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The Power To Change Your Mind! Bishop T.D. Jakes Elevation Church · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Hey friends, before we jump into the message today, we've
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  Speaker 1: got some big news. Elevation Night is hitting the road
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  Speaker 1: again and we're coming to a city near you. From
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  Speaker 1: October 21st through the 30th, we're going to be in St. Paul, Omaha, St. Louis, Louisville, Duluth, Tampa, Miami, Orlando.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to miss these nights. I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: these gatherings are so powerful.
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  Speaker 2: We worship together.
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  Speaker 1: Rattle, we praise, we get to hear a life-giving message
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  Speaker 1: from Pastor Stephen. If you've ever been to one, you
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  Speaker 1: already know if you haven't, this is your chance. Visit elevationknights.com
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  Speaker 1: to find your city and get your tickets.
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  Speaker 2: We can't wait to worship with you, and we'll see
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  Speaker 2: you this fall. Praise the Lord, everybody. It's so good
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  Speaker 2: to see you. Holly, come up for a moment.
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  Speaker 3: Holly wants to tell you how much she missed you.
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  Speaker 2: Missed you all so much.
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  Speaker 4: It is so good to be in the house of
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  Speaker 4: the Lord worshiping with you this morning.
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  Speaker 2: You sound amazing.
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  Speaker 5: You look good.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: The real reason I had you come up is so
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  Speaker 3: I could catch my breath from the jumping.
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  Speaker 5: Are you out of shape?
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  Speaker 3: You're not out of shape.
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  Speaker 2: You've been exercising. No, I have more of an anaerobic strength,
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  Speaker 2: more like bench pressing.
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  Speaker 5: You've been exercising and drinking your powders and stuff?
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  Speaker 2: But no cardio.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody give the Lord a praise today if you're glad
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  Speaker 3: that he woke you up. And I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 3: let us never take for granted the privilege that it
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  Speaker 3: is to meet together like this. Just want to remind
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  Speaker 3: you that there's somebody that would love to be standing
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  Speaker 3: where you're standing today. And if you have the strength
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  Speaker 3: to stand there and if you have the strength and
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  Speaker 3: the breath to praise God, you ought to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Give him a great shout right now. I want to
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  Speaker 3: welcome our entire EFAM around the world. I want to
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  Speaker 3: welcome every location. This is going to be an amazing,
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  Speaker 3: amazing second half of the summer. We've got Love Week
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  Speaker 3: coming up the last week of July.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to serve our communities.
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  Speaker 3: We've got YouthX still hanging over in the room.
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  Speaker 2: I feel it, man. But wasn't it amazing? Turn me
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  Speaker 2: up in the monitors a little bit. Wasn't it amazing?
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't it incredible? Didn't God move? Kids getting saved, set free, delivered, healed,
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  Speaker 2: called up higher.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for your ministry to the next generation. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you for our ministry that's going forth with.
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  Speaker 2: Our pop-ups all summer long.
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  Speaker 3: Chad, we've got another pop-up coming to Charleston, South Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: I think next week.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be two weeks. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a very busy summer.
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  Speaker 3: I planned to preach my first sermon this week because
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  Speaker 3: we've had amazing guest preachers. Haven't we had some amazing
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  Speaker 3: guests and some of our in-house preachers? And I thought, well,
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  Speaker 3: I'll preach to the youth Wednesday night, which I did,
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  Speaker 3: and then I'll come back and preach.
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  Speaker 2: But something happened. I kind of wanted to.
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  Speaker 3: Well what i thought would be cool is can i
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  Speaker 3: just come to church and hear a guest preacher but
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  Speaker 3: i didn't have one lined up and i was thinking
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  Speaker 3: about that and praying about that and saturday as i
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  Speaker 3: was thinking and praying about that last saturday that is
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  Speaker 3: i got a text and um the text was.
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  Speaker 2: From bishop td jakes now so this guy said to.
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  Speaker 3: Me the other day he said are you back in
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  Speaker 3: the pulpit preaching this because i'm back in the pulpit
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  Speaker 3: but i'm not preaching He looked disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: That made me feel good.
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  Speaker 3: You always want people to be a little disappointed when
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  Speaker 3: you say you're not coming back. But then I said,
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  Speaker 3: but would you be interested if I told you that
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  Speaker 3: Bishop T.D.
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  Speaker 2: Jakes is going to preach for me instead? So here's
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  Speaker 2: what happened. Yeah, we all would.
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  Speaker 3: I think you all know that he is not only
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  Speaker 3: my preaching hero, but he has been one of the
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  Speaker 3: closest friends that I could ask for. How many times
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  Speaker 3: have I frantically sent him a text message on Saturday
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  Speaker 3: night to ask him if my theology was incorrect on
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  Speaker 3: a sermon I was about to preach to you? Or
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  Speaker 3: did he have a better title for it? Or could
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  Speaker 3: he just come preach it for me? Well, last Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: he said, I'm going to be in Charlotte if you
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  Speaker 3: want to have dinner Sunday night. And I said, Sunday night?
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  Speaker 3: So what are you doing Sunday morning? I started doing
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  Speaker 3: the math. I figured he might be open. And I said,
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  Speaker 3: would you be willing to come and preach to our people?
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  Speaker 3: I would love for them to hear from you as
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  Speaker 3: we celebrate this 20th year of ministry.
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  Speaker 2: There's no voice we'd rather hear than yours. And here's
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  Speaker 2: what's cool.
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  Speaker 3: Before he comes, before he comes and just absolutely blesses
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  Speaker 3: us like only he can.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Don't skip Sundays at Elevation Church.
