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This program is made
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of the God-called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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My name is Rick Renner,
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and today I'm an ancient Ephesus on Curetes Street,
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which was the central most historic street
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of the entire city.
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Both sides of this street
had covered colonnades.
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Colonnades were like porticos
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or porches that were
supported by marble columns
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with terracotta roofs,
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and the walkways were
all fabulous mosaics.
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Behind me, you can see that many
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of these mosaics here in Ephesus have been preserved even
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from the 1st Century.
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And if you'd been allowed
to peek into the world at
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that time, you would've
seen rich people walking up
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and down these streets,
actually eating in the cafes
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and the restaurants, meandering
in and out of the shops.
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This was a real city
filled with vibrant life.
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And right in the middle
of it was the church.
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And Timothy was the pastor of the church,
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but it was a church that
was having some problems
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because the leadership had began to embrace false doctrine.
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And Paul wrote to Timothy in 1 Timothy 1:4
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and said to Timothy - Neither give heed to fables
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and endless genealogies which
minister questions rather than
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godly edifying. In this verse,
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Paul tells you in me
something so important.
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Bad teaching just ministers
questions. It leads you nowhere.
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But real good teaching,
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it brings an edifying
element into your life.
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That word edifying is
an architectural term,
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which means it puts
another brick in the wall.
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It makes your foundation stronger.
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It really takes you somewhere.
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That's how you can tell the difference
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between good and bad teaching.
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Bad teaching, it's interesting,
doesn't really add anything
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to your life, may cost you
a lot, may be entertaining,
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but it just raises more questions.
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But real good teaching,
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it puts another brick in the wall.
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It makes your life stronger.
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It's something you can
really build yourself upon.
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We need to keep our head on
straight about what we believe
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and what we teach in these last days
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because hoards of spirits,
delusional spirits,
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seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
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they have been released into
the earth in these end times.
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So we need to make sure
we're eating teaching
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that will really produce the
right effect in our lives.
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And that's what I'm going
to talk 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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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner
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and I want to welcome
you to today's program.
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I'm coming to you from
my studio in Moscow,
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which our partners helped us to build.
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And really it's because of
our partners that we're able
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to speak to you today
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and to take the trusted
teaching of the Bible
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to the ends of the earth.
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And it's amazing, we really are taking it
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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 people need to be fed the word of God.
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So partners, thank you for what you do.
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And if you're not a partner yet,
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please pray about becoming
a partner with our ministry.
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But today we're returning to
the series, a 15-part series,
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which is called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy, comes
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with a great study guide,
which is nearly like a book.
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And I have a book by the
same title called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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The Foreword is written by my friend, John Braver.
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It is such an amazing book and you need to read it.
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But if you want to know how to get these resources,
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just go online or give us a call.
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And please, when you reach out
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to us, let us know how to pray.
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We believe praying for you is
one of the primary ministries
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that God has given to us and
we take it very seriously.
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We are promised in 1 John 5:14-15
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that if we pray scripturally according to his will,
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he hears us and we will have the petitions
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that we request of him.
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So if you maybe don't know how
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to pray about your
situation, give us a call.
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Send us an email. We will
pray biblically with you.
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We will release our faith.
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Jesus will hear us
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and Jesus will do exactly
what needs to be done.
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I believe there's an
answer with your name on it
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waiting for you right now.
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So please let us know how to pray for you.
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But today we're going to
return to our series, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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Yesterday, we saw that people
really make doctrinal mistakes
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because of a lack of Bible knowledge.
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But today we're going to see how to judge
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if a teaching is good or bad.
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Now, because I want to know
what people are listening to,
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very often I will go to YouTube and I will just browse
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and see what are people talking about,
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what are people saying?
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And I find that there's
a lot of good teaching
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and I find there's a lot of bad teaching.
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There's a lot of things
filled with speculations.
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There are a lot of things
which are just filled
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with controversies.
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And those things really are not profitable
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because they don't lead
you to a solid confusion.
