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The Transplant - Bishop T.D. Jakes The Pacemaker Series · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: 1 Samuel 15, 7, when you have it, say amen.
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  Speaker 1: And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest
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  Speaker 1: to shore. That is over against Egypt. And he took Agag,
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  Speaker 1: the king of the Amalekites, alive and utterly destroyed all
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  Speaker 1: the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul
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  Speaker 1: and the people spared Agag. and the best of the sheep,
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  Speaker 1: and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs,
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  Speaker 1: and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them,
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  Speaker 1: but everything that was vile and refused, that they destroyed utterly.
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  Speaker 1: Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel, saying,
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  Speaker 1: It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to
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  Speaker 1: be king. I want to pause right there. That's an
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  Speaker 1: interesting phrase. It repenteth me that I have set up
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  Speaker 1: Saul to be king. God doesn't repent. but it's an
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  Speaker 1: anthropomorphic term. He's trying to use something you do understand
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  Speaker 1: to explain something that you might not understand. It repenteth me.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, I've gone in another direction. I've turned around.
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  Speaker 1: I've moved in another direction, but he's using an anthropomorphic
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  Speaker 1: term to explain it. It repenteth me that I have
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  Speaker 1: set up Saul to be king, for he has turned
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  Speaker 1: back from following me and have not performed my commandment.
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  Speaker 1: And it And it, yeah, that's right, it grieved Samuel.
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  Speaker 1: And he cried unto the Lord. all night long to
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  Speaker 1: meet Samuel to meet Saul in the morning it was
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  Speaker 1: told Samuel saying Saul came to Carmel and behold he
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  Speaker 1: set him up a place and is gone about and
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  Speaker 1: passed on and gone down to Gilgal and Samuel came
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  Speaker 1: to Saul and Saul and Samuel came to Saul and
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  Speaker 1: Saul said unto him praise.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Like everybody does around here praise the Lord I have
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  Speaker 1: performed the commandment of the Lord, lion. And Samuel said,
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  Speaker 1: what meaneth then this bleeding of the sheep in mine
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  Speaker 1: ears and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
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  Speaker 1: If you did what God told you to do, which
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  Speaker 1: was utterly destroy the Amalekites and all of their possessions,
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  Speaker 1: how come I hear some noise coming from the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the field? I hear a shout out. I hear
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  Speaker 1: some sounds that you have not killed everything.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah now go to 16 and 1 and the Lord
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  Speaker 1: said unto Samuel how long will thou mourn for Saul
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  Speaker 1: seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel fill
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  Speaker 1: thine horn with oil and go And I will send
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  Speaker 1: thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided me
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  Speaker 1: a king among his sons. I want you to read
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  Speaker 1: that again because that is good. And the Lord said
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  Speaker 1: unto Samuel, put your name where Samuel's is. How long
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  Speaker 1: will you mourn for Saul? seeing I have rejected him
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  Speaker 1: from reigning over Israel. How long will you be bitter?
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  Speaker 1: How long will you be depressed? How long will you
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  Speaker 1: be stuck at the same spot? How long will you
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  Speaker 1: stand there with no joy and no peace and no power?
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  Speaker 1: How long will you live in regret and shame and remorse?
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  Speaker 3: How long?
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  Speaker 2: How long?
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  Speaker 1: Now, now, whenever God asks a question, it's always a
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  Speaker 1: setup because he already knows the answer. How long will
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  Speaker 1: I mourn for Saul saying I have rejected him from
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  Speaker 1: reigning over Israel? Fill thine horn. Get up from there.
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  Speaker 1: Get yourself together. Pull your britches up on your hind
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  Speaker 1: parts and fill thine horn with oil and go. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: shout go. I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite
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  Speaker 1: for I have provided me a king among his son.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord said unto Samuel, how long will thou
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  Speaker 1: mourn for twenty-eighteen? Seeing I have rejected it from reigning
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  Speaker 1: over you. Fill thine horn with oil. And go. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: holler go. And I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite.
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  Speaker 1: For I have provided me a king among his sons.
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  Speaker 1: Shout hallelujah. I want to talk from the subject of
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  Speaker 1: the transplant. The transplant, it's going to make sense in
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  Speaker 1: a minute, the transplant. Sweet Holy Spirit, breathe in this
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  Speaker 1: place this morning. Saturate this place with your glory. Infiltrate
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  Speaker 1: this place in such a way that all the inhabitants
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  Speaker 1: in this building might be filled with your Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: Drive out every evil and corrupt thing and demonic intent
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  Speaker 1: and plot and plan. and totally annihilated as you establish
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  Speaker 1: yourself as king of kings and lord of lords i
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  Speaker 1: thank you for what you're going to do have your
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  Speaker 1: way in this place in jesus name somebody who loves
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  Speaker 1: him shout amen you may be seated in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the lord now i'm going to do a quick
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  Speaker 1: review for all of you who really don't know your
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  Speaker 1: bible that good but you fake like you do but
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  Speaker 1: you don't And so you don't really know what's really
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  Speaker 1: going on in the story. You just holler when everybody
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  Speaker 1: else hollers. It's kind of like me watching certain sports.
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  Speaker 1: When I watch them, I don't really know who's winning
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  Speaker 1: or not. I just holler when everybody else does. That
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  Speaker 1: way you don't look bad. I understand your dilemma, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to breathe into you some information so you
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  Speaker 1: can understand. We are looking at the first king of
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  Speaker 1: the children of Israel. The first king, why is it
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  Speaker 1: the first king? It's the first king because they've had
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  Speaker 1: 400 years of being enslaved down in Egypt. And when
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  Speaker 1: God brought them out, he brought a crowd out of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: but he had to turn them into a people. A
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  Speaker 1: crowd is not a people. He brought a huge amount
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  Speaker 1: of people out, but he had to turn them into
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  Speaker 1: a nation. I told a preacher the other day, just
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  Speaker 1: because you have a crowd don't mean you have a church.
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  Speaker 1: There's a difference between a crowd and a church. I
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  Speaker 1: came to Dallas, I had a crowd in the first Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: It took me five years to turn the crowd to
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  Speaker 1: a church. The process of becoming takes time. You're born
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  Speaker 1: a male, but it takes a long time to be
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  Speaker 1: a man.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, somebody.
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  Speaker 1: You're born a female, but it takes a long time
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  Speaker 1: to be a woman. You got married in 30 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: but it may take you 30 years to really be.
