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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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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner.
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Thanks for letting me
come into your space.
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And I truly believe today
I have a word from the Lord
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for you, and not just today,
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but every day this week
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as I teach a brand new series
called, The Right Way to Join
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or to Leave a Church.
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That's a question which
people ask all the time.
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What is the right way to join a church?
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And if you wanna leave a church to go to another church,
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what is the right way to leave a church?
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My friends, this teaching is so important
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and this is a 5-part series just jam packed.
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It is so practical. I know
it's going to help you.
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And it comes with a
study guide that's filled
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with all the points
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and all the principles
that is in the series.
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And I'm also so excited to tell you about my book
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which is called, A Life Ablaze: 10 Essential Fuels You need
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to Inject into your Spiritual Fire So you become A Life
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Ablaze to the end of your life.
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And my friends, Jesus really
wants you to be a blaze
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with Holy Ghost fire
all the way to the end.
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And that's why I know this
book would be such a blessing
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to you and that's why
I'm telling you about it.
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But you can find out
about all these resources
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by going online whereby
giving us a call right now.
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And when you reach out
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or calling the number on
the screen, let us know
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how to pray for you.
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And I always tell you,
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and I really mean it,
write the number down, save
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that number because if
you're ever in a fix
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but you're not watching the program and
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therefore you can't remember the number,
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you've already got it somewhere else
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because you've written it down
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and you have a number to
call when you need somebody
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to really pray with you about whatever it
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is that you are facing.
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We are really sincere
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and very committed to praying
for those who reach out to us.
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And we have reams of testimonies from people who called us
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for prayer and who received marvelous answers.
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And if you've got a need in your life,
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I believe Jesus has an
answer just waiting for you.
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And though you can pray by yourself,
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there really is agreement in prayer.
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So reach out to us, we will
scripturally agree in prayer,
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and I believe Jesus will
really do what needs
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to be done for you.
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But I want you to reach for your Bible
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because we always use the
Bible in this program.
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And again, we're believing for a revival
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of the Bible in the church.
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We need the real verse by verse teaching
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of the scripture restored to the church.
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But today, I'm beginning
this series brand new,
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which is called, The Right Way to Join or to Leave a Church.
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And I wanna tell you why I'm teaching this
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series. Sometime ago,
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during the middle of the night, I had a dream.
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The dream was so clear and so vivid.
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And during the dream I dreamed
I was teaching this series.
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And in the dream I knew the series was called, The Right Way
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to Join or to Leave a Church.
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Then I dreamed a second
dream on what is partnership,
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all kinds of partnerships.
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These dreams were so vivid
that I woke up in the middle
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of the night and I went
to my room where I pray
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and where I write pulled out my computer
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and I began to jot down everything I taught in the dream.
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And this is what I'm gonna teach you today.
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And this is why I say I believe it is a word from the Lord.
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That the Lord wants me to teach you about The Right Way
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to Join a Church and the
right way to leave a Church.
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There is our right way to join a church
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and there's our right
way to leave a church.
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I've been a pastor for many, many years
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and I've seen people come
and I've seen people go
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and it's always amazing
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to me when somebody has
been attending our church
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and then suddenly they just disappear.
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You don't know where they are, you
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don't know where they've gone.
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You find out later they've
gone to another church,
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they never even told you goodbye,
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and yet they were members of your church
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and you felt a spiritual
responsibility for them
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and they just disappeared.
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That is not the right
way to leave a church,
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but there is a right way to join a church
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and there's a right way to leave a church.
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And in this series beginning today,
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we're gonna see the right
way to join a church.
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Then we're going to
see what is the purpose
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of church membership.
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Then on Wednesday we're going to see
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what do you do if you have a relational
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conflicts in a church?
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Then on Thursday we're going to see
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what do you do if you have doctrinal
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disagreements in a church?
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And finally on Friday,
we're gonna be seeing
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what is The Right Way to leave a church.
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These are really important questions,
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but today I want to begin in 1 Corinthians 12:
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13,
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and you're going to find out
that if you're born again,
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you are instantly at the moment
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of your salvation inducted
into the Universal Church.
