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GOD SENT THIS MESSAGE FOR WHAT YOU’RE ABOUT TO FACE - T.D.Jakes Purpose and Power_ · Jakes Messages and Purpose

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Speaker 1: From it, those truths of such profundity that we are
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Speaker 1: transformed literally while the Word of God is being preached.
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Speaker 1: So as I preach to them, Holy Spirit, you echo
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Speaker 1: in them the Word that they need for the times
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Speaker 1: that they are in. I sanctify this word to everybody online,
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Speaker 1: everybody in the room, everybody in the building, everybody seeing
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Speaker 1: on Facebook, on YouTube, whatever device, through the app, however
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Speaker 1: you're looking, that you would have a God encounter, a
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Speaker 1: supernatural relevance. I believe you to do it in the
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Speaker 1: name that has been exalted above every name. In the
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Speaker 1: name of Jesus, we pray. And all the people said... Amen.
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Speaker 1: You may be seated. Yeah, let's go to work. We
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Speaker 1: are in the book of Numbers. In essence, it is
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Speaker 1: one of the books of the Pentateuch, the first five
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Speaker 1: books of the Bible. We are in the book of Numbers.
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Speaker 1: And in other words, we are in the book of
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Speaker 1: a census taken by God through Moses. to count and
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Speaker 1: categorize and regiment and organize who's with us. We want
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Speaker 1: an accurate accounting of what we have. So the book
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Speaker 1: of Numbers is preoccupied with numbers. And numbers become very important. Now,
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Speaker 1: numbers are very important to people who lack the numbers. Okay.
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Speaker 1: People who have large investments check them every day. But
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Speaker 1: numbers shrink in relevance to people who feel inadequate. But
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Speaker 1: I want to challenge those who feel like they are
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Speaker 1: not enough or they don't have enough. I want to
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Speaker 1: challenge you that until you count up what you have,
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Speaker 1: you can't get what you're about to receive. For example,
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Speaker 1: if the little boy didn't know that he had two
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Speaker 1: fish and five loaves of bread, we might not have
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Speaker 1: the miracle with the 5,000. When they said, how much
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Speaker 1: do you have? He didn't say, I don't know because
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Speaker 1: it's not enough. Knowing gives us a sense of control.
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Speaker 1: Even the woman who was about to bake a cake
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Speaker 1: and die knew she had a handful of meals. The
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Speaker 1: woman who had so much debt that she was about
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Speaker 1: to sell her sons knew that she had a pot
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Speaker 1: of oil. Do you know what you have? Paul and
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Speaker 1: Silas said, silver and gold have I, but such as
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Speaker 1: I give unto thee. See, if you don't know what
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Speaker 1: you have, you become vulnerable to deceit. If you don't
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Speaker 1: know what you have, you won't protect it. If you
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Speaker 1: don't know what you have, you won't value it. If
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Speaker 1: you don't know that your grandmama's watch has got real
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Speaker 1: diamonds around it, you won't insure it. The enemy capitalizes
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Speaker 1: off of ignorance. I don't want to look at my
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Speaker 1: credit report. Well, you can't fix it if you can't
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Speaker 1: look at it. I've got a surgeon in the room.
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Speaker 1: He can't operate if he can't see. How can you
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Speaker 1: fix what you will not look at? I don't talk
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Speaker 1: to that daughter. She crazy. If you don't talk to her,
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Speaker 1: she'll never get better. So speaking that word and speaking
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Speaker 1: that challenge and speaking that thought is very, very, very
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Speaker 1: important if you're going to be able to go any further. Moses,
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Speaker 1: you have gone as far as you can go without
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Speaker 1: a census. Numbers are important to God. When they got
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Speaker 1: the two fish and five loaves of bread from the
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Speaker 1: boy in the New Testament, then Jesus told the disciples
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Speaker 1: to set the people, the 5,000 down in groups of 50.
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Speaker 1: He said, count every last one of them and organize
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Speaker 1: what you have. So a proper accounting is important to
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Speaker 1: run anything. I talked to one of the entrepreneurs, young
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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs here at the church, and he said, I can't
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Speaker 1: seem to get up on my feet. I can't seem
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Speaker 1: to get myself together. And then when he told me
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Speaker 1: that he was taking the business money and mixing it
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Speaker 1: with the personal money in the same account, I said,
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Speaker 1: you can't go forward because you can't see. Separate your
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Speaker 1: business account from your personal account. Even if you have
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Speaker 1: to pay yourself from your business account, you can't see
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Speaker 1: what you're doing. If you mix everything together, you can't
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Speaker 1: tell what you've got and you will hamper where you're going.
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Speaker 1: So because they were about, Jesus was about to perform
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Speaker 1: a miracle, he's getting organized by numbers. Okay. And in
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Speaker 1: the text, because Moses is getting ready to take the
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Speaker 1: promised land, he's getting organized by numbers. Last year they
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Speaker 1: did a census. And it was important that you fill
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Speaker 1: out the census because it determines how the taxes are
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Speaker 1: distributed and whose roads get done and whose schools get income.
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Speaker 1: And so many things are in control by the numbers.
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Speaker 1: You go into the doctor to get a physical. And
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Speaker 1: the first thing they want to do is put you
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Speaker 1: on a scale. And I think, look, I didn't come
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Speaker 1: in here to hear how fat I am. I came
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Speaker 1: in here because my knee hurt, but you want to
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Speaker 1: put me on the scale. Because the numbers measure the
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Speaker 1: impact on the knee. So you can't just fix the
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Speaker 1: knee without assessing how much pressure is on it. And
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Speaker 1: by the way, what do you do for a living?
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Speaker 1: How long are you standing? What are you going through?
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Speaker 1: You know, they ask you all kinds of stuff. And
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Speaker 1: Moses has given them a series of questions in the
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Speaker 1: upper part of the chapter that I didn't read because
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Speaker 1: he is doing an evaluation of what will it take
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Speaker 1: to take over? What will it take to take over?
