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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner.
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Thank you for letting me
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And today, you and I
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and the Holy Spirit, we're gonna take a deep dive into 1st
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Peter 2 and see that we are a spiritual priesthood
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and we are a chosen generation.
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We've been having such a good time
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as we've been studying the RIV of 1st Peter 2
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and we're gonna pick up today where we left off yesterday.
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But I want you to reach for your Bible.
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And today we're gonna go back to 1st Peter 2.
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And we're going to review very quickly
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beginning in verse 1.
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But as you turn there, remember that we are here
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to pray for you.
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And if you have any kind of
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we really want to pray with you.
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We know how to pray.
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We will pray in faith,
and Jesus will hear us
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and Jesus will do what needs to be done.
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of our ministry and the phones are ringing
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and I listen to our precious
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and praying, it just thrills my heart
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because there's literally a roar of prayer
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and sometimes I stand
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It is amazing the way
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And regardless of whether you call
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or write, we're gonna pray for you.
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And Jesus is gonna really
do something wonderful
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in your life.
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But are you ready? Let's go back
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to 1st Peter 2:1.
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And very quickly review a few verses.
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We're talking about the fact
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that you're a chosen generation,
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and today we're gonna return
to the scripture which says,
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we're also a holy priesthood.
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This is so very powerful.
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So let's go back to 1st Peter 2:1.
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We saw in previous episodes, these believers were really
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going through very difficult fiery trials,
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and the word of God told
them how to overcome it.
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But now we come to 1st Peter 2:1,
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and the King James Version says
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don't allow these things in your life
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that will hijack your spiritual life.
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And the King James Version says,
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Wherefore laying aside all malice and all guile
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and hypocrisies and envys and all evil speakings.
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But the RIV says - In light
of all this, it is essential
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for you to be continually
taking off, laying down
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and pushing away from
you so far out of reach
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that you'll never pick up again
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all destructive, evil, foul vile actions
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and malignant, malicious thoughts that are harmful, hurtful,
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and injurious, and that produce damage or ruin in your life
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or in others.
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This includes all dishonesty, fraud, guile
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and manipulative behaviors.
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And you must also forever
put away pretending
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to be something other than
what you are just in order
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to win the applause or
the approval of others.
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Additionally, you must put
away any feelings of envy
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because you resent that
others got what you wanted
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or thought you deserved.
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And along with all of this,
put away all belittling,
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crushing, degrading, demeaning, denigrating, depreciating,
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discourteous, disdaining, insulting
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and rude forms of speech.
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You must stop the business
of talking down to others
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or speaking derogatorily to
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or about them as this is
completely inappropriate
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and unwholesome manner of speech.
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Now, friends, I think that's amazing.
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All of that is really in the Greek text.
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But then we come to verse 2;
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and in verse 2, the King James Version 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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But the RIV, which is an interpretation,
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expands this - doesn't add to it -
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it just pulls all the flavor
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and all the nuances out of the Greek words
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and pulls it into the RIV interpretation.
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And it says, in 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 and consuming it
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and here's the key to growth -
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by being in the word
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and consuming it,
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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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And herein we find out
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that if you're not studying the Bible,
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if you're not in the word of
God, being nourished by it
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and consuming it, you're not gonna grow into the full impact
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of everything that your salvation holds for you.
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But then we come to 1st Peter 2:3,
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and it says, If so be that you've tasted
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that the Lord is gracious.
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That's the King James Version.
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But the RIV says, 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 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 warmhearted. My friends,
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that is melt in your mouth Truth.
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It just feels good to say
that the Lord is benevolent.
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The Lord is compassionate, he
is considerate, he is gentle,
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he's good, he's gracious,
he's helpful, he's mild,
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he's sympathetic and warm hearted.
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That is who the Lord is
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and my friends, that really
is melt in your mouth truth.
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But then we jumped over to verse 5,
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so let's go there
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and we're gonna pick up
where we left off yesterday.
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And in verse 5, the King James Version now describes us
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as being a spiritual priesthood.
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And it says - Ye also
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as lively stones are built
up a spiritual house,
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a holy priesthood,
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to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God
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by Jesus Christ.
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Now I wanna ask you a question. In the New Testament,
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there are three metaphors of the church.
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Do you know what they are? Think for a moment.
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What are the three metaphors
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of the church in the New Testament?
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Most people say immediately, oh,
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well the church is the body of Christ.
