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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 one
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of my favorite places in
the city of Ancient Ephesus,
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and it is a location that
is closed to the public.
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The reason I like it is
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because it is such a
remarkable archeological site.
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It is the temple of Serapis.
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It's located behind the state Agora, back
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behind the library.
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It's very hard to get here,
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but when you see this site,
it is simply breathtaking.
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For example, this is
a piece of the cornice
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that went along the top of the temple.
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These are the fallen columns,
which were single pieces,
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which each weighed 80 tons.
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This was a massive, massive temple to the God, Serapis.
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The religion of Serapis was dark, was dreary, it was eerie.
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It was Egyptian, and it
was filled with eerie music
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and all kinds of dark occult rituals.
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This was something nearly taboo
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and forbidden to the common man.
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We would say this temple
was literally swarming
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with demon spirits and occult activity.
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All of that was happening right here in this place,
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which was formally the temple of Serapis, seducing spirits
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with doctrines of demons abounded
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inside this dark location.
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But the Apostle Paul talks
to us about seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons infiltrating the
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church at the end of the age.
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Even the church is going to be victimized
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by seducing spirits and
doctrines of demons.
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The Bible emphatically teaches this
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in 1 Timothy 4:1,
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where Paul writing under the inspiration
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of the Holy Spirit says - Now the spirit speaketh expressly,
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expressly, clearly, unmistakably that in the latter times,
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some shall depart from
the faith giving heed to
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seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons. When
we look at a place like this,
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the Temple of Serapis, we wonder how could the people of
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that time have embraced something so dark,
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so sinister?
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But the Holy Spirit says, at the very end of the church age,
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believers are going to
begin embracing doctrines
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that are dark and are sinister, doctrines
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that will lead them off track
away from the time tested
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truths of scripture.
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That's going to happen
at the end of the age.
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Now, there's also going to be a great
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revival at the end of the age.
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These things will occur
in a parallel fashion.
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We need to make sure we stay
a part of the move of God
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and we're not led off
track by seducing spirits
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with doctrines of demons.
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And that's what I'm going
to talk to you about today.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind, where the
word is the anchor in
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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, my friend.
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I've been waiting for you.
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It's the first of the week,
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and we're going to pick up today
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where we left off in the last episode,
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but I'm doing an entire
series, which is called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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Does that ever feel to you
that you're living in a world
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that has lost its mind?
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Well, the Bible said that
would happen at the end
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of the age, but you can
keep your head on straight.
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And that is why I'm teaching
this 15-part series that comes
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with a wonderful study guide.
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And I've got a book by the same name.
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And by the way, there's much
more in the book than I can
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possibly teach in this series.
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So you really need to read
this book, which is called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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It is endorsed by about
40 major Christian leaders
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who say the body of Christ
needs to read this book.
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And if you don't have
that book, my friends,
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you need to read that book.
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And if you want to know
how to get these resources,
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just go online or give us a call.
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And please, when you reach
out to us, let us know
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how to pray for you.
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Whatever is concerning you,
we'll let it also concern us.
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And together we will go to the Lord.
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If you call the number
that is on the screen
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or send us an email, the
moment we hear from you,
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we're going to begin to pray scripturally.
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And the Bible tells us in 1 John 5:14
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and 15 that if you pray scripturally, it opens the ears
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of God and he does what needs to be done.
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So let us know what's concerning you.
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We'll get together with you in faith.
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We'll pray scripturally
and Jesus will move
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and Jesus will do something
wonderful for you.
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I believe that. So please let
us know how to pray for you.
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But today I want you to
reach for your Bible.
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We always use the Bible in this program
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and we're believing for a revival
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of the Bible in the church.
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Wow. But
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before we get into today's teaching,
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I've just got something
on my heart to share
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with you from 1 Thessalonians 5:12,
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which says,
And we beseech you, brethren,
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to know them which labor among you
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and are over you in the Lord
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and admonish you. And the
Bible says to know them,
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the word know is the Greek word edo.
