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This program is made possible by the giving
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of the God-called partners of Renner Ministries.
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My name is Rick Renner, and
today I'm in ancient Ephesus
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right at the intersection of Curetes Street
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and the Marble Street.
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These were two very important streets in
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the city of Ephesus.
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In fact, this was the most prestigious
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corner of the whole city.
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The people traveling
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through this area often
made a directional mistake.
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They would accidentally go the wrong way.
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You could say they would
swerve in the wrong direction,
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and if they went the wrong
direction, wow, they would get
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so far off track.
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That's exactly what happens when we get
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off track doctrinally.
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It may seem like just a small
turn in a wrong direction,
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but wow, if you keep going
in the wrong direction,
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you'll end up far from
where you're supposed to be.
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That's why we need to really
keep our head on straight
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when it comes to what we believe.
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The Apostle Paul wrote about this.
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In one Timothy 1:6,
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he was talking about those who veer from truth.
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And listen to what he says - From which some having swerved
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have turned aside unto vain
jangling. We don't want
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to swerve from the truth.
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We want to stay on track.
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It is so important for us
to stay on track with truth.
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If we get off track, this verse says -
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We'll turn a side unto vain jangling.
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We'll end up with a lot of nonsense. Wow.
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Spiritual nonsense has a
detrimental effect in our
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lives and in our churches.
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So let's make sure we know what road we're supposed
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to travel on when it comes
to doctrine and truth
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and stay on track.
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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
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uncertain times
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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 friend, this week has
just flown by so fast.
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We have really taken a deep
dive into 1 Timothy to see
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what the Apostle Paul prophesied
about seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons
at the end of the age.
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And as I told you in
the introduction today,
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when you swerve from the
truth, you get into trouble.
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And today we're going to see
how to stick with the truth
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and not veer from the truth.
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But this series is 15 parts, comes with a great study guide.
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It's called, How to Keep Your Head on Straight
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But today we're going to go
back to our foundation verse,
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which is 1 Timothy 4:1,
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where Paul is writing under
the inspiration of the spirit
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and he prophesies
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and says - Now the Spirit speaks expressly
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that in the latter times.
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The word, latter, is the Greek word, husteros.
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It describes when something
is nearly used up,
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there's not much left over.
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And he says the latter times
when you've sailed to the end
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of the age and not much time remains,
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some shall depart from the faith.
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And again, he doesn't say everybody.
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And we have to remember
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that the Bible promises there's going
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to be a great outpouring
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of the Holy Spirit in that last season.
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We're living in that.
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The spirit of God is being
poured out all over the world,
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but simultaneously the
Bible prophesies that some,
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and the word some in Greek is the word, tenas.
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It really describes a notable
some shall depart from
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the faith. And the word depart, the Greek word aphistemi:
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a compound of the word apo, which means away
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and it implies distance.
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And the second part of the word histemi, means to stand.
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When you compound the two words together,
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it forms the Greek word apistemi.
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It's where we get the word apostasy.
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It describes one who used to be in one place,
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but they no longer agree with
what they used to believe
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and where they used to stand.
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So, apo, they've moved away from it
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and, histemi, they've changed their position,
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they've changed their stand.
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And in fact, they haven't
just changed their stand,
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but apo, they put a
lot of distance between
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where they are now and
where they used to be.
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Now they denigrate it, they laugh at it,
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they may be skeptical about it,
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and now they've turned
their attention over here
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to look at something new.
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In fact, the Bible says giving heed,
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the Greek word prosecho.
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Pros means to turn toward very
close. Echo means to embrace.
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Now they've turned their attention
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from their former position,
from their former stance.
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Now they've distanced themselves from it
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and they're turning their mind in a new direction.
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Well, it's good that we have open minds.
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You have to have an open mind to learn,
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but you don't want to
become so open-minded
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that your brain falls out.
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You got to keep your brain
in your head, my friend.
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You're not to veer from the established truth of God's word.
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And that is what Paul is prophesying is going
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to happen in the end of the age.
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And, tag, we're it. We're living in the end of the age.
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And all you have to do is go online
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and just browse the internet
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and you're going to find today
people are teaching a lot
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of nonsense.
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And there's a really important
verse that refers to this.
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When you come to Hebrews 13:9,
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the writer of Hebrews says - Be not carried about
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with divers and strange doctrines.
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What are you listening to?
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Are you listening to a
divers and strange doctrine?
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And then he continues to say - For it's a good thing
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that the heart be established
with grace, not with meats,
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which have not profited them
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that have been occupied
therein. And many times people
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become preoccupied with very
strange, bizarre teachings.
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And my friends, it's a
diversion from the path they
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once walked upon.
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And many times they go in that direction
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because they become bored with the truth.
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Well, the only reason you
become bored with the truth is
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because you're not doing it.
