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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 the program.
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My name is Rick Renner and my friends.
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Today I'm gonna teach you a
brand new series I have never
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taught before.
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You know, just recently
I taught a series called
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The Right Way to Join
or to Leave a Church,
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and I received that entire
teaching one night in a dream.
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It was so lucid that I
got up, went to the room
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where I pray, and where I read my Bible,
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pulled out my computer, began
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to write down everything
I'd seen in the dream,
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and then I taught it to you.
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I know the Lord gave me
that message for you.
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Well, the same night I
went back to bed, glad
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that finally I'm gonna go back to sleep
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and I dreamed a second dream.
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And in the second dream,
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I taught another complete
series called Spiritual Care.
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Again, it was so vivid, I
knew it was from the Lord.
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So I got up again the same night
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and went back to the room
where I read my Bible
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and pray, got out my computer
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and wrote down everything
I had seen in the dream.
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And today I'm gonna be teaching you
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that series which is called Spiritual Care
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because I believe the Lord
wants me to teach it to you.
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It's a five part series, it
comes with a study guide.
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And I'm so excited
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to tell you about my book called, My Spirit Empowered Day.
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It is so wonderful.
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You'll just zip right through it
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because it's so easy to read.
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God wants you to live your
life empowered by the Spirit,
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and that's why I'm telling
you about my book called My
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Spirit Empowered Day.
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But you can find out
about all these resources
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by going online to our website
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or you can just give us a call.
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And I want to remind you,
we want to pray for you.
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You're not supposed to do life alone,
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and that's what I'm gonna be
talking to you about today.
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We're to be coworkers together
in the kingdom of God.
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You're not supposed to do life alone.
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And if you feel like you're
facing something alone
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and you just wish there was somebody
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who would get into agreement
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with you in prayer, here we are.
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We're waiting for the
phone to ring right now.
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And if you'll just call that number
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or send us an email, we will really pray
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with you compassionately filled with faith.
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And we will believe for Jesus
to do what needs to be done.
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And guess what? He knows what needs
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to be done better than you or me know.
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And he will do exactly
what needs to be done.
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And we have reams of paper
testimonies from people
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who reached out to us for prayer
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and then got back in touch with us
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to let us know what God did.
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It is just amazing.
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My friends, if we'll
call out to him in faith,
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he will hear us, he will answer us,
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and he really does do
great and mighty things.
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And there's something great
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and mighty that Jesus wants to do for you.
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So call the number on the
screen if you need prayer
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or send us an email - but reach for your Bible.
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We always use the Bible in this program
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and we're believing for Revival of the Bible in the church
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and for Pastors
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and church leaders
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to once again begin teaching
the Bible verse by verse.
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But I want to say again why
I'm teaching this series.
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I had a dream and in the
dream I taught this series.
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I was sitting in this chair teaching everything you're going
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to hear in these 5-episodes.
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So I got up, went to
the room where I studied
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and prayed, took out my computer,
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wrote down everything I saw in the dream.
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And here I am today fulfilling
what I saw in that dream.
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And I know the Holy Spirit wants me
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to teach you this series, which is called Spiritual Care.
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And today we're going
to see what does it mean
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to be a coworker in the kingdom of God.
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But I want to begin by telling you about
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what I experienced when I was growing up.
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When I was growing up, I was very, very lonely.
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And one reason I was lonely is
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because I was a little peculiar compared to the other guys
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who went to our church.
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Our lives literally
revolved around our church.
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We were there on Sunday
morning, we were there
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for Sunday school, we were
there for church, usually
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after church, there
was a church gathering.
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Either the guys went to play basketball
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or they went to play baseball or softball.
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Then we were back at training union
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that night we were in service.
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And then on Wednesday
nights we were at church.
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And Wednesday nights after church,
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there was the adult choir practice.
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So me and my friends played at the church. On Saturday,
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we were there for visitation.
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I mean, our lives were
literally in the church.
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Church was not where we
went. It is who we were.
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But from the time that
I was very, very young,
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I was little bit of an oddball compared
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to the other guys in the church.
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And I write about this
in our autobiography,
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which is called Unlikely.
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If you don't have it, please
get a copy of Unlikely.
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It's quite amazing.
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And you'll find out that
God is in the business
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of choosing unlikely people.
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Well, I was a little bit of an oddball
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because the guys loved to go fishing.
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I didn't like fishing. And my dad was a
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fisherman, a yay, yay.
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The guys loved sports.
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And I didn't do good with
anything connected to a ball.
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And my dad was the pitcher
of the softball team.
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My dad played basketball,
softball, he played football,
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he was on the bowling league.
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It seemed like the other part of our life
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besides church just revolved around balls.
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And I wasn't good with
anything connected to a ball.
