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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner
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and I wanna welcome you to today's program. Here
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I'm in my chair by my fireplace in Moscow waiting
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for you.
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And today I'm gonna
begin a brand new series
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that I have never taught
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before called, What Jesus Said About Getting A Grip
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On Your Thought Life.
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You know, sometimes your thoughts just run away with you
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and it really creates a mess in your life,
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but what goes on in your head determines
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what goes on in your life.
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So it's important that you learn how
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to get a grip on your thought life.
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But this is a 5-part series,
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and please don't miss a single episode this week
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because it really has the power to set you free in your mind
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and in your emotions.
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And I'm also excited
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to tell you about my book
called Dress to Kill.
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It's considered by many to
be a classic on this subject
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of spiritual warfare
and spiritual weaponry.
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And the reason that I'm
mentioning my book Dress
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to Kill right now is
because it goes so well
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with this subject of getting
a grip on your thought life.
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Most spiritual warfare occurs in the mind.
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You've gotta seize your thoughts,
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you've gotta pull down strongholds.
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And that's why I'm telling
you about this amazing book
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that I really want you to have.
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But if you want to know
more about the series
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or about this book, just
go online or give us a call
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and we'll be happy to
tell you all about it.
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And when you reach out to us,
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please let us know how to pray for you.
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We're told in 1 John 5
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that if we pray anything according to God's will,
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that means if we pray anything biblically, scripturally
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according to the Bible, God will hear us.
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Now, that's really important
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because it means God doesn't hear us
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because of our much asking.
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When you pray the scripture
that opens the ears of God,
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he says, oh, that's my word.
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I hear that. And that's
why it's so important
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that we pray according to His will.
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And when you reach out to
us for prayer, we know how
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to pray scripturally,
you can pray by yourself -
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of course you can. That's part of your right as a believer,
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but sometimes it helps to
have somebody pray with you.
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So if you'll reach out to us,
we'll put our faith together
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with you, we will pray
according to God's will,
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God will hear us,
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and Jesus will really do
what needs to be done.
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He will. And by the way, if you're a partner,
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I wanna say thank you for being a partner with our ministry.
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You are helping us touch people all over the world
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with "teaching they can trust."
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But hey, reach for your Bible.
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We always use the Bible in this program
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and we are believing for revival of the Bible in the church.
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But today we're going to begin in 2 Corinthians
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2:11,
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And actually we're going to begin there every single day
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this week because it is
really the theme verse
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for this series.
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And when you come to 2 Corinthians 2:
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11, Paul remarkably says,
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Less Satan should get an advantage of us
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for we are not ignorant of his devices.
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This verse is just jam
packed with information about
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how the devil operates
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and how we need to be
aware of his devices.
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But notice it begins
with this word, Satan.
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The word Satan in Greek is the word,
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satanas, and listen to what it means.
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It describes an accuser, a conspirator.
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It means the devil is conspiring all the time for ways
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to take you down.
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It describes a deceiver, a manipulator;
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he knows how to manipulate your mind and your emotions.
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That's why you need to get a grip on your thought life:
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a schemer or a slanderer.
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But then Paul goes on to say,
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Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.
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And that word advantage means
to take advantage, to defraud,
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to outmaneuver or to outwit.
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The devil wants to outmaneuver you
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and he's probably gonna
create some kind of conspiracy
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or some kind of lie trying
to grab hold of your mind.
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You know, sometimes people say, brother Rick, can the devil
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hear our thoughts?
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I'm not concerned about the devil knowing what I'm thinking.
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I'm more concerned about the devil trying
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to put thoughts into my mind.
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That's what we need to stop.
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And the devil knows if he can
inject wrong thoughts into our
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mind, then he can outmaneuver us.
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He can outwit us.
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And in fact, Paul goes on to
say, for we're not ignorant
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of his devices. The word ignorant really means
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to be uninformed.
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Paul says, Hey, we know
exactly how he works.
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And the word devices is the Greek word, noemata.
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Now this is really, really important.
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This word, noemata, is derived from the word noeo,
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which means to think.
