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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 in Domitian Square
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in the very heart of ancient Ephesus.
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And behind me are the
remnants of a huge fountain,
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which bares several names.
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Sometimes it's called the Polio Fountain
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because it was commissioned
by a very famous family by
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that name, but it's usually
called the Domitian Fountain
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because it's right here in
the heart of Domitian Square,
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right next to the temple of Domitian.
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And though the statue is not there today,
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at one time there was a huge
monumental statue of a God
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in the middle of that fountain.
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The fountain was so highly ornamented,
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it was just magnificent.
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Actually, all of Ephesus was magnificent.
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And in the midst of all this
magnificence was the church,
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the church that was thriving, prospering,
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booming in the power of God.
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Yes, it had opposition,
had a lot of opposition.
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And by the time that you
come to the later part
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of the 1st Century, it had a lot
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of opposition because of Domitian.
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You can't help but think of
him when you're in this place.
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This is Domitian Square,
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Domitian Fountain, the Domitian Temple.
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Domitian was demented and twisted.
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He declared that he was God
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and did everything he could
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to eradicate the Christian faith.
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He was even the emperor
who exiled John to the Isle
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of Patmos where John received the book of Revelation.
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Wow. But to the church of Ephesus,
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the Apostle Paul prophesied that at the very end of the age,
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there would be an invasion of seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons that would begin
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to lead believers away from
the time tested teaching
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of scripture.
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Peter also prophesied this.
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Peter prophesied it in 2 Peter 2:1
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where he said in the end of the age,
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there shall be false teachers.
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And do you know what happened?
Jude read Peter's letter.
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And when Jude read
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what Peter wrote about false teachers at the end of the age,
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he was so stirred, he decided to write about it.
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And we read what Jude wrote in Jude 3.
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He says, I found it
needful to write unto you
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and exhort you that you
should earnestly contend
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for the faith that was once
delivered unto the saints.
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Even at that early moment,
the faith was in jeopardy.
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People were trying to twist
the truth, change the truth,
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modify the truth to fit their
culture, to fit their times.
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And Jude was so stirred by this invasion
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of seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons even
in his day that he said, Hey,
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I have to address this issue as well.
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So when you study the
writings of Jude, Peter
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and Paul, all of them tell us
that at the end of the age,
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we're going to confront this again.
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Jude says you have to earnestly contend for the faith.
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In Greek, there's a definite article.
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This is not just raw faith for miracles
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or raw faith for power
or signs and wonders.
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That definite article means
it is the faith, the tenets
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of faith, the time tested
teaching of scripture.
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He says, Earnestly contend
for the word of God,
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the teaching of doctrine,
the time tested teaching
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of scripture that was once
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and for all delivered unto
the saints. It's ours.
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God gave us the word of God
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and we have a responsibility
to preserve it, to guard it,
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and to pass it along to others
in the purest form possible.
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That is our responsibility.
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And that is what I'm going
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 and
I've been waiting for you.
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And today we're returning
to our series called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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Does that ever feel to you
the world has just gone crazy?
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Well, you can keep your
head on straight even in a
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world gone crazy.
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This is a 15 part series.
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It is really thorough,
comes with a study guide.
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And I have a book by
the very same name, How
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to Keep our Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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I want you to get that book, read
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that book from cover to cover.
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My friends, it will put you
on a good solid foundation.
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But if you want to know
how to get these resources,
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just go online or give us a call.
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And please, when you reach out to us,
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let us know how to pray for you.
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Just call the number on the
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And when we hear from you,
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we're really going to release our faith.
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We're going to pray scripturally.
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God is going to hear us
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and Jesus is going to do what
needs to be done in your life.
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But hey, reach for your Bible.
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We use the Bible in this program
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and we're believing for a revival
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of the Bible in the church.
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But today we're going to
return to our foundation verse
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for this series, which is 1 Timothy 4:1.
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And as I told you in the
introduction today, I'm going
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to talk to you about what it means to contend for the faith.
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We are commanded to contend for the faith.
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But let's go back to 1 Timothy 4:1
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where Paul is writing under the
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inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
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And he says, Now the spirit
speaketh expressly that
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in the latter times,
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some shall depart from
the faith giving heed
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to seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons. I want
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to cover this verse one more time
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because it is so very important.
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Then we're going to move
on. But when you come
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to 1 Timothy 4:1, it says,
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Now the spirit speaketh
expressly. As I've told you,
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the word now in Greek is the word, de.
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In English, it's spelled like this.
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It is a conjunction which is intended
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to really get the attention of the reader
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as he leads them into the next point.
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He says now it's almost
like he's lifting his voice,
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he's raising his authority.
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He's going to speak very strongly now.
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The spirit speaketh expressly.
