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Timing_Is_Everything_Trust_God_s_Timing_When_You_Feel_Delayed (1) · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: As we go into it today. Let it bring life
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  Speaker 1: and healing and renewal and restoration as we delve into
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  Speaker 1: the depths of God's word. Bring out treasures and ministry
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  Speaker 1: and healing and revelation. I thank you for what you
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  Speaker 1: are about to do. In Jesus' name we pray. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: shout amen. You may be seated in the presence of God. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to work. Over the 65 years of my life,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I knew it when I started. I
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  Speaker 1: started preaching at 19. I started pastoring at 21. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I knew it then, but I know it now.
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  Speaker 1: The best things in life takes time. When I was younger,
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  Speaker 1: I was impatient because I had the naivety of thinking
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  Speaker 1: that dreams would come quickly. but the best things in
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  Speaker 1: life take time. From simple things like food, preparation to
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  Speaker 1: more complicated issues of parenting and marriage, the best things
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  Speaker 1: in life take time. People who don't have time to
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  Speaker 1: cook don't cook well because the best things in life
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  Speaker 1: take time. You can get married, you can have a
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  Speaker 1: wedding in 30 minutes, but it takes years to have
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  Speaker 1: a marriage The best things in life take what? It
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  Speaker 1: is a sharp contrast between being rich and being wealthy.
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  Speaker 1: You can hit the lottery receiving inheritance. You can be
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  Speaker 1: catapulted from rags to riches and you can be rich quick.
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  Speaker 1: Though many define wealth differently than how I will today,
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  Speaker 1: true wealth isn't just about money. but it is about
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  Speaker 1: the lessons you learn while struggling upward. If you have
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  Speaker 1: money without wisdom, you will soon be parted from your money.
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  Speaker 1: The best things in life take time. takes relationships. You've
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  Speaker 1: got the money, but because it was given to you quickly,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't build the infrastructure to sustain it. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have the relationships to sustain it. You don't have the
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  Speaker 1: information to sustain it. And most people who hit the lottery,
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  Speaker 1: 70 to 80% of them go broke within five years.
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  Speaker 1: You can't imagine that you could hit that much money
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  Speaker 1: and lose it, but the truth of the matter is,
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  Speaker 1: God is teaching us that the best things in life
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  Speaker 1: take time. There are things that you learn from struggling.
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  Speaker 1: There are things that you learn from tests and trials
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  Speaker 1: and trial and error. Some of my best teachers were failure.
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  Speaker 1: It takes time to do well. It takes even longer
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  Speaker 1: to be well. Let's listen at the words of Solomon
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  Speaker 1: when he talks out of Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verse 1
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  Speaker 1: through 2. And listen at Solomon, the wise man, the
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  Speaker 1: wise man. He says, to everything there is a season
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  Speaker 1: and a time. To every purpose under heaven. He says,
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  Speaker 1: to everything there is a season and a time, to
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  Speaker 1: every purpose under heaven. You got purpose, but do you
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  Speaker 1: understand season and time? Now, we read over that quickly,
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  Speaker 1: but we really don't think about it, because if we
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  Speaker 1: thought about it, we would understand that some people are seasonal.
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  Speaker 1: Some relationships are seasonal. Some opportunities are seasonal. And yet
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  Speaker 1: when we see the seasons change, we think the blessing
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  Speaker 1: has ceased. But it is not that the blessing has ceased,
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  Speaker 1: it is that the season has changed. There's a great deal,
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  Speaker 1: I got a lot of trees in my yard, there's
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  Speaker 1: a great deal of difference between how my yard looks
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  Speaker 1: in the spring and how it looks in the fall.
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  Speaker 1: And by the time it gets to winter, quite frankly,
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  Speaker 1: the trees are ugly and barren and destitute. And if
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  Speaker 1: you came in the winter and saw it, you would
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  Speaker 1: have no idea of how beautiful it would be if
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  Speaker 1: it takes time. There is a time to be born
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  Speaker 1: and there is a time to die. If I had time,
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  Speaker 1: I'd talk about they are very similar, birth and death.
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  Speaker 1: A time to plant and a time to pluck up
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  Speaker 1: that which is planted. Now listen to what he says.
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  Speaker 1: There's a time to plant and there's a time to
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  Speaker 1: pluck up that which is planted. Do you know the
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  Speaker 1: difference in your life? The difference between knowing when to
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  Speaker 1: plant and when to pluck. Have you ever asked God,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you've asked him when to plant, but have you
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  Speaker 1: ever asked him when to pluck up? Or are you
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  Speaker 1: intent on keeping that which is planted to the destruction
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  Speaker 1: of plucking up that which you have become accustomed to?
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  Speaker 1: You can't have a new season until you are willing
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  Speaker 1: to say goodbye to the season you had. I call
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  Speaker 1: it the art of letting go, the spirit of release,
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  Speaker 1: not wrestling, releasing. Some of you are wrestling to hold
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  Speaker 1: on to something that God is trying to take away
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  Speaker 1: from you and you need to release it and simply
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  Speaker 1: let it go. That was that season. When I was
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  Speaker 1: a child, I thought as a child, I spake as
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  Speaker 1: a child, I understood as a child, but when I
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  Speaker 1: became a man, I had to let go of childish things,
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  Speaker 1: childish thinking. I thought as a child, I spake as
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  Speaker 1: a child, I understood as a child. If you are
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  Speaker 1: still talking the way you were talking 10 years ago,
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  Speaker 1: I've got bad news for you. You have a deformity.
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  Speaker 1: A spiritual dysfunction that keeps your thoughts in one dimension.
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  Speaker 1: That means you can't fall in love with your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: I want all the stubborn people to say amen. Because
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  Speaker 1: if you are stubborn with your thoughts, you delay your
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  Speaker 1: next season. I have watched some of the greatest people
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  Speaker 1: in every industry you can imagine. I've had the privilege
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  Speaker 1: of having relationships with people who were at the top
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  Speaker 1: of their game in just about every industry you can imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Those that leave the greatest impact understand timing. Timing is everything.
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  Speaker 1: Timing is everything. Say it with me. Timing is everything.
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  Speaker 1: Say it again. Many people don't realize that part of
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  Speaker 1: the art of baking is timing. There are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people that cook but don't bake because part of
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  Speaker 1: the art of baking is timing. The difference between a
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  Speaker 1: dry cake and a moist cake is... Come on, come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on. The difference between a moist cobbler and a
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  Speaker 1: dry cobbler is whenever you taste a dry one, you
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  Speaker 1: know they left it in the oven. Oh, come on. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: somebody knows what I'm talking about. You've got to understand
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  Speaker 1: it's timing in baseball. It's not just skill. It is
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  Speaker 1: the timing that causes the batter to be effective at
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  Speaker 1: swinging the bat. You can have the right swing, but
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  Speaker 1: if you swing at the wrong time, you won't have
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  Speaker 1: the impact that you should have had. Some of you
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  Speaker 1: are trying to do the right swing, but you're swinging
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  Speaker 1: at the wrong time. time you're in such a hurry
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  Speaker 1: that you're swinging before the ball can strike the target
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  Speaker 1: because you are more moved by the crowd than you
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  Speaker 1: are by the ball. Timing is everything. Many people don't
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  Speaker 1: realize that not only is timing everything in baseball and baking,
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  Speaker 1: it is also everything when it comes to comedy or
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  Speaker 1: speaking or music. It's about timing. It's not just can
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  Speaker 1: you read music, can you keep time. It's not can
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  Speaker 1: you tell a joke, but can you time the joke.
