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This program is made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners of Renner Ministries.
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Get ready for a teaching that feeds your spirit
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and your mind, where the word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick
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Renner.
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Welcome to today's program. My friend,
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today we're gonna continue the series called, Getting a Grip
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on Your Thought Life.
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If you can get a grip on what's going on inside your head,
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you can maintain victory in your life.
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But the devil knows if he can inject thoughts into your
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mind and get you to think on them,
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he can stir you up. He can lead you down a wrong path.
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And we saw yesterday, that's
what happened to King David.
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He stood on his rooftop,
looked over, saw Bathsheba,
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and really began to think
about how beautiful she was.
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And the 10 says he looked
and looked and looked at her.
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And as he looked at her,
he was thinking about
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how much he wished he could have her,
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and he ended up having her.
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But it started with his thoughts.
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Thoughts are so very important
for you to grab hold of
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and don't let them grab hold of you.
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And in fact, Denise
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and I are so emphatic about
getting a grip on our thought
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life, that when we watch TV: now Denise
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and I rarely watch TV,
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but when we do, we've noticed recently a lot
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of the commercials are about
medications for all kinds
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of physical ailments.
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And those commercials
are like insinuations.
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They're trying to inject
thoughts into people.
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You need this. Maybe you have this
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problem, maybe you have this.
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You know what Denise says - mute it.
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I don't want to hear that.
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We are so careful about
what goes into our minds.
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We don't want to jeopardize our health.
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We don't want to jeopardize our longevity
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by allowing wrong thoughts
to come into our mind.
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We really believe it is essential
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to get a grip on our thought life.
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If I run into a moment where
I'm upset with somebody,
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I know, if I don't get
a grip on it in my mind,
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my thoughts are gonna run away with me.
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Many, many years ago when I was a lot heavier than I am now,
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I can remember sitting in church.
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Church is not even over.
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And in my mind I began to
think about Burger King
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because there was a Burger King.
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We always pass on the way home.
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And I could just see that big whopper
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and those wonderful salty fries.
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I don't really eat much salt,
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but I love the fries of Burger King.
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And I would just see it in my mind
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until I would find myself
at Burger King after church,
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but all began in my mind.
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Now I've lost a lot of weight
and I don't do that anymore,
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but my friends, you have to
take charge of what's going on
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inside your head or your head
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will run away with you.
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And today we're gonna see how to eliminate opportunities
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for mental and physical entrapment.
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If you can handle what's
going on in your head
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and stop it, then you will not be mentally
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and physically entrapped.
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But this whole series is called - What Jesus Said About
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Getting a Grip on Your Mind.
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It's 5-parts: comes with a wonderful study guide.
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And I'm so excited
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to tell you about my book called, Dress to Kill.
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It's a Christian classic on the subject of spiritual warfare
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and spiritual weaponry.
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And I really deal a lot in that book on the subject of how
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to deal with strongholds in your mind
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and to pull them down so that
you can be freed from them.
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But if you wanna know
more about this series
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and that book, just go
online or give us a call.
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We want to hear from you.
And when you reach out to us,
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let us know how to pray for you.
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By the way, we're praying for you anyway.
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I prayed for you this morning
before I ever got out of bed.
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I was asking the Lord to
touch you with the teaching
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that I'm doing today.
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I really pray for you that
if you've got a special way
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that you need prayer, call the
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or send us an email
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because we would just be
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But reach for your Bible.
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And we're going to return
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to our foundational verse this week,
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which is 2 Thessalonians 2:11.
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And Paul in this verse is talking about how the devil works.
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And in this verse he says lest Satan should get an advantage
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of us for we're not ignorant of his devices.
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According to this verse,
the devil has some devices
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and we should not be ignorant of it.
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But notice in this verse,
he calls the devil, Satan,
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which is an official name - the Greek word Satanas.
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He describes one who accuses, one who conspires against,
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one who deceives, manipulates, schemes and slanders.
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And by the way, all of those are activities that he launches
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against your thoughts.
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That's why you need to get
a grip on your thought life.
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And he goes on to say - lest Satan should get an
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advantage of us.
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And that word, advantage, is a very unique Greek word,
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which means to take advantage or to defraud.
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So you could translate it - lest Satan should take advantage
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of us, lest the devil should defraud us,
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but it also means to outmaneuver or to outwit.
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So Paul realizes that if you're ignorant about
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how the devil works, he will outmaneuver you.
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He will outwit you.
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And then Paul goes on to
say, for we're not ignorant
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of his devices. The word, ignorant, describes one
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that is uninformed.
