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This program is made possible by the giving
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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 it is December 31st.
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Today is the end of the year.
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It has really been a great year.
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And before we go any further,
I want to encourage you just
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to take some time to
review all the good things
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that God did for you this year.
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What if God had not been involved in your life this year?
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Some things would've really
gone the wrong direction.
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You might feel some things already went the wrong direction,
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but if God hadn't been involved,
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it could have been a lot worse.
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And the truth is the Lord
has helped you navigate
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a lot of things.
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And when you look back
on this year, we have
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to say God has been faithful
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and what a platform it gives
me and you for next year.
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We're standing on the platform
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of God's faithfulness
looking into the New Year.
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And I know that when the
clock strikes tonight,
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Jesus has a great plan for your next year.
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Now in Russia, this is the biggest celebration of the year.
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Russia has a lot of holidays: believe me, a lot of holidays.
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But no holiday is bigger in Russia
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then New Year's, and tonight fireworks are gonna be blasting
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all over the city of Moscow.
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It is just amazing to see.
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And whereas you may gather with your family on Thanksgiving
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and Christmas, this is the day when Russian families
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gather together to eat.
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This is the day that they exchange gifts.
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They don't do it on Christmas Day,
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which in Russia is January 7th.
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And the reason they don't do it on January 7th is
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because for 70 years, Christmas was illegal:
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there was no Christmas, and New Year's became the big event.
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Today we have Christmas, which is on January 7th.
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That's the date for Russian Christmas.
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But today is the day
when Russian families are
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gathering in their homes.
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They're exchanging gifts,
they're eating meals together,
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and they're blasting their
fireworks all over the city.
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So that's what's happening
today where we live.
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I don't know what you are going to do.
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Also, our church has a wonderful event every year tonight
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to welcome the New Year as the family of God.
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And I just want to encourage you again that
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before the clock strikes, take time to pause
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and to reflect on all
the ways that God moved
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and intervened in your life this year.
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He really helped you
navigate a lot of things
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and you need to reflect on it
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and remember the goodness of the Lord.
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But hey, today and the rest of this week,
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I'm teaching a series which is called, Victory
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That Overcomes the World.
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It comes with a wonderful study guide
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and we are also offering you my book,
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which is called, My Victory Filled Day.
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It is a Sparkling Gems from the Greek Guided Devotional
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Journey: A 31 day Walk into Victory.
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God wants you to have victory
every day of your life.
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And if you'd like more information about these things,
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just go online or give us a call.
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And when you reach out to us, remember
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that we want to pray for you.
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Even today, we're ready
to receive your call.
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Today would be a great day to
pray with you about anything
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that is on your heart.
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And you know many people who call us
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and reach out to us for prayer, then reach out to us again
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to give us a praise report.
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And I just love those praise
reports when they come in
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and by friends, we get stacks and stacks
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and stacks of praise reports
from people who reached out
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to us for prayer and
received an answer to pray.
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And I wanna share two of
them with you right now.
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One man reached out to
let Pastor Rick know
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that when he sees him
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and listens to him,
there's a love of the Lord
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that comes from him in his eyes
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and it's a tangible
expression of Christ's love.
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He said he is deeply thankful
for Pastor Rick's teaching
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and his faithfulness to the Lord
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and wanted him to know
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that it has greatly impacted his life.
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Well, I wanna say thank you
for telling me that. We pray
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that the word of God through
our ministry impacts your life
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and the life of others.
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But here is another testimony. One partner said,
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"I just read your teaching
letter about the anointing
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of Jesus.
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I've never heard or read these
scriptures explained so well.
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I have a tremendous Holy Ghost feeling
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and understanding as I read your letter,
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and I feel completely healed all over.
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I've known and read these
scriptures for many years,
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but I only had a taste of them.
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But you've provided me with a full meal - thank you again."
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Well thank you for being a partner.
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That means so much to me.
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And we need you because with your help,
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we are embracing the whole
world with a wonderful word
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of God - but reach for your Bible,
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and today we're gonna continue talking about the fact
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that you have a victory that overcomes the world.
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We always use the Bible in this program.
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And today I want you to open your Bible to John 16:
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33, where Jesus said - These things
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I've spoken unto you that in me you might have peace -
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and then Jesus adds, In the world you will have tribulation,
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but be of good cheer,
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I have overcome the world.
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I just appreciate the fact
that Jesus was so honest
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with us about life.
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And Jesus said in me, you can have peace,
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but in the world you
will have tribulation.
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And the fact is that
tribulation comes in life.
