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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. Let's
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join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program, my friend.
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Today we're gonna pick up
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where we left off yesterday.
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I'm teaching my brand new series
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called What Jesus Said
about the final say so
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of God's word.
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I'm doing a whole bunch
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of series this year called
What Jesus Said About,
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and then we add the next statement.
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And right now we're teaching
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what Jesus said about the final say so
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of God's word.
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My friends, if you want God's word
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to produce its full effect in you,
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then it's gotta have a final say so in your life.
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But I know this 5-part series which comes in all kinds
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of formats with a tremendous study guide.
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Wow, we put so much work
into these study guides
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because we want you to be able
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to see all the information
while you're hearing
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or seeing the programs
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because we want this teaching
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to really get down deep inside you.
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But anyway, all these things
are available for you.
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And I want to tell you about Kenneth E Hagin's book called
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The Authority of the Believer.
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It's a book that I read very early in my life,
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and I've read it multiple times
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because we need to really
understand the authority
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that we have in Jesus
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and what happens when God's
word has the final say-
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so in your life. The Authority of The Believer
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by Kenneth Hagin.
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If you don't have it, why not?
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It is a book you need to read.
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And right now
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and every day this
week, we want to provide
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for you beautifully designed confessions
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about the word of God.
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You can hang them on your refrigerator
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or put them on your mirror
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or put them somewhere in
your house to remind yourself
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that you need to give God's word
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the final say-so in your life.
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You know we're living in a day when people are beginning
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to really denigrate the word of God.
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They say it's no longer
valuable, it's not relevant
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for the times that we're living in,
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and people are dismissing it
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or they're discounting it as one resource
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among many resources - my friends - if
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that's the way you view the Bible,
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then the Bible will never release its power in your life.
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There is a reason why I end every one of my programs
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with Ecclesiastes 8:4.
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It says, "Where the word of the king is, there's power."
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And when you receive the word
of God as the King's word,
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it releases power in your life.
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And we saw in yesterday's episode
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that when God's word has the
final say so in your life,
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it releases creative power into your life.
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It brings new smells into
your life, it brings the music
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of heaven into your life,
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but you've really gotta give
God's word, the final say
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so in your life for that
power, that smell, that music
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to come in your life.
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And my friends, that's why
I'm teaching this series.
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But you can find out about all
these things by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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And we also want to pray for you.
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So please, when you reach
out to us by calling
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that number on the screen
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or by going online, you
could just send us an email.
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Either way, when we hear from
you, we're gonna really pray.
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And if you've ever reached out to us
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before, you know that you
don't get away from us without
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really being scripturally prayed for.
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We're gonna pray and Jesus
is really gonna hear us,
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and Jesus is gonna do what
needs to be done in your life.
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But I want you to reach for your Bible.
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And today we're returning to giving God's word,
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the final say so in our life,
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and today we're going to
see the results of keeping
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or disobeying God's word.
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But I want to begin again
with the pledge that I made
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as a little Baptist boy
when I was growing up in
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Vacation Bible School.
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Oh, how I loved Vacation Bible school.
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It was one of my favorite
moments of the year.
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Every single summer,
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and maybe you grew up a southern Baptist
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or maybe you grew up in
some other denomination,
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but you went to Vacation Bible School.
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We would march into the auditorium, we would take our seats,
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and the moment would come when
we would pledge allegiance
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to the Christian flag, and then we put our hand on our heart
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and we would say, I pledge allegiance to the Bible,
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God's holy word.
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I will make it a lamp into my feet
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and a light into my path
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that I may not sin against God.
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I set it with all of my heart.
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And from that time until this time,
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I have given God's word the final say-
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so in my life. Now all of us make mistakes,
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but to the best of my ability, if I know
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what the Bible says,
then I align my thinking
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and my behavior with what the Bible says.
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I give it the final say-
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so in my life.
