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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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Thanks for letting me come
into your space today.
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I am in the floodplain just
below the mountains of Ararat,
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where Noah's Ark came to rest later,
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Noah moved into the valley near here,
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possibly even right here
when he became a husbandman.
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This particular dwelling
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where I am is a very ancient
ancient house which many
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scholars and archeologists
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and historians believe may have actually been Noah's house.
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That is amazing.
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And in fact, some early believers were so convinced of it
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that early Armenian believers
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and even Byzantine believers converted it into a church
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as a place of commemoration in the valley of Noah
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and his family and their residence right here.
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And not far from here is an altar.
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And that altar, some say, was the place
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where Noah offered additional
sacrifices to the Lord.
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There's an ancient, ancient stone wall that goes all the way
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around it to keep animals
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and people from going into that region
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because it would've been a sacred location.
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But my friends, Noah had a promise from God
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that he would inherit the earth
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and he was commanded to
be fruitful and multiply
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and replenish the earth.
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And because he gave
heed to the voice of God
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and was willing to obey,
he became the inheritor
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of the earth.
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All of us eventually can trace
our lineage back to Noah.
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That is amazing, the impact that he had on all
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of our lives.
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And in the same way, if we
will hear what the Lord has
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to say, we will inherit God's promises,
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even if it seems like we're sailing on
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turbulent, turbulent waters.
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If we'll stay focused
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and stay anchored in God's
promise, we will inherit
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what he has promised 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.
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where the word is the anchor in uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick
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Renner.
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Welcome to today's program. My friend
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today we're wrapping up the series which is called, How
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to Float on a Sea of Destruction in the Last Days.
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And as you know, I went with my film crew
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to the Eastern mountains of
Turkey, right on the border
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of Iran and Armenia.
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And there in the lower mountains
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of the Ararat Mountain Range
is a massive ship shaped
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formation, which really is
the ruins of Noah's Ark.
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People have been looking
for it in the wrong place.
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They've been looking for it
on the peak of Mount Ararat,
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but the Bible says it came to rest
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in the mountains of Ararat.
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In the lower mountains of Ararat,
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there really are the ruins of Noah's Ark.
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And now scientists are affirming
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that they really are the ruins of Noah's Ark.
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Wow! But when I was there,
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I was thinking about all
the events of the flood.
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Wow, how the raging waters
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of the flood covered the earth.
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It was quite an amazing time,
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but the same waters
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that destroyed everything else caused Noah
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and his family to rise
higher and higher and higher,
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and they literally floated
on the waters of destruction.
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Well, in Matthew 24:37, Jesus says - As the days
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of Noah were, so it will be
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before the coming of the Son
of man at the end of the age.
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Well, that's where we are.
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So it means just like there were raging waters
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then, there are going to be destructive waters now.
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And certainly we are living in turbulent times;
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but we don't have to sink. Like Noah and his family,
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we can rise higher and higher
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and higher even on a sea of destruction.
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And that's what this series is about - How to Float on a Sea
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of Destruction in the Last Days.
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It comes in all kinds of
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And today is the last day on the program
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that we're offering you this series.
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You will just love it.
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And we're also offering you my book today
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for the last time on the program right now called, Last Days
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Survival Guide: A scriptural handbook to prepare you
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for these Perilous Times.
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But today we're gonna
wrap up this teaching.
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But you know, if you have
a prayer need, we're here
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and we're waiting to pray for you.
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So if you'll call the number on the screen
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or send us an email, the moment we get your email
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or the moment the phone rings,
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we're gonna release our faith.
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We're going to agree with you in prayer.
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Jesus said, if two of you would agree
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as touching anything, I'll do it.
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You can pray by yourself,
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but there's special power in agreement
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and we will get into
agreement with you in faith,
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God will hear us and God
will move on your behalf.
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And we're waiting to
pray for you right now.
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It really is one
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of the greatest honors which
God gives to our ministry.
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So give us a call or send us an email.
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But before I get into
today's teaching, I want
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to share a few testimonies with you.
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One person said - My wife
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and I want to express our heartfelt thanks
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to the entire Renner team, not just the family,
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but all the staff and everyone involved in moving the
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mission forward at Renner Ministries.
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Our family has been tremendously blessed over the many years
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through your solid commitment to following
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and fulfilling the word of God with your lives.
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Your work has made countless
eternal impacts in our lives
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through teaching the word of
God with boldness, accuracy,
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and most importantly with the
anointing of the Holy Spirit.
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We've shared Renner books
with nearly everyone we know,
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and your life and ministry
are an excellent example
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for our faith as we step out in pursuit of
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what God has called our family to do.
