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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,
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and today I'm an ancient Ephesus at the Temple of Serapis.
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I love the Temple of Serapis 1st
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because few people get to come here.
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It's closed to the public
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because it is so difficult to get here.
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But when you do finally get
here, if you have permission,
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wow, this is a breathtaking sight.
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To see this ancient temple
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and the size of all of
the details, the columns
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are 80 tons.
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I'm seated on a pedestal
which once held one
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of those columns.
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Look at the size of this
pedestal. It's tons and tons.
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It had to be strong.
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It had to be stable because
an 80 ton column was
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erected on top of it.
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It had to have a strong foundation.
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And actually, when I look at
this entire facility from the
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ancient world, the foundation stones
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just nearly leave you speechless.
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They are so enormous.
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They built this temple to last,
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and it would have lasted if it
hadn't been for an earthquake
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that knocked it flat.
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This is a very dark,
very dark sinister place
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where demon spirits once abounded.
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But when I'm here, I don't
just think about the beautiful
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architectural features.
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I think about the foundation
stones they had to bring
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to this place to hold up
all of these features.
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If we want to build something
strong in our life, we have
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to have a good foundation.
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If you have a bad foundation, it's
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for sure everything you
build is going to collapse.
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But if you spend a lot of
time on your foundation,
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then you can begin to build
with peace, knowing that
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what you're going to build is going
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to pass the test of time.
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This really is what Paul said to Timothy
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in 1 Timothy 4:6.
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He said, If you put a foundation under the brethren,
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you'll be a good minister
of Jesus Christ. He said
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to Timothy, If you want
to be a good minister,
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if you really want to be
a responsible believer,
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then spend a lot of time
making sure you put a good,
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solid spiritual
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and doctrinal foundation
underneath people's lives.
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If they've got a good foundation,
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then they've really got something they can build on. Today,
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I'm going to talk to you about spiritual foundations,
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what you need to do to make sure you have a foundation under
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your life and what you can do
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to put a foundation under
the life of somebody else.
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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.
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My name is Rick Renner,
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and right from the start,
I want to say thank you
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for taking time to be with me today.
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I know you've got a lot to do,
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and the very fact that you're
taking time to be with me
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means a lot to me, and
I believe it's going
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to mean a lot to you.
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As I told you in the introduction to today's program,
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the Bible tells us at the
end of the age, there's going
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to be an infiltration of seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons.
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In the introduction, it's interesting
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that I was standing in the ruins of the temple
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of Serapis in Ephesus.
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In the 1st Century, that temple was swarming
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with demon spirits.
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Now, the reason I wanted
to show you that site is
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because it's off limits.
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You can't go there without
special permission,
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and I have permission to go there.
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It is such an amazing sight to see,
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and especially to see that big foundation
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that held up that big building.
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But in the 1st Century,
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that place was swarming with demons. Today
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that site is filled with snakes. Snakes are everywhere.
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The presence of evil is still there in
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that old pagan temple
from the ancient world.
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But the Holy Spirit prophesies
at the end of the age,
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seducing spirits with doctrines of demons are going to try
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to come right inside the church.
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So we need to know what the Bible says about this
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and to protect ourselves
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and others from that invasion of evil.
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And that's why I'm teaching this series which is called, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy.
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It is a 15-part series that
comes in all kinds of formats
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with a tremendous study
guide that is huge.
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And I have a book by the same name,
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and there's much more in the
book than is in the series.
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I just don't have time to teach at all.
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You need to have the series and the book,
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but the book is also called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight in a World Gone Crazy,
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and it is endorsed by more than 40 major Christian leaders
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who wrote that believers
need to read this book.
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So I want you, my
friend, to avail yourself
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to these resources by going online
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Just call the number on
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and when you reach out to us,
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also let us know how to pray for you.
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You don't have to order
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A big part of our ministry
is just praying for you.
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I've already prayed for you today,
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but if you'll let us know
how to pray specifically,
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we'll do a better job of praying.
