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Classic T.D. Jakes - Out of the Darkness into the Light - 1993 · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary, pure and holy,
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  Speaker 1: tried and true. And with thanksgiving, I'll be a.
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  Speaker 2: Sanctuary.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Lord, for you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Lord, prepare me. To be a sanctuary. To be
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  Speaker 2: a sanctuary.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be a-living, I'll be a-living.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, be a living sanctuary. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Lord,
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  Speaker 2: for you. One more time, let's lift the roof off. Lord,
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  Speaker 2: prepare me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, get me.
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  Speaker 2: Ready, Lord. Get me ready, Lord, to be a saint.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be pure and holy. Let me be
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  Speaker 1: trying to Oh Lordy Oh Lordy With thanksgiving Oh Lordy
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  Speaker 1: Are you thankful tonight?
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  Speaker 2: With thanksgiving I'll.
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  Speaker 1: Be living I'll be I'll be I'll be living I'll
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  Speaker 1: be living Straight to heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Oh For you.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Lord bless your name. Stand to your feet for
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  Speaker 1: the reading of the word of the Lord. The flower
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  Speaker 1: fades and the grass withers, but the word of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord shall stand forever. We're going to begin reading at
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  Speaker 1: verse 1 and we're going to conclude with verse 9.
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  Speaker 1: Shall we read collectively? And as Jesus passed by, he
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  Speaker 1: saw a man which was blind from his birth.
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  Speaker 2: And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who.
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  Speaker 1: Did sin, this man or his parents, that he was
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  Speaker 1: born blind? Jesus answered, Neither have this man sinned, nor
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  Speaker 1: his parents, but that the works of God should be
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  Speaker 1: made manifest in him.
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  Speaker 2: I must work the works of him that.
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  Speaker 1: Sent me while it is day. The night cometh when
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  Speaker 1: no man can work.
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  Speaker 2: As long as I am.
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  Speaker 1: In the world, I am the light of the world.
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  Speaker 1: When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the
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  Speaker 1: eyes of the blind man with the clay.
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  Speaker 2: Continue.
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  Speaker 4: And said unto him, Go wash in the pool of
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  Speaker 4: the sun, which is my interpretation of sin. He went
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  Speaker 4: his way therefore, and washed, and came to me. But
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  Speaker 4: he said, I am he.
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  Speaker 2: Can you say amen? Remain standing. We're going to pray
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  Speaker 2: God's blessing on the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: My subject tonight is out of the shadows and into
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  Speaker 1: the light. Out of the shadows and into the light.
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  Speaker 2: Say that with me. Out of the shadows and into
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  Speaker 2: the light. Let's pray. Father, in the.
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  Speaker 1: Name of Jesus, we beseech you. We provoke you tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Send an anointing. A gathering of impotent without you. Release
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  Speaker 1: a glory way. A flood in this place. Floods of
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  Speaker 1: glory so intense that we may swim in them. Even
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  Speaker 1: in this auspicious occasion, we pray God that you would
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  Speaker 1: heal somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Loose somebody, touch somebody, save somebody.
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  Speaker 1: This is a moment, God, that you can be glorified
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  Speaker 1: by any force that would hinder your word from having preeminence.
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  Speaker 2: In the house tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to thank you in advance for what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to do.
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  Speaker 2: Your credit is good with me. I'll praise you now. Oh, God,
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  Speaker 2: I thank you for it.
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  Speaker 1: In the name of the Lord Jesus we pray.
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  Speaker 2: In the name of the Lord Jesus we pray. In
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  Speaker 2: the name of the Lord Jesus we pray. In the
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  Speaker 2: name of the Lord Jesus we pray.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. You may be seated in the presence of God.
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  Speaker 1: Here lying in the view of the master physician is
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  Speaker 1: what man has concluded to be a.
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  Speaker 2: Hopeless case.
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  Speaker 1: Hopelessness and hope have collided on the highway of life.
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  Speaker 1: This man has been ostracized by his community, rejected by
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  Speaker 1: his peers, and alienated from the help that existed in
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  Speaker 1: the time in which he lived because they were unable
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  Speaker 1: to resolve.
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  Speaker 2: The issues of his life.
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  Speaker 1: And yet, in the midst of his despair, he encounters
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  Speaker 1: the ableness of God. God's medicine cabinet wrapped in flesh.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, the embodiment of God's promises. God's meal on wheels.
