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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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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Hey, I am so glad you're with me today.
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I've been sitting here just waiting for the clock to strike
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so we could get started.
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And today I'm gonna continue my series called, Entry Points:
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How to Stop the Devil from
Attacking You With Sickness.
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It comes with a study guide,
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and I'm really excited about my book,
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which is called, Everything You Need to Know About Healing.
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You Say, Rick, that looks like a pretty substantial book.
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Well, it is,
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but I wanted to cover everything you
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need to know about healing.
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It is really impactful.
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We need to know what the
Bible says about the healing
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and health that Jesus purchased for us.
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You can close the door,
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so sickness stops entering your life.
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Also, I've got a friend named Mike Clark,
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a wonderful brother who wrote a book called, There's a Light
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at the End of Your Tunnel.
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He was in a really long dark tunnel
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because he had been diagnosed with cancer,
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but he walked from that
diagnosis into the light.
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He walked into the healing
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and health that Jesus purchased for him,
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and he documented his journey.
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And it will really encourage you
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or someone you know
who needs to be healed.
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Amen. But you can find out
about all these resources
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by going online right now,
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or you can just give us a call,
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call the number on the screen,
and when you call that number
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or when you go online
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or send us an email,
let us know how to pray
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for you this week.
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We're particularly praying for people who are struggling
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with disease, illness, sickness, or maybe they have a friend
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or a family member that is sick
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and they just want special prayer.
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Well, Jesus said, if two of you will agree
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as touching anything, I will do it
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that my father will be glorified.
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And if you're dealing with
illness or you've got a family
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or a friend who is, let us know.
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Just call that number or send us an email.
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We will pray the prayer of faith
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and believe for the
anointing of the Holy Ghost
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to touch them and for the power of God
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to be quickened in them so
they have the manifestation
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of healing and health.
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But I want you to reach for your Bible.
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And today we're gonna continue to see
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that devilish attacks can
open a door to sickness.
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Now, we covered this yesterday,
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but today I want to pick up. In Ephesians 6:12,
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Paul writes - For we wrestle not against flesh
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and blood. Flesh and blood represents what we see.
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If we're talking about sickness
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and disease, our wrestle is not against the disease,
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it's not against the sickness.
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But Paul says, working behind the scenes,
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there are spiritual forces
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that often cause problems in the flesh
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and blood realm: sickness, disease,
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manifesting the mind or in the body.
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But behind the scenes
there are evil forces.
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So he says, for we wrestle
not against flesh and blood,
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but against principalities,
powers, rulers of the darkness
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of this world in spiritual
wickedness in high places.
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And the truth is that even if
you're doing everything right,
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you're living upright,
you're walking in knowledge,
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you're walking in forgiveness,
you're walking in obedience,
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you're doing everything you know to do,
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and you're not convicted about
any open door in your life,
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sometimes the devil still
just randomly strategically
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attacks you because that's what he does: ay..yi.
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But we have authority over him.
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We do not need to be afraid of the devil.
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But today I want to begin
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by giving you some quotes from
early church fathers about
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the nature and activity of demons
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and about the authority
of believers over demons.
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Now, we know a lot about demonic activity
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because of the 4 Gospels and the Book of Acts.
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And we know that when we study the New Testament
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that when a person is demonized, those demons unleash chaos
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that leads to conditions very often like dementia,
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amnesia, very often perverted, physical acts, a
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loss of self-control.
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It wreaks havoc in their relationships.
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And in Jewish literature, we
read that evil spirits warp
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or diminish the senses
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and they can affect
hearing, vision, sight.
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Wow! But listen to
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what the early church fathers wrote in
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addition to the scriptures.
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And when I say early church fathers,
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I'm talking about leading church fathers in the 2nd
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and 3rd Century who commented on an array
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of important subjects,
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and they're referred to as
the early church fathers.
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Listen to the first quote: Demons are ruined to themself
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and never cease to ruin others. Being depraved themselves,
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they infuse into others the
error of their depravity.
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And here we find in this quote
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that an early church father
wrote that demons are depraved
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and they love therefore
to create depravity
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and error in other people.
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Here's another quote: Secretly
creeping into human bodies
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as spirit beings, they simulate diseases,
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alarm the mind and wrench about the limbs.
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And this shows the presence
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of demon spirits frequently
are underlying problems
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for ailments, phobias,
mental disturbances,
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and physical abnormalities.
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We also see this in the gospels. Listen to the next quote.
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Demons are scattered as it were in troops in different parts
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of the earth and have chosen
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for themselves a chief ruler
whose command they may plunder
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and pillage the souls of men.
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This very much agrees with Ephesians 6:12,
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which gives us the picture
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of demon forces being
organized like an army.
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And here this early church father says,
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they're sent forth like troops
with the intention to pillage
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and to plunder.
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Listen to the next quote of an early church Father.