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And my friends, when it comes to how the devil works,
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we do not need to be uninformed.
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We don't need to be ignorant of his devices.
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And the word devices, the Greek word, noemata,
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we're gonna cover this every day this week
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because it is so important.
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It is a derivative of the word nous. The word nous
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pictures of the mind.
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But when the word nous becomes the word noemata,
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which here in the King James Version is translated
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as the word devices, it depicts the scheming of the mind,
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a twisted mind, a mind that is so confused,
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it can no longer think straight or it depicts mind games.
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And here's what the devil wants to do.
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He wants to inject thoughts into your mind.
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He wants to get you to focus on wrong thoughts
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because he knows if he can really get you
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to focus on wrong thoughts,
then he can use those thoughts
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to build a stronghold in your mind.
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And if you build a stronghold in your mind
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and you begin to believe
those wrong thoughts,
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eventually it's gonna
leave the thought realm.
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It's going to enter the real realm.
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And unfortunately, those
wrong thoughts will take you
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captive and they're going to
become a reality in your life.
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And that is what is so
essential that you get a grip
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on your thought life.
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I'm really trying to help you.
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Now, I wanna read to you from James 1:
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14 to 16.
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These verses are really
important about getting a
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grip on your thought life.
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And in James 1:16, James says -
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But every man is tempted when he is drawn away
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of his own lust and enticed.
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I'm gonna be going into these words.
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Verse 15: Then when lust has conceived,
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it brings forth sin: and sin
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when it is finished, brings forth deaf.
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Verse 16: do not err, my beloved brethren.
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Now, these verses are so important that I want
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to teach you from the RIV of these verses.
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So I'm going to go to page 37 in the RIV,
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the Renner Interpretive Version of James and Jude.
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And I want to tell you
what these verses mean.
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First of all, James says in verse 14 - Well,
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every man is tempted when he's
drawn away of his own lust
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and enticed.
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Now the RIV says it like this:
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But if you really want to know how evil
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and destruction finds their
way into a person's life -
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that's a very good interpretation -
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here it is.
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Every single person without exception.
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Now, why in the world do
I translate it like that?
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Well, Footnote 104 says the words -
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every single person without exception - are a translation
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of the Greek word hekagtos, which means everyone
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with no one excluded, which means
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what James is describing is how this works
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for every single person.
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He says, every single person without exception ends up in a
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place of breakdown and failure
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when he's lured away from a place of safety
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into a place of vulnerability. It all starts
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with him being lured out of that place by the pool
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of his own fleshly desires.
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It's similar to a fisherman who baits a hook
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and dangles it in front of a fish.
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The fish looks at it for so long
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that it eventually goes for the bait.
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And in the same way, fleshly
temptation baits people
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and seductively entices them to go for it
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and to do what they shouldn't do.
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But listen to Footnote 105.
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The words, breakdown
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and failure, are an interpretation of a form
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of the Greek word, peirzadzo.
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And this word, peirzadzo, describes a calculated test
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to bring about failure
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and release destruction in your life.
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And James says, every person
experiences these calculated
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tests in life, which really are designed
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to make them stumble and fall,
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but they don't have to fall prey to them.
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He goes on to say, when
he is lured from a place
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of safety into a place of vulnerability.
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And footnote number 106 explains the words -
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lured from a place of safety into a place
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of vulnerability are from
a form of the word meaning
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to attract, to draw out,
to persuade, to pull
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and pictures, drawing one out from a place
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of safety into a place of
endangerment, jeopardy, peril
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or vulnerability.
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And as a compound, this
Greek word means to lure out
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as a fish hook is used by a fisherman
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or as a trap is used by hunters,
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this word metaphorically pictures the act
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of luring prey from a place of safety
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and security out into the
open where it can be captured
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or killed. And the devil uses thoughts to lure you out.
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That's what James is teaching in this verse,
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but it goes on to say it all starts
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with him being lured out
from that place by the pool
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of his own fleshly desires.
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It's similar to a
fisherman who baits a hook
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and dangles it in front of a fish.
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The fish looks at it for so long
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that fish looks at that thing and thinks about it
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and thinks about it and thinks about it.
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And the RIV says, the fish
looks at it for so long
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that it eventually goes for the bait.
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In the same way, fleshly
temptations, baits people
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and seductively entices them to go for it
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and to do what they shouldn't do.
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words in the same way, fleshly temptation bates people
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and seductively entices them - are interpreted from a form
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of the Greek, deleadzo. An old fishing
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and hunting term that meant to bait a hook
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or to set a trap with bait.
