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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and friends we're gonna pick up today
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where we left off in the last episode,
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and I'm teaching a series which is called, Arm Yourself
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for The Fight.
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And we're talking about fighting the flesh
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and taking authority over temptation.
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You my friend, have everything you need
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to overcome your environment.
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But please order this series
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which is the Green volume of the RIV
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and this is 1st & 2nd Peter.
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It is a conceptual interpretation - not a translation.
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It is an interpretation
of the Greek New Testament
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with footnotes and commentary
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and my friends, the footnotes and the commentary
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it is so rich. When you read what is in this commentary,
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you will say, Jesus, thank you that I got this book
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because it's gonna open the scriptures
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to you in a brand new way.
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But you can order all these things by going online
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or by giving us a call and reach for your Bible,
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because today we're gonna return
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to 1 Peter 4, :1.
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We're gonna review it
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and then very quickly
we're going to move on.
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But as you turn there,
I want to remind you
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that we're here to pray for you.
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And when I say we're here to pray for you,
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I mean we are really here to pray for you.
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You don't have to order
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to take lavish care of you.
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We really believe that.
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And so if you need prayer,
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But let's open our Bibles to 1 Peter,
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4:1.
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And we're looking at the
fact that we are armed
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for the fight.
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And when we come to 1 Peter 4:1,
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as we saw yesterday, the King James Version says - For
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as much then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm
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yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he
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that has suffered in the
flesh, has ceased from sin.
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But notice in the very middle
of that verse, it says,
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arm yourselves likewise
with the same mind.
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But let's see again what the RIV says
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because it is quite expanded.
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And again, the RIV is not a translation,
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it is an interpretation.
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It reaches into the Greek text, pulls out all the flavor,
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all the nuances, pulls it
into a broader interpretation
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so you get the bigger impact of
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what this verse is really saying.
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And there's a lot this verse says
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that is not conveyed in
the King James Version.
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So here's the RIV.
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So in the same way Christ
went through great struggles
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and suffering in the flesh,
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you also must have the
same exact frame of mind
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that Christ had and do all you can
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to fully mentally arm yourself
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with all the weaponry you
need to prevail in battle.
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And friends. I want to tell you,
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God's given you all the
weaponry that you need.
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He's given you the power
of the Holy Spirit.
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He's given you the blood of Jesus.
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He has given you the promises of his word,
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spiritual weaponry.
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You have everything you
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And the RIV says - Fully, mentally, arm yourself
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with all the weaponry you
need to prevail in battle -
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and you can prevail.
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But then it goes on to say - You also need to know
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that the one who's been
through great struggles
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and suffering will want no
more participation with sin.
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He'll say, I've had enough of
that and I want no more of it.
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with personal failure
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and sin, which is missing
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and wrong or intentionally
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or unintentionally doing
what is wrong and sinful.
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And I gave my personal
example of me losing weight.
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You know, I really struggled with weight.
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I needed to arm myself
for that particular fight.
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And it was quite a fight.
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And maybe you've struggled with weight
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or maybe you're struggling
with a lack of mobility.
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There's all kinds of physical
things that we deal with,
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but we have to make a decision - in the mind -
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we're going to overcome this.
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We're gonna take advantage of
all the tools in the toolbox,
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the power of God, the
promises of God, the power
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of the Holy Spirit, the blood
of Jesus, spiritual weaponry,
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the encouragement of
those that are around us,
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and we are going to defeat this foe.
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And once you finally defeat
something, for example,
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the losing of weight, you
literally say to yourself,
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I'm done with that.
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And I really like the way
the RIV translates it.
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The one who's been through great struggles
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and suffering will want no
more participation with sin.
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He'll say, I've had enough of
that and I want no more of it.
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And as far as he's
concerned, he'll be done
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with personal failure and sin.
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And it's really the true that
when you've finally gained a
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victory, you don't
wanna lose your victory.
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You never want to go
back to where you were
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before you've been delivered from that.
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But then we go to verse 2.
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And in verse 2, Peter continues
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to say - in the King James Version -
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that he no longer should live the rest
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of his time in the flesh
to the lust of men,
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but to the will of God.
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Well, that is very succinct.
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It's very to the point,
and it misses a lot of
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what is in the Greek text.
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So the RIV says - As a consequence,
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such a person will no
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or fulfill or gratify his
human cravings instincts
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and desires.
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But instead of living to fulfill his human craving instincts
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and desire, he will desire to fulfill the desires, plans,
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and purposes and will
of God for the remainder
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of time he has left to live in the flesh.
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And that is really the truth.
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Then when you've made a
decision to live for the Lord,
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you never want to go back
to be what you used to be.