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  Speaker 2: You never know what God will do for you. That's
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  Speaker 2: the moral of the story. You better log on.
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  Speaker 3: You know, just last Sunday, Bishop Jakes, after over 30
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  Speaker 3: years of pastoring the Potter's House in Dallas, transitioned the
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  Speaker 3: church to the leadership of his daughter and his.
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  Speaker 2: Son-in-law, Pastor Tere and Sarah Roberts.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: So I told him this is his first Sunday as
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  Speaker 3: a free agent. And I wanted to take the moment
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  Speaker 3: right now on video to officially extend the offer that
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  Speaker 3: Bishop Jakes, we know you're still going to be very
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  Speaker 3: busy changing the world and completely redeveloping economies and feeding
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  Speaker 3: entire villages and Changing the trajectory of our nation's political
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  Speaker 3: structure and preaching and teaching and doing all the things
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  Speaker 3: that you do. We know that you've got so much
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  Speaker 3: more to do. But Bishop Jakes, I know you're back
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  Speaker 3: there listening to me. If you're looking for a vacation church.
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  Speaker 3: A place where you can come and preach anytime and
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  Speaker 3: the people will just absolutely love to have you. A
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  Speaker 3: church where you don't have to manage the staff or
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  Speaker 3: pay the bills.
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  Speaker 2: But you can just come preach.
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  Speaker 6: We want you to know Elevation Church considers ourselves the
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  Speaker 6: official vacation church of the greatest preacher of our time.
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  Speaker 6: The one, the only, the incomparable Bishop T.D.
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  Speaker 2: James!
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  Speaker 5: These are my friends. They're not just my brother and
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  Speaker 5: my sister. You don't get to pick your brother and sister.
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  Speaker 5: They're also my friends. And I love you right back.
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  Speaker 5: Aren't you glad you're in here today? Aren't you happy
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  Speaker 5: to be here? How many people are happy to be here?
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  Speaker 5: Make some noise if you're happy to be here. Now
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  Speaker 5: I want you to do something for me. Now that
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  Speaker 5: we have praised the Lord and given him glory and clapped,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I always have to change my clap because
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  Speaker 5: you all clap on the beat and we clap in
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  Speaker 5: between the beat. And so if I don't change my beat,
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  Speaker 5: we sound like popcorn. But we have a great time
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  Speaker 5: sounding like popcorn because God said make a joyful noise
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  Speaker 5: unto the Lord. And it can be syncopated. It can
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  Speaker 5: be together. It doesn't matter. He just loves for us
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  Speaker 5: to make noise. Come on, let's just make some noise. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: like that. Yeah, like that. Until the angels get jealous.
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  Speaker 5: Until the demons start to tremble. Until depression begins to flee.
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  Speaker 5: Let everything that have breath praise be the Lord.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I'm talking about. Now that you've clapped your
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  Speaker 5: hands and you praise the Lord and you sound like popcorn,
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  Speaker 5: your hair's all over your head, you got a little
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  Speaker 5: bit of sweat breaking out on you, turn around and
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  Speaker 5: hug somebody. Yeah. Yeah. Get that anointed sweat on them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: let the presence of God overshadow them. You may be seated.
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  Speaker 5: Pastor Steve and Holly, I love you. I'm grateful to
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  Speaker 5: God for this great church. Isn't it wonderful? I love
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  Speaker 5: you back. Isn't it wonderful to be in here just
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  Speaker 5: to sing and be with other believers and people who
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  Speaker 5: love the Lord like you do? And there's an excitement
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  Speaker 5: that's contagious. You know, it's contagious like, like, like. like
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  Speaker 5: grief or anything, it's contagious. You see somebody cry, you
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  Speaker 5: start crying, even though you don't know the person that
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  Speaker 5: they're crying about, you just start crying because they're crying.
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  Speaker 5: And then you cry and then you say, why am
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  Speaker 5: I crying? And you don't know why you're crying, but
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  Speaker 5: you're crying because it's contagious. And when we laugh, we
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  Speaker 5: start laughing together. Sometimes we didn't even see what happened.
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  Speaker 5: But if everybody starts laughing in the room, we start laughing.
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  Speaker 5: And so the joy of the Lord is contagious. The
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  Speaker 5: Bible said rejoice with them that do rejoice. And so
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  Speaker 5: it's contagious. You can come in here and not even
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  Speaker 5: be one of us, not even be a Christian. But
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  Speaker 5: if you come in here, it's contagious. you'll find yourself
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  Speaker 5: you know so it's good the problem is we can't
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  Speaker 5: stay here we can't live here like the priest who
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  Speaker 5: went into the holies of holies And found the sanctuary
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  Speaker 5: of God, the presence of God, the Shekinah glory, fallen
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  Speaker 5: in the middle of the desert. They could only go
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  Speaker 5: in there a day. They had to spend the rest
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  Speaker 5: of the days in the outer court because that's where
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  Speaker 5: the work is done. And so what I want to
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  Speaker 5: talk to you today about is where the work is done.
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  Speaker 5: Not where the joy is felt or the dance goes
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  Speaker 5: forth or the people. Some of y'all was doing the
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  Speaker 5: Watusi or something. Y'all make up a dance. I love y'all.
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  Speaker 5: Y'all don't have my dance. Just, you know. God loves it.
