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This program is made
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and I'm so thrilled that today I can continue talking
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to you about The Spirit-filled Life.
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You know that phrase, the spirit-filled life,
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it was such an enigma to me in
the earlier years of my life.
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I really didn't understand
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that we can really have
a spirit-filled life
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until I was baptized in
the Holy Spirit in 1974.
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And that introduced me to
the spirit-filled life.
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And if you've never been
baptized in the Holy Spirit,
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call the number on the screen
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because we're waiting to
pray with you right now.
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Today can be the day that you are filled
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with the Holy Spirit and introduced
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to the spirit-filled life.
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But right now I'm teaching a
whole series which covers all
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kinds of aspects about the
ministry of the Holy Spirit
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and the spirit-filled life.
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And the series is called simply, The Spirit-Filled Life.
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It is a 5-part series, comes
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with a wonderful study guide,
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and everything in the series
is also in the study guide
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because I want you to
have all these points
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and principles so you can
read them while you see
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or hear the series
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and really get the teaching
down deep inside you.
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And we're offering you also right now my book,
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which is called, My Spirit-Empowered Day.
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God wants every day of your life to be spirit empowered.
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In fact, we're told in Ephesians 5, be filled
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with the Spirit and
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the Greek actually means - be being filled.
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It means every moment,
if every day you are
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to be being filled with the Spirit; we begin
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with one initial infilling.
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But after that, my friend, we are
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to be being filled continually
for the rest of our life.
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But be sure to get this book,
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which is called My Spirit-Empowered Day.
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It is a 31 day devotional
walking you into a
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spirit empowered life.
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And you can order all these
things by calling the number
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that is on the screen or by going online.
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And when you go online,
you're gonna see there's
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so many things there that you can order
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that will feed your spirit.
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And when you reach out to
us, we wanna pray for you.
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We believe in prayer.
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We are people of prayer,
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and we're waiting to
pray for you right now.
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And I wanna read a testimony
from someone that just wrote
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to me and it really blessed me.
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So listen to this.
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A member of our partner team said,
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we just got an email from a dear woman
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who emailed us about her
husband who was taken
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to the hospital with a stroke
among other cardio symptoms.
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We reached out and prayed for him
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and she just let us know that
he's fine and back at work.
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Wow, that is an absolute miracle! - And that is a miracle.
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And my friends, God is in the business of working miracles.
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I would not tell you that if it wasn't the truth.
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Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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What he did, it's what He's doing today.
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It's what he's gonna do tomorrow.
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If he worked miracles,
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then he's still working miracles today.
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And if you need a miracle of any kind,
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Jesus is really waiting for you to call out to him in faith
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so he can show up and
show off in your life.
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And that's what he wants to do.
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But if you'll reach out to
us by calling that number
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or sending us an email,
we want to pray with you.
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But reach for your Bible
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because we always use the
Bible in this program.
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And today we're gonna continue
talking about various aspects
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about the Holy Spirit and
this spirit-filled life.
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And today I'm going to show
you that you are a shrine
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for the Holy Spirit
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and that the Holy Spirit
wants to guide you.
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We're gonna cover two things today.
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No.1: you are a shrine for the Holy Spirit.
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And No.2: the Holy Spirit wants to guide you.
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And if you have your Bible, please open it
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to 1 Corinthians 6:19.
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It's one of my favorite
verses in the New Testament
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where Paul writes to the Corinthians
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and he says - Know, ye not.
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And when you read this in the Greek tense,
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it's like - don't you understand?
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Have you not gotten it yet?
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And the reason he was speaking
to them in this way is
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because they were living far below
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who they were supposed to be.
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They were indulging in sexual behavior,
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they were drinking and sinning.
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And now Paul says - What, what, what? Why don't you get it?
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Don't you understand who's on the inside of you?
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No you not, that your body is the temple
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of the Holy Ghost, which is in you.
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And the word temple is the Greek word naos.
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And this is very important.
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And I'm gonna read to you from my notes. This word, naos,
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which here is translated as the word temple,
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describes the temple or a highly decorated shrine.
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It is the image of vaulted
ceilings, marble, granite,
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gold, silver, and highly
decorated ornamentation.