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  Speaker 1: It takes time for those things that are said quickly
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  Speaker 1: to really happen in your life. And it has taken
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  Speaker 1: time and a process. And initially, they were led by
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  Speaker 1: the Lord as a pillar of fire and a cloud
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  Speaker 1: of smoke. And they had no physical king whatsoever. And
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  Speaker 1: Moses judged their issues and set up their ordinances and
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  Speaker 1: their statutes and their commandments, but they had no physical king.
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  Speaker 1: Now look at influence. They looked at the other people.
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  Speaker 1: The other people had kings. The other nations around them
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  Speaker 1: had kings and they desired a king. And finally God
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  Speaker 1: yielded to their request and he gave them a king.
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  Speaker 1: But God did not really want to give them a
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  Speaker 1: king because he thought himself to be their king. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't give you something because he thinks he's it.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't hear it. They can't handle it. Every single
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  Speaker 1: woman in this room should have gone to dancing right there.
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  Speaker 1: Every single young man should have went to shouting all
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  Speaker 1: over the church, but they didn't hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes God doesn't give you the lesser because he's
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  Speaker 1: given you the greater. And he said, I think myself
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  Speaker 1: to be your husband. That's why I opened doors and
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  Speaker 1: made ways for you. That's why I fought your battles
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  Speaker 1: for you and made the crooked path straight for you
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  Speaker 1: because I thought myself to be your husband. But if
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  Speaker 1: you insist, I will give you what you want. But
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  Speaker 1: be careful about getting what you want because sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: don't want what you got. So Saul finally, so the people,
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  Speaker 1: God finally relented and he gave them Saul. And Saul
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  Speaker 1: was never... God's intent. It was the people's request. And
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  Speaker 1: Saul became the king of Israel. So Saul has been
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  Speaker 1: following the Lord and leading the children of Israel because
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to be like everybody else. And Saul did
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  Speaker 1: some good stuff because you can be out of God's
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  Speaker 1: will and still see some good stuff. Sinners get jobs, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Sinners have children, Lord. Sinners buy houses. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be saved to experience progress. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: be obedient to experience progress. Heathens experience progress. Backsliders experience progress.
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  Speaker 1: So progress is not always an intent. It's not always
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  Speaker 1: a signal that you're in his perfect absolute will. So
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  Speaker 1: God told Saul to go down and kill the Amalekites.
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  Speaker 1: Who are the Amalekites? The Amalekites are these group of
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  Speaker 1: people that have been fighting Israel all across the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: The moment they left Egypt, they jumped on them and
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  Speaker 1: started fighting them. It's a continuation of an age-old fight
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  Speaker 1: between Jacob and Esau. The Amalekites are descendants of Esau.
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  Speaker 1: and so they're still fighting. Jacob is dead, Esau is dead,
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  Speaker 1: and they're still fighting. Descendants are fighting. Inbred hatred. In fact, today,
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  Speaker 1: they're still fighting amongst themselves. The war and the conflict
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  Speaker 1: in the Middle East is just as biblically relevant as
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  Speaker 1: a newspaper. They're all connected, one with the other, and
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  Speaker 1: the fight continues. Somebody say, the fight continues. God told
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  Speaker 1: him to go down there, told Saul to go down
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  Speaker 1: there and totally destroy the Amalekites. And when God says
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  Speaker 1: totally destroy something, he means totally destroy it. Don't save
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  Speaker 1: a handkerchief. Don't save a pocketbook. Don't take a scarf
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  Speaker 1: for yourself. God wants you to totally destroy it. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted Saul's obedience sets him in rhythm with God. Saul's
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  Speaker 1: obedience sets him in rhythm with God. Let me show
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  Speaker 1: you what. Thy will be done on earth as it
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  Speaker 1: is in heaven. It sets him in obedience with God.
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  Speaker 1: It sets him in a place of submission to God.
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  Speaker 1: It sets him into a place of surrender. But Saul
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  Speaker 1: went down there and Saul was kind of slick. And
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  Speaker 1: so he killed all the stuff nobody would want. And
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  Speaker 1: he kept all the stuff that looked good. And he
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  Speaker 1: didn't kill Agag, the king. And God told him to
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  Speaker 1: kill Agag. He didn't kill Agag. And he didn't kill
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  Speaker 1: all the stuff that he thought he could get something for.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't kill it. He did not wholly follow the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And because he did not wholly follow the Lord, God
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  Speaker 1: speaks to Samuel, who is his prophet, and says, I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to you about Saul. I'm sick of Saul.
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  Speaker 1: God says, Saul has plucked my last nerve. I told
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  Speaker 1: him to go down there and kill Agag and to
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  Speaker 1: kill everything involving the Amalekites. And he has not wholly
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  Speaker 1: followed me. And I'm sorry I ever did it. I
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  Speaker 1: repent that I ever put him into that position. And
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  Speaker 1: without him having to say any more, Samuel knew right
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  Speaker 1: then that God was going to make a change. Because
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  Speaker 1: Samuel has walked with God to the point that God
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to explain everything for Samuel to know what
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  Speaker 1: he means. I told somebody the other day when my
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  Speaker 1: wife starts talking a certain kind of way, I know
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  Speaker 1: she's getting ready to make a decision. If she brings
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  Speaker 1: it up twice, I know the person is gone. I
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  Speaker 1: know her. She don't ever tell you she's going to
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  Speaker 1: do it, not like outright. She just mentions it. And
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  Speaker 1: when she mentions it, I start praying because I know
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  Speaker 1: it's a bad sign. I got the reputation of being
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  Speaker 1: the fire and the fury, but that's the fire and
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  Speaker 1: the fury back there. When you walk with somebody a
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  Speaker 1: long time, they don't have to explain themselves for you
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  Speaker 1: to know what they're on the precipice of doing. Are
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  Speaker 1: you understanding what I'm saying? God says he's repented me
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  Speaker 1: that I've ever made Saul king. He said, now I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do something about it. And here's where I
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  Speaker 1: want you to really zoom in because I want you
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  Speaker 1: to understand something about Samuel. Samuel is an interesting guy
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  Speaker 1: because the Bible says Samuel started crying. And the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says he cried all night. I want you to understand this.
