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Get ready for a teaching
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
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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.
My name is Rick Renner.
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I've been sitting in this chair just waiting for this moment
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to get here so we could
rendezvous together
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around the wonderful word of God.
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And Father, we thank
you for the opportunity
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that we can be together today in Jesus name, Amen.
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And today we're gonna return to my brand new series,
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which is called, Demas & Deception.
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Today is the 3rd in a 5-part series
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and I know there's no way
you can remember everything
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that I'm sharing because
I've given you so much.
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So please go online or give us
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You need to hear it and
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The subtitle says - How to Avoid Falling into Deception
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and what to Do for those who are Already Deceived.
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And as we saw in the last program,
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the Holy Spirit prophesied in 1 Timothy 4:
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1, that at the very end of the age,
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many in the church are going to err from the faith.
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We need to make sure that you're not a part of that group.
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And if you know somebody
who is a part of that group,
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what can you do to help
get them back on track?
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That's what this series is about,
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and I've taught it just for you.
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So please order it by going
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It gets it down deep inside you
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And we're also offering you my book which is called - How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight In a World Gone Crazy
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Developing Discernment for These Last Days.
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And the Forward word is written by my friend, John Bevere.
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The back of the book says,
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We're living in a day when countless multitudes have lost
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their way morally
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and spiritually: like a ship without an anchor,
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this last day's generation is being tossed to
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and fro by a flood of deception
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and wrong influences that
is tragically causing people
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to lose their moorings.
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My friends, it doesn't have to be.
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You and I wrote this book to help you
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to keep your head on straight in a world
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that has gone crazy.
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And in fact, we're living in an age
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where if you think right, everybody around you thinks wrong,
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you almost begin to feel like you're the weirdo
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because so many people
have gone off track,
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but you are not the one
that has lost your mind.
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And my friends, God wants you
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to have a sound mind all the
way to the end of the age.
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You don't have to follow the
tune of the Pied Piper. Just
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because that's what everybody else is dancing to,
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you don't have to do it.
You can stay on track.
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And I wrote this book to help you.
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So order this too by going
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and please remember to let
us know how to pray for you
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because we really are praying people
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and we have so many testimonies
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of people whose lives have
been touched and changed
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after calling in for prayer.
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And today, quickly, I want to give you 3-testimonies.
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A man just called for the 1st time.
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He said he was very impressed with Rick's teaching.
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Thank you. I'm so glad you liked it.
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We asked if he had ever
given his heart to Jesus
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and he said he did it
during Rick's program.
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Praise the Lord when
people get born again.
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But hey, here's another testimony.
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We just prayed with a
woman regarding her sister
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who was in the hospital
and fighting for her life.
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The doctors had given up
on her sister, but today
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after we prayed, she got better.
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The doctor can't get over it.
God provided a real miracle.
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And here's a 3rd testimony.
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One woman called for prayer
for healing from skin cancer
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and some other things.
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We prayed with her and sent her a book on healing
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and some information about worship, confessions, and healing
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and encouraged her to pray in the spirit
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for breakthrough in healing.
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She started doing what we suggested
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and a few days later, her
migraine completely went away.
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Then she said a few days
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after that the left side
of her face felt normal
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and she said she watched Pastor Rick's program on oppression
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and had never heard of that before.
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So the Lord let her see what oppression looks like
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and she understood that it doesn't have
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to have a hold on her life.
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She became a partner
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because the ministry has impacted her
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so much in just a short time.
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All praise and thanks to our
miraculous healing, restoring
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and revealing God. That is amazing.
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And I believe if you'll
call in for prayer,
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Jesus will do something great for you too.
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That's what the Bible says in Jeremiah 33:3 -
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Call into me, I'll hear you, I'll answer you
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and I'll show you great and mighty things.
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You can pray by yourself,
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but sometimes it helps to
have somebody pray with you.
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So call us. We're waiting
for the phone to ring
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or send us an email
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and as soon as we hear from you, you're gonna meet somebody
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that's gonna really pray for you. My friends,
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that's our desire.
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But reach for your Bible
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and today we're gonna
return to our series.
