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This program is made
possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner and
I've been waiting for you
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because today we're gonna
return to our subject,
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which is called - Entry Points: How
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to Stop the Devil from Attacking You
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With Sickness. You can slam the door shut.
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Now it might be that
the door is wide open,
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and that's what I've been
talking about in this series.
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There are entry points that
we inadvertently create
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that the devil uses to access us
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and to rob from us the healing
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and the health that Jesus
purchased for us on the cross.
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But this series is just so helpful, comes
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with a study guide, and I'm
really excited about my book,
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my first book on the subject
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of healing called Everything You Need to Know About Healing.
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The back of the book says - How to Close The Door
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to Sickness, Defeat the Curse,
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and live in divine health, long and strong.
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And my friends, we cover so
many topics in this book.
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I wanted to really answer
your questions about why
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people get sick.
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If they've been redeemed
from the curse of the law
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and they're supposed to be well, then why do they get sick?
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And we've been covering
some of that in this series.
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And I read a book by a
friend that I just loved
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and thought to myself,
wow, people that are going
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through a struggle with their
health need to read this book.
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And it is a testimony of Mike Clark.
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And the book is called,
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There's A Light At the End of Your Tunnel.
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He found a light at the end of his tunnel
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and he was in a very serious tunnel.
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He had been diagnosed with cancer,
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but he walked into healing and health
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and he chronicles all of it right here.
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He would encourage you
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or anyone you know that's
going through a struggle
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with their health.
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But you can find out more
about all these things
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by going online or call the
number that is on the screen.
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And this week we are
especially praying for people
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that have issues with their health,
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or maybe they have a friend
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or a family member that is
struggling with their health.
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We want to pray with you.
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Jesus paid the price for
the forgiveness of sin,
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for peace of mind, to
remove our guilt and shame.
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And by his stripes we are healed.
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And when Peter quotes that in 1 Peter 2:24, he says,
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By his stripes, we were healed.
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Which means it is a
done deal. It is a fact.
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And if you as a Christian are sick,
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it means you're being robbed of something
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that Jesus purchased for you on the cross
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because Jesus purchased healing
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and health for you in your
body and in your mind.
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And if you're sick or if you
know somebody who is sick
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and you just wish somebody
would pray with you,
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please reach out to us
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because we will pray the prayer of faith
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and we will believe for
the healing power of God
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that belongs to you to be
manifested in your body.
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But hey, I want you to
reach for your Bible.
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We always use the Bible in this program.
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And very quickly I want to review
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what we have covered so far.
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In the first program, we saw
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that the curse is really the
reason that there is disease,
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illness, and sickness in the earth.
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According to Romans 5:12,
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Adam's transgression blew open a door
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and death came raging into the planet.
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And that is when everything God created
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to be good suddenly became
messed up and became foul.
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That's when sickness was
introduced into the earth.
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And from that time until the present,
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the curse has been working in the earth.
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According to Romans 5, it's the spirit of death
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that is working in the world,
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but we have a faith that
overcomes the world.
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That's what we read in 1 John 5:4.
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And if we know how to use our faith,
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we can override the curse
and the spirit of death
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and everything connected with it
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because we have a faith
that overrides the system.
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But then we saw a lack of
knowledge can open a door
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to sickness.
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And I gave the example of me
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and Denise. When we were growing up,
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we just did not know that healing
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and health were legally in the bank,
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that Jesus purchased them for us.
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And in fact, we were misinformed to believe that sometimes
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and very often it was God's will for us to be sick: ay...yi.
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And when you're believing
wrong, it throws open a door
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for the devil to enter and to attack you.
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And then we saw
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that disobedience can also
open a door to sickness.
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And I gave an example from my own life
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that at one moment when
I was being disobedient
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and didn't realize how
disobedient I was, I got sick
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and it wasn't God that made me sick.
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The Holy Spirit spoke to me
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and said, Rick, the reason you're sick is
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because you are in a place of disobedience
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and has created a breach
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and the enemy has entered to attack you.
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You get into agreement with me,
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you get back into my
will and you'll get well.
