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This program is made
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of the God called partners
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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner
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and I'm so glad you've let me
come right to where you are.
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I know you've got a lot
going on and a lot to do,
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and it means a lot to me
that you would make time
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for me today and not just me.
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But today, Rabbi Schneider is returning to be with us again.
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We're doing a series, which
is called Decoding the Torah
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comes with a study guide,
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and we're also offering you Rabbi's book
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that is just wonderful.
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And the book is called - Decoding the Torah:
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applying Ancient Wisdom in a Modern World.
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And he takes a hundred
of the laws of the Torah
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and provides for us a Christian context for those laws.
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And it's just so good.
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And today we're gonna find out
the difference between right
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and wrong prayer.
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Wow, I learned so much
from this conversation
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with Rabbi, and I know
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that you're gonna get a lot out of it too.
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So it's time for us to get started
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so please join me and Rabbi Schneider.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind, where the word
is the anchor in uncertain
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times and doctrine
doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner and friend,
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I'm so excited that Rabbi Schneider is with us today.
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And right here in my
hands, I have his new book,
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which is called, Decoding of the Torah.
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And the subtitle says -
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Applying Ancient Wisdom in a Modern World.
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And wow. In this book,
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there is such insight from
the laws which are contained
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in the Torah.
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And this just so touched me
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that I asked Rabbi if he would join me
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this week for program.
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So Rabbi, welcome to today's program.
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Blessings to you and love my brother and friend.
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You know, it's really interesting.
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We read in the Torah how the high priest
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of Israel should dress.
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And at the bottom of his
garment there was a bell
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and then a pomegranate: a bell and a pomegranate,
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and a bell and a pomegranate.
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So the priest would walk around
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and people would hear the bells,
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and they would see the pomegranates.
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Now, for those of our audience
that may have been to Israel
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before, they may remember that
when they got to Israel, one
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of the 1st things they perhaps encountered was someone
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wanting to sell them a glass of pomegranate juice.
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And according to Judaism,
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a pomegranate has 613 seeds in it.
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Now, the Torah, according to the ancient Rabbis,
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has 613 commandments.
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So it's just kind of beautiful symbolism.
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I don't think it's necessarily
scientifically true
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that every pomegranate has 613 seeds,
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but it's just according to Jewish tradition
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that pomegranates have 613 seeds.
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And it's fascinating to me
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that all the way back 3,500 years ago,
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the Lord gave the priest commandments to wear from the hem
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of their garb, the pomegranate
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and the bell, the
pomegranate and the bell.
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I like to think about this.
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The..bell represents our voice.
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You can hear a bell right when the priest
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move, you could hear it.
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So the so the bell represents our verbal witness in the
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world, but the pomegranate represents the
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fruit of the spirit.
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And it's an application for all of us
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because we have to have
both the bell, we have
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to be speaking about Jesus.
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We can't just be nice people.
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We have to literally be
telling people about Jesus.
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They need to hear the bell ring.
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And then we also have to
have the fruit of the spirit
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so they can both hear about Jesus
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and see the fruit of the
spirit from our lives.
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You know, I did not know
the pomegranate had 613 seeds
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until I read that in your book,
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but pomegranates are very nourishing.
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And they are delicious. In the same way, the word
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of God is very nourishing to us,
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and it is melt in the mouth truth.
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It is so delicious.
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What a great way to picture the word of God.
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That is just so powerful.
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But Rabbi, can we pick up on
where we left off yesterday?
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Absolutely. We were talking about the sweet
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offering unto the Lord.
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First I wanted to talk about a strange incense.
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Yes - To offer no strange incense on the
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altar. Can we start there?
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Absolutely. - And it's from Exodus 30:9
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which says - You shall not offer any strange incense
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on this altar.
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Can you please comment on that for me?
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What is a strange incense
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and why did God forbid this?
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Well, strange incense on the altar
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refers to several different things.
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First of all, the incense had to be made
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of particular ingredients.
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And I can't even pronounce
all the names correctly.
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One of them was frankincense, obviously, which we all know,
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but the others were blends that I'm not familiar with.
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But it was a very specific mixture.
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It was a holy mixture,
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and it could only be used
to offer up to the Lord.
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People couldn't use it
for their personal use.