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It is the most sacred
innermost part of a temple,
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and it is the very word used in the Old Testament Greek
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Septuagint to describe the holy of Holies,
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which was just magnificent.
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And it is where God dwelled his Shekinah glory in the temple
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during the Old Testament.
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Now, growing up as a Protestant,
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we had rather simple church buildings.
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We didn't even understand
the concept of a shrine.
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If we wanted to see something
that looked like a temple
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or a shrine, we had to
go to a Catholic church
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where there was a lot of
vaulted ceilings and marble
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and beautiful ornamentation.
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But today I live in Russia
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and in fact, this studio
is in Moscow, Russia.
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Did you know that? I'm coming to you from Moscow
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and all over Russia,
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there are historic churches
that are orthodox churches.
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And when you walk into those
orthodox churches, ay.. yi..
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it is breathtaking.
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I'll give you two examples.
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In Moscow, there's a great church called, Khram Khrista,
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and when you walk in that Khram, which means temple,
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it actually means The Temple of the Savior.
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You just lose your breath
because it is so magnificent.
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Columns that are magnificent,
floors that are made out,
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not just out of granite, but
all kinds of precious stones.
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And that facility is covered with silver and gold and bronze
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and icons and such beautiful, beautiful ornamentation.
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It just takes your breath away.
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It is magnificent on the inside. Then in the city of St.
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Petersburg, we have another cathedral,
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which is called Isaakiyevskiy Sobor, which is St.
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Isaac's Cathedral and it is amazing.
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And for 80 years it was the central church
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for the Orthodox church in Russia.
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And when you walk in St.
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Isaac's Cathedral, you just
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It is so magnificent.
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Figures that are covered in
gold, columns that are made
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of lapis
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and malachite, the most
amazing stained glass,
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all kinds of beautiful ornamentation and paintings.
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And the ceiling is just magnificent.
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It is amazing.
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Well, when Paul wrote
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and said, your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit,
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that word, naos, described a place like that.
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And especially in the 1st Century when Paul was writing,
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his readers could really understand this
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because the 1st Century was a pagan world.
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And the pagan world was covered with temples, shrines
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to a whole pantheon of gods.
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For example, if you went to the city of Ephesus,
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there was the great temple of Artemis: one
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of the 7-Wonders of the ancient world -
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spectacular. Not just spectacular on the outside,
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but when you went on the
inside, it was breathtaking.
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There was the magnificent
statue of Artemis,
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and in front of Artemis
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and the interior was covered
with all kinds of stones
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and marbles and curtains and draperies.
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Or if you went to Athens
there on the Parthenon,
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you could go to the great
temple dedicated to Athena.
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And my goodness, the
exterior was magnificent
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with reliefs and sculptures.
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The interior was amazing,
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but those kinds
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of temples were all over the pagan world in the 1st
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Century when Paul wrote this verse. The Greek word naos,
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would describe all of those
temples in the pagan world.
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And so now when Paul is speaking to the Corinthians,
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and by the way, the city of Corinth had many temples like I
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am describing - many.
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So now when Paul says, your body is the naos,
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it is the temple of the Holy
Spirit, he is telling us
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that we are a walking cathedral.
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That's who we are.
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Now, when you look in the mirror,
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you may not see yourself as a cathedral.
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In fact, you may see blemishes, you may see defects,
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you may see everything that
you wish that you could change
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with plastic surgery
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or by losing weight, you
might not like your hair,
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you might not like your wrinkles.
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You may see all your defects.
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But beyond the exterior, on the inside,
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God has made a place in you so magnificent
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that in Ephesians 2:10, it says,
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we are the workmanship of Christ Jesus.
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God put forth all his creative powers
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to create within us a space
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so magnificent that Paul calls it a naos,
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within us, there is a shrine.
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We are walking cathedrals.
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And on the interior of
us, we have all kinds
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of rich ornamentations.
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You say, Well what kind of ornamentations? We have the gifts
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of the spirit on the inside
of us, we've got the fruit
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of the spirit on the inside
of us, we've got the character
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of Christ on the inside of
us, we've got the holiness
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of the Holy Spirit on the inside of us.
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And in fact, you could say that 'X' marks the spot.
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You know, when I was growing up, we used
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to always play like we were pirates looking for a treasure.