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So here I am very, very young.
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I'm talking about 5, 6 years old.
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And already by that age, I began
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to feel there was something wrong with me
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because the other guys
were talking about fishing.
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Let's go bowling.
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Let's go play baseball or softball
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or basketball or football.
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I hated football.
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What fun was it just
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and get knocked flat by a bunch of guys?
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I just didn't see what
was enjoyable about that.
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And even by the age of six,
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I was already very interested
in art, art galleries.
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I loved history, I loved
music, I loved the symphony.
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And even by the age of 6, that's where my interests were.
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But it kind of made me
a freak in our church.
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And because of that, the other guys kind
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of looked at me like there was something
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really wrong with me.
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Well, there's Ricky again.
You know, well, there's Ricky.
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Shall we invite Ricky?
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Nobody really wanted me to
play on any of the ball things
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that we did because I was
not good at any of it.
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And I was to a little
bit degree ostracized.
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I was ostracized. That is when I was 5 & 6 years old.
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And in 1964, a movie came out.
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And if you're my age, I bet you remember the movie: Rudolph,
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the Red Nose Reindeer.
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Do you remember when that movie came out?
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It's narrated by Burl Ives.
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And I can remember when it
came out sitting in front
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of the TV watching Rudolph
the Red Nose Reindeer,
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and there was the Island of Misfit Toys.
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Do you remember that?
And I remember at the age
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of 6 in 1964, thinking
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to myself - that's what I am.
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I belong on the island of misfit toys.
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There's something about me that's broken.
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Something about me is
fractured. I'm defective.
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There's something wrong with me.
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I should be living on the
island of misfit toys.
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I remember how deeply, deeply
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that affected me in 1964.
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Well, as the years passed, this feeling of being fractured,
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being an oddball, it just got worse and worse and worse.
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And when I was 10 and 11 years old,
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I can remember sitting on
the front porch of our house
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with my dog, whose name was Samson,
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and I had a cat whose name was Delilah.
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So when my dog and cat were with me, I was
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with Samson and Delilah.
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And I can remember petting
my dog and petting my cat
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and saying, Samson, Delilah, I'm so glad
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that I have you because I
don't have anybody else.
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And I remember being
excluded from events knowing
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that all the other guys were together
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and that I had not been invited
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and it really deeply, deeply impacted me.
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Now, my friends, I don't
need psychological help.
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I'm just telling you about
what I experienced as a child.
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Maybe you felt something
like that as a child.
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Interesting that when I married Denise,
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Denise also grew up kind of shunned
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by her friends in her church.
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But in 1969, I was 11 years old,
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really at the very peak
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of feeling like there was
something wrong with me.
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I was lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely.
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You know, we're not made to do life alone.
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And loneliness is a horrible,
horrible place to be in.
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And in 1969, 3 Dog Night came out with a song.
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Do you remember it? It was called One and it went like this.
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One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do.
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Two can be bad as one,
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it's the loneliest number since the number one.
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And then at the end it says - One is the loneliest,
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one is the loneliest, one is the loneliest number
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that you'll ever do.
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Now let me ask you, were you just singing that song with me?
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Do you remember that song too?
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Well, I was 11 when that
song hit the charts.
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And the reason I can sing it is
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because when I was 11, I would sit in my bedroom
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after school, I had a little white radio.
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Those were back in the
days when we all listened
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to little radios and transistors.
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And when that song would come
on, I would just belt it out
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with my whole heart because
it felt like it was my song.
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One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do.
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That was me. I was just one. Two can be bad as one.
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It's the loneliest
number after number one.
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One is the loneliest,
one is the loneliest.
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One is the loneliest
number that you'll ever do.
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I would just sing it and sing it
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and sing it from the depths of my being
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because that's who I felt like I was.
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I was just a lonely, lonely person.
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And the truth was, if God didn't do something in my life,
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I probably would've not have ended up very well.
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But in 1974, I received the
baptism in the Holy Spirit
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and it totally, totally changed my life.
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Now, if you've never received
the baptism in the Holy
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Spirit, call the number on the screen.
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We'll pray with you and it
will change your life as well.
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But at that very early age, I begin
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to understand lonely is
not what I want to do
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with the rest of my life.
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Lonely is not what I want to do.
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affected by those early years,
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God enabled me to kind of turn it around
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and turn it into a positive.
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going to be very connected
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to a very tight group of friends
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and people to the end of my life.
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I was not gonna a lonely
number all of my life.
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I was going to be connected to others.
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And the truth is, we all
need people. I need people.
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You need people.
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And again, there's no
one sadder than a person
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that is lonely
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and my friends, you're not
called to do life alone.
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Even from the very outset
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of time when God saw Adam in the Garden of Eden alone,
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we're told in Genesis 2:18,
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that the man should be alone.