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And that word expressly
is really important
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because it is the Greek word rhetos,
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rhetos. If you're going to spell it in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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The o is long, but this word rhetos, it's also
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where we get the word for rhema,
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but it describes a word that
is spoken vividly, a word
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that is spoken clearly.
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In fact, it is so clearly here, it's translated expressly,
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but it really denotes
that which is undeniable,
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that which is unmistakable, absolutely clear beyond a shadow
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of a doubt, which means in this verse,
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the Holy Spirit is not
forecasting something
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that might happen or something
that can be circumvented.
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He is speaking expressly
about something that is going
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to take place in the latter times.
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In fact, the whole verse says,
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now the spirit speaks - rhetus - expressly, undeniably,
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unmistakably that, and even the word, that, is important.
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It is the Greek word, hoti, spelled like this in English.
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It points very specifically
to what is going
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to take place in the end of the age.
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The Holy Spirit speaks very specifically that.
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Then he says - in. The word, in, in Greek,
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in English would be spelled like this,
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but actually it describes the timeframe
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in which this event is
going to take place.
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And then he says it's going
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to take place in the latter times.
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Latter times in Greek is
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husteros kairos.
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Now this is a really important phrase.
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We've covered it before, but
we're going to cover it again.
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In English, you would spell it like this, husteros,
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and the word kairos.
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Let's look at these
words. The word husteros
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describes the very, very
end of a thing, just
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what is left over.
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In other words, most of
it's already been used up.
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husteros describes the
very, very end, the tail end
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and the word kairos describes time.
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It can describe a season
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or it can describe an opportunity, an opportunity.
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All 3 of these ideas are correct about the word kairos.
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But when you put these two
words together, husteros kairos,
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the Holy Spirit speaks
emphatically, categorically,
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undeniably, unmistakably, specifically
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that in the timeframe of husteros kairos.
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When time has sailed to the very end
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and there's not much more left over, that's
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what the word husteros means.
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In that last time, that
last season, that time
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of opportunity, the Bible says,
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Some set apart from the
faith. And praise God,
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the word some, the Greek word tines.
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It doesn't mean everybody.
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It means some but unfortunately it describes a notable some.
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So there's going to be a notable group of people who will
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depart from the faith.
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And as I've told you in previous episodes,
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the word, depart, in Greek is the word, aphistemi.
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Now this word is really important.
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It really is where we get
the word for apostasy.
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It's a compound of 2-words: the word apo,
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this is a contracted form,
plus the word histome.
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The word apo means away
and it implies distance.
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The word histame means to stand.
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But when you compound
these two words together,
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it forms the word aphistemi which means to step away from,
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to stand away from, to put
distance between yourself
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and something else.
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And here the Holy Spirit is
telling us at the very end
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of the age, there's going to be tines, a notable some
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inside the church who aphistemi will begin to step away from
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what they once held to be true
and what they once preached
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and what they once taught.
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And in fact, they're not just
going to step away from it,
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apo, they're going to
put intentional distance
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between themself and
what they once believed
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and what they once taught.
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Now, we're going to find out
today the reason they're doing
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this is
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because at the end of the days,
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they're becoming progressive,
they're becoming woke,
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they're trying to create
a gospel that is inclusive
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of everybody.
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And my friends, we're seeing
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that take place today just
like the Holy Spirit said.
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But the scripture goes on to say they will depart
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from the faith.
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The faith in Greek is tas pisteus.
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This word tas is a definite article which makes it very
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concrete, very specific.
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The word pisteus is a form of the Greek word pistas,
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which is the New Testament word for faith.
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But when you put it together,
it's not a departure just
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from faith in general.
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It's a departure from the faith, the tenets of scripture,
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the sound clear teaching of the faith, the Bible.
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And the reason people are going to depart is
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because they're giving heed to seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons.
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The word giving heed, the Greek word prosecho.
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It's a compound of two words: the word pros
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plus the word echo.
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The word pros describes intimacy
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and leaning in a direction.
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The word echo means I
have, I hold, I possess,
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but when you compound them together,
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they form the word pros
echo, which pictures one
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who pros he's leaning towards
something, in this case,
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something new, echo in
order to embrace it.
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And here we find that
seducing spirits are going
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to tantalize people to
leave what they once believe
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and to come in a new direction.
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Open your mind to something new
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and pros, they're going to
turn their direction away from
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what they once believed, aphistemi -
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they're going to begin to step away from it in order
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to echo, embrace something new.
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And Paul says, Be absolutely clear.
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Understand this is the
activity of seducing spirits,
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the word seducing the Greek
word planao. In English,
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it would be spelled like this, planao.
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And this word means to morally wander.