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  Speaker 5: God spins around on the throne. Because you're just giving
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  Speaker 5: him the glory. All of that is good. But I
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  Speaker 5: want to get beyond all of that and beneath all
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  Speaker 5: of that. And I want to peel that back like
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  Speaker 5: it's an onion. And I want to get down to
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  Speaker 5: the part of you that the Holy Spirit wants to
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  Speaker 5: do something in. So today, I'm so used to preaching
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  Speaker 5: at night. I said today, I want to talk to
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  Speaker 5: you about the power to change your mind. The power
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  Speaker 5: to change your mind. At a time they're trying to
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  Speaker 5: put chips in our heads. And at a time they're
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  Speaker 5: trying to put things into our hands so that we
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  Speaker 5: can go to the grocery store and buy stuff we
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  Speaker 5: don't need so the hand can be so fat it
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  Speaker 5: can't read the chip. You'll get it later, don't worry
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  Speaker 5: about it. At a time that everybody's getting all in
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  Speaker 5: our refrigerator and Wi-Fi controls and stuff that it doesn't
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  Speaker 5: need to. I mean, my iron really doesn't need Wi-Fi.
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  Speaker 5: But some kind of way my iron has Wi-Fi so
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  Speaker 5: that when I'm ironing my shirt, somebody knows it and
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  Speaker 5: it's stored in the cloud. All the wrinkles are stored
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  Speaker 5: in the cloud. At a time like that, I've got
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  Speaker 5: to do the work of understanding what God wants for me.
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  Speaker 5: Go with me quickly to the book of Romans chapter 12,
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  Speaker 5: verse 1 through 12. It's very easy. It's very simple.
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  Speaker 5: But I want to share it with you today. And
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  Speaker 5: I wrote it down because I'm old and I can't
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  Speaker 5: remember stuff like I used to. Yeah, I'm a free man.
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  Speaker 5: I loved it. I'm glad for my daughter and my
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  Speaker 5: son-in-law who has grabbed the reins and allowed me to
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  Speaker 5: get out and see y'all on a Sunday morning. Isn't
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  Speaker 5: that cool? Isn't that cool? I feel like a giraffe
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  Speaker 5: let out a cage or something, you know. Romans 12,
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  Speaker 5: verse 1 through 12, stand for me for the reading
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  Speaker 5: of the word. Would you just for a minute? And
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  Speaker 5: I read King James, not that it's holy or anything,
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  Speaker 5: but I read it because it's old like me. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: and I like old stuff sometimes. So I like the
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  Speaker 5: Elizabethan type language that makes the scripture sound so prose
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  Speaker 5: and poetic and powerful. And you can almost hear God
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  Speaker 5: speaking to you by the way it talks. By him, therefore,
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  Speaker 5: let us offer the sacrifice of praise. The power of it,
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  Speaker 5: it just sounds nice. And nowhere is it any more
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  Speaker 5: blatant than it is in this text, Romans 12 and 1.
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  Speaker 5: When the apostle Paul, who is revered by all the
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  Speaker 5: thinkers of his age. who speaks in a multiplicity of languages,
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  Speaker 5: who is accepted in the courts of the wisest men
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  Speaker 5: of his era, who has traveled by sea and by
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  Speaker 5: land to reach and to touch various parts of the
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  Speaker 5: world with the influence that he has. who has at
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  Speaker 5: one time been a Christian killer and been a terrorist
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  Speaker 5: against the kingdom of God, has had a Damascus Road
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  Speaker 5: experience by which he has to be willing to forsake
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  Speaker 5: some of the admiration to be into the will of God.
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  Speaker 5: That Paul. Who is of the tribe of Benjamin. That
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  Speaker 5: Paul who is a Pharisee of Pharisees. That Paul who
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  Speaker 5: is responsible for most of the New Testament. That without
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  Speaker 5: the Apostle Paul, we wouldn't have the five-fold ministry. We
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't have... the nine fruits of the spirit we wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: have the nine gifts of the spirit we wouldn't have
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  Speaker 5: so many the mystery of godliness we wouldn't know that
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  Speaker 5: behold I show you a mystery we should all sleep
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  Speaker 5: and we should all be changed this dude is bad
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  Speaker 5: okay this dude is bad if you take Paul out
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  Speaker 5: of the New Testament it becomes a comic book that's
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  Speaker 5: how small it's left all the other books I don't
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  Speaker 5: know whether they got tired of writing or their fingers hurt,
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  Speaker 5: or they didn't afford any ink, but they didn't write
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  Speaker 5: nearly as much, except for Hebrews. They didn't write nearly
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  Speaker 5: as much as the Apostle Paul gives us most of
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  Speaker 5: our understanding of what we are supposed to be in
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  Speaker 5: this age and this era. And we get to hear
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  Speaker 5: what he is saying as he has had an encounter
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  Speaker 5: with God, like us. Not like Luke or Mark or
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  Speaker 5: Matthew where they actually got to walk with Jesus. He
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  Speaker 5: has had an experience with God that has made him
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  Speaker 5: know God because he has had an experience, an invisible experience, invisible,
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  Speaker 5: invisible that left him blind. And he learned to walk
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  Speaker 5: by faith and not by sight. And he wasn't there
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  Speaker 5: when the woman with the blood touched the hem of
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  Speaker 5: his garment. He didn't get to see Lazarus come out
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  Speaker 5: of the grave. He didn't get to see all the
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  Speaker 5: good stuff. All he had was a great light hitting.
