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T.D. Jakes God Has Given You What You Need to Overcome! Full Sermons on TBN · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Are you being offered what you already got? Are you
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  Speaker 1: trying to find a peace that you already possess? The
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  Speaker 1: real star of the story with the two fish and
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  Speaker 1: the five loaves of bread is the hunger that moved
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. When they came to Jesus and they said,
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  Speaker 1: the people that are with you are hungry. He said,
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  Speaker 1: oh good, that's capacity. Wherever I see capacity, I will
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  Speaker 1: release a plot. Then was Jesus led up to, of
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  Speaker 1: the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine that. The spirit led him to be tempted of
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  Speaker 1: the devil. The demons didn't do it. The enemies didn't
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  Speaker 1: do it. The haters didn't do it. The Holy Ghost did.
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  Speaker 1: led him into a place of temptation of the devil
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness. Somebody say the wilderness. And when he
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  Speaker 1: had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, he was afterward
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  Speaker 1: and hungry. And when the tempter came to him, he said,
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  Speaker 1: if thou be the son of God, command that these
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  Speaker 1: stones be made bread. But he answered and said, it
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  Speaker 1: is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: Then the devil taketh him up into a holy city,
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  Speaker 1: and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and
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  Speaker 1: said unto him, If thou be the Son of God,
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  Speaker 1: cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give
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  Speaker 1: his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they
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  Speaker 1: shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou shouldst
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  Speaker 1: pass thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him,
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  Speaker 1: it is written again, thou shalt not tempt the Lord
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  Speaker 1: thy God again. The devil taketh him up into an
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  Speaker 1: exceeding high mountain to show them all the kingdoms of
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  Speaker 1: the world and the glory of them and say unto him,
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  Speaker 1: all these things. Will I give thee? I'll give it
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  Speaker 1: to you. I'll give it to you. You can't give me.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give it to you. Oh, you can't give. I'll
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  Speaker 1: give it to you. You can't give me. I'll give it.
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  Speaker 1: All these things will I give. If thou shalt fall
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  Speaker 1: down and worship me, then saith Jesus unto him, get thee.
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  Speaker 1: Get out of my face, devil. For it is written,
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only
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  Speaker 1: shalt thou serve. Then the devil is scampering on the way. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: the angels came and ministered unto him. You may be
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  Speaker 1: seated in the presence of the Lord. You can't give
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  Speaker 1: me what's already mine. I want to spend a little
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  Speaker 1: time on this text because I think this text is
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  Speaker 1: quite profound. It is profound in several ways that are
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  Speaker 1: quite notable. And preceding the text, Jesus has reappeared after
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  Speaker 1: 18 years of obscurity. We know nothing about the life
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus from the age of 12 to the age
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  Speaker 1: of 30. 18 years of total obscurity that are not
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  Speaker 1: shared with us in the text. At 30 years old,
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  Speaker 1: the young man comes down to the Jordan River. and
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  Speaker 1: runs into the premier prelate preacher of his day, John
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  Speaker 1: the Baptist, baptizing in the Jordan. Nobody even knew who
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was. You know, when people don't know who you are,
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  Speaker 1: they run over top of you trying to get to
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  Speaker 1: who they do know. Jesus was just a face in
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  Speaker 1: the crowd. And while John was baptizing in the Jordan River,
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  Speaker 1: he said, he looked out and saw him and said, behold,
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  Speaker 1: the Lamb of God has taken away the sins of
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  Speaker 1: the world. And in one flash, he went from obscurity
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  Speaker 1: to notoriety. One flash. That's the amazing thing about life.
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  Speaker 1: One thing can happen and turn everything around. That's why
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  Speaker 1: y'all never commit suicide because one thing can turn the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing around. One thing. One phone call. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care how bad it is. I don't care what you're
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  Speaker 1: going through right now. Just one thing can turn everything around.
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  Speaker 1: John was baptized and looked up and glanced and saw himself. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: look at there. There's the Lamb of God who's taken
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  Speaker 1: away the sin of the world. And he went, where, where, where, where, where, where?
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  Speaker 1: And God will make somebody point you out, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And he'll make somebody point you out. And all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden the crowds parted and Jesus stepped from obscurity
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  Speaker 1: to notoriety. To step right into his destiny. Step right
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  Speaker 1: into his purpose. Step right into it. And came down
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  Speaker 1: to the River Jordan. And there he was baptized in
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  Speaker 1: the River Jordan. And then the Holy, then the Father
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  Speaker 1: collaborated and coordinated. and defined who he was in an
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  Speaker 1: even greater way than John could. For the Bible says
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  Speaker 1: the heavens roll back and the Father spoke from heaven.
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  Speaker 1: This is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is baptized in the Jordan River. The heavens roll back.
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  Speaker 1: The Father affirms him. The Holy Spirit descends like a dove.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a great moment, great moment, awesome moment.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I've seen some dedication service and
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  Speaker 1: consecration service and coordination services, but never were the heavens
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  Speaker 1: roll back. And the Father spoke from heaven. That kind
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  Speaker 1: of shuts everybody's mouth. When the heavens roll back and
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  Speaker 1: the Father speaks from heaven and say, hear ye him?
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  Speaker 1: It makes you stick your chest out and say, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. He talked about me. It's a great moment.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great moment. And then the oxymoron of the
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  Speaker 1: moment is that after a magnanimous moment, the Spirit leads him.
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  Speaker 1: You would think, Maybe to the temple to preach, to
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  Speaker 1: the synagogue for a coronation. You would think it would
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  Speaker 1: lead him to Caesar's Palace or something to celebrate for
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  Speaker 1: a luncheon. No. Leads him into the wilderness to be
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  Speaker 1: tempted of the devil. I could stay there all night.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit leading me to wilderness. Isn't that something? That I
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  Speaker 1: can be in God's will and God's will can be,
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  Speaker 1: God's will can be in the wilderness. God's will in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness. Most of the time people get in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: they say, you know, how in the world could I
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  Speaker 1: get in the wilderness? The devil did this. No, the
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  Speaker 1: devil didn't do this. The spirit did. led him into
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness. The will of God led him into the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime God's will leads you into a wilderness, it is
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  Speaker 1: for divine purpose. It is for divine purpose. And he
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  Speaker 1: brought him out there to be tempted of the devil.
