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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 in the heart
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of ancient Ephesus inside
a 1st Century hospital.
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This is really a hospital
from the 1st Century.
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Now, what do you think primarily made people sick back
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in those days?
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I'll tell you - what they ate.
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When they ate food that was
not fit for consumption,
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it made them physically sick.
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In fact, that is the primary reason why
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people got sick and died.
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Wow. What does that have to
do with our program today?
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What makes people spiritually
sick today is also
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what they consume that is
not fit for consumption.
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There's a lot of things
being taught on TV and radio
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and all over the place that
is spiritually imbalanced
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and not rooted in the word of God.
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If you eat bad food, you get sick.
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If you eat bad spiritual food,
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it will affect your
entire spiritual system.
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It's very important what
you spiritually consume,
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and especially since we
live in the end of the age,
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when a lot of deception is
working in the church, we need
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to keep our heads on straight
about what's put on our
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plate and what we eat.
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The Apostle Paul was so concerned about this even in the
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1st Century that he wrote to Timothy
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and told Timothy how to test whether a
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teaching was good or bad.
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Listen to what he said
in 1 Timothy 1:5.
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Now the end of the
commandment, a better way
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of saying is now real good, solid,
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mature teaching will
produce the following.
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Charity out of a pure heart
and of a good conscience
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and a faith unfeigned.
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If you're really consuming
good spiritual food,
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it will affect you in these 3 areas of your life.
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No.1: your love walk.
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No.2: it will affect your conscience.
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And No.3: it will strengthen your faith.
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Are you eating food that builds you up
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and makes you spiritually strong?
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Put away the food that makes you sick
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and make sure you're really
consuming spiritual meat
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that will make you strong.
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We need to keep our head on straight about what's put on our
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plate and what we eat.
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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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I'm so glad you've joined me and today you
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and I are going to return to our series which is called, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy.
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It is a 15-part series
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and we're really taking a deep dive into
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what the Holy Spirit prophesied
would happen in the very
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closing days of the church
age, and that's you and me.
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God tagged us to live in this age.
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You know when I was
growing up, we played tag
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and I loved to play tag
until somebody tagged me.
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But you know what? Somebody
has to live in the end
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of the age and God said - Tag you're it. And my friends,
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God has tagged us to live
in the very end of this age.
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So we need to know what the
Bible says about these days
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and how to respond to them.
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But remember, God is not in the business of scaring people,
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but he is in the business
of preparing people.
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And that is why I'm teaching this series,
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which is called How to Keep Yo Head on Straight in a
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World Gone Crazy.
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It comes with a wonderful study guide.
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And I've got a book by the very same name - How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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It is endorsed by so
many Christian leaders.
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And my friends, that is
a book you need to read
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and if you don't have it
yet, you need to get it.
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And if you want to know more about how
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to get all these resources, just go online
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to renner.org or give us a call.
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And when you reach out to us,
please let us know how to pray
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for you because we're just ready to pray for you right now.
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And as soon as the phone rings
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or as soon as your email shows
up in our inbox, we're going
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to really begin to pray for you.
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But reach for your Bible.
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We're believing for a revival
of the Bible in the church,
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and we're going to find out today
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that the reason people
get into scriptural error
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and they're led astray by seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons is
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because of a lack of Bible knowledge.
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When you have Bible knowledge,
it serves as a guide
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to let you know if you're
headed in the right direction
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or the wrong direction.
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But we saw in the previous program that
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during the New Testament,
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even when these scriptures
were being written,
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there was already an assault on the truth
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and Gnostic doctrines
were beginning to emerge
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in the early church.
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We saw that Paul addressed this.
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We saw that Jude addressed this very
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strongly in his epistle.
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In fact, he told us to earnestly contend for the faith
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because it was under attack.
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That's even when he was writing the
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New Testament scriptures.
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We've seen that Peter addressed this,
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but the Holy Spirit prophesied
this would become really
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intense in the very end of the age.
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And although today there are God-fearing pastors
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and preachers that are really proclaiming the truth,
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there are some that are
beginning to repeat some
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of these Gnostic errors
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that were being perpetuated
in the 1st Century.
