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BE SILENT AND LET GOD FIGHT FOR YOU! Bishop T.D. Jakes Powerful Sermon · Jakes Messages and Purpose

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  Speaker 1: 27, 11 through 14. There you will find the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. And we're jumping right into the middle
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  Speaker 1: of all hell breaking loose. Jesus, the Messiah of Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: has fallen into the hands of a Roman governor who
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  Speaker 1: is about to make a decision about his life. Kingdoms
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  Speaker 1: are colliding with kingdoms. Disciples are running. People are scattering.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody is sure. They have interpreted the scriptures differently. expecting
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  Speaker 1: God to do one thing, only to realize that even
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures did not fully articulate the method that God
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  Speaker 1: was going to move. They had seen the Messiah and
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  Speaker 1: the prophets had prophesied it, but no prophecies came through
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  Speaker 1: about the cross. Now Jesus is headed for the cross.
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  Speaker 1: And you know how people scatter when you become controversial.
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  Speaker 1: They with you when you're going up. But if you
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  Speaker 1: become controversial, if there's too much talk at the kitchen table,
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  Speaker 1: in the family reunion, in the barbershop, people start getting away.
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  Speaker 1: They just leave. So they scattered. The 5,000 were gone.
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  Speaker 1: The woman with the issue of blood is gone. All
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  Speaker 1: of the people, the 10 lepers are gone. Everybody's gone
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  Speaker 1: their own way. And Jesus is standing trial before a governor.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew 27 and 11. And Jesus stood before the governor.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Stood straight up. Stood right in.
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  Speaker 2: Front of him. And the governor asked him saying, are
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  Speaker 2: thou king of the Jews?
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus said unto him, thou sayest, Jesus, don't tell
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  Speaker 1: me that Jesus didn't get smart. Jesus got smart in handcuffs.
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  Speaker 1: Thou sayest, and when he was accused of the chief
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  Speaker 1: priest and the eldest, he answered nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Here's how many things they witness against thee. And he
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  Speaker 2: answered him never a.
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  Speaker 1: Word.
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  Speaker 2: And he answered him never a word.
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  Speaker 1: In so much that the governor scratched his head. He's
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  Speaker 1: not trying to get out of it. He's not trying
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  Speaker 1: to get away from it. He's not trying to get
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  Speaker 1: away from it. The governor marveled greatly because Jesus says
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  Speaker 1: nothing at all. And the governor marveled greatly, not at
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom, but at the silence. Can you hear what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying to you? I want to use a subject today.
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  Speaker 1: The theology of quietness. The theology, the theos, God quiet,
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  Speaker 1: the theology of quietness, or if I were to use
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  Speaker 1: a subtopic, the silence of the lamb. Spirit of the
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  Speaker 1: living God falls fresh on us today as we embark
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  Speaker 1: upon your word. Help me to complete my assignment effectively
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  Speaker 1: and skillfully that I might be seen doing what you
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  Speaker 1: called me to do in this last and evil day.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you, Lord, for what you shared with me
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  Speaker 1: and what you're going to do. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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  Speaker 1: You may be seated in the presence of God. It
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  Speaker 1: reads like, you may be laughing, it reads like two
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  Speaker 1: men are having a discussion. But that is very superficial.
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  Speaker 1: The veneer of the text looks like there is a
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  Speaker 1: controversy between two men, two powers, two authorities. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like one has dominated the other, but that is just
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  Speaker 1: the veneer of the text. Most people, when they read
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, preach from the veneer of the text without
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  Speaker 1: going down to the solidarity of the wood beneath. The
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  Speaker 1: carpenter's son has worked his way up from obscurity to notoriety.
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  Speaker 1: And notoriety always costs you something. Y'all don't hear what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. People don't talk about who they don't notice.
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  Speaker 1: Give it up for Michael Collier. God bless you. Good
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  Speaker 1: to see you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If I can't pull this message, you get up and
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  Speaker 1: tell some jokes. We're going to be okay. He has
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  Speaker 1: the responsibility of standing hand, head, and shoulders above other
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  Speaker 1: men in what he was able to do.
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  Speaker 2: Unlike Saul, it's not that Jesus is tall. His work
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  Speaker 2: is tall.
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  Speaker 1: It is impactful work. And it's doing something. And it's
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  Speaker 1: stirring up something. And it has created a problem. A
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  Speaker 1: multi-pronged problem. He is not fully accepted by the religious
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  Speaker 1: leaders of his time.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, they hated him.
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  Speaker 1: Religion always hates revelations. So if you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: a preacher and move in faith and you have not
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  Speaker 1: gotten healed from your need to be liked, run. Don't walk, run.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you are not disliked, you are unnoticed. While
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  Speaker 1: some are running to you, some are going to be
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  Speaker 1: running from you. That's the nature of the job. It
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  Speaker 1: happened to Jesus. It's going to happen to you. You
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  Speaker 1: can't tiptoe around it and try to be so nice
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  Speaker 1: that you don't make no waves because you were called
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  Speaker 1: to make waves. You were called to. Stir up stuff
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  Speaker 1: you were called to get on people's nerves. Don't take
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  Speaker 1: it personally because it is not really two men bantering
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  Speaker 1: over an issue. It is two kingdoms. The kingdoms are
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  Speaker 1: in conflict in the text.
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  Speaker 2: It is the.
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light. that it's
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  Speaker 1: working in the underpinning of the story. You're praying about
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  Speaker 1: your story, but you don't understand there's a warfare going
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  Speaker 1: on beneath your story. You're praying about the details. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about the strategy. You're talking to God about the inconvenience,
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  Speaker 1: but you're not getting to the under fact that Satan
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  Speaker 1: has a plot against you, that he has a plot
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  Speaker 1: against you, and the kingdoms are in conflict. Not only
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  Speaker 1: are the kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness
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  Speaker 1: in conflict, you have the Roman sovereign colonialization that was
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  Speaker 1: done then and still being done now to take over
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  Speaker 1: new territories, and we have before us A pilot who
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  Speaker 1: is a governor of a colony whereby Rome is spreading
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  Speaker 1: and taking authority over Jerusalem. Yeah, taking authority, taking authority.
