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Living Off A Memory! - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: I want to invite your prayerful consideration to the book
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  Speaker 1: of Psalms 137, the 137th division of Psalms, verse number
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  Speaker 1: one through nine. Normally on the first month of the year,
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  Speaker 1: We forego the worship service. We shut down everything. And
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  Speaker 1: I teach in a Bible class format. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do a little bit of teaching, a little bit of preaching,
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  Speaker 1: mix it up together today. But it is exciting. Psalms 137,
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  Speaker 1: verse 1 through 9. When you have it, say amen.
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  Speaker 1: If you're still looking, say wait a minute. Oh, you're good.
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  Speaker 1: Now that you don't have to turn them pages, you
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  Speaker 1: can find them scriptures now. Back in the old days,
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  Speaker 1: y'all would have still been in Genesis. But God is good, amen.
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  Speaker 1: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps
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  Speaker 1: upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they
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  Speaker 1: that carried us away captive required of us a song.
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  Speaker 1: And they that wasted us required of us mercy. Sing
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  Speaker 1: us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we
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  Speaker 1: sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I
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  Speaker 1: forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
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  Speaker 1: If I do not remember, then let my tongue cleave
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  Speaker 1: to the roof of my mouth. If I prefer not
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem above my chief joy, remember, O Lord, the children
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  Speaker 1: of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, raise it,
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  Speaker 1: raise it even to the foundation thereof. O daughter of Babylon,
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  Speaker 1: who art to be destroyed, happy shall he be that
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  Speaker 1: rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he
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  Speaker 1: be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
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  Speaker 1: Can you say amen? If I forget Jerusalem, may my
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  Speaker 1: tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. Today I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk from the subject living off a memory.
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  Speaker 1: Living off a memory. Let's pray. Spirit of the living
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  Speaker 1: God fall fresh on us now. We need a fresh
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  Speaker 1: impartation of your spirit. We cannot go into a 2021
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  Speaker 1: devil with a 2020 anointing. We need an anointing that
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  Speaker 1: fits the times that we're in right now. We need
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  Speaker 1: a direct and compelling word from you that penetrates the darkness,
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  Speaker 1: that centers our soul, that saturates our spirit, that endows
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  Speaker 1: us with the grace and the tenacity that is necessary
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  Speaker 1: to be effectual and fervent in the things of God.
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  Speaker 1: We need. It's not just that we want it. We
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  Speaker 1: need your anointing to break the yoke to set the
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  Speaker 1: captive free to loose the bound. Let the word be
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  Speaker 1: made flesh while it's being preached today. Let it change
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  Speaker 1: lives and renew hearts and open minds as we seek
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  Speaker 1: your face today. I'm going to thank you in advance
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  Speaker 1: for blessing your people all around the world. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even have to see you do it. I'll praise you now,
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  Speaker 1: you can do it later. Your credit is good with me.
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  Speaker 1: Have your way, great God that you are. I thank
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  Speaker 1: you for what you're going to do. And I believe
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  Speaker 1: you for it now. In the name of Jesus, we pray.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody who loves him, shout amen. You may be seated
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  Speaker 1: in the presence of God. I have come to realize
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  Speaker 1: as I walk out this journey that that even though
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  Speaker 1: we chronicle years and months and dates in phrases of
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  Speaker 1: anniversaries and birthdays, And we commit and commemorate those things
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  Speaker 1: with silver anniversaries and golden anniversaries. And then we saturate
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  Speaker 1: them with the ideas of appreciating the time that we
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  Speaker 1: have spent together with people or with companies or with
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  Speaker 1: children or with spouses. I have come to realize as
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  Speaker 1: I've gotten older, it is not so much the days,
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  Speaker 1: the weeks, the months, or even the years that stay
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  Speaker 1: with you. I've been married to my wife 39 years.
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  Speaker 1: And in all honesty, 39, right? Glory to God. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: No one hear about that in the car. And in
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  Speaker 1: all of the 39 years, I don't remember 39 years.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember 39 Christmases. I don't remember 39 Easter's
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  Speaker 1: and 39 anniversaries, not one by one and name by name.
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  Speaker 1: I remember some of them. I don't remember all of them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember every week of every month and every year.
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  Speaker 1: I remember moments and memories. And I have come to
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  Speaker 1: understand that all that really matters about life are moments
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  Speaker 1: and memories. One of the worst things you can lose
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  Speaker 1: is lose your mind, your ability to remember memories because
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  Speaker 1: all life is really all about are the moments and
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  Speaker 1: the memories. The memories are very important because they define you.
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  Speaker 1: They're what you sit on the couch and laugh about
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  Speaker 1: with your teeth in a cup. What you enjoy laughing
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  Speaker 1: wrapped up in blankets sitting on the back porch when
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  Speaker 1: it's too cold to be outside but you're wrapped up
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  Speaker 1: drinking hot chocolate giggling about things that happen along the way.
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  Speaker 1: For example, I didn't get permission for this so I
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  Speaker 1: may have to give forgiveness. I have not long been married.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, she said, bless him. I had long been
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  Speaker 1: married and not long after I got married, I lost
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  Speaker 1: my job and the economy went down and we were
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  Speaker 1: struggling and we were having a hard time. We lived
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  Speaker 1: in a little wood frame house right beside, a little creek.
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  Speaker 1: And I just got married, I brought my wife into
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  Speaker 1: the house, we were living in the house. First winter
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  Speaker 1: in the house, she did not realize in the winter
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  Speaker 1: that we didn't have rats, but the creek had big
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  Speaker 1: old rats, you know. And in the winter, the rats
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  Speaker 1: are looking for someplace warm, they'll try to crawl under
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  Speaker 1: the house or crawl in the house or get anywhere
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  Speaker 1: they can. I mean, now y'all are from Texas and
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  Speaker 1: y'all have mice. We're from West Virginia, we have rats.
