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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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and today I'm with this
big flock of sheep,
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not far from our home,
outside of Moscow, Russia.
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And I have my rod and
my staff. You know why?
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Because the 23rd Psalm says, thy rod
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and thy staff, they comfort me.
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What is the purpose of
our rod and a staff?
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Every good shepherd has a rod and a staff,
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and that includes Jesus and his rod and his staff
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they comfort us.
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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, 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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My name is Rick Renner and
I have been waiting for you.
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And today we are going
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to have a marvelous
time in the 23rd Psalm,
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and today we're gonna be
looking at God's promise
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of correction.
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You say, ah, I don't
want to hear about that.
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Yes you do,
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because there is protection in correction.
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But I want you to get 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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Aren't you thankful that
Jesus is your shepherd?
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And my friends, he has a rod in his staff,
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and if we'll let him use his rod
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and his staff in our life,
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it will bring great comfort to us.
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We're gonna find out about
that in today's program,
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but please order this 10 part series.
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You can order it by going
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and it comes with a study guide.
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The study guide is so powerful
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because you can read it while
you see it or you hear it
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and really reinforce the teaching.
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We need to know about the 10
promises the great shepherd
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makes to every one of his
sheep, and that means me
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and that means you.
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And we're also offering you
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It's small, but it's very powerful called,
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Because the Lord is my Shepherd, The Blessings of
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and Empowered Life.
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And for those who become
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we always send 2 books to everyone who becomes a partner
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as our way of saying, welcome to the partner family.
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And the moment you become a partner, we're going
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to send you Denise's book called The Gift of Forgiveness,
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which is dedicated to our partners.
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This is our way of saying
welcome to the family
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and when you reach out to
us, please let us know how
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to pray for you.
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Matthew 18:19 says that if we would agree
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as touching anything in
prayer, God will do it.
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And if you'll let us know how to pray,
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we'll get into agreement with you
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and Jesus will move in your life.
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But hey, reach for your Bible
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and today we're going to
return to the 23rd Psalm.
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And I want to read verse 1 again.
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David writes, the Lord is my shepherd.
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We'll, remember David had been a shepherd.
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He knew what it meant to be a shepherd.
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So it's significant when he
calls the Lord his shepherd.
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And you ought to personalize
this, you should say,
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the Lord is my shepherd.
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David says, the Lord is my
shepherd 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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Oh, I'm so thankful. He's the one that restores our souls.
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He leads me in the path of righteousness for his namesake.
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Verse 4: Yea though I walk through the valley
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of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil
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for thou art with me.
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We saw that yesterday
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and today we're gonna see
the next part of verse 4.
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Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
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Verse 5: Thou preparest a table before me
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in the presence of my enemies;
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thou anointest my head with oil;
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my cup runs over. 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 this amazing psalm,
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we have these 10 promises.
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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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No.6: God's supernatural confidence.
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We saw that yesterday.
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Today we're going to see No.7:
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God's supernatural 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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No.10: God's supernatural promise.
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But today we're going
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to be looking at God's
supernatural correction.
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And again, don't be afraid of correction
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because there is protection in correction.
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This is the job of a good shepherd.
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But look at what the Bible says in Psalm 23:4;
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Yeah 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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And then David adds - thy rod
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and thy staff, they comfort me.
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The rod and staff were
vital tools for any shepherd
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because they aided the
shepherd in protecting
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and correcting the sheep.
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And very often this was
not two instruments,
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but it was one that was used differently
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because it had two different ends.
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And I'm going to give you
an illustration today.
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I brought a couple of
shepherd staffs which are real
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authentic shepherd staffs from the Caucasus region
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of the former Soviet Union.
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And here we have a long staff.
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This is taken from a tree,
but it's been modified
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and notice that one end has a hook.
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This is for the sake of grabbing sheep when they're out
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of line to get them back into line.
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And very often they would use the other end
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to beat predators
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or to beat anything that
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This is a real authentic shepherd staff.
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Then there's another one
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sophisticated looking, from the same region,
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the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union.