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That is one metaphor, but there's two more.
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What are the next two? The 2nd is a vineyard.
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The church is likened to a vineyard, but there's a 3rd.
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And the 3rd is the church is likened
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to a holy temple.
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And in fact, the word temple is the metaphor most often used
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in the context of the New Testament to describe the church.
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Most people think the No.1 metaphor would be the Body
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of Christ, but it's not - that secondary.
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No.1 - is the church as a holy temple.
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And I write about this very
substantially in my book,
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which is called, Apostles and Prophets.
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Chapter 2 is amazing.
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And chapter 2 is Building the Temple of God.
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And we really deal on this metaphor
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of the church being a temple.
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And now when we come to this verse,
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Peter picks up on this metaphor
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to tell us something very important.
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And in the King James Version again, it says - verse 5,
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Ye also as lively stones are built up as spiritual house,
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a holy priesthood, to offer up
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will sacrifices acceptable to God
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by Jesus Christ.
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Now, we covered just a
little of this yesterday.
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We're gonna review it again,
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but notice at the very
first of the verse it says,
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he also has lively stones.
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The RIV says,
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you also are like vibrantly living stones.
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And the reason it is translated, vibrantly living, is
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explained at footnote No.279,
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which says - The words vibrantly living are from a form
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of the Greek word zao, which pictures
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that which is living, lively, vibrant, or full of life.
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And 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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But then it says, we're
vibrantly living stones.
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And the word stones is the plural form of the word, lithos.
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Footnote No.280 says,
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The word stones is translated from lithoi, the plural form
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of lithos, which is the Greek word for a stone.
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Peter called each member
of the church a stone.
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That means I'm a stone
in the house of God.
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You're a stone in the house of God.
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Everyone you know that is
saved we're all stones in the
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house of God and we're living stones.
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The word lithos, is precisely the same word
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that would depict the stones used
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for constructing the temple in Jerusalem,
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which was constructed of stones.
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This word fits perfectly
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 building the
physical temple in Jerusalem
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were lifeless stones.
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They were just dead stones.
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But now God is building a brand new temple that is comprised
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of lively stones, which is each
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and every member of the body of Christ.
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And if we stopped right
there, this already tells us
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that every one of us are very important
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to the building of God's house.
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God needs me, God needs you.
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He needs every born again believer.
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We need to find our place
in the wall of God's house
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because God is building a brand new temple of living stones
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which is believers.
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But the RIV goes on to stay,
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You also like vibrantly living stones
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that are being used as building materials
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to construct a spiritual house
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that is a temple.
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And the words, building materials to construct,
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which we covered yesterday,
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but it's so important, I
wanna review it again now is
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explained in footnote No.281, which says -
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These words "building materials
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to construct" are an interpretation of a form
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of the Greek word oikodemeo, which is a compound
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of 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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a temple. And the word doma,
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denotes the roof of the building,
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the house or the temple.
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But the compound word oikodemeo, which is used in this verse
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pictures - listen to this -
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a complete construction process starting from the foundation
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to the roof or the process
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of constructing a building
from start to finish.
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And this word gloriously
assures us that God intends
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to finish what he started
as he constructs the church
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to become his holy temple in the earth.
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We're not there yet - but God is going
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to finish what he started.
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And Peter used this word to show God's focus, 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. Say, Amen.
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Oh God loves the church.
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But the RIV goes on to say, building materials
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to construct a spiritual house.
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And the word spiritual is translated from the Greek word,
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pneumatikos which means of a spiritual nature as compared to
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that which is of a physical nature.
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The Old Testament temple was
a manmade structure comprised
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of physical stones,
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but the church, which is God's new temple,
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is a spiritual structure
which is comprised
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of living stones.
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say that is a temple.
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Now we come to the word temple
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and as we see in footnote No.283, the words house -
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that is a temple.
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Now, please stay with
me. I know this is a lot
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of information, but I
really want you to get this.
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This word temple is the Greek word oikos,
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which really is the word for a house.
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But here Peter used it
to depict the church
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as the house of God, thus the
new temple of God compared
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to the Old Testament temple
structure. This new temple,
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which is the church, that's
who we are, we're a temple,
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the church is
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where the Holy Spirit presently resides in the earth.
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And nearly all scholars agree that when Peter spoke
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of living stones
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and a spiritual house, he
was drawing on the images
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that Jews would've been familiar with,
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namely the temple in Jerusalem.
