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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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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
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Renner.
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Welcome to today's program, my friends.
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I've been waiting for you,
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and today we're gonna return to the series which is,
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What Jesus Said About The Final Say-So Of God's Word.
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My son, Joel calls this the Red Letter series
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because I'm going to do a series
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of teachings based on the words of Jesus,
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and every one of them is going to be called
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what Jesus said about, and
then we fill in the blank.
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And this week we're looking at
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What Jesus said about the final say so
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of God's Word.
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And my friends, it is just so encouraging.
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But this is a 5-part series.
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It comes in all kinds of formats with a wonderful,
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wonderful study guide
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so you can read all the
material while you're seeing
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or hearing the series
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because that really helps the revelation
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and the information to
get down deep inside you
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where it will change you.
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And I'm so excited to tell you about a book
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that changed my life by Kenneth E. Hagin called
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The Authority of the Believer.
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I read it very early in
my life and I've read it
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and read it again and again.
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It is so wonderful
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because it really establishes what kind
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of authority you've been given in Jesus,
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and it shows you what happens
when you take serious,
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the final say so of God's word.
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It is the Authority of the Believer.
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And this week, every day this week, we're giving to you
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as a gift, a beautifully
designed confession sheet
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with all kinds of confessions
about the word of God.
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It's beautifully designed.
We did it just for you.
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or you can go to our website store.
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And when you reach out to us,
please let us know how to pray
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because we're praying for you anyway.
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But when you tell us how to pray,
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we're much more effective in our praying
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and we really do want to pray with you
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and we'll pray with power.
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We'll pray scripturally
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and Jesus will really do
what needs to be done.
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But this series is called What Jesus said about the Final
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Say-so of God's Word.
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So we need God's word as we study today.
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So reach for your Bible.
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We always use the Bible in this program
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and we're believing for a revival of the Bible in the church
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and for the verse by verse
teaching of the Bible
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to be restored to the pulpit.
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But today and tomorrow we're
going to see the results
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of obeying the word of God.
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This is Part-1 and tomorrow will be Part-2.
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But I want us to return
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to the Southern Baptist Convention pledge
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for a Vacation Bible School.
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And I'll tell you a funny story.
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Very early this morning,
of course I'm in Moscow,
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and so when I woke up early this morning,
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it was already the evening in Oklahoma,
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and I took this pledge
from vacation Bible school
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that I grew up with, and
I texted it to my sister
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and I said, Rhonda, tell me
where did this come from?
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She said, Vacation Bible School.
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She said, I can still say every single word of it.
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And I'm telling you that when
we were kids in the summer,
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I waited for vacation Bible school. Did you go
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to Vacation Bible School?
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And the moment came when we all marched single file into the
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main auditorium of the church and took our seats.
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And then we would all stand up
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and we would pledge allegiance
to the Christian flag,
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and then we would pledge
allegiance to the Bible.
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And here was the pledge.
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I pledge allegiance to the
Bible, God's holy word.
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I will make it a lamp into my
feet and a light into my path
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and will hide its words in my heart
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that I will not sin against God.
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And little Ricky Renner and
all the other kids together,
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we would verbally make
this pledge to the Bible.
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And I've just got to tell you,
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I have lived my whole life doing my best
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to fulfill that pledge.
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I haven't always done it right.
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I don't think anybody does it perfectly,
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but it's really been my aim to live by the final say so
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of God's word.
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And today I want us to return
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to a verse which we've been
referring to in every one
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of these episodes,
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and that is in Matthew 5:19,
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where we have Jesus enormous
respect for the scriptures.
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Jesus saw the scriptures as the final say so of what God had
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to say on every subject.
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And of course Jesus himself
is called the Word of God.
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But when you come to Matthew 5:19,
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Jesus said - whosoever
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therefore shall break one of these least commandments
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and shall teach others
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so he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven.
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And the word break is very interesting.
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We usually think the word break means to break something,
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but actually in Greek it is the word luo.
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And the word luo means to loosen or to relax.
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It means to let something slip or to loosen your grip.
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And it pictures a non-serious attitude.
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So here's a person who one time had a firm grip on the word
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of God, but now he's loosened his grip
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and now he has a non-serious attitude and
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therefore maybe he's going to obey it.
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Maybe he's not going to obey it.
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The word of God doesn't have the final say
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so in his life like it once did.
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And then Jesus goes on to say, whosoever
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therefore shall break one
of these least commandments.
