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of the God called partners
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Welcome to today's program.
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This is Rick Renner and friends,
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today I have a special guest, Rabbi Schneider,
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whose TV program is called
Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
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I've been watching his
program for years and years
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and I love his program and he
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and his wife Cynthia, have
become very precious friends
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of me and Denise.
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And today he's gonna be speaking to you,
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Decoding the Torah - comes with a study guide
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and we're also going to be offering you
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and teaching from his book,
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which is called, Decoding the Torah - a book
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that I have read from cover to cover.
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And the reason I'm offering it to you is
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because I believe this book is going
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to be a blessing to you.
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It's going to open the
laws of the Torah to you
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and give it a Christian
context for your life.
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It is just so rich and it is so good.
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Now I want you to stay with
me all the way to the end
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of today's program, me and
Rabbi Schneider as today
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he addresses how Jesus fulfilled the law.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the
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world. Let's join
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Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and I've just been waiting
for the clock to strike
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so we could begin today's program with Rabbi Kirt Schneider.
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And I'm so excited that he is with us.
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And I want to tell your friend
that I'm very serious about
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who I bring to you to
minister on my TV program
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because this is very serious.
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And Rabbi Schneider is
a serious man of God
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and has such a firm grasp on scripture.
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I regularly watch his program.
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I say to my wife all the
time, Denise, listen to that.
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Did you hear what he just said?
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My heart just leaps when I
listen to Rabbi's program,
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which is called Discovering
the Jewish Jesus.
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And if you've never seen
it, you need to find it
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and it's a program that
you should tune into.
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But Rabbi, I wanna say
welcome to my program,
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Brother,
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thank you for being such an
inspiration to me, to my wife.
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I love you and I'm very honored, truly blessed to be able
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to spend time with you
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before your audience around God's word.
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Well, when I was in your
home, Denise and I came
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and spent a couple days
with you and Cynthia
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and it was so wonderful
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and you gave me a copy
of your brand new book,
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which is called Decoding the Torah.
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And as I told you in the last episode,
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it was like fireworks just
ignited on the inside of me.
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I could hardly wait to
get on the next airplane
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so I could sit down and open this book
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and begin to take a look at it.
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It is just amazing.
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And you have done in this
book what I'm not able to do.
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You have taken 100 laws from the Torah.
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There's 613 laws, you've
taken a hundred of them
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and given them application
to my life as a Christian.
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And I wanna say thank you for
that. Thank you, thank you.
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And I know that you wanted
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to make a comment about John 1:16,
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and what you're gonna
say is very important.
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So Rabbi, let's go there. - Thank you
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Brother.
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It's really something
that God wants to heal.
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And what I'm speaking of
is the fact that his people
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are disconnected from the
Hebrew roots of their faith,
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including the law of God
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or the Torah, which means instruction.
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The Torah has got self revelation. - So the word word Torah
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means instruction.
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Yes, the word Torah means instruction.
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That's why Paul said yes,
go ahead brother, please.
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So if we read it, if we study it,
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we're gonna receive instruction.
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Brother more, more than we know.
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Okay. - The Torah's got self revelation.
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I'm telling you, I'm telling you,
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the Torah will will put something in you
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that you cannot get by just
reading the New Testament.
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That's why the New Testament begins in Matthew 1:1
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by the Torah - quoting the Torah.
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This is the genealogy of Jesus
Christ, the son of David,
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the son of Abraham.
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The very first verse in the New Testament, Matthew 1:1
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goes back to the Torah.
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Jesus is the continuation of the Torah.
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He's the fulfillment of the Torah,
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he's the embodiment of it.
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And he said that those that study the Torah in Matthew 5,
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will be called graced in the kingdom of God.
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But antisemitism, as I said yesterday,
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crept into the church very early.
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For example, in the 300's, Constantine
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who was the ruler of the Roman Empire,
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became an anti-semite.
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He declared Christianity the state religion
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in the Roman Empire.
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But because he was an anti-semite, he purposely tried
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to separate what we call Christianity
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from the Jewish roots of Christianity.
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So he tried to outlaw, for example, the celebration
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of certain Jewish holy days.
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And he really set the church on a path
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that led them away from the Torah.