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It may be self-inflicted tribulation,
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it may be tribulation due to finances
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or due to what somebody else has done.
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It may be a demonic attack. But in life we hit rough spots.
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And this word tribulation, is pretty significant
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because it is the Greek word thlipsis.
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Now the word thlipsis, later became
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a favorite word used in the
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writings of the Apostle Paul.
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He used it to describe the events that he had been through.
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And today we're gonna be seeing one
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of those in 2 Corinthians 1.
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But this word tribulation, the Greek word thlipsis, is used
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to convey the idea of a
heavy pressure situation.
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It depicts a person who's in
a tight place under a heavy
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burden and in a great squeeze.
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And this particular word tribulation,
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the Greek word thlipsis, was first used
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as a word of torture.
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You need to understand this
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because it brings a lot of
meaning into this verse.
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And it particularly depicted a person
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who was laid flat on his back
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and a big boulder was placed over him
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and the boulder was lowered and lowered
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and lowered until finally the
man laying on his back could
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feel the full weight of the
boulder pressing against him.
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And those who were in charge would say
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to the man laying flat, if
you don't confess your crime
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or if you don't recant your faith, we're gonna cut this rope
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and we're gonna completely squash you.
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If he refused to comply,
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they would lower the boulder a little bit more
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until finally - thlipsis -
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he could feel the full weight, the tribulation of
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that boulder pressing down against him.
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They would tell him
again, confess your crime
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or recant your faith.
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And if he refused, then they
would continue lowering the
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boulder until finally he
was in such a tight squeeze,
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he could hardly breathe.
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He felt he was pinned against the floor.
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He felt that he could not breathe.
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All of that is in this word tribulation.
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So when Jesus says, in this world you will have tribulation.
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It really means in life you come
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to moments when you're really in a squeeze;
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you're in a tight place.
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Sometimes you feel like
you can hardly breathe
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because you're so trapped and
so pinned in your situation.
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that the Lord warned us about this.
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He didn't tell us everything would be rosy
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and there would never be problem.
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But he said, in the world,
you're going to come
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to hard spots in life.
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But then he said, but be of good cheer.
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I have overcome the world.
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And you know, the Greek text actually
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says, cheer yourself up.
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And I like this because there
are moments when we have
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to speak to ourselves.
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Maybe no one else is
available to encourage you.
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In moments like that, you
gotta speak to yourself.
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You are your greatest preacher. You've got a mouth,
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you can declare the truth to yourself.
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And there are times when you
just gotta speak to yourself.
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It is just like I told
you at the beginning
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of today's program - this year, you ought
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to remember everything good that God did for you this year.
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Sometimes you gotta call those things to remembrance
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because you may not be remembering the good things.
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Likewise, when you're in a bad spot,
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sometimes you gotta speak to yourself.
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You gotta cheer yourself up.
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You say, well, why
should I cheer myself up?
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Well, Jesus said, be a good
cheer or cheer yourself up
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because I have overcome the world.
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And here we find the Greek word nikao,
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which means I have overcome: present tense,
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it's a done deal.
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And this word overcome, the Greek word nikao, pictures
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one who has become a champion, a victor,
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or who possesses some type of superiority.
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It is one who has conquered,
defeated, mastered, overcome,
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overwhelmed, surpassed, or
who has obtained victory.
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It was used in Greek
literature to portray athletes
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who have mastered their sport
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and reigned supreme as
champions in the games
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or this word overcome, the Greek
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word nikao, could also describe a military victory
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of one against another foe,
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or, to be permanently
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and consistently undeterred
in one's efforts to overcome
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and to obtain a lasting victory.
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Or again, it means to control, to conquer,
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to defeat, to master, to overcome, to overwhelm, to surpass
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or to be victorious.
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And Jesus says, I have.
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I have overcome the world.
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And in Greek the 2 words, the world is ton-kosmos.
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It has a definite article with the Greek word kosmos.
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It means the world and everything related to the world.
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There's not one thing in the world
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that Jesus did not overcome.
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He overcame death,
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he overcame sickness, he overcame demonic powers,
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he overcame hell.
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We saw that in the last program.
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Jesus has overcome everything.
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So if we find ourself in a moment,
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when we feel trapped against the wall, pinned, we don't know
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how to get out in a place of tribulation, that's a moment
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for us to speak to ourselves
and cheer ourselves up
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because the fact is Jesus has overcome everything
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and he gives to us overcoming power.
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Say amen. Now I'm gonna give you an illustration.
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When you go to 2 Corinthians 1:8
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10, Paul gives an amazing testimony about him
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overcoming a really rough spot.