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There really is a re-emergence of some
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of these false doctrines.
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Now, rather than draw back from the scripture, this is time
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for us to press into the word of God,
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to put our roots down deep into it
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and refuse to budge from the truth.
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When everything is said
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and done, listen to this -
only God's word has the power
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to permanently transform
a life or a nation.
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And I want you to listen to
these words of D.L. Moody.
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He said, When a minister
begins to dismiss the Bible
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because he thinks it's not
exactly what it ought to be,
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God dismisses that man. Did you hear that?
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That is so powerful. I want to repeat it to you again.
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Listen to this. When a minister begins to dismiss the Bible
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because he thinks it's not exactly what it ought to be,
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God dismisses that man.
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Those are the words of D.L.
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Moody, but listen to
these words of A.W. Tozer.
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He said - Let a man question the inspiration
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of the scriptures and a curious,
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even monstrous inversion takes place.
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Thereafter, he judges the word instead
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of the word judging him.
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He determines what the
word should teach instead
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of permitting it to determine
what he should believe.
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He edits, amends, strikes
out, adds at his pleasure,
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but always he sits above the word
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and makes it amendable to him
instead of kneeling before God
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and becoming amendable to the word.
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Those are the words of A.W. Tozer.
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And unfortunately, we're living in a day when people are
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amending the scriptures, they're adjusting the scriptures,
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they're modifying the scriptures.
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And my friends, this is why we've got
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to dig our heels into the scriptures
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and we need to have Bible knowledge.
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But our foundation verse
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for this series is 1 Timothy 4:1,
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and I've gone back to it and
back to it and back to it.
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I'm going to go back to it again right now
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because this verse is very important for us to understand.
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But in 1 Timothy 4:1,
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the Apostle Paul says, Now
the spirit speaks expressly
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and we've seen that the word, thou, in Greek now is
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actually the Greek word, de.
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In English, it is spelled like this.
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It is a conjunction intended
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to really grab the
attention of the listener.
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It's almost like Paul
is lifting his voice.
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He's saying - Now, now, now hear this.
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Now the spirit speaks expressly.
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And the word expressly is the Greek word rhetos.
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If you're going to spell it in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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It's a long 'o': it's where we get the word, rhema.
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As the word, rhetos, it describes something
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that is spoken expressly, vividly,
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unmistakably, undeniably.
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And by using this word, rhetos,
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the Holy Spirit here in this
verse is speaking in the
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strongest and clearest of words.
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And because of the conjunction, de,
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it's like Paul is lifting his voice.
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He says, now hear me, hear
me, hear me, now hear this.
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The spirit speaks rhetos:
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expressly, undeniably, emphatically,
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unmistakably - that.
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And even the word that is important
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as we've previously seen,
it is the Greek word hoti.
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In English, it would be spelled like this.
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And the word, hoti, points to something significant,
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which tells us the Holy
Spirit is speaking vividly.
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He's being very, very specifically that, hoti, en,
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and here we find the Greek word en,
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which is spelled like this in English.
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And here it's describing the timeframe in which these events
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are going to take place.
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And the Holy Spirit says, in the latter times. In Greek,
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it is the word husteros and the word kairos.
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Now, this is really important.
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The word, husteros, describes the ultimate, ultimate end
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of a thing when there's not much leftover.
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Now, there's also the word, eschostas,
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which describes the very,
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very end of a thing, but this is a little different.
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It means when you've sailed
to the end of the age
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and now you're in the remaining days,
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there's not much leftover, husteros.
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If you want to spell this in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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And then he uses the word, kairos.
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Maybe you've heard this word.
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The word kairos describes a time.
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It describes a season
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or describes an opportunity.
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So now the Holy Spirit tells
us when there's not much left
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of time, the word, husteros: when it's almost all gone,
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it's all used up and
just a little is left.
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I'm talking about kairos
the very last time,
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the very last season, the
very last opportunities, some,
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the word some in Greek is the word, tenas.
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It doesn't mean everybody, it means some,
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but unfortunately it's going to be a notable, some,
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and it implies those who have public positions, many
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of them, some of them are going to depart from the faith.