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Speaker 1: What will it take? When I counsel couples, I ask them,
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Speaker 1: and they're fighting. They don't come to me until they're mad.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're real mad. They won't come to couples
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Speaker 1: class or anything like that. They won't come. They come
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Speaker 1: when all hell is breaking loose, and they're on their
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Speaker 1: way to the courthouse, and they stop by the church.
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Speaker 1: And they really don't want me to fix the relationship.
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Speaker 1: They want me to validate who's right. But the first
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Speaker 1: thing you begin to do is ask a series of questions.
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Speaker 1: Because those questions help us not only to evaluate, but
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Speaker 1: for you to be introspective. And hopefully in the process
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Speaker 1: of asking the questions, you cease to worship around the
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Speaker 1: throne of who's right. And begin to ask yourself, what
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Speaker 1: will it take to make this marriage work? Okay, I
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Speaker 1: understand she cheated on you and you're angry about it.
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Speaker 1: What will it take for you to forgive her? Until
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Speaker 1: you answer that question, how much does your forgiveness cost?
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Speaker 1: 150 I'm sorry's. Just give me a number. Generally, they
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Speaker 1: don't know. And as long as you don't know what
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Speaker 1: it will take to recover, you'll never get better. What
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Speaker 1: will it take to move this relationship forward? What will
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Speaker 1: it take to get us to our destiny? What will
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Speaker 1: it take for my son to graduate? What will it
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Speaker 1: take for me to be able to apply for this grant?
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Speaker 1: What will it, I'm not going to fill out a
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Speaker 1: form for a grant when I don't know what it
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Speaker 1: takes to win. Or let me say it in biblical language,
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Speaker 1: no man goeth to build without counting up the You'd
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Speaker 1: be surprised at the people who go to bill and
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Speaker 1: they have not counted up the cost. They don't read
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Speaker 1: the small print. All they want to know is how
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Speaker 1: much are the payments. See, uninformed people want to know
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Speaker 1: how much are the payments. Informed people want to know
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Speaker 1: how much is the interest. Because if I'm going to
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Speaker 1: have to make them payments the rest of my life
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Speaker 1: for the car, That means I paid for the car
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Speaker 1: 12 times. And the sticker is a lie because of
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Speaker 1: the interest. And who pays the closing costs? If you
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Speaker 1: don't know what to ask, you can never change your situation.
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Speaker 1: So Moses begins by telling them, not only do I
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Speaker 1: want you to go, because if you send people into
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Speaker 1: a room without an objective, it becomes a tour. I
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Speaker 1: trained our staff. When we have a business meeting and
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Speaker 1: we have a strategy meeting every year and all the
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Speaker 1: people I'm going to do business with from everywhere comes
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Speaker 1: in and we sit down at the table, come into
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Speaker 1: the room with an agenda. we are not really there
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Speaker 1: for lunch so don't let the dry chicken distract you
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Speaker 1: eat a cracker and close the deal you might not
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Speaker 1: even get to eat the lunch at all the lunch
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Speaker 1: is camouflaged And Moses is on the precipice of entering
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Speaker 1: into something so massive and so big and so different
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Speaker 1: and so unlike anything he has ever seen. See, Moses
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Speaker 1: has never seen the promised land. He has only heard
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Speaker 1: about it. God is about to give you something that
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Speaker 1: you have never seen. Shut up out. You've heard about it,
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Speaker 1: but you have actually never seen it. You didn't grow
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Speaker 1: up in it. You hadn't been exposed to it. You
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Speaker 1: don't understand it, but God keeps waving it before you
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Speaker 1: in dreams and visions. And this is what is called
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Speaker 1: exceedingly abundantly above all that we may ask or think.
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Speaker 1: I can only imagine. I'm saying God is about to
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Speaker 1: give you something that you can only... They have come
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Speaker 1: 40 years on imagination. And this is the turning point
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Speaker 1: where imagination becomes reality. And before they ever even send
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Speaker 1: the spies, they want to get the numbers and the
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Speaker 1: questions ready. We want to know who we are, what
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Speaker 1: we have to offer. And we want to know who
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Speaker 1: they are and what they have. He asked them questions
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Speaker 1: about the land, questions about this, questions about that, questions
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Speaker 1: about the other. Are you asking enough questions to prepare
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Speaker 1: you for what you're about to step into? Marriages survive
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Speaker 1: when you ask the right questions and not make assumptions.
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Speaker 1: Because you could be working hard to give the other
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Speaker 1: person something different. that they don't need. And the only
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Speaker 1: way you can find out what they need is to
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Speaker 1: ask questions. So the book of Numbers is a census,
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Speaker 1: and Moses is sending the spies over to do an
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Speaker 1: inventory on what's next because he is humble enough to know,
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Speaker 1: I know how to live in Egypt. I know how
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Speaker 1: to address Pharaoh. I know how to survive in that culture.
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Speaker 1: I know how to survive in the desert because I
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Speaker 1: learned how to survive in the desert by staying out
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Speaker 1: there with Jethro, but I don't know how to possess
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Speaker 1: what's next. Ah! I want to talk to somebody this
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Speaker 1: morning that you're about to possess something that you don't
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Speaker 1: even know how to do. And you've been looking at
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Speaker 1: it a long time, afraid of it, because there is
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Speaker 1: nothing in your background that has prepared you for your future.
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Speaker 1: I mean a radical change. I don't mean a continuation
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Speaker 1: of business as usual. I mean stepping into another dimension
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Speaker 1: of anything you have ever done before and you've been
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Speaker 1: afraid of it and you've been staring at it and
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Speaker 1: you've been looking at it and you've been thinking about
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Speaker 1: it and you've been dreaming about it but you haven't
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Speaker 1: been moving on it because you're afraid of it. I
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Speaker 1: rebuke the spirit of fear. Greater is he that's in
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Speaker 1: you than he that's in the world. God is going
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Speaker 1: to do what God is going to do. Oh, I
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Speaker 1: feel a shout coming in the house. I feel a
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Speaker 1: praise coming in the house. As my spirit receives this
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Speaker 1: word and ingest it and digest it and appropriate it,
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Speaker 1: it also drives out the toxicity of fear and intimidation
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Speaker 1: and procrastination. You're not procrastinating because you're lazy. You're procrastinating
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Speaker 1: because you're afraid. Ye shall know the truth and the
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Speaker 1: truth shall set you free. How big are they? What
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Speaker 1: does the land look like? What do they wear in
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Speaker 1: that setting? What is an appropriate conversation for what's next
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Speaker 1: in my life? I feel a prophetic, because I'm going
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Speaker 1: to take my time with this, because I feel like
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Speaker 1: this is prophetic in the life of somebody that you've
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Speaker 1: been knowing for the last couple of years that things
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Speaker 1: were about to shift for you. And you've been standing
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Speaker 1: there staring at it. You heard about it. You felt it.
