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Bishop T. D. Jakes - The Shechem Incident 2005 · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Open your mouth and begin to praise God and to
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  Speaker 1: just worship Him in the most intimate and personal way
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  Speaker 1: that you know how. Thank Him for the ways He
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  Speaker 1: made to get you here. Thank Him for the obstacles
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  Speaker 1: He moves so that you can have this moment. Thank
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  Speaker 1: Him for the grace over your life. Somebody give the
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  Speaker 1: Lord glory tonight. Somebody honor him. While you're standing, just
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  Speaker 1: take a moment and realize that as we worship God
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  Speaker 1: in this dome and we've come from every walk of life,
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  Speaker 1: some have driven miles, changed quickly, some didn't change. just
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  Speaker 1: to be here tonight. The men are over in the
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  Speaker 1: Georgia World Congress Center. Those that are not in here,
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  Speaker 1: they're worshiping over there. The young people are in the
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  Speaker 1: Phillips Arena and the children are in Megaland. And a
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  Speaker 1: good square mile of Atlanta is covered with worshipers lifting
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  Speaker 1: up the name of the Lord. Let's just thank God
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  Speaker 1: that the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms
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  Speaker 1: of our God and of his Christ. Amen. While we
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  Speaker 1: were worshiping, we were joined not only by the heavenly
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  Speaker 1: host and the presence of angels and the royal diadem
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  Speaker 1: of heaven, but I want you to know that while
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  Speaker 1: we were worshiping, my wife just welcomed the God channel
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  Speaker 1: who's joining us tonight along with Trinity Broadcasting Network. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Miracle Channel, TCT World, Miracle Net. It's all going
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  Speaker 1: on in the house right now. People all over the
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  Speaker 1: world have stepped into Megafest here in Atlanta, Georgia, where
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit of the Lord is moving in a supernatural way.
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  Speaker 1: And throughout the service, you might see the screens go
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  Speaker 1: to different locations. One of them might be the Smith
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  Speaker 1: State Prison in Glenville, Georgia, or Shelby County Correctional Center
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  Speaker 1: in Memphis, Tennessee, or Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: or They're worshiping with us in Toronto, Canada. The Reverend Dr.
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  Speaker 1: James is lifting up the Lord there in Toronto. We
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  Speaker 1: love you. Give God a praise for all of our
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  Speaker 1: guests and friends. Celebrate the Lord with us tonight. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when I said let everything that have breath praise the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just talking to the Georgia Dome, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to the Phillips Arena and the Georgia World Congress
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  Speaker 1: Center and Toronto, Canada and Smith State Prison and Shelby
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  Speaker 1: County Correctional and Logan County and all of the TBNs
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  Speaker 1: and God TV and Miracle Channel, TCT, Miracle Net. Let
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  Speaker 1: everything that have breath praise ye the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy to be here. You may be seated in
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  Speaker 1: the presence of the Lord. What a privilege, what an
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  Speaker 1: honor tonight it is that the Lord has afforded us
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to assemble ourselves. I'm going to say in
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  Speaker 1: the house of the Lord for I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: they built it to be, but tonight I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what it's going to be next month, but tonight, because
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  Speaker 1: the saints of God are in here, this has become
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  Speaker 1: the house of the Lord. Come on and give God
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  Speaker 1: glory tonight. This is a sanctuary of praise, a habitation
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  Speaker 1: of excellence, and God is just going to do so
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  Speaker 1: many wonderful things. I'm just excited. I don't really... There
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  Speaker 1: are so many... generals and sergeants and lieutenants in here tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to take a lot of time calling names.
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  Speaker 1: It's not out of disrespect. It's just that if you
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  Speaker 1: start it, you can't stop it. Amen. But I thank
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  Speaker 1: God for every one of you, all the pastors and
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  Speaker 1: preachers and teachers and elders and ministers that have come
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  Speaker 1: to be with us tonight. I'm just grateful to have you.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to mention one of my Dear friends,
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  Speaker 1: this is the first time being with us in an
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  Speaker 1: assembly like this and I just want to mention Pastor
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  Speaker 1: John Hagee and his wife Diane. Would you just help
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  Speaker 1: me appreciate them? Would you stand tonight? Amen. Very, very
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  Speaker 1: special friends of mine. God is so good. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to be hearing from him this week, and it's just,
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  Speaker 1: so we're blessed to have so many wonderful men and
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  Speaker 1: women of God. If you don't get saved in here,
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  Speaker 1: you just don't want to be saved. We've got the
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  Speaker 1: teachers and the reachers and the preachers and the evangelists
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  Speaker 1: and the prayer warriors. It's just a wonderful gathering of believers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm having a good time already. How about you? I
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  Speaker 1: want you, if you will, to get your Bibles as
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  Speaker 1: we prepare to go to the word of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to challenge you to take full advantage
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  Speaker 1: of this opportunity to get everything that you can over
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  Speaker 1: the next few days. Amen. Sleep fast. Eat quick. Shout hard.
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  Speaker 1: Take notes. Receive everything you can. Because after this, you're
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  Speaker 1: coming into your kingdom.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe that this is going to be a
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  Speaker 1: preparatory meeting for God's men and women if he gets
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  Speaker 1: you ready for the days to come and the things
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to release in your life. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to see why you had to go through what you
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  Speaker 1: had to go through to get to where you're about
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  Speaker 1: to go in the kingdom of God. Somebody give God glory.
