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When God Knocks You Down, He's Calling You Higher Bishop T.D. Jakes - Jakes teachings · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: We have to look at the contexts in which the
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  Speaker 1: text is extrapolated from the pretext tells us the atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: that exists during this time. It is an atmosphere of newness.
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  Speaker 1: It is an atmosphere of new beginnings. It is the
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  Speaker 1: disciples embarking on Christ's work without Christ's physically being there.
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  Speaker 1: And they start the work of the Lord at a
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  Speaker 1: deficit because all through the Synoptic Gospels they are referred
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  Speaker 1: to as a twelve, but now they only have eleven
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  Speaker 1: because in the process of the crucifixion, Judas has hung
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  Speaker 1: himself and his guts have spilled out on the Potterish field.
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  Speaker 1: So they have the name the twelve, but the reality
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  Speaker 1: is it eleven. Sometimes your name can be greater than
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  Speaker 1: your situation, and when your name doesn't have equilibrium with
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  Speaker 1: your situation, you want to fix that thing so that
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  Speaker 1: you become authentically what they call you. And in the
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  Speaker 1: process of them attempting to fix it, they meet together
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  Speaker 1: and prayed and selected two men, and they began to
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  Speaker 1: cast lots to see who would be Judas's replacement. They
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  Speaker 1: cast lots, and they cast lots, and the lots fell
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  Speaker 1: on the lots fell on Matthias, and Matthias became in
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  Speaker 1: their view, the replacement for Judas. And I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: that he wasn't the replacement for Judas, but it is
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  Speaker 1: interesting to note that he didn't. That there's no recordings
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  Speaker 1: of Matthias doing anything amazing, no books written by their
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  Speaker 1: disagreementble where the churches were founded by, and he's not
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  Speaker 1: mentioned any place in all of the epistles, but they
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  Speaker 1: had picked him by casting lucks. In total contrast to that,
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  Speaker 1: God has chosen Saul, who we call Paul, to be
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  Speaker 1: a New Testament apostle. Now, Matthias, according to my research,
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  Speaker 1: had been walking with the disciples and around Jesus all
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  Speaker 1: the time, and in my Colnel mind, it makes sense
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  Speaker 1: that Matthias would be a replacement because he is a
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  Speaker 1: witness to the miraculous power of God. Saul, on the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, has no real experience with the power of God.
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  Speaker 1: But rather than having experienced with the power of God,
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  Speaker 1: he is totally opposed to Christianity. In fact, when he
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  Speaker 1: meets the Lord, he meets the Lord on the way
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  Speaker 1: to capturing more Christians to bring back to Jerusalem, though
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  Speaker 1: they were not yet called Christians. It was called the Way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and he was trying to find people who were in
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  Speaker 1: the way to bring them back to Jerusalem to persecute them.
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  Speaker 1: And yet he has an encounter with God. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: help but think of the difference between in the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 1: between King Saul, who was somebody that God gave Israel
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  Speaker 1: because they desired a king, and David, whom God chose.
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  Speaker 1: Many are called, but few I chosen. And in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament, Saul was called, but David was chosen. You
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  Speaker 1: will remember when the kingdom was rejected from Saul and
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  Speaker 1: Samuel was weeping. God said, why weepings? Now over what
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  Speaker 1: I have rejected, I have found a man after my
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  Speaker 1: own heart. Look at the contrast between Saul and David.
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  Speaker 1: Saul looks like a king by all natural rights. He
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  Speaker 1: has every reason to be king. He has his stature
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  Speaker 1: and the demeanor of a king. He is from the
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  Speaker 1: tribe of Benjamin. He comes from the pedigree that is
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  Speaker 1: prophesied that he would be king. David comes from the
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  Speaker 1: house of Jesse. He doesn't have the pedigree or the background.
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  Speaker 1: He's from the tribe of Judah. He doesn't have the
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  Speaker 1: history behind him that connotes kingship. Saul stood ahead and
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  Speaker 1: shoulders above all men. He had the right look, But
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  Speaker 1: David had the right annoint the right annoyingty. And while
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  Speaker 1: we pick people that look good, God will pick people
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  Speaker 1: that are anointed for the service and for the task.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden we find ourselves in this
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  Speaker 1: situation that is mirrored in the New Testament as a
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  Speaker 1: reflection of the Old. Whereas we are talking about Saul
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  Speaker 1: versus David in the Old Testament, in the New Testament,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about Matthias. Is he the twelfth Apostle or
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  Speaker 1: is it Paul. Some would even argue that Paul is
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  Speaker 1: the thirteenth Apostle. But my concern is I don't see
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  Speaker 1: where Matthias ever did anything. And I'm a living witness
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  Speaker 1: the folk I pick on my own. I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: let that hang out there, because enough people laugh to
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  Speaker 1: let me know that you know what I'm talking. Is
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  Speaker 1: there anybody in here that ever picked somebody on your own?
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  Speaker 1: Cast lots, pick somebody because your mama was born in May,
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  Speaker 1: and my mama was born in May, and grandma's name
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  Speaker 1: was them Man, your grandma's name was Thel, And it
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  Speaker 1: makes sense to you. But everything that makes sense to
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  Speaker 1: you isn't what God has for you. In fact, more
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  Speaker 1: times than not, God will pick something that makes no
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  Speaker 1: sense at all and raise it up, and you'll be
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  Speaker 1: scared to receive it, because what God has in his
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  Speaker 1: heart for you doesn't agree with what you had in
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  Speaker 1: your mind for you. That's just the case here in
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  Speaker 1: the text. The very fact that Saul would be chosen
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  Speaker 1: was so shocking that even Ananias and his faithfulness to
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  Speaker 1: God did not really want to go lay hands on Saul,
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  Speaker 1: because Saul was snatching people that followed Jesus and taking them,
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  Speaker 1: persecuting them. And yet Saul has an encounter with God.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody say an encounter with God. He has an encounter
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  Speaker 1: with God. And it is not wheth somebody witnessed to him.
