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-: Hey friends, this is Rick Renner,
and here I am again standing on the very peak
or what was the bow of Noah's Ark.
This site is reputed to be the ruins of Noah's Ark,
and I believe that it really is,
it matches all the biblical qualifications to be the Ark.
People have been searching for it on Mount Ararat,
but the Bible doesn't say that the ark landed on
Mount Ararat.
Look it up. Genesis 8:5 says,
it landed in the Mountains of Ararat,
and these are the Mountains of Ararat.
And this particular boat shaped object precisely fits the
dimensions which are given to us in Genesis 6.
And it's been thoroughly searched and researched since 1959.
And I believe these really are the ruins of Noah's Ark.
But let me ask you a question.
What if God had given specific instructions to Noah
and Noah heard them, but he wasn't willing to obey?
What if he said, God, I don't wanna spend all my money
and all my effort on building that big boat.
Nobody's ever seen a boat like that before?
No one knows what a flood is.
God, I just don't know if I'm willing to do
what you've told me to do.
Or what if Mrs.
Noah or Noah's sons
or daughters-in-law had said, we're just not willing
to do this, then they would've been destroyed
with everybody else.
They had to be willing to obey.
And in the very same way in these last days,
when we're surrounded by so much nonsense
and destruction, we have to receive God's instructions.
We have to have ears to really hear what he is saying.
And then we have to be willing to do whatever it is
that God has told us to do,
even if it doesn't make sense to us.
And even if we don't like what he is asking us to do.
Friends, he knows the future.
He knows what's coming.
He knows how to save us, that we have to be willing
to obey if we're gonna float on a sea
of destruction in the last days.
And that is what I'm gonna talk to you about today.
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Welcome to today's program.
My name is Rick Renner
and I've been waiting right here for this moment
so we can rendezvous around the wonderful word of God.
And I'm teaching my series, which is called How
to Float on a Sea of Destruction in the Last Days.
And there on the cover is a picture
of Noah's Ark literally floating on a sea of destruction.
Those waters destroyed the world,
but the same waters that destroyed the world caused Noah
and his family to rise higher and higher and higher
and they literally floated on waters of destruction.
And I prophesied to you in Jesus' name that if you'll do
what God tells you to do in these last days,
you can also float on a sea of destruction.
You may feel that you're surrounded by all kinds
of turbulence and nonsense.
And by the way, buckle your seatbelt
because it's just getting started.
As we sail to the end of the age, it's going
to get even more crazy and bizarre.
But my friends, if we'll take the principles of God's word
and apply them, we will not sink with everybody else.
And that's why the subtitle
of this series says - 10 Principles
to Help You Sail Victoriously
Through Turbulent End-Time Weather.
You can do it, but this also comes with a great study guide.
I put a lot of work into these study guides.
I really do them myself working with my team.
And we do these
because we want you to see the information while you're
seeing or hearing the program because when you read and see
or hear all at the same time,
it really gets the teaching down deep inside you.
And you need this teaching to be reinforced in your life.
And we're also offering you right now my book,
which is called, Last Day's Survival Guide; the
for Word is written by my friend Perry Stone,
and the subtitle says, A scriptural Handbook to prepare you
for these perilous times.
I love this book because it is just so practical.
And at the end of every chapter, there are action steps
for you to take in response to what you have read.
And by the way, this will be great for you to read.
It'd be great for somebody else to read.
So you ought to order several.
But you can order all these things by going online
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If you've ever called us
before, you know that's hard
to get away from us without being prayed for.
We really believe in the power of prayer.
And if there's anything you're dealing with
and you just wish there was somebody who would pray
with you, well here we are, call us or send us an email
and we will pray with you
and we're waiting to hear from you right now.
But before I get into today's teaching,
I wanna tell you something about my wonderful wife Denise.
Denise and I have been married 4 decades.
She is the most important partner in my life
and I'm so thankful for my wife,
but I don't just respect her as my wife.
Denise is a really substantial minister of the gospel,
and she has a women's ministry
that literally impacts thousands upon thousands
of women. Here in the former Soviet Union where we live,
Denise has a group of about 50,000 women
who participate in her online ministry
where she teaches her Cinderella book
and how to be a successful wife.