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And this is what we read in 1 Corinthians 12:
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13, which says - For
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by one spirit are we all baptized into one body,
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whether it be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free;
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and we've all been made to drink into that one spirit.
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But notice the first
of the verse says, for
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by one spirit are we all
baptized into one body.
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Now there are actually three baptisms.
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There's baptism into the body of Christ;
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that occurs at the moment of your salvation;
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you are completely unaware of it,
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you don't even know what's going on.
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But the moment you call
Jesus the Lord of your life
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and the Holy Spirit comes into you,
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the Holy Spirit baptizes
you into the church
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and you're placed into the church
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and that is what this verse in 1 Corinthians 12:
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13, refers to.
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Of course there's also water baptism,
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there's the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
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But when you come to Ephesians 4:5,
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it says, there's one Lord, one faith, one baptism:
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that one baptism refers to this one.
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And it is the baptism into the church
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that we experience the moment we are saved,
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when the Holy Spirit gloriously takes a brand new believer
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and literally immerses him into the church,
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he is inducted into the church
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and in that very moment, he becomes a part
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of the Universal Church.
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But as time goes on, he needs
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to have more than membership
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He needs to know what
part of the church he is
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to be a member of and
where he is to serve.
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I'm talking about the local church.
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It's not enough just to be a member of the Universal Church.
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Of course, that's No.1, that's very important.
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That's an evidence of your salvation.
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But along the way, you
need to find out what part
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of the Universal Church you're to be in.
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Were you to be a member
and where you are to serve.
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But how do you know
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what church you're supposed to join?
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There's a lot of churches out there.
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How do you know which church
you're supposed to join?
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I think about a young man
who wants to get married.
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He knows it's God's will
for him to get married.
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But he doesn't just run out
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and just randomly choose any woman
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and say, I think I'll marry this one.
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No! Marriage is too serious.
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No one just runs out and
randomly gets married.
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That is a surefire way
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to be sure the marriage is going to fail.
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That young man will look, he will search,
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he will pray, he will think.
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And when he finally thinks
that he has found the woman
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that he wants to marry, he will date her.
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He will spend time getting to know her.
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All of that is very important
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before he ties the knot and they actually get married.
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People don't just barge out and randomly get married.
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You and I would both agree
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that would be a very irresponsible approach to marriage.
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Again, they pray, they
surge, they think they date,
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they take time to really be
sure this is the right person
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that are tie the knot with
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and to be married to for
the rest of their life.
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And in Ephesians 5:32,
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the apostle Paul says this - This is a great mystery,
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but I speak concerning Christ
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and the church. In this particular context,
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he was talking about marriage.
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And Paul says it's a great mystery,
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but he says to us, marriage
is very much like Christ
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and the church.
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So if you want to understand the church,
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you gotta look at marriage.
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He says, this is a great mystery,
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but I speak concerning Christ
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and the church, which means the church
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and your relationship
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to it is very much like a marriage.
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But today we just have to face the fact - relationships
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and marriages break very easy.
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And one reason they break is
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because they were entered into wrongfully.
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Also, we're living at a particular age when people are not
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serious about relationships.
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We know that the Holy Spirit said in 2 Timothy
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3:3, that at the end of the age - that's us -
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we're living at the end of the age,
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there would be truce breakers.
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That word in Greek is the word, aspondos.
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It describes those that are implacable.
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It could be translated covenant breakers, truce breakers.
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And it literally describes those
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who have irreconcilable differences: people
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that just cannot get along.
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So they break their covenant,
they break their truths.
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You know, when I was growing up
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and when many of you were growing up,
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commitments were very, very serious.
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People didn't enter into
commitments lightly.
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Even a handshake was
considered to be very serious.
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If you shook someone's hand,
you were giving them your word
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and it was as good as gold.
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But today a handshake means very little.
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And in fact, today people change friendships,
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people change relationships,
people change jobs,
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people change churches,
people change marriages.
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People are changing,
changing, changing, changing.
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Commitment is not what it used to be.
