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I am in the floodplain just below the mountains of Ararat,
where Noah's Ark came to rest later,
Noah moved into the valley near here,
possibly even right here when he became a husbandman.
This particular dwelling
where I am is a very ancient ancient house which many
scholars and archeologists
and historians believe may have actually been Noah's house.
That is amazing.
And in fact, some early believers were so convinced of it
that early Armenian believers
and even Byzantine believers converted it into a church
as a place of commemoration in the valley of Noah
and his family and their residence right here.
And not far from here is an altar.
And that altar, some say, was the place
where Noah offered additional sacrifices to the Lord.
There's an ancient, ancient stone wall that goes all the way
around it to keep animals
and people from going into that region
because it would've been a sacred location.
But my friends, Noah had a promise from God
that he would inherit the earth
and he was commanded to be fruitful and multiply
and replenish the earth.
And because he gave heed to the voice of God
and was willing to obey, he became the inheritor
of the earth.
All of us eventually can trace our lineage back to Noah.
That is amazing, the impact that he had on all
of our lives.
And in the same way, if we will hear what the Lord has
to say, we will inherit God's promises,
even if it seems like we're sailing on
turbulent, turbulent waters.
If we'll stay focused
and stay anchored in God's promise, we will inherit
what he has promised us.
And that is what I'm going to talk to you about today.
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Welcome to today's program. My friend
today we're wrapping up the series which is called, How
to Float on a Sea of Destruction in the Last Days.
And as you know, I went with my film crew
to the Eastern mountains of Turkey, right on the border
of Iran and Armenia.
And there in the lower mountains
of the Ararat Mountain Range is a massive ship shaped
formation, which really is the ruins of Noah's Ark.
People have been looking for it in the wrong place.
They've been looking for it on the peak of Mount Ararat,
but the Bible says it came to rest
in the mountains of Ararat.
In the lower mountains of Ararat,
there really are the ruins of Noah's Ark.
And now scientists are affirming
that they really are the ruins of Noah's Ark.
Wow! But when I was there,
I was thinking about all the events of the flood.
Wow, how the raging waters
of the flood covered the earth.
It was quite an amazing time,
but the same waters
that destroyed everything else caused Noah
and his family to rise higher and higher and higher,
and they literally floated on the waters of destruction.
Well, in Matthew 24:37, Jesus says - As the days
of Noah were, so it will be
before the coming of the Son of man at the end of the age.
Well, that's where we are.
So it means just like there were raging waters
then, there are going to be destructive waters now.
And certainly we are living in turbulent times;
but we don't have to sink. Like Noah and his family,
we can rise higher and higher
and higher even on a sea of destruction.
And that's what this series is about - How to Float on a Sea
of Destruction in the Last Days.
It comes in all kinds of formats with a study guide.
And today is the last day on the program
that we're offering you this series.
So please go online or give us a call to order yours now.
You will just love it.
And we're also offering you my book today
for the last time on the program right now called, Last Days
Survival Guide: A scriptural handbook to prepare you
for these Perilous Times.
But today we're gonna wrap up this teaching.
But you know, if you have a prayer need, we're here
and we're waiting to pray for you.
So if you'll call the number on the screen
or send us an email, the moment we get your email
or the moment the phone rings,
we're gonna release our faith.
We're going to agree with you in prayer.
Jesus said, if two of you would agree
as touching anything, I'll do it.
You can pray by yourself,
but there's special power in agreement
and we will get into agreement with you in faith,
God will hear us and God will move on your behalf.
And we're waiting to pray for you right now.
It really is one
of the greatest honors which God gives to our ministry.
So give us a call or send us an email.
But before I get into today's teaching, I want
to share a few testimonies with you.
One person said - My wife
and I want to express our heartfelt thanks
to the entire Renner team, not just the family,
but all the staff and everyone involved in moving the
mission forward at Renner Ministries.
Our family has been tremendously blessed over the many years
through your solid commitment to following
and fulfilling the word of God with your lives.
Your work has made countless eternal impacts in our lives
through teaching the word of God with boldness, accuracy,
and most importantly with the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
We've shared Renner books with nearly everyone we know,
and your life and ministry are an excellent example
for our faith as we step out in pursuit of
what God has called our family to do.
Thank you. Wow, thank you for that testimony.
I'm glad that we can be an example to anybody.
But hey, here's another testimony.
We received a letter from a precious family who's been
partners with the ministry for several years.