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  Speaker 1: And this temptation let's use the word test, this test
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  Speaker 1: that he has in the wilderness, where he has a
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  Speaker 1: confrontation with Satan is quite powerful. I didn't really get
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  Speaker 1: it until I was touring Jerusalem. And I was touring,
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  Speaker 1: I was invited to Jerusalem. I went on tour in Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: And then I was a guest of the King of
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  Speaker 1: Jordan there. After King Hussein died, I was invited to
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  Speaker 1: go over to make a presentation to King Adullam, who
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  Speaker 1: was taken over the throne over in Jordan. And so
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  Speaker 1: I went from Jerusalem, which is in Israel, over into Jordan,
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  Speaker 1: which the relationships are strained. And our guide that went
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  Speaker 1: with us, he only went to the border and stopped.
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  Speaker 1: And at the border, there were all these M-16s and...
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  Speaker 1: And I crossed on over to the other side, on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the Jordan, on over into Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: And I was looking around at the scenery and my
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  Speaker 1: wife was looking at the M16s. I was all caught
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  Speaker 1: up in what happened in the Bible at this spot
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  Speaker 1: and what happened in the Bible in that spot. And
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  Speaker 1: she didn't even crack her Bible. She was just looking
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  Speaker 1: at these big M16s everywhere. and noticing that our guide's
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  Speaker 1: face was getting smaller and smaller and smaller in the
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  Speaker 1: rear view mirror. But I was taken away because over
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  Speaker 1: as we crossed over, just not even a mile or
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  Speaker 1: so down the road, I looked over to the left
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  Speaker 1: and there's this huge mountain. And the driver told me,
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  Speaker 1: that's Mount Nebo. And I said, oh my God, I
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  Speaker 1: got to go up there. Mount Nebo? Get that close,
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  Speaker 1: my girl? The devil is alive. I'm going up there
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  Speaker 1: so I can stand where Moses stood. I needed me
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  Speaker 1: a wooden staff so I could go up there and
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  Speaker 1: stand on Mount Nebo. And oh my God, it was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: My wife didn't like it, but it was amazing. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's wrong with her. Pray for her, you know.
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  Speaker 1: There I am on Mount Nebo. And when I got
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  Speaker 1: to Mount Nebo, you know, Mount Nebo is the place
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  Speaker 1: where Moses ended his journey. That's where everything came to
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  Speaker 1: conclusion and finality of Mount Nebo. It's kind of where
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  Speaker 1: Moses had flunked the test, you know. And he could
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  Speaker 1: see the promised land, but he couldn't go into the
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  Speaker 1: promised land, Mount Nebo. He could see it, but he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't go into it. That's a torturesome thing to see
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  Speaker 1: something you're forbidden to go into, to have more vision
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  Speaker 1: than you have permission. That's a terrible thing. It's a
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  Speaker 1: terrible thing. It's very frustrating to see it and not
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  Speaker 1: be it. Actually breaks the law because generally anything you
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  Speaker 1: can see, you can be. But God said, my punishment
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  Speaker 1: to you is I'm going to let you see it
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  Speaker 1: and not be it. All of that happened on Mount Nebo.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, that's a distraction from me. I got carried away.
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  Speaker 1: But there I am on the top of Mount Nebo.
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  Speaker 1: And to my amazement, let me tell you what it
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  Speaker 1: looked like. Oh, up under the mountain, at the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the mountain, everything is parched and dry and sandy
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  Speaker 1: and lifeless. And then the Jordan River is right over here.
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  Speaker 1: And then on the other side of the Jordan, everything
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  Speaker 1: is green and plush and beautiful. And I could understand
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  Speaker 1: for the first time what it was like for the
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  Speaker 1: children of Israel to get after going through all of
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  Speaker 1: those miles of dry mouth parching terrain to finally come
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  Speaker 1: to something green. A land that flows with milk and honey.
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  Speaker 1: where the grapes were so big that the giants guarded
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  Speaker 1: the grapes to be over, to come to that place.
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  Speaker 1: And there he was to see it. And all they
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  Speaker 1: had to do was cross the Jordan to get to it.
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  Speaker 1: But before they could cross the Jordan, there's this dry, barren, parched, scorched,
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  Speaker 1: lifeless place. And that place is the wilderness. It is
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness that Israel was coming out of This is
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness that now Jesus is led into. It is
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  Speaker 1: this wilderness where Moses flunked the test. Yeah, Moses, the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament pastor. Moses introduces us to the first time
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  Speaker 1: the understanding The church in the Old Testament is pastored
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  Speaker 1: by Moses. Ecclesia. Ecc out. Ecclesia. Called out. Ecclesia. Moses
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  Speaker 1: called out the children of Israel out of Egypt. He
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  Speaker 1: was the pastor of the old church. The Old Testament church.
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  Speaker 1: And the pastor of the Old Testament church was leading
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  Speaker 1: the children of Israel from Egypt to the promised land.
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  Speaker 1: But the pastor flunked the test at the last moment. Wow. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: It is here at this place where Moses flunks the test,
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  Speaker 1: just near to this place. He flunks the test because
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  Speaker 1: you remember how he smoked the rock the first time
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  Speaker 1: and the waters came out of the rock. And the
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  Speaker 1: children of Israel drank it. He was supposed to smite
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  Speaker 1: it the first time because the rock had the type
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. And for him to smite it the first
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  Speaker 1: time was an indication that he was wounded for my transgressions.
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  Speaker 1: He was bruised for my iniquity. The chastisement of my
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  Speaker 1: peace was upon him. And with his stripes we are healed.
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  Speaker 1: That was the first lick. But when he smote it
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  Speaker 1: the second time, he shattered the type because he implied
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  Speaker 1: that Christ would be crucified afresh. which broke the typology,
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  Speaker 1: but also is a picture of an apostatized children of
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  Speaker 1: Israel who believed and then backed away. And Hebrews talks
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  Speaker 1: about if he'd be crucified afresh, for you have tasted
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  Speaker 1: once of the heavenly gift to draw back again. So
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  Speaker 1: Moses is smiting the second time. It's not only a
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  Speaker 1: picture of a backslidden Israel who once embraces Christ and
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  Speaker 1: then backs away and crucifies him again. It also shadows
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  Speaker 1: the typology. to say that the first strike was not enough.