And she has hundreds of volunteers that work with her.
Plus she conducts massive meetings in this part
of the world, equipping women how to be all
that God has called them to be.
And when we're in the United States, Denise travels with me.
She ministers in music, she ministers in healing,
and she holds her own meetings as well.
And I'm just so proud of Denise.
And today I wanted to tell you about Denise's ministry.
It is thriving, it is literally blossoming
and tens of thousands of women are being touched.
And the reason Denise is able
to do this life-changing ministry is
because of our partners. Our partners foot the bill
with their gifts and with their offerings.
And I wanna say "thank you" partners for everything
that you do together.
We're really making a difference in the lives of many people
and we're so thankful to God for you.
And if you're not already a partner today, I ask you
to pray about becoming a partner with our ministry.
When you become a partner, you join hands with us
to see lives changed,
and the moment you become a partner, we're going
to send you two books as our way of saying "Welcome
to our Partner Family".
We're going to send you my book,
which is called, Life in the Combat Zone.
And I'm not prophesying a combat zone to you -
you're probably already in one.
This book will help you get through it.
And we're gonna send you Denise's book called, The Gift
of Forgiveness.
We believe these two books are so important
that we want every partner to have them.
So the moment you become a partner,
we're gonna get these in the mail to you as our way
of saying "Welcome to our Family."
But hey, reach for your Bible.
And today we're gonna return to our series called, How
to Float on a Sea of Destruction In the Last Days.
We always use the Bible in this program,
and by the way, we're believing for a revival
of the Bible in the church: say - Amen.
But today I want to talk to you about
what will happen if you obey what God is telling you to do.
We've already covered the fact that you need
to receive divine instructions
and for you to receive those instructions, you have
to have ears to hear.
That's what we covered in the previous program.
If you didn't hear that, please go back to the archives
or order the series so you'll know how to have ears to hear
what God is wanting to say to you.
But once you hear what God has to say,
then you have a choice to obey or to disobey.
You know, when God first called my family
and I to the former Soviet Union, I was the only one
that knew that God had spoken and I didn't tell anybody
because I wasn't so sure I was going to obey.
Denise and I were enjoying our life in the United States.
We had just moved into a beautiful home
and we were just enjoying ourselves.
And then God spoke
and said, Hey, we're gonna have a major detour in your life.
I'm gonna lead you in another direction.
I'm going to lead you to the former Soviet Union.
But guess what? At that time it wasn't former,
it was still the Soviet Union.
Well, who in their right mind would move their family
to the Soviet Union?
And in fact, in the time when God was calling us there,
people in the Soviet Union were trying to get out
of the Soviet Union.
And God was telling me to move my family there.
And I have to tell you that it took me a while to come
around and I debated, am I really gonna do
what the Lord is telling me to do?
And one day I said to the Lord,
what will happen if I obey you?
And I was thinking, what about my ministry?
What about our books?
All of our meetings, everything is growing and thriving,
and if I obey you, what's going to happen
to all these blessings
and all this success which we are experiencing?
And I heard the Holy Spirit ask me a question -
"And what will you miss if you don't obey me?"
What will you miss if you don't obey me?
And now, rather than thinking about what I was going
to be losing, I begin to think about what I would be missing
if I didn't obey.
And you know, if I had not obeyed the Lord,
we could have continued our ministry.
And I would've always wondered, Hmm, I wonder
what would've happened if I had said yes.
I wonder what we would've experienced if I had said yes,
I would've lived with that question to the end
of my life and my friends,
I could not live with that question.
So I find myself finally getting into alignment with God
and saying, yes, Lord, I'm going to do what you've asked me
to do. And my friends, because we obeyed,
we have seen the power of God move in this part
of the world through our ministry.
He's moved through many ministries,
but I'm telling you about what we have seen.
And our children never missed a thing.
Our children grew up in the living book of Acts.
They don't just read the book of Acts as history.
They have seen the Book of Acts.