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The word least means even
the tiniest commandments.
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And the word commandment is very important
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because it gives us Jesus
view of the scripture.
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In Greek, it is the word entole.
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And I'm gonna share this with
you today and again tomorrow
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because this is so important.
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The word entole, which here is translated
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as the word commandment, is a compound of two Greek words.
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The word en and the word telos.
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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 completion, maturity,
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or perfection.
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But when you compound this into the word entole,
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it means the word of God exists in a complete perfect state.
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It is absolutely perfect.
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However, the word telos also speaks
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of reaching the ultimate
end of a thing or maturity.
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And therefore, the word entole,
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the word commandments, describes the perfect commandment
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and one's obedience to it
enables him to attain a level
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of completion, maturity,
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and perfection that is
inherent in the word of God.
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And God's word is intended to lead me
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and to lead you into completion, maturity
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and perfection.
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That's what the word of
God will do if you allow it
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to have the final say so in your life.
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But Jesus says, the one who breaks even the least
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of these commandments, the one who lets it go,
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has a non-serious attitude shall be called the least
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in the kingdom of heaven.
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And that word least means - are you ready for this -
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the most insignificant,
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the most insignificant
in the kingdom of heaven?
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So if you've got a non-serious
attitude toward the Bible
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and God's word, my friends,
you're in a very bad category.
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But then Jesus continues in verse 19 and says,
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But whosoever shall do
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and teach them the same shall be called great in the
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kingdom of heaven.
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And the word do is a form
of the Greek word poieo.
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Now this word poieo is where you get the Greek word poites.
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And the word poites, is the word for a poet.
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It's one with a creative flair.
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Well, you gotta carry that into this word,
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do the Greek word, poieo.
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It means not just to do
but to creatively do.
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And it really means that
there are times when we have
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to find a way to obey the scripture.
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We hear what the scripture says.
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We may even say, how do
I apply that to my life?
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We've gotta find a way to
do what the Bible says.
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And you're gonna find out today
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that when you obey the scriptures,
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the result is it really
release power in your life.
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And this verse says, whosoever
shall do and teach them:
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teach them. The word teach means to teach by principle
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or to teach by example.
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But the person who does
the scripture, the person
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who teaches the scripture, in other words,
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it's not just something he confesses,
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but he actually carries
it out in his life.
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Jesus said, that person
will be called great
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in the kingdom of heaven.
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And the word great is a form
of the Greek word megas.
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It means great, magnificent,
or very significant.
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So if you want to be significant in the kingdom of heaven,
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then you have to believe that
God's word has the final say
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so in your life.
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But now I want us to jump over
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to James 1:21.
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James was the half brother of Jesus.
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Now, if you don't have the RIV commentary on the book
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of James, you need to go online to get it
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because it will really enrich your
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understanding of the book of James.
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But we're gonna go to James 1:21,
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where James is speaking
about the word of God.
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And James, who is the
half-brother of Jesus,
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was raised in the same home with Jesus.
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The difference was that Jesus
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and James had different fathers.
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Jesus father was God, and
James father was Joseph,
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but they did have the same mother.
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But when you come to James 1:21,
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James says - receive with meekness -
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listen to this - the engrafted word which is able
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to save your souls.
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And the word receive that is used here is the word dechomai
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and this is really important
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because the word dechomai, means to take quickly
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or to take readily.
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It means we are to quickly
take the word of God, we're
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to readily and warmly take
the word of God to take
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with a receptive and welcoming attitude.
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Thus, we must readily
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and quickly welcome
God's word into our heart
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and into our mind.
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We're not to resist it, we're
to roll out the red carpet
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and take the word of God into us.
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And he says, we are to
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Now, when most people hear
the word meek, they think
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of someone that's weak, somebody that's lowly, somebody
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that's not very forthcoming and bold,
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but my friends, that is a complete
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misunderstanding of the word meek.
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The word meek is from a Greek
word, which pictures meekness
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and humility.
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But people wrongly assume
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that a meek person is a weak person.
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But the Greek word for meekness actually describes - listen
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to this - a strong-willed person who has learned
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to submit his will to a higher authority,
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that's what makes him meek.
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Rather than continuing
his own way of thinking
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and choose, he chooses to
set aside his own opinions
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and to lay aside what he thinks
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and feels in order to submit
to someone else's authority.
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And this is very important
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because it means when the word
of God first comes to you,
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your life experience
may not agree with it.
