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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 and
I've been waiting for you.
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And today we're gonna rendezvous
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around this series called How
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to Flourish in your Senior Years.
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Now, you might say, senior
years, I'm not a senior.
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Why would this be of interest to me?
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Well, one day you're going to be a senior.
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You may be that your parents
are already senior citizens
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or your grandparents
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or you know someone that is,
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this series has application to anyone.
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And if you're younger, you need
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to begin renewing your
mind right now about your
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later years in life.
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And if you're already a senior, you need
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to adjust your thinking
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to realize this may be the most fruitful season God has ever
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designed for your life.
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You're not supposed to
die an old sick person.
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God wants you to go from glory to glory
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and strength to strength.
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That's what we read in Psalm 84:7.
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But please order the whole series, which is called, How
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to Flourish in Your Senior Years.
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The subtitle says - Proof that God wants to use You Mightily
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as you Age and Mature.
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And it comes with a study guide.
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And we're offering you my book,
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which is called, A Life Ablaze: 10 Simple Keys
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to Living On Fire for God.
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If you don't have a copy of
this book, why not You need
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to be reading this book
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because I know you want to
be a life ablaze all the way
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to the end of your life,
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but you can order all these
things by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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And please, when you reach out to us,
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would you please let us know how to pray
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for you? While we're on the phone with you
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or while you're sending us an email,
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tell us what's on your heart,
what you're going through,
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and we will pray scripturally for you.
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You know that's very important.
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You gotta pray scripturally. The Bible tells us in 1 John
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5:14, if we pray anything according to his will,
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that means scripturally.
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If we pray according to
the word, he hears us.
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And if he hears us, we have the things
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that we have requested of him.
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So we know how to pray scripturally. You can pray
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by yourself, but if you feel
like you need somebody to pray
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with you, here we are.
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So call the number or send us an email.
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In the moment we hear from you, we are going to really begin
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to pray for you.
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But today we're going to begin with Abraham
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who got a late start at 75 years of age.
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This is going to be so encouraging.
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Maybe you are 75 and
you think life is over.
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Abraham was just getting
started when he hit
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75 years old.
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And my friends, God has wonderful things in store for you.
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Your story is not finished.
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It might be that your story
is just getting started.
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But hey, reach for your Bible.
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And today we're gonna be
looking at a lot of verses
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to study the story of Abraham
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and how he got a late
start at 75 years of age.
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But first I want to once again tell you
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that new studies show the
most productive age is from
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60 to 70 years of age.
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That is amazing.
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The 2nd most productive age is from 70 to 80 years
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of age: 70 to 80.
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The 3rd most productive age is from 50 to 60.
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And amazingly, that's when
most people are thinking
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that they need to get
ready for retirement,
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when in fact the most productive season is
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still ahead of them.
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The average age
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of Nobel Peace Prize winners
is in their late 60's
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and early 70's.
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What if they had quit earlier?
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They would've missed winning
the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The average age of presidents
of prominent corporations
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around the world is in their 60's.
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The average age of the pastors
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of the world's 100 largest churches is 71:
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71.
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The average age
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of Popes when they become Pope is 78.
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And at the age of 78, they begin
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to manage the whole Roman Catholic Church.
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The best years of life are between 60
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and 80 years: between 60
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and 80 years, which means at 60 you begin
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to reach your potential
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and it continues into your 80's.
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You know, I'm thinking right
now about a precious family
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that is a partner with our ministry
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and very dear friends of ours.
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And when the man hit 62 years old, he had
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to make a decision, shall I retire
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or shall I do something else?
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He made a good income, they
were ready for retirement,
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but in front of him was his future.
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What am I gonna do with my future now?
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And rather than retire,
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they started a brand new
company at the age of 62.
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And guess what? Since the age 62,
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it has become a multimillion
dollar corporation.
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My friends, they entered into
the most fruitful producing
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season of their life and it
started when they were 62.
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And hey, it's logical.
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By the time you hit 60,
you finally know something.
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You've been around long
enough that you know what
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to do, what not to do.
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You know what you want to do.
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You know what you don't want
to do. You know what's right.
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You know what's wrong. You are
able to make decisions faster
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because you have a bigger
base of information
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and knowledge and experience.
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You are really set for life
when you hit about 60 years.
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And statistics show that the
best years of your life are
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between 60 and 80 years.
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And if you are between 60
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and 70, it means you are
in the best mental level
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of your life.
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And if you're 70 to 80,
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you're in the 2nd best mental of your life.
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And here's what I say - The first 30 years
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of your life you spend learning.
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The second 30 years
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of your life you spend doing. The third 30 years
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of your life, you spend imparting and giving to others.