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But thankfully, there's a lot of people
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that are also really teaching the Bible
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and we're so grateful for them.
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And please pray for us
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because we really believe that
God has given us the mandate
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to teach people the trusted
teaching of the Bible.
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And again, thank you for
helping us to do that.
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But today we're going to go back
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to 1 Timothy 4:1,
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and I'm just going to read the
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verse, then we're going to move on.
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Paul is prophesying under the
anointing of the Holy Spirit
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about an event that's
going to occur in the very
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end of the church age.
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Well, that's us because
we're living in the
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end of the church age.
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And here's what the Holy Spirit says -
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Now the Spirit speaks expressly
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and we've seen in Greek,
this is the word rhetos.
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It means the Spirit speaks
undeniably, unmistakably,
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categorically, emphatically.
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So this is not something
that might happen.
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The Holy Spirit is telling
us definitely something
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that's going to happen in
the very end of the age.
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Now the Spirit speaks expressly that - the word
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that in Greek means specifically that.
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So now he's speaking in the
clearest terms possible - that
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in the latter times when time has run out
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and not much time is left
over, some, praise God,
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not everybody, but some,
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unfortunately a notable some, shall depart from the faith.
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The word depart, the Greek word aphistemi,
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which we've covered in previous programs.
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It means to step away from,
to change your position,
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to put distance between yourself
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and what you used to believe.
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And this verse says they're going to depart from
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or slowly step away from, change their position in regard
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to the faith.
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And the faith in Greek has a definite
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article which is important.
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This is not just general faith.
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This is not faith for signs
and wonders or for healing
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or for miracles or for
the supernatural, but
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because there's a definite article,
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the Holy Spirit is literally
saying some, a notable some
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are going to step away from
the faith that is the clear
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sound teaching of scripture.
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In fact, they will distance
themselves from it.
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And then Paul tells us why they're going to do this -
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giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
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The word giving heed, the Greek word prosecho: pros
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carries the idea of turning in a new direction,
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coming very close to something else: echo,
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the Greek word meaning to embrace.
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When you compound the two words together,
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they're departing from the clear sound
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teaching of scripture.
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In fact, very slowly, methodically, they're beginning
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to step away from it.
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They're not rejecting it.
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They're departing from it step
by step, perhaps so slowly
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that they don't even realize
they are in transition,
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but in fact they are.
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And the reason they're transitioning away from the clear
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sound teaching the scripture is
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because they're opening their ears
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and turning in a direction
to embrace something else.
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And Paul says that something
else is seducing spirits
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and doctrines of devils - demons.
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The word, seducing, the Greek word planao, P-L-A-N-A-O.
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It describes a moral wandering
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and it was a word used
in agricultural terms
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to describe an animal that got so lost
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it could not find its way back home.
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And this word planao, the word seducing,
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was used in the intertestamental
period between the old
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and the New Testament
when rabbis were writing
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and they were prophesying
at the very end of the age,
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just like Paul says in
this verse, there's going
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to be an invasion of
spirits that are going
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to bring delusion into the
earth and even into God's people
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and they will begin to morally wander
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and scripturally wander from the path
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that they once walked upon.
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And today we're saying this.
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We're living in a world that's gone woke.
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People are so confused about truth.
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They don't even know what gender they are.
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My friends, that is real
delusional thinking when you don't
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even know if you're a man or a woman
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and some believe in as many
as 100 different genders.
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How in the world did we get
to this totally crazy place?
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Because we have departed from them.
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I'm not talking about me.
I'm not talking about you.
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I'm talking about the world at large.
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They have departed from step
by step, very methodically,
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very slowly, step by step.
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They've walked away from a
path they once walked upon
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that was traditional, was Bible-based.
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They've turned to become
open-minded to new ideas.
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Well, we need to be open-minded.
That's how you learn.
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But don't be so open-minded,
your brain falls out.
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Keep your brain in your head.