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Speaker 1: You sensed it. But it doesn't fit where you came from.
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Speaker 1: And God is going to cause you to take a
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Speaker 1: leap of faith into a realm that you've never been
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Speaker 1: in before. And you're going to step into it. The
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Speaker 1: entrance of thy word giveth light. The entrance of thy
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Speaker 1: word giveth light. When you take in the word, it
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Speaker 1: gives light, which when you have light on the inside,
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Speaker 1: it's called enlightenment. Enlightenment. Enlightenment cannot be measured. External light
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Speaker 1: can be measured. The lumens from external light can be measured,
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Speaker 1: but the lumens on internal light, there is no mechanism
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Speaker 1: to control enlightenment. The devil doesn't mind you turning lights
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Speaker 1: on on the outside. He doesn't want you to have
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Speaker 1: lights turned on on the inside. But this word that
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Speaker 1: I'm preaching to you this morning is getting ready to
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Speaker 1: lighten you up until you are enlightened and prepared for
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Speaker 1: what God is about to do next in your life.
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Speaker 1: What the hell do you do? Don't click me off
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Speaker 1: right now. Because I'm getting ready to get you ready
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Speaker 1: for what you're about to step into. God doesn't want
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Speaker 1: you to step into it as a fool. With assumptions
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Speaker 1: and ideas that are inaccurate. Because if you step into
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Speaker 1: it as a fool, when the wind blows, the house
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Speaker 1: will come down. Because you didn't build it on a rock.
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Speaker 1: You didn't build it on a fact. you didn't build
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Speaker 1: it with a clear understanding. So Moses, in an attempt
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Speaker 1: to assess, he's already done an assessment of who he's
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Speaker 1: got with him and what he has. He is now
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Speaker 1: assessing what he's up against. He doesn't start a fight
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Speaker 1: without assessing what he's up against. He doesn't make assumptions
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Speaker 1: about what it takes To do what I see. It's
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Speaker 1: one thing to hear me preach on Sunday morning, but
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Speaker 1: you cannot assess what it costs to be me by
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Speaker 1: watching me preach on Sunday morning because that is just
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Speaker 1: the chicken wing part of what leadership takes to run this. Yes.
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Speaker 1: You don't know the multiplicity of issues and actions that
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Speaker 1: are necessary that goes into any decision that we make.
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Speaker 1: You don't know that if we're going to have a
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Speaker 1: leadership conference, we have to make sure that we put
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Speaker 1: people in the safest possible environment. So that means we
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Speaker 1: have to spray the room. We have to change the mics.
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Speaker 1: We have to make sure that we do social distancing.
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Speaker 1: We have to count all of that up because of
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Speaker 1: the times that we're moving in extra measures and precautions
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Speaker 1: have to be taken and we have to meet about
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Speaker 1: it and we have to talk about it and we
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Speaker 1: have to strategize and we have to talk to the
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Speaker 1: hotel managers and we have to manage their expectations and
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Speaker 1: their cleanliness and their methodology before we do recommendations it's
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Speaker 1: not about just can you speak to the leaders it's
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Speaker 1: about making sure that you have done due diligence to
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Speaker 1: protect what God has given you So Moses has assessed
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Speaker 1: what he has, and now he has sent the spies
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Speaker 1: to assess what he's up against. Have you had anybody
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Speaker 1: spy out what you're up against? I get calls all
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Speaker 1: the time from people who say, I want to, they say,
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Speaker 1: the interviewers ask me all the time, what's a typical
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Speaker 1: day in the life of T.D. Jakes, which I laugh
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Speaker 1: because there is no typical day. Every day is a surprise.
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Speaker 1: You know, every day is different. Every day is new.
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Speaker 1: Every day is unpredictable. And it's hard for me to
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Speaker 1: describe for them that there are a lot of things
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Speaker 1: I can't do. People who want you to have an
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Speaker 1: appointment every Monday and every Wednesday at 2 o'clock drive
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Speaker 1: me crazy because my Mondays and Wednesdays are not typical.
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Speaker 1: Suppose I have a funeral. Suppose I have a crisis.
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Speaker 1: Suppose we're shooting a movie. Suppose I have an interview
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Speaker 1: about the movie. Suppose we have a situation where we
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Speaker 1: have to negotiate to be able to provide products for
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Speaker 1: a hospital overseas. I can't be locked up to a schedule.
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Speaker 1: Other people might be able to do that. So you
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Speaker 1: have to know what your need is like and then
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Speaker 1: assess whether— you're up against. The text before us is
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Speaker 1: after the analysis behind it that has evaluated what they
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Speaker 1: have and now they're going to see what it takes
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Speaker 1: for what's next. Because never assume that what's next is
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Speaker 1: like where you've been. Never assume that you can get
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Speaker 1: married and still be single. Never think for a minute
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Speaker 1: that having a baby won't change the whole dynamics of
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Speaker 1: the marriage. Somebody ought to be shutting me down right now.
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Speaker 1: Every change in what's next affects everything that was. Yes.
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Speaker 1: So the biggest part of leadership is thinking. And you
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Speaker 1: can't do great thinking with poor information. Oh, that's a
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Speaker 1: tweetable right there. You can't do great thinking with poor information. Footnote,
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Speaker 1: be careful who feeds you information. Because somebody feeding you
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Speaker 1: bad information will cause you to make bad decisions, could
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Speaker 1: cause you to be killed. When somebody sends me an article,
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Speaker 1: the first thing I look at is who wrote it?
