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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
My name is Rick Renner.
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And first of all, I wanna say thank you
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for letting me come
right to where you are.
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It's a privilege that you
would spend this time with me.
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And please today, stay with
me all the way to the end
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of the program because today we're gonna continue looking at
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what the Bible says about
the rapture of the church
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and the resurrection of
the dead, my friends,
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it is just going to be so wonderful
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what happens in the near future.
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And today we're gonna see it in scripture,
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but I want you to get
a copy of the series.
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It's called The Rapture, the Antichrist,
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and the Tribulation.
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It is 20 parts.
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It comes with a wonderful study guide that is just loaded
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with all the points, the principles, the Greek word,
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all the history in this series.
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It's also in the study guide
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because I really believe that
when you read the material
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and see it and hear it at
the same time, it causes this
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to really get down deep inside you.
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And right now we're offering you my book,
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which is called The Rapture, the Antichrist
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and the Tribulation, An End-Times Countdown
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And what happens next?
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People are always saying, Brother Rick, what happens next?
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Well, I answer that question in this book,
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but on the cover we have a picture
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of the angel blowing the trumpet.
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We have a picture of the
church being raptured
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and the appearance of the antichrist.
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All of these events are very clearly described in scripture,
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and you don't need to
have fear about any of it
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because the Bible gives us solid answers.
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And that's why I wrote this book.
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But you can order all this
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by going online whereby giving us a call.
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And please, when you reach
out to us, let us know how
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to pray for you.
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We want to pray for you.
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In fact, we're waiting right
now for the telephone to ring
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and the moment it rings,
we're going to answer it.
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And when we hear what's on your heart,
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we're gonna put our
faith together with yours
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and Jesus is going to hear us
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and he is gonna do what needs to be done.
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We're told in 1 John 5:14
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and 15, that if we pray anything according
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to God's will - what does that mean?
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That means you're praying
according to His word
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or what he's revealed in the Bible.
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If you pray scripturally, if you pray according to his will,
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he hears us.
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It doesn't say he hears our much asking.
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It doesn't say He hears our tears.
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It says He hears the word.
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If we pray the word, if we
pray according to his will,
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when we pray the
scripture, God's ears open
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and says, Hey, I know that.
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And God responds when he hears
what he has said in his word.
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And then we have the
petitions that we ask of him.
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Well, we know how to pray scripturally.
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And so if you have a need in your life
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and you don't know how to pray,
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or maybe you just wish that
there was somebody else
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that could pray with you,
then reach out to us.
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Just call us right now.
Write down the phone number.
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You can call us later or send us an email.
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And when we hear from
you, we're gonna pray.
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And again, Jesus will really do what needs
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to be done.
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I believe that. But hey,
reach for your Bible.
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And today we're gonna
look at the resurrection
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of the dead in connection with
the rapture of the church.
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I told you in the first episode this week
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that when I was a young
man, the whole subject
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of the rapture just
scared the wits outta me.
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And the reason it terrified me is
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because the way it was presented.
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Every year we had a big revival meeting in our church,
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sometimes twice a year, and
a guest evangelist would come
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and would preach and one
night he would preach on hell.
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Another night he'd
preach on the end times.
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And on one night he would preach about the
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rapture of the church.
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And usually when he was
preaching about the rapture,
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he would say, if the
rapture happened today
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and Christ came for the church, would you be among those
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that are raptured?
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And he would ask the
question in such a way
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that just struck terror
in all of our hearts.
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What if we missed the rapture?
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And that's kind of funny because 1 Thessalonians 4:
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18 says that when we talk about the rapture,
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it should comfort us.
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But it didn't comfort me.
It really terrorized me.
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I was afraid that maybe
there was something defective
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with me and I wouldn't
make it in the rapture.
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So I avoided the subject
of the rapture for years
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and years and years.
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And even after I came to a
very hard conclusion about
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what I believe the Bible
taught about the rapture
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of the church, I didn't
touch it publicly for years
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because it seemed to be
such a divisive issue.