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  Speaker 5: And the light was so strong that it mesmerized and
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  Speaker 5: gave him the ability to change his life and to
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  Speaker 5: be willing to forsake how people think about him. It
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  Speaker 5: takes courage to be willing To change the way people
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  Speaker 5: think about you and not be bothered by it. Not
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  Speaker 5: to seek their approval or their validation in order to
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  Speaker 5: be able to stand. That's who's talking to us. And
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  Speaker 5: he has come from his lofty clouds of intellectualism down
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  Speaker 5: to the low places of saying, I beseech you therefore brethren.
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  Speaker 5: Which means I beg you. The great man begs, I
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  Speaker 5: beg you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that
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  Speaker 5: you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
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  Speaker 5: which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to
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  Speaker 5: this world, but be transformed. By the renewing of your mind.
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  Speaker 5: Be ye transformed. By the renewing of your mind. Be
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  Speaker 5: ye transformed. Don't just take on a form, but be
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  Speaker 5: ye transformed. By the renewing of your mind. Don't fake
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  Speaker 5: the funk. Be ye transformed. By the renewing of your mind.
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  Speaker 5: Don't just jump because I'm jumping. Be ye transformed. By
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  Speaker 5: the renewing of your mind. Have the kind of faith
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  Speaker 5: that lasts past Sunday morning. Be ye transformed. transformed by
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  Speaker 5: the renewing of your mind. You mean I can have
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  Speaker 5: a new mind? You mean I can literally be responsible
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  Speaker 5: for changing my mind? The place that holds my past
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  Speaker 5: and my doubts and my fears and my trauma and
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  Speaker 5: my insecurity and my rejection and my adversity and my
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  Speaker 5: self-loathing and my uncertainty. I can change that. You mean
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  Speaker 5: it's possible? That I can lose the imposter syndrome and
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  Speaker 5: be as happy on Monday as I act like I
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  Speaker 5: am on Sunday? You mean it's possible? You mean it's possible?
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  Speaker 5: I can walk through my house and be singing out
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  Speaker 5: a tune and me and God can be having a
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  Speaker 5: good time? And I can really be happy and not
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  Speaker 5: just be happy for you and happy around you and
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  Speaker 5: happy because you're looking at me. You mean it's actually
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  Speaker 5: possible that I can lay down and rest at night
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  Speaker 5: and feel like the angels have rocked me to sleep?
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  Speaker 5: You mean it's possible that I can live without fear
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  Speaker 5: and terror and the feeling that something bad is about
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  Speaker 5: to happen at any moment in my life? You mean
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  Speaker 5: it's possible for me not to hate my nose? Or
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  Speaker 5: dislike my lips? Or hate the way my eyes are made?
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  Speaker 5: You mean it's possible that I could be transformed by
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  Speaker 5: the renewing of my mind? Now you're talking about something amazing.
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  Speaker 5: He says, be transformed by the renewing of your mind
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  Speaker 5: that you may prove. What is that good and acceptable
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  Speaker 5: and perfect will of God? Because you can never prove
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  Speaker 5: the value of Christianity as long as you give me
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  Speaker 5: a facade of jubilance and go home to be a person.
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  Speaker 5: Because when I see your facade, I cannot connect with
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  Speaker 5: you because I cannot relate to you. I can only relate.
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  Speaker 5: to you when I see you go through hard stuff
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  Speaker 5: and painful stuff and you get mad and stuff gets
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  Speaker 5: on your nerves and you're Fred Heights and a spider
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  Speaker 5: comes out and you jump on top of the couch.
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  Speaker 5: I can only relate to you when you do Clark
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  Speaker 5: Kent kind of stuff. I can't relate to your Superman
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  Speaker 5: stuff Come on, somebody. Your Superman self. I want to
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  Speaker 5: meet you. I want to meet you where you're at.
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  Speaker 5: I want to go where you are. Be transformed by
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  Speaker 5: the renewing of your mind. Sweet Holy Spirit, come. Come
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  Speaker 5: into this place and do what you want to do.
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  Speaker 5: Throw your weight around and show the devil who's boss.
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  Speaker 5: I thank you because you're God all by yourself and
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: you can do anything but fail. Take over this building
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  Speaker 5: and take over this place and rip away all the
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: ugly facades that we put on the projector and image
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: of you a form of godliness denying the power thereof
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: and strip us down to who we really are. For
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: when you called Adam, you called Adam. Where art thou?
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: I don't want your imposter. I don't want you who
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  Speaker 5: you pretend to be. I want who you are. Come
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  Speaker 5: out here where I can see you. Stop hiding in
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  Speaker 5: between the leaves and the trees of religion and come
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  Speaker 5: out where we can have a conversation. You mean, oh God,
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  Speaker 5: do it for us. In the name of Jesus, we pray.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody who's got a loud mouth and you holler at
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  Speaker 5: your children. Shout amen at the top of your head. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I knew I liked you. I knew I liked you.
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  Speaker 5: Because when you get on your nerves every now and then,
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: you tell them, sit down. And you don't quote no
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: scriptures and you don't sing no songs. You tell them,
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: just sit down. Be seated. Let's go to work. everywhere
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: I go that travels everywhere I go we we the
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: place where we struggle is not so much conversion it's
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: transformation we have the conversion down pat we know how
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  Speaker 5: to lead you to Jesus We know how to skip
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  Speaker 5: and we know how to dance and we know how
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  Speaker 5: to clap. Am I doing it right? We know how
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  Speaker 5: to do this real good. We know how to have conversion.
