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and your mind: where the
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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but dive deep revealing a
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program, my friend,
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I had such a good time with you yesterday,
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and I want to say thank you
for joining me again today
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as we continue the new series,
which is called, Arm Yourself
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for the Fight.
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We are all in a fight
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and we need to arm ourself to overcome,
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but it's a 5-part series.
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It comes with a study guide,
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and the study guide has
everything in the series so
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that you can read it while you're seeing
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or hearing the series.
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And I really believe that
when you read, while you hear
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or see, it causes the teaching
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to get down deeper inside you.
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And this is teaching you need
to get down deep inside you.
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And we're also offering you the Green Volume of the RIV,
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which is Vol.II.
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Now there's gonna be 18 of these. This is Vol.II.
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And Vol.II is 1st & 2nd Peter.
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It is a Parallel Study Bible for people of faith,
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the Renner Interpretive Version or the RIV.
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And if you consider yourself
to be a person of faith,
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well this is what you've been waiting for,
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but you can order all these
things by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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And when you reach out
to us, please let us know
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how we can pray for you.
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Jeremiah 33:3 promises - Call into me.
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I'll hear you, I will answer you,
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and I'll show you great and mighty things.
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We're also told in 1 John 5,
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that if we pray anything according to God's will,
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he hears us.
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And if he hears us, we have the
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petitions that we ask of him.
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So we will pray scripturally about the
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need that you're facing.
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We will pray with you in faith.
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God will hear us, God's ears will be opened
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and God will do what needs to be done.
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I know you can pray by yourself,
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but sometimes it helps to have
somebody else pray with you.
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And here we are.
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Just call that number, please
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Keep that number so
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that later when you're
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but you wish that you had
somebody to pray with you,
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you'll have a number to call.
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That's our number. And you
can count on us to pray
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and to be confidential.
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Or if you wish, send us an email, and when you call
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or when your email shows up, we're gonna begin
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to really pray for you
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and God is gonna really move in your life.
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But hey, reach for your Bible.
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And today we're gonna go back to
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where we left off yesterday.
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We were in 1 Peter 2:11.
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And we're gonna pick up there again today.
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Very quickly, we're going to review it
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and then we're gonna move
on to the next verse.
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And we're talking about
arming ourself for the fight.
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There's all kinds of fights.
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You know, I've done a lot of teaching
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through the years about spiritual warfare
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and spiritual warfare is real.
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If you need to be instructed
on this subject, you should go
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to our website, go to our store
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where you're gonna find
books on spiritual warfare,
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all kinds of series
about spiritual warfare.
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But right now I'm talking
about arming yourself to fight
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with the flesh
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and with the things that
are around your life.
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Peter was writing to believers
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who were really in the
fight for their faith.
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They were in the fire of persecution.
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And Peter says to them, you don't need
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to hijack your spiritual life
by entertaining wrong things.
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You're already in the
fire dealing with a lot.
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Don't entertain things
that can take you down.
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You need to resist the flesh.
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And so the King's James Version, he says in verse 11 -
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Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers
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and pilgrims abstained from fleshly lusts,
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which war against the soul.
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Wow. And the RIV says: 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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Now listen to this - I personally plead with you.
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And here the Greek word is parakaleo.
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It really means to plead - he is pleading with them.
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And in fact, the word parakaleo which here is translated,
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I personally plead with, can also be used
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as a word of prayer.
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A person who drops to their knees
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and they begin to really beseech,
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they really begin to really
pray So figuratively,
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it is a picture of Peter
dropping to his knees.
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He's pleading, he's
praying with his readers,
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he's reaching out through
the pages of scripture
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and he's saying, listen, I plead with you.
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I pray you to hear what I have to say.
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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 are merely passing through on the way
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to your final destination.
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And we saw in yesterday that
the word sojourners describes
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people who are allowed to live in a place,
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but they're not really
citizens of that place.
