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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner.
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It's the middle of the week
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and today we're gonna take
a deep dive into 1st Peter
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2, and we're going to see
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that we are a holy priesthood
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and we are a chosen generation.
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That's who you are.
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In fact, you should just declare
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it with your own mouth right now.
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Say I am a part of a holy priesthood
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and I'm a chosen generation.
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And today we're gonna see what that means.
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But I want you to order the whole series,
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which is called You Are
A Chosen Generation.
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It's 5-parts.
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It comes in all kinds of formats,
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and it comes with a study guide.
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And I love my study guide 1st of all,
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because I put a lot of work into it.
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And not only is it a benefit
to you, it's a benefit to me
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because I devour the word
as I prepare this for you.
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It's like putting a banquet
on the table for you
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so you can read all the
information while you see it
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or hear it in the series.
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And the two of these together
will really cause you to grow.
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And we saw in yesterday's program
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that when you're fed the
sincere milk of the word,
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it causes you to exponentially
grow in every element
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of your salvation.
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That's why I'm teaching you
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and that's why I want
you to have this series.
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And we're also offering you
the RIV, the Green volume,
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Vol.II, which is called 1st
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& 2nd Peter, The Renner Interpretive Version,
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A Parallel Study Bible for People of Faith.
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And if you consider yourself
to be a person of faith,
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this is the study bible
you've been waiting for.
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& this is Vol.II.
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We already released James & Jude,
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but now you can order Vol.II, which is 1st
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& 2nd Peter.
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Now I want you to reach for your Bible,
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and today we're gonna go back to 1 Peter 2.
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But please remember that
if you have any need
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of prayer in your life,
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we are the ones you can call for prayer.
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Call the number that is on the screen
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or you can send us an
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And when you reach out to us,
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we will keep your need confidential
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and we will really call
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We're told in 1 John 5:14
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& 15, that if we pray anything according to his will,
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that's his word, he will hear us
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and we will have the petitions
which we request of him.
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Well, Denise and I and
our team, we know how
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to pray scripturally
according to his will.
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Maybe you're confronted with something
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you don't know how to pray about.
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Reach out to us, we'll pray with you.
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And if we pray scripturally,
if we pray according
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to his will, it's gonna open
his ears, he's gonna hear us
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and we're gonna have the petitions that we have made of him
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that is guaranteed in scripture.
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So if you've got a need, reach out to us
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and we want to pray with you.
But reach for your Bible
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and today we're gonna go back to 1 Peter 2:
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2, which is where we left off yesterday.
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We're gonna review it and
then we're gonna move on.
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But in 1 Peter 2:2, Peter says,
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As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word
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that you may grow thereby.
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Now, do you wanna grow as a Christian?
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This verse holds the key to spiritual growth.
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And if you say - You know what?
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I just feel like I'm not growing. Well,
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there's a reason that you're not growing.
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If you do certain things, you will grow.
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And this verse we find the
key to spiritual growth.
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And the King James Version says,
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as newborn babes desire the
sincere milk of the word
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that ye may grow thereby.
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But we saw yesterday
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that in this verse in
the original Greek tense,
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there's flavor, there's nuances which are not carried into
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the King James Version,
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but they are carried into the RIV,
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which is the Renner Interpretive Version.
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And here is the RIV of 1st Peter 2:2,
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listen to what it says.
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And just like newborn nursing babies,
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you must crave long and pine
for the unadulterated, pure,
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and sincere, nourishing and
sustaining milk of the word.
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because by your being in the word
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and consuming it - now here's what it says -
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you will exponentially grow
further into every aspect
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of your salvation, which
includes deliverance, healing,
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preservation, prosperity,
safety, and wholeness.
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But notice it says by
your being in the word
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and consuming it, which
means is not enough just
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to have a Bible in your
house, you've gotta open it,
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you've gotta read it just like
a newborn baby desires milk.
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You've gotta ache for the word of God.
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And by being in it
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and consuming it,
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this verse promises
you'll exponentially grow.
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And as we saw yesterday, footnote No.260 says,
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The words "you'll exponentially grow" are from a form of
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the word auxano, which denotes something that is amplified,
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augmented, enlarged, or enhanced,
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and even carries the idea
of something that escalates
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and multiplies as it grows
larger and larger and larger.
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That is the word that
is used here describing
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what will happen to you
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if you're in the word
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and you're consuming it;
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you will exponentially grow further into -
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into every aspect of your salvation,
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which includes deliverance,
healing, preservation,
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prosperity, and safety.
