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and I'm in the floodplain just below the landing place
of Noah's Ark.
And I'm in a very, very ancient building which many scholars
and researchers believe marks the place
where Noah lived in the valley when he became a husbandman.
Later this was turned into a church
to commemorate this place.
It dates all the way to the Armenian times
and perhaps even to Byzantine times when people were able
to mark these locations and it was turned into a church.
And not far from here is an ancient altar,
and the altar is marked off with stones like a fence
to keep people going into that region.
And some people believe that was an area where Noah
and his family made additional sacrifices to God.
And the stones were used to keep people
and animals from going into that region.
It was like a holy mountain.
But my friends today were living in dangerous times.
Noah and his family were living in very turbulent times
and they were given the assignment to repopulate the earth.
Can you imagine any assignment more difficult than that?
But Noah was very careful to listen to God
and to pay heed to God's instructions.
And likewise, if we're gonna sail
through turbulent waters at the end of the age
and we are, then we have to very carefully listen to
what the Holy Spirit has to say to us
and move with urgency when God speaks.
And that is what I'm going to talk to you about today.
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We keep it simple,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Renner.
Welcome to today's program. My name is Rick Renner.
Thank you for letting me come into your space.
It is a privilege
that you would let me speak the wonderful word
of God to you today.
And today I'm gonna continue my series which is called, How
to Float on a Sea of Destruction in the Last Days.
We're really living in the last days
and the Bible prophesies very clearly
that the water's gonna get pretty rough at
the end of the age.
And my friends, we need to know how to sail
through the most turbulent of times.
People today are being swept up into all
kinds of destruction.
There's moral confusion, gender confusion.
There is so much confusion in the world today.
People don't know what's right.
People don't know what's wrong.
It's really a fulfillment of
what Isaiah said in Isaiah 5:20.
He described a day at the end
of the age when people would call light darkness
and they would call darkness light.
They would call good, bad and bad good.
We're really living in that time
and I know that you friend don't want to sink with the rest
of the world or your kids or your grandkids or your friends,
and you can Float On a Sea of Destruction just like Noah
and his family and the animals floated on the water
during the time of the flood.
Think about that. The flood destroyed everybody else, but
because Noah and his family heard from God
and did what God told them to do,
they floated on the same waters
that destroyed everything else.
And I cover in this series the 10 principles you need
to help you sell victoriously
through turbulent end time weather.
And by the way, this would be a great gift for you to give
to somebody else as well.
And remember that it comes with this amazing study guide
that is enormous
and it's just filled with all the
points, all the principles.
Everything in the series is in the study guide
so you can read it while you're seeing
or hearing the series.
And we're also offering you right now my book
which is called, Last Day's Survival Guide.
The back of the book says - God wants you prepared
for these perilous times.
This is a practical book.
And at the end of every chapter, there are action steps
to help you know how to respond to
what you have read in every one of the chapters.
The forward is by my friend Perry Stone.
And the subtitle says - A Scriptural Handbook to prepare you
for these Perilous Times.
Please order this today or order this series
and you can order all of it by going online
or by giving us a call right now.
And wouldn't you reach out to us, let us know how to pray
for you because we wanna pray for you
and we're waiting for the phone to ring right now.
Just call the number on the screen or send us an email
and when your email shows up
or when you call us, we're gonna release our faith according
to Jeremiah 33:3
which declares - Call unto me.
I'll hear you, I'll answer you, and I'll show you great
and mighty things - and we will call out to God with you.
You can pray by yourself, of course you can.
You're a child of God, but there's agreement in prayer.
And if you'll call out to us, get into agreement with us,
we'll get into agreement with you.
We'll call out to God in faith.
God will hear us and God will move
and do something simply spectacular on your behalf.
He really will. But
before I today get into the teaching, I want
to tell you about a part of our ministry
that you don't know about.
We have one particular part of our ministry
that is connected to our online church.
Our online church is an online Russian speaking church.
It is a full fledged church.
It has youth ministry, Sunday School, women's ministry,
men's ministry,
and we have over 230,000 members
of our online church.
And as part of our online church, we produce films
to reach the unsaved.
For example, we recently made a film called The Judge,
and it is about a man who dies
and finds himself seated in a courtroom where he has tried
for his sin.
The movie is absolutely riveting.
When I saw what our team produced, it simply stunned me
because of the level of excellence and professionalism
and people are watching that film clip
because it just catches their attention.
Here is a man who died in his sin.
