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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.
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Petersburg, Russia: a magnificent cathedral which served
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as the central cathedral
for the Russian Empire
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for nearly half a century.
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And behind me is the central
altar of this cathedral.
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And you can see the marvelous
lapis, the malachite.
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And by the way, the malachite is a mosaic.
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Malachite does not come in big pieces.
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The artist took little pieces
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and put them together to form grains so
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that it looks like solid
pieces of malachite.
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But actually there are 16 tons
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of malachite used in the
decorations of this altar
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and 1100 pounds
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of deep blue lapis,
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which was brought all
the way from Afghanistan.
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In this cathedral, there are 62 mosaics,
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155 paintings,
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more than 300,000 tons of materials,
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20 different kinds
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of precious marbles
from all over the world.
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It is simply remarkable,
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but as beautiful as it is,
it pales in comparison to
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what God did inside me
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and what God did inside
you when we gave our lives
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to Jesus Christ.
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The apostle Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:17
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that he made us to be new creatures.
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That word new is really important.
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It means when we got
saved, he didn't fix us.
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He didn't improve us, he
didn't repair us. No, no, no.
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We're not just a better
version of who we used to be.
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We're brand new. We're not
who we used to be at all.
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God put forth his full power
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to marvelously create us.
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We are God's masterpiece.
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I'm a masterpiece. You are a masterpiece.
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Each of us are uniquely
made by the power of God.
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Again, not a fixed version
of who we used to be,
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not improved, not corrected, not enhanced.
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We are brand new creatures in Christ.
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Wow!! That is what I want 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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Thank you for joining
me for today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and as I told you in
the introduction today,
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I'm gonna be teaching you
about you being the temple
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of the Holy Spirit. My friend,
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you are the habitation of God by his spirit.
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That is what the Bible teaches.
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You are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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Or I like to say you
are a walking sanctuary.
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This teaching is so rich and
I want you to really grab it
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and understand it.
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And that's why I want you
to order the whole series,
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which is called, You are the
Temple of the Holy Spirit.
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It's 10 parts.
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It comes in multiple formats,
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and we really walk through all
the New Testament scriptures
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about what a miraculous work God did
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inside you when you got saved.
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In fact, what God did in you
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and what God did in me was so marvelous.
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God said, you know what? That's so good.
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I want to live in there.
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And he moved inside us
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and we became the temple
of the Holy Spirit - friend -
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that's a miracle. What a miracle.
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And you need to really understand it.
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But hey, reach for your Bible.
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And today I want you to open your Bible
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to 1 Corinthians 6 -
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1 Corinthians 6.
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And today I'm gonna talk to
you about the power of God
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that created you all over again
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and made you to be a
temple of the Holy Spirit.
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It took real power for God
to do this work inside you.
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We've already seen in the two
previous programs you were
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quite a mess when the
grace of God found you,
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but you were God's special project
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and he turned you into a masterpiece.
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And today we're going to
see what he turned you into.
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So I want you to open your Bible
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to 1 Corinthians 6,
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and we're going to begin in verse 19.
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Paul is speaking to the Corinthians
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and he says - What? No ye not that your body is the temple
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of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which you have of God
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and you're not your own.
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But notice how he begins in
this verse; in the King James
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version, it begins with the word - what.
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In Greek, it is an exclamation -
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What? Have you not gotten it yet?
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Do you not know that
your body is the temple
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of the Holy Ghost?
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And when Paul uses the word, know, it is a form
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of the Greek word oida, which means to comprehend
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or to perceive. The word, not, is the emphatic form
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of the word know.
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Do you not comprehend?
Have you not gotten it yet?
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Do you not understand - what is this?
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How could you possibly not
understand that your body
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is the temple of the Holy Ghost?
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The word body, is the Greek word, soma.
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It is the word for the physical body.
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And Paul now says to the
Corinthians, and he says to me
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and to you, do you get it?
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Do you understand? Have
you comprehended yet
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that your physical body is
the temple of the Holy Spirit?
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This word, temple, is the Greek word, naos.
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I'm gonna read you directly from my notes.
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The word, naos, is the Greek word for a temple
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or a highly decorated shrine.
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Any Greek reader would've understood that
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because Greek cities had a lot of temples
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and they were very highly decorated shrine.
