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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,
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where the word is the anchor in uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and my friends, we're gonna pick up today where we left off.
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In yesterday's episode, we're talking about the results
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of obeying the word of God.
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And this is Part-2,
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but the whole series is called, What Jesus Said About
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The Final Say-So Of God's Word.
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Does God's word have the final say
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so in your life? When you allow God's word
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to have the final say
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so, we saw in yesterday's episode,
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and we're gonna review it again today,
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it releases a torrent of power in your life
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that transforms your mind,
your will and your emotions.
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And if you've been challenged
in your mind, in your will,
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in your emotions, or in any part of your body,
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when you embrace the word of God
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and choose, you're going to submit to it and obey it
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and do it; it literally releases a flow of divine power
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that changes every single part of your being.
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This is what the Bible tells us.
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We saw this yesterday
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and we're gonna review it
very quickly again today.
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But the whole series is called, What Jesus Said About The
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Final Say-So Of God's Word.
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It is 5-parts - comes in multiple formats
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with a study guide.
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I'm so thrilled to tell you
again about Kenneth E Hagin's
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book, which is called, The Authority of the Believer.
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I'm so thankful that I found this book when I was a young
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man because it really established me in the authority
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that Jesus has given to every believer
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and what happens when God's word has the final say-
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so in your life.
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And right now, we're offering to you today
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and tomorrow, these are the last days, a free,
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beautifully designed, piece of paper that is just filled
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with the most wonderful confessions about the word of God.
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We did this just for you
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because we want you to
see these confessions.
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We want you to make these confessions
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and declare them over your life.
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And you can get yours for free by going online
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and just downloading yours.
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Or if you want a hard copy, call us
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and we will be glad to send one to you.
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But by going online
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or calling us, you can find out about all these resources.
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And please remember that we want to pray for you.
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We're told in 1 John 5:14
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& 15 that if we pray anything according to God's will -
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that means if we pray scripturally - if we pray according
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to the Bible, that's his will,
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he hears us. He doesn't hear us
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because of our much pleading;
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he doesn't hear us because we're crying;
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he doesn't even hear us because we're hurting.
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He hears the word
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and when you pray the word,
it opens the ears of God.
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And we're told in 1 John 5:14
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& 15, if we pray anything according to his will,
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he hears us and we will have the
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petitions that we request.
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So we will pray with you.
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You can pray by yourself,
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but we would love to pray
with you scripturally
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and Jesus will do what needs to be done.
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I believe that.
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And we have reams of testimonies from people
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who called, requested prayer and then wrote back
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or called back to tell us what God did.
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And I believe there's something waiting for you as well.
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There's an answer with your name on it,
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but reach for your Bible.
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And today we're gonna continue seeing the results
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of obeying the word of God.
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Yesterday we saw Part-1.
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Today we're gonna see Part-2,
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but we're gonna return to our foundation verse in Matthew
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5:19 - where Jesus gives us his view
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of the word of God.
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And when you come to this verse, Jesus says - Whosoever
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therefore shall break one of these least commandments.
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And the word break doesn't
mean to break something like
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to break a verse or to break a vase,
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really it is the Greek word luo.
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And this word luo means to loosen or to relax.
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It pictures one that is loosening his grip upon a thing.
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It means to let something slip
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and it depicts a non-serious attitude.
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So here we have a person
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that really doesn't revere the word of God.
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It does not have the
final say so in his life.
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He is a take it or leave it mentality.
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He's not aligning his life
according to the Bible.
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He's loosening his grip,
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he's letting himself have a
relaxed view of the Bible.
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He's got a non-serious attitude.
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And Jesus says - Whosoever
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therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments
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and shall teach men to do so,
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he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven.
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And today, I want us to look at
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that word commandment one last time
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because this word, commandment, really tells us
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what Jesus thought about the Bible.
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This word, commandment, is the Greek word, entole.
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It is a compound of two words: the word en
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and the word telos compounded together.
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But 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, that's the 2nd part of the word,
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describes something that is complete, mature, or perfect.
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Thus the word entole, that's the full compounded word,
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which here is translated
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as the word, commandment, means the word of God is in, it
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is in complete perfection.
