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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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I've been waiting for you
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and I wanna say thank you
for letting me come right to
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where you are.
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I know you've got a lot
to do in your schedule
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and you could be doing
something else right now.
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So the very fact that you
would set aside time to be
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with me means everything to me.
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And my prayer is it's gonna
make a difference for you.
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I prayed for you the 1st thing when I woke up this morning
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before I ever lifted my head from my pillow
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and put my feet on the ground.
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I was already praying for you.
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And by the way, if you have
any special prayer need,
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let us know how to pray
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because we really are praying for you.
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You can just send us an email
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or call the number that is on the screen.
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We're waiting for the phone to ring
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or for your email to show up
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so we can pray very concretely
about whatever it is
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that you're dealing with in your life.
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And we truly believe
that Jesus has an answer
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with your name on it waiting for you.
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So we wanna pray with you for that answer
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to be activated in your life.
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But right now I'm teaching my series,
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which is called, Getting A
Grip on Your Thought Life.
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Wow. It's a 5-part series, comes
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with a wonderful study guide.
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Everything in this series
is in the study guide.
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And I want to also mention to you my book,
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which is called Dressed to Kill.
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It is fully illustrated
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and many people consider it
to be a classic on the subject
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of spiritual warfare
and spiritual weaponry.
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And my friends, that book
is all over the planet.
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There's hardly a pastor's
office that I ever go into
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where I do not see that book.
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People have read it and
read it and read it.
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And if you don't have a
copy of Dressed to Kill,
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you need to get a copy.
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That book will just open the scriptures
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to you about spiritual warfare,
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and it deals a lot with how
to pull down strongholds out
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of your mind.
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But if you're interested in these resources, just go online.
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Our website address is on the screen
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or you can give us a call.
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We're waiting to hear from you right now.
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But today we're gonna talk about how
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to pull down strongholds.
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And I want to begin by saying,
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the mind is the central
control center for one's life.
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Now, sometimes Christians get
offended by that statement
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and they say, no, no, I
function from my spirit.
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Well, God's will is for you
to function from your spirit.
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God's will is for you to walk
in the spirit to function out
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of your spirit, but
laying between your spirit
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and your flesh is the mind.
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And it is the mind that chooses which part
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of you is going to dominate.
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If you make the right
choice with your mind,
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you will function out of your spirit.
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If you make the wrong
choice with your mind,
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you will function out of your flesh.
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And for this reason, the devil
wants to control your mind.
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He wants to control your mind
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and take you captive so
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that you function in the flesh realm.
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And for the very same, reason God wants your mind.
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Did you know that - God wants your mind.
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He wants his word to rule your mind.
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He wants his spirit to rule your mind.
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He wants your mind to choose
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to function out of the spirit realm.
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And when your spirit and your
mind get into alignment while
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power takes place.
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So you need to understand
everybody's after your head.
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The devil's after your
head, God's after your head.
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Hollywood is after your head,
education's after your head.
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Everybody wants your mind
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because it is a fact
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that whoever controls the
mind controls a person's
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entire being.
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This is foundational to everything.
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Now, today I want you
to reach for your Bible.
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We always use the Bible in this program.
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And as I always tell you,
we're believing for a revival
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of the Bible in the church.
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But we're gonna go back
to our theme verse,
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which is 2 Corinthians 2:11,
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which says, Lest Satan should get an advantage of us
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for we're not ignorant of his devices.
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We've covered this every day.
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It is foundational to what I'm teaching.
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So let's go back to this word, Satan.
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In Greek, it is the word, satana. It means an accuser.
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So you could translate it - Lest,
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the accuser should get an advantage of us.
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It could also be translated
as a conspirator.
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So you could translate it, lest
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the conspirator would get an advantage of us.
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And here we find the devils
all the time trying to come up
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with conspiracies to take us down,
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but it can also be translated
as deceiver or manipulator
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or schemer or slanderer.
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And all of these words primarily describe
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how the devil schemes against
our minds to take us down.
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And in fact, it goes on to say - lest Satan: the accuser,
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conspirator, deceiver,
manipulatives, schemer
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and slanderers should
get an advantage of us.