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That's why James 1:22 says - Be doers of the word
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and not hearers only. When all you do is listen and listen
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and listen and listen and
listen, you go to church
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and listen and listen, but
you never do what's being
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preached, you will reach
a point of over saturation.
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And that's when seducing
spirits enter the scene
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and they say, Hey, you need something new
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and tantalizing. And they
seduce you into something new,
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which the Bible calls
divers and strange doctrines
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and they don't profit people
that are occupied in them.
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It becomes a fixation. It
becomes a preoccupation.
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As people think about bizarre teachings
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and all kinds of controversies
and they're let off track,
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and basically they then
become worthless to the body
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of Christ because they're living in a
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diversion from the truth.
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But when we go back to 1 Timothy 1:3,
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we find this was already happening in
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Ephesus in the 1st Century.
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Think about it, Ephesus,
a church established
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by the apostle Paul on the word of God
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and even they veered from
the truth to such a point
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that Paul said in 1 Timothy 1:3,
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As I besought thee - writing to Timothy -
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to abide still at Ephesus that thou mightiest charge some
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that they teach no other
doctrine. And as we've seen,
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the word besought is a
military term which was used
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by commanding officers
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before they sent the troops into battle.
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They would charge them, they would stir
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them, they would exhort them.
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They would say, Hey, we're not going
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to send you into the
battlefield blindfolded.
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We're going to tell you the truth.
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There's going to be bloodshed.
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There's going to be gore,
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but at the very end of the
day, there's going to be a lot
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of glory for those who win the
victory. They would give the
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whole picture to the soldiers
before they were dispatched.
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And by using this word, we know that when Paul
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installed Timothy as the pastor of the church in Ephesus,
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he didn't just say - Timothy, it's going to be good times.
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He actually said, Timothy, I besought, I told you the truth.
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I told you that you were
walking into a mine field.
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I was sending you into the fray.
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And the reason the church of
Ephesus had become a minefield
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is because some, that's
what the verse says,
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we're teaching a doctrine
of a different kind.
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Now, let's continue.
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And in 1 Timothy 1:4,
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it says, neither give heed.
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There's that word give heed again.
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The same word we saw in
1 Timothy 4:1,
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to turn in a new direction,
to embrace a new idea,
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neither give heed to fables.
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We've seen that the word fables is the Greek word, muthos.
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It is where we get the word mythology.
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It describes stories being perpetuated in
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the place of truth.
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They're no longer sticking with truth.
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Now they're just perpetuating stories
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or what Hebrews 13:9 calls divers
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and strange doctrines.
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They have completely gone off track in a new direction.
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edifying, which is in faith, so do.
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it doesn't really add anything to your life.
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It just raises more questions.
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It puts you on a treadmill
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where you're constantly
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and another answer and
another answer rather
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than godly edifying.
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It edifies you. The word edifying, the Greek word, oikanomia
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is an architectural term, which means it builds you,
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it strengthens you, it puts
another brick in the wall.
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It puts strength in your foundation. It adds to your life.
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It puts meat on your bones.
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I mean, it's just good
and nourishing for you.
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But bad teaching just puts
you on an endless treadmill
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seeking, seeking, seeking more
and more and more and more.
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It's a diversion. My friends, you can really become very far
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led away from the truth.
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And that is what verse 5 says.
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Now, the end of the commandment,
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the word end, being the Greek word,
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telos - the goal of the commandment.
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The word commandment describes authorized biblical teaching.
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charity out of a pure heart.
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The word charity, the Greek word agape,
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which means when you're
listening to teaching
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and preaching that's
good for you, it's going
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to affect the way that
you're walking in love
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with other people, with your kids,
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with your spouse, with others.
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The word pure heart:
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the word pure from the Greek word katharos: it describes
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that which is cleansed, that which is purged,
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and it's where we get the medical term for a catheter.
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and they catheterize you, they're trying
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to get the poisons out of you.
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to anointed teaching of the
word of God that is solid,
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it catheterizes your heart.
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It pulls out of you wrong attitudes,
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poisons that are not good for you.
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It deals with your inner man.
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of a good conscience. The
word good conscience describes
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the ability to pull all
the pieces together.
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So you're no longer just looking at one little piece here
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and a little piece here, but really good preaching
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pulls the whole picture.
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It enables you to see
the full counsel of God.
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And then it says, And
of faith unfeigned.
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means without hypocrisy
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or it really provokes in you a bonafide legitimate faith.
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having swerved, have turned aside
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unto vain jangling. The word swerve
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means they've missed the mark.
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They have veered from solid
teaching of the scripture.
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And as a result, now they've turned aside unto vain
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jangling. Turned aside, the Greek word, ektrepo,
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which we saw in the previous episode, describes a
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bone that is out of joint.
