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This program is made
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of the God-called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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My name is Rick Renner, and
today I'm sitting on the ruins
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of the Temple of Domitian, which was built in the very heart
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of Domitian Square in ancient Ephesus.
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This was not originally supposed to be a temple to Domitian.
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This first was built by his father, Vespasian, as a temple
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to the Flavian dynasty.
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They were Flavians.
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But when Vespasian died, Titus became the emperor,
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and he continued the
construction of this temple.
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Then Titus quickly died, and
Dometian inherited the throne,
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and Dometian was a different story.
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He was demented. He was twisted.
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He declared that he was Lord and God,
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and even developed around himself a complete religion
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to Domestian that came with a full priesthood and rituals.
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And because he believed he
was God, he made the decision
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to convert this into a temple to Domitian
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where he was worshiped with a full priesthood
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and all kinds of rituals.
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And it was located here in
the heart of Dometian Square.
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This really is a symbol of evil
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that was spreading its
tentacles all across the Roman
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Empire: real, dark, evil.
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But in the city of Ephesus, there was a church.
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The church was putting up with all of this evil,
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and the church was doing so well even long
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before Domesian, during the time of Nero,
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even though there was great persecution,
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the church was thriving,
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but due to persecution,
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the Apostle Paul in Acts 20 was chased out of town,
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and he couldn't get back into Ephesus.
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Oh, how he loved Ephesus.
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He was not able to say
goodbye to the elders.
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He left so abruptly, he couldn't even tell them farewell.
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So he went down to Melitas
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and he asked the elders to come see him.
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And when the elders came to see him,
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he prophesied about something
that was going to take place
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inside this very church in this city.
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Listen to what he said in Acts 20:29.
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For I know this, that
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after my departing, shall
grievous wolves enter in
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among you not sparing the flock.
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What did he mean by grievous wolves?
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What does that word grievous mean?
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And when he says they
wouldn't spare the flock,
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what does he mean by that?
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What were these grievous
wolves going to do?
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And who were these grievous wolves?
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How in the world would
they ever get a foothold
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inside the church?
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This was really important information
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because the church of Ephesus needed
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to brace themselves against this
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and protect themselves from error getting
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inside the church.
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The Holy Spirit speaks very explicitly
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all over the New Testament
that the very end of the age,
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seducing spirits with doctrines
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of demons will once again begin to infiltrate the church.
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And friends, we're living in that time.
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We are being penetrated by
false doctrine, by error
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that the Bible says is damnedable.
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We need to know what it is.
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We need to know what is the result
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of this damnedable teaching, which is the work
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of grievous wolves.
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What does the Bible say about all of this?
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That is what I want to talk to you about today.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind, where the word
is the anchor in uncertain
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times and doctrine
doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep, revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and I'm continuing my
series, which is called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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And we've seen that the Holy
Spirit prophesies very clearly
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that at the very end of the age when not much time is left,
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there's going to be an assault
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of demon spirits on the church.
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And my friends, we're seeing this.
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All you have to do is go to YouTube
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and listen to all the nonsense that is there,
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and you know the devil is really trying to wrestle the truth
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to the ground and replace it with a lot of bizarre teachings
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that are out of sync with scripture.
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But we need to know what the Bible says about that,
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and that's why I'm teaching this series, which comes
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with a wonderful study guide.
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And I also want to tell you about my book by the same title
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How to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy.
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You need to read that book.
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But if you want to know about
how to get those resources,
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just call the number on
the screen or go online
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and you can find out all about it.
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And when you call that number
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or when you write to us,
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also let us know how to pray for you.
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We're waiting to pray for you right now.
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Please call that number
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and write it down so you'll always have
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that number in time of need.
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You'll know someone to call who can pray
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with you scripturally, biblically.
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God will hear us and Jesus
will do what needs to be done.
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But I want you to reach for your Bible
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and today we're going to go
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to 2 Peter 2:1
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where Peter addresses the problem
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of false teachers in the
last days in the church.
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Now, we've already seen
that Paul prophesied
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in 1 Timothy 4:1, that there were going
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to be seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons assaulting the church
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at the end of the age.
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Then we saw in the last episode that in Matthew 24:4,
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Jesus said, One of the primary signs
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to let us know we've sailed
to the very, very end
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of the age is there's going
to be worldwide deception,
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a moral wandering from the truth
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and moral confusion.