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  Speaker 1: It is not where somebody preached to him. It is
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  Speaker 1: not where somebody persuaded him. God did not use any
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  Speaker 1: human hand or sticks like lots to choose him. God
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  Speaker 1: stepped into Saul's life. And if you read the whole text,
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  Speaker 1: you will read it was a fight on the road
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  Speaker 1: to the Dabascus. It starts out with a fight. There
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  Speaker 1: is a fight between God and Saul. Now Saul has
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  Speaker 1: gotten permission from the high priests to go down and
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  Speaker 1: attack Christians. He's got permission from the priests, but not
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  Speaker 1: from the one who the priests served, and he is
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  Speaker 1: credentialed to go down there and attack Christians. But God
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  Speaker 1: has another plan. He intervenes into his life. He disrupts
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  Speaker 1: his life, and he starts wrestling with him. A great
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  Speaker 1: light appeared and knocked him off of his beast, and
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  Speaker 1: then he said, who is it? Lord? And he said,
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  Speaker 1: it is Jesus, whom thou persecutor? Wait a minute, I
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  Speaker 1: got to talk about that at a minute. Saul had
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  Speaker 1: never done anything to Jesus. He had only attacked those
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  Speaker 1: who followed Jesus. But Jesus takes it personal when you
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  Speaker 1: attack his kids. It is Jesus whom thou persecutor. You
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  Speaker 1: think you're just rounding up my disciples, but you're actually
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  Speaker 1: persecuting me. That's why we try to teach you that
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  Speaker 1: the battle is not yours. It belongs to God. Because
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  Speaker 1: people think they're fighting you, but they're not fighting you.
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  Speaker 1: They're fighting the God that annoyed you. The battle is
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  Speaker 1: not yours, and you don't have to get even. And
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to feel bad because you didn't get
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  Speaker 1: the last word in. And you don't have to fend
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  Speaker 1: for yourself, and you don't have to struggle for yourself
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  Speaker 1: because God has a way of dealing with your enemies.
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  Speaker 1: I prophesy to somebody, your enemy is about to get
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  Speaker 1: knocked off his heath. He's about to get knocked off
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  Speaker 1: his feast. This is a radical, warlike conversion. It is
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  Speaker 1: not a nice, easy conversion. It is not a polite conversion.
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  Speaker 1: It is not that somebody gave him a track. It
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  Speaker 1: is not that somebody prayed with him, and it's not
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  Speaker 1: that somebody talked to him. It's not that somebody intellectualized him.
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  Speaker 1: God just came on the road and knocked it over.
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  Speaker 1: Oh God, have mercy, Lord of God. I'm just in
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  Speaker 1: my introduction, I'm trying not to get happy. But when
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  Speaker 1: I start thinking about all the things that God knocked over.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody in here that's had God knock over
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  Speaker 1: some stuff? Glory to God, that was coming to get
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  Speaker 1: you and you knew it was coming to get you,
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  Speaker 1: and God knocked it over you. It might not be
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  Speaker 1: but ten people in here, but you're praising God, not
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  Speaker 1: for a new car or a new house, or a
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  Speaker 1: new job or a new place. You're praising God because
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  Speaker 1: when the enemy was coming at you, God knocked it over.
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  Speaker 1: Nudge somebody and tell them he knocked it over. They
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  Speaker 1: were after me and he knocked it over. They were
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  Speaker 1: after my job and he knocked it over. They were
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  Speaker 1: after my mind and he knocked it over. They were
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  Speaker 1: after my peace and he knocked it over. They were
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  Speaker 1: after my sanity and he knocked it over. They were
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  Speaker 1: after my family, and he knocked it over. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: still praising God. How God can overthrow the plans of
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  Speaker 1: the enemy, the tactics of the enemy, the wilds of
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  Speaker 1: the devil. When God gets ready to do it, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to run out to the middle of Damascus
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  Speaker 1: road God, or meet him in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: road and knock them off their beasts. Can I get
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  Speaker 1: about ten seconds of praise for a knockover? Oh, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a knockhover. I knock over, I knock over,
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  Speaker 1: I knockover, I knock over. God can knock it over.
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  Speaker 1: Threw him on this back, knocked him to the floor,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, who is it? Lord? And the Lord
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  Speaker 1: said it is Jesus, whom thou persecuted. This alone is
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  Speaker 1: enough to make you be careful about who you attack,
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  Speaker 1: because you can inadvertently be attacking Jesus fighting people and
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  Speaker 1: get knocked over because you didn't even realize who he
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  Speaker 1: was fooling with. Saul has no idea that it is
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  Speaker 1: Jesus that he is persecuting. Anytime you get in the
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  Speaker 1: way of God's purpose with your opinion, your opinion does
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  Speaker 1: not equate to God's purpose. God has a purpose. And
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  Speaker 1: when God has a purpose, your opinion don't amount to
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  Speaker 1: God's purpose. And if you put your opinion in the
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  Speaker 1: way of God's purpose, God's gonna knock it over. It
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  Speaker 1: is Jesus who loud persecuted. And the Bible said that
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  Speaker 1: when Saul humbled himself that he when he got up,
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  Speaker 1: he saw no man. So watch, watch, watches, because you
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  Speaker 1: got to see this. This is a radical This is
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  Speaker 1: a radical fight out here on the road to Damascus
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  Speaker 1: between a belligerent individual who is courageous enough to snatch
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  Speaker 1: people out of their house and drag them back to Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: and a God who don't care nothing about his personality says,
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  Speaker 1: I will come against you. I don't care how tough
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  Speaker 1: you think you are, and knocked him right over. It
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  Speaker 1: reminds me of Jacob being on penial and how he
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  Speaker 1: comes to penial, and how God dealt with him and
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  Speaker 1: wrestled with him and brought him down and changed everything
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  Speaker 1: he thought about himself, his name, his destiny, his background.
