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This program is made
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of the God called partners of Renner Ministries.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind: where the word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
My name is Rick Renner.
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Thanks for letting me
come into your space.
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And today it's me and Denise.
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Sweetheart, I'm so glad you're here.
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Thank you, Rick. I'm
enjoying this series.
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Why are you enjoying this series?
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Oh, Rick, this is so clear about
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who we really are, how Christ sees us,
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and how we need to see one another.
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You know, we need to
really clear up our thinking
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and make sure we don't have any
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prejudice toward other people.
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And there's all kinds of prejudice. We
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saw in Program No.1,
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it's not just about skin color or nationality.
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There are so many different
kinds of prejudice
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and most people have some kind
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of preconceived judgment
about somebody else
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or another people group.
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It may be subconscious that
it affects the way you live.
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It affects the way you think,
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it affects the way you treat other people.
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And my friends, it might
be that you built a lot
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of barricades to people that
you really need in your life.
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You need to tear those barricades down.
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We saw in James 2,
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that having prejudicial ideas
about other people is wicked
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in the sight of God.
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It's something that we have
to tear down in our lives.
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But I am offering you the series,
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which is called, Prejudiced - Me?
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The subtitle says, Overcoming Prejudice in the Church
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and in Your Life.
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And it comes with a study guide.
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Everything in this series
is in the study guide.
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And right now I'm offering you my two books
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that I haven't offered in a long,
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long time called, Sparkling Gems from the Greek Vol.I
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& Vol.II.
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It doesn't matter which
one you begin with,
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but both of these will really
give you a deep dive into
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scripture and you will find treasures
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that you've never seen in your life.
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And if you're looking for
a devotional of something
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that you can read every day
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so you can begin reading your Bible,
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this is the best way for you to do it.
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And I guarantee you,
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you won't find another devotional like this one.
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But you can order all these things by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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And Denise, now it is our
privilege to ask people
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to call us if they have a prayer need.
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Isn't it a blessing that
we can pray with people?
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Absolutely. It's a blessing for them
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that somebody can agree with them.
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That's powerful.
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You know, I love it when we're in Tulsa
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and we walk through our Partner Care Department
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and it's like a roar of prayer.
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Sometimes I walk through
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and people don't know that I'm there
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because they're so focused
on those prayer calls
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and really praying scripturally.
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And sometimes I stand behind
our partner care members
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and just listen and think,
wow, that is amazing.
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And if you have a prayer
need in your life,
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we wanna pray for you.
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We really wanna pray. I know
you can pray by yourself.
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Of course you can.
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You have direct access to the Father
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through the spirit by yourself.
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But Jesus did teach there was power in agreement.
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And if you feel that you need somebody to agree
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with you, well here we are.
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Just call the number that is on the screen
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or send us an email and
we'll begin to pray with you.
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And Jesus will do something wonderful.
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And before we get into today's teaching,
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I wanna share two testimonies.
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One woman was dealing with damage
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to her eye due to a stroke.
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She was going to see the
doctor to get an MRI.
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And as she was preparing to go,
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she received a call from Renner Ministries
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that she was not expecting.
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I wanna say something to you.
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When you reach out to us,
we really pray for you
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and we pray for you and pray for you.
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And often we call you back
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and that's what we find in this testimony.
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She received a call from Renner Ministries
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that she was not expecting,
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but listen to the rest of this testimony.
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Our partner care team
member prayed with her
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as she was heading out
the door to the doctor.
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After she got her MRI report back,
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she said her doctor was completely taken back
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by the results.
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He went as far as to ask her
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to get a second doctor's opinion.
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They cannot find a single trace
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of a stroke in her body or her eye.
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She said The doctors are in
disbelief that she is healed.
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She said she's telling
everyone how good God is
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and she's forever thankful for
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that day when she received a
call from Renner Ministries
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just as she was headed
out the door to the doctor
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think that's - Awesome, Denise.
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I love that. - Well, here's another testimony today.
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A person called who was crying
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and thinking about all the failures in his life
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and how lonely he is at this stage of his life.
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We prayed and bound a spirit of heaviness,
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torment, and fear.