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And my friends, we may live in the world,
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but we are not citizens of the world.
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In fact, the Apostle
Paul tells us in the book
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of Philippians that we
are citizens of heaven.
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We have a new citizenship.
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Our residence here is
very, very temporary.
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And that is why the
King James translates it
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as the word strangers.
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But the RIV translates it
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as the word sojourners - we're just passing through.
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And then the King James Version adds the word pilgrims.
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And that is where the RIV says - temporary travelers
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with no connection 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, if you think the world is your final destination,
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then you're gonna be very attached
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to the things of the world.
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But my friends we're just passing through.
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I told you yesterday that I'm very grateful
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for our home here in Moscow.
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I'm sure that you're
grateful for your home,
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and I believe that we
should live a life filled
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with gratitude and thanksgiving.
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So every morning when I get
up, I go into the kitchen
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to get my cup of coffee,
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and then I'm on my way to the
TV room where I have a place
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where I sit and read my
Bible and where I pray.
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And on my way to the TV room,
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nearly every single morning I stop
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and I look around our house
and I say - Thank you. Lord,
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this is beautiful.
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Thank you that you've
given us a nice place
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to live in this world.
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But my friends, it's a
tent. We are just strangers.
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We are pilgrims. We're sojourners.
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We're just passing through.
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This is not our final destination.
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And our real treasure is not the treasure
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that we surround our physical
lives with here in the earth.
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All of this is temporary. It's just stuff.
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Our real treasure is in heaven
where our citizenship is.
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And now Peter is reminding his readers - Guys, you need
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to have an eternal perspective. Right now -
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you're dealing with a lot of stress; you're dealing
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with a lot of temptations; you're dealing with a lot
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of issues all around you.
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But remember, remember, remember - you are a stranger
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and a pilgrim.
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Or as the RIV says - You're a sojourner
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and temporary traveler 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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It's just stuff.
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And one of these days you're
gonna leave it all behind.
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You're gonna leave it all
behind. You know it's amazing.
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People fret, people fight
to get a lot of possessions,
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and then when they get them,
they have to dust them.
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When they break, they have to fix them.
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And very often they think,
why did I even buy this?
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I don't need this. I never needed this.
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Very often we're overcome
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by temporary things all in our life
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that just take up our
time, take our attention
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and add a lot of stress.
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And we need to realize
whatever we have, as nice
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as it is, is just a tent.
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Everything that we fill our homes with
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and our lives with is
just temporary stuff.
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The truth is, we're sojourners
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and temporary travelers with
no connections to this world,
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but are merely passing through on the way
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to our final destination.
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Is that glorious? That is just glorious.
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And that is the RIV
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of the Greek text in 1st Peter 2:11.
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And then Peter continues to tell his readers and me and you,
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and to deliberately refrain from - deliberately refrain from
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fleshly low level desires. Deliberately refrain from,
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as I told yesterday, is a form that Greek word apecho.
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The word apo means away from.
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It implies distance. The word, echo, means to have.
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When you put the two words together,
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it means - intentionally put distance between yourself
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and fleshly low level desires that combat
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and wage warfare against the mind, the will
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and the emotions.
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Now people struggle with different things.
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Some people struggle with sexual temptation.
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Some people are very easily offended.
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That's a real temptation.
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Some people struggle with overeating.
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You know, I told you yesterday that my temptation,
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my struggle is a particular chain of fast food.
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I resist it, I resist
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and then they opened one
near our house in Moscow.
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It's just right around the
corner from where we live.
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And I have to regularly put distance
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between myself and that place.
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I don't need to go there.
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It's not good for my body,
it's not good for my weight,
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but my flesh, like a magnet
is attracted to that place.
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And so I put distance between myself
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and that particular restaurant.
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And I even say to the people
that I'm traveling with,
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I mean, I really do this.
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If I ask you to take
me to that restaurant,
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you are authorized to tell me - No,
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that you will not take me there.