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It talks about separation,
it talks about distinction,
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it talks about holiness.
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And now some things are holy,
some things are separate.
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And God needs to be treated that way.
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He needs to be treated
in a way that is separate
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and above everything else in our life.
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The violation of this commandment: the command once again,
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to not offer up strange incense and Nadab
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and Abihu offered up strange incense
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and strange fire they were struck down by the Lord for that.
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The command has to do, if you think about this, with
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how we pray. I wanna just bring it
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to a prophetic application now,
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because incense in the scripture is symbolic
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of worship and prayer.
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In fact, there was incense that was burning in the temple,
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in the tabernacle, in the temple,
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every morning they offered up incense to the Lord, according
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to the divine prescription of it:
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a continual, perpetual offering of worship
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and prayer to the Holy One.
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Blessed be his name: to Yahweh, the God
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and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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It was only for him.
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They didn't have a bunch of menorahs
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around offering up incense all over the camp.
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Now it was in one place, special ingredients reserved only
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for the Lord, representing
again, prayer and worship.
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Now today, if we think about
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what would strange prayer look like: strange incense. Again,
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incense connected to prayer and worship.
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What would strange prayer
to the Lord look like?
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You know what I think of
Rick, I think of people
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that pray in such a way
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that their heart is not really directed
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to God when they pray.
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Beause remember when that incense burned in the tabernacle:
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because the tabernacle was enclosed,
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There was no wind blowing through it
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because in the holy place of the tabernacle,
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and then later the temple where the altar of incense burned,
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there was no wind in there because it was surrounded on all
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sides and there was a roof over it.
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So when that incense burned, the smoke ascended straight up.
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That prayer is to ascend straight up.
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But if you listen sometimes
to the way people pray,
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you can sense that they're
not praying in a way
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that their heart is connected to God.
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They're not really connecting to God,
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but rather they're praying
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to impress the other people around them.
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And it happens all the time - that people
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especially in group settings, pray in such a way
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that their prayers are really
not fully directed upward,
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but are directed in some
measure to the people standing
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around them.
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That the people standing around them might think
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that they're spiritually competent or pious or religious.
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And this is an affront
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to the Lord when we act like we're praying to him.
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Yet God's looking down thinking - You're not praying to me.
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You're only praying to..
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impress the people around you.
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That would be one example
of strange prayer.
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Another example, Rick,
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is when people pray in such a way, again
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that their heart is
not really ascending up
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to the Lord in their prayer,
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but instead they're relying
on religious traditions
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that they've learned. They're praying prayers
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that they've heard, that they've memorized, that are part
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of - quote - the Christian culture,
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but their prayer is not really
authentic with an open heart,
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instead, it's just, you know,
it's just kind of confined
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to the spirit of religion.
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Well, Jesus said you're not
heard for speaking many words.
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You know, Rabbi, I'm thinking about an experience
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I had many years ago.
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Denise and I were invited
to minister in a church,
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and when we got there,
the church was large.
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It had grown very, very fast.
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And I said to the pastor, I'd never met him before,
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I said - how has this church grown so fast?
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He said, well, I have a
very unique sign and wonder.
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He said, while I'm in
the service, oil begins
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to flow from my hands.
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And he said, it's supernatural.
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And that's how I've built this church.
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People come to see the oil.
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Well, I was in the service
standing next to him,
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and I was very, honestly, I
was very disturbed by the,
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the whole environment.
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And I looked over at him
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and Rabbi, I saw him
reach into his pocket,
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pull out an oil capsule
and break it on his hands.
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Oh gosh.
It was fake.
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And he said, look, the
oil has began to flow.
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And when I saw that, the Lord spoke to me
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and said, I want you to speak
from the Old Testament about
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what happens to the man who
fabricates the anointing.
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And I preached about
it for all four nights
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that I was in that service.
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Wow.
It brings judgment.
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This, this is serious business.
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We're not to fabricate
the anointing, we're not
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to bring strange sacrifices
and strange incense
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and wow, what you said
about people praying
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for the sake of others.
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And it's not prayer that's
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That is so true.
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So many times I've been in a prayer circle
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where somebody's praying
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and I've thought - Are they really talking to God
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or are they trying to communicate something to the rest
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of us in this circle?
