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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 Renner.
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Welcome to today's program, my friend
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I'm so glad you've joined me
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and I want to begin today with a question.
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What do you allow to be played
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on the movie screen in your mind?
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When you're by yourself, you're sitting home,
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or you're in the shower, you're driving down the street,
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what are you allowing to be played and played and played
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and replayed in your mind
again and again and again?
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It is so important what you allow
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to be played on the
movie screen of your mind
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and what you do not allow to be played.
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This series is called Getting A Grip On Your Thought Life.
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What you look at, what you think about,
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if you ponder on it long enough
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as we saw in yesterday's
episode, you will conceive it,
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you'll become impregnated with it.
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And when you become impregnated with it,
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unless you repent, you're gonna give birth to it
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and it's gonna become really, really bad.
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I'll give you an example.
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I have a lot of times in
my life when we're faced
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with financial challenges: what God has called us
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to do takes a lot of money.
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You know, the Gospel's free; but preaching it - is not free.
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Media is not free.
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It takes a lot of money to get the gospel
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to the ends of the earth.
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And we really believe Proverbs 10:21, it says -
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The lips of the righteous feed
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many. We know God has given us an assignment
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to take teaching people can trust to the ends of the earth,
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but there are moments when we
do not have enough resources
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to do what we need to do.
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And the devil loves to
inject thoughts of failure
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and play on the movie screen of my mind -
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you're not gonna have enough, you don't have enough.
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What are you gonna do? And I have to make a decision.
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Am I gonna have those thoughts?
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Am I going to allow the
devil to work in my mind,
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in my imagination?
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Am I gonna keep thinking
this and looking at that?
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And I have to make a decision to stop it?
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And instead I decided to
replace them with thoughts
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of God's faithfulness; all the
other times when we didn't
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know how we were gonna
do what we were doing,
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but God miraculously provided - I choose to think about that
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and look at that rather
than to ponder on all
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that negative stuff.
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Now, sometimes people write to me
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and they say, Brother Rick, can the devil read our thoughts?
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You know, I really don't care if the devil
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reads my thoughts.
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What I'm concerned about is what he tries
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to inject into my thoughts.
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And when he injects a
thought into your mind
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and you begin to focus on
it until you conceive it,
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my friends we saw in yesterday's episode,
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eventually you're gonna give birth to it.
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And that is why James 1:16 says, Do not err,
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my beloved brethren. Know how this process works;
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pay attention to it and stop it so it doesn't happen to you.
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But today I'm really asking you
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what are the images you allow
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to be played on the movie
screen of your mind?
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But hey, this series is called, Getting a Grip
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on Your Thought Life.
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It's a 5-part series, comes with a great study guide,
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and I'm also telling you about
my book called Dress to Kill,
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which really deals substantially with the subject about how
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to take thoughts captive.
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You need to take your thoughts captive
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or your thoughts will take you captive.
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And I don't want that to happen to you.
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But to know more about this series
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and that book, just go online,
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the website addresses on the
screen, or give us a call.
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And please, friends,
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 want to pray with you.
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And if there's any thought
that's trying to dominate you,
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we will agree in prayer
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and use the authoritative name
of Jesus to break the power
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of that thought in your life.
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So call that number or send
us an email so we can pray
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with you - but reach for your Bible.
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And today we're gonna go back
to our foundational verse,
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which is 2 Corinthians 2:11,
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where Paul's talking about how the devil works.
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And in this verse, Paul says - Lest Satan
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should get an advantage of us for we're not ignorant
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of his devices.
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So according to this verse,
the devil has some devices
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and we're not supposed
to be ignorant of them.
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And the word, Satan, in this verse is also very insightful.
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It's the Greek word, satanas. It describes an accuser, one
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who conspires; the devil loves to come with all kinds
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of conspiracies to attack
you and to take you down.
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It describes a deceiver, a manipulator.
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He loves to manipulate the mind, the thoughts, the emotions:
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a schemer or a slanderer.