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  Speaker 1: It is not Rome, but it's under Rome. You are
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  Speaker 1: not the enemies, but you can be under the enemy's attack,
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  Speaker 1: under the enemy's control. There was a little boy in
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  Speaker 1: the airport and he was on his father's shoulders and
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  Speaker 1: he had him by the ears and he said, daddy
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  Speaker 1: go left and the daddy went left and he turned
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  Speaker 1: his ears and said, daddy go right and the daddy
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  Speaker 1: went right. The boy had not possessed him but he
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  Speaker 1: was on him and had oppressed him. It is not
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  Speaker 1: so much that Satan is possessing you but he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to control you. Control your peace and control your reactions
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  Speaker 1: and control how you respond and control how you feel.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a battle for control. Power against power.
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  Speaker 1: Leader against leader. Magistrate against magistrate. And we have a
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  Speaker 1: governor questioning a king. What kind of madness is that?
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  Speaker 1: That the governor representing Rome which means he wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: very great governor because Rome has sent him to a
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  Speaker 1: detail that was not highly respected and thrown him down
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  Speaker 1: in Jerusalem and their little people always try to be
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  Speaker 1: big oh I'm preaching way better than y'all shall. Little people,
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  Speaker 1: you give a little person a title and you got
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  Speaker 1: hell to pay. And Herod has a little title and
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  Speaker 1: he's standing up here questioning the king of kings and
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  Speaker 1: the Lord of lords. He's questioning the ancient of days.
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  Speaker 1: The creator is being tested by the creations. And he's
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  Speaker 1: questioning him under duress because his wife on one hand, women,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for being sensitive and intuitive, has had a
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  Speaker 1: dream and told him, you got to be careful about
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  Speaker 1: this Jesus thing because it's not what it appears to be.
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  Speaker 1: I had a dream in the night and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to cause you some trouble. I'm telling you something, I
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  Speaker 1: cannot prove it by the Bible, but there's something in women.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whether it's a chip. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a device, but there is something in women.
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  Speaker 1: I won't say y'all always right, I ain't gonna give
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  Speaker 1: you that much. But you all do have a metal detector.
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  Speaker 1: And Herod's wife had told him, this is not what
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  Speaker 1: it appears to be. There's something working up under this
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  Speaker 1: and you got to be careful how you handle this
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  Speaker 1: Jesus thing, which led to Herod washing his hands with
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  Speaker 1: water because he didn't want the blood of Jesus on
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  Speaker 1: his hands because his wife had kind of shook him up,
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  Speaker 1: telling him, you don't want to get in this mess.
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  Speaker 1: There are some messes you don't take on. You don't
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  Speaker 1: get in every fight. You don't get in every storm.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get in every test. You don't get in
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  Speaker 1: every situation. And so you got that dynamic going on.
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  Speaker 1: And there he is testing the king of kings and
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  Speaker 1: the lord of lords and the mighty God and the
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  Speaker 1: everlasting father and the prince of peace. He is talking
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  Speaker 1: to the I am like he ain't. He is talking
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  Speaker 1: to his creator as if he has power over his creator.
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  Speaker 1: He is talking to him like Jesus is subservient. He
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  Speaker 1: is talking to him like he has power over Jesus' future.
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  Speaker 1: And then shock because Jesus does not answer a word.
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  Speaker 1: And it is hard for you to conceive it because
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  Speaker 1: there are three things that the enemy is after. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to get these down.
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  Speaker 3: They're very important.
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  Speaker 1: The reasons. He is doing what he's doing to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's because he's after your power. He's after your power
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  Speaker 1: until you don't know who you are. He wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: fighting you if you didn't have power. He's after your power.
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  Speaker 1: He's after your purpose. And he's after your prowess. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: your abilities, your talents, your skill, the way you do
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  Speaker 1: what you do and the way that you do it.
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  Speaker 1: He hates the way you can get it done. He
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  Speaker 1: hates the way how people are influenced by you. He
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  Speaker 1: does not want your power. He does not want your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And he does not want your prowess. So anything he
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  Speaker 1: can do to destroy your prowess, he will do it.
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  Speaker 1: If it's keep you up at night, if it makes
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  Speaker 1: you walk the floor in the middle of the night,
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  Speaker 1: if it's oppress your mind, if it's break your heart,
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  Speaker 1: If it's break relationships. If it's worrying you to death
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  Speaker 1: about situations you cannot control. Anything he can do to
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  Speaker 1: incarcerate you, he's doing it because of your power. He's
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  Speaker 1: doing it because of your purpose. And he's doing it
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  Speaker 1: because of your prowess. Because over time, he wants you
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  Speaker 1: to lose your prowess. Where you don't have that thing,
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  Speaker 1: that thing, that nebulous thing, that prowess that makes you
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  Speaker 1: do what you do like you do it. The way
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  Speaker 1: you think, the way you function, the way you drive,
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  Speaker 1: the way you move. He's after your prowess. He wants
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  Speaker 1: to beat you down to your only a shadow of
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  Speaker 1: what you could be. He's after your prowess. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you were molested. That's why you were raped. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you were rejected. That's why you were ostracized. The enemy
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have let you go through whatever you went through
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  Speaker 1: if it were not for your power. Your purpose and
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  Speaker 1: your prowess. He wants you to be crippled. He wants
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  Speaker 1: you to be needy. He wants you to be shattered.
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  Speaker 1: He wants you to be independent or codependent. He wants
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  Speaker 1: you to be at your wit's end. He wants you
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  Speaker 1: to have no confidence in yourself because he's after your power.
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  Speaker 1: He's after your purpose. He's after your prowess. He's after
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  Speaker 1: your what? What? What?
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  Speaker 2: Say it again. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 1: That's the sum total of what you need to get
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  Speaker 1: through this world. You're going to need some power. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to need some purpose. You're going to need some prowess.
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  Speaker 1: Prowess is what sets you apart from every other man
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  Speaker 1: in the room. Prowess is what makes you unique and
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  Speaker 1: nobody can duplicate you. They can imitate you, but they
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  Speaker 1: can't duplicate you because your prowess is as unique as
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  Speaker 1: your DNA. Your prowess, the way you do what you
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  Speaker 1: do when you do it, like you do it, that's
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  Speaker 1: your prowess. And he wants to take it away from you.
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  Speaker 1: And he wants to break you down. And he wants
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  Speaker 1: to make you subservient. And he wants to make you submit.