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And as a result of this, for hundreds
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and hundreds of years, well-meaning Christians,
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sincere believers that are hungry for God,
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have not had an opportunity to learn the Torah
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and its applicability for their life today
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because of antisemitism.
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To show you how deep this goes, Rick, think
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of the King James version of the Bible.
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A great beautiful classic translation of the Bible,
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possibly the most influential version
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of the Bible worldwide
that's ever been written.
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It's influenced so many
people for so long.
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Listen, the way the King James version
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of the Bible translates the gospel of John
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1:16 and 17.
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And of his fullness of all we received
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and grace for grace for the law was given
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by Moses -
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but - catch that word
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but - but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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So we're gonna really pay attention now to, to figure out
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what we're reading. Of his fullness
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we have all received and grace for grace.
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For the law was given by Moses, but grace
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and truth came by Jesus. The word -
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but - there sets up a contrast.
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It sounds like the law that
came by Moses is opposite
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the grace that came to us through Jesus.
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It's kind of like, Rick, you
and I go to dinner together
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and we enjoy the food a lot,
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but it took like an
hour for the food to get
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to our table after we ordered it.
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So the manager of the restaurant is making his rounds
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and he comes over to our table
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and says, how, how was the meal?
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And you say to him,
well, the food was good,
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but the service was poor.
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The butt sets up a contrast.
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So it makes it sound when we
read the King James version,
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that the law that was given to us
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by Moses is opposite the
grace that came by Jesus.
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But for those of our audience today
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that actually have a hardbound, King James Version
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of the Bible, they'll read that verse in John 1:17,
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and they'll see that the word - but - is in
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italics. - Which means
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it was it was added by the translators.
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Exactly, it was added
by the translators.
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You would know that better
than anybody in your,
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in your discipline of Greek study.
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And so the translators, they
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because they had wrong theology going all the way back
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to this antisemitism that I just illustrated,
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coming from Constantine,
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they thought the law was anti-grace.
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But let's look at what it really says.
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I'm gonna go to the New American Standard 1995 version here,
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by the way, you can go to different versions
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and you'll see that what I'm
saying is true in probably
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whatever version you're gonna read today
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because the King James translators actually corrected this
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mistake when they made the New King James version.
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So let me, let's just look at this for a second
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from the NASB here. For of his fullness
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we have all received and grace
upon grace. How many graces?
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Two graces, right?
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Grace upon grace: for of his fullness,
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we've all received grace upon grace.
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One grace stacked on top of another.
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Then we continue in the 17 verse - For the law was given
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through Moses, grace
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and truth were realized
through Jesus Christ.
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So the point is - 2 graces.
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The first grace was the law,
that was an elementary grace.
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It was preparatory grace.
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It was the, it was the,
it was the foundation
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that the fullness of
grace was placed upon.
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And so law is not opposite grace,
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it was an elementary grace.
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It's both the, the fullness
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of Jesus was realized when he came
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and revealed to us, well, let
me say it a different way.
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The fullness of God's grace
was realized through Jesus.
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But an elementary grace
had already broken into the
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world through the law.
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And so I just wanna help our
audience today understand
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that the law is not anti-grace.
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The laws are preliminary and administrative grace.
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And it teaches us how
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to walk out the earthy, nitty gritty
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details of our lives.
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And that's I think, Rick,
where we left off last time
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as you were speaking
about the law concerning
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how the priesthood during the
time of Moses were instructed
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to dress and how looking at
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that law in the Torah has
application for us today.
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You know, if you think about
the world, when the law came,
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when the Torah came, it was a pagan world.
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There were, it was a world of no rules.
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It was a world of chaos
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where every man did what he wanted to do.
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But when God began to speak
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and God began to provide
his law, his rules, it began
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to provide boundaries.
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It began to provide safety.
It was loving protection.
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And it's wrong when
people just foo the law
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and say, well, it's not important.
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It was very important.
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And there's still so much
for us to gain from it.
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And I've gained so much
by reading your book,
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Decoding of the Torah.
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And I wanna go back to where
we left off yesterday, Rabbi,
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but thank you for sharing that
about grace on top of grace.
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That is really good.
And you've inspired me.
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I wanna go dive into
the Greek of that verse
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because that's pretty exciting.
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But one of the commands of the Torah, one of the 613,
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is the command for the priest to take care
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of their appearance.
