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Get ready for a teaching
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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but dive deep revealing a
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Hey, thank you for
having me into your home.
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This is Rick Renner.
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Today I'm here with Denise,
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and today is the last day of the week and Denise
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we're wrapping up our series called, Prejudiced-Me?
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You know, all of us need to be honest with the Lord
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and say, Lord, if there's anything in me
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that's affecting my view
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of others are restricting my ability
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to fully embrace the body of Christ,
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please deliver me from it.
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And Denise, I think this teaching is really important.
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Yeah, and you know, Rick, David said in the Psalm -
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Search me oh Lord, and try me
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and know if there's anything
unclean in my heart.
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That's right.
And so we can ask the Holy Spirit
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to shine his search light on our heart
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and reveal in in us that this,
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this is an attitude,
this not pleasing to me.
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This is an attitude that's
stealing from you. And Rick,
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thinking about prejudice,
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I was thinking about somebody
really dear in our lives.
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Many years ago, a beautiful black woman.
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And I, I loved her so much,
her voice, everything,
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the everything she did, everything she said,
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the fun we had together,
the way she thought.
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And I was thinking one day I thought,
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what if she wasn't in my life?
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I love all of her differences. I love her voice.
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It's totally different than mine. I love the way she walks.
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I love the way she talks.
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And I would've missed the whole thing.
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You know, God, if we'd had prejudice,
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God loves flavor.
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Oh, - And there's so much
flavor in the human race,
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and we need to really open our hearts
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and not be affected by
some prejudice given to us
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by somebody else.
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Or maybe you've had a bad experience
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with somebody in the past, and
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because of it, you kind of view a whole
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people group in one particular way.
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You don't want anybody to do that to you.
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There's nothing right about that.
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But hey, we want you to
get the whole series,
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which is called, Prejudice - Me?
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Overcoming Prejudice in the
Church and in Your Life.
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And today is the last day this week
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that we're offering you this series
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and it comes with a study guide.
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And everything in this series
is in this study guide so
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that you can read all the
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or hearing it, and really get the
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teaching down deep inside you.
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And today, Denise, is the last day
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that we're offering Sparkling Gems from the Greek, I said,
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if you don't read them, you
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They're each about a thousand pages.
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But hey, they're really easy to read.
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And you just read one Gem a day. My friends,
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it will take you so deep into the New Testament.
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It will make you fall in
love with the word of God.
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And if you've wished that
you had a daily devotional
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that you could read, here's
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But you can order all these
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or by giving us a call.
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And we want to pray for you.
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So be sure to let us
know how to pray for you.
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But I wanna share two testimonies
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before we dive into today's teaching.
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Here's the first one.
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There is a man whom we've
been praying for three years
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to be healed. Today
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he called to share that he's been wearing a catheter
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for the last three years,
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but last week, his urologist removed it.
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After the procedure, he was able
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to use the restroom on his own
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for the first time in three years
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and he's rejoicing.
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He said that he just had to call
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and give us the good news about this miracle God had done
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for him, because he knows it's
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because of the prayers
from Renner Ministries.
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Well, you know, that might
seem like a very personal
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testimony, but hey, if
this man was able to go
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to the bathroom for the first
time in three years without
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assistance, that is quite a miracle.
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There's people who need
all kinds of miracles,
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and we believe the Lord has one
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with your name on it waiting for you.
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But here's another testimony.
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One precious woman wrote to thank our Partner Care Ministry
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for calls she received during a very difficult
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and stressful moment in her life.
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She said, I know many believers
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and non-believers go through
very difficult times,
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and you are there for them.
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I'm so grateful that
you're there for people
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who need prayer.
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And may the Lord bless
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and strengthen your
ministry as you minister to
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so many people's needs.
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It is our privilege to pray for you.
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And if you need prayer,
we're waiting to pray
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with you as well.
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But Denise, today we're gonna see 5-things
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to do if you have any form of prejudice. Are you ready?
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Ready. - But we're gonna begin with James 2:1,
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which is the foundational scripture to this week's series.
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And it says, My brethren have not - it's really a command -
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have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord
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of glory with respect to persons.
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This is a prohibition.
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And the RIV of this verse says - My dearest brothers
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and comrades 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
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of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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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But what do you do
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if you've been listening to me and Denise this week
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and you've realized - hmm - I think maybe do have a feeling
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of prejudice toward one particular group of people,
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or you know what it is,
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but suddenly you become
aware of it, what do you do?
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I'm gonna give you 5-things to do. Are you ready?
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All right. Here's No.1.
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Become aware of your prejudices
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and ask the Holy Spirit to change you.
