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Choke Part 1 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: God commands a blessing. He can speak to the blessing
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  Speaker 1: and say, blessing go there. Blessing come here. Blessing go
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  Speaker 1: to her. Blessing move over there. He commands a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: He is the Lord of the harvest. He is Lord
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  Speaker 1: of all or he's not Lord at all. So God said,
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  Speaker 1: if you want me to command a blessing, be careful
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  Speaker 1: how you treat your associations. Because I will command blessings
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  Speaker 1: based on how you treat your association. Greetings in the
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  Speaker 1: name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I am
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  Speaker 1: so excited to have the opportunity to challenge those, to coach,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, those who are on the verge of
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  Speaker 1: their destiny. There are certain things that go around you,
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  Speaker 1: that happen around you, that happen to you during the
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  Speaker 1: day that should not choke out God's purpose in your life.
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  Speaker 1: I pray that as you go into this word that
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  Speaker 1: it will bless you, guide you, direct you, challenge you,
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  Speaker 1: change you. The message choked. It was my first time
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  Speaker 1: being in Ghana and it was absolutely amazing. And I
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  Speaker 1: had a myriad of experiences over there, but toward the
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  Speaker 1: conclusion of those experiences, They said, would you like to
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  Speaker 1: go to one of the Spanish castles where the first
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  Speaker 1: slaves were sent to America? And I thought, wow, this
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  Speaker 1: is my one chance to go. I probably will never
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  Speaker 1: get another chance to see that. I'd like to go
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  Speaker 1: and see it. They said, well, we're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to go up into the Ivory Coast, and it's quite
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  Speaker 1: a drive. But if you're willing to take a long drive,
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  Speaker 1: I'm willing to take you. So I said, good. Me
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  Speaker 1: and a Nigerian friend of mine, who was a good
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  Speaker 1: friend at the time, We went through Ghana and up
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  Speaker 1: into the Ivory Coast and all the way out to
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  Speaker 1: the ocean by the beaches. Beautiful beach, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look like the beaches we have now because people are
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  Speaker 1: living all over them. And there are huts and shanties
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  Speaker 1: and all of that and winding roads and poorly kept roads.
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  Speaker 1: And we're traveling all the distance to go see. these
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  Speaker 1: Spanish castles that were built and erected by the Spanish
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  Speaker 1: people through which they began to import what would now
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  Speaker 1: be almost human trafficking. But for them, it was a
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  Speaker 1: business of supplying a workforce to build new countries as
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  Speaker 1: they were being forged and formed The free labor brought
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  Speaker 1: down the economic deficit. This was not about racism. It
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  Speaker 1: was about money. Most things are about money. And it
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  Speaker 1: was a way to subsidize the need to build country
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  Speaker 1: with free labor. And so what they did was work
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  Speaker 1: out deals whereby people were gathered and snatched away from
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  Speaker 1: their countries and cultures and livelihoods and what have you
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  Speaker 1: and brought to these Spanish castles where they were to
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  Speaker 1: wait for the next boat to come in. Now waiting
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  Speaker 1: on a boat is not like waiting on a plane.
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  Speaker 1: You go to the airport, you can go to the
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  Speaker 1: airport right now and pretty soon there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a plane take you wherever you want to go. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a long wait. You had to wait months and
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  Speaker 1: months in these conditions before the next boat came back
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  Speaker 1: that was a slave ship. A slave ship was designed
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  Speaker 1: to move slaves. It had an underbelly in it so
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  Speaker 1: that the slaves could be stacked underground. They were not
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  Speaker 1: kept or seated like you're sitting now they were stacked
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  Speaker 1: so you could get more slaves at one time to
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  Speaker 1: make the import them over into these countries over all
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  Speaker 1: of these turbulent waters many of which would die in
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  Speaker 1: the process of getting where they were trying to go
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  Speaker 1: but this was how they moved the slaves from one
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  Speaker 1: geographical location to the next so I was fascinated to
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  Speaker 1: be able to go I'm going with a Nigerian we
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  Speaker 1: go into this area we go into what is now
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  Speaker 1: almost a museum With all of these slave artifacts. And
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  Speaker 1: there's chains all over the walls as you walked along.