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And if there's something that
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We will really touch the heart of God with you.
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And by the time we hang up with you, you will know
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you have really been prayed for.
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And I believe there's an answer with your name on it waiting
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for you right now.
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But reach for your Bible
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and today we are going to return
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to 1 Timothy 4:1
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because this is really foundational to this entire series.
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And in 1 Timothy 4:1, Paul
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is riding under the influence of the Holy Spirit,
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and he says, Now, the
spirit speaketh expressly
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that in the latter times, some
shall depart from the faith
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giving heed to seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons.
Now, I've already covered this
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for you on the board several times,
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but it's so important that today I want to remind you about
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what this verse really means.
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And it begins with the word, now, in the King James Version.
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However, in Greek, it is the word, de,
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which is a conjunction; in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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It's almost like an emphasis marker.
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Paul's raising his voice.
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He's saying, Now, I want you
to really hear what I have
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to say. And he says, The spirit speaks
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expressly. What does that word, expressly, mean?
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Well, in Greek, it is the word rhetos.
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If you want to spell that in English,
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it would be spelled like this.
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It is a long 'o'.
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It is a derivative of the word rhema.
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But when it becomes the word rhetos,
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here in the King James Version, it is translated
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as the word expressly.
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It really describes something
that is spoken undeniably,
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unmistakably, emphatically, categorically,
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which means Paul is not talking about
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something that might happen.
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He's not even talking about something
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that perhaps we can avoid.
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He says this is categorically,
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emphatically going to take place.
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It is unmistakable. It is undeniable.
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And he begins with the word, de, to raise the tone
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of his voice so people will really hear him.
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And my friends, we need to hear what this verse is saying.
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It says the spirit speaks expressly
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that in the latter times.
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Well, the word latter is a form of the Greek word, husteros.
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The word husteros in English,
it would be spelled like this,
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describes the very, very,
very end of a thing.
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In fact, it is so much
the end of the thing
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that there's not much left over.
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And it really means when
time is sailed to the end
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and not much time is left over
at the end of the age, some
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shall depart from the faith.
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The word some is also very important.
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It is the Greek word, tines.
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You say, Rick, why is this important?
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In English, it would be spelled like this
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because it says some, not all, but some.
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Unfortunately, it is a notable some that shall depart.
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Now, if you've got your Bible
open, if you've got a pen
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or a pencil, either underline
or circle the word depart.
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In Greek, it is the word aphistemi - aphistemi.
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It's a compound of two words: the word apo
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and the word histemi.
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In English, it would be spelled like this or like this.
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The word apo means away and it implies intentional distance.
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The word, histemi, means to stand.
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When you compound the
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and histemi, it forms the
word aphistemi, which is also
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where we get the word
for apostacy, apostasy.
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And it really describes a
moment at the end of the age
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when some, tines, a notable sum in the church are apo,
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they're going to begin to step away from histemi.
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They're going to change their position
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and they're not just going
to change their position,
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but apo, they're going to put
distance between themselves
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and what they once believed
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and what they once believed in this verse
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is called the faith.
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And in Greek, it has a definite article.
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So they're not just stepping
away from general faith.
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It's not faith for finances
or faith for signs and wonders
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or for the miraculous, but it's the faith.
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It is the authoritative
teaching of scripture.
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And then Paul says, Giving
heed to seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons.
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Giving heed is the Greek word prosecho.
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In English, it's spelled like this...
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And I want to thank you
again for letting me know
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that you like it when I
give you these Greek words.
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The word pros means toward and carries the idea of intimacy.
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The word echo, means I have, I hold, I embrace.
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So when you put it all together, here's
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what it means so far.
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Know this - de - hear me, really hear what I'm saying.
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The spirit speaks - rhetos - emphatically, unmistakably,
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categorically, that in the latter times - husteros,
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when time has run to the end
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and now not much is left
over, a notable sum
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will intentionally begin to step away from
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and change their position in regard
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to the clear sound teaching of scripture
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and apo, they will even put
distance between themselves
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and the faith that they once believed: giving heed to
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seducing spirits.