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We always use the Bible in this program,
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and today we're gonna see
at the very end of the age,
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there will be people who will
abandon their faith in order
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to accommodate the world.
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And we're using the example of Demas
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who was a chief leader
in the early church.
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In fact, Demas was such a notable leader,
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he has referred to 3-times in the New Testament.
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In Colossians 4:14,
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he is mentioned in one sentence with Luke.
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The word, beloved, is used to describe both of them
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so both Luke and Demas were deemed to be very beloved
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by the early church.
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Then we read of Demas again in the book
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of Philemon verses 23-24.
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It says where it mentions Epaphras, Mark, Aristarchus,
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Demas, and Luke.
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Look at these notable leaders.
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There you have Epaphras, that is the leader
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of the Colossian church.
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Mark: this is John Mark who wrote the book of Mark,
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who was the traveling
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and the sister of Mary and
the nephew of Barnabas.
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Then you have Aristarchus who is a great Christian leader.
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You have Luke, the Christian doctor who wrote the book
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of Luke and the book of Acts.
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And right in the middle of all of that is this man
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by the name of Demas who also was a very notable leader.
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That's the second mention of Demas,
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which we see in the New Testament.
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But then you come to 2 Timothy 4:
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9, where Paul writes - Do thy diligence
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to come shortly into me.
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He's writing to Timothy. Paul is in prison in Rome.
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When he says diligence,
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it's the Greek word spoudadzo, which means
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to do something with haste
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because it is so important,
serious or urgent.
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He says, do your diligence
to come shortly unto me.
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The word shortly, is a form of the Greek tacheos,
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which means
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to run as fast as you can
to move your feet as fast
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as possible, to do something urgently
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or to do something as swiftly as possible.
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Something's very urgent. What is it?
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It's described in the following verse -
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for Demas has forsaken me - the same Demas;
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the same Demas who was a traveling companion of Paul;
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the same Demas who likely was the one who wrote the book
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of Colossians as Paul dictated it.
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This was Demas, a
notable Christian leader.
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And Paul says, for Demas has forsaken me.
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And the word for in Greek means: for,
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because, for indeed, for verily.
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And he carries an element
of shock and surprise.
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Paul is stunned that this event has took place:
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for amazingly, shockingly, surprisingly, Demas
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has forsaken me.
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And the word, forsaken, means to abandon, to forsake,
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to leave in a bad situation; not only to desert,
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but to do it in the worst way,
in the worst possible moment,
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not merely to leave but
to forsake, to desert
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or to leave in the lurch.
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It's the equivalent of saying
what he has done to me is
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so bad and he could not
have done it in a worst way
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or in a worst moment.
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It is amazing, for shockingly, amazingly, I'm stunned
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that even Demas has forsaken me.
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The same Demas who has mentioned with Luke, Mark,
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Aristarchus. My friends,
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this was a very notable Christian leader
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and now he has abandoned his faith.
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And Paul says why in verse 10:
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having loved this present world. Present world
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as a phrase in Greek means - the now age, the present age,
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the here and now in this world
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and is departed unto Thessalonica.
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And the word, departed, doesn't just mean to leave here
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and go somewhere else.
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It's the Greek word, poreuomai. It here pictures
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one who has departed or transitioned.
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You hear that word, transitioned? My friends,
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usually when people abandon their faith,
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they don't just wake up and reject their faith.
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It is a transition that takes place.
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It describes one that has departed
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or transitioned from a former position to another.
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And the implication is, Demas did not begin in a wrong place
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but for some reason he abandoned his former place
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or former position to follow after a new place
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or position very different
from the one that he ought
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to be walking upon.
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And in the last program we saw reasons why Demas probably
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forsook his faith.
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But today now we're gonna
jump to the book of Revelation
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and I'm gonna connect this
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to something very important. When you come
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to Revelation 2:13, Jesus is speaking
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to the angel of the church of Pergamum. The angel,
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the Greek word, angolas, describes the messenger.
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Really it was a message to the pastor
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of the church in Pergamum.
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And Jesus begins to tell the pastor in the church
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of Pergamum, a very important message.