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And Leviticus 10:6 says - Then Moses said to Aaron
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and to his sons, do not uncover your heads
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nor tear your clothes.
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And yesterday we had just begun on that.
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And I commented that one thing
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that really bothers me
is the way people dress.
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It really bothers me. When you go to church
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and please, I'm not wanting
to step on anybody's toes,
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but I probably am going to.
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But when you go to church
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and it looks like everybody
is dressed to go to a picnic,
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they don't look like they're
dressed to go to church.
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Well, do you know the way
you dress really shows
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what you respect.
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If you were to go meet the president
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of the United States in the Oval Office,
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you would not go in sandals,
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that were all falling apart.
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you would look the finest
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you could look because you're going into the Oval Office.
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we're coming into the presence
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of the greatest figure in the universe.
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who we are representing.
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the Greek word kerux. The word kerux was the word which
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described the spokesman of the king.
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it obligated you to represent him well.
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You had to accurately repeat
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You could not add your own interpretation.
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or just have a fun time.
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He was speaking on behalf of the king.
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to be cultured when he spoke to people
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because if he was rude to people,
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it would be a poor reflection on the king.
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to give it sternly but
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that he was representing the king.
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of the kingdom dressed in shoddy clothes,
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that would be the last
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of the kingdom to represent the king.
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That would be an insult to the king.
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And when I saw this particular law in your book,
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it really touched me
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because I'm disturbed at the way that people dress in church
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as believers, as preachers.
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It disturbs me. And I believe
that we have lost respect for
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who we are and for who we represent.
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But would you please comment
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Well, I love what you just said.
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We've lost respect for who
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and our purpose in Him in the earth.
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That really is a nutshell
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We're not talking about legalism here.
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We're talking about
understanding who God is,
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having an appreciation and
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a beautiful holy reverence for that
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and understanding our calling on the earth
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as priest; that's what it's about. It's a heart issue.
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It's not a legalistic issue.
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You think about Moses, the Lord said, take off your sandals
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for your standing on Holy ground.
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Again, people can maybe not hear
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what we're saying about this.
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One of the values in studying
the law is it restores
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to us a holy reverence for the Lord.
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And the church, I think by
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and large, really needs a, a big dose of,
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of holy fear of the Lord.
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People think, oh, you know,
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we've been delivered
from fearing the Lord.
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This is the concept that's often communicated in the church.
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We don't fear the Lord anymore
because we have Jesus now
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and we don't have to be afraid.
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But listen, the fear of
the Lord, the holy, clean
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fear of the Lord is empowering.
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It's beautiful.
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The spirit of the fear of the Lord,
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the prophets tell us rest upon Jesus.
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Yeshua said, do not fear man that's able to destroy the body
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and then do nothing more but fear him
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Jesus said, that's able to destroy both
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soul and body in hell.
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Now what I'm, what I'm
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that we're walking
around afraid, you know,
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walking on eggshells all the time,
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but what I am suggesting is
that we need to be restored
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to having a beautiful,
holy fear of the Lord.
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of the Lord is shown is
having a proper respect
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for God and a sense of
who he is as the king
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and how we are relating to him,
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which sometimes we can see is
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as you suggested, when
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in their sandals, torn up jeans, whatever that looks like.
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many, without realizing it,
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are coming to worship God dressed in a way
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that not only is not
appropriate to worship him,
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but more, more defiled,
if I can use that word.
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but more of an issue is the fact
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that many are walking into
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to draw attention to themselves.
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of the people on the worship platform
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that are leading the music,
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and I mean, I'm just saying men are very
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visually stimulated.
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because as men we have
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to take responsibility for our own eyes.
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We have to take responsibility
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But when women are coming into services
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and leading worship, you know,
with these blouses, you know,
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and strapless shirts
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and tight jeans, I mean this is not designed
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to give glory to God
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because the scriptures are very clear
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that we're to dress modestly.
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And in fact, one of the laws in relationship
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to this in the Torah comes from the book
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of Exodus 20:26.
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Rick, here it's the commandment dealing with
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how God's priest should address.
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Okay. And the specific law here is
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that the Lord said to the priest that they should not ascend
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to his altar by way of steps,
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but instead he said they
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that their nakedness would not be exposed.