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I have to do something to put distance
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between myself and that place.
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Maybe there's something you've
been watching on the internet
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and it's just negative junk.
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It's just feeding you negativism.
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It's making you think
poorly of the church,
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think poorly of others.
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It's not taking you higher,
it is taking you lower,
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but yet you're just
gravitating toward that thing.
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You need to put distance between yourself and that thing.
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In other words, friends, you gotta put up a barricade
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and say, I'm not going there ever again.
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Or if you're tempted to be offended
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with one particular person,
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then quit being with that person.
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It doesn't mean you don't love them.
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You might love them better
by not being with them.
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You've gotta do whatever you have to do
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to intentionally refrain
from low level desires
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that combat and wage warfare
against the mind, the will
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and the emotions.
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Wow! That is amazing.
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Now, when the Bible says - that combat
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and wage warfare against - it's a Greek word strateuomai,
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which really depicts the attitude
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of a very fierce fighting warrior among the Roman troops.
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They were real combatants.
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And now we find the devil uses all these things around us.
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It may not be a direct spiritual attack, it may be an attack
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to go eat something you shouldn't eat
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that's going to affect your health
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and you know you need to stop eating that way.
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It might be an attack that
you experience when you're
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with a certain person and you're just tempted to be offended
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with them and offended with
them and offended with them.
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between yourself and that person.
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Remember that Ecclesiastes 3 says -
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there's a time to embrace and a time not to embrace.
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There's a time to speak and a time not to speak.
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Sometimes the wisest thing you can do is to put space
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between yourself and something else.
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Again, if you're watching something on TV
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or on the internet that's negatively affecting you, you need
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to intensely put space between yourself and that thing
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because the devil uses all these things
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and all these temptations, low level desires,
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low level issues to combat
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and wage warfare against the mind,
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the will, and the emotions.
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And the battle is won right
here. It's won right here.
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We saw this in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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When Jesus was facing the
cross, Jesus literally
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shed blood as he was fighting
in the Garden of Gethsemane:
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he sweat blood.
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And 3-times he said, Father, if it's possible,
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let this cup pass from me.
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The book of Matthew tells us he prayed that 3-times.
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And every time he concluded by saying - Nevertheless,
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not my will, not my will, but thy will be done.
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The fight was in his mind.
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It was in his mind, his will
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and his emotions and my friends,
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that's where you're gonna win your battle
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because when you really make
up your mind to put space
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between you and those temptations,
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you won't go there anymore.
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Happens right here - happens right here.
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If there's a TV program that you ought
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to not be watching, let me help you.
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Just put a blocker on your TV
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that stops you from going there.
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You put, you've made a
decision in your mind.
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I'm not gonna go there. I'm gonna fix it
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so I cannot go there. My friends, all these things try
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to take us down.
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The devil doesn't want
us to be victorious.
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The world around us doesn't
want us to be victorious
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or to exercise our authority
over it over the world.
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And we have to make a decision.
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We're gonna overcome the world
and not be overcome by it.
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But then we come to verse 12,
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and in verse 12, we find out
that sometimes our battle is
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with people. It's with people.
It's not with the restaurant,
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it's not with the TV, it's with people.
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And verse 12 says - Having your conversation honest
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among the Gentiles, that
whereas they speak against you
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as evil doers, they
may by your good works,
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which they shall behold
glorify God in the day
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of visitation.
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And here we find out
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that sometimes we have
a struggle with people.
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Sometimes it's unbelievers,
sometimes it's Christians
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that don't like us or have issues with us.
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But when we do stupid stuff,
we put bullets in their gun.
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Rather than arm them,
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we need to arm ourselves to stand against foolish behavior
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so they don't have anything
to accuse in our life.
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And that's again what verse 12 says -
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having your conversation honest among the Gentiles,
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that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may
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by your good works.