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  Speaker 1: And they had shackles through which they shackled their feet.
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  Speaker 1: And then would almost weld the shackle together so that
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't get away. Because this is about power.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody said power.
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  Speaker 3: Power.
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  Speaker 1: It's about power and it's about control. They also had
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  Speaker 1: shackles designed to go around the neck. It would be
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  Speaker 1: tightly applied to the neck because the neck controls your
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  Speaker 1: breathing apparatus. And anytime you start moving and something starts
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  Speaker 1: pulling against your neck, it will make you calm down.
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  Speaker 1: The same way you might take an animal and put
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  Speaker 1: something around their neck. I don't care how strong. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the animal is physically strong enough to break the chain,
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  Speaker 1: but when he feels the feeling of being choked, he
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  Speaker 1: will back away from it because wind is necessary for
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  Speaker 1: any living mammal to be able to breathe. So they
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  Speaker 1: put the shackles around their neck so that if you
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  Speaker 1: tried to escape and the chain was anchored down, the
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  Speaker 1: choking feeling would discourage you even if you were strong
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  Speaker 1: enough To break the chain. The neck is a very
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable place. You will notice that when animals begin to fight,
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  Speaker 1: they always go for the throats. Because if I can
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  Speaker 1: get you by the throat and cut your windpipe off,
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  Speaker 1: your muscles get discouraged. It's hard to think when you
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  Speaker 1: can't breathe. And so when you're here for anything, going
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  Speaker 1: for the throat, always understand that this is not just power,
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  Speaker 1: but there's also intellectualism involved. Because there is an instinctive
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  Speaker 1: understanding that even animals have that when I get you
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  Speaker 1: by the throat, even though you might be a stronger animal,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to slow you down and stop you. Because
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  Speaker 1: I understand that the only way you can keep breathing
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  Speaker 1: is to maintain this cycle. Breathing. You're doing it right
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  Speaker 1: now without even thinking about it. But just consciously take
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  Speaker 1: a deep breath. Just take it in. Just take it in.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't that good? Good. But you let it out, didn't you?
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  Speaker 1: You let it out. No matter how good it was,
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  Speaker 1: you had to let it back out because you are
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  Speaker 1: not surviving through the intake of air alone, but also
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  Speaker 1: the expulsion of air. When you take it in and
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  Speaker 1: release it out, you create a vacuum and availability to
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  Speaker 1: be able to take in what's next. If you take
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  Speaker 1: in a breath and you get choked and you can't
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  Speaker 1: get the breath out, you're not available to take in
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  Speaker 1: what's next. And when you stop being available to take
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  Speaker 1: in what's next, That is what causes you to die. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it was an interesting opportunity. And they took me down
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  Speaker 1: into this dungeon. And I got down into this dungeon area.
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  Speaker 1: It's a waiting area where the slaves were kept. They
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  Speaker 1: were actually stacked. So don't picture people standing as much
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  Speaker 1: as you might be stacked like sardines piled on top
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  Speaker 1: of each other. There was a trough down in the
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  Speaker 1: bottom floor. which was where they defecated it and urine
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  Speaker 1: would seep down through the bodies down to the track
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  Speaker 1: and easily migrate out of the building because they were
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  Speaker 1: dehumanized in the process of doing it. It's a very
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  Speaker 1: large room. I can't remember exactly the dimensions, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to guesstimate at it and say it might have
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  Speaker 1: been maybe a 50 foot by 50 foot room. It's
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  Speaker 1: big high walls, maybe about 20 feet. 20 feet in
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  Speaker 1: the air of solid walls, one window at the very top,
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  Speaker 1: one window with just a little bit of air coming in.
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  Speaker 1: So it's very, very dark and it's very dank. It's very,
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  Speaker 1: very dank and it's very dark. And there's, there's the smell,
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  Speaker 1: there's a smell of moisture and, and, and mold even
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  Speaker 1: after all of these years, because I'm a very spiritual person.
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  Speaker 1: When I walked into the atmosphere, I could feel the
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whether you can understand this, but I
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  Speaker 1: could feel the spirits of the slaves. This dark, foreboding feeling.