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You want to dedicate the rest
of your life, the remainder
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of time that is left to live for the Lord.
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But let's dive into this verse.
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And so in the RIV, it says - As a consequence,
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such a person will no longer be satisfied.
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And we read in footnote No.735
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that the words, no longer, really describes putting a halt
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to something so that its
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Here's a person that's been
delivered, he's been changed,
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he's putting a halt to this,
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he's never gonna go back there again.
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Such a person will no longer be satisfied to live
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or gratify his human cravings
instincts and desires.
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And these words - cravings, instincts
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and desires - are explained in footnote No.737.
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Did you hear that? There are so many footnotes
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in this. No.737 says - listen to this -
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The words craving, instincts
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and desires are an interpretation of a form
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of the Greek word epithumia, which is a compound
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of the preposition, epi, and the word thumos.
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The word epi means over and it is used as an intensifier.
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The word thumos, pictures human cravings, instincts
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and passions, and usually low
level instinctive behaviors
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that are so strong they control the person
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who is experiencing them.
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But as the word that is used here, this picture's one who is
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so controlled by these low level instincts
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that he is bent over with cravings
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and yearnings of the flesh so strong
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that they're the primary controlling factor in his life.
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And there really are some people that are just controlled
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by their low level desires.
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Again, a person who just lives to eat, they just can't seem
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to break that - it is a controlling factor in their life.
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Or someone who just lives for entertainment.
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It is a controlling factor in their life.
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And the list goes on and on and on.
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But my friends, you as a child of God, inhabited
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by the spirit of God
are not to be controlled
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by these low level instincts.
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In fact, the verse goes on to say - Instead he will desire
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to fulfill the desires,
plans, and purposes
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and will of God.
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And this is explained in footnote No.739,
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which says "The desires, plans, purposes
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and will" are interpreted from a form of the Greek word
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thelema. This is a very well known word
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used very often in the New
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Testament, which means desire, plan, purpose or will
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but Peter uses it here in connection
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with the Greek word theou, which means of God.
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So as a phrase, it
describes a person who longs
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to fulfill the desires, plans,
purposes, and will of God.
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That's really your hard cry.
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You don't wanna live in
these low level instincts.
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Your hard cry is to fulfill
the desires, the plans,
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the purposes and will of God.
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You don't want to be hijacked
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by these other low level things.
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That's why you need to
arm yourself for the fight
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and determine you're going
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to overcome it rather
than be overcome by it.
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But the rest of the verse goes on to say -
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to fulfill the desires, plans, purposes and will of God
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now listen to this - for the remainder of time he has left
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to live in the flesh: for the remainder
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of time he has left.
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Wow! And footnote No.740 explains -
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The words "for the remainder"
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and the word "left" are interpreted
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from a phrase which really
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depicts that which is remaining implying that much
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of whatever exists
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it's already gone, it's already wasted.
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And now this is what's
left or what remains of it.
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Peter uses this word to
emphasize the remainder of
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what is left of a person's life
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after he's made the decision
to do the will of God.
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I'll use me as an example. When I really committed my life
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to the Lord - and by the way in life you come
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to new levels of commitment.
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As I've been more and more
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and more committed, the
desire in my heart is
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so strong to please the Lord,
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I don't want to go back to where I've been.
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All of it wasn't bad, but I don't wanna go back there
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because I've attained a new level
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and for the remainder of my life
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and what is left of my
life, I really want to live
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to do the will of God.
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And I know that that
is your desire as well.
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But you've gotta arm
yourself for the fight so
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that you can really use the
remainder of your time wisely.
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And it goes on to say - for the remainder of time
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he has left to live in the flesh.
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And the word live that
is used here is a form
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of the Greek word bios.
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Now this is important
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because the word bios describes physical life.
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And although a Christian possesses eternal life,
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this footnote says - he like others also has a physical life
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that is limited.
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And Peter here states that when a person has made a decision
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to live his life to fulfill the will of God,
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he must do all he can
to use what time remains
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of his physical life to
fulfill that divine plan.
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And this word bios is by the
way where we get the word
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for a biography.
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You can write your own
biography, you can determine
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that you're gonna live
the balance of your life
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to do the will of God.
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Then we come to verse 3.
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1 Peter 4:3 -
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in the King James Version says - For the time passed
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of our life may suffice us
to have wrought the will
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of the Gentiles when we walked in lasciviousness.
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What in the world is that? That's a big word:
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well we're gonna look at it -
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when we walked in lasciviousness
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lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banqueting
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and abominable idolatries.
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That's the King James Version.
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But let me give you the full RIV
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and then we're gonna go through it.