Now he's seated in a courtroom where he's being judged
for his sin and the evidence is stacked against him.
But someone steps forward to say, Hey,
the price has been paid
and this person is Jesus who begins to say,
this man actually knows me and
therefore none of the evidence can stand against him.
It is just riveting.
And because of that
and other films which we have produced like that,
we're flooding the internet, touching the unsaved world
with great results.
And the reason we're able to do this is
because of our partners.
Our partners gifts really enable us
to do this work of ministry.
And today, if you're a partner, I'm saying from my heart,
"thank you - thank you - thank you" for being a partner.
We cannot do what we do if you don't do what you do.
That's why the Bible says one plants another waters,
God gives the increase.
God gets all the glory but if there's nothing for him
to increase, if somebody didn't plant and water.
We all do our parts.
And I wanna say thank you Partner for the part
that you play in helping us obey the Great Commission.
And if you're not already a partner,
please pray about becoming a partner with our ministry.
You can become a partner right now by going online
or by giving us a call.
And we'll welcome you into our Partner Family
and send you two books as our way of saying Welcome
to the Family: my book called Life in the Combat Zone,
and my wife's book called, The Gift of Forgiveness
because we always give these 2-books to anyone
who becomes a part of our Partner Family -
but reach for your Bible.
And today we're going to continue the series - How
To Float On a Sea of Destruction in the Last Days.
And today we're going to see that you've gotta act
with fearlessness when you have received God's
instructions. So reach for your Bible,
and remember that I went with my team
to the eastern mountains of Turkey
where we visited the ship shape formation on the lower
Mountains of Ararat on a mountain called Mount Judi.
And as you go down into the valley below,
there are the ruins of an ancient, ancient Armenian
and Byzantine church which dates to about 500 AD.
That is really old.
And the Byzantines built that church in that location
because they said below it were the ruins
of Noah's house in the valley where he became a vine dresser
and had a big vineyard.
You can read about that in the book of Genesis.
And they commemorated that place as the place
where Noah lived with his family.
I've been there, I've visited the site,
I've been all over it, my friends,
these things are really true.
But the reason I went to the Mountains of Ararat was
to teach a series called Fallen Angels, Giants, Monsters,
and the World Before the Flood.
If you didn't get that series, please order it.
But I'm also teaching this series how to Float on a Sea
of Destruction in the Last Days.
Well, when Noah was alive, there was a lot naturally for him
to be afraid of.
You say - Well, what was there for Noah to be afraid of?
Well, the world was filled with giants.
Giants were in the world,
and we know from early history they were cannibals.
They began to eat human beings when they ran out of food.
And then when they stopped eating human beings,
the giants began to turn on each other
and they began to eat each other.
This is why whenever Noah came off the ark,
the first log God gave to man was
that man was not to eat blood.
Let's not go back to what the giants did before the flood.
It was a barbaric world filled with violence
before the flood. Angels were coming down,
fallen angels sexually cohabitating with women.
They were giving birth to these giants.
There were monsters in the world at that time.
There was a lot to be afraid of.
And not only that, but God said to Noah, A flood is coming.
No one had ever seen the flood,
but it sounded pretty scary naturally.
And Noah had to deal with what he heard.
And if Noah just looked at the giants,
saw this interaction with fallen angels
and women all around them, monsters in the world,
and news about a catastrophic future flood that was coming,
and he had a task to build a big boat
with the world's opinion against him.
There was so much naturally that Noah could have been afraid
of, but fear paralyzes you.
It incapacitates you so that you cannot move forward.
But when we come to 2 Timothy 1:
7, the Bible says -
God has not given you a spirit of fear,
but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Well, think about it: here, you
and me, we're living in the end of the age.
This really is the end of the age.
And according to the prophecies of the Bible, it's going
to get pretty bizarre
before we get all the way to the rapture of the church.
But if we're alive now, it means we've been chosen
for this time and we've not just been chosen
we are anointed for this time. We can do it.
And we do not need to have a spirit of fear.
We don't need to have that.
We need to put fear aside and fearlessly face the future
and fearlessly do what God has called us
to do like Noah did.
But let's look at this verse, 2 Timothy 1:
7 - For God hath not given us the spirit of fear.
In Greek, the word not is emphatic.
God categorically, has not given
us the spirit of fear.
The word given, is a form of the Greek word didomi,
which means to give, to hand over, to passover, to transmit,
to transfer, which means a spirit
of fear has never been given or transferred to us by God.