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The word seducing is
the Greek word planao.
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It's very foundational.
Jesus also used this word.
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It is used planao.
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It is used in Matthew 24:4
where Jesus said, take heed
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that no man deceive you.
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Here it's translated as the word seducing.
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In 2 Thessalonians 2:11, it is translated
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as the word delusion.
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All of it's right. So
these are seducing spirits.
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These are misleading spirits.
These are deceptive spirits.
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These are delusional spirits.
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And the Bible says seducing
spirits and doctrines.
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The Greek word is plural.
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It is didaskaloi - plural.
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So now we find doctrines of demons,
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but this word, didaskaloi,
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really describes well packaged information,
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really well packaged information,
which means at the end
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of the age when people
are more sophisticated
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and educated, the devil's not going
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to show up like he used to.
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He's not going to show
up with horns on his head
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and a pitchfork in his hand and red skin.
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Instead, he's going to repackage himself.
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He's going to package himself.
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It's going to be well
packaged information.
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But Paul says, you need
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to understand it is coming
from seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons, demons.
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the early church believed demons were the source of insanity
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and irrational thinking.
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by the doctrine of demons, it affects their thinking.
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That's why I call this series How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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What is wrong with people?
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They're listening to the wrong information.
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I told you in the previous episode
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that in 1 Thessalonians 5:12, we are commanded
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to know those who are speaking to us.
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We need to know something about them.
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Are they really feeding
us things that are good
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or are they feeding us
teaching that's going
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to negatively impact us?
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My friends, we need to make
sure we're eating good food
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that's placed on our plate
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and not something that has
spiritual toxins in it.
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But now I want to return to 2 Timothy 4:3, which says -
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For the time will come - now it's speaking futuristically.
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Even though the early church was already combating spiritual
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error, now Paul writing under the influence
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of the spirit is pointing to the end of the age
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and he says the time will come,
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he's speaking futuristically -
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when they will not endure sound doctrine, but
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after their own lusts shall they heap
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to themselves teachers having
itching ears. Now we covered
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this very briefly yesterday,
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but now we're going to cover it again.
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The word endure in this
verse is very important.
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It is the Greek word, anecho.
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In Greek, it would be spelled like this.
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you would spell it - anecho
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The word anecho here translated
in the King James Version
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as the word endure
really means to tolerate
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or to put up with.
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So now the Holy Spirit says, you need
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to understand when time has
sailed to the end of the age
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and not much more time has left over,
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people will lose a
toleration of sound doctrine.
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In fact, they won't even put up with it.
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It's almost as if they're going
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to push it away from them at the table,
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say, We've already heard this.
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We already know this. Tell us
something we've never heard
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before. And notice he says,
People will not tolerate
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or put up with or endure sound
doctrine. Well, what does
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that mean, sound doctrine?
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Well, in Greek, it is two words,
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which really means healthy doctrine.
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That means there is healthy doctrine.
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that means there is unhealthy doctrine.
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It could be translated
doctrine that is healthy.
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So we know there's
doctrine that is unhealthy,
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or it could be translated doctrine
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that produces a state of health.
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And my friends, when you're
really taught good doctrine from
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the word of God, it
produces in you a state
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of spiritual health.
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And not just spiritually, it affects your mind,
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it affects your body, it affects every aspect of your life.
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But just like there's good teaching
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and good doctrine, there's bad teaching.
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And here Paul says at the end
of the age, a time is going
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to come when people will
lose their toleration of
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and will no longer put up with teaching
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that they really need.
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Sound doctrine, but
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after their own lust
shall heap to themselves,
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teachers having itching ears. And the word heap means
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to accumulate heaps and heaps
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and heaps of teachers,
teachers that are stylized
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to provide what they want to hear.
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And that's why he goes on
to say having itching ears.
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It doesn't describe the
teachers having itching
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ears, but the people.