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And suddenly he said
that he received the love
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of Jesus and joy.
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We started praising the Lord together with our hands lifted,
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he thanked and thanked us for praying.
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What a privilege that we
could pray for anybody.
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Thank you for trusting
us with your prayer needs
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and let us know how to
pray for you as well.
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But today we're going to continue in James 2:
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1, which is the foundational verse for this series.
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And it says, My brethren have not the faith
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of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory
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with respect of persons.
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You know Denise, when you
read that in the King James
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version, you really miss
the punch of that verse.
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So the RIV interprets it like this; My dearest brothers
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and companions whom I cherish
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and treasure, you must not
be a respecter of persons.
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That is you must not have hold
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and possess the faith of
our Lord Jesus Christ,
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the Lord of glory,
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and at the same time, judge others
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or base your acceptance of them by
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what you see in their external appearance.
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Now that is pretty clear that we are not
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to have a prejudiced
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what we see.
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We're not supposed to judge anybody
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by their external appearance.
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And remember, we're told in 1 Samuel 16,
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that even God does not look
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after the outward man, but God looks after the heart.
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And I gave you the example
that one time Denise
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and I were attending an auction in Moscow.
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We weren't there to buy
anything, we were just there
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to observe and to watch.
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People came in and many of them were flashing their diamonds
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and they were wearing their minks
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and they obviously were
very wealthy people.
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And then a man came in who
really looked like a popper.
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And he sat at the very
opposite end of our row.
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And I looked down the road him
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and I thought, what in
the world is a man like
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that doing in a meeting like this?
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He obviously has no money.
And then the auction began.
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And who do you think began
to bid the highest prices?
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The man at the end of the
row, I had wrongly judged him
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by his appearance.
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That man spent a million dollars
on a little tiny painting.
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And I said to Denise, who
would've ever imagined
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that man had money to spend?
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I judged him wrongly by
his external appearance
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and my friends, this is wrong.
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And I'm praying that God helps me
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to be totally set free of that.
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And there are so many
different kinds of prejudice.
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We've covered that in a previous program.
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There's skin color prejudice,
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there is nationality prejudice, there is
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accent prejudice, language prejudice.
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There are so many different
kinds of prejudice.
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If you didn't see Program No.1 in the series, go back
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and see it in the archive
or order the series.
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We need to come to grips with
a fact that each of us tend
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to judge others in some
way that we should not.
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It needs to be eradicated from our life.
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And in fact, we saw yesterday that in Galatians 3:23
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and Colossians 3:11, Paul wrote that in Christ - listen
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to this glorious verse -
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in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek.
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We saw what that means.
That's a powerful statement.
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If we just stopped right
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But then he adds - male nor female.
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Denise, we saw yesterday,
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that was a revolutionary statement.
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Then he had circumcision
nor uncircumcision.
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This describes religious views
versus non-religious Jews
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that had a war going on between them.
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Then he says, barbarian
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or Scythian. The word, barbarian, describes a barbarian,
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but the Scythian were the lowest rung of the barbarians.
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So now we find there were
even prejudicial feelings
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between barbarians.
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Barbarian said, well,
we might be barbarians,
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but we are not Scythian.
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And then it says, slave
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or free - two categories that we're not allowed
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to even set at the table together.
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But Paul says, in Christ, Christ is in all
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and is all.
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All of these distinctions
have completely disappeared
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in Jesus Christ. Denise.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, now we're gonna go to Acts 13:1,
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where we see an example of
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where these distinctions
disappeared in the church.
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Can I say something Rick?
You sure can.
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Well, I've been meditating a lot in Ephesians 1:
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17 - 23.
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And it says in verse 22,
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and he put all things under his feet
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and gave him to be head over
all things to the church,
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which is his body, the fullness of him
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who feels all in awe.
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And the body of Christ is people.
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It's our brother and sister.
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And when we have prejudice
against our brother
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or our sister, for some
some reason, whatever it is,
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they're you don't like their hair color, it
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against Christ. That is, that's amazing.