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  Speaker 1: This oppressive feeling. This overwhelming feeling. And I'm in the room.
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  Speaker 1: And up until they brought me into this room, I
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  Speaker 1: was okay. But when they brought me in this room,
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  Speaker 1: I felt a little uncomfortable. I was in the room
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  Speaker 1: and shut up. It was dark. And I was empathizing
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  Speaker 1: and feeling and sensing this moment. And my Nigerian friend
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  Speaker 1: spoke to me and he said, How do you feel
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  Speaker 1: seeing all this? And I had the strangest answer. An
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  Speaker 1: answer that even surprised me. It definitely surprised him. I said, afraid.
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  Speaker 1: I felt afraid. Not just empathizing with the slave. I
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  Speaker 1: felt afraid myself. For the first time in my life,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, this is what one person could do to
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  Speaker 1: another person. It doesn't matter the color, the culture, or kind,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're talking about the Holocaust or whatever. Whenever you
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  Speaker 1: look at it, you find the human propensity of what
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  Speaker 1: people with abusive power could do to another person. It
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  Speaker 1: was scary to me. It was scary for the first
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  Speaker 1: time in my whole life, I thought. That could happen.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody could come in and snatch you out of your
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  Speaker 1: house and away from everything that you're familiar with, put
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  Speaker 1: you into an atmosphere where you can't even communicate with anybody,
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  Speaker 1: take away all of your freedoms and power and change
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  Speaker 1: the rest of your life. And the reality of that
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  Speaker 1: was so overwhelming. I wanted to leave. I said, that's
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  Speaker 1: enough of this. I'm ready to go. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming out of here. I had enough of it.
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  Speaker 1: My Nigerian friend did not feel anything like what I
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  Speaker 1: felt at all. He did not feel anything like what
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  Speaker 1: I felt at all. But I felt all of those
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  Speaker 1: feelings being in that atmosphere to see what people do
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  Speaker 1: when they abuse power. Power corrupts, it has been said.
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  Speaker 1: Total power totally corrupts. It is a dangerous thing what
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  Speaker 1: you do with power. One of the greatest tests in
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  Speaker 1: your life is how you handle power. You've been talking
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  Speaker 1: about favor, and oh, I got favor. The favor of
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  Speaker 1: God is on me. Well, favor is power. And if
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  Speaker 1: you have favor how you handle favor will determine whether
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  Speaker 1: you keep favor or not. If you have power with
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  Speaker 1: somebody because favor is just power with somebody or something.
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  Speaker 1: If you have power with somebody whether you keep the
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  Speaker 1: power is determined by how you handle the power you
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  Speaker 1: have with somebody. Right now whatever you ask me to
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  Speaker 1: do I go out of my way to do it.
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  Speaker 1: That means you have power with me. If you abuse
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  Speaker 1: that power badly enough, you could lose that power. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you all understand what I'm saying to you? See, that's power.
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  Speaker 1: So power does not exempt us from test. Instead, it
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  Speaker 1: increases our test. Yes, it increases our test because it
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  Speaker 1: increases our options. And the more options you have, the
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  Speaker 1: more tested you are. Some people live right because they
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  Speaker 1: don't have no choice. It's easy for you to live
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  Speaker 1: holy when you have no choice. It's easy for you
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  Speaker 1: to be monogamous when nobody wants you anyway. I just,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I'd give an illustration. It's one thing for
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  Speaker 1: you to sit on the couch, you know, weighing 375
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  Speaker 1: and four feet tall and looking like your mama hit
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  Speaker 1: you in the face with a skillet. And you're watching
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  Speaker 1: somebody like Tiger Woods and you're saying, that's blasphemy. My God,
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  Speaker 1: that's terrible. Well, it's easy for you to judge him
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  Speaker 1: because they didn't want you anyway. But in order to
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  Speaker 1: be tested, oh, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, come on, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Don't act funny. Don't act funny now. You know how
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  Speaker 1: I am. Don't be surprised. This is reality.