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And I didn't want people
to not listen to me
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because of what I believed
when I felt like I could help
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them with the teaching of the Bible.
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But finally, as I got older,
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I understood I had a responsibility to teach clearly
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what the Bible says on every subject.
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And that includes the rapture
of the church. My friends,
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it is called the blessed hope.
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It is a hope and it is blessed.
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And the Bible says that when
we see him, we are going to be
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as he is.
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It should be an event
that we look forward to
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and not an event that we dread.
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But today I want you to
reach for your Bible.
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We're using the Bible in
all of these programs.
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And by the way, we're
believing for a revival
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of the Bible in the church.
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And today we're going to go
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to 1 Thessalonians 4:
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and we're going to begin in verse 15, then move to verse 16.
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And in these verses, the apostle Paul describes the coming
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of the Lord in the rapture,
the resurrection of the dead,
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the rapture of the church.
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These are very fundamental, pivotal verses on this subject.
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So let's begin in 1 Thessalonians 4:
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15.
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And I'm gonna stick close to my notes
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because today I have a
lot to share with you
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and I don't want to miss anything.
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But in 1 Thessalonians 4:15, Paul says,
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For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord.
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That means Paul is not just
giving his own insights,
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he's speaking by the word of the Lord
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or he's speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit -
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that we which are alive
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and remain under the coming
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of the Lord shall not prevent them which
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are asleep.
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We've seen that these words alive
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and remain in Greek are very, very important.
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Now, when you see these just in the King James version alive
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and remain, it just sounds like those
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that are still alive at the
time this event happens, those
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who remain at that moment.
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But the Greek here really is very profound.
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The word alive describes the living ones, the thriving ones,
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the flourishing one.
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spiritually robust, spiritually thriving,
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spiritually vibrant,
spiritually vigorous people
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that are really on fire and alive.
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And by the way, remember
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that the Bible tells us
repeatedly the Jesus is coming
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for those that are watching for him.
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And here we find that
he's coming for those
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that are spiritually engaged
and those that remain.
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And we've seen that this word
remain is actually the Greek
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word for the outer edge of a garment
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or the remnant of a garment.
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The greater mass of the
garment has already been used
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or it's already been disposed of.
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And now all that remains is
a remnant of that material.
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And it implies that when Jesus
comes, those that he comes
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for may be a remnant.
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Now I understand the church may be large,
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there might be a lot
of church going people
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and religious people, but
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authentic Christians.
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We saw in the previous
programs that there are a lot
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of spiritual mannequins in the church.
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In 2 Timothy 3:5,
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the Apostle Paul talks about those
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that have a form of godliness.
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That word form means they
have the outward shape,
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but in fact they're just
a shell; on the inside
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they lack the real authentic life of God and
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therefore all they are is an outward form
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or an outward shell.
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And I use the example of a mannequin.
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You can dress up a mannequin
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to make it almost look
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are pretty amazing.
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You could dress a mannequin
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put a Bible in its hands,
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and it would almost
look like a real person
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with religious trappings.
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But it doesn't matter. It's a mannequin
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inwardly, it is empty.
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It's nothing but a form or a shell.
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And when Paul says in 2 Timothy 3:
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5, that some will have a form of godliness in the end
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of the age, and he's
talking about the church,
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he's describing vast numbers in the church
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who will say the right
things, they'll look right,
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they'll do the right things.
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But inwardly, they are vacant,
they're devoid of the life
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of God and my friends,
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that's not you and me.
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If you are an authentic Christian,
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if you really know the Lord,
you've really been born again
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and the Holy Spirit lives
in you, then you're the one
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that he is coming for.
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And at the very end of the age,
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Paul says it will be a remnant, a remnant.
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But then he continues
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and he says, for this,
we say in you by the word
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of the Lord, that we which are alive
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and remain unto the coming of the Lord.