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  Speaker 1: God's answer to the crisis of the society in which
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  Speaker 1: this man was a part. And when the man's gross
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  Speaker 1: condition was seen by the apostles, it triggered a question
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  Speaker 1: in their hearts.
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  Speaker 2: We are taught not to question God.
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  Speaker 1: From a child, one of the first things they taught
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  Speaker 1: us was don't ask God any questions. But as I grew,
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  Speaker 1: I found out that that is not really biblical. Because we,
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  Speaker 1: by nature, learn by asking questions.
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  Speaker 2: There is no way for me to.
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  Speaker 1: Acquire data and to learn thought process without me getting
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  Speaker 1: around a teacher and asking questions until their truth becomes
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  Speaker 1: learning in my life.
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  Speaker 2: And so they.
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  Speaker 1: Asked the answer, a question, and they said to him,
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  Speaker 1: who has said this man's mother or his father that
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  Speaker 1: he should be in the dilemma that he is, blind
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  Speaker 1: and incapable to maneuver in his society? And Jesus answered
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  Speaker 1: them quite specifically and said, neither his mother or his
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  Speaker 1: father sinned.
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  Speaker 2: There are some questions that I reserve for God.
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  Speaker 1: I've come to a point in my life now that
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  Speaker 1: I have given up on asking humans for answers. I'm
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  Speaker 1: weary of their excuses and their trivia and what passers-by.
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  Speaker 1: for the facade of wisdom. And when there is a
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  Speaker 1: real issue on the tables of my heart, I go
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  Speaker 1: to the answer and ask the question.
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  Speaker 2: Why is this man like he is?
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  Speaker 1: Whether we want to discuss it in this setting or not,
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  Speaker 1: every last one of us have experienced moments in our
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  Speaker 1: lives that we have fallen on our knees or grabbed
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  Speaker 1: blankets up around our neck and laid in the bed
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the night, looked up into the
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  Speaker 1: stillness and the darkness of our hours and said, God, why.
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  Speaker 2: Are things like they are?
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  Speaker 1: If you can't fix it, it, would you please explain
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  Speaker 1: it to me? I'm not even asking you to heal it.
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  Speaker 1: It would comfort me to just know why it is.
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  Speaker 1: like it is my prayer is simplistic my understanding is
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  Speaker 1: elementary I'm not asking you to strain yourself to break
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  Speaker 1: me out of my dilemma or my trauma maybe I
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  Speaker 1: must go.
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  Speaker 2: Through what I've got to go through but tell me why.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me tell me tell me why why is this
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  Speaker 1: not it is and whenever we come to an issue
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  Speaker 1: we always want to cast blame in another direction Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: it is your mother. Perhaps it is your father. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: it is your background. Perhaps it is your circumstance, your situation.
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  Speaker 1: We're living in a time now where everybody is dysfunctional.
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  Speaker 1: And whenever we get ready to do something that we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do anyway, we say we do it because
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  Speaker 1: we are dysfunctional. And we blame our background and our
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  Speaker 1: circumstance and our situation. But Jesus said, none of this,
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  Speaker 1: none of this is really the issue in this instance.
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  Speaker 1: Said this man is in a situation that he has
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  Speaker 1: been in all of his life. He has never seen daylight.
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  Speaker 1: He has never seen the sunrise. He has never walked
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  Speaker 1: out in the evening and looked beyond the trees up
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  Speaker 1: into the elements and seen the twinkling of the stars.
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  Speaker 1: He has never seen. the effects of the wind blowing
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  Speaker 1: through the trees. He has never seen the branches dancing
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  Speaker 1: in the wind.
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  Speaker 2: He is in.
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  Speaker 1: This dilemma, and it's been like that all of his life,
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  Speaker 1: and yet God is going to get the glory out
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  Speaker 1: of this man. Now, now, his answer was better than
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  Speaker 1: their question. For their question addressed, why is he like
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  Speaker 1: he is? But his answer said he is not going
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  Speaker 1: to stay like he is.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God always gives you more than you ask for.
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  Speaker 2: It's a blackout in this man's life.
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  Speaker 1: Other people are walking in daylight, but he's living in
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  Speaker 1: the shadows.
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  Speaker 2: He's in the darkness and he is in the night.
