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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 inside the Resurrection of Christ Church
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in St.
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Petersburg, Russia.
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It's otherwise called the
Church on Spilled Blood.
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Why would it be called the
Church on Spilled Blood?
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I'll tell you; in 1881, Czar Alexander
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II was in his carriage en
route to the Winter Palace.
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And while he was en route
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a terrorist threw a bomb under
his carriage and it exploded
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and badly damaged the carriage.
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Three people were killed,
several were wounded,
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and the czar emerged from the carriage
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to see if he could help
those who had survived.
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When the terrorists saw that
the czar emerged unhurt,
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they threw another bomb which
exploded just below his feet
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and blew off his legs.
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He was quickly carried
to the Winter palace
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and within several hours
he was pronounced dead.
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His son, Alexander III, gave
an order for this church
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to be built on the place
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where his father's blood was spilled,
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and that's why it's called
Church on Spilled Blood
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by local people.
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But the real name of the cathedral is, Resurrection
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of Christ Church.
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And this place is simply remarkable.
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It was officially
consecrated in the year 1907
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and at the consecration,
it was attended by
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Emperor Nicholas II, his wife
Alexandra and their children.
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It was quite an event.
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It is covered with more than 300 mosaics
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of biblical characters,
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and the mosaics were created
in a local workshop in St.
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Petersburg. The floor is composed
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of 16 different kinds of marble
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and was created in Florence.
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This facility is simply amazing.
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When people come into this church,
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they usually lose their breath
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because they have never
seen so many mosaics.
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In fact, there are more than 71,000 square
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feet of mosaics in this place.
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They glisten, they shine
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and they tell the story
of the life of Jesus
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and the ministry of Jesus.
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It is simply remarkable.
It's a real temple.
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But hey, 1 Corinthians 6:19 says,
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We are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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You personally, me personally, each one
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of us we're designed by God to be the temple
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of the Holy Spirit.
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And when I look at a place like this
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and I see all the
ornamentation, the mosaics,
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the glistening interiors
of this place, as beautiful
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as it is, I know that our
spiritual interiors are even
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better than this
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because God made us to be the
temple for the Holy Spirit.
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And you and I carry the
presence of God within us.
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And if our eyes were open to
see our spiritual interiors,
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I think we would be quite amazed to see what God has placed
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inside 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 the program.
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I've been waiting for you
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and I wanna say thanks
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for letting me come right into your space. Today
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I want to talk to you
about you being the temple
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of the Holy Spirit.
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That's who you are.
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God has made you to be a walking sanctuary
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and he moved inside you.
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And you need to understand what that means
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and that's why I want you
to have my new series,
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which is called, You Are the
Temple of the Holy Spirit.
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It's 10 parts, it comes in
multiple formats: my friend,
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this is teaching that will
revolutionize your life
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and it comes with a wonderful study guide.
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The study guide is just
loaded with all the points,
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the principles.
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Everything in these programs
is also in this study guide.
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And you can get this at renner.org at our ministry
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website store.
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And please stay there and browse around
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and see all the different
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And right now we're also
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which is called, .
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This book is about the 10-important fuels you have to have
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to stay on fire for
Jesus all of your life.
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There are 10 key fuels you need
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to be injecting into
your spiritual flame so
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that you remain .
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And if you feel that somewhere
along the way you've lost
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your fire, you can regain it.
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You just need to know how.
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And that's why I want you to
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And again, you can get
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And please remember if you need prayer,
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You can call us or you
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with you for whatever it is that you're facing in your life
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And the moment you become a partner,
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Thrive and Overcome in the Midst of Difficult Situations.
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Wow! But today I want you to reach for your Bible -
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got my Bible - and let's go back to our anchor verse,
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which is 1 Corinthians 6:19.
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Paul is writing to the Corinthians and he is writing to me
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and he is writing to you
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and he says - What? know you not that your body
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is the temple
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of the Holy Ghost, which
is in you, which you have
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of God and that you're not your own.
