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T.D. Jakes Your Growth is in the Breaking, Not the Blessing FULL SERMON Crushing on TBN · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: You cannot be given to the world until you've been
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  Speaker 1: taken by the master, blessed by God, broken by life,
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  Speaker 1: and then given to the world. And the more he
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  Speaker 1: takes you and blesses you and breaks you, the more
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  Speaker 1: he multiplies you so that you can meet the needs
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't meet before because the multiplication is in the breaking.
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  Speaker 1: It's not in the blessing. It's in the breaking. And
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  Speaker 1: if God didn't break you, he couldn't give you to them.
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  Speaker 1: God was saying to a young man, before I formed
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  Speaker 1: thee in the belly, I knew thee, or I ordained
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  Speaker 1: thee and I sanctified thee to be a prophet to
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  Speaker 1: the nations. And when I woke that morning, I just
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  Speaker 1: took my Bible with childlike faith and just let it
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  Speaker 1: fall open. And it fell open on Jeremiah. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee
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  Speaker 1: and I ordained thee. And I sanctified thee to be
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  Speaker 1: a prophet unto the nations. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: I remembered all the stories my mother told me about
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  Speaker 1: when I was born. I was born with a veil
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  Speaker 1: over my face. And then one of the neighbors came
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  Speaker 1: down and said, look, the Lord has given you a prophet.
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  Speaker 1: And mama said, a prophet? She said, yeah, he has
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  Speaker 1: a veil over his face. Thin membrane, born over some
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  Speaker 1: baby's faces. I was one of them. That membrane, the
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  Speaker 1: old folks said, It wasn't a sign you were a prophet,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't know I was a prophet. So I
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  Speaker 1: was a wild, crazy, foolish, ignorant, rambunctious kid who got
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  Speaker 1: into everything and anything all the time, driving people crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And I was having a good time doing my own
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  Speaker 1: thing until God came along and messed it all up
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  Speaker 1: by bringing this stuff up here about me being a preacher.
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  Speaker 1: And I ran from my calling. I purposely got drunk
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  Speaker 1: and went wild and got high and partied and did
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  Speaker 1: everything I could to convince him to go away. Get
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  Speaker 1: one of them people with the little doilies on their
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  Speaker 1: head and the long skirts on and the no makeup
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  Speaker 1: who pray all day and talk in tongues all the
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  Speaker 1: time and leave me alone because I am not one
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  Speaker 1: of them.
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  Speaker 2: I'm crazy. I'm ignorant. I'm wild.
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  Speaker 1: I'm uncouth. I will embarrass you. I will disgrace you.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't call me. This is not going to be
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  Speaker 1: good for you and it's not going to be good
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  Speaker 1: for me and we should not do this together. But
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  Speaker 1: God didn't ask me to vote. He asked me to obey.
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  Speaker 1: And after several years of running and after several years
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  Speaker 1: of going in clubs and sitting on bar stools where
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  Speaker 1: one drunk would lean over to me and say, funny man,
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  Speaker 1: I had the craziest dream about you. I dreamed you
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  Speaker 1: was preaching in this church and I got up and
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  Speaker 1: ran out of the club. And I felt like David,
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  Speaker 1: if I make my bed in hell, thou art there.
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  Speaker 1: And if I take the wings of the morning and
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  Speaker 1: ascend to the uttermost parts of the earth, thou art there.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not going to be able to outrun this.
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  Speaker 2: And I couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Understand that God wouldn't let me go. I couldn't understand
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  Speaker 1: why God picked me. If I get to heaven and
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  Speaker 1: we're only allowed one question apiece, I simply want to know,
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  Speaker 1: why did you call me a boy from the hills
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  Speaker 1: of West Virginia? the son of a janitor and a
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  Speaker 1: school teacher. Why did you call me? And I had
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  Speaker 1: lots of excuses. Like Moses, I had a speech impediment.
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  Speaker 1: You can't call me. You can't call me. I didn't stutter,
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  Speaker 1: but I had a list. I can't be a speaker
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  Speaker 1: because I have a list. But all of us have
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  Speaker 1: areas where we feel inadequate.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't, you're disqualified.
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  Speaker 1: Because humility It's framed from feeling inadequate. When you say
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  Speaker 1: I am not enough, it makes you pray harder. It
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  Speaker 1: makes you seek harder. It makes you ask for more grace.
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  Speaker 1: Beware of all the people who tell you they are enough.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sure sign that you're dealing with a fraud.
