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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 I'm an ancient Ephesus seated
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on the ruins of the School of Tyrannus.
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The School of Tyrannus is referred to in Acts 19:9.
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It was a lecture hall
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where the Apostle Paul
taught the Bible every day
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for years while he was in Ephesus.
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And from this very location,
the word of God went
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to the whole Roman province of Asia.
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About the year 110, during the
rule of the Emperor Trajan,
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this big facade behind me was built.
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This is the Celsus Library. It is fabulous.
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It was one of the largest libraries of the ancient world.
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People came here to read.
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They came here to enhance their education.
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Education is so very important.
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Don't diminish the value
of education spiritually.
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You need to read. You need to study.
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You need to keep your head on
straight about your doctrine
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and what you believe.
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The truth is, most people
make doctrinal mistakes
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because they don't have knowledge.
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They're gifted, they have great ideas, exciting concepts,
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but so many times you can't link them together doctrinally.
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If you really think them through,
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they don't really make sense.
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We need to know what the Bible says
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and build our faith on the rock solid teaching of scripture.
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The Apostle Paul told us
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that the reason most people make doctrinal mistakes is
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because they just don't know the Bible.
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Listen to what he said in 1 Timothy 1:6-7.
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He says - From which some having swerved
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have turned aside into vain
janglinging. He says they've
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swerved from right doctrine, desiring
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to be teachers of the law.
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Now listen to this - understanding neither what they say
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nor where of they affirm.
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So many times people
are masterful teachers,
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motivational speakers.
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They're really gifted in that way,
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but mentally they lack
a lot of information.
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We need to know the scriptures. We need to use our brains.
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God gave us minds
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and God wants us to love
him with all of our mind.
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As we study the word
of God, we need to know
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what we're talking about
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and see that our faith
is established on a rock
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solid foundation.
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And that is what I'm going
to talk to you about today.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the word
is the anchor in uncertain
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times and doctrine
doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep, revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner and my friends.
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As I told you in the introduction,
today we're going to see
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what happens when a person
swerves from the truth.
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Yesterday, we saw the reason
people make doctoral mistakes
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and the reason they're led
astray by seducing spirits is
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because they lack Bible knowledge.
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Bible knowledge is so very important
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and I believe that part of my ministry is
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to bring trusted teaching
from the Bible to you.
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But this series is called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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It is 15 parts. It comes
with a great study guide.
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The study guide is so huge,
it's nearly like a book,
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but then I've also got a
book by the same title, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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And I wrote that book
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because I was concerned
about some of the nonsense
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that is being perpetuated
in the body of Christ.
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My friends, we need to keep
our head on straight when it
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comes to doctrine and
what the Bible teaches
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and not become obsessed
with strange doctrines.
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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 by the way, when you
reach out to us, let us know
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how to pray for you.
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We're praying for you anyway,
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but we would pray for you
better if we knew how to pray.
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So if you'll call us or send us an email
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and alert us to whatever
it is that's on your heart,
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we will put our faith together with you.
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We will pray scripturally.
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And God promises in 1 John 5:15
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that if we pray anything
according to his will,
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he will hear us and we
will have the petitions
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that we make of him.
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And by the way, I also
want to say thank you
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for being a partner.
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Partners, you are helping
us take the trusted teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the earth.
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And if you're not a
partner yet, we need you
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and we're asking you to
please pray by becoming a part
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of our partner family.
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By the way, a partner is anyone that regularly gives
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to our ministry to help
us take this teaching
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to people all over the world.
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But hey, I want you to
reach for your Bible
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and today we're going to be turning back to 1 Timothy
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and we're going to review chapter 4:1
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which is the foundation
verse for this series.
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Then we're going to go back to chapter 1.
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And at 1 Timothy 4:1, Paul
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is writing under the
unction of the Holy Spirit
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and he says - Now the Spirit speaks expressly. We've seen
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multiple times that the word, now, in Greek is the little
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conjunction, de.