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  Speaker 1: And yet God is going to get some glory out
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  Speaker 1: of this. At the risk of desecrating a consecration service,
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  Speaker 1: touch your neighbor and tell them God's going to get
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  Speaker 1: the glory out of this.
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  Speaker 2: There are some things in your life.
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  Speaker 1: There are some things in your life, some circumstances that
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  Speaker 1: seem so depressing and so abounding and so terrible that
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  Speaker 1: you think that God has forgotten you. And every now
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  Speaker 1: and then you need somebody to let you know that
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  Speaker 1: somehow or other God is going to get some glory
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  Speaker 1: out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Like an orchestra warming up for a performance. All of the.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds sound disconnected and out of harmony until the conductor
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  Speaker 1: comes up on the stage and taps his baton on
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  Speaker 1: the element and begins to wave his arms and he
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  Speaker 1: begins to bring music out of chaos and harmony out
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  Speaker 1: of dissonance.
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  Speaker 2: Only God can do that.
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  Speaker 1: And step into the chaos of a mess and the
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  Speaker 1: confusion of disconnected notes and orchestrate the affairs of man,
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  Speaker 1: don't you know that all.
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  Speaker 2: Things are going to work together for the good of
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  Speaker 2: ten years?
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  Speaker 1: God knows how to get the glory out of the
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  Speaker 1: most embarrassing situation in your life.
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  Speaker 2: The man's in a mess, but Jesus said, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to get him out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody here tonight is in a mess, but God is
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  Speaker 1: going to get you out of it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, oh yes.
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  Speaker 1: Then he stands in the face of the darkness of
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  Speaker 1: this man's personal dilemma and says, I am the light
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  Speaker 1: of the world. Not I will be, not I shall be,
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  Speaker 1: not I hope to be. I am right now the
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  Speaker 1: light of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Even in the midst of your blackout, I am still
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  Speaker 2: the light of the world.
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  Speaker 1: You must understand that even in our earth, in our
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  Speaker 1: solar system, that while it is dark on this side
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  Speaker 1: of the earth, it is still light on that side
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  Speaker 1: of the earth.
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  Speaker 2: Because the sun has never refused to shine.
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  Speaker 1: God is too perfect to change his character, his grace,
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  Speaker 1: and his authority. And even if you're having a personal
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  Speaker 1: dark moment in your life, don't think that because things
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  Speaker 1: have blacked out over your finances, your emotions, your marriage,
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  Speaker 1: or your circumstances, that God has ceased to be who
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  Speaker 1: he is. He'll stand right in the face of your
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  Speaker 1: life and say.
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  Speaker 5: I am the light.
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  Speaker 2: I am the lion.
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  Speaker 1: I am the lion.
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  Speaker 4: I am. I am.
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  Speaker 1: I am. I am. In spite of what the doctors said.
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  Speaker 2: In spite of what the lawyers said. In spite of
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  Speaker 2: what the people said. In spite of what the CPA said.
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  Speaker 1: And as he says, you don't have to wait till
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  Speaker 1: you get out to know that I am.
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  Speaker 2: You can know that I am when it doesn't look
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  Speaker 2: like I will be. Still I am.
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  Speaker 1: All hell is breaking loose, but I am. People have
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  Speaker 1: walked off and left you.
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  Speaker 2: But I am. You can't get from one side of
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  Speaker 2: the street to the other, but I am. You can't
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  Speaker 2: even find your shoelaces to tie your shoe, but I am.
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  Speaker 1: When he got through telling the man who he was,
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  Speaker 1: he did something unorthodox, something unprofessional, something that does not
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  Speaker 1: address itself to pulpit etiquette. In the midst of a
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  Speaker 1: very profound and theologically precise exposition.
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  Speaker 6: Of exegetical text, he spat on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: I believe our churches are too tight and too stable
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  Speaker 1: and too systematic and too orderly. If we're really going
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  Speaker 1: to bless people today, we're going to have to break
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  Speaker 1: some rules and get out the bondage and do some
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  Speaker 1: unorthodox things. If you expect God to always follow the
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  Speaker 1: program and always fit within the conceptualization of your preconceived ideology,
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  Speaker 1: I came to serve notice on you.
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  Speaker 2: You've got a God who will spit on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: You've got a God.
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  Speaker 1: Who will do something crazy. You've got a God who
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  Speaker 1: will do something that doesn't make any sense. The church
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  Speaker 1: needs to break her boundaries. Come out of her closet.