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And that's exactly what happened.
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And then we saw
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that foolishness can
open a door to sickness.
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And I gave a lot of
examples of foolishness.
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One example is not resting;
it's just foolish not to rest
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and to think you're gonna be all right.
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And to be honest, I still
struggle with this in my life.
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I believe in being
productive. I'm a worker.
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I like to work and I like
to cram as much into one day
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as I possibly can.
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And I tell you honestly
that when I go on trips
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to the United States,
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because we don't go there very
often, I try to cram as much
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as possible into every trip.
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For example, recently
I was on a 31 day trip
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and in 31 days I did 56 events.
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Well, guess what happened?
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As soon as I got home, it
was like my body crashed
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and I got sick.
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You know why? Because I was
foolish with my schedule.
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And when we are foolish in the
way we eat, the way we live,
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the way that we are immobile,
the way that we don't rest,
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we are cooperating with the devil
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and we're opening a door for him to attack us with sickness.
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Then there are unresolved hidden issues
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that also open a door to sickness.
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This is unforgiveness, bitterness, offense,
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grudges, complaints.
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These things really open a
door for the devil to get in.
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And I even gave you a list
of the kinds of afflictions
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that are associated with these
unresolved hidden issues.
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Then we saw in the last
program that anxiety fret
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and worry opens a door to sickness.
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And I gave another example
from my life that for years
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and years and years, I
just worried and worried
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and worried and worried.
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I grew up in an environment
where I heard people say,
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I'm just worried to death.
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I'm just worried to death. I'm
worried to death about this.
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I'm worried to death about that.
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And I grew up thinking it was normal
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and responsible to worry.
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And in fact, if I had a free
day where I was lighthearted,
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I then begin to worry
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that there was something wrong with me.
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Why wasn't I more responsible?
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How can you be having such a
lighthearted day when surely
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there's something you should
be burdened or worried about?
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And the devil literally
consumed me, just aided me
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because I opened a door
to him through anxiety,
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fret and worry.
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And today we're gonna move to
the next one. Are you ready?
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Here it is - Devilish attacks can open a
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door to sickness.
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We have to be honest
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and say you might be living upright,
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you might be perfectly obeying God.
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You may be taking perfect
care of your body.
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You may be getting all
the rest you need, eating
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as you should, doing everything right.
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You may have no issues of
in your heart of bitterness,
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unforgiveness or offense.
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You may have no anxiety fret or worry.
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And yet here you are doing everything right
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and - BAM!! - you are attacked with sickness.
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Well, we have to understand
the devil really is out there
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and he's wanting to get to you.
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And sometimes he just randomly attacks.
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And I want to remind you of
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what the Bible says in Ephesians 6:12,
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For we wrestle not
against flesh and blood,
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but against principalities,
against powers,
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against the rulers of the
darkness of this world
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and against spiritual
wickedness in high places.
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And here Paul describes the devil as being highly organized
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as he strategically works
to victimize the human race.
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He just hates the human race
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because they're made in the image of God.
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Every time he sees a human being, he sees the image of God
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and he can't bear it.
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So he strikes it, he wants to destroy it,
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he wants to mar it.
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That's why Jesus said in John 10:10, the thief comes
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to kill, to steal and to destroy.
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He hates you because you are
made in the image of God.
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And he is highly organized
in his attempts to victimize
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and that includes sickness and disease.
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Well, if Adam had never opened the door
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and disobeyed, sickness and disease
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and death would've never
entered the human race,
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but Adam did.
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And because of that, it
came raging into the planet.
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And the devil is now having free access
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to afflict the whole
human race with famine,
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with earthquakes, with pestilence, all
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of these horrible things.
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None of them had their origins in God,
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but God has endowed us
with everything we need
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to keep him under our feet.
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God has given us spiritual
weapons that include the word
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of God, the blood of Jesus,
spiritual weapons, prayer,
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the power of the Holy Spirit.
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And if we will employ all those weapons God has given to us,
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we can keep the devil under our feet.
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But the fact is, there
are moments when the
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devil attacks us.