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And my friends, we saw yesterday now I want to return there
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to Matthew 5:18, the great respect
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that Jesus had for the word of God.
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And of course he was the word of God.
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But listen to what Jesus said in Matthew
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5:18.
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For verily I say unto you - Till heaven
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and earth pass, one jot
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or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law
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to all be fulfilled.
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Here we have the enormous respect
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and honor that Jesus
had for the scriptures.
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It was not just one resource among others
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for him; it was the final say so.
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And in fact, Jesus said not one jot. In Greek,
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it is the word iota.
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The word iota describes the smallest little letter in the
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Greek language.
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So now Jesus says,
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not even the smallest
letter in the alphabet
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of the Greek language
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of which the scriptures was written in the
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Septuagint version.
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Then he says, not one tittle,
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the word tittle describes
one stroke of a letter
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or one stroke of the brush.
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So Jesus says, every marking, every stroke
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of the brush, even the smallest letter of the alphabet
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that is used in the scriptures
shall in no wise pass.
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And in Greek it's a double negative.
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No, it shall not pass
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until all be fulfilled.
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And notice also in this verse,
Jesus refers to the scripture
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as the law.
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Well the word law, the Greek word nomos was used
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among the Jews to describe
the sacred scriptures.
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It's talking about the Bible,
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it's talking about the word of God.
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And for Jesus,
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the scriptures were not
optional, they were law.
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They had a final say-
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so. And if this was the view that Jesus had about the Bible,
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then it needs to be the view
that we have about the Bible.
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It needs to be a law to us.
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And that's what Jesus
now says in this verse.
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And then in verse 19, Jesus continued to say - Whosoever
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therefore shall break one of these least commandments
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and teach other men so he
shall be called the least
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in the kingdom of heaven.
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Well, let's dive into this verse.
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It says, whosoever therefore shall break one
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of these least commandments.
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And the word break is a form of the Greek word luo.
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The word luo means to loosen
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or to relax, to let slip.
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It means to release your grip
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or it describes a
non-serious attitude toward
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any of the scriptures.
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So Jesus says, whosoever
therefore shall loosen
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or become relaxed in
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Whoever will loosen his grip
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or have a non-serious attitude
even toward the least,
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the least commandment.
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And the word commandment
gives us Jesus view
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of the scriptures and
it needs to be our view.
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It is a commandment. You say, well,
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what does the word
commandment really mean?
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Well, in Greek it is the word in entole:
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it is a compound of 2-words.
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It's a compound of en
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and the word telos. The word, en, means in as something
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that exists in a certain form.
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And the word telos describes that which is complete, mature,
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or perfect.
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But when you compound
the two words together,
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it forms the word entole, which means the word
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of God is in complete perfection:
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complete perfection.
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But, the word telos also speaks
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of reaching the ultimate end of a thing.
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And hence the word in entole.
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The whole word, which is
translated commandment,
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describes the perfect commandment, the perfect commandment.
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And we find that one's
obedience to it enables him
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to attain a level of completion, maturity,
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and perfection, which means inherent in the word
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of God is the ability to be complete,
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mature, and perfect.
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It brings you into completeness.
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The word of God is to
bring you into maturity.
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It is to bring you into perfection.
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But if you're going to enter
into that completeness,
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that maturity and that
perfection, you have
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to give it the final say so in your life.
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But wait, then Jesus goes on in Matthew 5:19
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and says - are you ready for this -
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But whosoever shall do
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and teach them,
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the same shall be called great
in the kingdom of heaven.
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And here we're called upon
to do the word of God,
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not just to hear it.
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This is why James says in James 1,
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Don't be hearers only, but do what you've heard.
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Jesus says, whosoever does the word of God.
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In other words, it has such
a final say so in your life
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that you're going to align
yourself with what it says
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and what it prescribes.
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And guess what the word do is a form of the Greek word poieo
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which means not only to do,
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but you creatively do,
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which means sometimes you gotta get really creative in the
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way that you're going to do
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what Jesus says: in the way you're gonna do the Bible.