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But most scholars agree that
Peter wrote this epistle
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after the destruction of
the second temple in 70 AD.
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the physical temple on the
temple Mount would've already
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become non-existent.
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It was gone by this time.
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And so now Peter declares
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that God is constructing
a new temple in its place,
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but it's not a physical temple -
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the church. And in this new temple of God,
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every believer becomes a lively stone
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that God is collectively using
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to construct the new house of God.
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And this spiritual house Peter referred
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to, the new temple, is the church,
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which is God's dwelling
place in the earth.
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Now, friends, you need
to really understand
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how important is the church.
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It is the focus of God's intention
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and what he started in constructing the church, he intends
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to finish from the start to the finish,
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from the foundation to the roof.
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And we are privileged that
we are a part of the church.
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But then the RIV goes on to say - That is a temple
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for - here's the reason why -
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for a consecrated, holy, separated priesthood
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with priestly duties and functions.
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It's talking about you and me.
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Not only are we living stones,
we are a holy priesthood.
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The King James Version simply
says, a holy priesthood.
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That's good, but the RVs even better.
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It says a consecrated, holy, sacred, separated priesthood.
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And the RIV explains in footnote No.284,
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the words consecrated, holy, sacred, separated,
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are interpreted from a form of hagios:
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a word which denotes anything that's been separated,
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consecrated, made holy or made sacred.
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And the person, place,
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or thing that has been declared holy may have been common in
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the past, but once declared
a holy, that person, place,
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or thing is never to be regarded
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or used in a common way ever again. Once made
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holy, that person, place,
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or thing is separated into a special category
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and is to be viewed and
treated as sacred forevermore.
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It's talking about me and you. My friends,
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We're not who we used to be.
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Once the blood of Jesus
was sprinkled on our life
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and we were cleansed, once the
Holy Spirit came inside us,
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we were declared hagios - holy, sacred, consecrated,
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separated.
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That's who you are. So
stop looking at yourself
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as the way that you used to be.
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Now you are consecrated,
you are holy, you're sacred,
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you are separated.
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And the verse goes on
to say, as a priesthood
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with priestly duties
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and functions. We are part
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of a holy priesthood.
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I'm a priest. You are a priest.
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We found out in this verse so far
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that we're all living stones.
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We have discovered in this
verse that we're all part
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of the new temple, the new house of God.
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Now we find out that each
one of us that are saved,
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we are also priests with
priestly duties and functions.
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And footnote No.285 explains - The words
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"priesthood with priestly duties
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and functions" are a translation of a rare Greek word
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that denotes our priesthood with all
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of its priestly functions.
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But this word priesthood was used here
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to depict an entire royal kingdom
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of priests in which every member in the kingdom is a priest
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with priestly functions and
priestly responsibilities.
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Hold on, I want you to hear this.
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This is a radical concept
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because prior to Peter's
inspired revelation
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and writing in this verse,
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there had never in history
been an entire kingdom
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of priests anywhere. In the Old Testament,
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certain God chosen groups had priestly functions,
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but there simply had been no
kingdom ever in which every
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member in it was a priest.
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But all of this changed in the new temple of God
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for Peter plainly states that in God's kingdom,
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indeed every believer, every
single believer, that's me,
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that's you, that's all of
your friends that are saved,
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every single believer is a God called priest
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with priestly functions
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and responsibilities in
the new temple of God,
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which is the church.
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Indeed the church is a
holy priesthood in which
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every member has been redeemed
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and thusly has been become
a God called priest,
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engaged in offering up
spiritual sacrifices
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to him.
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You're a priest, you're a stone, you're a part
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of the new house of God, you're part of the temple of God.
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That is who you are. You're
also a chosen generation.
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You're gonna see that in the next episode.
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But hey, there's something else we need
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to see in this verse.
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The RIV goes on to say,
I'm talking about those
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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 Christ Jesus.
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But notice the verse says - We as priests are
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to regularly offer up sacrifices of a spiritual nature.
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And I've got to go into this word
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because it is so important.
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The words "regularly offer up" are a form the Greek
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word, anaphero.
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This word pictures different kinds
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of physical sacrifices,
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which at one time were offered
in the physical temple.
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But listen to this. This word was used
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by various ancient writers
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and looking more deeply
into the historical usage
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of this word gives us meaning
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and value of this kind of a sacrifice.