Well, hey, look around.
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We're surrounded by moral confusion.
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We're living in an age when there's
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so much delusional thinking,
people don't even know
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what gender they are.
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How in the world can someone
question their gender,
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but we're really living in a
day when everything is being
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questioned and people are presenting
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what they call new progressive ideas, woke ideas,
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woke ideologies.
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But my friends, the Bible clearly said this would take place
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as people would depart from the faith,
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from the clear sound teaching of scripture
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to go in a new direction.
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But this assault is not just going
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to happen in the lost world, it's also going
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to be an assault against the church.
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And that's what I want you to see today
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in 2 Peter 2:1
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where Peter is speaking prophetically.
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And listen to what Peter says.
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And again, I hope you have your Bible
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because we really need to see
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what the Bible has to say about this.
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2 Peter 2:1, Peter writes,
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But there were false prophets
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among the people. So he's talking about the Old Testament
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and the Old Testament, they had to deal with false prophets.
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But then he adds, As even as there shall be.
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Now he's speaking futuristically about the very end
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of the age, the age that we're living in,
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the same age the Holy Spirit
was talking about in
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1 Timothy 4:1 the same age
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that Jesus was talking
about in Matthew 24:4.
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And now Peter says,
Even as there shall be.
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He's also pointing to the end of the age
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and he says, Even as there
shall be false teachers
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among you. Either underline
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or circle those words false teachers.
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We're going to come back
to it in just a moment.
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Who privily shall bring in,
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if you're writing in your Bible,
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underline those words, priviley shall bring in damnable
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heresies separately.
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Circle the word damnable and the word heresies.
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We're going to look at both of these.
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Even denying the Lord that bought them; underline the word,
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denying, the word, Lord, and the word, but,
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and shall bring upon themselves swift
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destruction. But notice
Peter says, There shall be
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false teachers. But
let me go to the board
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because this phrase, false teachers, is really important.
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And in Greek, it is a very long word.
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It's a compound of two words.
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It is the word pseudesdidaskalos.
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It's a compound of two words.
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The first word is a derivative of the word, pseudes.
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If you're going to spell this in English,
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you would spell it like this (pseudes).
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The 2nd word is didaskalos - if you're going
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to spell it in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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Now the two of these words compounded are pretty powerful.
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The word pseudes describes that which is false
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or that which is bogus or that which is counterfeit.
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The 2nd word didaskalos, is the word for a masterful teacher
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and it is the Greek
equivalent for the word rabbi.
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But when you compound these two words together, pseudes and
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didaskalos, they form the word pseudesdidaskalos.
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And I want to read to you from my notes
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because this term is so very important.
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The word pseudes, the 1st part of the word, carries the idea
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of any type of falsehood.
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It pictures one who projects an image of himself
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that's false or one who walks in a pretense
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or one who intentionally
misrepresents facts or truth.
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The word didaskalos, the 2nd word, is the Greek word
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for a masterful teacher,
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but when these two words are compounded,
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they form the word pseudesdidaskalos
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which we saw on the board,
which depicts teachers
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who may have began as
authentic, God-called teachers,
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but who over a period
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of time have progressively
veered off course,
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and now they're bogus teachers.
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They are counterfeit teachers,
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but they have a place in the church
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because they began as real,
authentically called teachers.
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But somehow, in some way, they
have veered from the truth,
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and now what they teach is
no longer a representation
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of the truth, but it's
bogus or it is counterfeit.
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And Peter goes on to explain,
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And they shall privilege bring in
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damnable heresies. Well, what does that mean
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privily shall bring in?
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Well, in Greek, it is the word par, ics, ago.
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Oh my goodness, this is really important.
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It is a triple compound.
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Now, triple compounds are rare,
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and when there's a triple
compound word, you need
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to really pay attention.
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The first word is the word para, para.
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If you're taking notes, you
would spell it like this.
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The word para means alongside.
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Then you have the word eis.
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The word eis would be spelled like this in English.
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It means into, and then
you have the word ago,
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and the word ago would
be spelled like this.
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But when you compound the 3-words together,
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it's para-eis, para-eis ago.
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The word para means alongside.
The word eis means into.
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The word ago means I lead,
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which lets us know this
is referring to leadership
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and what does this word privilege shall
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bring in, really mean?
