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In Harmony with God · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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Speaker 1: Coming up on The Potter's Touch.
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to break you out of your Sunday school, God,
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Speaker 2: into an understanding of who he is in your life
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Speaker 2: right now. Because you're not a child anymore. And you're
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Speaker 2: not fighting a childish devil. You're fighting a grown-up, mature
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Speaker 2: devil that's coming against you in supernatural ways. And you
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Speaker 2: cannot fight a supernatural enemy if you are limited to
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Speaker 2: natural power. You've got to walk in the power and
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Speaker 2: the anointing of the Holy Ghost. This is the Potter's Touch.
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Speaker 3: Hello, this is Sarah Jakes, and you are tuned in
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Speaker 3: to the Potter's Touch. I am so excited to present
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Speaker 3: this message, one of my personal favorites today. Sometimes we
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Speaker 3: can become so overwhelmed with all of the things going
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Speaker 3: on in our life that it's difficult to still hear
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Speaker 3: the voice of God. Don't worry, though. Bishop has a
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Speaker 3: message just for you. This one called In Harmony with God.
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Speaker 3: Check it out.
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Speaker 2: For a few moments, I want to talk to you
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Speaker 2: about being in harmony with God. About being in harmony
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Speaker 2: with God. You can't be in harmony with other people
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Speaker 2: until you learn how to be in harmony with God.
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Speaker 2: God brings you in harmony with him, with other people,
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Speaker 2: and here's the good part, with yourself. Because there's nothing
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Speaker 2: like being in disagreement with yourself. Disagreement stops you from progress.
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Speaker 2: When you are at odds with yourself, should I go right,
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Speaker 2: should I go left? The only reason I can walk
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Speaker 2: over here is because my feet are in agreement. If
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Speaker 2: my right foot wants to go back this way and
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Speaker 2: my left foot wants to go up here, I'm going
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Speaker 2: to have some problems. I'm going to be split. And
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Speaker 2: some of you are split right now. You're not the
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Speaker 2: force that you need to be because you're not in
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Speaker 2: agreement between your actions, your attitude, your internal heart is
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Speaker 2: saying one thing, your actions are saying another thing, your
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Speaker 2: attitude is saying something else, and you are stopped and
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Speaker 2: split right We're going to bring you into alignment today.
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Speaker 2: You ready for this? Let me put the text in context.
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Speaker 2: We're reading out of the book of Acts. It is
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Speaker 2: the companion to the gospel of St. Luke. Many theologians
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Speaker 2: believe that originally they were one book. So when you
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Speaker 2: read the 24th chapter of the book of the gospel
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Speaker 2: of St. Luke, you will find that the continuation of
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Speaker 2: thought continues in the book of Acts. It is not
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Speaker 2: inappropriate to understand that the book of Acts picks up
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Speaker 2: and begins to discuss Christ in us while Luke focuses
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Speaker 2: on Christ with us. The dwell amongst us God now
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Speaker 2: dwells in us. The dwell amongst us God now dwells
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Speaker 2: in us. He dwelt amongst his people. turning water into wine,
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Speaker 2: healing the sick, raising the dead, dwelling amongst us. He said,
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Speaker 2: I have been with you, but I shall be in you.
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Speaker 2: I don't just want to dwell among you. I want
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Speaker 2: to dwell in you. So whereas Luke is focused on
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Speaker 2: teaching us about the dwell amongst us God, in the
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Speaker 2: book of Acts, he now focuses on the transition from
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Speaker 2: the God who dwells amongst you to the God who
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Speaker 2: dwells I just want to put it in perspective. Luke
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Speaker 2: finishes up at the cross and shows us Christ resurrected
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Speaker 2: from the dead, from the cross, buried in the tomb,
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Speaker 2: raised up on the third day. He shows up on
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Speaker 2: the third day and shows himself to his disciples. Before
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Speaker 2: he is crucified, he shows himself to the world. Everybody
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Speaker 2: sees him. There is no secret. Anybody can experience it. 5,000
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Speaker 2: people get to see him work his miracles. The bridal
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Speaker 2: party at the wedding get to see him work his miracles.