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For example, right now, I have
a friend that's getting ready
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to do a very large crusade
ministry in Africa.
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He's just about to get on
the plane and go, and just
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before he gets on the
plane to go, he gets sick.
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That is a preemptive strike
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of the devil does stop
him from getting there
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and to do that ministry.
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So what does he do? He calls
his friends for prayer,
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they use their faith, and he's all right. my friends,
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We have the ability to repel attacks.
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attack at a very strategic
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moment because many lives
were about to be impacted.
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you two examples from the New
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Testament of when the devil
strategically tried to attack.
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One is going to be from the
life of the Apostle Paul
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and the other is gonna be
from the ministry of Jesus.
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But we're going to begin with the ministry
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of the Apostle Paul.
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And in 1 Thessalonians 2:17-18,
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Paul writes these words -
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but we brethren being taken from you
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for a short time in presence, not in heart,
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Endeavored - listen to this - endeavored the more abundantly
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to see your face with great desire.
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It means we really wanted to see you
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and did everything we could to see you.
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And we attempted it with great desire.
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But then he adds in verse 18 - are you ready for this?
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He says, wherefore, we
would've come unto you
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even I, Paul - this is me - Paul talking. The one
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that everybody calls the great, the great apostle
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with signs and wonders.
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I'm talking about me.
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He said, I tried once and again,
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but Satan hindered us.
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And here we find that
Paul tried again and again
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and again to get to the Thessalonians.
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He did it with great desire.
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Oh, he really wanted to get to them.
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But he says in verse 18 - Satan hindered us.
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The word Satan is the Greek word satanas.
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It depicts an adversary
who despises, accuses,
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slanders or plots against.
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or one who conspires against.
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So when Paul here uses the word satan the Greek word satanas
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he said, you cannot believe the conspiracies
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the devil came up with.
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He was conspiring to
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And essentially it means this.
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We were en route to visit
you with every intention
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of reaching you.
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But unimaginable events begin to unfold.
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Indeed I, even I, Paul made repeated attempts to get to you.
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But Satan, the master of creating conspiracies
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and chaos worked
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to impede our attempts multiple times.
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Now, the reason I'm telling you this is
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because I want you to see the principle
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that the devil attacks,
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and he's usually very strategic in his attack,
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and sometimes he strategically
attacks with sickness,
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but we have everything
we need to repel him.
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But let's look at the next thing.
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In verse 18, he says, Satan hindered us.
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And the word hindered in Greek is the word, egkopto
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and listen to what it means.
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It means to cut in on
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or to elbow out of the race.
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Just like a runner who's running in a race,
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he's really with a good stride headed
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toward the finish line.
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He's on the way.
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runner comes up alongside
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of him and with his elbow
elbows him out of the way.
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This is an unfair move in a run.
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And now Paul is literally
saying, we were running.
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We were on the way to see you.
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And the devil pulled up alongside of us
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to elbow us of the plan.
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But this word hindered, the Greek word,
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egkopto, was also the word used in the 1st Century
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to describe a road that was broken up
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or a road that was obstructed, and
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therefore the road was an impasse.
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Therefore, when travelers were traveling
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and they would hit, egkopto, a place in the road
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that was broken up,
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or a place that was obstructed; it was so obstructed
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that it created an impasse.
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get further in this direction,
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they could not because
there was a blockage,
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there was an impasse,
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and they would have to back
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that way, try that way, try that way.
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and the devil kept
trying to create impasses
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to keep us from getting to you.
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And it essentially means - Satan did everything possible
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to elbow us away from
our intended destination,
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or we sat out with every
intention to visit you.
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But Satan relentlessly
tried to block our journey
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and thwart our trip. Time
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and again, he erected obstacles so insurmountable
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that we found no way around them.
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Our attempts to find alternative roots were met
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with constant disruptions
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as the devil spun wild and conspiratorial plots
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to derail our plans and prevent our arrival.
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1 Thessalonians 2:18.
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But I want you to see the principle that the devil attacks,
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and usually his attacks are very strategic,
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and some of his wild attacks are sickness and disease.
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But now I want to give you an example
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from the life of Jesus.