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  Speaker 1: It's not can you speak a message, Can you use
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  Speaker 1: timing to convey information? You can give great information out
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  Speaker 1: of time and be an incompetent speaker because you don't
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  Speaker 1: understand timing. Everything is a rhythm. Everything is a rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: God is a rhythm. Breathing is a rhythm. circulation is
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  Speaker 1: a rhythm heartbeat is a rhythm pulse is a rhythm
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  Speaker 1: everything that is alive has a rhythm birth has a
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  Speaker 1: rhythm A woman's body has a rhythm. God is telling
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  Speaker 1: us over and over and over in nature, in creation,
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  Speaker 1: in procreation, that timing is everything. You can't be fruitful
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  Speaker 1: out of season. Somebody shout, teach me to know my season.
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  Speaker 1: Help me with my timing. You can be right about
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  Speaker 1: what you said but wrong about when you said it
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  Speaker 1: and do more damage than you did good. It's not
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  Speaker 1: about right and wrong, it's about timing. Right information delivered
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  Speaker 1: at the wrong time can tear a marriage up. can
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  Speaker 1: cause a child to feel defeated, can stop a loan
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  Speaker 1: from going through, can stop the house from being built,
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  Speaker 1: can stop you from having the peace you ought to have.
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  Speaker 1: You're worried about being right, you need to be worried
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  Speaker 1: about Timing, timing, timing, time, time, time, time, time, time.
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  Speaker 1: Timing is everything. Timing is absolutely everything. One thing I
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  Speaker 1: know for sure, I came to Dallas at the right time.
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  Speaker 1: 38 years old, it was the right time. Any sooner
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  Speaker 1: would have been a disaster. I wasn't ready for it.
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  Speaker 1: Any later would have been too late. It wasn't ready
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  Speaker 1: for me. It wasn't just the right time in my life,
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  Speaker 1: it was the right time in Dallas. It was the
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  Speaker 1: right time in history. You have to do things at
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  Speaker 1: the right time or you're not gonna have the effect
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  Speaker 1: that you would have had because you don't understand timing
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  Speaker 1: because timing is what? Timing is what? Wake up. Timing
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  Speaker 1: is what? Wake up. Timing is what? Timing is absolutely everything.
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  Speaker 1: I've given this illustration before, but I want to paint
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  Speaker 1: it again for you that have not heard it. Harlan
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  Speaker 1: Sanders built an amazing business because he did the right
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  Speaker 1: thing at the right time. KFC came at a time
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  Speaker 1: in the American history that women had just started to
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  Speaker 1: go to work. It came at a time in history
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  Speaker 1: that families were still sitting around the table. It solved
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  Speaker 1: the problem. How can we simulate a family dinner without
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  Speaker 1: the woman being home to cook? Doing the right thing
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  Speaker 1: at the right time. It wasn't just about the chicken
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  Speaker 1: is good. It was that the need was great. It
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  Speaker 1: solved the problem and it came at the right time. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying. Let me make this clear.
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  Speaker 1: If he opened up now, he'd go bankrupt. You can
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  Speaker 1: sustain it at this level, but you can't start it
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  Speaker 1: at this level because now if you open it up,
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  Speaker 1: they want to know, is it gluten-free? Do you have
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  Speaker 1: vegan chicken? I'm a pescatarian. They were not asking those
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  Speaker 1: questions at that time. Success is as much about timing
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  Speaker 1: as it is about anything else. Do you know what
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  Speaker 1: time it is in your life? I've got a watch
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  Speaker 1: on my wrist, I've got a phone, both of them
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  Speaker 1: backing up so that I know what time it is
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  Speaker 1: in the day. But do I know what time it
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  Speaker 1: is in my life? Is it time to put away
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  Speaker 1: childish things? I can only be fruitful in my season.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said you shall bring forth fruit in your season.
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  Speaker 1: Your leaf shall not wither and whatsoever you do shall prosper.
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  Speaker 1: You have to know when it's your season and you
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  Speaker 1: have to know when it's over. You have to know
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  Speaker 1: when to hold it. You have to know when to
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  Speaker 1: fold it. You cannot see folding as failure. It's all
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  Speaker 1: about timing. Oh, talk to me. It's all about timing.
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  Speaker 1: Timing is everything. I have preached this text many, many,
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  Speaker 1: many times. I have preached it many, many ways. There
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  Speaker 1: is an eschatological element of this text that I won't
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  Speaker 1: touch today that speaks to the end time. We could
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  Speaker 1: talk about it that way. But the reason I'm in
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  Speaker 1: this text today and the reason I want to luxuriate
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  Speaker 1: in this text, after many days, I have been seeing
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  Speaker 1: entangled roots underground. For me, this message did not start
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  Speaker 1: with the text. It started with a vision of entangled
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  Speaker 1: roots underground. Regardless of the plant type at the top
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  Speaker 1: of the soil, the roots mesh together underground. Whether it
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  Speaker 1: is weeds or wheat, if they are planted in the
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  Speaker 1: same space, the roots become entangled underground. And for days,
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  Speaker 1: God has been showing me entangled roots. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go deeper into this in a minute. Are you ready
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  Speaker 1: to go with me? I said, are you ready to
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  Speaker 1: go with me? I said, are you ready to go
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  Speaker 1: with me? Timing is what? Say it again. Timing is what? Good.
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  Speaker 1: The text starts with a very common phrase. The kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of heaven is lacking. Shows us that kingdom truths are
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  Speaker 1: veiled in comparisons. He doesn't tell us what the kingdom is.
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  Speaker 1: He tells us what the kingdom is like. So the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom truths that I am meant to get out of
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  Speaker 1: this will come through veiled, it is veiled in comparisons.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever the truths are veiled in comparison, you cannot become
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  Speaker 1: so inundated with the comparison that you fail to dig
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  Speaker 1: beneath the soil of the text to extract the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Why is Jesus telling us this story? It is not
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  Speaker 1: just so that we may know the story. It is
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  Speaker 1: that we might understand the truth that is hidden in
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  Speaker 1: the fabric of the story. So we can't just read
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  Speaker 1: through it and say I'm through with it and I
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  Speaker 1: know the story because we have to understand that the
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  Speaker 1: revelation is hidden in the analogy. It hides behind the parable.
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  Speaker 1: It is locked up in the parable in such a
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  Speaker 1: way that it causes you not only to read but
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  Speaker 1: to think. If you don't think when you read, you
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  Speaker 1: won't retain what you heard. Some people will hear this
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  Speaker 1: message and get nothing because they will not add the
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  Speaker 1: necessary quotient of thinking with hearing. And if you don't think,
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  Speaker 1: I am not your preacher. I cannot preach to people
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  Speaker 1: who don't think. So everybody's not for me. I'm cool
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  Speaker 1: with that. I understand that. I get that. That's okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay. If God is hiding, is God hiding? Let
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  Speaker 1: me go that way. Is God hiding the kingdom in
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  Speaker 1: parables to avoid exposure? No, God isn't the one who
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  Speaker 1: hides from us his glory. That notion is counterintuitive to
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  Speaker 1: who Jesus is himself. Jesus is God revealed. Isaiah 53
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  Speaker 1: says this word and it is important. Who has believed
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  Speaker 1: our message and to whom has the arm of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord been revealed? Jesus is God revealed to us. He
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  Speaker 1: is God accepted. Extending himself. When it calls the arm
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. It's talking about Jesus. Because Jesus is God.
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  Speaker 1: Extending himself. From divinity to humanity. Jesus came to express God.
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  Speaker 1: And we beheld the wonder of his glory. The only
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  Speaker 1: begotten of the father. Full of grace and truth. Why
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  Speaker 1: would Jesus come to express God. And then hide God.
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  Speaker 1: He is the revealer. He is the author of the
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  Speaker 1: book of Revelations. John penned it, but Jesus said it.