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Demons haunt the dense parts of the atmosphere
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that describes the lower atmosphere where we live.
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They frequent unclean places on the earth.
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And since they're without
bodies of earthly material,
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they secretly enter the bodies
of the more predatory, savage
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and wicked of animals
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and stir them up to do whatever they choose,
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whenever they choose, they can turn the fancies
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of these animals to make flights
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and movements of various kinds
to entrap men by such power
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of divination.
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And now we find demons will
even inhabit an animal.
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And of course we see this in the gospels.
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We see examples of this in Matthew 8,
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in Mark 5, Luke 8, when the demoniac
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of Gadara was liberated of demons
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and the demons went into pigs.
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That's exactly what this is talking about.
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Here is another quote.
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These contaminated
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and abandoned spirits
wander all over the earth.
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They console their own
ruin by destroying others.
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Therefore, they fill every
place with snares, deceits,
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frauds, and errors for they
clinging to individuals.
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And since spirits are
without physical substance
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and cannot be physically held,
they slink into the bodies
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of men secretly working
in their inward parts.
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They corrupt the health of these persons,
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bring on diseases, try
their souls with dreams
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and harass their minds with frenzy.
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And here we find that
a person is demonized.
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Very often it affects
their mind, their body,
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their entire being.
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Listen to this quote. Demons do injure some..
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oftentimes they have uttered the greatest howls
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and they injure those whom
they have in their own power.
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And part of the injury the demon spirits bring is disease,
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illness, and sickness.
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But we also have authority over demons.
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I don't wanna magnify demons.
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I just want you to understand
that even the church fathers
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of the 2nd and the 3rd century, we were very,
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very aware that when they were
dealing with disease, illness
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and sickness, it was not
always a physical issue.
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Sometimes it was a
spiritual force which was
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afflicting human beings.
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And this is very clear in all of these texts. We find
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that demons afflict the
body, they afflict the mind.
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And my friends, we have authority over them.
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So I want you to hear what else the church father said about
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the authority of believers over demons.
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This includes me and this includes you.
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Listen to this: Demons have no power over those who've put
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on the whole armor of God: who've received strength
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to withstand the wiles of the devil.
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That's what one of the early
church fathers believed.
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They believed because they
were quoting scripture
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that if we put on the whole armor of God,
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we have authority over all demon spirits.
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Listen to this quote.
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Demons and other unseen powers
show that they fear the name
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of Jesus as that of
being a superior power.
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Demons have withdrawn from
those whom they attacked
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for they withdrew in
obedience at the mere mention
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of his name.
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My friends, Jesus name is higher than any other name.
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And when we use the name of Jesus, demons tremble
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and they flee.
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But listen to this quote:
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Wicked spirits are called scorpions
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and serpents, yet they are trodden underfoot by us,
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by the power given us by the Lord.
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And of course, this early church father is quoting Luke
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10:19, which says -
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Jesus has given us authority to tread on serpents
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and scorpions and over all the work of the enemy.
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And my friends, we are not victims.
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We have all the authority we need. Jesus has given it to us.
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And if sickness
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and disease tries to infiltrate you, you have the authority
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to use the name of Jesus and the blood of Jesus
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and the promises of God to drive it out.
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Say - Amen. But now I want us to go to the gospel of Matthew
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and I want to give you a concrete example from the scripture
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that shows you that sickness and demonized activity,
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it all goes together - it all goes together.
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And I can give you many, many examples from the 4 Gospels
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and the Book of Acts, but we only have time for one.
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So I want you to open your Bible to Matthew 4:
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23-24,
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which describes when Jesus began his ministry
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and the Bible says -
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And Jesus went about all
Galilee teaching in their
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synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom -
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now listen to this - and healing all manner of sickness
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and all manner of disease among the people.
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And his fame went throughout all Syria
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and they brought unto him all
sick people that were taken
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with divers diseases and torments
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and those which were possessed with devils
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and those which were lunatic
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and those which had the
palsy and he healed them.
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But when you look at these
verses, it's a big bundle
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of all kinds of sickness and diseases
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and those that were demonized.
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So I, I'll still look a
little deeper at these verses
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and we're going to begin in verse 24,
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when the Bible says
Jesus went about healing.
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Let's begin with the word healing.
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The word healing is the Greek word, therapao,
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and you might hear another word.
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It's where we get the word therapy.
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It means to heal,
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but it denotes a healing that takes place
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with cooperative actions.
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An example would be when Jesus healed the man
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with a withered hand. He didn't just heal him, he told him
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to stretch forth his hand.
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When you come to the Gospel of John 6, the man
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who was at the pool of Bethesda - I'm sorry, chapter 5 -
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Jesus didn't just heal him,
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he told him to get up, to pick up his mat.
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He told him to do something.
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He required cooperative actions.