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  Speaker 1: I want to look at two scriptures. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to look at Genesis chapter 49, verse 5 through 7.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 49, verse 5 through 7. And then I
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  Speaker 1: want you to look at Genesis chapter 34. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to read about 13 verses of the 34th chapter
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  Speaker 1: of the book of Genesis. Again, Genesis chapter 49, verse
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  Speaker 1: 5 through 7, and Genesis chapter 34, verse 1 through 13. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: It is my custom to stand for the reading of
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  Speaker 1: the word of God. I would ask you to indulge
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  Speaker 1: me tonight out of respect for his word. and the
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  Speaker 1: triumphant power that exists through the Word of God itself. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 49, 5 through 7, and then we're going to
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  Speaker 1: look at Genesis chapter number 34. I will read in
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  Speaker 1: your hearing Genesis 49, 5 through 7. I will read
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  Speaker 1: it in the Living Bible. but you can follow along
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  Speaker 1: with your eyes and whatever translation you may have. And
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  Speaker 1: then we will read the 34th chapter in concert. If
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  Speaker 1: you're watching from a cell in a prison, if you're
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  Speaker 1: watching in a chapel in the prison or in a
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  Speaker 1: church service around the world or in your living room,
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  Speaker 1: look in the word of God. There's something in this
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  Speaker 1: word for you tonight. Genesis 49, 5 through 7 says,
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  Speaker 1: Simeon and Levi are two of a kind. They are
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  Speaker 1: men of violence and injustice. They weren't right. Injustice. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't fair. It wasn't right. Oh, my soul, stay away
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  Speaker 1: from them. May I never be a party to their
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  Speaker 1: wicked plans, for in their anger they murdered a man
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  Speaker 1: and maimed oxen just for fun. Cursed be their anger,
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  Speaker 1: for it is fierce and cruel. Therefore, I will scatter
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  Speaker 1: their descendants throughout Israel. Can you say amen? Look at
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  Speaker 1: the 34th chapter of the book of Genesis. The 34th
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  Speaker 1: chapter of the book of Genesis, verse number 1 through 13.
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  Speaker 1: And let us read together as a family out of
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  Speaker 1: the word of God. And Dinah, the daughter of Leah,
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  Speaker 1: which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the
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  Speaker 1: daughters of the land. And when Shechem, the son of Hamor,
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  Speaker 1: the Habite, prince of the country, saw her, he took
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  Speaker 1: her and lay with her and defiled her. And his
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  Speaker 1: soul claimed unto Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he
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  Speaker 1: loved the damsel and spake kindly unto the damsel. And
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  Speaker 1: Shechem spake unto his father Hamar, saying, Get me this
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  Speaker 1: damsel to wife. And Jacob heard that he had defiled
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  Speaker 1: Dinah his daughter. Now his sons were with his cattle
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  Speaker 1: in the field, and Jacob held his peace until they
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  Speaker 1: were come. And Hamar, the father of Shechem, went unto
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  Speaker 1: Jacob to commune with him. And the sons of Jacob
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  Speaker 1: came out of the field when they heard it and
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  Speaker 1: the men were grieved and they were very wroth because
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  Speaker 1: he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter,
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  Speaker 1: which thing ought not to be done. It wasn't right.
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  Speaker 1: and have a commune with them, saying, the soul of
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  Speaker 1: my son Shechem longeth for your daughter. I pray you,
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  Speaker 1: give her him to wife. And make ye marriages with
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  Speaker 1: us and give your daughters unto us and take our
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  Speaker 1: daughters unto you. And ye shall dwell with us and
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  Speaker 1: the land shall be before you. Dwell and trade ye
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  Speaker 1: therein and get you possessions therein. And Shechem said unto
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  Speaker 1: her father and unto her brethren, let me find grace
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  Speaker 1: in your eyes and what ye shall say unto me,
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  Speaker 1: I will give. Ask me never so much dowry and
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  Speaker 1: gift and I will give according as ye shall say
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  Speaker 1: unto me, but give me the damsel to wife. And
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  Speaker 1: the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamar his father said,
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  Speaker 1: and said, because he had defiled Dinah, their sister. Can
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  Speaker 1: you say amen? For the next few moments, I just
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to you from the subject. Remain standing.
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  Speaker 1: Remain standing. We're going to pray. But for the next
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  Speaker 1: few moments, I want to talk about the Shechem incident.
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  Speaker 1: Say that with me. The Shechem incident. One more time.
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  Speaker 1: The Shechem incident. incident let's pray father in the name
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  Speaker 1: of jesus i would ask you to use me tonight
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  Speaker 1: for your glory hide my flesh behind the cross tonight
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  Speaker 1: i would ask you to speak in a supernatural way
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  Speaker 1: tonight Give answers to somebody's dilemma. It is not important
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  Speaker 1: that I be glorified. It is only important that you
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  Speaker 1: be glorified. Establish your word in the life of your
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  Speaker 1: people tonight. Somebody came looking for answers out of your word.
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  Speaker 1: Speak tonight as only you can do. I trust you now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm turning it over to you. Have your way in
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  Speaker 1: this place. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: say amen. You may be seated in the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: The Shechem.
