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Get ready for a teaching
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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
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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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And look, I'm standing again
today and I've got my marker
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because I'm gonna be going
back to the glass board
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to share all these words
with you as I teach.
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And I wanna say thank
you for letting me know
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that you've been enjoying
me using the Glass board.
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I really like to hear from you.
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So thank you for all of your comments.
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But today we're gonna
keep teaching my series,
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which is called, How to Stay in a Place
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of Faith. When God calls you somewhere, you need
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to stay there until God has done what He wants to do,
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or until you have received what God has pledged
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that He will do for you.
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But how do you stay in a place of faith,
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especially when you're dealing with a lot
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of obstacles that come against you?
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Well, that's what we're
talking about in this series.
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And remember that it
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And we're also offering you now my book,
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This is a book you need to read
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and you need to read it from the 1st page to the last page
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because it will really
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with the Dream Thieves of life
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and to stay on track with
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what God has promised he
would do in your life.
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But you can order all these
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I really mean that. We see praying for you
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and praying for our partners as one
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of the chief responsibilities
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that God has given to this ministry.
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And if you'll just call the
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or if you'd wish, you can send an email
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Either way, when we hear from you,
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we're gonna really release our faith
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and Jesus is gonna do something tremendous.
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One day I was walking through the Partner Care part
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of our ministry in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
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and one of our staff members stopped me
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and said, Brother Rick, this is the place
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where miracles take place.
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And that is the truth.
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We have so many answers
to prayer from people
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that have called in or
who have written to us,
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and we want you to be among them.
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Now, I know you can pray by
yourself. Of course you can.
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You have direct access to the Father,
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but sometimes it helps
to have somebody agree
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with you in prayer or to
ask somebody who knows how
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to pray scripturally to pray with you.
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And that's what we can do.
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So if you'll just reach out to us
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by calling the number on the screen
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or send us an email, we want
to pray with you; say Amen.
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But hey, reach for your Bible
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because we always use the Bible in this program
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and we're believing for Revival of the Bible in the church.
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But I want you to open your Bible again
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to Hebrews 10, where I'm teaching about how
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to stay in a place of faith.
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And I've learned through the years that when you finally get
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where you're supposed to be, the devil tries to move you out
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of that place.
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He tries to assault you with people
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and circumstances, trying to move you out of that place
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because the devil knows if
you stay where you're supposed
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to be and remain in
faith, God's gonna move.
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And that's why he doesn't want you
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to stay in your place of faith.
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Maybe you feel that
you're being assaulted.
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How do you stay in your place of faith?
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That's what I'm teaching.
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And today we're going to begin in Hebrews 10:
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32, which we briefly covered in the last program,
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but today we're gonna go a little deeper.
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So let's go there again.
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Hebrews 10:32 says,
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But call to remembrance the former days in which
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after you were illuminated,
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you endured a great fight of affliction.
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Now remember, he's writing to people
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that are struggling in their faith.
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They've been waiting and waiting
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and waiting for the manifestation of
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what they've been believing.
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And they're attempted just to shuck it all
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because they haven't received
what they've been believing.
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They're thinking, you know,
maybe I've misunderstood.
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Maybe God didn't really promise what I thought he promised.
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Maybe I just need to let it
go and move on with my life.
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And rather than move on
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and forget it all, he says, Hey, hey, hey,
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there's some things you need to remember.
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And likewise, there are some
things you need to remember.
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But let's look at this verse.
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First of all, it says, let us call
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to remembrance the former days in which
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after you were illuminated. Let's look at that phrase,
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call to remembrance.
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In Greek, it is the compound word,
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anamimnesko.
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Now, this is a compound of two words.
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The first word, if you
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it would be spelled like this,
but it's pronounced ana.
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It means to repeat the action,
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and it describes upward movement.
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The 2nd part of the word in English would be spelled like
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this - mimnesko.
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But this is from the Greek word, minea,
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and this is really important;
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in English, it would be spelled like this.
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And this word, manea, describes a statue,
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a monument,
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a memorial
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or a tomb: a statue, a monument
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and memorial or a tomb.
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But it's connected to this word - ana -
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which means to do it again.
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And it carries the idea of upward action.
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And when the Bible says,
call to remembrance,
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here's what it means.
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There are some memories that
should never be entombed.
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You should never bury them. Those memories of what God did
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for you in the early years,
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you should never forget that. When you were enlightened
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to wonderful truth that
changed your lives,
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you should never forget that.
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But very often through
the busyness of life
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or troubles in life,
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it seems those wonderful early memories become entombed.
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They become buried, they become covered
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with the clutter of life.
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But the words, called to remembrance, emphatically says
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to me and to you, it's time
to pull those memories out
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of the grave to remember them.
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Let them be like a statue or a monument.