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All of these are activities
that take place in the mind.
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And Paul says, less Satan, the accuser, the conspirator,
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the deceiver, manipulater, the schemer,
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the slanderer should get an advantage of us.
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And the word advantage in Greek means to take advantage of,
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to defraud to outmaneuver or outwit.
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So Paul is literally saying - less the devil,
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the schemer, should outmaneuver us
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or outwit us for we are not ignorant, uninformed
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of his devices.
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And the word devices is very important
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because it gives us insight to how the devil attacks.
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It's the word noemata. It is a derivative of the word nous.
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The word nous, is the Greek word for the mind.
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But when the word nous becomes the word noemata,
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it's no longer just the mind.
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It is the scheming of the mind
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or a mind that's twisted, a mind
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that can no longer think straight.
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It is so confused. I say
it's like scrambled brains.
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Now you can't think right, you can't see straight.
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Really it's describing mind games
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that the devil pulls on us.
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So you need to understand
the mind is the central place
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where the devil wants to attack you.
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He understands that your mind
is the central control center
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of your life and whoever
controls your mind is going
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to control you.
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Now, when we go all the way back
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to Genesis 3,
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we find the first time the devil begin
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to work his devices in the human race.
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So let's go there - Genesis 3.
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If you have your Bible, please
turn there with me, get a pen
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or a pencil, get ready to take
notes into underline things
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in Genesis 3 beginning in verse 1
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where we read - Now the serpent was more subtle
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or clever than any beast of the field,
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which the Lord God had made.
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And he that is the serpent.
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There's a whole teaching in that,
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but we don't have time
to get into that today.
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But he said unto the woman - Yea, hath God said,
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ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden.
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You see, there it is.
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He is injecting a thought into Eve's mind.
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He's injecting the thought.
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And in verse 2: And the woman said unto the serpent -
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or now she begins to correspond, she begins to communicate
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with these evil thoughts.
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And my friends, you need to
put a halt of those thoughts.
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You don't need to communicate with them.
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That opens the door for them to be activated.
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And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit
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of the tree of the garden - verse 3 -
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but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst
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of the garden, God has said,
you shall not eat of it,
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neither shall you touch it lest you die.
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Well, that's actually not what God said,
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but that's another entire teaching.
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But what I want you to see is in verse 3-6:
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And the serpent said unto the woman,
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You surely shall not die.
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He's injecting thoughts into her mind.
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Verse 5 - For God doth know
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that in the day you eat thereof, your eyes will be opened.
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Well, that was a very tempting thought.
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Wow, your eyes will be opened
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and you shall be as god's.
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Wow, what a thought.
My eyes will be opened.
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I shall be as God, knowing good and evil. Verse 6 -
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And when the woman saw,
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so hearing these thoughts, Eve looked.
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She saw and carried in this as the idea of observation.
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It's not just physically
seen with the eyes,
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but it's contemplating, it's
looking at it, is observing,
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it is really thinking about the tree.
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She saw that it was good for food -
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that was interesting -
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and it was pleasant to the eyes.
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So she's really considering this -
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and a tree to be desired to make one wise.
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Now this desire is being
stirred inside her.
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It's good for food, it's
pleasant to the eyes,
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it's desired to make one wise.
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And finally, she took that thought
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so deep within her, she became impregnated
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with it like we saw in the previous episode.
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And she reached out and she
took hold of that fruit.
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It left the mental realm, it entered the real realm
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and she did eat and gave also unto her husband with her,
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and he did eat.
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And we know the rest of the story -
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it gave birth to death.
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But what I want you to
see is the devil tries
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to inject thoughts into your mind.
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And now that leads us to 1 Peter 1:13.
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I love this verse.
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And 1 Peter 1:13, Peter says,
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Wherefore gird up the loins
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of your mind and be sober.
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He's talking about the mind
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and he says, gird up the loins of the mind.
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Those words, gird up, are from a Greek word
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that pictures a runner who raises his tunic out of the way
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so he can freely run without his tunic getting entangled in
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his legs.
