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This program is made
possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner,
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and here I am, amazingly
still standing on the peak
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or what was the bow of
what is probably the ruins
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of Noah's Ark right here in the mountains
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of Ararat in Eastern Turkey.
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Wow. And when I'm here, I
think about the amazing feat
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of Noah listening to the Lord's instructions, being willing
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to obey and everything
that was required for them
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to collect the materials
to build this boat.
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And not only that, then for
all of the animals to show up.
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And I'm thinking about what the neighbors
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and what other people
had to say about Noah.
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They had never seen rain.
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There had never been a flood,
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there had never been a ship this size.
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Well, there had been ships.
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And by the way, this particular object is built in the
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traditional style of ancient ships.
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It is identical what we
would find to ancient ships.
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And in fact, many ancient shipwrecks
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and other parts of the world
are formed just like this.
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But what do you think
Noah's friends and neighbors
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and the people of the
regions said about this man
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who said rain was gonna
fall out of the heavens,
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there was gonna be a flood,
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and he began to build a big boat in the middle of a landmass
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where there was no sea.
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What do you think they said about him?
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I can just imagine they laughed at him, they mocked him
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and they probably told a lot of really funny Noah jokes.
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Noah was building forever.
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I can hear somebody saying, ah,
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that old man's been
building that thing forever.
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This is never gonna happen.
It's just his imagination.
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They probably told some
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of the funniest Noah jokes we can imagine.
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But a day finally came when God told Noah
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and his family to enter the
ark and God shut them in.
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And eventually the rains
begin to gently fall
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and then they begin to fall torrentially.
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And then the bowels of
the earth were opened
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and the water began to gush forth.
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People were not telling jokes any longer,
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but for Noah to fulfill
his assignment, he had
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to stand against a lot
of negative opinions.
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And likewise, today,
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we're living in a world
which is changing the
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way that it thinks.
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It's modifying the way
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that it views the most
basic things like sexuality,
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what is right, what is wrong?
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And when we just stick with
what we've always believed,
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people call us backward.
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They call us primitive.
They call us bigoted.
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But my friends, for us to really obey God
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and to float on a sea of destruction in the End-times,
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we've gotta stick with what we've believed to be the truth
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even if we have to stand against negative opinions
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and if we'll stay true to our faith
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and resist those negative opinions
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and love the people that laugh
at us, God will enable us
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to stay in a place of safety.
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And even if the world around
us seems to be wrought
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with destruction, we will
float on a sea of destruction.
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God will protect us.
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And that is what I'm going
to talk to you about today.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind - where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and today we're going
to continue the series,
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which is called, How to Float on a Sea
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of Destruction in the Last Days.
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It's 10 parts and it comes in multiple formats.
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The subtitle says -
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10 Principles to help You Sail Victoriously
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through turbulent End-Time Weather.
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And we're dealing with a lot
of turbulent End-Time weather.
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And my friends, we can sail
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through it victoriously if we know how.
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And that's what this series is about.
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And I want you to have it.
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And it comes with a great study guide.
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You can order these by going online
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or you can just give us a call right now.
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And we're also offering you my book
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that I really want you to have
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and you ought to order several
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because this is definitely
a book you're gonna wanna
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share with somebody else.
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And it's called, Last Day's Survival Guide.
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The Forward is by Perry Stone.
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And the subtitle says, A scriptural Handbook to prepare you
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for these perilous times.
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And you know we really are
living in perilous times.
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Well, how do we get through it?
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Well, in the cover of this book,
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there's a Bible and there are boots.
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We gotta grab the Word of
God, grab hold of the power
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of the Holy Ghost, put on our boots
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and stomp through this era in
the power of the Holy Spirit
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and we can do it. We are not living in this age by accident.
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The very fact that we're alive right now means God
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chose us for this time,
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he is anointed us for this time
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and he has equipped us for this time.
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And this book will help
you to know how to get
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through this season.
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So please order yours today
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and please remember to reach out
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to us if you have a prayer request.
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We're waiting to pray for you right now.
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We get so many testimonies we
from people whose lives have
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been changed after they have called for prayer.
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And I'd like to share a few testimonies with you right now.
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One person in our Partner Care Ministry team said,
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I just received a call from a woman
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who was not sure she was really saved
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because she doesn't feel
anything when she prays.
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But I explained that if she
received Jesus as her Lord
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and asked him to forgive her
of her sins, then she's saved.
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And then she said, then I think I need
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to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
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I told today was the day to receive it.