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There's nothing more perfect than the word of God.
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But the word telos also speaks
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of reaching the ultimate end of a thing or full maturity.
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And hence this word entole, which here is translated
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as the word commandment - describes the perfect commandment
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and one's obedience to it enables him
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to attain a level of completion, maturity, and perfection.
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And now we find that God's word
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and your obedience to it is intended
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to take you into completion, into maturity
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and into perfection.
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You say - Wow - that sounds good.
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Well then you've gotta let the word
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of God have the final say so in your life
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and you've got to do it,
you've got to obey it.
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The Bible says the one who breaks
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or lets loose of these
commandments, the one
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who has a non-serious
attitude about the word
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of God is least in the kingdom of heaven.
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And that word least means
the most insignificant.
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Well, I don't think you
wanna be in that category.
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But then Jesus continues in Matthew 5:19
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and says - But whosoever shall do
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and teach them the same shall be called great
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in the kingdom of heaven.
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And as I've told you in previous episodes,
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that word, do, is the Greek word poieo.
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And the word poieo means I do.
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But it carries a creative flare.
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It pictures someone who's gonna find a way to do something.
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And if there's not an easy way
to do it, he's gonna search
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until he finds a way to do it.
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And there really are times when you hear what the Bible says
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and you think - Well, how do I do that?
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Well, rather than just walk away from it,
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if you're serious about the
Bible, you're gonna find a way
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to obey it because you're
giving the Bible the final say
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so in your life and you're going
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to align your life in obedience to it.
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And Jesus says, the one who does it,
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even creatively does it,
who finds a way to do it
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and teaches others to do so,
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he shall be called great
in the kingdom of heaven.
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And the word great, the Greek word, megas, means great,
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magnificent, or significant.
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So if you want to be significant in God's eyes,
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and if you wanna be significant in the kingdom of heaven,
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then you have to be one who gives God's word the final say
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so in your life.
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And that leads us back to where we were yesterday,
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James 1:21, which says - We are
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to receive with meekness the engrafted word which is able
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to save your souls.
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And we saw this word, receive, is the Greek word, dechomai,
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which means to warmly receive, to readily receive it.
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Pictures you rolling out the
red carpet to receive the word
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of God into your life with meekness.
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And the word meekness describes a person who bends his brain
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to somebody else.
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He bends his will to the
will of a higher authority;
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even though his life experience may say one thing
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or he may feel that
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what he's been taught
contradicts the truth
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that he is now hearing,
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he's making a decision - I'm gonna bend my brain to think
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what God says; I'm gonna bend my will to receive
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what God says.
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That's what meekness is.
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It's bending your will
to a higher authority.
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And the higher authority in
this verse is the engrafted
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word, the Greek word enfuton.
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It describes something that
was subsequently planted
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inside you.
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It's talking about the Bible - the scripture.
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The scripture was not innate in you.
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You weren't born with that.
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But a time came when you
rolled out the red carpet
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to receive the word of
God, it came in you,
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but maybe your life experience said - You know what -
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I don't know if I agree with that - then that's a moment
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for you to receive it with weakness.
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You've gotta say no to
your life experience.
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Maybe your emotions said - well, I don't,
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I don't know if I like that.
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It doesn't matter whether
you like it or not.
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It is the word of God.
It's been implanted in you.
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And if you want that implanted
word to kick into action
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and begin to work inside
you, then you've got
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to do everything you can to receive it
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so it kicks into gear. That's really what James is saying.
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And he says, if you'll do that, it is able
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to save your soul.
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And that word able is a Greek word which describes a divine
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energy, a divine power, which means when you bend your mind
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and choose to let God's word have the final say
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so in your life, and you choose to obey it
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and to do it, it releases
a torrent of power in you
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that saves your soul.
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And your souls where most of your problems are. Sorry
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to tell you, but that's the truth.
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It's your mind, your will, your emotions.
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It's translated from the Greek word psuche.
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That's what the word soul means.
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Your mind, your will, your
emotions, all your hangups,
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your wrong thinkings,
all your bad memories
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that you carry in your mind and your will.