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But it says, whosoever
shall do and teach them.
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And this word teach is a form of the Greek word, didasko,
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which means to teach either by instruction or by example.
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So here we find that not only
are we to do the word of God,
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but we're to do it in our
example so others can see it
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and replicate what we do.
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Whoever shall do them the
same shall be called great.
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The word great is a form
of the Greek word mega.
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A better translation would
be this person will be very
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significant in the kingdom of heaven.
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So when you do the word of
God, it makes you great,
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it makes you significant.
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But now I want you to turn in your Bible
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to Matthew 7:24.
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We're talking about giving the word of God the final say
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so in our life. In life, storms come.
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But when you've built your
life upon the word of God,
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you've built your life upon a rock.
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I'm talking about giving the word
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of God the final say so in your life.
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Listen to what Jesus said in Matthew 7:24 -
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Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine
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and doeth them,
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I will liken him unto a wise
man which built his house
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upon a rock.
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Now, there's so much in
this verse that I want us
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to take it very slowly and
really unpack this verse.
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This verse describes what happens when you give God's word,
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the final say so in your life.
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And when you do it,
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and the word do it again
is the Greek word poieo,
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which means not just to
do but to creatively do.
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Which means you may have to
find a way to apply that verse
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to your life, but you're going to do it
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because God's word has the final say-
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so in your life, Jesus says, if you don't just hear
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but actually do the word of
God, he says, I will liken
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that person unto a wise man.
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who is intelligent, someone
that is thoughtful, someone
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that is sensible or
somebody that is smart.
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therefore whosoever hears
these sayings of mine
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and finds a way to do them,
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I will liken them unto a smart man,
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a smart man which built his house up on a rock.
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to build from scratch or to expand.
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that's either building
his life from scratch
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or he is trying to develop
his life and expand his life.
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The word house is actually a
form of the Greek word oikia.
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It describes a house, a household, a family,
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or figuratively,
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it can picture one's life.
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if you're building your family,
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if you're building your household
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and you're doing what
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and aligning your life with
his word, finding a way
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to do it, Jesus said, you're somebody
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that's building your life,
your house, your family, all
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that you have up on a rock.
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which means - literally up on a rock.
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The word ten, is a definite article.
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The word petran is a form of petra, which means a rock.
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because of the definite article, it means upon the rock,
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which means Jesus word
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or God's word is the rock of all rocks.
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And when you hear his word
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and you align yourself in
agreement with his word
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and give it the final say so in your life,
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it gives you the supernatural ability
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to construct your family,
your household, your business,
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your life upon the rock of all rocks.
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Now, that doesn't mean storms won't come,
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and that's why Jesus continued in the next verse
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to say verse 25 -
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And the rain descended and the floods came
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and the winds blew and
beat upon that house,
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and it fell not for it was founded upon a rock.
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The word rain describes a
downpour in the original Greek
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language. The word, descended, the Greek word
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katabaino. The word,
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kata, describes something that's coming down so hard
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that it is conquering, it's subjugating, it's crushing.
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to step or to move.
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it describes a pounding,
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The word floods is the plural form of the Greek word potamos
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because it's plural, it means many, many, many floods.
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It's rivers and rivers of flooding water.
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The words winds blew,
describe violent turbulence
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or violent wind.
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and the floods came and the winds blew
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and beat upon. Beat upon in Greek means to assault,
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to assault, to beat upon,
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to literally fall upon that house.
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which pictures a house, a family, a household,
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or whatever you're building with your life.
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So here, Jesus says, in
life the rains do come.
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And my friends, they do.
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I've experienced a lot of it in my life.
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I'm talking about a downpour.
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It says, the floods come rivers
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of torrential water coming
against you, winds blow.
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They can be turbulent,
they can be violent,
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and they beat upon the house,
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your life, what you're building.
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And you can feel sometimes
you are under assault.