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And the word advantage is
from a very unique Greek word,
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which means tadv take
advantage of, to defraud,
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to outmaneuver or to outwit.
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And here we find the devil
wants to take advantage of us.
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The devil wants to defraud
us of what belongs to us.
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The devil wants to outmaneuver
us. He wants to outwit us.
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And Paul says, for this
reason, we are not ignorant
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of his devices.
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When you're ignorant about
how the devil operates,
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my friends, you become
a prey to his attack.
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But when you're informed,
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when you understand about his devices,
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then you are in a position to
recognize when he is working
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and you can put on the brakes
and you can stop his activity.
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Now, the word devices is
a very important word.
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It is derived from the Greek word nous,
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which is the Greek word
for the mind, the mind.
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However, in this verse, it is the form noemata.
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And when the word nous becomes the word noemata,
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it's no longer just a mind,
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but now it's the scheming of the mind.
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Or it describes a mind
that is so confused,
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it can no longer think straight.
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It's been listening to wrong
information for so long
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that now the mind becomes faulty, it begins to think wrong.
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And in fact, it can even describe mind games.
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And here we find the objective of the devil is
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to seize the mind.
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He wants to fill the mind
with so many wrong thoughts
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until the person thinking becomes confused
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and begins to believe those
wrong thoughts are the truth.
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I'll give you an example.
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Let's say there's a
talented, talented person,
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but the devil's constantly
saying to that person,
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you have nothing to offer.
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You have no gifts, you have no talents,
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you shine in no special way.
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And that person is so
lambasted by those thoughts
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that he begins to believe them.
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And what you believe becomes your reality.
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Jesus says, all things are possible to him that believes.
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And you need to understand that when you believe correctly,
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you can empower what you're believing
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to become your reality.
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But when you believe incorrectly,
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your faith will also empower
that lie to become a reality.
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So in this particular case, that very talented gifted person
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who really shines, begins
to believe they have nothing
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to offer, and therefore
they sink into oblivion.
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Even though they're loaded
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and they're shining, they're
seized with a thought
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that takes them down.
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Or how about a skinny person
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who believes they're fat?
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Every time they look in the mirror,
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all they can see is rolls.
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When in fact really they don't have any
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but a voice is speaking
to them all the time.
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You weigh too much, you weigh
too much, you weigh too much.
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They begin to become anorexic.
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They begin to lose weight and lose weight.
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They get physically sick.
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People are concerned about their weight,
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and they just keep losing weight
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because they believe they're overweight.
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My friends, that's what the
Bible calls a stronghold.
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Sometimes people write to me
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and they say, Brother Rick, can the devil read our thoughts?
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I'm not worried about the
devil reading my thoughts.
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I'm more concerned about
the devil injecting his lies
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into my thoughts.
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That's what you need
to be concerned about.
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And now we come to
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2 Corinthians 10:4, about how
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to pull down wrong thoughts.
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And in 2 Corinthians 10:4,
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Paul writes and he says, For the weapons of our warfare
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are not carnal,
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but are mighty through God to the pulling down
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of strongholds.
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Now we're gonna look at this verse from several directions.
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This verse is very important,
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but I want us to begin
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with the words, pulling down. This word,
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pulling down in the original Greek text means, are you ready
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for this, to take down,
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to disassemble if needed, bit by bit:
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to demolish, to destroy, to dismantle,
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to throw down, to knock
knockdown, breakup, pull apart
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and take to pieces until
nothing is left standing.
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And here it is used to
picture the pulling down
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of strongholds.
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And every time I see this phrase, pulling down, I think back
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to when I was a young boy
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and my dad decided that he
was gonna build a garage
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and he needed bricks.
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Well, we couldn't afford new bricks
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because we were not a wealthy family.
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So daddy went downtown Tulsa
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where they were demolishing homes,
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and he purchased the rights
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to take apart an old brick
house downtown Tulsa.
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And every day when daddy
got home from work,
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he'd load me up in the truck and he
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and I would head downtown
Tulsa with our hammers.
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And daddy would say, son,
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we're gonna take this house to pieces.
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We're gonna take all these
bricks, take them home
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to build our garage.