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It's almost like Paul is lifting his voice
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to really get the
attention of the listener.
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He's saying, Now, now, now
the Spirit speaks expressly.
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And that word, expressly, is the Greek word, rhetos,
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which means definitely, unmistakably, in undeniable terms.
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And then it says that in the latter times,
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Some shall depart from the faith. Even the word,
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that, is important because in the Greek text is the Greek
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word hoti, which means specifically that.
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So now the Holy Spirit's
getting very, very specific.
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So you could interpret
the verse, now hear me.
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The spirit speaks
unquestionably, unmistakably,
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undeniably in the strongest
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and clearest of terms, specifically that
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in the latter times.
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And the word latter is a form
of the Greek word husteros.
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It describes when time
has sailed to the end
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and there's not much leftover.
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When we've just come to the
leftovers of the age, he says,
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Some shall depart from the
faith. And the word some,
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the Greek word tenas, which here describes a notable some.
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And please, my friends, it
doesn't say everybody's going
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to depart from the faith.
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And the truth is in the end of the age,
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two things are going to be happening.
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There's going to be a worldwide outpouring
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of the Holy Spirit and we are living in it,
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but there's also going to simultaneously be a time when some
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will begin to depart from the faith.
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And when the Bible says the faith, in Greek,
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it has a definite article, which means they're going
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to depart from the clear,
sound, authoritative teaching
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of scripture giving
heed to seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons.
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And the words, giving heed, are a translation
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of Greek word, prosecho.
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Pros means to turn towards something.
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The word echo, means I have, I hold, I embrace.
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But when you compound
the two words together,
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it pictures someone turning
away from the clear, sound,
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authoritative teaching of scripture
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to embrace something new.
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They're turning in a new direction.
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And the word depart is also important
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because it means they're
stepping away from
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what they once believed.
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They're stepping away
from what they once did.
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Maybe you know someone that has done this.
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And at one time they
went to church regularly,
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they were positive,
they were faith-filled,
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and now they've become cynical
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and they're stepping away
from what they once believed.
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And now they're embracing new ideas, which
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you just understand.
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It's like they are eating
spiritual poisonous
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and toxic materials
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and they're giving heed
to seducing spirits.
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One reason why people
become bored with scripture
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and look for something else is
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because they're not doing the Bible.
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We're told in James 1:22 - Be doers
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of the word and not hearers
only. Well, that word doers
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is a form of the Greek word, poietes.
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It means to creatively
do, which means you got
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to put your whole heart
into doing the word of God.
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And then James says, And not
hearers only. And guess what?
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That phrase, hearers only, is a technical term that was used
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to describe students who attended a class not for credit,
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but they were just auditing the course.
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They were there because
their friends were there.
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It was a fun place to be.
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It was entertaining, but
they weren't really there
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to do anything with what they heard.
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And likewise, there is a
category in the church today
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as there was in the 1st Century.
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They come and they hear
and they hear and they hear
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and they hear and they
hear, but they never do.
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And if all you do is
hear and hear and hear
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and hear, you will reach
a point of over saturation.
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But when you do the word of God,
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you never have a moment to be bored.
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But when people just
hear and hear and hear
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and hear, eventually they say,
Oh, I've already heard that
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and I've heard that and I've
already heard that. And they
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become bored with the word
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and then they begin to
turn to look for something
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to spice up their spiritual life.
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And that's when the devil comes along
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and he's willing to seduce
you into all kinds of things
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that really are wrong.
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And that is what was
going to happen in the end
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of the age according to Paul.
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But it was already happening in the 1st Century.
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And this is what we have seen in previous programs back in
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1 Timothy 1:3.
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So let's go there again.
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And at 1 Timothy 1:3, Paul says,
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As I besought thee
he's writing to Timothy,
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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. And we've seen
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that the word besought, in Greek, is the word parakaleo.
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Now this is a really important
word you say, Brother Rick,
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you've already covered this several times.
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Well, it's that important.
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That's how much you need to understand it.
