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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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My name is Rick Renner.
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Today I'm still with this
big, dirty flock of sheep
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that need to be trimmed and cleaned up.
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Thank God that Jesus cleans
us up and keeps us trimmed.
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He is such a good shepherd.
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And you, when you read
the 23rd Psalm, we find
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that he also supernaturally leads us. In the 23rd
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Psalm verse 3,
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it says, he restores my soul
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and leads me in the path of righteousness
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for his name's sake.
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If we will listen to the
Lord, he'll be a good shepherd
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and he will lead us.
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And that is what I'm gonna
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
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where the word is the
anchor in uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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As I told you in the introduction, when I was sitting
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among all those mange, grainy looking sheep,
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today I'm gonna talk to you
about the wonderful promise in
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the 23rd Psalm
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that Jesus Christ has
promised he will lead us
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and guide us in life.
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Sometimes people say, brother
Rick, how have you and Denise
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and your family done all that you've done?
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Well, it's not because we're
so smart, but we've listened
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and we've allowed the Lord to lead us,
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and he promises that he'll lead us.
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And you're going to see today in Romans 8:14,
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it is a promise of God that
every child of God can expect
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to be led by the Holy Spirit.
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And that includes you.
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The Holy Spirit wants to lead you,
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and if you'll follow him,
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he'll give you an amazing
adventure in life.
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Wow. But I want you to
order the whole series,
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which is called, Psalm 23:
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The Lord is My Shepherd. It's 10 parts.
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It comes in multiple formats.
This series is jam packed.
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It will feed your heart,
it will feed your soul.
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It will really show you the
10 promises that Jesus makes
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to you.
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And it comes with a marvelous study guide.
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And when you have the study guide
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so you can read it while you see it
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or hear it, it really
reinforces the teaching
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and gets it down deep inside you.
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And by the way, the Bible says in Romans 10:17,
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faith comes by hearing and hearing and hearing and hearing.
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This is a series you need
to hear and hear and hear
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and hear, and really get this
teaching down deep inside you.
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Psalm 23, the Lord is My Shepherd
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and it is available on our website or you can give us a call
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and we're offering you right now,
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this is the last day of this week, the book
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by Tony Cook called, Because the Lord is My Shepherd,
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The Blessings of an Empowered Life.
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This may look like a little book,
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but it is filled with dynamite.
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It is so marvelous.
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And today we're going to
return to the 23rd Psalm
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and we're going to begin reading again
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in verse 1;, it says, the Lord is my shepherd,
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I shall not want.
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Verse 2: He makes me to lie down in green pastures
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and leads me beside the till waters.
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Verse 3: He restores my soul.
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That's what we covered yesterday.
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I want to cover it briefly again today;
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but then it says - He leads me in the paths of righteousness
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for his namesake.
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That will be our primary focus today.
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Then in verse 4, it says, Yea through 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 art with me.
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Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
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Verse 5: Thou preparest to table
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before me in the presence of my enemies,
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thou anoint us my head with oil.
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My cup runs over, and verse 6:
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Surely goodness
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and mercy will 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 this marvelous Psalm,
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God makes 10 supernatural promises to you.
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No.1: 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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No.5: God's supernatural guidance.
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That's today's focus.
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No.6: God's supernatural
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confidence 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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But today I want us
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to briefly cover again point No.4,
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which is - God's supernatural restoration.
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I wanna cover it again because
I moved so quickly yesterday
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through the final verses that I covered.
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But in Psalm 23:3, it says,
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he restores my soul.
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And I want us to go back to the words
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of Jesus in Luke 4:18 through 19.
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Jesus here is speaking and
he is our great shepherd.
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And in this verse, he emphatically states what he wants
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to do with our souls.
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Listen to what he says.
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The spirit of the Lord is upon me
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because he has anointed
me to preach the gospel
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to the poor, which means the
gospel is an economic game
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changer in the life of
those that are poor.
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But then he goes on to say, he has sent me
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to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance
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to the captives and recovering
of sight to the blind,
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and as sat at liberty
them that are bruised
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and to preach the
acceptable year of the Lord.
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When I read this verse,
I see the work of God
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to restore our souls.
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For example, Jesus says he was sent
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to heal the broken hearted.