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  Speaker 1: Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob had that kind of radical conversion. There are some
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  Speaker 1: people in this room that had a radical conversion. God
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  Speaker 1: just came into your life. You weren't planning for it,
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  Speaker 1: you weren't expecting it, You had no intentions of doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Some of y'all used to talk about church folk, never
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  Speaker 1: thinking in your life that you would end up clapping
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  Speaker 1: your hands and jumping around in church today. Can we
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  Speaker 1: be real for a minute. Some of you never thought
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  Speaker 1: you'd be in the partner's house, and here you are
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the part of his house clapping your hand
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  Speaker 1: because God did something radical in your life to turn
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  Speaker 1: you around. Glory to God, Glory to God. Glory to God,
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  Speaker 1: Glory to God. Some of you never thought you belonged
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  Speaker 1: to a big church. You said, I don't like big churches.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like being in crowd. But God has a
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  Speaker 1: way of knocking you off of your beach and sending
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  Speaker 1: you in a completely different direction. He said, anybody that
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  Speaker 1: can be real in here and be honest, radical, a
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  Speaker 1: radical converge, a radical converse, a radical converg. We don't
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  Speaker 1: use the word conversion much in church. We don't talk
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  Speaker 1: about conversion, and we don't talk about conviction. It used
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  Speaker 1: to be in the church they talked about conviction. People
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  Speaker 1: would come to the altar convicted. Now they come to
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  Speaker 1: the altar taking pictures. Now people come to the altar
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  Speaker 1: facetiming you and doing Facebook life. You had the altar
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be looking for Jesus and you think you're
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  Speaker 1: a film producer. But when conviction gets a hold of
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  Speaker 1: your life, you cut your camera off and lay down
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  Speaker 1: on the altar with tears running down your face because
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  Speaker 1: you've had a radical encounter with God. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about coming up to the altar because your dress is cute.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not coming up to the altar because you want
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  Speaker 1: a picture to take home to show your friends who
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  Speaker 1: were there. You don't come to see me, You come
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  Speaker 1: to see Jesus. You don't come to see people. You
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  Speaker 1: come to see Jesus. You don't come because you're a
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  Speaker 1: film producer. You come to see Jesus parade. I can converge.
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  Speaker 1: Hold it up. I want all the folks who got
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  Speaker 1: convicted about your life and your mess and your stuff
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  Speaker 1: and the way you live, to jump up on your
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  Speaker 1: feet and just fair witness that there's still some conviction
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  Speaker 1: left in the church. Conviction about sin, conviction about evil,
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  Speaker 1: conviction about wicked. There still exists a convicting Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just a dancing holy spirit. There's a convicting
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  Speaker 1: Holy spirit. There's a holy spirit that will knock you
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  Speaker 1: off your beasts, bring you down to your knees, make
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  Speaker 1: you surrender, make you sell out. There's a convicting Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit that will make you walk away from people you
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  Speaker 1: thought you couldn't live without. A convicting holy spirit that
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  Speaker 1: will disrupt you, that will change your life, that will
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  Speaker 1: make you uncomfortable with stuff you like. A convicting Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit that will come into your life to you about
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  Speaker 1: your nasty sitting for a way. I convicting holy spirit
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  Speaker 1: that will bring you down to your knees and make
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  Speaker 1: you surrender to God and say yes. To God. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care how long you've been doing it. And because
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  Speaker 1: we have little conviction, we have little conversion. Because you
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  Speaker 1: can't have true conversion until you have true conviction. Glory
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  Speaker 1: to God. I can't make you be convicted. I can't
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  Speaker 1: talk you into being convicted. You have to have an
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  Speaker 1: encounter with God that shows you yourself. And all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden you see him like you've never seen him before.
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  Speaker 1: Who is it? It's Jesus, whom thou persecuted. And he
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  Speaker 1: shows up as light. Jesus shows up as light. In
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  Speaker 1: him was light, and the life was the light of men.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus shows up as light. Stop making choices in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus shows up as light. He illuminates situations. He'll show
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  Speaker 1: you perspectives. See the problem. Now all the prophets can
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  Speaker 1: see everybody but themselves. I'm a little bit leery on
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  Speaker 1: people who know what you ought to do but don't
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  Speaker 1: know what they ought to do. How come you can
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  Speaker 1: see my life and you can't see your life. How
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  Speaker 1: come you can see my child but you can't see
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  Speaker 1: your child. There you are talking about my child. Your
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  Speaker 1: child was out there with my child? Shut up? Did
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  Speaker 1: I say that out loud. Well, I did. I said
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  Speaker 1: it out loud. I said it out loud. I said
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  Speaker 1: it out loud. I said it out loud. He had
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  Speaker 1: a moment with God. I'm going to talk to you
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  Speaker 1: about four things. I'm gonna talk about the moment, the misfit,
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  Speaker 1: the messenger, and the message. The moment, the moment, the moment,
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  Speaker 1: the moment. It's a moment. It's a moment. That's how
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  Speaker 1: salvation reaches you. It's a moment, the moment, the misfit,
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  Speaker 1: the messenger, and the message. He had a moment with God,
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  Speaker 1: a moment with God that disrupted everything he knew about himself.
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  Speaker 1: He was of the tribe of Benjamin. He knew that
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  Speaker 1: about himself. He was a Pharisee. He was a Pharisee,
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  Speaker 1: the most conservative group. He was a Pharisee. Concerning the law.
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  Speaker 1: He was zealous, he was committed to what he believed,
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  Speaker 1: lived all over his life up under the law, and
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  Speaker 1: in one moment, it was all disrupted. Do you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how long you've been in a religion.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how long you've been following an idea.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how many generations it's been in your family.
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  Speaker 1: One moment with Jesus can radically revolutionize your life. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: listening at me, you're trying to hold on to your
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  Speaker 1: traditions and get a little bit of Jesus. And you
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  Speaker 1: like some of the stuff Jesus said, and you think
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  Speaker 1: that religion as a smorgast. Boy, I have a coup
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  Speaker 1: of this and a little bit of that and a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of the other, and I'll mix it all
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  Speaker 1: up together. Me and God got my own thing. No,
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  Speaker 1: if you encountered Jesus, you got to give up everything
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  Speaker 1: you encountered before and walk away from it. That's why
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  Speaker 1: Paul said, I counted all has tongue, everything, I knew, everything,
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  Speaker 1: I learned, everything I lived for. I had a radical
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  Speaker 1: moment with God that changed my value system. My values
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  Speaker 1: have been misaligned. And all of a sudden, Paul, who
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  Speaker 1: was leading men, ends up being led by the men
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  Speaker 1: he was leading, and they had to lead him because
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  Speaker 1: he was blind. Because God said, I'm gonna shut your
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  Speaker 1: eyes till you get this right. I'm gonta shut you
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  Speaker 1: down till you get this right. I'm gonna shut up
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  Speaker 1: your finances till you get it right. I'm gonna shut
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  Speaker 1: up your strength until you get it right. God has
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  Speaker 1: a habit of shutting you down till you get it right,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you're stubborn, especially when your heart headed, especially
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  Speaker 1: when you like to fight. God knows how to shut
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  Speaker 1: you down. He said, I'm gonna bring you to a
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  Speaker 1: place of vulnerability where you're gonna need the people that
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  Speaker 1: you used to lead, and they're gonna have to lead
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  Speaker 1: you as I bring you into the truth some moment.