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The RIV says - For indeed it's enough
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and even too much that your past journey in life, that part
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of your story that's no longer
relevant to who you are now,
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yes, I'm talking about your past history when you really
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worked hard at carrying on in a lifestyle
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and way of thinking that
is typical of the Gentiles.
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In other words, before you were saved,
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you really worked at sinning.
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That's what he's describing here.
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He goes on to say - I'm talking about past times:
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back in the days when you used
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to traffic your life in all kinds of destructive behaviors,
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including moral excesses, excessive overeating,
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sexual abandonment,
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and so much more, with all kinds of low level cravings,
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instincts and desires.
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I'm also talking about drunkenness,
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endlessly sinking entertainment
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and running from one party to the next - carousing
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and going on drinking binges
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and engaging in idolatries,
which are of course elicit,
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unlawful and forbidden.
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That's who they were
before they got saved.
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That's who they were
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before they took
authority over their flesh
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and won the battle.
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Wow! Maybe some of that sounds familiar to your past,
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but let's look at it again.
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And the RIV begins by saying - For indeed it is enough
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and even too much, it's
enough and even too much.
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And footnote No.744 explains that the words
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"it's enough and even too much" described something
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that's been already done in enough measure of
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and any more of it would simply be too much.
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Wow! Enough is enough - is really what it means.
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And now Peter says, when
you look at your past,
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don't you agree enough is enough -
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you don't need to go back there.
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You don't need to ever do that stuff again.
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For indeed, it's enough
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and even too much that your past journey in life, that part
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of your story that's no longer relevant to
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who you are now.
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Oh, I love that interpretation.
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And footnote No.745 explains that it is from a form of the
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Greek word parerchomai, which means to pass by
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but can also convey the meaning of something
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that is now no longer relevant and therefore void.
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And my friends, your pass has passed by.
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It is no longer relevant. It is void.
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It is not who you are now say amen.
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And that is why the RIV says that part
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of your story is no longer
relevant to who you are now.
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Yes, I'm talking about your
past history when you really
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worked hard at carrying on in a lifestyle
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and way of thinking that
is typical of the Gentiles.
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Now when he says when you really worked hard at carrying on,
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footnote No.747 explains -
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This is from a form of the Greek word, katergadzomai.
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It's a preposition of the word kata and the Greek word,
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ergadzomai.
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The preposition kata denotes something working its way from
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the top all the way to the bottom, hence
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to do something thoroughly or completely.
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And it also carries a dominating sense.
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The word ergadzomai, the 2nd part of the word means to work.
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But when you compound these two words together,
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it pictures one who's so totally given to what he is doing,
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that he is energized from the
top to the bottom to do it.
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He is intensely focused on accomplishing
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or fulfilling a task.
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And here Peter uses this word
to illustrate how a person
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before he comes to Christ
is dominated by the flesh
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and its activities.
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And the prefixed word kata at
the first of this word implies
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that an unbeliever's life
is completely dominated
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by the realm of the flesh.
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He works really hard
at fulfilling the will
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of the flesh just like a
all the other Gentiles.
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And the word Gentiles
really describes pagans
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or those that are without God - unbelievers.
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But then the RIV goes on to say - I'm talking
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about past times back in the days when you used
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to traffic your life in all kinds of destructive behaviors,
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including moral excesses.
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But notice this word, traffic. Back when you used
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to traffic your life.
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And the word traffic is explained in footnote No.
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750, which says the word traffic is an interpretation
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of the Greek word poreuomai,
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which inherently carries the idea
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of a departure, but also
to arrive at a destination.
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And this unfortunately means
that even believers dominated
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by the flesh can eventually
depart from one level
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of trafficking in its destructive behaviors
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to arrive at the next level
of destructive behaviors.
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And Peter here states that a life, even a redeemed one, left
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to the control of the flesh
alone will always tend toward
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destructive behaviors and outcomes.
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Flesh always gravitates
from one level to the next,
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to the next to the next,
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until finally you find yourself just trafficking in flesh.
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And the RIV says, in all kinds of destructive behaviors,
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including moral excesses,
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excessive overeating, sexual abandonment,
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and so much more.
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Now that is a little different from
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what the King James Version says.
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The King James Version says, lasciviousness.
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Now we find out what the
word lasciviousness means.
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And as we read in footnote No.752,
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the words "destructive behaviors including moral excesses,
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excesses, overeating, sexual abandonment,
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and so much more" are interpreted from a form
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of the Greek root aselgeia which describes - listen
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excesses of all kinds.
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But notably, it pictures a life out of control.
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It describes wild undisciplined living, especially marked
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by all types of unbridled sexual activity.
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But it was also the very word used in the time
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of the New Testament to describe the excessive consumption
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of food or excessive overeating.