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Speaker 1: How reputable is the company? Is this legitimate? Where did
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Speaker 1: it come from? Then I validate it. Then I, especially now.
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Speaker 1: So Moses is doing validation. He sent 12 scouts to
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Speaker 1: assess the feasibility of taking back the land. He is
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Speaker 1: taking back what has been promised to his forefathers, not
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Speaker 1: what has been promised to him because he has never
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Speaker 1: seen it. But 430 years of being in Egypt has
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Speaker 1: not taken away the promise of God. 400 years of
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Speaker 1: being a slave has not taken away the promise of God.
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Speaker 1: Some kind of way, though the word was diluted and
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Speaker 1: polluted by the Egyptian theology and their way of life,
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Speaker 1: still the rumor persisted that where I am is not
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Speaker 1: where I'm from. That I'm an immigrant to this situation.
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Speaker 1: And some kind of way, the rumor had persisted that
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Speaker 1: there was a promised land. You can't move from a
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Speaker 1: place when you think that you belong in the place.
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Speaker 1: You can never move from poverty if poverty has become
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Speaker 1: your normal. The day you accept it is the day
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Speaker 1: you're defeated. Many of you heard me tell this. I
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Speaker 1: walked in my house one day in West Virginia years ago,
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Speaker 1: and we had first got married. We were young people,
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Speaker 1: and the house was there, and it was okay. It
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Speaker 1: was sort of okay, a little bit in a way. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, it was kind of cruddy and everything. I
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Speaker 1: walked in the house, and I started talking to the house,
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Speaker 1: and I said to the house, I said to the house,
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Speaker 1: I said to the house, I said to the house,
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Speaker 1: you're lying on me. Now, I know that sounds kind
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Speaker 1: of crazy, and there might be some therapists that want
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Speaker 1: to meet with me after service, but I talk to stuff.
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Speaker 1: I told the house, you a lie. This is not
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Speaker 1: my reality. It might be my situation, but it is
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Speaker 1: not who I am. It might be where I got
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Speaker 1: to be at this moment, but this is not me.
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Speaker 1: And you are lying on me, and I was living
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Speaker 1: in a lie. And then I told the house, I'm
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Speaker 1: better than this. I hadn't seen better, but down in
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Speaker 1: my spirit I knew that I was better than what
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Speaker 1: was around me. I was better than choosing which utility
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Speaker 1: I was going to keep on. I was better than
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Speaker 1: having to use my neighbor's phone. I was better than
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Speaker 1: dropping their cable line through my window. I'm in it,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not of it. That's why you got to
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Speaker 1: tell your children who they are and keep reminding them
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Speaker 1: who they are. Because if you don't remind them who
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Speaker 1: they are, somebody else will lay hands on them and
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Speaker 1: make them what they're not. They will molest them. That's
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Speaker 1: what molestation really is, is to make me what I
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Speaker 1: am not because you're making me what you need me
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Speaker 1: to be rather than what I am. Oh, I'm on
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Speaker 1: a roll this morning. I'm in my zone this morning.
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Speaker 1: Hell is in trouble this morning. Demons ought to tremble
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Speaker 1: this morning. I want you to get ready for me.
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Speaker 1: Get ready, get ready, get ready. Because I feel the
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Speaker 1: flow of the Holy Ghost in this place. I feel
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Speaker 1: a wind about to hit this place. I feel the
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Speaker 1: power of God about to shatter this place. I feel
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Speaker 1: a shatter. It's going to shatter every misconception that's held
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Speaker 1: you down to the same level and said you can't
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Speaker 1: be anything else is a liar. Phelan Rushe Alakajah, one
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Speaker 1: of the richest black women in the world who is
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Speaker 1: in oil and went from fashion to oil, started out
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Speaker 1: as a secretary in the bank. So she's typing around it.
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Speaker 1: She don't have it, but she's typing around it. And
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Speaker 1: the spirit of prosperity fell on her. And so she
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Speaker 1: went from being a secretary to being a seamstress to
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Speaker 1: being a stylist to being a fashion designer that hit
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Speaker 1: the Paris runway. Then she flipped the money from the
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Speaker 1: Paris runway and put it in oil and she bought
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Speaker 1: some property that they thought would never be worth anything.
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Speaker 1: In fact, she bought it in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: water and they laughed at her and thought she was
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Speaker 1: a fool until she hit oil. Somebody in this place
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Speaker 1: is about to dig your way into some The men
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Speaker 1: that Moses sent were not just 12 men he picked
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Speaker 1: at random. No, no. They were the heads of the
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Speaker 1: 12 tribes of Israel. So they had influence. And you
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Speaker 1: have to understand they had influence. They had leadership. They
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Speaker 1: had insight. They had impact. He picks these 12 men
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Speaker 1: to go. And they are going into a city knowing
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Speaker 1: that when they get there, though they are 12 and representatives,
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Speaker 1: they know that when they get in the city, they're
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Speaker 1: going to be outnumbered. It's not like it's 12 men
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Speaker 1: going to visit 12 men. The Hittites were there. The
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Speaker 1: Jebusites were there. The Canaanites were there. The sons of
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Speaker 1: Anak were there. They had all of these people. They
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Speaker 1: knew they were walking into a situation where they were outgunned.
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Speaker 1: They knew they were carrying a knife to a gunfight.
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Speaker 1: They knew they were carrying a checkerboard to a chess game.
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Speaker 1: And still they went. Can you go into a situation
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Speaker 1: where you're outnumbered? Because that determines whether you're going to
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Speaker 1: be able to go into the promised land. If you
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Speaker 1: can only work with people who look like you and
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Speaker 1: dress like you and walk like you until you're willing
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Speaker 1: to walk into a room where you're outnumbered, you'll never
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Speaker 1: receive what God has for you. They were 12 men.
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Speaker 1: Twelve leaders representing the twelve tribes of Israel, each one
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Speaker 1: having influence over different tribes. Oh, let me stop there
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Speaker 1: for a minute and say, even though Israel was moving,
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Speaker 1: they had tribes. Tribalism exists in progress. You can't wait
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Speaker 1: till everybody is one to move. If America only moved
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Speaker 1: when America agreed, we would get nothing done. Not only
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Speaker 1: do we not agree now, we have never agreed about anything.