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Listen to what he says -
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For we would not brethren have you ignorant of our trouble.
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That we're trouble is the same word translated thlipsis,
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tribulation, in John 16:33.
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For we would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came
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to us in Asia: that we were - now listen
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to these words - pressed out of measure,
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above strength, in so much
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that we despaired even of
life, that we had the sentence
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of death in ourselves that we
should not trust in ourselves,
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but in God, which raiseth the dead, who delivered us from
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so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust
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that he will yet deliver us.
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that when Paul was ministering in Asia,
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he hit a really rough time
in his ministry, so rough
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that it looked like it was
an event they would never
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escape - but he did escape.
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God delivered him and
God will deliver you.
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Jesus has overcome everything
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and the greater one lives in you.
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And it doesn't matter
what comes against you,
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if you'll speak to
yourself, cheer yourself up
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and grab hold of the power of God,
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you can overcome anything.
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And that's what we see in this verse.
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So let's take this verse apart.
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First of all, Paul says in verse 8 -
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For we would not brethren have you ignorant.
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It describes one that is uninformed or one that is ignorant.
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It literally means - Hey brethren, we want you
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to really understand.
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We don't want you to be
unknowledgeable about
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what we have been through.
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And I like the fact that
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that he went through hard times.
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because he wanted to demonstrate that if he could get
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through what he had been through, anybody can get
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through what they're going through.
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So he says - We would not brethren have you ignorant
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of our trouble which came to us in Asia.
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the same word translated tribulation in John 16:33.
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And again, it was first used
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to describe a person laying on the floor
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with a huge stone pressed against him being lowered
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and lowered and lowered and lowered
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until finally he couldn't move.
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He felt pinned. He felt trapped.
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they would cut the stone.
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The stone would drop
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and would completely smash the individual.
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That's the word trouble in this verse.
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and he uses it to describe how intense was the event
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that he was going through in Asia.
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So here we have it again -
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For we would not brethren have you ignorant
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of our pressing trouble - smashing trouble -
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which came to us in Asia.
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Then he explains - That we were pressed out of measure.
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above strength, in so much that we despaired even
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of life: that we had the sentence of death in ourselves
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that we should not trust in ourselves,
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but in God, which raises the
dead, who delivered us from
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so great a death and doth deliver, in whom we trust
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that he will yet deliver.
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But let's look at several of these phrases.
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For example, Paul says he was pressed out
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of measure. In Greek,
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it is the phrase, kath huperbolen.
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This is really important.
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It means to throw something beyond.
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It describes something that is excessive
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or something that is beyond the range
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that most people experience.
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It's the equivalent of saying - what we have been through is
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beyond anything we have ever previously experienced.
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It was excessive. Then he goes on and says - above strength.
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which again conveys the idea of something that is excessive.
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Paul is compounding one term
on top of another, on top
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of another to describe
what he has been through.
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He says it was above strength.
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the Greek word dunamis,
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which normally describes
phenomenal power and strength.
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But what he went through
was beyond any strength
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that he had to endure.
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And in the Greek it adds one more phrase,
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which is not in the King James Version.
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In the Greek it says,
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and we were weighed down, weighed down,
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which in Greek is the word bareo.
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It's from the word baros, which subscribes the very,
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very depths of the sea,
something very deep,
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something baros, something that's very heavy to carry.
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It was so heavy, it was weighing this down into
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the very depths.
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And then Paul says, so that
we even despaired of life.
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You say, wow, this doesn't sound like a statement of faith.
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Well it is because he didn't give up and he didn't...
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he didn't break. But the word despaired,
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the Greek word exapereo,
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and it's where we get the word exasperated, exasperated.
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And in Greek it's used
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to describe the situation when
one feels he has no way out.
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Again, it is where we
get the word exasperated.
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But it was used to describe
an individual who was caught,
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pinned down, trapped up against the wall
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or pinned to the floor and feels utterly hopeless.
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And in today's language, we would say it like this
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Well, it looks like for me,
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I'm exasperated.
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There's no way out of this
event that I'm facing.
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That's what that phrase - despaired - means.
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Well, when you put all of this together, the RIV,
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that is the Renner Interpretive Version
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of 2 Corinthians 1:8
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and 9 is really, really powerful.
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But first, let's look at one more thing. Look at verse 9.
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In verse 9, Paul describes how deep was his despair.
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He says - But we had this sentence of death in ourself.
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And the word sentence is a Greek word apokrima.
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The word krima describes the verdict of a court.
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The word apo, attached
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to it means a verdict was handed down.