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So she prayed a simple prayer with me
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and immediately she received the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
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What a divine appointment.
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Ugh, if you need the baptism
in the Holy Spirit, call us
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and we'll pray for you
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and today will be your
divine appointment too,
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but here's another testimony.
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One man called to share just how great
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of an impact the book, The Point
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of No Return, has had in his life.
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He said he believes The Point of No Return
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is a timely message
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as the Holy Spirit has given him direction
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as a result of reading it.
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He specifically wanted Pastor Rick to know
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how much this book in our
ministry means to him.
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He relies on the teachings
from this ministry
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and wanted to say
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that this ministry is a godly
support system for his life.
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That is such a blessing.
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I'm so glad our ministry
is a blessing to people.
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But hey, here's one final testimony.
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A few days ago I reached out for prayer.
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I don't know if I've ever felt more oppressed
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or hopeless than I was feeling then.
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I felt cut off from God,
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but God hadn't cut me off.
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I watched Rick talk about not
trusting feelings over God's
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word and the need to spend more time in the word: things I
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should have already known.
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But I heeded those instructions.
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Well, it didn't happen immediately,
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but the oppression is gone now
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and I'm experiencing peace and joy again.
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God really brought me up out of a horrible pit.
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Thank you so much for your prayers and thank you Rick Renner
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and family and prayer team for such love
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and such an amazing ministry.
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I love you.
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That is just precious,
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and friend, if you need
prayer, we're waiting to pray
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with you as well right now, but reach for your Bible.
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And today we're gonna return to the series called, How
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to Float on a Sea of Destruction In the Last Days.
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And today I'm going to ask you a question -
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Do other people's opinions bother you?
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If you are too influenced by other people's opinions,
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you'll never be able to do what God is going
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to ask you to do.
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But as you know, I took my
team to the eastern mountains
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of Turkey where we found
the ruins of Noah's Ark.
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They really are there
in the lower mountains
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of Ararat on a lower mountain called Mount Judi.
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The ruins of Noah's Ark are really there.
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And when you're there looking
at the ruins of Noah's Ark,
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you can't help but think about
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what Jesus said in Matthew 24:37.
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He said, as the days of Noah were
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so shall it also be in the days just
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before the coming of the son of man.
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So whatever was happening
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before the flood is going
to be replicated again just
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before the rapture of the church.
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And that's the age that we're living in.
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And we need to know we was
happening before the flood
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because it's going to
happen again in our time.
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And that's why I taught a
series called Fallen Angels,
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Giants, Monsters, in the World Before the Flood.
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If you didn't order that
series when I taught it,
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please go online and order it.
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It will really enlighten
you as to what we're going
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to experience just before
the coming of Jesus.
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But when we come to Genesis 7:16,
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the Bible tells us this
about Noah and his family
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and the ark - And they that went in, went in male
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and female of all flesh
as God commanded him
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and the Lord shut him in.
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And then verse 17 says -
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And the flood was 40 days upon the earth
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and the waters increased
and bear up the ark
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and it was lifted up above the earth - which means - Noah
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and his family literally
floated on the waters
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of destruction.
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That is amazing. But let
me ask you a question.
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When God spoke to Noah
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and told Noah that he was
to build the ark, something
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that no one had ever heard of
before, when God spoke to Noah
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and told him that it was
going to rain something
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that no one had ever seen before,
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because until that time, Genesis 2:6 says
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that a mist came up out of the earth
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to water the vegetation.
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There had never been rain,
there had never been an ark,
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there had never been a flood.
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No one had ever heard of these things.
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And now Noah, who is called a preacher
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of righteousness in Peter,
begins preaching about
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what God has told him.
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That water's going to
fall out of the heavens,
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there's going to be a flood.
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No one knew what that was.
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I'm going to build the biggest
ship that's ever been built.
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What do you think people
began to say about Noah?
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Or what about Mrs. Noah?
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It's interesting, the Bible
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She's just called Noah's wife.
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But she could have put up a fight.
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She could have said - Hey honey, are you absolutely sure
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that God has told you to do this?
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Or how about Noah's sons
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They could have said, Hey dad, we love you
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and we're willing to do
anything you want to do,
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but are you absolutely sure that this is
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what God has instructed us to do?
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And when Noah began to collect two animals
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of every kind in his backyard: lions, tigers, bears,
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leopards, alligators, all kinds of dangerous animals,
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what do you think the neighbors had to say about that?
