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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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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. Let's
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join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
My name is Rick Renner.
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Thanks for letting me come
right to where you are.
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And today we're gonna wrap up this series,
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which is called, Getting A Grip on Your Thought Life.
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Thank you for reaching out to me
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and letting me know that yesterday's
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program really helped you.
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And if yesterday's program helped you,
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I believe today is
gonna help you even more
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because today we're gonna see how
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to permanently get a grip
on your thought life.
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I'm talking about permanently.
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It's gonna really be important.
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So stay with me all the way
to the end of today's program.
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But the whole series is called, Getting a Grip on
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Your Thought Life.
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It's five parts, comes
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with a study guide in
all kinds of formats.
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And right now I'm also
telling you about my book
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called Dress to Kill.
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It's a book that is fully illustrated.
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It's a book on spiritual warfare and spiritual weaponry.
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But a big part of that book deals
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with conquering strongholds in your mind.
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As I told you yesterday,
the devil's after your head.
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God is after your head.
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In fact, everybody's after your head.
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Education wants your mind.
Hollywood wants your mind.
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Society wants your mind.
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The fashion industry wants your mind.
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Everyone wants your mind
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because it's a fact that whoever controls your mind
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controls you.
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And that's why it's so important
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that you make sure Jesus
is Lord of your mind
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and you don't give your
mind to anybody else.
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But if you have already
surrendered your mind
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to wrong thinking and
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that wrong thinking is
entrenched in your mind,
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you can remove it.
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You really can.
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But it's gonna require
a very fierce decision.
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And that's what I'm going to
be talking to you about today.
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But I cover a lot of this in
my book called Dress to Kill.
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But if you're interested in this series
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or in this book, just go
online or give us a call.
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We'll tell you more about
it and how you can get it.
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And if you have a prayer
need, please reach out to us.
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Let us know how to pray for you
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because we're wanting to pray for you
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and waiting for the
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or for your email to show up in our inbox.
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And by the way, if
you're a partner, I want
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to say thank you, thank you,
thank you for being a partner
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with our ministry.
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You are very important to us.
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Together we're taking the
trusted teaching of the Bible
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to the ends of the earth.
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And if you're not a partner yet,
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please pray about becoming
a partner with our ministry.
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But I want you to reach for your Bible.
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And today we're gonna go back to 2 Corinthians 2:11,
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which is the foundational verse for this series.
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And in this verse, Paul gives us very profound insight about
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how the devil works.
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He 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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And we've seen over
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and over that the word Satan in Greek as the word,
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santanas.
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And it describes an accuser,
a conspirator, a deceiver,
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a manipulator, a schemer or a slanderer.
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And all of those words are appropriate
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to describe the activities of the devil.
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So it really means lest the
accuser, the conspirator,
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the deceiver, the
manipulator, 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 someone of something.
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It means to outmaneuver or to outwit.
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And now Paul tells all of us,
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these are the objectives of the devil.
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He wants to take advantage of us.
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He wants to defraud us of what belongs to us.
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He wants to outmaneuver us, outwit us.
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And Paul says, for this
reason, we are not ignorant.
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And you don't need to be ignorant either of his devices.
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And we've seen that the word devices is the Greek word,
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noemata, which 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 it becomes noemata, it's no longer just the mind,
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but it's a mind that is confused, a mind that is filled
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with all kinds of scheming and arguments
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and reasonings that are wrong.
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And I say it's the picture of scrambled brains.
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Somebody whose mind is so confused, he's listened to a lie
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so long that now he really believes that lie is the truth.
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And when you believe a lie,
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that lie becomes a stronghold in your head.
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Now, you saw in the last program
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that God has given us weapons
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to pull down those mental strongholds,
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but today we're gonna move on to James 1:21 to see what kind
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of determination is required to take
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that stronghold apart bit
by bit and dismantle it.
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So let's go to James 1:21,
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where James says - Wherefore lay apart all filthiness
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and superfluity of naughtiness and receive with meekness
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the engrafted word which is able to save your souls.
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Let's begin with the 2 words - lay apart.
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In Greek, it is the word, apotithimi.
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The word apo means away from, and it implies distance.
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The word, tithemi, means to place or to set.
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But when you compound the 2-words together here in the
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King James version, it's translated, lay apart.
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But here's what it really means -
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apotithemi. Apo, away from: tithemi, to lay down
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or to place: to lay something down
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and apo - push it far, far away from you.
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In fact, you push it so far away from you
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that you cannot reach over
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You're intentionally putting space
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between you and that thing.
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And here it's describing wrong thoughts
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and wrong attitudes that have
ruled you for a long time.
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You've got to make a decision,
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I am repenting of these thoughts.
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I'm rejecting these thoughts.
