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Trauma, Triggers, and Triumph - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I'm on a mission this morning. I've been dispatched from
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  Speaker 1: God to share a word with you that you might
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  Speaker 1: hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to
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  Speaker 1: the church, that you might be edified. And people are
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  Speaker 1: logged in from all over the world to hear not
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  Speaker 1: teeny jakes. They don't want to hear from the potter's house.
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  Speaker 1: They want to hear from the Lord. And I've got
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  Speaker 1: good news for you. I have heard from the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And I have a word for you tonight. And I
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  Speaker 1: believe it's going to speak right to you in a
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  Speaker 1: very deep place. I want you to go quickly to
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  Speaker 1: the book of Ezra, chapter 3, verse 10 through 13.
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  Speaker 1: The book of Ezra, chapter number 3, verse number 10
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  Speaker 1: through 13. Stand for the reading of God's word. When
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  Speaker 1: the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the priest in their vestments and with trumpets, and the Levites,
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  Speaker 1: the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, took their places to
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  Speaker 1: praise the Lord as prescribed by David, king of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: With praise and thanksgiving, they sang to the Lord, he
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  Speaker 1: is good. His love toward Israel endures forever. And all
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  Speaker 1: the people gave a great shout of praise to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord because the foundation of the house of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: was laid. But many of the older priests and Levites
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  Speaker 1: and family's heads who had seen the former temple wept aloud.
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  Speaker 1: When they saw the foundation of this temple being laid
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  Speaker 1: while many others shouted for joy, they wept. No one
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  Speaker 1: could distinguish, check this out, no one could distinguish the
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  Speaker 1: sound of the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping.
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  Speaker 1: Because the people made so much noise and the sound
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  Speaker 1: was heard far away. Can you say amen? Remain standing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to pray with you for just a moment.
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  Speaker 1: But this Sunday morning, I want to talk to you
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  Speaker 1: about three things. I want to talk to you about trauma, triggers,
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  Speaker 1: and triumph. Trauma, triggers, and triumph. Let's pray. Spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the living God, fall fresh on the word. Anoint me
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  Speaker 1: in such a way that I am effectively used by
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  Speaker 1: you today in a supernatural way. I thank you for
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  Speaker 1: the prophetic inference of this word. The entrance of that
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  Speaker 1: word giveth light. So illuminate the ears of the hearer
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  Speaker 1: that they may hear what God the Lord will speak.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you in advance for what you're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: Have your way. Not just in the building, but in us.
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  Speaker 1: Have your way. Not just in the house, but in
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  Speaker 1: our souls. Have your way. Have your way. Until there
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  Speaker 1: are physical changes, spiritual changes, emotional changes. Have your way.
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  Speaker 1: Until we leave the service and say it was good
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  Speaker 1: for us to be in the house of the Lord today.
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  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, we pray. Somebody who loves him,
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  Speaker 1: shout amen. You may be seated in the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. On your way to your seat, say trauma, triggers,
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  Speaker 1: and triumph. Say it again. Trauma, triggers, and triumph. Say
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  Speaker 1: it again. Trauma, triggers, and triumph. and triumph. Let's start
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  Speaker 1: with what is trauma, because the funny thing about the
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  Speaker 1: English language trauma, we have one word that has a
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  Speaker 1: duality of meanings. The word trauma is often used in
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  Speaker 1: hospitals to describe the severity of an injury. It's also
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  Speaker 1: used at the scene of a crime when the police
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  Speaker 1: review somebody who has been assaulted. They say they have been,
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  Speaker 1: there's a certain degree of trauma has occurred, whether they
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  Speaker 1: have been hit in the head with a hammer or
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  Speaker 1: an axe or some type of brutal, brutal, brutal, brutal,
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  Speaker 1: brutal beating. The kind of thing so savage, it's almost
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  Speaker 1: unimaginable to those of us who are able to live
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  Speaker 1: outside of those experiences. Neither are we police officers or
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  Speaker 1: paramedics or people who are familiar with trauma. People are
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  Speaker 1: in emergency rooms. talk about trauma. They talk about the
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  Speaker 1: degree of trauma that has been exercised on a particular individual.
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  Speaker 1: But also psychologists use the word trauma. It is the
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  Speaker 1: same word, but it has a different inference. When a
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  Speaker 1: psychologist uses the word trauma, it is to describe an
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  Speaker 1: event or an incident and the degree to which it
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  Speaker 1: has damaged the soul. Now, if you can imagine a
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  Speaker 1: hammer hitting a skull as trauma, and they have the
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  Speaker 1: same word for an incident hitting the soul, then you
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  Speaker 1: can begin to identify through this imagery the severity that
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  Speaker 1: we ingest when we go through certain things. You must understand, see,
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  Speaker 1: trauma triggers are the kind of thing that a psychological
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  Speaker 1: stimulus that prompts recall of a previous traumatic experience is
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  Speaker 1: something that stays with us a long time. There are
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  Speaker 1: different kinds of trauma. I want to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: different kinds of trauma because we don't all go through
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  Speaker 1: the same kinds of trauma. There's a chronic trauma. There's
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  Speaker 1: a kind of chronic trauma. This results from repeated and
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  Speaker 1: prolonged exposure to highly stressful examples. It includes cases of
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  Speaker 1: child abuse. It's prolonged. It's gone on for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: It's repeated. That's chronic trauma. Acute trauma, this is a
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  Speaker 1: result from a single stressful or dangerous event. It's a
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  Speaker 1: one-time thing. That's acute trauma. Chronic trauma perpetuates itself and
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  Speaker 1: goes on and on and on. Complex trauma, it is
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  Speaker 1: a result from exposure to multiple traumatic events. Trauma triggers
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  Speaker 1: and triumph. Now the trauma are the things that happen
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  Speaker 1: to us that sometimes we say nothing about. And they
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  Speaker 1: are many. And we have trauma in our own lives
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  Speaker 1: that have just come upon us inadvertently. But then there
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  Speaker 1: are certain things that we go through that some people
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  Speaker 1: handle better than others. Some people have difficulty handling certain
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  Speaker 1: kinds of traumas. Some of us are so busy trying
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  Speaker 1: to manage the expression of the trauma to show that
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  Speaker 1: we're tough and it didn't get to us that we
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  Speaker 1: never resolved the trauma. And then a trigger comes along
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  Speaker 1: and a trigger can be anything. It can be the smell.
