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of the God called partners
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Hey friends, my name is Rick Renner
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and I've been waiting for you.
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I can nearly see you sitting right there.
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And I want to say thank you
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for letting me come right into your space.
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And today, together we're
gonna begin studying the
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partnership of the Holy Spirit
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and how to plan for today,
tomorrow, and for the future.
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So many people have
questions about the future,
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what's coming down the pike,
what's going to happen next?
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How do we plan for the
future in this crazy world?
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Well, when you have a partnership with the Holy Spirit,
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he's the one that knows
everything about the future,
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and he'll show you how to plan
today, how to plan tomorrow,
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how to be prepared for the future.
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And that's why I want you
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It's 5-parts. It comes in multiple formats.
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And dear friend, this
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with a revelation that
will change your life.
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Today's program,
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we're gonna be covering
two reasons why prayer
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is not answered.
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But when you partner with the
Holy Spirit, he'll show you
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how to pray so that your
prayers are answered.
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We need to partner with the Holy Spirit.
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And the study guide has all
the points and the principles
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and the Greek words.
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Everything in this series
is in the study guide so
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that you can read it while you
see it or while you hear it.
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And because I'm teaching on the ministry of the Holy Spirit,
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I also want to encourage
you to get my book,
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which is called the Holy Spirit and You: Working Together
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as Heavens Dynamic Duo.
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God wants you and the Holy
Spirit to be the dynamic duo.
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The Holy Spirit was sent into
this world to be your partner.
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And if you learn how to partner with him, he'll walk you
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through life and give you
all the power you need
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to achieve every victory.
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This book is so good, it's real hands on,
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it's very practical.
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It will walk you right into a dynamic
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relationship with the Holy Spirit.
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And please remember that if
you need prayer, we're waiting
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for the phone to ring right now.
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Jesus said, if you ask anything in my name, I will do it,
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that my father will be glorified.
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And if you'll let us know
how to pray, we will begin
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to intelligently with faith, pray for God
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to move in your life and he will.
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we're gonna release our faith
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I'll be back in just a moment.
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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
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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I'm so thankful that you've let me come
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right into your space.
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And today we're gonna look
at a really important text
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that many Bible teachers
don't like to touch
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because they don't know
what to do with it,
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but it's in the Bible
and it's very important.
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So we're going to look at it
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and today you're gonna find
out why some things may not be
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working out for you.
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But let's go to James 4
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and beginning verse 1, where Pastor James says
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to his readers: From whence come wars
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and fighting among you, they had wars
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and fighting taking place among them.
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He says, come they not
hints even of your lusts
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that war in your members.
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Then he says in verse 2: You
lust and have not, you kill
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and desire to have.
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They had desire,
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but they were going about
to reach the fulfillment
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of their desire in the wrong way.
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They were going about it wrong.
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He says, you lust and have not: you kill and desire to have
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and cannot obtain: you fight and war
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yet you have not because you ask not.
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And then he says in verse 3 - You ask and receive not
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because you ask amiss
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that you may consume it upon your lusts.
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But let's go back to chapter 1 just for a moment
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to verse 1: chapter 1:1, where we find out
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what is happening to this
particular group of believers
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that James is writing to.
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And in James 1:1, he says -
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James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ
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and notice who he's writing to -
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to the 12 tribes which are scattered abroad.
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Those words scattered
abroad are the foundation
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to the entire book of James
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because these words, scattered abroad,
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describe what has happened to
his audience, to his readers.
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The word, scattered abroad, is a Greek word, diaspora.
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And the word, diaspora, was a very specific word used
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to describe the planting of seed.
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Well, there are two ways to plant seed.
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First you could take one
seed and plant one seed
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after another seed in a
nice need orderly row.
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That was one method of planting seed.
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And then there was the 2nd method which
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was called diaspora.
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The very word which is used in James 1:1
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translated scattered abroad.