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The people saying, I've
already heard sound doctrine.
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Now I want to hear
something I've never heard
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before tantalize me.
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My ears are just itching
to hear something new. And
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that is why today when you go
to the internet and to YouTube
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and all kinds of social media,
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you can hear all kinds of nonsense.
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You know why? Because that's
what people want to hear
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and that's what people with
wrong motives are providing.
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They're providing
teaching that is not sound
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because people with itching ears
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are surfing the internet
looking for what is weird
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and what is bizarre spiritually.
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But my friends, it
doesn't put another brick
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in their spiritual wall.
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It doesn't strengthen them.
It just is a detraction.
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And the verse goes on to say in verse 4 -
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And they shall turn away their ears from the truth
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and shall be turned unto fables. Notice again, turn away.
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We covered this in the last episode.
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In Greek, it is the word apostrepho.
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Now this is really important.
The word apo means away.
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It implies intentional distance
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and the word strepho means to turn.
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When you put it together,
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it literally describes a
physical turning away from,
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and not just turning away from,
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but putting distance between yourself
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and something that you used to believe.
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And he goes on to say,
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Shall turn away their ears from the what?
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From the truth. This
is basically a repeat of
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what Paul also said at
1 Timothy 4:1 , Some
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shall
depart from the faith. Here he
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states it a little differently.
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They shall turn away their
ears from the truth, the truth.
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In Greek has a definite
article. This is not any truth.
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This is the truth, the clear,
sound, authoritative teaching
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of scripture and they shall be turned unto fables. Turned,
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the Greek word ektrepo.
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Now this is an important word.
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I covered it in the previous episode.
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We're going to see it again in Greek.
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In English, it would be spelled ek-trepo. Ek means out.
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Trepo means to turn,
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but when you put the two words together,
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it's a medical term which describes a bone
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that is out of joint.
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Have you ever had a bone out of joint?
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Even though it's just one bone, it affects your whole body.
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Let's say you have a finger that is out of joint.
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It's just one finger,
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but the pain is so intense that it affects your whole body.
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You can't function correctly
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because the pain of that
one bone out of joint.
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And now we find that when a teacher
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or a believer gets out of
joint doctrinally with truth,
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it becomes a source of
pain to the whole church.
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And it goes on to say,
shall be turned onto fables.
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And the word fables is the Greek word muthos.
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In English, it would be spelled like this muthos.
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It's where we get the word
for mythology, mythology.
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And in the New Testament, this
describes a myth or a fantasy
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or stories that are told in
replacement of the truth.
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And in the New Testament,
it depicts false teachings
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that are perpetuated
in the place of truth.
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They're going to turn
their ears from the truth
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and shall be turned onto fables.
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Now that leads me to these two
objects which are here today
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as show and tell.
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What you have here is a Russian icon.
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This actually hangs in my home,
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but you'll notice it's very damaged.
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And the reason it is damaged is
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because during the Bolshevik Revolution,
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when the communists took power in 1917
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and 1980, it became unfashionable
to have religious icons
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and it became unfashionable
for people to paint them.
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Until that time, artists depicted truth.
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This is a picture of
Mark the gospel writer
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and Orthodox churches were just filled
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with the most marvelous
depictions of New Testament truth.
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These artists who were
gifted by God to paint
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and they painted and just
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illustrated the most beautiful things.
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But you'll notice this one's been damaged
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because during the
revolution it was thrown out.
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But the men who painted
this needed to work,
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but truth fell out of fashion.
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So rather than stick with the truth,
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they literally turned their ears onto
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fables, and that's what this is.
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This is called a triptych.
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It is made of 16 layers of paper mache.
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This is black paper mache
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and on top of it is painted fairy tales.
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These are Pushkin fairytales.
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And if you had a microscope
and really looked at this
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or a looking glass,
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you would find the details
in this are just amazing.
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The men who painted these fairytales
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formally painted stories from the Bible.