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Thank you. Wow, thank
you for that testimony.
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I'm glad that we can be
an example to anybody.
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But hey, here's another testimony.
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We received a letter from a
precious family who's been
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partners with the ministry
for several years.
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They wanted to say
thank you to the Renners
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for their consistency in the word. They said,
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how we love our morning tea and teaching with Brother Rick
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and wanted to encourage him to keep teaching
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so we can know the deeper
meanings of the New Testament
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even better. That is amazing.
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I'm grateful that you're having your morning tea with me.
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But hey, listen to this final
testimony that I'm going
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to share with you today.
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One of our Partner Care Team members said - I just spoke
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with a woman who called
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for a free book. When I asked if I could pray with her,
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she said no one had ever prayed with her in her whole life.
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She was so blessed by the prayer.
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And she said, she will
see me one day in heaven
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and will remember that I was the first one
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to ever pray for her.
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Wow, that is amazing.
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If no one's ever prayed
with you, we're here.
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And we want to be the
first to pray for you.
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So if you have a need, you reach out to us
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and you let us know how
we can pray for you.
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And we'll pray with you too.
But hey, reach for your Bible.
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And today we're wrapping up the teaching, How
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To Float On a Sea of Destruction in the Last Days.
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And as you saw in the introduction to today's program,
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I was sitting there in the ruins
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of a very ancient building
which dates to the Byzantine
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and Armenian period.
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And the ancient writer
said that they built
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that church on that location -
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that's what those ruins are,
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it's the ruins of an old church, they sat on the ruins of
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where Noah and his family lived when they moved into the
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floodplain just below Mount Judi in the Mountains of Ararat.
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And if that is true, then
that's where Noah lived
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with his family when he
became a vine dresser
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and had a big vineyard and just a little ways from there,
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there's a big altar where many archeologists
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and historians believe that Noah
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and his family continued offering sacrifices to God.
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I've really been there. I've
been all over that place.
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But it's amazing that when Noah
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and his family came off the
ark, they inherited the earth.
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That's amazing. They were the big winners
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and they inherited the earth.
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And today I want you to reach for your Bible
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and I'm going to talk to you about how
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to receive the promise that God has made to you.
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But we're gonna go back to Genesis 7:16,
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which says - And they - that's Noah, his family
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and all the animals - 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. Verse 17:
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And the flood was 40 days upon the earth
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and the waters increased, bare up the ark
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and it was lifted up above the earth.
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And Noah and his family literally floated on the waters
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of destruction.
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We saw in the last program
that Noah had to determine
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to stay in his place of faith.
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And today I'm going to give you 2-things
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you have to have to receive the promise
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that God made to you.
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It's not enough just to receive a promise.
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There are several things you need to bring
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that promise into manifestation.
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And we're gonna go to Hebrews 6:12.
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And these things I'm going to be sharing
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with you are demonstrated
in the life of Noah.
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But let's look at this: Hebrews 6:12 says -
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That you be not slothful,
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but followers of them who through faith
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and patience, inherit the promises.
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Now we're on our way to faith and patience,
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but we have to stop at that word slothful -
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that you be not slothful.
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And in Greek, it is a prohibition,
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which means - stop being slothful.
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Well, what does it mean to be slothful?
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The word slothful is the Greek word, nothros.
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It describes what is dull, slow, or sluggish.
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It depicts something that has lost its speed
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or lost its momentum.
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It's conveying the idea of something
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that has lost the drive, the
thrust, the impetus, the pace
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and speed that it once possessed.
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It's the ideal of one whose zeal has dissipated.
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It denotes a person who's become disinterested
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and whose zeal has been replaced
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with - are you ready for this -
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a middle of the road, take it or leave it, mentality.
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And it carries the idea of
one who has a lethargic,
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lackadaisical, apathetic,
indifferent, lukewarm attitude
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who has become a non achiever
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And here we find a person
who at one time had zeal,
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had passion,
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but now over a period of
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They've just become lukewarm.
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to pass in your life, if you don't work really hard
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to keep your zeal stirred up, you will become lukewarm
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or you will become, as the Bible says, slothful - slothful.
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That's a terrible thing.
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A person who once had
real pace, real speed,
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but now they've just lost their zeal
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and they've become disinterested.
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Noah built the ark for a hundred years.
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He began building when
he was 500 years old
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and they entered into
the ark when he was 600.
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What if God gave you a project
that took a hundred years
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to fulfill?
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And along the way, you're getting tired,
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you're spending masses
of money on a project
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that seems endless.
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People are laughing at
you, making fun of you,
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your wife wonders if this
project will ever end,
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your kids wonder, what in
the world are you doing
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with their inheritance?