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  Speaker 1: If you were in a fire and all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden somebody lights a cigarette, you smell smoke, it triggers.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden you start shaking. That's a trigger.
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  Speaker 1: That's a trigger. If you grew up in an abusive
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  Speaker 1: home and somebody's yelling at a ball game and you
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  Speaker 1: hear them yell and all of a sudden you get nervous,
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  Speaker 1: that's a trigger. It triggers and takes you back to
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  Speaker 1: somebody yelling at you in the house. There are certain
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  Speaker 1: things that trigger certain behavior. Triggers can be subtle and
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  Speaker 1: difficult to anticipate. You have to understand that you don't
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  Speaker 1: know that the trigger is going to come until it comes,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't know you're going to react the way
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  Speaker 1: you react until you do, and then you do. A
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  Speaker 1: trauma trigger may also be called a trauma stimulus, a
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  Speaker 1: trauma stressor, or a trauma reminder, because what the moment
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  Speaker 1: it triggers, it takes you right back. It could have
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  Speaker 1: been 20 years ago, but it takes you back to
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  Speaker 1: what has happened before. Now you must understand that when
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  Speaker 1: God starts talking to us and teaches us about life,
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  Speaker 1: he is clear that life is going to be traumatic.
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  Speaker 1: They that live godly shall suffer trauma, persecution. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to go through certain things. Certain things are going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're looking for the kind of faith and
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  Speaker 1: the kind of message that says nothing will ever happen.
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  Speaker 1: But certain things are going to happen in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: And our faith is proven in how we recover. You
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  Speaker 1: can't have triumph without conflict. If you're going to have triumph,
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  Speaker 1: you've been in a battle. You can't be a winner
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  Speaker 1: if you're not in a fight. I'm wondering, just let
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  Speaker 1: me take a quick poll. How many winners do we
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  Speaker 1: have in the building? Winners, winners, winners. Only if you've
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  Speaker 1: been through something now. Some of y'all haven't been through something,
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  Speaker 1: so you can't win because you haven't been in a fight.
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  Speaker 1: But if you had to fight just to be where
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  Speaker 1: you are, to sit where you're sitting, to be how
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  Speaker 1: you are, to have what you got, to do what
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  Speaker 1: you do. If you've been through a fight, you need
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  Speaker 1: to take a moment and celebrate the feeling of victory
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  Speaker 1: that I am triumphant. I am triumphant. We don't do
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  Speaker 1: that enough. We don't celebrate our victories. We nurse our wounds.
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  Speaker 1: We admit our trauma. We identify our triggers, but we
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  Speaker 1: don't celebrate our trial. We're not good at celebrating our trial.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as we survive something or overcome something, we're
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  Speaker 1: off to the next thing without developing the ability to
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  Speaker 1: to appreciate what we've done. But God teaches us in
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  Speaker 1: the very first book of the Bible, the book of Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: when God created the heavens and the earth, each day,
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  Speaker 1: even though the day did not finish the task, he
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  Speaker 1: stopped and celebrated and said, and it was good. And
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  Speaker 1: the evening and the morning was the second day and
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  Speaker 1: God said it was good. He took the time to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate himself. Let's do that again. Let's celebrate ourselves right now.
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  Speaker 1: Just celebrate something that God has done. We know from
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  Speaker 1: the creation story that ultimately there is a process that
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  Speaker 1: leads to the promise. We know that there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a process that we have to go through in
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  Speaker 1: order to get to the promise. And in the process,
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  Speaker 1: you have to learn how to take baby steps and
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  Speaker 1: celebrate baby steps and appreciate this little bit. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: finished creating the world, but I created light today. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't finished creating the universe, but I created grass today.
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  Speaker 1: You have to learn how to celebrate yourself. No, we
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  Speaker 1: won't do that. What we do is look for somebody
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate us. We're so busy searching for somebody to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate us that we don't celebrate ourselves. And what I
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  Speaker 1: want to teach you this morning is you draw into
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  Speaker 1: your life a reflection of who you are. If you
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  Speaker 1: are abusive to yourself, you talk badly to yourself, you
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  Speaker 1: attract people who reinforce that. If you celebrate yourself, you
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  Speaker 1: will draw people into your life who also join your
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  Speaker 1: party and they celebrate with you. Are you following what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? You must then begin to realize that we
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  Speaker 1: go through trauma. We all have triggers, but we have triumph.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is sometimes we are in a perpetual state
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  Speaker 1: of trauma and triggers and we don't take advantage of
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  Speaker 1: the triumph. We clap a minute and we're through. We
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  Speaker 1: say thank you and we're done with it. We say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good thing and we go on. The trauma
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  Speaker 1: lasted for six months. The triumph lasts for six minutes.
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  Speaker 1: We ought to have at least as long a celebration
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  Speaker 1: as we had frustration. That ought to take up the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the service right there. That ought to take
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  Speaker 1: the whole rest of the service just dancing and jumping
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  Speaker 1: and shouting and praising God because we have gone through enough.
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  Speaker 1: I said we have gone through enough. That when we
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  Speaker 1: come out triumphant, we ought to praise God. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking about triumphant because we won a race or we
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  Speaker 1: completed a marathon or we won an election. Sometimes triumph
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  Speaker 1: is just being here. Triumph don't require a new car
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  Speaker 1: or a new house. Triumph just says I'm still here.
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  Speaker 1: Triumph says I made it. Triumph says they tried to
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  Speaker 1: take me out and look at me. I'm still standing.
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  Speaker 1: Triumph is every birthday you get to have when the
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  Speaker 1: enemy wanted to kill you before you ever even got
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  Speaker 1: here and look at you. Triumph, that's why I wear
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  Speaker 1: my gray hair. I earned this gray hair. I went
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  Speaker 1: through something to get this. I'm not going to hide
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  Speaker 1: this gray hair. This is my triumph. The devil didn't
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  Speaker 1: want me to live long enough to have gray hair.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the people I went to school with died
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  Speaker 1: before gray hair. I'm going to wear my gray hair
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  Speaker 1: because it is my triumphant crown that I made it
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  Speaker 1: through something. Somebody clap in this place if you hear me.