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But Jesus says, this
particular house fell not.
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And in Greek, the word not is the word ouk.
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It is the strongest word for not in the Greek language.
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Here it means emphatically not: it surely did not fall
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for it was founded
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upon a rock.
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And the words founded, the form the Greek word themelioo,
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which means to be established, to be grounded
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or to be founded.
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And the words, a rock, is the very same phrase we saw
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before ten-petran.
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Ten is a definite article.
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The word petran is from petra, which means rock.
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Put it together - they were founded upon the rock
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of all rocks.
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And what is that? Jesus said, it is his sayings
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or it is the Bible, the word of God.
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When the word of God has the
final say so in your life,
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your life is constructed
on the rock of all rocks.
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And even when the rain comes,
even when the floods come,
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even when the violent
winds and turbulence come,
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and it seems like you're being
assaulted in your life is
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just being pounded and
pounded, you will not fall
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because you've given
God's word, the final say
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so in your life and you've grounded
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and established your life
up on the scriptures.
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This is not my words,
this is what Jesus says.
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But then there's the other person,
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and the next kind of person is described in Matthew 7:
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26 - And everyone that hearest these sayings of mine
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and doeth them, not doeth them not. In Greek,
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it really pictures a person who hears it
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but habitually does not do.
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The word doeth is again a
form of the Greek word poieo,
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which means to creatively do.
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And by the way, it insinuates
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that sometimes you gotta get
really creative in finding a
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way to do what you've
been instructed to do.
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It's not always easy but you're determined,
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God's word has the final say-so in your life
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and you're going to be obedient to it,
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that here we have a man
who hears what God says,
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but he doesn't align his
life according to it.
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God's word really doesn't have
the final say so in his life.
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He's not really practicing what the Bible says -
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and doeth them not - Jesus said he on the other hand,
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is gonna be likened unto a foolish man.
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Now, the word foolish is not
a politically correct word in
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today's world because it is the Greek word moros.
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And the word moros, describes one that is dull, one
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that is dumb or one that is stupid.
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And it is where we get the
word for a moron, a moron.
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It is one lacking common sense.
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Remember in the previous verse, Jesus said,
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when you align your life with his teachings
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and with the word of God, you're smart, you're intelligent,
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you are sensible.
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But if you hear the word of God
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and you don't practice it
in your life, Jesus says,
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I will liken that person to a
foolish man or unto a moron.
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That's really what it means.
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One lacking common sense
which built his house.
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And again, the word house is a form of the Greek word oikia.
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He's building his life, his
family, everything that he is.
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Jesus says upon the sand - the sand.
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And here again we have a definite article.
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The definite article is used with the Greek word for sand.
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And here it pictures the sand
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or it pictures shifting sands
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or an unstable foundation. My friends,
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that is not a foundation you want to build your life on.
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And verse 27, prophesies about this person;
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and it says, for the rain descended, the rain comes,
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it says, and the floods came, floods come
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and the winds blew.
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These are violent and tempestuous winds -
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and beat upon that house.
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And the word beat upon again
means to assault, to pound
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to fall upon tragically strike
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and it fell, the house fell.
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And this word fell is the Greek word pipto,
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which means not just to fall but to fall hard
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or to completely collapse,
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and it fell and great was the fall of it.
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The word great is the form of the Greek word megale,
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which means enormous was the fall of it.
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And this particular word
fall describes a downfall,
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an irreversible ruin,
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or a complete collapse.
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So Jesus gives us two options.
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No.1: those who hear his sayings
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and they give it the
final say so in their life
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and they do it, they're going
to do it even if they have
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to find a way to do it.
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This builds them up on the rock.
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And my friends, when you're
built on that rock, your life
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and what you build will not collapse.
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Option No.2: hear the word of God
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but not do it, not take
it serious, just take it
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as another resource among other resources.
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You don't really do it.
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You know what it says,
but you don't practice it.