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  Speaker 1: It was some moment to change the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: moments for the next two thousand years, and God didn't
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  Speaker 1: trust no evangelist to do it. He appeared unto Saul
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  Speaker 1: on the road to the maxis Now. Part of the
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  Speaker 1: criteria of being an apostle is to be an eyewitness
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  Speaker 1: to the resurrection, and Saul wasn't at the tomb. So
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did a special appearance. Oh God, God will do
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  Speaker 1: a special appearance. He'll come in your room, He'll come
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  Speaker 1: in your hotel, he'll come in the club, he'll come
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  Speaker 1: in the bar. God will do a special appearance. He'll
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  Speaker 1: come right where you are and just shut Oh, read
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  Speaker 1: to God. Somebody holler. He shot up. He showed up
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  Speaker 1: in my life. I wasn't planning to get saved. He
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: showed up when I came back to the club. I
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  Speaker 1: went to Columbus. I brought two sets of clothes. I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the convocation and at night, I'm
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: going to the club. I never got to use the
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  Speaker 1: sucond set because he shot up. I had packed all
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  Speaker 1: my sharp stuff too. I was gonna be clean, baby,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I was gonna be clean. I put a couple of
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  Speaker 1: suits in there. You know, give God a nod. How
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  Speaker 1: you doing, Jesus, Yeah, I'm going to the club, creick
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  Speaker 1: change out to church. Never made it to the club
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: because he shot up. Next thing I know, I'm walking
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: down now with tears running down my face. Mother Macassle
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: singing all of my life. I'll say yes Lord, and
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I'm crying in an offering, coming back to the Lord.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Have you had a moment with Jesus or do you
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: just go to church? Have you had a moment with Jesus?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Or is there a nice looking girl in his church
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  Speaker 1: and you're coming over here because you're trying to convince
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: her that you you and Jesus are you cool? We're cool?
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  Speaker 1: I'm could give Jesus a nod there. It's really you
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  Speaker 1: I'm out to. You can experience the part's house and
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: not experience Jesus. You can experience me and not experience Jesus.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: If you have a moment with Jesus, it will radically
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  Speaker 1: change your perspectives, your attitude. And look at how look
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: at how how Jesus wrecked everything that Saul's life was
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: built on it suddenly and one moment it's gone. You
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  Speaker 1: can't be a member of the sand heedron and preach Jesus.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: You can't be a pharisee and preach Jesus. You can't
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  Speaker 1: be zealous concerning the law and teach grace. Wow. It
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  Speaker 1: changed his head, It changed his identity, It changed his personhood,
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  Speaker 1: It changed everything about him. He wi God wiped the
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  Speaker 1: sleep clean, completely clean. This is why you hear Paul
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  Speaker 1: saying over I profess to know nothing but Christ and
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  Speaker 1: him crucified. He is not going to fall into the
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: trap of thinking he's smart again. He's spoke in five
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  Speaker 1: different languages and he says, I am a fool for Christ,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: God what I'm saying. And he has a moment with
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  Speaker 1: God alone, with nobody there but the men who were
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: with him, and they're leading him. They're leading him into Damascus.
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  Speaker 1: And this is not how he planned to go into Damascus.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't plan to come into Damascus blind being led
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  Speaker 1: by men. He planned to come into Damascus straw attacking men,
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  Speaker 1: snatching women out of the house. But it doesn't always
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  Speaker 1: end up like you thought. Just because you think something
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  Speaker 1: right now doesn't make it true. He comes into Damascus helpless.
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  Speaker 1: The powerful man is now helpless, blind, groping, depending on
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: them to lead him. And God tells him to go
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  Speaker 1: to a man he doesn't even know, nay Man Anius.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: And there he is on a street called street doesn't
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: even know anonyusis address. Y'all, don't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And Antonius, when God tells Anonius to pray for Saul,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: he says, are you serious? Or Saul of Tarsus? You
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: want me to pray for him? You want me to
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: go pray for him. See, we get in these cliques,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and sometimes we won't pray for people because they're not
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: in our clique. I'm not praying for no democrat, I'm
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: not praying for no Republican. I'm not praying for no
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: white folks. I'm not praying for no black folks. I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: went through something. You'll know what I went through. I
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: don't care what you went through when you was a child.
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  Speaker 1: God will humble you down because God is not promise
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  Speaker 1: to always use who looks like you, votes like you,
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  Speaker 1: dresses like you to bless you. God uses whoever he
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  Speaker 1: wants to use. He don't meet with you. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: do a poll, he doesn't do a census. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: meet with the committee. He doesn't need board approval. When
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  Speaker 1: God gets ready to snatch it or y'all got quiet.
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  Speaker 1: When God gets ready to snatch somebody, he will snatch somebody.
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  Speaker 1: And and I just doesn't want to be seen with Saul.
