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Working Through Hard Places - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: last nerve. Now that next to the last one, I
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  Speaker 1: After we are assaulted, after we are wounded, after we
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  Speaker 1: for you and just deal with a plethora of different
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  Speaker 1: things that I think is very important. In the book
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  Speaker 1: of Numbers, chapter number 20, verse 2 through 13, there
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  Speaker 1: you will find the reading of the word.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Open your hearts and your minds as we contemplate the
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  Speaker 1: text that we might extrapolate from it. the substance that
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  Speaker 1: is necessary to sustain us through the vicissitudes of life.
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  Speaker 1: We thank our God for sustaining us. Through winter, spring, summer,
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  Speaker 1: and fall, you sustain us. At every age and stage,
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  Speaker 1: you sustained us. When you have it, say amen. Numbers
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  Speaker 1: 20 and 2. And there was no water for the congregation.
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  Speaker 1: And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
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  Speaker 1: And the people strove with Moses, gave him a real
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  Speaker 1: hard time, and spake saying, would that we had died
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  Speaker 1: when our brethren died before Jehovah. And why have you
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  Speaker 1: brought the assembly of Jehovah into the wilderness?
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  Speaker 2: That we should die there? We and our beast?
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore have ye made us to come up out of
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  Speaker 1: Egypt to bring us into this evil place? It is
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  Speaker 1: no place of seed or figs or vines or pomegranates.
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  Speaker 1: Neither is there any water to drink. And Moses and
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  Speaker 1: Aaron went from the presence of the assembly.
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  Speaker 2: I don't blame them.
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  Speaker 1: Unto the door of the tent of meeting. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: got to get away from folks. And fell upon their faces.
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  Speaker 1: And the glory of Jehovah. Appeared unto them.
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  Speaker 2: And Jehovah spake unto Moses saying.
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  Speaker 3: Take the rod.
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  Speaker 2: And assembled the congregation.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to use anything you don't already have.
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  Speaker 1: Thou and Aaron thy brother and speak ye unto the
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  Speaker 1: rock before their eyes that it give forth its water
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  Speaker 1: and thou shall bring forth to them water out of
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  Speaker 1: the rock. So thou shall give the congregation and their
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  Speaker 1: cattle drink And Moses took the rod from before Jehovah
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  Speaker 1: as he commanded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the
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  Speaker 1: assembly together before the rock, and he said unto them,
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  Speaker 1: Hear now.
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  Speaker 2: Ye rebels.
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  Speaker 1: Moses was hot. Hear now, ye rebels. Shall we bring
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  Speaker 1: you forth water? out of this rock? And Moses lifted
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  Speaker 1: up his hand and smote the rock with his rod twice.
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  Speaker 1: And water came forth abundantly. Somebody shout abundantly. And the
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  Speaker 1: congregation drank and their cattle. And Jehovah said unto Moses
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  Speaker 1: and Aaron, because ye believe not in me to sanctify
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  Speaker 1: me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore
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  Speaker 1: ye shall not bring this assembly into the land which
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  Speaker 1: I have given them. These are the waters of Meribah,
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  Speaker 1: because the children of Israel strove with Jehovah and he
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  Speaker 1: was sanctified in them. Can you say amen? Amen. For
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  Speaker 1: the next few moments, I would like to talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: You might not be in this place right now, and
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  Speaker 1: you might not need it today, but say that you'll
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  Speaker 1: need it tomorrow. I want to talk to you from
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  Speaker 1: the subject, working through hard places. working through hard places.
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  Speaker 1: Endow me, sir, with your grace. Empower me with your presence.
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  Speaker 1: Invigorate this clay body with the kind of glory that
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  Speaker 1: enables it to function in supernatural ways. Translate me out
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  Speaker 1: of my flesh into the kingdom of your dear son,
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  Speaker 1: and let me.
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  Speaker 2: Feed the flock.
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  Speaker 1: For beneath all of the fancy frivolity of this occasion,
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  Speaker 1: truth of the matter is, many of us are working
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  Speaker 1: through hard places.
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  Speaker 2: We're dancing.
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  Speaker 1: But we're working through hard places. We're smiling, but we're
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  Speaker 1: working through hard places. We even clapped our hands, but
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  Speaker 1: we are working through hard places.
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  Speaker 2: Anything you can tell us.
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  Speaker 1: That will help us with what you have for us
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  Speaker 1: to do, we.
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  Speaker 2: Are hungry to receive.
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  Speaker 1: Because we don't want to get this close to the
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  Speaker 1: promise and stagger in unbelief. Now bless the furtherance of
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  Speaker 1: the service. In Jesus' name we pray. Somebody shout amen.
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  Speaker 1: You may be seated. We are in the book of Leviticus.
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  Speaker 1: We are studying the life of Moses. We are delving
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  Speaker 1: into the fact that he has been assigned to people
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  Speaker 1: who have not been kind. Because God doesn't always assign
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  Speaker 1: you to nice people. And just because they're not nice
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  Speaker 1: does not mean that.
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  Speaker 2: You're not assigned.
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  Speaker 1: We're living in a time that people give up their
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  Speaker 1: assignment for their comfort They think that if they are
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  Speaker 1: not comfortable, then they are not assigned. But occasionally God
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  Speaker 1: assigns you to hard.
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  Speaker 2: Places.