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The word, unto, means right up to the moment of the coming
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of the Lord shall not prevent
them, which are asleep.
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Now we're gonna come back
to this in just a moment.
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But then he continues in verse 16
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and says - for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
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with a shout, with a voice of the archangel
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and with the trump of God
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and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
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And we saw in the previous episode
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that the Lord himself is going to descend.
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He's going to make a downward
movement from the highest
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heavens into the atmosphere just above the earth.
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And when he comes, Jesus himself is going to let out a shout
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that is going to rouse all of the forces.
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Then there's going to be
the voice of an archangel.
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And the voice, the Greek word phone, describes a massive,
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massive voice.
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And this voice also will
rouse all the troops
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and then there will be the trump of God.
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And this word trump is
a very specific word,
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the Greek word salpingx, which describes a war trumpet.
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And also the same trumpet
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And when the salpingx,
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or this trump was blasted, it was the announcement
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that a massive battle
was about to commence.
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And it was also a pre-war declaration
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that God or the enemy...
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or the the one commencing the battle, would end up
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in total victory.
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So when Jesus comes with the trump of God
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and that trump blasts,
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it is the declaration the
final battle has commenced,
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and it is the declaration
that God is going
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to end up standing in total victory.
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But this word salpingx,
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the word trump, was also used in a court of law.
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And when it was blasted,
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it meant the verdict has been
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and now the verdict will be executed.
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not only will it be a war declaration,
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not only will it be a proclamation
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that God's forces are
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it will be the declaration
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that heaven has examined
all the evidence on the face
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of the earth about the
activities of the unrighteous
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and a verdict has issued.
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to execute the verdict of judgment.
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And of course, when
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that's when the day of the Lord begins,
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which is when God will pour judgment bowls
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of wrath out upon the earth
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to carry this verdict of judgment.
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But the verse goes on to say -
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For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout
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and the voice of the archangel
and with the trump of God
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and the dead in Christ shall rise -
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notice it says - first. That word first is very important.
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But let's go back to verse 15: For this
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we say unto you by the word of the Lord
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that we which are alive
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and remain under the coming
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of the Lord shall not prevent
them which are asleep.
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The word not in Greek
is a negative partisan.
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It's very emphatic.
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They shall emphatically
not prevent them which
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are asleep.
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The word prevent is actually
a Greek word which means
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to precede.
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Paul is describing a sequence of events.
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As excited as we are about
the rapture of the church,
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we are not gonna be the first to go up.
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The first to go up are going to be those
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that are asleep in Jesus.
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And the word asleep is a
Greek word which pictures the
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sleep of death.
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It describes the physical
dead bodies of those
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who have previously died in faith.
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Now when we die, we
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but our bodies remain in the grave.
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But the Bible says when Jesus
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that have previously died in faith.
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to be resurrected and
they're gonna be reconnected
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with their physical bodies.
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This is truly a miracle.
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But first things first;
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before we're raptured, the Bible says,
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first the dead are going to be raised.
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But I wanna go to another scripture. In 2 Corinthians
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5:8,
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the apostle Paul says - We are confident I say
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and willing rather to
be absent from the body
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and to be present with the Lord.
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And in this verse we
have two important words:
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the word - absent and the word - present.
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And here we find the Bible doctrine
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that the moment a believer
dies, he becomes absent
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from the body
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and the word absent,
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the Greek word, ekdemeo, is a compound of the word, ek,
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and the word demos. The word ek, means out.
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It's where we get the word for an exit.
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The word demos pictures a place
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where people feel naturally at home.
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But when you compound
the two words together,
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it forms the Greek word, ekdemeo,
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that is translated absent in this verse,
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but it pictures one that has
made an exit from his home.
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And here we find the human body
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that we live in right now is
just a temporary home in its
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current condition.
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This is just the house that we live in.
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we immediately become exit.
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We make an ex exit from the body
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or we become absent from the body.
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And Paul goes on to say,
immediately we are present
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with the Lord.
