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This program is made
possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
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of Renner Ministries. Hey, this is
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Rick Renner.
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It's the end of the week.
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It seems like this week has just flown by.
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And of course I've been here
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with Rabbi Kirt Schneider
every single day.
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And today he's going to take
us into the Torah to see a law
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that says we're not to
follow an evil majority.
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It is so helpful.
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But I want you to order the whole series, which we're doing
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with him this week, which is called, Decoding of the Torah.
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Comes with a study guide
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and I want you to be
sure to order his book,
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which is called, Decoding of the Torah.
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The back of the book says,
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Unlock the Torah's Hidden Treasures
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for a Deeper Walk with God.
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And you know, I found that's
what this book really does.
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It took me places in the
Torah, which I've never been
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to in my life.
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And today we we're gonna see
that we are commanded not
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to follow an evil majority.
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So let's join Rabbi Schneider
as we take a deep dive
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and decode the Torah.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and today it's Friday,
it's the end of the week,
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and these programs have
just gone like that.
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And I'm talking about programs
with Rabbi Kirt Schneider,
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whom I love and respect so much.
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And he gave me a copy of his book,
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which is called, Decoding the Torah.
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This is an amazing book
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and as I've told you, you
need a copy of this book.
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I did not realize how
much I needed this book,
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but when we were at their
home, he gave me a copy
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and I immediately dove into it
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and I begin to realize there's
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so much I do not know about these laws.
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And in the tour there are 613 laws,
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but in this book he
covers a hundred of them
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and really gives them a context for our Christian lives.
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And Rabbi, I wanna welcome
you back to the program,
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Brother
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it's been a great week filming with you
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and teaching with you and sharing fellowship
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together.
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Well, it's been wonderful to be together.
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And today I would like
to go to the next law.
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Are you ready? I'm ready.
I really loved this one.
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It is to not follow an evil majority.
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Amen.
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And the scriptures Exodus 23:2, which says,
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You shall not follow the masses in doing evil.
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I mean, if there's ever been
a law for our day, this is it.
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But goes on to say,
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you shall not follow the
masses in doing evil,
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nor shall you testify in a
dispute so as to turn aside
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after a multitude in
order to pervert justice.
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And Rabbi, when I read
this one, I thought, wow,
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if anything is pertinent to
the day that we're living in,
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it is this law.
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Would you like to comment on that?
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Well, I love how the Torah
strengthens us in our walk
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with God because we all know
that we're living in a world
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that is drifting from God's moral truth.
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But to see in the ancient
Torah, God giving a law
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to his people to not
follow an evil majority,
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it just strengthens us
to stand strong today.
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As you said, Rick, when
we're living in a culture
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of such compromise, it helps us
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to stay strong despite the fact
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that being strong in him will
bring alienation to the world
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around us and make us feel alienated.
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But we need to stand strong
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and stay strong even as
Israel is a separate people
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and was a separate people,
we are a separate people
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and part of our calling and
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because we practice this law
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of not following an evil majority from Exodus 23:2, part
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of our calling is to
be rejected with Jesus.
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The scripture tells us we've
been chosen not only to reign
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with Yeshua, but to suffer with them.
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So I wanna encourage our listeners
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and viewers today, don't allow yourself to adopt
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compromise to, to adopt the the
value system of the culture.
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This means you'll have to make decisions in your life
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that will separate you,
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make you feel like the odd man out in..criticism.
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I remember Rick, for example,
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I made a personal decision.
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This is just me. I'm not
saying anything other than me,
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but I just experienced this, to not give in
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to the prevailing culture,
to not follow something
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that I feel would get in the way
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of my relationship with God.
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I remember during Covid,
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and I personally made a decision
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to not get the vaccine, not just me.
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And the reason that I didn't
was twofold: No.1:
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because I had already got COID.
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So I trusted in my own body's immunity.
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No.2, because I just personally didn't trust it
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because it was so new and
I just didn't trust it.
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But the but the rejection
that I got and the,
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and the pressure that I got from my doctor
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and the healthcare professionals and family and friends.
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But the Lord says, don't bow to your culture.
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Don't follow an evil majority.
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And again, I'm not calling people
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that got the COVID vaccine evil.
