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This program is made
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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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.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and I've been sitting in
this chair just waiting
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to get started because today
I'm going to begin talking
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to you about how to have peace
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of mind in troubled times.
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You really can have peace of
mind in spite of everything
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that's going on in the world
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or in spite of what's going
on inside your personal life.
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Peace can dominate and rule you
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and that's the subject this week.
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How To Have Peace of Mind In Troubled Times.
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And I want you to order
the brand new series.
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It's a 5-part series by the same title.
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It comes with a wonderful study guide
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because I believe that
when you read the material,
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while you see it or hear it,
it really causes the teaching
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to get down deep inside you.
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And we're offering you my book,
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which is called - My Peace Filled Day.
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It is a Sparkling Gems from the
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Greek Guided Daily Devotional
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and I've never offered it on
TV before and it is wonderful.
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And today only, we want to give it to you
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as our gift one per household.
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So just give us a call or go online
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and we want to sow this
book into your life.
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But you know, a major part
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of our ministry is praying for people.
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And if you have any need in your life
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that is really confronting you right now
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and you don't know how to pray about it
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or you just wish that
you had somebody to pray
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with you, well here we are.
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Give us a call. We're waiting
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for the phone to ring right now.
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The number is on the screen
or you can send us your email
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and the moment the phone rings
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or the moment the email
shows up in our inbox, we
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as a team are going to begin
to ferociously pray for you
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and God is going to hear us.
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He promises that in Jeremiah 33:3,
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where he says, Call into me,
I'll hear you, I'll answer you
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and I'll show you great and mighty things.
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And if you'll reach out to
us with you, we will call out
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to God in faith.
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He will hear us, he will move
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and he will do exactly what
needs to be done in your life.
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You know, Denise and I were
just in the United States
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and we were in our Tulsa office
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and I was walking through the Partner Care department
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of our ministry where we
receive phone calls and emails
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and where we reach out
to care for our partners.
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It was like a roar of prayer in
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that department: from every direction I heard people praying
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and really intensely praying.
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And friends, I want to
tell you that praying
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for you is a very important
part of our ministry.
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So if you have a prayer
need, please reach out to us
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and we will really pray for you.
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But before I get into
today's teaching, I want
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to read just one testimony to
you that really blessed me.
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A woman was diagnosed with cancer
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and her aunt told her she needed to watch Rick Renner on TV
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and that Pastor Rick's teaching was powerful and anointed.
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So she started to watch
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and has learned so much from
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what he teaches about the scripture.
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She kept watching the programs
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during this period she went through her medical treatments,
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was never sick
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and never experienced any side
effects from the treatments.
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She noticed she was
getting better as a whole.
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And then she was told by her doctor
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that she is cancer free.
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She's so thankful that her aunt told her
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to watch Rick Renner.
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Well, I'm thankful too,
but Jesus is the healer
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and if you need healing
in your body, he is ready
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to heal you as well.
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So reach out to us
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and will pray for you as well.
But reach for your Bible
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and I want to begin with Luke 21:26, which says,
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Men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking
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after those things which
are coming on the earth.
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And Jesus here is describing
the earth in the very last
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of the last days and he
says, things will become
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so distrustful at the end of the age
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that men's hearts will fail them for fear and for looking
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after those things which
are coming on the earth.
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And I want to give you a little testimony
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to demonstrate this point.
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When my family and I first
moved to the Soviet Union,
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can you imagine we moved
to the Soviet Union in 1991.
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And when we moved to the Soviet Union,
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it was a closed part of the world.
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It had no access to Western television.
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And so when we settled into
our home in the Soviet Union,
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we had no access to Western news
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and all kinds of things were going on
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that we were not aware of.
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For example, there was a big hurricane.
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We didn't know anything about it
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because we didn't have
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There were all kinds of
horrible riots going on in
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Los Angeles.
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We didn't know a thing about it
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because we had no access to Western News.
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And that was when the Gulf War
was beginning to take place
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and we could not be regularly updated
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because we had no access to Western News.
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We just lived our lives peacefully
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and were enjoying ourselves not knowing
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what was going on in the world.
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And then one day I went to Riga
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and en Riga there was a bank, in fact,
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it was the only Western bank in the whole
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country at that time.
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And I went there to get
funds for the ministry.
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And as I sat there waiting
to for my time to speak
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to the teller at the bank,
I began to watch the TV.
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And lo and behold, it was CNN.
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And CNN began to talk about the horrific effects
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of the hurricane and
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how it was wiping out South Florida - ay, ya -
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it was so horrible.