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And if we know that this
is indicative of the spirit
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of the age at the very end of
the age, then we don't want
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to be a victim of this spirit
and become truth breakers
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or covenant breakers.
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My friends, God has not called
us to be among that group.
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But back to Ephesians 5:32,
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concerning Christ and the church.
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And again, he is using
marriage and he says marriage
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and the church are very
similar to one another.
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Now I wanna tell you how about
the Jewish model of marriage.
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Among the Jews,
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they did not enter into marriage quickly.
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Even when you read about Mary
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and Joseph in the gospels,
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the Bible says they were
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That Betrothal period lasted one year -
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one year.
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There was no such thing
as a young Jewish boy
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and a Jewish girl just running
out and getting married.
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That was not permitted
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because they believed
marriage was very serious.
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They took one year to prepare for a marriage.
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She studied other women that were married
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who had successful marriages.
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The men learned how to be men,
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they learned how to be husbands.
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That's when the deal was sealed.
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let's get married tomorrow.
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That just did not exist
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They took marriage very seriously.
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And this explains why
there was so little divorce
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among the Jewish people.
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that there's a great
failure in marriage is
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because people get married too quickly.
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they don't really know each other,
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they've not put in the time
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and the effort to get
ready for marriage, and
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therefore they carry so much baggage
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and problems into the marriage
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and they kind of seal it
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with failure from the very beginning.
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Marriage is very, very important.
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That's why in our church, when someone says they want
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to get married, they've gotta go
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through a period of preparation.
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We take this Jewish model very seriously.
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you've gotta have time, you need to know each other.
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with a marriage ceremony.
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we don't see much divorce in our church.
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We put the time and effort into preparation
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to make sure they're gonna enter into a strong
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and a healthy marriage.
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Well, in the very same
way Paul says marriage
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and the church, they're very, very similar. In the same way,
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you don't just run out and marry the 1st girl
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or the first guy you meet.
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You don't just say, I
need to join a church.
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So you just choose one
and joined it. My friends.
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Becoming a church member
is very, very serious.
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And when you join a church,
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you're bringing yourself into covenant with
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that local church and you're bringing yourself in submission
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to the leadership of that church.
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And you need to know who
you're joining yourself to.
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You need to know who they
are, what they believe,
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what is their purpose,
what is their vision?
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You need to know all of those things
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before you tie the knot with any church.
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And this is so serious
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that becoming a church member
should not be done quickly.
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It should be done cautiously.
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And you should take time
before you tie the knot
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and become a member of a church.
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It's not an easy in easy out relationship; when you
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become a member of a church,
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Paul says it's like marriage.
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It is a long term relationship.
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I'm so thankful that when I
was growing up in my Baptist
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church, becoming a church member was a very serious thing.
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When someone was saved,
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we immediately received
them into the church.
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But if somebody was coming
from another church, we wanted
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to know why did they
leave the other church?
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Why are they now joining our church?
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We wanted to know something
about these people
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and we wanted to make sure
they really knew about us
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because joining themself to us was a very,
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very serious matter.
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And just as the Jewish model
for marriage was so serious
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and so successful, I'm going to tell you
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that in our own church in
Moscow, we use this same model
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for church membership.
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People walk the aisle,
they state their intentions
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that they want to join our church.
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That's them stating their intentions.
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But that begins a probationary period: usually 3 months,
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sometimes 6 months.
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we consider it like a betrothal period
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when they have to go to classes, they need
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to learn who we are.
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They need to learn what we believe.
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They need to understand what
is the vision of our church.
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They need to make sure they've
really chosen the right
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church to join before they tie the knot.
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But there's two more
reasons why we believe this
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probationary period is so important.
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No.1: the person joining the church needs
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to be sure this is a right relationship
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for it's a very long-term
church relationship,
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and they need to really
understand who it is
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that they are figuratively marrying.
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No.2: the church leadership needs to be sure
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that they want to be spiritually responsible for the person
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who wants to join the church
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and that they are serious about church membership.
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And this means that when a
person walks the aisle in our
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church and they do and they take our hands
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and say, we want to become
a member of this church,
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it begins a process.
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And again, the process is usually 3 to 6 months.