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Speaker 1: And one time the agreement got so bad, it broke
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Speaker 1: out to a civil war and still the country survived.
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Speaker 1: And you might be having a civil war in your
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Speaker 1: house right now. But just because you're at odds doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean you can't survive. I've seen folks stay married who
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Speaker 1: fought every day. And the folks who was walking around
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Speaker 1: hugging and kissing broke up in three years. Can I
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Speaker 1: go on? They knew that they would be outnumbered. What
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Speaker 1: they didn't know... is whether they would return. Look at
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Speaker 1: the courage it took for all 12 of them to
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Speaker 1: go into a land where they're outnumbered and to not
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Speaker 1: be certain that they would ever come back. Can you
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Speaker 1: imagine being the wives or the sons or the daughters
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Speaker 1: of one of these 12 men and you're packing their
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Speaker 1: bags and you're sending them out and you're kissing them
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Speaker 1: at the door and you're watching them as they go away,
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Speaker 1: and you're wondering, is this the last look? They could
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Speaker 1: have been killed. They could have been murdered. They could
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Speaker 1: have been destroyed. When you get ready to make your
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Speaker 1: next move, you have to understand and live with the
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Speaker 1: fact I could kill might go bankrupt might not come
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Speaker 1: out of it this is progress is not for the
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Speaker 1: faint of heart Can I preach this? The part of
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Speaker 1: the text that I'm focusing on right now describes their return.
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Speaker 1: So they did come back. And they lived to tell it.
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Speaker 1: I told them when the pandemic started and all the
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Speaker 1: young people, younger than me in the church were laughing
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Speaker 1: because I put protocols in place in my house, in
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Speaker 1: my life, in my car, everything. And I told them
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Speaker 1: somebody got to be alive to tell what happened. So
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Speaker 1: I already had my speech prepared. What had happened was
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Speaker 1: they was arguing about masks and vaccines and stuff. And
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Speaker 1: that's how big it is. You got a plan on
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Speaker 1: coming back. Somebody shout, I'm coming back. Anybody getting anything
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Speaker 1: out of this or am I just, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Now they come back with a report and they come
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Speaker 1: back to report to Moses. I don't understand this part
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Speaker 1: of the text and I think Moses is a great leader,
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Speaker 1: one of the greatest leaders in the Old Testament, amazing person,
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Speaker 1: a mentor to me in many, many ways. I don't
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Speaker 1: understand this. I don't understand why he let the 12
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Speaker 1: spies come back and make a public report. I don't
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Speaker 1: understand that. I would never do that. I would never
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Speaker 1: do that. To me, no contemporary leader would get a
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Speaker 1: report from your top men with a news station. Because
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Speaker 1: you don't know what they're going to tell you. And
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Speaker 1: I would rather hear that information, process that information, and
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Speaker 1: disseminate that information. Until you have a respect for information,
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Speaker 1: you can't be trusted with news. The moment feels like
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Speaker 1: a CSI abduction story. You know in CSI when the
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Speaker 1: police have surrounded the bank and set up boundaries and
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Speaker 1: begin to ask all kinds of questions and they call
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Speaker 1: for the architectural designs of the building and they want
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Speaker 1: to know what the ventilation system is like and how
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Speaker 1: big is it and they want to know how many
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Speaker 1: entry doors and access there is. And they want to
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Speaker 1: know what would happen if they cut off the heat
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Speaker 1: or the air or the power. And they want to
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Speaker 1: assess everything. How many hostages are in the building? Where
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Speaker 1: are they being held? And what type of weapons does
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Speaker 1: the enemy have? It's that kind of feeling. But they
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Speaker 1: don't do that with cameras. The press is put out
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Speaker 1: while the facts are coming in. Don't tell your story
32:49
Speaker 1: too soon. Because we're still fact-finding. We're still gathering information.
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Speaker 1: And you'll hear the police make reports sometimes. No, I
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Speaker 1: can't answer that question. We can tell you this. We
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Speaker 1: can tell you that. We can't answer that question. It's
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Speaker 1: still up under investigation. When the investigation is complete, we'll
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Speaker 1: give you updated information. While you're still in a stage
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Speaker 1: of investigation, don't start bragging. If Joseph would have followed that,
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Speaker 1: he would have never ended up in the pit. Don't
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Speaker 1: tell your brothers you're going to be king before you're king,
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Speaker 1: or they'll throw you in a pit and tell your
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Speaker 1: daddy you're dead. Let's get the architect's blueprint. This kind
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Speaker 1: of fact-finding moment isn't done in front of the press
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Speaker 1: or around a whole lot of people. Yet Moses is
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Speaker 1: gathering intelligence and exposing it to the public in real-time speed.
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Speaker 1: And I'm like clipping off of this. Because the intelligence
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Speaker 1: that he's gathering is relative. And intelligence is always relative.
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Speaker 1: Intelligence is based on perspective. And so you don't want
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Speaker 1: to send out mixed messages to multitudes. Because if you
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Speaker 1: send out mixed messages to multitudes, it creates murmuring. That's
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Speaker 1: why I want you to delete some of your pictures
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Speaker 1: on your Instagram. Because one moment you're talking about how
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Speaker 1: good God is, and your name on there is Big
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Speaker 1: Breast Betty. Yeah. And you're sending mixed messages. And we
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Speaker 1: don't know which one of you... Did I say that
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Speaker 1: out loud? I didn't mean to say that. I apologize,
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Speaker 1: big breast, Betty. I didn't mean to call your name
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Speaker 1: out loud in the middle of my sermon. But there
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Speaker 1: has to be a continuity of information. I know. It's
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Speaker 1: a cultural thing. Pray for me. There... You can't create
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Speaker 1: trust with conflicting truth. And so they're having a private
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Speaker 1: debate in a public place. Ten of the spies have said,
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Speaker 1: we can't do this. There's no way in the world
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Speaker 1: we can do this. Now look at this for a minute.