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Yeah, that happens too, right?
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That's strange Incense,
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Thank you so much.
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It's, it really is. Thank you. We need
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to really watch our heart.
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Well, can I ask you about another law?
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Please do. - To burn incense
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of sweet spices unto the Lord every morning.
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I love this one, Rabbi.
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Yeah. It's so practical.
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The scriptures Exodus 30:7-8,
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Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it.
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He shall burn it every morning.
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There shall be perpetual incense
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before the Lord throughout
your generations.
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Can you please comment on that law?
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Well, it's so beautiful.
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It's so practical
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and in connection with this law, the,
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I'm just tying something together
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that I think is appropriate,
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when, when Israel offered the Lord the sacrifices according
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to the direction that he gave him, the Lord said,
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and this is so powerful
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and beautiful, he said, this is my food.
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The Lord literally called the
sacrifices that were offered
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to him as his food.
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And the same thing is true when we offer these sweet spices
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unto him, out of a pure heart.
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It's his food. It blesses him.
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We're a fragrant aroma unto him. Somehow,
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even though God is complete in and of himself
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and he needs nothing, somehow we add
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to his pleasure when we worship him
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and the offering of sweet spices unto Him every morning is
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an illustration in the prophetic sense of the word
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of us offering up our hearts
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to him in worship and praise, in love
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and adoration, in our clinging to him every morning to walk
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that day ahead with him.
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Somehow it fills his
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all the angels in heaven repent - rejoice rather,
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over one sinner that repents.
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Somehow Jesus gets joy.
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The Father gets joy when we're living
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lives devoted to him.
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And practically Rick, to your exact point here,
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and you've shared this with me, how you
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and Denise every morning
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and every evening you have
a practical, something
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that you're doing to start
the day with the Lord,
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to raise your hand and
bless him in the morning
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and the last thing at night.
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And it, it's so, it's so
practical and so beautiful.
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Here's the application.
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I really want everybody
that's listening right now
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to get this because this is one
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of the most practical laws in the Torah
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that you can apply to your life right now.
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Every morning. Rick, can you read
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that scripture for us again?
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Yes, I will. It says,
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Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it.
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He shall burn it every morning.
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This shall be perpetual incense
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before the Lord throughout
your generations.
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Okay, so I want everyone
that's listen, right,
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let's think about this.
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It was perpetual. It was every morning.
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Now let's think every
morning. Every morning.
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Now think about the priests that were commanded to do this.
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Do you think that they woke up
every morning feeling happy?
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I don't think so. I believe
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that sometimes in the morning
they were feeling groggy.
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Some mornings they
probably had a headache.
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I'm sure that sometimes they felt
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disconnected to the creator.
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But you know what? Regardless
of how they felt in their body
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or in their emotional state, regardless
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of whether they felt connected
in their heart to God
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or didn't feel connected in their heart to God that morning,
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every morning they did the same thing.
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They began by worshiping God
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and offering up that sweet incense.
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Psalm 5:3, David said,
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My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, oh Lord,
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in the morning I will direct my prayer unto thee
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and will look up.
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And David was the man who was surrounded
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with all kinds of problems.
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He had enemies, he had problems in his house,
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he had problems with his kids.
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I mean, David had so many problems.
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And Rabbi, I really
believe that David knew
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if he didn't start the day looking up,
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it would just be a few minutes
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until he would be looking down.
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And you know, the day that we live in,
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if you don't look up first,
your phone's gonna ping
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and you're gonna get a
message that's gonna upset you
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or your spouse may give you a
look that you don't understand
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and it kind of just
throws off your whole day.
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You can start looking down really fast.
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And that's why I made a decision years ago,
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I'm not even gonna lift
my head off of my pillow
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until first I look up.
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I'm not gonna talk to Denise.
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I'm not gonna look at my
phone until I look up.
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before I lift my head from
my pillow, I began my day
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by looking up.
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what you've written about this law: to burn incense
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of sweet spices unto the Lord every morning.
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And Rabbi, you know that when
we worship the Lord, it's,
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it has a magnetic effect.
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It brings the presence
of God into our life.
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This is so powerful. Thank you.
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Absolutely. I wanted to,
if I could maybe just share a
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little bit about how I do this
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and what a difference it's made in my life.