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  Speaker 1: If I sat down right now, that's enough word. And
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  Speaker 1: so here he is, here he is, Jesus is getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to bring the New Testament church into existence, but
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  Speaker 1: he has some old business. Come on. that has to
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  Speaker 1: be cleared up. And so the first agenda coming up
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  Speaker 1: out of the Jordan is the Spirit said, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: fix what Moses broke. You got to go to the
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  Speaker 1: place where the old pastor blew it and mend the
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  Speaker 1: tear to let the devil know that he has not
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  Speaker 1: gotten the victory. This is a fresh look At an
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  Speaker 1: old text. Because all of a sudden we begin to
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  Speaker 1: understand why the prerequisite for Christ starting his ministry now
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  Speaker 1: begins with the point that he now stitches, reconstructs, redefines, verifies, validates,
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  Speaker 1: and passes the test that Moses flunked. So he goes
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  Speaker 1: into the wilderness and he fasts. Y'all with me so far? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says that he was led into the
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  Speaker 1: wilderness to be tempted of the devil. It doesn't say
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  Speaker 1: that he was led into the wilderness to fast. It
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  Speaker 1: said he was led into the wilderness to be tempted
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  Speaker 1: of the devil. But the Bible says that after he
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  Speaker 1: fasted for 40 days, so he's getting ready. He's getting ready.
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  Speaker 1: He said, this is a great showdown at the OK Corral.
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  Speaker 1: And I got to get ready. He fasts for 40 days.
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  Speaker 1: And after he fasted, he then being hungry, now Satan
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  Speaker 1: comes to tempt him. To tempt him. He's done that before.
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  Speaker 1: He's tempted the last pastor with frustration. And he's tempted
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  Speaker 1: the last pastor not only with frustration, but to use
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  Speaker 1: his power to to appease his frustration. Now, if you
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  Speaker 1: miss that, you missed the whole night. The temptation with Moses,
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  Speaker 1: he said, Moses, you got that rod that's got all
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  Speaker 1: the power in it. The people have gotten on your nerves.
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  Speaker 1: Use your power to vent your frustration. Smite the rock.
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  Speaker 1: Bless my soul. Moses smoked the rock the second time
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  Speaker 1: and that stopped him from getting to the promised land.
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  Speaker 1: Here comes Jesus out into the wilderness and the first
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  Speaker 1: test he faced is about a rock. Tell somebody, say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm back to the rock again. Isn't it funny how
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  Speaker 1: God will bring you full circle and make you confront
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  Speaker 1: the very thing that you had to confront before? Face
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  Speaker 1: the place of your failure. He will bring you back
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  Speaker 1: to the rock again. I'm going to come down here
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  Speaker 1: and talk to y'all a little bit. Is it okay?
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  Speaker 1: He brings them back to the rock. And here now
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has come to the rock. And here is the issue.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says afterward he hungered. And the enemy said,
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  Speaker 1: if thou be the son of God, use your power.
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  Speaker 1: Use your power now to turn this stone to bread.
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  Speaker 1: The last pastor turned it into water. He said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to augment the test a little bit for you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take it into the next level. He says,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to turn it into stones. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to take the stone and turn it into bread.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to take the stone and turn it
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  Speaker 1: into bread. I want you to take the stone. And
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, it is written, man shall not live by
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  Speaker 1: bread alone. That's what he said. But by every word
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  Speaker 1: that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. I started
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  Speaker 1: to preach that, you know. I started to preach it
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  Speaker 1: is written. And I was going to use the subject,
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  Speaker 1: throw the book at him. But I won't bother that tonight. See,
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  Speaker 1: because really what is going on, they're both throwing the
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  Speaker 1: book at each other. But that's another thing. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is a preacher's message. Y'all got my back on this.
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  Speaker 1: So he says, it is written, man shall not live
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  Speaker 1: by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out
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  Speaker 1: of the mouth of God. Now, here's the irony of
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  Speaker 1: it all. If thou be the son of God, turn
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  Speaker 1: this stone to bread. I got hung up there because
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  Speaker 1: If thou be the son of God. First of all, if.
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  Speaker 1: If thou be. He is the son of God. There
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  Speaker 1: ain't no question about that. He is the son of God.
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  Speaker 1: And the devil knows he's the son of God or
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't be tempting him. The devil only attacks you
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  Speaker 1: when he doesn't have you. From Genesis to Revelations, you
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  Speaker 1: can show me nowhere in the Bible where Satan has
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  Speaker 1: ever fought what was his. Only church people do that.
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  Speaker 1: Satan is so united that Jesus said of Satan, Satan
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  Speaker 1: have a kingdom, and if that kingdom be divided against itself,
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  Speaker 1: how shall it stand? Even Jesus had to acknowledge that
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  Speaker 1: Satan is so unified that he never fights what's his.
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  Speaker 1: So the very fact that he's fighting him indicates that
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  Speaker 1: he understands who he is. In fact, the very fact
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  Speaker 1: that he's fighting you is an indication that he understands.
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  Speaker 1: Are y'all with me? You with me in the balcony?
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  Speaker 1: You with me everywhere? Touch your neighbor and say, the
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  Speaker 1: devil knows who I am. The devil knows who I am.
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  Speaker 1: The devil knows, you know, yeah, yeah. I know that
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  Speaker 1: the devil had the intelligence because later in the book
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  Speaker 1: you will see where the demon spoke out of a
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  Speaker 1: man and said, Paul I know and Jesus I know,
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  Speaker 1: but who are you? You ought to do something that
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  Speaker 1: lets the devil know who you are. Or somebody who
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  Speaker 1: got that makes some noise in this place. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Look at somebody and say, yeah, he knows me. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We've been at it a few times. He knows me.
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  Speaker 1: I did enough to be on his radar. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be sitting there with low self-esteem. You must
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  Speaker 1: be somebody for him to be fighting you like he's
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  Speaker 1: fighting you. You must have a destiny and a purpose
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  Speaker 1: and a calling and a gift over your life. Somebody shout,
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  Speaker 1: I am! Oh, you didn't know it, but when you
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  Speaker 1: said I am, you were calling God by his name.
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  Speaker 1: Who shall I say sent me? I am! I feel it.
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  Speaker 1: Something is going to happen in here tonight. Can you
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  Speaker 1: feel that word just building up, just building up, just
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  Speaker 1: building up? Somebody's going to get drenched in the word
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  Speaker 1: of God. They're going to get saturated in the word
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  Speaker 1: of God. You're going to go home speaking the word
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  Speaker 1: of God tonight. Every yoke is going to be broken.