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In fact, your life
experience may contradict
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what you see in the Bible,
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and that's why you've got
to receive it With meekness,
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you've gotta say, all
right, I feel one thing.
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My experience tells me one thing,
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but the Bible says something different,
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and I'm going to allow the word of God to have the final say
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so in my life, and
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therefore, I'm choosing
to lay aside my experience
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to lay aside what I believe
to be a contradiction.
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And I'm gonna bend my brain
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and I'm gonna force myself
to think the word of God.
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It's gonna have the
final say so in my life,
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it is the ultimate submission
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and the bending of your will
to receive the word of God.
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Do you see how different that
is from what most people think
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of the word meek,
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but then it goes on to
say the engrafted word,
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the engrafted word.
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The word engrafted is a Greek word emphuton.
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It signifies something
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that is planted in a person
at a later time in life,
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or it pictures something
planted inside a person
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that he did not originally
have at the time of birth.
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For example, maybe a person
has an organ transplant,
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he's had an organ that's
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It's not his kidney, it's a kidney
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that came from somewhere else,
but he can't live without it.
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It is implanted.
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And it's very interesting
that in the medical field,
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when a person receives an organ transplant
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or let's keep with our illustration, a kidney transplant,
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the first thing the body
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Now that is amazing. He can't live without it.
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it will prolong his life.
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But in order for him to
accept that kidney, he has
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to go on a medication
for the rest of his life,
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which enables his body to
accept that kidney, that
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that kidney will normally function.
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to reject the kidney, even
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to prolong and to save his life.
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That man has to decide, I'm going
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to do whatever is necessary
for this implanted organ
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to function in my life.
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All of this is very important
when it comes to the word
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of God, which here is
called the engrafted word,
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which means when the word
of God comes to you again,
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it may contradict your life experience.
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You weren't born with that truth in you.
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When the word of God comes to
you and you readily accept it
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and you take it into your heart,
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it may be very different from
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what you've experienced in your life.
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And you've got to say,
I'm going to receive it.
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I'm going to adapt it.
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I'm going to let this word function in me.
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I'm gonna bend my brain, I'm
gonna think the word of God.
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I'm going to allow the word
of God to have the final say
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so in my life; it is a decision
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to receive the engrafted word.
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And James says, if you'll
do this, it is able
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to save your soul.
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And the word able is importantly the Greek word dunamai.
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It's a form of the Greek word dunamis,
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which is used a picture, the
assembled forces of an army
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whose combined strength enabled them to push back enemies,
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take new territory, and to achieve unrivaled victories.
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This word was also used to describe a force of nature such
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as an earthquake or
hurricane or a tornado.
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And the use of this very specific word,
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which here is translated
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as the word able in the King
James version means the power
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resident in the word of
God has the divine ability
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to drive back wrong thinking
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and to release a torrent of
power in a person's life
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if he will bend his mind
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and his will to receive it. He's got
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to decide the word of God has
the final say so in his life.
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And if he will do that,
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and if he'll receive the implanted word,
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it will release divine power to change.
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This verse says His soul.
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And the word soul is a Greek word psuche, the plural form
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of the word psuche.
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It describes the mind,
the will and the emotions.
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And guess what? That's where
most of your problems are.
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It's in your head, it's in
your mind, it's in your will,
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it's in your emotions.
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But when you bend your brain to say, I'm gonna give the word
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of God the final say so in my life, it releases a torrent
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of power from that word
that you've received
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and has been engrafted into you.
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And the power in the word of God begins to change your mind,
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your will and your emotions.
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And when your mind, your will
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and your emotions are changed,
your whole life is changed.
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I think that is just amazing.
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And the RIV of this portion
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of James 1:21 says it like this -
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You'll really need to bend your brain
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and your will to conform to whatever God has made
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clear is the truth; even if you don't agree with it like it
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or it contradicts your past religious training
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or personal life experiences. You have
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to turn from whatever is held your thinking captive
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and throw open the door to receive the truth
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that's only recently been
planted in your heart.
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And if that word is far into
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what you've been taught in the past
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or contradicts your life
experience, you must decide
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to receive it with a warm and receptive
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and welcoming attitude.
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And if you do, you'll discover
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that this word has been planted within you
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and within it is the divine
power to completely deliver
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and entirely liberate you
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and deal with everything
going on inside your soul.
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It will completely clean up your mind
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and set your thinking straight.
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That is amazing.
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That really is a very good interpretation
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of the Greek words,
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which are in James 1:21.