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  Speaker 3: Still to come on The Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 1: The job of the church to teach you how the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom operates the world has all kinds of vehicles to
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  Speaker 1: teach you how the world operates you got CNN you
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  Speaker 1: got Fox you got MSNBC you got newspapers you got
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  Speaker 1: emails you got all kinds of ways to keep up
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  Speaker 1: with how the world operates and if you want to
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  Speaker 1: just operate in the world you don't need me But
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  Speaker 1: if you want to find out how the kingdom operates,
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  Speaker 1: it's my job to show you this is how the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom operates. Somebody say it. This is how the kingdom operates.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do with the fire that will not go?
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  Speaker 3: The wait is over. God wants to use you in
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  Speaker 3: extraordinary ways now. Great things are ahead of you. You're
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  Speaker 3: on the verge.
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  Speaker 1: You are not just going from day to day, week
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  Speaker 1: to week, month to month, and now you're getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to step into another year. You are standing on the cusp.
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  Speaker 1: Of an entirely new awakening. There's a burning desire down
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  Speaker 1: inside of you that will not shut up. I got
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  Speaker 1: the pain, but I got the passion too. I got
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  Speaker 1: the problem, but I got the passion too. I got
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  Speaker 1: a little chatter going on, but I still got the passion.
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  Speaker 1: Life is going to hand you something every day. Take
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  Speaker 1: in what you can get out of it. Let go
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  Speaker 1: of what you can't get out of it. But don't
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  Speaker 1: let anybody hurt you so bad that you shall die.
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  Speaker 3: The wait is over. It's time to make your life count.
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  Speaker 1: What I am talking to you today on the surface
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  Speaker 1: is about forgiveness. But if you think deeply enough, it
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  Speaker 1: is about power. It is about power. Glory to God
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  Speaker 1: and how you manage power. Jesus now has asserted some
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  Speaker 1: ideas to which he has created some discomfort for Peter
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  Speaker 1: because he is talking about unity. He is talking about
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  Speaker 1: his presence being manifest through unity. And he says to them,
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  Speaker 1: wherever two or three are gathered together in my name,
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  Speaker 1: there am I in the midst of you. So let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about unity. Unity has been brought up in the 127th,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it is, divisions of Psalms. When it says,
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  Speaker 1: behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to
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  Speaker 1: dwell together in unity. Now, scriptures like that bother me.
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  Speaker 1: I like scriptures that come right to me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to bless you. I will bless them that
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  Speaker 1: bless you. And curse him and curse you. I like
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  Speaker 1: those kinds of scriptures. I don't like scriptures, communal, sociological
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  Speaker 1: scriptures that are predicated upon other people. Because it's hard
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  Speaker 1: enough for me to manage me without me having to
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  Speaker 1: worry about your crazy self. But in spite of my proclivities,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit has ignored me and made some promises
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  Speaker 1: predicated upon my ability to interact with other people. So
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  Speaker 1: he says, behold how good and pleasant it is for
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  Speaker 1: brethren to dwell together in unity. It is like the oil.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this. He says unity. Watch this. This is real important.
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  Speaker 1: It is like the oil that fell upon the head
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  Speaker 1: of Aaron. It fell upon his head onto his beard.
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  Speaker 1: And then down to his skirts. So unity, the oil
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  Speaker 1: flows based on connectivity. It flows based on connectivity. If
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  Speaker 1: you break the connectivity, you stop the flow. If you
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  Speaker 1: stop the flow, you lose the blessing. He said, if
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  Speaker 1: you keep the flow going. At the end of the verse,
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  Speaker 1: he does two metaphors. He says, behold how good and
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  Speaker 1: pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
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  Speaker 1: It is like the oil that fell upon the head
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  Speaker 1: of Aaron, onto his beards, and onto his skirts. That's one.
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  Speaker 1: He said, it is like the dew that fell upon
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  Speaker 1: Mount Hermon. And then he says, for it is there
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  Speaker 1: that God commands a blessing. Now, I just want to
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  Speaker 1: spend a minute on this. He commands a blessing. Only
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  Speaker 1: God can command a blessing. You can ask for a blessing,
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  Speaker 1: but God can command a blessing. You plead for blessings.
