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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and here I am at my desk in my studio.
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And what a blessing that I can come
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Technology has changed everything,
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This is my studio, which my
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And I wanna say thank
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But this week we're gonna begin a brand new series called
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Arm Yourself for the Fight.
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You say, what kind of fight?
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Well, that's what you're
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but this is a 5-part series.
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It comes with a study guide that is loaded
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But now you can get Vol.II,
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which is 1st & 2nd Peter.
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Denise is reading the RIV of 1st & 2nd Peter,
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and this morning I caught her crying
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and I said, Denise, why are you crying?
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She said - Rick, these footnotes have so deeply touched me.
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Wow. And I believe
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And I want you to reach for your Bible
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because today we're gonna go to 1 Peter 2,
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and we're going to begin in verse 11,
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and we're gonna talk about - Being Armed for the Fight.
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You say, what kind of fight?
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Well, I'm gonna tell
you, but first remember
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that we want to pray for you.
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and believe for Jesus to do whatever needs
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and we'll begin to pray for you.
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But let's go to 1 Peter 2:11.
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And I'm gonna begin by reading
in the King James Version,
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which says - Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers
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and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts
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which war against the soul.
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This week I'm gonna talk to
you about arming yourself
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to fight against the flesh.
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Now people are tempted
with different things.
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Some people are sexually tempted, some people are tempted
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to be easily offended, some people are tempted to overeat.
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There's all kinds of temptations.
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My temptation is a
particular fast food chain
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that they recently built
very near my house.
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Why did they do that?
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And I have to really fight
the desire to go there
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and eat what I shouldn't eat.
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But there are all kinds of
things in life that we need
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to abstain from.
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There are certain TV
programs that are negative
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and you should not watch them.
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There's a lot of junk on YouTube, a lot of negativism,
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people that are critical of the church.
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It's not good for you. You
need to abstain from it.
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And when we come to 1 Peter 2:11, we find
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that Peter's readers are in
the fight of their faith.
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They are really in the
fire for their faith,
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and they don't need to be dealing
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with fleshly temptations
while they're trying
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to survive at the same time.
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And so Peter writes to
them and he says to them,
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and he says to us, listen
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to it again in the King James Version - Dearly beloved,
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I beseech you as strangers
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and pilgrims abstained from
fleshly lusts which war
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against the soul.
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But I don't wanna read
it to you in the RIV,
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which is not a translation,
it is an interpretation
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that reaches into the Greek text.
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It grabs all the flavors, all the nuances,
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and pulls it into the verse
for a broader understanding.
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And here's what the RIV says of 1 Peter 2:
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11 - Beloved, I call you that
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because it's the only
word I know to express
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how deeply I love and cherish you.
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And then he adds - I personally plead with you as sojourners
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and temporary travelers with no connection to this world,
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but who merely passing through on the way
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to your final destination,
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to deliberately refrain from fleshly, low level
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desires that combat
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and wage warfare against the mind, the will
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and the emotions, and
intentionally put distance
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between yourself and those base desires.
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Now, that is quite an interpretation,
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but why is the RIV interpreted this way?
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And let's begin at the beginning of the verse.
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And the King James Version begins by saying dearly beloved.
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And that's wonderful, but it misses so much
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and I want to tell you why.
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As we see in footnote No.349, the words "beloved,
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I call you that because it's the only word I know to express
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how deeply I love and cherish
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you" are from a form of the Greek word agape.
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And the word agape describes
the admiration one has
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for an object of beauty.
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The viewer is so taken by the object that
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as he gazes upon it,
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this agape in his heart
causes deep admiration
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and appreciation to come out of his heart
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because he is so moved
by what his eyes behold.
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In fact, the observer experiences a loss
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of words to express what he feels
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because he is taken with the beauty of that object
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or that person.
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And here Peter uses this word to mean we
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as believers should view one another with deep appreciation,
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awe and wonder.
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Every person you know at
church that is born again
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and washed in the blood is a miracle.
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Every one of them, even the
ones that you struggle with,
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or maybe there's someone that
you don't particularly enjoy,
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even they are a miracle.
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And my friends, we need
to look upon each other
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as the miracles that we are.
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We have been created
brand new in Christ Jesus.
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And here Peter uses a form
of the Greek word agape
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to express that he loves them
so much he doesn't even know
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how to say it.