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  Speaker 1: Rats are big enough that cats look at it and say,
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  Speaker 1: not me. So it wasn't about getting a cat. A
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  Speaker 1: rat out of a riverbank is as big as a cat.
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  Speaker 1: I come home and open up the door, and every
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  Speaker 1: kitchen cabinet is open, and my wife is standing there
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  Speaker 1: like a samurai warrior, and she's got blood in her eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and I know she's mad about something, and she's ready
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  Speaker 1: to fight the good fight. I thought, what did I do?
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't me. One of those rats had gotten in
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  Speaker 1: the house. And it was a big old rat. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: biggest two of your feet put together. It was a
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  Speaker 1: big old rat that had gotten in the house. And
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  Speaker 1: I was going to be the hero, but she already
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  Speaker 1: had it together, she thought. She's standing in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the kitchen with all the cabinet doors open. Frank,
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  Speaker 1: she got a can of rain. I said, what are
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  Speaker 1: you doing? She said, a rat's in the house. I said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get him, we'll catch him, we'll kill him. She said,
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  Speaker 1: I think I got him. I said, what did you
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  Speaker 1: get him with? She said, the rain. I said, why
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  Speaker 1: are you spraying rain on a rat? She said, because
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  Speaker 1: I read on the can, it's harmful to pets. And
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  Speaker 1: I told her, if you killed the rat with the rain,
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  Speaker 1: it's because he laughed himself to death. I imagine a
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  Speaker 1: big old rat laying over in the back of the cabinet,
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  Speaker 1: falling out laughing, going into a heart attack, laughing at
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  Speaker 1: this woman who is squirting him like he is a
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  Speaker 1: roach with a can of rays. It was crazy. It
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  Speaker 1: was funny. We laughed about it for years. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get the can of Raid. Pray for me. Forgive me.
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  Speaker 1: Don't judge me. I got a pistol. One thing is
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  Speaker 1: about as ridiculous as the other. She's got a can
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  Speaker 1: of Raid. I got a gun. I said, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't pay no rent, you can't stay in here. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to die. A brother up in here
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  Speaker 1: needs some rent money. If you're going to stay here,
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  Speaker 1: I want to see some dead presidents. And that's how
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  Speaker 1: our marriage got started. It's a wonder we're still married today,
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  Speaker 1: but that's how it got started. And when we're sitting
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  Speaker 1: back laughing and talking, we're talking about crazy moments and
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  Speaker 1: memories that define. It's not always the contrived special moments
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  Speaker 1: where you got dressed up and you think you're all
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  Speaker 1: looking good and you're trying to be important and you
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  Speaker 1: smell like a bottle of flowers. Those are not always
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  Speaker 1: the greatest moments. The greatest moments are in the little, cute, crazy,
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  Speaker 1: idiotic things that make people love you. make them remember
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  Speaker 1: you make them stay with you God understands the importance
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  Speaker 1: of moments God understands the power of memories and there
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  Speaker 1: are some things God does so that you will define
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  Speaker 1: your relationship with him on the basis of a memory
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  Speaker 1: He told Moses, he says, I'm going to bring the
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  Speaker 1: children of Israel out of Egypt. I'm going to cause
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  Speaker 1: the death angel to pass over by night. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to put blood on the doorpost and on the lintel.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, when the death angel passes over, when
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  Speaker 1: he sees the blood, he will pass over you. At
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  Speaker 1: that one moment. became a point of reference for the
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  Speaker 1: next thousand years. God referred to, am I not the
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  Speaker 1: God who brought you out of the wilderness? Am I
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  Speaker 1: not the God who brought you out of Egypt? Am
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  Speaker 1: I not the God who delivered you from the hand
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  Speaker 1: of Pharaoh? That one moment was done so that they
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  Speaker 1: would have a memory. So that whatever they face, the Hittites,
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  Speaker 1: the Jebusites, the Philistines, whatever they came into, they would
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  Speaker 1: remember that moment and use that moment as a point
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  Speaker 1: of reference to build their faith up, to strengthen their faith,
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  Speaker 1: to define their relationship with God and say, if God
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  Speaker 1: can do that, he can do this too. In the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament, on the night before Jesus was to be
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  Speaker 1: offered up, he had a Passover dinner with the disciples
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  Speaker 1: and he brought them together and he took it and
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  Speaker 1: he changed the meaning of the Passover to what we
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  Speaker 1: call communion. He took the bread and he broke it
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  Speaker 1: and he blessed it and he gave it to them
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  Speaker 1: and told them to eat. And he said, this do what?
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  Speaker 1: Say it again. Say it again. Say it again. This
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  Speaker 1: do in remembrance of me. And so as often as
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  Speaker 1: you do this, you do show forth the Lord's death
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  Speaker 1: till he comes. He is replacing the blood of the
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  Speaker 1: lamb with the blood of Jesus. He says, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give you a new memory, a new reflection, a
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  Speaker 1: new way of identifying yourself. And as often as you
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  Speaker 1: do this, you let me know I still remember. I
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  Speaker 1: still remember. I hate it when people forget. I hate
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  Speaker 1: it when they forget. I'm not talking about forget where
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  Speaker 1: you put your watch or forget where you parked your car.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about forget when I've been good to you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, forget when I helped you out of trouble.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind being betrayed, but I hate being betrayed
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  Speaker 1: by people I was good to. It just gets on
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  Speaker 1: my nerves to think, how did you forget? Am I
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  Speaker 1: not the same person that you called at two o'clock
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  Speaker 1: in the morning and you were in trouble and you
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk me et tu, Brute? You too? People forgets.