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And footnote No.262 explains all those words.
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Deliverance, healing, preservation, prosperity, safety,
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and wholeness are translated from the word soteria,
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which is derived from the Greek word sodzo,
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which is the package of salvation.
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Now my friends, salvation
really is a package.
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Yes, it is heaven,
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it is deliverance from
the power of the devil.
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It is a guarantee that you're gonna go
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to heaven when you die.
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But in salvation, in that word sodzo,
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it also includes deliverance.
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And if you're growing into every aspect of your salvation,
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it means you're being delivered from the power of the devil.
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You're experiencing
deliverance from sickness,
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deliverance from oppression.
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It includes healing,
which means physically
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and mentally you should be whole.
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It includes preservation,
which means the power
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of God in your salvation will
supernaturally preserve you.
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Prosperity that can be
prosperity of your soul
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or your finances, safety
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and wholeness, all of
that is in your salvation.
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And you know it's just a fact that people
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who are in the word and consume it, they have a better life.
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They really do. They think
right, they live right.
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They grow into every
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They experience deliverance,
they experience healing,
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they experience preservation.
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They experience prosperity,
safety, and wholeness
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because when you're consuming
the word of God, it causes you
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to exponentially grow into
all of these amazing elements.
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That is the promise of scripture.
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Now, that is 1 Peter 2:2 in the RIV.
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But now let's move to verse 3.
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And in verse 3,
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it is a very short little verse which says - If
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so be you've tasted
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that the Lord is gracious.
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If so be that you've tasted
that the Lord is gracious.
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But the RIV, pulling all the
nuances out of the Greek text
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interprets it like this.
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Now hear me - you already know this.
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If indeed you've already tasted
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and gloriously experienced
the melt in your mouth
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truth that the Lord is
benevolent, compassionate,
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considerate, gentle,
good, gracious, helpful,
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kind, mild sympathetic,
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and warmhearted. - Wow, what an interpretation.
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But the King James Version simply says - If so be
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you've tasted that the Lord is gracious.
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But the RIV says - You already
know all of this if indeed
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you've already tasted
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and gloriously experienced
the melt in your mouth truth.
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The truth of the word of God really is something
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that just melts in your mouth.
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It is so wonderful.
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And now Peter says to his
readers, you already know all
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of this if indeed you've already tasted.
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And the words, if indeed, are explained in footnote
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No.263, which says - The words "if indeed"
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are interpreted from the word ie which means if.
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But the language used
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Peter knew that his
readers had indeed tasted
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and discovered the Lord is gracious.
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So he basically says,
you already know this
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because you've tasted of the Lord
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and you've experienced this.
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So the RIV says - You already know this, if indeed
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you've already tasted
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and gloriously experienced
the melt in your mouth truth.
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That's what the word of God is - it's something so marvelous
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that when you taste it, it's
like something that just
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mm just melts in your mouth.
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Is that what the word of God is to you?
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Well, the reason the RIV interprets it like this is
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explained in footnote No.264, which says - The words
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you've already tasted and gloriously experienced
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the melt in
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your mouth truth - are from a form of a word which means
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to taste, but also includes the full experiencing
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of the essence and flavor of what is being tasted.
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That's what we're doing in the RIV.
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We're trying to taste the essence
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and the flavor of what we're tasting.
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It is not just tasting
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but fully experiencing what
is being tasted to the point
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of enjoying and savoring the experience.
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The RIV continues to say
in the footnote, any person
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who has tasted of the Lord understands that in him
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listen to this - in him are delicious experiences,
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divine truths
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and mighty power that stunned
one's spiritual taste buds.
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Indeed tasting of the Lord
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through his word can
provide every believer
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with the experience that causes his mercy
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and grace to melt in one's
mouth and heart as he
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or she dives more deeply into him.
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And my friends, according
to the Greek word
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that is used here, we
are supposed to enjoy
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and savor the experience of
consuming the word of God.
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And that's why the RIV says,
if you already know this,
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indeed because you've already tasted
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and gloriously experience
the melt in your mouth truth.
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And then it continues to say,
that the Lord is benevolent,
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compassionate, considerate, gentle,
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good, gracious, helpful, kind,
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mild, sympathetic, and warmhearted.
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That is quite an expansion
on the King James version,
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which simply says, the Lord is gracious.
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But you see that word gracious
is a very powerful word.
