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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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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner,
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and I want to tell you right
from the beginning, thank you
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for all your comments about
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what I'm teaching in
the program this week.
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All of your comments means so much to me,
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and we're teaching the brand new series,
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which is called, The Tragic
Mistake of Moral Surrender.
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And the subtitle says, God's Promise to People - to People,
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that's you who help wandering
saints get back on track.
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This is a very serious teaching
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and I want you to hear all of it.
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And it comes with a wonderful study guide.
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And right now we're also
offering you my book,
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which is called, Last Day's Survival Guide.
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I really felt it was
fitting for the series
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because we're living in the end
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of the age when people are
making really catastrophic
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decisions morally.
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And the Bible tells us this is going
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to happen in a pandemic form
at the very end of the age.
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We need to know how to live
successfully at the end
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of the age, and my friends
we're living in the last days.
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So we need to have a survival guide.
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And actually the Bible gives
us so much instruction about
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how to be victorious in any season,
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but I put it all in this book
called Last Day is Survival
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Guide, a scriptural
handbook to prepare you
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for these perilous times.
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You can order all of these by going online
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or by giving us a call right now.
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And when you become a
partner with our ministry,
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we're gonna send you two books
as our way of saying welcome
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to our partner family.
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We're going to send you my
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Zone, which is dedicated to partners.
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It's about surviving, thriving,
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and overcoming in the midst
of any difficult situation.
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And we want every
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and we also send them Denise's book,
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the Gift of Forgiveness.
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But hey, if you need
prayer, we're here for you.
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We're waiting for the
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or for your email to show up in our inbox.
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So please reach out to us and
the moment the phone rings
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or your email shows up,
we're going to begin
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to release our faith for God
to mightily move in your life.
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But 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 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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Reach for your Bible.
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And today we're going to turn
to Revelation 2.
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And today again, we're
looking at The Tragic Mistake
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of Moral Surrender and particularly moral surrender
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and embracing inclusivity and tolerance.
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That's the new term today.
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You need to be inclusive of everybody.
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You need to be tolerant of everybody.
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And the idea is that if
you're uncompromising to
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what you believe, then you
are narrow-minded and bigoted.
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But my friends, the Bible is the Bible
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and the Bible is absolute truth.
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It doesn't mean we have to
be disapproving of everybody,
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but we are not to abandon
what the Bible says
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and if we appear to be intolerant
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or not inclusive of
everybody, well, I'm sorry,
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but we love everybody.
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Jesus died for everybody,
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but we're not tolerant of everything.
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We love everybody,
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but we're going to stick with
the Bible even if people say
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that we're narrow-minded,
intolerant or bigoted.
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But when we come to Revelation 2, we find
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that there was a trend
in the church in Pergamum
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to tone it down, to lower
the bar, to be more inclusive
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and more tolerant of others so
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that Christians there would
be perceived in a better light
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and so they would not be persecuted.
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That's exactly what
we're dealing with today.
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The Bible is so relevant.
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But hey, I have an entire series on Revelation I
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II and III where we go
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through Christ's words to all of the 7 Churches.
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And just for fun, I brought
some of the study guides.
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Look at all these study guides:
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a study guide on Christ Message to Ephesus, Smyrna,
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Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Laodicea.
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There are 60 teachings on these 7 Churches,
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and if you're interested
to know what Christ had
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to say on an array of subjects
that still have application
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to us today, you need
to order all of these
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and go through it with Brother Rick along
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with the study guides.
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But hey, open your Bible to Revelation 2,
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and today we're going
to begin in verse 13,
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and you're going to see how
relevant these verses are
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for people today who are
making the tragic mistake
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of compromise and surrender.
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Listen to this - Revelation 2:13.
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Jesus is speaking to a church
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that is really suffering persecution,
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and he says, I know thy
works in where thou livest.
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Isn't that wonderful that
Jesus knows where we live.
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He knows everything we're facing.
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And then he says, even
where Satan's seat is.
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my friends, the city of
Pergamum was such an evil city
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and there really was a
huge altar there called the
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throne of Zeus.
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And from that throne which
sat on the very ledge
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of the upper city, smoked
billowed into the air
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24 hours a day.
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And this is what Jesus is referring to.
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And Pergamum was filled with
so much demonic activity
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and so many false gods
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and temples to false gods
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that it really was a seat of Satan.
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And it's interesting
that it was also the seat
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of the pro council or the
government of all of Asia.
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And from that high and lofty
place, demonic powers begin
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to affect the entire region of Asia.
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And Jesus says, you're
living where Satan's seed is.
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Those were the words of Jesus.