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  Speaker 1: They forget, they forget, and they walk away from you
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  Speaker 1: and fail to remember the things that matter the most
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  Speaker 1: in life. In our text tonight, this is probably the
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  Speaker 1: bloodiest psalms of all 150 divisions of psalms. It is
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  Speaker 1: bloody because he openly and adamantly hopes God kills the
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  Speaker 1: Edomites and prays that he kills their children and everybody.
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  Speaker 1: It is naked, it is honest, it is, as young
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  Speaker 1: people say, keep it at 100. He doesn't try to
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  Speaker 1: impress us with being deeply spiritual. His emotions are all
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  Speaker 1: over the place in the course of nine verses. He's
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  Speaker 1: spiritual one moment, he's remorseful the next moment, he's angry
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  Speaker 1: the next moment, all incorporated in nine verses of the
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  Speaker 1: 137th division of Psalms. And in order to appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: magnitude of what is going here what is happening here
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  Speaker 1: you must understand that he has left Jerusalem on the
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  Speaker 1: run his home has been besieged by the Babylonians and
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  Speaker 1: the Edomites the nine tribes have been lost and the
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  Speaker 1: remnant has escaped and only a few have stayed in
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem they have been beaten fiercely beaten Not beaten like
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  Speaker 1: you got a whip, but I mean beaten like you're
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  Speaker 1: a dog, like you're an animal. They had been beaten
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  Speaker 1: until they were bloody and battered and tattered and torn.
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  Speaker 1: The women had had their clothes yanked off of them
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  Speaker 1: and raped, denied of any dignity or able to resist.
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  Speaker 1: The women had been raped and the men who resisted
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  Speaker 1: were castrated. And with blood running down their legs. And
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  Speaker 1: chains wrapped around their ankles. In the hot Palestinian heat,
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  Speaker 1: they dragged them away. Defeated out of their own country
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  Speaker 1: and their own land. And their own customs. Away from Jerusalem. Oh, Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: Away from the place that they woke up in the
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  Speaker 1: morning to the smell of baking bread. And could hear
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  Speaker 1: the cobbler as he began to get out his hammers
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  Speaker 1: and prepare to make his shoes. The coppersmiths and the
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  Speaker 1: sound of the coppersmiths early in the morning. And the
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  Speaker 1: women singing down at the rivers as they washed their clothes.
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  Speaker 1: Singing the Hebrew songs. Dancing on the riverbanks. Jerusalem. There
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  Speaker 1: was no place like Jerusalem. But now it lay in ruins.
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  Speaker 1: There is no hammering. There is no nailing. There is
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  Speaker 1: no bread being baked. Instead, the smell of fresh baked
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  Speaker 1: bread has been replaced with the stench of burning flesh.
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  Speaker 1: The screams and anxieties of Hebrew boys and girls who
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  Speaker 1: are killed like you would kill a roach. The men
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  Speaker 1: have been castrated. The women have been humiliated. And they
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  Speaker 1: are drug away from Jerusalem. The holy city of Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: that not only defines their culture, it defines their faith,
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  Speaker 1: it defines everything about them. Who would have ever thought
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  Speaker 1: that Jerusalem could be lost? It was lost to them.
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  Speaker 1: Only a few remained. The rest were drug away. And
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  Speaker 1: it was a bitter moment. It was a painful, crushing
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  Speaker 1: moment because when they were drug away, they never knew
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  Speaker 1: for sure, Kemi, whether they would ever get back to
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem again. Because there are some things when you lose them,
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  Speaker 1: you can't be sure you'll ever get them back. That's
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  Speaker 1: why you have to take care of things when you
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  Speaker 1: have them. Because you have no guarantee that if you
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  Speaker 1: lose them you will ever get them back again. And
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  Speaker 1: I can see the young handsome Hebrew boys with hair
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  Speaker 1: flowing down their back and blood running down their legs
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  Speaker 1: and sweat crossing down their brow looking back at Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: on fire trying to get it etched in their mind
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  Speaker 1: so that they would never forget Jerusalem. Jerusalem, the place
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  Speaker 1: of Solomon's temple. The beautiful, majestic Solomon's Temple. You remember
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  Speaker 1: the one that when the temple was finished built, the
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  Speaker 1: Sakana glory sat down on the temple and the priests
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  Speaker 1: lay prostrate in the floor. And it was so amazing
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  Speaker 1: that Solomon had asked, what would happen if you change
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  Speaker 1: your mind and shut up the heavens and there'd be
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  Speaker 1: no more rain? And God said, if my people who
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  Speaker 1: are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray
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  Speaker 1: and seek my faith and turn from their wicked ways.
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  Speaker 1: Then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sins
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  Speaker 1: and heal their land. They weren't supposed to lose Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: The worst that should have ever happened is that they
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  Speaker 1: messed up and had to repent. And now they have
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  Speaker 1: lost Jerusalem. They have lost what defines them, what gives
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  Speaker 1: them distinction, what sets them apart. Do you not know
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  Speaker 1: the enemy wants you to lose what makes you distinctive?