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If they're gonna watch you
make sure they see something
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good, which they shall
behold glorify God in the
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day of visitation.
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And the RIV, of course, expands
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this. Doesn't add to it,
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it just pulls all the
flavor from the Greek into
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the interpretation.
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And the RIV says -
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And do all you can do
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to make sure your behavior
in every situation you find
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yourself in among unbelievers
is outwardly attractive
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and inwardly honorable
and noble, exceptional
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and exemplary in every way. People are watching you.
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That's just a fact. Your life is a stage
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and you're performing all the time.
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You don't even realize that people are watching you,
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but they are watching you.
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And if they're watching you,
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make sure you give them a good performance.
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And this verse says, make sure you find yourself when you're
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among unbelievers, doing what is outwardly attractive,
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inwardly honorable and noble, exceptionable
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and exemplary in every way.
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And footnote No.364 explains this interpretation.
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It says - These are all translated from a form of the
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Greek word kalos: a word that denotes
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what is good or useful.
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And it can refer to that
which is outwardly attractive,
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or to that which is inwardly noble.
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It is frequently used to
denote good noble actions
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or superior behavior.
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It pictures that which
is elegant, exceptional,
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handsome of the highest
quality, outstanding,
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suitable or superb.
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And Peter used this word to
denote the exemplary type
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of life that others
should witness in the life
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of Christians.
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So when other people watch you
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and they see your behavior,
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is your behavior loading their gun
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with something to shoot at you?
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Or are you disarming them
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because you're living
such an exemplary life?
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You have to remember that your
life is on constant display
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and people are watching.
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And if there are peoples
that have issues with you,
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make sure that you're not
providing the issues for them.
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Instead, you need to make
sure you're living a life
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that is outwardly attractive,
inwardly honorable
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and noble, exceptional and
exemplary in every way.
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And then the King James Version goes on to say -
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Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles,
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that whereas they speak against you as evil doers.
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The RIV says - so that.
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And in Greek it is the word hina. It points
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to the express purpose.
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Here's the reason why you need
to live this exemplary kind
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of life so that in each
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and every situation when they insult you with belittling,
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defaming, denigrating, deriding, malicious mocking, railing,
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and slanderous speech, as if you're evil doers
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and troublemakers to be blamed for all kinds of things
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that have nothing to do with you.
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They instead, due to the abundance of your exemplary
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and honorable actions
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and behavior which they
have so visibly witnessed
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and seen, will instead give glory
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to God in the day He closely
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and intensely examines everything.
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But notice these words insult you with belittling, defaming,
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denigrating, deriding, malicious mocking, railing,
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and slanderous speech.
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It all is translated from a form, the Greek word katalalia.
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The word kata carries the idea of something
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that is dominating
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or subjugating: something that's going down.
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The word laleo means to speak.
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But when you compound the two words together means
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to speak down to somebody,
to speak down to somebody,
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to belittle, to denigrate, to
derive, to mock, to rail that
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to slander or to speak evil of; it is insulting
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and malicious language intended to defame another person.
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Well, you know, if you're giving people reasons to talk down
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to you, then maybe you need to stop
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and consider your behavior.
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But if you're living an exemplary life,
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you're no longer putting bullets in their guns;
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they have nothing to shoot at you.
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And here the verse continues to say, as if you're evil doers
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and troublemakers to be
blamed for all kinds of things
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that actually have nothing to do with you.
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They instead, due to the abundance
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of your exemplary and honorable actions
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and behaviors, which they
will have so visibly witnessed
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and seen.
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And footnote No.373 says - The words which they have
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so visibly witnessed
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and seen are interpreted from
a Greek word which depicts a
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beholder, an eye witness, an onlooker or a spectator,
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and hence a witness.
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And here we find again that
Peter tells his readers
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and he tells me, and he tells you, like it
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or not, people are watching us.
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Well don't you watch
others? Of course you do.
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You're watching people all the time
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and you're developing opinions about the
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people that you're watching.