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Jesus says that person
is building their life
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on shifting sands.
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And when the storms and the river
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and the wind come to beat upon
that house, it will collapse
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and great enormous will be
the complete collapse of it.
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And this is why it is so important that you give God's word
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the final say-so in your life.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I'm going to pray for you.
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God's word is not optional.
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It's a law to us just as it was
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that God's word must be your final authority
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in every decision: that obedience
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to God's word opens the door to his creative power
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a deeply impactful classic about the power
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and authority available
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to all believers when they act on the word. The Believer's
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Authority can be yours for just $10.
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As our free gift to you,
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of the beautifully designed Pledges To the Word
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Don't miss this special offer - the series -
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This is Rick Renner and I
wanna say thank you to those
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of you who are partners.
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You're helping us
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to do our part in fulfilling The Great Commission,
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to take the gospel
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and the teaching of God's
word to the ends of the earth.
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And one major focus of
mine has been the RIV,
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which is the Renner Interpretive Version
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of the New Testament.
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To do a new interpretation of
the New Testament takes reams
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of hours, literally thousands
of hours of studying
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and studying and studying
the original language
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of the New Testament, and
then figuring out a way
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to express it in words which
people understand today,
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and to bring all the flavor
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and all the nuances
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of those Greek words into an Up-To-Date interpretation.
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That's the RIV.
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And I wanna say thank you for your gifts.
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Because of what you give,
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it allows us to focus on the teaching of the Bible
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and to take the teaching of the Bible
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to the ends of the earth.
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And what you are doing is
really making a difference.
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And if you're listening to me today
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and you're not a partner yet,
I invite you to become a part
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of our Partner Family.
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Our partners really are family to us,
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and together we are making a
difference in people's lives.
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So if you're a partner, I say thank you,
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and if you're not a partner yet, I invite you today
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to join us as we take the wonderful teaching of the Bible
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to the ends of the earth.
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Well, tomorrow I'm gonna come
back and pick up right here.
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We're talking about giving God's word the final say
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so in your life.
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This is a 5-part series which will really establish you
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on our rock for your life.
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Oh my friends, this
would be so good for you
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or for somebody that you know and love.
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And I'm excited to tell you
about Kenneth E. Hagin's book,
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which is called, The Authority of the Believer.
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It changed my Life.
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I believe it will change
your life as well.
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You need to know the authority
that you've been given
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and what happens when you
give God's word the final say
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so in your life.
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And we're making
available to you for free,
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a beautifully designed sheet
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of confessions about God's word.
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You can go online to download it
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or call us to find out
about all these resources.
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Or if you call us, we'll
send you a printed version
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of these confessions.
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But please reach out to us
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and when you do, please let
us know how to pray for you,
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and I wanna pray for you right now.
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So put your hand on your heart.
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Father, we wanna build our lives in a way
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that we will survive anything
that comes against us.
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And Lord, things do come.
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So help us not just to hear what you say,
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but help us to give your word,
the final say so in our life,
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and to do what you say
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and to establish our life in an unshakeable
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undefeatable way.
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In Jesus' name - Amen. 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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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner and Denise
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and I are coming to the United States for a brief trip,
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and we want to invite you to come to some
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of our meetings. On Sunday, April 19th,
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we'll be ministering at Vertical Church in West Haven,
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Connecticut with Pastors Ken and Kathy Vance.
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Then on Wednesday - Sunday, April 22nd-26th,
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I'll be speaking at Perry Stone's -
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Wonderful 2026 Prophetic Summit - in
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Cleveland, Tennessee.
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Then on Sunday, May 3rd,
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I'll be speaking at Resurrection Life in Grandville,
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Michigan with Pastors Duane and Jeanie Vander Klok.
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Friend, if you can come to any of these meetings, Denise
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and I would just be so thrilled to see you.
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But please go online
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or give us a call to make
sure none of the dates
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or times have changed.
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life -
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Amen.
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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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