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  Speaker 1: Your integrity, your honor, your class, your personality, your disposition,
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  Speaker 1: the uniqueness of you, there is never ever going to
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  Speaker 1: be another you. 200 years from now, nobody will have
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  Speaker 1: your fingerprint. Nobody will have your voice pattern. You are
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  Speaker 1: one of a kind. There has never been one before
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  Speaker 1: you and there will never be one after you and
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  Speaker 1: yet the enemy wants to destroy what makes you unique
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  Speaker 1: or make you so envious of other people that you
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  Speaker 1: give up on being you and trade at a designer's
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  Speaker 1: original for a cheap copy of something you saw. You
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  Speaker 1: must realize there'll never be another you. They realize there
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  Speaker 1: would never be another Jerusalem and they define themselves by
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem and it was gone. And in spite of the pain,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I would like to take a walk
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  Speaker 1: if I was castrated. It just doesn't sound, I've never
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  Speaker 1: been castrated, but it doesn't sound like something a guy
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  Speaker 1: would want to do with blood running down his legs.
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  Speaker 1: And yet they walked 540 miles on foot, bleeding and
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  Speaker 1: hurting and suffering to nothing, no music, just the sound
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  Speaker 1: of the rattling of chains around their ankles. And those
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  Speaker 1: who were known for their liberty had become captives. And
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  Speaker 1: they were captives. And they were bound. And when we
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  Speaker 1: step into our text, we step into the text of
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  Speaker 1: people who have carried their bloody beaten body away from
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  Speaker 1: the holy city of Jerusalem and found themselves in a
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  Speaker 1: strange place called Babylon. Brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: we find ourselves in a strange place today We find
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  Speaker 1: ourselves in a place that we have never been in before.
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  Speaker 1: I have seen a lot of things happen in my life.
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  Speaker 1: I remember that I have a dream speech when Dr.
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  Speaker 1: King spoke. I remember the day that they shot him
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  Speaker 1: in the motel in Memphis. I remember it. I was
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  Speaker 1: a young boy, but I still remember it. I remember
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  Speaker 1: his funeral and the wood-drawn, horse-drawn carriage that they put
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  Speaker 1: his body. I still remember Mahalia Jackson singing, move on
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  Speaker 1: up a little higher at the funeral. I remember it
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  Speaker 1: like it was yesterday. I remember the Vietnam War. I
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  Speaker 1: remember the Vietnam War and I remember the hippies and
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  Speaker 1: I remember a lot of things and I remember when
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  Speaker 1: John Kennedy was killed right down here in Dallas and
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  Speaker 1: I remember when Bobby Kennedy was destroyed. And I remember
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  Speaker 1: when we were lied to about Vietnam and I remember
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  Speaker 1: Watergate and the scandal in Nixon and I remember the
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  Speaker 1: civil rights and I remember the Pettus Bridge and I
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  Speaker 1: remember when they carried the charred bodies of black little
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  Speaker 1: girls out of a church service and Emmett Till and
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  Speaker 1: Medgar Evers. I remember all of that. I've seen all
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  Speaker 1: of that in the span of my life but I
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  Speaker 1: have never seen a time like this. I have never
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  Speaker 1: seen a time where churches were closed down and those
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  Speaker 1: who dared to come were masked like they were getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to rob a bank. And I have never seen
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  Speaker 1: a time that you had to pray about whether it
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  Speaker 1: was safe to go to the grocery store. And I
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  Speaker 1: have never seen a time that people were taking your
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  Speaker 1: temperature before you walked into a mall. And I have
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  Speaker 1: never seen a time that hundreds and thousands of people
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  Speaker 1: are dead. From an invisible disease that you can't tell
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  Speaker 1: whether you're walking into it or not. I have never
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  Speaker 1: seen a time like this. And so when my brother
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  Speaker 1: sits by the rivers of Babylon, I sit there with him.
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  Speaker 1: I sit there with him because he has never seen Babylon.
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  Speaker 1: And I have never seen this. And the Bible said
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  Speaker 1: that he sat down by the rivers of Babylon and
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  Speaker 1: he wept. And when I studied the rivers of Babylon,
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  Speaker 1: it is in all likelihood not so much a river
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  Speaker 1: but a canal that was built from the rivers because
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  Speaker 1: the Babylonians irrigated their crops by building canals that caused
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  Speaker 1: water to flow so that they didn't have to carry
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  Speaker 1: water so far in order to water their crops. And
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  Speaker 1: this man-made river is accentuated by man-caused tears. And as
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  Speaker 1: the tears run down his face, the rivers flow until
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  Speaker 1: you cannot tell one from the other. We sat by
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  Speaker 1: the rivers of Babylon. We sat by the rivers of
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  Speaker 1: Babylon and we wept. We wept not because of the
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  Speaker 1: pain in our bodies or the laceration in our flesh
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  Speaker 1: or the discomfort of the chains around our ankles. We
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  Speaker 1: wept when we remembered what we lost. Oh, what we lost.
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  Speaker 1: I come in here every Sunday and preach, and it
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  Speaker 1: really doesn't bother me to preach in an empty building.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't bother me. It didn't upset me because it
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  Speaker 1: put me in a war mode. And when I get
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: in a war mode, fighting becomes the optimum drug. And
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  Speaker 1: all I'm going to do is fight. And I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to fight whether anybody's sitting there or not to let
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  Speaker 1: the devil know, you ain't going to take me out
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  Speaker 1: like this. I'll fight you if don't nobody come. I'll
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  Speaker 1: preach in a room by myself. It didn't bother me
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  Speaker 1: to see the empty room. But the other night, the
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  Speaker 1: other night, The other night on New Year's Eve when
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  Speaker 1: they showed the room full and the balcony was loaded
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  Speaker 1: and the choir stand was jumping and the music was
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  Speaker 1: everywhere and the traffic was backed up. I looked at
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  Speaker 1: it and tears welled up in my eyes because I remembered.