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When quick movement was required, a man
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could gather up the lower folds of his tunic
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and tuck them under a sash or a belt
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or free his legs from entanglement.
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And if the runner or the man didn't do that,
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then his garment was going
to be entangled in his legs
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and it was going to hinder
his ability to run his race.
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Well, I want to tell you,
you're running a race.
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God has you in a race, God
has a destiny for your life
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and you do not need to be
hindered in running your race.
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And if you've got things
that are entangling you,
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then you need to tuck them
up and out of the way.
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And this first particularly says,
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gird up the loins of your mind.
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Well the word, loins, describes the area of reproduction,
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the seed of generative powers.
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And my friends, as long as you're loins, spiritually are in
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good shape, you're gonna be able
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to produce in the kingdom of God.
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even in the ancient world, that was normally a mortal blow.
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abilities, your generative powers
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to produce in the kingdom of God.
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mind - mind.
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for the mind or the brain, but it's not.
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which pictures a mind that is going back
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and forth, contemplating, thinking,
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rehearsing going it over again and again and again
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and again, reasoning them
thinking through a matter.
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when you a mind is caught up in a thought
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and you find that your
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that thought, that's time
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That's why you've gotta take your thoughts captive.
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And this is what we're gonna be seeing
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in tomorrow's episode -
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how to take your thoughts captive. My friends,
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your thoughts and your
emotions will entangle you.
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I'm telling you, they will paralyze you.
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to do. The Bible tells you what to do.
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But now you're so entangled in your thinking
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and in your thoughts that you're
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paralyzed, you're entrapped.
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that your race is not gonna be run well,
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you're gonna be hindered and
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hindered and hindered and hindered.
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of your mind.
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I'm taking charge,
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or under my sash so my legs are free.
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I'm gonna run this race
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The word sober is the Greek word, nepho:
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at least it's a form of it.
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not like a silly drunk.
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or it depicts clear thinking -
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clear thinking. Well, when you're drunk
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you don't think clearly. When you're drunk,
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you make commitments you would never normally make. When
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you're drunk, you say things you would not normally say.
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with wrong thoughts. You end up doing wrong things,
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thinking wrong things, saying wrong things
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that later you are very regretful about: that it's
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because you become intoxicated
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Don't drop your guard, maintain clear thinking.
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these verses we're seen over
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and over and over again,
the power of what goes on
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inside your mind - what goes on inside your mind.
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27,
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where Jesus was talking about getting
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a grip on your thoughts.
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you've heard that it was said
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by them of old time, thou
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He was talking about the
physical act of adultery.
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but in verse 28, Jesus says, But I say unto you. The word,
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but, the Greek word de, it means however.
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He's really wanting people to hear him -
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but I say - now he uses his own voice
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to make a very clear point.
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But I say unto you that whosoever looks on a woman.
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to consistently persistently look at: this is not an
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accidental or casual look,
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but this is someone who's really looking, really observing,
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really focusing.
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but this is a gaze that continues until
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that person has stirred up fleshly desire: who
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so looketh on her to lust.
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a passionate raw desire - after her.
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for the purpose of adultery, has already committed adultery
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with her in his heart.
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it means already, by this time, picturing it
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as already being a done deal.
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then it's very easy to carry it out.
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to what's going on inside your head.
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If you've got real anger
that is just nurturing
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and boiling and simmering
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if you don't stop it, it's
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If you've got temptation to overeat,
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if you don't do something to stop it,
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you're gonna end up gorging yourself
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and being very regretful for what you did. My friends,
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what goes on inside the head determines what goes on
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inside your life.
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1 Corinthians 10:13, which says -
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but such as is common to man. These temptations,
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they're just common.
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it feels very extraordinary.
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It feels overpowering,
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which describes a calculated test that is designed
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to entrap you or to take you down.
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by seeding you with thoughts.
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this is really important.
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purely human.
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rather than say, oh,
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this is the worst thing I've
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how I can control my thoughts.
