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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 standing
in the interior of St.
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Isaac's Cathedral in
St. Petersburg, Russia.
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There was a time when this
was the central cathedral
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for the entire Russian Empire.
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The foundations for this
cathedral were first laid
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by Alexander I after his
victory over Napoleon.
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The foundations were first laid in 1818
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and it took 40 years to
build this cathedral.
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And there are more than 300,000 tons
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of materials used in the construction
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of this amazing cathedral,
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including 881 pounds of gold
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that are used to cover
all of its ornamentation
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and decorations.
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It is simply amazing. The
stonework is fabulous.
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20 different kinds of stone from Russia
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and all over Europe, including 16 tons
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of malachite
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and 1100 pounds
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of beautiful deep blue lapis.
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Wow. The interior of this place is simply
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remarkable, but as beautiful as it is,
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it pales in comparison to our interiors
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because the Bible tells
us we are the temple
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of the Holy Spirit.
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The word temple is the Greek
word naos and guess what?
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It's the Greek word for
a highly decorated shrine
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just like this.
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This room is filled with gold, silver,
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malachite, lapis:
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it is simply beautiful beyond description,
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but within us is also a temple.
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We are a walking sanctuary.
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And in fact, what God
did in us is so marvelous
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that in John 1:12, the Bible says it took the power of God
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to create the temple that is within 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,
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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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Today I'm beginning a brand
new series called You Are the
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Temple of the Holy Spirit.
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You're gonna get a revelation by listening
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to this week's programs
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and today we're going to see
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that you are God's special project.
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It's going to be amazing,
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but I want you to order the whole series.
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It's 10 parts. It comes
in multiple formats.
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It's called You are the Temple
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of the Holy Spirit. My friend,
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you need a revelation of who you are.
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You're not who you used to be.
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God has turned you into his temple and he lives inside you.
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What does that mean? You need to know.
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So order this series called, You are the Temple
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of the Holy Spirit, and it comes
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with a wonderful study guide.
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And right now I'd like to also suggest
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that you get my book called, A Life Ablaze:
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10 Simple keys to Living on Fire for God.
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You're supposed to live on fire for God,
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not just begin fire and then lose it.
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You're to begin on fire, stay on fire
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and burn with fire for Jesus
to the end of your life.
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But you need to have the right fuels
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to inject into your flame
so that you keep burning.
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And that's what this
book is about, what kind
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of fuel you need to be putting
into your spiritual life
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so you stay on fire for
Jesus to the end of your life
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and you will love this book.
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So please order yours today,
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and if you need prayer, please
remember that we're here
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for you and we would be delighted to pray for you as soon
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as your email shows up at our inbox
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or when the telephone rings, we take your call,
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we're going to really begin
to put our faith together
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with you for whatever it
is that you're dealing
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with in your life right now,
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and we would love to do that with you.
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But today we're going to go to Ephesians 2,
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and we're going to begin in verse 1.
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So go ahead and turn there.
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I hope you have your Bible this week.
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Every day you are going to need your Bible
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because we're gonna dig very
deep into the New Testament.
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But I want to begin
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by quoting 1 Corinthians 6:19,
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where Paul is speaking to the Corinthians
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and he says, what do you not
know that you are the temple
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of the Holy Spirit?
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That word temple is the Greek word, naos.
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That word naos, was known to every Greek reader.
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It described a highly decorated shrine.
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Just imagine the most elaborate cathedral you have ever
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walked into and then take it
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and put it on steroids,
cover it with embellishments,
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gold ornamentation, all
kinds of marbles and columns
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and beautiful artwork,
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that is what the word temple, the Greek word naos describes.
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And it is the same word which
was used in the Old Testament
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Septuagint to describe the Holy of Holies
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inside the temple in Jerusalem.
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Well, Paul knew all of this
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and when he said to the Corinthians
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and to us, you are the
temple of the Holy Spirit,
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he was declaring that
God has moved inside us
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and what God did in us is elaborate.
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We are filled with spiritual ornamentation
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and embellishments, gifts
of the spirit, fruit
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of the spirit, the character
of God, the promises of God,
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the blood of Jesus, all
of that is inside us.
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In fact, what is in us is some marvelous
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that God said - You know what?
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I want to live there.
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And he moved inside us
and we are now the temple.
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We are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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You and I are walking sanctuaries. That's who we are.
