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Welcome to today's program, my friend,
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it is the end of the week.
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Have we had a good time this
week studying, The Tragic
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Mistake of Moral Surrender?
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The subtitle says, God's Promise to people
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who Help Wandering
Saints get back on track.
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And that is what we're going
to be talking about today
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and it's going to really encourage you and give you hope.
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And it comes with a
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that you can read it
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which is called, Last Day's Survival Guide.
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And we're offering this book in conjunction with this series
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because in 2 Timothy 3,
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the Apostle Paul prophesied under the anointing
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of the Holy Spirit that at the end
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of the age we would sail into some really morally
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turbulent waters.
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The Holy Spirit told us that
in advance, not to scare us,
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but to prepare us, especially those
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who would be living in that season.
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And tag - that's me, that's you -
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we've been tagged to live in this season
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and we can do it not in fear,
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we can do it in the power of God.
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We can grab our boots and our Bible
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and a march through this season victoriously.
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And that's why I wrote this book that I want you
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to have called, Last Day's Survival Guide,
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A Scriptural Handbook to prepare you
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for these Perilous Times.
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And today is the last day
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if this series has really
touched your heart this week
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and you're thinking of someone
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that strayed from their
faith, they just seem
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to be wandering and you want
somebody to pray with you,
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would you please reach out
to us, give us their name,
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tell us what they're going
through, ask us to pray,
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and we really will pray.
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I promise you that. Jeremiah 33:3 says,
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If we'll call out to God in faith, he will answer
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and he'll show us great and mighty things.
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And we've learned that if
we'll draw near to the Lord
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and intercede, God will move
in our behalf in the life
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of those people that
we're concerned about.
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But let us know how to pray
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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 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
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world. Let's join
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Rick Renner. My friends, reach for your Bible. Today
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we're gonna go to James 5
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and we're going to see God's promise to people
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who help wandering saints get back on track.
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But I want you to see it in your Bible
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because we always use the
Bible in this program.
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But in James 5, the Bible says, Brethren, if any
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of you do err from the truth
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and one convert him - then listen to verse 20 -
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let him know that he that converteth the sinner from the
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error of his way will save a soul from death
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and shall hide a multitude of sins.
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Today we're gonna be
looking at these two verses,
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but I want to review what
we've covered this week.
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This week, on Monday we began with Adam
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and we saw that Adam
made the tragic mistake
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of moral surrender when
he reached out willingly
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and partook of the fruit with Eve.
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Eve had made a mistake.
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And when Eve reached out
and partook of that fruit
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because she was ignorant,
she became spiritually dead.
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Suddenly she was spiritually dead.
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Adam was spiritually alive.
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Eve was going to
eventually physically die,
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Adam would continue living
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and Adam could not bear
the thought of losing her
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and being separated from her.
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And with a full understanding
of what he was doing,
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he reached out, followed his wife, caved
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to her situation and partook
of the fruit and followed her.
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And God, of course held him accountable.
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And we saw that we need to be
very careful that as parents,
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as grandparents,
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and as friends, we don't cave
to what our kids are doing
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because we're afraid that if
we don't accommodate them,
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if we don't agree with them,
if we don't endorse them,
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we're going to lose them.
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My friends, that is a
tragic, tragic mistake.
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Your kids and your grandkids
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and your friends need you
to stay anchored in truth
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because one of these days
they're gonna come looking
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to you when they're in
trouble and they need help.
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And if you've caved
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and followed them, you will
not be available to help them.
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You stay on track
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and be uncompromising
with the word of God.
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Then on Tuesday we saw that
Lot made a tragic mistake
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of moral surrender for opportunity.
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He was mesmerized by the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
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and the opportunity in those cities
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and for opportunity, he accommodated a sinful environment,
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endorsed it, and even became a sodomite.
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He blended into the environment
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and completely compromised himself
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and as a result, he lost everything.
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He lost his wife, his girls got into sin.
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He should have stayed on
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Then we saw the story of Nicolaitans who made the
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mistake of moral surrender
for inclusivity and tolerance.
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If you didn't hear that,
please go get the series.