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  Speaker 1: With all of this information in mind, let us look
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  Speaker 1: at this text. This text is really the first message
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  Speaker 1: I've been teaching a series about the temple, and I've
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  Speaker 1: been teaching a series about the progress of Hebrew children
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  Speaker 1: going into captivity and them going into bondage. Each week
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  Speaker 1: I have laid on the foundation. This is the third
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  Speaker 1: deposit on that foundation, but actually it is the first
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  Speaker 1: message that I got. It is this message that provoked
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  Speaker 1: the other two. And I had to give you the
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  Speaker 1: groundwork to cause you to understand that these people here,
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  Speaker 1: what all they've been through. We learned that they were
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  Speaker 1: drug out of Jerusalem. If I forget Jerusalem, let my
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  Speaker 1: tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. We learned
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  Speaker 1: that they hung their harps by the willow trees when
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  Speaker 1: they got to Babylon. And they wept when they remembered Zion.
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  Speaker 1: We learned that the men had been castrated and the
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  Speaker 1: women had been raped. And they asked them to sing
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's song. And they said, how can I sing
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's song in a strange land? We learned that
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  Speaker 1: they spent 70 years in Babylon, away from their culture,
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  Speaker 1: away from their way of life, away from their religion,
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  Speaker 1: away from their faith, unable to offer up a sacrifice,
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  Speaker 1: unable to openly express their faith toward God. They even
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  Speaker 1: had their names changed. Their food was changed. Their diet
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  Speaker 1: was changed. And they endured this great affliction for 70 years.
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  Speaker 1: In Ezra, the good thing about Ezra is they are
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  Speaker 1: coming out. They are coming out. They have survived it.
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  Speaker 1: Many of them, no doubt, have died in Babylon, but
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  Speaker 1: several of them have lived long enough to see the
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  Speaker 1: happy ending that we all wait on. And they're all
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  Speaker 1: coming out to go back to Jerusalem. Some have stayed
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  Speaker 1: in Babylon, but the majority have gone back to reclaim
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  Speaker 1: their rightful place. God has brought them back full circle.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody in here that God has brought you
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  Speaker 1: around full circle? You went through some stuff. You lost
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  Speaker 1: some stuff. You were tested. You were tried. You survived it.
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  Speaker 1: You overcame it. And God brought you back full circle.
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  Speaker 1: Those full circle people give God praise at strange times. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Full circle people will get on your nerves praising God.
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  Speaker 1: They'll praise God. They don't need a new house. They
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  Speaker 1: don't need a new car. All they need to do
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  Speaker 1: is remember where God brought them from, and they will
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  Speaker 1: give God the praise. They will leap up in the
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  Speaker 1: service that you can't see around them. They will holler
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  Speaker 1: and get on your nerve. They will dance right on
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  Speaker 1: top of your pocketbook just because God brought them around
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  Speaker 1: full circle. They will sing of the goodness of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: They will testify of his mercy and of his grace.
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  Speaker 1: They will tell you whether you want to hear it
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  Speaker 1: or not. God gave me this house. God brought me through.
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  Speaker 1: God gave me this dress. God gave me these shoes.
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  Speaker 1: Are there any full circle people? Take about 30 seconds
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  Speaker 1: and give God some praise for bringing you back around. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: won't he bring you back around?
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  Speaker 2: He brought them back around. He brought them back around.
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  Speaker 2: He brought them back around. That's why you can't kill
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  Speaker 2: yourself in the day of adversity. Because if you kill yourself,
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  Speaker 2: you kill your future. He brought them back around.
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  Speaker 1: The amazing power of this text is that God brought
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  Speaker 1: them right back out. They said when the Lord turned
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  Speaker 1: again our captivity, we were like them that dream. I
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  Speaker 1: preached about that last week. Then was our mouth filled
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  Speaker 1: with laughter and our heart was singing. They that sow
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  Speaker 1: in tears shall reap in joy. The celebration was they
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  Speaker 1: saw the end, not just the sowing, but the reaping.
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  Speaker 1: They saw the conclusion of the whole matter. They got
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  Speaker 1: to go back to their land, to their place, to
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  Speaker 1: their birth. It is still to this day. The most
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  Speaker 1: important thing to Jewish people is the sustenance of the
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  Speaker 1: nation of Israel. They got to go back to Israel.
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  Speaker 1: They got to go back to Jerusalem, the city of peace.
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  Speaker 1: And there they celebrated God. The only thing about this
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  Speaker 1: text that mesmerizes me Is the amazing power of the
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  Speaker 1: text is that you have two different groups that converge
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  Speaker 1: on the same situation. Having two different reactions to the
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  Speaker 1: same experience. They are two different groups only divided by age.
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  Speaker 1: They're all Hebrews. But it is interesting to note that
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  Speaker 1: they are having a completely different experience. The young men
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  Speaker 1: who had been born in Babylon and had nothing to
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  Speaker 1: remember shouted when they got back to Jerusalem. When they
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  Speaker 1: saw the rebuilding of the second temple, it looked like
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  Speaker 1: victory and triumph. But the old men... The old men wept.
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  Speaker 1: They cried. How can two people have the same experience
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  Speaker 1: and have a totally different reaction to it? How can
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  Speaker 1: they have a completely different experience because they have been
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  Speaker 1: in the presence of the same event but they react
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  Speaker 1: differently based on their perspective? The young men had been
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  Speaker 1: in Babylon all their lives. That was all they knew
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  Speaker 1: was the way of life of being a captive in Babylon.
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  Speaker 1: They had adapted to their environment. They had gotten used
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  Speaker 1: to it. But the old men had sworn that if
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  Speaker 1: I forget Jerusalem, let my tongue cleave to the roof
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  Speaker 1: of my mouth. So the old men endured Babylon by
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  Speaker 1: holding on to the memory of To the memory of
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  Speaker 1: being in Jerusalem. Now you must understand there's been a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on. King Hezekiah has lost control.
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  Speaker 1: Nine of the tribes of Israel have been destroyed not
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  Speaker 1: to be seen again. Then you see Judah the remaining
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  Speaker 1: tribes coming together amassing and coming back. Kingless but not faithless.
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  Speaker 1: Ha ha ha ha ha ha. kingless but not faithless
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  Speaker 1: temple-less But not faithless. Broke. But not faithless. They lost
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  Speaker 1: their income. But they had not lost their faith. They
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  Speaker 1: had lost everything that pertained unto them. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: about 722 B.C. They lost about everything they had. But
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  Speaker 1: they came back rejoicing. They are the southern kingdom of Judah.