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Huh? And don't you think that
in the hundred years Noah
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and his family were building
and building and building
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and building, spending a massive fortune
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of money on resources,
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the people in the area probably said - What is
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that old man doing?
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Can you imagine the jokes they told?
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And you know, probably some
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of the Noah jokes were really
funny back in those days,
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but Noah had to put it all aside
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and had to stay focused on
what God had told him to do.
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And I wanna read for you Hebrews 11:6.
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It says - Without faith it is impossible to please him.
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That word - without - is the Greek word, choris.
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The word choris, really would be better translated - to be
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outside a place of faith - which means faith is a place,
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faith is an assignment,
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and as long as you stay
in your assignment,
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you're gonna please God.
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But if you let negative voices
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or other people's opinions
to pull you out of that place
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where God has called you,
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if you allow other people's opinions
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to pull you away from your assignment,
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then you won't please God.
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But my friends, it takes everything
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you've got to stay in a place of faith.
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And Noah knew he had
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to put aside all those negative opinions, all those jokes,
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other people's opinions about what he was doing,
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and he had to come into alignment with God
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about God's plan for his life.
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Wow. But it makes me think
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of a wonderful verse in Hebrews 10:32
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which says - But call to remembrance
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the former days in which
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after you were illuminated,
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you endured a great fight of affliction.
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And according to this verse, a great fight
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of affliction always follows illumination.
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And the word illumination, is the Greek word, photizo,
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which means to illuminate.
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But it pictures the
brilliant flash of light
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that leaves a permanent
and lasting impression.
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Well, that's what Noah had when God spoke to him.
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It was like a flash of light.
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It left such an impression on
his life. God spoke to him.
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He was permanently changed.
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He knew what God had called him to do.
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Now he came running home to tell his wife, to tell his sons
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to tell his daughter-in-laws
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and people in the neighborhood begin to hear.
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And according to Hebrews 10:32 - A great fight
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of affliction followed his elimination.
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And that's what will
happen to you as well.
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And I'm not telling you this
as a bearer of bad news,
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I'm trying to equip you so when it happens
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to you, you won't be shocked.
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Everybody doesn't rejoice
when you receive a
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heavenly assignment.
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In fact, this verse says
He endured a great fight
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of afflictions. And the word endured, which is used here,
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is a form of the Greek word, hupomeno -
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listen to what it means:
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to stay, to abide in one spot: to keep a position,
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to resolve, to maintain victory gained.
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And in a military sense, this word, endured, pictures,
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soldiers ordered to maintain their positions even in the
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face of opposition.
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It means to defiantly stick it out regardless
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of pressures mounted against it.
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I would translate it - staying power or hang in their power.
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And it is the attitude that holds out, holds on, outlast,
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perseveres, hangs in there never giving up, refusing
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to surrender to obstacles
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and turning down every opportunity to quit.
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And the Greek word, hupomeno, which here is translated,
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endured, pictures one that's under a heavy load
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but refuses to bend, break, or surrender
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because he is convinced that the territory promised
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or principle under assault rightly belongs to him.
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So when the Bible talks about
us enduring, it means we have
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to make a decision to stick it out.
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We've got to let the Holy
Spirit release in us,
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hang in their power, stay
in power, even in the face
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of great afflictions.
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Wow! But hey, let's look at this.
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The word affliction, in verse 32 is the Greek word, pathema.
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It's where you get the word pathos or pathology.
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It describes suffering.
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But in the Greek language,
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it particularly describes
an emotional struggle
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or mental agony.
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And here we find that one
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of the greatest fights you'll ever face is other
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people's opinions.
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You know, you can deal with yourself,
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you can even deal with the devil.
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But when your family is in disagreement
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with you, that can be tough.
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When your friends are in
disagreement with you,
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that can be tough and it
creates a kind of pathos
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or a mental agony.
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And this verse says,
sometimes it's a great fight
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of afflictions or a great
emotional struggle when you've
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received a word from God
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and other people have opinions that are negative.
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Then in Hebrews 10:32, it goes on
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to say - Partly while you were made a gazing stock, both
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by reproaches and afflictions. The word, gazing stock,
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the Greek word, theatrizo,
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which describes a theater; you were made a theater. It means
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to observe, to watch, to study or to scrutinize.
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It means to bring upon the stage for all to see.
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And pictures, spectators in the theater watching a scenario
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being played before them.
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They're on the edge of their
seats waiting for the actors
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to make a mistake or to forget
a line so they can scorn,
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ridicule him and make fun of him.