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But John 1:12 tells us it took real power
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for this to come about.
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It says, as many as received
him to them, gave he power
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to become the sons of God.
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It took power to create this in us,
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and when you come to Ephesians 2,
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you discover why it took such power.
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We were a mess before the
grace of God touched us.
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It was going to take miraculous intervention for God
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to make a temple inside me and inside you.
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So open your Bible to Ephesians 2,
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and today we're gonna go right to verse 1.
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And when you come to this text,
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the apostle Paul in verse 1, verse 2
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and verse 3, describes what our condition was
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before God found us, before
the grace of God woke us up,
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and listen to what Paul says beginning in verse 1;
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And you hath he quickened who were dead
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in trespasses and sins,
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but I want you to notice if
you're reading from the King
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James version that the
words - hath he quickened
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are italicized.
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That means they were
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and they are not in the Greek text;
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the Greek text is much more abrupt.
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It says in you who were
dead in trespasses and sins.
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Paul is describing our spiritual state
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before the grace of God touched us. Wow! We were dead.
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You know, years ago when
I was first being trained
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for the ministry, the man
that I served asked me
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to conduct my first funeral.
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So I went ready to
conduct my first funeral
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and something happened that was amazing.
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It was an unsaved family burying an unsaved family member,
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and they were just swallowed up with grief.
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Well, when it came time for the family
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to walk past the casket, the
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of her son who was laying in the casket
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and she was so overwhelmed with grief that
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before we realized what
she had done, she crawled
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inside the casket.
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Have you ever seen that
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This was my first funeral.
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I was officiating
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and now I had a mother
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of her dead son
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and she was beating
his chest saying, speak
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to me, speak to me.
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Then she grabbed him by the shirt
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and she began to shake him saying, don't leave me like this.
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Speak to me, speak to me.
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But it didn't matter how
hard she beat his chest
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or how much she took him by the collar
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and shook his body, he was
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because he was dead.
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He did not have the ability to respond.
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His life had expired.
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It was nothing more than
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That is precisely the word which Paul now uses in Ephesians
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2:1 to describe us
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before the grace of God touched us. Paul says,
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and you we're dead in trespasses
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and sins; just like a corpse does not have the
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ability to respond,
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we were dead.
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We were not looking for God,
we were not thinking for God.
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In fact, if God had never pursued us,
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we would have never found God.
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This is why Jesus tells us in John 6:44,
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unless the spirit draws someone, they can never come to God.
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We're told in Ephesians 5:14, all
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of the lost are sleeping
the sleep of death
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until Christ begins to nudge them
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and wake them up; as dead people,
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we simply do not have the ability to find God on our own.
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That is precisely
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what the Bible tells us in Ephesians 2
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and verse 1: and you being dead - dead:
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the Greek word nekros;
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it is literally the word for a corpse.
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Spiritually we were corpses in trespasses
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and in sins.
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Then he goes on to verse 2,
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and in verse 2 Paul adds: wherein in time past you walked
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according to the course
of this world, according
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to the prince of the power
of the heir, the spirit
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that now worketh in the children of disobedience.
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But notice that the very first of verse 2, he says,
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wherein in time past. When you read this in the Greek,
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I would translate it like this:
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back then. It's like Paul's putting everything on pause
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and he's saying - let's think back to
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what we were like back then
when we were spiritually dead.
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I say that verse 2
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and verse 3 is nearly like Paul reaches into his wallet
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and pulls out an old photo
of what we used to look like
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before the grace of God touched us.
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And now he's reminding
all of us what we were
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and what we were like
and what we looked like
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before the grace of God
began to wake us up so
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that we could be saved;
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and listen to what he says - wherein in time passed
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or you could translate it - back then, you walked
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according to the course of this world.
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The words, according to, are a translation
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of the Greek word, kata.
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The word, kata, carries the idea of a dominating force,
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something that is coming down,
something that is dominating,
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something that is subjugating,
something that is controlling
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or even manipulating.
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It is a powerful force that dominates, subjugates, controls
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and even manipulates.
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And now we find that before
the grace of God touched us
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and we were saved, we walked
being dominated, subjugated,
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controlled, even manipulated by - Paul says - the course
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of this world. The word course is the Greek word kosmos.
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The word kosmos describes
something that is ordered
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or something that is arranged.