They wanted to say thank you to the Renners
for their consistency in the word. They said,
how we love our morning tea and teaching with Brother Rick
and wanted to encourage him to keep teaching
so we can know the deeper meanings of the New Testament
even better. That is amazing.
I'm grateful that you're having your morning tea with me.
But hey, listen to this final testimony that I'm going
to share with you today.
One of our Partner Care Team members said - I just spoke
with a woman who called
for a free book. When I asked if I could pray with her,
she said no one had ever prayed with her in her whole life.
She was so blessed by the prayer.
And she said, she will see me one day in heaven
and will remember that I was the first one
to ever pray for her.
Wow, that is amazing.
If no one's ever prayed with you, we're here.
And we want to be the first to pray for you.
So if you have a need, you reach out to us
and you let us know how we can pray for you.
And we'll pray with you too. But hey, reach for your Bible.
And today we're wrapping up the teaching, How
To Float On a Sea of Destruction in the Last Days.
And as you saw in the introduction to today's program,
I was sitting there in the ruins
of a very ancient building which dates to the Byzantine
and Armenian period.
And the ancient writer said that they built
that church on that location -
that's what those ruins are,
it's the ruins of an old church, they sat on the ruins of
where Noah and his family lived when they moved into the
floodplain just below Mount Judi in the Mountains of Ararat.
And if that is true, then that's where Noah lived
with his family when he became a vine dresser
and had a big vineyard and just a little ways from there,
there's a big altar where many archeologists
and historians believe that Noah
and his family continued offering sacrifices to God.
I've really been there. I've been all over that place.
But it's amazing that when Noah
and his family came off the ark, they inherited the earth.
That's amazing. They were the big winners
and they inherited the earth.
And today I want you to reach for your Bible
and I'm going to talk to you about how
to receive the promise that God has made to you.
But we're gonna go back to Genesis 7:16,
which says - And they - that's Noah, his family
and all the animals - went in male
and female of all flesh as God commanded him.
And the Lord shut him in. Verse 17:
And the flood was 40 days upon the earth
and the waters increased, bare up the ark
and it was lifted up above the earth.
And Noah and his family literally floated on the waters
of destruction.
We saw in the last program that Noah had to determine
to stay in his place of faith.
And today I'm going to give you 2-things
you have to have to receive the promise
that God made to you.
It's not enough just to receive a promise.
There are several things you need to bring
that promise into manifestation.
And we're gonna go to Hebrews 6:12.
And these things I'm going to be sharing
with you are demonstrated in the life of Noah.
But let's look at this: Hebrews 6:12 says -
That you be not slothful,
but followers of them who through faith
and patience, inherit the promises.
Now we're on our way to faith and patience,
but we have to stop at that word slothful -
that you be not slothful.
And in Greek, it is a prohibition,
which means - stop being slothful.
Well, what does it mean to be slothful?
The word slothful is the Greek word, nothros.
It describes what is dull, slow, or sluggish.
It depicts something that has lost its speed
or lost its momentum.
It's conveying the idea of something
that has lost the drive, the thrust, the impetus, the pace
and speed that it once possessed.
It's the ideal of one whose zeal has dissipated.
It denotes a person who's become disinterested
and whose zeal has been replaced
with - are you ready for this -
a middle of the road, take it or leave it, mentality.
And it carries the idea of one who has a lethargic,
lackadaisical, apathetic, indifferent, lukewarm attitude
who has become a non achiever with a non achieving attitude.
And here we find a person who at one time had zeal,
had passion,
but now over a period of time, they have a take it
or leave it mentality.
They've just become lukewarm.
And very often as you wait for the promise of God to come
to pass in your life, if you don't work really hard
to keep your zeal stirred up, you will become lukewarm
or you will become, as the Bible says, slothful - slothful.
That's a terrible thing.
A person who once had real pace, real speed,
but now they've just lost their zeal
and they've become disinterested.
Well, think about Noah.
Noah built the ark for a hundred years.
He began building when he was 500 years old
and they entered into the ark when he was 600.
What if God gave you a project that took a hundred years
to fulfill?
And along the way, you're getting tired,
you're spending masses of money on a project
that seems endless.
People are laughing at you, making fun of you,
your wife wonders if this project will ever end,
your kids wonder, what in the world are you doing
with their inheritance?
You have an opportunity to say, you know what?
This is just too much: to lose your zeal,
to lose your passion.
But my friends, don't be slothful.