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The first word is the word para.
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The second word is the word kaleo.
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That's how you would spell it in English.
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The word para means
alongside, like if I were
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to come right alongside of you
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and the word kaleo means
to call or to beckon.
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It can even be translated to beg.
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It can be translated to exhort.
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But when you compound
these two words together,
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they form the word parakaleo, which
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was importantly a military term used in the 1st Century.
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And of course, Paul was a
linguist, so he knew this.
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He knew exactly what this word meant
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and he chose it on purpose
because of what it meant.
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And when commanding officers
would stand in front
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of the troops before they
were dispatched into battle,
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he would parakaleo the troops.
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He would tell them about
the gore of warfare,
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what they were going to face,
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that the battlefield was
real and it was very serious.
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He would also tell them
about the glories of victory.
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His job was to stir the troops
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and to let them understand they were marching into the fray.
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Now Paul uses that word.
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And in this verse, he says to Timothy -
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As I besought thee, I charged you.
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Timothy, I told you that you were about
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to march into a battlefield.
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to abide still at Ephesus.
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Paul was so clear about the
battle in front of Timothy
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that he had to beg
Timothy to take the job.
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And he goes on to say that
thou mightiest charge some;
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and the word, charge, is a direct command.
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He was not to suggest to some,
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but he was to charge them that they teach no other doctrine.
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from the word heteros, which means something
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of a different kind or a different sort.
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And the word didaskalos, which refers to teaching
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or doctrine; but when you compound the 2 words together,
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heteros and didoskalos,
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they formed the word heterodidoskolos,
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which means a teaching or a
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or of a different kind.
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Now this is amazing to me
that the church of Ephesus
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that Paul established
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and placed on the word of God,
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even they were veering from the truth.
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You say, well, how far were they veering from the truth?
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Well, we find that answer in verse 4.
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1 Timothy 1:4 says, Neither give heed
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to fables and endless genealogies. The words, giving heed,
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are again the Greek word prosecho: the same word
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which we saw in 1 Timothy 4:1 about giving heed
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to seducing spirits and
doctrines of demons.
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Now we find out what
they were listening to.
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They were giving heed to fables
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and endless genealogies: turning from the word of God,
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which they could build their life upon, looking
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for something very enticing, something
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to really spice up their spiritual lives.
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And Paul says they were
listening to fables
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and endless genealogies.
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Well, the word fables is the Greek word muthos, muthos.
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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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And guess what? This word, muthos, is where we get the word
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for mythology.
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And if you were really going
to teach this correctly,
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you could say giving heed
to mythology or to myths.
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But in this particular
context, it describes a myth
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or a fantasy or stories
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that are told in replacement of truth.
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In the New Testament, it depicts teachings
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that are perpetuated in the place of truth,
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but they're false teachings.
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And my friends, all you have
to do today is go online, go
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to YouTube, just browse around
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and you'll find there's all kinds
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of bizarre things being taught
on all kinds of social media.
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It's a replacement for truth.
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People don't want to
just hear regular truth
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because they've heard it and
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they've heard it and they've heard it.
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The problem is they haven't done it.
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That's why they've become bored with it.
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If you do what the Bible says,
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you don't have time to be bored.
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But seducing spirits really begin to work when people listen
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and listen and listen, but never do.
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They become bored so they begin to look for something else
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to spice up their spiritual life.
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Tell me something I've never heard before.
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And now we find that there are those
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who will bring you stories
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that really are
replacements for the truth.
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And he goes on to say - endless genealogies.
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The word endless, the Greek word aperantos:
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very important word, aperantos.
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And this word aperantos, describes - listen to this -
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that which is endless, unbridled, unrestrained,
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unfounded, incomplete in content and thought.
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So we're really talking about unrestrained,
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unbridled teachings.
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And he says here is the end result of that kind of teaching.
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It ministers questions.
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And the word ministers, the Greek word parecho,
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means it simply gives rise to or brings about
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or leads to questions.