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The word para in this context
implies these are leaders.
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They're going to walk alongside other believers right
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inside the church.
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They're in the church. They're
walking with the church para.
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They're alongside of other
people in the church.
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The word eis means they're going
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to bring their damnable
doctrines into the church.
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That's what that word
eis means. It means into.
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And the word ago means I lead,
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and it suggests that these
individuals will hold positions
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of leadership in the church.
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But when you take these 3-words, the word para,
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the word eis and the word ago,
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and you compound them together
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as they are here in 2 Peter 2:1,
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it denotes - are you ready for this - a smuggler, a smuggler
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who attempts
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to covertly transport illegal contraband
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across a border while using a disguise
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or stealth to conceal his activities.
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And Peter's word, which is used here, pareisago,
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privilege shall bring in,
tell us, they know that
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what they're teaching is out of sync with
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what other people
believe, so they're trying
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to smuggle it into the church.
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Well, in the church, we have
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what is called orthodox teaching.
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Orthodox teaching would be
the teaching that is in line
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with the teaching of the scripture.
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It's orthodox. It's rock solid teaching.
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Heretical teaching is
teaching of a different kind.
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And now we find that these
particular individuals,
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they are in stealth covertly.
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They're trying to smuggle
into the church teaching
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that is not in sync
with apostolic teaching
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or with the pages of the New Testament.
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So Peter tells us,
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and there's no doubt that
the Greek word depicts covert
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activity and pictures one
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who knowingly introduces a new concept
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or a doctrine that really
should raise a flag of concern.
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But the problem is these are individuals
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who are originally called by God
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and who started authentically
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and people have embraced
them and received them.
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And now they're beginning to
teach something that's out
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of sync with scripture.
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And for people that are
older and know the word
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and have discernment,
they can recognize that.
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But the problem is, para,
they're walking alongside
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of other people and many of
the people they're walking
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alongside of are newer.
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They are immature, yet
they're ready to learn
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and they don't have enough
discernment to recognize
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what is real and what is wrong.
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And therefore they bite into
the bait of false teaching.
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Peter is really describing
covert activity.
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And again, as I said at the
beginning of this program,
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all you have to do is go online today
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to see there's all kind of nonsense
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that is being taught in the church today.
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And my friends, we need
to be very careful.
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And it alerts us in this verse
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that spiritual smugglers at
the end of the age are going
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to try to smuggle error into the church.
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Now they may not even realize it's error.
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They may have drank the poison themselves
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and believed that it's true,
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but it's out of sync with scripture.
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Therefore, they are spiritual smugglers.
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And what is it they're trying
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to covertly bring into the church?
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Well, 2 Peter 2:
1 calls it damnable heresies.
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The word heresies, is the Greek word, hairesis.
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It's spelled like this, hairesis.
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And the word damnable, is the Greek word apoleia.
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Now, if you want to write
these down in English,
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the word hairesis would
be spelled like this,
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and it is where we get
the word heresy, heresy.
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The word damnable is the Greek word apoleia,
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apoleia, and it describes that which is rotten,
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that which is destructive.
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And when you put these two words together,
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they're very powerful.
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First of all, heresies
describes a false doctrine
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or false teaching or a
particular school of thought
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that is not orthodox.
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It doesn't fit in with a
whole bulk of scripture.
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And the word damnable, again,
this Greek word, apoleia,
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describes that which is
destructive, something
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that is destroyed,
decayed, rotten, or ruined.
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the apostle Peter clearly
spelled out, When the doctrine
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of compromise or woke
doctrine is preached,
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it produces destruction
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and devastation. So
Peter's raising his voice
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and he said, They're going to
try to bring into the church
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damnable heresies,
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but what is really
interesting is the Greek
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structure is a little different.
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It says heresies that are damnable
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or heresies that produce destruction, rot
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and decay. So if you buy
into this false teaching,
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it's going to produce rot in
your life or rot in the church.
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And that's why Peter is raising
his voice like a commander
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to warn us this is an event that's going
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to take place in the end of the age.
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And it's not to scare us,
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but it's to cause us to be
on alert, to guard ourself,
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to make sure we're listening
to teaching that is really good
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for us, teaching that we can trust.