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Speaker 2: His miracles happen on the side of the road without discrimination.
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Speaker 2: He exposed himself to everybody up to the cross. But
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Speaker 2: once he rose up from the dead, he only exposed
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Speaker 2: himself to those that were his. He said, I'm through
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Speaker 2: exposing myself to the world. The world has rejected me.
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Speaker 2: I will expose myself to those who believe. Oh, I'm
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Speaker 2: preaching already. Yeah. There comes a point where you have
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Speaker 2: to stop trying to convince people. who refuse to be convinced.
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Speaker 2: And you begin to focus on that elect group of
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Speaker 2: people who have synergy with your vision. That's a truth
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Speaker 2: you can take and post on a lot of different
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Speaker 2: places in your life. Some of you have spent a
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Speaker 2: long time trying to convince people who will not be convinced.
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Speaker 2: You're expending your energy in the wrong effort. Christ expended
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Speaker 2: his energy giving the world an opportunity, Israel in particular,
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Speaker 2: to experience his glory. But not Israel exclusively. He showed
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Speaker 2: up at the woman at the well. He exposed himself
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Speaker 2: to Gentiles. He exposed himself to a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: When he rose from the dead, he only appears in
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Speaker 2: private settings amongst believers. In the upper room, he shows himself.
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Speaker 2: To the disciples on the road to Emmaus, he shows himself.
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Speaker 2: He shows himself to people who believe in him. Let
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Speaker 2: me show you why. The secret of the Lord is
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Speaker 2: with them that fear him, and he shall show them
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Speaker 2: his covenant. That means that when you are a believer
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Speaker 2: and you fear, fear means reverence, respect God. God shows
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Speaker 2: you things that other people don't see. Now, the Bible says,
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Speaker 2: the former treaties have I made, this is Acts 1,
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Speaker 2: the former treaties have I made, O Theophilus, with all
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Speaker 2: that Jesus began to do and to teach, that he
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Speaker 2: showed himself alive for 40 days with many infallible proofs.
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Speaker 2: So he rose from the dead and showed himself alive
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Speaker 2: for 40 days with many infallible proofs. Infallible proofs means
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Speaker 2: you can't argue with it. He appears in the room.
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Speaker 2: They said he's a ghost. He picks up some fish
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Speaker 2: and he eats him some catfish with hot floss on it. See?
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Speaker 2: A little bit of improvisation, but you see the point.
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Speaker 2: I just put it in a cultural connotation for relevancy's
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Speaker 2: sake in the setting in which I am extrapolating this ideology.
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Speaker 2: But he eats fish to say, I am something you
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Speaker 2: have never seen before. I am spirit enough to appear.
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Speaker 2: I am physical enough to eat. Don't call me what
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Speaker 2: you've seen before. I'm not a ghost. I'm not an apparition.
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Speaker 2: I'm not a ghost. And I'm not a man. I
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Speaker 2: am the resurrected Lord, the mighty God, the Prince of Peace.
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Speaker 2: I am that I am. I can do whatever I
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Speaker 2: want to do, however I want to do it, whenever
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Speaker 2: I get ready to do it. You can't make me
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Speaker 2: fit in the box of your past experience. I'm God
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Speaker 2: and beside me there is no other. You have never
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Speaker 2: seen anything like me. I can do stuff that's outside
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Speaker 2: of your point of reference. I can boggle your mind
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Speaker 2: with my ability to be spirit when I need to
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Speaker 2: be spirit and yet be able to relate to you. Oh, God.