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  Speaker 1: He is the revealer. So let us not think that
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  Speaker 1: God is hiding when God is revealing. So when we
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  Speaker 1: look at this we begin to understand that it is
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  Speaker 1: man who loves darkness rather than light. Because his deeds
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  Speaker 1: are evil. It is man who hid in the garden
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  Speaker 1: from God. It is man who walks away from truth
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  Speaker 1: and hides his wickedness and his iniquity from God. There
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  Speaker 1: is not a person in this room that isn't hiding something.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you're not going to talk to me. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to keep on bragging until I get it. There
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  Speaker 1: is not a person in this room that isn't hiding something.
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  Speaker 1: I have news for the young people who are talking
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  Speaker 1: about keeping it 100. Nobody keeps it 100. You might
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  Speaker 1: keep it about 90. If you want to lose everything,
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  Speaker 1: keep it 100. If you want to destroy everything, keep
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  Speaker 1: it 100. If you want to lose your job Monday morning,
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  Speaker 1: go in there and keep it 100. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: want to be here. I'm sick of all of y'all,
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  Speaker 1: and I never liked you in the first place. And
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  Speaker 1: you make me sick, and you get on my nerves.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get you fired, but you keep it at 100.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to get divorced real quick, and she
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  Speaker 1: asks you, do my hips look big in this dress?
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  Speaker 1: And you respond, look like two bears fighting in the
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  Speaker 1: woods under a blanket. I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 1: Or he says, am I the greatest lover you ever had? No,
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  Speaker 1: you're about number 10. I just love you and I
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  Speaker 1: put up with it and I act like you just
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  Speaker 1: killing me and driving me crazy. But the truth of
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  Speaker 1: the matter is I was thinking about what I was
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  Speaker 1: going to wear to work. That's keeping it 100. It's
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  Speaker 1: also keeping you in divorce for it. There is not
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  Speaker 1: a person in this room that isn't hiding something. God
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  Speaker 1: has nothing to hide. So when God says the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of heaven is lack, we must not think that God
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  Speaker 1: is hiding the truth. As if he were playing hide
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  Speaker 1: and go seek with us. What he is doing as
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  Speaker 1: the master rabbi is a teacher explaining the unexplainable to
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  Speaker 1: a far less intelligent being. What the kingdom of heaven
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  Speaker 1: is like. Like a first grade teacher teaching a student
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  Speaker 1: what it is like. to be in Paris, what it
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  Speaker 1: is like to travel the world. She has to consider
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  Speaker 1: the age and the intellectual development of the student in
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  Speaker 1: order to be effective at teaching. She is not hiding,
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  Speaker 1: she is reducing it down to the level of the
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  Speaker 1: audience she is talking to. So when Jesus says the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom of heaven is lack, it is God stooping. It
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  Speaker 1: is God coming to our level. Can you prove it? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: as high as the heavens are above the earth, so
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  Speaker 1: are my thoughts above your thoughts and my ways above
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  Speaker 1: your ways. If I spoke it to you on my level,
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  Speaker 1: you would never understand it. So I speak to you
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  Speaker 1: in metaphors and similes and comparisons so that you can
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  Speaker 1: learn what the kingdom of heaven is like. And I
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  Speaker 1: have to find something that you can compare it to
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  Speaker 1: because what I am talking about is so high that
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  Speaker 1: I'm breaking it down in the first line when I
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  Speaker 1: say the kingdom of heaven is like I'm talking baby talk.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Jesus is doing when he's talking to us.
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  Speaker 1: He is breaking down through the parable some truths that
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  Speaker 1: we must take with us. I've got five lessons I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to tell you out of this text. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about them and I'm going to sit down.
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  Speaker 1: Five things that are to be excavated out of this text.
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  Speaker 1: for the purpose of my assignment today. Because all of
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  Speaker 1: the times that I have ever preached this text, I
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  Speaker 1: have never seen the significance of timing to the text.
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  Speaker 1: But timing... Say it again. Say it again. And then
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  Speaker 1: I want you to think before I give you my
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  Speaker 1: first lesson point, I want you to think, why does
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  Speaker 1: God have me here this morning? How does this apply
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  Speaker 1: to my life? What is God saying to me? Why
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  Speaker 1: am I watching this particular message at this particular time
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  Speaker 1: in my life? What in my life needs to be
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  Speaker 1: better timed? Amen. I made my decisions this morning according
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  Speaker 1: to time. I took my shower according to what time
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  Speaker 1: it was. I got dressed according to what time it was.
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  Speaker 1: I had to keep track of the time because if
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  Speaker 1: I lose track of time, I will always be late.
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  Speaker 1: And if I am late, I lose. Because timing is...
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  Speaker 1: Why would I want to be in a service and
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  Speaker 1: the glory moved and I missed it? If you miss
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  Speaker 1: the first song when the choir starts singing the Lord
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  Speaker 1: is blessing me right now and the whole audience was
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  Speaker 1: up front and you had young people dancing off of
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  Speaker 1: old music and old people scooting from side to side,
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  Speaker 1: you miss one of the building blocks of which I'm
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  Speaker 1: standing on right now because timing is.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't respect time, you will never be wealthy,
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  Speaker 1: you will never be successful, you will never be mighty.
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  Speaker 1: Only poor folks, inwardly and outwardly, care nothing about timing
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  Speaker 1: because timing is... Now, for the benefit, before I give
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  Speaker 1: the lesson, let me make sure that you understand the story.
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  Speaker 1: In the story we have a certain man who had
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  Speaker 1: his servants to sow good seed in the field. And
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  Speaker 1: while they slept, and I used to preach against them
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  Speaker 1: sleeping until I realized that everybody has to go to
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  Speaker 1: sleep sometime. It is impossible for you to stay up
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  Speaker 1: around the clock. Enemy comes in while they are asleep
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  Speaker 1: and plants the weeds or the tear while they're sleeping.
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  Speaker 1: In the story, they don't wake up the next morning
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  Speaker 1: and know the enemy has been there. Because the enemy
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  Speaker 1: has planted it in such a way that when they
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  Speaker 1: wake up in the morning, they do not notice any change.
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  Speaker 1: Notice the timing. It was not the next day. But
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  Speaker 1: while they did not notice it, the evil or weeds
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  Speaker 1: were sown in the wheat. Anybody who understands, don't let
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  Speaker 1: me get ahead of myself. Anybody who understands this understands
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  Speaker 1: that there are important truths to be learned. Lesson number one,
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  Speaker 1: it is naive to think that the planting of good
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  Speaker 1: exempts us from the presence of bad. It is naive
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  Speaker 1: to think that the planting of good exempts us from
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  Speaker 1: the presence of bad. This is important for us to understand.
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  Speaker 1: Just because God allows wheat to be planted doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that weeds are restricted. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: The kingdom is like this. The kingdom is like this.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to be able to produce in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of weeds. So for all of you who are
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  Speaker 1: waiting for all the weeds to be gone, before you
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  Speaker 1: produce the wheat, you are not digging deep enough into
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  Speaker 1: this text because this text declares there will never be
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  Speaker 1: a day that you can be wheatful without being weedful.
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  Speaker 1: God allows the wheat to be planted. That doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that the weeds are restricted. Wheat is planted with great intentionality.
