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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
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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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I'm so glad you've let me
come right to where you are.
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And I know that this week
you have a lot going on
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because it's the end of the year.
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You might be getting ready
for New Year's celebrations,
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but I wanna tell you what I
do every single year at this
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time of the year. Rather than just let the New Year
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come and celebrate,
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I always take time to review my year.
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I look back on the year, I look to see
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what the Lord told me to do.
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Did I do it? How faithfully did I do it?
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What did I fail to do?
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And if I failed to do what
I was instructed to to do,
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then I take time to repent
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and to make it right before the Lord.
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And then I always ask the
Holy Spirit, please tell me
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as I enter into the new
Year, as the clock strikes
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and we begin the new
year, what is your plan
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for me in the New Year?
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You know, Jesus said in John 16,
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that when the Holy Spirit came,
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he would be the spirit of truth.
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He would guide us and
he would shew us things
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to come. The Holy Spirit would love to reveal to you today
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and tomorrow, God's plan for your next year: what you're
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to accomplish, what kind of bonuses you're supposed to get,
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who you're supposed to talk to,
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what relationships you're supposed to mend,
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how much weight you're supposed to lose,
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what you're supposed to do with your physical
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exercise program.
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The Holy Spirit knows everything. He is a tour guide.
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He knows the future. He knows every route you need to take.
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He knows what you need to stop
and what you need to avoid.
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And rather than just start the New Year
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by taking a shot in the dark,
the Holy Spirit would love
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to communicate to you
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and tell you exactly what you are
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to accomplish in the New Year.
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So here's what I do. I
always take a piece of paper
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and I get quiet before the
Lord when no one's around
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and I say - All right Lord, speak to my heart.
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Usually I pray in tongues
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and then I listen and I begin to write.
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And as I sense the Holy
Spirit speaking to me, I begin
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to write to me, write down
on that piece of paper
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what I believe are his objectives
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for my life in the New Year,
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and it helps provide
guidance for the New Year.
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Now, the truth is I'm thinking
about it long before today,
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but always at the very end of the year
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I take a few moments just to reflect
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and to make sure I've heard everything clearly
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so when the clock strikes,
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I don't begin my New Year aimlessly.
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I already have a plan.
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I know what I'm supposed to do,
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and I want to encourage you, in addition to being
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with family and friends or going to church
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or enjoying fireworks
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or watching movies on TV with your family
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and friends, make sure you consecrate some time -
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No.1: to review the year to see what you did
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that you were supposed to do to repent for
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what you didn't do that
you were instructed to do.
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Make it right before you end the year.
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And then as you begin the New Year, begin with a plan.
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Begin with a spirit inspired
goal that's given to you
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by the Holy Spirit as you
write it down while you're
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spending time with him.
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And it will really help you
start the New Year correctly.
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You'll end the year right
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and you'll start the year right - my friends - I really want
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to encourage you to do that.
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That's what I do. But today we're gonna continue our series
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And we want to pray for you.
It's the end of the year.
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Maybe there's some things on your heart
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that you've not seen fulfilled yet this year,
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or you're praying about the New Year
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and you just wish there was somebody that could really pray
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with you about the things that you're facing.
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to pray with you, you always
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And we are here for you and
we want to pray for you.
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Now, if you call
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and the number is busy, leave a message,
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we will call you back and we really will.
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We're very serious about praying for you.
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And when you reach out to us, we will pray
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scripturally.
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Jesus is gonna do something tremendous for you.
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He's gonna move in your life.
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So please call the number
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and send us an email and we want to pray with you
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but reach for your Bible.
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We always use the Bible in this program,
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and I've got my Bible
right in front of me.
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And today we're gonna talk about the fact
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that Christ has triumphed overall
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and he has called you to triumph.
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But I want to begin by reading the Apostles Creed.
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Now here on the set with me,
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I have a beautifully designed
copy of the Apostles Creed,
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which we have made available
to our viewers in the past.
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If you didn't call in the past
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it is absolutely free of charge.
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We would love to slip
it in the mail to you.
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It is beautifully designed
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and I'll tell you that we quote the Apostles Creed in our
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church in Moscow every single week without fail.
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You say - Well why do you do that?
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This seems very religious.
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Well, we do it because we
have people in our church
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that have come from all
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of them from other denominations, some
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of them were atheists.
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we wanna make sure we're
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what we believe.