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  Speaker 1: And he wants to make you answer to him. And
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  Speaker 1: he wants to make you obey him. Because in so doing,
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  Speaker 1: if you answer him, you also acknowledge him as being
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  Speaker 1: the greater power. There are some things you don't answer to.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how many times they say it, when
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  Speaker 1: you know you're not that, don't answer to it. If
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  Speaker 1: your name is Susie and I'm calling you Mary, keep
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  Speaker 1: on walking. There's some stuff you don't respond to because
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  Speaker 1: you know who you are. You know your power, you
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  Speaker 1: know your purpose, and you know your prowess. Keep your prowess.
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  Speaker 1: You might lose your job, but keep your prowess. You
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  Speaker 1: might have to move in with your mama, but keep
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  Speaker 1: your prowess. You might go through a storm, but keep
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  Speaker 1: your prowess because that's what got.
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  Speaker 2: You up in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: If you lose your power, If you lose your purpose,
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  Speaker 1: if you lose your prowess, you.
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  Speaker 2: Have lost everything.
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  Speaker 1: Power is your decision-making ability to act on the decisions
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  Speaker 1: you make. Purpose is what guides you as to what
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  Speaker 1: not to fight. Because once you understand your purpose, you
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  Speaker 1: stop swinging at stuff that doesn't have anything to do
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  Speaker 1: with your divine purpose. There are some things that the
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  Speaker 1: enemy sends to distract you. Who am I preaching to
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  Speaker 1: in this place? And so Pilate is having this discussion
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus and he's consulted the religious leaders because he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want to be guilty of making a Roman decision
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  Speaker 1: against the king.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Jews.
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  Speaker 1: He wants the Jews to reject him and he needs
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  Speaker 1: to be rejected. Oh, I wish I had time. He
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  Speaker 1: needs to be rejected because the Bible said he came
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  Speaker 1: unto his own and his own received him not. And
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  Speaker 1: so that the scriptures might be fulfilled, there are seasons
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  Speaker 1: of rejection. You're not being rejected because you're not good enough.
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  Speaker 1: It's part of the plan of God that you be rejected.
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  Speaker 1: You only praise God when he opens doors, but I
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  Speaker 1: praise God when he shuts them. You only praise God
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  Speaker 1: when you're comfortable, but I'm learning to praise God when
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  Speaker 1: I'm afflicted because the more they afflicted them, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: said the more they grew.
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  Speaker 2: Glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be a tough one today, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to preach it until I get where I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to go. And in the middle of the affliction,
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  Speaker 1: keep your power. Keep your purpose. Keep your prowess. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: yeah you broke but yeah you down but yeah you're
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  Speaker 1: uncertain but keep your prowess cause that's what the fight
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  Speaker 1: is about the fight is about your power The fight
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  Speaker 1: is about your purpose. That means he's not fighting you
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  Speaker 1: over where you are. He's fighting you over where you're going.
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  Speaker 1: Purpose in Kishai speaks to destiny. Purpose speaks to how
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  Speaker 1: things end up. And because you're worried about where you are,
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  Speaker 1: you think the fight is about now. No, the fight
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  Speaker 1: is about tomorrow. The fight is about a stone being
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  Speaker 1: rolled away. The fight is about you ascending in a cloud.
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  Speaker 1: The fight is about you reaching the throne and putting
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  Speaker 1: the blood on the mercy seat. And so he's after
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  Speaker 1: his purpose. The end of all things, eschatology, is purpose,
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  Speaker 1: my destination, my I have arrived. You know how you're
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  Speaker 1: driving your GPS and you get to a certain point
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden it stops giving you direction
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  Speaker 1: because it says you have arrived at your destination. Some
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  Speaker 1: of you, the enemy doesn't want you to arrive at
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  Speaker 1: your destination, but hell is a liar because God is
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  Speaker 1: about to do something in your life. Shout hallelujah in
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  Speaker 1: this place. Now we know that Jesus does not want
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  Speaker 1: to go to the cross. It is proven in the
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  Speaker 1: Garden of Gethsemane that Jesus has an aversion to the cross.
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  Speaker 1: We know that he didn't want to go to the cross.
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  Speaker 1: We know that he didn't enjoy being betrayed by a
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  Speaker 1: disciple he picked. By a disciple he fed. By a
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  Speaker 1: disciple he traveled with. That's not fun. We know that
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  Speaker 1: he despised the shame of the cross, but for the
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  Speaker 1: joy that was set before him, he endured it. So
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about endurance. We're talking about enduring things without murmuring.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about enduring things without complaining. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: enduring things without disrupting your attitude.
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  Speaker 2: What we're talking about is not easy.
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  Speaker 1: So the Jesus who cried out to the Father, who
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  Speaker 1: cried out to the Father, if it be thy will,
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  Speaker 1: pass this bitter cup for me, gets before Pilate and
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  Speaker 1: says nothing. You know why he doesn't say anything? Because
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  Speaker 1: Pilate don't have no real power. If I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: empty out how I feel about it, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: empty it out before the Holy Spirit, who is my comforter,
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  Speaker 1: who is my counselor, who is my therapist. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to empty it out in front of somebody
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  Speaker 1: that has no power to change my circumstances. How many
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  Speaker 1: times have we said the right thing to the wrong person?
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  Speaker 1: We know that he's the captain of the host. and
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  Speaker 1: that he could have called 10,000 angels. We know that
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  Speaker 1: he has the power of God in him. We know
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  Speaker 1: that the word of God is the sword of the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: And if he had wanted to, he could have stopped
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  Speaker 1: all of it at will just by opening his mouth.
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  Speaker 1: There was so much power in his mouth that when
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  Speaker 1: they came to arrest him and said, are you Jesus?
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  Speaker 1: He said, I that speak am he.
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  Speaker 2: And they fell back for dead.
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  Speaker 1: The power in his mouth was so powerful that we
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  Speaker 1: understand that if Jesus opened his mouth, court would be closed.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all didn't hear that.
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  Speaker 1: If Jesus opens his mouth, cancer would disappear. If Jesus
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  Speaker 1: opens his mouth, the gun wouldn't go off even if
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  Speaker 1: it was loaded. If Jesus opens his mouth, how you
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  Speaker 1: gonna fire me?
