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T_D_Jakes_Make_This_Mindset_Shift_in_2026_and_Everything_Will · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: We go through things in our lives that it is
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  Speaker 1: how we behold it that determines how we feel about it.
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  Speaker 1: It is how we choose to see it, whether it
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  Speaker 1: is execution or offering. If you are suffering and in
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  Speaker 1: agony and in turmoil and feeling disconnected from the world
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  Speaker 1: and like life is passing you by while you wrestle
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  Speaker 1: with and grapple with the atrocities and the vicissitudes of life,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to know that tomorrow is coming. Not
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  Speaker 1: long ago, my wife had a medical problem that slipped
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  Speaker 1: up on us like a thief in the night. In
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  Speaker 1: the midst of doing our daily tasks and going through
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  Speaker 1: our routines, she collapsed on the bedroom floor and we
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  Speaker 1: had to call 911. And it was just the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of a very difficult situation. And it's amazing to me
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  Speaker 1: that every so often, no matter who you are, where
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  Speaker 1: you live, or how much faith you have, or what
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  Speaker 1: you drive, trouble comes right to your house. It meets
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  Speaker 1: you at the door. It challenges you in ways that
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  Speaker 1: you cannot always control or correct. And you have to endure.
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  Speaker 1: Endurance is a part of crushing. To talk about crushing
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  Speaker 1: and talk about enduring seems like an oxymoron because who
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  Speaker 1: can endure being crushed, but we do. Every day, we
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  Speaker 1: are crushed in ways that people cannot see. And though
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  Speaker 1: I kept preaching and though I kept teaching, I came
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  Speaker 1: home to deal with her illness and watch her suffer
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  Speaker 1: through the pain of trying to recover. And the odd
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  Speaker 1: thing about it is after she had the surgery, The
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  Speaker 1: doctor said the surgery was successful, but she was in
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  Speaker 1: as much pain afterwards as she was before. I warn
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  Speaker 1: you that recovery has pain. We know that injury has pain,
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  Speaker 1: but recovery also has pain. And if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be healed, you have to endure the pain. She decided
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  Speaker 1: to go see my son graduate from college, but she
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  Speaker 1: was in pain and she kept moving. And crushing is
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  Speaker 1: the idea and the notion that life does not stop
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  Speaker 1: to accommodate your comfort. That situations and demands will not
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  Speaker 1: stop just because you are in a bad place or
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  Speaker 1: a bad moment and some kind of way every now
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  Speaker 1: and then you have to press above the pain and
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  Speaker 1: keep moving. This is the kind of thing that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: teaches us in the garden of Gethsemane. When the great
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  Speaker 1: drops of blood begin to come through the very pores
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  Speaker 1: of his skin, he teaches us the agony of going forward.
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  Speaker 2: It was easy to heal the sick. It was easy.
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  Speaker 1: To turn water into wine, it was easy for him
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  Speaker 1: to walk on water, not for me. It was easy
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  Speaker 1: for him, but now he's come to a place of
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  Speaker 1: crushing and pain, and that requires prayer and suffering. The
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  Speaker 1: pain that my wife had before surgery seemed purposeless. It
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  Speaker 1: was just pain. The pain after the surgery had purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And even though it had the same intensity, it had
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  Speaker 1: a different ending. And we must realize it's the ending
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  Speaker 1: that matters. That God's thoughts toward us are good, that
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  Speaker 1: we might have an expected end. But he didn't say
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  Speaker 1: anything about the middle. And so as we endure the
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  Speaker 1: pain and go through the agony, Agony like being misunderstood,
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  Speaker 1: agony of not feeling loved, agony of being underemployed or unemployed,
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  Speaker 1: agony of losing a job or a spouse or a
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  Speaker 1: loved one. I mean real agony. I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 1: you lost your parking space. I'm talking about real agony
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  Speaker 1: that tries your soul, that pushes you to the breaking point,
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  Speaker 1: that you feel like you're going to bleed through your skin.
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  Speaker 1: You have to know that that does not mean that
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  Speaker 1: you're not recovering. That recovery hurts too. Counseling hurts. Therapy hurts.