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  Speaker 1: I remembered what normal looks like. I remember what we
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  Speaker 1: had lost. I remember that I remember the thunderous sound
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  Speaker 1: that I'm used to hearing on Sunday morning when thousands
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  Speaker 1: of people break out in spontaneous praise and the aisle
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  Speaker 1: is filled with dancing and it's funny, the emptiness didn't
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  Speaker 1: hurt like the memory of the fool. That was all
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  Speaker 1: I could do to fight back the tears, Pastor. When
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  Speaker 1: I remembered what was, and I sat with my brother
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  Speaker 1: by the banks of the river with tears in my eyes,
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  Speaker 1: not over a torture or a pain, but over a memory,
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  Speaker 1: a memory of what we had lost. The Bible says
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  Speaker 1: in Revelation, remember from what great height you are fallen
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  Speaker 1: and repent. And it seems like a weird thing to say,
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  Speaker 1: but sometimes you forget what you lost until something comes
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  Speaker 1: along and reminds you. No wonder he got angry. No
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: wonder he sat there and got bitter and condemned their children.
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  Speaker 1: And ask God to destroy the Edomites and the Babylonians
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  Speaker 1: and to rise up against them. Because he knew three
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  Speaker 1: things and there are three things I want you to
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  Speaker 1: get and remember they're very important. Number one, taking me
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  Speaker 1: to Babylon doesn't make me a Babylonian. You can take
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  Speaker 1: me to Babylon, but you can't make me a Babylonian.
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  Speaker 1: I will always be who I am. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: where you drag me. I don't care what you do
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  Speaker 1: to me. I don't care what you take from me.
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  Speaker 1: Taking me to Babylon doesn't make me a Babylonian. You
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  Speaker 1: can change my name. and they did. You can change
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  Speaker 1: my clothes and they did. You can impart a name
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  Speaker 1: on me that honors your God and they did that too.
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  Speaker 1: But you can never make me forget who I am.
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  Speaker 1: I am not this. I may be in this. I
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  Speaker 1: may be in this, but I am not this. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who I'm preaching to. You may be in it,
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  Speaker 1: but you are not that. Don't let the devil convince
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  Speaker 1: you just because of a temporary circumstance that you forget
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  Speaker 1: who you really are. You might be in a storm
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  Speaker 1: right now. You might be suffering right now. You might
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  Speaker 1: be broke right now, but don't believe it. Tell the
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  Speaker 1: devil you took my clothes and you took my name,
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  Speaker 1: but you did not take my memory. And I still
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  Speaker 1: remember who I am. Number two, remember this, that my
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  Speaker 1: memories define my identity. And you can take my clothes,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't in my clothes. And you can take
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  Speaker 1: my bracelets, it's not in my bracelets. And you can
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  Speaker 1: change my name and cut my hair, but you cannot
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  Speaker 1: take my identity because I still remember who I am.
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  Speaker 1: The last thing I told my youngest son when I
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  Speaker 1: took him off to college, I hollered out the window
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  Speaker 1: and said, hey, boy, don't you forget who you are.
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  Speaker 1: I want to tell this church, I don't care how
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  Speaker 1: long the pandemic lasts. I don't care how much we
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  Speaker 1: go through. I don't care how tough it gets. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care how much they fight in Washington. Hey, don't
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  Speaker 1: you forget who you are. Hold on to your memories.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a person in this room that God didn't
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  Speaker 1: do something in your life as an evidence to you
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  Speaker 1: that he is God over every circumstance in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Some memento, some moment, some time, some situation where God
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  Speaker 1: showed up in your life and don't you get in
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: this storm and forget what he taught you. And number three,
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  Speaker 1: why do we value more in retrospect than we do
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  Speaker 1: in real time? Sometimes we don't appreciate the good things
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  Speaker 1: till we lose them. Sometimes we don't value the people
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  Speaker 1: we have in our lives till we lose them. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we don't appreciate a good job, a good ministry, a
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: good opportunity, a good friend till they're gone. Why do
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  Speaker 1: we value more in retrospect than we do in real time?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: We throw people away so easily. We get rid of
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: them like they're expendable commodities. Sometimes you ought to remember
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  Speaker 1: before you make a decision that you may be throwing
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  Speaker 1: away somebody today that you need tomorrow. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: I hung my harp by the willow tree. We hanged
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  Speaker 1: our harps upon the willow tree. in the midst thereof.
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  Speaker 1: If you've ever seen a willow tree, out of all
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  Speaker 1: the trees that stretch their branches upward toward heaven, a
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  Speaker 1: willow tree always looks sad because its branches hang down.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: And he said, I hung my harp on the willow tree.