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I remember looking at that house thinking,
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you've got to be kidding.
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We're gonna dismantle
this entire brick house.
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And not only were we to dismantle it,
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but we had to break all the
old mortar off of every brick
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until every brick was clean.
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Well, how do you dismantle
an entire brick house
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with a hammer - one brick at a time.
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And minute by minute, hour by hour, daddy
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and I were whacking away
at those brick walls,
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breaking them old mortar
off of those bricks
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and cleaning them and putting
those cleaned bricks in a
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stack over here.
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And finally, we completely
dismantled that house.
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It was brick by brick, piece by piece.
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that if you've been believing
wrong thoughts in your mind
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for a long time
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and now you've got a stronghold,
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you've got a lie in your head, my friends,
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you're probably gonna have
to take that lie apart piece
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by piece.
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to disassemble if needed, bit by bit, to demolish,
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to destroy, to dismantle, to
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pull apart and take to pieces
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until nothing is left standing, which means
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you've gotta be very determined
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that I'm not gonna stop dismantling these wrong thoughts in
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my mind until they are gone.
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You can't start and stop.
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You've gotta continue until
you've completely disassembled
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and dismantled those wrong thoughts
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that have been ruling in your life.
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wrong thoughts are called
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strongholds -
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strongholds. Well, what does the word stronghold mean?
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Well in Greek, it is a form of the Greek word ochuroma,
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and it actually has two meanings.
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And both of them are
correct in this verse.
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First, it describes a
castle or a fortress.
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It pictures a stronghold,
a citadel with walls
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that are fortified to keep
outsiders on the outside.
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But the same word ochuroma,
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was used to describe also a prison.
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A prison that was constructed
deep inside a fortress
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that was intended to prevent a hostage
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or prisoner from escaping.
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describes a place of arrest,
a place of captivity,
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confinement, a place of
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or incarceration.
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And here's what we find.
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When the devil's been injecting wrong thoughts into your
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mind and you've just been letting those thoughts control
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you, eventually you begin to believe the lie.
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A device has been pulled on your mind,
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your mind is confused, your brains have been scrambled.
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Your faith is empowering it, now it's becoming a stronghold,
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a mental stronghold in your mind.
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And now you live like a person
who's living behind the walls
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of a fortress.
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In fact, those that are
outside your friends
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and your family who try to
tell you the truth about you,
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they can't seem to break through to you
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because you're living
behind the walls of a lie.
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For example, they may
say, oh, you're so gifted,
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but they can't penetrate you
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because you really
believe you're not gifted.
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But on the other hand,
you're like a prisoner living
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behind bars when in fact there are no bars.
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It is all mental, it is all it imaginary,
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but yet you live behind
imaginary bars just
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as though they are real and
you are held captive by a lie.
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You look at people
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and think, oh, I wish
I could be like them,
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or, oh, I wish I was gifted
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as them when in fact you're probably more gifted than them,
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but you're living behind imaginary bars
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that hold you captive.
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Do you see how powerful this is?
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Now, there's something else you need to understand.
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In Acts 10:38,
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it says - How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
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with the Holy Ghost and power
who went about doing good
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and healing all that were
oppressed of the devil.
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That word oppressed is a compound of 2 words:
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the word kata and the word, dunasteuo.
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The word kata carries the idea of domination.
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domineering tyrant.
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those two words together,
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it becomes the word oppressed
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in Acts 10:38,
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but it actually pictures a wicked tyrant, a wicked king
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who rules over his subjects.
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It depicts despotism, dictatorship, one that is oppressive
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or tyranny.
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And here we find that just like tyrants live in castles,
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once the devil has built
a stronghold in your head,
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he's filled your thoughts
with wrong thoughts,
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and you believe them
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and your faith has empowered
them to become a stronghold,
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it's nearly like the devil moves into your mind
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and into your emotions.
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And like a king or a wicked
tyrant, he begins to tell you
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what to think, what not to
think, what your future is,
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what your future will never be.
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Like a wicked tyrant,
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he oppresses you, he dominates you,
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and he begins to manipulate
you like a puppet in
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his hands.
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Now my friends, this is very powerful revelation for you.