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Hear that, listen to that
in the archives, my friends,
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there is a pressure today for
us just to include everybody,
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be intolerant of everything.
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Certainly we need to be kind.
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It's always good to be tolerant,
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but being tolerant doesn't
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And Jesus calls us in Revelation 2,
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to be uncompromising to the word of God.
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Then we saw yesterday about the church of Thyatira,
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a church that had made the tragic mistake of moral surrender
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for society's acceptance.
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My friends, the scripture is so clear
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and we need to live according to
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what God commands us in the scriptures.
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But let's go to James 5
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and begin in verse 19.
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And even as early as when James was writing this epistle,
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believers were already beginning to stray from their faith
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and people were heartbroken.
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They saw their kids, their
spouses, their grandkids,
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their friends, they got saved,
they knew the truth, but
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because of societal pressure,
they began to veer from
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what they really knew to be right.
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And that's what's happening today
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because of the onslaught
of media, social media.
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Think about it, friends, if you're my age,
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you didn't grow up with
all of that pressure.
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But young people today are
growing up with pressures
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that we didn't have because of the courts,
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because of education, because of movies.
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It is bombarding them from every direction
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that they're either to abandon their faith
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or modify their faith.
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And as a result, people now have a faith
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that doesn't even match
the faith of the Bible.
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They're endorsing all kinds
of things that are not similar
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to the Bible at all, including all kinds
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of strange sexual beliefs.
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My friends, it's nonsense, it's nonsense.
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And you see, just from
me saying it's nonsense,
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the culture today says
I should be canceled,
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but my friends, we are
called to be uncompromising
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and to abide with the truth.
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But this wandering was even
happening when James wrote
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his epistle.
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And when you come to James 5:19, he says, Brethren,
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if any of you do err from the truth
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and one convert him. Well,
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let's begin with the word brethren.
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The word brethren is the Greek word, adelphos
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for the word delphos, which describes the womb of a woman.
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But when you put an 'a' on the front, it describes 2
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or more born from the same womb.
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And it's such an appropriate
word to describe all of us
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because we are all mutually
born out of the womb of God.
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We've been born again, born of God, and
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therefore we are related.
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It was a Greek term which described two
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or more that were very endearing to each other.
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And later it was used in a militaristic sense
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to depict brothers in battle,
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hence comradery or brotherhood.
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Now he's speaking to people that are dealing with all kinds
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of fights, all kinds of struggles,
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and he calls them brethren.
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It's the equivalent of saying, I know you're in the trenches
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and I know you're dealing with issues,
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but my comrades, I have something to say to you.
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Then he adds - If any of you do err from the truth.
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Interesting, this word if,
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because in Greek it is the word ean;
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and the word ean carries the idea of a certain possibility,
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even a probability.
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In all likelihood, this is something
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that probably will happen, which may then
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and now it is likely it is a possibility,
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it is a probability that somewhere along the way each one
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of us are going to know someone
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who errs from the truth.
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So we need to know how to deal with it.
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And in fact, he says, if any of you. Any
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of you - in Greek - means anyone in your midst,
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anyone in your midst, anyone near you,
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err from the truth.
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Well, let's focus on this word, err.
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The word err is a form of the Greek word, planao.
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And this is so very important.
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It's a word used all
over the New Testament.
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Importantly, it is used by Jesus In Matthew 24,
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it's used by the apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 4,
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and here we find it used in James 5:19.
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The word err, the Greek word planao, a very specific word
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that describes a moral wandering.
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It's not just error, it is a moral wandering.
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It depicts a person who is
veered from a solid path
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that he once walked upon. As
a result of veering morally:
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now this individual is adrift.
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It's a person that is morally adrift.
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And here's the thing: when you leave the absolute authority
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of the scripture and it no longer is God's voice
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to you, morally you are adrift: you've lost your anchor.
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There is no end to where you're gonna go if you leave the
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authoritative voice of the scripture.
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And the Bible says this kind of error causes you
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to morally wonder, it causes
you to morally be adrift.
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And it was used to
depict an animal that got
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so lost it could not find its
path to get back home again.
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And it is the very same
word which depicts one
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who loses his moral bearings.