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I know thy works.
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The word know is a form of the Greek word, eido,
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which means there's not a
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I've seen it, I've been there.
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I've seen it with my own eyes.
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I know everything about thy works.
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everything you are doing.
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And my friends, Jesus sees it all
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and he says to the pastor
of the church in Pergamum,
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I know thy works
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and where you dwell. That word, dwell, is very important.
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My friend Jesus knows where you live.
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He knows exactly what you are facing.
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and to the church - You dwell even where Satan's seat is.
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My friends, the city of Pergamum was a wicked, dark,
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dark city.
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that is used here is the word, thronos.
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which means - Satan was ruling in Pergamum like a king.
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the word thronos, here translated seat was the very word
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used in the Greek language
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for the head of the house at the table.
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No one else dares in that seat
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because it only belonged
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I know the devil thinks he's the head
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of the house in the city of Pergamum,
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and Satan was exercising great
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my name. Holdest fast isthe Greek word,
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which means you're tightly gripping onto the name of Jesus
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and has not denied my faith even in those days.
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He says even in those days something that is very memorable.
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Jesus says, even in those days
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wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain
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among you, where Satan dwelleth.
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Well, let's look at the word, Antipas.
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The name, Antipas, is a compound of two Greek words.
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which means against. The 2nd part of the word is pas,
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which means all or everything.
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the name Antipas,
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and that's exactly how it's..pronounced in Greek.
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The name actually means one who is antipas.
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He is against everything. He's against everything.
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So we know the opinion of the world about this Antipas was
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that he was just obstinate and against everything,
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but it wasn't just the opinion
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of the world about this one man.
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This is what the dark, unbelieving world
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of Pergamum thought about all Christians.
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It's what they thought about all Christians. Antipas was
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just a symbol.
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thought about all Christians
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who were living in Pergamum.
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The word, antipas, means they believed Christians were
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antisocial, contrary, non-compliant, intolerant,
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narrow-minded, non-conformist, inflexible, obstinate
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and uncompromising.
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Now does that sound familiar to you today?
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Because this is exactly what the world is saying about us.
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The world is saying that we are antisocial
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because we're not going with the flow.
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The world is saying that we are contrary, incompliant,
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intolerant, narrow-minded, non-conformist, inflexible,
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obstinate and uncompromising.
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That's what the world was saying about Antipas
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and other believers in the 1st Century.
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And my friends, we find ourselves in the same
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position today.
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But when you come to Revelation 2:14,
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you find there was one particular group in the church
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of Pergamum that Jesus was quite upset with.
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Listen to what he says -
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But I have a few things against thee.
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The word, have, in Greek is echo.
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I have, I hold, I possess. Jesus deeply felt this.
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He says - I hold this, I have this. I really feel this.
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I have a few things against thee.
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The word, against, in Greek is the word kata.
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I have a strike against you
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because thou hast there them that hold
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the doctrine of Balaam
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who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block
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before the children of Israel to eat things, sacrifice
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to idols and to commit fornication.
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Well, what in the world is the Doctrine of Balaam?
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Well, Balaam was a false prophet who tried
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to curse the people of Israel and he could not.
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He tried and tried and tried and tried
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and finally he said, I'm unable to do it.
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So he came up with a different idea.
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Since I can't curse them,
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let's lure them into moral compromise.
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And he said to Balak, who was the king?
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Send the pagan women out naked
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before the Israelite men who haven't seen their wives
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for a long, long time and let them dance in front of the men
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and lure them to themselves and to their pagan sacrifices.
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They compromised, they pursued the women
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and they ended up offering sacrifices to false gods.
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They morally and spiritually compromised.
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Then, when you get to Revelation 2:15, Jesus says
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So has thou also them that hold the doctrine
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of Nicolaitans
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which thing I hate.
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The word, nicolaitan, is a compound of 2-words:
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the word nikos,
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which means to conquer. The word laos, which depicts people
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or the laity but compounded it means to conquer
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and to subdue the people.
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And the name depicts one
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So whatever these false
teachers were teaching,
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it was bringing a defeat
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and a conquering to the
people of God in Pergamum.