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  Speaker 1: This will help you to identify real prophets. The prophets
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  Speaker 1: who prophesied trouble in your life and rejoiced when they
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  Speaker 1: prophesied are lying prophets. In order to truly be a prophet,
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  Speaker 1: there is such a level of humility that even when
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  Speaker 1: you do have to say something harsh, it hurts you
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  Speaker 1: so bad to say it. Oh, y'all don't hear what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying to you. Samuel cried all night about something
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  Speaker 1: that didn't personally affect him. He cried all night because
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  Speaker 1: God had said, I rejected Saul from being king, and
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  Speaker 1: he started weeping. And yet, while he was weeping, he
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  Speaker 1: still went to walking. He was tender enough to weep,
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  Speaker 1: but he was strong enough to walk right up on
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  Speaker 1: the king and say, thus saith the Lord. Look at
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  Speaker 1: that balance. The one thing you want to be as
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  Speaker 1: a man and as a woman too is balanced. You
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  Speaker 1: want to be balanced. Some people are all strength and
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  Speaker 1: no compassion. Some people are all compassion and no strength.
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  Speaker 1: But the sign of maturity is to be balanced. Not
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  Speaker 1: going to either extreme. Every man, every woman, every leader
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  Speaker 1: in this room ought to be praying every day, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: give me balance. Balance. A couple of Sundays ago, I
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  Speaker 1: used this scripture, let your moderation be made known unto
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  Speaker 1: all men. The Lord is at hand. Moderation, not going
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  Speaker 1: to either extreme. Lord, let me be balanced. Somebody say that. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: let me be balanced. Let me balance. Don't let me
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  Speaker 1: execute judgment quicker than I execute mercy. Don't let me
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  Speaker 1: be better at disciplining a child than I am at
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  Speaker 1: loving him. Because if you discipline better than you love,
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  Speaker 1: you're not fathering, you're abusing. And the child knows the difference.
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  Speaker 1: I can stand your hand of correction if it has
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  Speaker 1: held me first. If it has hugged me first. If
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  Speaker 1: it has comforted me first. Then when the correction comes,
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  Speaker 1: it's not abuse. Oh, it's quiet in here. Let me
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  Speaker 1: be balanced. That is a sign of maturity. It's balance.
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  Speaker 1: When you are immature, you're not balanced. You're not fair.
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  Speaker 1: You have no equilibrium. God wants you to be balanced.
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  Speaker 1: I just tell people what's on my mind. That's how
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  Speaker 1: I am. I just tell them what's on my mind.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you don't have nobody left in your life.
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  Speaker 1: I speak my mind. If you're going to be with me,
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  Speaker 1: you just got to get used to it. No, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be alone. Because by the time you get
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  Speaker 1: through speaking your mind, you're going to bark everybody away
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  Speaker 1: and then cry because they're gone. Because you need to
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  Speaker 1: be balanced. Lord, make me balanced. And one of the ways,
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  Speaker 1: anytime you want to know whether something is balanced or not,
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  Speaker 1: you have to test it to see if it's balanced.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not asking you, do you think you're balanced?
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  Speaker 1: You need to ask the people around you, are you balanced?
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  Speaker 1: Because they will be honest with you about being balanced
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  Speaker 1: better than you can trust yourself to be balanced. Put
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  Speaker 1: yourself on the scale. Do I criticize you more than
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  Speaker 1: I comfort you? Am I quick to give you compliments,
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  Speaker 1: but I never tell you the truth when things are wrong? Lord,
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  Speaker 1: let me be balanced. Lord, let me be balanced. If
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  Speaker 1: I'm not balanced, I can't make it. And what I
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  Speaker 1: want you to see about Samuel is this nature that
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  Speaker 1: Samuel has is one of the things that I love
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  Speaker 1: most about Jesus is that we serve a God who
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  Speaker 1: is balanced. We serve a God who is fair. He
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  Speaker 1: is a lamb and a lion. And there are some
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  Speaker 1: things that God did as a lamb that he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do as a lion. And there are some things he
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  Speaker 1: did as a lion that he couldn't do as a lamb.
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  Speaker 1: He could not redeem the world by roaring. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: are roaring when we ought to be whimpering. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we whimper when we ought to be roaring. When it
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  Speaker 1: came to redeeming the world, he came as a lamb.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to claiming the world, he comes as
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  Speaker 1: a lion. Lord, teach me when to roar. Everybody in
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  Speaker 1: this room is more comfortable with one side of yourself
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  Speaker 1: than the other. There are some people that are real
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with their lamb side, but uncomfortable with their lion side.
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  Speaker 1: So they avoid conflict. They won't confront issues. They act
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  Speaker 1: like things are okay that are not okay. These are
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  Speaker 1: the kind of people that divorce you and you don't
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  Speaker 1: even know why you got divorced. You didn't have an argument.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't have a confrontation. They fixed breakfast that morning,
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  Speaker 1: brought you the paper. You came home from work, and
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  Speaker 1: they was gone. They are comfortable with being lambs but
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  Speaker 1: not lions. They avoid confrontation. Lord, make me balanced. Then
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  Speaker 1: there are other people that are such lions, they roar
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  Speaker 1: about everything. They roar about everything, but they don't understand
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  Speaker 1: the power of tenderness. They don't understand that sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: are more effective when you are less explosive. And they
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  Speaker 1: keep on trying to get the right result, going about
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  Speaker 1: it the wrong way. And they become lunatics. Because if
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  Speaker 1: you keep doing the same thing, expecting a different result,
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  Speaker 1: you're a lunatic. How is it working for you? Don't
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  Speaker 1: tell me how you are. Tell me how is it
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  Speaker 1: working for you? Everybody that God used in a mighty
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  Speaker 1: way was balanced. They didn't go to either extreme. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you quiet early. I must be hitting on something. If
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to step on your toe, I might as
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  Speaker 1: well break it off. Let me get on down there
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  Speaker 1: where I can really just, just really get it good.
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  Speaker 1: Because normally by now you'd be dancing, but all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden you got real quiet and Nothing no worse
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  Speaker 1: than having a parent that's not balanced. Always complaining, always tough.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't buy a hug from them. You couldn't buy a
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  Speaker 1: hug to save your life. And if there's anything worse
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  Speaker 1: than that, it's a parent that's hugging all the time
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  Speaker 1: and they need to be corrected. Lord, let me be balanced.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't go any further, we need to get
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  Speaker 1: right there. Lord, let me be balanced. As I go
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  Speaker 1: into 2019, let me be balanced. Most of the places
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  Speaker 1: that you're having trouble, you're having trouble because you're out
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  Speaker 1: of balance. If you spend more than you make. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you should have shouted when I was talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: I had to get off it. It's your fault. You're
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  Speaker 1: making me dig this out. You did this to yourself.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Your finances reflect the fact that you're not balanced. If
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  Speaker 1: you like spending money more than you like making money,
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  Speaker 1: if you shop more than you work, and then you
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  Speaker 1: pray and say, Lord, I just need you to get
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  Speaker 1: me out. No, you don't need God to get you out.
