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This program is made
possible by the giving
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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 standing on Curetes
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Street in the very heart of ancient Ephesus.
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This is an important
street for you and me.
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It was the central street of the city,
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but history says Timothy at
the age of 80 was martyred
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for his faith on this very street.
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But he was the pastor of the
church here until the time
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that he was martyred.
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The apostle Paul wrote to him
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and prophesied that at the end of the age,
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there would be a mass
exodus from the faith.
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That really is what Paul prophesied.
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Peter prophesied the same thing.
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In 2 Peter 2:1, Peter says -
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But there were false prophets also among the people, even
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as there shall be false teachers among you, then listen to
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what he says about false teachers at the end of the age -
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who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,
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even denying the Lord that bought them
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and shall bring upon
themselves swift destruction.
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What do you and I do when we
know a leader has veered from
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the faith and is no longer
teaching the time tested
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truths of scripture?
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What do we do with that kind of a leader?
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How do we pray for that kind of person?
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Is there something that you
and I are supposed to do?
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The Bible tells us very clearly
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in 2 Peter 2:9, the Lord knows how
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to deliver the godly out of temptation.
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And if a leader has veered from the truth,
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if a leader has been
seduced by seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons
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and has gone in a wrong
way, what happens to them?
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Well, the Bible says the Lord
knows how to deliver them.
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The Lord knows how to
get them out of the mess
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and get them back on track, but you
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and I have a part to play in this.
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What is our role? When we see a leader
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has veered from the truth,
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what are we supposed to do?
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That's 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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I have been waiting for you,
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and today we're going to
return to our subject, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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And today we're specifically
going to see how to pray
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for those that are in error.
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Maybe you know a leader
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or you know a fellow
believer, maybe it's one
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of your children or your grandchildren,
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and you see that they have bitten the bait
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of false doctrine, inclusive teaching,
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and you're concerned about the
direction that they're going.
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What are you supposed to do for them?
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That is a very important question
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and that's what we're
going to be covering today.
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But the whole series is called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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It comes with a study guide
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and my book by the same title, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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It is a book that you need to read
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and it is endorsed by many,
many Christian leaders
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as something to really put you
on a rock solid foundation.
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And if you want to know more about how
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to get these resources,
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just call the number on
the screen or go online.
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And please, when you reach
out to us, let us know
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how to pray for you.
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We're praying for you anyway,
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but when you tell us how to
pray for you, we're going
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to be more effective in our praying.
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But today we're going to go back to 1 Timothy
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4:1 just read it very quickly about
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what the Holy Spirit prophesies is going
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to happen in the end of the age.
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Now, the Bible prophesies
a lot of things are going
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to happen in the end of the age.
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It prophesies there's going
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to be a worldwide outpouring
of the Holy Spirit.
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Say amen. And in fact,
we're living in the middle
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of an outpouring of the
Holy Spirit right now,
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especially in the 3rd nations of the world.
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The spirit of God is being poured out
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and a mighty, mighty harvest is coming forth.
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But the Holy Spirit said simultaneously, there are going
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to be some that are going
to depart from the faith.
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So we see two things are
going to be happening.
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There's going to be a worldwide outpouring
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and there's going to be a defection from the faith.
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And this is what we read in 1 Timothy 4:1,
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which says - Now the spirit speaks expressly,
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then the latter times, some
shall depart from the faith,
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giving he to seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons. And
we've seen this word seducing
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is a form of the Greek word planao,
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which really describes a moral wandering.
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Someone who once walked
on a very well-worn,
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established path.
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It was a safe path,
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but now they've said, We don't want
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to walk on that path anymore.
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We're going to go a new
direction. And now they're
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walking treacherously.
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They're teetering right on the edge
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of a very difficult cliff.
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As they try to go a new direction,
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they've taken a very dangerous path.
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And the same word seducing
the Greek word planao was used
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agriculturally to describe
an animal that got so lost,
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it could never find the
path back home again.
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And this word really
tells us there's going
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to be such a departure from the law
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of God at the end of the age.
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Society is going to get
completely off track,
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so far off track that it will not be able
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to find its way back
to where it used to be.
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And we know from Paul's writings
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in 2 Thessalonians 2: that all
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of this will be a part of the preparation
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of the worldwide modification
to prepare the world
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for the arrival of the antichrist.
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It's called the mystery of iniquity.
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It's already working right now,
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but unfortunately, the Holy
Spirit says in this verse,
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it's even going to occur to
a measure inside the church,
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a departure from the law
of God or from the faith.
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Then we saw that in 2
Peter 2:1,
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Peter also referred to this.