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This is why scientists
use this word kosmos
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to describe the universe
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because the universe is a place
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that has order and arrangement.
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But on a smaller level, this
word kosmos described anything
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with order or arrangement
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and it was used in the 1st Century when Paul was writing
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these verses to describe society
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because society has
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This word could even be
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or trends or adornments.
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That's how this word was used.
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and we were awakened to
an eternal perspective, we
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and all unsaved people back
then in those days back then
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he's describing what we used to be like.
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and controlled by the world around us.
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That is what this word, course
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We were impacted by the news.
We were impacted by education.
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Hollywood and theater
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and entertainment had
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of this world.
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The word world really
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because in Greek it is the word aionis.
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like a generation, like
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eternal perspective.
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by the age or the decade
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or by the whim of the times
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that they're living in at the very moment.
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because the whim of the times can change very easily
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whichever way the wind is blowing.
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before they're awakened by the grace of God, out
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of their sleep of death,
they simply live dominated,
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manipulated, and controlled
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what fashion says, by what the trend says
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by whatever this specific age
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and the whims of the times have to say.
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behind the scenes.
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the spirit that now worketh in the sons
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or the children of disobedience.
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to - again is a Greek word, kata.
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of domination: being dominated, manipulated, controlled
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by the prince of the power of the air.
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And here we find that working
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behind the scenes in the world, working
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behind the scenes in society,
there is a sinister force
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and Paul calls this
sinister force, the prince
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of the power of the air.
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Notice that here Paul
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and in Greek it has a definite article,
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which means he is the prince
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This word prince describes one
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that has jurisdiction
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The devil has authority
in the world system.
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He does not have authority
over the universe.
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He does not have authority over nature.
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He works through the world system,
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which Paul calls the kosmos.
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He works through people, he
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he works through entertainment.
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He works through the whim of the times.
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That's the jurisdiction
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through which Satan exercises his authority.
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they basically live dominated, manipulated,
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and controlled by the whim
of the times, by the spirit
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of the age and working
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behind the scenes is a
sinister force, the prince
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of the power of the air.
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now worketh in the children
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of disobedience.
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The word worketh, is a form of the Greek word, energeo.
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And here we find the devil is
empowering the world system
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and creating the whole world to be a place filled
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with children of disobedience.
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The word disobedience, the Greek word, apeitheias:
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from the word peitho, which means to persuade or to convince
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or to sway.
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they are no longer persuadable.
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They are no longer readable.
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Rather they are obstinate
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and they are rebellious.
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to create a world system
filled with people
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that are obstinate to the law of God
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and are rebellious to God
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and refuse to be led by the
principles of the Word of God.
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Then when you come to verse 3, he says,
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Among whom we all had our conversation in times past.
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This is so very important because there's always someone
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listening who says - Well, I might've been bad,
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but I was never that bad.
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So now Paul addresses that person
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and he says, Hmm, look at it again;
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Among whom also, we all had our conversation.
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In other words, we were all a part of that gang.
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We may not have realized how lost we were
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and how spiritually dead we were,
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but we were all a part of the same gang.
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That's precisely what he means in verse 3.
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In fact, he goes on to say - among whom also,
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we all had our conversation in times past. The word
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conversation, the Greek word
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anastrephe, which describes one's rising up,
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they're setting down, they're
going in, they're going out.
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It is a picture of their total lifestyle.
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They're rising up, they're sitting down, they're going in,
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they're going out.
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Their entire life was dominated
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by this very short term
perspective, the devil working
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behind the scenes, people
who were basically influenced
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by the whim of the times
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and the spirit of the age, not having any idea
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of eternal things because
they are dead in trespasses
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and sins. My friend,
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that is the condition of lost people
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and that is why it takes a miracle to bring them to Christ.
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And by the way, the Holy Spirit is willing
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and ready to perform
that miracle for anyone.
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He will give them ears to
hear, he will give them eyes
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to see that is the ministry
of the Holy Spirit.
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And that is why Jesus said in John 6:44,
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that no one can come except the Spirit draws him.
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It takes the work of the Holy Spirit to wake
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a sinner out of the sleep of death.
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Your salvation, my friend,
really is a miracle.
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It is a miracle. But wait, let's go on.
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It says - Among whom also,
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we all had our conversation
in time has passed in the lust
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of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh
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and of the mind and were by
nature the children of wrath,
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even as others.