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And the RIV says it like this - Beloved, I call you that
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because it's the only word I know to express
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how deeply I love and cherish you.
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Do you feel that way about
the people at church?
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That's the way we are to
feel about other believers.
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But then he goes on in the RIV
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and he says - I personally plead with you.
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The King James Version says - I beseech you.
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But again, the RIV says I personally plead with you.
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And that is explained in footnote No.349
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which says - the word "plead"
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is interpreted from a form of the word parakaleo.
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The word para means
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to be alongside; the word kaleo means to call.
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But when you compound these two words together, it means
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to come along somebody else in order to urge them,
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to besiege, to beg or even to encourage them.
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And it was a word often used by military leaders
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or by commanding officers
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before they sent their troops into battle.
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This word plead or the word beseech.
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Rather than shield the troops
from the reality of war,
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the commanding officer would summon them
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and speak straightforwardly
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to them about the potential dangers of the battlefield.
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The soldiers were soberly informed by their leader
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that bloodshed, injury
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and even death could be encountered
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as they fought their battles.
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And a good commander
wouldn't ignore these dangers
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or pretend they didn't exist.
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He knew it was his job to
prepare the troops for war.
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So he would beseech, encourage exhort, plead with,
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and urge his troops to stand tall,
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throw back their shoulders,
look the enemy straight on eye
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to eye and face their battle
with steadfast courage.
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And now Peter uses this very word to urge his readers and me
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and you to courageously stand steadfast against
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fleshly lust that war against the soul.
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And by using this word, beseech, which is translated,
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I personally plead,
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it's taken from the Greek word parakaleo,
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Peter is warning us that each one of us have to deal
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with a battle with the flesh.
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Rather than ignore this,
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he's telling this very straightforward, hold your head high,
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throw your shoulders back,
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it is just something you need
to deal with and overcome.
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And then the King James Version goes on to say -
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As strangers
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and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lust,
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which war against the soul.
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But this word, strangers, is really, really very important.
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And the RIV translates it as the word sojourners -
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sojourners. So let's look at this footnote No.352
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to understand why it is translated sojourners;
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it's really very important.
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The word sojourners is translated from a form
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of the word paroikos: a word that pictures foreigners
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or strangers.
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That's you and me; we're foreigners,
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we're strangers in this world.
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But here it depicts foreigners
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or strangers who are living in
a land that is not their own.
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It depicts those who live in tents
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and who move from place to place
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or sojourners, temporary dwellers, non-citizens
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or aliens with limited local rights.
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Wow! This word describes an individual who lives
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among the citizens of a nation,
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but he's not a citizen himself.
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He's a foreigner or an
alien in that nation.
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And although he may have
received the legal right
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to live there, he doesn't
have all the same rights
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to participate in society
as does a legal citizen.
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And by using this word, sojourner,
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which is the word stranger in the King James Version,
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Peter is telling us to remember, we're just passing through.
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We may have the rights to temporarily live here,
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but we do not have the rights
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to participate in everything
in the world around us.
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There are some things
we are to refrain from.
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And then he goes on and adds
the word pilgrims in the
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King James Version.
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But the RIV translates
it, temporary travelers
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with no connections to this world,
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but who are merely
passing through on the way
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to your final destination.
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That is so good that I
wanna read it one more time.
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Temporary travelers with no
connections to this world,
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but who are merely
passing through on the way
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to your final destination.
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You know, Denise and I have a
beautiful home here in Moscow.
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I love it. And every morning when I get up
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and I walk to the place where I pray,
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I thank God for my home.
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Do you thank God for your home?
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You need to be grateful for the home that God has given you.
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And when I walk through my
house with my cup of coffee,
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I always stop when I get
to one particular room
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and say, Lord, thank you so
much for giving us this home.
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What a privilege, Lord,
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that you've given us such
a nice place to live.
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But my friends, it's a tent.
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We're foreigners, we're
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we're just living in tents.
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This is a temporary residence.
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and as wonderful are all the things
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that you enjoy in your personal life,
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all of it is just temporary
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because we're on the way
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And when you keep that in your mind,
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you become less connected to material possessions.
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because these words "temporary travelers with no connections
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to this world, but who merely passing through on the way
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to your final destination" is explained in footnote No.