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  Speaker 1: I took the instrument of praise that I sang and
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: danced before God with and tied it to a tree
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  Speaker 1: that was pointed to the ground. And on the willow tree,
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  Speaker 1: we hung our harps. And when we hung our harps
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  Speaker 1: by the willow trees, the only sound they could hear
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  Speaker 1: from us is weeping. You can take me from it,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't make me not want it. You can
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  Speaker 1: lock me up, but you can't stop me from remembering it.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I took that last look and she drug me away
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: and it burned a picture in my mind before a
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  Speaker 1: camera had ever been made. If I could get Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: My only defiance to the times we're living in is
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: the memory that God gave me to hold on. And
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: this do in remembrance of me. And as often as
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: you do this, I don't want you to ever get
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: in a situation that you forget that I am God.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want you to ever let some change get
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  Speaker 1: on you so tight that you forget that I'm God.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you ever get so broke that you forget that
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  Speaker 1: I'm God. Don't you ever get so lonely that you
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: forget that I'm God. Don't you ever get so depressed
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: that you forget that I'm God. I'm wondering if there's
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  Speaker 1: anybody in this room or listening online who has anything
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: that God ever did for you that you know, that
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: you know, that you know, that you know that God
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: did for you. That whenever all hell breaks loose and
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the enemy tries to take you captive, you can remember
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: it and say, Devin, you're a liar. I know God
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  Speaker 1: is real. If there's anybody who's got a memory of
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  Speaker 1: God in your life, open your mouth and give him
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  Speaker 1: a praise. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just the praise. I
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  Speaker 1: know He did that. I know He did that. I
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  Speaker 1: know He did that for me. I know He did
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  Speaker 1: that for me. I know He did that. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm going to eat tomorrow, but I know
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  Speaker 1: He did that. I don't know whether my marriage is
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: going to work, but I know God did that. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know whether I'll get my job back, but I
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  Speaker 1: know God. I know. I know. I know. I know
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  Speaker 1: that my redeemer lives. Though the skin worms eat up
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  Speaker 1: my flesh, though boils are all over my body, I
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  Speaker 1: know that my Redeemer lives. Job said that with his
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  Speaker 1: kids dead and his house burned down and his crops
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  Speaker 1: all eaten up, he said all of that might be true,
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  Speaker 1: but I know that my Redeemer lives. I know, I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know. I know, I know, I know. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know. I know, I know, I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. Somebody I'm preaching to.
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  Speaker 1: The enemy's trying to make you forget what you know
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  Speaker 1: about God. Do you not know the enemy comes against
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  Speaker 1: your memory of God? The Bible said the weapons of
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  Speaker 1: our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God for
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  Speaker 1: the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations, and every
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  Speaker 1: high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody holler, I know it! It might not look like it,
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  Speaker 1: but I know it. I may be tied up right now,
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  Speaker 1: but I know it. I may be down to my
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  Speaker 1: last dime, but I know it. I may be hurting
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  Speaker 1: right now, but I know it. I might be tied
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  Speaker 1: in chains, but I know it. I might be crying
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  Speaker 1: by the willow tree, but I know it. I know it!
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  Speaker 1: And they asked us to sing the Lord's song. They
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: wanted us to reduce our worship down to their entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: And I will not allow something that's holy to me
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  Speaker 1: to become entertainment to you. This song belongs to God.
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  Speaker 1: And if I can't sing it to him, I won't
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: sing it to you. I won't let anything be another
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  Speaker 1: God before me. Come on, somebody. Somebody wants to replace
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  Speaker 1: God in your life and get you to be as
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  Speaker 1: dedicated to them as you are to God. But hang
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: your heart. by the willow tree and say, don't nobody
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: get that part of me but God. You can have
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  Speaker 1: this and that and the other, but don't nobody get
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  Speaker 1: that part of me but God. I love you to
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  Speaker 1: my heart, boss, but you don't get this part of me.
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  Speaker 1: This part belongs to God. I have an inner sanctuary
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  Speaker 1: that I don't let nobody in but God. To God
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  Speaker 1: be the glory. Amen. will not dance and sing and
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  Speaker 1: become your entertainment. No, no. I lost my culture. I
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: lost my name. I lost my apparel. I lost my environment.
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  Speaker 1: But I have not lost my memory. If I forget Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: There ought to be something that you remember about God
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  Speaker 1: that can make you sing in your house. Y'all didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear me. Not in the church, in your house. There
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  Speaker 1: ought to be something that you remember about God that'll
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  Speaker 1: make you shout while you're washing your dishes. There ought
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  Speaker 1: to be something that you remember about God that you
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  Speaker 1: don't need praise dancers, you don't need praise singers, you
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  Speaker 1: don't need equipment. All you need to do is think
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  Speaker 1: of the goodness of Jesus and all that he's done
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  Speaker 1: for you. You ought to be able to praise him
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  Speaker 1: right in front of that computer. When you look back
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  Speaker 1: And you see where God brought you from. There ought
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: to be something in your life that you've not let
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: the devil take from you. And if you can hear me,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: you ought to give God a praise for that thing
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  Speaker 1: you still got. I still got it. I still got it.
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  Speaker 1: I still got it. I was young, but now I'm old,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: but I still got it. I lost some friends, but
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  Speaker 1: I still got it. I got my anointing. I got
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  Speaker 1: the glory. I got the power of God. I got
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  Speaker 1: the thing that I know that he did in my life.
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  Speaker 1: If there's a witness out there, if God's got a
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: witness anywhere, open your mouth and give God the praise.
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  Speaker 1: The praise. If there's a cancer survivor out there, give
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: God the praise. If there's anybody that's ever been on
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: your sickbed and got up, give God the praise. If
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: the devil tried to destroy your mind and you're still here,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: give God the praise.
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  Speaker 1: Holler at somebody and say, excuse me,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: but I got to praise him. I might get on
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  Speaker 1: your nerves, but I got to praise him. I might
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: get loud, but I got to praise him. I just
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: remembered something. I remembered something, something between me and God.
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  Speaker 1: I remember what he brought me through. I remember how
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: he raised me. I remember how he brought me out
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: of jail. I I remember how you opened up a door.
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  Speaker 1: I remember how you brought me off of drugs. If
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: you got a testimony for the next three minutes, give
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: God a crazy praise. Just a crazy. A crazy. A
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: crazy praise. A crazy praise. spontaneous, gut-wrenching, gully-washing, dust-quenching. You
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: got a minute left. You got a minute left. Don't
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  Speaker 1: waste it looking at me. Give, God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: I feel the Holy Ghost walking in this room. I
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: feel the power of God going through technology. I feel
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: the power coming in your house. Let the redeemed of
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the Lord say so. Every now and then, every now
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: and then, I tell the Lord, I got some goals.