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But going back to 2 Corinthians 10:4,
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the first of the verse says,
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God has given us weapons to deal with this.
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The word weapons is the word, hoplas: the same word is used
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in Ephesians 6:14 to 18,
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where Paul describes all
the weapons of warfare
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that have been given to us.
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And Paul says, these mighty weapons
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of our warfare are not carnal.
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And the word warfare is even important.
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It is the form of the Greek word strateia,
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which depicts a well planned attack, which means,
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God hasn't just given us weapons,
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but if we will listen to the Holy Spirit,
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the Holy Spirit will give
us a strategy of attack.
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It's derived from the Greek word, strateuomai,
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which depicts strategic warfare
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or methods to be used in an attack
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and the root chosen to carry
out a debilitating attack,
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which means if you will
listen to the Holy Spirit,
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he will enable you.
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He'll give you a strategy
to pull down those thoughts,
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brick by brick, piece by piece, if necessary.
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And in fact, the verse
goes on to say, the weapons
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that God has given us are mighty.
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They are mighty.
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And the word mighty is the Greek word dunata.
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And listen to what it means.
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It's from the word dunamis,
which depicts power
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or explosive, superhuman power that comes
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with enormous energy
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and produces phenomenal, extraordinary,
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unparalleled results.
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And it is also from the
same route that was used
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to describe the full might
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of the advancing Roman army, and my friends,
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it means that when you use these weapons,
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which God has given you, they are mighty.
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They empower you to be
like a force that ascends
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and descends on that
stronghold in your mind
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to pull it down.
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Wow! And the verse goes on
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to say they're mighty through God.
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This is important. Through God, in Greek, describes the
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instrumentality of these weapons.
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It's not what we do,
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but it's what we do through, through God,
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through these weapons that he has given us
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to the pulling down of strongholds.
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Then you come to verse 5.
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And verse 5 says - casting down imaginations.
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And guess what? The word casting down is the same Greek word
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translated in verse 4 as pulling down.
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So now we find this word
used twice in two verses.
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And again, it means casting
down means to take down
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to dismantle if needed, bit
by bit to demolish, destroy,
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dismantle, throw down, knock
down breakup, pull apart,
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and take the pieces until nothing is left standing; we are
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to cast down completely,
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dismantle: this verse says
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imaginations.
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It describes where
these strongholds exist.
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They exist in your mind, in your thoughts.
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That's why you need to get a
grip on your thoughts, in your
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imagination.
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The word, imagination, is the Greek word logismos.
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The word logismos is where we get the word for logic
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as in logical thinking.
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And it depicts the thoughts
or the reasonings of the mind.
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And again, the devil's after your head
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because he knows if he can control your head,
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he will control your life.
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And that's why it's so
essential you get a grip
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on your thoughts.
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But wait, verse 5 goes on to say, we're
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to cast down imaginations
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and every high thing. The word,
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every, in Greek is the word pan.
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It is all encompassing, nothing excluded,
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all, every high thing
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that exalts itself against
the knowledge of God.
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And here we find any
thought that is contrary to
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what God has already declared
about you is to be cast down.
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For example, God says you are righteous.
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Bhat if you have a thought that you're unrighteous,
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that thought is against
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what God has already declared
about you, you're to grab hold
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of it and you're to cast it down.
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Now, the truth is voices are
coming at you all the time.
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That voice of the devil is speaking to you.
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The voice of the word of
God is speaking to you,
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and the voice you listen
to is the one that's going
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to dominate you.
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So if the devil is speaking to you
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and trying to inject wrong
thoughts into your mind,
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you've gotta close your
ear to the wrong thoughts,
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open your ear to the
truth, and hear the truth,
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and hear the truth, and hear
the truth, and hear the truth.
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Until finally, your mind
is renewed to the truth.
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And when your mind becomes renewed to the truth
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and you believe the truth, your faith will empower the truth
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to become your reality.
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This is how important it is
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that you get a grip on your thoughts.
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I'll be back in just a moment and I want to pray for you.
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This is Rick Renner and somebody has asked a great question.
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Here it is, I'm struggling with depression.
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How do I deal with it and how do I overcome it?