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Now, there's a lot of people
today that are sticking
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with truth, but there really are tenas:
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there are some, a notable some
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that are departing from the faith.
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And the word, depart, is the Greek word, aphistemi.
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Now this is really important.
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We've covered it, but I
want you to really get it.
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It is a compound of the word, apo.
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If you're going to spell it in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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It means a way. It carries the
idea of intentional distance.
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The second part of the word
in Greek is the word histemi.
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In English, it would be spelled like this.
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And the word histemi means to stand.
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But when you compound
the two words together,
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it forms the word aphistemi,
which means to stand away from,
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to intentionally put space
between you and something else.
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And this is where we get the word for
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apostasy, apostasy.
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And the Holy Spirit says
some, a notable some,
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aphistemi, apo and histemi compounded.
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They're going to begin to step away from
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what they once believed
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and intentionally put distance
between themselves and that.
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For example, there were some people
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who once really had a
strong position in faith,
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and today they have departed from that.
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They've taken a new position
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and they don't even want
to be associated with that.
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They put distance between
themselves and that.
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That is aphistemi
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and it's where we get
the word for apostasy.
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And then Paul says, giving
heed to seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons.
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Giving heed is from the
Greek word pros echo.
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I told you before, it would be
spelled like this in English.
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The word, pros, means
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to lean toward: the word, echo, means to embrace.
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And here we find, aphistemi - there walking away from
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what they've once believed.
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Now they've taken a new
position, a new stand.
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They're distancing themselves from where they used to be
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and pros echo they're turning, that's
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what the word pros
means, in a new direction
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to embrace something else.
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And Paul says what they are
embracing is the activity
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of seducing spirits, the word seducing a form
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of the Greek word, planao.
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If you're going to write it
down, it's spelled like this.
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It describes a wandering and particularly a moral wandering.
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Now all of that is foundational to this entire series.
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But when we come to 1 Timothy
1:3,
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we find that Paul, when
he installed Timothy
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to be the pastor of the church
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and Ephesus alerted him
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that the faith was already under assault.
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And that's why we read in 1 Timothy 1:3 -
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As I besought to abide still at Ephesus,
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that thou might his charge some
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that they teach no other doctrine.
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Well, if you have your pencil
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or your ink pen, either underline
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or circle though that word, beside.
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And the word, beside, in Greek is a form
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of the Greek word parakaleo -
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parakaleo.
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This is a word that is
repeated many, many,
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many times in the New Testament.
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It's an important word.
The first word is para.
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In English, it would be spelled like this.
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Para means to be alongside.
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The word kaleo in English
would be spelled like this.
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It means I call, I summon, I beckon.
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But when you compound
the two words together,
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they form this word parakaleo,
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which was actually a military
term that was used by generals
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or commanding officers
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before they sent their troops into battle.
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They would, para. These officers
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or these generals would come alongside the troops.
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That's what the word para means. Kaleo.
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They would call out to
them, they would beg them,
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they would plead with them,
they would summon them.
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But when you put the two
words together, it means
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to charge or to exhort.
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And here's what these
commanding officers would do.
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Rather than send the troops
into battle, not understanding
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what they were going to face,
they would charge the troops,
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they would stir the troops,
they would describe the blood
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of warfare and the glories of victory.
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They would lay it all out before them
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and say, In front of you,
there is an intense battle,
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but if you win, there's
going to be a lot of glory
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and a lot of reward
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and they would stir the troops. And
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by using this word besought,
the Greek word parakaleo,
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Paul knew Timothy was
entering into a minefield.
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The church was being inundated
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with all kinds of false doctrine.
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And now Paul says to
Timothy, I besought thee,
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throw your shoulders
back, hold your head high,
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charge into the fray
because there is a mess
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and emphasis that you need to fix
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and charge some that they
teach no other doctrine -
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no other doctrine. Well,
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what does the word - other doctrine - mean?
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Well, in Greek, it is the
word heterodidaskalos.
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It's a very important word.
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By the way, do you like me
giving you all these Greek words?
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Please write to me and tell me. I'd
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like to have your response.
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The 1st word is the word heteros.
