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This program is made
possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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Well, it is pretty
unbelievable what we do
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to make interesting stand ups for you.
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And today I'm in the middle
of these grainy looking sheep.
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It makes me think about me because I'm a sheep,
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you are a sheep, but Jesus loves us and he loves us so much
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he wants to restore our soul.
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And that's what the Bible tells us in the 23rd Psalm.
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Verse three, he restore my soul.
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If you feel your soul needs
restoration, well, good news.
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The Lord is your shepherd and
he wants to restore your soul.
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And that is what I'm going
to talk to you about today.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the word
is the anchor in uncertain
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times and doctrine
doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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I'm so glad that you've let
me come right into your space,
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and today I'm going to talk
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to you about Jesus' amazing ability
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to restore our souls.
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Most of us carry some kind
of wounds from our past
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and we need our souls to be restored.
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And the good news is Jesus
is a restorer of souls.
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So many people reach out to
our ministry asking for help
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because they're struggling,
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because they've been hurt in life.
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People feel abused, people feel neglected,
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people have been insulted,
people have been hurt,
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and people are really crying out for God
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to heal their souls.
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When the 23rd Psalm, we
find that Jesus is the one
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who restores our soul,
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and that is what I'm going
to talk to you about today.
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But hey, I want you to
order the entire series,
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which is the 23rd Psalm.
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The Lord is my shepherd.
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How did you like that standup
with me among all those sheep?
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That was a blast.
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But when I was sitting
among all those sheep,
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I was thinking about us being sheep
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and the Lord being our shepherd.
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That is who he is.
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And I want you to order this
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The study guide is so powerful
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see it or hear it, it really
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You really get it down deep inside you.
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Partners are so important
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because they enable us to
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And dear partner, I want you
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to know you are really
making a difference in other
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people's lives.
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Don't let the devil tell you that
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what you do is unimportant.
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What you do is very, very important, right from the privacy
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of your home, right from
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or calling us, you literally
transform someone else's life
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because you're empowering the word of God
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to go into their lives.
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I wanna say thank you for that.
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And today we are going to
return to the 23rd Psalm.
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We always use the Bible in this program,
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and today we're going to begin in Psalm 23:1
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where David writes, The Lord is my shepherd,
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I shall not want.
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Verse 2: He makes me the
light down in green pastures,
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he leads me beside the still waters.
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Verse 3: He restoreth my soul.
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That's what we're going to see today.
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But verse 23 goes on to say,
he leads me in the paths
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of righteousness for his name sake.
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That's what we're going to
see tomorrow, how he leads us.
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But in verse 4, it says, Yea, though I walk
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through the valley of the shadow of death,
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I will fear no evil for thou word with me.
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Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
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Verse 5: Thou prepare us to table
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before me in the presence of my enemies,
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thou anoints my head with
oil, my cup runs over.
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Verse 6: Surely goodness
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and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life
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and I will dwell in the
house of the Lord forever.
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And in the 23rd Psalm, we find 10 promises
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that the great shepherd
makes to all of his sheep;
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that's to me, and that's to you.
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The 10 promises are, No.1:
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God's supernatural provision.
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No.2: God's supernatural protection.
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No.3: God's supernatural peace.
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No.4: God's supernatural restoration.
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We're gonna see that today.
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No.5: God's supernatural guidance in our lives.
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No.6: God's supernatural confidence
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that he gives to us.
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No.7: God's supernatural loving correction.
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No.8: God's supernatural prosperity.
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No.9: God's supernatural anointing.
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And finally, No.10: God's supernatural promise.
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10 promises that God makes to each one of us.
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But today we're going to look at No.4:
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which is God's supernatural promise
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of restoration, restoration.
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In Psalm 23:3, David writes,
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He restores my soul.
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It brings my mind to Jeremiah 30:17,
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where the Bible says, for I
will restore health to you
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and heal you of your
wounds, says the Lord.
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The Lord restores our body and
the Lord restores our souls.
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So many times our souls
carry scars from the past.
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But in Jeremiah 30:17,
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it is promised I will
restore health to you
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and heal you of your wounds,
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and that even includes the wounds
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that you carry in your soul.
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The truth is, the world can be
a very tough place to live in
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and people become injured
and hurt as they live life,
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but Jesus heals and Jesus restores
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because it is the nature
of God to restore.
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But today I wanna give you a
testimony about a restoration
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project that we experienced
in our life many,
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many years ago when we lived in Riga in the early years when
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we first moved to the former Soviet Union,
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we purchased an apartment
in downtown Riga in an area
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that had formerly been a
very prestigious area, but
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after 55 years of communism,
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the whole area had become dilapidated.