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You have an opportunity
to say, you know what?
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This is just too much: to lose your zeal,
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to lose your passion.
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But my friends, don't be slothful.
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If God has spoken to you, you've got to maintain your zeal
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and remain aligned with God about the task
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that he has given you to do.
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You can resist slothfulness.
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In fact, the verse goes on to say - instead be followers
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of them who through faith
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and patience, inherit the promises.
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And the word followers is the Greek word, mimetes.
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Listen to what it means. It describes one who imitates.
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It is the word for a mimic.
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One who replicates what he
sees someone else doing.
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This word, mimetes, here is translated
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the word, followers, is used to describe actors
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who acted on the stage
for their profession.
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It implies the intentional
study of the deeds, words,
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actions, and thoughts of
another person in order
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to replicate those
attributes in one's own life.
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And derivatives of this word, followers,
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the Greek word, mimetes, are mimeograph, mime, pantomime
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and mimic.
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So if you're gonna translate
this word correctly,
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when it says be followers
of them through faith
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and patience, inherit the promises.
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It really means mimic them.
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In other words, look at those who've gone
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before you who've inherited
the promises of God.
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And if you want the same results they got, then you've got
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to do what they did.
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and you need to begin to replicate them.
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One time I was speaking to
an actor in New York City
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and he said to me - You know, once I had
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to act a really difficult role,
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and he said, for me to
act that role, I had
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to study the kind of person
that I was to portray.
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And I literally moved into that character
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and didn't move outta that character until we were finished
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with that theatrical production.
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He said, I studied and studied and studied
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and studied that person that I wanted to be like.
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And he said, you know what?
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I moved so into character
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that when the theatrical production was finished,
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it was kind of hard for me to find me.
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I had become that of the person.
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Well, in the same way, if you
want to be a person of faith,
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then you need to find somebody
that is a person of faith
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and you need to study them
in order to replicate them.
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Do what they do, say what they say, act like they act.
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That's exactly what this verse says.
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Now you might say - Yeah, but if I do that, I'm just acting.
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Well, let me tell you, friends, there's
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nothing wrong with acting.
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We're told in scripture to
put on the Lord Jesus Christ
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and make no provision for the flesh.
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That means we have to very
intentionally study Jesus
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and put him on. My friends,
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there's nothing wrong with acting.
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And in this verse, we're told to mimic, we're told
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to act like and be followers
of them who through faith
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and patience, inherit the promises,
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and notice they inherit the promises through faith
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and patience.
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I call these the twins that give birth
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to the promises of God.
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You've got to have both of these. These are like parrots.
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Faith in Greek is usually dated.
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It's very assertive, it's moving forward. It's like a man.
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The word patience is usually feminine.
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And so you gotta have the male component
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and you gotta have the feminine component,
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it's just like a man and a woman gives birth to a baby.
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You've got to have faith,
which is an initiator.
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The faith sows into the womb of patience.
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and patience get together, it gives birth to
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the promises of God.
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It takes both of these
working together to give birth
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to the promises of God.
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And we see this in the life of Noah.
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He believed God, he was an initiator,
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but he had to have patience
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to be developed and to come to pass.
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And it's the same with you.
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patience working in your life,
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you will give birth to
the promises of God.
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But then I want us to go to Hebrews 10:23,
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where the Bible says - Let us hold fast
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to the profession of our faith.
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If you have a King James Version the word ours, italicized
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which means, the word, our, does not appear in the Greek.
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It just says, let us hold fast
to the profession of faith.
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So you throw open the door,
whatever your profession
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of faith is, that's what it's describing.
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Let us hold fast to the profession of faith, whatever it is,
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without wavering.
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The word, wavering, is the Greek word, aklines.
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The word, aklines, is the word for a bed.
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It describes a person
so weary they go to bed.
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But if you put an 'a' on the front, it becomes, aklines.
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A little translation is - let us hold fast to the profession
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of our faith without going to bed on our faith.
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It describes a person that gives up.
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And in fact, when it becomes aklines, it's a picture
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of something that doesn't bend, something that is fixed,
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something that is unmoving, it is stable, it is enduring,
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it doesn't go to bed. Don't go to bed on your faith.
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You hold fast to your confession of faith
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and don't allow yourself to become neutral, sluggish,
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or slothful.
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Retain your passion for
what God told you to do.
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And then we go over to Hebrews 10:
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35 - Cast not away
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therefore your confidence
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with hath great recompense of reward.
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The word confidence is the Greek word, parresia,
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which describes a very
bold, frank, forthright kind
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of speech: one that is extraordinarily frankness,
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speaking his faith about what he believes,
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what God told him.