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But then he goes on to
emphatically tell us,
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he's talking about saved
people that have gone astray
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because he says, Denying the Lord
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that bought them. And the word denying
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is the Greek word arneomai.
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Now this is really an
important word in this context
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because this lets us know
he's talking about believers.
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These are leaders that have gone astray.
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If you want to write this down in English,
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it would be spelled like this, arneomi.
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You say, Well, what in the
world does the word arneomai
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mean? Well, I'm going to tell
you, this word arneomai means
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to knowingly deny, which
means this is not accidental.
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They know they're doing wrong.
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To knowingly deny, to knowingly disown,
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to knowingly reject, to knowingly refuse,
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or to knowingly renounce.
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It depicts something that is
done with one's full consent
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and understanding of what he
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or she is doing, which means
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Peter is talking about
individuals in the church, leaders
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who have heard what
the Lord has told them.
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Maybe the Lord has tried to correct them,
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but they don't like the correction
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and they don't agree with
what the Lord is telling them
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and they don't want to change.
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So they knowingly deny,
they knowingly reject,
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they knowingly go another direction.
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And notice the verse
says, Denying the Lord,
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and even the word Lord is so important
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because here we have
the Greek word despote.
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Despote. If you're going
to spell it in English,
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it would be spelled like this despotes.
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And this word is not the
normal word which would be used
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to describe Jesus as a savior or a Lord,
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but here the Greek word despotes,
listen to what it means.
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It is an administrative term
that normally refers to the CEO
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or the boss of a company who
has authority over others,
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especially over others in the
executive department directly
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under his control.
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which here is translated
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as the word Lord, it affirms for us
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that Peter is talking
about God called people
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who have a gift to teach.
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Jesus is their boss.
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He's speaking to them, telling
them to make a correction.
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They don't like what he is
saying, so they knowingly reject
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what he is saying.
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And he goes on to say
the Lord that bought them
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the word bought the Greek
word agoradzo which is the word
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for redemption, these are
saved people that are rejecting
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what the Lord is telling them
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and they refuse to make a correction.
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And it goes on to say, And
they bring up on themselves
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swift destruction. It doesn't
even say that Jesus is going
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to bring up on them, but
they bring up on themselves.
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And here we find the law
of sowing and reaping.
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If you sow rot, you're going to reap rot.
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If you sow what is wrong, you're going
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to reap it in your life.
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And this verse says they
bring up on themselves
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the Greek word tachinos,
swift destruction.
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The word swift describes something
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that is racing in your direction
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and the word destruction is
the same word we saw earlier,
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the Greek word apoleia: wrot destruction.
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They have sewn it into the church
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and that's what's going
to come back to them.
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And Peter says it's going to
come back very, very swiftly
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or very, very rapidly.
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And my friends, it's not
that they're ignorant
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because according to this
verse, the Lord, their boss,
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the CEO has tried to speak to them
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and tried to bring them a correction.
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The word arneomai the word deny, they've heard it,
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they don't like it, therefore
they knowingly reject it.
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They're rejecting the Lord who bought them
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and put them in ministry.
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And as a result, they
release upon themself
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swift destruction or they reap
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what they have sown into the church.
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Do you see how powerful and
how important these verses are?
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But I'll be back in just a moment
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and I want to pray for you.
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Someone has asked the question - Is God's calling supposed
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to make me happy?
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Well, I don't like that word happy
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because happy is an emotion
that comes and goes.
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I say that being happy is kind
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of like the ripples on the top of a lake.
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Sometimes the lake is calm. Sometimes the lake has ripples.
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Sometimes the water's really churned up.
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It all depends on the wind
or the outside pressure.
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The wind and different
variables can affect the top
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of a lake, but down deep
in the bottom of the lake,
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usually there is a current that flows
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and it's consistent
regardless of what's happening
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by external pressures.
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And that is joy. You can
have joy serving the Lord.
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It doesn't matter what's
going on, you can have joy.
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And Paul said to the Thessalonians in 1 Thessalonians 1:
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6 - And you became followers of us
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and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction
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with joy of the Holy Ghost.
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The Thessalonians were very persecuted,
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but in the midst of it all,
maybe they weren't happy,
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but they really had a very deep running joy in their life,
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and that's what God wants you to have as well.
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Yes, you can have joy
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as you fulfill God's call on your life.
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The world is changing. In
fact, it's more than changed.