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  Speaker 1: Confronting old issues and digging out old wounds, that's hurtful
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  Speaker 1: stuff and difficult to talk about. But if we don't
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  Speaker 1: get to the root of it, we'll never be well.
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  Speaker 1: And like her surgery, the doctor had gotten to the
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  Speaker 1: root of it. And when he said that it was successful,
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  Speaker 1: I expected to walk in the room and find her smiling. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: she was writhing in pain. Sometimes God allows us to
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  Speaker 1: go through surgery. And the recovery period may take a while,
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  Speaker 1: but that does not mean that we're not getting better.
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  Speaker 1: What it does mean that once you make a commitment
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  Speaker 1: to go through the process, you have to be prepared
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  Speaker 1: to endure the pain. Because the pain is a part
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  Speaker 1: the process, always knowing that the anesthesia to the pain
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  Speaker 1: is the blessed hope that we might have and expect
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  Speaker 1: it in. And today, if you are suffering and in
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  Speaker 1: agony and in turmoil and feeling disconnected from the world
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  Speaker 1: and like life is passing you by while you wrestle
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  Speaker 1: with and grapple with the atrocities and the vicissitudes of life,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to know that tomorrow is coming. And
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  Speaker 1: if you can endure this moment and withstand this agony,
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  Speaker 1: if you can endure the darkness of the night, how
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  Speaker 1: shall I say it? Weeping may endure for a night
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  Speaker 1: of a joy comes in the morning. Whenever you quote
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  Speaker 1: that scripture, always remember it can be a long night.
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  Speaker 2: It can be a long night.
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  Speaker 1: But I've never seen a night so long that it
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  Speaker 1: didn't eventually give way to the morning. So it is
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  Speaker 1: that weekend that is separated from all other weekends that
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  Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of years of prophetic utterances have prepared
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  Speaker 1: us to have one cataclysmic dynamic, explosive, intense weekend so
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  Speaker 1: powerful that it would change the trajectory not only of
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures itself, but how we see God. That weekend
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  Speaker 1: had been prophesied by the prophets of old, had been
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  Speaker 1: seen in shadows and types, had been seen in the
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  Speaker 1: shadows of the Old Testament preparing us for the weekend
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  Speaker 1: of absolute terror and horror. I'm talking about the weekend
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  Speaker 1: that Christ was crucified. I'm talking about the brutalization and
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  Speaker 1: the abuse of one man who took on the sins
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  Speaker 1: of the world. And I am not sure whether it
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  Speaker 1: is the nails of the cross or the beating of
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  Speaker 1: his back or the crown of thorns upon his head
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  Speaker 1: that hurt as bad as the betrayal of his disciples,
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  Speaker 1: the alienation from his friends, or maybe it was the
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  Speaker 1: absence of the favor of his father or the agony
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  Speaker 1: and the shame of being stripped naked in front of
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  Speaker 1: the world and having to bleed out in front of
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  Speaker 1: a crowd of onlookers, of spectators, and even those who
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  Speaker 1: cheered him. But what I love about the story is
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  Speaker 1: on the third day, not only did he rise, but
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  Speaker 1: I am distracted by the women who woke up early
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  Speaker 1: in the morning and decided to go down to the
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  Speaker 1: tomb to be loyal, to a Jesus they thought was dead.
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  Speaker 1: Now that is covenant relationship. Because anybody can be loyal
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  Speaker 1: to you when you're walking on the water and healing
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  Speaker 1: the sick and raising the dead. Anybody can be loyal
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  Speaker 1: to you when you're stopping the woman with the issue
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  Speaker 1: of blood. Anybody can be loyal to you when you
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  Speaker 1: are healing blind Bartimaeus. But now he's dead. And Thomas
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  Speaker 1: is on the run. And Judas has hung himself. And
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  Speaker 1: the disciples are locked up behind closed doors for fear
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  Speaker 1: of the Jews because they're afraid they're going to be next.