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute. The option to not doing this is
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Speaker 1: living in the desert where we have been for the
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Speaker 1: last 40 years. When you look at the option of
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Speaker 1: not going forward, it will give you courage to fight
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Speaker 1: the opposition. Because I don't know about you, I'm more
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Speaker 1: afraid of stagnation than I am opposition. I would rather
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Speaker 1: fight the opposition than to succumb to the frustration of
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Speaker 1: stagnation and wasting my life being stuck in the same spot.
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Speaker 1: Do I have anybody related to me in here? Are
35:51
Speaker 1: you from my tribe? Holler at me if you're ready
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Speaker 1: to make a move. Only Joshua and Caleb brought back
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Speaker 1: a positive report. Two men out of 12, again, outnumbered.
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Speaker 1: Their report is a true report, but they were outnumbered.
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Speaker 1: I won't focus on Joshua as he will get a
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Speaker 1: lot of face time in the scriptures. He will fight
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Speaker 1: the Amalekites. He will become Moses' successor. He will split
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Speaker 1: the Jordan River. He will march around the walls of Jericho.
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Speaker 1: He will defeat Jericho. He will successfully subdue the promised land.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to spend a lot of time on
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Speaker 1: him because he gets a lot of face time in preaching,
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Speaker 1: a lot of face time in scriptures, a lot of
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Speaker 1: face time in history. But I am fascinated by Caleb.
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Speaker 1: And I'm shocked that Joshua, who is mighty in battle,
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Speaker 1: did not silence the crowd with his ability to fight.
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Speaker 1: And I'm fascinated that Caleb, who has less face time,
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Speaker 1: seemingly has more influence. Can I go deeper? Can I
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Speaker 1: go deeper? The Bible, so I started studying Caleb. Caleb,
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Speaker 1: the Bible says, has another spirit. He's just a different
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Speaker 1: kind of guy. But what about Caleb? What can we know?
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Speaker 1: Who is this man who silenced the entire congregation? Millions
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Speaker 1: of people shut up when he spoke up. What do
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Speaker 1: we really know about him? He is outnumbered in the text.
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Speaker 1: One man stood up and silenced the whole crowd. The
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Speaker 1: first thing he teaches me is use your voice. Even
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Speaker 1: when you're outnumbered, use your voice. Don't let anybody take
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Speaker 1: your voice. I have a right to my opinion. I
37:49
Speaker 1: have a right to say what I think. I have
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Speaker 1: a right to speak how I saw it. Even if
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Speaker 1: everybody else sees it another way, I still have the
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Speaker 1: right to say what I saw. He's outnumbered by the 12.
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Speaker 1: He's outnumbered in the details provided in the Torah. He
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Speaker 1: is mentioned in the Koran, but not by name. Caleb
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Speaker 1: has a low profile, but a powerful voice. What gives
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Speaker 1: him the power to silence this crowd in such a
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Speaker 1: dynamic way and see what 10 others did not see?
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Speaker 1: No wonder the Bible said he had another spirit. When
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Speaker 1: you see what others cannot see, you can do what
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Speaker 1: others cannot do. Glory to God. I'm going to say
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Speaker 1: it again for the people in the back. When you
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Speaker 1: see what others cannot see, you can do what others
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Speaker 1: cannot do. Good God Almighty. Type it on the line.
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Speaker 1: When you see what others cannot see, you can do
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Speaker 1: what others cannot do. Caleb had another spirit. And the
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Speaker 1: Bible said that because Caleb had another spirit, God blessed him.
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Speaker 1: God will bless you if you're willing to be different.
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Speaker 1: If you step out from the herd, if you get
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Speaker 1: away from the pack, if you're willing to be ostracized,
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Speaker 1: if you're willing to be cussed out, if you're willing
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Speaker 1: to be cast down, God will bless you. Not somebody
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Speaker 1: tell him, I got another spirit. I got another spirit.
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Speaker 1: The devil don't know who he's fooling with. I got
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Speaker 1: another spirit. I got another spirit. I was cut off
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Speaker 1: another piece of material. I got another spirit. I'm not
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Speaker 1: trying to be like you I'm not trying to fit
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Speaker 1: in with you I'm not trying to win you I
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Speaker 1: am who I am you like me or you don't
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Speaker 1: this is it check it out it is what it
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Speaker 1: is My God, can you feel the anointing that's in
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Speaker 1: this place? Can you feel the anointing? Somebody's faith is
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Speaker 1: leaping up and down in their belly. Somebody's getting a
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Speaker 1: witness down in their soul. Somebody's getting a confirming word
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Speaker 1: on the stream. Somebody's getting the confidence to go where
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Speaker 1: they've never gone before. And everybody says you're a fool,
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Speaker 1: but you're willing to be called a fool and laugh
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Speaker 1: at because you have faith. another spirit. And God said
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Speaker 1: he's going to give you a voice that will silence
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Speaker 1: your enemy, that will silence your critics, that will silence
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Speaker 1: your opposition, that will silence your store. God said when
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Speaker 1: you open your mouth, he's going to shut them up.
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Speaker 1: Not somebody that say I'm outnumbered. but I'm all right.
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Speaker 1: And give God a praise. I'm outnumbered, but I'm all right.
40:51
Speaker 1: I'm outnumbered, but I'm all right. I'm outnumbered, but I'm
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Speaker 1: all right. Serena, I've always been outnumbered, but I've always
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Speaker 1: been all right. I'm outnumbered, but I still believe that
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Speaker 1: God's word is true. If you got the spirit of Caleb,
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Speaker 1: give me three seconds of Holy Ghost
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Speaker 1: Can I feed you just a little bit more?
41:48
Speaker 1: Sit down, sit down. I want to feed you just
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Speaker 1: a little bit more. I'm running out of time, but
41:52
Speaker 1: I feel something. But I feel something. But I feel something.
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Speaker 1: And I feel something about to break. And I feel
41:57
Speaker 1: something about to break in the spirit world. And when
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Speaker 1: it breaks in the spirit world, it's going to break
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Speaker 1: in every area of your life. When it breaks in
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Speaker 1: your belly, you're going to flood your situation. When it
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Speaker 1: breaks in your heart, it's going to renew you. Oh,
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Speaker 1: my God. Somebody's praying for me and I can feel it.