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How would you like to live in a place
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that Jesus called Satan's seat?
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But then he said, thou holdest fast my name
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and has not denied my faith,
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implying they'd had an opportunity to let loose of his name
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and they'd had multiple opportunities to deny his faith
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and to back off of their
uncompromising position.
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But they have not denied,
they have not walked away.
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And Jesus says, even in those days where Antipas
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was my faithful martyr who was slain among you.
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The words, in those days, is very important
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because Jesus is pointing
to a specific number of days
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and it was actually a very prolonged period of persecution.
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And Jesus understood when it began, he understood
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how long it lasted,
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and my friends, Jesus knows
everything we're dealing with.
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And Jesus says specifically
even in those days, those days
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where an Antipas was my faithful martyr who was slain
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among you. What Antipas was probably the first pastor
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of the church in Pergamum.
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But what I want you to understand is he was indeed a person,
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but his name symbolically described
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what the people in
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Christians. It's very important.
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The word Antipas is a compound of two words.
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The word anti - means against, against.
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The 2nd part of the word is pas, which means everything.
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And when you compound
the two words together,
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the name Antipas means - one who seems
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to simply be against everything.
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It carries the idea of a person
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listen, who is antisocial, contrary, noncompliant,
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intolerant, narrow-minded,
nonconformist, inflexible,
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obstinate or uncompromising.
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That is what the people of Pergamum thought about
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Antipas, a man who would not lower the bar,
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he would not cave, he would
not violate his convictions,
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but they didn't just
think that about Antipas,
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they thought in general about all Christians
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because Christians to them appeared to be antisocial,
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contrary, non-compliant, intolerant, narrow-minded,
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non-conformist, inflexible, obstinate,
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uncompromising,
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and the pagan world
around them were saying,
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why can't you be more inclusive?
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Why can't you be more tolerant?
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Why do you have to be so uncompromising to what you believe?
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Do you see how fitting this
is for what we're dealing
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with in the world today?
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And notice that Jesus calls
him - my faithful martyr.
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And the Greek words here
are so very important.
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The Greek says, homartus moo, ho pistas moo.
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The Greek really means: the martyr of mine,
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my faithful one.
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And he carries the idea that Jesus is just so proud
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of Antipas
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because he is unbending
and he is uncompromising.
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He has suffered a
horrible, horrible death.
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But in spite of it, Jesus
says, I'm proud of him.
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He is the witness of mine.
He's the faithful one of mine.
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Jesus is laying claim
to him as a trophy of
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what we should all be as believers.
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And the word witness is a translation
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of the Greek word, martus.
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It depicts a witness summoned
to testify in a court of law.
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That's what it means technically.
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But listen to this; it is connected to the ideas
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of suffering
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because if a person was
called to be a witness,
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he was required to be faithful
to the truth regardless
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of any possible acts of retribution
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that might be carried
out against him by those
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who opposed his witness
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or by those who wish
to suppress the truth.
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In other words, if you stick
with what you are saying,
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we're going to oppose you and in some way
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or another we're going to cancel you,
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we're going to eliminate you.
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And this word martus, was very important
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because when a witness
was summoned to testify,
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it was understood that his
witness could place him
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or his loved ones in jeopardy.
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To be a witness required the
highest level of integrity
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and commitment, as well as a willingness
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to sacrifice oneself or a one's status to uphold the truth.
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A very real possibility existed
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that a person could pay a high price
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for being a faithful witness.
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Now, let me ask you, are we
in the same position today?
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If you stick with the
truth, if you're obstinate
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and unbending on what you believe
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and uncompromising, the world
around you will do their best
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to eliminate you or to cancel you.
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That's what we're dealing
with today in the world.
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Look how relevant these verses are.
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And then the verse goes on to say
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that Antipas was slain among you.
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The word slain is a horrible Greek word, the word apokteino,
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which depicts the abrupt taking away of a person's life,
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they were canceled, they were eliminated.
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And Jesus says, who was slain among you.
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Among you in Greek means right
in your midst, which means
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Antipas was martyred in a public visible location
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where the entire city would've been aware
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of this hideous event.
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Now, let's carry this into
our contemporary times,
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what we're facing today in society. My friends, if you stick
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with the truth, social media will try
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to publicly desecrate you,
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defile you, eliminate you,
laugh at you, cancel you.
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Everybody becomes aware
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of it when social media
suddenly turns on you,
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everybody sees it.
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It happens right in our midst - while Antipas was
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slain among them.
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Now, how was he slain?
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Jesus says, apokteino: it was grizzly, it was brutal,
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it was gruesome.