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  Speaker 1: And depending on what was modeled in front of you
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  Speaker 1: and what your character level is and your personality profile exhibits,
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  Speaker 1: it is possible for you to forsake the assignment because
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  Speaker 1: of the surroundings to which you have been.
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  Speaker 2: Assigned.
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  Speaker 1: We are a very vocal generation. All of us have
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  Speaker 1: become news reporters. We don't just vocalize in our home,
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  Speaker 1: we vocalize publicly because we don't always like The assignment,
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  Speaker 1: it is in a way retaliation. But behind the retaliation,
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  Speaker 1: there's no judgment here, it's frustration. Frustration occurs when our
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  Speaker 1: life does not look like what we imagined it to be.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking at the imagination of the people and saying,
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  Speaker 1: where are the figs? all I see is sand dunes
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  Speaker 1: and gust of hot air where it's the pomegranates where
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  Speaker 1: it's the promised land they are assaulting Moses and making
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  Speaker 1: him responsible for their choice.
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  Speaker 2: To go.
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  Speaker 1: It is not as though Moses has put a sword
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  Speaker 1: to their throat and asked.
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  Speaker 2: Them to go.
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  Speaker 1: And it is not as though Egypt was a wonderful
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  Speaker 1: place to be. But isn't it amazing how quickly we
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  Speaker 1: forget what worse was like? My first point I want
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  Speaker 1: to leave in your hearing is that Underestimating the difficulty
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  Speaker 1: of the assignment will get you in trouble. Underestimating the
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  Speaker 1: difficulty of the assignment is in part a fault of
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  Speaker 1: our own mentors because they often made it look easier
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  Speaker 1: than it really was. Not wanting to murmur and complain
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  Speaker 1: They made it look more simplistic, but when you actually
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  Speaker 1: took the job, when you actually had the baby, when
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  Speaker 1: you actually got married, when you actually started the business,
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  Speaker 1: when you actually started the career, it was not as
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  Speaker 1: glamorous as dating it. Dating is far more glamorous than marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Dating is filled with Tic Tacs and deodorant and cologne
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  Speaker 1: and nicety. Marriage got bad breath. Sharp words. Unexpected situations.
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  Speaker 1: It's too cold in here. Turn the heat up. It's
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  Speaker 1: too hot. for my people over 50. It's too hot.
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  Speaker 1: Turn it down. The discrepancies in our comfort has become
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  Speaker 1: so paramount that now we sleep in the same bed
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  Speaker 1: but we got different sides so you can tilt up
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  Speaker 1: while I tilt down and you can regulate the temperature
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  Speaker 1: because we can't even agree.
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  Speaker 2: On the temperature in the room.
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  Speaker 1: We do not understand that hard places are given to
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  Speaker 1: strong people. The question is, can God trust you with
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  Speaker 1: a hard place?
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  Speaker 3: I know he can trust.
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  Speaker 1: You when everything is falling into place, but can he
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  Speaker 1: trust you in a layoff Can he trust you through
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  Speaker 1: a repossession? And you're moving back in with your mama.
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  Speaker 1: Where is your praise now? While your enemies are saying,
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  Speaker 1: where is your God? Your God is saying, where is
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  Speaker 1: your praise? Or do you only love me when I
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  Speaker 1: play Santa Claus in your life? As long as I'm
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  Speaker 1: coming down the chimney, you got cookies. But what happens
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  Speaker 1: when God does not show up the way you expected
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  Speaker 1: him to show up in the form you expected him
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  Speaker 1: to show up in? Can you still be assigned and uncomfortable?
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  Speaker 1: Can you be assigned and be miserable? now I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking about the things you assign yourself to because some
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  Speaker 1: of this stuff you got into God didn't assign you
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  Speaker 1: to Your lusts assign you to it. Your sin assign
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  Speaker 1: you to it. Your pride assign you to it. Your
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  Speaker 1: ego assign you to it. Your over-inflated confidence assign you
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  Speaker 1: to it. But I'm talking about the times that God
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  Speaker 1: has assigned you to a hard place. And you're rebuking
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  Speaker 1: the devil and pleading the blood and trying to cast
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  Speaker 1: out devils that are absent from the situation because it
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  Speaker 1: was all right in spring and summer and fall. But
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  Speaker 1: now winter has set in and you're not.
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  Speaker 2: Dressed for a hard place.
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if you understand if it were easy, anyone
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  Speaker 1: could do it.
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  Speaker 2: I said, if it were easy, anyone could do it.
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  Speaker 1: If it were easy, anyone could be a great parent.
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  Speaker 1: If it were easy, anyone could be a great husband.
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  Speaker 1: If it were easy, anyone could be a great wife.
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  Speaker 1: Truth of the matter is, some of y'all are hard
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  Speaker 1: to be married to. just keep looking straight ahead. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to get you through it without a scratch. Hard mothers-in-law. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know they're coming over for dinner next week. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be all right. Hard father-in-law. And now you
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  Speaker 1: got to serve somebody who complains about everything you do.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the way I make my potato salad. What
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  Speaker 1: did you put in this? A sign to a hard place.
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  Speaker 1: assigned to a boss who gives you a task to do,
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  Speaker 1: takes all the credit and never acknowledges you, assigned to
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  Speaker 1: a hard place. You drive to work speaking in tongues
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  Speaker 1: because you consider the job you prayed for speaking in tongues.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're speaking in tongues trying to endure the answer
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  Speaker 1: God gave you because now you realize that the paycheck
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter because I'm assigned to a hard place. You
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  Speaker 1: don't yet realize that people are fickle. So you bought
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  Speaker 1: into their praises and you brought into their adoration and
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  Speaker 1: you bought into you were lacked and you were accepted
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  Speaker 1: and you were loved and you were appreciated and you
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  Speaker 1: were validated and you didn't understand that people are fickle.