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Years ago, Denise and I
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and a big, big man came up to me
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and he said, Brother Rick,
may I give you a hug? He said,
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God has used you to
really change my life.
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I just want to hug you. I
said, Sure. He reached out,
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wrapped his arms around me, and he began pulling and pulling
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and hugging and hugging and
hugging until he broke my rib.
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My whole body went over.
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I said, Brother, never hug
anybody like that again. Well,
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you know, it was just one rib,
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but that one rib was such a source of pain.
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It affected everything in my life.
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I couldn't pick up a bag of groceries.
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I could hardly drive the car.
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because that one bone had been affected,
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my whole body was in pain.
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or a notable believer gets out of joint with a body
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of Christ in regard to truth,
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fixation comes to that part of the body.
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Everyone's talking about that person,
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what they're saying, what they're doing.
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but that person has become
such a source of pain
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and irritation that the rest of us can't do
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what we're supposed to do because we're so fixated on that.
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and says in verse 7 - Desiring to be teachers
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of the law, understanding
neither what they say
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nor whereof they affirm. Let's
look at that word, desiring.
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The word, desiring, is a form of the Greek word, thelo.
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it would be spelled like this - thelo.
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but here it is persistent.
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The tense depicts an
earnest, ongoing desire.
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that have got off track,
they really have a desire
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to be teachers of the law - teachers of the law.
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What in the world does that mean?
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from the Greek word, nomos.
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This is how you would spell
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would be spelled like this.
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It is the word for teaching, for teaching, or for doctrine.
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here in the King James Version, it is translated teachers
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of the law, but in fact, it refers
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to masterful masterful teachers
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or a masterful scripture lawyer.
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It denotes someone scholarly
in interpreting the Bible.
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individuals who have veered,
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fellow, they have a good desire.
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They really have strong, strong desire
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and a persistent desire.
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They're wanting to be nomodidaskalos. They're wanting
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to be masterful interpreters
of scripture and revelation.
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says, Understanding neither
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what they say nor aware of,
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they affirm. And the word understanding is a form
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of the Greek word nous.
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it would be spelled like this, is the Greek word
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for the mind or the intellect: the mind or the intellect.
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the ability to comprehend
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and to put it all together.
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Paul says they have a strong,
strong desire, that's good,
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to be a teacher of the law or
to be masterful when it comes
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to interpreting scripture
and new revelation,
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but they don't mentally have
the ability to comprehend
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what they say nor aware of.
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They affirm, wow.
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Now my friends, this is pretty important.
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Many people are anointed,
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They're like gifts that
were unwrapped too soon.
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They've got desire, they've
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they've got the anointing of God,
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but they're not ready
for a public position
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to expound the word of God.
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In fact, we're told in James 3:1
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that those who teach are
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You just need to understand
that if you're going
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to declare a revelation, you
better make sure it's right
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because God has got his eyes on you.
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Truth is very important to God.
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is they don't know the Bible.
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They don't understand what they say.
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They don't understand
what they are affirming.
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before a person becomes
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to school for 4 years.
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My friends, he studies years
and years and years and years
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before he puts the scalpel in his hand
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to operate on the human heart.
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That is serious business,
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but we are called of God to
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where people study for years
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and years and years and years
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and train, in the church, people say - Hey, he's anointed.
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He's got a gift to speak.
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Give him the pulpit and
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or understanding, he begins to expound
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as he's operating on human hearts.
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My friends, if we're going
to put all that study
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to operate on a human heart,
don't you think that we
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that are in the pulpit should study
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and know what we're talking about
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before we pull out a spiritual scalpel
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to operate on the human heart?
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My friends, it is even more important.
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We need to know what the Bible says.
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of Hebrews says - For when for the time you ought
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to be teachers, you have need
that one teach you again,
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which be the first
principles of the oracles
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of God. The word ought, in Greek is the word a fellow
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means obligated.
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You've got a duty. It could
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By this time, you have
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The word teacher is the Greek word didaskalo,
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the plural form of
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that's the Greek equivalent
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It's the equivalent of saying
with all that you have heard
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and heard and heard and
heard by this time, you ought
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to be a rabbi.
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You ought to be a masterful teacher, but you have need.
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it'd be spelled like this: describes a deficit, a deficit.
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He says, you've got a deficit.
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You've got a need that
one teach you again,
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which be the 1st Principles of the Oracles of God.
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The word first is arches.
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or something that is elementary.
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the Greek word stoicheion, describes the basic elements,
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the fundamental rudimental
knowledge essential
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before advancing to higher education,
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or this is really describing
foundational knowledge.
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Now let me ask you - Could you pass a doctrine test?
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How well do you know the foundational
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doctrines of the scripture?
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They are listed here in Hebrews 6:1-2,
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which says - Therefore, leaving the principles
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of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto
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perfection, not laying again -
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No.1: the foundation of repentance from dead works.