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  Speaker 1: You need to be balanced. Your books don't balance because
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  Speaker 1: you're not balanced. You're not balanced. Any area where you're
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  Speaker 1: out of balance, you're going to suffer. If my body's
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  Speaker 1: out of balance, I'm going to develop pain where I'm
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: not balanced. If I walk leaning on one side more
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  Speaker 1: than the other, after a while I'm going to have
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  Speaker 1: problems with my back and my spine because I'm out
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  Speaker 1: of balance. I don't have to be attacked to have pain.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: All I have to do is be out of balance.
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  Speaker 1: The greatest prayer you may pray this entire year is
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  Speaker 1: to balance me. Sometimes you're out of balance because if
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  Speaker 1: you try to balance yourself by something that's out of balance,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: you're going to be out of balance. That's why they
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: make a level. They make a level so you can
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  Speaker 1: put it on something. When the bubble's in the middle,
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  Speaker 1: you know you're balanced. You follow what I'm saying? Because
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  Speaker 1: you cannot balance yourself by something that's out of balance.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: And some of you balance yourself by parents that were
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  Speaker 1: out of balance. So you became workaholics. And that became normal,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: but normal doesn't mean balanced. So your ideas about marriage
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and about relationship are based on what balanced you. And
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: there you are trying to straighten somebody out about how
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: to be a husband and how to be a wife
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: when in reality you don't know what you're talking about either.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: And your lack of humility, how do you know what
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: a good father, have you been one? Did you even
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  Speaker 1: have one? Yet you got all kinds of opinions about
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  Speaker 1: what to be one. The truth of the matter is
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  Speaker 1: you're out of balance. And humility would bring you before
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  Speaker 1: God and say, Lord, I know I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to do this. And I'm going to need you to
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  Speaker 1: teach me balance.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't you give me something juicy for the end
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  Speaker 1: of the year? I came up in a day, we
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  Speaker 1: were just going into public schools and integration had just
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: started and the old teachers of my culture were used
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to the colored schools. And them teachers was tough. You
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: didn't need, they'd throw the apple at you or something.
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  Speaker 1: They just didn't. They went after you. They were tough,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: but they were committed to you learning something. They were
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  Speaker 1: vested in you getting an education. It was important that
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: you get an education. They went to extremes, but they
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: were committed to the cause. You have to understand in
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: order to be balanced, you have to constantly be measuring yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee you that at least 50% of your problems
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  Speaker 1: are coming because you're out of balance. Wow. in whatever area,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's sexually, because you have replaced sexuality for intimacy,
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  Speaker 1: You need.
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  Speaker 5: More and more and more and.
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  Speaker 1: More because it will never scratch what's really itching because
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  Speaker 1: you're replacing sexuality for intimacy because you've lost the courage
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  Speaker 1: to open up and connect with people and you are
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: out of balance. And so you keep getting further and
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: freakier and further out. I'm going to keep looking up.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to look at anybody. I don't want
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: to look at anybody. I don't want to look at anybody.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Because any time you're out of balance.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're waking up now. Okay, stay with me. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to get there in a minute. Any time you're
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  Speaker 1: out of balance, you go to extremes. You're 50 years old,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: 60 year old, chasing people like you're 20. All out.
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  Speaker 1: Have to take something for your back before you go out.
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  Speaker 1: And take something for your eyes. And get your glasses.
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  Speaker 1: And get your cup. And take your vitamin. And drink
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  Speaker 1: your energy drink. And then take a blue pill and
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a red pill and a yellow pill. And then you're
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: out there talking about, say hey! Hey! You're dropping it
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: like it's hot, but you don't own your house. You
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: don't have no life insurance. You don't have no place
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: to stay. You don't have no backup plan. You understand
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? You're out of balance. You're wearing what
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you ought to be investing.
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  Speaker 6: You're wearing what you ought to be investing.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: So you have no strategy for the future because you're
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  Speaker 1: out of balance. Any area you balance, you're going to
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: become more successful. You said you want to have a
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  Speaker 1: better next year than you had last year. Seek balance
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  Speaker 1: in the areas where you're out of balance. Seek it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say you master it, but at
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  Speaker 1: least seek balance. Seek to be balanced. Don't say everything
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  Speaker 1: you think. Don't buy everything you want. Don't buy your
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: wants and beg your needs and then tell me tithing
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: doesn't work. It's not that the tithing's not working, it's
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: that you're not working. God can't keep pouring his blessing
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: into somebody that has.
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  Speaker 5: No restraint, no self-control, no temperance, no mind.
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  Speaker 1: Don't blame God for your dysfunction. Oh, this is some
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  Speaker 1: teaching that we need to hear. This is some teaching
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: that we need to hear. Because it's one thing to
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: look prosperous, and it's another thing to be prosperous. Some
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: of the most prosperous people I know don't even look prosperous.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: They're driving a Honda, running around there. You're driving a
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Mercedes and don't have a garage to park it in.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep looking straight ahead. You should hurry
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  Speaker 1: up and shout. Because until you start shouting, I'm going
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to stay right on there. I'm not going nowhere. Samuel
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  Speaker 1: was balanced. Samuel was balanced. Samuel was balanced. I tell
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  Speaker 1: people who watch me in the ministry, I said, you
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: can watch me preach, you're only seeing one side of it.
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  Speaker 1: Leadership is more than preaching. So you can wear my clothes,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: you can talk like me, you can quote scriptures like me,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: you're not going to get results because you're not seeing
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  Speaker 1: the other half of the scale that balances that. It's
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: not what you do up front that makes something successful.
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  Speaker 1: It's what you do behind the scenes. Oh my God,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I feel like running. I feel like running. Can you
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: handle this? Can you handle this? It's the things that
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: you do behind the scenes that causes that thing to
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: be functional. It's the little things. Samuel was violent. Nobody
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: but God saw him cry all night. But the crying
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: all night lets you know why God trusted him with
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: the access to the king. He trusted him because Samuel's
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: heart was open toward God. God will bless you if
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: he can trust you. Oh, can I take some time
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  Speaker 1: with you this morning? It's the last Sunday of the year.