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And this word was used
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by the writers in the intertestamental period
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between the old and the new testament.
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They begin to prophesy that
at the very end of the age,
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there would be an invasion
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of demon spirits which would cause people to morally wander.
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And they use this word planao.
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This word planao is also used
by Jesus in Matthew 24:4
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when he says, Don't
let any man deceive you
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and Jesus is prophesied.
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There's going to be a worldwide moral wandering at the end
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of the age and behind it will be seducing spirits which are
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causing people to aphistime - depart from
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what they once believed
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and to turn their intention
in a new direction
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to embrace something that is new.
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And Paul says, Make no mistake.
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That which is new to them
is being offered to them
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by seducing spirits who are
coming with doctrines of
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demons. Now that is very important.
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So we're just reviewing 1 Timothy 4:1.
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Then yesterday we looked at 2 Timothy 2:1
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where the King James version says -
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But there were false prophets
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among the people speaking
about the Old Testament.
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And then Peter adds, Even
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as there shall be. Now he's
speaking futuristically just
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like Paul did in 1 Timothy 4:1.
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Peter is 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 who privilege shall
bring in damnable heresies,
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even denying the Lord that bought them
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and bring up on themselves
swift destruction. And the RIV
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interprets it like this - But unthinkably over a period
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of time, there surprisingly
arose bogus, false, pretend
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to be prophets right in the
midst of God's people exactly
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as there will be an emergence
of counterfeit, errant, false,
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fraudulent, phony teachers right in your midst.
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In an almost stealth manner,
they will clandestinely
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and covertly smuggle into the
midst of God's people beliefs
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and teachings that are
completely incompatible
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with true Christian doctrine
and that produce destruction
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and devastation in people's lives. Now
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that is a really good interpretation
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of 2 Peter 2:1.
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But even before the New Testament ended,
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this assault was already beginning in the 1st Century.
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And in fact, it was a serious assault.
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And yet the Holy Spirit
said at the end of the age,
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it's going to be even more serious.
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But when we come to Jude 3, listen to
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what Jude writes -
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Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you
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of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write you
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and exhort you that you
should earnestly contend
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for the faith that was once
delivered unto the saints.
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But when we come to Jude 3 - listen
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to these amazing words. Jude is writing
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and by the way, Jude was the half brother of Jesus
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and he had just received the 2nd Epistle of Peter.
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And in 2 Peter 2,
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Peter talks about this onslaught of false teachers
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and what they're trying
to do inside the church.
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And Jude was so moved
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and so stirred by what
he wrote that listen to
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what now he writes in Jude 3.
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Beloved, when I gave all
diligence to write unto you
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of the common salvation.
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So we know that originally his plans were
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to write an epistle about salvation.
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Well, of course that
would've been on his heart.
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It was his half brother
Jesus who became the savior
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of the world who died on the cross.
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So salvation would have been
very dear to Jude's heart.
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And he said, I wanted to write
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to you about the common salvation,
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but it was needful for me to write unto you
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and exhort that you should earnestly contend for the faith
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that was once delivered unto the saints.
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And the word needful is the Greek word anage.
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This is a very, very important
word in this context.
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In Greek, it is spelled like this, anagke.
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If you want to spell it in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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But this word anagke, here describes an urgent necessity.
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What he is going to address
is so very important
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that he felt he had to
address it urgently.
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And then he says, and to exhort you
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to earnestly contend for the faith.
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The word exhort is the
Greek word parakaleo.
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Now this word appears all
over the New Testament
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and it's a very, very important word.
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The first word para, if you're
going to spell it in English,
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it would be spelled like
this, means alongside.
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The 2nd word in English, it would be spelled like this.
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The word kaleo, it means to call, to beckon or to summon.
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But actually it is a war word. It is a war word.
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Listen to this. This word exhort, the word parakaleo means
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to urge, to besiege, to
beg or even to encourage.
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And it was often used by military leaders
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or commanding officers
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before they sent their troops into battle.
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Rather than send their troops
into battle unprepared,
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they would call the troops together
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and parakaleo, they would
para come alongside the troops
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and kaleo, they'd begin to
call out to them, beseech them,
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speak to them very straight forwardly,
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tell them about the horrors of war
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and the glories of victory.
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They really painted
the picture very clear.
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And the purpose of this exhortation was to stir the troops
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to throw their shoulders
back, to hold their head high,
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to look the enemy eyeball
to eyeball and to boldly
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and confidently wage war
until they won the victory.
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And that is the word which Jude now uses here.
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And the reason he uses this word is
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because a war was being waged against the church:
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a war for truth as opposed to deception.
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And that's why he goes on to say
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that you would earnestly contend. The word, ep-agonidzomai.
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Now this is a compound.