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  Speaker 1: Every demon is going to have to move out of
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  Speaker 1: your way. That storm that's in your life, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to speak to it and say, peace be still. But
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, sit on down. I ain't got to
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  Speaker 1: the point yet. This is just the first point. He
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  Speaker 1: says so. See, see. I'm caught up in this thing
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  Speaker 1: about this stone. If thou be the son of God,
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  Speaker 1: turn this stone to bread. Jesus threw the book at him.
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  Speaker 1: It is written that man shall not live by bread alone.
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  Speaker 1: But by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth
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  Speaker 1: of God. That was the first clue to me that
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  Speaker 1: something was going on. Because he tempted him to turn
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  Speaker 1: the stone to bread if he was the son of God.
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  Speaker 1: But if you know your Bible, you know that the
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  Speaker 1: son of God is bread. because I believe the book
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  Speaker 1: said your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness but
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  Speaker 1: I am the true bread that cometh down out of
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  Speaker 1: heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall
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  Speaker 1: never perish again so what are you doing offering me
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing offering offering me you can't give
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  Speaker 1: me You come in my life like you're going to
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  Speaker 1: add something to me? How you going to add something
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  Speaker 1: to me? How you going to offer me what I
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  Speaker 1: already am? Do you think I don't know that I
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  Speaker 1: am the bread that fell down out of heaven? Do
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  Speaker 1: you not understand that I'm the guy that took the
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  Speaker 1: bread and said, take, eat, this is my body that
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  Speaker 1: was broken for you? Don't you understand at the Passover
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  Speaker 1: I told you, my body is bread. And how can
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  Speaker 1: you tempt me with what I already have? Doesn't mind
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  Speaker 1: telling me you can't give me what I already got.
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  Speaker 1: So he says, he says, I'm just talking to you
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Let's see. So he says, he says, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Now he is offering him the bread. Jesus is hungry.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. But he is offering him
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  Speaker 1: what he already is. Amen. The thing that you hunger for,
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  Speaker 1: you already got. If you hunger for intimacy, you have
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  Speaker 1: to be an intimate person to be hungry for. If
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  Speaker 1: you hunger for love, you have to be a loving
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  Speaker 1: person to be hungry for it. Because people who are
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  Speaker 1: not loving don't even know what you're talking about. They
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  Speaker 1: can't understand what you're not satisfied about. They don't even
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  Speaker 1: understand what you are looking for because you have to
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  Speaker 1: be it to hunger for it. If you hunger for excellence,
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  Speaker 1: it's only because you are excellent because only excellent people Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all ain't going to talk to me tonight. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: Look at somebody and say, I am that. What I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking for is somebody who is a reflection of what
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  Speaker 1: I already am. Somebody who functions on the level that
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  Speaker 1: I function. Somebody who needs what I need and wants
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  Speaker 1: what I want. Somebody who has the same standards that
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  Speaker 1: I have. And the very fact that I'm hungry for
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  Speaker 1: it is a sign that I am that. If I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have that mentality, I wouldn't want that. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. And then I know the devil is
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  Speaker 1: still trying to get bread people to hook up with stones.
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  Speaker 1: Don't say nothing because you might have married a stone
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  Speaker 1: and you can't say nothing about it. Just sit there
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  Speaker 1: and be just as cool as you can. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to get you out of this in a minute and
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  Speaker 1: spend the next 15 years of your life trying to
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  Speaker 1: turn a stone. You was a bread person. You wanted
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  Speaker 1: bread when you got them. You knew it was bread
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  Speaker 1: you needed. You knew you didn't quite see it in them.
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  Speaker 1: But all of these years, you've been trying to turn
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  Speaker 1: a stone. And when bread people hook up with stone people,
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  Speaker 1: they don't communicate well. Because what the bread person is
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  Speaker 1: trying to do is trying to get something out of
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  Speaker 1: you that's not in you. And the stone person is
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  Speaker 1: looking back saying, what's wrong? What's wrong? You expect too much.
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  Speaker 1: You ought to be satisfied for me to just sit here. See,
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  Speaker 1: because in appearance, the stone and the bread look alike.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever got with somebody that appeared to be something?
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  Speaker 1: That when you really try to really get down to it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to bother. I'm not going to bother.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody in here ought to say amen. If you're afraid
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  Speaker 1: to say amen, you can tweet me an amen. Just
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  Speaker 1: at Bishop Jace because I know you don't want them
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  Speaker 1: to know that I'm preaching your message tonight. But you
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  Speaker 1: act like you get that tape for somebody at work
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  Speaker 1: and then get home and get in your car and
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  Speaker 1: fall out of it. because I don't care how hungry
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  Speaker 1: you are. You can't get bread out of stony people.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't no need in trying to turn it into something
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  Speaker 1: that it ain't. It is what it is. Don't you
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  Speaker 1: be trying to use your power to deceive yourself into
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  Speaker 1: thinking that just because it's shaped like bread, that it
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  Speaker 1: tastes like bread. Going to break your teeth. How many
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  Speaker 1: will make a commitment that you are through breaking your
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  Speaker 1: teeth on hard stuff? Through deceiving yourself into thinking that
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  Speaker 1: rocks are bread. Through draining your power, trying to get
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  Speaker 1: the stone to be something that it is not. and
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  Speaker 1: all of the energy that you're putting into trying to
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  Speaker 1: make something be that it is not, you should have
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  Speaker 1: put into discovering what God put in you. Because the
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  Speaker 1: very fact that you hunger for it is a sign
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  Speaker 1: that you are it. Only excellent people hunger for excellence.
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  Speaker 1: Only wise people hunger for wisdom. I can tell the
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  Speaker 1: level of a preacher by how well they receive the word.
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  Speaker 1: Cause you know, just cause you wear a clergy shirt
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  Speaker 1: don't mean you a preacher. But when you start preaching
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  Speaker 1: the word to a real preacher, something in him will
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  Speaker 1: ignite down in his soul, something in her will start
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  Speaker 1: leaping up because lack knows lack, deep knows deep, rich
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  Speaker 1: knows rich, class knows class, anointing knows anointing. There ain't
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  Speaker 1: no way I'm going home with rocks when I can
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  Speaker 1: have some bread. Touch your neighbor and say, look at me.