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  Speaker 1: These are the same people that Moses stopped from dying
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  Speaker 1: by lifting up the brazen serpent in the wilderness. These
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  Speaker 1: are the same people that Moses prayed till bread loaves
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  Speaker 1: fell from heaven. These are the same people that Moses
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  Speaker 1: casts a tree into the bitter waters of Marah and
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  Speaker 1: caused him to drink healthily. These are the same people
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  Speaker 1: that an 80-year-old man was walking through the wilderness and
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  Speaker 1: he had not had a drink of water either. No
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  Speaker 1: empathy for the fact that Moses' mouth is dry. No
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  Speaker 1: empathy for the fact that Moses is just as depleted
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  Speaker 1: and older. These are the generations born in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: They're half his age, young enough to be his children,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a quarter of his age, and they are complaining
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  Speaker 1: about an old man who never made them go from Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: This is the man that prayed in such a way
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  Speaker 1: that not one of their children died while all of
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptian firstborn sons were destroyed. But we get amnesia
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  Speaker 1: when we get uncomfortable. Oh, you don't believe it, but
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  Speaker 1: keep living. People will forget everything you did because of
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  Speaker 1: one thing you did. And throw you completely away. These
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  Speaker 1: are the same people who are cajoling him and attacking
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  Speaker 1: him and blaming him and assaulting him. They're the same
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  Speaker 1: people who later will cry at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: mountain because he's dead. Because we deified the dead while
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  Speaker 1: we crucified the living. Some people don't get wonderful till
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  Speaker 1: they get gone. Oh my God. They're not really appreciated
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  Speaker 1: until you roll over and that side of the bed
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  Speaker 1: is empty. I'm talking about the fickleness of people. The
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  Speaker 1: procurement of the promise doesn't negate problems. with every promise
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  Speaker 1: we just got through shouting about.
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  Speaker 2: They will not.
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  Speaker 1: Come without problems and obstacles and setbacks and delays and
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  Speaker 1: trauma and adversity. You thought you were gonna eat the
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  Speaker 1: figs and the pomegranates without stress? You thought you would
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  Speaker 1: drink the water without dryness? And by the way, you
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  Speaker 1: are not the only one who's thirsty. Everybody in the
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  Speaker 1: text is thirsty. The people are thirsty. Moses is thirsty.
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  Speaker 1: God is thirsty for the praises of his people. He
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  Speaker 1: has nothing to drink but complaint and everyone in the
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  Speaker 1: text is dry and still moving. You're not a full
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  Speaker 1: grown man until you can walk dry. You're not a
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  Speaker 1: real woman until you can walk dry. Dry meaning your
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  Speaker 1: needs are not being met, legitimate needs. Dry meaning you
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  Speaker 1: don't get things the way you want them to be.
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  Speaker 1: Dry meaning you can't control the external circumstances around your
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  Speaker 1: life and you must make progress under pressure. Progress under pressure.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody in here that knows what it's like
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  Speaker 1: to make progress under pressure? And yes, we get frustrated
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  Speaker 1: over our haters because our haters think our walk was
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  Speaker 1: easier than it was. And they envy us for things
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  Speaker 1: they would not endure. That they could have had but
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  Speaker 1: they quit. They died in the wilderness. But with parched
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  Speaker 1: lips and a dry tongue, they kept on moving. One
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  Speaker 1: thing I have learned in life is keep it moving.
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  Speaker 2: Keep it moving.
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  Speaker 1: Do not sit down and bask in how you feel
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  Speaker 1: about it to the degree that you delay your assignment
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  Speaker 1: investigating your emotions. should not delay your assignment. The discomfort
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: we were just talking about, the chickens running in the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: yard and all of that makes your tolerance stronger to pain.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: But when everything was brought to you, served to you,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: given to you, handed to you, anytime it doesn't work
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  Speaker 1: like that, you think you're being abused. Mama didn't tell
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: you that it's going to get hard. Daddy didn't tell
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: you it was going to be hard.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they told you.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: See, the problem with communication is all we have is words.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: And your idea hard and my idea hard are two
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: different things. And I told you it's going to be
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: hard being a grown up and you couldn't wait to
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: be grown. And now you find out it's not what
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: you thought it was going to be. Come on, talk
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: to me, somebody. It's not as good as it looked
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: on the outside. When the bills start coming in your
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: name and when you start running out of capital and
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: when you have to get up and go to work
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: when you don't feel like it and you don't like
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: your job but you love your kids, you go do
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: your job.
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  Speaker 3: Walk through.
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  Speaker 1: Hard times. Because life, not demons, not devils, not witches,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: not hexes, life.