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And if you planted seed
in this way, it may,
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you took a whole satchel of seed,
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you just reached your
hand into the satchel,
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grabbed a whole handful
of it, and with no rhyme
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or reason, you just begin to
throw it all over the field,
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let it fall where it may.
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That is the word which is used in James 1:1,
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where James describes what
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They have been scattered abroad due
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to persecution.
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They've lost their homes,
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they've been uprooted from their families, from their lands.
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They've lost their jobs,
they've lost their finances,
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and they have been scattered
all over the eastern lands
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of the Mediterranean sea.
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And they're really, really
struggling in their lives.
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Now when you come to James 4,
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you find these struggling
believers are slugging it out.
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They're fighting to regain
what they have lost,
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but they're going about it wrong.
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And my friends, you may have right desire,
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but if you go about it wrong,
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it's not gonna work out for you very well.
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And that's what we find in James 4,
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beginning in verse 1.
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So go back there, James 4:1,
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and very slowly we're going
to go through these verses.
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Let's read again - James 4:1;
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From whence come wars
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and fighting among you? Come they not hence
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even of your lust that war in your members. Verse 2:
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You lust yet you have not.
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You kill and desire to
have and cannot obtain.
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You fight and you war, yet you have not
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because you ask a not.
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Verse 3: You finally ask and receive not - why?
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Because you ask amiss, which
means your motivation is very,
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very important in the eyes of God.
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And here James says,
you ask and receive not
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because you ask a miss that
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you may consume it upon your lusts.
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These verses are so very important,
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especially if it seems things
are not working out well
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for you right now.
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There may be an answer here
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for why things are not working out.
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Let me ask you first, have you prayed
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about what you're doing?
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God wants to restore to you everything
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that's been lost, say amen.
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He wants to restore your finances.
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He wants to restore your health.
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He wants to restore your
relationships, your marriage.
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God is in the business of restoration,
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but my friends going about it
the wrong way creates havoc.
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And that's what you find in these verses.
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They hadn't even prayed.
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They were just going about
to re-get what they lost.
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And that's what we read beginning in James 4:
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1, From whence come wars in fighting among you.
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Do you know why they
had wars and fighting?
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Because some people were being
blessed and others were not.
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Some people were re
getting what they had lost
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and others were not.
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And rather than rejoice with them
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that were getting victories
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and those who were receiving, it made those
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who were not getting victories
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and those who were not receiving, angry
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and as a result, wars
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and fighting was beginning
to occur among them.
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Among them, in Greek is en humin: it right in their midst.
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And James says, from whence. In Greek it is the word pothen:
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it means from where, from
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what place is coming all these wars
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and fighting, these wranglings in the midst of you.
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And the word wars, is the Greek word, polemos,
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which is a terrible word
that describes a full scale,
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strategically fought war that has continued
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with unrelenting force.
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It is an intently fought skirmish.
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They were fighting it out in the church.
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Why did you receive and I didn't receive.
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And they were going about
to establish themselves
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and retake what they had lost,
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but they hadn't involved
God in the project.
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He goes on to say - they have fighting among them.
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The word fighting, is the Greek word, machomai.
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This word machomai means to quarrel, to dispute, to argue,
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to get into strife
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and to get into contention with someone else.
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It is the very word, which
means to engage in battle.
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It was used to depict armed combatants
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who exchanged blows with deadly weapons.
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That tells you how bad the
strife was in the church.
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It came to denote men who
fought hand to hand striking,
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punching, wrangling, rolling on the ground
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as they slugged it out with each other.
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It pictures people that
are odds with each other
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or bickering, squabbling
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and slugging it out, not
with swords or fists,
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but with words.
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This is a war of words
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as they're fighting with each other,
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they do not have the ability to rejoice
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as somebody else has been blessed
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when they have not been blessed yet
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and they're just slugging
it out in the church.
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This is low level carnal behavior.
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And then James goes on
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and says in verse 1: From whence come these wars, fighting
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in the midst of you? Come they not hence even
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of your own lusts?