God has categorically not ever given to us
a spirit of fear - a spirit of fear.
In Greek, it is the word, pneuma
and the word deilia. The word pneuma, is the word for spirit
and it can also depict an attitude.
The word, deilia, depicts cowardice
or timidity. As a phrase,
it depicts an attitude or a spirit of cowardice
or timidity.
And when you have a spirit of fear,
it literally paralyzes you.
It incapacitates you.
You're afraid to move, you're afraid to function.
In fact, usually when you have a spirit of fear,
rather than move forward
and take new territory, you move into a mode of retreat
and self preservation.
You're thinking about how to protect yourself
because you're controlled by a spirit of fear.
And notice that the apostle Paul calls it a spirit of fear.
That's because fear really is a spirit.
Have you ever been in a place or maybe watching a movie
and suddenly something fearful was depicted on the screen
and you felt something fearful come
into the room where you were?
Or maybe you've been in a situation
where suddenly you felt fear come.
That's because fear really is a spirit
and you've gotta resist fear just like you would
resist any devil.
You've gotta tell it to go in Jesus' name.
And if you yield to a spirit of fear, my friends,
you will never be able to do what
God's calling you to do.
If you yield to a spirit of fear, you'll fear things
that will never happen in a million years,
but you'll worry about it, wonder if it could happen.
All the ifs will incapacitate you.
You'll move into a mode of retreat and self preservation
and protection while the world goes to hell
and while the task that you've been given is unfulfilled
because a spirit of fear is incapacitating you. Noah had
that opportunity. He had to put up with
and resist a spirit of fear.
And God, this verse says, has not given
to you a spirit of fear, which would make you a coward
or fill you with timidity.
But what did God give you?
Well, the verse goes on to say - but: and the word -
but, in Greek is the word alla, which would be translated,
But on the contrary, all the way to the other end
of the spectrum, God has given you power
and love and a sound mind.
Wow. The word power is the word, dunamis,
which depicts explosive super human power that comes
with enormous energy and produces phenomenal, extraordinary
and unparalleled results.
That word power, the Greek word dunamis, is the word used in
the New Testament to depict mighty deeds
that are impressive, incomparable,
and beyond human ability to perform.
That's what God has given you.
And it was used to depict the full effects of an earthquake
or hurricane or a tornado.
And it is the same word used by the Greeks
and the Romans to describe the full might
of an advancing army.
That's what God has given you.
God's given you dunamis;
you have power in you like an earthquake to shake things up.
You have power in you like a hurricane
to blow things out of the way.
You have power in you like a tornado to raise things
that get in your way.
And you have within you the full might of an army
to advance.
But a spirit of fear will put you in retreat.
So you've got to decide what you're going to embrace.
And rather than embrace fear, you've got
to embrace the greater one that's on the inside of you.
But not only have you been given power,
you've been given love.
Love is important because sometimes when you're doing the
will of God, you get into situations
where other people hurt your feelings
or other people disappoint you.
And you can become incapacitated by hurt.
But God's given you divine love.
And in fact, this word love, is the Greek word agape,
which depicts: a divine love that gives and gives and gives
and gives even if it's never responded to, thanked
or acknowledged.
That's what God has given you, the ability
to overcome any disappointment.
And this verse says, God has given you a sound mind.
And I love this Greek word the word, sophronismos.
It's a compound of 2 Greek words. The 1st word is sodzo.
The 2nd word is phren.
The word sodzo, denotes deliverance, healing,
prosperity, safety, soundness and wellbeing.
The 2nd part of the word comes from the Greek word
phren, which describes the intelligence or the mind.
It's where the old science called phenology comes from, the
Greek word phren. And it pictures the mind or the intellect.
But when you compound the two words together,
sodzo and friend, here it is the word,
sophronismos, which means to be
of sound mind, to be reasonable, to be balanced,
to be levelheaded in the way that one thinks,
to think clearly, to think rationally.
And it depicts a mind that has been delivered, a mind
that has been rescued, a mind that's been revived, a mind
that's been salvaged, a mind that is protected,
and which is now safe and secure.
And this verse says, that's the kind
of mind that God gave you.
It is the opposite of irrationality.
When you have a spirit of fear, you become irrational.
You begin to imagine things happening that will never happen
to you, but the possibility of them seem so real
because you're being controlled by a spirit of fear.
But my friends, when you have a sound mind,
you think clearly and you think rationally.