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  Speaker 3: Is hard.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: I could stay there all day.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Life is hard. Life is hard.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Life all by itself. Life is lifeless.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: People being born at the same time people are dying.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: You're connected to both sides. You gotta go to the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: baby shower and prepare for the funeral. Life is hard.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Before you can bury one, another one dies. Life is hard.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Life is tough. I'm not simplifying it. I'm not saying
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: it's easy. I'm not saying it's not painful. I'm not
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: saying that it doesn't break you down to your knees.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: But that doesn't always mean that a devil is probable.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Satan did not create the desert. It's just that the
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: desert was the only way to get through to the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: promised land if you were going with Moses. You cannot
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: get through to the promises you just got through shouting
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: about without going through drought. It would be different if
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: they were hungry because I can live longer without food.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: The body is designed to protect me. My metabolism slows down.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It starts eating off of fat in the body. I
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: can go longer without food than I can without water.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: These people aren't just hungry. They're thirsty. In their mind,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: they saw pomegranates. In their eyes, they saw sand dunes.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: And even the animals were tired. What do you do
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: when what you're riding on gets tired? Eventually, no matter
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: how strong of a camel I may be, if you
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: take me through enough drought, I'm going to get tired.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: That's why it's dangerous to rely on people. Because the
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: person you're dumping on has as many problems.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: As you do. And initially they.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Have the capacity to absorb the extra weight, but eventually
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: necessity necessitates that I have to let you go because
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I had problems when you called me. because we are
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: all going through a hard place. Number two, hard places
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: are often made more difficult by past problems. You see,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: this is particularly difficult. God, give me the grace to
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: make this clear. This is particularly difficult for Moses I
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: know that they entered the text talking about their drought
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and their dry place. But I want you to understand
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: that this is a trigger to Moses' trauma. Because Moses'
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: identity relies on their affirmation. You see, Moses, you will remember,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: is a Hebrew child that escaped the massacre by being
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: raised in Egypt. So he is raised like an Egyptian,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: but genetically he is a Hebrew, which that alone creates
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: an identity crisis. He wasn't raised with the heritage of
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the Hebrews. He was raised with the heritage of the Egyptians,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: speaking the language of the Egyptians and yet having an
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: affinity for the Hebrews. Moses is homeless. He cannot go
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: back to what raised him. And if the people that
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: he has now been assigned to reject him, it is
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: not just rejection that he's dealing with.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: It is identity.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you hate me, who am I? And Moses,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: who I believe to be one of the greatest leaders
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: of the Old Testament, Moses, who God said other prophets
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: have spoken to through dreams and visions, but of my
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: servant Moses, will I speak to face to face? Moses,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: who had direct access to God, Moses, who could walk
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: into the temple surprised, And God would appear, Moses who
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: was as anointed as anybody, Moses who could turn the
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: seas to blood, Moses who could part the Red Sea
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: and bring the children of Israel across on dry ground
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: does not negate the fact that internally you can have
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: a hard place that people don't see. They can't see
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: it because they are camouflaged in your successes. And you
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: can be so successful that people deem you not human.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: They love to make you a hero so that they
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: can kill you for being like them.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, we do it all the time. Look around you.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: We love to take people up so that we can
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: watch them fall down. All the way back to the
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: gladiators in Rome, thousands would gather to watch them die.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: We are a bloodthirsty people. Good news travels slow. Bad
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: news travels fast. Bad articles make the front page. Redactions
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: are in the back of the newspaper. Just a line
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: or two. We apologize. We were mistaken when we said
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: so and.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: So and so and so. No pictures.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Just a paragraph of a retraction that you only got
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: because you got a lawyer. And being known is a
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: hard place. And being a leader is a hard place.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: And being a breadwinner is a hard place. And being
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: innovative is a hard place. And being gifted is a
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: hard place. And being chosen is a hard place. And
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: so what you're praying for is a Give me a
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: child lest I die.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're asking for it. Hard place.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: The same person who says, give me a child lest
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I die, holds her stomach filled with twins and says,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: why am I thus? I asked for the baby, not
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: the pregnancy. You didn't tell me it was gonna be
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: twins and that the twins were gonna fight in my body.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: I did not ask for this hard place. I asked
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: for pomegranates.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: I asked for figs.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: You answered with dust.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: And freezing nights and scorching days and no rivers run
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: through this desert. And you performed a miracle, but now
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: the miracle has dried up too. And when we get
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: in a hard place, we get vicious. We get toxic.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: We get hard to deal with. And sometimes nobody can
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: see your hard place because Moses' hard place is not
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: so much the drought. You don't hear him complaining about
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: his mouth being dry because he is so committed to
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: being accepted.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: They are his family. They are his dream. They are his.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Promised land because we always pray for what we didn't get.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: He has been rejected by the Egyptians. He has been
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: driven out of the palace. He has had to go
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: out into the wilderness and get a precursor of what
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: his future was to be like working for Jethro. He
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: has built up an immunity to the heat because he
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: spent 40 years in hard places. Sometimes God will train
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: you in hard places so that you don't faint like
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: other people faint because your endurance has been built up
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: by the, I wish there was somebody in this room
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: who looks back on your hard places and says, it
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: was good for me that I was afflicted. For had
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I not been afflicted, I would have never known the
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: glory of God. You can't roll your eyes and run
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: me back home. I'm a little tougher than that. You
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: can't write a bad note about me and make me
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: quit because I trained in hard places. I was raised
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: in hard places. I'm not used to folk liking me
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: no way. So roll your eyes all you want to. Delete, delete, delete, delete,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: and delete.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Every now and then somebody write me, I'm going to
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: unfollow you. And I think, not before I delete you.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: So if you're going to unfollow me, you got to hurry.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Because I got a button too. But you can't push
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the button when you are assigned to them.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: What do you know?