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And then it began to talk about the riots in Los Angeles.
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People were being killed, horrible,
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horrible things were
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And then it began to
talk about the Gulf War
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and all the events that were
happening in the Gulf War.
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And you know when they're
finished telling the news,
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they tell it again and
again and again and again.
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And I sat there waiting
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and waiting to be serviced
by the bank, listening
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to the news and listening to the news.
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And by the time I was finally
serviced, I was so upset by
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what I saw in the news,
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I had lost my peace; I had lost my peace.
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Well this reminds me again of what Jesus said in Luke 21:26,
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about the end of the age: Men's hearts failing them for fear
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and for looking
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after those things which
are coming on the earth.
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And we are truly living in a
time when if we pay attention
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to all the events that are
occurring around the world,
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including in your own school system,
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your own local government,
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what's happening right
in your own neighborhood,
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you can lose your peace.
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And so we need to know how to have peace
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of mind in troubled times.
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Now when I was growing up, I worried a lot
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and I had a lack of peace.
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In fact, I struggled with it
for years and years and years.
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And I finally put all
that to rest in 1998.
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And in 1998, a major
event occurred in my life
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that made me come face to face
with a lack of peace, worry,
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and fret in my life.
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We were building a big building in Riga.
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In fact, it was the first church building
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to be built in 55 years in the
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republic of Latvia.
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Latvia was a former republic
of the Soviet Union:
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that's where we were living,
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and because it had been dominated by the Soviet Union,
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they had not built a new church building in
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55 years.
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And we had many, many enemies
who were against this project.
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And when we launched out, the
government gave us permission
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to build, but they said we had
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to finish the project within two years
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or we would lose the whole project
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and everything that we invested in it.
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And wow, we needed a lot of funds
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because that project was going to cost $4 million.
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no church could get a loan from a bank.
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that even loaned money back in those days,
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which meant we had to believe
for all the cash to come in.
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And we only had two years
to believe for the cash
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and to build the building.
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Plus we were on that already
was a big step of faith.
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Paying for TV is very expensive
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and we were sending books free of charge
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to the ends of the earth.
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We had to pay for the
printing of those books.
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We had to pay for the
envelopes, we had to pay
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for the stamps, we had to
pay for all the employees.
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And the team was growing and growing.
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We just needed mountains of money to do
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what we were already doing.
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And now I needed $4 million
to build this building
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and it had to be done in two years.
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And I found myself really failing for fear.
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I lost my peace.
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I would roll in bed at night one way
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and the other way Denise would hit me
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and she would say, Rick,
would you please lay still?
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I would say, Denise, I am so worried.
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And she would say, oh Rick,
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would you just give it to the Lord?
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And when she would say that,
it would really irritate me
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because nobody was calling her for money.
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And I would say, Denise, very
easy for you to say, Rick,
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would you just give it to the
Lord when nobody's calling you
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for payments, they're calling me.
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She would say, Rick, would
you just give it to the Lord?
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But you know what, Denise was right.
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I needed to give it to the Lord.
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And it was during that
period that I really came
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to the realization, it
is not God's will for me
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to lose my peace.
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It is not God's will for
me to worry or to fret
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or to live in this state of anxiety.
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And those things don't
change anything anyhow.
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It's just a waste of emotion
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and a waste of time for you to
worry and fret and be anxiety
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and to lose your peace.
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And it doesn't matter
what's going on in the world
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around you, it is God's intention for you
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to be an island of peace
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in the middle of all of it. Say Amen.
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And in fact, when you come to John 14:27, Jesus said
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to his disciples and he said to you
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and to me - Peace I leave with you.
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My peace I give unto you.
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And notice in this verse, Jesus uses the word peace twice.
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Look at it again. Peace I leave with you.
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My peace I give unto you.
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And the word give,
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which is used in this verse
is the Greek word for a gift,
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which means peace is a
gift that God gives to us.
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And Jesus says, I give it to you,
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which means peace belongs to us.
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We can lay claim to peace.
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But what do I mean when I say peace?
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Well, the word peace that is used in this verse is the Greek
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word eirene.
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And the definition of the word eirene is quite exhausted.
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But I need to give it all to
you so you really understand
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what we're talking about
when we talk about peace.
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This word peace, used twice by Jesus,
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the Greek word eirene means: the cessation of war.
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So if you're in peace, it means you're no longer fighting.
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It is the end of conflict.
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So if you're in peace,
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you're no longer affected by conflict.
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It is a time of rebuilding
and reconstruction
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after the war has ceased.