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Speaker 1: Somebody's got my back because I can feel your hand
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Speaker 1: in my back pushing me forward. I'm going to break
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Speaker 1: this yoke before I sit down. I'm going to break it.
42:41
Speaker 1: Let me move on, I gotta hear. Traditional Jewish scholars
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Speaker 1: record a number of stories and theories about Caleb, which
42:48
Speaker 1: expand on the biblical account. It expands on it in
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Speaker 1: many significant ways. One account records that Caleb wanted to
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Speaker 1: bring produce from the land, but the other spies discouraged
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Speaker 1: him from bringing the produce from the land to avoid
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Speaker 1: giving the Israelites a positive impression of Canaan. So the
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Speaker 1: spies were arguing, how much do we show them? If
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Speaker 1: we show them how much they can have, they're going
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Speaker 1: to get excited about possessing the land. Only Caleb wanted
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Speaker 1: to expose them to what's next. There are very few
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Speaker 1: men that are confident enough in who they are to
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Speaker 1: expose you to what's next. Caleb pulled out his sword
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Speaker 1: and got ready to fight. He said, I'm not going
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Speaker 1: back empty handed. We got to show them something. And
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Speaker 1: they argued about it and they almost went to blows
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Speaker 1: about it. And the historian said that they settled on
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Speaker 1: the fact That they would at least show them the grapes.
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Speaker 1: So they pulled, check this out, a cluster of grapes.
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Speaker 1: Now I know what a cluster of grapes is. I
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Speaker 1: have eaten a cluster of grapes. But this cluster of
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Speaker 1: grapes was so big that it took two men to
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Speaker 1: be able to carry it. And the Lord told me
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Speaker 1: to tell you that what he has for you... It's
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Speaker 1: not what you saw at the grocery store. It's not
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Speaker 1: what you saw in the magazine. But it's so big,
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Speaker 1: it's going to take two men to carry back one cluster. Now,
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Speaker 1: street people say, this is going to be big. This
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Speaker 1: is going to be big. This is going to be big.
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Speaker 1: This is going to be big. I can tell by
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Speaker 1: the giants. I can tell by the fight. I can
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Speaker 1: tell by the sickness. I can tell by the struggle.
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Speaker 1: I can tell by the demonic attack that's been launched
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Speaker 1: against me. Whatever God is about to do, it's going
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Speaker 1: to be bigger than I could imagine. It's going to
44:52
Speaker 1: be greater than I could ever conceive. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be exceedingly abundantly above all the exceedingly abundantly above all
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Speaker 1: that I exceedingly abundantly above all that I could. I
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Speaker 1: got to get ready. I can't get ready for grocery
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Speaker 1: store grapes. If I've got grapes so big that it's
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Speaker 1: going to take two men. And Caleb wanted to bring
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Speaker 1: more produce. But because the ten spies did not want
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Speaker 1: to incite the people to possess the land, they discouraged him.
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Speaker 1: He fought them back and at least got to show
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Speaker 1: them the grapes. I want to talk to somebody. You
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Speaker 1: don't know all the details yet, but you have seen
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Speaker 1: the grapes on what's next in your life. Every person
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Speaker 1: who's dragging some grapes that are prophetic to where you're going,
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Speaker 1: give him a moment of praise in this place. Yes,
45:56
Speaker 1: I see the grapes. I see the grapes. It's heavy,
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Speaker 1: but I'm carrying the grapes. It's bigger than I expected,
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Speaker 1: but I'm carrying the grapes. I got to go into
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Speaker 1: a partnership, but I'm carrying the grapes. I had to
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Speaker 1: open up a limited liability partnership, but I'm carrying the grapes.
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Speaker 1: What God is getting ready to do for you, you
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Speaker 1: can't do it by yourself. You've gone as far as
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Speaker 1: you can go by yourself. These grapes are big. These
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Speaker 1: grapes are big. These grapes are big. These grapes are big.
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Speaker 1: These grapes are big. These grapes are big. The devil
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Speaker 1: don't like it. Hell don't like it. The witch don't
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Speaker 1: like it. Your body is fighting you. Your health is
46:45
Speaker 1: fighting you. But the devil is alive. If I gotta
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Speaker 1: drag it back... So I went a little deeper and
47:18
Speaker 1: I started reading the Midrash. And the Midrash is a
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Speaker 1: commentary on Old Testament theology that includes both the written
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Speaker 1: and all interpretations of of the scriptures and it's called
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Speaker 1: the midrash and when you read the midrash it opens
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Speaker 1: up insight that Caleb is fully devoted to the Lord
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Speaker 1: and to Moses until you can be faithful to that
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Speaker 1: which pertains to another man you can never have your
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Speaker 1: home until you can work in somebody else's house as
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Speaker 1: if it were your house you can't conceive what God
47:57
Speaker 1: can do in your life somebody give me more time
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Speaker 1: I feel the Holy Ghost about to break a yoke.
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Speaker 1: And when the yoke is broken, the blessings are going
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Speaker 1: to flood your life. Get ready to swim in it.
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Speaker 1: Get ready for it to overshadow you. Get ready for
48:16
Speaker 1: the power of God to come down in your life.
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Speaker 1: So the midrash there said he was wholly devoted to
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Speaker 1: the Lord and to Moses. Splitting from the scouts. He
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Speaker 1: also went over into Hebron on his own and visited
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Speaker 1: the graves of the patriarchs to remind himself of what
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Speaker 1: he came from. Whenever I get in a fight, I
48:47
Speaker 1: go back in my past and tell the devil, you're
48:51
Speaker 1: not fighting the T.D. Jakes they know. You're fighting the
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Speaker 1: storefront T.D. Jakes. You're fighting the T.D. Jakes that was
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Speaker 1: preaching and frying chicken and selling dinners to keep the
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Speaker 1: church doors open. You're fighting the country T.D. Jakes that
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Speaker 1: preached with a towel wrapped around his neck, that left
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Speaker 1: wet spots in the floor. And not only that, you're
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Speaker 1: fighting my mother. You're fighting my grandmother. You're fighting my grandfather.