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  Speaker 1: The Shechem. It is interesting when we read in the
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  Speaker 1: 49th chapter of the book of Genesis that as Jacob
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  Speaker 1: has come to the end of his life, about to die,
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  Speaker 1: that he has gathered around the bed his sons, that
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  Speaker 1: he might dispense his final words to them before he
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  Speaker 1: folds his legs in the bed and goes to the
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  Speaker 1: land of his father's. It is a father's final opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to summarize the remaining grains of wisdom to the intent
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  Speaker 1: that his sons might understand their destiny and their purpose. Generally,
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  Speaker 1: in a moment like this, this is a time to
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  Speaker 1: settle old accounts. To bring a sense of finality and
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  Speaker 1: closure to disruptions and confusions so that his sons might
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  Speaker 1: have a sense of peace and destiny as it relates
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  Speaker 1: to their purpose in the kingdom of God. And yet
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  Speaker 1: when we read about Jacob in the summary of his life,
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  Speaker 1: we know that he is a man of God because
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  Speaker 1: he fought death off long enough to bless his sons.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible said, and Israel sat up in the
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  Speaker 1: bed and strengthened himself. And we know that God has
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  Speaker 1: been with him, that there's been a great transformation in
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  Speaker 1: his life forever throughout all eternity. God will be referred
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  Speaker 1: to as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He
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  Speaker 1: has come into alignment with the divine order in his family. Now, admittedly,
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  Speaker 1: it took him a while to get there, but he
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  Speaker 1: has finally evolved into a man of God. Admittedly, there
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  Speaker 1: was a time that he was a ruffian, a scoundrel,
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  Speaker 1: a scout about. He was a kind of person that
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  Speaker 1: looked like he was not going to flourish after the
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  Speaker 1: tradition of his father and grandfather. But it's amazing how
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  Speaker 1: the word of God, if it is planted in your life,
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  Speaker 1: you may run for a long time, but eventually it
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  Speaker 1: will snare you. apprehend you and the righteous seed that
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  Speaker 1: is down inside of you will eventually arise and bring
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  Speaker 1: you to a place of fruition in God. Jacob has
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  Speaker 1: developed that tenacity and that prayer life and that communion
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  Speaker 1: with God. He has seen storms and tests and trials,
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  Speaker 1: famines and pestilence, storms and crisis. He has evolved into
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  Speaker 1: a man of wisdom. That's all the more reason it
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  Speaker 1: is shocking to me that in the final summary of
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  Speaker 1: his life, when we hear him speak in the 49th
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  Speaker 1: chapter of the book of Genesis, you can't help but
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  Speaker 1: notice a sense of anger and frustration in his voice
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  Speaker 1: as he refuses to release his sons from what they did.
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  Speaker 1: He speaks to Simeon and Levi almost as if he
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  Speaker 1: were angry with them. And he brings up an incident
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  Speaker 1: out of their past and calls him cruel and unjust, insensitive.
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  Speaker 1: And he says that their descendants will be cursed over
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  Speaker 1: what we will call tonight the Shechem incident. Now you
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  Speaker 1: must understand there are some things that we can do.
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  Speaker 1: That we can kind of move along and get over
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  Speaker 1: and go about our business. But there are some principles
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  Speaker 1: that if you violate them, it will affect you and
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  Speaker 1: your children and your children's children. There are some things
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  Speaker 1: that you cannot violate. There are some walls that you
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  Speaker 1: cannot break down. And the Bible talks about in the
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  Speaker 1: King James Version, it deals with how they have dug
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  Speaker 1: down a wall. They have... They've messed up some things
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  Speaker 1: that Jacob says is irreparable. And they are in a
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  Speaker 1: state where even as he is dying, he's almost pointing
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  Speaker 1: his finger at them. They're expecting a blessing, but he says,
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  Speaker 1: you're still cursed. Gasping for breath, heart pumping slowly, pulse
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  Speaker 1: getting weak, eyes rolling up. in his head a cold
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  Speaker 1: sweat on his brow death has reached out with her
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  Speaker 1: cold fingers and attached herself to his lungs and the
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  Speaker 1: air is escaping his body and in the final moments
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  Speaker 1: before he takes his flight from time and to eternity
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  Speaker 1: he says you're still cursed What an embarrassing moment for them,
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by all of their brothers. What a moment of disdain.
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  Speaker 1: What a moment of despair. This is their father's final words.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to wonder in your mind, what happened?
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  Speaker 1: In the Shechem incident that Jacob, even when he is old,
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  Speaker 1: is still pointing his crooked finger at them and saying,
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  Speaker 1: you're still wrong and you'll never get the blessing that
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  Speaker 1: you should have gotten because God remembers the Shechem incident.
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  Speaker 1: You see, this is an interesting issue because This issue centers,
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  Speaker 1: as we read in the text, the 34th chapter, it
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  Speaker 1: centers around a young lady named Dinah who is one
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  Speaker 1: of Jacob's daughters. And it is interesting because according to
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  Speaker 1: the patriarchal tradition of the times, the blessings are commended
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  Speaker 1: primarily to sons. as opposed to daughters and yet these
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  Speaker 1: boys are denied their blessing over something they did to
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  Speaker 1: a girl to a a sister to a woman, the
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  Speaker 1: way they treated her, what went down in Shechem, God
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  Speaker 1: is still holding against him because God does watch how
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  Speaker 1: you treat other people. Oh, I know that's not popular
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  Speaker 1: because we think that as long as we praise him,
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  Speaker 1: we can be mean and hateful to other people. But
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  Speaker 1: God does care how you treat other people. It's not
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  Speaker 1: just an Old Testament principle. It's not just something that's
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  Speaker 1: housed in the Pentateuch before. Appropriate blood was sprinkled, but
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  Speaker 1: all the way over into the New Testament, God warns
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  Speaker 1: us about how we treat one another. He warns us
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  Speaker 1: that we have love one toward another. He warns us,
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  Speaker 1: even as husbands, how we treat our wives. God does
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  Speaker 1: watch over his, not just his sons, but he also
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  Speaker 1: watches over... I know people don't like to admit that,
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  Speaker 1: but God will watch over his daughters just like he
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  Speaker 1: does his sons. If you don't believe it, ask Moses
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  Speaker 1: about the daughters of Zelophehad. And when the women came
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  Speaker 1: to him and said, we don't see why we shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: receive the blessing just like the men received. Even though
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  Speaker 1: we are women, it was so confusing to Moses because
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  Speaker 1: it was inappropriate for these radical women to ask to
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  Speaker 1: be blessed like a man that even Moses had to
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  Speaker 1: get down on his knees and say, God, what do
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  Speaker 1: I do with these radical women that insist that you're
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  Speaker 1: their God too? And God opened his mouth and cleared
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  Speaker 1: his throat and said, the woman is right. I want
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  Speaker 1: every woman in here to holler God will bless me too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not replacing men, but I'm standing right beside you
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  Speaker 1: and saying that God will bless me too. the blessing
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord is going to fall tonight I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who I'm preaching to tonight but I feel like
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  Speaker 1: God is going to release some things in your heart
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  Speaker 1: and in your spirit tonight break some curses over your
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  Speaker 1: life and get you ready for what he wants to
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  Speaker 1: do in you shake somebody and say this curse must
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  Speaker 1: be broken I never knew too much about about curses
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  Speaker 1: and things like that. I didn't know a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: about that sort of thing. Primarily because I grew up
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  Speaker 1: in a neighborhood where they didn't talk about cursing people.