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And the first thing I
wanna share with you,
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my beloved friends, is there's something
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that is needed in our lives
that's called discipline.
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And we kind of like, you know,
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because we're all about grace.
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We don't even like to
hear the word discipline.
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But Paul said, bodily
discipline is profitable.
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But then Paul went out to say,
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but spiritual discipline
is even more profitable
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because it has benefited
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for us not only in this life,
but in the life to come.
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So we first of all need to
understand discipline is
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important to walk in the spirit.
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Now, you might feel like you're an
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undisciplined person, but you know what?
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God can strengthen you.
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God can help you to
become more disciplined.
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So we first of all need to understand
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that putting into practice this command
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to burn sweet incense unto
the Lord every morning
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by ourselves,
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offering our hearts each morning afresh and anew each day.
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That takes discipline.
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Because if we're just gonna
be controlled by our emotions,
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we're gonna, we're gonna give up on this
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pretty quickly early on.
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Because if you're like me,
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sometimes you don't get
a good night's sleep.
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Sometimes I wake up
feeling connected to God
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with a great sense of expectation.
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Some mornings I wake up and I'm weary.
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Sometimes I don't even know
why. Maybe I had a bad dream.
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But you know what? Regardless
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of whether I'm feeling
inspired emotionally
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or not, I still do the same thing.
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I get up, I go down to my prayer room,
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or I'm just playing
beautiful worship music.
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I put on just strings,
just soft and soothing.
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I listen to music. It doesn't
even have words to it.
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It's done by Christian artists,
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but it's just really soothing.
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And I just lay there and I just let the Lord minister to me.
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And then I begin to read in His word.
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I actually read two chapters from my book every morning.
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And then I - Do you really? - I do.
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Then I read the written word of God.
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And then before I get off
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that couch, you know what I do, Rick?
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I praise God. I thank God
I commit the day to God.
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I ask him for help.
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And I do that by the grace
of God every single day.
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And Rick, I'd be afraid not to do it.
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It changes my day.
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And Rabbi, I know you do it
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because I saw you do it
when I was at your house.
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And I know that when you and
I talk to each other by phone,
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we always figure a time when I know
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that you've already had
your time with the Lord.
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But you know, for those of you that are listening,
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this is really something you need.
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Discipline will liberate your life.
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Discipline will make you healthier because you'll eat right.
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Discipline will make you stronger because you'll exercise.
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Discipline is very necessary if
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you want to have a good life.
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And when people don't have discipline,
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their life literally falls to pieces.
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And spiritually speaking,
you've got to be disciplined.
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You can't get up every morning and pray
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and every morning look up
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unless you make a decision to do it,
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because your emotions won't take you there
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or your emotions will
take you somewhere else,
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or you'll put your mind somewhere else.
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You've gotta make a concrete decision -
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I'm gonna start my day by looking up and offering sweet
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incense to the Lord.
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And it really brings the
presence of God into your day.
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You start your day right,
and you end your day right,
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because there's such a
strong presence with you.
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Rabbi, thank you for writing
about that particular law.
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Amen. And you know, the thing
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with discipline is you can't make exceptions
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because once you make an exception,
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pretty soon the whole door is open wide.
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In other words, you open the door a crack,
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and the water starts coming in,
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and pretty soon the whole
thing's gone out the window.
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I just wanna encourage
you, beloved friends,
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put this into practice in your life.
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However the Lord instructs you to do it
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or leads you to do it by
spirit and stick with it
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and you will be blessed,
you'll be stronger,
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you'll keep ascending into the spirit
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and find yourself living a more empowered life in
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what we call in Hebrew(Hebrew...) God's Holy Spirit.
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Rabbi, I have a question. - Okay.
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This book has really impacted me.
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Why did you write this book?
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I wrote the book
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because I knew that we were,
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as God's people not, incorporating the Torah into our lives
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the way that we needed to,
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to be fully occupying our
place in the Holy Spirit
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as we live in this world
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because all scriptures inspired by God.
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But we've neglected many
of us the Old Testament.
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So it's kind of like reading a book.
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If you pick up a book
that's 600 pages long
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and you start on page 400
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and don't read the first 400
pages, you're gonna miss a lot
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of what that book could have meant to you.