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But when the word noeo becomes noemata,
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it's no longer to think.
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But now it depicts the
scheming of the mind
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or what I call mind games.
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And here we discover the
devil knows if he can inject a
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thought into your brain,
into your thoughts,
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and if he can get you to fixate on it
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and to focus on it, he
will so confuse you.
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He'll scramble your brains
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until finally you're no
longer thinking correctly.
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And in fact, you begin to think wrongly
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and he begins to pull a mind game on you
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to take you down.
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Now, that is our foundational
verse for this week.
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But now I want us to go to the words
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of Jesus in Matthew 5:27,
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where Jesus says,
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now we're talking about
taking your thoughts captive,
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getting a grip on your thought life.
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Listen to what Jesus said in Matthew 5:27.
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You've heard that it
was said by them of old,
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you shall not commit adultery.
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And the word adultery that is
used in this verse denotes one
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who violates a marriage
covenant by sleeping
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with someone else's spouse.
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And of course we know the 7th commandment in Exodus
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20:14 says, Thou shall not commit adultery.
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And in fact, according to Mosaic law, if you slept
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with someone else's spouse, it was worthy
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of capital punishment.
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That's why we read in Exodus 20:10 -
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And the man that committed adultery with another man's wife,
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even he that commits adultery
with his neighbor's wife,
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the adulterer and the
adulterers shall surely be
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put to death.
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And that capital punishment is
repeated again in Deuteronomy
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22:22, where the Bible says - If a man be found lying
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with a woman married to an husband,
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then they shall both of them die.
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Both the man that lay with
a woman and the woman.
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So shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
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So adultery was worthy of capital punishment.
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We're talking about the physical act of adultery.
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But then when you come to Matthew 5:28,
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Jesus elevates this from the act of adultery
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to even thinking about adultery:
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what goes on inside the mind. My friend, you have
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to understand, everything
begins in the mind.
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Sex begins in the mind. Murder begins in the mind.
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Overeating begins in the mind. Rage begins in the mind.
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It all begins in the mind.
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And if you can stop it at that realm,
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then it will never take
place in your life.
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But when you come to Matthew 5:28, Jesus says -
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But I say unto you. The word,
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but in Greek is the little
word de; it means however.
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And here it is used to make
a statement of exclamation.
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It's like Jesus is raising his voice.
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He says, but I say,
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and now Jesus injects his own voice
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to tell us adultery is
not just a physical act,
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but it also includes what happens mentally
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or mentally engagement.
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But I say unto you that whosoever looks on a woman to lust
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after her have committed adultery
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with her already in his heart.
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And the word whosoever is very important.
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In Greek, it is the word pas. And this word means anyone,
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everyone. It is an all inclusive term, which means
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what Jesus is about to say applies to everyone.
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Absolutely anyone, everyone.
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Everybody who looks on a woman.
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This word, looketh upon, in Greek are the words, ho blepon.
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It is a definite article with the word blepo.
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The word blepo means I look.
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But the definite article ho. makes this very, very specific.
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And the tense means very
specifically the one
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that is looking and looking and looking.
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So this is not just a casual glance,
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this is not an accidental glance.
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This is someone that gazes
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and gazes upon another woman
continually persistently
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until he stirs desire in his
own mind and in his own heart.
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And in fact, Jesus said
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that whosoever looks consistently persistently on a woman
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to lust after her.
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And the word lust is a form of the Greek word epithumia.
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It's a compound of two words: the word epi,
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it's the word thumos.
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The word epi means upon or after.
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And in this particular context it is used as an intensifier.
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That's very important. The word thumos, pictures raw desire,
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passion, or lust.
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But as a compound,
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because of this intensifier,
the word epi, it pictures one
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who is hankering after something, looking
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after something, one who intensely,
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passionately desires something
to covet, to crave desire
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or to long after.
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And then Jesus says to lust after.
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And the word after, the Greek word pros,
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means with the intention to lust
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after her hath committed adultery
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with her already in his heart.