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And my friends, the Apostles Creed is one
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of the oldest creeds of the church.
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And I would advise you that if
you don't already have a copy
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of it, call us or go
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and we'll send you this very
beautifully designed Apostles
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creed, which you can frame just like I have framed mine.
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But here's what the Apostles Creed says. Now listen to this.
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I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
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the Creator of heaven and earth,
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and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
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who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born
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of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,
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was crucified, died, and buried.
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Now listen to this part -
He descended into hell.
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The third day He rose again from the dead.
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He ascended into heaven and
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the Father Almighty, whence He shall come
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to judge the living and the dead.
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I believe in the Holy Spirit -
and the Apostles Creed says -
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and in the Holy Catholic church.
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But the word Catholic here doesn't refer
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to the Roman Catholic church.
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The word Catholic here means universal.
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I believe in the universal church, the communion of saints,
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the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body
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and life everlasting
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Amen. Amen. We believe in
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We believe in God, the Father Almighty.
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We believe He is the creator of heaven and earth.
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We believe in Jesus
Christ, his son, our Lord.
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We believe He was conceived
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We believe He was born of the Virgin Mary.
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We believe that He suffered under Pontius Pilate.
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We believe that He suffered,
He died and was buried.
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We believe the third day He rose again.
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We believe he ascended to heaven.
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We believe he sets at the right hand
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of God the Father Almighty.
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We believe he's coming to
judge the living and the dead.
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We believe in the Holy Spirit.
We believe in the church.
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We believe in the communion of saints,
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the forgiveness of sins.
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We believe in the resurrection of the body
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and we believe in life everlasting.
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And we all say amen.
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But there's one point I skipped,
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and the reason I skipped it is
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because many people
today don't believe it,
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but it's in the Apostles Creed.
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It's the oldest creed of the church.
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And I'm talking about the phrase
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that said - he descended into hell.
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And there are many brethren today
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who do not believe Jesus went to hell.
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They say no, he just went to the grave.
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But the Bible explicitly teaches
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that in the three days the
Jesus body was in the grave,
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his spirit descended into hell
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and Jesus literally
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of those three days.
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And we're going to see
this in scripture today.
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And even the Apostles Creed declares
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Jesus descended into hell.
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Now open your Bible to Colossians 2:15,
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where we read - And having spoiled principalities
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and powers, he made a shew
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of them openly triumphing over them in it.
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He spoiled them by the work of the cross
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and he spoiled them by what
he did when he went to hell.
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But I want us to really
take this verse apart
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because it is so very important.
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It's describing what happened
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because of Jesus work on the cross
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and what happened at the
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of Jesus being in hell. It says,
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in having spoiled principalities
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and powers. Let's begin with the word spoiled,
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which is the Greek word which means to put off to strip off
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as one would strip off garments.
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It was a technical word that was used
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to depict the disarming of an enemy, to disarm an enemy,
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to strip an enemy of his
weaponry and artillery
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and to leave him absolutely
without any weapons
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with which to respond
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or to strip him bear. To strip an enemy to the point
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of complete nakedness or
to thoroughly plunder.
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And this verse could be
better translated like this.
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He completely stripped
principalities and powers
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and left them utterly naked
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with nothing left at their
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Wow! There Jesus was in hell.
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For three days, the enemy thought he had won.
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But on the third day, God quickened Jesus
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by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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And as Jesus came out
of hell on the third day
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and reentered his body
on the way out of hell,
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Jesus completely stripped
principalities and powers
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and left them utterly naked
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with nothing left at their disposal with which to retaliate.
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He stripped them bare.
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Now, who was it that he stripped bare?
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Well, the verse says, principalities and powers.
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The word principalities here refers
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to all high ranking beings
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but specifically to dark
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of the satanic or demonic realm.
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The word powers also is plural.
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who had authority in
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to exercise authority.
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And Jesus literally stripped them bare
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and made a shew of them openly.
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means, listen to this,
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to display, to expose something.
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It was used to denote the
display of captains, weaponry
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and trophies that were seized
during war on foreign soil.
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Once the war was finished
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and the battle was won,
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the reigning emperor would return home
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and would victoriously display or shew.
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Here it's translated as the word shew.
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He would display
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and expose the treasures,
the trophies, the weaponry
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and captives that he had seized
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during his military conquest.
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This was a grand moment of
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but a humiliating experience
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That is the word that is used here.
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And my friends, this tells
us explicitly Jesus stripped
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principalities and powers naked.