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And when you study all of the gospels, you find this word
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therapao, is the primary word used to describe
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how Jesus healed the sick.
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And we need to take a cue from this.
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If that's what Jesus did,
that's what we need to do.
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He didn't just lay hands on people
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and walk on, he asked
them to do something.
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He asked them to cooperate.
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And in fact, when the Bible
says Jesus healed them,
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the Greek really means he therapy them.
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He released the power of God
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and then he asked them to cooperate.
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And when they begin to move
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and cooperate, that's when
the power began to work
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and the healing took root.
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But the Bible says in Matthew 4:23
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that he went about healing
all manner of sickness.
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What does that mean - all manner of sickness?
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Well, in Greek it is pasan noson.
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The word posan is all encompassing.
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It means every kind of sickness
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and disease that leaves nothing out.
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But here specifically, the word sickness is the Greek word,
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noson.
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Now listen to this. This word noson,
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typically was used to describe sicknesses
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that were both incurable and terminal.
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And this word noson, this is really important,
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was predominantly associated
with ailments, believed
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to be caused by malevolent spirits rather than arising from
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natural causes.
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So when you find this word
noson in scripture,
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it describes a spirit induced
sickness of some kind, usually
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of a terminal nature.
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But Jesus healed it.
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But notice it is a
spirit induced sickness.
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Jesus understood that when he
dealt with certain sicknesses,
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these were not just
mere physical problems,
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these were spiritual entities
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that had inflicted these sicknesses,
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and that's what the Greek
word actually means.
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Then in verse 23, we also find the word disease.
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This word disease is different from the
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previous word sickness.
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It is the word malakia. And this describes diseases.
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But a malakia type disease may not be fatal,
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but it is severely weakening
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and it robs one of their mobility
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and leaves them in a state
of ongoing debilitation.
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While a malakia type disease might not take their life,
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it leaves them physically
crippled or debilitated.
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This is a person that is crippled
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or debilitated: that's a Maia kind of disease.
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And Jesus healed that
category of sickness.
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But we come to verse 24
and in verse 24 it says,
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and his fame went throughout all Syria
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and they brought into him all
sick people that were taken
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with divers diseases and torments
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and those which were possessed with devils
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and those which were lunatic
and those that had the palsy.
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Well, first of all, in
verse 24, again, we come
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to the word sick and now
it's a different word.
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It's the Greek word kakos,
which signifies a state
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of being badly grievously,
miserably or wretchedly sick.
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These are terribly sick people.
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But then we come to the
words divers diseases.
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And guess what? The word divers describes a whole variety
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of different kinds of afflictions.
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But the word diseases is again, the Greek word, nosois,
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which emphatically describes
sicknesses that were created
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by spirits.
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These were spirit induced sicknesses.
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And my friends, the truth
is there are some sicknesses
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that are non-natural.
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There's no reason for you to
get sick and yet you get sick.
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This is an attack of the enemy.
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This is a spirit induced kind
of a disease or a sickness.
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And Jesus recognized that
and he dealt with it as such.
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But then it says, torments. What does this mean?
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Well, the word torments is a term
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that describes excruciating torture
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and it highlights
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that these were not trifling health concerns,
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but rather grievous afflictions stemming from sinister
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evil forces.
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So again, we see working behind the scenes
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or spiritual forces creating sicknesses
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that are absolutely tormenting.
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And then the Greek adds something
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that is not in the Kings James Version;
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the Greek says being oppressed.
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And the word pictures those who are under some degree
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of demonic influence or activity.
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And a more precise translation
would be they were demonized,
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they were tormented, they were oppressed.
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And then we come to the
words possessed with devils.
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Now, this is a really bad translation,
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and in fact, every time you
see this phrase in the gospel
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possessed with devils,
it's a bad translation.
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A better translation would be demonized - demonized.
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They weren't possessed with devils,
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but they were spirit inflicted.
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And it refers to individuals
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who were experiencing some degree
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of demonic influence or activity.
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And a more precise translation
would be they were demonized
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suggesting that these individuals were demonically affected
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either physically or mentally in some manner.
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But I want you to see
again and again and again
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and again in these two verses, many
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of these afflictions are related to demonic activity.
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And then it describes Jesus healing those that were lunatic.
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What does that mean?
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I remember when I was a boy,
if my dad got upset with me,
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he would call me a lunatic,
which I never appreciated.
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But what does the word lunatic mean?
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Well, I'm gonna tell you. It's derived from the Greek word,
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selene
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which means the moon, but here
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This word lunatic really means moonstruck.
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And it was originally associated with occult practices
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and was used to denote those
who became demonized, erratic,
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or again, they were marked
with epileptic type seizures
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that began during some
kind of an occult practice.
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These were people who became afflicted
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because they were dabbling in the occult.
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And we actually have an
example of this in this verse
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and in another scripture.