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: When you can't defend yourself the way you want to
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: defend yourself because you're on assignment and if you defend yourself,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: you offend God. Oh, if it came down to it
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: word for word, I could hold my own with you.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Don't let the caller fool you, baby.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I could get you back at rhyme while
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: I was doing it.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: They'd have to put music behind what I would put
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: on you if God would turn me loose. I didn't
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: hold my peace because I was weak. I held my
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: peace because I was assigned. And I realize your attack
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: on me is Satan trying to trick me into cursing myself.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: So I have.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: My peace, but don't think I couldn't get you. And
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: if you're not careful, your pride will make you retaliate
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: and you will win the battle and lose the war.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about working through a hard place. The people
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: that he needed affirmation from and validation from and acceptance
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: from so that he could have a people, a society
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: that embraced him, a womb that incubated him, a matrix
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: that protected him. We all crave connectivity in an age
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: of disconnection. We have more people in our phone than
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: we have in our house and yet we are alone.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: And here he is dealing with the people who are
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: angry because anger is often the camouflage I'm going to
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: say that again. Anger is often the camouflage that hurt
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: wears because it is easier to be angry than to
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: admit you hurt me. I don't want to give you
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: the pleasure of letting you know how important you are
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: to me.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: That hurt. So I get angry.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: And Moses, you see, as mighty as he is and
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: as gifted as he is, has.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: A problem with anger.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Do not forget.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Don't let the grace of God become so flamboyant that
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: you forget the fact that Moses is a murderer. Moses
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: would take you. You barking at the wrong brother. This
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: brother is an ex-convict who run away from the law.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Be careful what you call him. Because he might backslide.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: But the truth of the matter is the people are
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: just hurt. They are hurt because the promise is delayed.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Like many of you in this room right now, you
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: are hurt that the promise is delayed. You are hurt
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: because what you had in mind didn't happen like you thought.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: You are hurt because you envision pomegranates and grapes and
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: fruit and promised lands and a house instead of a tent.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: You are hurt because your life doesn't look like TV.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: You are hurt because you are getting older and you
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: thought you would be further than this by now. You
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: are hurt because you have had to keep it moving
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: with your mouth dry. And you need somebody to blame
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: for your discomfort. So you blame the one who led you,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: not acknowledging that he never made you. You absolve yourself
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: of any responsibility in being in the situation that you're in.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: And you act as though I made you when I
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: came to save you. And the problem with the hero complex,
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: the person who wants to save everybody, is that the
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: only thing they want back is appreciation. You don't have
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: to pay me. Just appreciate me. Just acknowledge that I
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: did without so that you could have. Just acknowledge that
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: I prayed more about you than I prayed about myself.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Just acknowledge that I paid you when I didn't get
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: paid myself. Just acknowledge that I helped you when I
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: couldn't help myself. Just acknowledge that you got the last
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: piece of chicken and I ate the bread crumbs that
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: you left behind. Just acknowledge that I took care of
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: you and cleaned you up before I went to work.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Just acknowledge that because I need your affirmation to validate
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: my existence. But isn't that dangerous? Because people are so
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: fickle that one moment they will say Hosanna and the
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: next moment they will say crucify him. And the shock
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: of it all is that both words come from.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: The same people.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: I cannot believe that the same people who are assaulting
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Moses spent 30 days at the bottom of the mountain
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: crying over Moses' death. Make up your mind. Just be consistent.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: If you're gonna hate me, just hate me. Don't confuse
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: me with one moment you love me and the next
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: moment you hate me. I can't adjust to which one
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be. I can adjust to either one but
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: not both. Ingratitude can blind you to your purpose. It
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: can knock you off course. It can make you react
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: out of your feelings because you must understand it is
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: not just Moses' leadership that is being attacked. It is
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: his identity. You are saying that I am not one
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: of you. And I gave up everything in Egypt, in
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: the palace, to be associated with the slave. I came
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: down to you when you couldn't get up to me.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: I came down where you were. I came where you were.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: I came I came to you because you were important
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: to me more than palaces and gold and silver.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: And columns of granite.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: I gave it all up to be with you. And
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: now you, who I gave it all up for, hate.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: Me.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: And I am.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Alone. And even God himself says, it is not good
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: for man to be alone.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: There are a good 7,000.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Maybe 6,000 people in this room. And yet there are
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: many of us that are alone. There are many of
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: us that have big families, but the truth of the
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: matter is we sit at the table and we grin
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: and we smile and we make small talk.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: But on the inside, we are alone.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Single people get married so they won't be alone, only
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: to find out that you can be married and still.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on. Help me preach this morning.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: Help me preach this morning. Help me preach. And you
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: find yourself in a hard place when you attach your
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: identity to other people's reaction. I only feel like I
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: look nice when you say I look nice. Love is
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: giving people the power to hurt you. Because if I
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: didn't love you, I tell you, I don't care what
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: you think. I'll put it on because I like it.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: But if I mess around and love you, your power
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: to hurt me intensifies. Moses' past has become his tormentor
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: because he's suffering from identity crisis.
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: Who am I?
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: Where do I fit?