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He left them with nothing with which to retaliate.
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He stripped them bare to the core
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as he ascended from hell back into heaven.
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But it goes on to say he did this openly.
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In Greek it says enparisi. The word en means
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in, the word paraisi describes boldness, confidence,
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something that's very frank.
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it becomes enparaisi, it means
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to do something in the wide open
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or to do something very
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what Jesus did in hell
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He did it openly. Jesus did it loudly.
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He displayed this now defunct foe to all
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of heaven's host and revealed
that he had plundered hell.
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He had plundered the enemy and
had seized all the artillery
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and weaponry of the enemy.
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to say - triumphing over them in it.
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Now we have to pause
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and look at this word triumphing, the Greek word thriambeuo:
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a very, very important word which was used
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to describe a general
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or an emperor returning home from a
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grand victory.
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It depicts the general or
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That's what this word triumphing means.
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It describes a triumphal parade - when he returned home
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with a beaten foreign
ruler, bound in chains
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and forced to walk behind him
in disgrace, shame, dishonor
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and embarrassment and humiliation.
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Crowds of people would
fill the streets of Rome
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and they would throw a celebration.
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It was the wildest party of all
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because the emperor had returned home.
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He reigned victorious.
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And as he rode in his chariot,
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and my friend, triumphal parades were momentous,
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momentous affairs.
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And they occurred in Rome
quite frequently, always
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after a grand conquest.
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When the emperor came home or
a grand general returned home,
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and he rode in his chariot,
which was decked in gold
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and pulled by magnificent horses;
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he rode at the very front of the parade
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and behind him was the foreign
enemy that he had defeated,
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bound in chains, often
in a cage sometime forced
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to walk in humiliation and shame.
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that leader were his generals,
his nobles, all his men
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of war who were also walking
behind him in total shame
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and total humiliation.
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And behind that were carts
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loaded with treasures and trophies
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and all kinds of things, which the emperor
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or the general had seized
from that foreign territory.
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And now he was bringing it home.
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This was a moment of great praise
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and great triumph for the
emperor or the general
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because he was reigning.
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But for the defeated foe,
this was the greatest shame
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and the greatest humiliation of all.
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Now let me give you a history lesson.
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Maybe you've heard of Cleopatra.
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Well, Cleopatra the 7th was the last Cleopatra,
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and she had fallen in
love with Mark Antony.
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Well, when Egypt fell,
Cleopatra knew she was going
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to be taken to Rome as a defeated foe.
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She knew Caesar was gonna take her to Rome
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and she knew she was going
to be put on public display.
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She knew she was gonna be put in chains,
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perhaps even possibly put in a cage.
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She knew that behind her was
possibly going to be her son
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and other rulers and other
nobles who were Egyptians
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that were now defeated and behind
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that were gonna be the treasures of Egypt.
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And she knew the entire
streets of Rome were going
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to be filled with Romans
citizens who came together
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to celebrate the returning emperor
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and to see the defeated Cleopatra.
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And rather than face the shame
of that moment, she chose
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to commit suicide.
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She did not want to be put on display.
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Did you learn something?
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Now with all that in mind,
let's look at this verse.
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And this verse says:
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And - this is so powerful -
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having spoiled principalities and powers.
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Now we understand the word
spoiled means he completely
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stripped principalities and powers
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and left them utterly naked
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with nothing left at their
disposal to retaliate.
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And he did this openly in the wide open
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for all the heavenly realm,
every spiritual realm
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to see this.
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And in a figurative way, Paul tells us
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that when Jesus returned home
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after this event, when
Jesus ascended to heaven,
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heaven through a party. Jesus returned
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as the reigning emperor.
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He had been to the depths of the depths.
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He had spent three days in the enemy's camp.
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The enemy thought he had defeated Jesus.
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But on the 3rd day, God said, I will not allow my holy one
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to suffer corruption.
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And the power of the Holy Spirit descended into the very pit
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of hell itself and divinely energized Jesus.
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And Jesus on the way out stripped the enemy bear.
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And Paul says, Christ triumphed over the enemy - triumphed.
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He led a triumphal procession
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and displayed this
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now defunct devil, completely, utterly humiliated,
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stripped bear of all of his weaponry.
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Oh, that is just so powerful.
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But wait, there's something else.