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  Speaker 2: If Jesus opens his mouth.
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  Speaker 1: And the real question of the text is does, is
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  Speaker 1: it better to fight this fight as the lion of
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  Speaker 1: the tribe of Judah or the lamb of God. Because
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has duality and so do you. There are two
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  Speaker 1: sides and you don't know which one to throw. Do
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  Speaker 1: I come in on a horse and my sword drawn,
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  Speaker 1: ready to kill or do I come in as a
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  Speaker 1: lamb Because both things are true about all of us.
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  Speaker 1: All of us have a lion and all of us
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  Speaker 1: have a lamb. But not all of us have direction
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  Speaker 1: as to which one you need for the fight that
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  Speaker 1: you're in. And sometimes you're roaring when you ought to
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  Speaker 1: be quiet. And sometimes you're quiet when you ought to
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  Speaker 1: be roaring. Jesus has decided that in order to accomplish
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  Speaker 1: his purpose, he.
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  Speaker 2: Can't roar through this.
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah 30, 15 says, for thus saith the Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy One of Israel, in returning and rest shall
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  Speaker 1: ye be saved. In returning and rest shall ye be saved.
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  Speaker 1: In quietness. In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.
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  Speaker 1: So this is what strength looks like. Strength looks like quiet.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, be still and know that I am God.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: In other words, hold your peace and the Lord will
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  Speaker 1: fight your battle. I feel like I'm prophesying to somebody
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know who it is. It's not that
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  Speaker 1: you can't think of nothing to say. It's just that
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  Speaker 1: this is not the time for the lion to roar.
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  Speaker 1: This is the time that you got to come as
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  Speaker 1: a lamb You got to be wise as a serpent
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  Speaker 1: and harmless as a dove and you got to know
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  Speaker 1: when to lose.
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  Speaker 2: I told a friend of.
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  Speaker 1: Mine was getting ready to play a golf game and
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: he's getting ready to play a golf game against a client.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, listen, don't let your ego get the
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  Speaker 1: best of you. Lose the game. Because sometimes What good
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: is winning the game if you lose the deal? Your
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: ego is stroked, but we lost the deal. Sometimes the
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  Speaker 1: strongest thing is to let them win. So Jesus could
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  Speaker 1: have stopped it all. He could have swallowed Pilate up,
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  Speaker 1: but he held his peace. Oh my God. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: Are you with me this morning? I say, are you
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  Speaker 1: with me this morning? He did not open his mouth
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  Speaker 1: because even on the cross with his back beaten and
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  Speaker 1: his entrails hanging out, as long as he kept talking,
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't die. Because in his hands are the words
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  Speaker 1: of eternal life. Because he doesn't need anything to make
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  Speaker 1: something out of nothing. Because if he opens his mouth
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  Speaker 1: and says, let there be, it'll be whatever he says.
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  Speaker 1: So death couldn't take him as long as he was talking.
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  Speaker 1: If it's true about you, the power of life and
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  Speaker 1: death is in the tongue, how much more is it
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  Speaker 1: true about Jesus that death could not take Jesus as
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  Speaker 1: long as he was talking? And if you're in here
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  Speaker 1: right now, you ought to open your mouth and say something.
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  Speaker 1: Let hell know you're not dead. Give me some power
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  Speaker 1: on this monitor. Let hell know you're not dead. Let
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  Speaker 1: the sickness know it ain't working. Let the enemies know
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  Speaker 1: that they can't curse you. Let the witch know that
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  Speaker 1: she can't stop you. If you just wiggle your toes,
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  Speaker 1: The whole building might have caved in on you. But
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  Speaker 1: if you open your mouth, power of life and death
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  Speaker 1: is in your mouth. Slap somebody and say the power.
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  Speaker 2: Is in the word.
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  Speaker 1: Healing is in the word. Direction is in the word.
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  Speaker 1: Deliverance is in the word. Breakthroughs are in the Word. Oh,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you. Look at
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: somebody say, it's in the Word, it's.
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  Speaker 2: In the Word, it's in the Word. It's in the Word,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: it's in the Word, it's in the Word.
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  Speaker 1: The problem with us is we don't understand the difference
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  Speaker 1: between the Scriptures and the Word. This is the Word
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  Speaker 1: of God. The Bible is the Word of God, but
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  Speaker 1: it is not all of the Word. Let me prove
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  Speaker 1: it to you. John 1 says, in the beginning was
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the Word. Wasn't no pens in the beginning, wasn't no
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: typewriters in the beginning, wasn't no printing press in the beginning,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: wasn't no Bible in the beginning, and yet in the
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: beginning was the Word. It doesn't have to be the
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  Speaker 1: written Word to be the Word of God. When God said,
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  Speaker 1: let there be, there was nobody there to write it down,
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  Speaker 1: but it still happened because the Word stands outside of
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  Speaker 1: the Scriptures. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you.
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  Speaker 1: You don't hear what I'm saying. The word was made
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  Speaker 1: flesh and the Bible had not been completed. So the
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  Speaker 1: Bible couldn't be made flesh. The word transcends the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: Before there were scriptures, there was a word of God
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  Speaker 1: standing out there on absolutely nothing. Word all by itself.
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  Speaker 1: The word is so powerful. Oh, I feel like preaching.
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  Speaker 1: That the Bible said, speak the word only and my
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  Speaker 1: servant will be healed. There wasn't no New Testament, but
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  Speaker 1: the word spoken, the spoken word, man shall not live
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  Speaker 1: by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out
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  Speaker 1: of the mouth of God. And the Bible wasn't being
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  Speaker 1: finished written and yet the word existed. The Word said,
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  Speaker 1: speak to the dry bones, not the Scriptures. The Scriptures
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  Speaker 1: are written in retrospect to the incident, but the Word
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  Speaker 1: pre-existed what happened in the valley of the dry bones.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: So I prophesied and I was commanded and there was
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  Speaker 1: a noise and a shaking. Somebody say the Word, the Word,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the Word. In the beginning was the word. There it's
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  Speaker 1: translated in Greek. The very fact that it's translated in
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Greek means that it is written after the fact. Paul
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  Speaker 1: has not yet been to Mars healed. The Greek had
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  Speaker 1: not yet been converted. Therefore, the Bible had not yet
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  Speaker 1: been completed. It was completed in Greek, which comes later
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: after the cross. In the beginning was logos. And logos
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: was God. And logos was with God. And traditional understanding
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: of the word logos means not just word, but thought, principle,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: or speech. Nothing about logos means written. There was no
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Bible in the creation. Nineveh had no Bible, and yet
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: they repented. Oldest book of the Bible is the book
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: of Job. The Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Numbers
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  Speaker 1: is written by Moses. That's thousands of years after the creation.