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I've got good friends that choose, choose,
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choose to get the vaccine.
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But for me to follow, that
would've been a violation
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of my own heart of putting
this law into practice.
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I would've allowed myself
to follow a, a majority
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because of pressure.
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And we need to resist being
conformed to social pressure.
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You know, if we follow the word of God,
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it's gonna put us in a different category.
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Yeah. We're told in 1 Peter 2, that we are
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to be a peculiar people.
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And if people look at us like
we're peculiar, that's okay.
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That's what we're supposed to be.
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But thank you so much for writing that law.
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Now I wanna ask you about another one. Are you ready? Okay.
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Yeah. - And this one is to live in a way
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that does not profane God's name.
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I love this one, Rabbi.
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And the scripture is Leviticus 22:31-33.
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And it says, so you shall keep
my commandments and do them.
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I'm the Lord. You shall
not profane my holy name,
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but I will be sanctified
among the sons of Israel.
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I'm the Lord who sanctifies
you, who brought you out
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of the land of Egypt to be your God.
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I am the Lord.
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But in the very middle of it, it says,
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you shall not profane my holy name.
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Can you give us context about how
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that applies to our life today?
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Well, the first thing I
think we would agree on is
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that most people when they hear about profaning God's name,
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they think one dimensionally about it.
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They think of taking God's name, using it as a curse word.
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And that is certainly an example of profaning
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God's name. We call it in Hebrew, Chillul Hashem
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degrading God's name.
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But degrading God's name,
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is much broader than just using his name as a swear word.
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So let's talk about
some of the ways that we
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as God's people can profane his name
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without recognizing it.
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No.1: we profane God's name when we refer to him
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or speak about God
casually, like for example,
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simply saying, oh God,
as kind of an expression
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of common speech, something happened, oh God;
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that really is profaning his name.
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I know that many of our people
might not mean to do that,
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but it is profaning his name
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because it's using it casually in social context
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rather than revering it and sanctifying it
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and relating to it as holy.
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Another way that we could
profane God's name is
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by professing to be believers,
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but then living in an ungodly way.
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So for example, if we
profess to be believers,
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but then the way that we talk
is a lot of complaining, a lot
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of murmuring, a lot of
speaking in such a way
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that we feel like we're
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criticizing other people.
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And yet we're saying we're Christians that we're followers
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of Jesus.
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Which by the way, the New Testament called the followers
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of Jesus as followers of the way.
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Remember Jesus said, I'm the
way, the truth and the life.
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We see this several times in
the Book of Acts that those
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that belong to the sect of the way.
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But regardless when we name the name of Yeshua of Jesus
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and then we criticize people and complain
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and murmur, we're really
degrading his name.
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But I'm gonna give a break
for a second. There's more.
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But perhaps Rick, you wanted
to throw something in here.
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I think this is really powerful.
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I was reading another
Jewish rabbi who also said
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that when you attribute to
God things that he did not do,
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it's also profaning the name of God.
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It's using his name in vain.
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And he gave the example about acts of God.
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That's what insurance companies call it.
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An earthquake, a fire, a tornado. These are acts of God.
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Well in fact, these really
are not acts of God,
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they're acts of nature.
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But when you attribute
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that particular rabbi
said this also is a way
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of using the Lord's name in vain.
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And people do it all the time.
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I love that. Okay. One of the be one
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of the beautiful things about Judaism is
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that there's been such time
spent on analyzing every
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single word, just like you do in Greek,
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Rick in, in the text.
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And so we're able to pull out
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of the text much more than people often associated the text
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with like we're doing right now.
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People thought profaning God's name is just
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using it as a curse word.
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But it's so much more, even
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with the example that you just gave.
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You know, one thing that
some may not be aware
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of is when we say to
someone, I swear to God,
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like someone says, listen, if
I tell you something you swear
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to God, you won't tell anybody that's profaning God's name.
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Jesus said, don't swear by God
above because, you know,
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and don't swear by anything.
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Let your yes be yes
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and your no by be no for anything else is evil. - Rabbi,
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I'm gonna tell you, if I had said, I swear, I swear
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to God, when I was growing up,
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my parents would've washed my mouth out
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with soap. I mean we were told You
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don't talk like that.