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And the word, questions,
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that is used here describes
unsolvable research,
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unfounded conclusions,
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or a nonstop seeking for answers that leads to nowhere.
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My friends, real strong teaching of the Bible will lead you
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to an intellectual conclusion.
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It will lead you to a place of decision.
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But now Paul says people become infatuated with teachings
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that just give rise to things that are unsolvable.
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They never really lead anywhere.
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And he goes on to say,
rather than godly edifying,
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which is in faith, so do.
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And the word, edifying, as we've already seen,
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is the Greek word oikonomia.
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From the word, oikas, which is the Greek word for a house,
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and the word nomas, which is,
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in English should be spelled like this.
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The word oikas means a house.
The word nomas means law.
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You put it together, it
means the rule of the house.
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But specifically, it describes
the rules for wise building.
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It is an architectural term,
the amplification of a house,
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the enlarging of a room.
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It really describes one who knows how
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to put another brick in
the wall, one who knows how
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to undergird the foundation
to make the building stronger,
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which means real good
teaching is going to lead you
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to sound conclusions.
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Real solid teaching is going
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to put another brick in your wall.
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It's going to strengthen your foundation.
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It's not going to lead you
to illogical conclusions.
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And that's why Paul then adds - so do.
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This is what we need to be doing.
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And then you come to 1 Timothy 1:5
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where he adds - Now the end of the commandment.
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The word end is the Greek word, telos,
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spelled like this in Greek.
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You want to write it in English, it's spelled like this.
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A better translation will be the goal of the commandment.
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The word, commandment, is the Greek word, parangelia,
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and it describes authorized teaching,
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solid authorized biblical teaching.
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So now you could interpret it.
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Now the goal of solid authorized teaching
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and doctrine is charity
out of a pure heart.
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The word charity is the Greek word agape,
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which means when you really
hear good teaching, it's going
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to affect these areas of your life.
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It's going to affect the
way that you walk in love
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with others, that's the word
charity, the Greek word agape,
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out of a pure heart.
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The word pure is a Greek word katharos.
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It describes a heart
that has been cleansed.
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And now we find that when
you really hear good teaching
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of the scripture, it works on your heart.
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It affects your love life, how
you walk in love with others.
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It affects the condition of your heart.
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If there's anything poisonous
in you, you want to get it out
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because you're convicted by
the teaching of scripture.
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And it goes on to say, And
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of a good conscience. And the
word conscience describes a
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pulling together of all the pieces
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so you can see the whole picture
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or real teaching of
scripture that is powerful
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and anointed will help you
see the whole council of God
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and of faith unfeigned.
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Unfeigned means it's going
to be our real faith.
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So now we find the real
teaching of scripture is going
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to put a brick in your wall.
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It's going to strengthen your foundation.
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It's going to affect the way
you walk in love with others.
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It's going to affect the
condition of your heart.
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You're going to want to be pure
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after you hear the teaching of scripture.
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It's going to pull all the pieces together
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and it will develop in
you a bonafide faith.
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And then he says in verse 6,
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From which some having swerved
have turned aside under vain
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janglingy. The word swerve
means to miss the mark.
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It means to be off
target, to be out of line.
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And now we find that because
they're not rooted in
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scripture, there are some
that are teaching things
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that have swerved from the truth.
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They have missed the
mark, they have veered
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or they have swerved from
real authorized teaching.
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And as a result, they have turned aside under vain janglinging.
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And the word turned aside
is quite an important word.
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It is the Greek word ek, trepo.
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Ek, that's how you would
spell it in English, trepo.
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It's a medical term which
describes a bone out of joint.
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Now, if you've ever had
a bone out of joint,
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you understand it can
affect your whole body,
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even though it's just one bone.
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Your whole body is thrown into pain
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because of one bone out of joint.
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Wow. And here we find
that when one teacher
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or one notable leader gets
out of joint with truth,
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even though he is just one,
all the attention goes to
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that one because it is so painful
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and suddenly everyone in the church,
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everyone in the body feels
the pain of this experience,
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even though it's just one person,
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but he's like a bone out of joint.