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  Speaker 1: Wheat is planted with great intentionality. In other words, wheat
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  Speaker 1: is not going to grow in this ground if it
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  Speaker 1: is not planted. It is not a natural result of
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  Speaker 1: the climate, the soil, the rain, and the sunshine. It
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  Speaker 1: has to be planted. Nobody succeeds accidentally. Nobody wins a
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  Speaker 1: marathon accidentally. Nobody wins the Olympics accidentally. Nobody gets a
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  Speaker 1: master's degree accidentally. Nobody gets a diploma accidentally. Nobody passes
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  Speaker 1: a GED accidentally. Nobody gets a promotion accidentally. Just because
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  Speaker 1: you pray doesn't mean you win. This is work. This
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  Speaker 1: is sweat. This is labor because this is agriculture. And
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  Speaker 1: agriculture means that the intention of sowing the seed is
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  Speaker 1: that I might have wheat. And the intention of having
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  Speaker 1: wheat is that I might have bread. From seed to
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  Speaker 1: wheat to bread. is going to take. I can't plant
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  Speaker 1: seed today and eat bread tonight. Because timing is. So
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  Speaker 1: if I am going to be seedful, I have to
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  Speaker 1: be patient for the seed to grow first down and
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  Speaker 1: then up. You didn't get that. It's gonna first grow down,
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  Speaker 1: and then up. Some of you are standing over your
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  Speaker 1: life talking about, I don't see nothing, I don't see nothing,
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  Speaker 1: I keep sowing and I don't see nothing. The seed
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  Speaker 1: grows down before it grows up. You're not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: see it, but just because you don't see it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean that the roots are not growing in the soil.
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  Speaker 1: And if you wait a little while, it is going
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  Speaker 1: to go from seed to wheat and from wheat to bread.
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  Speaker 1: And there is work in between every stage. The seed
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  Speaker 1: is work. The weed is work. The bread is work.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot eat any better than you work. Know somebody
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  Speaker 1: and say your blessing is going to be work. When
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  Speaker 1: you get through dancing and shouting about the promise of God,
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  Speaker 1: understand that you're going to have to break some sweat.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have to put some effort in it.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have to grind the wheat. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to pulverize it. You can't just bring the
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  Speaker 1: wheat in and make bread until you crush it. It's
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  Speaker 1: got to be crushed. It's got to be made into
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  Speaker 1: a usable form. And so it doesn't mean that God
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  Speaker 1: hasn't blessed you with the bread. It could mean that
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  Speaker 1: you haven't put in the work to go from seed to, to,
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  Speaker 1: from seed to, oh, you're listening this morning. Look at
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  Speaker 1: somebody and tell them I'm going from seed to wheat. bread.
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  Speaker 1: I might not be ready for consumption right now, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm in process and I'm going somewhere and don't look
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  Speaker 1: down at me because I'm not bread. I may be
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  Speaker 1: in the wheat stage, I may be in the seed stage,
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  Speaker 1: but I am on my way to a place that
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  Speaker 1: God has destined for me. Who am I talking to
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  Speaker 1: this morning? Whoever I'm talking to, God says, hang on
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  Speaker 1: in there. I'm not finished with you yet. I'm taking
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  Speaker 1: you through process. And at the right time, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to take you from seed to. I'm still dancing off.
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  Speaker 1: It's already done. It's already done. It's already done. And
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  Speaker 1: it is done on purpose. I want you to get this.
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  Speaker 1: The reason it is planted is because it is not
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  Speaker 1: indigenous to the land. The word agriculture is rooted in
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  Speaker 1: the word cult. Cult means you're not orthodox. Means you're
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  Speaker 1: not natural. You're not normal. Agra means land. That means
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  Speaker 1: that wheat is not normal to the land. You can't
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  Speaker 1: just wish for it. You have to make it happen. Agriculture. Culture.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to make this happen. It is not indigenous.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get it just because you want it. You
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  Speaker 1: got to plant it. You got to be intentional about it.
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  Speaker 1: You got to work on it. You got to labor
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  Speaker 1: for it because you were not raised in an environment
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  Speaker 1: that agrees with your dream. That doesn't mean you can't
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  Speaker 1: have it. It means that you've got to be cultural
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  Speaker 1: enough to be a cult against your neighborhood. I'm the
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  Speaker 1: only one in my family. I'm the only one in
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  Speaker 1: my neighborhood. I'm the only one in my city. I'm
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  Speaker 1: the only one in my house, and they don't like
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  Speaker 1: me at the family reunion, and they don't invite me
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  Speaker 1: back to the parties, and my friends have changed because
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  Speaker 1: I am cultish to them I broke the rule, I
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  Speaker 1: got out. Everybody who got out, make some noise.
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  Speaker 1: Faith is a cult to the unbeliever. It is not
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  Speaker 1: natural to the unbeliever. Stop trying to make the people
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  Speaker 1: at work understand what they can't understand. It is not
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  Speaker 1: indigenous to them for them to believe. If the gospel
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  Speaker 1: be hid, it is hid from them that are lost.
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  Speaker 1: They can't see it. Can I go deeper? How many
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  Speaker 1: people are getting blessed in this room? You've got to
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  Speaker 1: be willing to be different. You've got to be willing
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  Speaker 1: to be controversial. You've got to be willing to be
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  Speaker 1: talked about. And the greatest problem in our community right
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  Speaker 1: now is that we are so sensitive We're more worried
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  Speaker 1: about being liked than we are being fruitful. And you're
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  Speaker 1: praying to God about what they said and she said
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  Speaker 1: and he said and God said, unless you deny mother, father, sister, brother,
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  Speaker 1: and even deny yourself, you cannot be my disciple. What
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  Speaker 1: they say about you doesn't matter. Weeds don't like wheat.
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  Speaker 1: Get it to your head, weeds don't like wheat. You
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  Speaker 1: got to decide, do you want to be wheat or
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  Speaker 1: do you want to be weeds? Lesson number two. My God.
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  Speaker 1: Nudge your neighbor and say, you came on the right Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: I can feel it right now, something is going to
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  Speaker 1: happen in here today. Something is going to happen in
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  Speaker 1: here today. Something is going to happen in here today.
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  Speaker 1: Something is going to happen in here today. I feel
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  Speaker 1: it in my spirit. I feel it in my soul.
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  Speaker 1: God is about to do something. In the middle of
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  Speaker 1: his people. He's forcing some things to happen. He's being intentional.
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  Speaker 1: He's planting some things intentionally. Somebody shout yes. Lesson number two.
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  Speaker 1: This is a good lesson. Whenever there is great potential
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  Speaker 1: for harvest, the enemy will always earmark the spot with calamity.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever there is great potential for harvest, the enemy will
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  Speaker 1: earmark the spot with calamity. Somebody was telling me about
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  Speaker 1: a restaurant that they like up in North Dallas and
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  Speaker 1: I was getting my head shaved at the time and
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  Speaker 1: I said, let me find it in my phone. So
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  Speaker 1: I got in my phone and found it in my
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  Speaker 1: phone and then I earmarked it as a favorite. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't been there yet, but I earmarked it as a
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  Speaker 1: favorite so I could find it easily. I haven't been yet,
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  Speaker 1: but I heard there was potential. So I earmarked it
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  Speaker 1: so I could find it when I had. So wherever
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  Speaker 1: the enemy sees potential, he will always earmark it with calamity.
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  Speaker 1: So they never planted weeds before the wheat. Notice the sequence.
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  Speaker 1: It was the wheat being planted that caused them to
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  Speaker 1: plant the weed. They didn't plant the weed and then
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  Speaker 1: plant the wheat. The wheat attracts the weed so that
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  Speaker 1: the enemy can earmark the spot The devil knew God
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  Speaker 1: was gonna bless you. Hell knew God was going to
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  Speaker 1: use you. Hell knew that God had a purpose for
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  Speaker 1: your life. He earmarked it with calamity. Notice this, the tare,
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  Speaker 1: the wheat, the weeds rather, was planted too. planted like
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  Speaker 1: spies behind enemy lines. Whatever went wrong in your life,
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  Speaker 1: whatever calamities happened in your life, whatever calamities that happened
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  Speaker 1: in your past, whatever trauma you went through in your life,
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  Speaker 1: in your childhood, was the enemy's way of earmarking the spot.
