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Hidden Mysteries of the Cross Part 2 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: What was released on the cross and why a cross?
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  Speaker 1: Why such a heinous, horrible, long, gut-wrenching, bloodthirsty death? Why
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  Speaker 1: would a God who is love use an emblem of
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  Speaker 1: murder and suggested suicide To produce life. Suicide? Where did
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  Speaker 1: you get that from? Remember when he said, no man
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  Speaker 1: takes my life. It's going to look like I was murdered,
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  Speaker 1: but no man takes my life. No man was strong
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  Speaker 1: enough to murder me. No man takes my life. I
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  Speaker 1: lay it down. And if I lay it down, I
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  Speaker 1: will pick it back up again. And you have to
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  Speaker 1: know that no man took his life because if you
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  Speaker 1: don't understand that no man took his life, then you're
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  Speaker 1: tempted to think that some man raised his life. My
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  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, I'm delighted and excited to have this
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to share the word of the Lord with you.
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  Speaker 1: We're showing a series of classics, and this one in particular,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, will impact your life. It is called Hidden Mysteries.
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  Speaker 1: Go on to the Gulf of St. John chapter 3.
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  Speaker 1: What I want you to walk away from Genesis knowing
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  Speaker 1: is that the serpent now epitomizes evil, wickedness, debauchery, corruption.
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  Speaker 1: It's cursed to lay upon the ground and eat dust.
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  Speaker 1: The serpent above all animals is described in scriptures to
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  Speaker 1: be the most heinous creature. In the world. Clearly evil.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly corruptive. I grew up in West Virginia and I
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  Speaker 1: used to preach up in the hills and there was
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  Speaker 1: a church back up in the country. They used to
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  Speaker 1: handle snakes. They used to handle snakes. They invited me
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  Speaker 1: to come up here to preach and I was young
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  Speaker 1: and wild. I mean buck wild. I went up in there.
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  Speaker 1: My wife, she didn't want to go, you know. She
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  Speaker 1: was sitting up there holding both babies. My boys were
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  Speaker 1: babies then. She's holding both of them in her arms
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  Speaker 1: with her coat on. And every time something felt like
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  Speaker 1: it brushed across her ankle, she thought, sure, it was
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  Speaker 1: a snake. And I told them I wasn't a snake handler.
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  Speaker 1: I was a preacher. They said, we just want you
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  Speaker 1: to preach. And I would preach anywhere. Some people thought
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  Speaker 1: I was crazy to go preach. But the Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: go into all the world and preach the gospel to
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  Speaker 1: every living creature. They were in the world and they
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  Speaker 1: were living creatures. So I went up in there. I
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  Speaker 1: got to preaching and jumping and shouting. My wife told me,
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  Speaker 1: she said, all right. She said, when you get real anointed,
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  Speaker 1: they gonna think you ready for one of them snakes.
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  Speaker 1: And I told one of the brothers, I said, if
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  Speaker 1: you throw one of them snakes on me, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell you something. I said, you'd be shocked how quick
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  Speaker 1: I would backslide. I said, you have never seen a
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  Speaker 1: joker backslide that quick in all of your life. And
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  Speaker 1: I would spend my last seven seconds while I was
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  Speaker 1: crawling on the ground biting through your ankles. I did.
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  Speaker 1: I told him that. I said, I would die with
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  Speaker 1: my teeth in your foot. So they never did do that.
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  Speaker 1: We got along real well. We had great meetings. Look
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  Speaker 1: at John 6 for a minute. This is right at
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  Speaker 1: the end. I mean, John 3. I'm sorry. You're in
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  Speaker 1: the right place. I'm wrong. And this is right at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the conversation Jesus has with Nicodemus. About
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  Speaker 1: verse 8, start reading.
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  Speaker 2: The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the
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  Speaker 2: sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and
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  Speaker 2: whither it goeth.