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And the word present, is the word, endemeo.
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The word - en - means end.
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The word demeo, describes a home or a place of residency.
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that when a person dies in his faith,
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the human spirit makes an exit
from his natural human home
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that's our body -
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and immediately finds himself:
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his spirit is immediately at home with the Lord.
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So scripture unequivocally teaches us
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the moment an authentic Christian dies
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his spirit exits his body that he has lived in
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during his natural life,
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and immediately his spirit
is transported into the
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presence of the Lord.
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The mortal body may lay in the casket
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or lay in the grave as an empty shell,
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but the spirit is instantly in the presence
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of the Lord - there with others who have previously died.
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And they're waiting the moment when Jesus is going
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to descend into the lower atmosphere with a shout;
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they're waiting for the voice
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of the archangel and the trump of God
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and in that moment, Paul says their bodies are gonna be
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raised from the dead first - first -
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as a matter of priority.
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Then we which are alive,
we will be caught up
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to meet them in the clouds,
to meet the Lord in the air.
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This is very clear in scripture,
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but first the dead will be raised.
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And next in the sequence of
events, those that are alive
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and remain, the church that is
still alive under the coming
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of the Lord, we will be
caught up to meet the Lord
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in the air.
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You know, in James 4:14, James says, For
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what is your life?
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It's even a vapor that
appears for little time
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and then vanisheth away.
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It's good for us to remember
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that. The word vapor, is a Greek word which describes a mere
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breath, a short-lived mist, a puff of steam,
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or a passing vapor.
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The word appeareth, means to appear, to shine,
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or to become visible.
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And it emphatically means
even though our life is very
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short-lived, God intends
for us to brilliantly shine
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during the course of our life,
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that even if we brilliantly shine in the course of our life,
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our life is just here for a little time.
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The word, little time, in Greek is oligon.
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This Greek, oligon, describes whatever is small in number,
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a small amount of time, a small number of years
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or something that is
brief in terms of time.
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And in fact, James goes on in verse 14
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it says - eventually it vanishes away.
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And this word vanisheth, depicts that which once appeared,
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but suddenly disappears.
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And the RIV of James 4:14 says it like this:
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Let me ask you - this life of yours, what is it really?
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Isn't it in reality, a mere breath mist
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or passing vapor that becomes visible only
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for a relatively brief time
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and then poof, it evaporates
passes from the scene
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and it's gone.
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And of course, as one
gets older, he realizes
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how brief life really is.
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But eventually a time is coming
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when our bodies which are
laid in the grave are going
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to be resurrected and
reconnected with our spirits.
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And when we come to the RIV,
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our 1 Thessalonians 4:15, it's stated like this -
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For we declare this to you by
the word of the Lord, those
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who are spiritually
living, spiritually robust,
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spiritually thriving, spiritually vibrant
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and spiritually vigorous.
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I'm talking about the remaining remnant of spiritually alive
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and spiritually vibrant believers who've endured
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and will still be left
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around at the time of
the coming of the Lord.
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They will not perceive those
that have already died.
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But then in verse 16, he says, again -
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For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout
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with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God
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and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
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This word first is very, very important.
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And the word rise is very important.
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The word first, the Greek
word proton means in the first
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place or first in order.
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So in the order of events,
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the debt are gonna be raised first,
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but listen to what the word, raised, means.
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The word raised is a Greek word that means to rise,
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to be resurrected, to stand again.
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And it was used to denote the
rising of emperors, kings,
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nobility, and royalty -
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which means when we are raised from the dead, we will raise,
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be raised according to who we really are.
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In the mind of God, we
will be emperors, kings,
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nobility, royalty.
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We will be VIP when we
are raised from the dead
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and reconnected with our
spirits which have descended
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with the Lord my friends.
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This is what the Bible teaches.
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And the RIV of 1 Thessalonians 4:16 says it like this;
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For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven
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and take charge with a mighty military command
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to arouse the saints and galvanize God's troops to action.