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Exodus 20:26, what's going on here?
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steps did not have risers.
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In other words, you have a step here, there wasn't a riser
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between one step and the next step. It was just a step,
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then a blank space, and then the next step
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and then a blank space and the next step.
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where the priest was walking
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you'd be able to see
underneath their garments,
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their nakedness would be exposed.
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And so God said, I don't want
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It's not proper in my presence.
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So he said, build a ramp so
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to see underneath our garments.
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It's really the principle of modesty.
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people, you know, that,
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that we don't need to be coming to church.
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even pointed out to me
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to just earlier this week about somebody
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that was leading their worship team
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and the whole worship team,
men were wearing muscle shirts
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and the guy was really well built.
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And it just like a woman said, you know,
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women are visually stimulated too.
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We need to ask ourself why we're
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dressing the way that we're dressing.
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Are we dressing to draw
people to our flesh
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and for our own attention?
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Or are we dressing in a
way that glorifies God?
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And finally, if I could
just conclude by saying
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that this doesn't mean that
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it just means that we shouldn't dress sensuously
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cause the Lord actually told the priest to dress in garments
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of glory and of beauty,
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You know, rabbi, I,
I'm a pastor as well,
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and I'm always glad when
people come to church
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and I just want 'em to come
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to church even if they don't have any,
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anything nice to wear.
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And some people really don't
have anything nice to wear.
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And so I'm, I'm really not picking an issue with people
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who don't have something nice to wear.
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One time we were having an
event in the United States
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and we asked people to wear a dress.
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And the women that we were speaking to,
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they didn't own a dress
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because dresses are not popular anymore.
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All they had was pants, suits and pants.
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And so the culture really has changed,
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but I think that we should be the best
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that we can be right there.
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We represent the Lord. We do.
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And I understand that culture changes,
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and I'm not nitpicking on culture
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because it's gonna continue to change,
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but whatever we do, we
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We should think about what we represent
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and how we affect other people.
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It is really very, very important.
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And I appreciate the fact
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that you opened this law
from the Torah for me.
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Well, it's really, it's
just a hard issue, right?
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It really is. I mean I just perceive
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that people can get a wrong
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It's just a heart issue.
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It's just a proper love
and respect for the Lord
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and wanting to give him our best
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and dressing in a way that is appropriate
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and the best that we can do.
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As you said, people have different means.
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And you know, people only have
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so much control over their appearance,
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but to do it out of our
heart, out of love for God,
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and out of our desire to reflect
him in the world in a way
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that brings him glory to
the best of our ability.
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And that's a law of the Old Testament.
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That's a law of the Old Testament - that's a law.
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Doesn't it help to, doesn't it help
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to know the Old Testament laws? I mean, it brings
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clarity.
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It really does.
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And know Paul was, he was a
pharisee of the Pharisees.
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He was so schooled in scripture.
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writings, a lot of
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what Paul writes about is
based in the Old Testament.
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So I'm so grateful that
you've written this book,
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but there's another law I
really want us to talk about,
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and we don't have time to get into it
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today, but it is the law -
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are you ready for this. I know you're ready for it
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because you wrote it - to offer no strange incense on the
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altar - ay, yi..yi.
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And Exodus 30:9 says,
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You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar
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or burn offering or meal offerings.
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And you should pour out a drink offering on it.
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What in the world is strange incense and a strange offering.
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And that's what I would like for us
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to talk about in the next program.
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But we're out of time. But Rabbi, thank you for being
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with me and please join me again tomorrow.
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And friends, I'll be back in just a moment.
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How does a person receive salvation?
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Well, that's a really important question.
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We're told by Peter when
he was preaching on the day
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of Pentecost in Acts 2:38,
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that we are to repent.
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We're also told in Acts 16,
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that if you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
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thou shall be saved.
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We're told in Romans 10,
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if any man will say, Jesus
is Lord, he will be saved.
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So really we find three components.
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No.1: you've got to repent, you've got to believe,
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and you've got to say with your mouth.
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And this is important because
your voice is your authority.
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And when you say Jesus is
Lord, you're literally saying,
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I'm giving you the ultimate
control of my life.
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And of course that comes with repentance
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and it comes with faith.
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The salvation, according to Ephesians 2,
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is the gift of God.