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Now of course, none of this will work for you
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unless you've taken care of your body.
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And we're told in 1 Thessalonians 4:
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4 - Everyone of you should know how
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to possess his vessel in sanctification
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and honor. That word, vessel refers to our body.
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If you're not taking care of your body
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and if you're not using your mind,
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then these statistics
will not apply to you.
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But if you've used your mind
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and if you've taken good care
of your body, my friends,
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you ought to be able to
fall into these wonderful,
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wonderful statistics.
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Just before I began this program,
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I was thinking about instruments in the garage.
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You know it's amazing in the garage there's no foul climate,
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but if an instrument is not used. Even in the conditions
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of a garage where the temperature is basically the same all
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the time, an instrument that
is not used begins to corrode
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and it becomes rusted.
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The only way that an
instrument remains usable
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is by using it.
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You've got to use it.
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And it's the same thing with your body.
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That's why the Bible says in 1 Thessalonians 4:4,
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Wvery one of you should know how to possess or to manage
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or to take care of his
body in sanctification
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and in honor - we need to treat our body like it is special
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and we need to treat it with honor.
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You need to move it, you need to use it.
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You need to use your mind
and develop yourself.
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Don't just sit on the couch
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because you've gotten a little older.
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You need to be reading, you
need to be studying, you need
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to be developing yourself,
use the instrument
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that God gave you.
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But today we're going to
be looking at the example
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of Abraham who got a late
start at 75 years of age.
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And we begin his story in Genesis 12:
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1 - 4, which says,
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Now the Lord had said unto Abraham - that was his name
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before God changed his name - get thee out of thy country
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and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land
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that I will show thee.
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Can you imagine, he was 75 years old at this time.
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And I will make of thee a great nation.
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That's quite a promise to
somebody that's 75 years old.
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And I will bless thee
and make thy name great
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and thou shall be a blessing
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and I will bless them that bless thee
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and curse him that curseth thee.
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And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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So Abraham departed as the Lord had spoken unto him.
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And at this time Abraham
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and his wife Sarah were living in Ur of the Chaldens,
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which was one of the most prosperous, luxurious areas
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of the world at that time.
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And Abraham was a rich man already.
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He was well established, he had a great reputation,
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and now God was telling him
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to leave it all at age 75.
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Wow. And when we come to Acts 7:
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2-3,
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we find out something else about his first
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encounter with God.
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Listen to what the Bible says.
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And he said - Stephen is preaching - men and brethren
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and father's harken; the God
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of glory appeared unto our
father Abraham when he was in
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Mesopotamia before he dwelt in Charran
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and said unto him - Get thee out of that country
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and from thy kindred
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and come into the land which I shall show thee.
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But notice the Bible says the glory
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of God appeared unto him.
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And this word, appeared, literally tells us
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that Abraham found himself enshrouded in the glory of God.
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Here he was a pagan, he was a worshiper
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of the moon, living a prosperous life.
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And suddenly he found himself enshrouded in the glory of God
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and the glory of God begin booming to him out of that cloud.
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And he heard God preach the gospel to him
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and call him to begin a new life at age 75.
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And in fact, when you come to Galatians 3:8,
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we find on that day when God's
booming voice came out of
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that glory, Abraham was the
first man to hear the gospel
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of Jesus Christ.
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Galatians 3:8 says,
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And the scripture foreseeing
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that God would justify the heathen
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through faith preached
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before the gospel unto Abraham saying,
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in thee shall all nations be blessed.
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Which means Abraham was the first man
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to hear the gospel preached.
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But when you come to Hebrews 11:8,
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it gives us very specific details about
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that moment when God called Abraham.
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when he was called to go out into a place which he should
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after receive for an inheritance, obeyed,
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and he went out not knowing whether he went.
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This verse is just jam packed
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so let's unpack it
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and let's begin at the very beginning of verse 8
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where it says - By faith Abraham, when he was called..
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The word called, literally means being called: it means
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to call, to invite, to summon,
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which means God gave him an invitation. He could accept it
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or he could reject it.
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God summoned him forth; he could accept it
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or he could reject it.
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And my friends, this was at the age of 75,
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he could have said, I'm an old man,
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I'm too old for a new start.
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God summoned him forth
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and this was a summoning
which required his response.
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And Abraham said, yes, I will obey.
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He was a called man
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and he really received God's
call at the age of 75,
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he received a supernatural revelation
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that completely changed his life.
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to have a new calling
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and a new revelation that will change your life.
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Why not? It happened to Abraham? It can happen to you too.
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But the Bible says he was called to go out into a place.
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And the word, place, is the Greek word topos.
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It's the Greek word from which we get the idea
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of a topographical map.