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It means to observe, to see
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or to have knowledge of something.
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And here we are explicitly
commanded in scripture
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to know something about the
people that are speaking
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with spiritual authority into our lives.
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And the reason I'm bringing this up is because the internet
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and YouTube and social media is loaded with thousands
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of faces that have suddenly appeared, people speaking
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with authority and people
like you sitting at home,
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surfing the internet, listening to them,
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and you don't even know
who's speaking to you.
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This scripture commands you
to know something about people
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before you receive from them.
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And I take this so seriously
that when I'm listening
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to somebody that I don't know,
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I put it on pause and I do research.
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I want to know who are they?
Where were they educated?
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Who are the friends that they run with?
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What do they believe? What
can I know about them?
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I need to know something about them
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before I throw open my heart to them
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and possibly they begin to feed me something that is wrong.
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And here the scripture's
commanding us to do this.
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And I'm so serious about
this that even when Denise
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and I are watching the news,
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if a new reporter comes
on the screen, I want
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to know who is that reporter?
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Where were they educated?
What is their slant?
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What is the propaganda
which they primarily bring?
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Who are their friends? I want to know
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who is reporting the news to me
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because it's sure they have a
slant to what they are saying
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to me and to everybody else.
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So I want to know who are they?
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And likewise, your spiritual
life is so important that
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before you let someone put food
on the plate for you to eat,
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you need to know they're
qualified to prepare that food
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and that you can trust it to
be teaching that is sound.
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Say amen. But in the introduction to today's program, I said
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that in the 1st Century there were pagan temples
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that were swarming with demon spirits
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and believers avoided those places
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because of this foul influence.
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But in 1 Timothy 4:1,
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and we're going to go
there in just a moment,
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the Holy Spirit prophesied
that at the end of the age,
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demons will try to invade the church
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and lead people off track
with seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons.
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Now that is an amazing statement.
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And so we need to know how
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to guard ourself against this infiltration
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of evil at the end of the age,
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and that's why I'm teaching this series.
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But let's go back to where we
left off in the last episode.
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And I was speaking to you from
1 Timothy 1:7 ,
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where Paul really
gives the benefit of the doubt
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to people that are doctrinally off.
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And here's what he says.
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He says, Desiring to
be teachers of the law,
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understanding neither what they say
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nor whereof they affirm.
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The word desiring is
the Greek word thelo.
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I'll write it for you on Greek.
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It's actually a form of this
word, the Greek word thelo.
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Now, if you want to write that in English,
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it would be spelled like this Thelo.
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But this word thelo
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or a longing, however the tense
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that is used depicts an
earnest, ongoing desire,
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an ongoing longing, which
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They really desire, they're
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Paul says, teachers of the law.
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What does that mean? Well, in Greek,
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it is the word nomodidaskalus.
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It's spelled like this in Greek.
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And by the way, thank you for letting me know
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that you like it when I give you these Greek words.
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Nomodidaskalos:
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it's a compound of 2 words. The first word is nomos.
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If you're going to spell that in English,
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it'd be spelled like this - plus the word, didaskalos.
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And if you're spelling that in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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The word, didaskalos, means teaching.
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The word nomos, means law,
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but when you compound them together,
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it forms the word nomodidaskalos,
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which the King James Version translates as teachers
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of the law, but it's really a scripture lawyer.
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The word nomos, the word law
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and the word which didaskalosis a
teaching or one who teaches.
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So they're really longing,
earnestly desiring to be
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so masterful in their
handling of the Bible
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that they're claiming that
they are nomodidascolos,
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scripture lawyers.
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The problem is they're not
established in the truth.
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They don't have the knowledge to be
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what they're claiming to be.
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That's why you need to know
who you are listening to.
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Do they really have the
knowledge underneath them
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that they need to be
speaking so authoritatively?
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And here Paul goes on to
say, Understanding neither
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what they say nor whereof they
affirm. And when Paul says
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what they say in Greek it is legousin,
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a better translation would be
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what they're repeatedly saying over
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and over, what they're alleging.