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  Speaker 2: Break out of her shell. And do what God told
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  Speaker 2: you to do.
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  Speaker 1: Even if it looks crazy. Even if they laugh at you.
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  Speaker 1: Even if they talk about you.
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  Speaker 7: Do it.
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  Speaker 2: Do it anyway. Do it. He's back. Aren't you tired
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  Speaker 2: of regimented religion?
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  Speaker 1: While hell is having a heyday and Satan is having
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  Speaker 1: a party and demons are being loosed out of hell
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  Speaker 1: in innumerable quantities, we're sitting up trying to be regimented
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  Speaker 1: and trying to do things like we used to do
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  Speaker 1: 50 years. But you will have to do something radical.
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  Speaker 1: You will have to break out of your shell. Thank
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  Speaker 1: God for radical moves. Thank God because this is a
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  Speaker 1: new day. This is a time for us to break
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  Speaker 1: some rules and do what God has called.
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  Speaker 2: Us to do. He's found the ground. He spat on
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  Speaker 2: the thing that we have been bound to.
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  Speaker 1: He spat on the thing that we came from. He
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  Speaker 1: spat on the thing that held us down. He spat
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  Speaker 1: on the thing that our flesh came from. Let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you, there comes a time in your life that
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  Speaker 1: you want the victory and you don't care what it
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  Speaker 1: takes to get it.
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  Speaker 2: You want it at any cost. Can you say amen?
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  Speaker 1: Now I know that you're too dressed up and you
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  Speaker 1: look too nice and I know that you make too
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  Speaker 1: much money and your car is too clean to ever
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  Speaker 1: let anybody spit on the ground, make a little mud
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  Speaker 1: pie out of the spit and put a mud cake
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  Speaker 1: on your eye. But the reason you don't want it
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  Speaker 1: is because you're not in trouble. If you really get
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  Speaker 1: in trouble. If you really get in trouble, you want
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  Speaker 1: a miracle, you don't care what it costs. You don't
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  Speaker 1: care what it takes. You don't care if you've got
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  Speaker 1: to lay prostrate in the field. You don't care if
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  Speaker 1: you've got to dance like a monkey, leap like a kangaroo.
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  Speaker 1: You don't care if you've got to stand on your head.
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  Speaker 1: You want... And so, so, so, oh, the man, he
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  Speaker 1: spat on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: Made a little mud pot.
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  Speaker 1: Mixed up a little salve and put it on the
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  Speaker 1: man's eyes. And in all of this degradation, the man
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  Speaker 1: could still not see. at the end of all of
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  Speaker 1: God's treatment to him, he still could not see. You
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  Speaker 1: have got to be prepared for this moment.
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  Speaker 2: In your life. For this man had met the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: but he still could not see.
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  Speaker 1: He had received the ministry of the Lord, and he
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  Speaker 1: still could not see. I don't mean to make mockery
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  Speaker 1: of what Jesus did. I called it a mud pie,
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  Speaker 1: but he called it ointment. And he said that he
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  Speaker 1: anointed his eyes. He anointed him and this man was
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  Speaker 1: anointed and still he couldn't see. But there is something
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  Speaker 1: that we must understand about God's anointing. There is a
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  Speaker 1: time period that God anoints you. And when he anoints you,
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  Speaker 1: it may not look like it's really working. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to be willing to be anointed and still wait. You
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  Speaker 1: got to be willing to be anointed and know when
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  Speaker 1: your time has come. You've got to be willing to
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  Speaker 1: be anointed and still be in the shadows. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to be willing to be anointed and still be in
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  Speaker 1: the background.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to be.
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  Speaker 1: Willing to be anointed and be overlooked sometimes. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to be willing to be anointed and be ostracized. Anointed
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  Speaker 1: and still criticized. Anointed and still don't know how to make.
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  Speaker 2: It across the street.
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  Speaker 1: Anointed and still don't know where the rent is coming from.
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  Speaker 1: Anointed and still don't know how you're going to make
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  Speaker 1: your car payment. Anointed and can't find your son. Anointed
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  Speaker 1: and your daughter love crack.
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  Speaker 2: But I.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you, if God put it in you,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to show up after a while. Can somebody
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  Speaker 1: tell him it's going to show up after a while?
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're here for tonight. We're seeing something that
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  Speaker 1: God did a long time ago. It's showing up now,
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  Speaker 1: but he did it way back then. Oh, you can't
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  Speaker 1: tell me it just started today.
