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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 Ephesus sitting on the ruins
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of the Gymnasium.
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Now, this city actually had
two very large gymnasiums,
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but you can see from these fragments,
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this gymnasium was enormous.
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By the way, the word gymnasium
is from the Greek word
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gymnazo which means to exercise while naked.
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The men who came into these
places stripped of everything
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and exercise with all of their might.
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Now, why in the world am I
talking to you about that?
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Because in 1 Timothy 4:7,
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the Apostle
Paul says to Timothy and to me
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and to you, But refuse
profane and old wives fables
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and exercise yourself unto godliness.
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That word godliness really
carries the idea of a radical,
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fanatical commitment.
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The word exercise is the word gymnazo, which means
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to exercise while naked,
strip off every appendage,
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everything that would hinder you,
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give it everything you've got.
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So when Paul says exercise yourself into godliness,
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he's not saying give it a try.
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He's saying be committed
all the way to the end.
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Your goal is to be radically,
fanatically committed,
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and to reach that goal, you've got a strip
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of every appendage in your life
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that is hindering you in any way.
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Exercise, exercise, exercise yourself
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until you are radically, fanatically committed.
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That is God's call for you.
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And if you're eating a bunch of silly doctrine,
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you'll never become that radical, fanatical believer
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that Jesus wants you to be.
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You've got to consume the right spiritual meat, you've got
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to be eating the right spiritual diet,
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and you've got to really give
yourself to the word of God
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to become the kind of believer
that God dreams for you
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to be, but you can do it.
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And that is what I'm going
to talk to you about today.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind, where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep, revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
My name is Rick Renner.
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And my friends, today we're
wrapping up the 15-part series,
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which is called How to Keep
Your Head on Straight in a
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World Gone Crazy.
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It's a series which is very
in depth about nutty things in
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the end of the age and how
we can insulate ourselves
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and protect ourselves from
a world that has gone crazy.
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It's 15 parts, comes
in all kinds of formats
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with a wonderful study guide.
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Everything in the series
is in the study guide,
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but I also have a book
by the same name, How
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to Keep Yo Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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And my friends, there
is so much in the book,
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there's no way I could teach
all of it in a 15-part series.
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But if you have the
series, the study guide
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and the book, you got
the best of both worlds.
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My friends, you can devour this material.
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It will really put you
on a strong foundation
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and show you what you can
do for others to help them
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if they've been a little confused
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by listening to wrong things.
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But today's the last
day which we're offering
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these on the program.
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If you want to know how to
get these, just go online
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or give us a call and please let
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us know how to pray for you.
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Jesus said, Well, one
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or two of you will get in
agreement in prayer together.
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There I am and I will do
whatever you ask. So let us
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get into agreement with you.
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We will pray scripturally.
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Jesus will hear us
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and Jesus will really move on your behalf.
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So please let us know how to pray.
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But I want you to reach for your Bible
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and today we're going to return to 1 Timothy 4:1,
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which is really the foundational verse for this series.
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And today's the last day that
we're going to be covering it.
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And it says, Now the
spirit speaks expressly
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that in the latter times,
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some shut apart from the faith giving heed
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to seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons.
Let's go to the board
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and cover certain parts
of this verse again.
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First of all, it says now in Greek, that is the word, de
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spelled like this in English.
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It really is a conjunction,
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but in it, Paul's lifting his voice.
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It's as if he's saying - Now
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hear me, now the spirit speaketh expressly.
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Expressly is the word, rhetos.
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In English, it would be spelled like this.
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It's a long 'o' sound.
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It means expressly, categorically, emphatically, undeniably,
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unmistakably.
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So here, the Holy Spirit
is not describing something
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that might happen or something
that might be avoided.
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He's saying this is really going to happen
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and the spirit speaks, rhetos, expressly, undeniably,
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unmistakably, emphatically, categorically
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that in the latter times -
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and the word, latter, is a form of the Greek word, husteros.
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In English, it would be spelled like this.
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And it describes the very end
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of something when not much is left over.
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So now he's describing the
very, very, very end of time.
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He says some, the word some
is the Greek word tines.
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In English, it would be spelled like this.
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And here it describes a notable some.
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It's not everybody, but a notable some,
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particularly notable leaders
will depart from the faith:
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depart the Greek word aphistemi.
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And it's actually where we
get the word for apostasy,
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but it's a compound of the word apo,
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which would be spelled like this,
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and the word histemi, which means to stand.
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Apo means away from. It implies distance.
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The word, stemi, means to stand.
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But when you compound them together, aphistemi, it's
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where we get the word apostasy, it describes a notable some
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who in the very end of time,
the spirit says categorically,
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expressly, emphatically, some will begin to - apo-stemi,
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change their position.