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  Speaker 1: I am bread. I am nutrition. I am sustenance. Whoever
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  Speaker 1: gets me going to be better off than they were before.
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  Speaker 1: I got something to offer. I'm not faking the funk.
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  Speaker 1: I got something about me that whoever gets this, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to get better. So he says to him, let
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  Speaker 1: me hurry on. I don't want to take too long.
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  Speaker 1: So he says, You know He says now he takes
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  Speaker 1: him up to a high place in the temple in
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  Speaker 1: the synagogue and says now if you fall off This
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  Speaker 1: temple cast yourself down for it is written. See they
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  Speaker 1: throw in the book in each other Yeah, somebody gonna
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  Speaker 1: go preach it and I already know pay your tithes
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  Speaker 1: It is written that the angels will bury thee up
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  Speaker 1: lest you dash your foot against the stone. Okay. And
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, it is written, they throw in the book
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  Speaker 1: back and forth, that thou should not tempt the Lord
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  Speaker 1: thy God. Isn't that what he said? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so he said, I'm not going to use my
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  Speaker 1: power to prove who I am. Because when you know
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  Speaker 1: who you are, you don't have to prove what you
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  Speaker 1: got when you know see let me help you all
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  Speaker 1: out with this when you see these preachers banging on
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  Speaker 1: the pulpit talking about i'm the pastor of this church
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  Speaker 1: they're not when you see these men beating on each
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  Speaker 1: other i'm the man of this house he's not When
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  Speaker 1: you are something, you don't have to convince anybody of
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  Speaker 1: what you are. When you walked in the room, everything
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  Speaker 1: in that's gone. Oh, y'all ain't helping me preach this tonight.
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  Speaker 1: So then he says, he says, enough of this angel stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 1: He said, come on up here. He said, come on
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  Speaker 1: up here and take a look at this. He said,
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  Speaker 1: go on up here. He said, you see all of that?
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  Speaker 1: He said, all the kingdoms of the world will I
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  Speaker 1: give you if you bow down and worship me. And
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, this is not no good deal. Don't you
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  Speaker 1: know the earth is the Lord's? The fullness thereof and
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  Speaker 1: the world and they that dwell therein. In all three cases,
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  Speaker 1: the enemy, didn't the Bible say the kingdoms of this
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  Speaker 1: world should be the kingdoms of our God and of
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  Speaker 1: his Christ? All three cases, the enemy was offering him
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  Speaker 1: what he already had. What does that mean to you?
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  Speaker 1: Are you being offered what you already got? Are you
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  Speaker 1: trying to find a peace that you already possess? Are
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  Speaker 1: you seeking a wisdom externally that you already have internally?
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it true that the very fact that you are
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  Speaker 1: hungry for it is an indication that you are functioning
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  Speaker 1: on a level to know that it exists? And devil,
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  Speaker 1: one more thing I want to say. This talk you
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  Speaker 1: gave about the angels, that Jesus had to throw himself
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  Speaker 1: down off the temple for the angels to come. The
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  Speaker 1: angels were coming anyway. So the Bible, touch somebody and
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  Speaker 1: tell them the angels are coming anyway. Came I actually
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  Speaker 1: didn't come from Dallas this time. I flew from New
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  Speaker 1: York I've been on the plane all day flying from
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  Speaker 1: New York to get here to tell you the angels
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  Speaker 1: are coming Now wait wait wait, I want you I
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  Speaker 1: want you to understand this is not the word for
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  Speaker 1: the happy people This is for the hungry people This
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  Speaker 1: is for the weary, tired, at my wit's end, out
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  Speaker 1: of breath, tired, can't take anymore. If something don't break
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  Speaker 1: through in a minute, I'm going to lose my mind, people.
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  Speaker 1: This is for the people that's been in a wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: been through hell and high water. Your back's been up
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  Speaker 1: against the wall. You've been wondering, Lord, how long do
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  Speaker 1: I have to go through this? Is there anybody in
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  Speaker 1: here like that? If you're in here like that, make
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  Speaker 1: some noise right now. I feel a prophetic undertone to
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  Speaker 1: the direction that the Lord has brought me in. I
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  Speaker 1: don't promise you a shout because that's not the objective
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  Speaker 1: of my preaching. Not at this stage. I do promise
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  Speaker 1: you a word from God. And I have the feeling
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  Speaker 1: that the message God gave me is in response to
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  Speaker 1: to where you are at in life and something you
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  Speaker 1: have been asking him for. Yeah, yeah. It is almost
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  Speaker 1: as if I feel like I'm responding to something that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even hear. But something you said to him,
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  Speaker 1: he will respond now through me. He that hath an ear,
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  Speaker 1: Let him hear what the Spirit of the Lord is
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  Speaker 1: saying to the church. You don't come this far to
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  Speaker 1: get your dance in. You could have got your dance
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  Speaker 1: in at home. When you come this far, you come
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  Speaker 1: for a shift. Going into a whole different orbit and
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  Speaker 1: a completely different dimension. Are you ready? You don't have
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  Speaker 1: time to worry about whether you're Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Church
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: of God, Church of God in Christ, Church of God
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  Speaker 1: in prophecies. Church of God got it going on in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus' name by faith incorporated saints of God and friends.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have time to worry about whether you're Democrat
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  Speaker 1: or Republican. You don't have time to worry about whether
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  Speaker 1: you're white or black or Hispanic or African or Australian.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have time to worry about any of that
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  Speaker 1: because where God wants to put something is so deep
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  Speaker 1: down in your spirit. that you want to leave this
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  Speaker 1: meeting carrying more baggage than what you can check in
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: at the counter. You want to go home loaded down
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  Speaker 1: with keys that are going to open up things that
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: have been shut down in you for years. Are you
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  Speaker 1: getting what I'm saying? Leap up on your feet and
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  Speaker 1: let's go into the Word of God. We stand for
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  Speaker 1: the reading of the Word of God in here. In
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  Speaker 1: 1 Kings, I want you to notice verse 17. through
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  Speaker 1: 13 through 17. I'm going to start there first and
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  Speaker 1: then I'll backtrack and go Philippians. I'm going to lay
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  Speaker 1: my early foundation in 1 Kings 17, 13 through 17.