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  Speaker 1: It's bad for his brand, it's bad for his reputation,
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  Speaker 1: it could be bad for his life. And yet God says,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: he prayeth now, there ought not be nothing that supersedes
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  Speaker 1: the command of God in your life. When God says, forgive, forgive,
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  Speaker 1: When God says let it go, let it go. When
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  Speaker 1: God says it'll all be over in the morning, It'll
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  Speaker 1: all be over in the morning. When God says we've
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: been made, do it for a night, but joy comes
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. He don't ask you how you feel
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: about it it. Well, Lord, I just don't feel like
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: and I don't feel like this morning. It don't feel
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: like morning to me. Shut up. If God says this morning,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: this morning, it may still be dark outside, but this morning.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: You do know that morning starts in the dark. When
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: God says this morning, it's morning. So he wants you
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to rejoice like this morning. He wants you to shout
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: like this morning. He wants you to move like this morning,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: and that anias, He wants you to go down to
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  Speaker 1: a street called straight and pray for a man who
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  Speaker 1: was coming to kill you. Cord of us, how do
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: you pray for a man who is coming to kill you,
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  Speaker 1: a man you have art against. That's why God won't
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  Speaker 1: accept your gift if you have malice in your heart.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: He said, leave your gift at the altar and reconcile
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  Speaker 1: yourself with your brother. Because whatever they did, it ain't
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  Speaker 1: worth you losing your authority with God. Whatever they said,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: it ain't worth you losing your power with God. No
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: matter how it hurts you, it doesn't matter. You still
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: got to do what you got to do. And if
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: God says do it, you gotta do it. See we
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: don't use this word, any word, the old word obedience. Obedience,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: it is better than sacrificing. Obedience is better than sacrificing.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate whatever you sould, but obedience, it's better than sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: You can't give your way, it does getting a license
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: to do wrong. So Annius obeys God and he goes
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  Speaker 1: down there and he lays hands on the man who
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: was going to lay hands on him. Can you do it? No? Serious,
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  Speaker 1: can you do it? Can you lay hands on the
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  Speaker 1: person who was coming to hurt you? Anonius lays hands
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  Speaker 1: on Saul, who was going to lay hands on him,
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  Speaker 1: and the power of his obedience costs a scape to
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  Speaker 1: fall from Saul's eyes. I don't know who I'm preaching to,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: but I'm talking to somebody that if you would just
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  Speaker 1: do what God says do and stop wrestling with your
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  Speaker 1: ego and your pride and to humble yourself the power
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  Speaker 1: you would have the scales fall from his eyes, and
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  Speaker 1: suddenly Saul can see and he goes from having a
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: moment with God to a moment as a misfit. I
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: want you to feel this. How can he go back
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: to the Sanhedrin court and tell him about Jesus because
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: he is no longer one of them. There is no
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  Speaker 1: seat for him amongst a sanhedron. He's lost all that,
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  Speaker 1: He's lost all credibility with thehedron because he is taking
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: on this Jesus philosophy that they hated. They have empowered
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  Speaker 1: him to attack what he has become. So he she
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  Speaker 1: got medicle, so he can't. He can't go back. There
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: is a point in God. It's not that you don't
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: want to go back. It's not that you ain't tempted
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: to go back. It ain't that your flesh don't want
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: to go back. But there is a point in God
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: where you cannot go back. Not somebody's word watching right now.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot go back. You can't go back and undo
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  Speaker 1: what God has done in your life. You can't unknow
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  Speaker 1: what you know once you know who Jesus he is.
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  Speaker 1: You can't unknow that. I don't care how you drink,
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  Speaker 1: how much weed you smoke, how high you get, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care how many light dances you get. Once you
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: know Jesus, there's a mark on your life that something
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: is always gonna be missing until you say yes, you
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: can't go back. The problem, however, is not just said
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: he can't go back because I can leave one group
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: if I connect with the other, I can. I can,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I can I can be rejected by this group if
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I'm accepted by the other. The problem with Saul is
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: when he comes to the Apostles, they don't believe in him.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: They don't believe him. They don't believe in him. They
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: don't like him, they don't accept him, and so he
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: has to accept being a misfit. You have to accept
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: being a misfit. You can change your hair, you can
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: change your clothes, you can change your style, you can
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: change your walk. They still not gonna like you, because
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: when God has called you out, you can't go back.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: You have to accept being a misfit. Look at somebody
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: saying I'm different. I'm different. You ain't never seen nobody
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: like me before. You're never gonna see anybody like me again.
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  Speaker 1: I'm different. And after years and years of low self
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: esteem and crying about it, I'm finally starting to accept
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: that I'm different. I'm cool with it. I'm okay with it.
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  Speaker 1: I can live with it. I understand that I've been
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: trained in it. I learned how to be a misfit.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter that you don't like me, and it
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter that you don't believe in me. I can
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: stand on my own because I had an encounter with Jesus.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: And so when Saul, who is now called Paul, starts
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: to minister, he ministers from the place of a misfit.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: All my misfit people hear me. Good, The reason you
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: have the annointing is because you're a misfit. The reason
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: you have your anointing is because you're a misfit. Had
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: they accepted you, you wouldn't have had the annoyingty. Had
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: they embraced you, you wouldn't have had the annoyingty. Because
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Paul was a misfit. He gives us most of the
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: New Testament epistles because he does not fit in with
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: either groove. He's an outcast on both sides. But when
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: you're an outcast with men, you are in cast with God.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Or do you hear what I'm saying. I'm talking to
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: somebody I don't even know who it is. You are
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: a misfit. Stop fighting it, Stop changing yourself, stop redoing
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: your philosophy, Stop trying to be what everybody else wants
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: you to be. You were meant to be a misfit.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Your Savior was a misfit. It. The stone that the
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: builders rejected has been made the chief corner store. Stop
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: crying about it, Stop worrying about it, Stop being frustrated
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: about it. You don't want to be in with them.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: God saved you from being in with them. He meant
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: for you to be different. Look at your neigh and
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: introduce him. Say hello, I'm different. Yeah, my name is different.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: My name is that, my walk is different, my talk
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: is different. The way I think it is different, the
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: way I believe is different, the way I flow is different.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I understand it. If you don't like me. Everybody can't
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: walk with a misfit. You have to be a misfit
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: yourself to understand another misfit when you see it. I
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: want some misfits in this room to give God a pray.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: You don't fit in with your family, you don't fit
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: in with your community, you don't fit in with your neighborhood.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: You just some misfit for Jesus. Often it takes half
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: your life to accept being a misfit, because we are
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: always advertised, marketed, modeled, and promoted fitting in, and it
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: hurts to not quite be either one. It's lonely. It's
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: lonely being a misfit. When you are a misfit, you
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: are misunderstood. There are ques. You are being arrogant, their
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: ques You are being high minded. They accuse you, we
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: used to say, are being such a much. They accuse
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: you of walking around with your head up in the air.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: They accuse you of forgetting where you came from. Come on, misfits,
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  Speaker 1: back me up on this. Being a misfit means that
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  Speaker 1: you have to learn to be okay with being misunderstood.