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  Speaker 1: And that fear was real because many of them would
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  Speaker 1: be martyred for the cause of Christ. And everybody was
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  Speaker 1: locked up except these women. These women, these women were
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  Speaker 1: unique women. They didn't even come from the same side
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  Speaker 1: of the track. One of them had had a questionable
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  Speaker 1: background and Jesus had changed her life. Each one of
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  Speaker 1: them stands in the presence of Jesus, loving him for
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  Speaker 1: a different reason. It's like going to church and you
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  Speaker 1: all hear us say hallelujah, but we all mean something different.
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  Speaker 1: We say thank you, Jesus, but we're thanking him for
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  Speaker 1: something different. We hear the same song, but we have
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  Speaker 1: different memories and it is the uniqueness of you. It
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  Speaker 1: is a special way of loving God that nobody can
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  Speaker 1: love him like you love him because nobody has your story.
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  Speaker 1: These women got up early in the morning before the
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  Speaker 1: break of day and came down to the tomb because
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  Speaker 1: even dead they wanted to protect him.
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  Speaker 2: They were.
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  Speaker 1: to protect him. They didn't want anybody to smell him decay.
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  Speaker 1: And with their frankincense in one hand and their myrrh
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  Speaker 1: in the other, they rushed down to the tomb to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that anybody walking by would not catch the
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  Speaker 1: scent of his erosion. Only to get down to the
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  Speaker 1: tomb and find out That the Jesus to whom they
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  Speaker 1: loved to the point of being loyal while dead is missing.
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  Speaker 1: And they were the first ones to know that he
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  Speaker 1: had risen from the dead. Revelation is born out of loyalty.
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  Speaker 1: You're not really my covenant brother until you've seen me
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  Speaker 1: in the ditch. Until you've seen me bleed out. Until
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  Speaker 1: you stood by me when others forsook me. You're not
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  Speaker 1: really my sister. Until you put flowers on my stench.
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  Speaker 1: Until you aromatize my agony.
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  Speaker 2: That is the sign of covenant in crushing.
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  Speaker 1: And all of us crave someone who will go through
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  Speaker 1: with us when we don't smell so good. So the
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  Speaker 1: next time you read about this weekend, understand that, yes,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is the star. He is the leading man of
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  Speaker 1: the whole book. The whole book has prepared us for
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  Speaker 1: his entry into the world. And the angels have stood
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  Speaker 1: in utter awe and amazement at his entrance into human form.
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  Speaker 1: that he would pour out of himself his glory and
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  Speaker 1: honor and dwell amongst men was absolutely amazing. And then
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  Speaker 1: to be so much a man that he would die
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  Speaker 1: like a man when in fact inside he was a
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  Speaker 1: God was staggering. Even the apostles in retrospect found it
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  Speaker 1: difficult to articulate the magnitude of who he was. And
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  Speaker 1: though he is the leading man, do not forget the
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  Speaker 1: supporting cast. For these three women who rose up before
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  Speaker 1: the dew had hit the roses and gathered up their
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  Speaker 1: goods and went out into the cold, chilly air of
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem and began to walk down the cobblestone streets toward
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did not do it for fame or fortune or
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  Speaker 1: recognition or titles or recompense of any kind. They simply
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  Speaker 1: did it because they loved him so. And I have
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  Speaker 1: learned that when life is tough and painful and hurting,
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  Speaker 1: It is not so important that you have somebody who
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  Speaker 1: is wise or rich or famous or beautiful or attractive.
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  Speaker 1: What is important is that you have somebody who loves
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  Speaker 1: you so. I want to talk to you about from
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  Speaker 1: vineyard to victory. It's quite a stretch, you understand. You
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  Speaker 1: must realize that we look at the cross as a
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  Speaker 1: place of worship and a symbol of our faith and
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  Speaker 1: the authenticity of our Christian belief. But before the cross
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  Speaker 1: was a place of faith, it was an execution chamber.
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  Speaker 1: And no one would wear an electric chair around their
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  Speaker 1: neck or a gas chamber, have it painted on your t-shirt.
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  Speaker 1: You see, it was natural in the days of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ to walk down the street and look up on
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  Speaker 1: the hill and see someone dying, writhing on a cross.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was not the only one to be executed.