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  Speaker 1: And they are praising God. Now they are raising money
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  Speaker 1: to reconstruct. Solomon's temple, you remember Solomon's temple. Solomon's temple
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  Speaker 1: was that amazing temple that was so glorious and so
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  Speaker 1: flamboyant and so opulent and so palatial that when you
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  Speaker 1: walked into Solomon's temple, there was no more breath left
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  Speaker 1: in you. It was amazing. When the queen of Sheba
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  Speaker 1: saw it, she was speechless. She was spellbound by Solomon's temple.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon's temple had a labor in it that was 15
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  Speaker 1: feet wide and so shiny and And so covered with
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  Speaker 1: gold and brass that when you looked in it you
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  Speaker 1: could see yourself. Solomon's temple had a court where the
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  Speaker 1: women gathered. It had columns of ivory and silver and gold.
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  Speaker 1: And all of that was destroyed in the battle. I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to some people who've lost some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You don't understand what it feels like to lose until
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  Speaker 1: you've lost some stuff. Especially something you thought was wonderful
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  Speaker 1: and you thought was amazing and you lost it. They
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  Speaker 1: lost it all. The temple was completely ruined and destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: And they came back to ruins. At the time of
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  Speaker 1: our text, they're trying to rebuild. And the Lord spoke
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  Speaker 1: to me to preach this to people who are trying
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  Speaker 1: to rebuild. They are trying to rebuild on the ashes
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  Speaker 1: of what used to be. They're trying to rebuild what
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  Speaker 1: is called Zerubbabel's temple. It is the second temple and
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to build it up and they run out
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  Speaker 1: of money. They laid the foundation and they ran out
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  Speaker 1: of money. They've run out of influence. They've run out
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  Speaker 1: of power. Ezra and Haggai were sent as prophets to
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  Speaker 1: encourage them so that they could get finished. And when
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  Speaker 1: they got it all built up, They started shouting and dancing.
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  Speaker 1: They started rejoicing. Marcus, give me some old Hebrew music,
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  Speaker 1: some good old Hebrew music. They started dancing and celebrating.
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  Speaker 1: We made it. We made it back. We made it back.
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  Speaker 1: We've come into our land and we've made it and
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  Speaker 1: we've overcome and we are here. This is it. We
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  Speaker 1: have arrived. We've got it. We've made it. We've got it.
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  Speaker 1: We've made it. Look at the temple. It's coming up.
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  Speaker 1: It's beautiful. It's wonderful. It's great. It's wonderful. But the
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  Speaker 1: old man said, no. He said, It's not what I expected.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not what I remembered. That little shanty thing
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  Speaker 1: over there you call a temple is a mere shadow
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  Speaker 1: of what we had before. And while the young men
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  Speaker 1: danced and shouted with glee, the old men wept. They wept.
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  Speaker 1: When it looks like you're in a process and instead
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  Speaker 1: of making progress, the process leads to digress. It's a
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  Speaker 1: tough thing to manage. The gradual exile release of the
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  Speaker 1: captive people of Israel and then finally coming together the
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  Speaker 1: southern kingdoms out of captivity. The restoration of the temple
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  Speaker 1: was a big disappointment because they had had better. They
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  Speaker 1: had had better. And sometimes whether you shout or whether
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  Speaker 1: you cry depends on what you remember. Ha ha ha
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: ha ha ha. Whether you shout or whether you cry
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  Speaker 1: depends on what you remember. I remember when my wife
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  Speaker 1: and I were dating and we went on the first
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  Speaker 1: date and she made me some banana pudding. And I
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  Speaker 1: said to her, what is this? And she said, banana pudding.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, you know, to me, to her, it
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  Speaker 1: was banana pudding. It was made out of box, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it was vanilla wafers in there. It was good.
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  Speaker 1: It was good. It's what everybody does with the pudding
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  Speaker 1: in the box. But to me, I remembered it from scratch.
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  Speaker 1: So whether you like something or not, or despise it,
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  Speaker 1: depends on what you remember. See, the old man's memory
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  Speaker 1: was triggered. It was triggered. When they looked at that,
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  Speaker 1: when they heard the Psalms was right, The song was right.
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  Speaker 1: Play the music again. The song was right. We made it.
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  Speaker 1: We made it. We made it. They said, that's the
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  Speaker 1: right sound. But look, the trigger threw them back to
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the trauma. Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying. The
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: trigger threw them back to the trauma. Stay with me
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: because I'm hitting somewhere. The trigger threw them back to
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the trauma and they were reliving all the agony. Not
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  Speaker 1: only were they weeping for the lack of Solomon's temple,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: everything they've been through. came back upon them again. And
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: that's what triggers do. It brings everything on you that
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  Speaker 1: you've ever been through. And the old men were crying
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  Speaker 1: as loud as the young men were dancing. And the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says you could not distinguish one from the other.
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  Speaker 1: What caused the old men to weep? Number one, the
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  Speaker 1: fear of losing what you remembered will make you weep.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: The fear of losing what you remembered will make you weep.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, the grief that comes when you can't control
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  Speaker 1: your outcomes. There is a grief that comes anytime you
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: cannot control yourself. Your outcomes. And number three, the cumulative
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  Speaker 1: effect of past trauma and current change. All of that
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  Speaker 1: brought them to weeping. Number four, the inability to find
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  Speaker 1: joy in uncertainty. Especially at that age. There's nothing joyful
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  Speaker 1: about not being sure. That's uncomfortable. And especially as you
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  Speaker 1: get older, you need to know where you're going to stay.
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  Speaker 1: You need to know where you're going to be. You
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  Speaker 1: need to know how things are going to turn out.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: And they couldn't have joy in uncertainty. Number five, the
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  Speaker 1: assumption that what you were used to is the sum
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: total of God's will. In other words, they wept because
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: they assumed that That what they had was the sum
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  Speaker 1: total of God's will. And how can I be happy
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  Speaker 1: with less than God's will? Number six, the grief over
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the realization that my life has changed without my permission.
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  Speaker 1: Good God have mercy. Is there anybody in here whose
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: life has changed? Without your permission, nobody asked me did
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  Speaker 1: I want this little shabby tabernacle. Nobody asked me about it.