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that no one else has not
already faced in life.
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They overcame it, others have overcome it.
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I can overcome it. This
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Others have already overcome that.
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This is purely human, small,
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who will not allow you to be tempted beyond -
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and the word, beyond, in Greek is the word huper.
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and over the top, beyond
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but will with a temptation,
provide the way of escape.
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of the Greek word poieo which means - listen - to make,
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to creatively, make to fabricate
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or to manufacture: which means if you will open your eyes,
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God will create for you an escape hatch.
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you've been focusing on the wrong thing,
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and now it's becoming a reality, even at
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that point, you can stop it.
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and look, God's gonna fabricate for you.
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He's going to manufacture,
he will creatively make
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an escape hatch for you to
get out of that situation so
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that you can escape.
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Greek word for the feet.
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to use your feet to walk out of that place.
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God's gonna provide a way
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for you 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 the situation that you pondered on
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so long that now you find
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God will enable you to use
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that place just like you walked into it.
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Now - what are you watching on the movie screen
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of your mind?
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and it's empowering bitterness in your life?
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What are you watching? What are you replaying in your mind?
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Are you replaying scenes of a sexual nature
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that you shouldn't be thinking about?
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eventually you're gonna become impregnated with it.
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You're gonna do it. My friend,
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the mind is so important and the devil understands that
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and God understands that.
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That's why the devil wants your mind
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and God wants your mind.
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That's why God commands you to
renew your mind to the truth.
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God knows whoever controls
your mind, controls you
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and the outcome of your life.
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This is why it is so very vital that you learn to get a grip
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on your thought life.
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I'm gonna be back in just a moment
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and I want to pray for you.
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Hey, this is Rick Renner
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and somebody has asked the question -
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What do I do when I'm struggling in my faith to the point
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that I'm even beginning to doubt the existence of God?
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that's coming against you,
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and you need to deal with
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It's an enemy coming to steal your faith.
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that you're to submit yourself
to God and resist the devil
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and he will flee from you.
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So first of all, you need to say - Father,
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I'm submitting myself to you.
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to take a stand against that spirit of doubt and unbelief.
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You can resist it, and the Bible says it will flee from you.
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as fast as they can.
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They're running so fast
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that their feet never hit
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and unbelief is coming against
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and rebuke that spirit and tell it to hit the road.
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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
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letting 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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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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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 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
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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.
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And we receive you and we welcome you into our Giving Team.
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Well, today we went all the way back
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to Genesis 3 to see from the very beginning
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of time, the devil has been trying
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to inject wrong thoughts
into people's minds.
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And if you will take
control of your thoughts,
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you can stop the devil from working in your
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life. My friends,
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you really can. And when we come back in tomorrow's episode,
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we're gonna see how practically
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to take your thoughts captive.
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It's really going to be liberating.
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Please do not miss tomorrow,
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but hey, I'm teaching a series: 5-parts series called
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Everything Jesus Said About
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Getting A Grip On Your Thought Life.
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It is so important,
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and this series comes with
a wonderful study guide.
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And I'm also thrilled
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to tell you about my book
called Dress to Kill.
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And a lot of this book deals with how
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to take your thoughts
captive so you can walk free.
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And my friends, you can walk free.
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And if you wanna know
more about the series
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or the book, just go online,
the website's on the screen,
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or give us a call.
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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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You can write to us, send us
an email, or you can call us.
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Either way, when we hear from you, we're gonna pray
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and Jesus is really gonna
do what needs to be done
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and put your hand on your
heart so I can pray for you
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now. Father, in the name of Jesus,
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I come against every foul
thought that's been trying
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to control my friend.
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I rebuke it, I command it
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to halt in Jesus' name - Amen.
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Now, when we come back tomorrow, we're gonna see how
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to pull those thoughts down.
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It's gonna be good.
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But until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 says,
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"Where the word 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. This program was made possible
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by the giving of the God called partners
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of Renner Ministries.