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Welcome to today's program.
My name is Rick Renner.
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and how to push them out
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And if you push 'em outta the way
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and stand your place of faith,
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and 15, if we pray anything according to the will of God
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And with you, we will pray scripturally, God will hear us,
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and God will do exactly
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But look, I've got my marker
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because today I'm gonna be
going back to the Glass board,
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the reach for your Bible.
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We always use the Bible in this program,
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and today we're returning to Hebrews 10.
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And again, we're talking about how
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to stay in a place of faith.
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And today I want us to begin again in verse 35.
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We're just gonna quickly review it
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and then we're going to move on.
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But when you come to Hebrews 10:35, it says,
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Cast not away, therefore your confidence,
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which ha great recompense of reward.
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Do you hear that promise?
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It has great recompense of reward,
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and that's why you are
not the cast it away.
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And we saw that the word cast not away, is actually from the
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Greek word, apoballo.
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By the way, let me know if
you're enjoying me using all
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these Greek words on the glass board.
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The word apo, if you're gonna spell it in English,
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is spelled like this.
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The word, ballo, is B-A-L-L-O.
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But when you compound
the two words together,
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the word, apo, means away.
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The word ballo means to throw.
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When you compound the two words together, it means
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to throw away, to discard
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And this word is used in Mark 10:50,
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to describe a blind man
who wanted to get up
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and go to Jesus, but he couldn't move
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because his garment
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So he took that garment
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and apoballo, he hurled it out of the way as if to say,
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I'm tired of this garment stopping me,
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keeping me in this place.
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He grabbed it and threw it away, and finally he could move.
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We'll take all of that into the context of this verse.
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These believers have been waiting and waiting and waiting
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and waiting for their promise to come to pass.
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And it seems that they're tempted to think; you know,
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our life is just stuck.
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We've been sitting here waiting and waiting and waiting.
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We could have moved on with our life and done other things,
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but no, we had to stay in this place
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and just believe for this
word from God to come to pass.
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We're just so tired of this.
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Maybe we oughta just shuck
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And just like the blind man grabbed that garment
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and threw it out of the
way so we could move there,
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thinking about throwing away
their confession of faith.
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And in fact, the Bible
calls it confidence.
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And the word confidence is the Greek word, parreisa.
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And the word parreisa, as I told you yesterday,
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describes bold, frank,
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confident speech.
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And here we find that faith always speaks.
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And when faith speaks,
it's bold, it's frank,
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and it's confident
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and it's clear that
these believers have been
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boldly confessing.
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They've been, frankly speaking
with great confidence about
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what they were believing God
was going to do in their life;
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but it hasn't been manifest yet.
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So they're thinking about apoballo,
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just throwing it all away,
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forgetting it, and just
moving on with life without
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that promise coming to pass.
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And it says, don't do
that because your faith
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and your boldness has
great recompense of reward.
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The word, recompense of reward, the Greek word
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misthapodosia: oh, I love this word, misthapodosia.
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If you wanna spell it in
English, it's M-I-S-T-H-A,
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which is always the word
for payment or reward
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or compensation.
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The word, podosia, is a form
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of the word podos, which is the word for feet.
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When you put it together,
it's the reward, the payment,
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your compensation, what
you've been waiting
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for is already on its feet,
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it's moving in your direction.
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What a bad moment to bail out.
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The answer's almost
there, it's on its feet,
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it's moving toward them,
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and they're thinking about
bailing out right when they're on
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the edge of receiving.
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And I want you to understand
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that when your mind
really comes under assault
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and you become weary, usually
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that's when you're just on
the edge of your breakthrough.
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That's when the answer is on its feet.
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It's already moving in your direction.
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But then we go to the following verse
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and the following verse says,
for you have need of patience.
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The word, need, is the Greek word, chreia.
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It identifies a lack or a deficit.
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The word, patience, we saw it previously, is the Greek word,
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hupomone. This word is hupomino. It is so important.
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It is the Greek word hupo, connected
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to the word meno.
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The word hupo means to be under a heavy, heavy load.
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But meno, means I stay, I abide.