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But when the stories from the
Bible fell out of fashion,
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they literally turned
their ears onto fables.
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And when I see this and when I see this,
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I think about what's
happening in our own day.
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When people are perpetuating fantasies
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or stories as a replacement for a truth. For example: people
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who are telling stories about going to heaven
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and seeing mountains made of jello
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and they saw Santa Claus in heaven...
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and these things are just endless on the internet.
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Why are people listening to that stuff?
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Well, because Paul said
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that would happen in the end of the age.
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It is an invasion of seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons
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to lead people away from
the clear sound teaching
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of scripture and their ears
are being turned to fables
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or to other things that are
being perpetuated in the place
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of truth, and their distractions.
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Do you see how very
important this teaching is?
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And in fact, we're told in Hebrews 6:1-2
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that we need
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to be established in the
fundamentals of our faith.
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We're 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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What do you do when your faith seems weak?
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Well, first of all, the
problem is not faith.
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Faith is never weak. What's weak is you.
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You may be weak in your emotions.
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You may be physically tired.
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You may feel spiritually drained.
The problem is not faith.
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Faith is a force that is unaffected.
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If you feel you're weak,
you may need the support
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of other believers to encourage you.
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You might need to go down
to a good church service
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where you can hear a good
dose of the word of God
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or be in the presence of God in worship
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and let the spirit of God
really rejuvenate you.
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The problem is not your
faith, so quit saying
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that your faith is weak.
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It is not weak. Now you
can feed your faith,
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you can make your faith bigger,
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but my friends' faith is a
force that is never weak.
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It's you that's weak.
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So go somewhere to be strengthened by other believers
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and by the presence of God.
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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
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around the world are calling this book essential
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for every believer.
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How to Keep Your Head On Straight in a World Gone Crazy can
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You can also get the 15-part teaching series, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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In this series, Rick takes
you deep into New Testament
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prophecies about the end of the age
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and what you need to
do to sail successfully
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through turbulent End-Time waters.
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Available in digital or
physical formats starting at
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just $24.
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You can order the series, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy
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and the book of the same name
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by going online or calling our team.
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Call the number on your screen
or scan the QR code to order.
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This is Rick Renner,
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and I'm standing outside our Tulsa Ministry Headquarters
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building, 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, but every day
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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
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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,
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you really share a part
in 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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I want to say thank you for letting me spend
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this time with you today.
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I pray this teaching has
been a blessing for you.
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I really pray to prepare this for you
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and to really put good food
on your plate for you to eat.
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I want you to have
teaching that you can trust
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and you keep your head
on straight in a world
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that has gone crazy.
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And that's the name of this
15-part series that comes
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with a study guide and I
have a book by the same name.
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And there's so much more in
the book than in the series.
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I just can't cover it all in the series,
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but I would like for you to
have both of these resources.
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If you've got a prayer need, let us know.
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Call that number or send us an email
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and we will pray scripturally.
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And according to Jeremiah
33:3, if we call out
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to God in faith, he will
hear us, he will answer us,
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and Jesus will do something
great and magnificent for you.
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He's just waiting for us to pray.
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I know you can pray by yourself,
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but sometimes it helps to
have somebody pray with you.
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So here we are. Just send us an email
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or give us a call right now.
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But thank you for being with me today.
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And when we come back tomorrow, we're going to learn about
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what we need to do to make
sure we're on a good solid
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doctrinal foundation and how
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to put others on a good foundation.
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God wants to use us to help others,
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but let me pray for you right now.
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Father, we thank you for the word of God.
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We thank you that you
warned us in advance about
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what was going to happen
at the end of the age so
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that we could insulate
ourselves against it
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and keep our head on straight
in a world gone crazy.
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Father, we thank you.
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We thank you for your wonderful word
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and for the teaching of the Holy Spirit.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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This has really been good today.
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I'll be back again tomorrow.
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Please don't miss tomorrow's episode,
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but until then, remember
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and never forget 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 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
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God-called partners of Renner Ministries.