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And notice on the top,
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the hook is very sophisticated looking: bound together
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with iron, but the other end was used as a rod
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to beat predators.
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This was a shepherd's staff.
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And when David said, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me,
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it was telling us God has an instrument in our life
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and with one end he guides us
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and he corrects us; with the other end, he beats the enemies
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that come against us.
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But today I want us to dive
into this illustration -
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thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
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And 1st, the rod was a club
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that shepherds used to beat off
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or even to kill predators.
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Jesus speaks of the tenacity
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of a good shepherd in John 10:11
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13, where he describes a wolf that came
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to attack the sheep.
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Listen to what Jesus said in John 10:11-13.
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But let's begin with verse 11 where Jesus says,
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I am the good shepherd.
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The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
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And I have to tell you that when you read this in the Greek
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text, it says it a little different.
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The Greek says, I am the
shepherd, the good one.
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That is literally what it means.
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And Jesus was saying, I'm the
best shepherd that exists.
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I am the shepherd and I am the good one.
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And notice what Jesus says about himself the good shepherd -
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he's talking about himself - gives his life for the sheep,
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which means he's going to
do whatever he has to do
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to nurture those sheep, feed those sheep
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and to defend those sheep.
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That's what a good shepherd does.
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But then in verse 12, Jesus says,
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but he that is a hireling
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and not the shepherd whose own the sheep are not, seeth
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the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and fleeth:
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and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
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There is so much in this verse that I want to unpack it
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for you before we proceed any further.
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First of all, Jesus uses the word, hireling.
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Who is a hireling?
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The word hireling is a Greek word which depicts one
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who only works to get a salary.
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He is not called. He's just
there to collect a check.
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And Jesus says, and not the
shepherd - who is a shepherd.
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The word shepherd is the Greek word poimen,
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which describes one so committed to the flock,
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he will give his life for that flock.
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It is a shepherd, one who feeds the flock, one
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who protects the flock, one who rules the flock.
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And of course the flock in this case is the people of God.
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So the hirling is one who is there only
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to collect the paycheck.
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The shepherd is one who is
there to give his entire life:
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to feed, to protect and
to rule God's people.
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And Jesus continued to say,
But he that is a hireling
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and not the shepherd who's
owned the sheep are not seeth
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the wolf coming. Wolf is the Greek word lukos,
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which depicts a wolf.
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But listen, it applied figuratively to cruel, greedy,
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rapacious, destructive men.
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And what is really fascinating is this Greek word, lukos
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is where the Romans
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and the Greeks derived a term
to describe a particular class
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of prostitutes who howled during the night
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to attract the attention of men
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and to allure them into their nest.
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It literally described prostitutes who sold themself.
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Hence this word, wolf, depicts those
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who will sell themselves or
offer themselves for gain,
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but usually will only stick around as long
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as there is something to be gained.
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Here we find men
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or those in the ministry with
ulterior motives who come
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to prostitute themselves
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and sell themselves to people
in order to get something out
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of the people.
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And I'll tell you that in
my life I've seen a few
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of these wolves in the church;
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but Jesus said he that is a hireling - the one
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that's only there to collect a paycheck -
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and not the shepherd who has given his entire life to feed,
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to nurture, and to protect the people, the hireling
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who's owned the sheep are not: when the wolf shows up,
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those who've come to abuse the people
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and make gain of them, he leaves the sheep
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and flees: the word flea is a Greek word, which means
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to flee, to take flight, to
run away as fast as possible
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or even to escape: it pictures one's feet flying
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as he escapes a situation.
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So we find that a hireling who's just there
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to collect a check, when trouble takes place, he is out
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of there, but a real shepherd will stick around.
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But wait; it says the wolf catches them.
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The word catch being the Greek word harpadzo, which means
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to seize, to snatch, to steal or to rob.
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It is the word catch
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and it makes me go in my mind to Proverbs 7,
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where we read about the prostitute who lured a young man
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that was not very smart out of his home
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until finally he ended up in bed with her,
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but she lured him until she caught him.
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That is exactly the word
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that is used in Proverbs 7.
