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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind, where the word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and I've been seated in this chair just waiting
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for this moment so we can return to our subject 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 mildly
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as you age and mature.
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And my friends, this comes
with a tremendous study guide
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and you really need this study guide.
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You need to see all this
material while you're seeing
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or hearing the series
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because you really need to
get this down deep inside you
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and renew your mind to
the truth that the end
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of your life are supposed
to be the golden years,
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the best years of your life.
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God never intended for you
to go outta this world old,
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sick and broken.
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He wants you to go out in ablaze of glory.
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That's what the Bible tells us in Psalm 84:7.
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We are to go from strength to his strength.
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Now, you may not be there now,
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but that is God's plan for your life
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and you can take it by faith.
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And today I'm gonna be showing
you the example of Sarah,
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a woman who took by faith, the power of God
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to renew her body
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so she could do something amazing when she was 90 years old.
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But hey, I want you to also order 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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You can order all these things by going online
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or you can just call us right now.
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And my friends, we also
really wanna pray for you.
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So if you have a prayer need
or something on your heart
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and you just wish, God I,
I wish that I had somebody
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who could pray with me.
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Well, here we are. We
want to pray for you.
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You can trust us, we will be confidential.
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God will hear us, God will answer,
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and Jesus will do the most
wonderful thing in your life.
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So reach out to us
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and please let us know
how to pray for you.
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But reach for your Bible
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because today we're gonna be looking at a lot
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of Bible verses
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and our focus today is Sarah
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who became a mother at 90 years of age.
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But I want to begin again with the statistical results.
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New studies show
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that the most productive age is from 60
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to 70 years.
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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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The 3rd most productive stage is from 50
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to 60 years of age.
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That's amazing because most
people think they're most
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productive when they're 50 to 60.
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But in fact, that is the
third most productive stage.
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The most productive stage is 60 to 70.
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The second most productive is 70 to 80.
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The third most productive is 50 to 60.
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And as I've told you, the average age
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of Nobel Peace Prize winners are their late 60's
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and early 70's.
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The average age of presidents
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of large corporations is their early 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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Pope's average age when they become Pope is 78
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and at the age of 78, they're given oversight
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of the massive Roman Catholic church.
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And the best years of life then are from 60
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to 80: 60 to 80.
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Now you might say, well, I'm young.
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This really has no relevance for me.
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Well one day you're not gonna be young,
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and I'm gonna tell you the
years pass by pretty fast.
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And suddenly you find yourself 60, 65, 70
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and you wonder, how in
the world did this happen?
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How did I wake up and
suddenly I'm 70 years old
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or 80 years old, our friends?
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It happens to everybody.
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And unless Jesus comes, it's
gonna happen to you too.
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So how you think about age
is very, very important.
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And if you're already a senior citizen
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and you've been thinking
that life is over,
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you're no longer relevant.
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You need to change the
way you are thinking.
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Hey, 60 to 70
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is the most productive age.
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70 to 80 is the 2nd most productive age.
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At 60, you begin the best years
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of your life.
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And not only that, a new analysis shows that if you're
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between 60 and 70
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and you've used your mind, you
are in the best mental years
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of your life.
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And if you're between 70
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and 80, you're in the 2nd best mental years of your life.
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And it's very logical
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because if you've used your
mind, then your mind is filled
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with information. You have experience, you have all kinds
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of things you've learned through the years.
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You are primed to make the best decisions.
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You finally know what
to do, what not to do.
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And that is when people
think they need to retire,
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they finally know something
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and then they go to sit on the couch.
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They're finally, really, really worth something
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and they turn it over to young
people who really don't know
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what they're doing or they're just
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learning what they're doing.
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And those that have the most
years, the most experience,
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the most seasoned, turn it over to those
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that are still struggling to learn. My friends,
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that is not God's will for your life.
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The senior years are called the golden years
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because they're supposed to be golden.
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They're to be the most fruitful season of your life.
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I say the first 30 years of our life is spent learning.
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The second 30 years
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of our life is spent doing. The third 30 years of our life
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we should spend imparting and helping others.
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That should be the rule for our life.
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In fact, I've told my team, you guys need to be ready
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to work for a long, long time
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because I don't intend to quit.
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I'm gonna work until the very,
very end. And guess what?
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These latter years of my life,
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because now I'm a senior citizen, that's hard to believe.
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My friends, I have never been able to generate more material
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to do more work than right now.
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And it's because my base has become so huge.
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I can make decisions faster, I can do things easier.
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I know what's right. I know what's wrong.