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But when you really
embrace the word of God
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and say, I'm gonna align myself under it,
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give it the final say so in my life
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and I'm going to obey it, it
releases such a flood of power
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that it transforms and cleans
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and this is where we ended yesterday.
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It says - But be ye doers of the word
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and not hearers only, deceiving your own self.
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Notice he says be ye doers.
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Interesting that in Greek it says -
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be ye becoming, which means you just gotta
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start where you are.
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but start where you are.
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Add more obedience to it tomorrow. Be ye becoming doers.
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And the word doers again have
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creatively doing the word finding a way
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to align yourself under it and to do it
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and not hearers only.
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the phrase - hearers only - describes individuals.
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who audited a class rather
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They had no intention of
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but had no plans of implementing what was taught.
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Such individuals were known to
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and class to class
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because they enjoyed all
the special speakers.
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They like the excitement
of hearing something
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that they'd never heard before.
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that looked them very knowledgeable in the
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eyes of other people.
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irrefutably means there is a category of Christians
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who just audit church
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or who just audit the
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but they have no plan to put
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They're just auditors of the word of God. They're not doers.
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or you just auditing it?
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My friends, the powers released when you begin to obey it
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and you give God's word the final say so in your life.
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that if you're just an auditor,
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you're deceiving your own self.
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What does that mean - deceiving?
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The word para means alongside.
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The word, logidzomai, means logic.
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They're looking at things that they come
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to a grave miscalculation.
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In fact, this word deceiving really means
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to make a miscalculation.
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or a scholar who place
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to analyze information.
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they nevertheless make a miscalculation
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and they come to an incorrect conclusion.
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by just going to church, they've done all that's required.
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they've done all that's required.
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They're able to check the box.
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They went to church,
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No, no, my friend, that
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You've come to a wrong conclusion.
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You're not done until
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until you do what you've heard.
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of thinking - they've done
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all that is required by just showing up.
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Don't trick yourself into thinking that merely showing up
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and listening is all that is required.
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And then James continues in James 1:23 to say - For if any
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be a hear of the word and not a doer,
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he is like unto a man
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beholding his natural face in a glass.
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Well, most of us,
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when we look in the mirror every morning when we get up at
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the face we were born with, we think
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that our face needs a little attention.
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The word glass in this verse refers to a mirror,
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and I brought you a mirror from the 1st Century.
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This is a real mirror from the ancient world.
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And I want you to notice how small it was.
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This is what people looked at when they
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woke up in the morning.
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They would look into the mirror
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and they could only see a little piece at a time.
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Isn't it wonderful
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that the Holy Spirit
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of our life at a time?
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He doesn't put us in front
of a full body mirror
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to show us every blemish,
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but he says, now I want
you to look at this
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and I want you to deal with this.
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And by looking into the word
of God every morning the word
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of God begins to reveal what needs
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to change in our attitude.
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It reveals what needs to
change in our relationships,
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what needs to change in our talking - ay..yi.
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and we give it the final say-so in our life,
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then we can do something about it.
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we make a bad decision.
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and goeth. He doesn't do anything about it.
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He says - Oh I'll get to it later - but he never gets to it.
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But he says, then again,
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But whoso looketh into the perfect law
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of liberty and continue with therein,
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he being not a forgetful hero, but a doer of the work,
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this is the man that shall be blessed in his deed.
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And notice the words looketh into: the Greek word parakupto.
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The word para means alongside
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and the word, kupto, means to stoop.
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to form the word parakupto, it means to stoop lower,
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to take a closer look
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or to deeply investigate. It
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pictures one peering deeply, deeply into a mirror
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to take a closeup, truthful
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and realistic view of what the mirror reveals
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so he can make a correction.
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So he begins with a small mirror, this man,
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and he sees - You know what,
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I see a defect.
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he puts away that little mirror
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and he reaches for the next mirror.
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This is also a mirror from the 1st Century,
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which is a much bigger mirror.
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or you could put it on the table and you could look over it.
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You could stoop to really look into it.
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who No.1: sees a defect,
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but he's so serious about aligning his life under the word
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of God that he says - You know what -
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I'm not leaving my Bible.