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And what they did is on
the Acropolis of Pergamum,
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there was a huge idol
which was a bronze bull.
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It was hollow on the inside,
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And this bronze bull was used
multiple times in history in
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the city of Pergamum, not just for Antipas
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but always for believers.
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And the bull was a symbol of
something that you would offer
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to the gods.
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This was the highest sacrifice
you could give to the gods.
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Well, what they did in the case of Antipas
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and others, was they bound him.
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They opened the side of the
door on that bronze bull,
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put him inside, locked it.
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He was bound inside the bronze bull.
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They set a fire under it
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and they literally cooked
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that bronze bull.
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And there were musical pipes
in the head of the bull so
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that when the person
being fried would begin
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to cry out in pain,
rather than hear the cries
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and the screams of the
sufferer, his voice would go
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through those pipes
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and it would make it sound
like the bull was literally
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coming to life.
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It was considered one
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of the greatest sacrifices
you could offer to the gods.
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And when the victim was
finished being burned,
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they would open the side door to the bull,
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take out his bones, cut them
into pieces, polish them
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and turn them into beads
to be worn in jewelry so
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that you literally wore beads
made of bones of that believer
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who was martyred inside the bronze bull.
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it was a horrific and gruesome death.
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because he was uncompromising
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and inflexible when it came to his faith
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and to what he believed.
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And I want to tell you that in general,
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Christians were viewed
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as Antipas - just being against everything.
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For example, Christians refuse
to participate in the circus
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because of the horrific treatment
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of human beings that occurred there.
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When we hear the word circus,
we think of three rings
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and clowns and people on bicycles.
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But the circus is where all
the chariot races occurred.
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were killed for their faith.
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And many slaves were treated
barbarically by others
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and Christians who believed they'd been dispatched into the
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world with a saving, healing
redeeming message just did not
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believe it was appropriate for them to sit
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and applaud when people were
treated so horrifically.
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So they stayed away from the circus
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and the world around
them said, what is wrong
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with these Christians?
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Can't they just blend in
and be like the rest of us?
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Christians also declined
participation in the theater
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because the theater was
a place where depravity
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and some pretty raunchy things
took place on the stage.
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And my friend, I want to tell you
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that if you think the
movies today are raunchy
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and deplorable, it's nothing new.
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It's always been that way,
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even in the 1st Century when Jesus was speaking these
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words, disgusting,
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sexual things were carried out on the stage.
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And it's interesting that
actors were called the lowest
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of the low because they were willing
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to do anything on the
stage to get the applause
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of the people and the theater and actors
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and actresses were associated with the God Dionysus,
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who is the god of revelry, drunkenness and orgies.
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All of that was a part
of the theater scene.
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So Christian said, we just can't do that.
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We've been redeemed from that.
That's who we used to be.
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Now we cannot go and watch
that for entertainment.
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We have to stay away from that.
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Christians refuse to attend athletic events.
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He said, well, why? Because athletic events were carried out
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in the nude, and Christians believed this nudity
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was a shame.
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Therefore, they stayed away from athletic events.
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Christians stayed away from the bathhouses.
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Well, that's serious because
everybody needs a bath.
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But in the bathhouses, a lot
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of sexual things took place
which were prohibited by God.
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So Christian said, you know what?
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We just can't go there
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and sit in the bathhouses
while all these things are
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going on around us.
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And Christians were viewed generally as being unpatriotic.
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This was very serious.
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No.1, because they would not burn incense
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to the Emperor, which means they would not conform
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to the government's demands.
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And No.2, they wouldn't go to the temples
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because that's where sacrifices were being made to the gods.
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There was a lot of demonic activity there
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and also sexual situations.
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So Christians stayed away.
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But hey, the temples were
also where all the parties
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and festivities took place.
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And in the mind of the
secular world, they thought,
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what is wrong with these Christians?
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Why can't they just do what
the government is asking?
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Why can't they just blend in
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and be a little bit more like us?
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So Christians were viewed
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as Antipas: just against everything.
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But then when you come to Revelation 2:14, Jesus says,
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but I have a few things against you.
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The word have the Greek word echo: I have I hold I possess.
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It carries the idea of
something Jesus really deeply,
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deeply feels.
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The word against is the Greek word kata,
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which really means I have
a strike against you.
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And he tells us why?
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Because you have there them
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that hold the doctrine of Balaam.
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The word hold is the present active participle of kratos,
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which depicts a powerful grip or a refusal to let go.
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But it lets us know that Christ has already been dealing
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with this group telling them to let go
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of this wrong doctrine,
but they won't let go.