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the word already in Greek means already
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by this time picturing
it as a past done deal.
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Now no one runs out
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and commits adultery
without thinking about it.
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It begins in the mind; that is where it begins.
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And now Jesus says, let's elevate this
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and let's understand
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that it's more than just the physical act.
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It begins in the mind.
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And here Jesus is talking
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to us about getting a
grip on our thought life.
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And one of the best examples
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of this is seen in the
story of King David.
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And in 2 Samuel 11:1,
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we read about King David
and the Bible says,
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and it came to pass after
the year was expired.
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At the time when kings go forth to battle,
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the David sent Joab and his servants with him
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and all Israel, and they destroyed the children of Ammon
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and besieged Rabbah,
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but David tarried still at Jerusalem. Verse 2:
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And it came to pass in an evening tide.
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This was the later afternoon
when it became hot.
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David arose from off his bed
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and walked up on the
roof of the king's house.
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That was very typical at
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that time when it became
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to leave one of the rooms of your house
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and to walk on the roof of your house
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where it was a little bit cooler.
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washing herself.
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really intently observe.
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David put his eyes on what
he should not be looking at.
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thoughts begin to come to him.
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He began to think about how much he would like to have her.
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woman was very beautiful
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to look upon.
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and looking and looking.
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fashion, there's a lot
of thoughts going on
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inside your head.
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David's thoughts were
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after the woman. He had a curiosity about her.
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Now his thoughts are really
running out of control.
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he is letting his thoughts dominate him.
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And one said, is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam,
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the wife of Uriah, the Hittite? Verse 4:
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And David sent messengers and took her
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and she came in unto him and he lay with her.
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But my friends, all of it began
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because he didn't get
a grip on his thoughts.
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That is how important it is
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that we get a grip on our thoughts.
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You can stop sin in the thought realm.
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Well, when you come to 1 Corinthians 10:
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11, it says - Now these things happen to them
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as an example.
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And they were written for our instruction.
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The word example is a form of the Greek word tupos.
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It describes an example, a
form, a mold or a pattern.
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It's something that we need to
look at and we need to study.
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And in fact, the Bible says
it's for our instruction.
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And the word instruction is the Greek word nouse, compounded
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with the word tithemi.
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and the act of thinking.
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it forms the word nouthesia, which means that which is set
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before us to consider, to learn from,
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or to really think about.
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Old Testament events are
designed for us to consider,
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to study, to learn from.
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And in fact, then verse 12 says -
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Therefore, let him
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who thinks he stands take heed
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that he does not fall.
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What in the world does that mean?
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Well, first of all it says, him who thinks - him who thinks.
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dokon: is the definite article ho with the form
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of the word dokeo.
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to presume or to think.
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specifically pictures one
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person who is assuming, presuming
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or thinking something: it's
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or presumes about himself
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He says, let not him who thinks he stands.
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And the word stands as a form
of the Greek word histemi.
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It pictures one who stands
secure and strong - take heed.
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attentive, be careful:
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look, take heed, watch, watch that.
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The Greek actually says - in order of that he does not fall.
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which means a fall.
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And so here we are urged to
be attentive, that we need
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to really pay attention to ourself.
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We need to pay attention to what's going on inside our head.
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or if we're having a wrong
thought that could lead
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to sexual sin,
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or if we're having a wrong
thought that could lead
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to gluttony and overeating
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or a wrong thought that
could lead to spending money
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that you shouldn't be
spending, then you need
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to stop it at the realm of your mind.
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You need to get a grip on your thoughts,
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stop it in the thought realm
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and it will never pass
into the real realm.
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And 1 Corinthians 10:13 continues to say -
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No temptation has taken you,
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but such as is common to man.
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We all have temptations
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and the temptations are not sent by God.
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In fact, the word temptation
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that is used here is a
very important Greek word
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that describes a calculated
test intended to entrap you
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or to take you down.
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It is the devil appealing to your flesh.
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He's trying to take you down,
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and that's why he's trying
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to inject thoughts into your mind.