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And 'X' always marked the spot.
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Well, when you come to 2 Corinthians 4:
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7, Paul says, we have this treasure in earthen
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vessels - which means - 'X' marks the spot.
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It's right here, the 'X' is right here.
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And the treasure that I'm
talking about is the presence
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of the Holy Spirit and
the Holy Spirit is in us,
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but to dwell in us, for
God to come inside us,
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a space had to be created
inside us that was worthy
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of God's dwelling presence.
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And my friend, I want to tell you,
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God does not live in a hut made of mud.
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He doesn't live in a shack.
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God lives in the most glorious, glorious
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environment in Heaven and in you
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because in you, inside you,
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you are a walking cathedral.
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If you could see what you
looked like on the inside
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where the spirit of God lives
in you, you would be baffled
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beyond speech.
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It would be the ultimate boost to anyone
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who has a bad self-image
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because inside you, you are highly ornamented.
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In fact, you are so embellished on the inside that God
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by his spirit said, I like that.
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I'm gonna move in there.
That is just amazing.
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And Paul says that we need to understand - Know ye not.
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Have you not gotten it yet?
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Have you not yet comprehended
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that your body is the temple
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of the Holy Ghost. That is who lives in us.
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And that's what God did in us to create a place
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that the Holy Spirit was willing to live in.
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You are a new creature.
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Everything in your interior is impeccable,
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impeccable, and moving into you,
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the Holy Spirit in you wants to guide you.
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He wants to lead you. You
have within you a guide.
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And Jesus referred to this in John 16:
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13, where he said - Howbeit, when he, the spirit
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of truth is comes - talking about the Holy Spirit.
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I covered this in a previous program
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that Jesus called him the spirit of truth.
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And if you read John 14, 15
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& 16, he called him the spirit of truth 3-times, trying
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to let us understand that we
can trust the Holy Spirit.
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He will never mislead you,
he will never misguide you.
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He's the spirit of truth.
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Whatever he says to
you, you can bank on it,
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you can believe it to be true.
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And now Jesus says,
howbeit, when he, the spirit
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of truth has come, he will guide you
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into all the truth.
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He will guide you.
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Well, the word guide
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that is used in this verse is the Greek word, hodegos.
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It is a derivative of the word hodos.
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The word hodps describes a road.
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But when the word hodos becomes the word, hodegos,
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it's no longer just a road,
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but it's a tour guide
who knows all the roads.
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It's one who's ready to
lead you on an excursion.
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He knows all the roads,
he knows all the sites,
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he knows all the information
about all the sites.
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He knows what you see,
what you shouldn't see.
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He knows where the toilets are.
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He knows the best route to take
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to give you the most
pleasurable experience.
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All of that is in this word - guide.
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So let me take you on a trip.
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Let's say that we're gonna
go to ancient Ephesus.
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Well, it would be hard
to find a better guide
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for ancient Ephesus than Rick Renner
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because I've been there so many times
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and I have a great big
book about it called A
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Light in Darkness.
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If you don't have - A Light In Darkness, you need
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to order - A Light In Darkness.
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But when you come to ancient Ephesus,
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the harbor was magnificent.
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The harbor was manmade.
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It could have accommodated more than a
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hundred ships at a time.
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And when you got off your ship, you walked
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through a beautiful
harbor gate onto a long,
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long marble road, which led right
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to the very center of the city.
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And as you walked on the marble road,
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you passed the bathhouse.
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You passed the place where
the slaves were sold.
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You walked right past all the
beautiful roofs and porticoes
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and statues
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and places where people
were still in little idols
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of the goddess Artemis
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because Artemis was
the goddess of Ephesus.
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And finally, you passed
one of the markets,
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you passed another gymnasium.
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And when you came to the end
of the road there in front
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of you was the magnificent
theater of Ephesus.
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then you would take a road
which would lead you to
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the temple of Artemis.
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But if you took a right, you
passed the temple of Nero,
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you passed the marketplace,
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and finally you came to the
exterior of the library,
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which was magnificent.
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and walk up the hill,
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you walk a very ancient road called, Curetes.
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And up that hill, you
pass the bath houses,
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you pass all kinds of
magnificent buildings,
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including an ancient hospital
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and the ruins of the ancient temple of Domitian.