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  Speaker 1: Then we're going to go to Philippians. And Elijah said
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  Speaker 1: unto her, fear not. Go and do as thou hast said,
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  Speaker 1: but make me thereof a little cake first and bring
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  Speaker 1: it unto me and after make for thee and for
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  Speaker 1: thy son. For thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: the barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the
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  Speaker 1: cruise of oil fail until the day that the Lord
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  Speaker 1: sendeth rain upon the earth. It won't stop until it
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  Speaker 1: rains again. And she went and did according to the
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  Speaker 1: saying of Elijah, and she and he and her house
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  Speaker 1: did eat many days. And the barrel of meal wasted not,
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  Speaker 1: neither did the cruise of oil fail according to the
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah. And
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  Speaker 1: it came to pass after these things that the son
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  Speaker 1: of the woman, the mistress of the house fell sick
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  Speaker 1: and his sickness was so sore that there was no
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  Speaker 1: breath left in him. Now leave a little notepad, a card,
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  Speaker 1: a finger, if you're still using Bibles. I know most
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: of y'all got iPads now, but leave some kind of
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  Speaker 1: notation there. And we're going to the New Testament to
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: hear a very unique phrase from the Apostle Paul in
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  Speaker 1: Philippians chapter 4, verse 15 through 9. Now ye Philippians
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  Speaker 1: know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when
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  Speaker 1: I departed from Macedonia, No church communicated with me as
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  Speaker 1: concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. You're the only
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  Speaker 1: ones who communicated or ministered unto me. For even in Thessalonica,
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  Speaker 1: ye sent once and again unto me. my necessity somebody
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  Speaker 1: say necessity not because I desire a gift you didn't
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  Speaker 1: send it because I desire it but I desire fruit
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  Speaker 1: that may abound to your accounts But I have all
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  Speaker 1: and abound. I am full. Having received of Ephraim the
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  Speaker 1: things which were sent from you. An odor of a
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  Speaker 1: sweet smell. A sacrifice acceptable. Well pleasing to God. But
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  Speaker 1: my God. shall supply all of your need. What will
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  Speaker 1: he supply? All of your according to his riches in
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  Speaker 1: glory by Christ Jesus. Now that's where I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: really expand. My God shall supply All of your need.
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  Speaker 1: According to it. Yeah. You heard it, didn't you? Don't
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  Speaker 1: you get ahead of me like that. My God shall
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  Speaker 1: supply all of your needs. They ministered to his necessity.
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  Speaker 1: My God shall supply all of your need according to
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  Speaker 1: his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Now, this scripture
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  Speaker 1: in its context is in reference to giving and needs
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  Speaker 1: being met. for the Apostle Paul in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: his ministry. For the purpose of our understanding tonight, let
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  Speaker 1: us not just compartmentalize need to money. Because it is
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  Speaker 1: possible to have needs in other areas. And sometimes money
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  Speaker 1: gets such a center stage as it relates to need
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  Speaker 1: because we have come through such struggle historically that it
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  Speaker 1: is almost a given that there is a financial need
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  Speaker 1: and if you do have a need, my God shall
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  Speaker 1: supply But the reality is some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: is slowing you down, hindering you, are needs in other area.
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  Speaker 1: The need for support. The need for validation. The need
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  Speaker 1: for love. The need for companionship. The need for connectivity.
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  Speaker 1: The need for staffing for your business. The need for
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: a building for your vision. See, it wasn't that they
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  Speaker 1: were just handing out ducats all the time. If you're hungry,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: the need might be bread. If you're thirsty, it might
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: be water. If you're lonely, it might be help. But
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  Speaker 1: whatever your need is, you have to fill that in
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  Speaker 1: because the Lord told me to tell you he is
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  Speaker 1: the master of of your need. He is the master
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  Speaker 1: of your need. Your need has not shocked him. It
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  Speaker 1: has not embarrassed him. It has not intimidated him. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he is in control. Not only of what he supplies,
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  Speaker 1: but he is control of your need. Touch your neighbor
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  Speaker 1: and say, he's the master of my need. Now let's
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  Speaker 1: pray over the word. Sanctify it down in our hearts
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  Speaker 1: and in our spirits and cause us to understand more abundantly, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: what you would speak tonight. I know what you downloaded
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  Speaker 1: into me. Let it be released in this place in
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  Speaker 1: a coherent, effective way that it gives illumination and light
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  Speaker 1: and understanding. I feel as though that I'm about to
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  Speaker 1: feed a feeder. I'm about to feed a feeder. As
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  Speaker 1: I release what is in my spirit tonight, somebody's going
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  Speaker 1: to take it and do like the body does with food.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to convert it into so many nutritious elements
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  Speaker 1: that are going to minister to them. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: go in a sermon. It's going to come out a building.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to go in a sermon. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: come out a husband. It's going to go in a...
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  Speaker 1: Y'all are not ready for this. It's going to go
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  Speaker 1: in a sermon. It's going to come out a degree.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to go in a sermon. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: come out property. It's going to go in the word
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  Speaker 1: that I speak to you right now. Your spirit is
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  Speaker 1: going to take it just like your body does food.
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  Speaker 1: And it's going to convert it into the thing you
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  Speaker 1: need for what is about to happen next in your life.
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  Speaker 1: If you can understand what I just said, praise him
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  Speaker 1: on credit. Just clap. You may be seated. You may
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: be seated. I was having lunch with some close friends
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  Speaker 1: and people I've known for a number of years and
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  Speaker 1: we were reminiscent. about years ago when we were in
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: a little storefront back in Montgomery, West Virginia and Bishop
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  Speaker 1: Watkins was coming down to minister and I needed He
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: had so many members. He brought four or five busloads,
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  Speaker 1: about 20 cars down. I had about 30 members. And
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: I ended up going to the high school, I think,
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  Speaker 1: there in Montgomery and renting the auditorium at the high
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  Speaker 1: school to hold the crowd because my church, which would
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  Speaker 1: seat about 120 people, wouldn't hold the crowd. And I
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  Speaker 1: thought to myself... how that aligned with a conversation I
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: had had with God. I said, God, I am the
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  Speaker 1: same man and the same preacher with the same anointing
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: that I had back then. Why didn't you give me
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: American Airlines back then? I'm the same guy. I was younger.