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It can be interpreted to
bring on the stage in order
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to scorn, to scoff at, to shame, snare it
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and to publicly humiliate
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and often it is translated as the word, spectacle.
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And here's what you find out. You live a pretty private life
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until you get a word from God.
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And the moment you have a word from God
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that gives you direction and
you announce it, people begin
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to buy seats to the show.
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They wanna watch to see
are you really gonna do
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what you say God has told you to do?
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Let's use the example of Noah.
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He announces there's going to be a flood.
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Everybody begins talking,
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is there really going to be a flood?
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He announces there's going
to be rain. What is rain?
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What is the old man talking about?
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He says he is going to build
an ark. What is an ark?
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No one's ever seen an ark.
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And people began to buy seats to the theater
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to watch this show to see if what Noah said was really going
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to happen: could he follow through
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or was he gonna give up along the way?
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When you make a declaration of faith, you become theater
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for people to watch.
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Now there's nothing you can
do about it except make a
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decision that if people are
gonna buy a seat to the show
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to watch your life,
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you give them the best
performance they've ever seen
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in their lives.
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If they wanna see how
faith works, you show them
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how faith works.
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You don't forget a line,
you don't forget a thing.
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You go all the way to the end
If they wanna see if it really
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works, you show them that when
you receive a word from God
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and follow through, it
really turns out good.
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You show them. That's really
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what we find in this verse which says,
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partly while you were made a gazing stock, the Greek
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word, theatrizo, you were made a theater.
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Everybody bought a ticket to the show
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to watch if you're really gonna do
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what you said you were going to do.
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Now, if other people's opinions bother you,
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probably you're not gonna stay on the stage very long.
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In fact, you might even run off the stage,
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but you've got to come
into agreement with God,
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just like we read in Hebrews 11:6 - Without faith,
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it's impossible to please God.
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If anything pulls you
out of a place of faith,
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you won't please God.
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So you've gotta learn how
to push all those negative
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opinions aside.
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Do everything you can
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to jerk yourself into alignment with God.
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Stay in alignment with him,
let his power flow through you
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as you do what he's told you to do.
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And my friends, you'll give
all those observers a pretty
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good performance to watch.
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And in the end of the day,
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you'll see God's victory work in your life.
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That is just amazing to me.
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And by the way, I'm not speaking theory,
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I'm speaking from personal experience
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because God's given me a lot of assignments in life
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and some people thought it was nonsense
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that couldn't be done, but it was done.
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It was done in victory.
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And every time we carry
something to fulfillment,
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it shows other people that it can be done.
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My successful story becomes an encouragement
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to somebody else that just got a word from the Lord.
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Do you see how important it is that you follow through
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and you don't become overly influenced
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by other people's opinions.
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But - Noah
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and his family literally floated on the waters
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of destruction because they resisted a lot
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of negative voices.
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They took a stand against the opinion of the world.
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And the Bible tells us in Genesis 7:17 -
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And the flood was 40 days upon the earth
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and the waters increased
and bear up the ark
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and lifted the ark up above the earth.
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Wow! They floated on the waters of destruction.
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And all those people with negative voices, they all drowned.
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But Noah and his family floated higher
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and higher and higher.
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And just like Noah
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and his family had to
resist a lot of opinions,
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you're gonna have to resist
a lot of opinions in the end
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of the age because there's all kinds
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of opinions these days on social media and everywhere else.
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And you've gotta make a decision to shut your eyes
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and shut your ears to all that negativism
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and to stay focused
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and to get into alignment with God
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so you can do what he's asked you to do.
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And if you do, you can float through anything
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and not just float, you'll rise higher and higher and higher
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and you'll sail through in victory.
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I'll be back in just a moment and I'm going to pray for you.
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Hey friends, my name is Rick Renner
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and somebody has asked, What is the judgment seat of Christ?
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Well, it's referred to multiple times in the New Testament,
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but we read about it very specifically in 2 Corinthians
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5:10, which says - For we must all appear
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before the judgment seat of Christ.
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And notice it doesn't say we must all grovel
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before the judgment seat of Christ.
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It's going to be a moment when we stand upright,
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and the judgment seat of Christ is not a place
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where we're going to be reminded of all of our past sins.
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The word, judgment seat, is the Greek word, bema.
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It really was a place where rewards were given
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and a day is coming to my future
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and your future when each of us are gonna stand before Jesus
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and he will reward us according to
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how we obeyed him in this life.
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And this life is a prequalification period for
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what we're gonna do in all of eternity.
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But one day we really will stand
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before the judgment seat of Christ.