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And Peter says, But
there were false prophets
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among you. Now he's talking
about the Old Testament,
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but then he updates it and
he talks about the future.
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And he says, Even as there
shall be, he also is pointing
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to the end of the age, Even
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as there shall be false teachers among you
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who privilege shall bring
in damnable heresies,
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even denying the Lord that bought them
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and bring upon themselves
swift destruction. But
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because the RIV of 2 Peter 2:1 is
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so profound, I want to read it to you.
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And here's what the RIV says
of 2 Peter 2:1.
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This is the interpretation -
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But unthinkably over a period of time,
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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.
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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.
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And as shocking as that is,
they will even unthinkably,
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with a full knowledge
of what they are doing,
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willfully ignore and
reject the instruction
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and correction of the
Lord who redeemed them
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with his own blood.
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And as a result of the
decision to ignore, reject,
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and walk away from his leadership,
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they will release upon
themselves sudden devastation
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and ruin.
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Wow. Do you see why the
RIV here is so powerful?
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But we're living in the end of the age.
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And because we're living
in the end of the age,
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we are witnessing multiple things.
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We're seeing a worldwide
outpouring of the Holy Spirit
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and we're also seeing a
departure from the faith
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as people are seduced off track
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and they try to modify the gospel
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and amend the scriptures
to make it more inclusive
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of everyone and not offensive to anyone.
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And my friends, we are
witnessing this as well.
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And we saw also yesterday in Jude 3
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that Jude says, Beloved, when I gave all diligence
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to write into you of the common salvation, it was needful
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for me to write you
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and exhort you that you
should earnestly contend
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for the faith which was once
delivered unto the saints.
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And I want to read to you from
the RIV of Jude 3.
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Listen to this - Beloved, I call you that
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because it's the only
word I know 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
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to you about this exciting subject, ready
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to engage all my abilities
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to dive deep into all the benefits 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 a 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
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was delivered to us.
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And I want to tell you, that's my goal.
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My goal in my ministry
is to bring you teaching
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that you can trust to give you
the word of God, to guard it
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and to maintain its
integrity in the same form
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that it was delivered to us.
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And please pray for me because
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that really is the goal of my teaching.
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But here, Jude says even in his time,
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this assault against the faith had already
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begun to take place.
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And then when you come to Jude vs.22-23, Jude says this
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And if some have compassion,
making a difference
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and others save with fear,
pulling them out of the fire,
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hating even the garment
spotted by the flesh.
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And here Jude is addressing
the subject of believers
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that have gone astray or
leaders that are off track
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and he said, Here is what
we need to do for them.
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And he begins in verse 22
by saying, And if some have
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compassion. You say, What does that word, compassion, mean?
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Well, the word compassion is very Greek, very important,
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and it is the Greek word eleos -
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eleos. In English, it would be spelled like this eleeo.
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And this word, eleeos, isn't just pity.
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It's not just recognizing a bad situation
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and twiddling your fingers
and feeling sorry for them
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and wishing something that could be done,
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but rather this particular word
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for compassion depicts the deep seated
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and unsettling emotions a
person feels when he has seen
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or heard something terribly
wrong or upsetting.
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And an example would
be, if you see a child
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that is starving, and in fact,
they're starving to the point
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that now their stomach is bloated.
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Sometimes we see this on
TV commercials for people
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that are raising money
for humanitarian work.
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And when you see these children in Africa or India
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and their stomachs are bloated, it moves you to action.
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You don't just sit there and look at it
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and say, Oh, that's just
so pitiful. You're so moved
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that you want to do something about it.
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This same word, eleeo, describes a pity
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or compassion you might feel
for a person that's dying
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of terminal cancer of a disease.
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They're just languishing.
Their body is emaciated.
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You want to do something to help them.
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You want to give to pay their bills.
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You want to help them get to the doctor.
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You want to do something
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because their condition is so severe.
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Or it might be a word that would describe
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what you feel if you see a family that is destitute
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and they're living on the streets with no food to eat.
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You don't just look at
them, twiddle your thumbs
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and say, oh, that's just so pitiful.
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This word eleeo this word compassion describes something on
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the inside of you that is so
stirred that it causes you
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to rise up, to take action,
to do something to rectify
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or to change that horrible situation.
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And my friends, you need to
understand compassion is a
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powerful, powerful force that reaches out
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to make a change.
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Compassion is powerful.
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In fact, it's a mixture of
divine love and divine hatred.
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It is love for the
person that is afflicted.
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It is hatred for what the
devil is doing to them.
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And when that divine love
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and that divine hatred mixes together,
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it becomes a divine flow of
compassion, which compels you
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to get up and do something
to change that situation.