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But notice he begins in this verse with the word - what
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which in Greek is an exclamation.
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It's almost the equivalent of saying - what is this?
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What do you mean? Know ye not
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that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost When he says,
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know you not. the Greek really means,
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have you not comprehended yet?
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Have you not yet gotten it?
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Do you not understand that your body:
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and the word body is the Greek word soma,
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which describes the physical body.
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He's talking about our physical bodies,
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which God miraculously
has transformed into the
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temple of the Holy Ghost.
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And the word temple is
the Greek word naos.
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Any Greek reader knew the word naos
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and Paul was writing to
Corinthians who were Greeks,
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they knew what this word meant.
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The word naos, here translated temple, describes a highly
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decorated shrine.
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For example: the city of Corinth had all kinds
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of pagan temples,
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and if you'd gone into any one
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of those temples you
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ornately decorated.
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They were highly decorated
shrines with gold and silver
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and precious stones and
all kinds of marbles.
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That is the word which Paul now uses here.
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And importantly,
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it is the same word used in
the Old Testament Septuagint
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to describe the innermost part
of the temple in Jerusalem
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or the Holy of Holies.
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And now Paul says,
what? Do you not get it?
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Have you not comprehended yet who you are?
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You have become the naos,
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the highly decorated
shrine of the Holy Ghost.
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If your eyes were opened
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and if you could see your spiritual interiors, you would see
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that inwardly you have
been lavishly decorated.
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You are ornamented with the power of God
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and the gifts of the spirit
and the fruit of the Spirit
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and the character of God
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and the blood of Jesus,
all of the character of God
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and the power of God is in you
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and spiritually you are a
highly decorated shrine.
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You are a walking sanctuary.
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That is what he says to the Corinthians
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and he says, haven't gotten it yet.
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Do you not understand
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The word in in Greek really means - en: it locates the place
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of God's greatest treasure.
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It is inside us, which he says, which you have
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of God.
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The word of, in Greek is the word, apo.
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It means directly coming from God,
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which means this is not the result
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of our personal rehabilitation
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this is what we have of God - apo,
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this came directly from God.
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This is a result of God's divine work of grace in our life.
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It is something we could have never done by ourself
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because Ephesians 2:1 says,
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before the grace of God touched us,
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we were spiritually dead.
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We were spiritually dead.
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That Ephesians 2:5 says, God loved us so much
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that even when we were dead in trespasses
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and sins, he quickened us.
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He chose us and filled us with life.
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And that's why Paul adds
by grace are you saved not
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of works lest any man should boast - had
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nothing to do with us.
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God was the initiator. God
was the one who did it all.
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All we had to do was wake up
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and say, Yes Lord, please
do this in our life.
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And Ephesians 2:10 says, in that moment,
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we became the workmanship of God
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or we became God's masterpiece.
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The Holy Spirit moved inside us
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and we became the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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That's who I am and that's who you are.
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But wait - today, we're going to go
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to 2 Corinthians 5:17,
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a familiar verse which 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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old things are passed away;
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behold, all things are become new.
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But notice he says, if
any man be in Christ,
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he is a new creature.
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What does that mean when the
Bible says a new creature?
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Well, the word new is the Greek word, kindness.
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Listen to this. The word kindness describes something brand
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new, brand spanking new:
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something recently made, not something that's been repaired,
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not something that's been fixed, not something
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that's been enhanced,
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but something that is brand spanking new,
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never existing before.
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And this word new, translated from the Greek word kinos,
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also carries the idea of something that is superior,
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superior. So when the Bible says we are a new creature,
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we're not fixed, we're not repaired,
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we're not even an enhanced version of what we used to be;
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we've not been through some kind
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of a rehabilitation process.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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We've already seen from Ephesians 2:
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3 that
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before the grace of God touched us,
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we were the children of wrath.
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That word wrath is a Greek word, orge.
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It describes something so
warped, so twisted, so bent
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that it doesn't even deserve to exist.
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It can't be fixed, it has
to simply be destroyed
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and done away with.