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And even in that verse Rick, in James,
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it says at in the RIV, that is,
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you must not have hold
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and possess the faith of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord
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of glory, and at the
same time judge others.
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So it's like, no, we have
the, the Lord Jesus Christ,
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he's the Lord of glory and and the
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and the scripture's saying,
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and at that time,
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you can't at the same
time have a prejudiced
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and wrong feelings towards
your brother or your sister.
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It's so clear, Rick, it's like
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he's really given us
instruction of what's right
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and what's wrong and
the power that we have
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as believers in Christ.
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He's the Lord of glory. He's in us.
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And when I was listening to you read this Rick and it said,
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and possess the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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I was thinking that's where the power is.
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If we want to eliminate a
prejudice in our life, is not
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by saying, I'm gonna not be prejudice.
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I'm not gonna be prejudice.
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It's by meditating on
the power that's in us
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that we possess because
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And this is a powerful message, Rick.
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Well, when we come to Acts 13, we find an example
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where in Christ all of these distinctions really evaporated.
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And the apostle Paul found himself in Antioch.
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We're gonna read that in Acts 13:1,
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but first I wanna read what Paul said about himself in
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Philippians 3,
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and listen to how he described himself. In Philippians 3:
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5,
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he said, I was circumcised the 8th day. Alright, stop.
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That means he was among the
strictest religious Jews.
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Secondly, he says, I was
of the stock of Israel.
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It was the equivalent of
saying, I am a pure blood.
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There is no mixture in me.
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There's a lot of pride in that statement.
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Then he says, I was of
the tribe of Benjamin.
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Well, the tribe of Benjamin
was the most cherished
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and prized of all the tribes.
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So Paul says, I am circumcised the 8th day.
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I am absolutely a religious Jew. I'm of the stock of Israel.
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I'm a pure blood, a pure bred Jew.
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He says, I'm of the tribe
of Benjamin, the best
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of all the tribes.
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He says a Hebrew of the Hebrews,
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which means everything about him was Hebrew:
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what he ate, how he thought, how he spoke.
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Everything about him was Hebrew training.
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He says, as touching the law - a Pharisee:
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this was the most strictly
religious concerning zeal,
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persecuting the church,
touching the righteousness,
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which is in the law, blameless,
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which means I kept the whole law.
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I don't even know how that's possible
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because there were so many laws.
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But Paul is telling us who he
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Now here is this man
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who has grown up a Hebrew of the Hebrews.
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Doesn't like Gentiles,
doesn't like Pagans.
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He's lived in a very
enclosed world among Jews,
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and suddenly he finds himself in Antioch in the church.
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So go to Acts 13:1, where the Bible says -
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Now there were in the church that was Antioch,
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certain prophets and teachers, by the way,
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I'm reading from my book called, The Will of God,
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The Key to your Success.
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And here they are as Barnabas and Simeon.
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That was called Niger and Lucius of Cyrene
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and Manaen, which had been brought up with
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Herod the tetrarch,
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and Saul. I'm gonna read you, but please listen.
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There's a reason I'm reading.
I want you to really get this.
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Five leaders are mentioned in this verse.
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Saul, Barnabas, Simeon, Lucius,
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and Manaeon. Of these men of God, 2 - 2
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had a Hebrew background,
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that was Saul and Barnabas.
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The other 3: Simeon, Lucius and Manaeon, were Gentiles.
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Alright, stop right there.
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That means in this leadership
team, there's a mixture
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of Jews and Gentiles.
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Well, just naturally speaking,
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these people would've never even sat at that table together.
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These people were diametrically opposed
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to each other culturally.
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There were great prejudices naturally against each
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other in this group.
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Then it goes on to say this was a break from past tradition.
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For the first time Jews
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and Gentiles were
serving the Lord together
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as equal partners in the body of Christ.
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Where do you think Paul
got his revelation?
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That in Christ, there's neither June
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nor Gentile, circumcision nor
uncircumcision, neither male
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nor female, neither bond
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nor free, neither all these
distinctions disappearing.
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He got that revelation when
he was serving in Antioch,
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when he found himself
at the table with people
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that he formally did not like
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and had a lot of prejudice against.