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I'm telling you, Rick, this
is so rich, it's so beautiful,
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it's such good food.
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I need it, we need it,
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and I believe God is helping his people
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to rediscover his ancient word.
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Well, you have definitely
provided something for me
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that I could not have done by myself.
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And I'm a real studier. And
so I just wanna say thank you
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for writing this book and for feeding me. And friend,
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I want to tell you, this is a book that you need to read.
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You need to devour it
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and don't say - Oh - that's the Old Testament.
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I don't want to hear that. It is the foundation
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for everything in the New Testament.
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You need to know what it
says. But Rabbi, thank you.
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We're out of time. But Rabbi,
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we're gonna be back here again tomorrow.
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And I wanna say thank you for that.
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And I'll be back in just a moment.
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Does God ever send diseases to believers
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as a punishment or a test?
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Never. Never, never.
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In fact, when you come to James 1:17,
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James describes very clearly
what always comes from God.
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He says, every good
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and perfect gift cometh down
from above from the father
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of lights with whom is no variableness,
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neither shadow of turning.
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So if something comes from
heaven, it's going to be good,
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it's going to be perfecting,
it's going to bring some kind
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of a benefit or advantage into our life.
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Sickness and disease and
tragedy is a distraction.
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It takes our time, it takes
our focus, it takes our money,
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it takes our life, it takes our peace.
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It doesn't fit into
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what is described in James one 17.
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If it comes from God, it's
a good and perfecting gift.
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Are you missing the deeper meaning of the Torah?
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to believers today, not as a burden,
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but as a guide to holiness and intimacy with God.
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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
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in this wonderful
facility, which God gave us
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in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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We're so grateful for this building.
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It was really a gift from the Lord.
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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 it the Ministry Expansion Project
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because when this is finished, it's going
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to allow the ministry to really expand financially,
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to wrap our arms around the whole world
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where people need the trusted
teaching of the Bible.
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And we know that's our calling.
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And if you're a part of the Giving team, I want
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to say thank you for helping us
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to retire the dead on this facility
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and to release those finances.
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And if you're not a part of the Giving Team yet,
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I'm inviting you today to join us
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to help us finish this project.
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Wow, what a shout of victory
we're gonna give to God on
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that day when it's done.
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And just think of the people
that are going to be reached.
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So thank you for being a part
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of the Ministry Expansion Project.
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Well, today we have seen
what is the difference
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between right and wrong prayer.
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Wow, what insight from the
teachings of the Torah.
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And of course Rabbi Schneider's been with me today.
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And Rabbi, I want to say thank you for being
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with me and friend,
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I know that you're very grateful that Rabbi took time to be
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with us and to speak to us today.
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But I want you to get the whole series
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that we're sharing this week on the program,
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which is called, Decoding The Torah:
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comes with a study guide
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and we're offering you Rabbi's marvelous book,
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which again is called, Decoding the Torah:
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applying Ancient Wisdom in a Modern World.
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The back of the book says -
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Unlock the Torah's Hidden Treasures
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for a Deeper Walk with God.
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And I can tell you that is really the effect of this book.
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I have read it from cover to cover,
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and I learned things I have
never heard in my life.
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I actually wondered, where
have I been all my life?
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Because he provides such
Christian context to many
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of these laws from the Old Testament.
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But I really want you to have this
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so you can order all these
things by going online
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or by giving us a call right now.
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And when you reach out,
let us know how to pray
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because we wanna pray.
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You don't have to order anything, just call for prayer.
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We believe that's one
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of the most important
aspects of our ministry.
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And if you have anything on
your heart, we want to pray
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with you and we'll pray scripturally, God will hear us,
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and Jesus will really do
what needs to be done.
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And it might be different
than what you think,
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but he'll do what needs to be done.
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But put your hand on your heart,
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and I'm gonna pray for you now.
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Father, thank you that you're so good
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that you would instruct us how to pray.
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Lord, thank you for what we have learned in today's program.
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Help us to apply it to our lives.
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I thank you for this in the
wonderful name of Jesus.
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Amen. Well be sure to return
tomorrow to the program
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because Rabbis going to continue with us
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to Decode the Torah.
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It's gonna be good. But remember, Ecclesiastes 8:
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4 says, "Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord, I repent
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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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