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And when it says noT hence,
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the Greek actually means they
emphatically originate out
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of your own lusts.
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And the word lust, here is a pretty bad word.
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It's the Greek word hedone. The word hedone,
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pictures an obsession with getting
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what you want.
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It is an obsession. They were obsessed.
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I've gotta get my stuff back.
I've gotta get my house back.
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I've gotta get my money back.
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Going about to establish
it all by them self
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and failing to rejoice with
others who were being blessed
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because all they could see is
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that they hadn't been blessed yet.
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And that's why he goes on
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and says - even of your lust that war in your members.
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And the word war, here is the Greek word strateuomai.
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It describes a full scale war.
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They were slugging it out in the church
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because some were doing well
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and some were doing bad,
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some were being blessed, some were not.
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Wow. But it reminds me of 1 Peter 2:
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11, where Peter writes
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and he says these words: Dearly beloved,
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I beseech you. The word beseech you, in Greek parakaleo:
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I beg you, I plead with you.
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It's him dropping to his knees, parakaleo:
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he's appealing to his readers; dearly beloved,
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I beseech you, I'm praying you.
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I'm begging you as strangers
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and pilgrims who are just passing through,
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abstain from fleshly lust
that war against the soul.
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Fleshly lust wage war against the soul.
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He says - abstain from them.
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The word abstain, is a Greek word apecho. from the word apo.
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And the word echo, the word apo means away.
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It carries the idea of distance.
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The word echo means to have or to hold.
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When you put the 2 words together, it means: hold distance
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between yourself and something else to abstain,
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to withdraw from, to stay
away from, to put distance
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between yourself and something
else, to intentionally
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and deliberately refrain from something
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to put physical distance
between you at a person,
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place, or thing.
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that's waging war against your soul,
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put space between you
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and that thing: those fleshly lusts, they're not worth it.
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They're not worth it. Remember,
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you're a stranger and you're a pilgrim.
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You're just passing through anyway.
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Why a wage war over something so temporary?
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But then if you go back to James 4:
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2, James continues to describe the dilemma
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of these believers
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that are going about things the wrong way.
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He says - You lust and have not; you kill and desire to have
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and cannot obtain.
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You fight and warn you have not
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because you ask not. First of all he says,
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you lust. The Greek word epithumeo.
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but it's very powerful in
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The word thumeo, describes a passion.
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When you put the two words together, they're
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after this thing so bad, they're hankering
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for it, they're yearning for it.
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And the word epi is an intensifier.
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It pictures them, doubled
over, bent over, hankering,
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yearning, craving, obsessed.
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We're gonna get what we've lost.
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We're gonna retake what was taken from us.
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And then he says, you have not.
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In spite of all that you're
doing, still, you have not.
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He says, in fact, you kill.
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Well, they weren't physically killing
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that their behavior was murderous.
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They were treating each other wrong.
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The inability to rejoice with someone else
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that was being blessed because
I haven't been blessed yet.
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Their attitude was simply terrible.
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that spiritual slaughter was taking
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place in the midst of them.
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This word kill, the Greek word, phoneuo:
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it means to kill, to murder, to commit homicide.
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It is intentional murder, it is slaughter.
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They were slaughtering each other.
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And then he goes on
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and says - you desire to have. The word desire,
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the Greek word zelos.
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It's where you get the word for zeal
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or somebody that is zealous.
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But in this particular case,
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with his own desires that he is blind
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to the desires of others.
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He doesn't have the ability
to focus on anybody else
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because he's so focused on
himself and what he wants.
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But this verse says, even
though you desire to have,
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you cannot obtain.
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And guess what? In Greek, when it says
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to have it is such an interesting word.
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It's not the word that
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I would've thought that it would be a form of the word echo,
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which needs to have hold or possess.
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But it's not. It is a Greek word, epitugchano. The
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word epi, again - intensifier.
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It means over, on top of: the word tugchano.