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  Speaker 1: That ain't easy. That ain't easy. That ain't easy. It
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: was not easy to be the apostle Paul. It was
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: not easy to be shunned by your future and rejected
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: by your past. It'll make you pray harder because you
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: don't have nobody to depend on but the Lord. It'll
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: make you get up and come to church on Sunday morning.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I don't care how cold it is outside. You wrapped
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  Speaker 1: up and came to church because this is the only
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  Speaker 1: place you fit. Not the building, the presence of the Lord,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: the glory of the Lord, the annoying of the Lord.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: This is a place where we feed the misfits, Hey, misfits.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Dinner is served, and the Minus says that he needed me.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Paul started preaching immediately. Ain't that something? Immediately he starts
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: preaching in the synagogue. He didn't come back to the
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: synagogue to be accepted. He knows they think he's crazy,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: but he's preaching in the synagogue. He has to fight
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: all of his life, but in between the fights he's
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: writing most of the New Testament. In between fights. He
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  Speaker 1: came to Listra and they threw rocks at him, and
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  Speaker 1: they stoned him till his head was busted and his
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: back was bleeding, and they drug him out the city
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: as half dead. But as soon as he woke up,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: he got in between the fight and started preaching again,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: saying stuff like, there is therefore now no condemnation to
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: them that are in Christ Jesus who walk no longer
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: after the flesh, but after the spirit. If any man
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: be in Christ, he is a new creature. All old
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: things have passed away, the whole old things have become new.
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  Speaker 1: For we know if this earthly house or tabernacle shall
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: be diusol, we have another building eternally in the heavens.
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  Speaker 1: Having this assurance that God, who has begun a good
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: work in you shall perform it unto the day of
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. I want to talk to everybody in here
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: that's been in the fight, out to fight, out to fight,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: the Lord said, in between the fights, preached the gospel,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: lay hands on the sikh, blinded eyes, rebuilt the devil,
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  Speaker 1: and keep on going to put him on the boat.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: And the boat fell apart. He survived, the ship wrecked,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: and the snake bid him. But in between the fights,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: he kept on telling them, Jesus is Lord to the
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  Speaker 1: glory of God. I wish I had a hundred people
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: that would praise God in between the fight. You're steal God.
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  Speaker 1: You're steal God. The ship has wrecked, but your steal God.
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  Speaker 1: The snake has bidden me, but your steal God. The
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: rocks made me bleed, but your steal God. See it,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: ain't no praise till you're praising God with blood running
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: down your face. Ain't no praise. Tell your praise of
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: God in the middle of rejection and pain. Let the
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: redeemed of the Lord say, soul. I'll give you thirty
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: seconds to give God a praise like you lost your mind.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: You got ten seconds to open your mouth, every misfit
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: in the building, every misfit on line, every misfit in
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: the mouth of that you got five suconds in your mouth,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: and give God some praise. And settle in on being disliked.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Settle in, I'm being controversial, settle in, I'm being mired.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: This is why it's okay said, this is this is
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: why it's okay to be a misfit. Because number three,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: you're the messenger, and you can't be the messenger if
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: you fit in. That's what's wrong. Now. We got too
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: many folks trying to fit in, too many preachers trying
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: to fit in. If you're gonna be the messenger, you
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: gotta be willing to be the misfit glory towd. You
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: can't be common with the people that you're trying to lead.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: That's why we don't have parents no more, because they're
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: too busy trying to be friends with their kid. You're
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: so busy trying to meet friends that the kid ain't
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: got no parent. And now if you're not a friend,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: you're not a parent. The devil is a lie. You
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: gotta understand that. You gotta be a misfit. You gotta
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: be a misfit if you're gonna win this battle. If
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be a boss, you gotta be a misfit.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: You can still be nice, but you ain't got no
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: business chasing it behind people trying to make them like you.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: This ain't no election. Your paycheck voted me boss. I'm
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: the boss. You can't cash the check and not recognize
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: who signed it. Come on, we might as well clean
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: it up in here. Look at somebody say clean it up.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: You are the messenger. You are the messenger. You are
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: the messenger. I don't care whether you're a preacher or not.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: You're the messenger. You still a witness. You're a soul winner.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Stop trying to be an undercover agent on your job.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want nobody to know that you saved so
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: that you still got permission to live out your own life.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Go ahead and be a messenger. Start praying for people
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: on break. You're a messenger. God didn't put you on
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: the job to make money. He puts you on the
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: job to change lives. You could have made money anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: You're on an assignment. You're a messenger. You got a message.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: You're on a mission. That's why the enemy keeps fighting you.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: It's because you're a messenger. He wouldn't try to shut
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: you down if you didn't have something to say. The
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: reason he's attacking you is because you're a messenger. I
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: want every messenger in here to cop your hands. I'm
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: a messenger. I'm a messenger. I'm a messenger. I'm a messenger.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: I'm a messenger. I'm a messenger. But messengers get fucked
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: with being misfits because being a messenger means saying yes
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: to being a misfit. So when the enemy wants to
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: shut down your message, he'll show you how bad you
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: don't fit. Am I preaching writer? I say, am I
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: preaching writer? You are a messenger. Most of what we
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: know about church, about the fivefold ministry, about the resurrection
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: from the dead, about the mystery of the Godhead, about
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: the peace that passes all understanding, about having peace with God,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: about no condemnation. Most of what we know about the
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: resurrection came from Paul, not Matthias. Stop worrying about who
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: they picked. God picked you. God pigged you. I'm gonna
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: say it again. God pigged you. I'm gonna say it again,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: God pig you, and you don't have to be eighty,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't have to be seventy, and you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be sixty. You don't have to be fifty.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus started ministering when he was twelve because God pigged you.