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But no temptation has taken you,
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but such as is common to man. Common to man:
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the Greek word anthropinos which really means common to man,
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not exceptional, ordinary
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or purely human.
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Now, when you've got a
thought raging in your mind,
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it seems it's very extraordinary,
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but you've gotta speak to it
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and you've gotta say, wait a minute,
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other people have faced you.
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Other people have had this same thought.
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I'm not going to let you
magnify yourself in my mind
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and tell me I cannot overcome you.
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You're nothing but just
an ordinary problem,
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an ordinary thought.
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And in fact, the verse
says, God will not allow you
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to be tempted above what you are able.
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beyond and over the top.
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But will with the temptation,
provide a way for you
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to escape. The word, but, is the Greek word alla.
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It means, but all the way
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to the farthest extreme, God will provide.
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And the word provide is a form of the Greek word poieo,
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which means God will make: you could even translate it -
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God will creatively make. It
can be translated to fabricate
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or to manufacture, which means
God will somehow create a way
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for you to escape whatever
that temptation is.
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And the word, escape, is amazingly the Greek word ekbasis.
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It's a compound of two words:
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the word ek and the word, basis.
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The word ek, means out.
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And the word basis is the Greek word for feet.
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two words together, it means
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to use your feet to walk out.
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way God provides a way
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to escape is your feet.
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Your feet. God will enable
you to walk away from
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and out of the midst of any ordeal
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that you find yourself in.
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But rather than find
yourself in the ordeal,
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it's better to stop at the thought realm.
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When you're thinking about something sinful,
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stop it right here. Stop it right here
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and then you'll never find yourself in that predicament.
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If you are tempted to be angry at someone
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and you begin to think
about it and think about it
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and think about it, then it becomes rage.
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The rage begins with a thought.
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Or if you're overeating
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and you're overeating,
it begins with a thought.
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I understand that - 15 years ago, I weighed over 300 pounds.
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I would have thoughts of food
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and it would lure me to
fast food restaurants,
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but it began in my mind.
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You have to understand my friend,
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you gotta get a grip on your mind
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to stop these things from
passing into your life.
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And this is why it is so
important that we understand
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What Jesus Said About getting
a grip on your thought life.
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And he used the example of adultery.
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He said, Hey, the physical
act of adultery is bad.
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In fact, it is so bad
according to the mosaic law,
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it's worthy of capital punishment.
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But I say unto you, it begins in the mind.
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It begins in the mind.
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It's already a done deal if
you're doing it in your mind.
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And therefore, we've gotta get
a grip on our thought life.
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King David could have stopped his adultery
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with Bathsheba if he had turned away
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and had chosen not to think
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and to fixate on what
he saw in front of him.
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Now, I want to ask you -
What are you thinking about
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that you should not be thinking about?
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Are you harboring resentment in your mind?
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Are you harboring anger?
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Are you thinking about sinful
things that you ought not
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to be thinking about or looking at things
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that you ought not to be looking at?
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My friends? If you entertain
these things in your mind long
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enough, it's gonna pass
from the mental realm into
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the real realm.
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And that's why it's so essential
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that you understand the importance
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of Getting A Grip On Your Thought Life.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I wanna pray for you.
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Somebody asked the question - Brother Rick,
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what Bible truth has changed your life?
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Well, many years ago I was
going through a really,
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really rough spot in my life
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and I was saying, Lord,
what am I here for?
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What is my purpose?
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And I really needed to know
the answer to that question.
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And day after day, I
said, Lord, please tell me
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what is my purpose here on the earth?
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What am I here for?
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And as I was reading the scripture, one day I came
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to Revelation 4:11,
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and it says - Thou art worthy, Oh Lord, to receive glory
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and honor and power for
thou has created all things
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for thy pleasure.
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They are and were created.
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But this verse says,
all things were created
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for thy pleasure.
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And when I saw that verse on
that day when I was struggling
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so much, I got my answer.
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I am here for God's pleasure.
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Everything I do in my life,
it is for his pleasure.