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They're going to step away
from what they once believed,
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taught and proclaimed and take a new position.
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And the reason they're going to do it is
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because they are giving heed to seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons and giving heed
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is the Greek word prosecho.
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Now, if the Holy Spirit said
all of this, then we need
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to know what he had to
say and why he said it.
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The word prosecho, in English would be spelled like this.
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The word pros means toward,
carries the idea of intimacy.
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The word echo means to embrace.
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You put the two words
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a notable some in the very end of time who, apo
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aphistemi, will begin to step away from
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what they once believed.
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They'll take a new stand.
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And the reason they'll do
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they're going to turn their attention in a new direction
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to embrace something new
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and working behind that
something new, Paul says,
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is the activity of seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons,
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which is leading people
away from the trusted
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teaching of the Bible.
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Now, jump back over to 4:6
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where Paul gives to Timothy what he needs
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to do in response to this.
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And we covered this in
the previous program,
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but let's look at it again very quickly.
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He says - If thou put the brethren in remembrance
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of these things,
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and we've seen that in Greek,
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this is the word hupo-tithimi.
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Oh, this is such an important word.
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Hupo-tithimi: it is a compound of the word hupo.
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That's the way you would
spell it in English.
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And the word tithimi, the
word hupo means under.
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The word tithimi is a foundational word, which means to lay,
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place, or position a foundation.
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So when you compound them
into the word hupo, tithimi,
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it actually could be rendered.
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This is a nuance that is very important.
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If you hupo, come under
the brethren, that's
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what this word means,
and tithimi, lay, place
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or position a foundation
underneath their lives,
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this will make you to be a
good minister of Jesus Christ.
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So if we want to be good
ministers, if we want
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to be good believers,
we have to be involved
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in coming under people's lives.
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And my friends, there's new believers
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that don't have a foundation.
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They said yes to Jesus,
but that's all they know.
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They have no foundation.
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There are many believers that have never
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really been taught the Bible.
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So though they believe in Jesus,
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they don't have a foundation.
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That's why they're making
doctrinal and belief mistakes.
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And rather than just let
them flounder, if you want
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to be a good minister of Jesus
Christ, you got to help them.
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Helping them means coming
alongside, coming under them,
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putting a foundation under them.
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And this verse says, If
you're willing to do that,
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it will make you a good minister
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of Jesus Christ. The word good, a form
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of the Greek word kalos.
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It means exceptional superior.
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So if you want to be
an exceptional minister
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of Jesus Christ, a superior
minister of Jesus Christ,
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then you have to be one
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that's involved in making sure
you're putting a foundation
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under people's lives.
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So don't just twiddle your thumbs
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and say, Oh me, oh my,
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they're making such bad decisions. Come alongside them,
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come under them and make sure they've got a foundation under
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them so they don't make bad mistakes.
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And he says - Nourished up in the words of faith
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and of good doctrine. We
saw in the previous program,
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For you to be the kind of
minister that you should be,
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you've got to be eating the
words of faith, good doctrine,
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and this is what you need
to be feeding others.
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They need faith-filled words.
They need good solid doctrine.
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They need to be nourished up
on these things. And then Paul
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adds in verse 7 - But refuse, profane,
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and old wives' tales. The
word refuse means adamantly
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reject, adamantly reject,
push it away from you.
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And then he uses the word profane, which is really the word
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for something so foul,
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it should not be brought across the threshold of your house.
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And sometimes in the 1st Century, it's translated
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as the word manure.
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Well, how many of you know you don't
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want manure in your house?
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Why? Because if you got
manure in your house,
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it means you're going to
have a stinking situation.
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And likewise, Paul says - refuse, reject,
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adamantly reject, profane, stinking old wives
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tales. And here he's describing silly
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teaching, bizarre teaching.
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And my friends today, people
are really attracted to this.
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They're preoccupied with it
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and they don't understand
that by embracing
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bizarre teaching, they're
bringing things across the
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threshold of their life
right into their life
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that's not going to change their life.
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It's not going to make them live any better.
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And it's going to create a spiritually stinking mess.
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So Paul says, Reject it.
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Don't go that direction. But then we go
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to 2 Timothy 3:1 where Paul also is
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talking about the end of the age.
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And 2 Timothy 3:1, he says -
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This know also that in the last days,
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perilous time shall come. So he's still
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talking about the end of the age.
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Again, how should we respond?
Should we wring our hands?
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Should we close the
curtains, close the shades
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and hide from the world?
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No, no, no, that's not
going to help anybody.
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My friends, we need to
hear the call of God
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and we are being summoned to help people.
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We need to help people.
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And to help people, we need to obey
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what Paul says in verse 14.
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And in 2 Timothy 3:14, he says, Continue thou
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and has been assured of, knowing
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of whom thou has learned them.