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: I gave up everything to be connected to you. And
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: now you are telling me you don't want me to.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Until you understand the consequences of your words, you will
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: hurl them without thought. And now Moses is losing sight
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: of his assignment. Because he is angry with these people.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Because they are angry with him. Be not deceived, God
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: also reap. You can only be angry at a woman
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: so long before she turns around and she's angry back.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: You can only, fathers provoke not thy children to wrath.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: You can only beat them so long until one day
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: they break a bottle and say, I dare you. I
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: wish you would come over here again. You can't sow
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: animosity and reap respect. And now they don't call you.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: Now they don't come. And you're sitting up there telling,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: when you tell the story, I can't believe they wouldn't
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: come home for Mother's Day. You didn't tell me that
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: you beat the slop out of them and you hated
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: them and you put men over top of them and
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: you left them alone and you forsook them and you
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: rejected them and you cursed the girl out of, call
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: your daughter a hoe. All you told me is that
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: it's Mother's Day. She don't even call. See, we arranged
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: the story. Y'all ain't gonna talk to me. But the
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: real people are clapping their hands because the real people
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. They understand what it's like
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: to have to work through a hard place. The hard
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: place isn't just the weather. The hard place is my
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: heart place. My heart place is the hard place. I
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: am conditioned to the external weather. I spent 40 years
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: in the desert. But my heart place is my hard place. Amen.
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: Am I preaching good? We should have died in Egypt.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Speaking out of despair only intensifies the crisis. What difference
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: does it make where we die If it has come
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: down to dying, am I any less dead in Egypt
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: than I am in the wilderness? Your complaint makes no
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: sense because it comes from selfishness and pride and vindictiveness
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: and the only reason you're saying it is to hurt me.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: We should have died in Egypt. What kind of sense
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: is that? Is that your problem? That you didn't die
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: in the right place? So why are you leveling a
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: ridiculous argument against me?
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: You're mad at me that you didn't die sooner?
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Don't let your personal pain make you say stupid stuff.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Can I go deeper? What gets lost in this text
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: for me is God's unfailing love is seen in his
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: provision for rebellious people. When the water starts to flowing,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: it flows on people who don't even deserve it.
• 56:22
  Speaker 6: Amen.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: That's what people never bring up in this text, that
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: God's unfailing love is toward his people even when they
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: are rebellious and foolish and resentful. You didn't get the
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: water because you were good. You got the water because
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: God was good. Now you're bragging about how much water
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: you got. Now you're bragging about how much money you got.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: Now you're bragging about how many grandkids you got. You
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: didn't get the water because you were good. You got
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: it because God was good. You didn't deserve it. You
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: didn't talk right. You didn't hold on to the faith.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't say I know if he did it once
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  Speaker 1: he'll do it again. You didn't read the resume of
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  Speaker 1: all the things that he'd done for you before. You
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: didn't even praise him for saving your life. from the
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: snake bites that were supposed to kill you. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: praise him for the manna that you were eating that
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  Speaker 1: was fallen from heaven. You didn't thank him for the
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  Speaker 1: quail that he gathered to feed you just because you
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  Speaker 1: got tired of the same cuisine. No, you forgot all
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  Speaker 1: the good and all you do is harbor trash.
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  Speaker 2: Water for the wicked.
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  Speaker 1: That's the star, that's the apex, the opiate of the
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  Speaker 1: entire text is that God is good to people that
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: are bad. I wish sometimes he wouldn't be, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna wish it because sometimes.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: It includes me.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: But God is good. to people that don't deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: God is good to people you don't like. Have you
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: ever had God bless somebody you didn't like? and you
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: had to stand there and watch them be blessed, and
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: it got on your nerves, and yet you shout when
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: we say that he prepares a table before you in
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: the presence of the enemy because you imagine yourself as
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  Speaker 1: the one sitting at the table and not the one
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  Speaker 1: watching the other person eat, but God prepares a table
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  Speaker 1: in the presence of your enemies even when the enemy
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  Speaker 1: is you. I dare you. I dare you not to
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  Speaker 1: give me credit for it. I dare you not to
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: give me credit for it. I dare you not to
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge that God just said something that's so heavy in
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: your life. You never liked that girl you told him
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: not to marry that girl. You were against it. You
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: didn't even want to come to the wedding. And now
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: they're living better than they ever lived before. And you're
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  Speaker 1: sitting over there with a smirk on your face because
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: you're frustrated because God has prepared a table that you
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: don't get to sit at. And now you got to
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  Speaker 1: watch them eat. And you're talking about, I don't even
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: get to see my grandkids. Your mouth ran your grandkids away.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Oh that was a good place to dance right there.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: That's a good old Christmas message right there. I'm getting
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: you ready for your kinfolks to come over for dinner.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: You're going to be so ready. I want you to
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: listen at this tape right before they come in the
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: house so that you don't say what you want to
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: say like you like to say it. When she say,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: why you put raisins in the potato salad? Because I
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: want them too and it's my house. I like raisins.
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  Speaker 1: Pick them out. Moses is judged because, watch this, I
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: ain't got the good stuff yet, I'm coming. Moses is
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: judged because he misrepresents God's attitude for his own. He
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: thinks that because he's angry, God is angry. He wants
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: God to be on his side. Most of the people
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: in this room want God to be on your side.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: But God doesn't want to be on your side. He
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: wants you on his side. And in order to do that,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: you're going to have to give up being your own God.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: Moses misrepresents God is where I'm at. Moses misrepresents God.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: And he is God's representative, God's ambassador at the United Nations.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: He is God's voice, God's mouthpiece. He is God's communicator.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: He is the one who intercedes between God and man.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: He is the one that brings down the Ten Commandments.