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And as we see in footnote No.265, the words
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"benevolent, compassionate, considerate, gentle,
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mild sympathetic
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and warmhearted - are a translation of chrestos,
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a word that portrays helpfulness,
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warmheartedness,
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and a willingness to
show goodness from one
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hearts to others.
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It was a trait so admirable
in the ancient world
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that it was viewed as an ideal
that everyone should seek
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to possess. It pictures one
who is attentive to the needs
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of others, beneficial
and helpful to others,
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or considerate of other
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and demonstrates this
kindness in some way.
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depict rulers, governors,
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or others in position of
power who were kind mild
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and benevolent toward their subjects.
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considerate, compassionate,
good, gentle, gracious,
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and sympathetic.
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amazing Greek word chrestos
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to describe the traits.
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Each Christian no doubt have discovered
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or will discovered that
the Lord possesses.
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it is a melt in your mouth
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truth. My friends, that's really the truth.
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You know, every morning when I wake up,
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I turn on my coffee pot,
I get me a cup of coffee,
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I've always got my cup of coffee nearby,
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and I go to the room
where I read my Bible.
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I'm reading in the Bible,
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I always also read in the book of Psalms.
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And when I read the book of Psalms, do you know what I find?
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I find that the Lord is benevolent,
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the Lord is compassionate.
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The Lord is considerate.
The Lord is gentle.
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The Lord is good. The Lord is
gracious. The Lord is helpful.
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The Lord is kind. The Lord is mild.
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The Lord is sympathetic.
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The Lord is so warmhearted
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and he demonstrates all
these qualities to me.
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I've experienced all of this.
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And for me, this really is
a melt in your mouth truth.
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you have experienced God's
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benevolence, you've
experienced his compassion,
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you've experienced his
consideration, his gentleness,
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his goodness, his
graciousness, his helpfulness,
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his kindness, his mildness,
his warmheartedness.
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You have experienced all of that.
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And Peter knows they have too.
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And that's why he said,
you already know this.
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If indeed he's assuming the
answer is yes, of course
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you've already tasted
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and gloriously experienced
the melt in your mouth truth
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that the Lord is benevolent,
compassionate, considerate,
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gentle, good, gracious, helpful, kind, mild sympathetic,
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and warm hearted.
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All of that is the RIV,
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which the King James Version simply says, if
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so be you've tasted that
the Lord is gracious.
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Well, he is gracious,
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but that word gracious
is really, really big.
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Look at all these things. The Lord is to us. My friends,
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this is really a melt in your mouth truth.
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But then we're gonna go to verse 5.
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And in verse 5, we continue to discover
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that we are a spiritual priesthood.
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And in verse 5, the King James Version says,
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Ye also as lively stones
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are built up a spiritual
house, a holy priesthood
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to offer up spiritual
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by Jesus Christ.
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Well, here he's describing a holy temple.
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He describes it as a spiritual house,
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but he's really describing the temple.
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Well, by this time, the temple
in Jerusalem had already been
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destroyed, but all the
Jews remember the temple.
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important place and it was made of stones,
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but they were not living
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that had been carved out of stone.
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They'd been chiseled, they'd
been placed into place,
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but they were dead stones.
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They weren't living stones,
they were just stones.
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But now with this image in
mind, Peter says, you also
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as living stones,
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and here he portrays us as believers.
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The Christ has chiseled
us, he's carved us,
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he's placed us in the wall
of his church into his house,
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and he's built us up to
be a spiritual house,
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a holy praised hood where we are
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to offer up spiritual
sacrifices acceptable to God
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by Jesus Christ.
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But now that's the King James
Version. Listen to the RIV.
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Are you ready? Hold onto your seat.
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The RIV says - You also are like vibrantly
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living stones that are being
used as building materials
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to construct a spiritual
house that is a temple
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for a consecrated, holy,
sacred, separated priesthood
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with priestly duties and functions.
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I'm talking about those who
regularly offer up sacrifices
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of a spiritual nature that
are pleasing, pleasurable,
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and acceptable to God by
and through Jesus Christ.
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That verse is talking about you and me. That is who you are.
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You also like vibrantly,
living stones are being used
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as building materials to
construct a spiritual house.
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You're part of God's building material.
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But now let's dive into this.
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The RIV says - You're also like vibrantly living stones.
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Well the words - vibrantly living -
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are explained in footnote No.279,
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which says - The words vibrantly living are from a form
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of zao, which pictures that which is living, lively,
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vibrant, and full of life and zest.