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So if you have your
Bible, open your Bibles
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to Mark 4.
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It's one of my favorite examples,
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and it is an example
from the life of Jesus
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that has helped me a lot in
my life and in my ministry.
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And when we come to Mark 4,
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the Bible tells us in verse 35 -
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And when the day was finished, he said unto them,
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let's pass over to the other side.
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Well, on the other side of the lake was the country
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of the Gadarenes,
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and there were 2 demonized men who lived there.
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One of them had all legion of demons.
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And Jesus was going there
to deliver those men.
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That region across the lake
had been completely terrorized
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by these men.
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And if these demons were cast out
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and these men were liberated,
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it meant the whole territory
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So when Jesus was in
the ship in the middle
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of the night on the way to
the other side of the sea
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for a major breakthrough,
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the devil strategically attacked.
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It was a wild conspiracy.
Now let's look at it again.
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Verse 36 says -
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And when they had sent away the multitude,
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they took him even as he was in the ship,
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and there were also with
him other little ships.
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Now look at verse 37 -
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And there arose a great storm of wind,
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and the waves beat into the ship so
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that it was now full.
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We have to remember that
Jesus disciples, the majority
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of them had lived their entire lives
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around the Sea of Galilee.
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Some of them were professional fishermen
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on the Sea of Galilee.
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They knew the water, they
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They knew everything
about that body of water,
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and they knew not to go out on
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that water if there was
a natural storm brewing.
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So the very fact that
they all got in the boat
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and they launched out, man,
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it was a great night for sailing.
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It was the perfect night.
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The skies were clear, the wind was right,
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the weather was right,
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and they were in route to the other side
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when verse 37 says - There arose a great storm of wind.
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which describes something that takes you off guard
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or by surprise,
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and you could literally interpret it like this.
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There arose out of nowhere.
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Suddenly it was the last
thing we would've expected.
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We don't even know where it came from.
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But out of nowhere, suddenly there arose
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a great storm of wind.
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And the word wind in Greek
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Well, you know, you can feel turbulence,
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but you can't see it.
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You can't point your finger at wind,
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you can't point your finger at turbulence.
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But boy, you can sure feel it. Growing up in Oklahoma,
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I always loved it when tornadoes came through the area
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because they were so strong and so dramatic.
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began to blow,
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and wow, you could really
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and all that turbulence.
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But I have never seen wind in
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So now here they are in
the middle of the lake,
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in the middle of the
night, and suddenly out
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of nowhere there arises turbulence.
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It is an unseen force which
has come to derail them so
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that they cannot reach the
other side of the lake.
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finally the boat was full.
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There were monster waves
beating into the ship
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and beating into the ship
and beating into the ship.
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And finally the disciples
went and woke up Jesus
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and Lord, Lord, you've gotta help us.
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We're perishing. And the
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It says in verse 39 - And he arose
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and rebuked the wind
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and then simply said to the sea - Peace be still.
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Jesus understood the problem was not the waves.
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The disciples were focused on the waves.
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They were bailing water
and fighting waves.
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he did not address the symptoms
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first. The Bible says he rebuked the wind.
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He understood this was an invisible force.
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This was a demonic attack to
capsize him and his disciples
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and his boat in the middle
of the sea in the middle
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of the night to keep them from
getting to the other side.
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It was a strategic attack.
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So Jesus stood up, looked up into the air,
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and began to address the unseen force.
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He spoke to the wind
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or the force that he
could not visibly see,
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but they could feel the effects of it.
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and dealt with the unseen realm, then all he did was turn
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to the sea and easily speak to it and say, Peace be still.
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Actually, the Greek kind of conveys this idea.
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He sat unto the sea - shhhhhh,
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and the Bible says the wind ceased
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and there was a great calm.
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Jesus knew the problem was not the waves,
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it was an invisible force.
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And this is what we find in Ephesians 6:12.
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Our wrestle is not against flesh
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and blood - it's not against what we can see -
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but against principalities,
powers, rulers of the darkness
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of this world and spiritual
wickedness in high places.
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These are demonic forces
which are organized
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and dispatched into the earth
to victimize the human race.