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This is a contracted form of the word epi, which means over.
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The 2nd word agonizumai is derived from the word agon,
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which is an athletic term
which pictures two wrestlers
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that are slinging each
other to the mat, one trying
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to have mastery over the other.
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It's also agonidzomai, where we get the word for agony.
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So it describes an agony
or an agonizing struggle.
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But when you put these two
words together, it is one
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that - epi - is trying to have mastery over the other.
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This is an all out fight,
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but here we find it's earnestly contending, slugging it out
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for the faith.
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The faith which was once
delivered unto the saint.
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And the faith in Greek
has a definite article,
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which means once again, this
is not faith for miracles
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or for healing or for signs and wonders,
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but that definite article means
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it was a fight over the faith itself,
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which false teachers were
trying to modify and to amend.
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And Paul says, Hey, hey, hey,
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it was once delivered unto the saints.
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The word once, the Greek word apax,
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it means it was delivered in completion, in finality,
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with no need of modification or changes
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And he says it was delivered unto the saints,
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the word perididomi,
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which means it really was passed over to us.
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Now, I want to read this
to you from the RIV.
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So when you come to the RIV
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of Jude 3, here's what it says -
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Beloved, I call you that
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because it's the only
word I know how to express
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how deeply I love and cherish you.
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I fully intended to write
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to you about our mutually shared salvation,
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and I was really eager to write about this exciting subject,
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ready to engage all my abilities
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to dive deep into all the benefits
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that our salvation entails.
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But as I was about to get started, I found myself gripped
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with a sense of urgency
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and deeply felt need to
address another subject
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that came to my attention.
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I felt someone needed to
come alongside the troops
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to urge them to hold their head high,
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throw their shoulders back,
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and if necessary, look the
enemy eyeball to eyeball
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and to earnestly contend for the faith
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because it is under assault.
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God entrusted the faith
to us once and for all
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and expects us to guard it
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and maintain its integrity
in the same form it was
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delivered to us.
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My friends, this is God's mandate to us.
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This is where we're going to
pick up in the next program,
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but I'll be back in just a moment
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and I'm going to pray for you.
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Someone has asked the question -
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How do I know the inner voice that is speaking to me?
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Is God speaking to me?
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Well, first of all, God is speaking to you
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by his spirit all the time,
but you can confirm whether
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or not it is the voice
of God talking to you
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by several factors.
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No.1: Does it agree with the scripture?
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God never contradicts
what he says in the Bible.
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No.2: maybe God will
confirm what you're hearing
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through the voices of others,
maybe through a leader,
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through a counselor, through a friend.
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No.3: what are you hearing preached in your church?
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Very often when you feel God
is telling you something,
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if you'll really open your ears
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and listen, God will
address the very issue
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that you're hearing through the preaching
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that you hear in church,
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which means you need to be in church.
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And last of all, do you have peace?
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Peace is very important
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and if you feel your peace is violated,
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then probably it's not the spirit
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of God that is speaking to you.
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But if all these factors
line up, you can rest
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that you're probably hearing the voice
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of God speaking to you.
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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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to be grounded in prayer,
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You can also get the
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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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
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through turbulent end time waters.
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Available in digital or physical formats
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starting at just $24.
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You can order the series, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy
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and the book of the same name
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by going online or calling our team.
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Call the number on your screen
or scan the QR code to order.
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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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My friend, we're living at the end
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of the age when people are
trying to modify the gospel
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and make it inclusive of everybody.
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But my friends, the faith, the
scripture was passed on to us
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and God expects us to
maintain the integrity of it
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with no modifications.
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And that's what this
series is about called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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And that's what my book by
the same title is about.
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And if you want to know more about how
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to get these resources, I want you
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to go online or give us a call.
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And please, when you reach out to us,
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tell us how to pray for you.
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Anything that is touching
your life, we want to pray
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with you and touch the heart of God
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and God will do what
needs to be done for you.
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But when we come back tomorrow, we're going to see how
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to pray for those that have already aired
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and now they have gone astray.
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How do you pray for them?
What do we do for them?
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Well, that's what we're going to cover in
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tomorrow's episode.
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But right now I want to pray for you,
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so put your hand on your heart.
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Father, we thank in the name of Jesus for the wonderful word
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of God, and Lord, help
us to obey this command
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to earnestly contend for the faith
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and to keep it in its purest
form as it was delivered to us
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and help us to pass it in its
most powerful form to others
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in Jesus' wonderful name - Amen.
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Wow! Thank you for being with me.
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We've covered a lot of material,
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but we're going to be back tomorrow.
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But until then, remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4 says
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"Where the word of the king is, there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your savior
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and Lord, now is the time for you
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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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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God-called partners of Renner Ministries.