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  Speaker 5: But we go home to wrestle with the inability to
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: have transformation. And it takes so much energy to have
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: conversion without transformation. Now he begs us by the mercies
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: of God that we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: And when our western mind hears this eastern phrase, we
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: don't know what a sacrifice is. But a sacrifice is
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: not a pretty sight. It's where an animal is stretched
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: east and west and north and south and tied to
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  Speaker 5: the altar and slayed with a knife. to catch some
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: blood in a trough and set on fire. He says,
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  Speaker 5: I want you to do that to you. No wonder
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: he's begging because I don't know anybody in here who's
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: running up here trying to take the knife. I don't
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: know about anybody in here that wants to be burned.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Whether you're Republican or Democrat or black or white or
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: gray or green or in between or you don't care,
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: it doesn't make any difference. None of us want to
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: be burned. I don't see anybody saying, you know, send
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: me to hell. Yeah, I go. I need a suntan anyway.
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  Speaker 5: He has asked me to present my body, which is
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  Speaker 5: never done in the Old Testament. You never see a
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: lamb kill himself. You never see a goat commit suicide.
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  Speaker 5: All the sacrifices that have been offered up to God
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  Speaker 5: in the past did not come of their own accord.
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  Speaker 5: They were drugged to the slaughter. They were grabbed and
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: tied by the hands. They were nailed down and they
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: were squirming. And they died bleeding and bleeding. And it's
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: an ugly business because freedom is always an ugly business.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: The truth of the matter is Christianity is not pretty.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Anything that represents itself through the icon of a cross,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: a place of execution. It was execution to the Romans,
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: not crucifixion. To be nailed to a bloody cross, stripped
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: naked in front of everybody you've been teaching for three
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: years is a little troubling. I'm glad my pants are
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: held up. I pulled my belt real tight before I
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: came out here. Because of all the things I have
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: to worry about in my life, I do not want
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: to have to worry about my pants falling down. And
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: what think ye of me in that condition? I love
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  Speaker 5: these pants. They cover my body. And this shirt, it
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: paints my body. And you really don't get to see me,
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: but you see what I'm wearing. But the problem is,
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: God doesn't like fig leaves. And he doesn't like to
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: be covered. He wants to be brought open. And we
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: have this thing about us. Now we get saved. Our
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: spirit is instantly born again. Born of the spirit. When
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: we accept Christ as our savior, we're instantly born again, changed.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Right then we have an amazing experience with God that
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: changes a lot of habits and stuff about us that
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: needs to be changed and maybe stopped us from committing
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: suicide and hurting ourselves. It's great stuff. But then we
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: have to go home and live it out. We have
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: to in our living room with bills and stuff and
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: laid off a job and broken in our heart and
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: living with somebody who gets on our nerves and try
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: to act like they don't get on our nerves, but
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: they're getting on our nerves. And we have to have personality.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: And it's hard to have personality when you have idiosyncrasies.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: I wish we came with warning labels. I would love
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: for God to put warning labels on our forehead. Hello,
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: my name is Mary. I'm crazy as a drunk bed bug.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: don't buy the fact that i'm cute and that i
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: got nice eyes because my eyes roll up in my
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: head and i turn into the cookie monster i am
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: scared of people and i don't like to be in
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: crowds i don't like to talk when i accept when
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: i want to talk and i'll tell you when i
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: want to talk and then when i talk i want
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  Speaker 5: to talk about stuff that doesn't make any difference and
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: i want you to listen And think it's important. And
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: respond the way I like to have you respond. Because
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: if you don't respond the way I like you to respond.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: It's going to be hell up in this house. It's
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: going to be absolute war up in this house. It's
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: going to be trouble up in this house. Because it's
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: not Sunday. It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday. And you make me sad.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: That's where Christ wants to go, into our personality. And
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: figuring out how to get down past all the other stuff.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: He says, present your body a living sacrifice. And how
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: do I tie myself? How do I tie myself down?
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: A living sacrifice. A living sacrifice. And the truth of
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: the matter is there are hundreds of people in this
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: room in one way or other who is trying desperately
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: to tie up themselves. But how can I tie this
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: hand and then have another hand loose to tie this
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: hand and don't get me started talking about these feet
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: I got. This is not going to be easy. I
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: you present your body, a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable
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  Speaker 5: unto God, which is your reasonable service, and be not conformed.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: Don't you be conformed to the world and go the
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: way that they're going. Stop scrolling a minute. Don't be
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: conformed to the world and the way it's being. Stop
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: all your AI. Don't be conformed to the world and
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: the way the world is. It's going and bragging about
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: how many gigabytes and how much power and how much
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: this and how their algorithms work. Don't be conformed to
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: the news and the media and the people and the
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: personalities and the politics. Don't be conformed. don't be conformed
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: to this world don't be and we do the very
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: thing he said not to do we are conformed to
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: this world To this world. Have you ever. I turn
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: off the news sometimes. Just because I'm tired of hearing
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: bad stuff. It gives me nightmares. Makes me scared to
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: sleep at night. I hear about all this stuff. I
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: pray about it. But I got to learn how to
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: release it. Because I'm not designed to carry that much pain.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: On the inside. We popular. Contrary to popular belief. We
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: were not created with Apple phones in our pockets. God
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: did not mean for millions of people to walk around
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: in your pocket talking about what's wrong with their life
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: and what they don't like about you and how you
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: should fix your hair and you would look better if
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: you were blonde. God did not design us to be
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: inundated with other people's opinion to the point we can't
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: hear what's going on. Because so much noise is coming
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: from the outside. That we cannot find the peaceful place
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: to work on who we really are. To become what
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: he created us to be. No wonder he's looking for us.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: No wonder the eyes of the Lord go to and
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: fro throughout the earth. To show himself strong. Trying to
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: find somebody. That he can use. No wonder God is searching.