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  Speaker 1: I got some things I want to see you do.
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  Speaker 1: I got some more mountains I want to climb. I
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: got some valleys I want to go through. But then
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  Speaker 1: I tell him, I want you to know, though, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't do anything else... For me, the rest of
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: my life, I will bless the Lord at all times.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Is there
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: anybody out there that if God don't do anything else,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: is there anybody over here, if God don't do another
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  Speaker 1: thing for you, you'll praise Him the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and holler, he's still good. Type
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: it in the comments, he's still good. He's still good.
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  Speaker 1: I've been tempted, but he's still good. I've been tried,
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  Speaker 1: but he's still good. I've been lonely, but he's still good.
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  Speaker 1: I've been lied on, but he's still good. I've been rejected,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: but he still acts good. Fool with me, I'll shout
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  Speaker 1: right now. fool with me I shout right now when
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  Speaker 1: I think of his goodness and what he's done for
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: me when I think of his goodness and how he
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: died on the tree I can dance with no car
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I can dance with no job I can dance with
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: no friends I can dance
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: So they asked me, how
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: do you walk into an empty building and keep on
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: preaching anyway? I told them because I remember when the
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: building was full. And so I preach to the people
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: that aren't there as if they were there because I
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: got enough faith to live off the memory. Is there
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: anybody in here that the devil's trying to wear you down?
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: But you remember what the Lord did in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. Anybody who thinks that you
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: can run your mouth about me and run me away,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: you don't know me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm tougher
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: than that. I don't break that easy. You can't roll
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: your eyes at me and run me home. I don't
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: break that easy. You can't run your lips and talk
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: this out of me. I got too many things down
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: in me to remember that I know, that I know,
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  Speaker 1: that I know God did for me. I know, I
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: know some of that stuff God did for me. You
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even born yet. I know! Yes! know. I know.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: I know. I know. Wait. The Lord just spoke to me.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody's watching us right now. You have drifted afar from God.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: But God has done some things in your life that
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: you can't get away from. You've gone in your own
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: way trying to please other people, got mad at people,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: went in your own direction, but God said there's something
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: he did in your life a long time ago that
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: you know, that you know, that you know that you
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: would not even be alive if he had not done
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: it for you. And what has happened to you that
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: you have forgotten what God did in your life? And
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  Speaker 1: start acting like them other people. You ain't no Babylonian.
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  Speaker 1: You're not a Babylonian. Take their rings off. Take their
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  Speaker 1: robes off. And come to your senses. You're a child
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  Speaker 1: of the king. Oh, preacher, you can't say that. I've
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: been drinking. You're a child of the king. Preacher, you
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  Speaker 1: can't say that. I've been high. You're a child of
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  Speaker 1: the king. I don't care what kind of Babylon you
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: done got into. You still belong to God. And you're
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: not going to be able to rest until you come
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: out with your hands up. The Holy Ghost has got
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: you surrounded. And you are up under arrest. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: To my brothers and sisters in the church, you might
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: be going through a tough time right now, but the
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Bible is really clear. It is really clear. In Hebrews
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: 6 and 10, it makes itself clear. God is not
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: you have showed toward his name and that you have
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: ministered to the saints. Amen. And do minister. Now they're
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: not calling you right now. And it's not moving right now.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: And man may have forgotten you. But God still remembers you.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: In fact the Lord told me to tell you. That
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: if you will remember God. God will remember you. If
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: you will build your altar. And put him first. And
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  Speaker 1: stop giving him the scraps out of your life. And
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  Speaker 1: stop giving him what's left. And put him first in
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  Speaker 1: your life. If you remember God, God will remember you.
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  Speaker 1: Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: And everything else you're worried about should be added unto you.
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  Speaker 1: You want God to add it to you and then
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  Speaker 1: you're going to come to him. It don't work like that.
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  Speaker 1: You have to come to him and put him first.
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  Speaker 1: And then everything will be added unto you. You laugh
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  Speaker 1: at our living. You laugh at our worship. You laugh
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  Speaker 1: at our giving. You laugh at that. You don't laugh
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  Speaker 1: at people getting high. You don't laugh at the people
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  Speaker 1: paying to get in the strip club. It only comes
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  Speaker 1: to the kingdom of God because there's a demon spirit.
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  Speaker 1: There's a demon spirit that is trying to twist your
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  Speaker 1: mind to forget what it's like to be a real worshiper.
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  Speaker 1: Come to yourself. This is about Jesus. you become more
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  Speaker 1: concerned about fitting in with people than fitting in with God.
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  Speaker 1: So I stand here as a willow tree by the
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  Speaker 1: rivers of Babylon asking you to remember Jesus remember what
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  Speaker 1: he did for your mama and your grandmama remember what
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  Speaker 1: he did for you remember the many times he brought
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  Speaker 1: you through things you thought you would lose your mind
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  Speaker 1: it's time for you to put him first It's time
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  Speaker 1: to put him on your mind. Oh, I thank you
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  Speaker 1: for those that are sowing and I thank you for
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  Speaker 1: those that are giving and I thank you for those
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  Speaker 1: that are helping us to do all the things that
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  Speaker 1: we do in the ministry. I appreciate every bit of it.