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It is a perfect description
of a child of God
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who possesses the vibrant
life of God within him.
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That is who we are. Then it goes on to say - we are stones.
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It says, we're vibrantly
living stones. I'm a stone,
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you're a stone, we're all stone
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and being placed together
where the building materials
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that God is using to
build a spiritual house.
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But this word stones, is explained in footnote No.280,
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which says - the word stones
is translated from the word
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lithoi, which is the plural form of lethos,
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which is the Greek word for a stone.
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Hear Peter called each
member of the church a stone.
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I'm a stone, you're a
stone. We're all stones.
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The word lithos, which is the word stone,
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is precisely the same word that would depict the stones used
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for constructing the temple in Jerusalem.
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This word perfectly fits
into Peter's analogy
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of God's plan today to build a new temple
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for the Holy Spirit, which is the church.
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But the physical stones
that were quarried, chiseled
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and refined for the building
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of the physical temple in Jerusalem were lifeless stones.
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But now God is building a
brand new temple, the church
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that is comprised of living
stones, lively stones,
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which is each and every
member of the body of Christ.
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That's who we are. And
that's why every one
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of us is so very important.
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If one of us is missing from the wall,
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there's a hole in the wall. My friends, you are supposed
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to be a part of the church.
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God wants you to be part
of the building material
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for building the local church
and the universal church.
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And the RIV goes on to say -
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You're also like vibrantly living stones that are being used
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as building materials to construct
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a spiritual house.
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The words - building materials
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to construct - are very important.
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And they are explained in footnote No.281, which says,
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listen to this. The words, building materials to construct,
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now stay with me because this is a little intricate
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but I want you to understand it - is an interpretation
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of a form of the word oikodemeo, which is a compound of
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oikos and doma.
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The word oikos is the Greek
word for a building, a house
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or even a temple.
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And the word doma, denotes the roof of a building,
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a house or a temple.
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But the compound word oikodemeo,
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which is used in this verse pictures a complete construction
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process starting from the
foundation to the roof
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or the process of
constructing the building from
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start to finish.
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And it assures us that
God intends to finish
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what he has started as
he constructs the church
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to become his holy temple in the earth.
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God used this word to show God's focused attention
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and involvement from the bottom to the top, from the start
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to the finish in building his new temple,
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which is the church.
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And you are the building materials that he's using
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to construct his new
temple, the church, which is
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where the Holy Spirit dwells in the earth.
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Is this amazing? It is amazing.
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And we're just gettingstarted in verse 5,
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but this is where we're gonna pick
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up when we come back tomorrow.
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But I'll be back in just a moment
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and I'm going to pray for you.
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Someone asked the question - Is it possible
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to receive communion if I
haven't been water baptized?
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Well, that's a very good question.
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There is no place in the
scripture which says you have
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to be water baptized before
you receive communion.
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Communion is a symbol of
our covenant with God,
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and if you have received
Jesus Christ as your Lord
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and Savior, then you are
in covenant with Jesus
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and you have a right to come to his table
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to receive communion.
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But that does not negate
the fact that you need
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to be water baptized.
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Water baptism is not
essential for salvation,
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but it is essential if
you want to be obedient.
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And my friends, water baptism is the 1st important step
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of obedience in a Christian's life.
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So you need to be water baptized,
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but if you have not been water baptized,
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it does not prohibit you from
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and receiving communion
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if you really know that you're a child of God.
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his attention is on the church, which is
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to be a glorious habitation
for the spirit of God.
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And God wants to use you
to help build the church.
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Is this just powerful?
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We need to understand who
we are and value who we are.
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We are very important in
the building of God's house,
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and that includes you.
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So don't let the devil tell
you that you're insignificant.
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You are one of the stones,
the living stones he's using
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to build his Gloria's habitation.
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That's so good. But please order the series called You Are A
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Chosen Generation.
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Remember that it comes with a study guide,
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and be sure to also order
the green volume of the RIV.
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It's Vol.II which is 1st and 2nd Peter.
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And you can order all these things by going online right now
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or just call the number on the screen.
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And when you reach out
to us, whether you call
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or whether you send us an email, we want
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to know how to pray for you.
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We'll release our faith.
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The power of God will move
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and Jesus will do what needs to be done.
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Father, we thank you in the
name of Jesus that each one
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of us has value in the house of God.
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Amen. Well, tomorrow when we come back,
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we're gonna pick up right here,
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but until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 declares,
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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, I repent
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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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Discover the many ways you can
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We invite you to partner with
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