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  Speaker 1: My life has changed without my permission. The reason I
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: am laboring with this text this morning because it occurs
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  Speaker 1: to me that what is going on in this text
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  Speaker 1: is going on in our country. How can we have
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the same experience and two total different reactions? You got
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  Speaker 1: half of the country. Give me my music. Half of
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the country is dancing. And you got the other half
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: of the country. Oh, God. Ezra 3 is America. America
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  Speaker 1: is split in half. We are seeing the same thing,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: but we're having two total different reactions to the same experience.
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  Speaker 1: And it almost makes you wonder, am I missing something?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Because how could this group be so glad and this
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: group be so mad? How could this group be so
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: happy and this group be so sad? How could this
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: group have so much joy and this group have so
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: much pain? And they were all the same people. But
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: their reaction triggered two completely different responses. The old man wept.
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  Speaker 1: The old men wept because they had lost control of
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  Speaker 1: the outcome of their lives. They wept because they weren't
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  Speaker 1: in power. They wept because it seemed like they were
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: declining and digressing from what they had envisioned the will
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: of God to be. But the young men danced because
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the young men had been born in captivity. And they
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: couldn't remember Solomon's temple anyway. And to be free was
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  Speaker 1: enough to make the young men shout. They saw the
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  Speaker 1: second temple as progress. Number two, they shouted because they
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  Speaker 1: had no other point of reference. Number three, they shouted
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: because they were willing to experience God in a new way. Oh,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying. Number four, they shouted
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  Speaker 1: because at least this was better than where they came from.
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  Speaker 1: And so they both converge in this text. But the
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  Speaker 1: trigger triggers a completely different response. I want to preach
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  Speaker 1: this text today because the old man's weeping is a
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  Speaker 1: picture not only of the divide in this country, but
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: it is also a picture of the pain we mask.
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  Speaker 1: Of the trauma that they had suffered for 70 years.
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  Speaker 1: Explodes through the trigger of this one religious. These old
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  Speaker 1: men are not just crying about a temple. They're crying
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  Speaker 1: about all the trauma they have gone through over and
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  Speaker 1: over and over again. Only to come out to this.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you. God sent me to
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: talk to you. You call yourself being strong and being tough,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: but we have ingested a lot of trauma. We have ingested,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: our way of life has completely been disrupted. Our family
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: gatherings have become perilous. To hug your grandchildren is to
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: put your life at risk. This is not normal. This
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: is not normal. Your sister comes over and you can't
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: hug your own sister. It's traumatic. It's traumatic. Because we
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  Speaker 1: have lost hundreds of thousands of people. Dad, some of
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  Speaker 1: them we knew. Others we knew of them. And how
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  Speaker 1: can you expect me to act like nothing happened when
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I'm running around looking like a bank robber every day
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  Speaker 1: with a mask up to my eyes? My mother lived
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: and died and never saw this mess. My grandmother lived
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: and died and never saw this mess. And yet we
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  Speaker 1: are the generation that have found ourselves captive. Captive by
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: a virus. Captive by an economy. Captive by racism. Captive
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  Speaker 1: by killings and shootings of our sons and our daughters.
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  Speaker 1: Captive by plagues and distress. And because of the times
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  Speaker 1: we are in, the triggers are going off. Our relationships
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  Speaker 1: are collapsing. Marriages are falling apart. Ministries are folding because
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  Speaker 1: of the triggers of the times that we're living in.
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  Speaker 1: While some are going in business, others are going out
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: of business trying to reinvent themselves and you're trying to
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: act like it didn't hurt. Of course it hurt. Can
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: we be real this morning? Of course it hurt. Anytime
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: you can't have a normal Thanksgiving dinner, of course it hurt.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Anytime you scared of Christmas, of course it hurt. Anytime
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  Speaker 1: you got to get up your nerve to go in
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the grocery store, of course it hurt. And that trigger
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: went off and those old men started screaming. Because of
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the trauma over and over again that they had suffered
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: and suffered and suffered and said nothing at all. And
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: God told me to tell his people, open your mouth.
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  Speaker 1: To open your mouth. To not sit there with your
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: lips glued together and let your soul implode in unexpressed agony.
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  Speaker 1: There's something, there's a release that God wants to do
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: in this place this morning. I mean a belly release.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean just a nice Sunday morning service. God
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  Speaker 1: wants to ventilate the trauma that has attacked your soul.
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  Speaker 1: You've lost mothers and sisters and aunts. And you're trying
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: to smile and act like it didn't matter. But God said,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: tell my people to open their mouth. And I know
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: it sounds silly. And I know it looks crazy. And
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I know it's unorthodox. But you are at home anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Open your mouth and just shout out a good cry
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  Speaker 1: out to God. Hey! You can't go through this kind
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: of stuff with your lips closed. You can't go through
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  Speaker 1: this and put on makeup and act like it didn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just keep getting your hair done and getting
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: your nails done and act like you're okay. I said
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  Speaker 1: open your mouth and shout out a noise to God.
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  Speaker 1: The reason the devil doesn't want you to say anything
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: is that if you don't say anything, God can't answer anything.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: God told Moses, I heard the cry of my people.
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  Speaker 1: There's something about crying out to God that gets God's attention.
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  Speaker 1: David said, this poor man cried and the Lord heard him.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: The enemy wants to beat you and tell you to
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: shut up, but the devil is alive. There's power in
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: my cry. There's power in my cry. I love the
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Lord because he heard my. I love the Lord because
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: he heard my. I love the Lord because he heard my.
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  Speaker 1: I need a thousand people that's been to hell and
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: back to open your mouth and just cry out to
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  Speaker 1: God out of your belly right now, right now, right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Cry out till you break out. Cry out till you
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: break out. Cry out till you get loose. Cry out
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  Speaker 1: till you get free. Cry out till hell gets nervous.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Cry out till demons tremble. Open your mouth and cry
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: out to God. My world is changing. My government is changing.
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  Speaker 1: The White House is besieged. My house is running out
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  Speaker 1: of food. God said, tell my people to open your
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  Speaker 1: mouth and holler. If you holler, he's going to break something.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: If you holler, he's going to deliver something. If you holler,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: you're going to get a breakthrough. You've been quiet too long.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't going to beat me and keep my mouth shut.
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  Speaker 1: I will open my mouth to God. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I will not be still. I will not shut up.
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  Speaker 1: I will not be silent. If you hold your peace,
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  Speaker 1: the rocks will cry out. Open your mouth. Open your mouth.