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If you want to spell in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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The word heteros means another of a totally different kind:
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another of a totally different sort.
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The 2nd word comes from the Greek word didasko,
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which means I teach.
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In English, it would be spelled like this.
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I teach, but when it becomes the word, didaskalos,
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it describes well-packaged teaching.
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But when you put the two words together,
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it forms heterodidaskalos,
which describes the teaching,
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a doctrine, a belief of a
completely different kind
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or a completely different sort,
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which means there had been
such a diversion from the
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scripture already in Ephesus at the time
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that Timothy became the
pastor of the church
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that people were teaching things that were
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of a completely different sort.
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They had no root in the word of God.
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And when you go to 1 Timothy 1:4,
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Paul describes what they were teaching.
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He says, Neither give heed to fables
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and endless genealogies which
minister questions. Wow.
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The words, give heed, is again the Greek word - prosecho,
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the same word which we saw in 1 Timothy 4:1
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giving heed
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to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
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Now that same word is in this verse, pros echo,
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which means there were some
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and a notable some in
the church which pros,
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they were turning in a new direction, echo,
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to embrace something brand new.
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They were aphistemi.
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We also saw this in 1
Timothy 4:1.
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They were departing from,
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and by the way, they
weren't rejecting the truth,
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they were departing from.
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They were slowly step by step
modifying what they believed.
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They were stepping away from
what they once believed,
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putting dissonance between themselves
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and that in order to embrace something new - giving heed.
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And here Paul says, Neither give heed to fables
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and endless genealogies. The word fables -
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What in the world does that word mean?
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Well, in Greek, it is the word, muthos.
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In English, it would be spelled like this. And guess what?
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It's where we get the word for mythology - mythology.
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You say, Well, were they really teaching mythology in the
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church? Well, the word in
mythos can be translated
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as a myth or a fantasy
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or, now here's what's important,
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something told in replacement for the truth: something
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told in replacement for the truth.
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And in the New Testament,
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it depicts false teaching perpetuated in the place of truth.
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And then Paul describes it as endless genealogies.
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The word endless, the Greek word, aperantos.
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this is an important word - aperantos.
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If you want to write this down in English
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it would be spelled like this -
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aperantos. You say, What
in the world does it mean?
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This word endless, here
translated from the Greek word
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aperantos, describes endless, something that is unbridled,
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something that is unrestrained, unfounded,
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incomplete in content and though.
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And Paul says what they are teaching is unrestrained.
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It has no borders. It has no boundaries. It has no barriers.
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They are so off base
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and they're teaching things
which ministers questions.
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The word ministers, the Greek word parecho;
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it means it simply gives rise to, brings about,
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or leads to questions.
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And listen to this. The word questions
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really describes unsolvable research,
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unfounded conclusions, a
nonstop seeking for answers
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that leads to nowhere.
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And then Paul says, Rather
than godly edifying,
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which is in faith,
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so do. And the word edifying
is also very important in this
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context, the Greek word oikanomia.
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This word oikanomia, if you
want to spell it in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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It is an architectural term
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and it describes the process of building:
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putting another brick in the wall,
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undergirding the foundation,
making that building stronger
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and stronger so that it can increase
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and be amplified and become bigger.
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But it really carries the idea of wise building.
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And so Paul now says - Rather than really add
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to people's faith, rather than
put another brick in their
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wall and undergird their foundation,
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instead they're giving heed the things
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that are not based in truth.
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In fact, it is a replacement for truth.
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He says it is endless. It is
unrestrained. It is unfounded.
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It doesn't lead to any conclusions.
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It gives rise to, he says,
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speculations, questions.
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And this is one way
you know whether you're
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listening to good teaching or not.
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Does it put another brick in your wall?
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Does it support your foundation
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or does it just lead you off somewhere
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where there's no conclusion,
just endless, endless,
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endless speculation?
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My friends, you need to pay attention to
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what you are listening to.
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Now we're out of time, but we're going
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to pick up here tomorrow
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because this is really important teaching.
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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 a personal question, Rick, how do you deal
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with stress?
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Well, first of all, I
don't deal with stress
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because I refuse to be stressed.