The word continue, is a form
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of the Greek word meno, meno.
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In English, it would be spelled like this.
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It means to abide, to
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And here we find at the end of the age,
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when people are being lured
after seducing spirits
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and doctrines of demons
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and other things, he says,
Stay put, stay fixed
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in the things that you have learned
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and has been assured of. Then he adds in verse 15 - And
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that from a child, thou hast known the holy scriptures which
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are able to make you wise
unto salvation through faith,
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which is in Christ Jesus.
But notice he says,
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Which are able to make
you wise. The word able
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is a form of the Greek word -
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and I know that you've heard this word, dunamis.
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Everybody say dunamis, dunamis.
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Now, if I ask you what the word dunamis means,
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you're probably going to say dynamic power.
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And that's okay. It does mean that,
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but that's a kind of shallow understanding
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of the word dunamis,
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which here in this verse is translated as the word, able.
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The word dunamis was a word used scientifically in the first
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century to describe an act of nature.
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the earthquake was called dunamis.
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It was explosive. That was an earthquake.
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If there was a hurricane, they
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to describe that act of nature.
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If there was a tornado, they
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to describe the tornado.
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So in this word dunamis, not only do you have dynamic power,
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but you have the force of an
earthquake, you have the force
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of a hurricane, you have
the force of a tornado.
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And now we find Paul says,
stick with the word of God.
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That's verse 14. You stick with the word of God.
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Stay fixed in the things which thou has learned
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and has been assured of.
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And then he tells us in
verse 15 that from a child,
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you've known the holy
scriptures which are dunamis,
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which have the power to
make you like dynamite.
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The scriptures have the power to turn you into a force
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of nature that you could become like a spiritual earthquake
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to shake up hell.
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You will have the power in you like a hurricane
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to blow things out of the way.
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You become like a spiritual tornado
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to raise hell right off of its foundation.
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Or Paul declares all of that happens in a person who sticks
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with a reliable teaching of the Bible.
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That is how much power there is in the scripture.
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And that is why I always end every one of my programs
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with Ecclesiastes 8:4 - Where the word
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of a king is, there is power.
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My friends, there's power in the word of God.
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And not only will it release
dynamic power in you,
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not only will it make you
like a spiritual earthquake
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hurricane and tornado, this
same word dunamis was used
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to describe the full advancing
might of the Roman army,
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which means when the word
of God is working in you,
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you become like a one man army
empowered to charge forward
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and to take new territory
and to drive back hell.
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But then he goes on to say - The scriptures are able
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to make you wise.
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The word wise is a form
of the Greek word sophos.
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If your name is Sophia, this
is where your name comes from.
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It's spelled like this in English.
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It's not just wisdom,
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but it's a person that
is so wise, he's a cut
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above everybody else.
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This is the cream of the crop.
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And now we find that when God's word is really working in
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you, it makes you smarter
than anybody else.
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But hey, that's not all.
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Then he adds in verse 16 - All scripture is given
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by inspiration of God.
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Now that is important.
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Inspiration of God is the word, theopneustos.
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Now, I'm going to explain this to you -
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theopneustos.
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It's a compound of two words.
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The word theos, the name, God:
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where you get the term, theology.
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The word panustos is a
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derivative of the Greek word pannu,
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and this is really,
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really important when it's
connected with the word theos.
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The word pannu was used primarily 3-ways.
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For example, we find it used
in the Septuagint version
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of the Old Testament in Genesis 1:
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When the Bible says the spirit of God,
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that's the word panu, spirit, moved upon the face
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of the waters and the Holy
Spirit released creative power.
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So first of all, we find that the word
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panu, describes creative power, creative power.
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But secondly, the word panu was the word which was used
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to describe the breath which a musician
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breathed into a flute.
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And when he would breathe into the flute,
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then he could play a beautiful sound.
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So the word panu, was used to describe musical sounds.
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But this word panu was also the very word used
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to describe an aroma or a perfume.
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If you went to a perfume
store in the ancient world
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and you wanted to buy a
new aroma for your house,
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you would say, I'm here to buy a pannu.
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And they understood
you wanted a fragrance.
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They wanted an aroma.
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You wanted to change the smell in your house.
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This word described perfume.
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So when you put all this together, we find
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that when God's word is working in you, it - No.1:
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releases creative power,
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creative power.
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This is powerful, my friends.
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Secondly, when God's word
is working in you, panu,
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it brings new music into your life.
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When God's word is working in you,
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it brings a new aroma into your life.
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So if you feel like you lack power,
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let God's word work in you.
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God's word will bring
creative power into your life.
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If you don't like the sounds
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that are going on in your life
right now, then open the word
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of God and allow it to produce
new music in your life.
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God's word will breathe into you.
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It will bring new sounds, the
sounds of heaven in your life.