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And now he's at the table serving with them side by side.
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But let's look at who these people were. First
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we come to Barnabas.
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Barnabas was a Levi from a
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which was a region in Greece.
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He was a distant Jew, descended from the tribe of Levi,
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and it is likely that he did not grow up
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around the strict religious
community that was
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so characteristic of Jerusalem.
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No.2, Simeon.
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The Bible tells us he was Simeon called, Niger,
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which is the Latin word meaning black.
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So this was not just a Gentile, this was a black man.
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Scholars speculate
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that this indicates Simeon
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and may have been - are you ready -
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a slave of a Roman family.
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So now not only do we find Jew
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and Gentile together,
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we find freedmen sitting at
the same table with slaves.
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Well, that didn't happen
in the natural world.
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Then we come to Lucius of Cyrene, who was from the region
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of Cyrene in northern Africa.
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Lucius was a man of
North African heritage.
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The name Lucius actually
means light or bright.
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that had a lighter color skin.
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So now we find there were 2-black men in this team; 2
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of them and probably both of them slaves.
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Then we come to Manaen. Manaen is recorded
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to have been brought up with Herod the tetrarch
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and was in fact probably a relative
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of the family of Herod.
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And because Manaeon was Roman
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and likely descended from the royal family,
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he'd received a Roman education.
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And this was ex significant
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because educated Romans were raised
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to look down on foreigners
as being uncooked barbarians
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who were classified as less than them.
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And now we find that our Roman
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and royalty is seated at
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and two slaves.
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This is not naturally possible in the 1st Century.
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And then we come to Paul, who
was also a member of the team.
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And Saul was born
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or Paul into a well connected,
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tremendously wealthy Jewish
family which afforded him the
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best education.
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He had been theologically trained for his former position
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as a rabbi and a Pharisee.
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And here he finds himself at
the table with another Jew
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who is non religiously trained.
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He finds himself at the table with royalty, Manaeon,
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who is also Roman.
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He finds him at the
table with two black men
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who possibly are slaves.
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And here we see that in Christ, all
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of these distinctions evaporated.
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And one was not better than the other.
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They were equal partners in ministry in the city of Antioch.
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And that's where Paul got his revelation
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when he was rubbing elbows with people
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that formerly he wouldn't
have even spoken to.
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But his prejudice disappeared
as he served side by side
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with them in Christ in
the city of Antioch.
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And that's where he got his
revelation that in Christ,
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all these distinctions evaporate. That happened
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by him being in the right place, in the right environment,
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where he was suddenly sitting with people
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that once he would not
have even spoken to.
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But in Christ, he learned it
didn't matter whether you're a
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Jew, whether you're a gentile,
whether you're a slave,
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whether you're a royalty,
whether you're male,
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whether you're free, whether you're barbarian or Scythian.
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Christ is all
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and in all. That's
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where he got his magnificent
revelation that in Christ, all
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of these distinctions disappear.
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Honey, is that amazing? It's
powerful. That is amazing.
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It also shows the importance
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of being in the right
place at the right time.
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That's where he was when
he got his revelation.
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And my friends, we need to
understand that in Christ,
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these superficial things, they disappear.
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They disappear. And we are
mysteriously marvelously,
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melded into one wonderful body.
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And in Christ, there's no room
for prejudice of any kind.
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And if you find that you have
anything against any people
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group for any reason, you
need to ask the Holy Spirit
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to eradicate that from you.
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Because according to 1 Samuel 16,
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even God does not look on the outward man.
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God looks at the heart. We'll
be back in just a moment.
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This is Rick Renner. And somebody has asked the question -
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How do I resolve strife
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or conflicts in my family?
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Well, sometimes that's really hard to do.
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But there's a scripture that
I have found very helpful,
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and this is Hebrews 12:14, which says,
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Follow peace with all men.
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And that word follow is a
hunting term, which means
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to put on your hunting
gear, follow the tracks
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of the animal, follow, follow,
follow, follow, follow.
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And just like a hunter
is bound to determine
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to get his prey, you've
got to be determined
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that you're gonna capture
peace with all men.