Well again, Noah had to deal with fallen angels.
He had to deal with giants, a human race
that was completely corrupted.
He had to deal with monsters
and negative voices, a prophetic announcement
that the world was going to be destroyed by a flood:
that he was to build an Ark. He had
to find the resources to do the job.
He could have worried about that.
He had to collect two animals of every kind
and put them in his backyard, including dangerous animals.
And naturally, Noah
and his family would have every reason to fear,
but they did not fear.
Instead, they fearlessly tackled the assignment
that God gave them to do.
Wow! You know, in Joshua 1, God spoke to Joshua
and 3-times said to Joshua: be strong and courageous:
be strong and very courageous.
And again, be strong and courageous.
God knew that Joshua needed to be strong,
he needed to be courageous.
And then when Joshua finally stood in front of the people,
you know what the people said -
Joshua, we'll do anything you said to do.
And if anybody gives you a problem, we'll kill them.
Well, what obedience?
And then they finally added,
we just have one request of you.
Be strong and have a good courage.
God said to him 3-times: be strong and courageous.
The people repeated what God said - be strong
and be courageous.
You know why? Because for you to do what God's called you
to do, fearlessly, you've gotta be strong
and you've got to be courageous.
Well, the good news is God's not given you a spirit of fear,
but power, love and a sound of mind,
which means you have everything you need to do anything
that God has called you to do.
And in Genesis 7:17, the Bible says -
And the flood was 40 days upon the earth
and the waters increased and bare up the Ark
and it was lifted up above the earth.
And in the ark was Noah and his family safe
because they had fearlessly obeyed.
And my friends, for you to float on a sea
of destruction in the end of the age,
you've gotta resist a spirit of fear
and choose to fearlessly obey the instructions which the
Holy Spirit has given to you.
I'll be back in just a moment and I'm going to pray for you.
Hey, this is Rick Renner
and somebody has asked a really important question.
Here it is - What if I'm praying very sincerely
but my prayers are not answered?
What's wrong? Well, it may be that you're praying sincerely,
but you're praying incorrectly.
The Bible tells us very clearly in 1 John 5:
14, that if we pray anything according to his will,
that means according to His word
or according to scripture, he hears us.
God doesn't hear us because of our much asking.
He doesn't even hear us because of our sincerity.
God is listening for his word.
And God wants to know if you're praying scripturally,
if you're praying in agreement with
what he has written in the Bible.
And many people pray sincerely, but they pray incorrectly.
And it's very important if you want your prayers
to be answered, that you pray according to his will.
And 1 John 5:14
and 15 says - If we pray anything according to his will,
he hears us and we will have the petitions which we have
requested of him.
-: 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
or physical formats starting at just $20.
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
that is wreaking havoc in the world.
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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 that 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.
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 a part of the Giving team, I want
to say thank you for helping us
to retire the dead 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 shout of 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.
-: You know, when we come back tomorrow, we're going to see
how you can inherit the promises
of God. When the flood was over and Noah
and his family exited the ark, the whole planet was theirs
and their job was to replenish the earth: to be fruitful
and to multiply, but they literally became inheritors
of the world.
And tomorrow I'm going to show you what you have to have
to inherit the promises of God
and to even be blessed in turbulent times. But I want you
to order the entire series which is called, How
to Float on the Sea of Destruction in the Last Days.
You Can Do It - say Amen,
and be sure to also order the study guide
that goes along with it.
And we're offering you today my book,
which is called, Last Days Survival Guide.
Oh, how I want you to have this book,
and I want you to order several
because I know you're gonna wanna share one of them
with somebody else who's dealing with difficult times.
This book will really help them.
The subtitle says - A Scriptural Handbook to prepare you
for these Perilous Times.
My friends, we're not just to survive
these times, we're to thrive in them. And we can do it.
We can do it. We can fearlessly obey
what the Lord has told us to do
and become inheritors of the promise
of God even in difficult times.
That's where we're gonna pick up tomorrow.
But right now, I want you to put your hand on your heart
and I wanna pray for you.
Father, I thank you that you have not given me
or my friend the spirit of fear but of power and of love,
and of a sound of mind and in the name of Jesus -
now, friend, you do this with me -
we rebuke and resist the spirit of fear in Jesus' name,
and we tell you to go
and we embrace power, love,
and a sound mind - in Jesus' name,
Amen. Now you fearlessly do
what the Lord's telling you to do.
And remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4, "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
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