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And the teaching was this - We need
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to relax our rules. Rather than live
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so separate from the rest of the world,
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we need to befriend the world: to go where they go, to do
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what they do, learn to speak their language,
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to be more like them so they'll be more accepting of us
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and our message.
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It's time for us to quit - listen to this.
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It's time for us to quit drawing lines
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and start drawing bigger
circles to include more people
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so we become more loving and accepting
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and inclusive of others.
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Lemme tell you something, friend.
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When anybody tells you it's time for us
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to stop drawing lines, they're
preaching a false gospel.
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My friends, Jesus drew a lot of lines.
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Jesus described what is right, what is wrong?
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He didn't just say, let's blur the lines,
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make the lines bigger, draw bigger circles
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so everybody feels comfortable.
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He calls us to repentance.
He calls us to holiness.
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He calls us to change.
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And anytime we just draw bigger lines
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to make people feel more comfortable, my friends,
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we've gone off track.
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And that is what Nicolaitans were doing.
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They were trying to accommodate the world rather than
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challenge the world to change.
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And my friends, the gospel
tells us we have to change.
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And Jesus was so upset with Nicolaitans, he said,
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which thing I hate.
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He didn't say he hated them,
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he hated what they were teaching and endorsing.
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And the word, hate, means to hate, to abhor
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or to find utterly repulsive.
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Jesus found their teaching utterly repulsive.
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It depicts a deep seated animosity, intense hatred,
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repugnance, something objectionable.
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It pictures something that causes one
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to feel disgust or repulsion.
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It is a deep seated aversion.
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It's not just a dislike, it is actual hatred:
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Nicolaitanism. And signs of present day
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nicolaitanism would be: no emphasis on holy living
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and separation from the world.
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It blurs the lines. No emphasis on the doctrinal integrity
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and teaching of the Bible.
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In fact, nicolaitanism will tell you
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to unhitch from the Bible -
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quit quoting the Bible all the time.
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Nicolaitanism has no emphasis on absolute truth
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or absolute biblical authority.
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In fact, it will try to diminish the authority of the Bible
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and last, Nicolaitanism will teach
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there's no exclusionary belief
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that Christ alone is the way to heaven.
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It's like one Christian leader unfortunately recently said,
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Jesus said he's the only way, but just
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because he said it doesn't necessarily mean it's true.
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Do you understand what they're doing?
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They're diminishing the centrality of Jesus Christ.
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They're saying maybe Jesus was wrong.
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Maybe we need to be more open-minded
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and draw bigger circles.
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Well, Jesus said he hates this kind of teaching.
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He hates it. And then when you come to Revelation 2:16,
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Jesus says - repent or else.
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And by the way, he's still saying that today - Repent
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or else I will come to you quickly. To you, in Greek is soy.
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I'm coming directly to you, takous, quickly.
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I'm gonna move my feet as fast as I can
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and will fight against them with a sword of my mouth.
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The word fight, the Greek word, palemos;
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it describes an all out war.
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The word, sword, the Greek word romphia.
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It's the worst sword of all.
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It slaughters: Jesus said,
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I'm gonna slaughter these activities.
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I hate it, I'm against it.
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But we have to remember
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that in 1 Timothy 4:1,
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the Holy Spirit forewarned us -
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Now the spirit speaks expressly that in the latter time,
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sham shall depart - not reject the faith -
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but depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits
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and doctrines of devils.
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This is very seductive what is taking place
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and it's taking place right
now in churches all across the
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world: trying to lure people
away from their narrow-minded
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position to be more accommodating of others
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and doctrines of demons. The word, doctrines,
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the Greek word, didaskalia,
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which describes well-packaged information,
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which means the devil's gonna come
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with the best PR campaign he's ever had,
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but know that it will
be doctrines of devils.
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The word devils the Greek word, daimonion,
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which describes spirits
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that lead to delusion and insanity.
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Now my friends, I think that is totally amazing, amazing.
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But remember the early world
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thought the church was antisocial, contrary, noncompliant,
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intolerant, narrow-minded, nonconformist, inflexible,
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obstinate and uncompromising.