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Well, think about a statue or a monument. What is a statue
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or monument or a memorial?
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It's something on a pedestal,
something that you erect
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so you can always see it.
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And every time you see it, you
are reminded of a past action
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or you're reminded of
somebody's faithfulness,
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or you're reminded of a past
person, a statue, a monument,
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or a memorial are supposed
to remind you of something.
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And now the writer of Hebrews says, Hey,
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get those precious memories
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of when God first worked in
your life out of the grave;
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remove the dirt from off of
them and pull them back up
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and make them a memorial.
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Make them a monument. Make them a statue.
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You keep them on a pedestal in your life
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and never forget it.
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And the word, ana, is very important
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because it means repeat the action,
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put it back on the pedestal again.
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And because it carries
the idea of upward action,
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it means you gotta pull
it out from the grave
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and put it up on a pedestal.
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And there's some memories
you should never forget.
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For example, in my life,
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I remember when I was first illuminated about the baptism in
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the Holy Spirit; ay, yi, yi, I was so thrilled.
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Well, now I've been walking
in the power of God for years
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and years and years and years.
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And the clutter of life could
cover those early memories.
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But those early memories are precious
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and they should never be forgotten.
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I need to keep them on a pedestal.
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Or how about when God first
called my family to move
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to the former Soviet Union?
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You know, that's been more
than three decades ago.
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And through the course of time,
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those early precious
memories could be buried,
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but they should never be buried
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because they're so foundational in my life
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and I need to put them on a pedestal
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and never forget the call of God.
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And likewise, if God spoke to you,
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and it's been a while, don't
let the clutter of life bury
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what God said to you.
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You pull it outta the grave, dust it off,
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put it back on a pedestal
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so you're always confronted
with what God said to you.
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Never, never forget it.
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Let it be a monument, a statue, a memorial in your life.
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But this verse goes on to say, Call
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to remembrance the former days.
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In Greek, it is the word, proteron.
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It really means the early days.
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It's pointing to a past experience
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when you were illuminated - illuminated.
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What in the world does the word illuminated mean?
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Well, we covered this in the last program,
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but this is important, so
I'm gonna cover it again.
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The word, illuminated, in Greek is the word, photizo.
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If you wanna write that down in English,
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it's spelled like this.
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Now do you see a word? How about photo?
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It's where you get the word
for a photo or a photograph.
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An illumination is like a photo.
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It's a brilliant flash of
light that leaves a permanent
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and lasting impression.
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When I was a boy, my grandmother Renner
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was always carrying her camera,
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and she always had these big,
big bulbs ready at any moment.
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And when she would take a picture of us - bam -
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it was a great flash of light,
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but it always produced an image
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that was permanent and lasting.
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And likewise, there are things
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that God has done in our life when we were illuminated ,
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when suddenly we had a flash of light - bam -
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it was a revelation and it was so real.
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We saw something we had never seen before.
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Maybe it was your
illumination about healing.
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Maybe it's when you got a revelation
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that God wanted you to prosper.
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Maybe it's when you got a
revelation of what God wanted
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to do in your life.
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Each of us have had one
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of those wake up moments
when we really saw something
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for the first time,
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and it was like a giant flash of light
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that really left a permanent
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and lasting impression in our life.
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And the writer of Hebrews says, anamimnesko: go back
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to those early days, the Greek word proteon,
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to your early experiences.
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Pull those early experiences
out of the grave,
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put them back on a pedestal.
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Let them be a monument,
a statue of memorial
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that you never forget.
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And then he says, I'm talking
about those early times when
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you were, photizo, when you were illuminated, illuminated.
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But then he says something else very important.
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He says in verse 32, Call to remembrance
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the former days in which after you were illuminated -
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now notice this. You endured
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a great fight of affliction.
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And according to this verse, a great fight
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of affliction usually follows illumination.
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the whole chapter is about men
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and women who were illuminated.
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It begins with Enoch.
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Enoch was illuminated
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that he had a word from God
that he would never die.
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How about Noah? He was
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to build an ark and through that ark, save his family
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and thereby become the savior
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of the human race in one sense.
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Or how about Abraham?
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He was illuminated and God
called him from his country.
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Or how about Sarah? She was
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to give birth to a baby in her old age.
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Or how about Jacob and Isaac and Joseph
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and on and on and on.
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All of them were illuminated with a word from God
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that literally left a permanent
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and lasting impression on their lives.
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But every one of them had
to deal with a great fight
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of afflictions in order to
step into the manifestation
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of what God promised.
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And they had to be bound
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and determined to stay in their place of faith
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because the fight of afflictions, which came against each
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of them was enough to move them out of that place of faith.
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But when you look at verse 32, it says, you endured
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a great fight of afflictions.
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Well, first, let's look at the words, fight of afflictions.