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That word broken hearted
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It is the Greek word, suntribo,
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which usually describe the crushing
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of grapes under one's feet or the smashing
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and grinding of bones into dust.
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But here it depicts people
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that have been walked on by others.
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Do you know anybody that
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walked on by others?
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Those that have been crushed by others
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or those who feel they have
been smashed to pieces by life
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or by relationships. People
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that just feel they've
been trampled on in life.
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And Jesus said he came to heal them.
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And the word heal is the amazing Greek word,
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iaomai, which means
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to heal or to cure.
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But it usually refers
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It often depicts a healing power
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that progressively
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period of time.
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And what we find in this verse
is sometimes a process is
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involved in healing our broken hearts.
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But Jesus begins the process
and he continues the process
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and he stays with us until
our hearts are fully restored.
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He loves to restore those,
the feel they've been crashed
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and trampled on by others in life.
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But then it goes on to
say, to preach deliverance
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to the captives.
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The word deliverance is the Greek word, aphesis.
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It describes a permanent
release, a permanent dismissal
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to permanently set one free
to permanently loose one.
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And the word captive is a
Greek word which depicts those
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that have been taken captive at the point of a spear: those
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that are dragged into some form of bondage
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or manipulated by bondage.
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And here it can portray the picture of addictions,
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chemical addictions, wrong thinking, abusive relationships,
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anyone that is being manipulated by some kind of bondage.
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But Jesus came to bring
a permanent release,
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a permanent dismissal, to
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to permanently loose them from
those manipulating bondages.
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That is part of his work to restore us.
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But then it goes on to say that he has been set
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to recover sight to those that are blind.
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The recovering of sight in Greek means, he's gonna give you
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your sight back.
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So many people have been blindsided in life by relationships
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and situations that took them off guard.
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But Jesus has come to give
your sight back to you again.
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The word blind is the Greek, typhlos.
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It doesn't just depict a
person who's unable to see,
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but a person who has been intentionally blinded
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by someone else.
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It pictures one whose eyes have been deliberately removed so
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that he is blinded. This individual hasn't just
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lost his sight,
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he has no eyes to see.
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But if you're an individual
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or you know someone that's
been blindsided by life,
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Jesus will give them
their sight back again.
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And finally Jesus said he
came to set at liberty them
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that are bruised. The word bruised being the Greek word,
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which means those that are crushed, those
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that have been broken down.
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It pictures a person -
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listen to this - it pictures a person who has been shattered
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or fragmented 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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I think about people that
have been through divorce
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or the children of divorce
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or people that feel they've
been passed from one family
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to another family or
one job to another job.
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They feel that their life
has been continually split up
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and fragmented and shattered.
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That's what this word bruised means.
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But Jesus came to set them at liberty,
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which again is a Greek word, aphesis,
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which depicts a permanent
release, a permanent dismissal
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to permanently lose, to
permanently set free.
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And in this case, the word set at liberty,
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picture being set free from
the detrimental effects
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of a shattered life.
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The Greek emphatically pictures a permanent release from the
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destructive effects of brokenness.
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Jesus comes to restore us.
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All of that describes his
miraculous restorative
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work in our life.
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And David said, he's the one that restores my soul.
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You know, David had experienced a lot
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of rejection from his family, a lot
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of rejection from his own
son, problems in his marriage.
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David carried in his soul
areas that had been scarred.
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But David said, the Lord is
the one that restores my soul
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and he will restore your
soul and my soul to.
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And you need to personalize
this psalm by saying,
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the Lord is the one who restores my soul.
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But wait; in Psalm 23:3, it goes on to say,
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he leads me in the paths of righteousness
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for his names sake - which means - Jesus,
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our great shepherd will lead
us if we're willing to follow.
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In fact, the scriptures
are filled with verses that
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so God wants to lead us and to guide us.
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For example, in Psalm 32:8, God says,
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I will instruct you and teach
you in the way you should go.
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I will guide you with my eye.
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Or in Psalm 37:23, in the New Living Translation,
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it says, The Lord directs the steps of the Godly.
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If you're godly, this guarantees God wants
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to direct your steps.