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  Speaker 1: He knew it wasn't time yet. But he started working
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  Speaker 1: underground before you ever came up so that he would
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  Speaker 1: have his system in place before you became fruitful. He
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  Speaker 1: would already have his infrastructure in place so you would
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  Speaker 1: have something to struggle with. Struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle.
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  Speaker 1: Where are my strugglers at? My strugglers, why are things
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  Speaker 1: so hard for me? Why do I take two steps
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  Speaker 1: forward and get knocked three steps back? Why is it
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  Speaker 1: hard for me to do things that other people do easily?
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  Speaker 1: It's because he earmarked you. Why am I so doubtful?
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  Speaker 1: Why am I so insecure? Why am I so needy?
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  Speaker 1: Why am I so petty? He earmarked you. So while
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  Speaker 1: men slept, the enemy came and planted the weeds. Also,
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  Speaker 1: wherever there was wheat, there would be weeds with intentionality too.
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  Speaker 1: He meant for you to be abused. I hate to
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  Speaker 1: tell you this. He meant for you to be molested.
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  Speaker 1: He meant for your father to hate you. He meant
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  Speaker 1: for your mother to give you to your grandmother. He
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  Speaker 1: had to start the infrastructure early Because once you became fruitful,
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  Speaker 1: it would be too late to do anything to you.
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  Speaker 1: He had to start it early in your life so
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  Speaker 1: you would be broken in all the right places. You're
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  Speaker 1: not just fighting a demon, you're fighting a system. You're
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: fighting a system. You're fighting a system that has been
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  Speaker 1: launched against you. But the only reason it's been launched
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: is because you are weak. The enemy seeks to corrupt
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  Speaker 1: the environment where God has seed in the ground. the
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  Speaker 1: saboteur is still slithering in the garden. In the text,
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  Speaker 1: he is true to the law of first mention. When
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  Speaker 1: we first meet him in Genesis, he is slithering in
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  Speaker 1: the garden. He is still slithering in the garden. Wherever
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  Speaker 1: God is planting something, Satan will always be slithering in
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  Speaker 1: the garden. Somebody shout, I have been planted. That means
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: that Satan has been slithering in the garden. We will
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  Speaker 1: always find him slithering in the garden. The saboteur, the snake,
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  Speaker 1: is stealthy and cunning. He waits till they're asleep because
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  Speaker 1: he knows that If he would have come while they
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  Speaker 1: were awake, they would have driven them away. So while
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  Speaker 1: men sleep, he slithers. He waited till nobody was looking.
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  Speaker 1: He waited till nobody was at home. He waited till
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  Speaker 1: you were in a place of vulnerability. He waited till
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  Speaker 1: you were in a place of desperation. He waited until
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  Speaker 1: your rent was backed up. He waited till you were
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  Speaker 1: in a crisis. He waited till you were a child.
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  Speaker 1: He waited till you were in a jam. He waited
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  Speaker 1: until you went to summer camp. He waited until you
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  Speaker 1: went to the boys' school. He waited. He waited because
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  Speaker 1: the enemy understands that so while men slept, he came.
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  Speaker 1: planting in the dark, sowing in the soil. I don't
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  Speaker 1: get to see him plant it and I don't get
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  Speaker 1: to see what he planted. He is covered by the
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  Speaker 1: darkness of night and his craftiness is hidden under the soil.
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  Speaker 1: When they wake up that morning, they see no difference.
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  Speaker 1: How many of you have gone through something and nobody
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  Speaker 1: saw no difference? Here comes my rooting system. When the
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  Speaker 1: men woke up that morning, they didn't know when they
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: were watering the wheat. They were watering the weeds. And
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  Speaker 1: the infrastructure has now become a system underground before the
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  Speaker 1: wheat comes up, before the wedding, before the degrees. before
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  Speaker 1: the call to ministry. The system, you're fighting a system.
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  Speaker 1: You're fighting a system. You're not fighting a devil, you're
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  Speaker 1: fighting a system. All I could see for days and
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  Speaker 1: days and days were these tangled up roots. You are
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  Speaker 1: fighting an infrastructure. the kingdom of heaven is like listen
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  Speaker 1: at what Jesus is saying the kingdom of heaven is
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  Speaker 1: like the war is underground the war is underground the
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  Speaker 1: tangle is underground you're trying to fight on top of
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  Speaker 1: the soil, but the system is underground. You're trying to
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  Speaker 1: fight in the flesh, but the system is in the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the spirit world. It's in the spirit world.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the spirit world. Somebody say it's in the
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  Speaker 1: spirit world. So the enemy has brought me to lesson
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  Speaker 1: number three. Lesson number three, get this. Corruption and destruction
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: are two different things. Corruption and destruction are two different things.
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  Speaker 1: He could not Destroy the wheat. So all he could
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  Speaker 1: do was corrupt the environment in which the wheat was coming.
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  Speaker 1: Oh God. He couldn't stop you from coming up. He
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to make it hard for you. Type it
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  Speaker 1: on the line, he can't kill this. He cannot kill
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  Speaker 1: my destiny. He cannot kill my future. He cannot kill
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  Speaker 1: what God has for me. He cannot kill what God
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  Speaker 1: has ordered. He cannot kill what God has ordained. He
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  Speaker 1: cannot curse. Let me go deeper. He cannot curse what
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: God has blessed. If I was blessed in my root,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be blessed in my fruit. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: curse what God has blessed. Are there any blessed people
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  Speaker 1: in the house? The witch cannot curse you. Hell cannot
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  Speaker 1: curse you. The demons cannot curse you. Your trials cannot
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  Speaker 1: curse you. What they say about you cannot curse you.
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  Speaker 1: Why they taunt you cannot curse you. How they make
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  Speaker 1: fun of you cannot curse you. Nudge seven people and
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  Speaker 1: tell them I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed underground. I'm blessed underground. You may not be
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  Speaker 1: able to see what the Lord has done for me,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm blessed underground. If I'm blessed underground, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be blessed when I come up. I'm blessed in
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  Speaker 1: my uprising. I'm blessed in my down setting. I'm blessed
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  Speaker 1: in the city. I'm blessed in the field. I'm blessed
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  Speaker 1: in season. I'm blessed out of season. I'm just blessed. Haters,
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  Speaker 1: get used to it. I'm just blessed. I was blessed
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  Speaker 1: before you saw it. I was blessed before I saw it.
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  Speaker 1: Before I was formed in my mama's belly, I was
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  Speaker 1: already blessed. I was blessed before I was a twinkle
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  Speaker 1: in my daddy's eye. I was blessed before my mother
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  Speaker 1: missed her cycle. I was blessed before she finished her
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  Speaker 1: first trimester. I was blessed before I peeked my head
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  Speaker 1: out of her womb. I was already blessed before I
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: was baptized. I was blessed. Before I was converted, I
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: was already blessed. In fact, the reason I got converted
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: is because I was already blessed. It is not that
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: I've chosen God, but that God has chosen me. I'm blessed,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: I'm blessed, I'm blessed. I'm blessed, I'm blessed, I'm blessed.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I'm blessed, I'm blessed, I'm blessed. Give me my next slide.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep going. How many blessed people do
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: I have in here? How many blessed people do I have?
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: How many blessed people do I have? How many blessed
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: people do I have? So since corruption and destruction are
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  Speaker 1: not the same thing, and he couldn't destroy my blessings,
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to corrupt my environment. I just answered a
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: question that somebody's been praying about. You've been asking God,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: why did things go down like they went down? They
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: only went down like that because the hell knew you
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: were already blessed. And the only thing he could do
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: was corrupt your environment. He was working underground. He was
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: working in the root system. He was working before you
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  Speaker 1: ever saw who you were. He was working before you
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: recognized that there was a call on your life. He
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: was working before you became fruitful. He was working before
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  Speaker 1: you got a title. He was working before men recognized you.