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And from that time until now,
I've lived with the knowing
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that my greatest job is just
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to bring God pleasure in my life.
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Sometimes your thoughts
just run away with you
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and it really creates a mess in your life.
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The devil knows if he can inject wrong thoughts into your
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mind, he can outmaneuver you,
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but you can stop him by
taking your thoughts captive.
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In Rick Renner's series - What Jesus Said About
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Getting A Grip On Your Thought Life, you will learn
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how you can master your thoughts rather than letting
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them master you.
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In these 5-programs, you'll find teachings about -
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How the enemy injects thoughts to outwit you: How
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to shut the door to the enemy for good - and more.
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It all begins in the mind - available in digital
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or physical formats starting at just $11.
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This series will help you find
victory in your thought life.
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In addition to this teaching series,
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we are offering you the book, Dressed to Kill: considered
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by many, to be a classic on the subject
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of spiritual warfare. Dressed to Kill, will show you how
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to pull down mental strongholds
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and get a grip on your thought life.
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This powerful book can
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Don't miss this special offer -
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Getting A Grip On Your Thought Life
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and the book, Dressed to Kill.
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This is Rick Renner,
and I wanna say thank you
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to you partner for everything you do
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to help us take the teaching of the Bible
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to the ends of the earth.
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Proverbs 10:21 says, The lips of the righteous feed many -
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and that's our task.
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We are to feed many the
wonderful word of God.
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And I want to tell you that
we have given away hundreds
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and thousands of my books
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and other resources when people call us
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or they go online responding to an offer
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that we have made to them.
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My friends, that's a lot of material.
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And I'm going to tell you, it takes a lot of money
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to give away that many resources but we're able to do it
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because of our partners. Because of what you give,
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we are able to take the life transforming truths
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of God's word to people that
are looking for answers.
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And what a privilege that
people would come sit
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around our table and we would be able
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to feed them the wonderful
truths of God's word.
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And you are a big part of that.
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So I wanted to say thank
you, thank you, partner.
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And if you're listening today
and you're not a partner yet,
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we need you and we ask
you to become a part
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of the partner family so we can take the teaching
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of God's word to people all over the world,
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and we receive you and we welcome you into our giving team.
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Well, today we've been looking at - How
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To Get a Grip on your Thought Life.
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If you feel like your thoughts
have been running away
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with you, you just can't seem
to reel them in, then you need
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to hear every single episode this week
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because we're really gonna see how
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to get a grip on your
thought life and my friends,
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you can master your thoughts rather than let your thoughts
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master you.
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There's a time when you
gotta grab hold of your brain
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and tell it to listen to you,
rather than you just listen
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to the dictates of what
your mind is telling you.
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You can stop rage, you
can stop overeating,
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you can stop conflict, you
can stop sexual temptation.
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You can stop all of it
right here by choosing
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to get a grip on what
you are thinking about.
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This is so very practical and
so important for your victory.
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You have victory.
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But many people lose their victory
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because they don't get a
grip on their thought life.
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But hey, I'm teaching this series,
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which is 5-parts called, What Jesus Said About Getting a
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Grip on Your Thought Life.
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And I'm also so excited
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to tell you about my book
called Dress to Kill,
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which is a book about spiritual warfare
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and spiritual weaponry
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and deals a lot
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with pulling down mental
strongholds in your mind.
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It's a book that will change your life.
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But if you want to know
more about these resources,
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just go online, the website's on the screen,
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or give us a call.
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And please, when you reach out to us,
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would you let us know how to pray for you.
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We wanna pray with you.
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We will agree with you in prayer
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that you can get a grip
on your thought life
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and you can step into the victory that Jesus intends for you
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to have - but I'm gonna pray with you right now,
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so put your hand on your heart.
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Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus,
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the greater one lives in us,
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and the greater one in
us can take authority
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over our thoughts.
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Lord, thank you for helping
us to seize our thoughts
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and to making them obey the word of God.
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In Jesus' name - Amen. I'll see you in the next program.
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But remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word
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of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life -
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Amen.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called Partners of Renner Ministries.