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  Speaker 1: And when Pilate gave the decree that released him, that
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  Speaker 1: set him up to go to the cross, he did
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  Speaker 1: not send him to the cross as a lamb. He
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  Speaker 1: sent him to the cross as a criminal. And the
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  Speaker 1: cross was a place of execution. And the early church
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  Speaker 1: did not wear crosses anymore. nor honor them, nor think
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  Speaker 1: that they were special because the cross was a place
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  Speaker 1: of suffering and shame and degradation. It was not a
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  Speaker 1: place to sing songs and raise your hands and worship
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  Speaker 1: and glorify. It was not until many years later when
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  Speaker 1: Constantine's mother decided that she would go on a search
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  Speaker 1: to try to find those old, rugged crosses. And she
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  Speaker 1: found what she thought and could have been the cross
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus was crucified on. And then she had to
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  Speaker 1: struggle with having found it. What do I do with it?
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  Speaker 1: She found an antique wooden artifact that she believed was
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  Speaker 1: the cross. She splintered it into pieces rather than to
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  Speaker 1: have people fight over who would get the cross and
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  Speaker 1: dispersed it around the world. sending it into basilicas and
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  Speaker 1: sanctuaries and chambers, little pieces of the cross that are
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  Speaker 1: still in many of the more Greek Orthodox religious institutions,
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  Speaker 1: pieces of the cross are kept and have been preserved
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  Speaker 1: and maintained as a testament to the mother of Constantine.
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  Speaker 1: And had she not done that, the gospel itself would
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  Speaker 1: not have caught on fire like it did. But it
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  Speaker 1: spread every place the splinters went. The splintering of the
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  Speaker 1: cross is what promulgated the gospel to reach to the
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  Speaker 1: uttermost parts of the earth because everybody got a little
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  Speaker 1: peace and it broke open conversations and communications and it
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  Speaker 1: started something special that all of a sudden the cross
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  Speaker 1: ceased to be a place of shame and it turned
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  Speaker 1: into a place of sacred worship and adoration. It changed
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  Speaker 1: its meaning, not its look. It changed its meaning because
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  Speaker 1: now the eye of the beholder looked beyond the shame
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  Speaker 1: and saw the Savior. You must understand that we go
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  Speaker 1: through things in our lives that it is how we
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  Speaker 1: behold it that determines how we feel about it. It
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  Speaker 1: is how we choose to see it, whether it is
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  Speaker 1: execution or offering. You see, to the Romans, it was execution.
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  Speaker 1: But in reality, Jesus Christ was an offering that the
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews said he went in once and for all by himself,
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  Speaker 1: with himself. He is priest enough to be the offerer
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  Speaker 1: and lamb enough to be the offering. Do you hear
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? There's one little notation in the story
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  Speaker 1: of the crucifixion that you could easily overlook. It is
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  Speaker 1: not the decision of Pilate that changed it from execution
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  Speaker 1: to offering. But in a brief statement, one of the
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  Speaker 1: gospel writers records, Caiaphas, the high priest, nodded his head
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  Speaker 1: in assent to the crucifixion. And with the nod of Caiaphas,
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  Speaker 1: the priest, the convict became the Christ and the execution
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  Speaker 1: became an offering because Pilate did not have the authority
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  Speaker 1: to offer up a lamb to God. Only the high
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  Speaker 1: priest could do that. So the priest, when he nodded
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  Speaker 1: his head, legitimized the offering. Constantine's mother spreaded the offering.
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  Speaker 1: And now we stand at the foot of an old
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  Speaker 1: rugged cross. What a wondrous attraction for me where the
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  Speaker 1: dearest and best of a world of lost sinners were slain.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll cherish the old rugged cross till at last
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  Speaker 1: my burdens I lay down. I will cling to the
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  Speaker 1: old rugged cross. Those kinds of lyrics are born only
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  Speaker 1: because Constantine's mother turned the cross into splinters. And the
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  Speaker 1: splinters turned an execution chamber into a place of Christian adoration.
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  Speaker 2: Crushing?
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  Speaker 1: It all depends on how you look at it. One
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  Speaker 1: man's misery is another man's miracle. And one man's test
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  Speaker 1: isn't another man's testimony. And you can't have victory until
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  Speaker 1: you've been a victim. So it all depends on your perspective.