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  Speaker 1: Open your mouth. Open your mouth. Open your mouth. Open
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  Speaker 1: your mouth. Open your mouth. I feel a breakthrough. I
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: feel a breakthrough. I feel a breakthrough. I feel a breakthrough.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: I wish we was in service. I'd lay hands on
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: every one of you. I feel a breakthrough. I feel
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: a breakthrough. I would lay hands on every last one
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: of you, on your sorrow, on your grief, on your trauma,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: on your depression. I would rebuke the enemy. Get out
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: of her house. Get out, get out, get out. Get out,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: get out. Get out, get, get, get, get out. In
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, cry out. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I've been through too much. I've been up too many nights.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Can't sleep at night. Walk in the floor at four
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning. I will not shut up. Open
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: your mouth and holler at God. I'm crying out for
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: my family. I'm crying out for my job. I'm crying
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: out for my mama.
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  Speaker 3: I'm crying out for my sisters. I'm crying out for
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: my brothers. I'm crying out for my church. I'm crying
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: out for my members. Open your mouth and cry out.
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  Speaker 1: We've been silent too long. We've been silent too long.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: You have been through things you never thought imaginable. You
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: never thought in all of your life you would have
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: to endure what you have gone through in this past
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: year alone. Just in this one year alone, you have
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: endured more than what some people go through in an
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: entire lifetime. And it's okay not to be okay. It's
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: okay not to be okay. It's okay not to be okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay to be stressed out. It's okay to be disappointed.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: It's okay to be broken. It's okay to admit that
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  Speaker 1: we saw people climbing over a wall and it was
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: frightening and we're still frightened and we're still upset. It's
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  Speaker 1: all right. The old men wept because they remembered when
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: life was not like this. The old men cried because
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: they remembered the glory of Solomon's temple. And they remembered
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Shekinah glory. And they remembered when we could worship together
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: and nobody wanted to know who you voted for. Come on, somebody. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: I can remember when the church was not a party.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: It was not a political party. It was the blood-washed,
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  Speaker 1: redeemed church of the living God. Somebody needs to cry out.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Have we lost our minds? If I forget Jerusalem, let
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. This
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: foolishness is not the church. You don't break out windows
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: and beat up people in the name of God. You
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: don't murder people in the name of Jesus. God said,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: tell my people to open your mouth. Stop acting like
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: it's normal. This is not normal. And the old men wept.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: And the Bible says that while the old men wept,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: the young men danced until the sound was not distinguishable.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: You couldn't tell the shout of joy from the pain
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: of anguish. There's not a person in this room or
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: a person watching me around the country who has gone
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: through this year without being worried about somebody. Without being
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: worried about something. Without being cautious or scared or being
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: sick or being stressed or wondering if you were going
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: to survive or if you were going to be alive.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: And you're going to tell me it's normal? The devil
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: is alive. I remember. This is not, I have not
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: lost my mind. I remember. When the White House was respected.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: I remember. I remember. When I could jog down the
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: street and not worry about being shot. I remember there
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  Speaker 1: was a time that things were different. And there's a
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: wailing in the soul. And the Bible says when Zion prevails,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: sons and daughters shall be born again. Send for the
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: women of mourning and let them take up a wailing. Oh, no, no,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: put your stilettos up and take up a wailing. For
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: death has climbed into our windowsill. How can we have
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: nearly 400,000 people dead and nobody say nothing? Trauma triggers Triumph.
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  Speaker 1: I have to stop myself from watching my own TV.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: If I hope for sleep, I have to cut them
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: off because they trigger nightmares and dreams in your sleep.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: I remember the old man wept Not just because they
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: lost the gold and the silver of Solomon's temple. It
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: used to be a glory. There used to be a
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: glory that would fall on the house. And when the
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: glory fell on the house, the priest would lay prostrate
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: in the floor. When was the last time you got
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: saturated in the presence of God and the Spirit of
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: God came on you so strong that you didn't care
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: what you looked like and you didn't care what you
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: got on? Glory to God. There used to be a
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: glory that would knock you off a drum set. That
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: would make you stop playing an organ. That would make
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: you burst out in tears. And away with this demon
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: that's trying to turn you. into a mummy. Open your
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: mouth and holler! Yes! Yes! In your house, open your
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: mouth and holler! Yes! And the old man wanted it
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: back like it was. But I have come to learn
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: that nothing will ever be the way it was. And
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: as soon as you can accept that, you can live.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: Nothing will ever be Like you can lie to yourself
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: and tell you that 40 is the new 20, but
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: it ain't. 60 is the new 40. We tell ourselves
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: all those lies. 60 is not the new 40. Let
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: me tell you what, 60 is 60. Nothing will ever
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: be like it was. And as much as I relate
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: to the old men weeping, The text proves out that
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: the young men were right because you see, the old
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: men wanted to make it like it was and God
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: was doing something new and God was doing something else
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: and God was doing something fresh and God was doing
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: something different and you either get with it or you
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: get left behind. Amen. In Haggai 2, 6 through 9,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: God says, this is what the Lord Almighty says. In
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: a little while, I will once more shake the heavens
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: and the earth and the sea and the dry land.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: I will shake all nations and what is desired by
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: all nations will come and I will fill this house
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: with glory, says the Lord God Almighty. Amen. The silver
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: is mine and the gold is mine, declares the Lord Almighty.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: If I wanted the silver, I could have got it.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: If I wanted the gold, I could have got it.
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  Speaker 1: The glory of this present house will be greater than
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  Speaker 1: the glory of the former house, says the Lord God.
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  Speaker 1: And in this place, I will grant peace, declares the
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  Speaker 1: Lord God Almighty. Amen. And God says, the glory of
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  Speaker 1: the latter house will be greater than the glory of
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  Speaker 1: the former house. But you got to understand that greater
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  Speaker 1: means different. That God said, I own the silver and
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  Speaker 1: the gold. And if I wanted to build back what
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  Speaker 1: you had, I could afford it. God says, I am
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  Speaker 1: going to do a new thing in you as soon
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  Speaker 1: as I can get you to fall out of love
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  Speaker 1: with the old thing. And I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 1: another kind of glory. And the glory of the latter
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  Speaker 1: house shall be greater than the glory of the former house.