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But they've turned to embrace the activity
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of seducing spirits and
doctrines of demons.
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And the word doctrines, the Greek word, didaskalia.
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describes well-packaged information, which means in the end
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of the age, in our time, the
devil's not going to show up
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with horns on his head, with
a pitchfork in his hand.
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He is going to show up with teaching
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and ideas that seem very plausible.
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It's going to be well packaged.
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It's going to be very alluring
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and it's going to tantalize people
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and entice them away from the Bible
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to embrace something ludicrous
at the very end of the age.
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And unfortunately, Paul said
it was even going to happen
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inside the church.
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And as we saw in the previous episode,
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it was happening already
in the 1st Century.
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That's why Paul installed
Timothy as the pastor
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of the church in Ephesus.
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And I want us to return now
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to 1 Timothy 1:3.
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And very quickly, we're going
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to cover this, then
we're going to move on.
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Paul says to Timothy, as I besought thee
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to abide still at Ephesus,
that thou might his charge some
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that they teach no other doctrine.
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And we've seen that the word besought is the
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Greek word parakaleo.
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The word para means alongside.
The word kaleo means to call.
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When you compound the two words together,
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it's coming alongside of someone else to call out to them,
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to beg them, to beseech them, to exhort them.
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And in fact, it is a military term
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which was used at the
very time Paul was writing
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to describe commanding officers
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or generals who would
come before the troops.
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And before they would dispatch the troops into battle,
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they would describe for them all the gore of the battle.
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It's going to be bloody. It's going to be intense
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and they would also describe the glory of victory.
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They would give them the real picture.
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And by using this word besought, it means
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that when Paul installed
Timothy as the pastor
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of the church, he didn't just say,
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Timothy, it's going to be great.
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He literally said, Timothy,
I need to be honest with you.
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I'm sending you into a minefield.
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There are problems in
the church at Ephesus.
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What was the problem?
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Well, he says, As I Besought
to abides till at Ephesus
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that thou mightest charge,
the word charge means
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to strictly charge.
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It is a command that you might command some.
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The word, some, here again refers to a notable some
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that they teach no other doctrine.
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Well, let's look at this term,
other doctrine, one more time.
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In Greek, it is the word
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heterodidaskalos.
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This is an important word.
It's a compound of two words.
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The first word is the Greek word heteros.
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If you want to spell it in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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For example, the word heterosexual.
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It describes something of a different kind, not the same,
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something of a different sort.
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The 2nd word, didaskalos, is a derivative
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of the Greek word didosko.
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This is how you would spell it in English.
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And it means I teach, I teach.
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But when you compound these two words together,
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it forms the word heterodidaskalos.
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Here, didaskalos describes a doctrine
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or a teaching: heteros - of a totally different sort
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or of a totally different kind.
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So now we find that in Ephesus,
and this is amazing to me
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because Ephesus was the
church that Paul established.
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He put them on the foundation
of God's word that even
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during Paul's own lifetime
when he set Timothy in position
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over the church, they
were already veering from
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what they had been founded upon.
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And now some were beginning
to teach doctrines
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of another kind, which Paul
then describes in verse 4.
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And he says, Neither give heed to fables
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and endless genealogies
which minister questions
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rather than God edifying which
is in faith. And then the
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King James translation says,
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So do. But let's look at verse 4.
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Neither give heed. The words give heed
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are the very same word, prosecho,
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which we saw in 1 Timothy 4:1 -
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giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
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But now we find they're giving heed
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or they're turning their
attention to embrace fables
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and endless genealogies.
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The word fables is the Greek word muthos.
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This is a very important 1st Century word. In English,
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it would be spelled like this. And guess what?
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It's where we get the word mythology.
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So Paul says, what these
people are teaching is closer
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to fairytales and mythologies than it is to the truth.
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And in fact, this word muthos, depicts stories
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that are told in replacement of the truth:
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in replacement of the truth.
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Maybe they're tantalizing,
maybe they're interesting,
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but they're off track.