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This is my spot, I'm not moving.
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And when you compound
the two words together,
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it is the word hupomeno, which means I don't care, hupo,
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or how heavy the load gets.
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I'm not budging - meno. This is my spot.
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I am not budging, I'm not
flinching, I am not moving.
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And as I told you previously,
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this word was used in a military sense to describe soldiers
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who were commanded to maintain their territory
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and what has been gained regardless of how many assaults
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that came against them.
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And now the writer of Hebrews
says, you know what you need?
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You need patience.
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Now, they may not have appreciated that
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because they've been waiting and waiting
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and waiting and waiting.
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And the truth is nobody wants patience.
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But really the word, hupomeno, would be better
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translated endurance.
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It is the ability to stay put
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and hang in there
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until finally all the
resistance goes away.
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And when it disappears,
what you've been believing
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for shows up.
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And that's why the verse goes on to say
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that she might receive the promise.
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And the word, receive, is the Greek word, komizo.
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And the word, komidzo -
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K-O-M-I-D-Z-O.
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Do you wanna know how to spell
it? English describes payday.
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Payday is coming.
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Well, now we find the
answers already on its feet,
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it's moving in your direction.
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You just need endurance to hang
in there a little bit longer
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because one day payday is gonna show up.
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And when payday shows up, you're gonna be
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so glad you didn't bail out and, apoballo,
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throw your confession and your faith away.
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Now somebody might say, well,
how long do I have to wait?
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How long do I have to wait?
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Verse 37 answers that question; for yet,
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a little while. A little while in Greek is the word, mikron.
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It's where you get the word for something microscopic: in
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just a little tiny microscopic amount of time,
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the thing you've been believing for is gonna show up
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and it will not be late.
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And then he says in verse 38:
now you ready - here we go.
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Now the just shall live by faith.
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The words faith is very interesting
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because it describes something so forceful,
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it's like a bullet that's been shot out of a gun.
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When you're moving in faith,
you're always moving forward.
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In fact, real faith just
pulls you along with it.
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It always is in a forward motion.
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That's one way you know whether
you're operating in faith,
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it's taking you forward toward your goal, toward
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what you're believing.
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But this verse says - For the just shall live by faith.
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But if any man, draw back - draw back -
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my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
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The word, drawback, in Greek is the word, hupostello.
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The word stello, normally means descend.
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But the word hupo, in this case means to send back,
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to retreat, to withdraw.
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It's a person that is in retreat.
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Now remember, faith is like
a bullet shot out of a gun.
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If you're moving in faith,
you're moving forward.
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But if you're not moving in faith,
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if you're moving in doubt in unbelief,
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then you're moving in retreat.
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And that's one way you
can determine whether
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or not you're in faith or not In faith.
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If you're in faith, you're on target.
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If you're moving forward,
if you are in retreat,
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then you're no longer in faith.
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That's clearly what this means.
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And the verse goes on to say in verse 39,
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but we are not of them that, hypostello - we're not of them
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that retreat, we're not among them
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that are pulling back, withdrawing,
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but we are of them that
believe to the saving
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of the soul.
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And again, the word belief
from the Greek, the word pisto
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for faith, it describes faith like a bullet
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that's been shot out of a gun - bam -
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once it has been released,
real faith never retreats.
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And if you are in retreat,
then you're not in faith.
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But wait, wait, wait.
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There's something else really
important in this verse.
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It says, we are not of them
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that draw back unto perdition.
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Perdition, what in the world is perdition?
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Well, the word, perdition is the Greek word
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apoleia - apoleia.
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You know what that word describes - rot, rot.
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It is the same word you would use to describe -
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now I know this is a little disgusting,
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but I want you to understand
what this word means.
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If you put hamburger meat out to thaw
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and you left it outside
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and you forgot that you left it there;
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and you left it there for several days,
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it would become apoleia.
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It would begin to stink,
it would begin to wreak,
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it would begin to rot.
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And in fact, when you went back to find it, you might find
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that it is completely infested with maggots.
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It is so disgusting.