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  Speaker 1: They talked a lot about cussing people. They didn't say
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot about cursing them. And as I begin
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  Speaker 1: to learn about curses, I've concluded I really don't want
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  Speaker 1: neither one. But I would rather you cuss me than
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  Speaker 1: curse me. You can curse me and never cuss at all.
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  Speaker 1: You curse me when you speak to my destiny and
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  Speaker 1: speak negativity over my future. You curse me when you
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  Speaker 1: tell me I'll never be anything. You curse me when
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  Speaker 1: you say I'll never have anything. You curse me when
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  Speaker 1: you tell me to go sit in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the bus and shut up. You curse me when you
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  Speaker 1: tell me to stay in my place. It's not my place.
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  Speaker 1: It's the place you want me to stay in. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying to you. and it's a
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  Speaker 1: terrible thing to live with the curse over your life
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  Speaker 1: think about it a minute this this thing with with
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  Speaker 1: with dinah doesn't really start with her the bible talks
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  Speaker 1: about dinah begin to move and to wander around shechem
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  Speaker 1: but before we talk about the young lady i want
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  Speaker 1: to reach back i've talked a little bit about her
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  Speaker 1: father but i I want to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about her mother. Dinah is the daughter of Leah. She
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  Speaker 1: grew up in the house with Leah. You remember Leah?
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  Speaker 1: Leah was Jacob's wife, the first woman that he married,
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  Speaker 1: not the woman he wanted. But the woman he married,
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  Speaker 1: not the woman he was in love with, but the
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  Speaker 1: woman he married. Not the woman that he wished for,
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  Speaker 1: craved for, longed to be around. Not the woman that
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  Speaker 1: he was so desirous of that he said, I worked
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  Speaker 1: 14 years to get this woman. Leah was the consolation prize.
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  Speaker 1: She was the booby prize. She was the trick. She
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: was the toy. She was the result of conniving Laban's
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: opportunistic attitude. Leah was what he sent to Jacob's bed.
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  Speaker 1: And Jacob didn't know who she was until in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said in the morning he saw it was Leah.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: In the King James Version, it describes Leah as being tender-eyed.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: When I first read that, I thought they were saying
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: she had beautiful eyes. But when I got in the translation,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: it meant that she was tangle-eyed. She was tender. Yeah,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: my grandmother would say she was cockeyed. She was not
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  Speaker 1: particularly beautiful. She was not voluptuous. She was not lovely.
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  Speaker 1: She was not sensual. But isn't it funny how in
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: spite of that, Leah had the favor of God over
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  Speaker 1: her life. It's a funny thing about favor. God will
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  Speaker 1: give you favor when you are hated and ostracized. The
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Bible says something that when the Lord saw how Leah
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: was hated by Rachel, that he opened up her womb.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I know you all have never been hated and so
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: you don't understand what I'm saying. But if there's anybody
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: in here who's ever lived in an environment where you've
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: been hated and mistreated and ostracized and alienated and criticized
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and people snickered when you came in the room and
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: you could see them passing notes and winking when you
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: pass by talking about, that's her, there she goes, that's him,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: look at him, he's the one over there. It's funny
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: how you can live in a hated situation and yet
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: some kind of way God has a way of making
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  Speaker 1: it up to you. I believe that God will do
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  Speaker 1: you some favors to compensate for the rejection and how
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: you've been ostracized. Some of you right now, the reason
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: you are as blessed as you are is because you
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: have been hated like you've been hated. And if you
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: hadn't have been I'm going to try to take my
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: time tonight, but I think there's a few folks in
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: here that understand what I'm saying. It's almost like the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: more people persecute you and the more they afflict you,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the more God opens doors and makes ways for you
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  Speaker 1: and say, you might not like him, but he's still
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  Speaker 1: my son. You may not like her, but she's still
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  Speaker 1: my daughter. Is there anybody in here that had God
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  Speaker 1: do you some favor? In one way, it was the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: best of times in Leah's life, and in another way,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: it was the worst of times in her life. It's
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: amazing how things can be good and bad simultaneously. When
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  Speaker 1: you look at your life from one perspective, you say,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I'm more blessed than I've ever been in my life.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: And yet when you think about certain other issues, anybody
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: ever had some issues? certain other issues you say oh
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: god what am i going to do this is the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: worst moment in my life being a friend to a
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: person like that you would think that your friend is
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: schizophrenic because one moment they're smiling and happy in the
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: next moment they got tears running down their faces folk
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: don't want to be bothered with you because they think
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: you're crazy and it's not that you're crazy it's just
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: that when you think about this it makes you want
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: to laugh And when you think about that, it makes
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: you want to cry. And it's a good day on
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: this foot, but it's a bad day on that foot.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: And when you look over here, you say, I'm blessed.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: But when you look over here, you say, I never
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: did find the love I was looking for. You say, Lord,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I thank you for the.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Job, but I sure hate the fact that they hate
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: me on the job you blessed me with.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I wonder if anybody who's ever been trapped between two
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: worlds Leah was so blessed of God that even Rachel,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the beautiful second wife that Jacob attached himself to, even
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Rachel was envious of how God blessed Leah. Leah was blessed,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: but she wasn't free. There's a difference between being blessed
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: and being free. The difference between having blessings and enjoying
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the freedom that only comes from sealing up your past
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and moving away from your issue. There's a difference between
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: being able to buy a steak and digest the steak.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: There's a difference between being able to buy a big
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: bed and being able to sleep in the bed you bought. Oh,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: y'all don't understand what I'm saying. When you're not free,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: you can't enjoy the blessings because all you do is
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: take the blessings and use the blessing to try to
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: prove to somebody else that, see, I am somebody. It's
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: not about the fact that God blessed you with the car.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: You can't enjoy the car for trying to drive past
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood where your ex lives so he can see
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: that you made it too. You ought to drive somewhere else,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: turn up the music, flip the air conditioning on high
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: and enjoy the blessing of the Lord. But when you're