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The words, fight, in Greek is the
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word, athlesis.
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Does it sound familiar? In
Greek? It's spelled like this.
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And it is where you get
the word for athletes
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or athletic competitions.
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So just like athletes fight other athletes
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and they're thrown into
our real fight, we find
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that when you've received a word from God,
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it throws you into our real fight.
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And the writer of Hebrew says,
it is a fight of afflictions,
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which is a form of the Greek word pathena,
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spelled like this in English.
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And the word, pathena, has particularly to do with mental
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or emotional suffering.
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Now, let me tell you something.
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If you can deal with
hardship in the mental realm,
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you can deal with it in the natural realm.
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But when the mind is suffering,
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that is when you're tempted to give up.
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And here we find that one
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of the greatest fights you will ever fight is when the devil
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assails you in your mind.
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He attacks your mind. He says,
you're wasting your time.
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What are you doing? Here
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you've been waiting for something that's never come to pass.
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He attacks your mind.
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He may use the voices of others to attack your mind, trying
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to coax you out of that place of faith.
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But according to verse 32, the writer of Hebrew says,
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these early believers that were going
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through rough times had endured.
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And the word, endured, in Greek is the word, hupomone.
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In English,
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it's spelled, H-U-P-O-M-E-N-O .
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But it's the word, hupo, which means to be under something,
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under something. The word meno means I stay,
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I abide, this is my spot.
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It's the very same word used in John 15 when Jesus
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says, if you abide in me, that's the word meno.
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If you abide in me, if you're unmoving,
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if you're fixed in me and
my words are fixed in you
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and they're not moving,
you will ask what you will
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and it will be done unto you.
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But when you put it together with the word hupo,
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it describes a person who hupo is under a very,
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very heavy load.
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But meno, they have made a decision.
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I don't care how heavy
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how long it takes,
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it doesn't matter how much pressure is put against me to try
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to move me out of this place of faith, hupomeno,
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I have made a decision even if it gets really hupo
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or heavy, heavy, heavy,
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and I'm under a really heavy load - meno,
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my resolution is this is my spot.
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I know what God said.
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I know what I was illuminated with,
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and I'm not budging.
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I am not flinching. I am not moving.
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And if anybody's gonna move, it's not me.
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It's the devil and life
that is gonna move.
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But I am not moving
from this place of faith
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and from the promise that God made to me.
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One man has translated this as - hang in their power.
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Another man has called it staying power.
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And it was used in a military
sense to describe soldiers
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who were commanded to stick it out
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and to maintain the territory
they had gained regardless
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of the resistance that
they had to confront.
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They were not to surrender
for any reason at all.
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They were to hang in there, stay in there,
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and maintain their spot.
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It is the decision to
stay put to never bend,
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never break, never surrender: hupomeno.
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And the early church said
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this was the greatest of all qualities.
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In fact, they called it
the queen of all virtues
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because they understood if you have hupomeno, the ability
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to stay put, to hang in there, it's supernatural
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bBy the way: if you have this, then it's not a question
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of if you're gonna receive,
it's just a question
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of when you're going to receive.
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You are going to receive
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because you have the ability to stay put
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until the resistance goes away.
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And when the resistance goes away, guess what -
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the answer comes: the manifestation comes.
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And these early believers are now reminded,
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in the early days.
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The Greek says poteron: in the early days,
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in the early days in your former experience,
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don't you remember, call to remembrance.
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Go back to those early moments
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and recollect, recollect all those memories,
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put them back on a pedestal.
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Never forget them. Look at
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I'm talking about back when you were photizo,
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when you were illuminated
about what God wanted
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to do in your life.
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Wow! He says, you endured a great fight of affliction.
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The word fight, the Greek
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word, athlesis: you were thrown into a real competition:
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pathema, mainly with your emotions,
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because your emotions were sailing you, trying
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to coax you into giving up.
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But he said, instead of
giving up, you endured it.
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You made a decision to stay
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put, hupomeno - hupo. It may be heavy,
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but meno, I have resolved,
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I'm not budging, I am not moving. I am not flinching.
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This is my spot.
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I'm going to maintain the territory
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that God has promised to me.
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I'm not relinquishing it or giving it
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to anybody else: hupomeno,
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I have staying power, hang-in-their power,
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and I'm gonna stay put until I receive
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the manifestation.
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Now, that's a lot more than we
covered in the last episode,
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but wait, let's go to the next verse.
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And when we come to the next verse, it says,
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partly while you were made a gazing stock,
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both by reproaches and afflictions,
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and partly why you became companions of them that weren't
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so used.
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What in the world does it
mean to be a gazing stock?
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Well, obviously it means
somebody's gazing at you,
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but you're gonna find
out in the next episode,
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this word gazing stock is the Greek word, thiatrizo.