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  Speaker 7: God has been making a mud pile a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: He'll work on you a long time ago. And if
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  Speaker 1: you're willing to look muddy for a while, if you
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  Speaker 1: hold out, he'll bless you. Touch three people and tell them,
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  Speaker 1: don't let the mud discourage you. Looking bad now, but
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  Speaker 1: don't let it discourage you. You're looking bad now, but
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  Speaker 1: don't let it discourage you. You can't feel nothing right now,
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  Speaker 1: but don't let it discourage you. They're talking about you
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  Speaker 1: right now, but don't let it discourage you. What God
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  Speaker 1: did yesterday is going to work today. Don't let it
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  Speaker 1: discourage you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, oh, oh.
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  Speaker 2: It is the anointing that brings us house.
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  Speaker 1: It is the anointing that pulls us on. It is
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  Speaker 1: the outworking of the internal. It takes a long time
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  Speaker 1: for it to take effect, but if you hold on
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  Speaker 1: to God, everything he put in you is going to work.
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  Speaker 2: Out after a while. Shout glory, somebody.
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  Speaker 1: In my mind, I can see God making some mud
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  Speaker 1: pies tonight.
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  Speaker 2: He's stirring up some blessings tonight.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't walked into everything that you shall be, but
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  Speaker 1: he's mixing it up right now.
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  Speaker 2: You got it on you and you still can't see,
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  Speaker 2: but keep it on you until the time is right.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to pay off after a while.
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  Speaker 1: We are here tonight to celebrate something that God started
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  Speaker 1: a long time ago. And when God makes mud pies, don't.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody come for that.
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  Speaker 1: But if you hold out to the blessing, everybody's going to.
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  Speaker 2: See what he did for you long time.
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  Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and tell them, get ready, get ready,
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  Speaker 1: get ready, get ready, get ready.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you got to do. That's what you got
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  Speaker 2: to do. That's what you got to do. That's what
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  Speaker 2: you got to do. That's what you got to do.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you got to do. Don't let nobody stop you.
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  Speaker 4: Get ready, get ready.
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  Speaker 2: Don't let nobody laugh at you. Get ready. Don't let
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  Speaker 2: them talk about you. Get ready, get.
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  Speaker 1: Ready.
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  Speaker 2: Get a little more hush on that.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be willing to get ready while you
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  Speaker 1: still can't see it. You got to go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: prepare yourself even when it looks crazy. You got to
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and pull yourself together when all hell is
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  Speaker 1: breaking loose. You got to go ahead and prepare for
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  Speaker 1: it when things are getting worse instead of better.
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  Speaker 2: You got to go ahead with mud on your face
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  Speaker 2: and say, God, I still love you.
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  Speaker 1: You got to stand there and not know where your
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  Speaker 1: help is coming from, but just trust him to.
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  Speaker 2: Make a way. Say it! Well, Jesus, you did.
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  Speaker 1: All you could, and I still can't see. You put
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  Speaker 1: your best on me, and I'm still in trouble. I'm saved,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm still hurting. I'm preaching, but I'm still bleeding.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pastoring with tears in my eyes. I can't see
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  Speaker 1: my way clear. I can't see my way up. I
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  Speaker 1: can't see my way out. I can't see my way over.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like what I'm preaching is working for everybody else,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not working for me. My friends are laughing
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  Speaker 1: at me. I got mud on my face. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like everybody's going through but me. When are you going
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  Speaker 1: to remember me? But I heard the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Can I hoop in here? I heard Jesus. When he said,
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  Speaker 2: go wash in the pool of Siloam. And when I
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  Speaker 2: heard it, I got happy.
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  Speaker 1: But when I began to understand that God asked you
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  Speaker 1: to go where you can't even see.
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, I heard.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible say that the just shall live by faith.
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  Speaker 2: And when I heard it, I got happy. Because God's
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  Speaker 2: raising up men.
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  Speaker 1: And he's raising up women who are willing to go
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  Speaker 1: even when they can't see. Let me tell you, God's
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  Speaker 1: got some things for you that you haven't seen yet.
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  Speaker 2: For I heard.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible say, eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Have not seen and ears have not heard. Neither have
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  Speaker 2: entered into the heart of man.
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  Speaker 5: The things that God has in store for.