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And they're alleging that
they are masterful teachers
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of the law, but Paul says
they don't understand.
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And the word understanding is a derivative
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of the Greek word nous, the word nous,
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which is the word for the mind.
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It's spelled like this in English.
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And here Paul says they don't
have the mental ability,
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they don't have the understanding,
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they don't have the intellectual capacity to really be
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what they're claiming to be.
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They're claiming to be more than they are.
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They don't have understanding.
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They don't have education
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and that's why they're making mistakes.
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But he goes on to say
desiring, really desiring
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to be teachers of law, scripture lawyers
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understanding neither what they say, what they're professing
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or alleging themself to be
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nor where of they affirm
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what they're saying about themselves.
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Now that is just amazing to me.
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But in Hebrews 5:12,
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and we also saw this in a
previous episode, Paul says,
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For when the time you ought to be teachers, you have need
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that one teach you again, which be the 1st Principles
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of the Oracles of God. The word, ought,
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is the Greek word, opheilo.
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Hope it's okay that I'm
giving you all these words.
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The word opheilo, in English
it would be spelled like
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this - opheilo.
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It describes an obligation or a necessity: an obligation
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or a necessity.
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So you could translate it,
you have an obligation.
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It is necessary that by now
you should be a teacher.
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And the word teachers, the Greek word didaskalos,
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is the Greek equivalent
for the word rabbi.
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It's the equivalent to saying
by now, after all you've heard
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or with all the potential
information available
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to you, you ought to.
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You have a moral obligation that
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by now you could be a rabbi.
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You should be a masterful teacher.
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But he says instead, you have
need that someone teach you
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again, what are the 1st Principles of the Oracles of God?
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And the word need, is the Greek word, chreia.
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Chreia in Greek, it is spelled like this.
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Chreia in English, it would be spelled like this.
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And this word, chreia, describes a lack or a deficit.
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And here he is identifying their problem.
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They have a lack, they have
a deficit about knowledge
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and understanding of the scriptures.
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And he says, You need to
be taught. And guess what?
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The word taught is a form of
the Greek word didaskalos,
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but here it is the Greek word
didasko, which means I teach,
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but as the word didasko,
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it describes the systematic
teaching of the Bible
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or a student who sits alongside of a masterful teacher
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and that teacher takes him to school
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and begins to instruct him in the 1st principles - this says
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of the oracles of God.
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The word first is the Greek word, archas,
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archas: it describes that which is the very, very first,
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that which is foundational or that which is elementary.
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principles - the Greek word - stoicheion.
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In English, it would be spelled like this.
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And this word, stoicheion, describes the very,
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very basic principles
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or the fundamental elements of a thing.
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Rudimentary knowledge, essential
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before advancing to higher education,
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or this is fundamental knowledge.
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So now the writer of Hebrews says,
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Let me tell you about your problem.
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By now, after everything you've heard,
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with all the teaching
available to you, you ought,
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the Greek word, opheilo: you have an obligation,
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a moral duty that by now
you should be a teacher.
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And the word teacher is one
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that masterfully teaches the Greek
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equivalent for the word rabbi.
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You ought to be a rabbi by now,
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but you have need, the Greek word chreia,
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you've got a deficit, you've got a
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shortfall and here's what it is.
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You have need that one teach
you again, the word teach,
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the Greek word didasko,
that you pull up alongside
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of a masterful teacher who
begins to speak into your life
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and they begin to systematically teach you the first
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principles;: the word first, describing
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that which is most elementary, that which is basic,
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and the word principles,
the weak word stoicheion,
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fundamental knowledge
of the oracles of God.
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Wow. And that is the
problem with people today
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that are making doctrinal mistakes.
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They've never really been
instructed in first things.
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Maybe they're gifted orators,
maybe they really are anointed
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to speak, but their gift
has been unwrapped too soon.
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They need to go to school.
They need to be taught.
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I said in a previous program
that in the world of medicine,
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before somebody operates on
your heart physically, they go
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to school and they go to school for years
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and years and years and years.