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Speaker 2: I'm human enough to eat fish with you. I'm God
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Speaker 2: enough to appear in your circumstance. You don't have to
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Speaker 2: open the door for me. When I get ready to
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Speaker 2: come in, I just come in. He appears to the
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Speaker 2: disciples on the road to Emmaus. They look up and
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Speaker 2: a stranger just shows up and starts walking beside them, saying,
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Speaker 2: what's up? They say, let me tell you, man, what's
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Speaker 2: going on. This is God. I mean, Jesus, they crucified
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Speaker 2: him the other day, buried him in the tomb. There's
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Speaker 2: a rumor going all over the city. Somebody rolled a
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Speaker 2: stone away and he's risen from the dead. Jesus, oh yeah.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it something when we try to inform a God
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Speaker 2: who is omniscient? We try to explain things to God
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Speaker 2: who already knows what you're trying to explain. The futility
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Speaker 2: of venting your frustration in prayer is mammoth because you
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Speaker 2: are frustrated and trying to tell God about something. Do
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Speaker 2: you really think God will sleep while that was happening?
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Speaker 2: Don't you understand that God knows what's going on? Oh,
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Speaker 2: he knows. Jesus knows all about our struggles. He will
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Speaker 2: guide till the day is done. There's not a friend
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Speaker 2: like the lowly Jesus. No, not one. No, not one.
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Speaker 2: Touch your neighbor and say, he knows, he knows, he knows.
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Speaker 2: He already knows. He already knows. The knowing God now
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Speaker 2: shows up. the God who has intellectual knowledge of what's
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Speaker 2: going on now appears in the situation and say i'm
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Speaker 2: resurrected what does your resurrection have to do with my
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Speaker 2: situation he said if i overcame death and the grave
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Speaker 2: I did it as a model for you to understand
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Speaker 2: that you can overcome what you are confronting right now
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Speaker 2: in your situation. I want you to know me not
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Speaker 2: only in the fellowship of my suffering, the cross, but
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Speaker 2: in the power of my resurrection. You can't be a
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Speaker 2: resurrected believer until you rise up out of stuff that
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Speaker 2: people have buried you in and roll a stone in
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Speaker 2: front of you. And just like your daddy got up
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Speaker 2: on the third day, you are due for resurrection. You
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Speaker 2: are due for resurrection. You are due for resurrection. You
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Speaker 2: are due for resurrection. Oh my, this is going to
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Speaker 2: be good this morning. I feel it. I feel like
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Speaker 2: the rabbi, the teacher, the master is in this room
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Speaker 2: teaching us how to walk in resurrected power. He shows
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Speaker 2: up and starts showing you all the things he can
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Speaker 2: do in resurrected power. Interesting scripture for you to look at.
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Speaker 2: As he is, so are we in this world. Not
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Speaker 2: as he was. As he is, so are we in
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Speaker 2: this world. Not as he used to be. as he
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Speaker 2: is resurrected, so are we in this world. That's why
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Speaker 2: we bury you by baptism into his death, Romans 6,
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Speaker 2: that we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.
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Speaker 2: God wants you to walk in resurrected power, walking above
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Speaker 2: your circumstances and situations. He did not promise you a
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Speaker 2: world that wouldn't nail you to a cross or people
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Speaker 2: that wouldn't throw you to a grave. or an enemy
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Speaker 2: that would not relegate a stone over top of your experience.
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Speaker 2: But he did promise you that in spite of all
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Speaker 2: of these adversities, three days, you'll come out of it.
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Speaker 2: Tell somebody, say, I'll come out of it. I've been
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Speaker 2: through some stuff, but I'll come out of it. I
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Speaker 2: had some dark places, but I'll come out of it.
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Speaker 2: My money's been funny, but I'll come out of it.
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Speaker 2: I haven't been feeling so good in my body, but
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Speaker 2: I'll come out of it. My family's kind of shaking
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Speaker 2: right now, but don't worry about me. I'll come out
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Speaker 2: of it. They rolled a stone in front of me
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Speaker 2: and said I wouldn't get up, but don't worry about me.
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Speaker 2: I'll come out of it. As he is. So are
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Speaker 2: we in this world as he is, not as he
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Speaker 2: used to be. I'm trying to break through your historical
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Speaker 2: understanding of who Christ is. I'm trying to break through
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Speaker 2: your religious connotations of faith brought about by the God
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Speaker 2: of your childhood. I'm trying to break you out of
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Speaker 2: your Sunday school God into an understanding of who he
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Speaker 2: is in your life right now. Because you're not a
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Speaker 2: child anymore. And you're not fighting a childish devil. You're
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Speaker 2: fighting a grown-up, mature devil that's coming against you in
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Speaker 2: supernatural ways. And you cannot fight a supernatural enemy if
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Speaker 2: you are limited to natural power. You've got to walk
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Speaker 2: in the power and the anointing of the Holy Ghost.