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: In the cool of the morning. Looking for Adam in
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: the garden. And he can't find him. Because when he
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: created him. He created him to look like God. He
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: created him to be his mirror. He created him to
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: be his reflection. He created it so he could see
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: what he looked like. He recreated himself so there would
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: be unity between heaven and earth, between holy and holy,
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: between divine and divine, between spotless and spotless. He created
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: him without a sin. He created him without a lustful
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: thought or a hateful idea or a person he wanted
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: to choke till they turned blue. He did not create
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: him like that. He created him to be a reflection
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: of his love. And his compassion. And his grace. And
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: for him to literally reflect the personality of God in
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: the earth. And that's what he wants for you. To
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: really reflect the personality of God in the earth. And
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: that's why hell hates you. That's why hell attacks you
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: early in your life, to make sure that your personality
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: is not the personality of God. He knows what God
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: wants to do in your life, and he has to
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: start the plot early. See, it hasn't hit you yet
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: that you're a world changer, that you're a giant killer,
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: that you're a mountain mover. That you were meant to
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: walk on water. That you are the head and not
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: the tail. Above and not beneath. An overcomer. It hasn't
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: hit you yet. That you can command oceans and mountains.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: And seas and waves. It hasn't hit you yet. That
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: you can stop the sun in the middle of the air.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: And say be still while I fight. It hasn't hit
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: you yet. That the power of life and death is
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: in your tongue. And that whatsoever you say. You can
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: have it. He wants to catch you early where you
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: are fragile and frail and not sure of yourself and
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: not stabilized in your formative years when your brain is
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: still pliable and falling and able to be shaped like
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: clay in the hand of whoever touched him. Who touched me?
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: Wasn't always God. Who touched me wasn't always God. Who
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: made me the mad angry woman I am was not God.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: Who made me the distant aloof cold man I am
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: was not God. God is not the problem. God is cool.
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: I'm down for God. I'm down for Jesus. It's all
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: the people who touched me before he did. It is
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: not my destiny that I'm worried about. It is the
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: contamination of my history. And to be transformed, to be
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: transformed is to take away the effects of my history.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: So I come to church to hear about my destiny
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: and my destiny sounds so wonderful. And he's good and
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: he's wonderful and he's good all the time. And everything's wonderful.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: And bless the name of the Lord and come into
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: his house with thanksgiving. It's wonderful. And they tell me
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: about my destiny. I'm a mountain mover. I'm an overcomer.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: I've got the power of God in me. They tell
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: me about my destiny. They tell me that my mouth
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: can speak and things can change. They tell me about
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: my destiny. But when I leave the parking lot, I
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: drive smack down. dab into my history and my history
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: contaminates my history contaminates my destiny like Kool-Aid changes water
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: like wine changes when fermented my destiny my old stuff
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: comes creeping up into my new stuff old stuff and
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: my new stuff and they are opposed one to the
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: other and when I would do good evil is present
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: that which I would do I do not owe wretched
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: man that I am who should deliver me from the
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: body of the devil I'm a great deacon but I'm
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: a wretched man I'm a great believer but you'd have
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: to marry me to find out I'm a broken man. See,
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: when you dated him, he was perfect. And you dated her.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: She told you if you needed anything, she'd take care
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: of you at three o'clock in the morning. And everything
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: was wonderful. And you married their representative. You said, you
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: walked up there like a dummy and said, I do
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: to somebody you haven't met yet. And before you know,
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: you've done it. You've done it. You do what you've
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: done till you've done what you do and you did it.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: And you've done what you did when you do what
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: you've done with somebody you don't even know for the
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: first three years. Little by little, you peel the onion
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: down and get past the superficial and find out their quirkiness.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: Their craziness. Their procrastination. Their indifference. Their missing dad syndrome.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: Their critical mother syndrome. And quote all the scriptures you will.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: You cannot get that out of their personality. Personality is
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: not spirituality. I didn't marry your spirit. Your spirit is
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: holy and perfect and complete before God. I didn't marry
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: your spirit. I married you, your personality. And now I
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: am struggling trying to figure out what's going on. You know,
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: can I take a minute? I took my son to Spain.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: Because he came at a time that I had to
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: go overseas anyway. And I took my son to Spain.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: And I was so glad to take him places that
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: my father only read about in books and had never
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: been in himself. I took him to Spain. It was amazing.
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: We had a great time in Spain. I had never
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: taken him to Spain before. And then they told me
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: we were close to the Rock of Gibraltar. Now, I
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: will be honest. I didn't exactly know what the Rock
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: of Gibraltar was. I had heard of it. I read
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: about it at school. I passed the test. But I
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: didn't go to bed every night thinking about the Rock
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: of Gibraltar. It was not my life's dream to see
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: the Rock of Gibraltar. I was born in West Virginia
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: in the mountains. I have seen enough rocks and mountains
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: and hills and valleys and shoveled enough snow that I
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: didn't go all the way to Spain to see a rock.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: If I'm going to Spain, let me go to the
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: museums and let me go to Barcelona and let me
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: go to Madrid. and let me go down on the
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: cobblestone streets of a city that is thousands of years old.
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: And now they're telling me to go to the Rock
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: of Gibraltar. And there I am going to the Rock
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: of Gibraltar, 1400 feet in the air. And it's not
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: a straight path. It's around winding roads and grinding here
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: and there and everywhere. And I went there to the
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: Rock of Gibraltar with my son. And because I'm his dad,
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: I act like I know what I'm doing. Neither one
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: of us know where we're going. Or what we're doing.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: Or how to get there. Or whether it matters or not.