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Become aware of your prejudices
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and ask the Holy Spirit to change you.
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You gotta find out what
your prejudices are.
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And in program No.1,
we looked at a big long list
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of all kinds of prejudices.
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And I wanna read through some
of them again real quick.
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This is how we started the week,
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and I wanna cover them again today
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at the end of the week. There
is skin color prejudice.
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There's nationality,
prejudice, my friends, there's
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so many different kinds of prejudice
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and beyond the normal kind of prejudice,
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there's age prejudice,
there's class prejudice,
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there's married, unmarried,
prejudice, educated,
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uneducated, prejudice.
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There is disability prejudice.
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That's when you have a prejudice
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or a feeling against those
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There is physical anomaly, prejudice.
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When you have something against somebody
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because they have some
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there is voice prejudice
and there really is,
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and maybe that somebody begins to talk
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and immediately you're turned off.
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You have a certain prejudice toward a certain voice tone.
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There's orphan prejudice, there's homeless person prejudice.
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I had to overcome that one and boy, was I ever wrong.
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There's sex prejudice
between males and females.
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There's women bosses,
prejudice. There really is.
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That's a real prejudice. There's male prejudice. Today
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it's called misogyny - that men hate all women.
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That is absolutely not the truth.
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There is female blonde prejudice.
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There's hair color prejudice
where people laugh at those
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that are blondes and tell jokes
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or they say all redheads are hot tempered.
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There is prejudice against children who are the 1st born,
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2nd born, 3rd born.
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There really is. They said
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The middle child's always neutral.
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The oldest child got everything
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before the other children came along.
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There is bald prejudice. I know about that because I'm bald.
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I've been judged before for my lack of hair.
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There is tattoo prejudice. When you see somebody
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with a tattoo and immediately you judge them.
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You have a preconceived
judgment against them
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because of a tattoo.
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You don't know that.
They may really regret
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that they have that tattoo.
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They may have already
long repented for that.
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But my friends don't
look at the outward man.
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Remember, God looks at the heart.
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There's bodybuilder prejudice.
Did you know that Denise?
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People kind of have this assumption
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that bodybuilders are all
muscles and no brains.
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There's beard prejudice.
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People sometimes have a
prejudice against beards.
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I was trained by a man in the ministry
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who really had something against people that had beards.
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And I found out later that there are people
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who have prejudice against certain kinds of beards.
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Rick, I had a prejudice
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It was, it was long time
ago, but I was in college
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and the football team that some of them
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who were Christians would come to the Baptist Student Union
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and they would give their testimonies.
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Well, here's, here's standing.
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This big old guy, he hardly
has a neck. He's so built up.
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I am so prejudiced against him.
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Why? - Because he probably is not serious.
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And he's just into sports.
And I'm not into sports.
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And most of the money that
would go to the college went
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to the sports department and
not to the music department.
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So I had all kinds of prejudice.
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And I'm sitting there and
there he stands with no neck.
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He's so built up and I'm, I'm judging him.
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And all of a sudden,
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the most amazing testimony
comes out of him;
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how grateful he is to know Jesus
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and what Jesus did in his life.
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But you see how I judged him?
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I could have missed the whole
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There's all kinds of prejudice.
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There really is athletic prejudice.
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Yep.
Or how about this?
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Families with no children prejudice?
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Or how about families with
a lot of children today,
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people have a prejudice against people that have 5
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and 6 and 7 and 8 kids.
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They think that there's something wrong with these people,
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that they would have so many kids.
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Or how about mother-in-law prejudice. We know that's real.
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How about prisoner prejudice
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or prejudice against people
who used to be prisoners?
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You don't trust them. Or how about medication prejudice?
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You hear somebody's on medication, you say, oh,
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they're just overly medicated.
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This person obviously has a problem.
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You don't know what's going
on in that person's life.
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Or how about a former drug addict prejudice?
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One's an addict, always an addict. That is not the truth.
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Or how about weight prejudice?
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You judge somebody that's overweight,
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you don't even know why they're overweight.
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But hey, there's another weight prejudice,
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and that's judging people
that are little and skinny.
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I don't know anything about that one.
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I've always dealt with a weight issue.
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Or how about teeth prejudice?
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Sometimes people have
prejudice against people
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that have broken or crooked teeth.
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Sometimes people really have
a prejudice against that.
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Or how about foreigner or immigrant prejudice?
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Oh, here they are.
They're probably illegal.
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Taking our jobs, taking our
money. You just don't know.
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I told you before,
there is city prejudice.
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One city has prejudice
against another city.
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There is a language prejudice.
Do you ever hear a language?
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And immediately you just turn it off?