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Speaker 1: Still to come on The Potter's Touch.
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Speaker 2: We're trying to get to the destination. But the real
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Speaker 2: message is in the journey. Understand what I'm saying? There's
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Speaker 2: some things you want to see God do in your life.
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Speaker 2: That's your destination. But it is the things you learn
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Speaker 2: along the way that is the most beneficial to you.
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Speaker 2: If I give you the destination without the process, you
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Speaker 2: won't be able to hold on to it. If I
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Speaker 2: give you what you shall be without you going through
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Speaker 2: what you're going through, you won't have the fortitude to
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Speaker 2: be able to hold on to what I'm going to
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Speaker 2: release in your life.
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Speaker 4: It's an amazing experience. It's an opportunity to learn from
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Speaker 4: Bishop James, to learn from what he's experienced, to understand
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Speaker 4: what leadership is, to understand leadership. what it is to
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Speaker 4: be a pastor.
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Speaker 2: God has a place for you to go and to
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Speaker 2: preach and to touch, and until you finish your purpose,
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Speaker 2: no weapon formed against you shall be able to prosper.
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Speaker 2: This year we decided to bring most of our leaders
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Speaker 2: so they can hear the life-changing message. It's critical, it's essential,
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Speaker 2: I recommend it to anybody. I've seen others talk about it,
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Speaker 2: but I have experienced it and witnessed it.
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Speaker 4: It's like none other.
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Speaker 2: Save your money.
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Speaker 1: Do whatever you got to do to get here.
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Speaker 2: Because your ministry, your life will never be the same.
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Speaker 2: A thousand may fall at thy right side. Ten thousand
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Speaker 2: may fall at thy left side. But it shall not
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Speaker 2: come nigh thee. No weapon formed against you shall be able...
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Speaker 2: Try somebody and say, I'm still here. I had some
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Speaker 2: close calls, but I'm still here. I had some dark days,
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Speaker 2: but I'm still here. I've had some enemy arsonists, but
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Speaker 2: I'm still here. I've been shot at, but I'm still here.
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Speaker 2: I've been lied on, but I'm still here. I've even
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Speaker 2: been wounded, but I'm still here. My God. That's why
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Speaker 2: you got to praise him. You can't worry about what
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Speaker 2: people say about you and think about you. You are
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Speaker 2: a miracle. It's not just that you have a testimony.
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Speaker 2: You are a testimony. Anybody been through what you've been
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Speaker 2: through and you're still alive to tell? You better give
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Speaker 2: him some praise. It would be fraudulent for you to
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Speaker 2: suggest by your behavior that you made it through all
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Speaker 2: of that by yourself. I'm going to teach real good
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Speaker 2: in a minute. Just wait a minute. It's going to
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Speaker 2: get good. He showed himself alive for 40 days, 40
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Speaker 2: days with many infallible proofs. Penta means 50. Okay, so
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Speaker 2: we explain 40 days. 40 days, he's showing up with
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Speaker 2: many infallible proofs. On the 40th day, he whistles for
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Speaker 2: cloud limousine service. Steps in the heaven's limo and starts
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Speaker 2: elevating right in the presence of his disciples, separating himself
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Speaker 2: from men who were so afraid of him leaving that
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Speaker 2: they were fighting for him to stay. Now they have
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Speaker 2: the faith to release him. Sometimes you fight to hold
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Speaker 2: on to things that if you start operating in faith,
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Speaker 2: one of the real signs of faith is your ability
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Speaker 2: to I mean, the last time they tried to take Jesus,
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Speaker 2: Peter was cutting people's ears off and stuff. Thomas said,
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Speaker 2: I guess I'll go die with him. You know, they
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Speaker 2: were just fatalists. You cannot go away. Jesus said, if
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Speaker 2: I go not away, the comforter cannot come. If I
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Speaker 2: remain with you, I can't be in you. As a believer...