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  Speaker 1: This is Jesus talking about the spirit, and he uses
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  Speaker 1: an analogy to talk about the similarities between the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of the wind. And he basically talks about we can
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  Speaker 1: feel it, but we can't tell where it came from
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  Speaker 1: or where it is going. And he's talking about the
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  Speaker 1: same impact of the Holy Spirit, that it affects us
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  Speaker 1: without us really understanding its destiny or its origin. Read on.
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  Speaker 2: So is everyone that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus
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  Speaker 2: answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
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  Speaker 2: Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master
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  Speaker 2: of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I
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  Speaker 2: say unto thee, We speak that we do know and
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  Speaker 2: testify that we have seen, and ye receive not our witness.
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  Speaker 2: If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not,
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  Speaker 2: How shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things?
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  Speaker 2: And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he
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  Speaker 2: that came down from heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Jesus says, I'm trying to teach you heavenly things.
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  Speaker 1: But he's using earthly things to explain them. What we
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  Speaker 1: would call parables or a more current word would be metaphors.
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  Speaker 1: He's using comparisons to call him to understand spiritual things.
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  Speaker 1: He's using analogies to make him understand spiritual things. He's
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  Speaker 1: using things that Nicodemus should be able to relate to,
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  Speaker 1: like the wind, to teach him about things that he
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  Speaker 1: can't relate to. He talks to him about being born again,
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  Speaker 1: about being born of the water and being born of
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  Speaker 1: the spirit. He's using things that he can relate to
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  Speaker 1: to teach spiritual things. And Nicodemus is totally different. The
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  Speaker 1: one thing that you will notice when Nicodemus starts talking
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  Speaker 1: to him, he calls him rabbi, good master. He acknowledges
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  Speaker 1: him as being a teacher. Jesus is trying to teach
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  Speaker 1: him and he's using things that he can understand to
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  Speaker 1: explain things that he couldn't understand. And Nicodemus is struggling
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  Speaker 1: with that. And Jesus is saying, Nicodemus, you're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be smart. He said, you're supposed to have it on
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  Speaker 1: the ball. You're supposed to be an intellect. You're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be educated. You don't understand what I'm saying to you.
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  Speaker 1: So here we are struggling with the conversations. A conversation
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  Speaker 1: against a conversation. Breaking down barriers. Word against word. Word
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  Speaker 1: got me in trouble. Word gets me out. The word
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  Speaker 1: of the enemy caused the fall of all humanity. And
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  Speaker 1: the word of God brings light to the fallen spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying? That's why it's very
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  Speaker 1: important that you get this word down inside of you.
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  Speaker 1: So that you can counteract the statements of the enemy
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  Speaker 1: that have spoken against you to destroy your integrity and
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  Speaker 1: bring down who you are. Even if you don't understand
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  Speaker 1: it all, you have to struggle to understand the word
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  Speaker 1: of God. You might have just got saved. You might
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  Speaker 1: only get 10% of what I'm teaching tonight. But get
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  Speaker 1: that 10. Get that 10. Just get that 10 and
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  Speaker 1: walk in that 10%. Thank God for that 10. And
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  Speaker 1: tell everybody the 10% you understood. Just whip it out
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  Speaker 1: on them. Just whip it out. I mean, even if
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  Speaker 1: they don't understand and you leave them all confused and
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  Speaker 1: their heads all wrinkled up, just shout and just going out.
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  Speaker 1: Read me some more. I'm going to get to this.
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  Speaker 2: Even the Son of Man, which is in heaven, and
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  Speaker 2: as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even
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  Speaker 2: so must the Son of Man be lifted up.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Go back because I
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  Speaker 1: got to talk. Maybe I got confused. Read that verse
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  Speaker 1: before about ascending and descending and all that stuff. Go
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  Speaker 1: back here.