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The apartment that we
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and it had 13 rooms
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and seven fireplaces.
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When it was first built,
it was magnificent,
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but when we found the
apartment much, much later,
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it was in a total state of dilapidation.
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The ceilings were crumbling,
the walls were crumbling.
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Mold actually covered the walls
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and the windows were broken out.
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It was just in a horrible state, horrible: unbelievable
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that anybody could even live there.
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But eight families had
been living in that mess.
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Maybe you remember the old film, Dr. Zhivago.
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Well, in that film, Dr.
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Zhivago comes home to
his apartment in Moscow
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after communism comes to power,
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and he finds that his
luxurious apartment has been
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subdivided and now it is
occupied by multiple families.
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That's not just a fairytale.
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That really happened, and
that's what happened to
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that fabulous apartment
that we purchased in Riga.
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Eight families now
occupied that apartment.
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It had one kitchen and one bathroom.
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Imagine - 8 families trying to use one kitchen
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and one bathroom,
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and the condition of the
apartment was just horrific.
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In fact, the first time that Denise saw it, she said, honey,
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I don't know if there's any hope
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of restoration in this place.
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But when I walked through those rooms, I could see a hint
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of former glory.
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I looked at the moldings,
which around went
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around the top of each the room.
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They were so intricate. In
fact, they were massive.
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They were magnificent
moldings that were covered
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with 55 years of Soviet paint.
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It was difficult to see the
molding, but it was there.
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Beautiful medallions in
the center of the ceilings
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and every room where
chandeliers had once hung
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and the parquet floors were made
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of beautiful woods that were
scraped and painted over.
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And again, the walls were crumbly, the windows were broken,
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and they had so missed the toilet for 55 years
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that the urine had
eaten a hole all the way
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through the floor next to the toilet,
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and you could stand next to the toilet
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and look at the apartment below.
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That was the condition of
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that apartment when we first found it.
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I remember one day I was
walking through that apartment
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so devastated and it had
formally been so magnificent
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and my mind went to John 10:10 where Jesus says,
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The thief cometh not but to steal, to kill and to destroy.
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But then he adds, I am come
that they might have life
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and have it more abundantly.
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The thief comes to kill,
to steal and to destroy.
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The RIV of John 10:10 says, The thief wants
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to get his hands into every
good thing in your life.
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In fact, this pickpocket is
looking for any opportunity
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to wiggle his way so deeply
into your personal affairs
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that he can walk off
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with everything you
hold precious and dear.
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And that's not all.
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When he's finished stealing all your goods
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and possessions, he'll take
his plan to rob you blind
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to the next level by creating conditions
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and situations so horrible
that you'll see no way
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to solve problems except
to sacrifice everything
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that remains from his previous attacks.
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The goal of this thief is to
totally devastate your life.
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And if nothing stops him,
he'll leave you insolvent,
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flat broke, cleaned out in
every area of your life,
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you'll end up feeling
as if you're finished
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and out of business.
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Make no mistake, the
enemy's ultimate aim is
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to obliterate you.
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But then Jesus heads,
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but I have specifically come
with the express purpose
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that you will have hold
and possess a phenomenal
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and amazing life.
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My purpose is that you
will possess life so full
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that it overflows
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and spills over like a mighty
river, so full of water
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that its banks can no
longer contain at all.
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I'm talking about an
amazing full spirited,
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vivacious life that is
literally overflowing
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and spilling over.
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I have explicitly come so you can possess
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and abundant, profuse, plentiful
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and bountiful life.
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Look what the devil does.
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But look what happens
when Jesus gets involved.
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My friends, Jesus has the power to redeem
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and to restore,
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and the Lord is the one
who restores our soul.
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But let me go back to my
apartment for a moment.
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We begin to peel off 55 years
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of Soviet wallpaper: 55 years.
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Finally, we got down to
the very bottom layer,
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and you'll be amazed at what we found.
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We found the walls were covered with Yiddish newspapers,
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which is a form of Hebrew.
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And we discovered the apartment had originally been owned
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by a Jew who had been killed in the Latvian Holocaust.
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But we began to peel off all that wallpaper.
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We brought in a gentleman who began
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to restore all the molding and
the molding was so intricate
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but so covered with 55 years of horrible paint,
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he had to use dental instruments to clean all
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that blotched paint out
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that was simply magnificent.
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It was magnificent.
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Because we were willing
to accept the challenge
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to restore the property, we were rewarded
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with something glorious
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and something amazing that
had formally been ravaged,
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wasted and devastated.
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Because Jesus is the one
who restores our souls
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and some of our souls have
been pretty devastated.