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  Speaker 1: This comes later. This is the written Bible. Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: But God is not subject to penmanship. John 21, 25,
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  Speaker 1: let me prove it. And there were also many other
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  Speaker 1: things which Jesus did, the which if they should be written...
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: If it were written what Jesus did, if it were
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: written what Jesus did, everyone, I suppose that even the
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: But these were written that you might believe. So what
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: you have is just a syllabus. Y'all don't want to
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: play with me this morning. This is just a syllabus.
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  Speaker 1: This is just a compacted, concentrated representative of the wholeness
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: of what God has to say. Sometimes what God has
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  Speaker 1: to say, you don't have a scripture for it, but
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  Speaker 1: God said it. God said it in your belly. God
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  Speaker 1: said it in your spirit. God said it to your grandmama.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: God said it in your soul. Shout yes! The sword
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: of the spirit is the word of God. If Jesus
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  Speaker 1: would have spoke, he'd have stabbed Herod with the word.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Because the sword of the spirit is the.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Word of God. No Bible.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: The Bible is always written in retrospect. It's after the fact.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: The word is present tense. By the time Moses wrote,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: let there be light, the creation was over. Never confuse
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  Speaker 1: the word with the Bible. The Bible is the written
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  Speaker 1: word of God and these scriptures were written that you
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  Speaker 1: might believe. It is not the full historicity of all
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  Speaker 1: that God is and all that God can do and
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: all that God will do. Oh, let me get out
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: of here because I'm into something. Have you ever had
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: God speak something to you? Tell you, don't go tonight.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Don't go on Friday. You ain't got no Bible for it,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: but you got a word from the Lord. Don't get married.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: You got a word from the Lord. There is no
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: verse that says don't get married. But you got a
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: word from God. Touch somebody and say the word, the word,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the word. The word, the word, the word, the word,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the word, the word. Sit down, I'm just talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: but I feel like something's gonna happen in here this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I feel glory in this room. I feel anointing in
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: this room. I feel power in this room. I feel
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  Speaker 1: yoke breaking in this room. I feel deliverance in this room.
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  Speaker 1: You got a word in your belly. You got a
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: word in your spirit. You got a word in your soul.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: You got a word to tell you get on the highway.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: You got a word to tell you take the exit ramp.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: You ain't got no Bible verse for it, but God
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: gave you a word. You don't know why you did it,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: but you got off the highway because God leads his
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: children by the power of his word. Slap somebody and say,
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  Speaker 1: I got a word. I got a word that will
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  Speaker 1: protect my power. I got a word that will protect
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  Speaker 1: my purpose. I got a word that will protect my prowess.
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  Speaker 1: You can have my coat, but you can't have my dignity.
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  Speaker 2: Ask Joseph.
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  Speaker 1: Take my coat, but I'm still covered with the favor
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  Speaker 1: of God. You can take my coat and dip it
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  Speaker 1: in blood and lie on me and say I'm dead,
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  Speaker 1: but it won't stop the favor of God because the
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  Speaker 1: favor didn't come through the coat. The favor came through
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  Speaker 1: the word. God said it. Scripture said it.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: I am better. Sit down, sit down, sit down.
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  Speaker 1: I feel something. So I got to thinking about it.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: I said, Lord, I want to understand this Lamb of God.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: And so it brought me to.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Is there a difference.
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  Speaker 1: Between lambs in Palestine and lambs in the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the world. So I started studying lambs. The lamb that
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about in Palestine is called an Awasi lamb.
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  Speaker 1: It is a unique brand of lamb that is designed
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: to withstand the climate in the Middle East. You just
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: thought a lamb is a lamb is a lamb. But
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: an Odyssey lamb has a different nature. It has the
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: ability to survive the hot climate, the sandy dunes. to
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  Speaker 1: eat less food and hold on to it for longer
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: periods of time. It tends to have a dark face
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: because the melanin protects it from the heat of the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Put my picture up of the lamb. It looks a
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  Speaker 1: little different. Yeah, it has a little different demeanor. This
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  Speaker 1: is what our sea lamb has the ability to withstand adversity.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: It is adaptable. It is flexible.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to be like the lamb of God,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: you've got to be adaptable. You got to be flexible.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: You got to serve God in season and out of season.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: You got to preach when you feel like it. Preach
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: when you don't feel like it. You got to praise
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: when you're happy. You got to praise when you're blue.
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  Speaker 1: Because an Awasi lamb is able to withstand whatever. It
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  Speaker 1: produces more wool. It produces more dairy. It has more ability.
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  Speaker 1: It yields 58 to 77 liters of milk during a
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: 150-day lactation. So the Awasi lamb has a different value
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: because the amount of milk that it is able to produce.
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  Speaker 1: The amount of wool it is able to produce puts
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  Speaker 1: it in a unique category. It is an Awasi lamb.
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  Speaker 1: An Awasi lamb has a different personality. It has a
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: temperament of adaptability. I don't care where you put it,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: it will adapt to wherever it is. I'm talking about
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: some of you. I don't care where we put you,
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  Speaker 1: you will find a way to survive because you've got
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: that lamb-like nature down inside of you, whereas your girlfriend
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: is rigid and stubborn and won't listen and you can't
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: tell her nothing. But I don't care where we put you,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: you will find a way to shine because you have
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: the nature not just of a lamb, but an Oasis
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  Speaker 1: lamb is confined to the Middle East. Are you hearing
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying to you? In summary, an Awasi lamb
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  Speaker 1: is the kind of sheep that are not only hardy,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: but also valuable for milk and meat production in the region.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Their calm temperament, watch this, their calm temperament and adaptability
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: contribute to their popularity in the Middle East. They were
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: loved because they were quiet under attack, Jesus acts like
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  Speaker 1: the lambs that David raised. The kind of lamb that
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: goes to the slaughter and doesn't say a thing. In
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: the garden, he was talking, but the closer he got
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  Speaker 1: to the cross, the less he had to say. Because
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: he had to be an Owasi lamb. And an Owasi
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: lamb is just as calm going to the slaughter as
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: it is going to the grass field.