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And sometimes believers were under such pressure, they begin
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to modify their faith and even abandoned their faith
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because of the climate which was in the world at that time.
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And maybe you know someone who has done that.
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My friends, you can help them.
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In the following programs, we're gonna talk about
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what you can do to protect yourself
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and to help others so you don't become a Demas in our times.
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My friends, this teaching is so very important.
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But I'll be back in just a moment
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and I'm going to pray for you.
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Someone asked the question, who is Sceva
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in Acts 19? Well in Acts 19:13,
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Luke describes a group of vagabond Jews.
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These were Jews who used occult practices to try
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to have authority over demon spirits.
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These were backslidden Jews doing
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what they shouldn't have been doing.
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And when you come to verse 14, you find one
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of them was named Sceva. It says -
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and there was 7 sons of one Sceva, a Jew
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and chief of the priests, which did so.
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This verse says was chief of the priests,
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but there was no Jewish high priest in Ephesus ever.
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This was a Jew who was backslidden
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and became a chief of the priest in the temple of Artemis.
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And that is why Luke calls him Sceva,
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which is not a real name.
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This is a derogatory term, which means low level scoundrel.
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And here we have Luke's opinion of this Jew who backslid.
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He says, I'm gonna tell you who he is. He is a Sceva.
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He was a low level scoundrel
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who led his sons in the wrong direction.
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Do you know a believer
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or leader who began to
drift from the Lord?
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Did it stun you to see that a person
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of such caliber could be let off track?
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What transpires in someone's heart that would cause him
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or her to slowly and methodically change course
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and leave the well worn path
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of faith? In Demas & Deception,
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Rick Renner discusses a New Testament coworker
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of the Apostle Paul who not only abandoned his faith,
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but also deserted Paul and became a pagan priest.
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In this series, Rick covers - Who was Demas
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and why did he abandon his faith?
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Three forces that tried to lure you to abandon your faith.
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Concrete steps to make sure you never become a Demas.
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This helpful, 5-part series is available in digital
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or physical formats starting at just $11.
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Today we are also offering Rick's book - How
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to Keep Your Head On Straight In a World Gone Crazy.
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Rick says, I urge you to get this book
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because it is so needed
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for the days we are living in right now.
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You'll discover how to stay anchored to truth, discern right
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and wrong teaching and live victoriously in these last days.
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In this book, Rick will take you deep into New Testament
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prophecies about the end of the age
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and teach you what you need
to do to sail successfully
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through turbulent End-Time
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waters. This important book is available for $24.
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Don't delay. Order the bundle of the series, Demas
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& Deception and the book, How
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to Keep Your Head On Straight In a World Gone Crazy.
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Call the number on your screen
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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 call it 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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Wow, we have covered so
much in this program today
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and there's so much more for us to cover.
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So please go online or give us a call
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and order your series, Demas
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& Deception: 5-parts: How
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to Avoid Falling into Deception
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and what to do for those who are already Deceived.
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And it comes with a study guide
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and please be sure to order my book, which is called, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
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and the World Gone Crazy. My Friends,
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you can keep your head on straight
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and this book will help you know how to do it
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and it will also help your kids and your grandkids.
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You ought to buy several of these
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because you will want to give one to someone else.
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And today, I refer to Antipas
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and I referred to the Church of Pergamum.
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That was just a little snippet of teaching from my book
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which is called - No Room For Compromise.
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If you don't have a copy of - No Room For Compromise,
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please order yours.
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It's full color. It is just
jam packed with revelation
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and instruction about us not making room
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for a compromise in our
lives in this end of the age.
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But I wanna pray for you right now.
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Father, I thank in the name
of Jesus that you've called us
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to stand true and be deeply
rooted in the world of God
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and not be moved by the spirit of the age.
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Help us Lord not to bend to culture
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and to compromise our faith.
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In Jesus name - Amen.
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Remember to call us if you need prayer.
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You can call the number on the screen or send us an email,
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but I'll see you tomorrow
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but until the end, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4,
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"Where the word of a king is there's 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,
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I repented 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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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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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.
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