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: not free, but somebody's going to get free in here tonight.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: to somebody and say, I got to get free. Oh,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: you don't just have to say it in the Georgia Dome.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: You can say it in the prison. You can say
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: it in the cell block. You can say it in
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: the prison chapel because the kind of freedom that I'm
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: talking about doesn't have anything to do with bars and
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: cells and wardens and police.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about free from your past and your mistakes
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: and your failures.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Y'all ain't helping me, but I feel something in here tonight.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Touch somebody and say, I got to be free. Something's
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: about to happen. I feel it in my soul. I
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: feel it in my spirit. I feel an unction coming
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: from the Lord. Something is about to happen in this place.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Somebody say yes. The Lord opened up Leah's womb and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: she had a son named Reuben. And she named him
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Reuben because Reuben means he looked upon my affliction. She's
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: simply saying that maybe now the Lord has looked upon
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: my affliction and maybe now Jacob will love me. But
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: he didn't. So she had another son and called him Simeon.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: And Simeon means the Lord has heard me. And maybe
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: when he sees I produced two sons and she hadn't
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: had any sons, maybe he'll love me like he loves her.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: But he didn't. And she had a third son named Levi.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: And Levi means join. She said, if I have three
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: sons for him, maybe he'll join with me and connect
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: with me and we'll have it together. But he didn't
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: and she didn't. She had a fourth son named Judah,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: which means now will I praise the Lord. She said,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: surely if I give him four sons, surely I'm going
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: to get in that state where I finally get my
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: praise on and have peace and deliverance and joy. But
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: she really didn't. She had a son named Issachar. He
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: was the fifth son. Somebody say the fifth son. And
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: she said, maybe God has given me my higher. Now,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: this boy Issachar, the fifth son, I want to take
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: a moment and talk about how she got Issachar. See,
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  Speaker 1: by the time she had had Judah, Jacob wasn't staying
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: with Leah at all. He was spending all of his
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: time over at Rachel's house. And so she got Reuben
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: to pick some fruit called mandrakes. And And Rachel wanted
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: some of the fruit. And so she said, I'll tell
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: you what, I'll give you the fruit that my son
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: picked if you'll let Jacob. Y'all can't handle this. Y'all
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: are not old enough to understand. Y'all don't understand desperation
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: because you got on your silk dress and your nice
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: hats and your pumps and your glory and Vanderbilt and
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: you don't know anything. Desperation will make you do things
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: you said you would never do and say things you
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: would never say. And I know you got to sit
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: there and act like that you never compromised your own
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: principles or done anything crazy. But there's a few sisters
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: up in the back row that'll tell you that love
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: will mess up your mind, make you act crazy, do
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: ridiculous stuff. The Bible says that Leah.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Ran out to meet Jacob when he got off work
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: and said, you coming to my house tonight.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: We already worked it out. I hired you for the evening.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: She had Issachar. She paid a price, but she had him.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: And she had Zebulun, the sixth son. And the sixth
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: son means you're a good dowry. Now that I've had
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: six sons, maybe the one I'm married to will really
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: be married to me. Six sons, no love, lots of work,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: no acceptance. Then she has... A daughter, she looked at her,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: she said, I call her Donna. No prophecy, no purpose,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: no word over her life. She wasn't expecting much to come.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: This baby was a girl. It's a girl, that ain't
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: gonna do anything for it. The seventh child should have
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: been the completion. This Dinah, she walked away. It was
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: this Dinah who was born out of the embittered womb
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: of a frustrated mother that begins to wander because this
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Dinah has no place to rest in her own house.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Her mother is distracted and preoccupied. Her mother's got unresolved issues.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: And when you are reared in an environment where your
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: parents are kind of, y'all can't handle this stuff. It's
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: hard for you to rest and be stable and be
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: secure and hold it together. Oh, you can look like
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: you got it together. You can walk like you got
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: it together. You can spray perfume on and smell like
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: you got it together. But when you're in an unstable environment,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: it affects your ability to get it together. On one hand,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: she had a mother who was just having babies, trying
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to hook up with a father who was in love
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: with somebody else, and then her father had his own issues.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Dinah was in a mess. Dinah was in a mess.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if there's anybody in here who's ever been
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: dressed up but in a mess. Driving to work, but
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: in a mess. Going about your business, but in a mess.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Smiling at people, good morning, but you're in a mess.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Going through the motions, but you're in a mess. I'm
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: wondering if there's anybody in here that's had to live
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: with a secret, an issue, a scar, a problem.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: You waited till nobody was looking to cry because you
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: didn't want anybody to know that you were smiling, but
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: you really weren't happy. I'm wondering if there's anybody in
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: here who's ever lived your life.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: In a mess. Oh, there are obvious messes. There are
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: people who are watching me right now in prison. It's
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: an obvious mess. There are people who are watching me
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: who are getting food stamps on welfare. They're in an
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: obvious mess.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: There are people who have been through suicide, almost suicide victims.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I've been through a crisis, had a nervous breakdown. It's
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: an obvious mess, but I'm going to tell on the
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: rest of you. You good-looking, sedentary, self-righteous, holier-than-thou folks. Some
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: of y'all in a mess up in here, too.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Preachers in a mess. Evangelists in a mess. Datebook filled,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: but down on the.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Inside, you're still messed up. Still messed up. Locked up
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: in a crazy house, dealing with crazy folks. Everybody in
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: the house act like they've lost their mind. Everybody in
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the house is looking somewhere else. The place where you
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: ought to be safe and be nurtured and be stable
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: was a crazy house. I know you can't hold your
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: hand up because you don't want nobody to know that
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: you grew up in a crazy house. Now that you
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: got your degree, you moved on past that.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: But behind all of that paperwork, you came from a.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: People think you just shout because you're emotional.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: You just shout because you're just glad you didn't lose
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: your mind. Anybody been through what you've been through to
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: the loss of mind?