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Well, let's just be honest -
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because of social media,
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because of what the courts are passing down by law,
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because of the crazy stuff that's being taught in schools,
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all of the things being promoted
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and things that are being endorsed, kids today are confused.
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Boys don't know if they're boys.
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Girls don't know if they're girls.
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They think maybe they can become something
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they were not born to be.
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And now they're not even putting sex genders on driver's
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license and birth certificates: just an 'X'
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because we don't know what you are.
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Do you understand what I mean friend: adrift, just adrift.
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When you lose your moral
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And we're living in the day of adrift.
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That's where society is.
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That's why you need to get my book Last Days Survival Guide.
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But it also says, if any of you do err from the truth.
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That word, from, is really important
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because it is the Greek word apo.
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but it implies putting
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and something else.
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and they become morally adrift
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and they've lost their bearings, they begin to put space
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between themselves and you
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because they know that
you don't agree with
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what they're doing or they
put space between themselves
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and the Bible or space between
themselves and the church.
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They begin to put space between themselves
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and what they used to be: space, distance,
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they become distanced.
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And in this verse, it says,
if any do err from the truth.
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And in Greek it has a definite article,
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which means - this is the truth
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as contained in scripture.
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what we're really discussing
today is a departure from the
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authoritative voice of the word of God.
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because you'll be adrift.
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That's what society is.
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because they dropped their
anchor that was connected
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to the truth contained in
scripture; but the verse says,
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and one convert him.
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That is amazing.
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The word convert is a Greek word epistrepho.
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Listen to what it means. It describes a turning point,
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to turn around, to turn back
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or to what one
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once believed - conversion: you convert him.
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And you know today's society
has become so twisted
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and it has departed so far
from the truth that now
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what is called conversion therapy is illegal.
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It's a whole process that's
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It's now forbidden conversion therapy.
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It's connected to the word convert.
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Our friends, there's nothing
wrong with conversion.
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And I want to tell you conversion is a one-time decision,
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but it is a therapy.
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It is a decision that you
have to walk out in your life
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that the enemy is
against people converting
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and coming back to the truth.
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the world, the whole idea
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of conversion is being forbidden.
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But then when you come to James 5:20,
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James says, let him know - who - the one
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who converts this person.
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Let him know.
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which means let him really know it.
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Let him fully know - here's what God wants you to know.
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Let him know that he that converteth: this word converteth,
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again, the Greek word, epistrepho:
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the one who brings a person
to a turning point, causes him
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to turn around, to turn
back, to return to truth, to
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what he once believed
to be what he once was:
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one who converts the sinner from the error his way
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shall save a soul from death
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and shall hide a multitude of sins - that is
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so powerful and encouraging.
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But notice it says - He which converteth the sinner.
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The Greeks says, ho hamartolos: it really depicts one
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who is missing the mark,
one who's messed up,
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one who's fallen short of what God expects
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and what God approves.
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And my friends, we do not need
to be in a rush to judgment
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of anybody.
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We certainly don't want to condemn
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and judge people that we love,
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but we need to understand
if they've missed the mark
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and they've fallen short
of what God expects
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and what God approves.
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And we want to get them
back on track again.
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And this verse says, Let him
know that he was converteth
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the sinner, the one messing up, from the error of his ways.
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The word from, is a translation of the Greek word ek,
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which means, out of, and it carries the idea of deliverance,
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which means we can be
instruments of deliverance
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to deliver them out
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of, the Greek word ek, from
the error of their way.
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And the word error again is the Greek word, planao.
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James uses it twice in verse 19, verse 20.
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And again, it depicts a moral wandering.
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It depicts one who's
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that he walked upon.
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And as a result of veering
morally, he now is adrift.
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convert the sinner from the error of his way.
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The word way, the Greek word hodos,
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which is actually the Greek word for a road
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that one travels upon.
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It is a lane of travel
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or it describes the direction
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that one is leading in his life.
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where this error filled road is headed.
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It says, you will save
a soul from death. Wow.
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The word save is a form
of the Greek word sodzo.
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This is so powerful.
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The word sodzo carries the idea of salvation,
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but it also includes healing
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and delivering power,
which means there's healing
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and delivering power available for anyone.