If God has spoken to you, you've got to maintain your zeal
and remain aligned with God about the task
that he has given you to do.
You can resist slothfulness.
In fact, the verse goes on to say - instead be followers
of them who through faith
and patience, inherit the promises.
And the word followers is the Greek word, mimetes.
Listen to what it means. It describes one who imitates.
It is the word for a mimic.
One who replicates what he sees someone else doing.
This word, mimetes, here is translated
the word, followers, is used to describe actors
who acted on the stage for their profession.
It implies the intentional study of the deeds, words,
actions, and thoughts of another person in order
to replicate those attributes in one's own life.
And derivatives of this word, followers,
the Greek word, mimetes, are mimeograph, mime, pantomime
and mimic.
So if you're gonna translate this word correctly,
when it says be followers of them through faith
and patience, inherit the promises.
It really means mimic them.
In other words, look at those who've gone
before you who've inherited the promises of God.
And if you want the same results they got, then you've got
to do what they did.
And that means you need to study them
and you need to begin to replicate them.
One time I was speaking to an actor in New York City
and he said to me - You know, once I had
to act a really difficult role,
and he said, for me to act that role, I had
to study the kind of person that I was to portray.
And I literally moved into that character
and didn't move outta that character until we were finished
with that theatrical production.
He said, I studied and studied and studied
and studied that person that I wanted to be like.
And he said, you know what?
I moved so into character
that when the theatrical production was finished,
it was kind of hard for me to find me.
I had become that of the person.
Well, in the same way, if you want to be a person of faith,
then you need to find somebody that is a person of faith
and you need to study them in order to replicate them.
Do what they do, say what they say, act like they act.
That's exactly what this verse says.
Now you might say - Yeah, but if I do that, I'm just acting.
Well, let me tell you, friends, there's
nothing wrong with acting.
We're told in scripture to put on the Lord Jesus Christ
and make no provision for the flesh.
That means we have to very intentionally study Jesus
and put him on. My friends,
there's nothing wrong with acting.
And in this verse, we're told to mimic, we're told
to act like and be followers of them who through faith
and patience, inherit the promises,
and notice they inherit the promises through faith
and patience.
I call these the twins that give birth
to the promises of God.
You've got to have both of these. These are like parrots.
Faith in Greek is usually dated.
It's very assertive, it's moving forward. It's like a man.
The word patience is usually feminine.
And so you gotta have the male component
and you gotta have the feminine component,
it's just like a man and a woman gives birth to a baby.
You've got to have faith, which is an initiator.
The faith sows into the womb of patience.
And when faith
and patience get together, it gives birth to
the promises of God.
It takes both of these working together to give birth
to the promises of God.
And we see this in the life of Noah.
He believed God, he was an initiator,
but he had to have patience in order for what he believed
to be developed and to come to pass.
And it's the same with you.
And if you have faith in patience working in your life,
you will give birth to the promises of God.
But then I want us to go to Hebrews 10:23,
where the Bible says - Let us hold fast
to the profession of our faith.
If you have a King James Version the word ours, italicized
which means, the word, our, does not appear in the Greek.
It just says, let us hold fast to the profession of faith.
So you throw open the door, whatever your profession
of faith is, that's what it's describing.
Let us hold fast to the profession of faith, whatever it is,
without wavering.
The word, wavering, is the Greek word, aklines.
The word, aklines, is the word for a bed.
It describes a person so weary they go to bed.
But if you put an 'a' on the front, it becomes, aklines.
A little translation is - let us hold fast to the profession
of our faith without going to bed on our faith.
It describes a person that gives up.
And in fact, when it becomes aklines, it's a picture
of something that doesn't bend, something that is fixed,
something that is unmoving, it is stable, it is enduring,
it doesn't go to bed. Don't go to bed on your faith.
You hold fast to your confession of faith
and don't allow yourself to become neutral, sluggish,
or slothful.
Retain your passion for what God told you to do.
And then we go over to Hebrews 10:
35 - Cast not away
therefore your confidence
with hath great recompense of reward.
The word confidence is the Greek word, parresia,
which describes a very bold, frank, forthright kind
of speech: one that is extraordinarily frankness,
speaking his faith about what he believes,
what God told him.
And the Bible says, if you don't throw away your confidence,
it will have great recompense of reward.
Wow. And in Greek, this phrase - recompense
of reward - describes money,
salary, or a payment that is due.
It is a full and complete recompense.
