of wood in the American church. The purpose of this podcast is to have frank and honest dialogue about the role of the church and the role of the believer in America today. Our goal is to take "another look" at who we are and realign our spirits properly. It will hurt initially but the end result will always be a beautiful masterpiece in the Potter's hands.
Another Look Podcast
Satan's Three-Step Trap and How to Escape It
Have you ever felt weighed down by guilt, shame, or condemnation? In this powerful episode, we dive deep into Romans 8:31-37 to uncover the enemy's three-part strategy against believers—and why it's destined to fail.
Satan works methodically: first charging us with wrongdoing, then condemning us by defining us through our mistakes, and finally attempting to separate us from Christ's love through trials and tribulation. But Paul's powerful words remind us that we are "more than conquerors through Him who loved us."
What does being "more than a conqueror" truly mean? Unlike worldly conquerors who merely take possession temporarily, we don't just overcome—we retain and expand beyond victory. The same persecution meant to destroy the early church actually spread the gospel further. Your trials, rather than diminishing you, become fertile ground for God's anointing to shine more brightly through your life.
This message speaks directly to those carrying burdens of guilt from past mistakes and those bearing scars from trauma they didn't deserve. Whether you've made mistakes or been victimized, your identity isn't defined by these experiences—it's established in Christ who has already justified you. No one—not even yourself—has the authority to charge or condemn you when God has declared you righteous.
Through personal anecdotes and scriptural truth, we dismantle the lie that anything could separate us from God's love. His love isn't conditional but eternal, not dependent on your performance but secured by Christ's finished work. Join us for this life-changing reminder that whatever battle you're facing, you already have everything you need to emerge as more than a conqueror.
Ready to experience freedom from guilt and condemnation? Listen now and discover how to walk in the victory Christ has already secured for you.
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You are precious and loved beloved. Keep pressing forward towards Jesus.
Welcome to Another Look Podcast. At Another Look Podcast, we go beyond the norm and literally take another look at our life in Christ, we keep an open heart and mind so we can reach, teach and love all of God's creation. Whether you are a novice or veteran in this walk, this podcast is for you. You ready for something new, something that will challenge your thinking and heart? Are you willing and ready to unlearn in order to learn, willing to tear down so God can rebuild? Good, let's get up and go. People are waiting for us. Let's go fishing. Three, two, one, zero, 3, 2, 1, 0, and liftoff.
Speaker 2:Welcome back to another Look podcast. This is your brother, brother Kenny D, coming to you today again Staying on a short tangent today, just a lot of things that got just downloaded to me, so I just want to just share it with you. Okay, for those who reached out to me, I guess you're my last podcast about the trojan horse. Thank you for your prayers, your consideration, your love, even for those who may not have responded, but, um, I can feel your prayers. I thank you for all of it and just want to share with you. I'm improving, I'm doing better. God, god is good and, um, I'm just grateful. I'm just grateful. But enough about this, let's move on. Let's talk about the word today where it is in a Romans 8, romans 8, 31 through 37. And it's ironic because Romans 8, 37. Um, so, you know and this might seem stupid to some, but you know I have a I was looking for some floor mats for my Mercedes and I was looking to, you know, get something like kind of custom made, because my floor liners kind of wore out on my other car, on my, on my car.
Speaker 2:So I want to get something custom made and I thought about you know, let me get put my name on there and I was thinking. I thought, man, that's really vain. I said, let me be. I said, if anything, I want to put something there that reflects the fact that anything I have is not mine. I'm a steward of it and I wanted to let it show ownership belongs to God. I repented because I was. I guess I was in myself. No, I wasn't myself. I mean I say, guess, yeah, I have ego, like y'all do too, but anyway.
Speaker 2:But I was listening to the song, I think by Hezkiah Walker, called I am not a conqueror, and I love the song because it just basically says I'm not a conqueror, I'm more than a conqueror. And I love the song because it just basically says I am not a conqueror, I'm more than a conqueror. And it goes to Romans 8.37, which is the verse I put in. I got custom-made floor mats and it has the Mercedes logo in it, but underneath it says Romans 8.37. Because you know, I thought about the journey I've been on in my life and the things that God has brought me through, and God's brought me over, god's brought me even when I was under. And you know, if anybody knows Romans 8.37, it said Yet in all these things. We are more than conquerors, through him who loved us. And so today I just want to, you know, talk about Romans 8, 31 through 37 to give you some encouragement.