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And now Jude is writing about
believers that are off track.
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He's writing about Christian leaders
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that have gone in the wrong way.
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He says, rather than just look at them
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and feel sorry for them, you need
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to let God's compassion in
you work to such a point
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that you'll want to rise up
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and do something to make a difference.
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And that's what the next
thing is stated in this verse.
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And if some have compassion,
making a difference.
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Making a difference, in Greek, is the word
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diakrino - diakrino.
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You want to spell that in English?
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It would be spelled like this diakrino.
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You say, What in the world
does this mean? Well,
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it's a very important word.
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This word, diakrino, in
this particular context,
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depicts an individual
who has lost his ability
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to separate right from wrong.
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He's become reprobate in his thinking.
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He can no longer discern
what is right, what is wrong.
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And by the way, it's possible for a believer
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to become reprobate.
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He just becomes confused in his thinking.
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It can depict those unable
to tell the difference
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between truth and a lie
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to the point that they've gone astray.
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And now chronically, they're
beginning to doubt everything
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that they once believed.
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They're no longer able to determine
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what is true, what is false.
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They've listened to the truth in the past,
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but now they've opened their
ear to seducing spirits
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and their minds have been bombasted by one lie
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after another lie after
another lie until it's begin
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to mold their minds.
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And now they're thinking wrong.
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They're no longer embracing
the truth as they once did.
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And Jude 23 says - others save with fear.
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This word fear carries a
sense of urgency, seriousness.
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You need to understand that
error is very, very serious.
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It has very serious consequences.
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He says, Save them with fear.
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It conveys the sense of urgency. And then he states,
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pulling them out of the fire.
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And pulling them out is a form
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of the Greek word harpadzo. Wow:
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har-padzo.
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This word harpadzo is the
word which means to seize
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and to snatch out of
danger just in the nick
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of time.
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And we actually see an example of this verse
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in Genesis 18.
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So open your Bible to Genesis 18:.
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I want you to see an example of being moved with compassion,
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moving to save with fear, being urgent, taking this serious
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and pulling people out of the fire.
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I'm going to give you
a literal example from
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Genesis 18.
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And in Genesis 18, Jesus, the Lord
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and two angels have come to see Abram
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and they said to Abraham, We're going
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to go down into the city.
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The Lord's going to dispatch
two of those angels to see
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how bad is the wickedness
in the cities of Sodom
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and Gomorrah. And Abram knows
what they're going to find
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and he knows that his nephew Lot is there.
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Here's an example. Lot, a righteous man
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who once walked in faith
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and now he's living in a bad
place doing really bad things.
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How in the world does a righteous man end up in a place like
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that: seducing spirits and doctrines of demons?
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He was lured off track until
he left the walk of faith
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and found himself now living in the middle
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of all the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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And in Genesis 18:20, it says,
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And the Lord said, because the cry of Sodom
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and Gomorrah is great and
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because their sin is very
grievous, I will go down now
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and see whether they have
done all together according
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to the cry of it, which is common unto me.
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And if not, I will know it. Verse 22: And the men,
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this is a reference to the two angels
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that the Lord is going to dispatch.
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And the men turned their faces from thins
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and went towards Sodom
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and noticed the next
statement that Abraham stood
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yet before the Lord.
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Verse 23, And Abraham drew near.
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He knew exactly what
they were going to find.
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They were going to find
darkness, deception,
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sexual perversion,
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and they were going to
destroy the cities of Sodom
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and Gomorrah, and he knew
that his nephew Lot
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and his family were living there.
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And so the Bible says Abraham
stood yet before the Lord.
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In verse 23, Abraham drew near.
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He knew this was a moment for him to begin
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to pray and to intercede.
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And as you continue reading
this chapter, he begins
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to intercede on behalf
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of the righteous that are in the city.
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He was interceding for his own
relative who had gone astray.
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And finally, after making all
of his intercession, we come
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to verse 33 and it says,
The Lord went his way as soon
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as he left communing with Abraham.
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And I love that because really, if you look at chapter 18,
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Abraham was interceding, he
was pleading, he was trying
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to make a deal with God
to save his nephew's life.
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But the Bible says that when
he had finished communing
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with Abraham. The Lord saw this as communion.
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The Lord likes it when we're bold and when we plead
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and intercede on behalf of others.
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And the Bible says that Abraham returned unto his place
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or when he was finished praying
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and interceding, he went
home and he went to bed
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and he went to bed in peace
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because he knew he had
done his part in prayer
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to secure his nephew's life.
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That is the power we have in prayer.