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  Speaker 1: God will bless you if he can trust you. God
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  Speaker 1: can't bless people he can't trust. I can't give you— I
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  Speaker 1: got some money in my pocket. I want to give
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  Speaker 1: it to you, but there ain't no need in me
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  Speaker 1: giving it to you if I know you're going to
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  Speaker 1: run to the mall. God will bless you if he
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  Speaker 1: can trust you. I got some power I want to
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: give you, but if you're going to use the power
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: to chase the women in the church, I'm not going
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to give you the power. I got some influence I
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: want to give you, but if your influence is going
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: to lead to corruption, I'm going to have to hold
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: your career back because I can't trust you. Can God
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: trust you with what you've been praying for? Can he
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: trust you with the power, with the influence? Can he
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: trust you with the stage? Can he trust you? Or
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: do you just want the power to feed the dysfunction
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you won't fix because you're out of balance? The secret
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  Speaker 1: to Samuel's mission It's that Samuel's heart was open toward God.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have time in this setting, but I could
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  Speaker 1: show you scripture after scripture where God blessed people according
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  Speaker 1: to their heart. I will show you why Joseph was
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  Speaker 1: chosen over all of his brethren. Because Joseph was the
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  Speaker 1: only brother that God could trust that once he got up,
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't get revenge. He knew that he could trust
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  Speaker 1: Joseph to get there first because Joseph wasn't selfish. He
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: knew that Joseph would be forgiving. He knew that Joseph
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: would be compassionate. He knew that Joseph would not be vengeful.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Sometimes because you must have revenge, it's delayed your whole life.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Because God couldn't promote you because if he gave you
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  Speaker 1: any power, you would use it to get even with
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: people that it didn't even matter and he couldn't trust you. Nobody,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: let me tell you something. I got a little bit
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: of money in the stocks and mutual funds and they
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: kept going down and going down and going down. I
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: got on the phone. I said, pull all, all my money.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: And I get a good amen. And put it in
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: bonds that are safe. And take them out of the funds.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: And the high risk, my risk tolerance is over. I'm
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: going to wait until the storm is over.
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  Speaker 6: And I will, I will be back.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: And the man told me, he said, if you just
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: ride the storm, it'll be, I said, I'm too old
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: to ride. If I was 30, I could ride it out.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: But at 61, you're messing with my retirement. The devil
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: is a liar. You ride if you want to. I'm
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: getting off right here. I pulled the cord and jumped
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: off the bus and said, when it calms down, I'll
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: be back. Yeah, yeah. You know why I did it?
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I couldn't trust it. Wonder what God has pulled out
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: of because you fluctuate too much. Wonder what he would
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: have given you if he could trust you. He told Israel,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: it's not me, it's you. How oft would I have
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: gathered you as a hen does her chicks, but ye
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: were not. You, I couldn't do it because of you.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: It wasn't that it wasn't my will to do it.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I couldn't do it because of you. You're not stable.
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  Speaker 1: I could tell you secrets, but I can't trust you.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: See law. Now, Samuel confronts Saul. And he says, the
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: kingdoms have been rent for you. And Saul reaches out
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: to grab Samuel to get him to come back and
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: rinse his garment. And Samuel says, just as surely as
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  Speaker 1: you have ripped my garment, so shall the kingdoms be
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  Speaker 1: ripped from you. You're not going to bully me, O king.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: The Lord has spoken. And this is done. And he
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  Speaker 1: walks out the door with his garment ripped. but his
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: integrity intact. His garment was ripped, but his integrity was intact.
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  Speaker 1: Your marriage might have been ripped, but your integrity was intact.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: You might have lost your job, but your integrity was intact.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Don't grieve about what you lost, If you held your integrity.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Some things are worth more than money or friendship or resources.
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  Speaker 1: My integrity is intact. If you're my friend, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to tell you the truth. If we stop speaking, we
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: stop speaking. But I told you the truth. I told
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  Speaker 1: you the truth. I told you the truth. Yes. You
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  Speaker 1: understand my integrity is intact. This is important. And now
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  Speaker 1: Saul has confronted, Samuel has confronted Saul and Saul has
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  Speaker 1: been basically rejected. Now, I want to show you something.
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  Speaker 1: Saul is the king. He is the heart of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: He's a very, my heart sends blood to every part
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: of my body is affected by my heart every part
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  Speaker 1: of your organization is affected by your leader your leadership
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: is everything if the restaurant goes down don't blame the
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: waitress the only reason she gets to act like that
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: is poor leadership I've traveled all over the world, and
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I can tell you right now that churches take on
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the personality of their pastor. If the pastor is arrogant,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: the church is arrogant. If the pastor's not friendly, the
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: church is not friendly. If the pastor's high-minded, the church
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: is high-minded. When you meet the pastor, you've met the church.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: You know why? You can teach what you know, but
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: you can only reproduce what you are. Come on with me.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Come on with me.
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: You can teach what you know, but you can only
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: reproduce what you are. So if the leader is a
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: certain way, you reproduce what you are. We got entrepreneurs
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: all over this church, all over this church. People opening
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: up some kind of way. I got a braiding company.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I braid hair. I got a weed factory. I weed.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: You know why? I reproduce. All entrepreneurs, holler at your boy.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: You understand me. You're not offended by me. I speak
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: your language. The people who are offended by me are
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: not kin to me. And no need in you trying
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: to explain yourself. to somebody who doesn't speak your language
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: oh my god I'm giving you so much good stuff
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: today you understand you've been seeking to be accepted by
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: people who are not you they don't have what you
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: have they don't get you everything that's yours will come
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: to you Everything that's not yours will be repelled from you.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying to you? Are you
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: hearing what I'm saying to you? The leader is the
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: heart of the organization. For God to say that he
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: is getting rid of Saul is a heart transplant. It's
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: a heart transplant. That's a major dead gum surgery. That's
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: a major surgery. A heart transplant to put me to
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: sleep and take my heart out? Destabilizing all activity.
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: Don't move.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Anesthesiologists.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Anesthesiologists. Total control. We are going to have to go
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: through this transition because you can't just snap my heart
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: out and put the other one here without skipping a beat.