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But the grace of God touched us
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and when the grace of
God touched us, the grace
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of God didn't enhance us,
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it didn't improve us, it didn't repair us,
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it didn't even restore us.
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It made us kinos.
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that never existed
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before, something that is absolutely superior,
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and when we're baptized,
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My friend, there was nothing in the old man worth salvaging.
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We were raised to newness of life.
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I am not an improved version of my old self
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This verse says, kinos - we are brand spanking new.
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you got a brand new start.
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Everything started all over again.
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and you are superior
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Wow, that is so powerful.
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But wait, this verse says,
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of something from nothing.
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God didn't start with
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with something brand new.
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not refashioned with old materials,
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but brand spanking new, never existing
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before, not enhanced, not
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not restored,
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but something newly created,
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original brand spanking new.
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as being a new creature.
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is the very word used
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to describe God's creation of the world.
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In the beginning of time when
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he created the universe out of nothing.
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He did not improve it
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he made something brand spanking new.
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what happened to you
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and what happened to me
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the day that Jesus came into our life,
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everything about us is brand new.
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My friends, Jesus power made you all over again.
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You're brand spanking new.
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You're not an amended,
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corrected version of who you used to be,
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you are a new creature in Christ Jesus.
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old things in Greek is the word, archaios.
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that is primitive, something
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that is passed away,
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The old you is gone.
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The word passed away in Greek means
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to pass into the past permanently,
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to be rendered void, to be disregarded,
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no longer applicable.
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The old you is not who you are today,
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the old you has been rendered void.
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It is gone
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and behold all things have become new.
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The word behold in Greek is the word idou.
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the Greek word idou, it is the feeling
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of the writer being injected into the text.
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amazement, a state of wonder.
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It's almost as if Paul says -
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He is literally raptured by what he is saying.
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Behold, isn't it amazing
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that all things have become new.
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to suddenly become: which means this is not even a process.
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You are the temple of the Holy Ghost, which you have in you,
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which you have of God.
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The word of, the Greek word apo: this is something
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that came from God.
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This is the work of God in your life.
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It is not the process of rehabilitation.
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There was nothing to rehabilitate.
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This verse says all things have become, again the Greek word
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become, a form of the Greek word genomai,
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to instantly suddenly become
a transitioning from one thing
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to something brand new.
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again, all things have become, kinos, new,
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which again means something brand spanking, new:
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recently made, not fixed, not repaired, but brand new.
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that is absolutely superior.
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You are a superior form: nothing to be compared
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with what you used to be.
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That old man is outdated,
archaic, primitive, obsolete,
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no longer applicable.
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And now you are something brand new.
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You are material that never existed before.
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That is what the word - new - means
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in this verse. My friends,
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you really are brand spanking new.
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Do you see how important it is for you
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to understand the work of God's grace in your life?
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And this is something you could not have done.
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You cannot rehabilitate yourself into
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what I'm describing.
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This has to be something
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This is a divine work of God
to raise you from the dead
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to quicken you together with Christ
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and to make you a divine masterpiece.
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Salvation is amazing.
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But wait: verse 18 goes on to say,
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And all things are of God who have reconciled this
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to himself by Jesus Christ
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and have given to us the ministry of reconciliation.
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The word reconciled, again does not refer to rehabilitation.
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In fact, it is a Greek word for transformation
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and it pictures a total transformation from the top all the
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way to the bottom, which
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outside, from the top to the bottom,
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you have been totally transformed - totally -
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and all things are of God who have transformed us to himself
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by Jesus Christ
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and has given to us the ministry of
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reconciliation.
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The word given, in Greek is a form of the Greek word didomi,
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which means to give into
one's care, to entrust
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or to commit, which means
God has now entrusted to me
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and to you the responsibility
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to share about God's transforming power with others.
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He's given to us the ministry of reconciliation.
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Reconciliation, again is the word for transformation:
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not the ministry of improvement, enhancement,
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rehabilitation, but transformation.