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  Speaker 1: I was stronger, I was hungry. Why do you take
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: us through stages of development? Why do you let us
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  Speaker 1: exercise in the gymnasium of small beginnings and go from
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  Speaker 1: 30 to 60 to 100 fold? Because sometimes we can
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  Speaker 1: get stuck at a stage and never evolve to the
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  Speaker 1: capacity that we need to evolve to receive what we
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  Speaker 1: need to receive. And as I began to talk to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord about it, he said, you see, I supply need.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing how you can come to church with
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  Speaker 1: somebody and you can really get blessed and the person
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  Speaker 1: you brought with you got nothing? Have you ever rode
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  Speaker 1: home from church with somebody who got nothing and you
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  Speaker 1: were really, really blessed and they got in the car
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  Speaker 1: talking about who was cute and who was fine and
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  Speaker 1: who had gained weight and why did she wear those
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  Speaker 1: shoes with that dress and you're going crazy because you're
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  Speaker 1: having a spiritual moment with the Lord and they seemingly
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  Speaker 1: got nothing. How could there be so much supply of
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  Speaker 1: glory and they be oblivious to it? Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: recognized that everybody doesn't have the same capacity? That they
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  Speaker 1: could be exposed to great things and not have an
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  Speaker 1: appetite for them. That's why you need to evolve from
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  Speaker 1: needing to do a census before you evolve. That is
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  Speaker 1: to say, you don't need everybody on your road to
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  Speaker 1: line up with you for you to receive what you
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  Speaker 1: need from God. You don't need a reaction from other
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  Speaker 1: people to validate what you need from God because there
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  Speaker 1: can come a release on such a level that if
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  Speaker 1: you don't have the capacity to receive it, you might
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  Speaker 1: not even know it happened. My God. In our text,
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  Speaker 1: Paul says, I needed something and you came and ministered
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  Speaker 1: unto my necessity when other churches didn't. Unto my necessity
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  Speaker 1: when other churches didn't. I thought, this is the Apostle Paul.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Apostle, this is the guy, let me
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  Speaker 1: explain to you. This is the guy who was the
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  Speaker 1: Saddam Hussein of the early church. Who killed Christians for
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  Speaker 1: a living. And yet God had such a plan for
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  Speaker 1: his life in spite of all the people he had
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  Speaker 1: slaughtered and murdered and destroyed. And some suggested he even
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  Speaker 1: held the coat early on in his life while people
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  Speaker 1: stoned Stephan. He has a history of being a Christian
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  Speaker 1: killer and yet God touches him and converts him for
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  Speaker 1: the master's use. How could God use somebody so filthy,
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  Speaker 1: so nasty, so hateful? He basically called the terrorists. and
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  Speaker 1: put him on a streetcar straight and delivered him and
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  Speaker 1: turned him around and filled him up with the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit and sent him out to do amazing things, not
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  Speaker 1: because he was pure, not because he was holy, not
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  Speaker 1: because he was righteous, not because he had a wonderful past,
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  Speaker 1: not because he had not made horrendous mistakes, but even
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  Speaker 1: in his past life, he was a big guy who
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  Speaker 1: did big things in a big way When he hated Christians,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't two-faced about it. He said, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: kill them. As soon as I get down to Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to destroy them. He was bold. And God
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  Speaker 1: chose boldness over righteousness, over purity. Because he had the
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  Speaker 1: ability to function on a certain level and God used him.
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  Speaker 1: Now you must understand that much of our New Testament
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  Speaker 1: theology is a result of the Apostle Paul. There would
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  Speaker 1: be no understanding. Yes, Jesus died and shed his blood,
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  Speaker 1: rose from the dead and birthed the church. But the
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  Speaker 1: church that Jesus birthed was an organism with no organization.
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  Speaker 1: There was no structure. There was no order. There were
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  Speaker 1: no apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists. Paul gives us
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  Speaker 1: all of that. Paul begins to teach us and make
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  Speaker 1: us understand there's therefore now no condemnation to them that
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  Speaker 1: are in Christ Jesus who walk no longer after the
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  Speaker 1: flesh but after the Spirit. Paul begins to tell us
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  Speaker 1: that if this earthly house or tabernacle shall be dissolved,
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  Speaker 1: we have another building eternal in the heavens which is
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  Speaker 1: made of God. Paul teaches us it is in him
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  Speaker 1: that we live, in him that we move, in him
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  Speaker 1: that we have our being. It is the apostle Paul
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  Speaker 1: that makes us understand. Therefore, having peace with God, that
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  Speaker 1: we are reconciled with him, we understand peace of God,
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  Speaker 1: peace with God, peace in God, all because of the
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  Speaker 1: apostle Paul. Without the apostle Paul, We would not have
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  Speaker 1: a clear understanding that the door to the Gentiles had
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  Speaker 1: been opened, that they might be saved and set free.
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  Speaker 1: Paul preached with so much power that a man died
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  Speaker 1: while he was preaching. Paul ran down the steps. raised
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  Speaker 1: him from the dead and kept right on teaching. Paul
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  Speaker 1: was so awesome that they tried to kill him. They
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  Speaker 1: couldn't kill him. They tried to beat him to death.
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  Speaker 1: They left him from death. He got up and shook
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  Speaker 1: himself and walked away. He was in shipwrecks, but he survived.
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  Speaker 1: He was snake bit, but he shook it off. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying. That Paul... that raised
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  Speaker 1: people from the dead, withstood shipwrecks and shook off snakes.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you needing anything? If you can raise people
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  Speaker 1: from the dead, you can pay your water bill. Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: the truth of the matter is I am full lacking nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but so that you might have credit to your account.
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  Speaker 1: God created a need to test you, to minister to
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  Speaker 1: that need. This is weird. In other words, Paul's saying,
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  Speaker 1: I needed something, but I didn't. I was in trouble,
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  Speaker 1: but I wasn't. It's kind of strange. This is the
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  Speaker 1: same guy that said, I have learned how to abase
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  Speaker 1: and abound, both to be full and to be in want.
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  Speaker 1: He says, even when you're in trouble, you're not in trouble. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I need to preach this to somebody who's got some
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  Speaker 1: faith in them. Even when you're in trouble... You are
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  Speaker 1: not in trouble. That God allows certain necessities to come,
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  Speaker 1: either to create a backdrop for you to experience another
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  Speaker 1: dimension of his glory, or for the people around you
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  Speaker 1: to have an opportunity to flow into another dimension of
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  Speaker 1: His grace. Now, back in the early days, Dr. Jazz,
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  Speaker 1: when I was preaching, I would say something real hot
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  Speaker 1: and jazzy as a subject. I would do something like
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  Speaker 1: tell you to touch your neighbor and say, it's a setup.