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  Speaker 1: God commands a blessing. I want you to see this
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  Speaker 1: because this. This is good. I'm going to take a
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  Speaker 1: little time, but I want you to see that he
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  Speaker 1: commands a blessing. When the centurion was taking Jesus to
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  Speaker 1: his house to heal his daughter, he stopped in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the road and said, you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: go to my house. He said, I understand power. I
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  Speaker 1: am a man in authority and under authority. I say
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  Speaker 1: to this one, go here. I say to that one,
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  Speaker 1: go there. He says, you don't have to come to
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  Speaker 1: my house. Speak the word only and my daughter shall
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  Speaker 1: be healed. What the centurion understands, he doesn't understand religion.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't understand theology. He doesn't come from a rich
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  Speaker 1: Judaistic background. He understands power. He says you have too
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  Speaker 1: much power for me to take up your time coming
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  Speaker 1: to my house. All you have to do is command
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  Speaker 1: a blessing. If you speak the word, my daughter will
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  Speaker 1: be healed. Glory to God. I'm going to dig down
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  Speaker 1: in that a little bit deeper. I would command a
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  Speaker 1: blessing if I knew how to speak to the blessing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't speak the language that the blessing speaks. God
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  Speaker 1: speaks all languages, A. B, he has all authority. So
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  Speaker 1: not only does he have the authority to command, he
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  Speaker 1: has the ability to communicate. Even if I have the
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  Speaker 1: authority to command the blessing, how do I speak to it?
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  Speaker 1: How do I tell healing to go? What language does
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  Speaker 1: healing speak? But because God is so multilingual. You understand
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Watch this. Your God is so multilingual
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  Speaker 1: that when he got ready to command a curse, he
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  Speaker 1: spoke to the frogs. If you were going to speak
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  Speaker 1: to the frogs, how would you say it? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what he did, but whatever frogs understand, God spoke
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  Speaker 1: to the frogs and they immediately went against their nature.
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  Speaker 2: Got together in groups and moved.
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  Speaker 1: Into Egypt as an army because God commanded the frogs.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. God commands. When the Bible says God
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  Speaker 1: commands a blessing, he can speak to the blessing and say, blessing,
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  Speaker 1: go there. Blessing, come here. Blessing, go to her. Blessing,
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  Speaker 1: move over there. He commands a blessing. He is the
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  Speaker 1: Lord of the harvest. He is Lord of all or
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  Speaker 1: he's not Lord at all. So God said, if you
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  Speaker 1: want me to command a blessing, Be careful how you
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  Speaker 1: treat your associations because I will command blessings based on
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  Speaker 1: how you treat your association. I'm going to deal with this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to deal with this. It's going to get
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  Speaker 1: good in a minute. So Jesus says to them, this
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  Speaker 1: is how the kingdom operates. This is the job of
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  Speaker 1: the church to teach you how the kingdom operates. The
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  Speaker 1: world has all kinds of vehicles to teach you how
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  Speaker 1: the world operates. You got CNN, you got Fox, you
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  Speaker 1: got MSNBC, you got newspapers, you got emails, you got
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of ways to keep up with how the
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  Speaker 1: world operates. And if you want to just operate in
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  Speaker 1: the world, you don't need me but if you want
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  Speaker 1: to find out how the kingdom operates it's my job
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  Speaker 1: to show you this is how the kingdom operates somebody
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  Speaker 1: say this is how the kingdom operates yeah now understand
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  Speaker 1: that the kingdom operates through totally differently than how the
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  Speaker 1: world operates so the Bible says you can be in
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  Speaker 1: the world but you are not of the world you
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  Speaker 1: won't get blessed the way the world gets blessed because
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  Speaker 1: you are in it but you are not of it
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  Speaker 1: and anytime you go in amongst a group of people
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  Speaker 1: that you are in but you are not of you
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  Speaker 1: don't get the same reaction like the people do who
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  Speaker 1: are of it do you understand what I'm saying You
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  Speaker 1: can come to my house and I'll treat you real
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  Speaker 1: good and you'll be treated real nice, but you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to feel like one of my kids. You're in
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  Speaker 1: my house, but you're not of my house. And sooner
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  Speaker 1: or later, I'm not saying you got to go home,
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  Speaker 1: but you got to get up out of here. Okay?