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When we come to 1 Peter 5:7,
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Peter says - Casting all your care upon him
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because he cares for you. And
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that word, care, describes fret, anxiety, worry, stress.
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Your shoulders are not big
enough to carry all the weight
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that you're probably trying to carry.
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But when the Bible says we're
to cast our care upon the
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Lord, that word casting
was a specific word used
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to describe a moment
when a man was carrying a
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weight that was crushing.
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So he brought alongside a mule or a donkey
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or some kind of a beast
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and he would roll the weight off
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of his shoulder onto
the back of that animal
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and the animal would walk alongside him
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carrying all the weight.
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He continued walking, functioning,
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but the animal was carrying the weight.
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And when you come to 1 Peter 5:7,
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it's Jesus really saying, Let
me be your beast of burden.
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I'll carry your weight.
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Your shoulders are not
big enough to carry it.
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So many years ago, I made a
decision, I'm not going to carry
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what Jesus wants to carry for me.
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I can walk freely as
Jesus walks right by me.
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It does not mean that I'm irresponsible
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or being negligent of problems or needs.
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I'm just letting Jesus be my
partner to carry that stress
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and you can do the same thing.
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The world is changing. In
fact, it's more than changed.
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It's gone crazy. We are living in a world
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where faith is questioned
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and sin is welcome, where people seem
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to have lost their minds
about what is right and wrong.
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It seems truth has been
turned upside down.
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In Rick Renner's book, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy,
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Rick reveals the disastrous consequences
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of a society in spiritual
and moral collapse.
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In this book, you'll
discover what Christians need
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to be doing to stay out of
the chaos and anchor to truth.
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You'll learn how to stay
sensitive to the Holy Spirit,
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discern right and wrong teaching, how
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to be grounded in prayer,
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and how to be spiritually prepared
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for living in victory in these last days.
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Leading ministers from around
the world are calling this
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book essential for every believer.
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How to Keep Your Head On Straight
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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
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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
want to say thank you to you,
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partner, for everything you do
to help us take the teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the earth.
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Proverbs 10:21 says, The lips
of the righteous feed many,
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and that's our task.
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We are to feed many the
wonderful word of God.
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And I want to tell you that
we have given away hundreds
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and thousands of my books
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and other resources when people call us
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or they go online responding to an offer
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that we have made to them.
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My friends, that's a lot of material.
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And I'm going to tell you,
it takes a lot of money
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to give away that many resources,
but we're able to do it
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because of our partners,
because of what you give.
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We are able to take the
life transforming truths
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of God's word to people
that are looking for answers
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and what a privilege that
people would come sit
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around our table and we would be able
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to feed them the wonderful
truths of God's word,
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and you are a big part of that.
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So I wanted to say thank
you. Thank you, partner.
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And if you're listening
today and you're not a
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partner yet, we need you.
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And we ask you to become a
part of the Partner Family
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so we can take the teaching of God's word
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to people all over the
world and we receive you
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and we welcome you into our Giving Team.
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Well, today we have covered a
lot of material in the program
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and I know there's no way you can remember
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everything that we have covered.
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So I want to make sure
you know about the series,
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which is 15 parts, comes
with a study guide called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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And I've got a book by
the very same title, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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That is a book that you need to read.
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You need to read it from page
one all the way to the end.
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And my friends, that book
is really endorsed by a lot
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of Christian leaders who
said, Wow, people need
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to read this book. And
we're living in a day
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when people seem to have lost their minds.
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My friends, we need to stay
centered and rooted in truth,
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and that's what these resources are about,
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and they will really encourage you.
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And if you want to know
how you can get yours,
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just go online or give us a call
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and please let us know how to pray
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for you when you reach out to us.
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And I want to pray for you right now.
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So put your hand on your
heart and let's pray together.
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Father, we thank you that you've given us the Word of God
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to keep us on track, especially in this last season
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of the Church Age.
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Lord, when so many people
are veering from the faith,
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help us, Lord, to stay rooted in the truth
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and not budge from it in Jesus' mighty name,
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Amen.
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Wow. Now we're going to come back tomorrow
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and I'm going to review
just a little bit of this,
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then we're going to move on.
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But until then, 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.