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And the Bible says, if you don't throw away your confidence,
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it will have great recompense of reward.
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Wow. And in Greek, this phrase - recompense
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of reward - describes money,
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salary, or a payment that is due.
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It is a full and complete recompense.
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And when you look in Hebrews 10:36,
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it continues to say - For you have need of patience that
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after you've done the will of God,
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you might receive the promise.
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The word, receive, the Greek word komidzo:
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which means to receive
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what is due, to receive what is coming.
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It is the word for payday: which means if you stay in faith,
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if you refuse to be neutral,
lackadaisical slothful.
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If you refuse that
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and retain your passion, stay focused on your promise
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and if you continue to speak the word of God,
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if you move in faith and patience
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and refuse to go to bed on your faith
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and keep speaking your faith,
your confidence, guess what?
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One day payday is going to come.
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And what you've been believing
for is gonna come to you.
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What you have due to you is going to come.
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And when it shows up is
gonna be quite a payday.
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That's really what it means.
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And in fact, Hebrews 10:38 goes on to say -
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Now the just shall live by faith.
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But if any man draw back,
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my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
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Draw back - the Greek word,
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hypostello, means to shrink back.
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If pictures one that is withdrawing, retreating, regressing,
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receding, or backing away or backsliding
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or recoiling from something. It is the picture of one
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who reverses his direction. Instead of moving forward,
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he's backing off and retreating from an object,
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a principle or a task.
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And according to Hebrews 10:39, those who draw back,
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draw back unto perdition - the Greek word, apoleia,
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which describes something that is disgusting and rotten.
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My friends, if you back off of what God promised you,
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your life will not get better, it will get worse.
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And what you need to do is maintain faith,
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sow into patience, maintain your confession, stay in faith,
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retain your passion, and align yourself with God
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and refuse to give up.
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And with faith in patience working in you - guess what?
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Payday will come!
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And when payday comes, it's gonna be quite a wonderful day.
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You will be an inheritor of the promise of God.
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Now, we have covered a lot today. Wow.
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But I'll be back in just a moment
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and I want to pray for you.
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Someone has asked a very good question -
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How do I pray correctly so
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that I know God really hears my prayers?
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Well the answer is found in 1 John 5,
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beginning in verse 14.
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And it says - And this is the confidence we have in him,
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that if we ask anything according to his will,
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he hears us well.
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His will is his word.
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God does exactly what he
has said in the word of God.
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So if you pray scripturally
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or if you pray according to
the word of God, this verse
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absolutely proclaims
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God hears our prayers. And verse 15 says - And
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ee know that if he hears us, whatsoever we ask,
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we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
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So if you want God to hear your
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prayers and respond, then you have to pray his will,
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or you have to pray His
word or scripturally.
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When you pray scripturally,
it opens the ears of God.
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And if God hears us
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that we can be sure we have the petitions
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that we've made of him.
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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 we'll 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 today for only $29.
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Order the bundle of the series - How to Float on a Sea
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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
or scan the QR code to order.
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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, where we can interview guests
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who can't come all the way to Russia
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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 in this wonderful
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facility which God gave us 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.
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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 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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As I conclude this series today, I wanna go back
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to Genesis 7:17, which 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.
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And just like Noah stood
on the promises of God
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and never gave up until he received
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and sailed through those
turbulent waters, my friends,
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if you'll stay in faith,
if you'll stay in patience
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and keep speaking the word of God
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and refuse to give up, a
day will come when faith
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and patience produces that
thing that God promised
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to you and my friends,
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if Noah did it, you can do it too. Wow!
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But hey, today is the last day
which we're offering you the
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series called, How to Float on a Sea
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of Destruction in the Last Days: 10 Principles
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to help you sail victoriously
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through turbulent End-Time weather.
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And of course, it comes
with a study guide.
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And today is also the
last day on the program
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that we're offering you my book called, Last Days Survival
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Guide: A scriptural handbook to prepare you
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for these Perilous Times.
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You can order these by
going online or calling us.
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And again, when you reach out
to us, please let us know how
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to pray for you, and if you'll
put your hand on your heart,
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brother, Rick's gonna
pray for you right now.
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Father, I thank in the name
of Jesus, you've given a task
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to every one of us.
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Help us Lord not to become
slothful and lose our zeal
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and to become neutral,
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but Lord, to retain our fire
until we finally receive
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what you've promised and
what you've told us to do
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in Jesus' name -
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Amen. While this has really been good,
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but as we conclude today, I remind you
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of Ecclesiastes 8:4:
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it says, "Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and
receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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We invite you to partner with
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Together we can make a difference
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