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  Speaker 1: That's what it's like being a believer. You are in
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  Speaker 1: the world, but you are not of the world. They
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  Speaker 1: may be nice to you sometimes, but sooner are going
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  Speaker 1: to get tired of you because you are not one
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  Speaker 1: of them. So my job is to teach you how
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom operates. And since the kingdom that we operate
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  Speaker 1: in is spiritual and not physical, I have to use
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  Speaker 1: things you can relate to to explain things you can't
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  Speaker 1: relate to. And so Jesus says the kingdom of heaven
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  Speaker 1: operates like this. It is likened unto a Lord who
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  Speaker 1: began to balance the books of his servant and finding
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  Speaker 1: a certain servant that owed him 10,000 talents. He said,
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  Speaker 1: can he pay me? And the bookkeeper said, no, he
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  Speaker 1: has no way to pay you. So he said, we
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  Speaker 1: got to balance these books. We got to make this right.
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  Speaker 1: We got to fix this. I cannot continue to be
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  Speaker 1: in a relationship with you that functions at a deficit.
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  Speaker 1: That's the world unto itself. I'm just going to walk
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  Speaker 1: away from that and leave that alone. Because if I
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  Speaker 1: get over in that, it's going to make me hone
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  Speaker 1: in on all the deficient relationships that operate in your
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  Speaker 1: life where you're giving more than you're getting. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have time to talk about that today. But just put
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  Speaker 1: a footnote there. To be continued.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So he said, I cannot continue to operate at a deficit.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I am going to fix this. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care what it costs. Sell him. like the slaves, sell
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  Speaker 1: him and his wife and his children. He must have
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  Speaker 1: owed a lot of money. It's hard for me to
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  Speaker 1: conceive exactly what 10,000 talents are, whether it's $ 10, 000 or
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  Speaker 1: $ 10 million, whatever it is. He said, you owe more
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  Speaker 1: than you worth. I'm going to have to sell you
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  Speaker 1: and your mom and them in order to straighten out
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  Speaker 1: this mess you got here because you are in over
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  Speaker 1: your head.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: So now, that's pretty bad. It's one thing for you
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  Speaker 1: to sell me. I'm not really cool on that. But
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  Speaker 1: then you're going to sell my wife too? You're going
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  Speaker 1: to sell my wife too? And that means her association
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  Speaker 1: with me has brought her into debt. That means that
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  Speaker 1: whoever you connect yourself to, whatever they are into, you
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  Speaker 1: are connected into it too. Whether you were in the
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  Speaker 1: original part of the debt or not, your association with
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  Speaker 1: me has now brought you into an atmosphere for which
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  Speaker 1: you may have been totally irresponsible, but now you got
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  Speaker 3: The wait is over. God wants to use you in
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  Speaker 1: Life is going to hand you something every day. Take
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  Speaker 1: let go of what you don't. Touch everybody you can
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  Speaker 1: you depends on your ability to let it go. If
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  Speaker 1: you hold on to stuff, you choke. If you release stuff,
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  Speaker 1: you can keep breathing. What are you talking about, T.D. Jakes?
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  Speaker 1: We've been to Africa. We've been to Israel. We've taken
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about life is going to hand you something
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  Speaker 1: every day.
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  Speaker 2: Take in what you can.
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  Speaker 1: Get out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Let go of what you can't get.
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  Speaker 3: Out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Take in what you can get.
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  Speaker 1: Out of it. Let go of what you can't get
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  Speaker 1: bad that you choke. We've got to close right now,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: but it's been a joy. It's been a real blessing
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  Speaker 1: to share the word of the Lord with you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited about it. I'm closing out this message, but the
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  Speaker 1: word will continue to regurgitate itself in your heart and
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  Speaker 1: in your spirit and bring forth fruit in your life.
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  Speaker 1: This is a rhema word. I pray that it find
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  Speaker 1: its way into the deepest crevice of your heart. Have
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  Speaker 1: a great week.