They have experienced the Book of Acts.
And my friends, if I had not said yes,
I wouldn't be a seated in this chair in a TV studio in
Moscow speaking to you.
We wouldn't have seen all the churches established
and the pastor's lives strengthened in the many,
many people that have come to the Lord.
We wouldn't have seen any of it.
I would still be in the United States saying - "Gee, I wonder
what would've happened if I had said yes?"
And my friends, I'm telling you today,
you cannot live without question.
What if Noah had said no when God told him to build the ark?
What if he had said no?
Well, my friends, we wouldn't be here today
if Noah had said no, but he had an opportunity to say no.
He knew the cost that would be involved For him
to construct the largest ship ever constructed, a project
that took 100 years.
He knew that he would be the brunt of society.
People would laugh at him, they would tell Noah jokes
as he built year after year after year after year.
And I would imagine there were some really funny Noah jokes
that were told back in those days.
He had to convince his wife to obey, he had
to convince his kids to obey.
And he could have said, you know what?
This is gonna take a lot of money to build this big boat.
This is just too big a task for me.
And he could have said "No" -
but my friends - if you obey, if you obey,
you will step into the thriving will of God
for your life.
And God is calling on you to obey the instructions
that he's giving you.
But today we're gonna return to Genesis 7:
16, where the Bible says -
And they that went in went in male
and female of all flesh as God commanded him
and the Lord shut him in. Verse 17:
And the flood was 40 days upon the earth
and the waters increased and bear up the ark.
There it is. The same waters that destroyed everything else,
caused Noah and his family to rise higher
and higher and higher.
And it was lifted up above the whole earth.
And Noah and his family literally floated on the waters
of destruction because they obeyed -
they obeyed. In Isaiah 1:19, we are told -
If you're willing and obedient,
you will eat the good of the land.
That is a divine promise. But notice there's two parts.
You've got to be willing
and you've gotta follow through: if you be willing
and obedient.
Some people have a willingness and then they fall short.
They don't do what they've been told to do.
But this verse says, if you're willing
and obedient, here's the guarantee - you will eat the good
of the land.
And when we come to Hebrews 11:7, we find
that Noah was really obedient to
what God had instructed him.
Listen to this verse: Hebrews 11:7 says -
By faith, Noah - by the way -
the word, faith, here describes a faith that is unbendable,
unbreakable, unshakeable, unmoving:
by this unbendable, unbreakable faith,
Noah was in his place of faith.
He knew he had his assignment - being warned of God
of things not seen as yet, and moved with fear
and prepared an ark to the saving of his house.
But notice again, it says being warned.
Now, we've covered this in a previous program,
but let's look at it again.
Being warned - in Greek is the word chrematidzo,
which describes a business transaction.
And really it describes the relationship
that Noah had with God.
His relationship with God was very businesslike.
This word, being warned, also means to advise
or to consult with one about an important affair. In this
case, to be advised and consulted by God.
And literally it means being divinely advised,
divinely consulted,
and divinely warned of things not seen as yet.
Well, the Greek says not yet, not ever before seen.
So when God advised
and consulted Noah about a worldwide flood,
no one had ever heard
of a worldwide flood. Prior to the flood,
we're told in Genesis 2:6
that there was a mist which arose from the earth every
morning which watered the vegetation of the earth.
There had never even been rain until that time.
So when God told Noah that a flood was coming
and rain was going to pour outta the heavens,
no one had ever seen rain or heard of rain.
Noah didn't even know what that was,
but yet he was hearing this from God.
And God told him to build an ark that was going
to take a hundred years to build.
It was going to require magnificent resources, so much money
to build a ship that size
and then to collect two animals of every kind
and to gather food for all the animals and for his family
and to bring enough weapons
and tools onto the ark that when they finally landed,
they could start all over again.
And my friends, these were amazing tasks which God was
giving to Noah and to his family.
And he could have said - You know what?
This is just too big a job for me -
but instead, Hebrews 11:7 says - He moved
with fear.
And the Greek word here means - to do something cautiously
and to take action urgently
and seriously.