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Speaker 2: Is your faith with you or in you? Does Christ
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Speaker 2: hang around you or does he live inside of you?
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Speaker 2: He wants to go from being around you to being
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Speaker 2: in you. So as he is going up in the cloud,
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Speaker 2: the Bible says he is blessing them as he is departing.
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Speaker 2: And they are like blown away. And he's going up,
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Speaker 2: he's just blessing them, blessing them, blessing them, just blessing them,
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Speaker 2: blessing them. And they're standing there gazing up at him.
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Speaker 2: And he sends some angels down to say, stop gazing.
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Speaker 2: Stop looking up at where I have been. Stop looking
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Speaker 2: at where you last saw me as if I'm not
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Speaker 2: going to do anything new beyond what you saw last.
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Speaker 2: Religion always gazes at where it last saw God. But
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Speaker 2: relationship moves beyond history to destiny. You see what I'm saying? Now,
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Speaker 2: we've caught 40 days. We can't have Pentecost because Pentecost
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Speaker 2: has got to be 10 days away. They leave Bethany
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Speaker 2: because the angels say, get out of here and go
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Speaker 2: do something with your faith. Live out your faith. Don't
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Speaker 2: just stand there gazing. Some people come on Sunday morning.
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Speaker 2: They just come and gaze. I can feel them when
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Speaker 2: I got a room full of gazers. They're just gazing
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Speaker 2: at you. We're going to go over there and hear
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Speaker 2: Brother Jack's. And they get them a nice comfortable seat
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Speaker 2: and they gaze. He says, stop gazing. Stop gazing at
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Speaker 2: where you last saw me. Stop gazing at where you
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Speaker 2: last saw me. Even if you last saw me in
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Speaker 2: your last relationship. Stop gazing at where I used to be.
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Speaker 2: Stop gazing at your old job. Stop gazing at your
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Speaker 2: old church. Stop gazing. Gazing people never get anything done.
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Speaker 2: They just stare. So he sends angels who are ministering spirits, incidentally,
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Speaker 2: whenever God wants to send a message, he's done it
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Speaker 2: through the mailman. of angels, because angels are God's mailmen.
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Speaker 2: And he said, go down there and tell them to
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Speaker 2: stop looking at where they last saw me. I didn't
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Speaker 2: go through all of this for them to stand there
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Speaker 2: at Bethany and just keep looking at. Have you gone
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Speaker 2: through a period in your life that you're just gazing
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Speaker 2: like a deer in headlights? Or are you living your
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Speaker 2: life with power, gusto, excitement, enthusiasm, You need something to fight.
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Speaker 2: You need something to do. You need something that needs
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Speaker 2: God's help for you to get it done. He is
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Speaker 2: a God of big ideas. You need something bigger than you.
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Speaker 2: He told them, go into all the world and preach
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Speaker 2: the gospel. The only problem was none of them were preachers.
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Speaker 2: Not one of the 12 was a rabbi. Not one
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Speaker 2: of them. He told 12 guys to do something they
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Speaker 2: had never done. Most of them had no training in
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Speaker 2: the area. He said, I'm going to challenge you to
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Speaker 2: do something that's going to make you need me to
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Speaker 2: get it done. You'll never be able to do it
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Speaker 2: without me. You'll never be a mother without me. You'll
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Speaker 2: never be a great dad without me. You'll never hold
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Speaker 2: that house together without me. You'll never do that work
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Speaker 2: without me. I put you in a corner. I knew
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Speaker 2: you were limited when I called you. I wanted you
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Speaker 2: to be limited so you would lean on me. Glory
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Speaker 2: to God. I know you can't handle it. I know
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Speaker 2: it's too much for you. I know you haven't had
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Speaker 2: any training. I know you haven't had any speaking classes.
