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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 am in Ephesus at the Temple of Serapis,
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a monumental temple here in ancient Ephesus.
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The fact that this temple is here,
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and it is so enormous, is a witness to
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how many Egyptians lived in the city of Ephesus.
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There was a very large enclave
of Egyptians who lived here,
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and they were so wealthy, they
constructed this huge temple
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to Serapis, which was an Egyptian religion.
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In fact, there were so many Egyptians in the city of Ephesus
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that when Arsinoe, who was
the sister of Cleopatra,
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felt her life was under
threat from Cleopatra.
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She fled from Egypt and came
to Ephesus as a refugee.
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She was later assassinated
here by Cleopatra.
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But she came here because
there were so many Egyptians
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in the city of Ephesus.
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And here we have a witness to
that, the temple of Serapis.
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This was really a dark sinister religion.
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Ugh, what took place here was simply foul.
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It was filled with all
kinds of immoralities
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and sexual debaucheries so perverse,
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I cannot even begin to describe them.
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But in fact, the whole city was pagan.
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Perverse activities were
happening all over the city
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of Ephesus because that's what
happened in the pagan world.
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And it was a great
temptation for believers
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because believers had just
been delivered from that.
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They had just called Jesus
the Lord of their life.
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They had been delivered
from a very bad lifestyle.
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They had come into Christ, they were learning how to live,
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but as they lived their
life in Ephesus, they had
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to walk past these temples.
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They heard the music that
was so familiar to them.
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These were places where
they once frequented
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and felt so comfortable,
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and there was a temptation
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to go back into these
places from which they had
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been delivered.
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And Paul said to Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:6 - Timothy,
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you need to put the believers
on a really good doctrinal
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and spiritual foundation.
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They've been delivered from a life
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of sin, a life of darkness.
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Now you need to really establish them.
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And in fact, he said in 1 Timothy 4:6 -
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If you do this, this will make you
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a good minister of Jesus Christ.
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Helping people get free
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and stay free makes us a good
minister of Jesus Christ.
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And this doesn't just apply to people
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that are full-time in the ministry,
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it applies to every believer.
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You have a responsibility
to help people get free
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and to stay free and to
put them on a foundation
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that will support them for the
rest of their life. And that
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is what I want to talk to you about today.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind, where the word
is the anchor in uncertain
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times and doctrine
doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep, revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and I have really been waiting for you.
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And today we're going to pick up
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where we left off in yesterday's program.
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And these scriptures we're going
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to be studying today are
really, really important.
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Please don't miss one
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but I'm teaching a whole
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In a World Gone Crazy - comes with a wonderful study guide.
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Wow, there's so much in the study guide,
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but I've got a book by the same title, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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And there's so much more in
the book than there is in the
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series, but it's like I
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And my advice is that you
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But 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 today we're going to return
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to 2 Timothy 4:3 Now, once again,
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here I have on the set with me
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a Russian icon from the 18th century.
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That's from the period of Catherine the Great.
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And then we have what is called a Russian triptych.
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It's three parts. It folds together.
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This is made of 16 layers of paper mache
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and it is beautifully, beautifully painted.
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And today I'm going to use this
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and this as a final
illustration, then we're going
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to remove them from the set.
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But let's go ahead and open our Bibles
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to 2 Timothy 4:3.
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When you come to 2 Timothy 4:1-2,
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Paul is exhorting Timothy to stick with the word
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of God and preach the word.
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Then when you come to
verse 3, he says,
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For the time will come.
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And here Paul is speaking futuristically
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and he's declaring that the
very, very end of the age,
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the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.
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The word, they, refers to people at large.
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The word, endure, is the Greek word, anecho.
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It really means to put
up with or to tolerate.
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So now you could translate it.
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A time is going to come in the
future when people at large
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will have no toleration.
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They will no longer put
up with sound doctrine.
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Sound doctrine in this
verse, in the original Greek,
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really describes healthy doctrine
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or doctrine that is healthy
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or doctrine that produces
a state of health.
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And my friends, if there's
doctrine that produces a state
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of health, it means there's also doctrine
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that produces sickness.
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And here we find at the
very end of the age,
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a time will come when people
generally, people at large,
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will lose their toleration for
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and will no longer put up with
really good, healthy teaching
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that produces a state
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of good spiritual health in their lives.
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But they're going to want
to want other things.
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And that's why it goes on to say, But
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after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers
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and the word heap means to accumulate piles and piles.
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They will heap to themself
self-styled teachers
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having itching ears.
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Having itching ears does not describe the
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teachers, but it's the people.