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Had it not been.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: For the Lord that was on your side, you wouldn't
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: be sitting up here.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: With your cute dress on.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: God.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: God delivered me. God brought you through.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: God.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Touch somebody and say, you better praise him. You better
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: not sit up and act all cute and funny and self-righteous.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: You ought to praise him till we can't smell your cologne.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Praise him till you shake down them braids out of
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: your head. You ought to praise him where God brought
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: you from.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Somebody say, Lord, don't let me look like where I
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: came from.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: I'm going to try that again. Say, Lord, don't let
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: me look like where I came from. Give him some
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: praise if you feel me.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I have to apologize to Dinah myself. I didn't treat
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Dinah right either. I slandered Dinah as a preacher. I
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: misrepresented Dinah as a preacher. I didn't look at Dinah
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: deeply enough. I preached Dinah and I suggested things about
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: this girl that wasn't true. I thought that Dinah had
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: gone trampsing about in Shechem because she was a slut.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I thought she was looking for the men of Shechem.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: I thought she'd gotten out in the street looking for
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: a date.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I criticized her for wandering out in Shechem because I
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: didn't understand that when you read the text, she didn't.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Go into Shechem looking for men. The Bible says she
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: was looking for daughters. She was looking for sisters. She
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: was looking for women. She was looking for connection. She's
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: looking for mothering. She's looking for nurturing. She's looking for affection.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: She's looking for what Leah couldn't give her.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: She was looking for somebody who would help her find
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: her purpose and her destiny. I'm wondering if there's anybody
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: in here who's ever searched to find the missing link
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: in your life.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Traveling everywhere. Everywhere. She wasn't looking for a date.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: She was looking for Leah, for nurturing, for affection, for completion.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Have you ever left home looking for one thing? and
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: ended up with something else? Have you ever left home
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: looking for love and people just made assumptions about you
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: and thought they knew what you were and labeled you
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: and started rumors on you? They don't know who you are.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: They don't know what you meant. Have you ever stumbled
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: around trying to find what you should have already had?
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Looking in Shechem, she was looking.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: In Shechem, trying to find what she should have found
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: in the house. I said she was trying to find
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: what she should have found.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: In the house. I have to apologize to her because
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: the Bible says that when she came to Shechem, the
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: city was named after the prince Shechem, who was the
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: son of Hamel. And when she came down into Shechem,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: she ran into the prince. Now... He was from Shechem.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: He wasn't a part of her family or her house,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: but he saw her and he slept with her.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: And I have to apologize to Brother Shechem too because
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: I thought that he just brutalized her and raped her
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: and ostracized her.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: But no, no, no, that's not exactly how it was.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: He did sleep with her, but the Bible said he
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: fell in.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Love with her.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, I know.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I know, he fell in love with her, this strange,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: broken girl who was looking for something. Maybe he needed
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: to be needed, I don't know, but whatever it was,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: he fell in love with Dinah, this purposeless, wandering, wilted woman.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: He fell in love with her, fell in love with her.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: He told his dad, he said, I got to have
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: this woman. I want her.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: It wasn't a fling. It wasn't a midnight rendezvous. He said,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: I want her to be my wife. He said, Daddy,
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: get me this woman. I want to make her my wife.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: The Bible said he loved her. He did for her
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: what her daddy didn't do for her mother.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Y'all can't handle me tonight. I said he did for.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Her what her daddy didn't do for her mother. She
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: had never seen a man love a woman. It blew
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: her mind.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: He loved her. He loved her. She finally found where
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: she fit. Now I know, I know what you're thinking.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: You're saying he went about it wrong. It would have
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: been all right for him to sleep with her had
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: he married her first. You're right. He should have married
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: her and then slept with her. It wasn't right. It
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: wasn't right. I can't make excuses for it. It was
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: out of order. It was wrong.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: It wasn't divine order.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: It wasn't right. And then the Bible scholars are saying,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: she didn't have no business fooling with the men of Shechem.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: No way.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: She should have married somebody into her house. And I
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: know it wasn't right.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: It wasn't right. It wasn't right. It wasn't right. It
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: should have been in the house, but it wasn't right.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: You see, sometimes God has to take you.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Outside of the house. I wish I had a diner
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: in here.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Somebody that God had to get you outside of the box,
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: had to get you out of your city, away from
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: your folks, away from the folks who knew you when,
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: away from the place where you thought. Have you ever
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: had God bless you in a strange place? Some of y'all,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: they didn't even want you to come to this meeting,
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: but God will take you out of your environment.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Amen. It wasn't right. It wasn't right.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: It wasn't right for Rahab, the hooker, to lie about
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: the spies.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: It wasn't right.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: It wasn't right for Samuel to lie to Saul about
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: why he was looking for David to anoint him.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: It wasn't right. It wasn't right.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: For Jonah to head toward passion.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: It wasn't right. It wasn't right.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: It wasn't right for you to have a baby out
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: of wedlock. It wasn't right for you to end up
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: in that situation that you had to pray for months
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: to get out of.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't right. And I know you got to sit
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  Speaker 1: there in that holy seat with that sanctimonious look on
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  Speaker 1: your face with your holy Bible and your.
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  Speaker 2: Holy light with your holy glasses on and act like
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  Speaker 2: everything you did was right. But I want to blow
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  Speaker 2: the whistle on you today. Some of the mess you
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: got into. Where are the real.
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  Speaker 1: Folks in here?
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to tell them what you did, but
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  Speaker 2: touch three people and say, it wasn't right.
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  Speaker 1: There you in the prison you do it to touch
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  Speaker 1: them and.