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And now we find that spiritual
wolves lure people into their
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spiritual bed with them.
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And the Bible says - the wolf catches them
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and scatters the sheep.
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Ay, yi...the word scatter,
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the Greek word, skorpidzo: the word, skorpidzo,
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means to scatter it,
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but it is closely related to the Greek word skorpios,
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which yes is where we get the word for a scorpion,
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and here it indicates the sheep scatter when the sheep feel
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they have been stung by a person or by a situation.
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Then in verse 13, Jesus said the hireling, the one
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that's just there for a paycheck, he fleeth
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because he is a hireling
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and careth not for the sheep; but my friends,
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Jesus is not a hireling.
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Psalm 23:1 says, The Lord is my shepherd,
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which means Jesus is not going
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to run when we get in trouble.
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Jesus comes to our rescue
and Jesus has a rod
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and a staff to take care of us.
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And David was very familiar with the power of a rod
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because he had been a shepherd earlier in his life.
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He described his experience
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as a shepherd in 1 Samuel:17:34,
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where he said unto Saul; thy servant kept his father's sheep
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and there came a lion and a bear
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and took a lamb out of the flock.
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Verse 35: And I went out after him and smote him
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and delivered it out of his mouth.
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And when he rose against me, I caught him by the beard
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and smote him and slew him.
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Verse 36: thy servant slew both the lion and the bear.
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But the New Living Translation says it like this;
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I've been taking care of my father's sheep and goats.
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David said: when a lion
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or bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock, I go
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after it with a club.
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There's the rod. I go after it with a club
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and rescue the lamb from its mouth.
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If the animal turns on
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and club it to death.
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I've done this to both lions and bears.
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David knew the sheep were safe
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because he had his rod in his hand
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and David was consoled knowing
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that the Lord was his
shepherd and said, thy rod
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and thy staff, they comfort me.
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David knew as long as the
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and as long as the Lord is your shepherd,
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you are in good hands
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because God will use his power
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to beat the enemy off of you.
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But there was a 2nd use of the rod and the staff.
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The rod usually had a hook on the other end
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and that hook was good for reaching a sheep
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that had fallen into a ditch
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and to put it back on its feet again.
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The staff was good for
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and for guiding the sheep.
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And if the sheep needed a gentle tap
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to keep them from going
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or to keep it from heading
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that rod became an extension
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of the shepherd's tender hands.
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That is so powerful.
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I love Isaiah 59:1 which says,
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Behold the Lord's hand is not shortened,
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that it cannot save.
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God's loving hand is involved in our life;
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and when we are headed in a wrong direction,
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God will use his rod and his staff to put us back on track
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and if needed to even correct us,
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and my friends, there is protection in correction.
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Thank God for his correction in our lives.
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David wrote about God's own correction in his life.
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In the 51st Psalm verses 1-4
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and verses 7- 12, David had committed adultery
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with Bathsheba and God lovingly corrected him.
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God corrected him,
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and David found protection
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And in verse 1, David said, Have mercy upon me
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Oh God, according to thy loving kindness:
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according unto the multitude
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of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
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Verse 2: wash me thoroughly from my iniquity
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and cleanse me from my sin.
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Verse 3: for I acknowledge my transgressions
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and my sin is ever before me.
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Verse 4: Against thee only have I sinned
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and done this evil
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in thy sight that thou mightest be justified thou speaketh
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and be clear without judgeth.
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Then in verse 7 he says; Purge me with hyssop
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and I shall be clean.
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Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
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Verse 8: make me to hear the joy
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and gladness
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that the bones which thou
has broken may rejoice.
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That is his reference to the
correction of God in his life.
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God spoke to him through
the prophet Nathan
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and corrected him,
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and David felt he had been
broken by that correction,
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and yet he was so thankful for it.
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Verse 9 he said, Hide thy face from my sins,
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blot out my iniquities.
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Verse 10: Create in me a clean heart, oh God,
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and renew q right spirit within me.
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Verse 11: cast me not away from thy presence
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and take not thy Holy Spirit from me.
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Verse 12, and here is God's intention.