Noah understood God was giving him a very important task
and he had a sense of awe
and he had a sense of responsibility that caused him
to move forward very quickly
and urgently to do what God was asking him to do.
And he prepared an ark.
And the word - prepared - in Greek is very interesting.
It is the word kataskeuadzo.
It's a compound of two words: the word kata,
which means down,
and it carries the idea of intensity:
and the word, skeuadzo, which means to build.
When you put the 2-words together, it's not just to build,
but it's putting intensity into it.
It carries the idea of great effort,
which means when Noah began to build that ark,
he put everything he had into the construction of the ark:
building it exactly according to the plan
that God had given him.
And notice the word ark.
The word, ark, that is used here depicts a large ship
structure constructed of wood: a place designed
for warehousing and saving,
and it is the same word used in Exodus 2:
3, which was written
by Moses when Moses was recording the story
of his own birth.
And when he was born, to save his life,
his mother put him into an ark of bulrushes.
Do you remember that? And she shoved it out into the river
Nile, trusting that the currents
of the Nile would carry Moses to a place of safety
and deliverance.
Moses knew that. And now when Moses is describing the ark,
he uses the same word, which means, Noah knew
that ultimately God was going to have to be the one
who would carry the ark in the right currents
to the right location.
All of that is in this word ark.
But notice he did it for the saving of his house.
And the Greek would be better translated -
for the explicit purpose of saving his own household.
That is amazing. But then let's go to Genesis 6:13.
And God said to Noah, the end of all flesh has come
before me, for the earth is filled with violence
through them, and behold, I will destroy
them with the earth.
Verse 14: Make thee an ark
of gopher wood: room shalt thou make in the ark
and pitch it within and without with pitch -
verse 15 - And this is the fashion
with which thou shalt make it. God begin
to give him very clear instructions.
And finally, when we come to Genesis 5:22, it says
-: Thus did Noah, according to all
that God commanded him,
so did he. That is amazing.
Then you come to Genesis 7:
1, and it continues -
And the Lord said unto him, Noah,
come thou all thy house into the ark.
-: and then we read in verse 2 -
And Noah did according unto all
that the Lord commanded him.
Wow! Noah was obedient to
what God asked him to do.
And you read it over and over
and over in Genesis 6, Genesis 7,
Genesis 9, even Genesis 8,
that Noah did exactly what God asked him to do.
Noah and his family were careful to obey.
If they had not fully obeyed, they would've been lost
with everyone else.
And it makes me want to ask you today: Are you fully obeying
what the Holy Spirit has instructed you to do?
You have ears to hear now you've heard him speak to you.
Are you obeying what he has asked you to do?
In these last days,
if we're gonna float on a sea of destruction,
it is absolutely essential,
not that we just have ears to hear
and that we hear instructions,
but that we do what God is asking us to do.
We have to determine
to fully obey whatever the Lord is telling us to do.
And according to Isaiah 1:19 - If you are willing
and obedient, you'll eat the good of the land.
And just like Noah, if you're willing
and if you're obedient, you can float on a sea
of destruction in these last days.
I'll be back in just a few moments
and I'm going to pray for you.
This is Rick Renner, and somebody has asked the question -
How do I stop badgering myself
and how do I forgive myself for sins
that I committed in the past?
Well listen to what the Bible says in Psalm 103:12 -
As far as the east is from the west, so far
hath he removed our transgressions from us.
My friends, God does not drag up sins
that you've already been forgiven for.
He's forgiven it. He's released you from it.
And do you know the word forgiveness: In Greek really
means - let it go.
And you have to come to a place
where you quit badgering yourself and judging yourself
and condemning yourself for past mistakes.
And you need to say, you know what?
If God has removed my sins as far
as the east is from the west, then it's time for me
to forgive myself and to let it go.
There's nothing I can do about my past anyway except for ask
for forgiveness, which I've already done.
So now I'm gonna move on.
And my friends, that is my encouragement to you.
-: It seems we are surrounded by the swirling currents
of destruction. In a world that has gone astray,
many feel besieged by these tempestuous times
and worry about their loved ones, praying
that they will somehow survive the fluctuating tides.