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And finally, you came into
the upper part of the city
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where you saw the upper marketplace and the Bouleuterion
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and the place where all the rich people did their business.
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How in the world do I know all that?
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Well, I've been there a few times
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and I've written a book on
this subject, really maybe one
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of the best books ever written on the city
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of Ephesus in the Christian market.
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I have been there. So I know all of the sites.
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I really know what's interesting.
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I know what you don't care to hear about.
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I know the best way to go. I know where the toilets are.
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And that's very important
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because there's only one place to go
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to the bathroom and the whole site.
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And if you miss it, you're
gonna be in trouble.
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If you wanna have a good experience when you go to Ephesus,
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you need to have a good guide.
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Now you can do it by yourself,
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but if you do it by yourself,
you're gonna get confused.
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You're gonna look at something and say,
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I wonder what that is.
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Wow, that's very interesting.
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I wish I had somebody to
tell me what that was.
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And then when you're
finished looking at that,
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you're gonna say, well,
where do we go from here?
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You're not even gonna know where to go.
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You can meander here and meander there
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and walk all over the place.
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And by the time you get to
the exit, I can even tell you
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what condition you're gonna be in.
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You're gonna be hot,
you're gonna be exhausted,
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your feet are gonna hurt.
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Probably your back is gonna hurt
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because it's hard surfaces the whole way.
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By doing it on your own,
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your experience is not
gonna be very enjoyable.
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Now you're gonna exit at the right place,
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but the way you exit
determines whether you did it
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by yourself or whether you had a guide.
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Now, take all of that into
the context of this verse.
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And Jesus says, Howbeit, when He, the spirit
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of truth is come - he's the spirit of truth
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he knows it all -
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he will guide you - the Greek word hodegos, a form
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of the word hodos, which means road.
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But when it becomes hodegos, it's a tour guide.
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He will guide you into all the truth.
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And let me tell you something,
we all come into Christ at
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the same place and we
all exit in the same way
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and we're all going to heaven.
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But what happens between the beginning
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and the end depends on
whether we did it by ourself
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or whether we let the Holy
Spirit be our tour guide.
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If we want to, we can do it by ourself.
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We can figure it out by ourself.
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We can make mistakes by ourself.
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We can wonder this way and wander this way.
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We can try this and take another shot in the dark over here
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and just wear ourselves out.
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And ultimately we're gonna go to heaven.
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But what kind of a Christian life you had
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will depend on if you did it by yourself
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or whether you had a guide.
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And here, Jesus says, as a part of the spirit-filled life,
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the Holy Spirit has been sent
to be a tour guide for us.
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And let me tell you, the Holy Spirit knows
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everything in front of you.
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He does. He knows what's gonna happen today.
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The Holy Spirit knows what's
gonna happen tomorrow.
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He knows what's gonna happen
next year. He knows it all.
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The Holy Spirit knows the mind of God.
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He knows the will of God for you.
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Everything you're trying to figure out, he already knows.
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You're trying to figure out what job to take, who to marry,
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where to go, where to go on vacation,
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what to do with your money.
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He knows the answer to
all of those questions.
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So you can try to do it by
yourself without his help.
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Or you can figuratively say, Holy Spirit, take me
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by the hand and I want you to guide me.
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And if you will have ears to hear,
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and if you'll pray in the
Spirit, which is a part
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of being baptized in the
Holy Spirit, you'll become
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so spiritually sensitive
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that you will hear the Holy
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He'll tell you when to pause.
He'll tell you when to move.
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The Holy Spirit will
tell you when to speak.
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He'll tell you when to be quiet.
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And your Christian life will become a
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pleasurable experience.
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And when life is over,
you're gonna look back
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and say, what a wonderful experience.
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And it wasn't because you were so smart, but it's
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because you had such a good leader
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who guided you along the way
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and that belongs to you as part
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of the spirit-filled life.
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I'll be back in just a moment and I'm going to pray for you.
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This is Rick Renner and somebody has asked the question
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Why is it so important to speak the word of God
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or confess the word of God out loud?
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And the answer is found in Mark 11:23 where Jesus said,
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For verily I say unto you
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that whosoever shall say unto this mountain.
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Notice it says - shall say.