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And every once in a while,
they try to attack believers,
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even believers
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who in their lives are
really doing everything right
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and - bam - all of a sudden
they have a bout of sickness
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and they wonder how. It is
an attack of the devil.
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So when we talk about all these ways
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that we can self-sabotage
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and have self-inflicted sicknesses, we have
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to also acknowledge
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that there are moments when
there are just random attacks.
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And when we come back in tomorrow's program, we're gonna see
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what else the Bible tells us
about these random attacks
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and what we need to do
when we are attacked.
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It's gonna be good, but I'll
be back in just a moment
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and I'm gonna pray for you.
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Somebody has asked the question - What kind
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of qualities should leaders in the church have?
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Well, that is a very important question
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and I can't answer all
of that in one minute.
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But in Mark 10:44, Jesus said,
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if you're gonna be great,
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then you must be the servant of all.
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And Jesus himself was the example.
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He said that he did not come
to be served, but to serve
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and to give his life as a ransom for many.
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And when you're called
into a leadership position,
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that is a position God has given you
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to serve the people of God.
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And there is no greater honor
than to serve the people
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who sit around the table
in the house of God.
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And we need to do it with excellence.
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We need to do it with humility,
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and we need to understand
that it truly is a privilege
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to serve the people in the house of God.
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Having humility
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and a willingness to be a servant,
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that is a very important priority
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for any leader in the church.
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The devil is looking for
a way to access your life.
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And if every door is not
shut, he will find a way in.
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In Rick Renner's 10 part series, Entry Points: How
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and making sure every door
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to the devil is closed - permanently.
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Hey guys, this is Rick Renner and guess where I am.
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This is the lunchroom in our Tulsa Ministry
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Headquarters facility.
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People have to have a place to work,
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and they work really hard in
this facility, taking calls,
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answering letters from thousands
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and thousands of people who reach out
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to us every day and every week.
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But in this room, we
decided to adorn the walls
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with photographs of all the
places where we have offices
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for Renner Ministries.
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Behind me, there's a
beautiful photograph of Moscow
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because you know we have a
very important office there.
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Then there's a photograph of London
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because we have an office in England
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and we've had an office in
England for years and years.
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Then there's a beautiful picture of Riga where Denise and I
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and our boys live for 9 years,
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and our European office in Riga handles
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so much correspondence from
people that reach out to us.
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And then there is a photograph
of the Oklahoma State Capitol
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to represent this office which is in the state of Oklahoma.
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But right now we're trying
to pay off this facility.
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It's called the Ministry
Expansion Project.
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We've already paid off
83% of the facility.
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And my friends, we need your
help to help us finish this.
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And if you're not already
a part of the Giving team,
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I'm inviting you to join us
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and to help us pay off this facility.
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And when it is finished being paid for,
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it's gonna release all those finances
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so we can keep taking the teaching of the Bible to the ends
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of the Earth.
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The thank you for being apart.
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Wow! Today we covered a lot of material in my series,
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which is called Entry Points: How
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to Stop the Devil from Attacking You with Sickness.
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This comes with a wonderful study guide,
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and of course, there's my new book I'm
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so excited about and so thrilled
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I can tell you. It's called Everything You Need
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to Know About Healing.
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The back of the book says How to close the door to sickness,
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defeat the Curse, and live in divine health long
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and strong.
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But to know more about all these resources,
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just call the number
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that's on the screen or go online.
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And friends, we wanna pray for
you, particularly this week,
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we are focusing on people that
are struggling with sickness,
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or perhaps they have a loved
one or a friend that is sick.
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We want to agree with you in
prayer for the power of Jesus
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to take root and for the healing
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and health that belongs
to them to be manifest.
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So please let us know how to pray.
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But Father, we thank
you the name of Jesus.
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We have authority over all
the works of the enemy.
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You've given us every tool we
need to drive the devil out
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and to keep him under our feet.
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We declare it in Jesus' name - Amen.
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I'll see you in the next program.
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But remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word
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of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repented my sin and
receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life
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Amen. Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information
about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.
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