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: All I know is that the air gets thin when
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: you get high in the air. And 1,400 feet in
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: the air and you fat. No, you skinny people don't laugh.
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: You don't understand what I'm talking about. You have to
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: weigh over 200 pounds to understand what 1,400 feet in
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: the air does to your nostrils. It shrinks them down
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: into baby nostrils. And you're getting into baby dust who's
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: down on the inside. And I'm trying to breathe and
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: act like I'm okay. And I'm starting to see colors
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: in front of my head. I'm seeing colors and more
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: colors than are in a rainbow. I'm seeing them everywhere.
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: But I'm taking my son to the Rock of Gibraltar.
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: Do you know how much history was at the Rock
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: of Gibraltar? I didn't. Did you know?
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: I didn't.
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: I didn't know at all. I didn't know. I didn't know.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: I didn't know. You know how we are in America.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: The world ends and begins between New York and L.A.,
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: We don't know about no place else. Not our Congress,
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: not our legislators, not our people passing law. Most of
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: them don't even have a passport. We make decisions about
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: countries we have never been to. And we feel sorry
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: and we send our thoughts and prayers when they die,
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: but we don't really think they're real people like us.
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: They are their caricatures on our TV screens. And in
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: our pockets. And in our apps. And then we get
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: on our app and we, let's see, we scroll through them.
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: And we look at them. We pray for them sometimes.
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: Sometimes we pray for them. Sometimes we just keep scrolling.
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: Because it's happening so much. It's happening everywhere. Everybody's drowning
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: or burning or dying or being bombed or being nuked
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: and going through all kinds of trouble. And while they're
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: going through all that trouble, it's not like you're not
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: having your own trouble. You're having your own trouble. Your
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: daughter just cussed you out and slammed the door. And
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: said she didn't want to ever see you again in life.
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: And you were the worst mother in the world. And
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: you got to deal with that. And you can't be
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: putting out fires and waters and planes. And stop planes
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: from crashing. And deal with all. You weren't made to
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: deal with all of that. Because by then you have
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: developed your own brand of craziness. Not crab mayonnaise, no,
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: nothing like that. It hadn't been branded by anybody else.
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: You have your own brand of crazy, your own devil
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: to fight. The stuff you're afraid of, the stuff you
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: have to deal with, the stuff you have to suppress
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: is enough to keep you up all night. It takes
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: all of my energy to get Thomas not to say
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: what he wants to say because he has got a
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: mouth on him that grandma's soap will not wash off.
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: And it takes all I can do. If you catch
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: me in traffic and you honk at me the wrong way,
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: it takes everything I've got to say God loves you.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, he does, boo-boo, he loves you. Yes, yes, yes,
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: I'll meet you on the other side in heaven. And
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: I'm going to cut you when we get there.
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: It's all I can do to get him to shut
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: his mouth because he reacts. Because he has built up
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: a system of hiding himself and handling himself and dealing
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: with himself. It may not be the right system and
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: it may not work and it may not have anything
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: to do with church. But I have developed a pathology
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: that enables me to live with me. And I can't
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: figure out why you can't develop a pathology to live
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: with me. Because I worked on this for 30 years.
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: And I figured out how to like me. And now
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: that I have finally figured out how to like me.
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: You act like you don't understand me. Like I'm a
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: crazy woman. I'm not crazy. I have feelings. I have feelings.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: I'm going through everything. I don't know. And I carried
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: my son to the rock of Gibraltar and found out
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: that's where all the fighting was. Since the early 1500s,
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: nation after nation has fought in that place. The Moors
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: have fought in that place and on that place and
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: hollowed out the inside of the mountain. It's hollow. You
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: can go in there and you can go up the
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: ramp and there are all kinds of cannons here and
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: you can shoot out of the Rock of Gibraltar. You
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: can shoot at people and they can't hit you back easy.
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: And so nation to nation fought to have control of
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: that space. And since I was in Spain, I thought
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: I would go to the Rock of Gibraltar. And I
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: got to the Rock of Gibraltar and I brought my
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: franks there so that I could buy something while I
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: was there because I'm going to buy something while I'm
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: there and buy something. Part of my ministry is to
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: buy something. I am called to buy something. I am
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: anointed to buy something. I don't care what it is.
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: I'm going to buy something. I was born in West Virginia,
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: a little black boy with ashy knees in West Virginia
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: with Vaseline for lotion on his kneecap. And if I
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: go all the way to Spain, I am going to
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: buy something. Amen. I'm going to buy something and I
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: drive in there to buy something and I'm getting ready
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: to go into the area where the Rock of Gibraltar was.
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: And you know what? I had to show my passport
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: to get in and pay a fee to get where
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: they wanted me to go and do all of that.
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: And they told me that they didn't take Frank's. And
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: I'm in Spain. And what do you mean that what
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: was valuable over here It's not valuable over there. Then
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: this one patch of ground that you call the Rock
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: of Gibraltar is controlled by the European kingdom. And they
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: use pounds. And I didn't bring no pounds. They didn't
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: tell me that you could have one little patch of
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: ground out of all of a country that belonged to
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: somebody else. They didn't tell me that they fought for
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: it and died for it and bled for it to
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: control it because it is a site where you can
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: see nations. You can stand on one nation and see
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: the other nation. You can see the northern tip of Africa.
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: You can see Morocco. You can see all kinds of
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: stuff from that point. It's a high place. That's why
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: in the Bible, the Old Testament, you always hear that
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: God wants to move your high places because the high places,
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: and the high places are the places of strategic advantage.