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For example, Homer use this word to depict, listen to this,
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the hard effort required
to bring something
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to the surface from deep inside the earth.
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Herodotus used this word to picture someone
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who dug deep into the earth
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to mine something from deep within.
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Pindar used this word to mean to discover something
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that was deeply hidden.
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But when you combine all these various uses,
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it pictures an individual who puts forth effort
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to dig deep in order to find what is precious
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and bring it out of hiding into the surface.
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Furthermore, the prefix ana, which is the first part
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of the word, means again and again
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and again, which means this
is not something that is
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to be done once, but
this is an action that is
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to be repeated again and again
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and it lets us know
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that offering up spiritual
sacrifices is not a onetime
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event, but a lifelong
occupation in which we are
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to perform those events
again and again and again.
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And all of this means that
when we bring a sacrifice
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to God, it should be
something premeditated,
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carefully carried out and
performed with intention.
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We are to dig deep in our personal lives
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with premeditated planning
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and a determined intention
to bring our service
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or offering to the Lord with the honor
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that is certainly due to him.
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In other words, friends we're to dig deep
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and to bring the Lord the
very best we can bring him,
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whether it's our lives,
our talents, our dreams,
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our desires, our finances, all
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of these are our sacrifices
that we're to bring again
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and again and again,
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and we're not to do it
in a sloppy fashion,
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that it should be the result of deep digging
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and a lot of premeditated thinking. Wow, there's
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so much in this verse,
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but we're out of time that
I'll be back in just a moment.
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Someone asked the question -
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What should I do if my pastor
is teaching wrong doctrine?
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Well, if your pastor is
teaching wrong doctrine,
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hey, that's serious.
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You need to pray for him.
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But it may be that he's
teaching right doctrine
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and you just don't get it yet.
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So pray for yourself to have ears to hear
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and pray for your pastor
that he teaches the word
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of God accurately.
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Everybody makes mistakes
including your pastor.
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So pray for your pastor
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that he teaches correctly in
alignment with the whole body
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of truth and the word of God,
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and pray for yourself that you
have ears to hear correctly.
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But if you're attending a church
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where a pastor is blatantly
teaching false doctrine,
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then maybe you need to
unhitch from that church
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and move on to another place
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where you can be sure you're
going to be fed a steady diet
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of God's word that will be good for you
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and for your family and your friends.
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So that's my answer about
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what you should do if your pastor is
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teaching wrong doctrine.
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of the Tulsa Ministry Headquarters,
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and I just love to come here
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and see all these teaching resources.
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My friends, we send them out
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by 10 thousands every month and every year.
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It is just amazing
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and it's a great honor that anyone would want our teaching.
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It's very humbling and I'm very grateful
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that God is using our ministry
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and our teaching to strengthen
lives around the world.
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And our partners are the
ones helping us to do it.
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And right now we're trying
to pay off this facility
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so we can release more
funds to taking the teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the earth.
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We've already paid off 78%
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of our Ministry Expansion Project,
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but we'd like to finish it.
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And if you're not a part of the Giving Team yet, today
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I want to ask you to join our giving team
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so we can pay off this facility
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and release all those funds
into taking the teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the earth.
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Friends, I'm so glad you
joined me for today's program.
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I realize these programs
are a little different from
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what I normally do,
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but we're really taking
a deep dive into the RIV
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and this week we're looking at the subject
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You Are A Chosen Generation. Today,
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we've seen that we're a holy priesthood.
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Tomorrow we're gonna dive into this subject
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You Are A Chosen Generation.
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You are very special and you need to understand who you are.
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But please order this 5-part series with the study guide
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and please be sure to order the Green volume of the RIV.
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It's Vol.II of 1st and 2nd Peter.
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You will just love this
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and you can order all these
things by going online
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or by giving us a call, but put your hand on your heart,
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and I'm gonna pray for you right now.
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Father, help us to be awakened to who we are.
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We are living stones.
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We are part of the household of God,
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and we are each a priest in the house of God
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and help us, Lord, that we would bring to you the very best
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that we have to offer in Jesus' wonderful name -
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Amen. Well, now you know who you are. You're a living stone.
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You're part of the structure
of the new temple of God,
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the church, and you are a priest.
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Say, Amen. Hey, I'll see you tomorrow,
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but until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 says,
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"Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord, 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. Renner Ministries
is proclaiming the
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gospel of Jesus Christ through
every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening,
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.
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This program was made
possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.