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We won't grovel there, we're gonna stand upright
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and Jesus will reward us
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for our obedience.
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It seems we are surrounded
by the swirling currents
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of destruction in a world
that has gone astray.
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Many feel besieged by
these tempestuous times
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and worry about their loved ones, praying
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that they will somehow
survive the fluctuating tides.
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Noah and his family faced
insurmountable challenges,
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but God showed Noah
concrete steps to ensure he
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and his family could
rise above the confusion
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and float on a raging sea of destruction.
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In this series, How to Float on a Sea
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of Destruction In the Last Days,
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Rick Renner takes you deep into the specific instruction God
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gave Noah and shows
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how those same instructions are needed again now to survive
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and thrive in a world gone mad.
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In this 10 part series, Rick covers - How
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to be sure You are sealed tight
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and safe: How to stay steady in turbulent times: How
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to get God's personal instructions for you: How to act
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with fearlessness when God speaks.
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This powerful series will help you fill your heart
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and mind with victory
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and will show you how to rise
above the destructive tides
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and it is available in digital
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or physical formats starting at just $20.
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In addition, we're also offering you Rick's book, Last Day
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Survival Guide: A practical
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and essential guide to help you protect yourself
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and those you love from the nonsense
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that is wreaking havoc in the world.
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And it's available to today for only $29.
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of Destruction in the Last Days
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and the book, Last Days Survival Guide, today.
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Call the number on your screen
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Call or go online today.
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This is Rick Renner, and
today I'm in the Tulsa office
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and this is another part
of our new TV studio.
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This is where Denise
is filming TV programs
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and how wonderful that now we
have two little studios, one
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for her and one for me.
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Where can interview guests
who can't come all the way
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to Russia to be interviewed
in our studio there.
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So when we're in the United States,
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we can interview them here.
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And that's what we've been doing all week
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in this wonderful facility which God gave us
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in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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We're so grateful for this building,
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it was really a gift from the
Lord and it's almost paid for.
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We've already retired 86% of the debt.
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We just need to go a
little ways to finish this.
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We call it the Ministry Expansion Project
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because when this is finished, it's going
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to allow the ministry to really expand financially,
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to wrap our arms around the whole world
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where people need the trusted
teaching of the Bible.
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And we know that's our calling.
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And if you're a part of the Giving Team, I want
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to say thank you for helping us
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to retire the dead on this facility
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and to release those finances.
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And if you're not a part
of the Giving Team yet,
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I'm inviting you today to join us
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to help us finish this project.
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Wow! What a shout of victory we're gonna give to God on
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that day when it's done.
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And just think of the people
that are going to be reached.
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So thank you for being a part
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of the Ministry Expansion Project.
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Well, today we've been
talking about resisting other
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people's opinions so you
can follow through on
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what the Holy Spirit has told you to do.
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And I promise you
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that if you declare the Holy Spirit's telling you
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to do something, somebody's gonna have an opinion about it.
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And you have to decide that God's opinion is more important
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to you than anybody else's.
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But hey, I want you to order the entire series
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which is called, How to Float on a Sea
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of Destruction in the Last Days.
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And what I've taught you today
is really important if you
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want float on the Sea of
Destruction in the Last Days.
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The subtitle says -
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10 principles to help you sail victoriouly
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through turbulent, End-Time weather.
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And this series comes with a study guide.
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And we're also offering you my book,
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which is called, Last Days Survival Guide:
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A scriptural handbook to prepare you
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for these Perilous Times.
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My friends, God's given you
everything you need to make it
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through this season and you can do it.
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Hey, if Noah could do it - with all the odds
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that were against him, you can do it.
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What God has asked you to
do is not nearly as tough as
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what he asked Noah to do.
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And Noah did the hardest thing of all.
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And because Noah obeyed and
got into alignment with God
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and resisted all those
opinions, we are here today.
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We are here because Noah refused to listen
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to other people's opinions.
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My friends, you need to get
into alignment with the Lord
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and I want to pray for you right now.
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Put your hand on your heart.
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Father, I pray in Jesus'
name that you help every one
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of us care more about your
opinion than anybody else's.
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And if you've given us an assignment to do
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that is the most important thing for us
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to come into alignment with.
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Help us to put every
negative opinion aside
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to get into agreement with you,
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and we ask that your power
would flow through us
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and enable us to carry out the assignment In Jesus' name
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Amen. I'll be back tomorrow.
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But please remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 which says,
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"Where the word of a king is, there's 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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