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  Speaker 1: So my text is right in the middle of a transplant.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason I'm preaching it to you on the
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  Speaker 1: last Sunday of the year is that you're going through
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  Speaker 1: a transplant. Oh my God. Some of you have been
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: in a coma. You've been in a financial coma. Some
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: of you, you've been in a love coma. You haven't
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: had the affection that you needed, the love that you needed,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: the finances that you needed. God had to put you
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: up under anesthesia because he has to get to the
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: heart of the matter and he's doing a heart transplant
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: because you were ruled by the wrong stuff. You were
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: ruled by your dysfunction. You were trying to prove things
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  Speaker 1: to people that didn't even matter and God has put
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  Speaker 1: you up under anesthesia. And brought you to this church
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: so that he could do a heart transplant in your life.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: So that he could pull you together and do a
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: hyukdo shanda. And so that he could do a new
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: thing in you. So that he could do a new
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: thing in you. The former things are passed away. God said,
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  Speaker 1: I will do a new thing in you. Glory to God.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Glory to God. Glory to God. You're not just going
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: to have a new year with a new date to
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: remember on the calendar. You're going to have a new heart.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: God's about to do a transplant. Oh, help me preach
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  Speaker 1: this word. See, that old heart was the root of
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: the problem. That old heart has to be taken out.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: That old heart was out of rhythm with God. That
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: old heart is getting a pulse beat from your childhood.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: That old heart is getting a pulse beat from your ego.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: That old heart is getting a pulse beat from your
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: low self-esteem. And God had to do a heart transplant.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: He has rejected the old heart. He says, I will
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: do a new thing in your life, a fresh thing.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Who am I preaching to this morning? Oh, I couldn't
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: wait to get to church because I've got a word
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  Speaker 1: from the Lord for you this morning. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: if you don't dance. I don't care if you don't shout.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: I don't expect you to shout. We're in surgery. We're
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: in surgery. We're in surgery. Something is about to happen.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Touch everybody you can reach and tell them something is
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: about to happen. Am I preaching the right word to
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the right people? Hallelujah. Put your friends out. Send them
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: to the waiting room. They cannot go through this with you.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: This is a heart transplant. You don't need to have
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: to entertain people while you're going through a heart transplant.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: This is not about you, boo, going to the waiting room.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: I'll be back in a minute. God has to do
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: some surgery in my heart and in my life to
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: get my head on straight. Something is about to happen
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: in my life. He's about to fix something that's been
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: out of rhythm for 30 years. For 40 years, I've
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: been aching in this area. I've been swelling in this area.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: I've been broken in this area. But God is about
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: to do a transplant. Somebody give him two minutes of
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: praise and praise. Throw your hands up and say, get
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: to the heart of it. Get to the heart of it.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Get to the heart of it. Get to the heart
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: of it. Get to the heart of it. Get to
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: the heart of it. If you give me just a
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: few weeks.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: If you give me a few weeks to open this up.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Because the reason I had you touch somebody and say
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: something is about to happen is because a heart transplant
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: is a process. It's a process. It's a long, hard,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: difficult surgery with hours and hours of intensive care. And
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: recovery is going to take a while. You're going to
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: have to go through something to get over. You can't
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: get over this in a week. This is a deep surgery.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: This goes back to who your daddy is and who
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: your mama is and where you came from and what
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: you thought of yourself and what you went through. We're
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: going to have to cut out them secrets and some
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: of those sorrows because they're setting your heart off rhythm.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: They're making you call right wrong and wrong right. And
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: I got to get to the heart of the matter.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Can I go deeper? In my text, Samuel, Samuel is
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: crying because this is going to be a tough surgery.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: I wrote down three reasons we grieve the past. Three
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: reasons we grieve the past. I think these are worth
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: talking about. We grieve the past because the investment seems
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: not to yield a return. For all that Samuel had
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  Speaker 1: put into Saul, he had anointed Saul to be king.
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  Speaker 1: He had nurtured Saul and trained him. He had poured
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  Speaker 1: into Saul and invested in him. He had spoken the
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord to Saul. And for Saul to
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  Speaker 1: now be rejected, it makes Samuel weak. Anytime you invest
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  Speaker 1: without adequate return, you grieve the past. Whether it be
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  Speaker 1: a child or a marriage or a job or a
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  Speaker 1: career or a mentee, anytime you say, I put that
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  Speaker 1: much into it, And this is all I get back?
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  Speaker 1: It makes you weep because the return don't match the investment.
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  Speaker 1: I spent hours with you for you to do this.
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  Speaker 1: I took a second job to send you to school
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  Speaker 1: for you to skip. I gave you my heart, my mind, myself,
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  Speaker 1: my body, my flesh. You left. You grieve the past
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  Speaker 1: because the investment does not match the return. Samuel could
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  Speaker 1: not act like this is Saul's business because Samuel had
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  Speaker 1: poured into Saul. You can't pour into somebody and not
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  Speaker 1: care about them. them. You can't do that. There's no,
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  Speaker 1: trust me, I've tried it. There is no safe way
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  Speaker 1: to do this. You have to be all in. There's
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  Speaker 1: no way I can walk you through your pain and
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  Speaker 1: your problems and your childhood and your past and not
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  Speaker 1: feel you And not lay in the bed and worry
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  Speaker 1: about you. And not tear up when I'm talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: I can't help you from a completely safe place. I
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  Speaker 1: have to care to connect. You won't let me in
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  Speaker 1: if I don't care. There is no way that Samuel
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  Speaker 1: could have anointed him and mentored him and trained him
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  Speaker 1: and not grieve him. You grieve most areas in your
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  Speaker 1: life where you feel cheated. Where you invested the most.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the people you're angry with, you're not really
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  Speaker 1: angry with them. You're hurt. Because you invested. It's okay, baby.
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  Speaker 1: I had five of them. I'm used to preaching while
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  Speaker 1: they're pulling on my clothes and stuff. I'm good. I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: Investing in an area of your life where you don't
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  Speaker 1: see return will cause you to be stuck. Stuck in bitterness,
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  Speaker 1: stuck in anger, stuck in pain. How could you do
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  Speaker 1: me like that? I gave you all I had. I
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  Speaker 1: gave you my time. I took time from my kids
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  Speaker 1: to help you. I took time from myself to help you.
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  Speaker 1: I gave you money I needed. I came to your
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  Speaker 1: rescue at the expense of my own. That's why I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying this prayer. Reciprocity. If I sow, shall I not reap?