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And if you feel that your house is stinking
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and you don't like what's going on, then dive into the word
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of God because the word of God will bring a new aroma.
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It will bring a new smell into your house.
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So if we just stopped right here, we find that Paul says,
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meno, if you stick with the word of God,
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it will make you able, dunamis.
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It will release dynamic power.
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It will turn you into a force of nature.
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It will make you like a one man army.
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Not only that, the word
of God will sophos,
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it will cause you mentally to
be a cut above everybody else.
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And when the word of
God is working into you,
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God breathes into your
life through the word
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and releases creative power.
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He brings the sounds of new music into your life.
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He brings aroma into your home
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and into your life so you can have power,
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you can change the sound
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and you can change the smell in your life.
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Wow. If we stopped right there, that's a good reason already
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to stick with the word of God.
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But then he goes on. All
scriptures given by inspiration
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of God and is profitable
for doctrine and for reproof
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and for correction and for
instruction and righteousness.
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Let's just look at one
point, the word correction.
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The word correction describes a person
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that has been knocked flat.
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Well, on the end of the age,
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there's a lot of confused people.
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They've been knocked flat
through divorce, knocked flat
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through wrong teaching,
knocked flat by relationships,
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knocked flat by various experiences,
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but the word correction describes a person
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that's been knocked flat who is picked up
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and put back on their feet again,
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which means the Bible has the ability
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to get you off the ground
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and put you back on your feet again.
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That's what the Bible can do.
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And then it says in verse 17 that the man
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of God may be perfect,
thoroughly furnished,
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undo all good works
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and thoroughly furnished is a word
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which is derived from
the world of boating.
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And in the ancient world,
there were two kinds of boats.
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There was a simple boat
that only had oars.
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It couldn't go very far
because all it had was oars.
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But if you take the very same simple boat
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and you outfit it, you give
it all kinds of equipment,
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you give it a sail, you give it an anchor,
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you give it everything that it needs,
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that boat which began very simply is now
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so thoroughly furnished, it can sail
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through the roughest
weather, the roughest waves
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and can make it all the
way to the other side.
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And so now Paul says, God's
word will make you perfect
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and it will thoroughly equip you.
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It will give you everything
you need to make it
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through the worst weather,
through the worst waves,
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and God's word working in
you will give you the ability
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to make it all the way to the other side.
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Do you see why seducing spirits are trying
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to lead people from the word of God?
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If they're really rooted
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and placed on a foundation of
the word of God, they're going
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to have everything they need to succeed
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and thrive in these last days.
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You need this and the
people around you need this,
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and that's why I'm teaching this series.
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So my friends, we need
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to be involved in putting a
foundation under people's lives,
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especially in these last days
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when the Holy Spirit says people are going
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to be giving heed to wrong things.
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Wow. Let's not forget this
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and let's give ourself
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to making sure we're on a good foundation
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and that we're putting other people on a
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good foundation as well.
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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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you deep into New Testament
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prophecies about the end of the age
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and what you need to
do to sail successfully
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through turbulent end time waters.
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Available in digital or physical
formats starting at just
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$24, you can order the series, How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy
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and the book of the same
name by going online
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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. Buy everyday
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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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Well, I have just concluded
my series called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy.
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It is 15 parts, comes in multiple formats
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with a huge study guide.
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The study guide is amazing.
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And the reason we do the study guide is so
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that you can see the
material while you're seeing
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or hearing the series
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and really get the teaching
down deep inside you.
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And I've got a book by
the same title called How
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to Keep Your Head on Straight
in a World Gone Crazy, which
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is endorsed by 40 major Christian leaders.
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If you want to know how to get these,
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just go online or give us a call.
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And I remind you that if you've got anything touching you
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and concerning you, let us know about it.
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We would love to pray for you.
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I'm praying for you anyway,
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but when you reach out
to us, we'll know how
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to pray better for you.
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The Bible says if two
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of you will agree is touching
anything, Jesus will do it.
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We will get into prayerful agreement.
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Jesus will hear us and Jesus
will do what needs to be done.
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So please call the number
on the screen right now
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or send us an email
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and when we hear from you,
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we're really going to pray for you.
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And I want to pray for you right now.
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Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus
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for the wonderful word of
God that you've given to us.
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Lord, we thank you that
the word of God has power
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to change our lives.
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It has power to make us
smart in these last days.
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It has the power, Lord, to help us
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stand back up on our feet again
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and to equip us to sail all the way
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through this period
gloriously to the other side.
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Help us to embrace the
word and let it work in us
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and help us to put a
foundation of the word
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of God under other people's lives.
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In Jesus' name - Amen. Thank you for being with me.
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I'll see you in the next program.
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But remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4 says "Where the word
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of 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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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.