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The word tugchano means to chance upon something,
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to fall upon something, to hit the bullseye,
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to reach a goal or to hit a target.
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But when you compound
the two words together,
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it means in spite of
the fact that you kill
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and you desire, everything that you're doing in the flesh,
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you are unable to hit the bullseye.
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You cannot seem to chance upon
the thing that you're trying
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so hard to achieve.
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He says you cannot obtain.
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And the Greek literally means - you are powerless to obtain.
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You know why? Because they
were going about it the
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wrong way.
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Then he says in verse 2: you fight
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and you war. That word fight, again the Greek word machomai,
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which means to quarrel, to dispute, to argue,
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to get into strive for
contention with someone else.
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If pictures armed combatants
that are wrangling
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and out rolling on the ground,
slugging it out, it means
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to bicker, squabble, slug it out.
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Not with swords or a fist,
but with their words.
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This was just low level carnal behavior.
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And then James remarkably says in James 4:2,
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You have not because you ask not.
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The word because is the Greek word dia,
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which means on account of the fact
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that you ask not. Wait a minute, they forgot to pray.
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They didn't even pray. They're just out
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and about to re-get what they lost,
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to retake what was taken from them.
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They're out to do it on their own.
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And James says, Hey, you know what?
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Maybe you forgot to pray. You didn't ask.
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And the word ask, that is used here is a Greek word aiteo,
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which means
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to ask with a full expectation
of receiving an answer.
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But they had failed to pray.
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Let me ask you, how many times have you
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gone about to do something
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and when you're well into the project
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and you're struggling, you remember - Ah,
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I never even prayed about that.
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That is exactly what's taking
place with these believers.
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And then in verse 3, he says, you ask: again,
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the Greek word aiteo.
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You finally ask, but you receive not - why?
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Because you ask amiss. What does
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that word - amiss - mean?
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It is the Greek word kakos.
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The word kakos describes something that is bad
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or something that is wrong.
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You could translate it:
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You ask and receive, not because it's bad praying.
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It's inaccurate praying.
It's a wrong kind of praying.
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Well, the truth is there's
all kinds of prayer.
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And I did a series which
is called Different
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Kinds of Prayer.
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You need to know which prayer
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to use at the appropriate times.
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Sometimes people use a powerful prayer,
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but they use it in an
inappropriate moment.
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Just like there are
different tools in a toolbox,
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and you need every tool
for a specific event,
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there are different prayers
for different situations.
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You have to know which prayer to use
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with everything that you're facing.
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There are many kinds of tools,
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prayer tools in your prayer box.
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Well, they were praying badly.
They were praying wrongly.
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But not only were they praying
wrong, they were praying
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with a wrong motivation.
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And motivation is very important.
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This verse says that
you may consume it upon
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your lust.
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That word lust, again, the Greek hedonais,
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which is a strong negative connotation.
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It is where we get the word for hedonism
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or they're just obsessed
with what they want.
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They're not even thinking about others.
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They're not thinking about being blessed
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so they can be a blessing.
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They're not rejoicing with others
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that have already received,
they're just blind
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to everybody else and self-focused
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completely upon themselves.
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And in fact, they're not even
thinking about the kingdom.
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They're just wanting to have their stuff
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so they can consume it upon themselves.
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And the word consume is a Greek word, which means to waste,
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to squander: to squander one's money, to squander
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one's time, to squander your energy,
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to squander your resources.
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Now, God wants to bless
all of us. He does.
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He wants to restore
what's been taken from us.
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He wants to heal our bodies.
He wants to give us finances.
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God is in the restoring
business. Never forget that.
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But when we're just thinking about ourself
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and we're not kingdom minded,
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and we've become so low
level in our behavior
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that we're slugging it out
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and angry with other
people that have received
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because we haven't received
yet, we are in a wrong place.
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We're not asking to begin with.
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We're just going about to
establish things by ourself.
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That's not a good way to get started.