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  Speaker 2: So he humbled himself.
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  Speaker 1: And he never said a mumbling word because it is
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  Speaker 1: the nature and the temperament of an Owasi lamb to
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: shut up. This is the theology of quietness. that sometimes
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  Speaker 1: God says nothing. Go to a land I will show
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  Speaker 1: you and says nothing else. You shall come forth as
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  Speaker 1: pure gold and says nothing else. If you destroy the temple,
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  Speaker 1: I'll raise it up again, no details. It says nothing else.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: And our sea lamb just goes. Whether it is to
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  Speaker 1: the shearers or the slaughterhouse or the feeding, it just goes.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Jesus' power is proven in his submission to the purpose
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: of And because Pallet had nothing to do with the purpose,
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  Speaker 1: he got no answer. Anybody that doesn't have nothing to
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: do with your purpose does not deserve an answer. If
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: you argue with them and you win, what do you get?
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: So stop responding to everything they say on Twitter and
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Instagram because there is no prize or reward you get.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like your hair, so? Do you think I'm
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: gonna change my hair because some stranger wrote a line
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: that says you don't like my glasses on me? These
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: are the tactics of the enemy to distract you from
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: your purpose. and Jesus doesn't answer him because you can
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  Speaker 1: win the battle.
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  Speaker 2: And lose the war. Oh God, I'm talking to somebody.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who it is.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Stop letting the enemy distract you with every battle. Sometimes
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: you just don't say nothing. It is the theology of quietness.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: There were times God said nothing at all. What historians
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: call the 400 years of silence. God said nothing at all.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: It mirrors the 400 years that Abraham's seed was down
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: In Egypt for 400 years, God said nothing at all.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: But just because God ain't saying nothing, that mean that
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: God ain't doing nothing. He's always doing something even when
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: he ain't saying nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Though he slay me.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Yet shall I trust him. If he lay me down,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: he'll raise me up again. If he puts me in it,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: he'll bring me out of it. If he puts me
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: in the lion's den, he'll raise me from the lion's den.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: If he puts me in the jailhouse, he'll shake the jailhouse.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: I feel like doing the jailhouse rock because somebody's about
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: to rock their way out of a jail. Everybody laughing
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: at you, but you're coming out. I don't know who
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to, but thus says the word of the Lord.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: They think they're going to kill you in the morning,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: but before they get to your cell, I'm going to
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: send a breakthrough in your life. And all you got
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  Speaker 1: to do is go to sleep. like a good Overseer
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Lamb and know that He that have began a good
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: work in you shall perform it unto the day of
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Somebody give Him a sleepy praise. A resting praise.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: A praise that releases your anxiety. A praise that comforts
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: your mind. A praise that renews your spirit. You ain't
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: got to say nothing. Be still and know I'm God.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: I got this. The battle is not yours. It belongs
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: to me. Give them to me. Can I go a
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: little bit deeper?
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: I wanna make a difference between superficial strength and internal fortitude.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: We spend $ 6 billion a year on weightlifting, equipment, gym memberships,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: personal trainers, and related fitness services, all so that we
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: can look strong and buff, and it's good. It's good
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: for your health. I'm not speaking against it. I'm just
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: making a point. But when you get in a spiritual battle,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: Biceps can't help you. Triceps can't help you. It's nice
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: to have abs. I guess I got some down in
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: here somewhere. But let me tell you something, abs won't
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: help you when your soul.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: Is up under attack.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Just because somebody looks strong doesn't mean that they are strong.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Just because they talk strong doesn't mean that they are strong.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: We confuse strength with anger. So we think that because
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: a person is angry, they're strong, and then they get cancer,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: and you find out that cussing cancer out does not
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: drive it out. You talk a good fight, but what
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: is under attack is your inner strength, your inner ability,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: your fight back on the inside, that I will arise,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: still I rise. Spit on me, still I rise. Beat me,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: still I rise. Nail me to the tree, still I rise.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: Put me in the tomb, still I rise. Somebody shout,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: still I rise. You ought to be shouting right now.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: When you look at all the hell you've been through
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: and you still sitting here today, you know you ought
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: to be praising God. You know they tried to take
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: you out. You know you couldn't defend yourself. You had
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: to hold your peace and still you rise. I want
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: 30 seconds of praise and praise.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: I feel a praise.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: I feel a praise coming in the house. I feel
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: a praise coming in the house.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: The house.
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  Speaker 2: Let it come in. Let it come in this house.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Still I rise.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: I thought I would have a nervous breakdown, but still
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: I rise. I thought I would lose my mind, but
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: still I rise. I thought everything was over, but still
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: I rise. I don't know who I'm talking to, but
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: you're still here. You need to blow your foot on
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: a hat and blow your whistle and throw yourself a party.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Stop waiting on anybody to throw you a party, but
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: celebrate the fact that you're still here. It's not by might.
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  Speaker 1: It's not by power. It's by my spirit, saith the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: You may have had to crawl like the woman with
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: the issue of blood, but you still touch the hem
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  Speaker 1: of his garment.
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  Speaker 2: Shout yes.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: We spend $ 1. 6 billion getting facelifts, The cost of a
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: face and a neck lift varies depending on what region you're.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: In, but $ 1.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: 6 billion is old numbers. It's probably about $ 2 billion now.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: But when you get in grief, looking younger, when your
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: daughter get through cussing you out, When you find your
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: mama with a needle in her arms, this kind of
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: strength don't even matter. Your beautiful sister come in looking beautiful,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: but it don't help if we in the emergency room.