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  Speaker 1: Because the questions the world is asking are too complicated
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  Speaker 1: for you to answer with a degree. The problems people
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  Speaker 1: are having now require divine intervention. And you have to
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  Speaker 1: have somebody who has heard from God, not from themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter. In my weakness, he's made strong.
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  Speaker 1: In my weakness, his strength is validated. So he chooses fragile, broken,
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  Speaker 1: limited people so you won't be confused where the ointment
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  Speaker 1: comes from. you know that the glory that we have
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  Speaker 1: is not of ourselves, but Christ Jesus, the Lord, that
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  Speaker 1: has given us the glory. And it's him coming out
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  Speaker 1: of us. It's not our talent coming out of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not our skill coming out of it. It is
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  Speaker 1: him coming out, both to do and to will, according
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  Speaker 1: to his own good pleasure. That's the facts. And what
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  Speaker 1: makes God all the more real is recognizing that he
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  Speaker 1: can work with such poor materials. That he can be
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  Speaker 1: so masterful as Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel with
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  Speaker 1: a broken brush. And I am the brush. And you
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  Speaker 1: are the brush. And you are the brush. And you
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  Speaker 1: are the brush. And he chooses broken brushes so that
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  Speaker 1: there will be no glory to the brush.
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  Speaker 2: Only to the artist. When The master. The master. Plans
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  Speaker 2: to transplant you. Arguing.
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  Speaker 1: Will not stop it. He will not let you go.
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  Speaker 1: Until he's moved you to the place that he has
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  Speaker 1: prepared for you. And you for it. And placing you
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  Speaker 1: in that place. You begin to grow. And you will
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  Speaker 1: know you're in the place. When like Joseph.
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  Speaker 2: Joseph.
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  Speaker 1: Your branches reach over walls. When God plants you, your
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  Speaker 1: branches reach over every denominational, racial, generational wall that ever stood.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe he wanted you to hear this at
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  Speaker 1: this moment.
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  Speaker 2: In your life. Imagine being in the wilderness. Miles and
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  Speaker 2: miles of sand.
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  Speaker 1: Hot, scorching hot sand beneath your feet. Blazing sun above
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  Speaker 1: your head. Imagine walking and seeing nothing but repetitions of
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  Speaker 1: what you're walking on. Not just on the ground, but
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  Speaker 1: in the wind, in your nostrils, in your clothing, all
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  Speaker 1: around you. This was the wilderness. That Israel walked through
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  Speaker 1: to get to the promised land. Sand under your feet,
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  Speaker 1: sand in your nostrils, in your hair, heat in the day,
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  Speaker 1: freezing cold at night. The only covering they had was
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  Speaker 1: the presence of God and they had to stay up
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  Speaker 1: under it. Because he gave them heat in the night
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  Speaker 1: and shade by day. Thank you for the shade you
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  Speaker 1: gave me. Thank you for how you put a buffer
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  Speaker 1: between me and the things that I went through. And
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the desert, with the 12 tribes
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, God decided to have a date with man.
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  Speaker 1: And he decided to have a date in a tabernacle.
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  Speaker 1: And the Hebrew word for tabernacle is ohel mohed. It
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  Speaker 1: means a tent of meeting. It's a rendezvous place. It's
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  Speaker 1: a place where divinity courts humanity. It's a place where
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  Speaker 1: the celestial dates the terrestrial. It's a place where the
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  Speaker 1: divine touches the mundane. This was the tabernacle. It is God.
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  Speaker 1: playing etch-a-sketch, drawing Jesus in the tabernacle. Because everything the
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  Speaker 1: tabernacle was in shadow, Jesus was in reality. He is
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  Speaker 1: the place where humanity and divinity cohabitate. He is the
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  Speaker 1: place where the celestial touches the terrestrial. He is everything
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  Speaker 1: that the tabernacle embodies. He is triune in his being,
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  Speaker 1: the outer court, the inner court, the holies of holies,
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  Speaker 1: like man, body, soul, and spirit, like God, Father, Son,
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  Speaker 1: and the Holy Ghost. God shows us in the tabernacle
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  Speaker 1: glimpses of his grace, just inklings of grace, just drops
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  Speaker 1: and clues and elements for us to see how bad
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  Speaker 1: he wants to hang out with us. He preps us
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  Speaker 1: for thousands of years because the tabernacle is a shadow.
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus and he's trying to get us ready for
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  Speaker 1: his entrance because everything the tabernacle was in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: it was surrounded by the 12 tribes of Israel and
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  Speaker 1: he was the one who sat in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: his people. And everything the tabernacle was in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: Christ was in reality. That's why when the baby was born,
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  Speaker 1: they called him Emmanuel. God tabernacled with us. He is
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  Speaker 1: the dwell amongst us God. Not to dwell among you, God.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have him and restrict me from getting him.