Speaker 2:And I'm going to read this in a New King James Version, and I'm going to read it in the Amplified Version, if you don't mind. So in the New King James Version, romans 8, 31 through 37 reads as thus I'm going to slow down because I'm starting to get tongue-tied. What, then, shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son but delivered him up for us all? How shall he not, with him, also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns, or who is he who condemns? It is Christ, who died and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or sword, as it is written for your sake. We are killed all day long. We are counted as sheep for the slaughter, yet in all these things, we are more than conquerors, through him who loved us.
Speaker 2:I'm going to read this in an amplified version. What, then, shall we say to all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? Who can be our foe? If God is on our side, he who did not withhold or spare even his own son, but gave him up for us all, will he not also, with him, freely and graciously give us all other things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect, when it is God who justifies, that is, who puts us in right relation to himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, who acquits us, who is there to condemn us? Will Christ Jesus, the Messiah who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, actually pleading as he intercedes for us? Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation or calamity and distress or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword, even as it is written, for thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are regarded and counted as sheep. Excuse me, I'm trying to move my cursor. We are put. I'm sorry. Let me go back to verse 36. Even as it is written, for thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are regarded and counted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet amid all these things, amid all these things, we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through him who loved us. May the Lord add a blessing to the reading of his word and may he sanctify these truths in our heart, so beloved.
Speaker 2:I want to talk to you. I'm not going to give you a theme, I'm just going to talk to you. Okay, you've been through a lot. You've been through a lot. You've been through a lot. You've experienced a lot, some your fault, some not your fault. And let's be clear, god's not looking at who's at fault. God's just looking to free you from any burden of fault any burden, even if you messed up. Any burden of fault, any burden, even if you messed up. And if you go back to one of my episodes a few years ago, I talked about Ishmael and how, even though Abraham made a mess by sleeping with Hagar and birthed Ishmael, god still blessed. What we consider a mess. God still blessed. He still blessed Ishmael. So you know, I want to encourage you, number one, let's first take a look at let's break this down, if you don't mind.
Speaker 2:So one of the things you have to contend with whether it's something you did that you felt you did wrong, or that you did wrong, or that you didn't do wrong, or that wasn't your doing, there's always going to be someone who's going to try to charge you or condemn you or not condemn you. They're going to try to blame you for something and more than likely it's probably you who blames yourself. But take a look at verse 33. It says who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. In Amplified, it says who shall bring any charge against God's elect? When it is God who justifies, that is, who puts us in right relationship to himself, who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Well, god who acquits us. So let me just talk about the charges.
Speaker 2:Whether you're at fault or not, no one has a right to charge you for what you've done, because God has freed you. So let me be clear If you've made a mistake beloved, and maybe you're reaping the consequences of it, god's not holding that against you. If you've repented, and the key word is if you repented. If you repented, no one and nothing, and no one, not even you, has a right to charge yourself for anything, because it wasn't anything you did, it was your flesh. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2:But the fact of the matter is you've been forgiven of it and because you've been forgiven of it, you have no right to condemn yourself, because, number one, you don't belong to yourself, you belong to God. Therefore, you have no ability, you have no right, no authority to charge yourself with anything, because you're not your own. You have devoted your life to Christ and you are his. So, even in your mistakes, you have no right to charge yourself with anything, because it's God who justified you. He justified you before you were even formed in your mother's womb, and by justification it means he put you in right relationship to himself through Christ, because, before the foundations of the world, christ died for you.
Speaker 2:Who could come forward and accuse you or impeach you, as God's chosen Impeach meaning to basically make you look less credible? Who can make you look less credible when God is the one who makes you credible, no matter how much you've done, no matter how much sin you've committed, even last night, if you have turned around, if you said Lord, I'm sorry, lord, I repent of my wrong. No one has a right to charge you anymore with the sin. God doesn't even remember it. God says I've washed it into the sea of forgetfulness. So we talked about the charge.
Speaker 2:So there's this, and this is what I'm describing to you is the way that Satan works. He tries to charge you and he uses you, sometimes against yourself, to charge you. But another way he does is he tries to condemn you. He tries to condemn you, condemnation meaning there's no way back. You have gone too far. God cannot forgive you for this. He tries to define you by your sin.