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  Speaker 2: Them that love him. But even when you can't see it,
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  Speaker 2: keep on walking. Even when you can't see it, keep.
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  Speaker 1: On droppin'. Even when you can't see it, pull yourself along.
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  Speaker 2: Because if he die, he'll bless you after a while.
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  Speaker 2: Say yeah! Well, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah. I want to tell the devil something tonight. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to keep on crawling. I can't see where I'm going,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm going to keep on crawling.
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  Speaker 2: I've been lied on, but I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Going to keep on crawling. I don't know who my
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  Speaker 1: friends are. But I'm going to keep on crawling. I
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  Speaker 1: can't see who to talk to.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm going to keep on crawling. Because the Lord
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  Speaker 2: told me to go, even in the dark.
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  Speaker 7: And if I can just get to the pool, everything
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  Speaker 7: is going to be all right.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to somebody and tell them, make it to the pool.
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  Speaker 4: Good Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Put your hands together and begin to pray.
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  Speaker 6: Put your hands together and begin to pray.
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  Speaker 2: Come on begin to pray. Come on begin to pray.
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  Speaker 2: Come on begin to pray.
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  Speaker 6: We have come here tonight to gather around the pool.
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  Speaker 6: We have come to the place that God is going
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  Speaker 6: to show you.
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  Speaker 1: What he put in this man a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: We've come to the pool. Not only for Bishop Long,
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  Speaker 1: but the whole body of Christ is coming to the pool.
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  Speaker 2: I must admit to all of my.
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  Speaker 1: Secular brothers that are gathered out here today. You may
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  Speaker 1: criticize the church. And in some issues, I must confess
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  Speaker 1: you're right. We grope sometimes. We crawl sometimes. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what we were doing sometimes. We had to change
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  Speaker 1: our philosophy.
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  Speaker 2: We had to move our We had to regiment our mind.
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  Speaker 7: But one thing about it, it was dark, but we
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: were still anointed. We didn't know what to do, but
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: we were still anointed.
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  Speaker 1: But hey, we've come down.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I better quit this.
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  Speaker 5: We've come to the pool, and I heard Jesus tell
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  Speaker 5: the blind man, if you can crawl to the pool,
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  Speaker 5: if you can just get to the water, if you
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  Speaker 5: can press your way to the water, watch out for
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  Speaker 5: the potholes, but go for the pool.
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  Speaker 2: Watch out for the liars, but go for the pool.
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  Speaker 2: Watch out for the whore-mongers, but go for the pool. Tonight,
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  Speaker 2: we're at the pool. I feel water under my toes.
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  Speaker 5: I feel water in my spirit.
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  Speaker 2: I feel water.
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  Speaker 1: I believe I wash my face in the water of
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  Speaker 1: his words.
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  Speaker 2: Wash away my tears. Wash away my troubles. Wash away
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  Speaker 2: my burdens. Wash away my distractions.
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  Speaker 4: Wash away my troubles.
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  Speaker 2: You know what he did? He came.
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  Speaker 1: He went down to the pool. And he washed in
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  Speaker 1: the pool. Couldn't see nothing. He said, you're anointing me.
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  Speaker 1: But I can't see. I can't see how to do this, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever talked to him like that? I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm anointing you. But I can't see.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm a survivor. I'm a survivor. I know I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to survive.
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  Speaker 1: Because a weaker blind man wouldn't have made it to
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  Speaker 1: the pool. Got to be kind of tough because I'm
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: still here. Touch somebody and tell them I'm still here.
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  Speaker 1: And he got down in the water. And he began
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: to wash in the water. And listen, what God put
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  Speaker 1: on him then worked now. There are some things that
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: God did for you.
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  Speaker 2: Long time ago. Looked like it wasn't working. But let
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: me tell you, you have come to the pool. And
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  Speaker 2: God is about to bring you out of the shadows
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  Speaker 2: into the light. Your enemies are going to be so frustrated.
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  Speaker 2: Because they thought.
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  Speaker 1: For sure that what God did in your life really
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: wasn't real. They laughed at your testimony. They joked about
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: your church. They joked about your ministry, your reputation, and
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: your name. But while they were joking, you were moving
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  Speaker 1: toward the pool. And I want to hang on. For
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  Speaker 1: a press, oh Lord, down in my soul.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know what you gonna do, but I
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: made up my mind. I believe I'll press on.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Paul when he said I press toward
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: the mark.