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  Speaker 2: And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he
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  Speaker 2: that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man
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  Speaker 2: which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the
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  Speaker 2: serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of
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  Speaker 2: Man be lifted up.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. Now, I didn't mind Jesus using the
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  Speaker 1: wind as a metaphor, as a comparison. to teach a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual concept. But now when he gets ready to teach
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  Speaker 1: Nicodemus who he is and what he's going to do,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has now compared himself to the snake. But there's
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  Speaker 1: a law in the book of Genesis. I should have
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  Speaker 1: told you about this at first. It's called the law
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  Speaker 1: of first mention. Whenever something is mentioned first time, it
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  Speaker 1: generally maintains that continuity throughout the whole Bible. It's the
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  Speaker 1: law of first mention. When the snake is first mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: he's mentioned as something evil. When he's mentioned here, now
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  Speaker 1: something good is being compared to something evil. Jesus is saying,
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  Speaker 1: even as the word as means in the same way
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  Speaker 1: that Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so
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  Speaker 1: shall the Son of Man be lifted up. Well, when
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  Speaker 1: he's talking about the Son of Man being lifted up,
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  Speaker 1: he's talking about the cross. He was lifted up. Well,
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  Speaker 1: most of the time when we talk about Christ being
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  Speaker 1: lifted up, we talk about him as the Lamb of God.
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  Speaker 1: But when Jesus teaches about it, he compares himself to
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  Speaker 1: the serpent. Why would something as holy as Christ use
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  Speaker 1: a comparison as something as evil as a snake? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we worship. Have you got crosses on your neck tonight?
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  Speaker 1: And if your cross, especially a crucifix, which most of
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  Speaker 1: us don't wear, but if you were to wear a crucifix,
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  Speaker 1: if it were to be done right, you'll just soon
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  Speaker 1: have a snake wrapped around your neck. I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of your cross. I'm trying to get
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  Speaker 1: you to understand your cross. I'm trying to get you
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  Speaker 1: to understand that the cross becomes not a symbol of righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have to hang in there with me tonight.
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  Speaker 1: That the cross becomes a symbol of evil. Even as
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  Speaker 1: Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so shall
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  Speaker 1: the Son of Man be lifted up. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about when he was on earth, but the moment he
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  Speaker 1: was lifted up. He was lifted up not as a lamb.
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  Speaker 1: He was lifted up as a snake. I didn't say this.
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  Speaker 1: Read it again, because they think I've said it. Read
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  Speaker 1: it again. Let them read it again.
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  Speaker 2: And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he
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  Speaker 2: that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man
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  Speaker 2: which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the
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  Speaker 2: serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of
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  Speaker 2: Man be lifted up.
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  Speaker 1: Keep reading, because maybe they think I'm crazy.
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  Speaker 2: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
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  Speaker 2: eternal life.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you know that's got to be Jesus. But it's
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  Speaker 1: talking about the snake. But it says, whosoever believeth on him, what?
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  Speaker 2: Should not perish.
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  Speaker 1: Should not perish, but what?
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  Speaker 2: Have eternal life.
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  Speaker 1: But have eternal life. Read one more verse.
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  Speaker 2: For God so loved the world.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you remember that one, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. That he gave his only begotten son.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody got that one, didn't they? Even Slick Willie, he said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I remember that he gave. For God so loved the world,
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  Speaker 1: come on.
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  Speaker 2: That he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth
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  Speaker 2: in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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  Speaker 1: God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten,
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  Speaker 1: this is the cross. That's where God gave his son
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  Speaker 1: that whosoever believes on him should not perish but have
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  Speaker 1: everlasting life. That's the cross. That is the fireside scripture
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  Speaker 1: of the Christian church. John 3.16. If you don't know anything,
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  Speaker 1: you got to know John 3.16. So if this is
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  Speaker 1: your very first day and you've never learned anything else,
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  Speaker 1: start with John 3.16. I mean, it's almost an insult.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure you can get into heaven if you
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  Speaker 1: can't quote John 3.16. That may be the password that
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  Speaker 1: gets you into the Holy Ghost club. Say John 3, 16.
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  Speaker 1: For God so loved the world that he gave his
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  Speaker 1: only begotten son. Who shall believe in him? Should I
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  Speaker 1: pray to have everything? Come on, you. Come on in.
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  Speaker 1: If you can't say that, you can't get in. Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Still to come on The Potter's Touch. Your dependency on
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  Speaker 1: people has got to die. Your need for recognition has
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  Speaker 1: got to die. Your need for acceptance has got to die.