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They all knew what a temple was or a naos.
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It is the image of vaulted
ceilings, marble, granite,
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gold, silver, highly
decorated ornamentation.
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And it is the same word used in the Old Testament Septuagint
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to describe the most sacred innermost part
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of a temple like the Holy of Holies.
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And now that is the word
that Paul uses to describe
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what God has fashioned inside me
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and what God has fashioned inside you.
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If you remember, we began as people
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that were spiritually dead.
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But God, by his grace aroused us.
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He quickened us together with Christ.
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He chose us, put his spirit into us,
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turned us into our masterpiece
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and created inside us a temple; a dwelling place
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so magnificent that God said, I'm going to live there.
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I'm going to move inside them.
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And our physical body literally is naos.
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It's a shrine. It's the dwelling place.
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The holy of is right here.
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God lives inside me and
God lives inside you.
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If your eyes could be open
to see what is inside you,
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my friend, you would be flabbergasted.
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You are the temple of the Holy Ghost.
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And in fact, Paul goes on in verse 19
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and says, which is in you.
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The word in, literally means in you right here, right here.
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You know when I was a boy, we
used to design treasure maps
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and we would play like we were pirates
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looking for a treasure.
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And of course on our maps
we always put a big ax
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and the axes where you
dug for buried treasure.
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Well, in our case, X marks the spot
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and X is right here, right here, right
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inside here is treasure.
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We are the temple of the Holy
Ghost, which we have in us.
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That is what Paul says.
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Then he continues to say,
which you have of God
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and you are not your own.
Which you have is a form
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of the Greek word echo, which means to hold, to have
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to possess.
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And Paul here describes us like divine containers.
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That's what our human body has become,
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once we're placed in Christ
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and we're made brands spanking
new, we became a container.
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Our body is literally the dwelling place.
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It is the temple, it is the Holy of Holies.
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And God, by his spirit has moved inside me
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and he has moved inside
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you - say Amen.
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But hey, 2 Corinthians 5:17 says,
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Therefore, if any man be in Christ,
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he is a new creature.
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You are new, brand spanking new. Old things are passed away
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behold all things are become new.
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But a powerful verse to describe
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what God did in us is John 1:12,
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and I want you to see it with me.
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So turn in your Bible to the Gospel of John 1:
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12, a verse that you have probably heard many times,
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but listen to what it says.
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But as many as received him to them gave he the power
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to become the sons of God, even to them
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that believe on his name.
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And notice how the verse begins, it says -
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but as many. In Greek it says - as many as,
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as great as, as much as.
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And it describes an unlimited number,
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which means God has thrown
open the door to anyone
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who will believe; the door is wide open.
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God is beckoning everyone into his family
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and to as many as received him.
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What does that mean - received?
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Well, it is a form of the Greek word lambano, which means
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to seize or to lay hold of something in order
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to make it your very
own, almost like a person
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who reaches out to grab hold
of something to capture it
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or to take possession of something.
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In some cases, this word, lambano, which hear translated
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as the word received, it means to violently lay hold
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of something in order to seize it
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and to take it as your very own.
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At other times it means to graciously receive something
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that has been freely and easily given.
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And all of this is
important in this context
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because God offers us
the gift of salvation,
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but we have to take it.
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We have to seize it; by faith we have to receive it.
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God freely, easily gives it,
but it has to be received.
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And now this verse says,
as many as received him.
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Jesus just wants to be received. As many
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as received him and to all who will take him -
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that's really what it means - to them gave he the power
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to become the sons of God.
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And when the Bible says - to them,
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gave. The word, gave, is a form of the Greek word didomi:
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which means to give, to bestow as a gift,
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to give to the one that is asking, to supply,
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to amply furnish, to give into one's care,
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to entrust, to commit.
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He commits to us, he
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He supplies to us the power we need
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to become the sons of God.
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Do you know why He gives us the power
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to become the sons of God?
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Because on our own we
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to become a son of God.
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This requires a miraculous work.
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This is what we have seen in the two previous programs. We
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saw in the 1st program, we were spiritually dead.
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We could not save ourself.
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We saw in the 2nd program
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that salvation is the gift of God.