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In Psalm 73:24 in the New Living Translation, David says,
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You guide me with your counsel leading me
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to a glorious destiny.
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God has a glorious destiny for you
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and he wants to lead you there.
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In Proverbs 3:6, it says, In all your ways
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acknowledge him
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and he shall direct your past.
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That is a promise that you can stand on
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and God has given us the Bible.
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And in the Bible we can know God's mind,
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we can know God's will,
we can know God's ways,
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and the scriptures are
filled with revelation
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and insight that direct us.
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And that is why Psalm 119:105 says,
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Your word is a lamp to my feet at a light
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to my path.
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Now when I teach about being
led, many times people write
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or call and they say, but
we don't know how to be led.
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Well, for that reason,
I want to encourage you
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to get this series called
Knowing the Will of God.
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It is a five part series
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and it comes with a marvelous study guide
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and listen to what it says.
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Does God really have a
specific plan just for you?
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How can you know if you're on track
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or off track with his plan?
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God has a plan for you
and he wants to lead you
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and to guide you.
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And in this wonderful 5-part series, you'll find out how
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to know the explicit will
of God for your life.
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But in addition to having the Bible,
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we also have the Holy Spirit.
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And in John 16:13,
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Jesus made this remarkable promise.
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How be it when He, the
spirit of truth has come,
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he will guide you.
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You can bank on that.
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The Holy Spirit has been sent
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to guide us in life.
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And the word guide is the Greek word, hodegos;
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what a wonderful word.
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It's from the word hodas which is the Greek word for a road.
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But when it becomes the word, hodega,
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it becomes a road guide
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or a guide
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who shows a traveler the safest course
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through an unknown territory. A guide
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who knows the safest, fastest,
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and most pleasurable route to take: a tour guide
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and even a guide for the blind.
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If you feel like you cannot see where you're going
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or you don't know how to make it
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through the territory in front of you,
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the Holy Spirit has been sent to guide you.
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and the good news is he's already been there.
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He knows what is in front of you.
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He knows what's in the
heart of God for you.
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He knows the will of God
for you. He knows it all.
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He even sees the traps the
enemy has said for you.
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But if you will allow the
Holy Spirit to guide you,
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he will be a guide
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that will lead you past
every demonic attack,
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past every trap,
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and he will give you a
wonderful adventurer in life.
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The Holy Spirit has been
sent to be your guide.
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Amen. You say, well, how
can I really know that?
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Because Romans 8:14 says, For as many as are led
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by the spirit of God,
they are the sons of God.
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this verse guarantees you the right
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to be led.
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But when you read Romans 8:14 in the Greek,
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the sentence structure is reversed rather than say as many
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as are led by the spirit
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by the spirit of God are being led.
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It puts the Holy Spirit
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and us like tag-a-longs behind the Holy Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit wants to be out front
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and our job is to be a tag-a-long to see where he is going
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to hear what he says and
to follow or to be led.
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The word led that is used in
this verse is the Greek word
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ago, which was used to depict animals led
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by a rope tied around their necks
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that followed wherever
their owner led them.
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The owner would tug and pull
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and the animal followed: to be led by a gentle tug
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or a pull.
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And this word ago forms the
root for the Greek word agon,
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which describes intense conflict,
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like a struggle in a wrestling match
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or a struggle of the human will.
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Well, there is so much in this word
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led, but let me tell you a story.
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When we first moved to the
former Soviet Union, Denise
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and I lived on the..outskirts of a little town,
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and I saw something happen every morning
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that just amazed me.
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We had a neighbor who had a cow,
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but she didn't have a lot of property.
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So every morning that old
grandmother would go out
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and open the door and
she would let her cow off
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of her property and she would tie a rope
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around the neck of that cow.
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grandmother every single day
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as she would tug on that rope
and she would pull that cow
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and that cow would just
obediently follow her.
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Then she would lead the
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of our property where she pulled a stake out of her pocket,
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put it into the ground,
wrap the rope around it,
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patted the cow, said, I'll see you later.
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She left the cow and the cow stayed
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where it was led all day
long until she came back
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that night, pulled the rope
out, up, pulled the steak,
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and pulled the rope and
led the cow back home.
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And she did it day after
day after day after day.
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And finally one day I asked a
friend, what is with the cow?