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You have opinions about coworkers,
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you have opinions about fellow
family members on the basis
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of what do you have
opinions by what you see.
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You're watching them all the time.
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But when you see a person that lives upright,
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they're honorable, they're exemplary in everything they do.
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When you see them going through really rough times
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and yet they maintain such a positive faith-filled attitude,
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it just makes you want to stand back
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and applaud them for the way that they're living.
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And now Peter says, in addition to dealing
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with all the low level temptations of the flesh that are
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around you, you will also deal with people.
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And so you've gotta arm yourself for this.
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You've gotta make sure you're living a life in such a way
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that you don't empower the people watching you to accuse you
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or to denigrate you.
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Don't put bullets in their gun: live the right kind of life
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so that you disarm those who
normally would accuse you.
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Isn't this helpful?
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We're outta time, but I'll
be back in just a moment
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and I'm gonna pray for you.
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Someone has asked the question - How do I forgive
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and let go of an offense?
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Well, let's focus on the word - forgive.
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In Greek, it is the word aphiemi.
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And that word forgive, the Greek word aphiemi, means
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to permanently release and to let it go.
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And in fact, it means to
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so let it go that you forfeit your right to ever retrieve it
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and bring it up again.
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A decision to let something
go cannot be emotional.
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It has to be a mental decision. I have forgiven this.
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I have let it go, and I'm making the choice -
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I will never bring it up again.
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That's exactly what Jesus does for you and me.
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We're told in Psalm 103, as far as the east
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is from the west, he has removed our transgressions from us.
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It isn't that God has a bad memory,
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but once God lets something go
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and he forgives us, he makes a decision,
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he'll never deal with us about that again
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because he's let it go.
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And that's what forgiveness is.
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Call or go online now.
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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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and this is the conference
room or the Board Room.
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This room is used all the time for strategic planning
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for the gospel and for
the teaching of the Bible,
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which we're taking around the world.
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And all around this room we
have scriptures about wise
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counselor and wise planning.
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Of course, we have the great
commission on the screen
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behind us and we even have
photographs of all the Board
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of directors of Rick Renner
Ministries who are real board
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of directors and regularly provide us
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with the most wonderful
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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And guess what? We've already paid off 81%
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of the whole project and that is just amazing.
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If you consider how long
we've been doing this,
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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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And when we're finished paying off the debt on this
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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, today we've covered a lot
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of material about not putting bullets in the guns
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of your accusers.
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We already have enough to deal with.
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We've got low level temptations, fleshly temptations,
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we've got the devil to deal with.
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We don't need to empower our
accusers by living wrongly.
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We need to live right.
This is just so practical.
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And of course it's a new series called, Arm Yourself
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for the Fight.
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Please order this.
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It's a 5-part series, comes with a study guide
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and we're offering you the Green Volume,
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which is Vol.II of the RIV.
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It is 1st & 2nd Peter.
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Volume No.I was James and Jude.
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But Vol.II is 1st & 2nd Peter.
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We really take a deep dive
into the Greek New Testament
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and we bring a conceptual interpretation
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for you and my friends,
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the footnotes are just so powerful,
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but you can order all these
things by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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And please let us know
how to pray for you.
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And if you would, put
your hand on your heart,
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because I wanna pray for you right now.
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Father, in the name of
Jesus, help us to think about
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what we do and about what
other people are observing.
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Help us to realize people are watching
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and that we would live
such exemplary lives
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that no one would have anything to accuse.
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Father, we thank you for this.
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Help us to arm ourself, to
deal with ourself, to deal
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with temptations, and to deal
with the world around us.
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In Jesus' name - Amen.
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Well, this has been good.
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When we come back tomorrow, we're gonna pick up right here.
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It's gonna really, really be good tomorrow,
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so please don't miss it.
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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,
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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? We would love to connect with you.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners of Renner Ministries.