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The people say, Oh, come on.
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We've already heard this doctrine. We've already heard this.
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We already know that.
Now give us something
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we've never heard.
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It's the itching ear syndrome.
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Tell me a tale that I've never heard.
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Take me to some realm
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where I've never been having
itching ears. They will
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reject the truth.
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They will lose their
toleration for the truth,
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no longer put up with it
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and will begin to pile on
top of pile accumulating
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to them self-styled
teachers response to those
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that have itching ears
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to have something
interesting, something new.
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And you're going to see in just a moment,
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something may be even bizarre,
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but that's what people will
ask for at the end of the age.
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And today, if you look at the YouTube
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and if you look at social media, it is filled with all kinds
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of bizarre teaching.
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People really are fulfilling this verse.
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They're heaping to
themselves strange teachings,
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strange prophetic voices.
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Some of them are legitimate,
many of them are not,
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but the problem is
people have itching ears.
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But then it goes on in verse 4
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and says, And they shall
turn away their ears from the
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truth and shall be turned unto
fables. Let's look at this
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verse one more time from the Greek text.
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It says, And they shall turn away.
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Turn away is the Greek word apostrepho.
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It's spelled like this in Greek - apostrepho.
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The word apo in English would be spelled like this
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means away from and it implies distance.
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The word strepho is a very important word.
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In English, it would be spelled like
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this if you're taking notes.
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And by the way, thank
you for letting me know
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that you like it when I
share these words with you,
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but this word means to physically turn.
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But when you put these
two words together, apo
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and strepho, it forms the word apostrepho,
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which describes people
who literally turn away.
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That's the word apo. They turn away from
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what they once believed
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and they don't just turn away from it.
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They begin to distance themself from it
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as if it's no longer relevant
or it's no longer popular.
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Now they're turning in a new direction
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to embrace something new.
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And we saw in 1 Timothy 4:1 , they're going to give heed
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to seducing spirits and
doctrines of demons.
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That's why we need
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to be involved in
putting a good foundation
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under people's lives.
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We need to let them have a taste of
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what is really good doctrine
so they can know the difference
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between what is right and what is wrong.
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But then the verse says, And
they shall turn away their
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ears from the truth. And here
again, we have the word apo
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for from apo, spelled
like this in English,
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which implies them literally
turning their ears from
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and putting distance between themselves
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and the truth, which in Greek is Aletheus.
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Now, it's important that
it has this word taste
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because this is a definite article.
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The word Aletheus means truth,
the bonafide real truth, but
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because of the definite article,
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it lets us know they're turning
their ears away from the
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truth, the clear sound,
authoritative voice of scripture,
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and now they're turning to other things.
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And in fact, it says they
shall be turned unto fables.
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The word turned now is a Greek word
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ektrepo.
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Wow. Ektrepo.
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In English, it's spelled like this Ektrepo
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and it is a medical term.
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It describes 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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I once had a bone that was out of joint.
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It was just one bone, one
very small place in my body,
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but that one spot was so painful
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that it affected my whole body.
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It affected how I moved.
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It determined how I could
not move, what I could do,
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what I could not do, because
that one bone was out of joint.
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All of my attention went to
that one bone out of joint.
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And now we find the power of one person
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or one group of people who get
out of joint with doctrine.
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They become a source of pain
and irritation in the church.
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And even though it
might just be one person
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or one small group of people,
they make such a noise
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and become such an irritant
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that the whole church is focused on it
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and it distracts the whole church
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and impedes our movement spiritually.
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That's the power of what
happens when one person gets out
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of joint with doctrine.
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But the good news is they
can be popped back into place
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again if they're willing to
submit to spiritual leadership
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and to bend their brain to the truth.
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But notice it says they
shall be turned unto what?
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Fables, the Greek word muthos,
spelled like this in Greek.
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In English, it would be spelled like this muthos.
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And it is where we get
the word for mythology.
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Does this mean that
they're literally going
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to teach mythology?
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No. But here the word muthos
describes a myth or a fantasy
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or stories that are told
in replacement of 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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because truth has fallen out of fashion.
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Now that leads us to
these items that I'm going
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to use for an illustration.
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In the 18th century
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or in the time of Catherine the Great, some
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of the greatest artists in
Russia painted religious icons
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and that's what this is.
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But you'll notice this
one looks very damaged.
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because during the
Bolshevik Revolution in 1917
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and 1918, faith fell out of fashion.
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And the painters that were
marvelously gifted, gifted
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by God, used their talent
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to paint the most beautiful
religious icons and frescoes.
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This particular one is of
Mark, the writer of the gospel.