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and he is the one that restores our souls.
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Jesus himself, who is the great shepherd said in Luke 19:
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10: For the son of man is come to seek
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and to save that which was lost.
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The word lost, is the Greek word
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derived from the word appolummi,
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and it conveys the idea listen, of something ruined, wasted,
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trashed, devastated,
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or destroyed, which means the
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to save that which was - are you ready -
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ruined, wasted, trashed, devastated or destroyed.
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But what does the Bible mean when it says he came
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to save it?
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The word, save, is a translation
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of the wonderful Greek word sodzo,
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which implies a rescue operation:
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a rescue operation: such
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as a rescue from a raging sea, rescue
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from an illness, rescue from immediate danger.
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to safety and soundness.
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it is a full scale rescue
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that results in a redemptive
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puts everything back in shape,
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puts everything back in order.
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it first began;
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which means, when Jesus finishes his work in us,
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we are not a 2nd rate version of something we used to be;
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we may be different than we used to be,
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but in Christ, my friends we're never 2nd
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to what we used to be.
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In fact, in Christ, we
are an improved version
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of what we used to be.
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Say, amen. Listen to this.
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We are not a weaker,
substandard version of
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what we were before.
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Now in Christ, we are
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We are improved
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because the Lord has restored us.
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You know, I never saw the original apartment
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that was built in 1898.
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I'm sure that when it was first built it was magnificent.
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But if the owners had seen it by the time
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that we were finished, I think they would've seen,
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said the latter glory was greater than the earlier glory.
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Because what we did to those
ceilings, to that molding,
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to those apartments,
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to those parquet floors
was simply magnificent.
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It became a treasure
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because we put forth the work, the effort,
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and the time to restore it.
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And the good news is, oh,
with faith, with prayer
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and with the help of others,
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Jesus can perform a full rescue
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and restorative operation in our souls.
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He's seeking to do it not only in you,
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but also in those that are around you.
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Don't give up in those that are around you
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because rescue operations are
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Jesus specialty.
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Say amen - Wow!
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But in Isaiah 57:15,
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the New Living Translation says the high
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and lofty one who lives in eternity,
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the Holy One says this; I live in the high
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and holy place with
those whose spirits are
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contrite and humble.
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Listen, I restore.
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I restore the crushed spirit of the humble
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and revive the courage of
those with repented hearts.
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Even from God's high and lofty place,
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he's looking for those whom he can restore
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because it is the nature of
God to redeem and to restore.
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And Jesus himself, who
is the great shepherd,
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said these words in Luke 4:18 - 19.
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He said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me
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because he has anointed me to
preach the gospel to the poor.
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He has sent me to heal the broken hearted,
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to preach deliverance to the
captive, recovering of side
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to the blind and to sat at
liberty them that are bruised.
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That word, brokenhearted, is the Greek word,
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suntribo, which is used technically
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to describe the crushing
of grapes with a feet
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or the smashing of grinding
of bones into dust.
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Or it can be used to describe
people who've been walked on
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by others, those who have
been crushed by others
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or those who feel they've been smashed to pieces
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by life or by relationships.
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But Jesus came to heal them.
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He is in the restorative business.
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It says He came to preach deliverance
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to the captives. The word, deliverance,
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the Greek word,....describes
a permanent release.
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Jesus wants to permanently
set captives free.
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The word captives is a Greek
word which describes as those
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that are held in bondages
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and in addictions, he
came to give recovering
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of sight to the blind.
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The word recovering means Jesus wants
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to give your sight back to you again.
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The word blind depicts
those who are unable to see
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because they have been
intentionally blinded
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by somebody else.
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If pictures, one whose
eyes have been removed
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so that he is blinded.
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This individual hasn't
just lost his sight.
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He has no eyes to see.
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And sometimes people have
been blinded in life,
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but Jesus gives their
sight back to them again.
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And finally Jesus said, I
came to set at liberty them
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that have been bruised.
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The word bruised is a Greek
word, which means those
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that have been crushed,
those that have been broken,
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it depicts a person who has been shattered
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or fractured by life.
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It pictures those whose lives
have been continually split up
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and fragmented.
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And Jesus came to set them at liberty,
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which is again is the Greek word, aphiami,
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which depicts a permanent release, a permanent dismissal,
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a permanent loosing, to permanently set one free.
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And in this case,
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it pictures one being set free
from the detrimental effects
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of a shattered life.
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And the Greek emphatically speaks
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of a permanent release from
the destructive effects
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of brokenness.
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Wow. Psalm 23:1 says, The Lord is my shepherd,
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I shall not want.