And when you look in Hebrews 10:36,
it continues to say - For you have need of patience that
after you've done the will of God,
you might receive the promise.
The word, receive, the Greek word komidzo:
which means to receive
what is due, to receive what is coming.
It is the word for payday: which means if you stay in faith,
if you refuse to be neutral, lackadaisical slothful.
If you refuse that
and retain your passion, stay focused on your promise
and if you continue to speak the word of God,
if you move in faith and patience
and refuse to go to bed on your faith
and keep speaking your faith, your confidence, guess what?
One day payday is going to come.
And what you've been believing for is gonna come to you.
What you have due to you is going to come.
And when it shows up is gonna be quite a payday.
That's really what it means.
And in fact, Hebrews 10:38 goes on to say -
Now the just shall live by faith.
But if any man draw back,
my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Draw back - the Greek word,
hypostello, means to shrink back.
If pictures one that is withdrawing, retreating, regressing,
receding, or backing away or backsliding
or recoiling from something. It is the picture of one
who reverses his direction. Instead of moving forward,
he's backing off and retreating from an object,
a principle or a task.
And according to Hebrews 10:39, those who draw back,
draw back unto perdition - the Greek word, apoleia,
which describes something that is disgusting and rotten.
My friends, if you back off of what God promised you,
your life will not get better, it will get worse.
And what you need to do is maintain faith,
sow into patience, maintain your confession, stay in faith,
retain your passion, and align yourself with God
and refuse to give up.
And with faith in patience working in you - guess what?
Payday will come!
And when payday comes, it's gonna be quite a wonderful day.
You will be an inheritor of the promise of God.
Now, we have covered a lot today. Wow.
But I'll be back in just a moment
and I want to pray for you.
Someone has asked a very good question -
How do I pray correctly so
that I know God really hears my prayers?
Well the answer is found in 1 John 5,
beginning in verse 14.
And it says - And this is the confidence we have in him,
that if we ask anything according to his will,
he hears us well.
His will is his word.
God does exactly what he has said in the word of God.
So if you pray scripturally
or if you pray according to the word of God, this verse
absolutely proclaims
God hears our prayers. And verse 15 says - And
ee know that if he hears us, whatsoever we ask,
we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
So if you want God to hear your
prayers and respond, then you have to pray his will,
or you have to pray His word or scripturally.
When you pray scripturally, it opens the ears of God.
And if God hears us
that we can be sure we have the petitions
that we've made 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 we'll show you how to rise above the destructive tides
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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.
We're so grateful for this building,
it was really a gift from the Lord.
And it's almost paid for.
We've already retired 86% of the debt.
We just need to go a little ways to finish this.
We call 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.
-: As I conclude this series today, I wanna go back
to Genesis 7:17, which says -
And the flood was 40 days upon the earth
and the waters increased and bear up the Ark
and it was lifted up above the earth.
And just like Noah stood on the promises of God
and never gave up until he received
and sailed through those turbulent waters, my friends,
if you'll stay in faith, if you'll stay in patience
and keep speaking the word of God
and refuse to give up, a day will come when faith
and patience produces that thing that God promised
to you and my friends,
if Noah did it, you can do it too. Wow!
But hey, today is the last day which we're offering you the
series called, How to Float on a Sea
of Destruction in the Last Days: 10 Principles
to help you sail victoriously
through turbulent End-Time weather.
And of course, it comes with a study guide.
And today is also the last day on the program
that we're offering you my book called, Last Days Survival
Guide: A scriptural handbook to prepare you
for these Perilous Times.
You can order these by going online or calling us.
And again, when you reach out to us, please let us know how
to pray for you, and if you'll put your hand on your heart,
brother, Rick's gonna pray for you right now.
Father, I thank in the name of Jesus, you've given a task
to every one of us.
Help us Lord not to become slothful and lose our zeal
and to become neutral,
but Lord, to retain our fire until we finally receive
what you've promised and what you've told us to do
-: in Jesus' name -
Amen. While this has really been good,
but as we conclude today, I remind you
of Ecclesiastes 8:4:
it says, "Where the word of a king is, there is power."
If you've never received as your Savior
and Lord, now is the time for you to experience a new life
Jesus has to give you.
Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
and Lord. Wash away my sin
and make me completely new.
I thank you that my sin is removed
and Satan no longer has any right to lay claim on me.
I faithfully promise that I will serve you as my Lord
for the rest of my life
-: Amen.
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