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And obviously these were parents messing with the occult
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and while they were messing with the occult,
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it opened a door for demonic activity
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and their children
became sick as a result.
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They were lunatic or they were moonstruck.
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But then the Bible says Jesus healed them
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that had the palsy.
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What in the world is the palsy?
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Well, the Greek word is paralutikos.
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It's where we get the word paralyzed.
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It describes those that
are feeble, paralyzed
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or those who are suffering
immobility due to a problem
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with nerves, muscles, or bone structure.
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Individuals whose limbs
are rendered powerless,
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thus crippling their
ability to move around
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as they once did.
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Jesus healed all these
categories of sickness.
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There was nothing that
his power did not touch,
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and there's nothing you are dealing with
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that he cannot touch.
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But what I want you to see
just in this one text is
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that many kinds of diseases, illnesses
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and sicknesses, not all of them,
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some are just purely physical,
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but sometimes working behind the scene,
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there really are demonic powers
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and evil spirits, sinister forces that have come to attack.
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And when Jesus began his healing ministry, he recognized
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that - he recognized that.
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And Jesus came against all these illnesses
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that were spirit induced.
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And if you've used medication
and you've gone to the doctor
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and you've done everything you need to do
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to right all your wrongs,
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and you still have a lingering
sickness, it might be
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that like Ephesians 6:12 says, you're not dealing
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with flesh and blood.
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You may be dealing with
principalities, powers, rulers
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of the darkness of this world
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and spiritual wickedness -
forces behind the scene
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that have come to attack you.
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This is also another
reason why people get sick.
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But by using the authority of Jesus' name:
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by using the power of God's word and the blood of Jesus
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and using the armor of God in prayer
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and the power of the Holy Spirit, we can slam the door shut
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and we can push the devil back
across the line: my friend,
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you are not supposed to be sick in your body
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or in your mind.
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The Bible tells us in Isaiah 53:5, that
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by his stripes you are healed.
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Healing and health is in the bank for you.
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It is yours to take and to claim.
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And if you are sick, then you're being robbed of something
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that belongs to you.
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But by using the name of Jesus, the word of God, the blood
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of Jesus prayer, the power of the Holy Spirit,
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you can drive it out.
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We're outta time, but I'll
be back in just a moment
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and I'm going to pray for you.
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Someone has asked the question - Brother Rick, I'm believing
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for victory in my life,
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but when I look at everything around me,
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all I see is defeat.
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So what should I do?
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Well, James tells us in James 1:3
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& 4, that you need to let patience have its
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perfect work.
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One man has translated this, you need
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to let patients run full course.
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It's like a woman that is pregnant.
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She's not gonna have a baby in 24 hours.
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She's gotta go full term
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before she gives birth to that child.
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And it may be that you're
right on track for the victory
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that you are waiting for,
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but the moment of its
delivery has not come yet.
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And also remember that first
John five, verse four says,
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whoever's born of God overcomes the world.
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You are a world overcomer.
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So don't throw in the towel
or give into what you see
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or to what you feel.
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You stay in a place of faith
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and let your faith run full course
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until you finally
receive the manifestation
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and the victory that you're waiting for. The
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devil is looking for a
way to access your life.
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And if every door is not
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In Rick Renner's 10 part series, Entry Points: How
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experiencing it, enjoying it,
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and making sure every door
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to the devil is closed permanently.
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Rick will teach you how to guard your life
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and walk in God's protection, how
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to identify hidden entry
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to shut the door of ignorance
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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 nine 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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But thank you for being apart.
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I have had such a good time
with you today in the word
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of God, and I can hardly wait for tomorrow.
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We're gonna wrap up this 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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It comes with a study guide,
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and of course there's the book called Everything You Need To
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Know About Healing.
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It's a Rick Renner book.
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So my friends, you know, it's
gonna be very comprehensive.
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I've tried to leave no stone unturned.
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I wanna really cover every issue, every question you have,
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it's all right here.
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And I want to remind you about
Mike Clark's wonderful book,
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which is called, There's a Light at the End of Your Tunnel.
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It is his testimony about how
he walked from a diagnosis
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of cancer into healing and
it will really encourage you
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and it would be a great gift
to give to somebody else
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that's dealing with sickness and disease.
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But you can find out about
more of these by going online
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or just call the number on the screen.
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And when you reach out to us,
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we wanna know how to pray for you.
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And I'm gonna pray for you right now.
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Father, in the name of
Jesus, I thank you, healing
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and health belong to us,
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and if we don't have it, we're being robbed. And in the name
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of Jesus, I take authority
over every foul spirit
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of infirmity and affliction.
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I curse you in the name of Jesus.
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I command you to release
your grip upon my friend
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and to let them go.
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In Jesus name, amen. Amen.
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Well, I'm gonna be back tomorrow,
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but remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 say, "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 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 with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information
about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.
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