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So rather than focus on the
trouble now you're focusing on
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rebuilding and reconstruction.
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That's what peace enables you to do.
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It is distractions removed,
a time of prosperity.
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It depicts the rule of
order in the place of chaos.
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And it is a calm inner stability
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that results in the ability
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to conduct oneself peacefully, even in the midst
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of circumstances
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that would normally be
traumatic or upsetting.
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It doesn't mean the traumatic
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or upsetting circumstances
aren't happening,
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but when you're dominated
by peace, you're able
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to conduct yourself peacefully even in the
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midst of those things.
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The Greek equivalent for the Hebrew word shalom,
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which expresses the idea of wholeness, completeness,
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or tranquility in the soul that is unaffected
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by outward circumstances
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or pressures - which means -
when you are moving in peace,
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even if you're surrounded
by outward pressures
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and circumstances that are difficult, you can be an island
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of stability that is unaffected.
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Peace will dominate you,
it will dominate you,
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it will be shalom it your life.
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And in this verse, Jesus uses the word peace twice.
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Peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto you.
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This is the gift of God
to every single believer.
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And then Jesus continues in John 14:27
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and says, Let not your heart be troubled.
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The word heart is the Greek word kardia.
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It describes the center
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But in Greek, this word kardia,
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the word heart, describes the seat of human emotions.
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So Jesus is literally saying,
don't let your center,
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don't let your core, don't
let your emotions be troubled.
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which means to be stirred up, to be unsettled,
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to feel anxious, to be inwardly moved
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and upset, to be tossed back and forth,
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and it pictures someone who is upset, tossed
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and troubled.
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Well, that really describes
what I was feeling during
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that building program
back in Riga in 1998.
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I was stirred up, I was unsettled,
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I was filled with anxiety.
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I was inwardly moved and upset. I was tossed back and forth.
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I was upset, I was tossed, I was troubled.
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And my friends, that was not God's will for me
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because Jesus said twice in this verse, my peace I leave
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with you, my peace I give unto you,
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which means we can be dominated by peace even in troubling
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or traumatic circumstances.
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And let me tell you something. When emotions begin to work,
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they take you downward.
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And when you open the door
to those negative emotions,
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they bring friends with them,
which means they bring a host
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of negative emotions
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and they will try to pull
you into the realm of fear,
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into the realm of fear.
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And that is why Jesus continued to say in John 14:27,
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Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid -
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neither let it be afraid.
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Maybe you're afraid right now
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because of something that's
going on in your life
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or in your family or in a
friend or in your finances.
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Maybe you're afraid
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because of what you see
happening in the news
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and you're just afraid and distressed.
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Well, Jesus said, let not your heart be troubled,
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neither let it be afraid.
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And the word, afraid, in Greek means to be cowardly,
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to live in dread, to shrink backward,
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to move into retreat.
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It depicts a paralyzing fear
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that produces a shrinking back
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or cowardice, which means when a spirit
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of fear is working in you,
you want to close the blinds
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and hide because you just
become afraid of everything
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that's going on around you and my friends,
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you can't function like that.
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You've got things you need to do.
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You've got people you
need to take care of.
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You've got a job you need to do.
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You do not have time to live in fear.
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And Jesus said, neither be afraid.
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You don't have to be a coward.
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And in essence, the kind of fear
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that Jesus was describing cripples you, it paralyzes you.
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The apostle Paul also referred to this kind
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of fear in 2 Timothy 1:7,
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when Paul wrote to Timothy
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and Timothy was really
facing very difficult times.
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They were really hard times.
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Nero was killing Christians all around him.
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And naturally speaking,
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Timothy was wondering if he might be next
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and he was fearful.
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And Paul wrote to him in 2 Timothy 1:7
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and said, God has not given you a spirit of fear.
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What has God given you?
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We've already seen: John 14:27 - twice Jesus said,
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peace I leave with you.
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My peace I given unto you. God gives you peace.
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And now we see in 2 Timothy 1:7,
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God has not given you a spirit of fear.
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And the word fear is the same word translated afraid in John
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14:27, which means God has not given you a spirit
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that makes you cowardly.
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God has not given you a
spirit that causes you
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to live in dread about the
future or about the present.
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God has not given you a
spirit that causes you
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to shrink backward.
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God has not given you a
spirit that causes you
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to move into retreat.
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God has not given you a paralyzing fear
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that produces a shrinking back
or a cowardice in your life.
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But instead, 2 Timothy 1:7 says,
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God has given you power, love,
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and a sound mind.