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Would you want somebody who
had never studied medicine
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to take a scalpel in their
hand and cut you open
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and operate on your heart?
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Of course not. You want someone
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who knows what they're doing.
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And likewise, when we
operate on the souls of men
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and teach truth to
people that has the power
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to alter their lives, we need to know
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that we really have the resources
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and the understanding to do it
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and we need to have confidence
that those that are speaking
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to us are equipped to speak to us:
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that they really have understanding
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and they have authority that we can trust.
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All of that is in this verse.
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And my friends, if we're really sure that we're listening
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to the right people, it will protect us against the advance
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of seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
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But when you come to 2 Timothy 4:3, Paul prophesies
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and says, For the time will come.
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Now he's talking about the end of the age,
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but the truth is they were already dealing
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with false doctrine in the 1st Century.
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In fact, in 1 Timothy 2 Timothy, Paul deals with issues
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of false doctrine and how to combat it.
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But now he says the time will come.
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It's the equivalent of
saying, You think you're
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dealing with problems now?
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You got to see what's going to
happen at the end of the age.
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The time will come when they
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will not endure sound doctrine. The word endure is the
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Greek word anecho.
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Anecho. It's spelled like this.
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If you want to write it in English,
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it would be spelled anecho.
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And the word anecho
really means to tolerate
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or to put up with, to
tolerate or to put up with.
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So you could translate the verse,
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For the time will come when
they, speaking of the body
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of Christ at large, will not
tolerate, will not put up with
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sound doctrine. And sound
doctrine in Greek really means
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healthy doctrine or
doctrine that is healthy
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or doctrine that produces
a healthy state of being.
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Well, if there is doctrine
that produces a healthy state
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of being, it means there's also doctrine
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that produces an unhealthy state of being.
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And you need to make sure
you're eating the right food
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that's been put on the
plate in front of you.
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And the scripture here says
that time is going to come
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and we're living in that
time when many will no longer
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endure or put up with teaching
that is healthy for them, but
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after their own lust shall heap
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to themselves teachers
having itching ears.
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And here it is the
picture of people saying,
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tell us something new.
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Our ears are itching for something new.
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Don't tell us what we've already heard.
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We want to hear something new.
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And when people just want to hear something new
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and hear something new, the devil is always happy to oblige.
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And then you go to verse 4, which says,
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And they shall turn away
their ears from the truth
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and shall be turned unto fables. But notice he says,
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they shall turn away. In Greek, aropostrepho.
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Let me show you this word. In Greek,
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it is spelled like this, apostrepho.
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If you want to spell that in English,
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it's A-P-O-S-T-R-E-P-H-O.
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The word, apo, means from.
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The word strepho means to turn, but it's not just turning.
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It's literally physically
turning from something
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and apo, putting distance between yourself
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and that former thing that you once believed.
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And so now we find the time is going to come.
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This is what we also saw in 1 Timothy 4:1 -
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when people are going to depart from the faith here,
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the Apostle Paul says they're going
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to turn away their ears from the truth.
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They're physically going to turn from
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what they once heard and once believe.
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They're going to distance
themselves from it
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and shall be turned unto fables.
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Turned unto fables in Greek is ektrepo.
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The word ek, means from.
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The word trepo means to turn,
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but when you put the two
words together in English,
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it would be spelled ektrepo.
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It is a medical term which describes a
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bone that is out of joint.
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And here we find that when a
person turns their ears away
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from the truth and they
begin to believe things
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that are not scripturally correct,
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they become like a bone
that is out of joint.
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Have you ever had a bone
that is out of joint?
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When you have a bone that is out of joint,
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it affects your whole body,
even if it's just a finger.
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It is so painful the whole rest of your body senses the pain
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and you're hindered in your movement
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because of that one little bone that is out of joint.
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And here we find the seriousness of somebody becoming out
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of joint with real teaching of scripture.
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Now they're teaching something false.