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And that is the word that is used here,
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which means when a person
once was moving forward
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by faith,
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but then for some reason they decide, apoballo,
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I'm gonna throw away my faith.
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I'm not gonna do this anymore.
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And they move into retreat, the word, hupostello,
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it produces, apoleia - a spiritual
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rottenness in their life.
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You know, one day I was meeting with a man
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who asked if he could meet with me.
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I said, sure. So I met him for breakfast
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and he began to tell me,
you know, there was a time
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when I was really moving in faith; I was moving forward,
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I was declaring my faith.
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I was so confident in what I was saying
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and so sure that this was
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But he said, you know, I finally came
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to a moment when I realized
this was nothing more than a
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fantasy, and I decided
to throw it all away.
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And then he began to
describe for me his life.
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He said, you know, these
people that believe in faith,
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they're just, they're just so deceived.
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Everything he said was just so foul.
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And as I looked at him, I thought about this word, apoleia,
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the word, perdition. This man, which one time was
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so vital in his faith,
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now it was like his faith
was filled with maggots.
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He was just so rotten.
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Maybe you know somebody
who once moved in faith
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and then they moved into retreat.
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They just threw it all away.
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Oh, one day I got a
phone call from a friend
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who really had a precious
relationship with God.
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I mean precious.
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But over the years,
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because of disappointments
rather than in faith,
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that person chose the apoballo, to throw it all away.
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And now what I heard coming out
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of this person's mouth just stunned me.
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I was so shocked I almost started to cry.
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I thought, how could this possibly be the very same person
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that I used to know who spoke
so tenderly about the Lord
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and their faith and the
work of Christ on the cross?
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And now such filth, such rot
is coming out of their mouth.
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How is this possible?
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Well, the verse tells us very quickly
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that when you move into faith
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and throw it away, it produces, apoleia.
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That person becomes disgusting in a spiritual sense.
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And maybe you know someone like that.
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You need to pray for them
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and you need to pray for
them to have a turnaround.
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But in addition to praying for them, you need
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to look at your own life and ask, Am I still moving forward?
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Or am I in retreat?
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Am I moving forward
toward what God promised?
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Or am I backing away from it?
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My friend's faith always moves forward.
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It's like a bullet shot out of a gun.
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And if you're moving backward,
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and if you're moving into
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that you're moving in the wrong direction.
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Now let's go to Hebrews 11:1.
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And in Hebrews 11:1, the Bible finally says, Now
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faith is the substance of things hoped for,
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the evidence of things not seen.
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The word, now, actually does not appear in the Greek text.
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In Greek, it is the little word de, it's spelled like this.
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A better translation will be;
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But on the other hand, on the other hand,
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and now it's going to tell us how faith behaves.
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Many people call Hebrews 11:1, a faith description,
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but it's really not a faith description.
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It describes the behavior of
faith. The behavior of faith.
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It says, now on the other hand, faith,
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what does it say about faith?
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Faith is the substance
of things hoped for.
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The evidence of things not seen.
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The word substance is
the key to this verse.
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And the word substance,
which we have in the King
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of James version, is really a very poor translation.
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In Greek, it is the word, hypostasis.
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The word hypo means by:
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the word stasis means to stand.
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It's a form of the Greek word histamine,
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and it means to stand.
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When you compound these
two words together,
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a better rendering would be;
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Now faith, on the other hand, stands
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by things hoped for.
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That's what faith does.
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Faith doesn't move, faith doesn't budge.
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Faith never surrenders.
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It is like a bulldog that
has wrapped its jowls
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around the bone of its dreams.
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It has locked onto that bone.
It's locked onto that promise.
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It's locked onto that pledge.
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And just like a bulldog that has the bone
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of its dreams in its mouth, you can pull
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and pull and pull and pull.
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In fact, you can pull that
bulldog all over the house,
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but that bulldog's not
gonna let loose of that bone
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because that bulldog's
gonna stand by that bone.
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In the same way faith locks on
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it wraps its jowls around
what God has promised.