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It describes bait put on
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or it was used to describe
the setting of a trap
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to catch an animal.
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It conveys the idea
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of crafting us cheating cunning trickery
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intended to entrap.
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And like a fisherman who
carefully camouflages a hook
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with bait or a hunter who sets a trap
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to lure an unsuspecting animal,
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if the person doesn't hold
himself in check by the power
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of the Holy Spirit,
he'll be lured out to do
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what is unhealthy and what is wrong.
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in the victim's mouth,
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the hook is pulled or the trap is dropped,
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and that person is regrettably,
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at least momentarily taken captive.
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and that is why it is so very impaired
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that you understand the devil's trying
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to bait you with thoughts.
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That's why you need to get
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But then verse 15 goes on to saying the King James Version,
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then when lust has conceived,
it brings forth sin
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and sin when it is finished,
brings forth death.
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Well, the RIV is more expansive
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and listen to how the
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unfettered desire has been entertained mentally for so long
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that a person conceives it
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Now that is really important.
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It says the words conceives it
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and becomes pregnant
with it are a translation
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of a Greek word, which means to conceive
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or to become pregnant.
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If the initial temptation
or thought was not resisted
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and put away this conception
would have never occurred.
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But just as conception occurs
as a result of two people
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who are very close sexually, James warns
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that if a person takes a wrong
thought to close to himself
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for too long,
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that person will conceive
it becoming pregnant
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with the wrongdoing which
he has been tempted with.
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And it is important to make the connection
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that intimacy is required for conception.
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imagery, James was telling us
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that if we entertain wrong
thoughts in our mind focusing
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and fixating on them,
eventually we're going
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to become impregnated with them.
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this horrible conception
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that eventually produces
an evil foul death bringing
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situation is to live by the
power of the Holy Spirit
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and to get a grip on our minds. My friends,
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that is really powerful.
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In fact, that footnote is
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but here it is again, the RIV.
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unfettered desires become entertained mentally for so long
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that a person conceives it and becomes impregnated with it,
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eventually that embryonic temptation becomes fully
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developed and a moment comes when
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that person gives birth to behaviors that miss the mark of
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what is right and begins practicing acts
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that are wrong and sinful.
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And footnote number 113 says, The words give birth are
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so very important in this verse,
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they are derived from a Greek
word, which means to beget
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or to give birth just like a
pregnant woman who gives birth
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to a baby.
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If you conceive a wrong thought, if you
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meditate and meditate
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and fixate on that wrong thought,
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you're gonna conceive just
like a woman conceives seed.
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come when it leaves the mental
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realm and you're gonna give
birth to it in your life,
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it's going to enter the real realm.
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you see when the gestation
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for this destructive process is complete.
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The word, gestation process is complete,
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our interpreted from a Greek word that pictures an embryo
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that's been fully developed
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That's what happens when you continue
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to think a wrong thought.
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First of all, you conceive it.
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continue to think about it,
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that embryo is developing now,
it's in the gestation period.
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for this destructive process
is complete birth finally
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takes place.
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The words, birth takes place, are translated from an ancient
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medical term that was used
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to describe the delivery of a baby.
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and don't do something to stop it,
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eventually it's really going to give birth
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to something disastrous in your life.
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And what it gives birth
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to this verse calls death - death.
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And then when you come to verse 16,
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the King James Version very simply says,
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do not err my beloveth brethren.
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But the RIV says it like this -
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And don't trick yourself into
thinking you're exempt from
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this process I've just described. My dear brothers whom I
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deeply and profoundly love, please take note of this process
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so it won't happen to you.
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Now I wanna read all of it to you together
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so you get the full impact of the RIV.
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Listen to this, we're talking about a get getting a
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grip on your thought life.
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Listen to this James 1:14 from the RIV.
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But if you really want to know how evil
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and destruction finds
their way into a person's
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life, here it is.
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Every single person without
exception ends up in a place
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of breakdown and failure
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when he's lured from a place of safety into a place
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of vulnerability. It all starts with him being lured out of
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that place by the pool of his own fleshly desires.
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It's similar to a
fisherman who baits a hook
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and dangles it in front of a fish.
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The fish looks at it for so long
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that it eventually it goes for the bait.
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In the same way, fleshly
temptation baits people
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and seductively entices them to go for it
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and to do what they shouldn't do.
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Verse 15: And when that ill-fated,
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unfettered desire has been entertained mentally for so long
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that a person conceives it and becomes pregnant with it.