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And in fact, the Bible says he's turned aside into vain
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jangling and vain jangling literally means wasted talk,
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empty talk, nonsense, useless chatter -
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just useless chatter.
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And because they have so swerved from the truth
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and what they ought to be preaching,
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and now they're teaching nonsense like a bone out of joint,
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they have become a point of irritation
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and pain for the local church
or for the body of Christ.
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And God's call is for them to
get popped back into place.
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They need to get back into alignment
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with real authorized Bible teaching.
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Now my friends, this is really important.
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And today we've seen what happens when someone swerves from
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the truth, they become a source of pain
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and irritation for the whole church.
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So you don't want to
be a bone out of joint.
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I don't want to be a bone out of joint.
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We want to stick with the
teaching of God's word.
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I'll be back in just a moment
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and I'm going to pray with you.
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Well, somebody has just asked a question
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and here it is - What do you do if it seems God blesses
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everyone except me?
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Well, if you really believe
God's blessing everyone except
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you, you're not thinking right.
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You've got a roof over your head.
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You've got food on your table.
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In fact, most people who think they're not
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blessed need to lose weight.
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They're eating plenty.
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They have electricity, they
have hot and cold water.
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They've got a job. They may
not like the job they have,
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but they have a job that pays them.
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The point is there's a
lot to be thankful for.
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And when I was growing up, we
used to sing a song that said,
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count your blessings,
name them one by one.
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And on days when you're
feeling like God is blessing
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everybody except you, you
need to put all that out
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of your mind and start
counting your blessings
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and even name them one by one.
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And by the time you're finished naming them one by one,
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you will realize you're just
as blessed as everybody else.
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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 of a society
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and 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 anchored 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 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
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starting at just $24.
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You can order the series, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy
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and the book of the same name
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by going online or calling our team.
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Call the number on your screen
or scan the QR code to order.
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This is Rick Renner, and
I want to say thank you
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to you partner for everything you do
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to help us take the teaching of the Bible
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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 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 partner yet,
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we need you and we ask
you to become a part
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of the partner family so
we can take the teaching
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of God's word to people all over the world
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and we receive you and we welcome you into our Giving Team.
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Wow! Today we have covered a lot
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of material in this new
15-part series called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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This 15-part series
comes with a study guide
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I really want you to have that book.
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Read it from the beginning to the very end.
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It will be good for you because we're living in the end
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of the age when people are doctrinally going
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to veer from the truth
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and we need to stay on track
and know how to do that.
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But if you want to know about
how to get these resources,
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just call the number on
the screen or go online
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and I remind you that
we're here to pray for you.
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So if you have a need that's
touching you, let us know.
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Let it touch us. And
together with you, we will,
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with our faith, touch the heart of God
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and God will do what needs
to be done in your life.
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And again, if you're a partner, I want
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to say thank you for being a partner.
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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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to help us take the trusted
teaching of the Bible
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to the ends of the earth.
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My friends, we are called to
fulfill the great commission
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and we invite you to help us do our part.
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We'll do it together, but
lay your hand on your heart
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and I want to pray with you right now.
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Father, thank you that you
have given us the word of God
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as a foundation in our life.
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Lord, help us not to be enticed to leave that foundation,
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but to stick with the word of God.
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Help us to do more than
just hear the word, help us
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to become doers of the word
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and to never be bored
with the word of God.
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Father, we thank you for
this in the wonderful
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and the marvelous name of Jesus -
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Amen. Now, when we return tomorrow, I'm going
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to be asking you a very serious question
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as we wrap up this week of teaching.
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Please don't miss tomorrow's episode.
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It's really going to be important for you.
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And until then, I want you to remember
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that Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word
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of a king is, there's power." That's
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talking about the word of God.
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So embrace the word
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and let its power work in your life today.
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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.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God-called partners of Renner Ministries.