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  Speaker 1: The strength you need is a wasi strength The strength
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: on the inside, the strength to hold your peace, the
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: strength to be still, the strength to intercede, the strength
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: to survive, grief-stricken, heartbroken, mind confused, don't know where tomorrow's
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: coming from, but still there's something inside of you that
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: has the ability to survive. Am I talking to the
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: right people? I'm going to give you just a few points.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Can I go a little bit deeper? Inner strength evolves
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: from exposure to the Holy Spirit because it's not enough
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: for me to tell you you need inner strength and
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: not tell you where to get it. Inner strength evolves
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: from the Holy Spirit. The Spirit led Jesus in the
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: wilderness to be tempted. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: The Spirit led him. The Spirit doesn't just lead you
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: to the car lot to get a special price on
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: the car. The Spirit doesn't just lead you to a
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: house or gold or silver. The Spirit leads you to
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: trouble that strengthens you inwardly. Oh, ain't nobody shouting now.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Because when the anointing come on you, you think the
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: anointing just comes for you to come in and take over.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Sometimes the anointing comes in for you to suffer so
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: that you can develop strength. inner strength. That's why you're confused.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: You say, how can I be so anointed and still
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: be unhappy? Because you think the anointing's job is to
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: make you happy. The anointing's job is to strengthen you inwardly.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: And God wants you to stop murmuring because when you murmur,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: you turn a three days journey into a 40 year
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: trip Because of your mouth, when you murmur and complain,
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: you make it elongate. Whereas if you just hold your
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: peace and follow the theology of quietness, it will soon
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: be over. Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: It's not just enduring it. It's how you endure it.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: You got to be able to endure it and not
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: change your attitude and not get bitter and not get
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: smart and not try to straighten people out. That's not
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: easy to do. But God said in order to get
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: through this battle you're in right now, you're going to
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: have to shut up.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: The silence. of the Lamb, the Awase Lamb. In Jude 1.20,
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: I want you to have this. This is very important.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: I've been knowing this scripture for almost 50 years. It
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: is very important. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. When
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: I get up under attack, I start praying in the spirit.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: I start praying in tongues because I got to bypass
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: my soulish man. I don't want my feelings to start
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: directing the prayer because if my feelings direct the prayer,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to start praying crazy stuff like kill them.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: Kill all of them. Kill all of them.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: May they drop dead and fall over in the floor
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: and may maggots eat them before the EMTs get there.
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  Speaker 2: That's what my.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: So I can't trust my mind.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: To pray because my mind has been affected by what
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: my flesh is going through. But the spirit itself makes
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: its intercession for us with groanings and moanings that cannot
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  Speaker 1: but be uttered. For he that knows the will of
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: God searches the heart and the man. It's the catheter.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: It cleans me out. It sanctifies me. It gets me right.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: It gets my head on straight. So if you want
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: to strengthen your inner man, you got to start praying
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: more in the Holy Ghost. You got to start walking
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: through the house talking about.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: And you say, what good does that do? I don't understand.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: You don't need to understand. That's why we're doing it.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: We don't want you to understand. We want you to obey.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: We want you to submit. We want you to say yes.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: And we want a prayer that has not been polluted
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: by your opinion. This you can do at home. You
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: don't need no equipment. You don't need no trainer. You
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: don't need no device. You can start walking around in
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: your hotel room. I feel it getting to me. I
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: feel it getting to me. I feel it getting to me.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: If I'm going to shut my mouth, I got to
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: be strong.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: Enough in the spirit to pray in the Holy Ghost.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: I feel something about to hit this place. I feel
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: something about to rock this place. Every witch needs to
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: get out the door because the Holy Ghost is about
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: to hit the house. If the Holy Ghost hit the house,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: every yoke is going to break. Every warlock needs to run.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: I feel the presence of God coming in this place.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Somebody give him a praise. I just need a praise.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: I just need a praise. I need a praise. I
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: need a praise. I need a praise. I need a praise.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: I just need anybody. Anybody that don't care what you
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: got on. Don't care what you look like. Don't care
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: what you built like. Don't care how long your hair is.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Give him a praise like you lost your mind. Give
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: him a praise out of your belly. out of your spirit,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: out of your isness, out of the depths of your being.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: I feel something about to break loose. I feel something
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: about to break loose. I feel the spirit of God
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: about to take over this place. Hell is nervous. Demons
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: are trembling. Satan is upset because you're getting strength.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: In your inner man.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: Out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: I feel water. coming into your dry places. If you
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: open your mouth and give God the glory, you're going
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: to build yourself up. Build yourself up. You don't need
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: a new man. You don't need a new woman. You
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: don't need a new job. You need to build yourself up.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Up, up, up. I said up.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: I said up. I feel something about to happen in
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: this place. But number two, I want you to get this,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: number two, you got to understand that inner strength comes
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: from strong associations. You can't run with weak people and
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: get stronger. You got to run with people that are strong.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: Pick out strong people, not mean people, not hateful people,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: strong people. Pick your friends by how they took a
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: lickin' and they kept on tickin'. Pick your friends that
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: been through hell and high water and still they got up.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Do you hear what I'm sayin.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: Stop being drawn only to people who need you. For
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: this next year we're going through, you need people that
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: feed you, that pour into you, that challenge you, that
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: make you read, that make you study, that make you pray,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: because you're getting ready to go higher. Slap your neighbor
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: and say, I'm getting ready for higher. I'm getting ready
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: for higher. I'm training for the Olympics. I'm training for
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: what's next. I'm training for what God is about to do.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: I'm training for my purpose. I'm training for my prophecy.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: I'm training for my prowess. I'm training for my power.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: I might not look like I got power. I may
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: only be three feet tall and weigh 85 pounds, but
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: man looks on the outward appearance. God looks at the heart.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: I'm stronger than I look like. I'm tougher than I
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: look like because I've been through enough hell that I've
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: been exercising the power of God in my life. So
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: I want to draw people that got inner strength so
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: that my associations... will reflect where I'm going to. Can
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: I go just a little bit deeper? I got two
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: more little quick points. I'm gonna give them real quick
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: and I'll be out of the way. Inner strength comes
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: from prayer. And we have raised a church that stopped praying.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: They praise, but they don't pray. They dance, but they
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: don't pray. You don't see any churches anymore that have
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: prayer meetings. Wasn't nobody speaking. Wasn't no big names singing.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: The star of the show was prayer. We came in praying.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: We had a quick devotion, and everybody hit their knees
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: and said, Satan, you're lying. You're coming against my house,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: but you can't have my house. I plead the blood,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: the blood of the Lamb, the blood of Jesus.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost, take over me.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: Don't let me say what I want to say, but help.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: Me to hold my peace.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: The battle is not mine. It belongs to you, Father.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: I stretch my hands to thee. No other help I know.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: I'm not looking to you for help. I'm not looking
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: to you for help. I'm not trying to manipulate you
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: to get help because you ain't my God. So I
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: ain't got to talk to you. Pilate, you didn't get
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: me in this, and you can't get me out.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: Now unto him that is able. Thank you, sir.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's something happening.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: In the balcony.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: There's something happening in the back row. There's something happening
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: in the center section. Somebody over there got a breakthrough.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: Somebody over there got a breakthrough. If you got a
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: breakthrough over there, open your mouth and give God some praise.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: My fourth and final point of how to.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: Strengthen yourself is simply this. Inner strength comes from healthy
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: soul talk. What are you saying to.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: Yourself?