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  Speaker 1: If I plant, shouldn't I gather? You gonna take and
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  Speaker 1: go to her? You gonna take my stuff and go
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  Speaker 1: to him? You gonna drive my car to meet him? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get you. Stay with me. I'm coming
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  Speaker 1: right to you. I'm coming right to you. They say
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  Speaker 1: I can make the Bible come alive. I know how
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  Speaker 1: to make the Bible come alive. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: feel why Samuel cried. He had invested in Saul. He
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  Speaker 1: couldn't just detach and walk away. Anytime you feel robbed
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  Speaker 1: of return, you weep. Ooh, y'all quiet. I love the
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  Speaker 1: quiet part of this house. Number two, the reason we
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  Speaker 1: grieve is the agonizing death of what we had in mind. Woo-hoo!
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  Speaker 7: That hit me. It's my scuff and it still hit me.
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  Speaker 7: The agonizing. The agonizing slow death of what you had
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  Speaker 7: in mind. This is not what Samuel had in mind.
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  Speaker 1: For Saul. And the reason you grieve is because it
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  Speaker 1: hurts to see what you had in mind die. And
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  Speaker 1: it won't just like die. See, the problem with Saul,
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  Speaker 1: God rejected him, but he was still on the throne.
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  Speaker 1: That Negro still on the throne. Excuse me, white.
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  Speaker 4: People.
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  Speaker 5: I just want to talk to y'all for a minute.
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  Speaker 5: He's still on the throne. He's still driving my car.
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  Speaker 5: He's still going on. He's still on Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: The agonizing death of what you had in mind is
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  Speaker 1: tormented by the survivor, by the survival of the person
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  Speaker 1: who's been rejected. I got to look at you. Kill
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  Speaker 1: my dream. You kill how my story was supposed to end.
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  Speaker 1: The death of what I had in mind. will make
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  Speaker 1: me cry when nobody's looking. You were in my story.
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  Speaker 1: The prophet, y'all don't get this, the king ain't crying.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't that a trip? The guy who lost the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: ain't crying. The prophet is crying. Why is the prophet
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: crying and the king not crying? It's because the prophet
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  Speaker 1: had more vision than the king. You will get healed
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  Speaker 1: when you let go of what you had in mind.
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  Speaker 1: You will not be healed because you let the person go.
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  Speaker 1: or the place go, or the city go, or the
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  Speaker 1: ministry go. You will only be healed when you let
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  Speaker 1: go of what you had in mind. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: how many new years you have. If you still got
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  Speaker 1: old ideas, you won't have new years. Can I talk
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  Speaker 1: to you? My God, God gave me something to give you.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: I just want to give you. This is just my opening.
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  Speaker 1: God says you can't have new years with old ideas.
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  Speaker 1: You have to let go of what you had in
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: mind to be open and available for what's next. You
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  Speaker 1: can't have a new year because the calendar changed. This
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: is the death of what Saul, what Samuel had in mind.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to tell you personally what I know,
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  Speaker 1: what you had in mind don't die easy. I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: let's give an honor to God. Especially if you're a strong-willed, tenacious,
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  Speaker 1: relentless person, and you just going to make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: Come hell or high water, I'm going to ride or die.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to ride. I'm going to die. You can't
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  Speaker 1: ride by yourself. so preacher don't tell me that I
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  Speaker 1: gotta kill what I had in mind and not tell
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  Speaker 1: me how to kill it okay I had this conversation
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: maybe I should I won't even tell it's interesting who
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  Speaker 1: I had it with but I won't tell that in
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  Speaker 1: public but I had this conversation with this person And
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: they were talking about I Surrender All, to him. All
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus I surrender all to him I freely give.
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  Speaker 1: You know that? Come on, tell them that you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 4: I surrender all.
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  Speaker 1: I surrender all. All to thee, my blessed Savior, I.
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  Speaker 3: Surrender all.
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  Speaker 2: All my life, I've known that song since I was
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  Speaker 2: a child.
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  Speaker 1: All my life, when I hear that song, I hear
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  Speaker 1: an altar call.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And whenever I sing it, I'm inviting people to Jesus. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: but my friend is not as churchy as me. So
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: she doesn't hear what I hear. She says, I love
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  Speaker 1: the song because I surrender all to Jesus. My future,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: my plans, my goals, my thoughts. I surrender what I
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: had in mind. And I never heard the song the
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: same again Because now I realize that it's not just
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: about coming to Jesus. It's about giving him what I
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: had in mind. I surrender all.
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  Speaker 3: I surrender.
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  Speaker 4: All.
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  Speaker 6: I surrender all.
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  Speaker 1: All to thee, my blessed.
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  Speaker 6: Savior, I surrender.
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  Speaker 1: For some of you, it's who you thought you'd marry
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  Speaker 1: or where you thought you'd live or the position you
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: thought you'd have. in life, in church, here, there, anywhere,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: you have a certain way you think everything ought to be,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: it's making you sick. I surrender all.
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  Speaker 3: I All to thee.
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  Speaker 6: My blessed Savior I surrender.
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  Speaker 1: All Whatever you want to do with it. Whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to do with it. Take it or leave it.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: Make it or break it. Reshape it or remove it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to try to control it. I release
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  Speaker 1: it into your hands. Your thoughts are better than my thoughts.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: Your ways are better than my ways. I give it
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: to you. Lord, I've been worshiping but holding on to it.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: I've been singing but holding on to it. I've been
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: raising my hands but holding on to it. I have
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: held this thing through the flood and the storm and
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: the winds and the waves. I have held it. I
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: go to bed with it. I get up with it.
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  Speaker 1: I take a shower with it. I drive to work
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  Speaker 1: with it. I have never let it go. People tried
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: to talk me out of it. I still held on
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  Speaker 1: to it. But today, Lord, I hear your word coming
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  Speaker 1: into my spirit. And while the anointing is in this house,
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  Speaker 1: I am not going to carry this thing any longer.
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  Speaker 1: I I surrender all to thee.
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  Speaker 2: Open up and say, I surrender all to thee.
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  Speaker 1: I was told a story about a hawk and the
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  Speaker 1: hawk saw a vole it's like a mole and it
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: hunts the hawk is a hunter And it scooped down
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: and snatched the mole up and started climbing with it,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: holding it to its breast with its talons. And it
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: was flying and flying and flying and flying and flying,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: holding it on, holding on to what it had captured.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: And when it got real high in the air, it
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: started falling. Falling. And the kids ran to see, they
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: ran to see where the hawk fell. And when they
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: found the hawk, the hawk's chest had been cut open
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: and it was bleeding. The mole had bitten to its chest.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: and kill the hawk. Something that should have been left
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: on the ground killed something that should have been in
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: the air. Something that was small killed something that was big.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: Not because it was greater or mightier. Not because it
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  Speaker 1: could fly or nothing.