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  Speaker 1: He is the one that is refreshing them in the
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: ways of the Lord that they have been absent from
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: for over 400 years. But Moses is angry because He
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: has a hard place that is a hard place. This
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: is why generational problems continue to occur over and over
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: again because often our hardest place is our heart place.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: And we only go to church to campaign To get
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: God on our side. So we never come to the
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: altar to give up our perspective for his. And this
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: leads us to a place where God is trying to
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: get something through to him.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: And he punished him. But God's love is on display here.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Because even though he punishes Moses for smiting the rock.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: Rather than speaking to the rock as he was commanded to,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: he punished him, but he still protected him when Satan
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: was after his body. He sent Michael the archangel to
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: protect his body. Moses didn't get into the temporary promised land,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: but he did make it into the eternal promised land.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: And I can prove it because when they were on
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: the Mount of Transfiguration, Moses shows up on the Mount
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: of Transfiguration and he's still standing with God. Oh, I
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: got to stop right here and praise God for having
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: mercy even when you got it wrong. I got to
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: praise him that God don't throw you away just because
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: he's chasing you doesn't mean he doesn't love you. For
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: the Bible said, whom the Lord loveth, he's chasing him. Oh,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: you don't hear what I'm saying to you. The devil's
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: been trying to tell you you're cursed because you missed
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: out on something that you could have had. No, you're
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: not cursed. You're chastised. You're not utterly cast down. All
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: the way in the New Testament, Moses is still appearing
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: on the Mount of Transfiguration, so you can't do that
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: from hell. And Michael fought off Lucifer for the body
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: of Moses. And all you do is talk about he
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: didn't get to the promised land.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: You're wrong.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: He got to the real promised land. Can I go
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: a little bit deeper? Can I go a little bit deeper?
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: I want you to see this. His problem was he
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: struck the rock when he should have spoke to the rock. Now,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: the first time God tells him to strike the rock,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: he struck the rock. The next time God says, speak
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: to the rock. Instead of speaking the second time, he
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: struck the second time. And the reason God penalized him
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: is not just because he disobeyed, though that is a
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: very relevant point. But God also penalized him because he
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: broke the tithe. You see, the rock is Jesus. This
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: rock is Jesus. Yes, he's the one. And the reason
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: God didn't want him to strike him twice is that
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: if he struck him again, it implied that he crucified
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: the Son of Man afresh as if the cross.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: Were not enough.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: For Isaiah says he was smitten of God, but only once.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: And with God, details matter. So if he told you
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: to speak to the rock, it was to typify that
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: once he had been struck once, that the waters would
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: flow just because you spoke to it. You will see
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: the reflection of it in the book of Hebrews when
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: it says, many of them did not receive the promise
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: because they crucified the son of man afresh, bringing him
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: to an open shame. To crucify him afresh is to
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: strike twice. They believed on him and then they rejected him.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: They apostatized from him and fell back into unbelief and
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: the writer of Hebrews said, it is impossible for those
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: gift if they should fall away to renew them again
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: to repentance because they struck the rock twice. Striking it
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: once breaks the typology that the cross was enough. And
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: if you understand that the cross is enough, that you
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: can get the water now by speaking. And if you
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: don't believe that Jesus is a rock, then explain to
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: me when the Roman soldier pierced his side, out of
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: his side came blood and... Come on, come on, come on,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: come on, go with me. Came blood and water. Woman,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: if you knew who I was, you would ask me
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: to drink. For whosoever drinketh of this water shall never
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: thirst again. This rock is Jesus. Rock in the weary land,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: the rock of ages. He is a stone that the
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: builders rejected. He is a hewn out stone that the
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: commandments are written on. This rock is Jesus following them
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: through the wilderness, following them through the hard places. What
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: I love about God is if you're in a hard place,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: he gets in the hard place with you. Jehovah Shabbat
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: the Lord is present in the hard place I came
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: to tell somebody in a hard place you ain't in
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: that place by yourself this rock has been following them
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: all through the wilderness and it doesn't deserve to be
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: struck twice just cause you don't like people how dare
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: you call it church hurt The church didn't hurt you.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: The people hurt you. And where are you gonna go
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: where there are not people? You think they won't hurt
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: you in the bar? You think they won't hurt you
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: in the strip club? You think they won't hurt you
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: on your job? You think they won't hurt you at
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: the family reunion?
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: You got to learn how to work too hard.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: Touch three people and say, work through it, baby. Work
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: through it, work through it. Work through it, work through it,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: work through it.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: Work through it.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: Grow through it, grow through it, grow through it. Preach
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: through it, preach through it, preach through it. Teach through it,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: teach through it, teach through it. Build through it, build
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: through it, build through it. Advance through it, advance through it,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: advance through it. You can't run away from hard places.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: Stop dodging people because you don't like them. Work through
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: the hard place. Do what you got to do. You
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: may have to love them at a distance, but you
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: got to work through it. Am I preaching? I feel
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: like preaching this morning. I feel the anointing of the
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost in this place. I wish somebody who was
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: about to bust would give him 30 seconds of crazy praise.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 4: Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 5: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: Tell your.