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  Speaker 1: So touch your neighbor and tell them it's a setup.
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  Speaker 1: They don't understand exactly what I'm saying yet, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: not totally through unloading it yet. And when I unload it,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's not even gonna get it because some people are
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  Speaker 1: so shocked by the situation and they've been praying so
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  Speaker 1: hard about the situation. They've been so focused on the circumstance.
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  Speaker 1: They've been so distracted by what they're going through that
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  Speaker 1: they don't understand that everything you have been going through
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  Speaker 1: and every area you've been up under attack, and every
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  Speaker 1: area that you have a necessity, your necessity is not
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  Speaker 1: a necessity. It is, in fact, an opportunity for you
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  Speaker 1: to experience another dimension of God's glory. To the 10
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  Speaker 1: people who understand it, touch 10 people and say, it's
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  Speaker 1: a setup. It's training wheels for your faith. It's training
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  Speaker 1: wheels for your faith. It is the passage of entry
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  Speaker 1: into the next dimension. It is the bar mitzvah for
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  Speaker 1: the sons of God to have matured enough to carry
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  Speaker 1: the weight. Why didn't you give me this back then?
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't handle it back then. And why would he
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  Speaker 1: give me all of these thousands of seats when I
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  Speaker 1: didn't need them? Why would God give me something that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't need? So it's the embryo of my success
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  Speaker 1: The supply or the need? The only thing that makes
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  Speaker 1: an answer important is the question. The profundity of the
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  Speaker 1: question is built The profundity of the answer is built
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  Speaker 1: on the profundity and the power of the question. Why
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  Speaker 1: would I answer what you didn't ask? If God says
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  Speaker 1: the trigger point of my supply is your need, no
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  Speaker 1: wonder he hates a proud look. because a proud look
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  Speaker 1: will never admit need. I know I knocked out about
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  Speaker 1: 10 rows with that. I killed about 10 people with that.
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  Speaker 1: Why does God hate a proud look above everything else? Above,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, murderers and lying and backbiting and everything. God said,
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  Speaker 1: not only does he hate pride, he hates a proud look.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even have to be proud. He said, if
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  Speaker 1: you sit there and act like you're important, I hate
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you have got your legs crossed acting
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  Speaker 1: like you're important. Because proud people, will never admit need.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you have a savior if you won't admit
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  Speaker 1: that you're drowning? Why would you have a miracle worker
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  Speaker 1: if you won't admit that you have a need? No
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  Speaker 1: wonder some people get anointed while some people are just tired.
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  Speaker 1: If God responds to need, if you don't need anything,
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  Speaker 1: you won't All the needy people, clap your hands. God says,
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  Speaker 1: let me see. I got fish. I got stars. I
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  Speaker 1: got water. I got sunshine. I got oak trees. I
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  Speaker 1: got pineapple trees. I got all of this stuff that
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  Speaker 1: I want to give, but I cannot give it until
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  Speaker 1: there's a need. So he forms the earth. When he
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  Speaker 1: forms it, it creates a void. Void is capacity. And
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  Speaker 1: he responds to the capacity of what is formed. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I create capacity in the ocean. so I can put
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  Speaker 1: fish in it. I created capacity in the earth so
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  Speaker 1: I could sow seed into it. I created capacity in
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  Speaker 1: the heavens so I could throw stars at it and
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  Speaker 1: birds at it. Now you got something to fly in.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't release the answer until I formed All right,
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  Speaker 1: all right, all right. He formed the earth and fills it.
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  Speaker 1: He forms the ocean and fills it with fish. He
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  Speaker 1: forms the air and fills it with birds. Everything God forms,
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  Speaker 1: He fills. He formed the tabernacle and filled it with furniture.
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  Speaker 1: He formed the holies of holies and then filled it
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  Speaker 1: with glory. In fact, he formed man and filled him
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  Speaker 1: with air. Which came first, the man or the breath?
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  Speaker 1: God had the breath, but until there was capacity, he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't fill anything until you admit. Oh, y'all don't hear it.
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  Speaker 1: He responds to capacity. Ezekiel, go down and show me
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  Speaker 1: what you see in the valley. I see dry bones
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  Speaker 1: in the valley. He said, can these bones live again? Lord,
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  Speaker 1: thou knowest. Speak to the bones that they may live.
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  Speaker 1: So I prophesied as I was commanded. Suddenly there was
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  Speaker 1: a noise and there was a shake and the bone
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  Speaker 1: came together, bone to his bone. And they came together,
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  Speaker 1: bone to his bone and sinews came upon them. And
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  Speaker 1: then he said, prophesy to the wind. Because now I
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  Speaker 1: can feel what I form because God responds to capacity.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't want anything, you won't get anything. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't need anything, you won't receive anything. Do you
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  Speaker 1: not know? The real star of the story with the
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  Speaker 1: two fish and the five loaves of bread is not
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  Speaker 1: the little boy and it's not the lunch. It was
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  Speaker 1: the hunger that moved the Lord. When they came to
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  Speaker 1: Jesus and they said, the people that are with you
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  Speaker 1: are hungry. He said, oh good, that's capacity. Wherever I
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  Speaker 1: see capacity, I will release a plot. Oh, I want
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  Speaker 1: all the people that's got capacity to.
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  Speaker 2: Holler right now. They said, Lord, you got 5,000 hungry people.
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  Speaker 1: What do you have? He said, we don't have nothing
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  Speaker 1: but the little boy's lunch. He said, I can work
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  Speaker 1: with anything if they're hungry. I can work with anything
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  Speaker 1: if there's a need. I can work with anything if
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  Speaker 1: they're thirsty. I can work with anything. Just give me
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  Speaker 1: the little bit you got. I know it's not much
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  Speaker 1: because the star is not what's in the bag. The
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  Speaker 1: star is the aching in the belly of the people.
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  Speaker 1: God responds to hunger. The Bible said that when Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: after John the Baptist was beheaded, it said when Jesus
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  Speaker 1: saw the people and how they were hurt, he was
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  Speaker 1: moved with compassion and heal them. What I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: tell you, your need to act like you don't need
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  Speaker 1: anything is stopping the flow of the miracle working power
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: of God in your life. If you would shake your
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  Speaker 1: little cute dress down and say, Lord, I'm hungry.
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  Speaker 2: He that hungers and thirsts after righteousness shall be filled.