Noah and his family faced insurmountable challenges,
but God showed Noah concrete steps to ensure he
and his family could rise above the confusion
and float on a raging sea of destruction.
In this series, How To Float On a Sea
of Destruction In the Last Days,
Rick Renner takes you deep into the specific instruction God
gave Noah and shows
how those same instructions are needed again now to survive
and thrive in a world gone mad.
In this 10 part series, Rick covers - How
to be sure you are sealed tight
and safe: How to stay steady in turbulent times: How
to get God's personal instructions for you: How to act
with fearlessness when God speaks.
This powerful series will help you fill your heart
and mind with victory
and will show you how to rise above the destructive tides.
And it is available in digital
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In addition, we're also offering you Rick's book, Last Day
Survival Guide: A practical
and essential guide to help you protect yourself
and those you love from the nonsense
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Order the bundle of the series - How to Float on a Sea
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-: This is Rick Renner, and today I'm in the Tulsa office
and this is another part of our new TV studio.
This is where Denise is filming TV programs
and how wonderful the now we have two little studios, one
for her and one for me where we can interview guests
who can't come all the way to Russia
to be interviewed in our studio there.
So when we're in the United States,
we can interview them here.
And that's what we've been doing all week
in this wonderful facility, which God gave us
in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
We're so grateful for this building.
It was really a gift from the Lord
and it's almost paid for. We've already retired 86%
of the debt.
We just need to go a little ways to finish this.
We call it the Ministry Expansion Project
because when this is finished, it's going
to allow the ministry to really expand financially,
to wrap our arms around the whole world
where people need the trusted teaching of the Bible.
And we know that's our calling.
And if you're part of the Giving Team, I want
to say "thank you" for helping us
to retire the dept on this facility
and to release those finances.
And if you're not a part of the Giving Team yet,
I'm inviting you today to join us
to help us finish this project.
Wow, what a shalt, a victory we're gonna give to God on
that day when it's done,
and just think of the people that are going to be reached.
So thank you for being a part
of the Ministry Expansion Project.
Well, today we have covered a lot of information
and revelation, but we still have so much more to cover
and this is where we're going to pick up tomorrow.
But please go online
or give us a call to order your series which is called, How
to Float on a Sea of Destruction in the Last Days.
You Can Do It.
And my friends, the very fact
that you're alive at this time means God chose you
for this season and he's anointed you for it.
But you need to know - How To Float on a Sea
of Destruction in the Last Days.
And you need the study guide that goes with the series.
And I also want you to be sure to order my book
which is called, Last Days Survival Guide:
A Scriptural Handbook to prepare you
for these Perilous Times.
And here we have a picture of boots and a Bible.
My friends, you gotta get your boots and your Bible.
We're gonna stomp through this age in victory
and in the power of the Holy Spirit.
And if we know the principles that the word of God gives us,
we can sail through the worst of weather.
I'm planning to do that and you can too.
God has not destined us to failure.
He has given us everything we need to be victorious.
And that means you too.
But hey, if you've got a prayer need,
would you please reach out to us?
We're waiting for the phone to ring right now.
It's on the screen. Or you can send me an email
and the moment we get your email,
we're going to pray for you.
But I wanna pray for you right now.
So put your hand on your heart.
Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you
that you've given us the blood of Jesus, the word of God,
the power of the Holy Spirit.
You've given us everything we need to sail
through the roughest of water.
We embrace everything you've given
to us in the wonderful name of Jesus,
and declare that we will float on any sea
of destruction we ever face in our lives.
In Jesus' name - Amen. Wow!
Well, we'll be back tomorrow.
But until then, I want you to remember
and never forget Ecclesiastes 8:4
which declares "Where the word of a king is, there's power."
If you've never received Jesus as your Savior
and Lord, now is the time for you to experience a new life
Jesus has to give you.
Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
and Lord. Wash away my sin
and make me completely new.
I thank you that my sin is removed
and Satan no longer has any right to lay claim on me.
I faithfully promise that I will serve you as my Lord
for the rest of my life.
Amen.
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