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I'm laying them down, and I'm
pushing them so far from me
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I can never reach over to retrieve them.
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But something very important, these words lay apart,
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the Greek word apotithemi, was the same Greek word used
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to describe removing your
clothes at the end of the day.
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Well, at the end of the day, how do you
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take off your clothes?
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Do you just stand in front of the mirror
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and wish that your clothes would come off?
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Or do you get involved in removal?
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Of course, you gotta
get involved in removal.
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Now I'm wearing a white shirt.
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It just so happens that
this is a new shirt,
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and for me to remove it,
I have to push really hard
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to get the buttons through the button holes - ay..yi.
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I can't just wish my shirt off of me.
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It involves my decision; it involves my fingers,
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it involves my actions.
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And likewise, if you finally realize that you're dominated
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by wrong thinking, your thought life has been penetrated
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with wrong thoughts: just recognizing
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that it's wrong is not gonna get rid of it.
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You've gotta do something to get rid of it.
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You say, well, what am I supposed to do?
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You've got to involve your
own actions, your own will.
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You've got to say, I'm gonna
remove this wrong thinking.
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I'm gonna get rid of it. I'm gonna push it -
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apo - so far away from me I can never reach over
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and pick it back up again.
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And then James goes on to say - lay apart all filthiness.
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This word filthiness
describes how you need
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to view wrong thinking.
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It's filthy. It's
stinking. It has a stench.
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It has brought a putrid smell into your life - my friends -
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your life is not worthy of that filthiness.
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And the word filthiness is a Greek word, rhuparia,
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which describes that which is filthy, vile, soiled,
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dirty, obnoxiously filthy.
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And it was especially used to denote filthy
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and smelly clothes.
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And here we find that when
we have wrong thinking,
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wrong thinking, and we allow that wrong thinking
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to continue unfettered in our life,
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that wrong thinking not only
builds a stronghold in our
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mind, it produces an unbearable stench in our lives.
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It makes the aroma of our life terrible.
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And when I see this word filthiness, I think back
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to the early days of our ministry.
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When Denise and I were
pastoring a little church in
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Arkansas, I tell about that church
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and our story in the autobiography called, Unlikely.
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We had two men in that church
that were not mentally sound,
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but oh, how we love them,
love them, love them.
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And they were filthy dirty.
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I mean, obnoxiously, filthy.
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They would come in their,
their elbows were soiled,
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their hands were dirty,
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their clothes were just
stinking, stinking, stinking.
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And one of them worked
in a chicken factory
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where he worked in blood all day long
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where they were killing chickens.
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And he would come to church
in those same dirty clothes.
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The two of these men were
just obnoxiously, filthy.
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They just stank when they walked in the door.
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And Denise and I loved them so much.
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So Denise and I said to one other, let's take 'em home
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and let's let 'em go in
and take a good bath.
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Let's wash their clothes, clean 'em up.
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So Denise and I brought 'em home,
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and I remember thinking, wow,
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our house is gonna really stink
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after bringing those
two guys into our house.
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But we loved them. We wanted to help 'em.
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So we brought 'em home.
They took a shower.
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And very lovingly, Denise
took those grimy, grimy,
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grimy clothes.
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She put them in the
wash machine, the dryer,
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she got 'em all fixed up.
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And we redressed those two clean guys in
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brand new washed clothes.
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They looked good, they smelled good.
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We even gave them cologne.
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But the next time we saw them,
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they were back in their
filthy, stinking clothes.
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They didn't like being clean.
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They were just adjusted
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to living in those old
filthy garments for so long.
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They were not comfortable being clean.
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They were comfortable being obnoxiously, filthy.
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And you know when you're
dirty like that, you wreak.
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People wanna sit on the other side
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of the room and avoid you.
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Well, likewise, when you have
a wrong thought in your mind,
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sometimes you become so accustomed to the wrong thought
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that you become comfortable in it.
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But my friends, it ensnares
you, it captivates you.
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And when your wrong thinking
really becomes a stench,
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people will try to avoid you.
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All of that is in this text.
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Do you see how bad it is
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to let the devil inject wrong
thinking into your thoughts?
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And this verse says, lay
apart all filthiness:
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all this stinking thinking.
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And then he calls it super
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The word, superfluity, is the Greek word, perisseia.
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It describes something that is excessive,
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exceeding, something so profuse
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that it can be likened to a river that is overflowing
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and flooding its banks.
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And when I see this word in the Greek, it always reminds me
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of when I was a kid
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because my grandparents lived
out near a creek in one part
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of Tulsa that flooded almost every year.
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And that creek was just filled with mud -
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mud. And my grandparents lived on a large acreage
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where they had beautiful,
beautiful pecan trees.