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I don't even have to spend hours and hours
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and hours laboring in
prayer over simple things
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because I've already been
there, already done that,
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or I've already learned the answers.
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And when you hit a certain
age, you suddenly are able
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to be more productive.
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You're able to do more than
you've ever done if you
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will embrace it.
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But you've got to embrace it.
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And today we're gonna read
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and we're going to hear about
Sarah who embraced God's plan
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for her life at age 90: 90.
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But we're going to begin with the story
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of Abraham when God told him
he was going to have a son.
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So we're gonna go to Genesis 17:1
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where the Bible says - And when Abraham was 90 years old
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and 9 - he was 99: 99 -
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the Lord appeared unto him. Which means, 99 is a great age
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to have a new encounter with God.
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And said unto him, I am the Almighty God.
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Walk before me and be thou perfect.
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Well actually, if you read this in the Hebrew,
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it is hysterical.
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It really means I am God almighty, walk
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before me, quit messing up, do exactly
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what I tell you to do.
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And prior to this moment,
Abraham had made a lot
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of mistakes in his walk of faith.
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And at the age of 99, God
got real straight with him.
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And at the age of 99,
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Abraham became more serious
about his obedience than ever
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previously in his life.
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And in verse 2, God says -
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And I will make my covenant between me and thee
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and multiply thee exceedingly.
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Well, that's an amazing statement to make
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to a 99-year-old man.
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Verse 3: And Abraham fell on his face. I imagine
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so. He hears God telling him he's going to be multiplied.
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He's 99 years old, he falls on his face
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and God talked with him saying - verse 4 - as for me,
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behold my covenant is with thee
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and thou shalt be a
father of many nations.
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Verse 5: neither shall thy name anymore be called
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Abraham, but thy name shall be Abraham, for a father
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of many nations
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have I made thee. At age 99, this encounter
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with God was so dramatic,
it even changed his name.
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99 is a great age to have
an encounter with God.
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Verse 6: and I will make thee exceeding fruitful
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and I will make of the nations
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and kings shall come out of thee - at 99
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then verse 15:
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And God said unto Abraham - as for Sarai thy wife,
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thou shalt not call her name Sarai,
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but Sarah shall her name be: which means, she also was going
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to have a life changing transformation:
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an encounter with God.
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Verse 16: And I will bless her
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and I will give thee a son of her.
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You're gonna find out in a
moment, she was 90 years old,
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she was 90 years old.
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And now God is saying Sarah
at the age of 90 is going
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to have a baby - and give
thee a son also of her.
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Yeah, I will bless her
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and she shall be a mother of nations, kings
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of people shall be of her.
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Yeah, that word blessing is powerful.
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When God speaks a blessing to you,
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it gives you the ability to prosper.
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He empowers you.
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And when God says, I will
bless her, he was going
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to speak a word that would
empower her 90-year-old body
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to do what it naturally could not do.
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And my friends, if you're in
your senior years, God was
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to empower you
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to do it naturally you
don't think you can do.
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God can give you a new beginning.
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Verse 17: then Abraham fell on his face and laughed.
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He laughed. Well, he is 99;
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his wife is 90. Now he starts laughing
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and said in his heart - Shall a child be born into him
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that is 100 years old -
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because he was going to be a hundred years old
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by the time the baby was born -
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and shall Sarah, that is 90 years old, bare.
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This was so funny to Abraham
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and in fact it seems so
impossible to Abraham
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that in verse 18, Abraham
said unto God, oh,
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that Ishmael might live before thee. Well
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Ishmael was his son, which was produced by Hagar.
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That was a son that was never supposed to be born. Verse 19:
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And God said, Sarah, thy wife shall bare the
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as son - indeed - just watch.
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This is really going to happen.
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And thou shall call his name Isaac.
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And guess what - the name Isaac means laughter.
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And when God said you're gonna call his name Isaac,
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it was the equivalent of God saying, okay,
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you're laughing at me, you're
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That boy's gonna be called Isaac - laughter,
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which means God is gonna get the last laugh on this topic.
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And I will establish my covenant with him
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for an everlasting covenant
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Now let's jump to 17:21.
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But my covenant will I establish with Isaac,
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which Sarah shall bare unto thee this set time in the
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next year. Verse 22:
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And he left off talking with him
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and God went up from Abraham.
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Now let's talk about Sarah's response.
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So let's go to Genesis 18:9.
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overhears this conversation
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and finds out she's gonna
give birth to a baby.
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And in Genesis 18, the Lord has come
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to see Abraham along with two angels.