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Eventually that embryonic temptation becomes fully developed
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and a moment comes when that person gives birth to behaviors
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that miss the mark of what is right
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and begins practicing acts that are wrong and sinful.
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You see, when the gestation
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for this destructive process is complete, birth
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finally takes place.
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And what is brought forth is permeated
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with every kind of death -
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verse 16 - And don't trick yourself into thinking you're
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exempt from this process I've just described. My dear
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brothers, whom I dearly
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and profoundly love, please
take note of this process
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so it won't happen to you.
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That is fabulous.
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Do you see how important it is
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that you get a grip on your thought life?
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If you entertain what is
wrong for long enough,
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you're gonna conceive it,
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then you're gonna move
into a gestation period
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that embryonic thought's gonna develop
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until finally you become
so full of that thought,
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you give birth to it,
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and you actually begin to carry out
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what you're thinking about.
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That's how anger, mental
anger becomes rage.
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That's how sexual
temptation becomes adultery.
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That's how thinking about
overeating becomes gluttony.
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It all starts in the mind.
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So if you can stop it in the mind,
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then you can stop this process from being
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birthed in your life.
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And in James 1:16, James says,
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Do not err my beloved brethren, pay attention if you'll do
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what I'm telling you,
you can stop the process.
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That is the importance
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of getting a grip on your
thoughts while they're in your
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mind, so they don't leave your mind
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and enter into your real life.
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Isn't this helpful? Wow!
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I'm going to pray for you.
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Someone has just asked a very important question
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How do I deal with temptations in life?
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Well, temptations come. My friends, they're not sent by God.
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As long as you live in this world
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where the devil is at work,
there's gonna be all kinds
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of hardships and temptations.
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But let's use the example
of a sexual temptation.
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How do you overcome a sexual temptation?
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Or maybe it's the temptation to overeat.
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Wow, how do you overcome that?
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Well, we have the answer in 1 Corinthians 10:13,
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it says that when you're attempted, God will make a way
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for you to escape.
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Well, when you read this in Greek,
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we find it is the word ekbino.
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The word ek, means out.
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It's where you get the word for an exit.
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And the word bino means to walk.
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When you put the two words together, the word escape means
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to use your feet to
walk out of a situation,
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which means the answer to dealing
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with temptation is in your feet.
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Get out of there.
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If you're tempted to
overeat, get away from
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where you're tempted to overeat.
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If you're tempted in some kind
of a sexual way, walk out of
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that situation rather than pleading
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and praying for a miracle, use your feet.
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You can walk out of that
place just like you walked
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into that place.
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The answer is in your feet.
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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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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
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yet, we need you.
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And we ask you to become a
part of the partner family
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so we can take the teaching of God's word
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to people all over the
world, and we receive you
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and we welcome you into our Giving Team.
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Well, today we've been talking
about how to stop the process
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of wrong thoughts.
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Now, you can't avoid wrong thoughts
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because the devil is trying
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to inject wrong thoughts
into your mind all the time.
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But hey, it's your mind
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and you have authority over your own mind,
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and you don't have to let
your mind run away with you.
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You can stop the process.
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You can grab hold of those thoughts,
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you can pull down strongholds
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so they don't become a reality in your life.
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And that's why I'm teaching you this series called Getting a
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Grip on Your Thought Life.
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It's five parts, comes with
a wonderful study guide.
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And of course, I'm thrilled
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to tell you about my book
called Dress to Kill, which
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to a great degree deals
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with pulling down wrong
thoughts in your mind,
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so you walk free of them.
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The greater one lives in you.
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You have the authority to
take control of your mind
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and your thoughts.
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If you don't, the devil's
going to use your thoughts
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to take you captive.
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But hey, if you're interested
in these resources,
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just go online or give us a call.
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And when you reach out to us,
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let us know how to pray for you.
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You can call us or you
can send us an email.
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And I wanna pray for you right now.
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So put your hand on your heart.
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If you're dealing with a thought
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that seems like it's
growing, let's pray for it
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to be removed right now.
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Father, I pray for that
wrong thought to be removed,
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that the process would be stopped so
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that my friend does not give birth
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to something bad in their life.
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We put a halt to it in
the name of Jesus, Amen.
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Well, I pray this is helpful.
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I'm actually giving you
something very important
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for my own life, but
I'll see you tomorrow.
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But until then, I want you to remember Ecclesiastes 8:
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4 says, "Where the word of a king is,
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there really 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, I repent
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of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life
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Amen. If you just prayed
the prayer of salvation
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with us, would you please
let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Renner Ministries is proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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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
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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.