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But you know, we never got
to enjoy the pecan trees
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because every year the creek flooded.
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And when the creek flooded,
er rotted all the pecans.
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And I can remember my dad
put me in his fishing boat
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and rather than drive out to their place
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to get my grandparents, we
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and would drive down the
highway in a fishing boat
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to the front porch
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where my grandparents were
standing on the porch waiting
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for us to come rescue them every year.
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And when the waters finally
wood recede, all the mud in
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that creek had slimmed everything - ay.yi.
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It was so sick. And one time it even came inside their home.
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It ruined everything inside their home.
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It looked like everything had just been bathed in mud.
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And now we find that if you don't deal with wrong thoughts,
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they increase, they increase.
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They begin to flood into every
single part of your life.
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And notice that James calls it, superfluity of naughtiness.
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The word naughtiness is the Greek word, kakia.
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It describes that which is bad, evil, vile
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or foul: something so putrid
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that it produces a dreadful stench.
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And here we find that once a Christian realizes
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that his thoughts have been invaded, he's been penetrated
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with wrong thoughts,
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and now wrong thoughts are dominating him, he has a choice.
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He can choose to hold onto those thoughts
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that he's become accustomed to.
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If he holds onto them, it's just gonna get worse.
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It's gonna become superfluity of naughtiness in his life,
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or he can choose to reject them.
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Will you say - how do I reject them?
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Well, verse 21 goes on to say -
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Aand receive with meekness the engrafted word
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which is able to save your soul.
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The word receive is a form of the Greek, dechomai.
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And the word dechomai means to take quickly, to take readily
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to take with a receptive and welcoming attitude.
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And the attitude is with meekness.
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Now, put away the word meekness
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because your idea of meekness is probably wrong.
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Most people think meekness is
being timid, it's being quiet.
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But you know the word meekness is a Greek word, prautes.
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It is completely opposite to what you think.
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The word meekness, actually describes a strong-willed person
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who believes that he is right.
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However, he has made a decision to put aside his opinions
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and to submit his opinion to a higher opinion.
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Even though he may not like it, he has chosen
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to deny himself
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and to take the opinion of
someone else over himself
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and to submit to it
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and to embrace that opinion
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until it becomes his reality.
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That's really what the word, meekness, means.
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A strong-willed person who
has learned to submit his will
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to a higher authority.
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And my friends, if you have a wrong thought
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and you've lived with that wrong thought,
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you probably believe that
wrong thought is the truth.
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For you to get rid of it,
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you've gotta make a decision
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that you're gonna submit your
will, submit your feelings,
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submit all your opinions
to what God says about you,
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whether you agree with God or not.
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That's what meekness is.
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God, I'm gonna submit to
you, I'm gonna believe
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what your word says, whether I feel it,
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whether I've experienced it,
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I'm gonna submit my will to you.
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I'm gonna believe what you say.
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I'm gonna receive with a meek attitude,
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the engrafted word, which
is able to save your soul.
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The word engrafted, the Greek word emphuton, means engrafted
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or subsequently implanted.
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And the best example of this word implanted
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or engrafted is an organ transplant.
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Let's say a person has a kidney that has failed.
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Well, the only way that person's gonna live
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is if someone donates a kidney.
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Well, the kidney is not theirs; it's not original to them.
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But the fact is, if they don't
receive it, they're gonna die.
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For them to receive that organ from someone else,
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they've gotta crawl on the operating table.
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They've gotta be opened up.
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They've got to be willing to receive
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a donor organ from someone else.
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It's got to be planted in
them, engrafted into them.
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And that's not the end of the story.
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In order for that kidney to
work in them for the rest
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of their life, they've
gotta be on medication
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that receives that organ.
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Otherwise the body will reject it.
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And in the very same way, when
the word of God comes to you,
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the word of God is God's donation to you.
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It has the power to save you.
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And in fact, you won't make
it without the word of God,
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but it's got to be engrafted into you.
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And for God's word to be engrafted into you,
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you've gotta be willing to submit to the surgical work
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of God to remove everything that is wrong, remove everything
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that is dead, and to receive
that life-giving truth.
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And once you receive
that life-giving truth,
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you've gotta decide that
from that moment forward,
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you're gonna do anything you have to do
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to make sure you never reject that truth
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that's been placed in you.
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Do you see how powerful this is?
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And I want to give you five steps
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to eliminate wrong thinking
and to think correctly.
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Pay attention to this. No.1: submission.
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You have to be submitted to the authority of God.
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You have to choose to come under his authority, believe
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what he says in his word,
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and then do it regardless of what you think or how you feel.
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No.2: elimination.
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You must then eliminate your
own opinion and feelings
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and anything else that would distract
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or keep you from submitting
to God's authority.