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353, which importantly says - listen to this.
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These words are from a Greek word that describes -
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are you ready for this - one
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who comes from a foreign country into a city
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or land to reside there
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and thus, he is a foreigner who's living in a land
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where he has no natural connections.
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I feel more disconnected to the world around me
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because heaven is our real home.
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of talk about heaven.
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People talk about the present,
how to overcome enemies, how
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to overcome the devil, how to
overcome this, how to overcome
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that, how to have victory in this, how
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to have success in that.
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that even if we have success in every sphere of life
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now, it's just temporary
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because we're travelers passing through.
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We really have no natural connections here.
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Once we are born again, we're on the way to heaven.
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And the King James Version calls us pilgrims,
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but the RIV again says - temporary travelers
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with no connections to this world,
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but who are merely
passing through on the way
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to your final destination.
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And then in the King James Version, Peter says -
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Abstained from fleshly lusts.
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But the RIV says it a little different.
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It says, deliberately reframed from fleshly, low
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level, desires.
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And the words, reframed from, are explained in footnote
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No.354, which says - The words "refrain from
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and intentionally put distance between"
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are an interpretation
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of a form of the Greek word apecho.
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Now, I love this word. The word 'ap' is from the word apo.
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It carries the idea of distance.
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The word echo means to have;
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when you put the two words together, it means -
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to deliberately put intentional distance between you
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and something else.
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And here it means to deliberately withdraw from,
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to stay away from and to put distance between one self
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and something else or to intentionally abstain.
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This word was a well-known word in the ancient world.
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So all who read
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or heard this message understood that Peter was telling them
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to put distance between themselves
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and the fleshly lusts raging all about them.
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My friends, there's some things you don't need to look at.
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There's some things you
do not need to entertain.
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There's some things on TV that
you ought not to be watching
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because it's not good for your soul.
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that these fleshly low level desires, combat
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and wage warfare against the mind, the will
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and the emotions.
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The word fleshly, is explained in footnote No.355.
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It is a translation of a form of the Greek word sarkikos,
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a word that describes the impulses, cravings,
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and desires of the carnal flesh
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or those things that appeal to our lower natures.
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And the word, low level desires, are from a form
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of the Greek word epithumia.
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Listen to this. It is
a compound of the preposition,
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epi and thumos.
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The preposition epi, means over
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and is used here as an intensifier.
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That's very important. And the word thumos depicts passion.
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But when compounded to form the word epithumia,
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which is used in this verse
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and is translated low level desires in the RIV,
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it pictures one so overcome by some type
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of low level fleshly desire
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that he gives himself
completely over to it.
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And Peter urged his readers to
bravely resist the temptation
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to be lustful or to overcome the sin that ensues
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through a lack of resistance.
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There's some things
we're supposed to fight.
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We're supposed to put
distance between ourselves
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and those things that tempt us.
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And in fact, Peter says those things, listen to RIV, combat
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and wage warfare against the mind the will and the emotions.
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And the words, combat and wage warfare -
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what a great interpretation of this Greek word, strateuomai.
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Now listen to this. The words, combat
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and wage warfare are a form the Greek word strateuomai,
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which means to contend, to make war, to fight,
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to engage in warfare.
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And it is where we derive the word strategy:
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that's very important.
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This word implies one must not only engage in warfare
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against the lust of the flesh,
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but he must do it strategically as the Holy Spirit shows him
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how to wage warfare against fleshly lusts.
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It is related to the word stratos, which is the word
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for an encamped army.
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And here we find the flesh wants
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to wage warfare against
you and my friends,
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you've got to strategically figure out how
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to abstain from fleshly lust and to resist them
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and overcome them -
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and you can. My friends, you are armed for the fight.
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You've got the blood of Jesus,
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you've got the power of the Holy Spirit,
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you've got the word of God.
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You've got everything you need to combat
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and wage warfare against
these things that are trying
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to take you down.
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And in fact, the verse goes on
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to say - they're fighting against the mind, the will
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and the emotions,
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and the word against is explained in footnote No.358,
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which says - The word "against" is a translation
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of the word kata.
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Ah, which here carries the idea
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of domination, subjugation, or a conquering force.
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And so is the commitment
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and full might that one
must put into dominating,
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subjugating and conquering
the effects of the flesh.