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So God, at age 75, was telling him to leave where he was
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and to relocate to a new place which he should
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after receive for an inheritance.
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because it is a form of the Greek word, lambano.
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The word, lambano, means to receive into one's possession.
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Now we could stop right there,
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but we would miss the rest
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It means to take into one's
own control and ownership.
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It is the idea of taking
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grasping onto something
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and embracing it so tightly
that it becomes your very own.
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Which means - Abram, by faith had to say - I'm gonna take
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what God has said to me, I'm
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He couldn't be passive.
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He had to be actively involved
in engaging his faith.
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He was grasping onto
it, embracing it tightly
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until this calling literally
became his very own.
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And whether you are young
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or older, my friends, you've gotta reach out by faith,
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engage your faith
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and embrace what God is
offering to give you.
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You've gotta take it and
take ownership of it.
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And that is what Abraham did according
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to Hebrews 11:8 - By faith Abraham,
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when he was called to go out into a place
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or to relocate to a new place, which he should
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after received for an inheritance, obeyed.
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And the word obeyed here is a form
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of the Greek word, hupakouo.
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It's one of my favorite
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It's a compound of 2-words:
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the word hupo and the word akouo.
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The word, hupo, means under.
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for the word acoustics: hupo, and akouo.
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But when you compound these two words together,
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it pictures one who is in a subservient position.
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and obeys what is being said to him
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by a superior. It pictures one that is under authority,
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who is listening and carrying out instructions.
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Lord of his life.
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Hupo - he found himself in a subservient position under
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the authority of God.
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He opened his ears to hear
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and chose that he was going to obey him.
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This is what happens when
you call Jesus the Lord
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of your life - hupo -
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you suddenly find yourself in a subservient
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position under Jesus.
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He is the Lord of your life.
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job is to have your ears open
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to hear whatever he is saying to you.
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And from that point forward,
your task in life is to say,
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Yes Sir, and to obey.
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But Abraham literally submitted himself
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to the authority of God.
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He very carefully listened
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and he chose that he was going to obey.
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Then the verse goes on to say,
and he went out not knowing.
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You know, sometimes when God
calls you to do something,
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you don't have all the
pieces to the puzzle.
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It says - not knowing whether he went.
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and the phrase, not knowing, in Greek literally is, me
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epistamenos.
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The word, me, means not.
It has a canceling effect.
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The word epistamenos, depicts one who's on top
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of his subject: one who possesses professional knowledge:
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one who's highly skilled and knowledgeable
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because the word, me, is used in front of it,
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which has a canceling force.
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In this case, it is one who is unacquainted, one
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who is unknowledgeable, one who is unskilled
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and unprofessional in where he's going
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and in what he is doing. Which means, God was asking him
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to do something for which he
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He was unskilled, he was unacquainted,
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he was unknowledgeable.
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He didn't have a clue about
what God was calling him
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to do or how to do it.
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And it goes on to say, wither he went.
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And the Greek literally means - where he was going
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or where he was headed.
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And not only that, when we get to Hebrews 11:9,
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it continues to say,
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and by faith, he's sojourned in the land of promise,
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as in a strange country dwelling in Tabernacles with Isaac
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and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
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And the word, sojourned, at the first of this
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verse, is the word paroikeo, which means - to live
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outside the house: figuratively, to live on the street.
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So when the Bible says by faith he's sojourned,
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it means he left his beautiful house in Ur of the Chaldens
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and began to live on the street in the land of promise,
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as in a strange country.
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In the words strange is a Greek word,
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which means an alien country,
a foreign country, something
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that is strange, unfamiliar, unnatural,
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and even a bit weird. He relocated to a territory
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that he was completely unfamiliar with
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and to his own eyes, it was alien, it was foreign,
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it was strange, it was
unfamiliar, it was unnatural
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and even a bit weird.
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That's literally what the verse means.
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And the Bible says - dwelling in tabernacles.
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And the word, dwelling, is the word,
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katoikeo, which means they settle into a home
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or describes a person who settles down
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as a permanent residence.
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But in this case,
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they weren't settling into
a nice new house in a new
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territory, but they were
dwelling in tabernacles.
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The word, tabernacles, is the word for a tent: for a tent.
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So at age 75, when he said yes to God,
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he had a radical change in lifestyle
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that was very different from his previous 75 years.
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In the first 75 years he was a pagan, he was a worshiper
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of the moon: he was rich, he was established,
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he had a reputation, he had a fabulous home
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in Ur of the Chaldens.
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And then God's call came at age 75
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and everything changed.
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And the Bible tells us in Genesis 25:7, Abraham lived
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to be 175 years old,
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which mean he lived a hundred years
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after the call of God came to him.