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Restore unto me the joy of my salvation
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and uphold me with thy free spirit.
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David had been corrected.
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He said the correction
was so strong that he felt
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that it broke his bones,
that he knew it was essential
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to bring him back on track.
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And now God was ready to fully restore him
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and to restore to him the joy of his salvation.
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And my friends in the 23rd Psalm, we read that God has a rod
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and he has a staff.
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He has a rod for beating the enemy off of us
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if we are under attack; the other end of
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that staff becomes a rod to get us back on track
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or to rescue us if we are in danger.
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And as our good shepherd,
Jesus is fully committed
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to protecting us and for correcting us.
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And to this we ought to all say - Amen.
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My friends, there is protection in correction.
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And David said in Psalm 23:1,
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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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He leads me in the path of righteousness for his namesake.
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Verse 4: Yeah,
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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 and thy rod
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and thy staff
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they comfort me. Wow!
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But when we come back
tomorrow, we're going to go
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to verse 5 which says, thou preparest a table
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before me in the presence
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of mine enemies - which is
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God's supernatural promise of prosperity;
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even in the presence of your enemies,
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God wants to load your table like you are sitting at a
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banquet table.
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He prepares a table
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before you even in the
presence of your enemies,
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which means it is God's
intention to prosper you.
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Wow! These are the promises that the great shepherd makes
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to his sheep in the 23rd Psalm.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I want to pray for you.
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Someone asks the question - What does the name Lucifer mean?
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The name Lucifer is a translation
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of a Greek word which is used in the
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Greek Septuagint version
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of the Old Testament. The Greek word, phosphorus.
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You hear another word. It's
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where we get the word phosphorus.
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And in Greek it's a compound
of two words: the word phos,
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which means light and the word
ferris, which means to bare
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But when you compound the 2 words together, it's
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where we get the name, Lucifer,
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but it really means one who bares or one who carries light.
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And the reason he was called
Lucifer or a phosphorus is
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because Ezekiel 28 says He was covered
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with every precious stone.
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He was also the anointed
cherub that covers,
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he stood in the presence of God
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and was like a mirror for God.
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And when the glory of God
would shine on Lucifer,
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all those stones would begin
to refract all that light
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so God could enjoy his own glory.
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And Lucifer wrongly began
to believe he was generating
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that light by himself.
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He fell into deception.
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And that is why Ezekiel 28:17 says,
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your heart was lifted up
because of your beauty.
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You have corrupted thy wisdom
by reason of thy brightness.
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He forgot he was a reflector
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and he began to think he was a generator;
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but that is why he was called phosphorus or Lucifer.
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The 23rd Psalm is a favorite passage of scripture
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The Lord is My Shepherd.
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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 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. Tt 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 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 are books and
USBs and all kinds of video
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and audio 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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I have to personally tell
you, I am so thankful
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for God's corrective hand in my life
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and I have discovered there really is
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protection in correction.
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What if God just let us
do what we wanted to do?
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We would get in trouble and
it would be destructive,
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but God loves us so much
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and God wants to protect
us, so he corrects us.
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It is the love of God.
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And this is just one
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of 10 promises in the 23rd
Psalm in my friend, I want you
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to order the entire
series called Psalm 23:
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The Lord is My Shepherd
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and it comes with a study guide.
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We're also offering you
the book by Tony Cook,
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which is called Because
The Lord is My Shepherd,
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the Blessings of an Empowered Life.
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Please order these today
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and remember that when
you become a partner
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with our ministry, we're going
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to send you Denise's book called, The Gift of Forgiveness,
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and my book called, Life in the Combat Zone.
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We always give this to
anyone who becomes a part
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of our partner family.
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Be sure to let us know how to pray for you
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by sending us an email
or giving us a call.
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But Father, today, we thank you
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that there is protection in correction.
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And Lord, it is absolutely
true that your rod
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and your staff, oh, they
bring comfort to us.
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You protect us from the enemy
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and you help us to stay on track.
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And for this Jesus, we say thank you.
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Amen. 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's 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
of Renner Ministries.