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It's not of works lest
any man should boast.
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But really these 3 components are required - repentance,
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faith, and confession.
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Are you missing the
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how the law still speaks
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as a burden, but as a guide to holiness
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and intimacy with God.
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In this 5-part series, you will discover:
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How the Torah still applies to mankind today -
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How Jesus fulfills the law rather than replaces it -
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The danger of violating God's design - Why it's important
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to not just follow the crowd - available in digital
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or physical formats, starting at just $11.
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This teaching will give you
a new perspective on the Old
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Testament and why it matters today.
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In addition to this teaching series,
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you can order Rabbi Schneider's book, decoding the Torah,
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which will teach you that Jesus didn't come
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to abolish the law, but to fulfill it.
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Order your copy today.
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with guest Rabbi Schneider, starting at $11.
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And the book of the same name by Rabbi Schneider for $25.
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Hey, this is Rick Renner
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and I'm standing inside the Partner Care
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Department of our ministry.
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And this is where the action takes place.
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Thousands of phone calls every day
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and every month come into
this place from people
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reaching out to us.
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And this is my precious
mother who is in heaven
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and she established this
part of the ministry.
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But these are the principles we are dedicated to:
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To feed the entire flock God has brought to this ministry.
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To strengthen those who are diseased in any area
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of their lives. To bring healing to those in need of
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any type of healing. To bind up those
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who are broken in any area of their lives.
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To bring back those that have been driven away.
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To reach the lost, and to take the gospel
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and the trusted teaching of the Bible to the ends
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of the earth. To shepherd the flock that God has caused
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to hear the voice of this ministry
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and to help them grow in their relationship with Christ
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and become powerful
Bible-based believers equipped
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for these last days
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and - To thank and minister
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to partners whose sacrificial gifts have enabled this
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ministry to fulfill its call around the world.
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And we are very committed to these principles.
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And if you're a partner, you know,
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we're very serious about that.
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But hey, right now we're trying to pay off this facility
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and those who are part
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of the Ministry Expansion Project are helping us to do that.
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And if you're a part already, thank you.
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But if you're not part of that
giving team yet, we need you.
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So would you please become a part
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of the Ministry Expansion Giving Team
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so we can pay off this facility
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and then keep taking the gospel to the ends of the Earth
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where people really are crying out for someone
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to bring them trusted teaching of the Bible.
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And that's us, that's our call
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and my friends together, we can do this.
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And I want to say thank you so much.
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Well, I wanna say thank you for joining me
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and Rabbi Schneider for today's program.
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I'm just so blessed that
Rabbi Schneider has joined us
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for the program this week.
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That's a big sacrifice of his time.
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And Rabbi, I'm very grateful and friend.
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I'm grateful that you get to partake
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of his wonderful insights from the Torah.
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And the whole series,
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which we're teaching this week
is called Decoding the Torah
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comes with a study guide
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and we're also offering Rabbi's book
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that I have read from cover to cover.
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He gave it to me personally when I was
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visiting with him and his wife.
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I immediately began to
read it and I devoured it.
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It's called, Decoding the Torah,
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applying ancient wisdom in a modern world.
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It deals with 100 of
the laws from the Torah,
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and it provides for them
a Christian context for me
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and for you.
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But you can order all these
things by going online
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and you'll be so glad
that you ordered them
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because they're really good.
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And when you reach out to us,
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always let us know how to prayer for you.
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We're told in Jeremiah 33:3, Call into me,
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I'll hear you, I'll answer you,
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and I'll show you great and mighty things.
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And when you reach out to us
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by calling the number on the screen
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or by sending us an email,
we will call out to God
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with you in faith.
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He promises he will hear us
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and he will do what needs to be done.
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He's going to do something
great and mighty for you.
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So please, please let us know how
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to pray for you.
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And I wanna pray for you right now.
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Father, I pray that you enable us to apply
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what we have learned in today's program.
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We thank you for such amazing
truth from the Old Testament.
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Lord, we ask you to change us
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and we ask you to empower
us in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Well, I'll be back here tomorrow
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and Rabbi is gonna be with me again.
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So I'll see you in the next program.
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But please remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 says,
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"Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and
receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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Thank you for joining
Rick Brenner today.
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For more information
about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called Partners of Renner Ministries.