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It doesn't matter how far they have veered, it means
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to deliver one from his enemies, to protect, to keep safe
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or to keep under protection.
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Even if someone is in
the clutch of the enemy,
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they can be delivered
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and brought back under the
protective care of God.
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And it says, you will save a soul from death.
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The Greek says from death: ek thanatou.
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The word ek again means out
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of, delivered from death.
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And this word death, the Greek word thanatos, can be
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translated death, but it also carries the idea
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of mortal danger or a dangerous situation.
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And it tells us when someone veers morally,
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they're headed on a road
that is carrying them
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to mortal danger.
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It is a dangerous situation.
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and shall hide a multitude of sins.
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I love the fact that God is not real excited about exposing
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what anybody is doing wrong.
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God is in the business of forgiving
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and covering with the blood of Jesus.
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And this word hide, the Greek word kalupto, means
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to conceal - God will conceal it, cover it, veil it
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to hide it from view.
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And the Bible says, shall hide a multitude
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of sins.
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And the Greek says plethos harmartion.
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The word plethos carries the idea of something
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that's full - filled to the maximum
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and overflowing, which means
even if a person has got
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so far off track, they have drifted
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so far that now when you
look at how they're living
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and what they're thinking, it
just seems like their life is
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flowing with a multitude of sins.
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They're just filled with it.
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They're living in tragic consequences.
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And you know, if they don't
repent, if they don't convert
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and get back on track, they
are headed for mortal danger.
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That's what the Bible says.
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But God wants to use you to intervene.
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We saw like Abraham: you can draw near to the Lord
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and pray if nothing else.
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And through your intervention God will save that word sodzo.
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He'll deliver, he'll heal, he'll restore.
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He'll bring that person out
of the clutch of the enemy,
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bring them back under divine protection.
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And God in his grace
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and in his mercy will
just cover all that mess.
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That is amazing and that's
God's promise to you
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and me for anybody that
we are concerned about.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I want to pray for you.
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Someone asked the interesting question,
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Was the apostle Paul mentally
ill before he came to Christ?
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Well, the Bible does
not implicitly say that,
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but there are clues that leads us
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to believe he had a mental issue
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and he was eaten up with hate.
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The reason we believe that is because of his own words
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in 1 Timothy 1:13 where he says that
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before Christ he was a blasphemer, he was persecutor
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and he was injurious.
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And that word injurious describes one
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who derives pleasure from inflicting pain on others.
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But then in Acts 8:3, the Bible says,
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as foresaw, he made a havoc of the church
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before he came to Christ.
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And that word havoc is the
very word which was used
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to describe diseased pigs
that came into villages
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and mauled people.
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And now that is the word which Luke used
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to describe the apostle Paul before he came to Christ.
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So when you consider that word
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and what Paul said about himself in 1 Timothy 1:
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13, we do know that mentally he was eaten up with hate
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before he came to Christ.
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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 nations
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and unleash unprecedented deception
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and destruction on the earth.
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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner
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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,
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we have several key scriptures; here we have 2 Timothy
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3:16 and 17, All scripture it's given by inspiration
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of God in his 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: write, write, write and
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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, we just wrapped up the series called, The Tragic
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Mistake of Moral Surrender,
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and God's Promise to Those
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who help Wandering Saints get back on track.
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And I have made a whole
study guide to go with it
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so you can read it while you
see it or while you hear it,
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because this really is teaching
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you need to get down deep inside you.
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And today is the last day right now
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that we're offering my book called, Last Days Survival
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Guide, a Scriptural Handbook to prepare you
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for these perilous times. We can sail
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through these turbulent waters in victory
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with joy and with peace.
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We really can if we know how.
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Father, we thank you for
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what we have studied this
week in the word of God.
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Help us to stay on track.
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Help us to love those
that have gone adrift.
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Help us to pray and intercede for them
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and help us to personally
be uncompromising
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and unmoving in what the Word
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of God teaches in Jesus' name - Amen.
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I'll see you Monday, but remember Ecclesiastes 8:4,
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"Where the word 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 repent of my sin and
receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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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 help us make a difference in
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lives around the world with the word of God.
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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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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.