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But then we go to verse 22,
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and in James 1:22, James continues to say -
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But be ye doers of the word
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and not hearers only deceiving
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your own self.
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Let's focus on that phrase - hearers only,
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hearers only. In Greek, it describes an individual
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who audited a class rather than take the class
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for credit.
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He had no intention of
applying what he heard.
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And such people attended the class
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but had no plans of
implementing what was heard.
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And such individuals were really known to roam from meeting
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to meeting in class to class
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because they enjoyed special speakers.
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They liked the excitement
of hearing something new
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that they hadn't heard before,
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and they liked to gather new information
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that made them look knowledgeable in the
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eyes of other people.
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But by using these words, hearers only, this verse
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irrefutably means there is
a category of Christians
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who audit church
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or who audit the hearing
of the word of God,
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but they have no plan to put
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what they hear into practice.
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They just audit the Bible
or they audit church.
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They're not really there for credit.
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They have no intention to put it into practice.
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That's what these words, hearers only, means.
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James knew that's what it meant. These people were famous.
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They were famous for just going from one class to another,
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from one meeting to another,
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but they had no intention
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of ever doing anything
with what they heard.
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Well, the power is released when you begin to submit to it.
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When you in meekness bend your brain to it
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and say it's gonna have the final say-
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so in my life, I'm going to do what it says.
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And according to Jesus in Matthew 5:19,
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if you will do it,
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if will make you very significant in the
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kingdom of God.
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But then James says in James 1:23, For if any be a hearer
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of the word and not a doer - all he does is hear:
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he's just auditing it - but he is not doing it.
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He's like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass.
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The word natural face means
the face he was born with.
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The word glass describes a mirror.
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He is like a man looking
at the face he was born
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with in the mirror
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every morning. Well, every morning, most
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of us look into the mirror
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to look at the face we were born with.
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And very often we see things
we wish could be corrected.
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But according to James 1:24, this person
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beholds himself and goes his way.
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He beholds and goes; he doesn't do anything about it.
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But according to James 1:25, if you want the defects
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to be fixed, and if you want
your life to be changed,
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you gotta do more than look
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and go. According to James 1:25,
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you gotta do something about it.
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But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty
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and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer
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but a doer of the work,
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this man shall be blessed in his deed.
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And this is where we're gonna
start when we come back in the
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next episode.
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But my friends, you need to
give God's word, the final say
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so in your life, and you need
to align yourself under it
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and determine you're going
to obey it regardless of
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what you feel or what you think,
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you're gonna bend your brain,
you're gonna think the word
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of God and give it the
warmest reception you can.
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And in doing so, you're gonna
release a torrent of power
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to change your mind, your
will and your emotions.
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Amen. I'll be back in just a moment
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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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to Jesus. In Rick Renner's new series,
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What Jesus Said About The Final Say-So Of God's Word,
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you will learn how fully surrendering
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to scripture brings the full power
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of the king into your life.
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In this series, Rick teaches
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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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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 a 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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Today. We have covered a lot of material
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and I didn't get to everything,
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so we're gonna pick up here
when we come back tomorrow.
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So please don't miss tomorrow's episode,
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but I'm teaching this series called
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What Jesus Said about the final say so
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of God's Word.
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It comes with a wonderful study guide,
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and I've been telling you about Kenneth E. Hagin's book
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called, The Authority of the Believer.
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That's a book that changed my life,
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and I'm telling you about it
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because I believe it will
change your life as well.
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And right now, we're giving
to anybody who reaches out
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with confessions about the word of God,
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and we want you to have it.
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You can download it by going online, or if you wish, call us
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and we'll send you a hard copy.
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But by going online
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or by calling us, you can
find out about these resources
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and you can also let us
know how to pray for you
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because we want to pray for you.
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We really do, and I wanna pray for you right now.
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So put your hand on your heart
if you're having a problem in
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your mind, your will and your emotions.
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Today we have discovered the
way to get your head changed,
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to get your emotions fixed.
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And Father, I pray in the name of Jesus,
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you would give us an attitude of meekness,
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that we would bend our brains
and choose to submit our will
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and our thinking to the Word
of God until finally the word
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of God, the engrafted word in us begins to release a torrent
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of power to change our
souls, our mind, our wills
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and our emotions,
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in Jesus' name - Amen.
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Oh, I can hardly wait till we continue tomorrow.
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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 Kolk.
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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 another 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. If you just prayed the prayer of salvation
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with us, would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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