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The new birth brings total transformation.
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Old things are passed away again,
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my dear friend, there was
nothing in the old you worth
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rehabilitating.
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You were a child of wrath, bent, warped, worthy
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of destruction, just doing away with.
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So God intervened
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and said, I'm gonna make 'em all over again.
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And that's what happened
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when you were placed in Christ,
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you became a brand new creature: totally transformed
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inside to outside from
the top to the bottom.
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of reconciliation or the ministry of transformation.
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Look at verse 19: to wit that God was in Christ,
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reconciling the world unto himself,
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not imputing their trespasses unto them
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and half committed unto us.
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Here we have it again.
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God has committed to us. This word commit means he's
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put it into place.
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He's established.
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It's something he has permanently given to me.
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He's given it to you. And what is it?
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The word of reconciliation. The word in Greek is ton logon.
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It is the message of reconciliation
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or a better translation would be the message
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of total transformation.
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When we preach the gospel
to the unsaved, we need
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to make sure they understand
what we're offering them.
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This is not rehabilitation,
this is not enhancement,
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this is not improvement.
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It's not even being repaired.
It's a brand new beginning.
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When the grace of God
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and the blood of Jesus touches
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it passes away
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and we become brand spanking new people, superior
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over what we used to be.
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All of that is in these verses in 2 Corinthians
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5:17-19.
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But it takes me back to 1 Corinthians 6:
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19, where Paul says, What? Do you not know?
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Have you not comprehended
yet that you are the temple
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of the Holy Spirit, which is in you,
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which is of God?
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It came from God. It is a
result of God's work in us.
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And now we have in us the naos,
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the highly decorated shrine of the Holy Ghost.
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If we could see our spiritual interior, we would be stunned
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to see how lavishly God has inwardly adorned us
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so magnificently that God said - I like that.
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In fact, I want to live there.
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And we became the sanctuary
of God, a walking cathedral,
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the Holy of Holies where God lives in us
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by His spirit. My friend,
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we really are the temple of the Holy Spirit,
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brand new creatures in Christ Jesus.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I want to pray for you.
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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 place for the spirit of God
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and that is amazing
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what the Bible means when it declares
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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner
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and today I'm seated in the
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And this is the room where
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to discuss various
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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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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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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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If this program has
been a blessing to you,
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would you please let me know?
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Either go on social media
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or send me an email or give us a call.
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I would love to hear about the impact
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of this teaching in your life.
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And I want you to really understand you are not an improved
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version of what you used to be.
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The old passed away,
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all things became brand spanking new.
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My friends, you are much more
superior than the old you
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because the grace of God touched you
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and turned you into a walking sanctuary.
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You have become the temple of the Holy Spirit,
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and I want you to have my whole series called, You are the
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Temple of the Holy Spirit.
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Really get this teaching
down into your heart
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and get a revelation of
who God has made you to be.
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And it comes with a marvelous study guide.
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And we're also offering you my book right now called, A
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Life Ablaze.
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It deals with the 10 essential fuels you have
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to put into your spiritual fire for you
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to remain, A Life Ablaze.
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And I know that you want to be A Life Ablaze.
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So order your copy today
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and remember that if you need prayer,
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we are Rick Renner Ministries
are waiting to hear from you.
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You can call us or you
can send us your email.
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The moment we hear from you, we're going
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to really put our faith together with you for whatever it is
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that's touching your life today.
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We believe that God answers prayer
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and we will pray with you.
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But I wanna pray for you right now.
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Father, I thank you the Lord,
you didn't just enhance us
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or try to rehabilitate us, Lord,
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there was really nothing
worth rehabilitating.
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So you just started all over
with brand new materials.
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You made us brand spanking new in Christ,
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old things passed away,
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and you miraculously transformed us
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to become the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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And we thank you for that. In Jesus' name.
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Amen. Wow, I can hardly
wait to get back tomorrow.
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But until then, remember Ecclesiastes 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
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possible by the giving of
the God called partners
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of Renner Ministries.