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You just don't like that language.
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You don't like those people.
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Yankees have a certain accent.
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Southerners have a certain accent.
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Sometimes they've got a prejudice simply
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because of their accent.
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Did you know there's a North and a South prejudice?
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There is. People in the north had a
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prejudice against the south.
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People in the south think everybody in the north is stoic.
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There's a small town people prejudice; a big city
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people prejudice. There's a clothing prejudice.
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You know, I once had a prejudice about men
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who didn't know how to wear a tie.
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I would think, what in the world is wrong with these
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people - don't know how to wear a tie?
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Or men who would wear white
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I would just judge them as being silly.
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They just needed somebody to
teach 'em how to wear clothes.
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There's musical prejudice,
there's artistic prejudice,
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there's worship style prejudice,
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there's religious prejudice,
denomination prejudice.
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There's large church verse small church prejudice.
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My friends, there are so
many kinds of prejudice
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and we've seen no one
is born with prejudice.
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It's given to you by culture.
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It can be given to you by society.
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It can be given to you by education.
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It can be given to you by your family.
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It can be given to you by your friends.
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The prejudice is not natural.
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No one is born with prejudice.
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And if you find that you've got any form
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of prejudice in you, you need
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to ask the Holy Spirit to help you.
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And this leads us to No.2.
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No.2: once you acknowledge your prejudice,
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acknowledge that you're wrong and repent.
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You need to repent. You need to ask the Holy Spirit
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to help you change the way
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that you're looking at other people.
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And remember, God does not look
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after the outward appearance,
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God looks at the heart.
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And if you're judging people just
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by their outward appearance, you need to repent. My friends,
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it's that serious. No.3: Okay, here's a good one.
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You ready? Spend less time with prejudiced people.
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You tend to think like the people that you're with.
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The book of Proverbs tells us very carefully, we need
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to be careful who we choose to be
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our friends and who we run with.
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We're influenced by the people
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We tend to think like them.
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So you need to be very
careful about the people
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that you spend time with.
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And by the way, you also
need to be careful about
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what you listen to in the media
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because the media can really
affect your thinking about
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people or groups of people, and my friends,
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you need to keep your mind free and clear.
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You need to think like God, not look after the flesh,
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but look after the heart.
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And remember that people are people.
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to the media that's making you think wrongly.
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to think wrongly of other people.
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Turn off the radio. If you need
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to distance yourself from this group
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of people you've been hanging
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of people that are not so biased. My friend,
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spend less time with people that are prejudiced.
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It's very important, Denise.
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It's very important because when you watch,
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like you watch the news
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and you can, they are trying to get you to have a prejudice.
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They are trying to sway
you into their opinion
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and to what they believe and
what they're told to say.
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And so if we just sit there
and listen, and listen,
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and listen and listen,
watch, watch, watch,
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then we are gonna
receive their prejudices.
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Well, and actually today,
there's another whole new
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prejudice: political prejudice:
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a great prejudice against Republicans
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or against Democrats or Independents.
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I mean a real hostile
prejudice. And you know what?
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Everybody in the other group
is not necessarily bad.
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They may have a different preference for
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what you believe and what you want.
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Certainly they have a different one than what I want.
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But that doesn't mean you need to preconceive judgment
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that they're all just the same
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because they're not. That's not
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right.
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And Rick, when we have prejudice,
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we can't pray from our heart for those people.
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That's correct. Alright, No.4, you ready?
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Broaden your horizons and your experience.
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What do I mean by that?
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Ask the Holy Spirit to
help you begin to reach out
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to somebody with whom you would normally have
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a prejudice.
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Maybe it's somebody of
a different skin color.
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Do you really know anybody
with a different skin color?
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Maybe it's somebody from
another part of the country
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and you don't particularly care
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for people from that part of the country.
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You know what? Your perception may be entirely wrong.
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It may be a different language group.
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Oh, there are so many different variations.
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But rather than just with a broad stroke, say everybody in
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that group is like this,
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you need to broaden your horizons, expand your experience,
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and you need to make a friend
with somebody in that group
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that you tend to have a prejudice against.
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And you need to have an open mind
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and ask the Holy Spirit to help you
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see the world through their eyes.
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Maybe you have never experienced prejudice against you.
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What do you think it's like to be a person
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that has regularly felt the brunt of prejudice against them?
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Maybe you need to see the world through their eyes.
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I think about Jewish people.
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Jewish people are the brunt of jokes,
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persecution over so many thousands of years.
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You need to see the world through their eyes: what it's like
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to be persecuted, what it's like to feel the brunt
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of prejudice.
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And of course, we can name many, many,
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many different groups.