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And the devil can tug
and tug and tug and tug,
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but faith on the other hand,
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rather than moving into
retreat, faith grabs hold
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of locks on, never lets loose; faith,
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hypostasis, stands by
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things hoped for.
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And the word hope here is a form of the Greek word elpizo,
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which describes something fully expected.
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This is not a hope-so kind of hope.
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This is not a person who says, well, I hope
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so. This is a know-so; this is a full expectation.
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They're waiting for the manifestation,
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they're anticipating its arrival
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and its manifestation at any moment.
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And they have locked onto the promise of God: hypostasis,
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they're gonna stand by what God has said
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and not budge from it.
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Wow. Then when you come to verse 2, it says, For by it
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by what? By this faith.
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This faith that never budges, never moves, never
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flinches, never lets go. The
elders obtained a good report.
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And the word, elders, in Greek is the word, presbyteros.
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It refers to the spiritual leaders of the Old Testament.
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And as we continue in chapter 11, all
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of chapter 11 is about those leaders from the Old Testament:
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talks about Enoch, talks about Noah, talks about Abraham,
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Moses, on and on and on.
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These are the people that
verse two is talking about.
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And all of these individuals had to stand
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by the word that God gave them.
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Life tried to take it away,
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but they wrapped their jowls
around what God had promised
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and they refused to let go.
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They stood by what God had said,
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and as a result, they
received the manifestation.
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And so can you. I'm out of
time, but I've got more to say
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and then I'll be back in just a moment.
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This is Rick Renner, and somebody has asked the question,
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Why do believers need a local church?
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Well, let me ask you a question.
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When you get in trouble,
where do you go for help?
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You probably go to somebody
who goes to church.
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Of course, those are people of faith.
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Those are people who know how
to pray in the name of Jesus.
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And my friends, we need the
fellowship of the Saints.
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We're told in Hebrews 10 that especially
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as we approach the end of the age
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and we see that day approaching,
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we need the strength in the
encouragement of others.
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And when you go to church,
not only do you hear the word
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of God, not only are you
in the presence of God
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during worship, but you receive strength
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and encouragement from others.
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And it's your opportunity
to be an encouragement
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to someone else.
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So you need to go to
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Church.
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Hebrews 10:23 says, Let us hold fast the profession
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of our faith without wavering
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for he is faithful 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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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.
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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 we have 2 Timothy
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3:16 & 17 - All scripture
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is given by inspiration of God
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and it's profitable 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:
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Write, write, write and I will 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
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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
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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
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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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My friend,
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today I've been telling you that real faith never
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moves in retreat.
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It's like a bullet that is shot out of the gun.
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And then we come to Hebrews 11:1,
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and we find that real faith - real faith stands
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by whatever God has promised: it refuses to relinquish it,
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it will not let it go.
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Real faith wraps its jowls around the promise
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and the pledge of God.
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And it doesn't matter how
hard you tug, faith says,
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I am not letting go.
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I'm gonna stand by the thing
that I'm expecting God to do.
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That is the behavior of faith.
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And if you feel like you need
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to strengthening in your
faith, we wanna pray with you.
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Call us. We will pray with you.
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We'll speak the word of God to you.
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Faith comes by hearing and
hearing by the word of God.
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We'll do everything we can to
really strengthen faith in you
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so you can hold on to what
God has told you to do
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and stay in your place of faith.
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But hey, 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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it comes with a study guide.
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And please also order the book,
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which is called, Dream Thieves - Overcoming Obstacles
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to Fulfill Your Dreams.
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And Today and tomorrow is the last day
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that I'm offering these on the program.
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But put your hand on your heart
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because I want to pray for you right now.
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Father, I pray for a burst of divine energy
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to couple together with my
friend's faith, enabling them
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to wrap their arms
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and wrap their jowls around
what you have promised,
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and that they will not let go
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until they receive the manifestation.
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I speak strength to you.
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I speak power to you in the
wonderful name of Jesus.
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Amen. Oh, I can hardly wait
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until we come back tomorrow
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where we're gonna really
take a deep dive into Hebrews
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11:1 -6.
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It is going to be so good,
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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
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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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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information
about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.
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