Speaker 2:Now, but in Romans 8.34, it says who is he who condemns? It is Christ, who died and furthermore, is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. In the Amplified says who is he that condemns? Who is there to condemn us? Well, christ, the Messiah who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, who's at the right hand of God, actually pleading as he exceeds for us. In other words, you may think it's the Lord who's condemning you, but it can't be, because he died for your sin. When Jesus died on the cross, he took your sin, my sin, past, present and future to the cross and condemned sin in the flesh. So he crucified it in the flesh when he died on the cross. But he also rose from the cross. He rose from the grave and he's seated at the right hand of the father, pleading or interceding for us before the father. So, in other words, it's not god the father, god the son or god the holy spirit that condemns you.
Speaker 2:So you have no right to condemn yourself. Nor does anyone else, especially satan, have a right to condemn you. You are not defined by your sin. You are not defined by your mistakes. You're not defined by what happened to you that was not your fault. So when you hear someone, or when you hear Satan coming through someone to try to condemn you for something you've done, turn around and look at him, square in the eye and say in the name of Jesus, I have been freed from this. In the name of Jesus, I have been freed from this by his death and resurrection. By his death on the cross and resurrection from the grave, I am no longer condemned. There is therefore now no condemnation to those in Christ another way.
Speaker 2:This is how Satan works. See, going back to verse 33, the first thing he does is he tries to charge you, and he uses yourself or other people to charge you, but when, if he can charge you, then he wants to condemn you or define you, in other words, build your, build a case against you by defining you by what you've done, whether it was multiple sins or or one sin, or maybe it was something that happened to you that you had nothing to do with. Maybe you were sexually molested or raped or sexually assaulted and you did nothing to deserve that. But he tries to condemn you by thinking you had something to do with it and defying you by that act that had nothing to do with you. I'm speaking to those who may have been victims of sexual assault as a child, whether it was a relative or whoever, and you carry that burden. That's not you. Do not allow the kingdom of darkness to define you by that one event or multiple events. That was not you and it was nothing to do.
Speaker 2:It was a trick of the enemy to shackle you, to chain you, to burden you, to put a stronghold in your life, but it is not going to work because Christ broke that chain on the cross and he freed you forever. When he rose from the grave, he took your sin, he took your, your, your um. He took that pain, he took that sting from what happened to you and it died on the cross and he buried it when he went into the grave. But when he rose again, he gave you new life through the resurrection power of Christ to rise from that act, to rise from those acts and to be free forever from condemnation, guilt and condemnation, because he's even now making intercession for you at the right hand of the Father. But Satan likes to charge you, then he likes to condemn you, and if he can get you to agree to the charge and to accept the condemnation, he then will then in verse 35, will try to separate you from the love of Christ. In other words, his end game is to make you feel that Christ no longer loves you, and so what he does is if he could get you to accept that lie.
Speaker 2:That lie comes with suffering, affliction and tribulation. It comes with pain. It comes with that pain of separation, just as Christ felt separated from the Father, or experienced the separation from the Father when he was on the cross. Because remember when Christ said, father, why have you forsaken me? It's because he actually was. God turned his back on him because Christ became sin. Jesus became sin on the cross. He took your sin on and my sin literally and became sin so he could take all the sin for mankind, past, present and future, in himself and condemn it and nail it to the cross. He didn't go through all of that for you to pick it back up.
Speaker 2:That's why it says who shall separate you from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword. And the Amplified says who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation or calamity or distress or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword. See verse 36. Makes it clearly for thy sake. For thy sake. And when it says thy sake, he's not referring to you know, christ died once and for all time. But now that he did it, we're going to go through things. We're going to suffer. We are put to death throughout the day, we are counted sheep for slaughter, and what that means is there are things we will go through. We will go through sufferings. We go through affl will go through sufferings. We go through affliction and tribulation, or claimant distress, or persecution, or hunger or destitution, or peril or sword.
Speaker 2:And this is Satan's trick physical tricks, even sometimes mental, spiritual tricks. He will do these are things we will go through because he wants you to say he wants you to tap out, that's the best way to say it. He wants you to tap out and accept's the best way to say it. He wants you to tap out and accept the charge, accept the condemnation and accept that. He wants you to believe the lie that Christ can't love you because of what you've done or because of what happened to you. He wants you to separate from the love of Christ, because if he can separate you from the feeling and experiencing the love of Christ, he can kill you off. Now you're disconnected from the source.