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In the New Testament, it
depicts false teachings
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and false doctrines that
are being perpetuated
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in the place of truth.
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And then he calls them endless genealogies.
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And the word, endless, in Greek is the word, aperantos.
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And here's how it is spelled, aperantos.
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Do you like it when I give
you these Greek words?
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Please write to me. Let me know.
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In English, it would be spelled like this - aperantos.
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You say, What in the world does this mean? Well, I'm going
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to read to you directly from my notes.
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This Greek word, aperantos, means
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endless, unbridled.
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This is endless strange things, unbridled strange things.
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It describes that which is unfounded
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or incomplete in content
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and thought: just endless, unrestrained, unbridled
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genealogies which minister questions.
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And the word, ministers, in Greek
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means it just gives rise to,
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and the word questions
describes unsolvable research,
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unfounded conclusions, a nonstop seeking
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for answers that leads to nowhere.
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But then Paul goes on to say,
rather than godly edifying,
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which is in faith, and then the King James
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translators added the word so do.
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So here's the commandment of
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what we are supposed to be teaching.
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It says rather than godly edifying.
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The word edifying is the Greek word, oikonomia:
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oikonomia. Now this is really an important word.
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It is a form of the word
oikos, which is the word for
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a house and a form
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of the Greek word nomas,
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which means law.
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But when you compound these two
words together, it's the law
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of building, the law of building.
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And in fact, it describes
the amplifying of a house,
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the increasing of a house,
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putting another brick in the wall,
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reinforcing the foundation,
everything you need to do
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to reinforce a structure.
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And Paul says real good teaching puts
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another brick in your wall.
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It doesn't just leave
you on a goose chase.
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It adds to your foundation.
It strengthens your life.
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And this is what good teaching does.
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And then he says in chapter 1:5, Now the end
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of the commandment is charity out of
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a pure heart. The word, end, is the Greek word, telos:
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telos - spelled like this.
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When I write it in English, it would be spelled like this.
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It really describes the goal.
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The word, commandment, is the Greek word
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parangelia.
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Now this is a real important word.
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In English, it would be spelled like this: parangelia.
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You know what this word
perangelia refers to?
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It refers to authorized
and official teaching.
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So now you could render the verse -
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Now the goal, that's the word telos.
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The goal of authorized
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and official teaching is
charity out of a pure heart.
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And the word charity is
the Greek word agape.
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It describes the agape love of God.
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And I want to read to you
from my notes. This word agape
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describes a divine love that gives
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and gives even if it's never responded to,
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thanked, or acknowledged.
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It is a love for a person
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or object that is irresistible,
a love so profound
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that it knows no limits, no
boundaries, and how far wide
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and high and deep it
will go to show that love
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to its recipient.
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This is not natural love.
This is God's love agape.
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So now we find that the goal
of official authorized teaching
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is that it will affect your ability
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to love others with the love of God.
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In fact, it says love out of a pure heart.
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The word, pure, is the Greek word katharos, katharos.
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Now, if you want to write that down in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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Now, the word katharos means to cleanse or to purge,
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and it is where we get the word for a catheter.
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Now, if you go to the
hospital and you can get up
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and go to the bathroom, what do they do?
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They catheterize you
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and that catheter taken from this word katharos
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pulls the poisons out of your body.
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It delivers you from all those poisons.
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And now we find that when
you're really listening
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to good teaching, according to verse 4
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it puts another brick in the wall.
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It strengthens your foundation.
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It provides answers that you need.
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When you're really listening
to good teaching, well,
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the goal of authorized good
teaching will affect your
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ability to walk in love and it
will catheterize your heart.
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It will change you. It will confront you
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and it will deliver you of things
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that you need to be freed from.
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And then it goes on to say,
and of a good conscience
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and of faith unfeigned.
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The word conscience, in Greek means a coming together
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of all the pieces, understanding the ability
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to see the full picture,
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which means good teaching doesn't put you on a goose chase.