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  Speaker 1: You have to understand that God picks you, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not because your past is in alignment. It's because you
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  Speaker 1: had a unique moment with God. And stop being frustrated
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  Speaker 1: because you can't teach people how to have a moment
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  Speaker 1: that they didn't have. Oh God, that's so good, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you Jesus. I'm gonna watch this on YouTube again myself.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you that are messages are frustrated because in
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  Speaker 1: your loneliness, you are trying to make disciples out of
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  Speaker 1: people who do not have your moment. And if they
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  Speaker 1: did not have your moment, they cannot have your mantle.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell it to the people over here. If
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  Speaker 1: they did not have your moment, they cannot have your mantle.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Elijah told Elisha, if you see me when
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  Speaker 1: I'm taken up, you can have my mantle. You can't
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  Speaker 1: get my mantle just because you want it, just because
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  Speaker 1: you think you got a write to it just because
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  Speaker 1: you gave me a love offering. You can't buy me
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  Speaker 1: off and get this until you've been knocked off your beast,
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  Speaker 1: until you've had an encounter with God, until you walked
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  Speaker 1: around blind, and until you're willing to be a misfit.
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  Speaker 1: You can't teach people how to be what they didn't see.
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  Speaker 1: So forgive yourself for not being able to reduplicate yourself
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus picks out twelve to say, y'all pull it
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  Speaker 1: at me. Now, when Jesus picks out twelve disciples, you
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  Speaker 1: know the first thing he tells them, take up your
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  Speaker 1: cross and follow me because you're gonna hear me teach
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  Speaker 1: all you want to, but you're not gonna get my
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  Speaker 1: mantle off of what I teach. You're gonna get my
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  Speaker 1: mantle off of what I suffer. So the invitation is
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  Speaker 1: until you have a shared experience, you cannot receive my
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  Speaker 1: spirit without receiving my cross. Most of us are stuck
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  Speaker 1: in the misfit stage, hindering our message because we are
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  Speaker 1: still grieving over not fitting And until you resolve and
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  Speaker 1: say yes not only to God, but yes to not
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  Speaker 1: quite fitting in with either group, Yes, to being peculiar,
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  Speaker 1: Yes to thinking different, Yes to having a flow that's
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  Speaker 1: different from other people's flow. You will never discover your message,
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  Speaker 1: your message, which is your purpose. Nomber for your message
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  Speaker 1: because you are a messenger. Your purpose is predicated on
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  Speaker 1: your message, not your emotions. God didn't call you for
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  Speaker 1: your feelings. He called you for your message because you
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  Speaker 1: are a messenger to a dying world. To model what
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  Speaker 1: love looks like, what strength looks like, what looks like,
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  Speaker 1: what diligence looks like, what commitment looks like, what forty
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  Speaker 1: two looks like? In between fights, you got to keep
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  Speaker 1: teaching people how to be survivors, how to walk alone.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes am I helping anybody? Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the divorces that we're having we should have
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  Speaker 1: never had because we are trying to get something out
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  Speaker 1: of marriage that it is not designed to give you.
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  Speaker 1: You're taking marriage for therapy, and when you don't get
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  Speaker 1: therapy out of it, you get out of it. If
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  Speaker 1: you want therapy, go to a therapist. It is not
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  Speaker 1: my job to fix you. It is my job to
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  Speaker 1: love you. The reason I can't fix you is that
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to fix me, and it is wrong of
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  Speaker 1: me to expect you to fix me, because whatever's broke
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  Speaker 1: in me was broke when you bought me. I'm the
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  Speaker 1: house you bought as is. I'm a fixer upper. The
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  Speaker 1: drain don't work, and the life splash on and off,
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  Speaker 1: and when it rains real hard, I leak in the kitchen.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: But I'm still your house shod don't hear me? And
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  Speaker 1: you are angry with me over stuff I don't know
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  Speaker 1: nothing about. You're trying to work out in me stuff
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  Speaker 1: you had going on with your daddy. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: work out in you stuff I had going on with
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  Speaker 1: my mama that ain't even fair. You wasn't even married.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even know what happened. And if I tell you, you
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  Speaker 1: only get my side. And yes, I got a devil
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  Speaker 1: to fight. How many people in here are honest enough
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  Speaker 1: to say you got a devil to fight. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I'm at church this morning because I got a devil
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  Speaker 1: to fight. That's why I was clapping my hands and
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  Speaker 1: praising God when you were singing, because I got a
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  Speaker 1: devil to fight. That's why your job is so important,
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  Speaker 1: because you helped me fight my devil. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: can't cross my legs and look cute in church because
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: I got a devil to fight, and I came in
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  Speaker 1: here this morning to get some ammunition to help me
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  Speaker 1: in the fight. Because when I leave this place, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going back to the front lines, and I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to do battle. I'm not talking about doing battle with people.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about doing battle with me, doing battle with
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  Speaker 1: my own head, doing battle with my own pain, doing
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  Speaker 1: battle with my own self, sometime doing battle with my prophecy,
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  Speaker 1: with my destiny. Am I ready? Can I handle it?
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  Speaker 1: Can I pull it off? Am I enough? No? I'm
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  Speaker 1: not enough. But with God, I'm more than enough. I
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  Speaker 1: can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me. Can
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  Speaker 1: I get a praise in this place? Can I get
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  Speaker 1: a praise in this place? So, when Paul gets down
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  Speaker 1: to the end of his life, he sends a message
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  Speaker 1: to his mentee. He does not tell Timothy about all
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  Speaker 1: his revelations. He does not tell Timothy about all the
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  Speaker 1: places he traveled. He does not tell Timothy how he
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  Speaker 1: was trained at the feet of Gamill. He does not
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  Speaker 1: tell Timothy how many languages he spoke. He he does
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  Speaker 1: not tell Timothy that he is solely responsible for the
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  Speaker 1: gospel reaching the Greeks, that he preached the gospel on
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  Speaker 1: Mars Hill until a whole nation got saved. He does
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  Speaker 1: not tell Timothy that it was not Peter alone that
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  Speaker 1: brought the gospel to Rome. But that's why the shipwrecked,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: was to keep him from getting to Rome, because when
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  Speaker 1: Paul got to Rome, the whole game change and the
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  Speaker 1: headquarters of Christianity slipped over from Jerusalem over to Rome.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't tell him any of that. You know what
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: he tells him, I thought a good fight. Ah fought
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  Speaker 1: a good fighter. I did it when I felt like it.