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And during that 3 to 6 months, we study them,
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they study us.
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We date each other so to speak,
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to make sure this is a God ordained relationship
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because we believe church membership is serious.
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We believe it should not
be entered into lightly.
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It is a long-term relationship
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and we need to date each other
and get to know each other
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before we seal the deal.
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And finally, the day comes when we have an official service
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3-times a year, when we officially receive these people
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into the membership of our church,
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and every person who is received into the membership
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of our church, they have had time
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to make sure they want to marry us.
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And if we've had time to
make sure spiritually we want
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to marry them.
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And sometimes during that probationary period,
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people say - You know what?
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This is not what I thought.
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I thought that I was to join this church,
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but now I've just realized this is not
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where I'm supposed to be.
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That is a great discovery. Praise God,
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they don't have to undo something, they don't ever have
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to enter into it.
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They've discovered they're
not in the right place.
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And sometimes we
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as the church leadership say - You know what?
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We don't want to be spiritually accountable for this person.
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We don't want them to be a member.
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Now they can come to church, but
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because of what we have learned about them
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and attitudes, we don't wanna
be spiritually responsible
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for this person.
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So this probationary period is good
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for the person becoming a church member.
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It is good for the
leadership of the church.
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It helps everybody to
go into the relationship
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with their eyes wide open,
standing on solid ground,
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making sure we're all
doing the right thing
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before we tie the knot
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in terms of church membership. Do you understand
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how very important this is?
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And in fact, if people would take time
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before they join a church,
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there would be less leaving of churches.
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And there's something else very important.
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You, as a person joining a church, need
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to know something about the pastor
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or the leadership of
the church that's going
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to be spiritually leading you.
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We are told in Hebrews 13:7,
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Remember them which have the rule over you
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who spoken unto you
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the word of God: whose faith follow considering the end
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of their conversation.
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But notice the word rule in this verse.
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This word rule is a Greek word, hegeomai.
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It means to lead, it depicts those
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who lead the way for others.
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And in Greek, in a military sense,
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it describes resplendent leaders.
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You need time to be able to say,
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I believe this pastor
is somebody I can trust.
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I trust him to lead me.
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You need to have such respect for him
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that you would consider him
to be a resplendent leader.
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It's someone that you
want to replicate, someone
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that you want to emulate.
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And in fact, the verse says -
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who've spoken the word of God to you.
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whose faith follow considering the end
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of their conversation.
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Which means - No.1: you need to know what word
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of God they are speaking to you.
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Do you agree with their teaching and their preaching?
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No.2: you need to know
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that you can follow their faith.
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Can you follow them?
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And No.3: it need to know if their life is worthy
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of replication.
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You need to look at their
life, the fruit of their life,
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their character, their
behavior, their family.
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And you need to see if they
have in their life the fruit
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that you want in your life.
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Specifically you need to know
who's speaking the word of God
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to you and what are they speaking?
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Can you follow their faith?
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And do they have a life
worthy of replication?
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According to Hebrews 13:7, it is vital
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for you to know all of those things
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before you join yourself to a church.
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So can you follow that pastor's faith?
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Can you follow their example?
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Do you see fruit in
their life that you want
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to have in your own life?
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The probationary period
is very important for you
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to determine the answer
to those questions.
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And it's also important
for the spiritual leaders
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to know if they want to be
accountable for that person
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who wants to join the church.
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In our own church, we take attendance.
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We don't take attendance
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because we're a big brother that wants to control everybody.
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But hey, if a person says they want to join our church
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but they never come to church,
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then we're not gonna be spiritually accountable for them.
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How can we be spiritually accountable
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for somebody we've never seen
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who just wants their
name on a piece of paper?
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We're not interested in that.
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We want people that are really going
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to be committed to the church.
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So the person joining the
church needs this probationary
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period and those receiving
the new members need this
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probationary period.
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All of this is very, very important.
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And again, we use the
Jewish model of marriage
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to receive members in our own church.