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  Speaker 1: The tabernacle was designed so that each tribe was able
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  Speaker 1: to have access to him. Whether you were Benjamin or
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  Speaker 1: Issachar or Dan or Gad or Judah or Nephtali, we
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  Speaker 1: all had equal access to God.
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  Speaker 2: In the same way, God has so.
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  Speaker 1: Fixed himself that no particular people can restrict any other
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  Speaker 1: group of people from being able to access him. He
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  Speaker 1: is to dwell amongst us, God. It is this understanding
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  Speaker 1: of God that makes us realize how far he would
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  Speaker 1: go to date you. From glory to earth, from eternity,
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  Speaker 1: time from celestial to terrestrial the divine came upon Mary
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  Speaker 1: and said let me borrow a tent of flesh so
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  Speaker 1: you can see me walk so the voice of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord that walked through the cool of the garden in
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  Speaker 1: the book of Genesis didn't have a tent to wear.
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  Speaker 1: But the voice of the Lord that walked in Matthew, Mark, Luke,
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  Speaker 1: and John was dressed up in the tent of Mary's flesh.
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  Speaker 1: And he is the tabernacle because he is the dwell
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  Speaker 1: amongst us God. And he dwelt among us and we
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  Speaker 1: beheld the wonder of his glory. The only begotten of
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  Speaker 1: the father. full of grace and truth, and everywhere his
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  Speaker 1: feet trod, we had seen God. Philip said, show us
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  Speaker 1: a father, and it suffices us. And Jesus said, have
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  Speaker 1: I been so long time with you, and you still
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  Speaker 1: don't know that I and my father are one? I
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  Speaker 1: am God dwelling amongst you in the midst of you
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  Speaker 1: in your camp so I can hang out with you
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  Speaker 1: so that you can get to know my daddy so
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  Speaker 1: that you can see me so that you can understand me.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I am daddy loving you. God is loving
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  Speaker 1: you through me, touching you through me, healing you through me,
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  Speaker 1: coming to you through me. I am so much him.
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  Speaker 1: That when they rip my flesh, the veil in the
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  Speaker 1: temple will rip because we are one and the same.
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  Speaker 1: I am the holies of holies. I am the ark
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  Speaker 1: of the covenant. I am the table of shoe bread.
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  Speaker 1: I am the altar of incense. I am the pot
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  Speaker 1: of manna. I am Aaron's rod that budded. I am
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  Speaker 1: the commandments fulfilled. I am wood enough to be human.
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  Speaker 1: I am gold enough to be divine. I am carried
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  Speaker 1: amongst my people. I am God all by myself. The
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  Speaker 1: table had been set. The water drawn. The hands washed.
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  Speaker 1: The meal prepared. The evening set in order. It was
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  Speaker 1: not unique or different or strange or odd or fresh.
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  Speaker 1: It was the Passover as it had been observed for
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  Speaker 1: years and years and years commemorating the lamb that was
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  Speaker 1: slain in Egypt. It was not any different from any
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  Speaker 1: other Passover until Jesus sat down at the table and
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  Speaker 1: took us from the ancient blood of a lamb that
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  Speaker 1: was sacrificed for Israel, to saying, it is no longer
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  Speaker 1: about the lamb, it is now about me. And Passover
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  Speaker 1: slid over into communion, and law collapsed on grace. And
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  Speaker 1: dispensations collided together all at the dining table of the master,
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  Speaker 1: what we would call.
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  Speaker 2: The last supper.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, and there will never be another supper like that
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  Speaker 1: supper because this supper stands in the class all by itself.
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  Speaker 1: It is not just a change. It is a paradigm shift.
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  Speaker 1: The physical body of Jesus Christ sits down at the
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  Speaker 1: table to serve the memorial body of Christ. For the
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  Speaker 1: elements are the memorial body of Christ. As often as
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  Speaker 1: you do this, do this in remembrance of me till
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  Speaker 1: I come. So the bread and the wine is the
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  Speaker 1: memorial body of Christ being served by the physical body
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. being served to the mystical body of Christ
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  Speaker 1: which is the church whose blessed hope is to have
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  Speaker 1: the glorified body of Christ so at the table we
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  Speaker 1: see four representations of one body is he the body
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  Speaker 1: or the body or the body or the body no
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  Speaker 1: wonder he told Moses Who shall I say sent me?
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  Speaker 1: He said, oh, you can't explain me. I must be revealed.
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  Speaker 1: You can't explain me because to the unbeliever, all they
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  Speaker 1: will see is bread and wine and they will not
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  Speaker 1: know that this is a new testament in my blood.