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2nd Corinthians 2:14 says,
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Now, thanks be unto God which always causes us
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to triumph in Christ
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and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us
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in every place. Just
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as Jesus jubilantly triumphed over the enemy,
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2 Corinthians 2:14 says, God always -
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say, always - causes us
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to triumph.
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I told you yesterday, victory is yours to claim.
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God has called us to be overcomers: not to be victors, not
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to be victims, but God has called us to overcome everything
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that is around us.
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And in the same way that Christ triumphed himself,
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2nd Corinthians 2:14 says,
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God always causes us to triumph in Christ.
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And if you're not triumphing
right now over everything in
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your life, then you've not hit the mark yet -
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because God always causes us to triumph.
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That means over strife, over the enemy, over sickness,
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over failure over a bad self image: means God has called you
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to triumph over it all and
to put the enemy on display.
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He has been stripped naked,
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he is under your feet. My friends,
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you have authority and you have been called to have victory
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and to overcome
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and to triumph always in Christ.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I'm gonna pray for you.
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This is Rick Renner and somebody has asked
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What do we do about anxiety and overthinking?
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Well, when I was a younger
man, I had a lot of anxiety
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and I worried about everything.
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I'm a thinker and I overthought everything.
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But one day I came to Philippians 4:6,
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which says, Be careful for nothing.
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It literally means don't worry
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and don't worry about anything at all.
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But instead, in everything by prayer
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and supplication with thanksgiving,
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let your request be made known unto God.
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And here's the promise in verse 7 -
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And the peace of God
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that passes all understanding
will keep your hearts
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and minds through Christ Jesus.
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So rather than thinking and thinking
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and overthinking every problem which is not going
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to change anything, once you've thought about it,
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then you need to stop worrying
and you need to begin to pray
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and thank God for the answer.
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And these verses promise that
God's peace will flood you
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and will protect your
mind and your emotions.
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that God has called you
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to triumph always - not sometimes.
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God always causes us to triumph in Christ.
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That should be your goal.
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And say, Father, in Jesus name, help me to embrace
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that you've called me to walk in victory
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and to be an overcomer and a triumph -
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And please, when you reach out
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that you need to triumph over.
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What is it that you're trying to overcome?
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We wanna put our faith together with yours
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and together we will agree.
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And Jesus said, if two or three of you will agree
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as touching anything, my father will do it.
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We will agree together scripturally; God will hear us,
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and Jesus power will be released to help you triumph over
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what it is that you're dealing with.
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My friends, you are called to be an overcomer -
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but Father, I thank you in the name of Jesus
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that we are not victims, but you've called us to be victors.
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You've called us to be an overwhelming,
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phenomenal, walloping force in this life
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and to overcome everything
that comes against us.
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Thank you that greater is He that's in us,
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and we can do it in Jesus' name -
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Amen. I'll see you tomorrow.
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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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Hey friends, my wife
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and I are coming to the United States
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to hold some wonderful meetings
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and I want to tell you about them,
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but please be sure to go to our website
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to affirm all these times and dates
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because sometimes things change.
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But we are coming to Florida on Sunday, Monday,
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January 11th and 12th to Naples.
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We're gonna be at the Faith Church with Pastors Andre
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and Jenny Roebert.
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On Friday January 16th, we're coming to Bradenton, FL
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to the Happy Gospel Church, to a Friends in Ministry
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with Roberts Liardon Meeting.
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Then on Sunday, January 18th, we are coming to Newark,
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TX to Eagle Mountain International Church to be
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with Pastors George and Terri Pearsons
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and the whole church. On January 25th, we're coming
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to Green Mountain Falls, CO to Legacy Church to be
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with Pastors Jeremy and Sarah Pearsons.
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On Friday, Saturday, Sunday, January 30th, 31st
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and February 1st, we're coming to Mesa, AZ
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to Vida Church to be with Pastors Ben and Kara Diaz.
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On Sunday, February 8th, we're coming to Southfield,
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MI to be at Word of Faith with Bishop Keith
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and Pastor Deborah Butler.
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On Sunday, February 15th, we're coming to Tulsa, OK
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to be at Millennial church with Pastors Paul
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and Karen Brady.
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And on Saturday and Sunday, February 21st
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and 22nd, we're coming to Midland, NC
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to Encounter Church to be with Bishop Alan
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and Tera DiDio
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and friend, I want to
invite you to come to one
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of these meetings.
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We're waiting to see you there.
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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 repented 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.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called Partners of Renner Ministries.