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  Speaker 1: I did it when I didn't feel like it. I
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  Speaker 1: did it when things were going good. I did it
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  Speaker 1: when things were going bad. I did it when I
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  Speaker 1: was on the mountain. I did it when I was
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  Speaker 1: in the valley. I did it when people liked me.
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  Speaker 1: I did it when people hated me. I did it
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  Speaker 1: when they understood. I did it when they didn't understand.
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  Speaker 1: I have fought a good fight. And you got to
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: learn how to clock for yourself and say I have
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: fought somebody, clopped for yourself. I fought a good fight.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: I raised them kids by myself. I'm a single mother,
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  Speaker 1: but I fought a good fight. Holly low Yah. I
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  Speaker 1: divorced some mother, but I kept on taking care of
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  Speaker 1: my children. I fought a good fight. I fed people
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  Speaker 1: who didn't like me. I came to work where they
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  Speaker 1: talked about men. I kept on going to work, even
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  Speaker 1: though the person I trained ended up getting the job.
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  Speaker 1: I should have gone, but I still came to work,
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  Speaker 1: and I fought a good fight. I want to talk
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: to some people that have been into some fights. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to talk to these cutie people that I
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: ain't been through nothing yet. I want to talk to
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  Speaker 1: some real souldiers that's been in some real fights. Paul
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  Speaker 1: tells him a time I fought, I fought. I fought
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  Speaker 1: a good fight. I fought fights other people wouldn't even
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  Speaker 1: take up. I fought fights I could have avoided. I
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: fought a good fight. You know what, I kept the faith? Yeah,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: sometimes that was the fight. Some see y'all think I'm
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: fighting with people. Sometimes the fight is to keep the
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: I fought a good fight. I kept the faith. Wait
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: on this, here's what you've been waiting on now. Laid
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: up for me is a crown of righteousness. Didn't get
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: it when I wanted it, didn't get it where I
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: worked at it. Some stuff only God can give you.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: Now laid up for me is a crown of righteousness.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: We used to sing stuff like we shall behold Him
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: or that other song. The marketplace is empty, no more
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: selling in the streets. The king is coming. We don't
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: sing about heaven right now because we got better cars.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: We don't think about heaven because we got air conditioning.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: We don't think about heaven because we got dishwashers and
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: garbage disposals and stuff like that. But the truth of
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  Speaker 1: the Mighty is nothing you own is your crown. None
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  Speaker 1: of it is a crown. There is a crown for
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  Speaker 1: those of you who have fought a good And it
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: ain't down here. It ain't down here, bro, it ain't
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: down here. Why would you appreciate Because every time I
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: open up the paper, somebody else has committed suicide. You
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: know why most people commit suicide because they never got
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: the crowd. They put in the fight and they didn't
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: get the crowd. But Paul tells Timothy, now laid up
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: for me is a crown of righteousness, And not for
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  Speaker 1: me only, but for all of those who will wait
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: his appearing, Stand to your feet. If God spoke to
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: you today, giving me some kind of praise quick teacher's
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: review is make your life count in between fights. Don't
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: survive a fight only to be in misery about an
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: old fight. You wasted your free time talking about your
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: old time. In between fights, make your life out. Do
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  Speaker 1: something purposeful. That's what the fight was about in the
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  Speaker 1: first place. In between fights, do what you were created
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: to do. This is a teacher's review. The power of obedience.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: Understanding that sometimes you have to go against your feelings
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: and obey God and lay hands on people who were
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: trying to lay hands on you because this is not
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: your business. This is God's business you're doing. Do you
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying? Teachers Review? I want you to understand.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: You didn't choose God, God chose you. Teachers review. Fitting
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: in is overrated. Be okay with being different. Nobody writes
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: books about ordinary, only extraordinary. Be cool with it all
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: of m not all, but most of our heroes were
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: lauded after they died. If you demand payment up front,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: you are distracted from your destiny. Who am I talking
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: to when you worry about being a misfit? You put
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: your happiness in the hands of someone else, means I
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: can only be happy if you like me. That's too
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: much power to give to any clique, any group, any crowd,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: any co workers. That's too much power to give anybody.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: You gotta be cool with doing you, y'all. If the
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: joke talking about how my wife loves Christmas and she
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: got the house, you know it looked like Santa Claus
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: lived there, and uh and and the one who always
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: teasing her about it? I said, how come you ain't
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: playing your music? You know why. It ain't my thing,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: but it's hers. And if it gives you joy, turn
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: the music off. It takes a long time to stop
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: trying to change people and just love them like they are.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: It ain't nothing wrong with that, I thought, Let me
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: turn the music on, let me help, let me do something.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: Stop trying to make people into you, because can we
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: be honest a minute. You ain't that happy being you,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: so why are you trying to make me be you?
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: Early in the message, I used two words that I've
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  Speaker 1: said we don't use much conversion and conviction. Conversion the
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  Speaker 1: right to change, the right to be somebody else is important.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: Don't walk yourself into situations you can't get out of,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: because your conversion is a process, and conviction is the
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  Speaker 1: decision that I need to change directions now. I'm not sure,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: but I believe that somebody in this room will watch
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: it online. Has been knocked off your beasts, the wind
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: knocked out of you, blackout, you can't see your way clear.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: And God has disrupted your life because He's got something
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: for you that's different than where you were headed. And
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: you can be hard headed and come to him on
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: a cart lowered down through the roof, or come to
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: him in a dread disease, or you can come to
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  Speaker 1: him now and say, Lord, I need to make some changes.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't no need of me having a new year if
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be a new me, even if
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: I am despised, if I have to leave my click,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: my gang, even if I have to change jobs, whatever
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: I have to do to fulfill what you created me
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: to do. I'm tired of fighting you. God. It's enough
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: to fight me. You know what Jesus told Uh Paul
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: that I left out. He said, it is hard for
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: you to kick against the pricks. The prick was something
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: that they put at the end of the stall to
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: stop the mule from kicking the stall trying to get away.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: It was a s our object that the more you
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: kicked against it, the more it hurt you. And when
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  Speaker 1: God says