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And for that a hundred years he wandered
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around dwelling in tents,
nearly living on the street.
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But he knew he had a call from God.
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And that call from God
radically changed his life.
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He submitted himself
to the authority of God
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and my friends, I'm sure there
were moments when he wondered
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if he had made a bad decision.
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There might have even been
moments when his wife said,
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sweetheart, are you absolutely
sure that we're on track?
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We had a nice life. And
look where we're living now.
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We're living out in dust,
we're living in the desert,
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we're living in tents, moving
from place to place looking
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for this land that God has promised to us.
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But because Abraham got
in a place of faith,
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because he got into alignment with God at age 75,
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there's hope for you.
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There's hope for anybody
that's in their 70's.
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He got into agreement with
God and it changed everything.
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And today the Bible says, we
are the children, the sons
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and daughters of Abraham. Just like he walked in faith,
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we are called to walk in faith.
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Whether you're young,
whether you're middle aged,
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or whether you're living
in your senior years,
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God is calling you to get into
agreement with him, submit
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to his authority, hear what he has to say,
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and do whatever he's telling you to do.
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And it doesn't matter whether
you're young, middle aged
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or old. My friends, God wants
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to use you.
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So if you are among those
that are a little older,
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it might be that you're the perfect age
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for a brand new start.
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Hey, you've got nothing to lose. Life is already behind you.
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You might as well get into
agreement with God and say yes
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and enter into the most wonderful,
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surprising fruit producing
years of your life.
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Like my friends
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who started their multimillion
dollar business when they
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were 62. They had a choice - retire
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or do something new.
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And they felt God telling them to do something new.
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They said yes, they got into agreement.
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And look what happened in their lives. My friends,
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the latter years of your life,
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they really should be the golden years.
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They should be the best
years of your life.
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Ah, this is amazing.
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And to think all of this started
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with Abraham at age 75
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but wait - what about his wife?
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Well, that's what we're gonna
see in the next program.
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So please don't miss the next
episode, but we're outta time.
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I've got something else to say to you
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and then I'll be back in just a moment.
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The Lord promises to
satisfy us with long life
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and salvation so we can rest assured.
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Aging is not something to dread.
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If you're not satisfied with your life,
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your life is not over.
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God will speak to you
and use you at any age.
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So don't throw in the towel.
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by God at 365 years of age.
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Noah, who started building the ark at 500 years of age.
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Sarah who became a mother at 90 years of age.
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who received new revelation at more than 90 years
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Rick teaches about 10 different kinds of fuel you need
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to stay spiritually ablaze for years to come.
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This life changing book can be yours for just $25.
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Don't miss this bundle of the series, How To
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Flourish In Your Senior Years and the book, A Life Ablaze.
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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 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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You know, when I was growing
up, I was told it was rude
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to ask people how old they are.
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But since you can't really answer me
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because I'm speaking to
you through a device,
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I'm gonna ask you how old are you?
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And if you're a little
older, I wanna say, welcome
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to the golden years of your life.
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They're supposed to be golden.
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They're supposed to be the
best years of your life.
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God's just waiting for you
to submit to his authority
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to hear what he has to tell you
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and to give you a brand new assignment.
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And my friends, the end
of your life is supposed
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to be the most wonderful
golden years of your life.
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Just like Abraham who got
a new start at age 75;
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that is just amazing to me.
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So if you're 75
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or older, say, here I am Lord, I'm ready
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for a new assignment.
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But please order the series called, How
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to Flourish in Your Senior Years.
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And remember that it comes
with a terrific study guide.
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And we're also now offering you my book
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called The Life of Blaze:
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10 simple keys to Living on Fire for God.
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You're supposed to blaze with
the power of God all the way
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to the end of your life.
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And this book will help you
know how to stay on fire.
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But thank you for being with me today.
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It's been such a pleasure to talk
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to you about getting
a new start at age 75.
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And my friends, if you need
prayer, reach out to us
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and I wanna pray for you right now.
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So put your hand on your
heart and let's pray together.
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Father, I thank in the name of Jesus
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that you want the latter years
of our life to be the best.
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You say in the Gospels
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that the best wine is saved till the last.
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And Lord, the end of our
life should be golden.
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It should absolutely be the best.
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And Lord, open our ears that
we can hear what you have
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to say and give us the courage
to say yes and to obey.
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In Jesus' name - Amen.
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Alright, tomorrow we're gonna be talking about Sarah.
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It's gonna really be good.
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A woman that became pregnant when she was very,
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very old - that is amazing.
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But until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 - it says,
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"Where the word 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 repent of my sin
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and receive you as my Savior 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 - Amen.
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If you just prayed the prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Renner Ministries is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ
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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.