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  Speaker 1: He was working before you became a deacon. He was
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: working before you came to Jesus Christ. But the devil
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: already knew because the devil believes in more than the
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  Speaker 1: saints do. If the saints believed in seeds, offerings would
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: be no trouble. But what we're trying to convince you of,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: the kingdom already understands that you cannot reap what you
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: do not sow. If you sow sparingly, you shall reap sparingly.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: You shall know the tree by the fruit it bears.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't put nothing in, you don't get nothing out.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Who am I talking to today? Don't let the children
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  Speaker 1: of this world be wiser than the children of light.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to understand that while the earth remaineth, there
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  Speaker 1: will always be seed time and harvest. Everything comes by seed.
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  Speaker 1: Grass grows by seed. Apples come by seed. Watermelon comes
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  Speaker 1: by seed. You came by seed. Jesus is the seed
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  Speaker 1: of Abraham. Even God understands seed. Everything comes by seed.
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  Speaker 1: So Satan knew if he was going to enter your area,
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  Speaker 1: he had to plant seeds. He knew what you doubt.
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  Speaker 1: You're still trying to have success without sacrifice. The roots
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  Speaker 1: that I saw, the twisting of the roots is all
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  Speaker 1: the infrastructure of what the kingdom of heaven is like.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this. The men didn't even know that the weeds
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  Speaker 1: were there until the wheat sprung up. The weeds came
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  Speaker 1: up also. And the men come to the master and say,
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: from whence cometh these weeds where did this come from
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  Speaker 1: where did this come from where did this come from
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  Speaker 1: why am I like this why is it so hard
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  Speaker 1: for me to get certain things through my head why
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  Speaker 1: can I not shut my mouth why am I so
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  Speaker 1: abrasive You've been thinking that something was wrong with them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just misunderstood. No, you mean. They didn't misunderstand you.
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  Speaker 1: They don't misunderstand nothing else you do. Unless a girl
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  Speaker 1: at the grocery store can't understand you. The guy at
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  Speaker 1: the ticket counter when you're getting a ticket can't understand you.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: They didn't misunderstand you. They triggered you. And they triggered
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  Speaker 1: you because a system was laid in place. We know
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  Speaker 1: what the system is. We know who planted it. The
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  Speaker 1: question remains in the text. Why did he plant it?
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  Speaker 1: And this is an important question. If you don't understand
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  Speaker 1: why he planted it, you can't figure out how to
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  Speaker 1: overcome it. My first thought was, maybe the weeds will
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  Speaker 1: kill the wheat. But the truth of the matter is,
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  Speaker 1: the wheat and the weed can grow up right beside
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  Speaker 1: each other. And if it was wheat when it went
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  Speaker 1: in the ground, it'll be wheat when it comes out
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  Speaker 1: of the ground. If it was a weed when it
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  Speaker 1: went in the ground, it'll be a weed when it
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  Speaker 1: comes out of the ground. So if the weeds didn't
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  Speaker 1: kill the wheat, why did he plant it? Again, the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom of heaven is lacked. The kingdom of heaven is lacked.
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  Speaker 1: Are y'all tired? Should I quit? Why did he plant it, Sarita?
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  Speaker 1: I can't figure out. Why did he plant it? If
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: he couldn't curse what God has blessed, if he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: change the molecular structure of what he planted in me,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: if he couldn't change my wheat to weed, why did
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  Speaker 1: he go out at night and slither and put the
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  Speaker 1: weed beside the wheat? The temptation is not in the
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  Speaker 1: substance of the wheat and the weed, but the decision
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  Speaker 1: of how you handle it. Come on, come on, come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on. Don't leave me now because if you leave
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  Speaker 1: me now, you'll miss the whole thing. The whole mystery
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: is in the question of When they asked him, from
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: whence cometh this? The master said, an enemy hath done this.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: They said, should we go? Here it is, and pull
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: up the weeds. And he said, no, leave it alone. See,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: the master knew that there was a system underground that
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: even if you pull only the weeds, there was such
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: a tangling in the roots that he said, if you
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: pull up the weeds, you will kill the wheat. Now
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: I see what the devil is trying to get me
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  Speaker 1: to do. He's trying to get me to take matters
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: into my own hands and try to solve the problem.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: But the Holy Ghost told me to tell you, leave
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: it alone. I don't know who I'm talking to. I
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: don't even know what this means to you. God said
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: you're uncomfortable, but leave it alone. You're frustrated, but leave
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: it alone. You're aggravated, but leave it alone. You're afraid,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: but leave it alone. You're tired of it, but leave
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: it alone. That's the setup. The devil wants you to
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: do something. God said you got to have enough faith
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: to leave it alone. Somebody give him 30 seconds of
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  Speaker 1: crazy praise. No, I said crazy praise. I said crazy praise. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: I'm already wet now, I might as well get soaked. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the power of doing nothing. The power
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: of doing nothing. It takes more faith. to do nothing
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: than it does to do something. The enemy can't curse you,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: but he's trying to use you to curse yourself. Be
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  Speaker 1: still and know that I am God. If I said
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: it's wheat, it will be wheat. If I said you're blessed,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: you will be blessed. Stand still and see the salvation
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: of the Lord. The enemies that you see today. Somebody
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: better grab my coattail because I feel like preaching up
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: a fire in this place. Leave it alone. Don't do nothing.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: Stand still. Hold your peace. The battle is not yours.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: It belongs to God. Somebody shout in this house. I
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: just understood the trick. It's a booby trap. If you
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: try to get out of it, you're going to kill
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: your destiny. Be still. The devil can't curse you. He's
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: trying to trick you into cursing yourself. So he built
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: an infrastructure underground so that when you grab the weed,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: you'll pull up the wheat. Watch. Watch. So the master says,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: lesson four, let me give you this. I'm almost out,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: you got one more after this, I'm done. I want
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: you to get this. The wisdom of waiting is the
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: opiate of faith. The wisdom of waiting is the opiate
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: of faith, especially since time is so expensive to spend.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: The trick is to wait it out. The master says,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: leave it alone, lest while trying to fix it, you
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: make it worse. It's a setup. Weed cannot change wheat.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: So why did he plant it? to trick you into
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: this impatience where you feel like you're running out of
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: time and you got to do something now. Your faith
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: is expressed through your silence. This is not your battle.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: The wisdom of waiting is the opiate of faith. The
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: most expensive seed you can plant is time. If you're
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: so money, you're going to get some more money. But
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: if you plant time, you'll never have it again. And
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: the enemy has plagued you with a spirit of urgency
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: that makes you want to take matters into your own hands.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: They shall mount up on wings like eagles. They shall
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: Somebody holler, wait. Somebody holler, wait. Somebody holler, wait. Be still.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: He says, leave it alone. It's not that you're wrong.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: It's that the timing isn't right. If you pull it
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: before the wheat is harvested, we will lose the whole
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: harvest through the seduction of of your frustration with the wheat.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: He said in the, I feel prophetic. Am I prophesying
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: to somebody? If I'm prophesying to you, shout unto God.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: If you're online, say, he's prophesying to me. Write it online,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: he's prophesying to me. He's prophesying to me. He's telling
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: me how to handle it. He's foretelling how to deal
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: with this situation because I'm frustrated and I'm tired and
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: I'm aggravated and I don't understand what I'm fighting and
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know how it got started and I don't
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: know where it came from. and I don't understand why
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: it's like this, and I got two conflicting things operating
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: at the same time, and the enemy is trying to
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: make me make a decision, and I don't know what
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: decision to make. God said don't make any decision. Just
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: stand still. You're not wrong. It's not time. The next
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: verse says that if you just wait it out, the
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: harvest cannot be rushed. This is lesson number five. The
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  Speaker 1: harvest cannot be rushed by the need or even the
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: angst of the planter, but it will come. It is inevitable.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: God says, don't pull it before the harvest. I gotta quit.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: He says, what is not lawful before the harvest is
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: lawful in the time of harvest. Watch the wisdom. If
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: you pull it before the harvest, you're going to kill
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: your destiny. But in the time of harvest where you
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: have nothing to lose, the wheat coming up with the
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: weeds won't matter. Because you've already brought forth fruit. So
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: he says, the harvest cannot be rushed by the need