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Well, there are practical
things you can do
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and you should do everything
practically you can
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to overcome depression.
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But you have to also understand
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that depression is a spiritual force.
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It comes to suppress you,
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and God has given you spiritual weapons.
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We read about this in 2 Corinthians 10,
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and the Bible tells us that with the spiritual weapons,
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we're able to pull down
every mental stronghold
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that comes against us,
which means you do not have
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to be a victim to your thoughts
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or a victim to your emotions.
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You can take authority over your mind.
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You can rebuke that spirit
that has come against you
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and do the practical
things that you can do.
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And if you'll do all of it,
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you will literally put depression
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and oppression on the run.
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You can be free from depression.
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Sometimes your thoughts just run away with you
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and it really creates a mess in your life.
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The devil knows if he can inject wrong thoughts into your
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mind, he can outmaneuver you,
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but you can stop him by
taking your thoughts captive.
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In Rick Renner's series, What Jesus Said About
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Getting A Grip On Your Thought Life, you will learn
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how you can master your
thoughts rather than letting
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them master you.
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In these 5-programs, you'll find teachings about -
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How the enemy injects thoughts to outwit you: How
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to shut the door to the enemy for good - and more.
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It all begins in the mind - available in digital
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or physical formats starting at just $11.
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This series will help you find
victory in your thought life.
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In addition to this teaching series,
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we are offering you the book, Dressed to Kill, considered
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by many to be a classic on the subject
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of spiritual warfare. Dressed to Kill, will show you how
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to pull down mental strongholds
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and get a grip on your thought life.
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What Jesus Said About Getting A Grip On Your Thought Life
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and the book, Dressed to Kill.
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This is Rick Renner
and I wanna say thank you
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to you partner for everything you do
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to help us take the teaching of the Bible
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to the ends of the earth.
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Proverbs 10:21 says, the lips of the righteous feed many.
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And that's our task.
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We are to feed many the
wonderful word of God.
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And I want to tell you that
we have given away hundreds
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and thousands of my books
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and other resources when people call us
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or they go online responding to an offer
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that we have made to them.
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My friends, that's a lot of material.
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And I'm going to tell you, it takes a lot of money
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to give away that many resources, but we're able to do it
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because of our partners. Because of what you give,
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we are able to take the life transforming truths
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of God's word to people that
are looking for answers,
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and what a privilege that
people would come sit
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around our table and we would be able
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to feed them the wonderful
truths of God's word.
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And you are a big part of that.
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So I wanted to say thank
you, thank you, partner.
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And if you're listening today
and you're not a partner yet,
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we need you and we ask
you to become a part
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of the partner family so
we can take the teaching
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of God's word to people
all over the world.
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And we receive you and we welcome you into our Giving Team.
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I am so sorry we're out of time today
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because I feel like I'm really helping you,
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but when we come back tomorrow,
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we're gonna pick up right here.
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Please do not miss tomorrow's episode.
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If you've been helped today,
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you're gonna be even more helped in the program tomorrow.
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But I'm teaching from my series,
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which is called, Getting a Grip on Your Thought Life.
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My friends, whoever controls your head, controls you.
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So it's important that you don't just let your thoughts run
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away with you or let the devil inject all kinds
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of wrong thinking into your mind.
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You need to let Jesus be the
Lord of your thinking process.
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That's what this series is about.
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By the way, it comes with a great study guide.
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And I also want to mention
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to you my book called Dressed to Kill.
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It is fully illustrated.
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It is a Christian classic
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and in the book, Dress to Kill, I deal a lot with
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how pull down strongholds and
liberate your mind from lies.
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And I want you to have it.
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You can find out about these
resources by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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And please, when you reach
out to us, let us know
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how to pray for you.
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We're waiting for the phone to ring
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or for your email to show up
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so we can begin praying right now.
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But put your hand on your heart.
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Father, I thank in the name of Jesus, the Greater One,
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hhe Holy Spirit lives inside of us,
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and we can choose to
close our ears to the lie
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and open our ears to the truth.
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We can get a grip on our thoughts. I thank you for it
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in Jesus' name - say Amen. Amen.
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Well, I'll see you tomorrow,
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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.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.