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And God delivered lot because of Abraham.
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That is what we read in chapter 19.
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He delivered lot because of Abraham's prayers.
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And now Jude says,
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and of some have compassion
making a difference.
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And then he continues in verse 23 - pulling them out
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of the fire.
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So rather than just say - Wow, it's just
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so pitiful the mess they've got themself into,
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how could they gravitate
from where they used
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to be to where they are now?
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We need to do like Abraham.
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We need to pull them out of the fire
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and we do so by listening
to the Holy Spirit about
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what action to take and by
moving into a mode of prayer
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and intercession for them.
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And the RIV of Jude 22-23 says it like this.
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For some, it's essential that
you be moved with compassion,
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which does more than simply
feel sorry about their plight.
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You must let compassion
move you to take action,
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to do whatever you can to
make a difference for those
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who are doubting, uncertain,
vacillating, wavering back
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and forth and wobbling in their faith.
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Indeed, there are some
in such serious condition
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that there's no choice
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but for you to urgently swing into action
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to deliver a rescue and save them.
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You should be so alarmed
by their condition
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that you're willing to
do whatever is necessary
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to snatch them out of the fire.
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And the example is how Abraham interceded for Lot
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and literally snatched him out of the fire.
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But we're living in a day
when there's a worldwide
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outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
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but simultaneously we are
literally seeing some people
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depart from the faith just like the Holy Spirit prophesied.
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But you and I, we need
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to keep our head on straight
in this world that seems
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to have gone crazy and we
need to do our part in prayer
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and intercession to pull those
that have made mistakes out
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of the fire before they
experience the results
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of wrong decisions.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I'm going to pray for you.
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Someone has asked the question - Rick,
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how do you plan your day with everything you do?
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Well, let me tell you how my day begins.
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When I get up in the morning
before I ever lift my head off
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the pillow, first I pray.
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I pray for my family. I call
every one of them by name.
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I pray for the top
leaders in our ministry.
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I pray for every one of them by name.
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I pray for our partners.
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Then I thank the Lord
for his loving kindness,
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which meets me in the morning.
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I get up, go get my cup of coffee, do my exercises
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and go to the place where I read my Bible and where I pray.
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And the first thing I do
is pray, I read the word,
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and then I begin to reflect on
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what I'm going to do that day.
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And I understand and
you need to understand
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that time is a gift from God.
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We only have so much time and
people waste a lot of time.
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And if you will just take
time to look at your day
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and to make a decision to
remove all distractions,
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you can get a lot done.
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But I plan my day every morning in
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that quiet time when I'm
sitting before the Lord.
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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
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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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to be grounded in prayer,
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for living in victory in these last days.
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You can also get the
15-part teaching series, How
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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
do to sail successfully
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through turbulent end time waters.
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Available in digital or physical formats starting at just
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$24, 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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Today we've been looking
at what to do for those
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that have veered from the faith.
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What kind of action are
you supposed to take
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to bring them back on track again?
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And today we've seen the power
of prayer and intercession
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and the example of Abraham in Genesis 18.
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And my friends, if you know anyone
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that's veered from the faith, maybe it's a friend,
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maybe it's a child or a spouse, someone that you really love
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and you're concerned about them, call us.
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We will pray with you
for God to move mightily
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to pull them back and to get
them back on track again.
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But hey, this entire series is called How
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to Keep Your Head Straight
in a World Gone Crazy comes
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with a wonderful study guide.
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And I have a book by the same title, How
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to Keep Yo Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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My friends, I want you to have that book.
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I want you to read that
book from cover to cover.
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It has really strengthened
Christians all over the world,
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and I believe God wants to use that book
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to strengthen you well
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and to help you keep your
head on straight in a
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world gone crazy.
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But if you want to know how
to receive these resources,
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just go online or give us a call
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and please, please let us
know how to pray for you.
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And I want to pray for you right now.
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So please put your hand on your heart.
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Father, we all know someone
that has made wrong decisions,
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someone that has regrettably
gone in a wrong direction.
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They've modified what they
used to believe in order
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to become more inclusive of other people
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and other lifestyles.
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And Lord, we're concerned about them.
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And Father, we pray
that you would enable us
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through our prayers and
through our intercession
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to seize them and
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to pull them back into the
place where they need to be.
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And Holy Spirit, we ask you to
do your work to convict them
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and to melt their hearts
until they want to run back
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to the cross and to the word of God.
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In Jesus' name - Amen.
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Well, thank you for being with me today.
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I'll be back on Monday
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and I want you to remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 says
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"Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your savior
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and Lord, now is the time for you
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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.