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They're teaching something
that's just not quite right
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and it's causing a pain
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and an irritation to the local church
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or to the whole body of
Christ rather than the body
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of Christ do what it needs to do.
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It's all talking about this one bone,
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this one person that is out of joint.
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All the attention goes to that issue. Wow.
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And according to this
verse, people are going
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to be turned onto fables.
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The word fables is the Greek word, muthos,
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which is really the word for mythology
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or stories that are told
in replacement of truth.
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And in the New Testament,
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this word muthos depicts false teachings
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that are perpetuated in the place of truth.
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Now you'll notice that here with me today, I have something
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for a show and tell.
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I have a Russian icon,
which is very, very old.
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And I have what is called palac,
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which is painted on black lacquer.
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It's very beautiful. Why
do I have these here?
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I'm going to answer that
question in the next episode.
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You don't want to miss it
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because this is a great illustration
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of turning your ears from the truth
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and turning them instead onto fables.
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But I'm out of time, but
I'll be back in just a moment
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and I'm going to pray for you.
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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 a World Gone Crazy
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and the book of the same name
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by going online or calling our team.
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Call the number on your screen
or scan the QR code to order.
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This is Rick Renner, and I'm standing
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outside our Tulsa Ministry Headquarters building,
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and this place is just amazing.
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If you're ever in Tulsa,
come by for a tour.
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I think that you will be blessed
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that every day we hear from thousands
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and thousands of people who reach out to us either by email
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or phone calls and we minister to them.
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And it's such a blessing and you are a part of it
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because you are a partner.
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And right now, our Ministry Expansion Project is paying
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off this facility.
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And when this facility
is paid off, it's going
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to release those funds so
that we can take the teaching
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of the Bible further to
the ends of the earth.
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And right now, this facility
has already paid off 92%.
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We're so very close to the end,
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and I want to say thank you
if you're part of the team
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for the Ministry Expansion Project.
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And if you're not a part of the team yet,
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would you please join us to
help us pay off this facility
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so those funds can be released
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and we can take the teaching of the Bible
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to the ends of the earth.
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That's the call that God
has put on our lives.
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And when you partner with us,
you really share a part in
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what we are doing.
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You put the fuel in the tank
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and make it possible for us to do our work
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and together we are partners with God.
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But please pray about becoming a part
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of the Ministry Expansion Project.
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Today, we have covered a lot
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of information from the New
Testament about false doctrine
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and knowing who it is
that is speaking to you.
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You're commanded in 1 Thessalonians 5:12, To know them
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that are over you and those
that admonish you. You need
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to know who they are,
where were they educated,
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what do they really believe?
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It is important what you receive spiritually into your life,
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and you need to be sure that you're being fed good spiritual
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food because according to the Bible, a time's going to come
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and we're living in that time when people will lose their
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toleration for sound teaching.
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This teaching is just so important for us
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to understand and to embrace.
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And that's why I want you
to have the whole series, 15
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parts, which is called How
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to Keep Your Head Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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And I want you to also have
my book by the same title, How
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to Keepo Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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There's much more in the book than I can
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teach in the whole series.
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So really you need both
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and it would be great for a Bible study.
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Or if you know someone who's really wanted
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to be established in truth,
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this would be a great series for them.
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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 I want to remind you that
we're here to pray for you.
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And if you'll send us an email
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or call the number on the
screen when you let us know
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what is concerning you, together with you,
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we will touch the heart of
God, we will pray in faith,
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we will pray scripturally,
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and Jesus will really do
what needs to be done.
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So please send us an
email or call that number.
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We're waiting to hear from you right now.
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But I want to pray for
you before we close.
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Father, in the name of Jesus,
we thank you that you love us
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so much you forewarned us
in advance that we need to
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undergird ourself in the end
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of the age against an infiltration of wrong doctrine.
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Help us, Lord, to really
use our minds to know
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who we're listening to and
who we're receiving from
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and to make sure we're
really established in truth.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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I'll see you in the next program,
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but remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word
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of the 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 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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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.