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: You are making yourself sick, feeding yourself the poison That
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: gives you pain. Rehearsing it. Over and over again. Envisioning it.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: Over and over again. And you can't be strong. Eating
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: weak food. It ain't what they said about you. It's
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: what you said to yourself. It's not what they did
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: to you. It's what you did to yourself. You need
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: healthy soul talk. I'm the man for the job. I
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: know I can do it. I know the favor of
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: God is with me. I know that God is for me.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: I know I can do all things through Christ which
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: strengthens me. A thousand may fall at my right side.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Ten thousand may fall at my left side. But it
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: shall not come nigh me. Because I know in whom
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: I have believed. You got to start talking to yourself better.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: Because if you don't talk to yourself better, you'll start
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: dating anybody that talks good to you because there's such
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: a deficit for some positivity that I can trick you
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: just by being nice to you. You haven't had no
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: niceness in so long that you're so thirsty that any
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: con man can come out loud and say something that
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: you ought to be saying to yourself. I date myself.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: I take myself out to dinner. I buy myself some flowers.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: I get myself some for the birthday. Every year I
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: have a birthday. I buy myself a present in case
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: everybody else forget me. I don't forget myself. I feel
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: the power of the Holy Ghost about to shake this
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: place down. It's about to shake this place down. Touch
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: your neighbor and tell them I'm about to shake this
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: place down. If you're nervous, you might better move. If
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: you're upset, you might better get out of the way.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: If you got a hearing problem, you might better move.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: Because I feel the power of the Holy Ghost about
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: to break loose in this place. Lift your voice and
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: give God a praise.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: I said a praise.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: I said a praise, a 30-second praise. Pray them till
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: you start talking right. Pray them till you start thinking right.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: Pray them till you feel the power of the.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost in your soul.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: Pray them. till you become your own best friend. Praise
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: him till you feel a renewal down in your belly.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: Praise him.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: Praise him. Till you stop needing the validation of pallid faith.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: Praise him until you astound them over what you said
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: nothing about. You never even let on it was an issue.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: And the Bible says Pilate was astonished because of the silence.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: Of the lambs.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: Jesus could be silent because he knew his purpose. was
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: not with Pallet. His purpose was with the resurrection. He
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: just had to go through Pallet. So he didn't respond
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: to Pallet because Pallet was a part of the process.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: Judas was a part of the process. Jesus knew what
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: he was going to do before he did it, but
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: he didn't stop him because he wasn't part of the process.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: After Judas did it, he regretted it and tried to
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: give the money back. They wouldn't take the money back
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: because it was too late. He was fulfilling the process.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: And when you're going through the process, you got to
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: shut up. You got to shut up. You got to
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: shut up. This is the theology of quietness. This is
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: what makes you a peculiar people. That's what makes you peculiar.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: Not dressing weird and acting weird and saying strange stuff
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: in progress. No.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: The ability to just be still until you bring.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: All parts of yourself into subjection and you accept it
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: is what it is. It's gonna do what it's gonna do.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be what it's gonna be. When we get
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: through talking, I still gotta go through the cross. When
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: we get through negotiating, I still gotta go through the cross.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: When we get through, but I'm not worried about the cross.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: Because I know that I might die on Friday.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: Evening.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: But I know it ain't over. On Friday evening, I
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: might look gone all day Saturday, but I know it
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: ain't over based on Saturday. but if you happen to
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: get up early Sunday morning Go down to the graveside
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: and see how I got over. I didn't say anything
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: over here because actions speak louder than words. And the
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: Lord told me to tell you, you can show them.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: better than you can tell them. I don't know who
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to, but the Lord said you can show
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: them better than you can tell them. Don't say nothing
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: about it. Just be about it. You've been in a
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: Friday night experience, but Sunday is coming. And if you
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: hold your peace a little while longer, everybody's going to
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: see God is about.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: To roll the stone.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: Who am I preaching to? If this is your word,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: make some noise in this place. If this is your word,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: make some noise in this place. If this is your word,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: let the Lord know you heard him speak to you
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: So I repent. I'm closing.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: I repent from my suffering, from my murmuring and my complaining.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: I repent because I've been verbal about stuff that don't matter.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: I repent because I've been hanging around people that made
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: me respond petty because they were petty. But I refuse
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: to sink. down into the quagmire and the abyss of
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: who you are and give up being who I am.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: The gravitational pull of our relationship has caused me to
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: step back. Because you're about to make me say something
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: when I'm being graded on my silence.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: The theology of quietness. Elijah in the cave.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: Lightning.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: God ain't in it.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Thunder.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: God ain't in it. All kinds of power.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: Earthquake.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: God is not in it.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: But then a still small voice spoke and said, get
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: out of here. What doest thou? And the Lord said something,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: and I'm finished. What are you doing in that cave?
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: You're a mighty man of valor. You're a mighty man
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: of valor at work. You're a mighty man of valor
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: to your friends. You're a mighty man of valor to
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: everybody else. But at three o'clock in the morning, You
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: live in a cave. You caveman. You caveman. You caveman.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: You cut yourself in the tombs. And God said, I
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 3: did not anoint you for you to hate yourself. I
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: did not anoint you for you to cut yourself. You
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: stopped the other people who were cutting you because you
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: are better at cutting yourself than they were. In fact,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: you only drew them because they reflected how you saw yourself.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 3: You had the power to push them back, but then
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: you took their job.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: What doest thou hear that you have lowered yourself to
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: debate somebody who has less rank, authority, power, purpose, and prowess,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: then they don't deserve your answer.