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But expand your horizons,
expand your experience.
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Befriend somebody in one of those groups
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that you've been tempted
to be prejudiced against
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and begin to see the
world through their eyes.
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And you know what? I think that you may come
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to see some things differently. Amen. Denise.
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Oh, Amen. I was thinking about my friend
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that I was talking about earlier.
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Yes.
And
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She's precious.
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She's precious. And then I, if I hadn't had
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that experience of being with her,
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my life would've not have been the same.
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I would've missed some wonderful things.
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And, and that's what happens with prejudice.
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That's how the devil wants to steal.
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He wants to steal from you in
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as Rick's talking about
broadening your horizon.
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He wants to keep us in
our little small place
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and with our little small thoughts
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and not experience the wonder
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and the glory of other
people and other things.
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And you know, Denise, we live in Russia.
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And in all these years we've
had to broaden our experience
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to meet, greet,
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and get to know a lot of people from a lot
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of different persuasions.
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Some very, very different than ours
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that I wouldn't necessarily agree with.
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But they're really quite wonderful people,
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really wonderful people.
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And so we need to be open to people
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and try to see the world
through their eyes.
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And that will really help us
to love other people better.
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But No.5, are you ready? Okay.
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This is the most important.
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Remember, the blood of Jesus is the same
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for every person.
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And one of these days, we're gonna all worship God together.
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We read in Revelation 5:9-10,
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And they sung a new song saying,
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Thou worthy to take the book
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and to open the seals
thereof, for thou was slain
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and has redeemed us to God
by thy blood, out of every,
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every kindred, and tongue and people and nation,
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and has made us unto our God kings and priest.
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That's the wonderful church.
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We are from every kindred, every tongue,
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every people, every nation.
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And if we have any kind of a prejudice
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that's blocking other people,
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it's prohibiting us from
experience the fullness
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of Christ in the church.
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So let's get rid of
every hint of prejudice.
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We're outta time, but we'll be back in just a
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moment and we're gonna pray for you.
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Someone has asked the question -
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How can I recognize it when a spiritual attack is
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happening in my life?
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And it's not just a natural problem?
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Well, we see a great example
of a spiritual attack
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that came against Jesus in Mark 4,
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when Jesus was on a boat,
headed to the other side,
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and on the other side, Jesus was going
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to perform a marvelous miracle.
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It was gonna be a real
breakthrough in his ministry.
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And suddenly in the middle
of the lake, in the middle
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of the night, there a rose, a great storm of wind to try
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to capsize Jesus
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and the disciples
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to stop them from getting
to the other side.
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And Jesus recognized it was a
spiritual attack and he rose
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and rebuked the wind and
told those waves to calm down
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and he made it.
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And usually spiritual attacks
occurred just when you are on
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the brink of a breakthrough.
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And that's a signal that
like Jesus, you need to rise
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and you need to take authority
over the spiritual realm, and
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tell the natural circumstances to calm down.
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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
heart can bring to the church
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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
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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
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in the 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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Well, I wanna say thank
you for being with me
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and Denise every single day this weekend.
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Denise, thank you for being with me.
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Thank you, Rick. I enjoyed
being in these programs.
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I've really enjoyed
sharing this time with you.
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And we've been talking about our series called, Prejudiced-
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Me? Overcoming Prejudice in the Church and in Your Life.
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You know, in our program, we want
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to teach what's gonna make
a difference in your life.
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And I pray this has
been a blessing to you.
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It comes with a study guide,
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and today is the last day this week
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that we're offering you my daily devotionals called
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Sparkling Gems from the Greek Vol.I & Vol.II.
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This is a daily devotional,
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which will really help you take a deep dive into scripture,
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and it will make it easy for you
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to understand the New Testament.
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So I want you to have it.
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And hey, when you reach out to us by calling
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or by going online, also let us know how to pray for you
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because we really want to pray for you.
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And personally, I would love to know your response
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to our teaching this week.
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Would you write to me and let
me know how you've responded
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to this teaching, how it's impacted you,
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and how you know you need
to change as a result of
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what you've heard every day this week?
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But I wanna pray for you right now.
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So put your hand on your heart.
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Father Denise, and I pray
for our precious friend.
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We thank you that we're
all washed in the blood.
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Lord, it doesn't matter who
we were. Now we're in Christ.
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And in Christ, we're all new creatures.
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Oh, that is so glorious.
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Help us to embrace every person as they are new creatures,
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and not to judge them by the outward man,
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but to see their heart.
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In Jesus name - Amen, Amen.
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Thanks for being with us. And remember, Ecclesiastes 8:
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4 says, "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
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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.
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