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So Jesus says, you have them there
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that are constantly holding onto.
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They're still gripping
the doctrine of Balaam.
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And what was the doctrine of Balaam?
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Who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block
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before the children of Israel
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to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
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The word stumbling block the Greek word skandalon, it's
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where we get the word for a scandal.
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It describes a trap that was
used to entrap an animal.
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And here it is, the idea of entrapment.
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He taught Balak how to entrap God's people, the children
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of Israel, to eat things that were sacrificed unto idols.
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And here is what Balaam taught Balak. Balaam said,
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you know what?
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I don't have the power to
curse the children of Israel.
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There's no enchantments, there's no divination
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that can be used against the men of Israel.
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So let's get the men of Israel
to lower their bar morally.
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Let's get them to make the tragic mistake
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of moral surrender.
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They'll do it by themself
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and that will cause divine judgment.
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And the Bible tells us that in Genesis 25:1
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to 3, he had instructed Balak
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to send the naked Moabite women out in front
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of the children of Israel.
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And the Bible says,
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And Israel abode in Shittim and the people began
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to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
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They knew better than that and they called unto the people
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unto the sacrifice of their gods and the people did eat
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and bowed down to their gods.
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That's moral surrender.
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And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor,
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which means they blended in
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and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
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Listen to this. No.1: they called the men of Israel
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to the sacrifices of their
gods, which means the men
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of Israel lowered the bar,
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they begin to cave
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or they begin to be so tolerant that they came to the place
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where sacrifices were being offered to the gods.
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No.2: the men ate what they should not have eaten.
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They entertained
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and participate in things which God categorically
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said was wrong.
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No.3: they bowed down to the gods.
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They accommodated what God despised.
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Israel morally surrendered.
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And the Bible says in Revelation 2:15, so has thou them
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that hold to the doctrine of Nicolaitans
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which thing I hate.
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The word Nicolaitans is a translation
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of Greek word, nikolaos.
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Nika means to conquer.
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Laos is the word for the people or the laity.
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When you compound the two words together,
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the word nicolaitans describe as them
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that conquers the people.
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And whatever the nicolaitans was teaching,
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it was bringing a conquering
to the people of God
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and they were teaching, are you ready for this, inclusivity
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and tolerance.
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That's what they were teaching.
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Let's quit being so separate. Stop this.
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The world thinks of us
as being antisocial.
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Let's quit talking about
everything that's wrong
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and just become more
inclusive of everybody.
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Lower the bar, blend in then people in the world won't think
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that we're so antisocial.
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And Jesus says, He hates this doctrine
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and he hates the deeds of Nicolaitans.
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And the word hate, my friend, is the Greek word miseo,
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which means to hate, to abhor,
to find utterly repulsive.
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It describes a deep seated
animosity, an intense hatred,
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a repugnance, something that
causes one to feel disgust,
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repulsion, a deep seated aversion.
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It is not just dislike,
it is actual hatred.
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Jesus did not say he hated the Nicolaitans.
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He doesn't hate anybody.
We're not to hate anybody.
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But he hated their deeds
and he hated their doctrine.
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These faulty beliefs result in a powerless,
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weakened version of Christianity where sin is tolerated,
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separation is ignored,
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and the need for ongoing
repentance is disregarded.
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My friends, it pulls the plug
on the power of the gospel.
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And here we find from the
mouth of Jesus himself
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that there is a level of inclusivity
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and tolerance that he finds
to be utterly disgusting.
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And my friends, when we
feel pulled from our family
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and pull from our friends
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and pull from our kids to
accommodate everything that is
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around us, we need to
remember the words of Jesus
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to the Church of Pergamum in Revelation 2.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I want to pray for you.
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Are you ready for what's coming next?
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The Bible warns of a
moment coming soon suddenly
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and without warning,
when Jesus will return
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to rapture his church. Right
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after that, the antichrist will rise, deceive the nation's
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and destruction on the Earth.
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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 8 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, the prophetic word which God gave
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to me in 1978:
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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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And 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
'cause 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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My friend,
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be sure to get my series
called The Tragic Mistake
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of Moral Surrender.
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It comes with a study guide
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and we're also offering you right now my book called, Last
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Day's Survival Guide, A scriptural handbook to prepare you
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for these perilous times.
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And please reach out to us for prayer
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so we can put our faith together with you.
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But Father, we thank you that
the word of God is the word
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of God and we are to be
uncompromising when it comes
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to absolute truth.
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Help us Lord to be faithful in Jesus' name - Amen.
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I'll see you tomorrow. But 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. If you just
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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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Renner Ministries is proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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through every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the Earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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