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  Speaker 2: Say it wasn't right it was some of that stuff
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  Speaker 2: you brought on yourself it wasn't right no need in
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  Speaker 2: making excuses and trying to rewrite the bible and change
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: the scriptures and appeal the court it wasn't right But
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: I need to tell somebody that one of the reasons
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  Speaker 2: that I love the Lord is that God can take
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  Speaker 2: something that was wrong and slip it all the way
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  Speaker 2: around and make it turn out. I know you can't
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  Speaker 2: act like you know what I'm talking about, but somebody
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  Speaker 2: in here knows what it is for God to take your.
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  Speaker 1: Mess and turn it into a message.
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  Speaker 2: Spin around right fast and say, turn it around, Lord.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: People think you're shouting over your car. You're not shouting
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: over your car. People think you're shouting over your house.
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  Speaker 2: You're not shouting over your house. You're shouting because.
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  Speaker 1: God turned it around. It wasn't right.
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  Speaker 2: See, you all are sitting out here walking around free
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  Speaker 2: and you can act like you don't need this message
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: but somebody's watching me in the prison right now. They
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: need to know that God can take something that's wrong
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  Speaker 2: and turn it around and make it come out all right.
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  Speaker 1: Let the witnesses holler, yeah.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: Shake somebody's hand like you're gonna shake it off and say,
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  Speaker 2: he turned my life around.
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  Speaker 1: He turned my life around.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: He turned my situation around. He turned my credit around.
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  Speaker 2: He turned my finances around. He turned my marriage around.
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  Speaker 2: He turned my children around.
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  Speaker 1: He turned.
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  Speaker 2: He turned....
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  Speaker 1: Slap somebody and say, turn it around, Lord.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: Somebody take 60 seconds and praise God for a massive turnaround.
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  Speaker 1: Prophesy to somebody and tell them to get ready for
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: a turnaround. Dreaming it for evil.
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  Speaker 2: But God's going to make it good.
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  Speaker 1: Get ready. Get ready.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know who it is, but somebody's getting ready
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: to turn your money around, your finances around, your home
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: life around. Give God a praise right now. Somebody's shoutin'
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: in the prison, get ready for a turnaround Somebody's shoutin'
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: in your living room, get ready for a turnaround Press down,
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  Speaker 2: shake it and get a little bit ready.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I feel the anointing in here.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: Something's about to happen in this place. Talk to somebody
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: and say, something's about to happen in here tonight. Can
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: I go deeper tonight? Sit down, let me go deeper.
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  Speaker 2: My God, I feel a turnaround spirit up in here.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: I said, my God, I feel a turnaround spirit. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: came here with a mess on you. You see, sit
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: down before you shout me down.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm interested in I want you to get this,
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: because this is important. What I'm interested in is the
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: sixth verse.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: It says, and Hamar, the father of Shechem, went out
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: unto Jacob to commune with him. Hamar, the father of Shechem,
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  Speaker 2: went out to commune with Jacob, the father of Daniel.
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  Speaker 1: And now, I know what they did wasn't right. but
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: we got to get them out of this. And Hammer said,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: I tell you what, we want to marry your daughter
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  Speaker 1: and we'll give our sons and daughters to marry your
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: sons and daughters.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: And what you all are looking for, we already got.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: We've got the vineyards. and the houses and the land
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: and the property and y'all don't have to work for
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: none of it just come in and receive it and
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: we're going to give it to you because we're happy
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: about this union and Jacob said I can't let my
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  Speaker 2: sons find out about this because they'll mess this up
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  Speaker 2: with their carnal mind. They'll step in and get in
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  Speaker 2: God's way.
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  Speaker 1: We about to walk into a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: God's about to turn some messing into some blessing. I
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: wish somebody came here with some mess on them so
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: you'd understand who I'm talking to today. God's about to
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: give you beauty for ashes and all the joy for
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaven.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: God's about to. But Levi and Simeon got in the
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: middle of the blessing and messed it up.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: Because they thought they were doing God's service. When they
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: got through, it wasn't just that they had killed the
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  Speaker 1: men of Shechem.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: They had stopped Dinah's blessings. from coming to pass in
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: her life. And Jacob wasn't just angry because these boys
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: had a temper tantrum, but Jacob was angry because they were.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: Cruel and they were unjust, unfair.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: Have you ever had somebody do something that sabotaged.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: Your blessing.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: And hindered you from getting something that should have been
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: yours because God.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: Decided to bless you without them.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: See, people get an attitude when they can't take the
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: claim for the blessing that God gave you. But whoever
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: I'm preaching to, God will bless you.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: Outside of the house. I want to tell somebody in
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: this room, you about to get a crazy blessing. A
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: ridiculous blessing.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: And I know you didn't get it when you thought
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: you should have got it. And you didn't get it
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: from the people who should have gave it to you.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: And everybody you thought loved you turned their back on you.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: But God's got somebody else he's gonna raise.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Up. I want some people that's been in spiritual warfare
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: been in a real battle, been up under attack. By faith,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: I want you to get up.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: And praise God for a supernatural blessing. Touch a neighbor,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: say neighbor. The reason I'm shouting is God is going
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: to break every curse off of my life and give
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: me the blessing I've been waiting on all of my life.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: I know the devil said it's too late. I know
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: the devil said it's too old. I know the devil
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: said it's not going to happen.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: But I came to tell you the devil lied.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: God's going to restore to you the years that the
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: king of words and.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: The palm of words and.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: The locust ate up. Give him a praise right now.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: Where are my folk that's been persecuted?
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: Are you in here tonight?