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It doesn't say - shall think - unto this mountain.
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You've gotta say it. Whosoever
shall say unto this mountain,
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be thou be removed and be
thou cast into the sea.\
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and shall not doubt in his heart,
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but shall believe those things which he sayeth
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shall come to pass,
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he shall have whatsoever he sayeth.
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And here in this verse, Jesus uses the word, say, 3-times.
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And he's teaching us that our voice has authority.
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And when we speak the word of God
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and we declare our confession
of faith, it has the power
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to move a mountain or a
problem out of the way.
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It's not enough to pray about
it or to think about it.
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You've gotta speak to it.
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In his series, The Spirit-Filled Life,
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Rick Renner takes you on a journey to discover
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how the Holy Spirit actively leads, empowers
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and reveals God's will.
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This 5-part series will teach you how to hear his voice
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and live every day fully yielded to the spirit's influence.
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Learn - How God's will isn't always a mystery:
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How the Holy Spirit is God's warning signal
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you to live a life led
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by the Holy Spirit.
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In addition to this teaching series,
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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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Hey, this is Rick Renner and I am in Tulsa.
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And look who's with me.
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This is part of our Tulsa staff. Around the whole world
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we have about 300 employees that work in this ministry
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and that is amazing to me.
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Just look what the Lord has done
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and we're reaching people all
over the world in our various
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offices, but this is the
Tulsa team and they are heroes
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and they work every day in this building to minister to you
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by sending you resources,
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taking your calls, praying for you.
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And we're praying people, aren't we?
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Yes, we really are praying people,
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but God gave us this facility
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and we're trying to pay it off.
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And now we've already paid off 87%.
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We called the Ministry Expansion Project
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because once we're finished
paying this debt off,
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it's gonna free finances so we
can take the trusted teaching
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to the Bible even further
to the ends of the earth.
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And that's our call.
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And if you're already a
member of the Giving Team
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to help us retire the debt
on this building, I just want
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to say "thank you" and we
all say "thank you" to you.
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And if you're not a part of the Giving Team yet,
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I invite you today to join our giving team
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to help us retire the debt.
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It's really not about retiring the debt,
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it's about releasing finances
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so we can take the trusted
teaching of the Bible
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to more people that are crying out for it.
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So thank you for being a part of the team
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and please pray about joining our ministry team
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to retire the debt on this facility.
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Well, don't know about you,
but I really enjoyed today's
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program, just reflecting on the fact
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that our bodies are the
temple of the Holy Spirit.
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Think about what God has done inside us.
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We are walking cathedrals
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and the Holy Spirit in
us wants to be our guide,
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which means if we will listen to him,
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we're gonna have a great experience.
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If we don't listen to him,
we're gonna have to try
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to figure everything out on our own.
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And that's gonna be difficult.
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But the Holy Spirit knows the will of God.
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He knows everything in front of us.
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He knows what we should
do, what we should not do.
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And if we will allow him to guide us,
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we're gonna have a great experience
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and a wonderful Spirit-filled Life.
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And that's what God has waiting for you.
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So just say, holy Spirit,
be my guide, lead me
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and help me to have ears to
hear what you have to say to me.
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But hey, please order the whole series,
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which is called The
Spirit-Filled Life comes
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with a wonderful study guide
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and be sure to order the book,
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which is called My Spirit-Empowered Day.
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It's a 31 day devotional about how
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to have a spirit-filled
spirit, empowered life.
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It'll make a big difference for you.
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And if you need prayer, reach out to us.
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You can order these things
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or reach out for prayer by calling that number on the screen
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or by going online.
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But I wanna pray for you right now.
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Put your hand on your heart.
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Father, we ask you to open
our eyes to help us understand
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who lives inside us
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and that you have made us walking cathedrals.
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Change our self-image.
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Help us to really see who we are.
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And Holy Spirit, we give you our hand
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and we give you our heart
and we say, please guide us.
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You've been sent to
lead us and to guide us.
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Help us to have ears to hear you speak
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so we can be led, in Jesus' name -
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Amen. I'll see you in the next program.
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But remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word
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of the 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
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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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Renner Ministries is
proclaiming the gospel
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of Jesus Christ through
every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners of Renner Ministries.