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It's where we get the word for a theater,
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which means when you make a
bold declaration of faith,
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suddenly you leave private life
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and you find yourself
standing on the stage
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with everybody watching you.
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They've heard your bold declaration.
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Now they're all gonna buy a
ticket to the show to see if
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what you have declared is
really gonna take place.
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This is where we're gonna
pick up in the next program,
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but I want you to understand
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that when you make a declaration of faith,
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people will watch you.
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But I'm out of time. I've got more to say to you,
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and then I'll be back in just a moment.
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What do you attribute your three sons to
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loving the Lord and the ministry
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and not being resentful of ministry?
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Well, you know, a lot of pastors kids resent the ministry.
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And I'm just gonna tell you the truth.
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That's because the pastors
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and their wives have talked
about things in front
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of their kids that they
should not have talked about.
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When you boys were young, we wanted you
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to believe the church was the
happiest place on the planet.
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And when we were in front
of you, if we had a problem
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with anybody at the church,
you never knew about it
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because we didn't tell you. If we had issues,
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we dealt with those issues behind closed doors.
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Why should we give our issues to our kids?
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And not only that, we involved you in ministry.
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You and your brothers were involved in
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everything that we did.
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So it wasn't just me and mom's ministry,
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it was our ministry as a family.
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And together we served God.
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And I believe that's why you love the Lord
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and why you've never resented the ministry.
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Hebrews 10:23 says, Let us hold fast the profession
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of our faith without wavering, for he is faithful
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that promised. Time, isolation, the enemy
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and even loved ones can steal our confidence
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in God's promises.
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But God is faithful.
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We must be unwavering in our
faith, especially in the midst
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of the thieves that come to
steal our God-given dreams.
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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner
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and I'm standing just outside the Editorial Department
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in the Tulsa Headquarters building.
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You have eight people that
work just in editorial
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because these fingers are typing a lot of information
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and revelation. God spoke to me years ago
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and said he would speak through my fingers if I would write,
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and I've been writing ever since.
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And just outside editorial,
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we have several key scriptures here.
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We have 2 Timothy 3:16 & 17, All scripture
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is given by inspiration of God ann his profitable
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for doctrine, reproof correction,
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instruction in righteousness.
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I really believe that.
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Next to that, we have Ecclesiastes 8:4,
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you've heard this before, "Where the word
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of a king is there is power",
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and next there's a sign, the prophetic word which God gave
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to me in 1978: Right, right, right,
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and I'll prosper what you write.
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And I've been writing ever since.
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This is a very important
part of our ministry
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because we send published revelation,
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information, all kinds of material to the ends
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of the Earth.
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And you're a part of it
because you're a partner.
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You know, we've recently just finished 70%
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of our Ministry Expansion Project.
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Now 30% remains.
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If you're part of the team,
I wanna say thank you.
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If you're not a part of the team
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to help us retire the
debt on this building
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and the whole project,
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would you please become part of the team?
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We wanna release all those
funds so we can redirect them
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to take more teaching of the
Bible to the ends of the earth
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where people are crying out, God,
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please send me teaching that I can trust.
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Please pray about becoming a part of our Giving Team.
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Today I've been talking to you about the fact
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that when you receive a word from God
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and you are illuminated,
it is often followed
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by a great fight of affliction.
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And that word affliction in Greek is the word pathema.
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It really describes an emotional suffering.
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The enemy begins to assault your mind.
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People try to talk you
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and coax you out of what God has said,
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and you have to really deal with a battle in your mind
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and in your emotions to
stay in a place of faith.
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But my friends, do not surrender.
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Do not yield any territory.
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If you know that God spoke to you
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and pled something to you, you
stay in that place of faith
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until you receive the manifestation of
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what you know God promised you.
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And if you need somebody to
pray with you about this,
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call us or send us an email,
the numbers on the screen,
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the email addresses on the screen,
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we're waiting to hear from you.
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We will release our faith
for the power of God,
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to enable you to stay put until you receive your promise.
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Amen. I believe that.
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But I want you to order the whole series,
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which is called, How to Stay in a Place of Faith
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that comes with a study guide.
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And I also want you to order my book,
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which is called, Dream Thieves: Overcoming Obstacles
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to fulfill Your dreams.
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You can overcome every obstacle.
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You just need to know how,
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and that's what this book is about.
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But let me pray for you right now.
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Put your hand on your heart.
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Father, I think in the name of Jesus
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that you've given us the
power of the Holy Spirit,
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and we do not have to
surrender or give up.
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We can stay put enabled by
the power of your spirit
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until finally we receive the manifestation
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and we rebuke every attack.
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We tell it to move out of
the way. In Jesus name.
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Amen. Wow, it's been so good today.
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I can hardly wait for the next program,
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but until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 says,
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"Where the word of a 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 and
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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.