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The cow is so big it
doesn't have to follow.
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It could knock that grandmother flat.
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Why does the cow so faithfully follow?
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And the man said to me, because
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that cow has been following
since it was young,
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it has been trained to follow.
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My mind immediately went to this verse.
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And I understand that in life, many
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of us have a hard time
following the Holy Spirit
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because it's hard for us.
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It's a struggle for us,
it's a wrestle for us.
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But if we would've learned earlier
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and if we teach our children
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and our grandchildren earlier
to listen to the Holy Spirit
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and to follow, it will be
easier for them to follow.
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It would be easier for us now
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to follow if we had started early in life.
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We have to be trained
to follow the leadership
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of the Holy Spirit.
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And when the Holy Spirit
leads us, it's not usually
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with a bolt of lightning.
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It is not usually with a
prophetic dream or a prophecy.
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It's usually a gentle tug on our heart
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as the Holy Spirit pulls us and leads us where we are to go.
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And when he leads us
somewhere, we are to stay put
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until he comes along to
lead us somewhere else.
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That is amazing to me.
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And that entire picture is in Romans
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8:14,
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For as many as are led
by the spirit of God,
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they are the sons of God.
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And now we know from Psalm 23:3, that one
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of the promises of our shepherd
is that he will lead us.
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It says He restores our soul
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and he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness
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for his namesake.
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When we follow him
successfully, it brings glory
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to the name of Jesus.
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But in Psalm 23:4, it says, next, yay,
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though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death,
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I will fear no evil for thou art with me,
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which means God next
promises us supernatural
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confidence even when we're
walking through the valley
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of the shadow of death.
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And that's where we're going
to begin when we come back
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to the next program.
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But I'll be back in just a moment,
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and I want to pray for you.
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Someone asked the question,
did Jesus ever address UFOs?
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Well, that's a very fun question.
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And the answer can be found possibly in Luke 21:
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11, where Jesus is describing signs
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we will see at the very end of the age
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that we're living in right now;
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and he says, there will be great earthquakes
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and divers places and famines and pestilence
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and listen to this - fearful sights
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and great signs shall there be from Heaven.
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And that word, from, in Greek is the word apo,
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which describes something
descending right out
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of the heavens.
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Jesus did not explicitly
say these would be UFOs,
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but he did say at the very end of the age,
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there would be things appearing out of the heavens.
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So did Jesus address the question of UFOs? I don't know.
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You decide, but my friends,
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that's a pretty interesting verse
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where Jesus did foretell
things would descend out
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of the heavens at the end of the age.
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The 23rd Psalm is a
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promises that God makes
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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 their 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
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and Denise in 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 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,
and that's our desire.
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So I wanna say thank you
in advance for helping us
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today.
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We've been looking at
the supernatural leading
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of the Holy Spirit in our life.
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We are promised in the 23rd Psalm
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that our great shepherd
will lead us in the paths
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of righteousness for his namesake.
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It is a guarantee in scripture
that if you'll listen,
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God will lead you through
every phase of your life.
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But I want you to order the whole series,
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which is called Psalm 23.
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The Lord is My Shepherd.
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It is 10 parts and it comes with a study guide,
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and we're also offering
you right now the book
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by my friend Tony Cook.
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The book is called The Lord is
My Shepherd: The 12 Blessings
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of an Empowered Life.
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Let me pray for you right now.
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Father, I pray in Jesus'
name that you would help me
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and you would help my
friends have ears that are
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so sensitive that we can
hear when the Holy Spirit is
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speaking to us.
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We want to be led,
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and you promise that as sons of God,
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we have a right to be led.
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We thank you for this in the
wonderful name of Jesus. Amen.
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I'll see you in the next program.
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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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Perhaps I have to do another test.
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The only thing to do is to wait.
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I wish things have gone another way. I want to be healthy.
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If there is no one to
support you, don't give up.
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Just contact us choosing
your available way.
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We're waiting for your call
willing to give you prayer.
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If two of you shall agree on
earth as touching anything
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that they shall ask, it
shall be done for them
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of my Father, which is in heaven.
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now; Lord,
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I repent of my sin and
receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Renner Ministries is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ
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through every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.