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Okay, let's move on - the next one. - Okay, brother.
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Well, basically anything
that we do that causes him
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to be disrespected is, you know, profaning his name.
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The opposite of this in Judaism,
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kodesh Hashem - kodesh Hashem.
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So the cursing God's name
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or bringing disrespect to his name is halual hashem.
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But sanctifying, God's name is called kodesh kashem.
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So we sanctify God's name when we treat it as holy,
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when we do our best to live in such a way
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that we're glorifying him in our lives.
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It's a great law. It's something
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that we should examine our hearts about.
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And I hope the people.....when they study,
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they'll begin to maybe identify some areas in their life
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where they've unknowingly
been desecrating God's name.
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This has such relevance
to our life today.
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But there's another law
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that really shocked me and it amazed me.
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I mean, it's really wonderful.
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And that is - here it is - to rebuke your neighbor.
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That's a law. Yeah. And the
scriptures Leviticus 19:17,
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which says, you may surely
reprove your neighbor,
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but shall not incur sin because of him.
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And it made me think of
Jesus teaching in the gospel
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of Luke when Jesus said,
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if your brother offends you, rebuke him.
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Jesus surely was speaking from this.
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This says, you may surely
reprove your neighbor.
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What does this law mean, Rabbi?
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Well, it's beautiful
'cause it's given in the
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context of love.
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Right before that, the Lord said,
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you shall not hate your fellow
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Then he says, you may surely reprove.
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So right before the Lord commanding us
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to rebuke our neighbor, he us,
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we should not hate our neighbor.
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But instead, what do many people do?
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Their neighbor does something
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that hurts them or offends them.
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Maybe the neighbor didn't
even know he did anything.
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Maybe the person that was hurt
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or offended, misunderstood
the whole situation.
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But rather than going to our neighbor
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and telling our neighbor
that what they did hurt us,
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or that it offended us, rather
than going to our neighbor
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to rebuke them,
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and this is, you know,
we hear that word rebuke
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and it sounds scary, you know,
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but rebuke, it's done in
the context of love here.
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The context in in which
the Lord is calling us
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to do this is in the
context for restoration.
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So it'd be, for example, Rick,
you know, when you said that
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to me the other day, it really hurt me.
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Or, I don't wanna say to you, Rick,
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that really made me mad.
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'cause if I say that really made me mad,
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then you're gonna kind of get up.
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You know, and you're gonna
probably get aggressive too.
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But you say, you know, you
know whoever that person is.
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When you said that to
me, it really hurt me.
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You know, or it really
made me uncomfortable,
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or it really bothered me.
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You do it in a way
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that you don't provoke
them to be threatened.
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If it's done correctly,
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what generally happens is
the person that hurt you
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or offended you will begin
to explain what they did,
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why they did it, and will
saw that we misunderstood
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or they'll apologize and
change their behavior.
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I have truly found in my life, Rick,
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and I'm not exaggerating this,
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and I'm a very bold person,
I will truly say that 85
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to 95% of the time when
someone has done something
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that has hurt me, offended
me, made me upset,
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and I've gone to that
person, we've been able
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to resolve the issue.
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They maybe said, I'm so sorry,
I didn't mean it that way.
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Or I completely misunderstood,
which is often the case.
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So I wanna, instead of
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of just letting something
fester in our hearts,
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which builds up walls, then
it becomes a grievance.
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And then the relationship is broken.
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So many relationships could be resolved.
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So many disputes
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or offenses could be
resolved if we would just go
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to the person that hurt us
and talk to them about it.
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Now, the law is to rebuke your neighbor.
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So can you define who your neighbor is?
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Well, we know,
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right?
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It's everybody. Let's
ask this question, right?
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Just like Jesus taught,
everyone's our neighbor.
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Let's talk about this for a second.
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When should we rebuke our neighbor
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and when shouldn't we rebuke our neighbor?
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And again, you hear that word
rebuke and it's kind of scary,
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but just think about it as you're going to talk to somebody
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to raise an issue that
hurts you or offended you,
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or you see them do something
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that's gonna hurt them or other people.