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  Speaker 1: Neighbor, I'm in a hard place, but I'm going to
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: work through it. I may be down, but I'm not out.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: I may be persecuted, but I'm not forsaken. The Lord
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: is on my side. Wherever I go, he is with me.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: If I make my bed in hell, the Lord is there.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: If I take the wings of the morning and I
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: sail to the uttermost parts of the earth, the Lord
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: is there. This rock has been following them all through
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: the wilderness.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: And God judged.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: Him because he said, you have not sanctified me before
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: the people. What does that mean? To sanctify me before
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: my people is to make them to understand that your
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: latter day shall be greater than your former day. That
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: what it took to bring you here, it will not
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: take to take you there. sanctify me before the people
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: is to teach my people that once I was crucified
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: you'll never have to go through that again all you
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: have to do is speak to me and I am
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: going to make the water gush for you and that's
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: why I told you to open your mouth because the
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: power of life and death is in your mouth. I
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: want to tell you that you got the power in
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: your mouth. It will not be by might. It will
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: not be by power. But it's by my spirit. Sayeth
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: the Lord. Slap somebody and tell them God's about to
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: do something. If you speak it, it's going to flow.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: If you speak it, it's going to happen. If you
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: speak it, it's going to come to pass. If you
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: speak it, you're going to get the same results.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: With less effort.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: And God said I wanted you to demonstrate before my
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: people that I will make water gush in spite of
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: your murmuring and complaining if you stop using your.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 5: Tongue to complain.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: About what's wrong and start speaking what's right, then as
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: the scriptures have said, out of your belly shall flow
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: rivers of living water. I don't know who I'm preaching
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: to today, but I feel the anointing of the Holy
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: Ghost in this room. You've got the power in your
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: mouth to change situations.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: In your life.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: But the devil wants you to murmur and complain, and
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: the devil is a liar. Speak life to your death.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: Speak strength to your weakness. Speak healing to your disease.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: The Bible said, let the poor say I'm rich.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: Hallelujah to God.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: I dare you to open your mouth and speak what
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: you want. I may not see it. I may not
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: see it, but I'm gonna speak it. You may not
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: like it, but I'm gonna speak it. The devil is
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: after my tongue. He wants me to stop speaking life
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: to my situation, but But God has so designed it
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: that whatsoever you desire, when you pray, believe you have
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: received it and ye shall receive. Have it. Gotta be
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: speaking in this room. If you want the supernatural in
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: this room, you gotta speak the supernatural. If you want
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: the supernatural in your finances, you gotta speak the supernatural.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: If you want to break the back of death, you
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: got to speak the supernatural. Because all you got to
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: do now in the second iteration of Jesus is speak
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: the word. Get away from people that are murmuring and complaining.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: And find you somebody that's speaking healing. I need some
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: friends that speak life. I need some folk that speak deliverance.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: I need some folk that speak positively. Because the rock...
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: Responds to word. Speak the word only and my servant
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: shall be healed.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: You don't have to go to my house.
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  Speaker 1: Just stand flat footed in the middle of the road.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: And if you speak it, it's going to happen. Somebody
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: take the roof off.
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  Speaker 2: Of this place.
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  Speaker 6: Speak it.
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  Speaker 2: Speak it. Speak it. Speak it. Speak it.
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  Speaker 1: Speak it in this place. Speak it in this place.
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  Speaker 1: Speak it in this place. You're in a faith fight.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: Speak it in this place. Speak it in this place. Honey,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: the first time I was at a dinner that they
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: served a seven-course meal, because you know if I grew
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: up eating powdered eggs, I wasn't used to seven-course meals.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: At the end of each course, they brought the sorbet.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: And I thought the sorbet was dessert.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: But they said, no, it's to.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: Cleanse your palate so that you're ready for the next course.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: You got to cleanse your palate so you're ready.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: For the next course.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: If you've been murmuring and complaining, cleanse your palate because
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: in 2024, you're getting ready for the next course. The
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: scripture said it. The Bible said it. This is your
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: time to speak.
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  Speaker 6: To the rock.
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  Speaker 3: I feel a flow about to take over this room.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 6: I feel a flow.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 3: I feel the flow about to take over this place.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: I feel.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: I feel the flow. Somebody open your mouth and holler.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Lord.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes. Yes, Jesus. Yes, Lord.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes, Lord.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 3: I'm getting ready to speak some things.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: I'm going to speak over my house. I'm going to
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: speak over my body. I'm going to speak over my finances.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: I'm going to speak over my children. Devil, you tried
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: to shut my mouth, but the devil is alive. I
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: just cleansed my palate.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 3: My God, I don't know who.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: I'm preaching to, but get ready for the next course.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 6: Get ready.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: For the next course, your eyes have not seen, your
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: ears have not heard, neither have entered into the heart
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: of man the things that God has in store for
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: them that love him.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 3: Somebody give him five seconds of crazy. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: You're driving the devil crazy.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: If you don't stop speaking the Word, hell is going
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: to get nervous.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: Demons are going to collapse.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: Shackles are falling off of you. If you don't stop
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: speaking it, rivers of living water are going to flow
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: into your life.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: I decree a deter. The drought is over.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 3: The drought is over.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: Do you hear me in the balcony?
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 6: The drought is over.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: Do you hear me out loud?
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: I decree.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: I decree. Over, over, over, over.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: The drought.
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  Speaker 6: Is over.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 3: The crowd is over.
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  Speaker 2: It's over.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 6: The crowd is over. It's over.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 3: The crowd is over.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: It's over.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 6: The crowd is over.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 4: It's over.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: It's over.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 6: The crowd is over. The crowd is over.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: It's over.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 6: I dare you to declare it.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: Somebody move out of your spot and say the crowd
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: is over. The crowd is over. It's over.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: It's over in my mind.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 6: It's over in my heart.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: It's over in my body.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: It's over in my spirit.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 6: It's over in my mind. It's over in my heart.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 6: I declare it's over.