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And they said unto him - verse 9: Where is Sarah thy wife?
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And he said, behold, she's in the tent. Verse 10:
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And he said - the Lord speaking -
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I will certainly return unto thee according to the time
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of life and low, Sarah,
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thy wife, shall have a son.
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We're talking about a 90-year-old woman.
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And Sarah heard it in the tent
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Verse 11: Now Abraham and Sarah were old
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and well stricken in age, and
it ceased to be with Sarah
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after the manner of women,
which means Sarah was sterile.
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But you're gonna find out from Hebrews 11, she
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and Abraham no longer had sexual relations
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because of their age.
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It ceased to be with Sarah
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after the manner of women. Verse 12:
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Therefore, Sarah laughed within herself saying,
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after I am waxed old shall I have pleasure,
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my Lord also being old.
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Well, let's understand.
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She's really saying, you gotta be kidding.
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Abraham and I are gonna go
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Do you not realize how old
I am and how old Abraham is?
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And verse 13: and the Lord said into Abraham -
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Wherefore did Sarah laugh saying, shall I of a surety,
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bare a child which I'm old.
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Verse 14: Is anything too hard for the Lord?
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And I say that to you, it doesn't matter what your age is,
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there's nothing too hard for the Lord.
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If God has made a promise to
you, he intends to keep it.
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Don't you dare give up on
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what God has told you he wants to do.
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There's nothing too hard for the Lord.
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Your best years are in front of you.
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They are not behind you.
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And the verse goes on to
say, at the appointed time,
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I will return into thee
according to the time of life,
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and Sarah shall have a son.
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Verse 15: then Sarah denied saying, I laugh not
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for she was afraid.
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And he said, no, you did laugh. I think that is hysterical.
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Then when we come to Genesis 21:1,
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we actually find the birth of Isaac and the Bible tells us,
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and the Lord visited Sarah as he had said,
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and the Lord did unto
Sarah as he had spoken.
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What did he do? He blessed her.
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suddenly her old body was renewed
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and she had the ability to
receive seed and to conceive
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and give birth to a child.
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That's what happens when
God speaks a blessing.
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you're 90 like Sarah,
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God can speak a blessing to you
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that can supernaturally renew you.
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Then we come to verse 2: for Sarah conceived
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and bare Abraham a son in his old age at the set time,
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which God had spoken unto him. Verse 3:
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And Abraham called the name of his son
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that was born unto him whom Sarah had bare unto him,
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Isaac: laughter. Verse 4:
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And Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac being 8-days old
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as God had commanded him.
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Verse 5: And Abraham was 100 years old when his
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son, Isaac, was born unto him.
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He was 99 when God first spoke to him.
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And Genesis 17:1 says, you're going to have his son,
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but now time has passed.
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He's 100 years old. Verse 6:
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And Sarah said,
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and God hath made me to
laugh so that all those
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that here laugh with me.
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Everybody's laughing
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because this is such an
impossible situation,
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but yet it has really happened.
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In verse 21: she said, who would've said unto Abraham
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that Sarah should have given children suck
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for have born him a son in his old age?
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And there she is breastfeeding a baby.
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My friends at the age of 91: 91.
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That is just amazing.
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She was 90 when God first spoke.
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Abraham was 99 by the time
the baby came, she was 91
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and he was 100 years old.
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But God spoke and we know
that Sarah used her faith.
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You have to respond to God.
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And we find her response described in Hebrews 11:
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11, which says - Through faith also Sarah.
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So now we find that Sarah
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It wasn't just Abraham.
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She had to use her faith
for this to come to pass.
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It took two to tango
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and Sarah had to use her own faith. Through faith,
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Sarah - and the Greek adds a phrase that is very important.
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The Greek actually says - through faith also,
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Sarah being barren herself, received strength
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to conceive seed
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and was delivered of a child when she was past age
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because she judged him faithful who had promised.
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But in Greek it says beam barren.
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And the word barren is the word, steiros.
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It describes one that is barren: one that is sterile
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or one that is unable to produce children.
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And we know from the entire
verse that she was past age.
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She was no longer the age to bare children.
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She was sterile, is actually
what the Greek says.
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But it says the she received strength.
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And the word received, is a Greek word, lambano.
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And the form that is used here means
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to receive into one's possession:
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to take into one's own control and ownership.
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It carries the idea of
taking hold of something,
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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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So God offered her supernatural strength,
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but she had to take it
into her own possession.
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She had to take it into her control.
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She had to take ownership of the power of God
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and believe that God's word of blessing was going
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to renew her body.