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: or the angst of the planter. But it will come.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: It will come. Somebody shout it will come. It is inevitable.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: You are going to come into a harvest season. And
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: what you couldn't deal with in this season, you will
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: be able to deal with in the next season without
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: damage to your harvest. He says, when the harvest comes up,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: pull the wheat, gather it into bundles, and burn it.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: Because the tear that's laying over there that you uprooted
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: when you yanked the system, it's already harvested. I'm going
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: to close. I really want to close it another way.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: But I'm out of time. The Lord told me to
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: tell you. that you're coming into your harvest season. You're
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: coming into your harvest season and the reason you're so
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: frustrated And the weeds seem so intolerable. Weeds that you've
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: been tolerating for years are driving you crazy in this season.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: Weeds that you ignored in your past are driving you
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: crazy at this moment. It's because you're closer to your
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: harvest than you have ever been before. Somebody in this
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: room that's been waiting on a harvest a long time,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: you ought to give God a harvest praise. The Lord
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: meant for the choir to sing. It's already done. They
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: didn't even know what I was going to preach. But
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost says your harvest is already done. This
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: is no time to panic. This is no time to
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: get frustrated. This is no time to give up. This
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: is no time to give out. You're about to come
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: into your harvest. Whoever I'm preaching to for the next
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: three minutes, To let hell know that you heard from God.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: I want you to give God. I dare you. I
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: dare you to praise him. I dare you to praise him.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, wait a minute. You don't get it yet.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: The principle of the Bible says that if you're so
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: in tears, you're going to reap in joy. And there's
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: no way to reap your harvest as long as you're frustrated.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: That's why the devil is trying to get on your nerves.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: Because you can't reap with sorrow. You sow in tears.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: You reap with joy. I dare you to get your
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: joy back. Snatch your joy. Get your joy back. You're
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: going in the harvest. He that goeth forth a-weeping shall
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves for
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: the next three minutes. Everybody, everybody who's anybody that's expecting
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: a harvest, I want joy to get it out and
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: take over this place. Wait a minute. Everybody who ain't
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: praising God, you ain't got nothing to harvest with. Until
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: you get your joy, you can't bring in your harvest
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: with joy. We draw waters from the well of salvation.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: Is this all.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: The harvesters I got? I don't have a six or
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: a seven. I don't have a seven harvesters out of
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: this whole church. I don't have a ten harvesters. I
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: dare you. I dare you. It's already done. Come on boys,
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: take me to church.
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  Speaker 3: It's already done.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: It's already done. Hey!
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: It's already done.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: What did you say? It's already done.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: What do you say about it? It's already done.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: Type it on the line. It's already done. It's already done.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: It's already done.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: It's already done.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: It's already done. It's already done. It's already done. It's
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: already done.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: It's already done. Give him a praise in this house!
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: I remember on this 26th anniversary, I want you to
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: understand that when I told you to praise him for
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: your harvest, you are dancing in one of mine. We
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: sowed in tears. Everything happened to us in these 26 years.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: Everything happened. Lost your mama. Lost my mama. Died of
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: Alzheimer's in our arms. Sickness, struggle, attacks. where God wouldn't
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: let me defend myself. He told me to shut up,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: don't say nothing. The hardest thing I ever did in
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: my life was to not fight back. I didn't understand
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: that my silence was spiritual warfare. We dug a hole
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: and had money and good credit and no lender in
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: this city would give us the money, the 86 or
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: so million dollars we needed to build this building. I
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: had never needed 86 million dollars in my life. You
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: talking about scared? When those weeds started growing up in
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: this hole that we had dug till we ran out
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: of money. And I was leading people and telling them
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: what God could do and it wasn't happening. And God said,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: you just keep on preaching. It is not your job
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: to do anything but what I call you to do.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: And you have come into another system in this city.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: There is a demonic influence over this region that wants
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: to subjugate certain people to certain things. And when you
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: stick your head up, they try to crush you. The
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: very fact that we are in this building, tore down
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: the old building, built a brand new structure in that building,
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: bought 400 acres of land across the street, put schools
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: and houses on it. Before we got to do that,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: we crawled. We cried, we suffered, we couldn't sleep, we
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: couldn't rest, but timing is everything. 26 years later, Remember Katrina?
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: Remember what we went through? Remember the storms that rose?
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: Remember how we were feeding people and they were talking
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: about me like a dog? Remember when I came here
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: how the preachers were preaching against me on the radio
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: and television and I would drive to church listening at
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: them cursing my ministry? if anybody has a right to
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: preach this message. Timing is everything. I can do some
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: things now that I could never have done then because
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: it is the time of harvest. If you move out
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: of time, prodigal son, you will get what was yours
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: too soon and lose it all. It's yours, but it's
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: not time. You're right when you say it's yours. But
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: timing is everything. How many people heard God talking to
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: you this morning? Type on the line if you heard God.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: Type it on the line if you heard God. Hold
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: your hand up real high if you heard God. You know,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: we always teach you about the faith to do, the
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: faith to touch, the faith to crawl like the woman
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: with the issue of blood, the faith to do. throw
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: down your bed and walk, the faith to drop your crutches,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: the faith to go to the pool. We never teach
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: you about the faith of being still. There are certain
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: attacks that come against you in the kingdom That the
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: smartest thing to do is nothing. Because it's not time yet.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: Timing is everything. In a moment, I'm going to challenge you.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: Just a little simple challenge. I don't want to make
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: it high. I don't want to make it big. I
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: don't want to make it tall. Just $ 26. Don't get
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: it yet. Don't move for it. Don't go for it.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: I want to pray. But I want everybody online, everybody online,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: everybody who heard God speak to you in a very personal, profound,
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: prophetic way, everybody in this building, 26,000, I want you
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: to sow into this harvest, this present moment. Don't get
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: it yet. Don't get it yet. I'm going to pray
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: for your patience. I am going to pray that you
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: would have the courage to wait when the urgency you
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: feel inside has got you on a 10. I gotta
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: do something. I gotta do it. I gotta do it
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: right now. I gotta move. I gotta make a move.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: It's a setup. If the weeds wouldn't kill the wheat,
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: then the answer to the text has got to be
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: that he was trying to tempt them to uproot the
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: wheat too soon. While you're aiming at the wheat, while
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: you're aiming at the weeds, the devil is after your wheat.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: You have come too far to lose your wheat. You
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: have been through too much to lose your wheat. You
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: have gone through hell. Why get here? And abort the mission.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: You need to understand. That the enemy can't curse you.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: But you can curse yourself. Your mouth can curse you.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: Your temper can curse you. Your tongue can curse you.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: Your anger and your frustration can curse what God has blessed.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: And the enemy knew the strongest weapon he had against
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: the purpose of God was the people of God. In
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: the time of harvest. If we are not in the
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: time of harvest right now, it ain't coming. If the
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: harvest of the earth is not ripe, if we're not
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: living in the last day, I don't know what the
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: last day is. If this, if you can't pick up
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: your Bible and your newspaper and can't tell which one
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: you read, we are living in the final moments of history.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: If God be God. We're all kinds of plagues before
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: you can get over one. Here comes another one. And
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: here comes another one. And here comes another one. And
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: the Bible always said it. But when I was studying it,
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  Speaker 1: we weren't seeing it. We were studying it, but we
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  Speaker 1: were not seeing all manner of diseases, no cures, no
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  Speaker 1: solutions coming up before you can get rid of one.