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I'm not leaving the word of
God till I more clearly see
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what needs to be fixed.
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And I'm not leaving the word
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I'm giving it the final say.
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So in my life I'm gonna really
see what needs to be done
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and I'm gonna change my life accordingly.
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That's what it means.
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as the perfect law of liberty.
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Perfect law in Greek is a phrase which means the perfect law
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or the perfecting law or
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And it pictures a perfecting law.
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It is from a form of the Greek word nomos,
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which is the Greek word for law.
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And it tells us that you've got to look at the scripture
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as a law so serious
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It describes one who
sees the word of God, not
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as just an optimal voice,
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but as the voice, a divine law
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And James calls it the law of liberty,
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liberty - the word - liberty.
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Everybody wants liberty. Well the word liberty signifies
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liberty or freedom.
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that has been emancipated from slavery.
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And it tells us that if we
will look deeply into the word
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of God, receive it with meekness
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and do what it says,
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such power will be released
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that it will free us from every type of bondage and slavery.
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Thus the Bible, the scripture, is the perfect law
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that produces liberty,
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but it's only gonna produce
that liberty if you view it
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as a law that you are
to be aligned underneath
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and you accept it as God's
final say so in your life.
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And if you will submit to it
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and obey it in that way,
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it will set you free from
every form of bondage.
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Wow - that is just amazing.
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I think that is amazing.
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But James 1:25 says -
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But whoso looks into the perfect law of liberty -
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we're talking about the scriptures -
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and continues therein - you've gotta stick with it -
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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 the word blessed means ridiculously blessed,
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hilariously happy
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because his life is gonna
be totally set free.
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He's going to be
emancipated from every form
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of slavery in his life
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because he did with the word
of God, commanded him to do.
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He gave God's word, the
final say so in his life.
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And I wanna quote to you from
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what Smith Wigglesworth wrote in the back flap of his Bible.
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Here's what he said: Never compare this book - talking about
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the Bible - with other books.
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Comparisons are dangerous.
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Never think or say this book
contains the word of God.
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It is the word of God.
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It is supernatural in origin, eternal induration,
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inexpressible in value, infinite in scope,
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infallible in authority, universal in interest,
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personal in application, inspired in totality.
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Read it in, work it out
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and pass it on.
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It is the word of God.
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And when you give God's word that kind of say-
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so in your life, you are headed in a direction for total
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and complete transformation
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because the Bible is a law
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that produces liberty in you.
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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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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 to scripture
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brings the
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full power 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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and blessings and more.
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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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What Jesus Said About The Final Say-So Of God's Word:
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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
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earth.
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Today,
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we've seen that when you take God's word as the final say
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so in your life
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and you obey it; don't just audit it, you've got to obey it.
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It will release a torrent of power
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that will change every part of your life.
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And of course, I'm teaching a series which is called, What
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Jesus Said About The Final Say-So Of God's Word.
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And I've also been telling you about Kenneth E, Hagin's book
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which is called - The Authority of the Believer.
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That book is a life changer. You need that book.
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And today
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and tomorrow is the last
day that we're doing this.
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We're offering to you a free copy
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of beautifully designed Confessions about the Bible,
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the word of God, and I want you to have it,
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and you can get yours by going online
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and just downloading it.
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Or if you want a hard copy, call us and we'll get it to you.
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But you can find out about all these resources by calling us
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or going online and hey friend, we wanna pray for you.
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So please call that
number or send us an email
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and we will pray for you.
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And I'm gonna pray for you right now.
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Put your hand on your heart.
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Father, I pray that we will
align ourselves under the word
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of God and give it to
final say when our life.
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Lord, I pray that your word
of God, it is so divine, it is
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so powerful, and I pray, Lord,
it will release its torrent
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of power in us until we
are set free from any form
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of bondage or captivity that has held us - in Jesus' name -
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Amen.
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Well, we're gonna be back tomorrow
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and tomorrow we're gonna say - are you ready for this -
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The Marks of a Pharisee.
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It's really gonna be interesting.
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I'll see you 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 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. Renner Ministries is proclaiming the gospel
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of Jesus Christ through every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can help us make a difference in
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lives around the world with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.
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