Speaker 2:So what does he do? He uses tribulation, he uses the stressful situations, he uses persecution, he uses famine. In other words, he uses hunger, he uses nakedness or destitution, he causes you to enter into perilous situations or even face death by the sword. He wants you to. He lets these things come to you, meaning Satan causes these things to come to you. So you could say and I'm sure the question. It's almost like being put with a gun to your head. It's like life roulette where it says do you love Christ now? Do you want to serve Christ now? You know, kind of like the test he gave Jesus If you'll do this, I'll give you this.
Speaker 2:Satan says if you'll renounce your love for Christ, if you'll renounce Christ, I'll give you I'll remove this tribulation from you. If you renounce your love for Christ, I'll remove this distress from you. If you renounce your love for Christ, I'll remove this persecution, this famine, this nakedness, this peril, this sword from you. But he's saying and this is what Paul's saying I'd rather face this all day long rather than be separated from your love. If it means I have to go through this to keep connected to you, god, who is love, I'll go through it. They think I'm a sheep going to slaughter. But yet what they don't realize, lord, is in all these things, no matter what I go through, no matter what tribulation I go through, no matter what distress or I go through, no matter what distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword I go through. No matter what I go through, I'm not just a conqueror, I'm more than the conqueror. And it's not because of me, it's because it's through Christ, who loved us. See, all these things that you go through doesn't change the fact that you are more than a conqueror.
Speaker 2:See, a conqueror is temporary. There are many conquerors in life. Some are Christians, some are not. There will be people who conquer things but they can't keep them. See, I can conquer a nation, but I can't keep a nation because I don't have the resources or the availability or the strength to keep hold of what I've conquered. How many people, from Alexander the Great to Caesar to Nebuchadnezzar, to even David, have conquered nations but yet those nations eventually conquered them, or some other nation has conquered them. See, conquerors are always going to be temporary, but we're more than conquerors. That means not only do we take over, but we retain.
Speaker 2:See, and this is the other side of conquering, being more than a conqueror. Sometimes in life it looks like you don't conquer, but you do. I'm sorry, let me go back. Sometimes in life it looks like you're not more than a conqueror, but that's because they look at it from the physical side. See, let me put it this way the apostles, all except for John, were put to death, and to the world they look like sheep going to slaughter, but in the eyes of God they were more than conquerors for all they did. First of all, they didn't have to feel the sting of death, because Christ already took that away. But all that did and this is the key all they did was, when they killed an apostle, they spread the seed further. See, when a believer dies, it just causes the seed to spread, and I'm not going to get too deep into this, but this is what's called the Christ. Jesus was the name given to the word of God. Christ was the anointing on him. But anytime there's an anointing on someone, when it remains on them when they die, it does not go back with God, it actually spreads.
Speaker 2:You ever see a church where a pastor passes away? I've been in one of these churches where a pastor passes away and people think, well, that's the end of that ministry and it's not Now. The church that he may have shepherded may shrink, but actually what happens is those who he birthed as sons and daughters in the gospel actually go out and start their own churches or start and do other things, like in this case. In my case case, I do a podcast and it spreads. I get people who respond to me from the philippines, from from, uh, bangladesh, from, definitely from germany. Germany's a huge following, um, but again it's the following christ, not me, japan, you know, columbia, I couldn't do that just with the way, I mean with having a church, I mean I could, I guess, but this is the way God called me to do it and I'm still reaching people.
Speaker 2:I'm still doing Matthew 28. But again, it's not I, it's Christ in me. But here's the thing getting back to my point in me. But here's the thing getting back to my point. When Jesus was crucified, the anointing didn't go back to heaven. It spread to his apostles. It spread to other followers of Christ, known as the way. And the more they killed the apostles, the more they killed believers, the further the gospel spread.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, it looks like we're being wow, you could kill us all day long. And from yeah, it looks like we're being wow, you could kill us all day long. And from the outside it looks like we're a sheep going to slaughter. We're actually seed being buried into the ground for the anointing to spread. The anointing fertilizes, the anointing magnifies. So the more you kill one, you spread the anointing. So what does that mean for you? Look, it may look like you are being slaughtered, it may look like you're going down, but actually what's happening is the anointing is spreading further.
Speaker 2:The anointing on your life, the call on your life, is spreading further. That's what makes you more than a conqueror, is number one, because not only can you take over and retain, you can actually spread out further. The more you go through, the more the anointing shines on you. The more the anointing shines on you. The more you go through, the more God uses you as a Trojan horse to spread his word, to spread his love, to spread his message, because people are going to look on your life. They're going to see. This had to be God. If you overcame the situation, it had to be God. If God moves you to your eternal life, it had to be God. If you overcame the situation, it had to be God. If God moves you to transition to your eternal life, it had to be God. It had to be God Because she could have, you know, similar to Christ, he could have called down leaders of angels, he could have cursed out people while he was on the cross, but he kept his peace.