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No.2: faith toward God.
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No.3: the doctrine of baptisms.
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No.4: the laying on of hands.
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No.5: resurrection of the dead.
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And No.6: eternal judgment.
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You should be established
in those basic doctrines.
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My friends, we need to
make sure we really know
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what we're saying before
we publicly disseminate
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what we call truth to others.
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This is really important.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I'm going to pray for you.
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How do you keep standing in faith
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when it seems nothing is changing?
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Well, it's important that
first of all, you know
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what is the will of
God for your situation.
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And once you know the
will of God, you've got
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to ask in faith
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and James 1:5 says - Nothing wavering for he
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that wavers is like a wave of
the sea driven with the wind
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and tossed. And here we
have the picture of a person
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that's just vacillating back
and forth, back and forth.
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Real faith stands still.
It knows what it wants.
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It doesn't budge. It doesn't
flinch. It never moves.
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A person that's not really in faith,
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they're just shoved all over the place.
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They go this way and this
way, they change their mind.
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One day they pray one thing,
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another day they pray another thing,
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but real faith stands still.
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It doesn't waver like
the waves of the sea.
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So it's very vital for you to
really be rooted in the will
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of God for whatever it
is that you're believing
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and praying for and to stay put in that place regardless of
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how long it takes.
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You don't move until finally
you receive the manifestation
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of what you've been praying.
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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 anchor to truth.
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You'll learn how to stay
sensitive to the Holy Spirit,
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discern right and wrong teaching, how
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to be grounded in prayer,
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and how to be spiritually prepared
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for living in victory in these last days.
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Leading ministers from around
the world are calling this
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book essential for every believer.
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You can also get the
15-part teaching series, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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In this series, Rick takes
you deep into New Testament
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prophecies about the end of the age
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and what you need to
do to sail successfully
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through turbulent End-Time waters.
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Available in digital or physical formats starting at just
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$24, you can order the series, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy
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and the book of the same name
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by going online or calling our team.
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Call the number on your screen
or scan the QR code to order.
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This is Rick Renner, and I
want to say thank you to you,
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partner, for everything you do
to help us take the teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the earth.
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Proverbs 10:21 says, The lips
of the righteous feed many,
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and that's our task.
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We are to feed many the
wonderful word of God.
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And I want to tell you that
we have given away hundreds
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and thousands of my books
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and other resources when people call us
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or they go online responding to an offer
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that we have made to them.
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My friends, that's a lot of material.
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And I'm going to tell you, it takes a lot of money
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to give away that many resources, but we're able to do it
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because of our partners. Because of what you give,
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we are able to take the life transforming truths
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of God's word to people
that are looking for answers
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and what a privilege that
people would come sit
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around our table and we would be able
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to feed them the wonderful
truths of God's word,
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and you are a big part of that.
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So I wanted to say thank
you. Thank you, partner.
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And if you're listening today
and you're not a 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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Today, we have seen how very important it is
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that we know the Bible
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before we try to be
teachers of the word of God.
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We need to be trained, we need
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to be taught, we need to be anointed.
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But in addition to being
anointed, there needs
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to be something in our
head that we really know
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what we're saying is correct.
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But this whole series is called - How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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It is 15 parts, comes with a study guide,
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and I've got a book by the very same name
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and I want you to read that book.
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And if you would like
to know how to get hold
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of these resources, just go
online or give us a call.
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And please, when you reach
out to us, tell us how to pray
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for you because we want to pray for you.
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You can just call for prayer.
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You don't have to order anything. We want to pray for you.
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And if something is touching you, we want it to touch us
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and together with you, we'll
touch God with our faith
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and Jesus will do exactly
what needs to be done.
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He is so faithful.
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He's just waiting for us
to call out to him in faith
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and then he'll move and do the impossible.
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So let us know how to pray
for you by calling that number
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or by sending us an email.
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And I want you to lay your hand on your heart
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and let me pray for you right now.
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Father, we thank you in the
word of God that truth is
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so important and you want
us to be established in it.
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And Lord, help us to do our part to learn, to be instructed,
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to be trained, Lord,
that we really know that
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what we're saying is founded
on truth before we teach
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and disseminate it to others.
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Help us, Lord, not to be obsessed with strange teachings,
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but to really be fixated on
the wonderful word of God
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that puts another brick in our wall
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and strengthens our foundation.
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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 come back in the next program,
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we're going to pick up right here.
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We have 5 more programs in this series
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and the next 5 are really going to be good.
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But until then, remember that Ecclesiastes 8:4 says -
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"Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your savior
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and Lord, now is the time for you
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to experience a new life
Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now.
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Lord, I repent of my sin
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and receive you as my savior and Lord.
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Wash away my sin and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going to
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renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Renner Ministries is proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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through every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening,
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together, we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God-called partners of Renner Ministries.