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You've gotta take it off,
lay it down, push it away,
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and never reach over to pick it up again.
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You've gotta submit yourself
and align yourself with God.
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No.3: you've got to decide
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that you will never veer from what God says,
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but you will instead remain
committed to the principles
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of his word.
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No.4: continuation. Your decision is not a one-time
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event, but an ongoing commitment
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to continually eliminate wrong thinking
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and to remain in submission
to the word of God
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for the rest of your life.
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And No.5: reception.
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As you walk out the first 4-steps, which is submission,
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elimination, decision,
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and continuation, as you walk out the first 4-steps,
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you will finally begin to receive the word
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of God into your life permanently.
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And when you do that, James 1:21 says,
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it is able to save your soul.
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Wow. The word able
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is the Greek word dunamai.
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It means it has the power which means, innate in the word
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of God is the power to save
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your soul.
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The word save here is a form of the Greek word sodzo,
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which is normally translated
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as salvation in the New Testament.
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It also carries the idea of deliverance.
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It also carries the idea
of wholeness of mind.
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It carries the idea of soundness.
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It means to heal, which means
when you receive the word
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of God in you, it saves you,
it delivers you, it heals you,
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it makes you whole.
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And particularly it will save your soul.
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And the word soul, my friend, is the word psuche.
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It's where you get the word for psychology.
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It's the Greek word for your psyche: the mind, the will
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and your emotions.
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Well, what is the name of this series?
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Getting A Grip On Your Thought Life.
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The thought life is where all the problems begin.
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Adultery begins in your thoughts.
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Fornication begins in the thought.
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Looking at pornography begins in the thought.
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Overeating begins in the thought.
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Rage begins by entertaining
anger in your thoughts.
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Everything begins in your thoughts.
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And as we saw in yesterday's episode,
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people have believed wrong thoughts for
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so long they've become strongholds in their mind.
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But now we have seen today that if you will choose to accept
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what God says, you can
replace wrong thoughts
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with biblical right thoughts.
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And when you receive them like a donor
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or planted into you, it will kick into gear.
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And that engrafted word will save your mind
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will and emotions.
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It will straighten up your thoughts.
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And when your thoughts are in order,
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everything else comes into alignment
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and everything becomes good in life.
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That's the power of getting
a grip on your thought life.
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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 - What are some
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of the reasons that people depart in their
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relationship with God?
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Well, sometimes people get disappointed.
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They have an expectation
that has not met as soon
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as they wanted it to be met, so they feel
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that God failed them. But in most cases, these are people
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that are isolated and they are alone.
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If they were really surrounded
by a good church family
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who could speak faith to
them and encourage them
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and bolster them up in their faith,
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they would remain in
their walk with the Lord.
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But because they're slugging
it out all by themselves,
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when they run into hardships,
they begin to question God
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and perhaps even begin to think that the Bible is not true,
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and out of disappointment, they begin
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to walk away from the Lord.
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But my friends don't let that be you.
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And if you know someone that
is struggling, make sure
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that you are one that's speaking words
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of encouragement to them.
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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
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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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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.
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But we're able to do it because of our partners.
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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
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and we welcome you into our Giving Team.
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My friend, thank you for being with me today.
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I wanna pray for you right now. Put your hand on your heart.
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Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray
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that you would enable my dear
friend to submit their will
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to the word of God, to replace
wrong thoughts with a truth.
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They would choose to hear the word of God
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and stop listening to the lie
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that they would get a grip on their thought life
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and stop allowing their thoughts to run away with them.
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And Jesus, I ask you to become
enthroned in their mind,
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their will and their emotions.
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And from that high place in
their life, in their mind,
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you would begin to dominate
their life with your goodness
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and with your blessings.
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And I speak it to you in the name of Jesus - Amen.
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Wow, I have so enjoyed this series,
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and thank you for letting me know
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that it's been a blessing to you.
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Please go online to find more about this series,
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which is called Getting a Grip on Your Thought Life,
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and the book called - Dress to Kill,
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which really focuses on how
to pull down strongholds
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and renew your mind to the
truth so you can walk free.
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My friends, you can get a grip on your thoughts.
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You really can.
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Jesus really is Lord,
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and that means he's even
Lord over your mind.
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And remember that if you need
prayer, we would love to pray
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with you, especially about you getting a grip on
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your thoughts.
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But thank you for being with me
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through all these episodes this week.
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I'll see you again in the next episode,
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but I want you to remember that Ecclesiastes 8:
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4, declares "Where the word
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of a king is there is power."
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And you remember God's word has power.
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So you submit your mind
to the word of our king
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and let that word of our
king take root in your mind.
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I'll see you in the next program.
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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 - Amen.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.
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