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It's not healthy. And let me tell you something else.
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All the recent studies show
if you want to have longevity,
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if you want to have a long
life, one factor contributes
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to longevity more than all the others.
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It's not diet, it's not food, it's not exercise.
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You know what's No.1 on the list - being socially
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connected to a small group of people.
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If you want to have longevity,
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if you wanna live a
long life, then you have
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to have a connectedness with people.
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That is the No.1 contributor to longevity.
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That's how important it is that we be connected to others.
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But you need to be a part of a group.
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You need to be a part of a church; you need
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to be a part of a flock.
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You need to be a part
of a faith community.
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You need to be a partner with others
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that are doing the work of God.
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So you feel like you're
really contributing
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with your finances, with your
emotions, with your prayers
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to something that is
worth your worthwhile.
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You need to be a part.
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And I want to give you a powerful scripture from
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Ecclesiastes 3:9-12.
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Now, if you have your
Bible, I want you to turn
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to your Bible because I want you
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to see these important verses.
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And Ecclesiastes 3:9,
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the Bible says - Two are better than one.
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Say amen - Two are better than one
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because they have a good
reward for their labor.
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Verse 10 says, for if they fall,
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the one will lift up his fellow but
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woe to him that is alone when he falleth
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for he hath not another to help him up.
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Verse 11: Again, if two lie together,
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then they shall have heat.
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But how can one be warm alone?
Then we read in verse 12 -
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And if one prevail against him,
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two shall withstand him.
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And a threefold court
is not quickly broken.
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These verses are paramount to understand
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that God is not called
us to do life alone.
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life with someone else,
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you together are gonna have
a good reward for your labor.
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But hey, there are more important verses.
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For example, Leviticus 26:8 says, Five
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of you shall chase an hundred
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and an hundred of you will put 10,000 to flight.
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Well, it's good if there's five of you,
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but look at the power
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when you're connected to another 99; a hundred
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of you will put 10,000 to flight. Better to be connected
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to the full 99 and you and all
day together make a hundred.
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Or how about Deuteronomy 32:30. It says -
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One can chase a thousand, but two can put 10,000 to flight.
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Well, if I can put 10,000
to flight by being connected
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to one other person, then it's
better for me to be connected
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with my life, my finances,
my faith, everything I am
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with somebody else
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that's my partner.
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As iron sharpens iron,
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so one person's sharpens another.
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And when I read this, I
think about me and Denise.
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Before I married Denise,
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I thought I was gonna be
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I wanted to be like the apostle Paul.
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I wanted to be un-distracted.
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I was called to the ministry
already. And guess what?
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Denise was called to the ministry.
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She didn't get called when she married me.
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She was already called.
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God had already told her what
she was to do with her life.
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I was called, she was called.
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he was bringing together two gifts.
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We already had callings, we
already had our own gifts,
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but God was bringing together
two gifts and two purposes.
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so one person sharpens another.
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And when God brought us together, he began
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to make the dynamic duo, me and Denise.
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And now we've been married
more than four decades working
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together, iron, sharpening iron.
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And look what has
happened because of Denise
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and I working together.
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And beyond that, we work with our teams.
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When I talk to you about connectedness
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and being determined that
I'm not gonna do life alone,
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my friends, I don't do life alone.
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I am very, very connected. But
I'm intentionally connected.
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I don't wait for people to call me.
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If you wait for people to call
you, you're gonna be lonely.
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My mother always said, if you want
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to have a friend, you gotta be a friend.
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And that is the truth.
So I work the phone.
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There's a group of guys I call every day.
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There's a group of guys
that I text every day
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and I work very, very
closely with my team.
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And my team has been with
me for years and years
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and years and years and years.
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The man that is producing
this TV program has been
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with me more than 30 years.
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I just said to him
yesterday, what a blessing
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that we've been together so long.
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I know you so well. You know me so well.
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We don't have to figure
out each other out.
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We really became partners
in all these years.
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Connectedness, connectedness.
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And when God puts you
together with other people,
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it makes you more powerful
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and it gives you the ability
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to do much more than you
would ever be able to do
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by yourself.
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I love 1 Corinthians 3:6
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through 9, where the Bible says, Paul's writing -
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I have planted - that was his part.
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He said, Apollo's watered - that was Apollo's part.
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Well, planting and watering,
these are different parts,
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they are different functions.
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And Paul says, my part was to plant,
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but he said Apollos, he
had a different part.
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His part was to water.
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But then Paul said, let's focus on the one
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who really gives the increase.
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God gave the increase then he said in verse 7:
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So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he
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that watereth but God that gives the increase -
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which means - even if I do all the planting
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and you do all the watering,
if God doesn't get involved,
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nothing's going to happen.