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It's gone crazy. We are living in a world
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where faith is questioned
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and sin is welcome, where people seem
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to have lost their minds
about what is right and wrong.
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It seems truth has been
turned upside down.
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In Rick Renner's book, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy,
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Rick reveals the disastrous consequences
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of a society in spiritual
and moral collapse.
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In this book, you'll
discover what Christians need
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to be doing to stay out of
the chaos and anchor to truth.
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You'll learn how to stay
sensitive to the Holy Spirit,
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discern right and wrong teaching, how
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to be grounded in prayer,
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and how to be spiritually prepared
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for living in victory in these last days.
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Leading ministers from around
the world are calling this
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You can also get the
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
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In this series, Rick takes
you deep into New Testament
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prophecies about the end of the age
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and what you need to
do to sail successfully
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through turbulent end time waters.
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Available in digital or physical formats
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You can order the series, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
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and the book of the same name
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Call the number on your screen
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This is Rick Renner, and I'm standing
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outside our Tulsa Ministry
headquarters building,
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and this place is just amazing.
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If you're ever in Tulsa,
come by for a tour.
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I think that you will be blessed
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that every day we hear from thousands
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and thousands of people who reach out to us either by email
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or phone calls and we minister to them.
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And it's such a blessing and you are a part of it
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because you are a partner.
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And right now, our Ministry Expansion Project is paying
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off this facility.
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And when this facility
is paid off, it's going
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to release those funds so
that we can take the teaching
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of the Bible further to
the ends of the earth.
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And right now, this facility
has already paid off 92%.
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We're so very close to the end,
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and I want to say "thank you" if you're part of the team
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for the Ministry Expansion Project.
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And if you're not a part of the team yet,
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would you please join us to
help us pay off this facility
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so those funds can be released
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and we can take the teaching of the Bible
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to the ends of the earth.
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That's the call that God
has put on our lives.
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And when you partner with us,
you really share a part in
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what we are doing.
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You put the fuel in the tank
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and make it possible for us to do our work
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and together we are partners with God.
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But please pray about becoming a part
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of the Ministry Expansion Project.
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Well, today we've taken a deep
dive into 2 Peter 2:1
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where Peter says,
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But there were false prophets
among the people, even
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as there shall be false teachers among you. And we've seen
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what kind of false teachers are going
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to find their way into the church
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and how they're going to
smuggle error into the church
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at the very end of the age.
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And the reason I'm teaching this is
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because I want you to keep
your head on straight.
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You need to stick with the
scriptures regardless of
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what popular people are saying
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or if someone's trying to make
you think in a new direction.
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My friends, if there's
anything that's causing you
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to look away from scripture,
you need to reject it.
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It is the activity of seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons.
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And the Holy Spirit didn't
give us this teaching
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to scare us, but to prepare us.
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And he addressed those
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who would be living at the end of the age.
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Well - Tag - that's us.
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We're living at the end of the age
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and the Holy Spirit says,
We're going to confront this,
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so we need to learn how to brace ourself
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against this assault against
the church. This is such
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important teaching,
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but the whole series is called How
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to Keep Yo Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy
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comes with a study guide.
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I have a book by the same title.
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You need to read that book from the beginning to the end.
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It is so very important and endorsed by many, many leaders.
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But if you want to know
more about these resources,
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just go online or give us a call.
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And please, please, when you
reach out to us, let us know
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how to pray for you because
we really want to pray for you
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and we're waiting to
hear from you right now.
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Then I want to pray for you right now,
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so put your hand on your heart.
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Father, help us to stay
rooted in scripture.
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Help us, Lord, to listen to
teaching that is good for us,
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teaching that we can trust.
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Put us on a sure foundation.
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Help us to sink our
roots into biblical truth
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and to not be led astray
in these last times in
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Jesus' wonderful name -
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Amen. Well, when we come back tomorrow,
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we're going to pick up right here.
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Please do not miss tomorrow's episode.
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It's going to be good. But remember,
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Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word of a king is,
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there is power." If you've never received Jesus
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as your savior and Lord,
now is the time for you
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to experience a new life
Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now.
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Lord, I repent of my sin
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and receive you as my savior and Lord.
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Wash away my sin and
make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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Renner Ministries is
proclaiming the gospel
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of Jesus Christ through
every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
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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.