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But the reason that it is damaged is
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because it was thrown out
during the revolution.
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It fell out of fashion to
pay attention to religion.
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who painted these beautiful
religious icons now decided
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to turn to new business.
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They use the same God-given
talents to paint fairy tales,
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and that is literally what this is.
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This is a Russian triptych.
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And as I told you, it's
16 layers of paper mache
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and just meticulously painted.
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that has a single hair on it.
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It is so fine you nearly
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to see all the details.
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It is just amazing.
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But the same people
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who painted religious
things when it fell out
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of fashion just turned
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and began to create items connected
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with fantasy and fairy tales.
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Same gift, same men, but
they turned their ears
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and their talents away from the truth
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and they were literally turned onto
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fantasies or to mythology.
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Now, the reason I show you this is
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because it's such a demonstration
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of what's happening in our time.
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People say, Well, Faith,
we're kind of changing
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what we believe. And they're
saying it's primitive,
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it's no longer relevant.
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And they're beginning to teach
different kinds of things
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that are alluring,
appealing to the masses,
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but it's not the truth.
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It is a diversion from the truth.
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And here we have a historical
example of an event like that
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that really took place,
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but now it's happening in the
church at the end of the age.
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And we're told in Hebrews 13:9 listen
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to this admonition, Be not
carried about with divers
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and strange doctrines,
for it's a good thing
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that the heart be
established with grace, not
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with meats which have not profited them
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that have been occupied therein
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or preoccupied therein. And we find
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that many people become
preoccupied with strange
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and divers doctrines.
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They're very alluring,
they're very tempting,
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but they don't really do anything practically in their life.
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And the Bible says, Don't go in that direction.
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You need to establish your heart with meats, with teaching
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that are going to strengthen you.
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And in Hebrews 6:1-2
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we find some foundational doctrines that we all need
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to be established in.
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And in Hebrews 6:1-2, the Bible says,
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Therefore, leaving the principles
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of the doctrine of Christ, let's go on. So we are supposed
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to go on, but not until first
we're established in the
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basics, not laying again the foundation
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of repentance from dead works.
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Every believer needs to understand that.
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And a faith toward God, you
need to understand that.
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The doctrine of baptisms,
you need to understand that.
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The laying on of hands,
you must understand that.
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The resurrection of dead
and of eternal judgment,
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or here we find there are six
foundational doctrines you
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need to be established in.
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Now, go over to 1 Timothy 4:6.
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And here's where we're headed.
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When you come to 1 Timothy 4:6
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Paul is speaking to Timothy
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and Timothy is already dealing
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with doctrinal error in his church.
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What we're describing that's
going to happen at the end
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of the age was already begin to happen in the 1st Century.
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It's going to get worse
at the end of the age,
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but to confront this
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and to fix this, Paul says
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to Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:6,
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If you put their brethren in
remembrance of these things,
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thou shalt be a good minister
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of Jesus Christ. The words, put in remembrance, are
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very, very important.
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It is the Greek word hupo tithimi.
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Now this is a really important word.
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First of all, you have the word hupo.
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In English, it would be spelled like this hupo.
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It means by or under.
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The word tithimi is the second word.
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In English, it would be spelled like this tithimi.
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It means to lay place or position,
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and it's used in connection, particularly
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with laying foundations.
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So when you compound
these two words together,
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though the King James version
says put in remembrance,
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you have to understand that
the word hupo really means
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to place something under - the word tithimi - a foundation.
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So when you compound the two words together,
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it really means you could
translate the verse like this.
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If you put their brethren on a
good foundation, if you hupo,
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crawl under the brethren, lay
a foundation underneath them,
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and here we find the need
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to be putting good foundations
under people's lives.
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They need a foundation to stand
on, just like the foundation
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that I showed you in the introduction
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to today's program at the Temple of Serapis in Ephesus.
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What a foundation. In fact,
the foundation is still there.
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We need to put an unshakeable foundation
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underneath other people
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and see that as one of our jobs in life.
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And notice that Paul says, If you do this,
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you shall be: the Greek literally says this will make you
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to be a good minister of Jesus Christ. Well, in Greek,
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there are 3-words for minister.
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First of all, there's the Greek word diokonas.
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That's the word that is used in this verse.
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So I want you to write this down,
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and I'm going to come back
to this in just a moment.
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In English, it would be spelled like this...
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But secondly, there is a Greek word, doulos.
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And the word doulos would be spelled like this in English -
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describes a low level slave that is completely sold out
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to the will of someone else.
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And this word is used all
over the New Testament
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to describe us, that when
we came to Jesus Christ,
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we became his doulos, his servants.