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  Speaker 1: And the more it dies, the more God's going to
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  Speaker 1: be glorified in your life. And the closer you get
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  Speaker 1: to the hour of being glorified, the more you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be crucified. You can't be glorified if you're not crucified. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm preaching this thing tonight.
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  Speaker 1: What does it mean when Christ exegetes the issue? He
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  Speaker 1: starts by discussing not lambs, not peace offering, not drink offerings,
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  Speaker 1: not doves. He's talking about a snake. And he says,
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  Speaker 1: even as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: so shall the Son of Man be lifted up, that
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  Speaker 1: whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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  Speaker 1: For God so loved the world. And it goes on
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  Speaker 1: into this big discourse about the cross, but he starts
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  Speaker 1: out talking about the snake. Now we're in the gospel
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  Speaker 1: of St. John chapter 12. And I want to go
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  Speaker 1: down to 28. 12 and 28.
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  Speaker 2: Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from
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  Speaker 2: heaven saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify
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  Speaker 2: it again. The people therefore that stood by and heard
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  Speaker 2: it said that it thundered.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, I haven't changed my mind. Go back to verse
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  Speaker 1: 23 because I want them to get the mood.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus answered them saying, The hour has come that
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  Speaker 2: the Son of Man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I
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  Speaker 2: say unto you.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I'm getting ready to go into my thing now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to get the glory out of the story.
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  Speaker 1: The glory out of the story. I'm about to be glorified. Now, verily, verily,
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  Speaker 1: or truly, truly, or surely, surely, or certainly, certainly, or
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  Speaker 1: check it out. I say unto you, come on.
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  Speaker 2: Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die.
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  Speaker 2: It abideth alone.
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  Speaker 1: He said, now I'm getting ready to unlock the mystery
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  Speaker 1: and the purpose of me coming. He said, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really come to walk on water. I did that, but
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  Speaker 1: that's not what I came to do. I didn't come
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  Speaker 1: to heal the sick and raise the dead. I did that,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not what I came to do. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: come to make somebody's wedding turn out wonderful. I did that,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not what I came to do. And I
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  Speaker 1: didn't come to heal the woman with the issue of blood.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't come so blind Bartimaeus could see a few
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  Speaker 1: years and die. And I didn't come to raise Lazarus
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  Speaker 1: from the dead because he's going to die in a
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  Speaker 1: few years anyway. He said, I was born to die.
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  Speaker 1: Except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die,
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  Speaker 1: it abides alone. You can go to the grocery store
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  Speaker 1: and get you a bag of seeds right now. And
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  Speaker 1: as long as you keep it on the shelf, it
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  Speaker 1: won't do you any good. But when you bury it
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  Speaker 1: in the ground, you begin to fulfill the purpose of
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  Speaker 1: the seed. Christ said, I didn't come to be left
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  Speaker 1: on the shelf. I came to die and be buried
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  Speaker 1: in the ground. And when I'm buried in the ground,
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  Speaker 1: then you're going to get the glory out of my story.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying? Amen. So he says,
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  Speaker 1: except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die,
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  Speaker 1: it abide alone. It'll just be one grain. But if
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  Speaker 1: it die, it will multiply after its own kind and
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  Speaker 1: produce much fruit. Read that for me.
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  Speaker 2: But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He
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  Speaker 2: that loveth his life shall lose it. And he that
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  Speaker 2: hated his life in this world shall keep it unto
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  Speaker 2: life eternal. If any man serves me.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you can't be a Christian and be afraid
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  Speaker 1: to die. He said, you got to understand that most
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  Speaker 1: life giving experiences as a Christian will come through death experiences.
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  Speaker 1: Most life giving experiences as a Christian come through death experiences.