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  Speaker 1: You see, the latter house had no Shekinah glory, had
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  Speaker 1: no Ark of the Covenant. But the latter house ended
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  Speaker 1: up having Jesus. And the reason God wants you to
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  Speaker 1: cry out is you cannot rejoice till you come to
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  Speaker 1: an end of your tears. You have to get the
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  Speaker 1: pain and the anger and the agony out so the
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  Speaker 1: joy can come in. Hannah couldn't have Samuel as long
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  Speaker 1: as she was full of bitterness. God said it's time
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  Speaker 1: for us to let it go. To let the pain
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  Speaker 1: out so that the glory can come in. And that
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  Speaker 1: God did not promise you your plan. He only promised
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  Speaker 1: you his plan. So whether you're the part of the
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  Speaker 1: country that's weeping over the election or you're the part
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  Speaker 1: of the country that's dancing over the election, God says,
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  Speaker 1: I bring up one and I take down another. I
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  Speaker 1: alone am God and besides me there is no other.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said the powers that be are ordained of God.
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  Speaker 1: The ones you like and the ones you don't. I
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  Speaker 1: work all things after the counsel of my own will.
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  Speaker 1: You know why? I'm God. And as soon as you
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  Speaker 1: accept that I'm God and that I can do whatever
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  Speaker 1: I want to do, See the young men were open
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  Speaker 1: to change and the old men just wanted it like
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: it was. Triumph doesn't always look like how you pictured it.
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  Speaker 1: Victory doesn't always feel like what you thought it would
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  Speaker 1: feel like. Some of you have won but you don't
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  Speaker 1: feel victorious because you had an idea of what it
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  Speaker 1: would feel like But are you open to something new?
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: God said, I'm still in charge. I'm still the boss.
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  Speaker 1: I am still your God. You are still my people.
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  Speaker 1: I will do what I will do. I will move
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  Speaker 1: what I will move. I will heal what I will heal.
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  Speaker 1: I will loose what I will loose because I'm God
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  Speaker 1: and beside me there is no other. I want everything
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  Speaker 1: that's got hands to lift him up and worship him
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  Speaker 1: into the praises of God. Come out of your belly
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: and come out of your soul and out of your spirit.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: And I want you to submit your plan and your
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: purpose and your way over to the Lord and let
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: him take over. Because he's sovereign. And he's God. He's
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: going to give you your joy back. He's going to
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: give you your dance back. You're going to rejoice in him.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 4: He's gone.
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  Speaker 1: He's God. He's God. He's God.
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  Speaker 4: He's God.
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  Speaker 1: He's God. He's God.
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  Speaker 4: He can do whatever.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to do. You don't hear me.
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  Speaker 4: Can you say yes to him? Tell him yes!
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  Speaker 1: Tell him yes! Tell him yes! I wish I could
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  Speaker 1: hear somebody praise him right now. The glory is here. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh!
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  Speaker 4: The Lord!
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  Speaker 1: The Lord, my God! He! He's sovereign! He's sovereign! You
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  Speaker 1: hear me? In trauma. Whatever.
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  Speaker 4: In triggers.
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  Speaker 1: In trials. He wants to do. He's still your God. Ooh.
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  Speaker 4: He can do whatever he wants to do when he
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  Speaker 4: wants to.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa.
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  Speaker 4: God can do whatever he wants to do when he
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: wants to, how he wants to.
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  Speaker 1: God!
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  Speaker 4: Because he's sovereign.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: He's sovereign, boy! God is God. Ain't nobody else God.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: God is God. God knows.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: Who am I?
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: Who am I to question his wisdom?
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: I am nothing. Who am I to question God's judgment?
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: I am nothing. Who am I Who am I to,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: to be offended by his ways, by.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: The word he alive? I must realize, I must realize
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 4: that God is sovereign.
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  Speaker 1: Sovereign. He's sovereign. He's bigger than all your doubts. He's
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: bigger than all your fears. He's sovereign. The Lord our God.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: He's sovereign.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: He's sovereign.
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  Speaker 4: He's a friend.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you praise him.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: He can do.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: That's why you thank him.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: Whatever he wants to do.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Do you receive it? He can do whatever. Whatever he
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: wants to do, whatever he wants to do.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: God can do whatever he wants to do, when he
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: wants to, how he wants to.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Because he's sovereign. He's sovereign. Ah, yes. Because he's sovereign.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: He's sovereign.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 4: Because he's sovereign.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: He's sovereign. He's sovereign. God is God. God is God. Listen.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: We are the generation that God has chosen to go
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: through this season. And we will not fail him. It
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: wasn't my mother's generation. It wasn't my grandmother's generation. It
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: was this generation that he chose to fight this fight,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: to go through this affliction, to witness these times. And
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: we will not bow. And we will not break. And
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: we will survive. And we will be triumphant because greater
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: is he that is in me than he that is
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: in the world. And the glory of the latter house
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: shall be greater than the glory of the former house.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: The Lord spoke to me. He said, I want you
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: to start dealing with the pain my people are hiding.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: He said, I want that pain out of my people.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: That's right. Hey, God said I want that pain out
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: of my people. And I want you to use everything
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: I give you for them to get the release they need.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: He said they have been traumatized. And now everything is
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: a trigger And one thing happens and it brings everything
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: back that you've been through. God said, get that out.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: Get that out of you. Stop ingesting that poison. You
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: talk about scared to take the vaccine. You ought to
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: be scared to take this poison. This pain, this pressure,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: this stress, this anxiety, this anger, this mood swings, this disorientation. Enough!
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: You're going to have to pray in tongues until it breaks.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: You're going to have to walk around the house talking
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: in the Holy Ghost until the devil has to turn
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: everything loose that he's got tied up in your mind
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: and body. Help! It ain't enough to be a church
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: member now. You're going to have to go ahead and
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: be sanctified. You're going to have to go ahead and
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: operate in the Holy Ghost. You're going to have to
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: go ahead and move in the Spirit. This is a demon!