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She took it by faith. Through faith
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also, Sara being barren herself, received,
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actively received, took ownership and control of strength.
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And the word strength that is
used here is the Greek word
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dunamis, which describes supernatural power
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that accomplishes amazing things.
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She took it, she took it,
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and the Bible says she conceived seed.
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And the word, conceived, is the Greek word, katabole.
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The word kata, means down. The word bole, means to throw.
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But when you compound it together, it describes something
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that's being hurled down, something
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that's being forcibly put in place.
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And please forgive me for being so blunt,
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but it literally means at the age of 90,
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Sarah was using her faith
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for Abraham's seed to hit the target.
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She was taking it, she was taking it by faith.
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And the word, seed, is the Greek word sperma.
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It can be translated as the word seed,
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but it really is just the word for sperm.
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She's describing a sexual relationship.
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And during that sexual act, by faith, she was taking
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that seed; she was using her faith to believe
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for the fulfillment of God's promise.
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That is just amazing to be.
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And the Bible says - it occurred when she was past age.
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And the Greek means - even well beyond a suitable age
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or beyond the years of opportunity.
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You may think your opportunity is passed.
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Why? If God's given you a word, nothing is passed.
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Your future is in front of you. The best year,
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the golden years, are the years you are in
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and the years in front of you.
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But then when you come to
verse 11, it goes on to say -
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Because she judged him faithful
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who promised. The word judged, is a form of the Greek word,
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hegeomai, which means: to deem, to consider or to judge.
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She had to make a decision
that she was going
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to judge him faithful.
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The word faithful, is the Greek word, piston.
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It describes one that is
absolutely faithful, one
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that is absolutely trustworthy.
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She chose to believe God who had promised.
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And these words, who had promised, in Greek means the one
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declaring and promising. It depicts the declarer
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and the promiser
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and Sarah took her eyes off of her body, which was old.
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She put her eyes on God,
who was the declarer
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and the promiser.
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And Hebrews 11:12 says, as a result -
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Therefore sprang there even of one
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and of him as good as dead.
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It's now talking about both Sarah
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and Abraham. Sarah, who was now sterile,
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she was past age.
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The verse goes on to say -
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And him that was good
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as dead which means,
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Abraham was also past the age of giving birth.
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The two of them together had
to be supernaturally renewed.
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This was supernatural age renewal
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and out of them spring as many as the stars
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of the sky in multitude
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and as the sand, which is by the seashore,
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innumerable. My friends,
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all of this happened to a woman who was 90 when God spoke:
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to a man who was 99. A year passed.
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Sarah was 91. She gave birth
to a baby. She laughed.
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Everybody else laughed
because it was so hilarious.
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Abraham was now 100 years old.
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And finally the two of them together saw the plan
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of God come to pass for their life.
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And my friends, I'm telling you
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that even if you're in your
senior years, this is time
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for you to get into agreement with God.
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Take his power by faith
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and say, I'm gonna give birth to the promise
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of God in my life.
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Even if I'm in the golden
years of my life, I'm going
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to determine these really
are gonna be the golden,
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the best years, the most fruit
producing years of my life.
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It happened for them and my friends,
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it can happen for you,
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and that is God's plan for your life.
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Say - Amen!!!
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Hey, I got more to say
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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
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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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Well today we have covered a
lot of material about Sarah
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and Abraham who very late
in life saw the fulfillment
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of God in their life.
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But when we come back in the next program,
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we're gonna be looking at Moses,
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who at age 80 got a new assignment.
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Is that amazing?
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God wants to give you a new assignment even if you're in the
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senior years of your life.
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And that's why I want you to
order my series called, How
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to Flourish in Your Senior Years - which comes
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with a study guide.
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And we're offering you my book
today called, A Life Ablaze.
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And today is the last day
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that we're offering these resources on the
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program this week.
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But you can go online or give
us a call to order these.
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And when you reach out to us,
please let us know how to pray
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for you, when to release
our faith, for you
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to get into our agreement with God
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and for God's power to flow through you
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so you can see his plan
realized in your life,
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regardless of your age.
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Say - Amen. But put your hand on your heart
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because I'm gonna pray for you now.
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Father, I thank you that you've called us,
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you have anointed us,
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and we're not supposed to check out of life
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until we have seen the fulfillment of your promise to us.
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Help us by faith to take your power,
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to receive your strength,
that we can conceive your will
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and bring it forth.
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In Jesus' name - Amen. It's been good.
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I'll see you in the next episode,
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but until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4,
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it says, "Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right
now - Lord, I repent 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.