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And along with that command, precisely at
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that time will also be heard
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the immense voice of the archangel, along with a blast
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of God's war trumpet intended to give the signal
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that the final battle, ultimate victory
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and the vanquishing of all God's enemies are about to occur.
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That war trumpet blast will be the declaration
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that God's enemies have lost
their longstanding battle
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with him and that he reigns victorious
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and supreme over everyone,
over every situation
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and over every realm in total victory
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and exactly when
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that war trumpet sound goes forth is when the dead in Christ
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will immediately stand
up right on their feet
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as they're resurrected
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to a brand new resurrected royal status.
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This resurrection will take
place as a first priority
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before the next sequence
of events takes place.
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And the followings in this sequence
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of events will be the
rapture of the church.
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But we're out of time. We've covered a lot
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of material today.
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I've got more to say to you
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and then I'll be back in just a moment.
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And this building is just so wonderful.
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You know, the Bible tells us in Proverbs 10:21, the lips
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of the Righteous Feed many.
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And I know that is our assignment.
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God has called us to feed many
people the trusted teaching
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of the Bible.
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And together with you and all of our partners,
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we really are taking the trusted teaching of the word of God
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to the very ends of the earth.
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But this is the reception
part of the Tulsa building.
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And every day thousands
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of phone calls come into
this facility from people
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that are watching the program
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and who are reaching out for prayer.
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Right now we've paid off about 78% of this facility
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and that is just wonderful.
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But now we need to knock
it out of the ballpark.
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We need to finish this
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because when we're finished
paying off this facility,
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that frees up finances
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so we can take the teaching of the Bible
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to more places across
the face of the earth
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where people are crying out for someone
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to feed them the word of God.
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And so today, if you're not already a part
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of our Giving Team to pay off
this facility, I'm asking you
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to join us as a part of our
Ministry Expansion Project
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to pay off this facility and
we can say, done, finished,
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and give glory to God and my friends,
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we can only do it with your help.
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So thank you if you're
already part of the team,
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and if not yet part of the
team, please join us as a part
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of the Giving Team to pay off this facility
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so we can be finished with it
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and use these funds to
take the gospel further
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to other places across the world.
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I think this teaching
about the resurrection
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of the dead is just thrilling. My friends,
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it is in the future of all of us,
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there's gonna be a
resurrection of every person
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that's died in Christ.
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And then we, which are alive
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and remain, we're gonna be caught up
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to meet the Lord in the
air with all of them.
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It's just going to be glorious
and it should comfort us
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and encourage us.
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And when you hear the teaching correctly,
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it doesn't scare you.
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It really comforts you.
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And that's why I want you to get the series called, The
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Rapture, the Antichrist
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and the Tribulation, which comes
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with a wonderful study guide.
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And please, please, please get the book.
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The book is 464 pages from cover to cover.
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And the name of the book is
The Antichrist, The Rapture,
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the Tribulation, and End-Times Countdown,
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And What Happens Next?
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God wants you to be informed.
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And the reason I wrote this
book is to remove your fear
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and to give you peace about the future.
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So please order yours today,
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but you can order all these
things by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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And I remind you again that
we're waiting for the phone
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to ring right now so we can pray for you.
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If you don't wanna order anything
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but you've got a prayer
need, reach out to us
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because we are here to pray for you
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and we believe it's a
major part of our ministry
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to put our faith out there with you
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for whatever you are facing.
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And Father, we thank in the
wonderful name of Jesus.
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The grave is not the end. Oh, we're so thankful
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Father. We thank you that to be absent from the body is
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to be present with the Lord.
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And one day our bodies will be resurrected
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and reconnected with us.
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This is a miracle, and
we say thank you for it.
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In Jesus' name. Amen. Wow.
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Well, I'll see in the next program.
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But remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word
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of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never 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 prayed
the prayer of salvation
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with us, 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.
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This program was made
possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.