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And No.2, if you're just blind to the needs of others
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and you're just focused on yourself, hmm,
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you're probably not asking right?
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It's not the right kind of faith.
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It's not the right kind of motivation.
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And James, in these verses says,
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motivation is very important.
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And if your motivation is not right,
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you're probably asking
badly, incorrectly, wrongly,
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or as the King James
version says, you ask amiss.
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Well, first of all, you need
to pray. You need to pray.
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If you haven't prayed, why not?
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Here you are into the project already.
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You haven't even prayed.
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Secondly, when you pray, you need
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to make sure your kingdom minded,
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that you want to be blessed.
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You want to get everything
back so you can be a blessing
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to somebody else and not
just be thinking only
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about yourself.
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That's what James says in these verses.
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I'll be back in just a moment,
and I want to pray for you.
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and I'm standing just outside
the editorial department
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in the Tulsa headquarters building.
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You have eight people that
work just in editorial
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because these fingers are typing a lot
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of information and revelation.
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God spoke to me years ago
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and said he would speak through
my fingers if I would write,
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and I've been writing ever since.
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And just outside editorial, we
have several key scriptures.
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Here we have 2 Timothy 3:16 & 17, All scripture
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is given by inspiration of God
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and it's profitable for
doctrine, reproof, correction,
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instruction in righteousness.
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I really believe that.
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Next to that, we have Ecclesiastes 8:4,
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you've heard this before "Where the word
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of a king is there is power."
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And next there's a sign,
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the prophetic word, which God gave to me
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in 1978: Write write write, and I'll prosper what you write.
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And I've been writing ever since.
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This is a very important
part of our ministry
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because we send published, revelation,
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information, all kinds
of material to the ends
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of the earth.
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And you're a part of it
because you're a partner.
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You know, we've recently just finished 70%
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of our Ministry Expansion Project.
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Now 30% remains.
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If you're part of the team,
I wanna say thank you.
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If you're not a part of the team
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to help us retire the debt on this building
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and the whole project,
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would you please become part of the team?
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We wanna release all those
funds so we can redirect them
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to take more teaching of the
Bible to the ends of the earth
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where people are crying out, God,
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please send me teaching that I can trust.
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Please pray about becoming
a part of our giving team.
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Well, today we've been looking at James 4,
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and we've seen two reasons
why James readers had not
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received what they needed.
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First, they didn't pray.
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They just went about to
do things by themself.
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That's a low level way to behave.
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Secondly, when they finally did pray,
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they didn't pray correctly
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and they prayed with a wrong motivation.
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These are two reasons why
they were not receiving.
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And my friends, I want to tell you
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that maybe you're going
about to regain something
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that you've lost or you're
trying to achieve something.
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You need to pray first,
make sure you pray.
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And secondly, make sure you're praying
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with the right motivation and
connect with the Holy Spirit
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because the Holy Spirit is
the one who will show you how
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to pray.
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And that's why I want you
to have my brand new series,
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which is called Partnering
with the Holy Spirit
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and Planning for Tomorrow and the Future.
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It's five parts
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and it comes in multiple
formats with a study guide.
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And we're also offering
you right now my book,
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which is called, The Holy Spirit And You, Working together
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as Heaven's Dynamic Duo.
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You know when you partner
with the Holy Spirit,
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he shows you how to pray.
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He shows you when your motives are right,
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when your motives are wrong.
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The Holy Spirit shows us
everything we don't know.
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He shows us how to plan for today, how to plan for tomorrow,
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how to plan for the future,
my friends, you need
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to know the partnership
of the Holy Spirit.
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So please order your book today
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and remember that if you
need prayer, give us a call
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or send us your email
so we can pray for you.
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But I speak the blessing of
God to you in Jesus' name
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and the partnership of the Holy Spirit.
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I'll be back tomorrow.
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But remember Ecclesiastes 8:4, "Where the word
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of a king is there's power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now: Lord,
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I repented 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. 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.