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Verse 2:, he maketh me to lie down in green pastures
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and leads me beside the still waters.
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Verse 3: he restores my soul.
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And if you feel that you are
brokenhearted, if you feel
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that you've been taken
captive by some addiction
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or some relationship in life, if you feel
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that you're a person being
manipulated by your emotions,
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if you feel that you've been shattered
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and you've been blindsided in
life, Jesus has the ability
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to fully restore your soul.
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He is your shepherd. You are his sheep.
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And this first promises that he is the one
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who restores my soul.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I want to pray for you.
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Someone asked, who is the
worst member of the church?
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What a question to ask, but
I can give you the answer.
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Who is the worst member of your church?
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Who is the worst member of any church?
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The answer is found in James 3:5,
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which says, Even so, the tongue is a little member.
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The tongue is the worst member of any church
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because if the tongue is not
brought under the control
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of the Holy Spirit, it says
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what it should not say, it gripes about
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what it has no right to be griping about it.
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It gossips it backbites,
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there's no doubt about it, my friend,
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the tongue is the worst
member of any church,
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and that's why we need
to surrender our tongues
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to the control of the Holy Spirit
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because the Holy Spirit is really the only one that is able
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to control and detain the tongue.
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The tongue is the worst member of any church.
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The 23rd Psalm is a favorite passage of scripture
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Hey, this is Rick Renner
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and I'm standing in one
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of the long corridors in the
Tulsa headquarters building,
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and these corridors are
lined with photography
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of our past ministry.
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For example here, it's amazing.
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You see a picture of me and
Denise's first starting our
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ministry as we're traveling
in the car with Paul
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and Philip on her lap,
and there's little Joel,
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but then you look over here
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and you see our Russian ministry.
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Here's Golden Stars with some of the Russian movie stars
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who came to help us at that event.
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We had more than 16,000 senior citizens show up.
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That is amazing. Then you
see the youth ministry
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and us working with
members of the government.
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And here you see again, me and Denise in
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our first little church
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we started in Arkansas - many, many, many years ago.
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And then you look over here
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and you see us filming TV programs.
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I mean there's just so much.
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And when you walk through these hallways
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and look at all these pictures, you're just surrounded with
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what God has done throughout our ministry.
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And it is amazing.
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And now every day in this facility,
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ministry is taking place.
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Oh, I wish you could hear the phone calls.
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And when our team begins
to pray, it is like a roar
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of prayer that you can hear when you walk
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through our partner care ministry
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or the letters that are
going out or the resources
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and resources or books and USBs
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and all kinds of video and audio.
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And it's going to the ends of the earth.
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And we're able to do all of that
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because we have a facility
where we can do it.
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And paying off this facility
is our current goal.
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You know, when we started the
ministry expansion project,
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it was quite large.
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70% of it is already finished
and I want to say thank you
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and now we need to keep it up
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until we knock out the remaining 30%.
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Please help us continue
until we finish it.
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And if you're not a part of the team yet,
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please pray about becoming a part
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of our Ministry Expansion Project giving team
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so we can pay off all of this
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and then liberate all that
money to take the gospel
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to the ends of the earth.
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And that's our desire.
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So I wanna say thank you
in advance for helping us.
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When we come back tomorrow, we're going to see in Psalm 23:
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3, the shepherd promises that he will lead us.
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Oh, it's going to be so powerful.
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But today we've seen He is the
one that restores our soul.
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And I'm going to pray
for your soul restoration
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in just a moment.
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But I want to remind you
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to order the series called Psalm 23rd.
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The Lord is My Shepherd, which
comes with the study guide.
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And please also order the book
by Tony Cook, which is called
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Because the Lord is My Shepherd:
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The 12 Blessings of an Empowered Life.
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And please remember that if you need prayer, ring that phone
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or send us an email.
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We're waiting to hear from you
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so we can put our faith together with you.
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But I wanna pray for you right now.
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Lord, I thank you that you are
the one who heals our soul.
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And it doesn't matter what
happened to us in the past,
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you want to do a work in us that makes us better and greater
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and more glorious than we ever were
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in the beginning. I thank you that you came to seek
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and to save that which was lost.
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That includes every one of
us, every area of our mind,
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and of our emotions that's
been wasted or devastated
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or attacked by the enemy,
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you come to bring restoration to it.
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And I thank you that you are the one
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who really restores our souls.
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In Jesus' name - Amen.
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Well, I'll see you tomorrow,
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but remember Ecclesiastes 8:4, "Where the word
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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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Renner Ministries is
proclaiming the gospel
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of Jesus Christ through
every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.
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This program was made
possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
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