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Speaker 1: You're fighting my great-great-grandfather. All of my ancestors are standing
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Speaker 1: up here preaching with me. All of my ancestors You're
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Speaker 1: fighting all of Mississippi. All of Alabama. You're fighting Nigeria.
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Speaker 1: You're fighting Ghana. You're fighting the West Coast. All of
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Speaker 1: my ancestors are down inside of me. People who survived.
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Speaker 1: Against all adversity. People who ran away and threw balls
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Speaker 1: of cornbread at the dogs that were chasing them. And
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Speaker 1: that's why they're called hush puppies. because it would hush
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Speaker 1: the puppy long enough for them to run. You can't
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Speaker 1: handle this. I'll throw bread in your face. I'll shut
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Speaker 1: up your barking. I'll run through the woods. I'll weave
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Speaker 1: rice in my hair and live off the rice. You're
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Speaker 1: fighting everything I came from. So the Midrash said, I'm
50:43
Speaker 1: almost there. Don't let me go. Because I'm just not
50:46
Speaker 1: getting to the part of life. Took me a while
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Speaker 1: to get there. The Midrash said that Caleb had a
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Speaker 1: voice that was so loud that when they got ready
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Speaker 1: to get the grapes, they had to drive off the
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Speaker 1: sons of Anak. And Caleb shouted so loud that the
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Speaker 1: giants ran. And the Holy Ghost said to me, tell
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Speaker 1: my people, you can bring it down with a shout.
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Speaker 1: If you open your mouth, the giants will run. If
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Speaker 1: you open your mouth, the wall will crumble. If you shout,
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Speaker 1: God's giving you a voice. Caleb had a strong voice.
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Speaker 1: That's why he shut up the enemy. Stop being quiet.
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Speaker 1: Stop being cute. Stop being polite. Pull your earrings off.
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Speaker 1: Open up your mouth. Take off your shoes. This means war.
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Speaker 1: Never this means war. Shall ye? Shall ye? I dare
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Speaker 1: you to shall yes! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! My God,
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Speaker 1: I feel the Holy Ghost about to take over this church.
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Speaker 1: I feel the Spirit of God speaking to somebody in
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Speaker 1: this room. I feel demons running for exit doors because
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Speaker 1: somebody opened their mouth. I feel cancer fleeing the building
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Speaker 1: because somebody opened their mouth. I feel the power. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to shout. I'm getting ready to scream.
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Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to holler. I'm getting ready to go
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Speaker 1: to war. You can't have my stuff. You can't have
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Speaker 1: my peace. You can't have my joy. Glory to God.
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Speaker 1: Glory to God. Glory to God. Give me 30 seconds
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Speaker 1: of Holy Ghost shout music. Sing divine deliverance. Shout of emotion. Emotion.
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Speaker 1: I got a feeling. Glory. Now. Yes, sir! How? How? Yes, Lord! Yes, Lord! Yes,
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Speaker 1: in the balcony! Yes, on the back row! Yes, on
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Speaker 1: the musicians! Yes, in the pool bed! Open your mouth
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Speaker 1: and shout! Woo! Yanko! Yanko! Yanko! Yanko! Desire! Woo! Give
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Speaker 1: him a praise in this place. Oh, glory. Oh, glory. Oh, glory. Glory, glory, glory. Glory, glory, glory. Glory, glory, glory.
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Speaker 1: I see the warriors. Glory, glory, glory. I see the warriors. Glory, glory, glory.
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Speaker 1: I see warriors all over this room. I see warriors
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Speaker 1: that ain't going to take it laying down. Hallelujah. You
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Speaker 1: will open your mouth and shout. You're outnumbered. But the
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Speaker 1: power is in your mouth. You shall have whatever you say. Yeah, Lord.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to say this and I'm going to stop.
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Speaker 1: I think. Caleb is the son of Jephthah and Jephthah
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Speaker 1: ancestors were Kenizzites and the Kenizzites dwelt in Canaan and
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Speaker 1: the reason he went to the tombs of the patriarchs
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Speaker 1: was to remind himself that this is my natural habitat.
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Speaker 1: It might feel strange, but this is the land of
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Speaker 1: my forefathers. And when he began to remind himself that
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Speaker 1: these grapes are normal, To who I am, they might
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Speaker 1: feel heavy, but the normal... Oh, I feel like preaching
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Speaker 1: so bad. To who I am, it might feel strange,
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Speaker 1: but it's normal. To where I came from, until you
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Speaker 1: think you have a right to be blessed, the devil
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Speaker 1: will talk you out of being blessed. But I came
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Speaker 1: to serve notice. Devil, you a liar. Ha, ha, ha.
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Speaker 1: This is my stuff. I ain't gonna let you have
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Speaker 1: my stuff. This is my house. You may be living
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Speaker 1: in it, but it's my house. Suddenly I understood why
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Speaker 1: Caleb had a different report. He had a different perspective.
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Speaker 1: He had a different perspective. He had a perspective of ownership,
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Speaker 1: not stewardship. The tombs reminded him of his story, of
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Speaker 1: his ancestry, that the only reason you're in this mess
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Speaker 1: is that the enemy is sitting on your land. And
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Speaker 1: we're not stealing from them. They're squatters. All of the Canaanites,
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Speaker 1: all of the Hittites, all of the Jebusites had come
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Speaker 1: in since Abram had left. They're squatters on my land.
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Speaker 1: Give me my stuff back. Give me my house back.
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Speaker 1: Give me my peace back. Give me my joy back.
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Speaker 1: Give me my family back. Give me my child back.
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Speaker 1: Are you crazy? That's my child. Everybody standing. The amazing
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Speaker 1: thing was this. You see, 10 spies brought back what
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Speaker 1: the Bible says was an evil report. But it didn't
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Speaker 1: say that they were lying. They were not lying. Evil
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Speaker 1: doesn't always lie. The ten spies were reporting the facts.
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Speaker 1: The facts were the Jebusites dwell in the land and
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Speaker 1: the Gerishites dwell in the mountains and the Canaanites are
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Speaker 1: down by the river. The facts were we also saw