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  Speaker 2: It killed the hawk.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: Because the hog wouldn't let it go. What are you
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: holding that's killing you? I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: I surrender.
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  Speaker 5: All to Thee, my blessed Savior.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: I surrender.
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  Speaker 2: All to Thee.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: Lift your hands just a moment in Let the Holy
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: Spirit deal with you. Just a moment. I'm almost finished.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: Just a moment. You don't get to control nothing. Not
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: your kids. You can't control. You can't make them turn
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: out the way you do. You can't. You can't make.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: Your husband is wrong. Your wife is, you can't make
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: your boss run the company like you. You can't make
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: those people sell that house. You can't make.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: If you let go of it, you could fly. If
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: you just turn it over to God, you could spread
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: your wings and survive. You are self-destructive.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. I sense the Holy Spirit pulling your claws out
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: of something that you've held on to a long time.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: I sense God doing surgery and getting to the heart
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: of the matter right now.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 4: I surrender all. I surrender all.
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  Speaker 8: All to Thee, Lord, bless.
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  Speaker 1: You're married, but you've been angry at her. You have
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: been secretly angry. angry deep down inside you have been
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: angry because you feel like you have been wronged and
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: you feel like you are right and you might be
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: right but that anger is killing you and this Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 3: I surrender I surrender.
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  Speaker 8: All to thee, blessed I.
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  Speaker 1: Am. I hear deliverance. I hear deliverance. I hear deliverance.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: I hear deliverance. I hear deliverance. I hear deliverance. God
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  Speaker 1: does not want you to have another old new year.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: So Jackie, I got one more point and I'll close.
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  Speaker 1: The third, I promise you three points. The third point
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  Speaker 1: is We grieve because of the ties we make outside
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  Speaker 1: his will. Samuel is tied to somebody that God never
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: even wanted to be king. How can it be a
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: failure when God never even wanted him to be king
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: in the first place? This is.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: If God never wanted him to be king and he's
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: taken away the kingdom, how can this be failure? This
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: is not failure. It's correction. What you call failure, what you.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 5: Call failure is simply correction.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't lose because you never had. He wasn't God's
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: king in the first place. He was a filler. He
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  Speaker 1: was a substitute. That wasn't your job. That wasn't your place.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't your ministry. That wasn't your calling.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 5: You didn't lose all of your life. You've been processing
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 5: this as a loss. This is not a failure. This
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 5: is a correction. This is a correction. God cared enough
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 5: to make sure you get this right. He wanted, He
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 5: loves you enough to stop you and make sure you
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 5: get this right. He loves you enough to confront your strong,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 5: stubborn will and bring you to submission so that he
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 5: can give you what he has for you. You have
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 5: never had what he has for you. All those people
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 5: and things that went were supposed to go.
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  Speaker 1: They were not the ones.
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  Speaker 5: Do you hear me?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: Do you really hear me? So God walks up. In
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 5: my conclusion, God walks up to Samuel.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: God walks up to Samuel and says, Why weepest thou?
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: over what I have rejected. While you were weeping, I
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: was searching. While you were weeping over what wasn't even
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: it anyway, I was searching.
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  Speaker 2: Go!
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  Speaker 1: And get your horn. And get ready. Because I found
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: your future. Go get your horn. You got some anointing
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: to do. 2018 is behind you.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 5: 2019 is in front of you.
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  Speaker 1: I have found your future. And I cannot give you
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  Speaker 1: your future if you're still married to your past. Stand
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: to your feet. This is a heart transplant. And every
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: doctor in this room will tell you, you can't do
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: a heart transplant till you find a new heart. I
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: have found you a new heart. And his name is
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: not Saul, it's David. And I want you to go
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: meet your future without one tear in your eye over
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: your past. Because if you don't, you'll contaminate your future
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: with your past. Join hands. Papa's finished. Lord, when I
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: think about what you have in store for us, my
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: heart leaps. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. When I think about the houses
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: we didn't build and the vineyards we didn't grow, that
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: you're just going to transplant into our life. When I
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: think about how while I was weeping, you was raising
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: up a blessing for such a time as this. When
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: I think about 2019 being a year of collision with
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: my destiny. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. When I think about what you
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: have in store that my eyes haven't seen and my
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: ears haven't heard and neither have entered into my imagination.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: Squeeze that hand. The person you're touching, God, kept them
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: alive to see something. to do something, to touch something,
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: to have something, to experience something, to embrace something. He
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: didn't keep them alive to punish them. He didn't keep
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: them alive to kill them. If he wanted them dead,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: they'd have been gone in 2018. He kept them alive
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: to introduce them to somebody. Something is about to happen
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: in their life. It's not always a person. It could
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: be a place. It could be a thing. It could
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: be an opportunity. But God said, go. Get your horn.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: You got some anointing to do. Your life is not over.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: Your past is behind you. Your future is in front
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: of you. Go. I dance on the grave of every
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: suicide spirit in this room. I dance on the grave
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: of every spirit of depression. that tried to get me
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: to give up before I came into my season. I
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: dance on the grave of every devil that told me
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: that I was a nobody and a nothing and that
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: I'd never be anything. I dance on the grave of
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: every foul spirit that said I was cursed. and not
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: lovable and not worthy and not good enough. I dance
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: on the grave. You lied! You lied!
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 5: God does still have some for me. I'm not too old.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 5: I'm not too young. I'm not too.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: This or that. I'm just right. I'm getting ready to
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: meet my new thing. Coming down the road to meet me.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: That devil's been lying to you That God doesn't have
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: anything in front of you better than what you've seen
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: in your past is a lie. Dry your face and
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: get up off of your knees. You're about to meet
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: a new thing. Get your horn of oil. You're getting
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: ready to get a fresh anointing. A fresh release is
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: coming into your life. A move of the Holy Ghost
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: is coming into your life. The power of the Holy
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: Spirit is coming into your life. My God, my God.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: God's going to take out the old and bring in
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: the new. Out with the old and in with the new.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: This is your moment. This is your time. This is
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: your season. Oh, God. You've caused our hearts to rejoice.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: You've caused our hearts to rejoice. Hope is springing eternal
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: in somebody's heart. Somebody's waking up out of their grave
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: and taking off their grave clothes and getting ready to
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: live more abundantly. Lord, I thank you for abundant life. Abundant,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: abundant life. Abundant life.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.