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you what the enemy tries to get
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: you to do when you're persecuted. He wants you to
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: sit up and look sad and get depressed and feel
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: sorry for yourself because.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: The enemy knows.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: That if you start praising God Not when you get out,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: but right in the middle of your trouble. If you're
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: braving in spite of your problem, if you're braving in
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: spite of your situation, the devil knows that God will.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: I want some.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: Folk that's been in the fight of your life to give.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: God a praise right now.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: What Dinah should have done was stand there in the
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: middle of all of her fields and all of her
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: houses and all of that love and say, Lord, I
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: thank you for your mercy. I thank you for your blessings.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: I thank you for your favor. For when praises go up.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: Let me show you something quickly and I'll get out
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: of your way.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: The next time you're up under attack, don't you say,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: when I get out, I'm going to shout the victory.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: I'm going to praise the Lord.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give God the glory.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: Stand right in the middle of the mess. Lift up
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: your eyes up to the hills from which come of
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: your help. Throw your hands up.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: In the air. Act like you just don't care.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: Bend your back, hold your head up, and shout at.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: The crowd.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: Touch your neighbor and say, neighbor, if you were just praising,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: you won't have to fight back. The battle is not yours.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: It belongs to God. Give God the praise right now.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: Give Him the praise. Praise Him. Praise Him. Praise Him.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: Praise Him. Praise Him. Praise Him. Praise Him.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: Praise Him. No, you ain't got to praise Him. If
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: they can praise Him in the prison, in a uniform,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: in a cell, I know you ought to be able
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: to give God praise. Reach out, lay hands on seven
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: people and say, you are blessed.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: You are blessed.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: Quick, you are blessed. You are blessed. You're blessed in
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: the city. You're blessed in the field. You're blessed in
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: your uprising. You're blessed in your down setting. You're blessed
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: in your coming in.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: You're blessed. Blessed. Blessed. You're blessed. You're blessed.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: Find them seven people and touch them again and tell
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: them your enemies are cursed.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: Your enemies are cursed. Cursed be Levi. Cursed be Simeon.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: They are cursed. The hand of the Lord is on you. Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 3: Yes!
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: Your enemies are cursed!
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: Your enemies are cursed! Your enemies are cursed!
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: Your enemy! Your enemy! Your!
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: Your!
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: Look at your neighbor and say, give me some room.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give God some praise tonight. I'm going
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: to break every curse and seize my blessing. Open your
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: mouth and give God praise.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: I dare you to put me down. I dare you
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: to put me down. I dare you to put me down.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: See, Donna needed to know how to reverse the curse.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: I need a thousand folk that want to reverse the
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: curse tonight. Throw your hands up in the air.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, I'm getting.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: Ready to reverse this curse. For the next 60 seconds,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: I want you to praise God until you reverse every
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: curse in your life.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: 50 seconds.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: All right! Just give him a pass!
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: Now I realize why Jacob was so angry with Levi
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: and Simeon. Levi and Simeon did not believe that God
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: could take something that was wrong and turn it around
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: and make it turn out right. But Jacob knew.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: That God could take something that started out wrong and
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: make it turn out right. Because Jacob started out wrong
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: and God turned him around and made it turn out right.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: And if you've ever been wrong and seen God turn
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: you around and make it turn out right, you hate
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: to see anybody come up and judge somebody that God.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: Is still working on. There's somebody in this room right now,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: you've gotten yourself in a mess. Everyone's standing. I want
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: you to join hands with somebody all over the building.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: Leave no one untouched. No walking, no foolishness. I don't
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: know who's touching you, but somebody on your row has
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: experienced the mercy of God.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: They might not want to own up to it right now,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: because they're real important and stuff right now, but somebody.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: On your pew has had their life turned around. And
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: they know that if God could turn them around, He
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: can turn you around. I know you don't want nobody
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: to know it's you, but if you've ever experienced the
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: grace of God, just squeeze somebody's hand as a signal.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: It's me. It's me. It's me. It's me. It's me.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: God can save in the prison. God can save the crackhead.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: God can save the liar, the backbiter, the dope dealer.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: It don't matter who it is. Because there's some folks
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: in here that know that if it were not for
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: God's mercy, God can reach right in that prison and
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: save tonight and deliver and fill with the Holy Spirit.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: And yes, he can even bring them out of there.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: Squeeze the hand of your witness. Lord, I... There are
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: folk who are watching us on television who need a miracle.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: They're watching all over the world. They need a breakthrough.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: If it's not them, it's their son. If it's not
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: the son, it's the daughter. Some mama, some daddy's been
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: standing in the gap like Hammer and Jacob saying, turn
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: it around for my children.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: I know I didn't do everything right when I was
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: raising them, but turn it around.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: Turn it around. Turn it around. The enemy's trying to
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: destroy their blessing. Turn it around. Before Levi and Simeon
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: mess it up, turn it around. Turn it around. Squeeze
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: that hand. Father, don't let one person watching me, whether
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: they're in Canada or Africa, in Europe, Australia, it doesn't
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: matter where they're watching right now, South America, from LA
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: to New York, from Maine to Portugal, God, touch. But
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: your spirit from the balcony to the front row from
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: the east to the west the north to the south
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: even the person who will hear this message on the
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: tape and the video Turn it around! Before we have
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: a Shechem incident. Turn it around before Simeon and Levi
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: can destroy. Lord, there's a backslider in this house tonight
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: and This is the night that's written in the books
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: of heaven for them to come to you. There's a
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: sinner listening at this message and tonight is the night
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: that they're to come to you. There's some things you've
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: ordained to turn around in their life. Some of them
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: never got what they should have gotten when they should
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: have gotten it. They were not nurtured. They were not reared.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: They were not loved. They were not held. They were
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: not touched. Like Donna, they've had a wandering spirit from
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: thing to thing, from place to place, from woman to woman,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: from man to man. Stop the wandering tonight, Lord. Stop
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: the wandering before they are destroyed. Stop the wandering. Holy Spirit,
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: break down every barrier and every wall that would stop
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: them from coming to Christ. Set them free tonight. Go
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: in the prison. Save in the sanctuary. Go in that
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: living room, in that kitchen, in that dining room. Turn
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: that dining room table into an altar. Set them free tonight.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: I thank you for miracles. Work a miracle in here tonight.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, amen. Now, this is what I want.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: No clapping, no clapping. Look right this way. Open up
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: the aisle. This is what I want right now.