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Even as others. Why does he add - even as others?
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Because somebody might say - Well, I know
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that there are some people who were bad,
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but I don't think I was that bad.
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Paul says, even as
others, we were all a part
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of the same gang.
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All of us had sin
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because of the sin of Adam,
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which was passed into the human nature.
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And the Bible says we were by
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That word nature, the Greek word, phusus.
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Let me give you an example of this word phusus,
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which here is translated
as the word nature.
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When I was a boy, my dad had an aquarium
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and he loved little fish
that were called guppies.
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And from time to time we would
see guppies be born in our
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aquarium - little fish.
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It's amazing. You know when those little guppies were born,
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no one had to give them swimming lessons,
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they just naturally swam.
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You know why? Because they were fish.
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And it is the nature of a fish to swim.
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You do not have to teach a fish to swim
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because it is their nature to swim.
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Now, Paul uses this very
same idea to describe us.
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No one had to teach us to be sinners.
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No one had to teach us to do wrong because were born in sin.
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It was our nature to sin.
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No one has to have sinning lessons
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because it is their nature to sin
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before the grace of God
touches them and changes them.
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And the Bible says we were
by nature the children
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of wrath even as others,
but then God intervened.
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Listen to verse 5;
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But God who is rich in mercy - Oh I can hardly wait
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to get back to this verse tomorrow -
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but God who is rich in mercy
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for his great love wherewith,
he at the loved us.
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listen to this in verse 5 -
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even when we were dead in sins has quickened us together
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with Christ and by grace you are saved.
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God miraculously touched us.
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The Bible tells us in Ephesians 5:14
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that Christ nudged us.
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He woke us up from our
state of spiritual death
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and quickened us together.
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He chose us and he gave us life. God did it all.
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And that is why Paul says, by grace are ye saved.
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My friend, from the beginning to the end, God did it all.
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He woke you up.
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He gave you the faith to believe, he gave you the ability
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to say yes.
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And we need to give him
a round of applause for
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what he has done in our life.
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And that's not all, he put in us a temple.
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He moved in us.
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We are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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We are a walking sanctuary.
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That's quite a change for people
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who were once spiritually dead.
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Now we are alive with Christ
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and God himself dwells in us.
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Wow, we're outta time, but
I'll be back in just a moment.
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I'm going to pray for you in tomorrow.
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We're gonna pick up right here,
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but join me for prayer in just a moment.
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Do you really know
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it says You are the temple
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of the Holy Spirit? My friend,
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wonderful word of God.
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And if you're a part of the Ministry Expansion Project
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Giving team, I want to say thank you.
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You've helped us to already finish 70%
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of this huge project and now 30% remains.
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And if you're not a part yet
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of the Ministry Expansion Project Giving team,
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I'm asking you to please join us.
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We wanna knock out this remaining 30% so
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that we can redirect all those
funds to take the teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the earth.
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This has been good today
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and tomorrow when we come back,
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we're gonna pick up right here.
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We're gonna continue in Ephesians 2
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to look at the miraculous
work that God did
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to turn us into the
temple of the Holy Spirit.
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Wow. Thank God for his grace in our lives.
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And I want you to have the whole series,
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which is called, You are the
Temple of the Holy Spirit,
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and it comes with a study guide.
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Please order these today. It's 10 parts.
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It comes in multiple formats.
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It will feed you and give
you a new understanding of
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who lives in you and what you have become.
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My friend. You really are
the temple of the Holy Spirit
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and we're offering you right now
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also my book called, A Life Ablaze:
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10 Simple Keys to Living on Fire for God.
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But Father, I thank you
for the supernatural work
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of the Holy Spirit to wake
us out of the sleep of death
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and to give us life.
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Lord, I thank you that we
are not who we used to be,
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but Lord, you have
changed us by your grace.
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You have given us the gift of salvation,
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and you have transformed us into the
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temple of the Holy Spirit.
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And now we are walking sanctuaries. Oh, thank you, Lord.
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Help us to honor your
presence in our lives.
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In Jesus' mighty name. Amen.
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Remember that if you need
prayer, we're here for you.
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Just write us or call us.
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We would love to pray with you
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and until tomorrow, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4,
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which says "Where the word of a king is, there's power."
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And I'll see you tomorrow.
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now; Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation.
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We would love to connect with you.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information
about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called Partners of Renner Ministries.