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Rather, it pulls all the pieces together.
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It begins to enable you to see
the full picture of God wants
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to communicate to you and a faith unfeigned.
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The word, unfeigned, being from the Greek word
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which really describes hypocrisy.
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It was the word used in the 1st Century
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to describe actors on
the stage who wore faces.
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They just played a part
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because they knew people were watching,
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but a faith unfeigned is not a game.
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It's not pretend. It's the real deal.
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So now we find Paul says the
effect of good teaching will,
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No.1: it'll put another brick in your wall.
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It will strengthen your foundation.
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It will affect your love life.
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It will cause you to
walk in the love of God.
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It will deal with your inner being.
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It will catheterize you,
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pull all the poisons out of your life.
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It will really begin
to pull all the pieces
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of the puzzle together so
you see the full picture of
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what God wants to say
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and it will develop in you
a real faith, not a bogus
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or a pretend faith.
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Wow. So what are you listening to?
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Is it just putting you on a goose chase?
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Are you just chasing
and chasing and chasing?
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It's unrestrained. It knows no bounds,
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but really never takes you anywhere?
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Or are you listening
to something like meat
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and potatoes that's going to
really put meat on your bones
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and help you grow as a believer?
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My friends, we need to
really pay attention to
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what we're listening to.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I want to pray for you.
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Somebody has asked the question - How do you revive yourself
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if you've become spiritually cold?
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I remember one time many years ago,
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the Lord told me I was slothful.
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I said, What? I work hard.
I live to be productive.
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How could you say that I am
slothful? And the Lord led me
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to Hebrew 6:12, which says,
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That you be not slothful,
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but followers of them who through faith
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and patience inherit the
promises. I didn't understand
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what it meant to be slothful.
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I though it meant to be lazy,
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but the word slothful really
means to become neutral.
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And sometimes you can become
blase about the things
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of God even while you're
doing the things of God.
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You just become so accustomed
to the environment,
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to the spirit, to the anointing, to the word that you begin
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to take it all for granted
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and you just kind of become
blase, take it or leave it.
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Right in the midst of
it, you lose your fire.
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And this verse says, If that
is you, you can revive it
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by imitating them through faith
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and patience inherit the
promises. So I encourage you
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to study others around
you or those who have gone
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before you who maintained their fire.
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And just like this verse
says, follow their example, do
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what they did and you can revive
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that fire in your life again.
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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
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around the world are
calling this book essential
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for every believer.
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How to Keep Your Head On Straight in a World Gone Crazy can
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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,
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and I want to say thank you to you partner
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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
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and you're not a 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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Today, we've been studying how
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to judge if a teaching is good or bad.
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My friends, you need to be able to know if
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what you're listening to
is going to be good for you
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or if it's going to be bad for you.
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And that's what we've been
covering today in this series,
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which is called - How to Keep Your Head on Straight
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In a World Gone Crazy - which comes
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with a great 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 is
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recommended by more than
40 major Christian leaders.
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They believe that you need to read it.
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And my friends, I want
you to have that book.
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But if you want to know
how to get these resources,
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just go online or give us a call.
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And please, when you reach
out, we want to pray for you.
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So tell us how to pray.
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Whatever is touching you,
we want it to touch us.
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And together we'll pray,
we'll touch the heart of God.
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And according to 1 John 5:14
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and 15, if we pray scripturally, God will hear us,
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God will respond,
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and we will have the petitions
which we request of him.
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So we're waiting to pray for you.
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So reach out to us by
calling or by writing
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and let us know how to pray.
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And please remember to join me tomorrow
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because tomorrow we're
going to pick up right here.
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It's really going to be good,
but I want to pray for you.
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Father, thank you that
we've been together today
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and that we can know if what
we're listening to is good
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for us or bad for us.
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Help us to be discerning. In Jesus' name - Amen.
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I'll see you tomorrow, but remember,
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Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word of a king is,
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there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now.
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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.