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Speaker 2: I know you speak with the list. I know you
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Speaker 2: got stammering licks, bozos. I know you stutter. I knew
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Speaker 2: you stuttered when I called you. I still am going
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Speaker 2: to anoint you to go down there and tell Pharaoh,
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Speaker 2: my God should let my people go. Even if you
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Speaker 2: have to say, let my people go. When you say it,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to do magic through you. I'm going to
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Speaker 2: do miracles through you. It could be possible that my
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Speaker 2: strength is made perfect in your weakness. That if you
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Speaker 2: were more competent, you wouldn't be as Christ-centered. If you
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Speaker 2: were more sure of yourself, you wouldn't be so sure
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Speaker 2: of me. He says, I want you to stop gazing
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Speaker 2: and go. So this is day 40. Now they're going.
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Speaker 2: And they're going and they're excited and they're fired up.
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Speaker 2: And generally, when we start talking about the 50th day,
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Speaker 2: when the day of Pentecost and when the day of
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Speaker 2: Pentecost will fully come, we're so busy trying to get
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Speaker 2: from 40 to 50 that we forget about 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49.
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Speaker 2: We're trying to get to the destination, but the real
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Speaker 2: message is in the journey. Yes, yes, sir. Understand what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying? There's some things you want to see God
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Speaker 2: do in your life. That's your destination. But it is
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Speaker 2: the things you learn along the way that is the
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Speaker 2: most beneficial to you. If I give you the destination
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Speaker 2: without the process, you won't be able to hold on
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Speaker 2: to it. If I give you what you shall be
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Speaker 2: without you going through what you're going through, you won't
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Speaker 2: have the fortitude to be able to hold on to
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Speaker 2: what I'm going to release in your life. That's why
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Speaker 2: I didn't give you full grown kids. So you'd have
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Speaker 2: time to figure them jokers out. While they're trying to
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Speaker 2: figure out how to ride bicycles and stuff, you're trying
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Speaker 2: to figure out how to survive this. And by the
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Speaker 2: time they get crazy, you've got some roots. And then
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Speaker 2: when they come out of it, you are happy because
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Speaker 2: you went through when they was crazy. So you now
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Speaker 2: appreciate when they come out. All of that enhances the relationship.
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Speaker 2: It's the stuff you go through along the way that
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Speaker 2: validates love. You don't want romance without reservation. What makes
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Speaker 2: romance romantic is the frustration that proceeds it. So you
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Speaker 2: can't jump from 40 to 50 because the steps of
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Speaker 2: a good man are ordered by the Lord. He delighteth
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Speaker 2: in his way. That's why God doesn't use elevators or escalators.
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Speaker 2: It's the process that trains you.
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Speaker 3: It is my prayer that listening to this message has
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Speaker 3: helped you recognize that we need to be in tune
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Speaker 3: with the best parts of us. Don't focus so much
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Speaker 3: on your insecurities and things in your life that you
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Speaker 3: feel aren't going well, but rather take a moment to
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Speaker 3: really be in harmony with all of the God things
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Speaker 3: in your life. I have enjoyed being with you today.
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Speaker 2: Now every sermon is about the benefits, but the only
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Speaker 2: problem is nobody's doing the job. How are you eligible
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Speaker 2: for the benefits when you don't do the job? The
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Speaker 2: only reason you're afraid is because you are filled up
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Speaker 2: with yourself. But when you get filled up with him,
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Speaker 2: you will not be afraid.
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Speaker 2: Grace is in the gas. Grace giving me time to
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Speaker 2: get it together. Grace giving me time to settle old grievances.
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Speaker 2: Grace giving me time to pick out where do I
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Speaker 2: go from here. Grace delivers me from gazing upward when
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Speaker 2: I ought to be walking outward. Grace giving me time
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Speaker 2: to get my head on straight. Getting my focus back.
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Speaker 2: Getting myself together. Lord, I thank you for grace. I
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Speaker 2: thank you for the God. I thank you for the
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Speaker 2: difference between my effort and your ability. I thank you
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Speaker 2: that you taught me to stretch. And even when I stretch,
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Speaker 2: I'm limited. But you make up the difference between my
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Speaker 2: limited and your maximum. Thank you for the gap in
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Speaker 2: my life. This is the part of me.