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To incapacitate the lust
of the flesh requires
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that one be committed to engage with all of his
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or her might with a strategy to keep fighting
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and fighting until the opposition of the soul is conquered.
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My friends, fleshly lust are fighting against you.
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You've gotta turn it around.
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You've gotta develop a strategy about how you're going
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to overcome them.
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And the verse goes on to say
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that they're fighting against the mind, the will
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and the emotions,
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which is explained in footnote No.359,
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which says - the words "mind will,
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and emotions" are from a form of
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the Greek word psuche, a word that speaks of the mind,
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the will
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and the emotions, and is the
root for the word psychology.
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Peter's use of this word at
this juncture means the real
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battle to conquer the flesh
is conducted in the mind,
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the will and the emotions.
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And whether the flesh is
conquered depends on the fight
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that occurs in that realm.
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It all happens right here.
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You've got to make a
decision that you are going
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to overcome rather than be overcome.
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It is a decision.
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And now when we come to this verse, Peter says, first
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of all, dearly beloved, he said, you have to realize
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that you're just strangers.
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You are sojourners.
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Do not be connected to the
world that is around you.
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You need to understand the world is trying to take you down,
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and therefore you've got to decide rather than be overcome
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by it, you're going to resist it
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and you're going to overcome fleshly temptations
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that are trying to attack you in your mind, your will
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and your emotions,
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and that if you're going to overcome them,
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you've gotta win the battle
right here in your head.
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You've gotta make a decision - I'm not doing that anymore.
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I'm not eating that anymore.
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I'm not looking at that anymore.
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You've gotta put space between yourself
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and those things that want to take you down.
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Wow, we have a lot today
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and we've got more to cover in the next program.
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Then 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 a very important question - How do I hear God
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and how do I know the will of God for my life?
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While that's an important question,
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and if you're asking that
question, it's a good question
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to ask because your total
success in life depends on you
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knowing the will of God for your life.
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Hey, this is Rick Renner,
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and today I'm in the Tulsa office
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This room is used all the
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which we're taking around the world.
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And all around this room we
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Of course, we have the great
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godly counsel and advice.
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But right now we're in the process
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of paying off this facility in Tulsa.
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If you consider how long
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it's really not that long.
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But because of the grace of God and
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because of people like you,
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we are really making significant progress.
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building, it's gonna
release all these finances
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to help us take the teaching
of the Bible further
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to the ends of the earth.
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So if you want to become a part of the Giving Team,
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we welcome you and together we're gonna remove this debt
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and release finances to go
further in taking the teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the earth.
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Well my friends, we have covered a lot today
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and we've just begun the brand new series
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which is called, Arm Yourself For The Fight.
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And I'm really not talking
about a fight with the devil,
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I'm talking about a fight with the flesh
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and with the things that
surround your life; you've got
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to decide you're gonna overcome your environment
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and not be overcome by it.
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And the battle is won in the mind, which is
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what we have covered today.
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But we're gonna come back tomorrow and pick up right here.
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It's really gonna be good,
but please order this
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and please order the study
guide that goes with it.
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And remember that right now
we're offering you the Green
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Volume of the RIV -
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that's Vol.II.
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It's the Green volume, and it is 1st & 2nd Peter.
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It's a conceptual interpretation of the Greek New Testament
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with footnotes and commentary.
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You will devour it, it
will open the scriptures
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to you in a remarkable way;
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but you can order all these things by calling
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that number on the screen, or you can just go online
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and please, when you reach out, whether you order anything
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or not, we want to pray for you.
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So let us know how to pray.
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If there's anything you're facing,
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maybe there's a temptation that you're struggling with,
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you just wish you had somebody
to pray with you about it,
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call that number or send us an email
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and we will pray for the power
of God to really give you
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what you need to resist that thing.
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And Father, we thank you right
now that we are not just left
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to our circumstances, that
you've given us the power
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of the Holy Spirit, the blood of Jesus.
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Lord, you've given us the
promises of your word.
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Everything we need to
overcome the world around us.
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We embrace it
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and we thank you for this in
the wonderful name of Jesus.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, we're outta time, but I'll see you
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tomorrow until the end.
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Remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word
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of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life -
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Amen. If you just prayed the prayer of salvation
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with us, would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Renner Ministries is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ
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through every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.