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  Speaker 1: And if God speaks to you to do that, I
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  Speaker 1: want you to do that and obey him right now
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  Speaker 1: as he speaks to your heart. But none of your
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  Speaker 1: stuff will take the place of you. If you give
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  Speaker 1: him everything you got and you don't give him you,
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  Speaker 1: you've wasted your time. So this first Sunday morning, until
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  Speaker 1: he gets us out of this, until our masks come down,
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  Speaker 1: and we come into whatever is next for us to
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  Speaker 1: come into as a people you got to live off
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  Speaker 1: the memory I shouldn't have to keep telling you I
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  Speaker 1: love you you ought to be able to remember by
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  Speaker 1: the things I've done I should have said enough that
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  Speaker 1: you ought not have amnesia somebody lift your hands up
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  Speaker 1: to him Just between you and God. This is personal.
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  Speaker 1: Your husband ain't got nothing to do with this. None
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  Speaker 1: of his business. Your wife ain't got nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with this. You got to remember. Always, always, always. Always remember. Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Always keep him on your mind. Can he get your
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  Speaker 1: mind right now? Can he get your mind? Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. Always. Always. I'm starting to hear off right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to start this year off right. Oh! always
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  Speaker 1: keep him always keep him on your mind one of
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  Speaker 1: the short passages of scripture in the bible is used
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  Speaker 1: after 40 days of flooding and all of the souls
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  Speaker 1: that were buried beneath the water And every living thing
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  Speaker 1: and the cattle and everything else that God created that
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  Speaker 1: was not on the ark had perished. And when it
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  Speaker 1: was all over and when it was safe, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: and God remembered Noah. Amen. He brought him to the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: He opened up the door. He brought him out. God's
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  Speaker 1: got us in a holding pattern right now. We got
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  Speaker 1: to stay safe. We got to be careful. But he
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  Speaker 1: has not forgotten us. And when it's safe, he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: open up a door. And like Noah came out and
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  Speaker 1: God remembered Noah. Now I see why Noah built the
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  Speaker 1: altar before he built his own house. Noah had to
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  Speaker 1: remember God. Because God remembered him. This Sunday morning I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about living off of memory. Until the next door opens.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you forget who you are. As often as you
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  Speaker 1: do this. Do this in remembrance of me till I come.
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  Speaker 1: Am I not the God who brought you across the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sea? What is the thing that you remember that
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  Speaker 1: you can't afford to get? Put it on your phone.
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  Speaker 1: Text it in the comments. Put it on your refrigerator.
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  Speaker 1: Always keep him on your mind. You're mine. Always keep
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  Speaker 1: him on your mind. Always keep him on your mind.
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  Speaker 1: You're mine, you're mine, you're mine. always keep him always
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  Speaker 1: keep him on your mind my mind is on you
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  Speaker 1: Jesus always keep him always keep him on your mind
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  Speaker 1: listen if you're in this room and you don't know
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  Speaker 1: Jesus if you're watching over the internet from anywhere in
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  Speaker 1: the world Enough has been said that if you want
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  Speaker 1: to get free, you can be free. I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: invite you to give your life to Jesus. To pray
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  Speaker 1: this prayer with me. Say, Lord Jesus, I confess my sins.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not blaming anybody. I confess my stuff. I've made
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  Speaker 1: some bad mistakes. Done some things I'm not proud of.
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  Speaker 1: Forgive me. Have mercy on me. But I believe you
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  Speaker 1: died for my sins. And I'm giving my life to
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  Speaker 1: you right now. Come into my heart, Jesus. Fill my
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  Speaker 1: life with peace. Save me till my children feel the
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  Speaker 1: effects of it. Save me till my grandchildren feel are
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  Speaker 1: born into a different atmosphere. An atmosphere of change. Save
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  Speaker 1: me till people who have put me in one category
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  Speaker 1: have to move me to another. I'm giving my life
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  Speaker 1: to you. And I will never forget what you did
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  Speaker 1: for me. In Jesus' name. Amen. Just before I close,
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  Speaker 1: to you latecomers, to you slow movers, on the first
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  Speaker 1: Sunday of the year, I want to pray over any
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  Speaker 1: seed that you need to sow. If you believe that
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  Speaker 1: God is opening up a door and you're about to
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  Speaker 1: get off an ark, I want you to build an
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  Speaker 1: altar and give a sacrifice before you do anything else.
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  Speaker 1: And I just want to pray over your first act
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  Speaker 1: of faith now that your heart is connected to him.
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  Speaker 1: Just a quick prayer as you and I come into agreement.
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  Speaker 1: Before you do anything else, Noah built an altar, offered
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  Speaker 1: up a sacrifice. On the first Sunday of the year,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot keep being a spectator. You gotta participate. We
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  Speaker 1: gotta get this right this year. Because I'm looking for
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  Speaker 1: some things to open up for us that have been
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  Speaker 1: shut down. We got to get God with us. Let
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  Speaker 1: me pray with you real quick. Father, I bless every seed,
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  Speaker 1: every sacrifice that came in even while I was preaching.
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  Speaker 1: For the latecomers who sowed, I bless that seed right now.
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  Speaker 1: For the person who was slow to be persuaded, I
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  Speaker 1: thank you for what you're doing in their life. For
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  Speaker 1: the person who just wants to see the door open
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  Speaker 1: and get things right with you. And they're tired of
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  Speaker 1: being a spectator. Touch every seed and sacrifice. And we
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  Speaker 1: will remember the name of the Lord. In Jesus name. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody give him the best praise you got. Always keep him.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. May heaven smile upon you. Have a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful year. Have a wonderful year. 2021. Doors are opening.
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  Speaker 1: Always keep him on your mind. Always. Always keep him
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  Speaker 1: on your mind. Woo.