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It's challenging somebody.
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When should you and when shouldn't you?
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likely to keep happening.
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If somebody that you're
working with, for example,
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is doing something that's upsetting you
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and it's likely to keep happening,
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you should go talk to them about it.
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If it was a one-off, if
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or if it was trivial
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and it's not likely to happen again,
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probably you shouldn't go to them
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and rebuke them, just let it go.
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You just need to have
grace in some situation.
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and disrupt the relationship
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or harm other people,
it'd be a time to reprove.
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Another time to do it is
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of the relationship between
you and that person,
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or to protect other people
because of what they're doing.
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If you notice somebody behaving in a way
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that's hurting other people
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or is alienating them from other people,
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and you see it's a problem
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that you could resolve constructively by confronting them
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or rebuking them, you should go to them.
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You should not rebuke somebody if No.1:
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you are not emotionally ready.
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In other words, if
you're so mad at somebody
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and you go to them and what
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it's just your anger,
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it's not a good time to rebuke them.
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You need to wait to get
your head on straight.
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And as I said before,
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you should not rebuke somebody
if it was just a one-off.
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And finally, we should not rebuke somebody if it's unsafe.
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In other words, if there's a person whose head's just is not
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on straight and you're going up to them
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and challenging them is
gonna put you in a position
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that they're gonna, you
know, knock you in the face,
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probably just, it would be wise
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to just figure out another deal,
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way to deal with the situation.
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But I'm serious, Rick.
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85 to 95% of the time, I've been able
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to bring harmony into relationships when there was a break
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by going to that person
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and talking to that
person about the struggle.
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Rabbi, this is so
good, thank you so much.
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But there's one more law I want us
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to look at before we leave. - Okay.
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And that is the law to be happy on the pilgrimage festivals.
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Hmm, this is really important.
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And it's Deuteronomy 16:14, which says,
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And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son
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and your daughter, and your
male and female servants,
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and the Levite and the stranger and the orphan
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and the widow who are in your towns.
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What in the world is this particular law about? - It's so
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awesome.
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You know, there's so much
in the Hebrew scriptures
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and in the New Testament
as well about having joy
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and being happy.
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So the Lord is actually commanding his people to have joy
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before him and to be happy.
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And he actually cursed them
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because they didn't celebrate
all the good things he was
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doing for them.
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The enemy's always wanting us
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to look at the glasses being
half empty and half full.
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He's always wanting to discourage us.
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You know, we're looking
at a world where there's
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so many problems, it's
easy to become discouraged.
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So knowing that God wants us to be happy
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and is commanding us to be
happy, gives us an opportunity
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to shift our will
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and to come into
agreement with who God is.
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Because God by nature
is joy and he is happy.
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You know, one man said that
a person is about as happy
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as they make up their mind to be.
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I think that might be a
little bit over simplistic,
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but to always be putting in
front of us, you know what?
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My attitude's not acceptable.
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I need to find a way to
focus on something good
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and to be able to be as happy as possible.
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Here's something that's
really interesting, Rick.
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When the Lord revealed his name to us,
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you know Moses in the
book of Exodus, the Lord,
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chapter 3, God commanded Moses to go to Israel
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and speak to them on his behalf.
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And Moses said to the Lord, well,
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they're gonna say, who sent me?
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When they asked me the
Lord, Moses said to the Lord
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who sent me, what should I say to them?
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And the Lord said, there in Exodus 3:
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13 and 15,
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He said, I Am who I Am.
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And then he went out to say,
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Yahweh is my memorial name forever.
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So the name Yahweh,
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God's sacred covenant name
is connected to his name.
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I am who I am.
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And when you think about I
am who I am, God's covenant
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name, the concept is that God is
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beyond time.
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God fills up the past,
he fills up the present
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and he fills up the future.
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I am fills all dimensions of time.
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And time is divided into
three specific periods:
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past, future, and present.
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I'm focusing on the #-3.
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When you think about the
patriarchs of our faith,
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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
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there's three. When you
think about the tabernacle
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where the Lord met his people,
we have three sections:
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the outer court, the holy place, and the holy of Holies.