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It is also translated as the word greed
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because it depicts a desire
for more and more and more,
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and it is never satisfied.
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And this word aselgeia,
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which here is interpreted in this verse is listed in
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2 Peter 2:9, as the dominant
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and principle in
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that characterize the citizens
of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Well, when we think of
Sodom and Gomorrah, we think
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of a horrible place.
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People who were just wild in their living.
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That's the word that is used here.
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Lasciviousness really means moral excesses,
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excessive overeating, sexual abandonment,
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and so much more.
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My friends, we've been
delivered from that.
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And if you're still
struggling with any of that,
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then you need to arm
yourself with a weaponry.
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You have God to overcome it.
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But then it goes on to say - With all kinds
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of low level cravings, instincts
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and desires, I'm also
talking about drunkenness,
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endlessly seeking entertainment
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and running from one party
to the next carousing
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and going on drinking binges
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and engaging in idolatries,
which are of course illicit,
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unlawful, and forbidden.
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And these believers were
living in a pagan world
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where people drank a lot, partied a lot,
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they went on drinking binges.
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They were involved in all
kinds of illicit, unlawful,
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forbidden activities.
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And now Peter says, Hey friends, you've already been there,
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you've already done that. Your past life,
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before you knew Christ, you used
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to traffic your life in
all kinds of these things.
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And then he begins to list them: excessive overeating,
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sexual abandonment, so much more, all kinds
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of low level cravings, instincts
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and desires, drunkenness, endlessly seeking entertainment
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and running from one party
to the next carousing
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and going on drinking binges,
engaging in idolatries,
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which are of course illicit,
unlawful, and forbidden.
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That's who you used to be.
That's who you used to be.
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But that's not who you are now.
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And that is why 1 Peter 4:1,
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the very middle of the verse
can be translated like this -
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You need to know that the one who's been
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through great struggles
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and suffering with all these
issues will want no more
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participation with sin.
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He'll say, I've had enough of
that and I want no more of it.
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And my friends, I know
that's the cry of your heart.
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You don't want to go back
to where you used to be.
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You wanna walk in the freedom
that belongs to you in Christ,
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but for you to walk in it,
you've got to arm yourself
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with the same mind that Christ had and my friends
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if you will do that,
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you can really stay in a position of freedom.
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Amen. I'll be back in just a moment
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and I'm going to pray for you.
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Someone asked the question - Who does God choose
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for ministry?
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Well, most people think that
with God, it's a lottery
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that all these names are put in a bag
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and God shakes it up, sticks
his hand in, pulls out a name
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and randomly says, I guess this is the one
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that I'll use, but my friends,
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that is not the way God chooses people for anything.
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And in fact, if you look at the behavior
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of God in the Bible, God
is very predictable at
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how he chooses or does not choose people.
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God's choice is always
made on observation.
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He's watching me
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and he is watching you to
see how faithful we are
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with the assignment
that we have right now.
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If we're not being faithful
with what we're already doing,
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why would he tap us on the
shoulder for another job?
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But when God finds someone that is faithful, that's the one
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that God knows he can trust
for another assignment.
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So if you want God to choose you, you need
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to know he's observing you right now.
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So be faithful where you are
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and that will qualify you
for the next assignment.
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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 boardroom.
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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 have covered a lot
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of material from 1 Peter 4,
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and I'm teaching a series which is called, Arm Yourself
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For the Fight.
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You have everything you
need to overcome temptation
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and to overcome the flesh.
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Please order this series today.
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And tomorrow is the last day
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that we're offering it in the program,
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and it comes with a study guide.
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And today and tomorrow is the last day
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that we're offering the green
volume, Vol.II
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of the RIV, which is 1st & 2nd
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Peter - I really want you to have this.
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I'm sharing just little snippets from it.
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But my friends, I know that
when you dive into this,
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it's gonna really
illuminate the scriptures
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for you in a marvelous way.
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That's why I want you to have it.
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But you can order all these
things by going online
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or by calling us.
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And when you reach out to us,
hey, we want to pray for you.
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So let us know what's on in your life
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and how we can put our faith
together with yours for Jesus
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to do what needs to be done in your life.
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And you can reach out for
prayer by calling that number
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or by sending us an email.
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And I'd like for you to put your hand
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on your heart right now.
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Father, I thank you the name of Jesus,
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you have equipped us with all
the spiritual weaponry we need
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to prevail in life.
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I thank you we've already been
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there, we've already done that,
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we never wanna go back
to where we've been,
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and we want to live the
remainder of our life
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to the will of God.
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And we thank you for the empowerment of the Holy Spirit so
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that we can do it in Jesus name,
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Amen. Wow! This has been good today.
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I'll see you in the next program.
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But 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. Amen.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.