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You've gotta give it your best shot.
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And the word, peace, is the Greek word, eirene, which means
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to put aside all conflicts, all strife,
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and to focus instead on rebuilding
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and a time of reconstruction.
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So rather than focus on
strife, focus on what is good.
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See how you can rebuild that relationship
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and make a determination
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that you're gonna put
on your hunting gear.
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And you're not gonna stop
until you've captured peace
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with everybody in your family.
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We are to be imitators of Christ.
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Following closely in his footsteps.
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Jesus walked in unconditional
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and unbiased love for others. As believers,
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we should do the same.
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Joined by his wife Denise
Rick Renner addresses the
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hindrance of prejudiced
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and why it has no place
in the body of Christ.
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The Lord has crafted each and
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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner, and guess where I am.
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I'm seated in the foyer of the Tulsa Ministry Headquarters.
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And I love this foyer.
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First of all, when you come
in here immediately you
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feel excellence.
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We wanted it to be beautiful,
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but we didn't spend a lot of money to do it
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because we're very careful with the funds that we receive.
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But the reason I love this foyer is
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because of what's on the walls
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and on the wall behind the camera
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and right over here, there are big displays
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of letters which we received
from Russian viewers in the
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early years when we were
getting so much mail,
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we stopped counting the mail by the pieces
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and started counting the mail by the tons.
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I am not exaggerating when
I tell you that we received
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between 80 and 100 tons
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of mail from people that
were reaching out to us
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and we answered every single letter.
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And you know, to answer
every letter, you gotta pay
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for stationary, you
gotta pay for envelopes,
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you gotta pay for stamps.
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People don't think about
what it costs to answer
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that kind of mail.
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But my friends, it was a
massive amount of money just
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to respond to that mail.
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But we did it because of our partners.
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And now from this facility,
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we've taken ministry to the next level.
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We're not just reaching Russia, we're reaching
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around the planet with television and all kinds of media.
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And this office in
Tulsa responds to people
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that are reaching out to
us from around the world.
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And because we have this
facility, we're able
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to do this professionally and excellently.
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And I want to say thank you for helping us
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to purchase this facility.
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And if you're not already a
member of our giving team,
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please pray about being a part
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of the Ministry Expansion Project.
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Wow, I have really enjoyed
our time with you today.
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And Denise, have you enjoyed this?
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I've enjoyed it very much.
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Praise God for what we have in us
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and that we are in Christ
with everybody else.
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And you know Denise, one
day when we get to Heaven,
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nobody's gonna notice where we're from.
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What is our class?
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Nobody's gonna know what is
our education, our skin color.
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We're just gonna be redeemed
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and we're gonna worship
the Lamb of God together.
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Praise God. We need to start that now.
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So we need to eliminate
all these distinctions
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and prejudicial attitudes
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and embrace who the family of God is.
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But I want you to order the whole series,
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which is called Prejudiced - Me?
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Overcoming Prejudice in the Church and in your Life.
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It comes with the study guide.
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And we're offering you now my two books called, Sparkling
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Gems from the Greek: 365 Greek word studies
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for every day of the year
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to sharpen your understanding of God's word.
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And there's volume one and volume two.
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And when you reach out to
us, remember we're waiting
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to know how to pray for you.
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So call the number on the
screen or send us an email.
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And when we hear from you,
we're gonna really pray
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for God's power to be released,
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to meet whatever need needs to be met.
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And we're gonna pray for you right now.
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So put your hand on your heart.
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Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus
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that we can come directly to
you and ask you for your help.
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And Father, I specifically
ask you that you would help us
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to see the body of Christ
the way that you see it,
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and that we would embrace
the entire body of Christ
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and not look after the
outward man, but to look
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after the heart the way that you do.
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In Jesus name. Amen.
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Well, tomorrow we're gonna wrap it up,
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and tomorrow I'm gonna give you 5-things you need to do
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if you've discovered you have any prejudice going on
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inside your soul. It's gonna be good.
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But until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4, says,
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"Where the word of the king is, there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now; Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Renner Ministries is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ
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through every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the Earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.