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What is a sound mind? The Greek word, sophronismos.
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It's a compound of two words:
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the word soso and the word friend.
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The word sodzo means delivered, healed, saved, whole.
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And the word phren, pictures the intelligence or the mind
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and speaks of an inner force
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that regulates outward behavior.
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But as a compound, it becomes the word sophronismos,
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which pictures a mind that has been delivered:
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a mind that has been rescued: a mind that has been revived,
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salvaged and protected, and
which is now safe and secure.
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And because the 1st part of the word is the word sodzo,
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which means delivered or saved.
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The 2nd part of the word phren,
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which describes intelligence, I jokingly
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but really mean it when I say it,
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really describes a saved brain.
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You see a mind that is unsound
worries about everything.
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It even worries about things
that will never take place.
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It's affected by outward circumstances and traumatic events.
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It moves into a spirit of timidity and fear and retreat.
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But a mind that is saved, a mind that is delivered,
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a mind that is sound.
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It is free of all those outward things.
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And instead it is dominated by peace.
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And when Paul wrote to Timothy
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and said, Timothy, God has given you a sound mind,
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Paul knew Timothy was really facing very difficult
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things, but it didn't matter.
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God did not give him a spirit of fear.
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God gave him peace to dominate him.
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And God gave him a sound mind, a mind that was delivered
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and set free of fear.
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Now, for me personally, when
I'm having a hard time, I run
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to John 14:27 which says, my peace,
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I leave you, my peace I given to you.
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And I say to myself - Rick Renner, God has not called you
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to be troubled by all these events.
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He's called you to peace.
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And I run to 2 Timothy 1:7, which says,
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God has not given me a
spirit of fear, but of power
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and of love and of a sound mind.
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And I literally say to myself,
Rick, it is time for you
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to put this fear away and
to embrace the sound mind
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and the peace which Jesus has given to you. My friends,
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you've got to choose to embrace what Jesus has given.
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Now you might really be surrounded by difficult things.
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Maybe you are facing traumatic events.
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I'm not denying the reality of those things,
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but the fact is, even if you
were in a sea of turmoil,
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Jesus said, my peace I leave you. My peace
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I give unto you. That word give is the
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Greek word for the gift.
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He has gifted you with peace,
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which removes all distractions, it removes all conflict
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and it enables you
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to conduct yourself peacefully even in events
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that would normally be traumatic or upsetting.
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And it is God's will for you to have peace
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of mind even in troubled times.
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How did you start learning Greek?
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Well, Joel, I always had a voracious
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hunger for the word of God.
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My mother really taught me the Bible
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and we went to a great
Bible teaching church.
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But when I was a teenager
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and had just been filled
with the Holy Spirit,
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I was introduced to the
ministry of Derek Prince.
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Derek Prince was a very educated Bible teacher from
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England and he used Greek when he taught
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and it just snagged my heart.
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And I thought, wow, that
is what I want to do.
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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.
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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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And if you're not already a part
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of our Ministry Expansion Project to pay off this facility,
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we're inviting you to join us
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and to become a part of our Giving Team.
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We're very serious about what we do.
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We're very careful with our finances
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and we're really grateful for you
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and for every person who is
a partner with our ministry.
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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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Today we've been talking about the fact
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that you can have peace of
mind even in troubled times.
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And I want you to order this series, which is called - How
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to Have Peace of Mind In Troubled Times.
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It Comes with a wonderful study guide,
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and I want you to be sure
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to get the book called, My Peace-Filled Day.
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And I remind you that - today only - this book is
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our gift to you.
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So call us or go online
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and we'll get this book right to you.
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But my friends, Jesus says,
my peace I leave with you,
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my peace I give unto you.
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It is the will of God for
you to be dominated by peace.
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But right now, I want to pray for you.
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Just put your hand on your heart.
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If you're going through
difficult times right now,
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Jesus says, my peace I leave with you,
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my peace I give unto you.
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And in the name of Jesus, I
speak the peace of God to you.
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I rebuke the spirit of fear that has tried
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to wrap its tentacles around you
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and is trying to suck the life out of you.
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I curse it, I rebuke it.
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I command it to go in the name of Jesus
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and I release God's dominating
peace into your life.
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In Jesus name - Amen.
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Wow, it's been so good to be with you today.
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Remember that if you have a prayer need,
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we want to hear from you.
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So call the number on the
screen or send us an email
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and we will begin to pray with you as soon
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as we hear from you.
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But remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4, it 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.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation.
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We would love to connect with you.
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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.