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God initiates it. God
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We are a masterpiece because
of the riches of God's grace.
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we find the only way we can
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because God himself supplies amply
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to us the power we need
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It takes power to become a son of God.
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The word power is a form of the Greek word, exousias,
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which means delegated authority.
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God delegates to us the
power which causes us
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to become a son of God.
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And the word, become, is a form of the Greek word, ginomai,
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which means - to suddenly become, which means in one moment
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one moment, you become a child of God.
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The moment you receive him,
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he gives you the power, the ability
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to immediately become a son of God.
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This word, become, the Greek word,
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ginomai, also means to transition from one thing to
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you, transition from
being spiritually dead
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to instantly becoming spiritually alive.
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My friend, your salvation
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But wait, the verse goes on to say - He gave them the power
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to become the sons of God,
even to them that be believe
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on his name.
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The word believe, is the Greek word pisteuo, which means
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to persuade, to trust, to believe.
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it describes a persuasion from God
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that imparts to an
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or divine spark
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to believe. God even gives you the ability to believe.
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If God did not give you the ability to believe,
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you would not be able to believe. God even gives the ability
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to believe - to you.
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Do you see what a work of grace is your salvation?
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But it says even to them
that believe - on - his name.
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The word on, in Greek is the word, eis,
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which really is the word, into. It carries the
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idea of a merger.
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It's you entering into union with the name
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of Jesus himself. The word name, here the Greek word,
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which does in fact mean name,
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but it denotes a person's
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And here we find that when
you release your faith,
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you enter into a union
with a very character
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of Jesus himself.
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You and Jesus become one.
A merger takes place.
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That really is what this means.
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Oh, salvation is such a miracle
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and you could never be saved on your own.
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God has got to grace you.
He nudges you by his spirit.
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We know that from Ephesians 5:
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14 which says, we are spiritually dead,
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but God by his spirit shines on us.
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He nudges us. He arouses us
from our spiritual death.
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The Holy Spirit draws us. God
gives us the faith to believe.
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Do you see why the Bible says
that our salvation is the gift
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of God, not of works lest
any man should boast.
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But wait. When you come to John 1:13, it goes on to say,
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which were born not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh,
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nor of the will of man, but of God.
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We are born of God.
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I'm born of God. My friend,
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you are born of God.
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You should just say - I am born
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of God.
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This verse says, God gave to you the power, exousias:
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the authority, the delegated right
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to become a son of God.
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At the very moment you received him by faith,
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he imparted to you the ability which caused you
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to instantly become transitioning from what you used
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to be instantly into a son of God.
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That is what the Bible teaches in this verse.
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Well, in 2 Corinthians 4:4 - listen
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to what Paul writes.
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Listen to this. He's writing about unbelievers
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and this is how he describes them.
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And of course there was a time
when this described you - not
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anymore - but this was you
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before it describes others
that you know that have not
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yet come to Christ
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and listen to what Paul says: In whom the God
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of this world has blinded the minds
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of them which believe not lest the light
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of the glorious gospel of
Christ who is the image
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of God should shine unto them.
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This verse tells us what
a miracle salvation is
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because the word blinded in whom the God
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of this world has
blinded the minds of them
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that believe not the word blinded
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does not just depict one that is blind.
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Listen to this - It depicts a person who is unable to see
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because he has been blinded by someone.
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His eyes have been removed so that he doesn't even have eyes
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to see.
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He doesn't even have eyes to see, which explains why
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you can share the gospel with an unsaved person
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and it just seems they can't
see what you are saying.
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They don't have eyes to see.
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The Holy Spirit himself has to
give that person eyes to see
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because Satan has blinded them.
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He's removed their eyes,
they are spiritually dead.
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They don't have the ability to see
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the Holy Spirit gives them eyes to see.
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And you know when he gives them those eyes
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when the gospel is spoken
to them miraculously,
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the Holy Spirit begins to
create eyes in the minds
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of unbelievers for them
to hear, for them to see,
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for them to understand.
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But if they never hear,
they'll never have eyes to see
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and to understand, that's why
you need to share the gospel.
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The sharing of the gospel,
the sharing of the light
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of the gospel of Christ is
what creates eyes in the minds
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of unbelievers so they can
see and so they can believe.