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Lock, stock, and barrel,
we sold out to serve him.
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But then there's a 3rd word in the New Testament
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which can be translated as a minister,
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and that is the Greek word, hyperetes.
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And the word, hyperetes,
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it would be spelled like this in English:
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describes slaves that were confined
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to the bottom galley of ships.
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A big oar was placed into their hands
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and their job was to
row, row, row the boat.
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If they didn't row the boat,
the boat wouldn't move.
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And that word is used in the New Testament
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to describe those of us who minister.
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Our job is to row the boat.
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Our job is to make sure things
keep moving in the church.
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Dolas, we're called to be the ministers of Jesus Christ,
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sold out slaves.
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Our job is to do whatever
Jesus asks us to do.
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But when you come to this verse, it is the word diakonos.
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And the word diakonos, I'm going to read
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to you from my notes,
listen to what it means.
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It describes a high level
servant, a sophisticated
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and highly trained servant who
served the needs of others.
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It depicts a servant whose
primary responsibility was
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to serve food, a waiter
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or waitress who painstakingly
attends to the needs, wishes,
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and desires of his or her client.
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It pictures serving that
was honorable, pleasurable,
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and done in a fashion that
made people being served feel
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as if they were nobility.
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And now Paul uses this word to say, our job is No.1 -
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to put people on a good foundation.
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We've got to come under their lives.
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We've got to crawl underneath them,
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put them on the foundation of God's word,
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really make sure they're established.
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And if we do this, it will make us
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to be a good diakonos of Jesus Christ.
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Diakonos, one who serves food, one
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who serves people excellently.
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If we want to be excellent servants of Jesus Christ, we have
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to be giving ourselves to feeding people the word of God,
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the solid word of God, not strange
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and diverse teachings that
leads people off track,
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but we got to crawl under them
and put them on a foundation.
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I believe that is the job of
my ministry, to bring the meat
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and potatoes of God's word to people so
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that they spiritually
are nourished in things
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that will strengthen them and
they don't get led off track.
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And especially in the
last days, all of us need
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to be committed to this task.
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I'll be back in just a moment
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 Rick Renner's book, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
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and spiritual and moral collapse.
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In this book, you'll
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You'll learn how to stay
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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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prophecies about the end of the age
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through turbulent End-Time waters.
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Available in digital or physical formats starting at just
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$24, you can order the series, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy
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and the book of the same name
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by going online or calling our team.
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Call the number on your screen
or scan the QR code to order.
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This is Rick Renner, and I'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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I want to say thank you for
letting me come right to
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where you are today.
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We've been diving through
the New Testament to see
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what we need to do to help
others be on a strong,
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solid foundation at the end of the age.
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The Bible prophesies that
at the end of the age,
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people are going to turn
their ears away from the
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truth to other things.
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So we need to help people
to make sure they stick
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with the regular,
faithful, reliable teaching
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of the word of God.
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And that means we need
to crawl under people
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and put a foundation underneath them.
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And I'm going to talk to you more about
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that in the next program.
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But this whole series is 15 parts, comes in all kinds
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of formats, and it's called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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Comes with a wonderful study guide that is
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so big it nearly looks like a book.
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And I have a book by the same name, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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And there is so much in
the book, I could not begin
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to teach all of it in a series.
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So I recommend that you avail
yourself both to the series,
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the study guide and the book,
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and it would be great for a Bible study
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or for personal study.
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My friends, this is
really important teaching.
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And if you'd like to know
how to get these resources,
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just call the number on
the screen or go online.
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And I want to remind you
that if there's anything
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concerning your heart, call us.
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We want to pray with you. If it's touching
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you, let it touch us.
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We'll join our faith together
with you. We'll pray in faith.
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Jesus will hear us, Jesus will respond,
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and Jesus will really do what
needs to be done in your life.
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So call us or send us an email.
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And when we hear from you, we're going
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to put our faith together with yours
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for Jesus to move mightily.
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But put your hand on your heart and let me pray for you now.
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Father, I thank you in Jesus'
name for the wonderful word
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of God and for the privilege
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that we can be involved in
putting people on a solid
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foundation which people really
need in this particular age.
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We thank you for this
in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Well, I'll see you tomorrow,
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but please remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4 says
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"Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your savior
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and Lord, now is the time for you
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to experience a new life
Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now.
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Lord, I repent of my sin
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and receive you as my savior and Lord.
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Wash away my sin and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going to
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renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Renner Ministries is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ
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through every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening,
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together, we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God-called partners of Renner Ministries.