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  Speaker 1: They will not know that the blood, that the wine
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  Speaker 1: is my blood and the bread is my body. They
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  Speaker 1: will not know that when they ingest the wine and
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  Speaker 1: the blood, they are taking in me. And that each
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  Speaker 1: one of them will hold a portion of the mystery
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  Speaker 1: that only brings the bread together through their unity. That
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  Speaker 1: is the mystical body of Christ. And that is why
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  Speaker 1: Satan hates for the church to be united. Because when
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  Speaker 1: we all come together and your peace comes together with
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  Speaker 1: my peace and his peace and her peace and their peace,
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  Speaker 1: and we all connect, we become the loaf and become
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  Speaker 1: one again. Father, I pray that these may be one,
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  Speaker 1: even as you and I are also one. Let's sit
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  Speaker 1: down at the table and see Jesus, because there are
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  Speaker 1: some things about Jesus that cannot be learned from the pulpit.
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  Speaker 1: They can only be discovered at the tables. At the table,
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  Speaker 1: the mystical body of Christ, which is the church, beheld
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  Speaker 1: the memorial body of Christ being fed to them from
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  Speaker 1: the physical body of Christ, awaiting the glorified body of
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  Speaker 1: Christ at the table. Later, when Jesus will be crucified
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  Speaker 1: and raised from the dead, he will meet two disciples
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  Speaker 1: on the road to Emmaus. And he will talk to
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  Speaker 1: them in a seven mile stretch and use all of
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament in seven miles. That's a short walk
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  Speaker 1: for a big book. He discussed every shadow and every
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  Speaker 1: type that represented him. And when he had come to
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  Speaker 1: where they would depart, he made as if he would
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  Speaker 1: go further. He didn't go further. He just acted like
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  Speaker 1: he would. Because God is an actor. Like as a
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  Speaker 1: mighty rushing wind. like as cloven tongues. Holy Spirit descended
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  Speaker 1: like as a dove. God is an actor. And he
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  Speaker 1: made as if he would go on. Yes, he did.
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  Speaker 1: But they stopped him. And something that they did not
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  Speaker 1: learn from looking at his face or the stains in
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  Speaker 1: his clothing or the holes in his hands Or the
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  Speaker 1: piercing in his side. And something that they did not
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  Speaker 1: learn from his preaching and teaching down that seven mile stretch.
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  Speaker 1: They learned at the table when they sat at the
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  Speaker 1: table with him on the road to Emmaus. Can I
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  Speaker 1: go deeper? When they sat down with Jesus. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you have to sit down with Jesus. It can't just
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  Speaker 1: be a Sunday morning experience. You have to sit down
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus. You have to sup with him. You have
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  Speaker 1: to connect with him. When they sat down with Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: he did a simple thing in their midst that was
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  Speaker 1: more profound than anything he did on the road. He
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  Speaker 1: did more at the table than he did at the
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  Speaker 1: road because God always performs miracles at the table. And
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  Speaker 1: he sat down at the table and the Bible said
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  Speaker 1: he took the bread and broke it and blessed it
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  Speaker 1: And gave it to them. And they saw him in
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  Speaker 1: the order of the breaking of bread. It is the
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  Speaker 1: same phrase that we see at the last supper. He
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  Speaker 1: took it. blessed it and broke it and gave it
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  Speaker 1: to them it is the same phrase that we see
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  Speaker 1: with the 5,000 when the little boy gave him the
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  Speaker 1: lunch he took it and blessed it and broke it
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  Speaker 1: and gave it to them it is the same thing
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  Speaker 1: that is happening in your life he takes you and
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  Speaker 1: blesses you and breaks you and gives you to the
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  Speaker 1: world you cannot be given to the world until you've
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  Speaker 1: been taken by the master blessed by God broken by
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  Speaker 1: life and then given to the world. And the more
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  Speaker 1: he takes you and blesses you and breaks you, the
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  Speaker 1: more he multiplies you so that you can meet the
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  Speaker 1: needs you couldn't meet before because the multiplication is in
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  Speaker 1: the breaking.
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  Speaker 2: It's not in the blessing. It's in the breaking.
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  Speaker 1: And if God didn't break you, he couldn't give you
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  Speaker 1: to them. But every time he breaks you, he multiplies
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  Speaker 1: you and increases you and you become.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit more than what you were before.
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  Speaker 1: Because you were in the master's hands and he took
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  Speaker 1: you and he blessed you and he broke you and
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  Speaker 1: he gave you
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  Speaker 2: To them.