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And when you think about the
way the Lord has revealed
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himself to us in HaBrit HaChadashah,
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the New Testament, he did it
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as Father, son
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and Holy Spirit: again, we get 3.
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Why me I focusing on 3,
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because this commandment
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to be happy on the pilgrim festivals ties into the number
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3 because there's 3-pilgrim festivals: Passover,
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Pentecost, and Shavuot or
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or Passover, Pentecost, I
only know the Hebrew today.
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Passover, Pentecost, and Shavuot.
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Okay, so Pentecost, the
So Passover, Pentecost,
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and Tabernacles. I left off Tabernacles there. Three
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pilgrim feast.
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So the Lord says, on these 3-pilgrim feast, I want you
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to rejoice and be happy. Again,
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three. Three represents completeness, wholeness,
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and perfection.
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So what is this telling
me? If God is telling me
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that these three times of
year I should be happy,
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what this tells me is God is trying
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to develop in me a disposition
to be happy all the time
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because 3 represents wholeness
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and fullness and perfection.
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So the point is, is that we
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as God's people should practice being happy: practice being
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thankful.
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I think that, I think that
statement, you're as happy
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as you decide to be.
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I think there's a lot
of truth to that. Yeah.
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But Rabbi, we are out of time
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and this has just been so good.
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And I wanna say thank you for being
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with me every single day this week.
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It has been such a pleasure.
Thank you my friend,
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Brother,
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God bless you. Thank you so much for having me, Rick.
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It's been a privilege and a blessing.
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I'll be back in just a moment.
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Is it possible to give to help people with needs instead
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of tithing to a church?
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Well, it's possible to do anything,
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but that doesn't mean that it's right.
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It's very clear in Malachi 3 that the tithe is
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to be brought into the storehouse.
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And the storehouse is that place
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where you are regularly fed.
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That could be a church if
you don't attend a church,
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or maybe there's not a
church where you live,
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but there's a ministry
that is the storehouse
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that you're fed from.
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That's where you should
be giving your tithe.
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But then above that you can give alms,
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you can give offerings in
addition to your tithe.
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You know very well, Joel, that Denise
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and I are committed to giving our tithe.
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But in addition to the tithe,
we give additional offerings.
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We give offerings to all kinds
of people that are in need.
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Denise and I personally
give to other ministries
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and missionaries, but
that's not our tithe.
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Our tithe belongs to the storehouse.
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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
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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
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of 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, we have just wrapped
up a week of programs
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with Rabbi Kirt Schneider,
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and I'm gonna say to Rabbi: Rabbi, thank you for taking time
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to be with me. Denise and I love you, we love Cynthia,
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and we so value who you are and your ministry.
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Thank you for being our friends
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and thank you for
speaking to my TV family.
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But today, we're offering you
for the last time this week,
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the series, which is called, Decoding
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the Torah. It's Me and Rabbi.
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It's a 5-part series, comes with a study guide,
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and today is the last day that
we're offering Rabbi's book,
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which also is called, Decoding the Torah.
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And my friends, this book is really a blessing.
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As you've seen in the program today.
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He takes us places in
these Old Testament law
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that we've never thought about before.
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The things he shared today.
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He opened these scriptures to us in a way
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that I've never thought about them before,
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but it's all there.
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There's such ancient wisdom
for us in our modern world.
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The back of the book says,
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Unlock the Torah's Hidden Treasures
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for a Deeper Walk with God.
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I want a deeper walk with God,
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and I know that you want
a deeper walk with God,
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and this book will help
you develop that walk.
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But please also let us
know how to pray for you.
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Just call the number that is on the screen
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or send us an email.
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And when we hear from you, Denise and I
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and our team, we're gonna really pray
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and God is gonna hear
us, he's gonna answer us,
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and Jesus is really gonna do what needs
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to be done in your life.
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I believe that. So please call that number
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or send us an email.
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And Father, I thank you right
now that you've allowed us
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to have this precious
time every day this week
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with Rabbi Schneider.
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Lord, we pray that what we have heard this week will impact
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our life and that you will give us wisdom to apply it
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in the name of Jesus,
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Amen. This has been so good this week.
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Thank you for being with me.
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And 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 received Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen. If you just 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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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called Partners of Renner Ministries.