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So Paul was really saying - It looked like the verdict
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of death had been passed upon us.
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And the word death is the word thanatos.
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And the word thanatos really describes a death verdict.
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So now to the RIV. The RIV of 2 Corinthians 1:8
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and 9 says - We would not brethren have you ignorant
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of the horribly tight, life-threatening squeeze
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that came to us in Asia.
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It was unbelievable.
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With all the things we've been through,
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this was the worst of all.
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It felt like our lives were being crushed.
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That's a translation of the word thlipsis.
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It was so difficult that I didn't know what to do.
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No experience I've ever been through required so much of me,
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and in fact, I didn't have enough strength to cope with it.
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And toward the end of this
ordeal, I was so weighed down
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and overwhelmed that I didn't
think we'd ever get out.
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I felt suffocated, trapped,
and pinned against the wall.
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I really thought it was
the end of the road for us.
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And as far as we were
concerned, the verdict was in
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and the verdict said death.
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But really this was no great shock
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because we were already
feeling the effect of death
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and depression in our souls.
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Now that is quite a description
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of a difficult moment in life.
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But then Paul gloriously adds in verse 10
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that God delivered us from so great a death
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and death deliver in who we trust that he will
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yet deliver us.
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And the Greek is really important
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because first he says God delivered us.
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It is past tense.
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He's already experienced deliverance. Deliverance,
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the Greek word rhuomai, which means
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to deliver from a very deadly or dangerous situation.
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He says it was so great a death.
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So great describes something
of great magnitude.
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Again, the word death of Greek thanatos,
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which describes a death
verdict which had been issued.
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He said we were delivered from it.
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It was a great deliverance.
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And then he says, and doth deliver.
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And in Greek this is present tense - right now God is still
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delivering us.
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And then Paul says - And will yet deliver us: future tense.
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God has delivered us. He is delivering us.
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And in Greek we trust
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that he will once more deliver
us again in the future.
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And the RIV of 2 Corinthians 1:10 is like this -
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Who already delivered
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and rescued us from a serious death sentence
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and will deliver and rescue us
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and we trust He will keep on
delivering and rescuing us.
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Those are the words of an overcomer.
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And my friend, I want to tell you - it doesn't matter
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what you are facing
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or what you're going through,
even if you feel exasperated,
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crushed, pinned against the
wall, that there's no way out.
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God's delivering power is yours.
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And Jesus said in John 16:33,
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cheer yourself up.
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I've overcome the world.
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And his overcoming promise is yours
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to claim right now.
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Say - Amen! I'll be back in just a moment
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and I'm going to pray for you.
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Someone has asked the wonderful question - Is it possible
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to be spiritual and still yet deal with depression
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and spiritual warfare?
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Well, let me give you an
answer from the writings
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of the Apostle Paul
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and 1 Thessalonians 2:18.
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He said, Satan hindered us.
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We're talking about the
apostle Paul who wrote most
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of the New Testament.
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And this word hindered means
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to really be hindered like a runner
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who runs up alongside another
runner that's running a race
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and with his elbow tries
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to elbow the other runner out of the race.
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And sometimes when you're making progress,
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that's when the devil
comes alongside to attack.
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He doesn't want you to meet
your goal, he doesn't want you
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to get to the end.
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Sometimes attacks come to
elbow you out of the race.
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But my friends, you stay on track
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and use your faith to hit the
devil back and keep running
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because you've got everything
you need inside you to finish
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what God has called you to do.
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of Walking into Victory.
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God wants every day of your life to be filled with victory.
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But to know more about these things, all you have
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to do is go online or give us a call
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and we want to pray for you.
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We really wanna pray for you.
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And today is the last day of the year.
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It would be a great day
for you to reach out to us
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and for us to reach back
out to you with our faith
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and that we agree together for Jesus
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to do something tremendous in your life.
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And please, please,
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before the clock strikes
12 today, take time
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to reflect on your year
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and to thank God for all the
ways he worked in your life
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and helped you navigate
difficult things this year.
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He's done so much for you.
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And Father, I thank you
that it doesn't matter
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what we're facing or going through,
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you've given us overcoming power
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and we embrace it in the name of Jesus
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and we look forward to what you're gonna do in the new Year.
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In Jesus' name, Amen.
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Well, I'll see you in the next program.
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It's gonna be really good in the new year.
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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
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FL to the Happy Gospel Church,
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to a Friends in Ministry 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 and friend,
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I want to invite you to come
to one 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 repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen. If you just prayed the
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prayer of salvation with us,
would you please let us know
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by going 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.