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: This is a demon after your peace, after your joy,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: after your contentment, after your life, after your love, after
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: your mind, after your sanity. The devil is alive. You
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: got to plead the blood of Jesus. You got to
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: plead the blood till the yoke breaks. Plead the blood
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: till the door opens. I plead the blood. I plead
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: the blood. I plead the blood.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: The blood, the.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Blood, the blood. The blood, the blood, the blood. Lay
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: hands on your own head and say the blood, the blood,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: the blood. I plead the blood over my mind. I
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: plead the blood over my memories. I plead the blood
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: over my emotions. I plead the blood over my feelings.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: I plead the blood over my peace. I plead the
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: blood over my rest. I plead the blood over my sanity.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: I plead the blood, the blood, the blood. The blood,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: the blood, the blood, the blood. How? You're going to
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: have to get your grandma's Holy Ghost for this. This
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: kind of devil needs an old-fashioned, old-fashioned Holy Ghost power. Power! Power! Oh,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: I feel a shot of victory. I feel a shot
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: of victory. I feel a shot of victory. Yes! Yes!
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: We're going to have to go far. I bleed the blood.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: I plead the blood, I plead the blood over your house.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: I plead the blood over your house. I plead the
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: blood over your mind. I plead the blood over your apartment.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: I plead the blood over your business. I plead the
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: blood over your job. What? Ow! What? You better fight back!
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: You better fight back! You better fight back! You better
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: fight back! You better fight! Breathe the blood. Breathe the blood.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: Breathe the blood. Breathe the blood. Breathe the blood. Breathe
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: the blood. Breathe the blood. Breathe the blood. Breathe the blood.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: Breathe the blood. Breathe the blood. I plead it, I
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: plead it. I plead it, I plead it. I plead it,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: I plead it. I plead it, I plead it. Yeah!
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: Give him a praise. I'm going to believe God with you.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: If your back's bleeding, it's time for you to come home.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: If you're a sinner, it's time for you to get saved.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: Can't you see? Can't you see? Can't you see? Can't
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: you see? Can't you see? You don't even need to
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: read your Bible right now. Read your newspaper. Your newspaper
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: will show you. Can't you see where we are in history?
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: You out there playing around for what? With who? Don't
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: you know when to quit? Enough! Talking about somebody hurt you.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: You stay out there, you're going to know what hurt is.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: Today is the day of salvation. Our prayer lines are
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: on the screen. People ready to lead you to Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Ready to pray with you. Ready to give you the
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: help you need. Ready to minister to you. Ready to
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: be on your side. I'm going to close this service.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit said something to me. He never said this
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: to me before. I want everybody that can to give
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: your address. I want you to give your address. If
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: you 611, 1611, 2103, whatever your address is, I want
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: you to give your address. I want to pray for
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: a peace to come over your address. I want everybody
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: that can to just give your address. 1901. 2110, whatever
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: it is, I want you to show your address. Father,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: we cannot sleep in hell. We cannot live in chaos.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: We cannot rest in confusion. I don't know what you're
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: doing out there, but sanctify our house. Sanctify our house.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know where this world is going, but ask
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: for me in my house. When I walk in the door,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: I want peace to kiss me in the face. When
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: I walk in the door, I want peace to be
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: waiting on me. Love and health around me. Joy and
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: contentment beside me. When I lay down in the bed,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: let the angels rock me to sleep. I make a
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: commitment this day to release the bitterness, the pain, the anger,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: the trauma, the triggers. I'm going to stop allowing everything
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: to trigger all of that stuff and allow it to
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: come up again and again. And I keep reliving old
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: stuff again. Enough! I'm praying for my neighbors. I'm praying
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: for my neighborhood. But for my house, you ain't coming
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: in here. Every believer out there, we're sowing a symbolic seed.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: It's not even the size of it. It's symbolic of
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: the fact you ain't coming in here. Be God over
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  Speaker 1: my house. Be God over my rest. Be God over
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: my body. Every cell, every tissue. Somebody's wrestling. Somebody's recovering.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: Somebody's got a positive test back. Get in every cell
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: of their body. And let your healing go all through
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: their body. Every tissue. Open up their lungs. Open up
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: their lungs. Open up their lungs. Somebody, the Holy Ghost said,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: when you hollered, you don't even know what you released.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: Open up their lungs. Open up their lungs. Let them
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: shout COVID out of their body. Let it come out
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: of their lungs. Let it come out of their nostrils,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: out of their nasal passages. When they shout, hallelujah, make
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: it turn them loose. Howl. Somebody shout. God's going to
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: give you your breathing, Mike. God's going to give you
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: your oxygenation, Mike. God's going to give you your strength, Mike.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: God's going to give you your... Shall you? Glory. There's
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: somebody in my house. I will serve the Lord. I
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: will serve the Lord. I will serve the Lord. Amen.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: Trauma triggers triumph. Trauma triggers and triumph. Trauma triggers and triumph.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: Trauma triggers and triumph. Trauma triggers and triumph. Trauma triggers
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: and triumph. Trauma, triggers, and triumph. Trauma, triggers, and triumph. Trauma, triggers,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: and triumph. Did you notice how I'd end it? I said,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: did you notice how I'd end it? It ended in triumph.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: The glory of the latter house shall be greater. It
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: shall be greater. It shall be greater. Somebody say it
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: shall be greater. I said somebody say it shall be greater.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: It shall be greater than the glory of the latter house.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: God doesn't have to make it like it was to
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: make it greater. Broaden your definition of what greater is.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: And dare to believe that what's in front of you
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: is greater than what's behind you. We're going to keep
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: working on this as long as God gives me strength.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: I'm going to stand on this wall and I'm going
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: to preach this word. I'm going to preach this word.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: I'm going to preach this word until times get better.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: I'm going to preach this word till fevers get out
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: of my mouth. I'm going to preach this word till
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: demons run out of your house. I'm going to preach
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: this word till you get strength in your limbs. I'm
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: going to preach this word. Oh, God. I feel the
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. Y'all look over me now. I feel the
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel the
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel the
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel the
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. Holy Ghost in your house. Holy Ghost in
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: your house. Holy Ghost in your house. Holy Ghost in
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: your house. In your house. In your house. In your house.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. Holy Ghost. Holy Ghost. Holy Ghost. Holy Ghost. Father,
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  Speaker 1: I pray that the words of our mouth and the
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: meditations of our heart may be acceptable in thy sight.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: Oh Lord, my strength, my redeemer, I pray that this
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: message may Goes further than I can imagine. Helps more
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: than I will ever meet. Heals people that I will
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: never see. I pray that the trauma and the triggers
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: receive their eviction notice. I pray that the people who
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: hear this message will go into recovery right now. And
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: that everything they lost is going to come back around
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: full circle. And that their latter day shall be greater
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: than their former day. In Jesus' name, amen. Go with God.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.