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  Speaker 1: Here comes another one. They got so many COVIDs out,
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  Speaker 1: so many monkey diseases. We got birds flu, we got
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  Speaker 1: all kinds, we're running out of animals. And still you're here.
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  Speaker 1: How dare you be frustrated and breathe you're still here.
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  Speaker 1: There are mass graves and you are still here. If
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  Speaker 1: you can't find no joy, if you don't believe in
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  Speaker 1: God now, you ain't gonna never believe. Some of you
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  Speaker 1: he kept from COVID. Some of you he delivered through COVID.
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  Speaker 1: You are walking, talking, testimony. that nothing the enemy did
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  Speaker 1: to destroy you stopped you from being here today. You
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  Speaker 1: ought to be more grateful. You ought to be more faithful.
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  Speaker 1: You ought to have more praise. You ought to have
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  Speaker 1: more discipline. You ought to have more structure. You ought
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  Speaker 1: to be grateful. More grateful, more grateful, more grateful. You're
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  Speaker 1: not on a respirator, more grateful. If you weren't about
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  Speaker 1: to come into harvest, all hell wouldn't be breaking against you.
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  Speaker 1: The system wouldn't be leveled against you. Look what's happening
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  Speaker 1: to the systems in our country. Look at them crumbling
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  Speaker 1: and falling and fighting and going apart. We are rushing.
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  Speaker 1: You remember if you've been in this church a while,
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  Speaker 1: I told you all a few years ago, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like we're rushing towards something. I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember me telling you? I said, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like we're rushing at something. It's like everything is sped
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  Speaker 1: up and we're moving towards something. I can't see what
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  Speaker 1: it is, but we were rushing towards something. When COVID
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  Speaker 1: broke and we crashed globally, We hit something that the
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  Speaker 1: world had never seen before. I told my church two
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  Speaker 1: years before, everything is speeding up and we're heading towards
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  Speaker 1: something and we're going to hit it. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what it is, but I can feel it and I
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  Speaker 1: can feel it coming. These are the last days. Timing
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  Speaker 1: is everything. The Bible said he would fool the very
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  Speaker 1: elect if possible. He's trying to fool you into making
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  Speaker 1: stupid decisions. It's a setup. It's a trap. Your patience
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  Speaker 1: is critical. Your endurance is critical. Your forbearance is necessary.
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  Speaker 1: You must trust Him to finish what He started. He
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  Speaker 1: that hath began a good work in you shall perform
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  Speaker 1: it unto the day of Jesus Christ. Every person who
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  Speaker 1: needs patience The Bible said run with patience the race
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  Speaker 1: that is set before you. What an oxymoron, how can
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  Speaker 1: I run and be patient? Those are two different feelings.
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  Speaker 1: God said you gotta keep your rhythm and calm your spirit.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta run with patience. You got to keep your
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  Speaker 1: breathing steady and your legs going fast. Run with patience
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  Speaker 1: the race that is set before you. Lift your hands
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  Speaker 1: if you need that patience. Timing is everything. You are
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  Speaker 1: not forgotten. You are not forsaken. You have not been
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  Speaker 1: left behind. I know it's scary to be surrounded by weeds,
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  Speaker 1: but no weapon formed against you shall be able to prosper.
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  Speaker 1: You must believe that it's still going to happen. That
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  Speaker 1: it's not too late. That you're not in too deep.
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  Speaker 1: That God has not forgotten you. Be still and trust
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  Speaker 1: him right now. We are in a dangerous place. Our
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  Speaker 1: frustrations and our moves and our feelings cannot be trusted.
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  Speaker 1: The kingdom of heaven is lacking you. I know there's
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  Speaker 1: an eschatological understanding of this text that Jesus exegetes in
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  Speaker 1: another chapter. I know all of that. I understand all
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  Speaker 1: of that. But what the Holy Spirit gave me to
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  Speaker 1: give you, this text is a rhema word for your situation.
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  Speaker 1: Be still. Shut your mouth. Hold your peace. Praise your God.
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  Speaker 1: Let the devil know that you know that if I
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  Speaker 1: went in the ground, wheat, I'm coming up, wheat. and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go from seed to wheat to bread.
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  Speaker 1: seed to wheat to bread. I won't stop until I
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  Speaker 1: taste the bread. I won't stop until I feed my family,
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  Speaker 1: my heirs, my descendants. I will not stop until my
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  Speaker 1: vision is completed in my ministry. I will not stop
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  Speaker 1: until I see the hope of my calling. I will
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  Speaker 1: not stop until this anointing comes to fruition. I will
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  Speaker 1: not stop. I will not stop. Let the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: patience come over this people. Let all bickering and murmuring cease.
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  Speaker 1: And quietness and confidence shall be your strength. Quietness and confidence.
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  Speaker 1: means you're strong, not loud and boisterous and yelling and screaming.
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  Speaker 1: Quiet and confidence shall be your strength. Be still! Be still!
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  Speaker 1: Be still! And know that I am God.
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  Speaker 2: On this 26th anniversary, of what seemed impossible. This was
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  Speaker 2: the hardest baby I ever birthed. The labor pains cost everything.
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  Speaker 2: Your normal is my harvest. You walked into it, you
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  Speaker 2: see it as normal, I see it as harvest. that
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  Speaker 2: a backwoods boy from the hills of West Virginia born
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  Speaker 2: in a raggedy house on the side of a cliff
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  Speaker 2: who nobody knew that God would raise him up to
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  Speaker 2: this place and this moment and this hour is a
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  Speaker 2: sign to this generation. I don't know what your destiny is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what your prophecy is. It may not
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  Speaker 2: be to do this or that or the other, but
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  Speaker 2: God has something in store for you or you would
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  Speaker 2: be buried.
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  Speaker 1: You are alive. Stop complaining. You are alive. Stop murmuring.
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  Speaker 1: Take a deep breath, everybody. Online, everywhere. Take a deep breath.
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  Speaker 1: Breathe it in. Blow it out. Peace be unto you.
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  Speaker 1: Patience rest upon you. You are closer to your harvest
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  Speaker 1: than you have ever been in your life. In the
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  Speaker 1: time of harvest, In the time of harvest, you can
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  Speaker 1: separate one thing from another, but you cannot be tricked
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  Speaker 1: to aborting your promise. Speak, Holy Spirit. You must become
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  Speaker 1: a believer. Not just in action, but in peace. Your
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  Speaker 1: faith must give you peace and confidence and patience. I
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  Speaker 1: decree and declare that your patience would terrify the devil.
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  Speaker 1: That you would see patience as a weapon. a steel,
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  Speaker 1: a grit that God would birth in you to dig
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  Speaker 1: in your heels and stand, that God would make your
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  Speaker 1: feet as hinds feet and you would not be moved.
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  Speaker 1: On the 26th anniversary of this miracle I'm standing in today,
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  Speaker 1: I decree and declare that your miracle will come to pass.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody who believes it and receives it, give God praise
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  Speaker 1: right now. Come on. Come on. This is a simple thing.
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  Speaker 1: This is a simple thing. Everybody watching, everybody online, everybody
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  Speaker 1: in the building, everybody that has access can act, can sow,
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  Speaker 1: can plan. $ 26 on our 26th anniversary. I want it
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  Speaker 1: to be a memorial before God that I heard him
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  Speaker 1: when he spoke to me, timing is everything. I can
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  Speaker 1: be right, but if the time is wrong, I can
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  Speaker 1: abort the promise.