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Do you see what a miracle salvation it is
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and what a great level of
power is required for a person
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to become a child of God?
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And once you become a child of God,
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1 Corinthians 6:19 says, What?
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Know you not that your body is the temple
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of the Holy Ghost.
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You become a walking sanctuary.
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God gives you eyes to see, to understand.
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God gives you the faith to believe; God graces you
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with the riches of his grace,
his benevolence enabling you
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to believe. He quickens you together with Christ,
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gives you new life
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and then creates inside
you a place so magnificent
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that he moves inside
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and you become the
temple of the Holy Ghost.
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All of that happened the
day that you got saved.
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My friends, your salvation really is a miracle that required
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great, great power.
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We're outta time, but I'll
be back in just a moment
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and I want to pray for you.
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Someone has asked the
question, why do Christians go
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through spiritual deserts?
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Well, I've been through
a few of them myself,
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and it just seems that those
are times when your spiritual
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life feels dry.
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But in those moments in
my life, I've hit my knees
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and I've opened my Bible
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and I begin to seek the face of God
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to pour heavenly showers out on my life.
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And rather than say, Ugh,
it's just so spiritually dry
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and I don't feel anything right now, turn
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that into a moment when you
begin to seek the face of God
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and my friends, God will respond to you.
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Jeremiah 33:3 promises that if you call out
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to God in faith, he'll
hear you, he'll answer you
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and he'll show you
great and mighty things.
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And if you feel like you're
in a spiritually dry place,
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hit your knees, begin
to seek the face of God,
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open your Bible, dive in deep
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and ask God to pour a heavenly
shower out on your life
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and you will begin to blossom again.
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Do you really know
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what the Bible means when it says - You are the temple
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of the Holy Spirit. My friend,
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you really are the dwelling
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and that is amazing
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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner
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and today I'm seated in the
meeting room in the Tulsa
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headquarters building.
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And this is the room where
we have multiple meetings
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to discuss various
aspects of the ministry.
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And every week I join
them long distance online
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as we discuss the word of God, pray for you.
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We hear testimonies from viewers that have written into us.
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And then the whole team watches whatever's being broadcast
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that particular day on TV
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so they will be aware of
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what you are watching when you tune in
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and not just you people around the world.
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I just wish I could show
you the list of people
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that are calling from
the nations of the earth
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because they're so hungry
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for the teaching of the word of God.
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That's why we have the
great commission on the
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back wall of this room.
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We want our team to always
remember we're doing our part
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to fulfill the great commission.
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Also, Proverbs 10:21 says, The lips
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of the righteous feed many.
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And that's our job to feed many people the
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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 I want to say thank you
for everything you've done
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and we need to keep it
up till we finish it.
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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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My friend, I have had such
a good time today sharing
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with you from John 1:12.
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And when we come back
tomorrow, we're going to see
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that when you got saved,
what God did inside you was
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so magnificent that God
sealed you with his seal
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of approval.
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You're going to want to give God a round
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of applause when you
hear tomorrow's program.
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But hey, I want you to
order the whole series,
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which is called, You are the Temple
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of the Holy Spirit. My friend,
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you are; you're not who you used to be
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you become something new.
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You are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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God has moved in you,
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and you need to know
what that really means.
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And you need to understand
what work God did
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to turn you into a walking sanctuary.
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So please order your series today
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and it comes with a study guide.
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And we're also offering you my book,
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which is called, A Life Ablaze.
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The back of the book says - You can keep your fire burning
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and you can, you just need to know how.
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And that's why I want
you to have this book.
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And I wanna say thank you to
each of you that are partners
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with our ministry.
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And if you're not a partner,
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please pray about becoming a partner
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with our ministry today.
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You can do that by going
online or calling right now.
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And remember that if you need
prayer, we're here for you
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and we want to pray for you.
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But Father, I thank you
in the name of Jesus
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that you gave us the power
to become the sons of God.
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Help us to embrace it and to enjoy it,
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in Jesus' name, Amen. Amen.
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I'll see you tomorrow,
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but until then, remember Ecclesiastes is 8:4,
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"Where the word of a king is there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now; Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen. This program was made possible
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by the giving of the God called Partners
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of Renner Ministries.