Speaker 2:People watch your life and I've seen this. I watch as people transition from this life to the next and they could have been bitter, mean, but they were at peace with it. The way they transition from this life to the next was a beautiful experience. I saw they became more resolute in their love for Christ. They became more loving, they became more. Not that they weren't loving before, but their love increased, their testimony increased. They were ready because they knew to live for Christ or to die for Christ is gain. They're not leaving, they're just transitioning, and they were looking forward to it.
Speaker 2:My hope and prayer is that I could be Just as great and graceful In how they did it, but I'm not ready for that yet. So, relax, I'm just believing, god, that I'll have the same grace of my life when that time does come, but, beloved, I'm just believing, god that I'll have the same grace of my life when that time does come, but, beloved. I want you to be encouraged to know that you're okay, that you're more than a conqueror. There's no charge you or anyone else or anything else can lay against you, because you are God's elect. There is no condemnation, anyone or anything can put on you, because Christ condemned sin in the flesh and Christ condemned whatever happened to you. He condemned it in the flesh, on the cross and freed you, and there is nothing, nothing that can separate you from the love of Christ.
Speaker 2:His love is not conditional, it's eternal, it's unconditional, no matter how much you may stray, no matter how much you may go back to some things, like a dog chasing after his own tail, like a dog returned to his family. No matter how many times you do it, his love will never change for you. His love will never change for you. His love will never change for you. He's just hoping that your love for him will change and you come back home. You will love him more than you love what you do that causes him grief. You will love him more than you love the situations that you go through. You will love him more than you love the situations that you go through. You will love him more than you love the condemnation you allow Satan to put on you. You will love him more than you love agreeing with the charge. You will love him more than you love being separated from him. You love him enough to come home and not allow yourself to be defined by your past or by your present, because he's your future.
Speaker 2:I pray this word was a blessing to you. I pray that it would encourage you and give you a new definition of life. You are a great, great person and God loves you, and so do I. We had another look podcast Podcast. Speak blessings over your life, speak peace into your life and speak joy into your life. In the Holy Ghost, in Jesus' name, we thank you and we love you, amen.
Speaker 2:Thank you, god. Love on the track. Thank you for listening to us at Another Look Podcast. We come to that part in our podcast now where we offer the opportunity to you for you to receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior. So I want you to repeat this after me Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:Your word says whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. According to your word in Acts 2.21. I'm calling on you and I come, surrendering my life and my will to you. I pray and ask Jesus to come into my heart and be Lord over my life. According to your word in Romans 10, 9 and 10 that says if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes into righteousness and with the mouth confession is made into salvation. I do that now. I confess that Jesus is Lord of my life and I believe in my heart that God raised him from the dead. I ask you, holy Spirit, to come make your home inside of me and live in me. I confess all my sins to you, lord and ask for forgiveness for them.
Speaker 2:Right now, in the name of Jesus, I receive you, jesus, as my Lord and Savior. I thank you, god, that I am now reborn and a new creation. I am a Christian, a child of Almighty God and a child of the one true King. I have salvation and I am saved. Thank you, jesus. Lord, you also said in your word if you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him, according to your scripture in Luke 11, 13?. So now, lord, I'm asking you to infill me with the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit rise up within me as I praise God. I fully expect to receive a supernatural prayer language and speak in that language as you give me the utterance according to your word in Acts 2.4. In Jesus' name, amen, so be it. Congratulations, beloved.
Speaker 2:If you prayed this prayer, then you were born again and now have eternal life in Christ Jesus. All of your sins are now forgiven and the Holy Spirit now lives inside of you. The word of God says that everyone in heaven rejoices at your salvation, according to Luke 15, 7 through 10. So right now, guess what Heaven is having a party because of your decision, and God has a huge smile on his face. If you prayed this prayer, please email us at alptrinity1 at gmailcom. Again, that's alptrinity1 at gmailcom, so we can hear your testimony. Please email us and we can hear your testimony. Please email us and we can pray for you and send you a free gift from this ministry. God bless you and remember this always Jesus loves you and so do we. God bless you and welcome home.
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