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  Speaker 1: And the more you go through death experiences, the more
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  Speaker 1: you experience life experiences. If nothing in you ever dies,
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  Speaker 1: nothing in you will ever live. And when you start
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  Speaker 1: praying for abundant life, you're praying for abundant death. And
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  Speaker 1: the more you die in one area, the more you
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  Speaker 1: live in another. And that's why you feel so strange
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  Speaker 1: in your life because it's the best of times and
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  Speaker 1: the worst of times all at the same time. All
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  Speaker 1: the time God is trying to make something live, God
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  Speaker 1: is trying to make something die. And the more something dies,
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  Speaker 1: the more something is going to live. And you've been
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  Speaker 1: asking God to give you abundant life and feel like
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  Speaker 1: everything in you is dying. Well, God is answering your prayer. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you don't hear what I'm saying to you. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to die. It's got to die. Tell somebody, tell them
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  Speaker 1: it's got to die. Your will, your pride, your attitude,
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  Speaker 1: your disposition, everything that's hindering you from the glory has
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  Speaker 1: got to die. And the more it dies, the more
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  Speaker 1: you release another realm of glory that you never had before.
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  Speaker 1: Your dependency on people has got to die. Your need
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  Speaker 1: for recognition has got to die. Your need for acceptance
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  Speaker 1: has got to die. And the more it dies, the
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  Speaker 1: more God's going to be glorified in your life. And
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  Speaker 1: the closer you get to the hour of being glorified,
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  Speaker 1: the more you're going to be crucified. You can't be
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  Speaker 1: glorified if you're not crucified. Oh, I'm preaching this thing tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And it don't feel good when you're going through it.
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  Speaker 1: But understand that you're going through it and not to it.
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  Speaker 1: Understand that you're going through it and not to it.
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  Speaker 1: That you're not going to stay on the cross. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: First thing my grandmother taught me, she was a faithful
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  Speaker 1: Christian and a Methodist woman. First thing she taught me
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  Speaker 1: was not to walk around with no cross on my
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  Speaker 1: neck with Jesus on the cross. She said, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: She said, we don't do that because he is not there.
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  Speaker 1: He is risen. It's important that you understand that you
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  Speaker 1: don't stay on the cross. You're going to leave the cross.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to arrive again undaunted. You may be on it,
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  Speaker 1: but you're not going to stay on it. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to go through it and not to it. Is that
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  Speaker 1: sinking into anybody's head? Read on.
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  Speaker 2: If any man serve me, let him follow me. And
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  Speaker 2: where I am, there shall also my servant be. If
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  Speaker 2: any man serve me, him will my father honor. Now
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  Speaker 2: is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father,
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  Speaker 2: save me from this hour. But for this cause came
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  Speaker 2: I unto this hour.
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  Speaker 1: For this cause came I. This is the real reason
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  Speaker 1: I came. Jesus didn't come because he liked barns. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't come so some three old men could bring him
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  Speaker 1: bags of gifts. Whatever they bought to him he already owned.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you give God he's already got. He is full
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  Speaker 1: and lacking nothing. He owns everything. You can add nothing
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  Speaker 1: to God. He was born to die. He understood that
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  Speaker 1: to go from life to abundant life, he had to
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  Speaker 1: go through a death to do it. He came here
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  Speaker 1: with an agenda. He wasn't just wandering around to see
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  Speaker 1: what happens. When they tried to stop him from dying,
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  Speaker 1: Peter tried to, he said, hey, hey, Peter, get behind me,
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  Speaker 1: you devil. Don't try to stop me from getting in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: I came to get in trouble. That don't sound like
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: most Christians today because we talk about if you really
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  Speaker 1: believe God, bless God, you won't go through nothing. Just
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  Speaker 1: stand on the word, bless God, and you won't have
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  Speaker 1: to go through anything. Believe God's word. God don't want
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: you to go through nothing, brother. If you just stand
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: on the word, you don't have to go through no persecution, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Just stand. Just stand, bless God, rebuke the devil, and
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  Speaker 1: you won't go through anything. You're not following Jesus. Jesus
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: went through a cross. You said you're following Jesus. If
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: any man be my disciple, pick up his cross. Not
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: his Cadillac. Pick up his cross. Oh, I done messed
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  Speaker 1: you up. Read on before I make everybody mad. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to make everybody mad.