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My friends, if you will take these steps
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and if your church will
implement these steps,
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you'll stand on more solid
ground when you join a church
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and there will be less
people leaving the church
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because you entered into
it with your eyes wide open
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to make a long term commitment
before you tied the knot
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in terms of church membership.
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Wow, this is important,
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but when we come back in the
next program, we're going
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to see why church membership is important.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I'm going to pray for you.
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Becoming a member of a
church is very, very serious.
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It's a long-term covenant,
not a casual relationship.
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In Rick Renner's new 5-part series, the Right Way to Join
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or to Leave a Church, you will learn
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that church membership is a
serious sacred relationship
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that should always be entered
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or exited prayerfully intentionally
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and biblically: not casually or emotionally.
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Rick teaches - What it really means to be a part
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of a congregation: How
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to prevent offence from driving you away:
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What the appropriate process of departure is -
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and more - available in digital
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or physical formats starting at just $11.
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This series is filled with practical biblical teaching
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that will strengthen your fellowship with your local church.
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In addition to this teaching series,
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you can order Rick's book, A Life Ablaze, for just $22.
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A Life Ablaze will ignite your spirit
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and encourage you to burn
red hot as you do your part
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to fulfill God's great plan
For such a time as this.
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Don't miss this special offer: The Right Way to Join
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or to Leave a Church and A Life Ablaze.
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Call the number on your screen now
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or go to renner.org to order.
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Call or go online now.
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Hey, this is Rick Renner,
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and right now I'm standing
in the reception area
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of the Tulsa Ministry Headquarters
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and this building is just so wonderful.
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You know the Bible tells us in Proverbs 10:21, The lips
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of the righteous feed many.
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And I know that is our assignment.
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God has called us to feed many
people the trusted teaching
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of the Bible, and together with you
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and all of our partners,
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we really are taking the trusted teaching of the word of God
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to the very ends of the earth.
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Right now, we've paid off
about 82% of this facility
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and that is just wonderful,
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but now we need to knock
it out of the ballpark.
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We need to finish this
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because when we're finished
paying off this facility
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that frees up finances so
we can take the teaching
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of the Bible to more places
across the face of the earth
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where people are crying out for someone
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to feed them the word of God.
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And my friends, we can
only do it with your help.
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So thank you if you're
already a part of the team,
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and if not yet part of the
team, please join us as a part
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of the Giving Team to pay off this facility
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so we can be finished with it
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and use these funds to
take the gospel further
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to other places across the world.
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Today I've been teaching
about The Right Way
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to Join a Church.
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When we come back in the
next episode, I'm going
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to be teaching about why is
church membership important?
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Don't miss tomorrow's episode.
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It's really important, friend.
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But hey, this series is
called The Right Way to Join
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or to Leave a Church.
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It comes with a study guide,
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and I'm so thrilled about my
book called A Life a Blaze.
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Are you ablaze? Were you ablaze?
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But you've lost your fire, my friends.
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Jesus wants you to be a
blaze to the very end,
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and this book is about
the 10 fuels you need
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to inject into your spiritual fire
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so you remain A Life Ablaze
all the way to the end
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of your life.
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It is just a marvelous
book in one of my favorites
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of the books that I have written.
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But hey, you can find out
about all these resources
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by going online or by giving this a call.
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And when you call the number on the screen
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or write to us, also let us
know how to pray for you.
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We really want to pray for you.
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In fact, put your hand on your heart,
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and I wanna pray for you right now.
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Father, I thank in the name of
Jesus that when we got saved,
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you baptized us into the Universal Church,
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but you want us to find
out locally where we are
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to serve in a local church.
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So help us, lead us
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and help us to make right
decisions in Jesus precious,
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powerful name,
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Amen. Well can hardly wait
to see you again tomorrow,
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but until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 says,
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"Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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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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On January 25th, we're coming to Green Mountain Falls,
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Colorado to Legacy Church, to be with Pastors Jeremy
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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, Arizona,
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to Vida Church to be with Pastors Ben
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and Kara Diaz. On Sunday February 8th, we're coming
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to Southfield, Michigan to be at Word of Faith
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with Bishop Keith 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
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with Pastors Paul 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 repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life -
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Amen.
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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.