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God is a very important
part of this process.
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But then he says in verse 8: Now he that planted
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and he that watereth are one. God has called us
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to bring our parts together.
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We're to be unified in what we do.
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I might be a planter, you might be a waterer, but I need you
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and you need me.
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And every man shall receive
according to his own labor.
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we are laborers together with God: laborers,
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together with God.
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God is connected to us, we're connected to God.
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And not only that,
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but in 2 Corinthians 6:1, it says,
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We then as workers together with him.
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it's a Greek word, sunergos.
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It requires people that
are cooperating together,
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working together, join
together on the same team
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to fulfill something together.
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We're workers together with God
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and we're called to be
workers with others.
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My friends, this is really so important.
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So we're coworkers with God.
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We're coworkers with one another.
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Denise and I are coworkers with each other.
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We are coworkers with our sons, we're coworkers
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with our team, and we are coworkers with our partners.
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Our partners are part of our team.
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They really are part of our team.
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I can sit in this chair and do my part,
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but they are the ones that
put the fuel in the tank.
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And to think that I can
do it by myself is futile.
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I cannot do this by myself. My partners, my friends,
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that is not a trite term we use in our ministry.
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They are part of the team.
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This is so vital that we understand God has not called us
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to do life alone.
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We need to be a part of
something bigger than us
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that's changing lives.
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And again,
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Ecclesiastes 3:9 says - Two are better than one
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because they have a good reward for their labor.
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We are called to be
coworkers together with God
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and with one another.
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My friends, I want to ask you - Are you connected?
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Do you have a group that you are connected
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to every day of your life?
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I hope you do because
it promotes longevity.
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It makes you more healthy.
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Do you have a church that
you are connected to?
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Do you have a ministry
that you're giving to
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and that you are connected to?
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You need to be a part of a ministry
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that's touching the world.
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We are called to touch the world,
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but my friends, we are called to be connected.
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We're called to be coworkers together in the kingdom of God.
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You're not supposed to be lonely and do life alone,
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but I'm gonna pick up here
tomorrow when we come back.
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But when I come back in just a moment,
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I want to pray for you.
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Loneliness is a horrible
thing to experience,
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but God never meant for you
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to be alone. From the very beginning,
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He said - It is not good for man to be alone.
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In Rick Renner's 5-part series, Spiritual Care,
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you'll learn about God's design for people
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to live in partnership, community
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and spiritual connection with each other.
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In these lessons, Rick teaches - How
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to build lasting spiritual strength: How to strengthen,
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heal, and restore others in Christ's love:
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How partnering with others unlocks God's blessing -
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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.
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And together with you 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 because
when we're finished paying off
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this facility, that frees up finances
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so we can take the teaching of the Bible
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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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Well, today we've been looking at the fact
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that we are not supposed to do life alone.
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We're to be connected with somebody else.
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We need to be partners with
others, partner in ministry,
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partners with our church.
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We need to be coworkers with others.
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This is good for our health,
it's good for our mind
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and we become more productive
in the kingdom of God.
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But I'm speaking to you from
my brand new series called
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Spiritual Care.
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It is a 5-part series which comes
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with a wonderful study guide
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that's got all the points
in the principles in it.
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And I'm very thrilled to tell
you about my book called My
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Spirit Empowered Day.
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Every day of your life is
supposed to be empowered
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by the Holy Spirit.
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Before I get outta bed every morning,
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the first thing I do is I look up
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and I pray that I would be refilled with the Holy Spirit for
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that current day.
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We're supposed to live
every day spirit empowered,
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and that's why I'm telling
you about my book called My
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Spirit Empowered Day.
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But you can find out more
about all these resources
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by going online to our website
or just give us a call.
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And when you reach out
to us, let us know how
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to pray for you.
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Maybe you're facing something
alone; you don't need to.
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We're here for you.
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And if you'll call that number
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or if you'll send us an email,
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we will join our faith to you.
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So you're not dealing
with this by yourself.
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It's us and you together
approaching the Lord
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and believing God
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and Jesus will really do
something wonderful for you.
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But put your hand on your heart and I wanna pray for you.
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Father, I thank you that you've called us
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to do life with others.
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You've called us to be
partners in the kingdom of God
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and help us Lord, to know where we are,
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to be partners, where we're to.
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So our seed, where we are to
contribute with our lives.
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In Jesus' name - Amen.
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Alright, we're gonna come
back and start here tomorrow,
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but please 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 Friday, Saturday, Sunday, January 30th, 31st,
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February 1st, we're coming to Mesa, Arizona, to Vida Church
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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, Oklahoma
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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, North Carolina
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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. If you just prayed
the prayer of salvation
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with us, would you please
let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.