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  Speaker 2: Of the prize of the.
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  Speaker 7: High calling of God in Christ Jesus. I can't explain
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  Speaker 7: what I'm looking for, but I want to apprehend that
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  Speaker 7: which I'm apprehended of. I can't describe it, but there's
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  Speaker 7: a place in God.
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  Speaker 2: I'm reaching for, and nothing the devil.
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  Speaker 1: Did has stopped me from crawling, and nothing the people
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  Speaker 1: said has stopped me from crawling, but I.
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  Speaker 2: Made up my mind.
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  Speaker 5: How about you I'm going.
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  Speaker 1: All the way yeah I would ask you to stand
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  Speaker 1: but you're already standing.
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  Speaker 2: In my conclusion let me say this thought.
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  Speaker 1: There is a nebulous indescript goal That makes a man
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: of God move. Sometimes you cannot explain to your closest
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: friends what you are reaching for. You can't even see
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  Speaker 1: it yourself. Mud is over your eyes. And yet you're
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: still moving. You get in trouble trying to get there,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: but you're still moving. The best Paul could say was
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: it was a that. He said, I want to apprehend
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  Speaker 1: that which I am apprehended of.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I don't know what to tell you it is,
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  Speaker 2: but it's something. It's a that. It's a it. It's
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: a thing. It's a nagging in my stomach. It's a
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: memory in my mind. It's a push in my spirit.
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  Speaker 2: It's a that.
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  Speaker 1: All I know is I won't be satisfied till I
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: get that. That blind man, I just cut this short
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: because I want to get on in this service. But
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: that blind man was moving after something he couldn't even describe.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: And if you have a pool, a that, a it, a.
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  Speaker 1: Designated place where everything God put in you is going
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: to begin to work for you, stay.
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  Speaker 2: In the press. Don't let nobody put your lights out.
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  Speaker 2: Don't let nobody discourage you. Don't let nobody stop you.
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  Speaker 2: Because I believe, I.
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  Speaker 1: Believe that if you're not too proud to crawl, if
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: you're not too high to grow, if you're willing to
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  Speaker 1: take a risk and stumble and get dirt on your
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: knees and pick yourself up and brush yourself off and say, God,
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  Speaker 1: I still want it. I believe with all of my
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: heart that this service tonight is just symbolic. Just symbolic.
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  Speaker 1: Hear me good. Just symbolic of what God is going
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  Speaker 1: to do for the church at large in 1994.
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  Speaker 2: I believe we're coming into our own, Bishop.
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  Speaker 1: We're coming into things that God put down in us
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  Speaker 1: a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: And we weren't ready for it.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: We had to pass the mud test. We had to
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: pass the mud test. But after having passed the mud test,
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  Speaker 1: I believe that we have come to the pool of Siloam.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Pool of Siloam, the word Siloam comes from a Greek
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: word that is translated sin, where we get the word apostle,
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  Speaker 1: which means purpose.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: It means to be sin on a purpose or sin
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  Speaker 2: on a mission. We're finally finding out who.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: We are, what God has called us to do, what
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: God wants us to be. We're starting to find out
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: why the devil fought us like he did. We're starting
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: to realize that Satan knew a long time ago that
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: if he didn't hurry up and kill you, you were going.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: To crawl into the pool.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why he worked on you last year. He
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: was trying to get you before you got to the pool.
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  Speaker 1: But throw your hands up and say, it's too late, devil.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I'm already in the water. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Come on and help me.
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  Speaker 8: Praise him, everybody, everybody, everybody.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Come on and help me praise him, help me praise him, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah!
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  Speaker 4: Shake your hands.
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  Speaker 3: Say, neighbor.
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  Speaker 2: He should have got me. when he had the chance.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: But it's too late. It's too late.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: It's too late.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: It's too late. It's too late. It's too late. To
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  Speaker 2: the one who's doing it. Come on. Come out of
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: the shadows. Come out of the shadows. Come out of
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: the darkness. Come out of the depression. Your time has come.
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  Speaker 8: Your time has come.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 7: Reach over and touch your neighbor and say, neighbor? I
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: know we got to go on in the service, but
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: would you give me just a minute? Excuse me tonight,
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: because this is my time.
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  Speaker 2: Give me some praise.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me a minute. I got a painting. My feet
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: are in the water. I feel like splashing under the water.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, God.