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: It is hard to kill your enemy if your enemy
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: is over you. That's why they never put your brain
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: in your foot. Because I can drag my foot even
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: as old as I am. I can get my foot
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: up close enough that I can work on it if
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: I have to. Don't tell my wife because I act
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: like I'm crippled. So she'll take care of it for me.
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: But I can actually, if I need to, I can
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: do that. But God did not put my brain in
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: my foot. He put it in my head because I
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: got to deal with the high places. That's where I
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: shoot from. That's where my cannons go off from. That's
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: where my cannons go off, whether they're pointed out or in.
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: Can I go deeper? My cannons go off. That's what
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: you get after you marry me. You married your girlfriend.
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: You went home with your wife. You married your boyfriend.
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: You go home with your husband. You married the person
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: who showered and got ready and got dressed and put
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: on cologne, extra cologne. In fact, I couldn't breathe. And
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: you put on so much cologne and you came out
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: and you were ready for me. And it was occasionally,
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: I didn't know I was going to have to wake
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: up to you every day with bad breath. And hair
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: all over your head. And find out that you leave
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: your drawers in the middle of the floor. And that
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: you don't keep up to yourself. And you use the
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: bathroom and don't wash your hands. And now I got
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: to deal with all of that. And I didn't know
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: that was possible. Is it okay? Did I go too far? Okay.
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: I'm right on the edge. I'm right on the edge.
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: I'm going to stay on the edge. I'm going to
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: stay on the edge. I'm going to stay on the edge.
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: Because the Bible just told me. that I have to
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: deal with things from the rock of Gibraltar. I need
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: a post that I can shoot out. I need an
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: area that protects me. And the area that I build
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: to protect me also incarcerates me. And now I am protected,
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: but I am also isolated. And you can't hurt me.
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: Say whatever you want to say. Roll your eyes. Text
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: about me right now. Tweet it for me if you...
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: want to take a picture and put it on Facebook
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: right now because I have developed a system you will
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: not get me I ain't thinking about you I don't
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: even know you you could be sleeping up under a
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: bridge somewhere I don't care whether you like my hair
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: or not I'm not going to give you that much
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: power over me. I have developed a system to handle
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: all of that, even if it's cut it off. Do
• 49:49
  Speaker 5: you know my wife has two phones and don't answer
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: neither one of them? Honest to God, I'm telling the truth.
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: I do not understand why she needs two phones. She
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: got two different phone numbers, two different phones all together,
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: and she never can find either one of them. Sometimes
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: she's looking at it while it's ringing and it does
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: not bother her that the phone is ringing. She walks
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: past the phone ringing and keeps on singing what she's
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: singing and she's refusing to let that many people get
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: in her life and get in her head and get
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: in her mind and get in her spirit. She has
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: to be transformed by the renewing of her mind. And
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: sometimes we build up ways to be transformed by the
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: renewing of our mind. I've been studying this for a week.
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: Our brain is designed to deliver enzymes and hormones that
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: secrete fluids in us that helps us deal with what's
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: on our mind. And we got a lot on our mind.
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: And I've been reading a book, an old book written
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: by an old author, a doctor who said, the body
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: keeps score.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: You read it?
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: The body keeps score. So everything I didn't say and
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: everything I held in and everything I suppressed and everything
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't get out, the body kept score. The body
• 51:24
  Speaker 5: kept score. And so I survived. Heroes, I survived. Heroes,
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: I survived. I survived. But just because I survived doesn't
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: mean I succeeded. Can I teach this? And now the
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: Bible has said to me that I can be transformed
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: by the renewing of my mind.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute. I was at the Rock of Gibraltar.
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: I got to finish it up. I was at the
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: Rock of Gibraltar. I went all the way through the
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: Rock of Gibraltar and went on the outside of the
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: Rock of Gibraltar. And my son is with me. And
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: I got to the top of the rock. And there's
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: all of these monkeys. Yeah, I got to tell you
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: about the monkeys. There's all these monkeys up there. There
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: were monkeys. There were monkeys on my car. There were
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: monkeys on the window. There were monkeys on the back window.
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: And they were talking about how cute the monkeys were.
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: And the monkeys were leaving little white spots on everything.
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: And they weren't quite as cute as I thought they were.
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: They were on everything. But it was so, so nice.
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: It was so wonderful. You felt so like you were
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: in another country always. Monkeys. I had the monkeys everywhere.
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: And the monkeys were everywhere. And the monkeys were everywhere.
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: And I started noticing there was something weird about these monkeys.
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: And see, I watch too much TV. I watch these
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: movies where the monkeys start talking to each other. You
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: ever watch the movies where the monkeys start driving cars
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: and the monkeys start mediating with each other and they
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: start calling one another and they come through the trees
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: and everything. And I know there was a whole lot
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: of gathering around my car. There was a whole lot
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: of them around my car. I'd have fought one or
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: two of them, but it was a whole lot of
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: them around my car. And they were all around my
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: car and it was all of these monkeys. And you
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: know what was weird about them? They didn't have no tails.
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: They didn't have no tails. And my guide told me
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: when the monkeys first came to the Rock of Gibraltar,
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: they were born with tails. Monkey tails, you know. Monkey tails.
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: They had monkey tails. But the tail is so small.
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: Just a little bit of gristle and meat. The tail
• 53:33
  Speaker 5: is so small. And the weather changes in Gibraltar. And
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: it gets cold in Gibraltar. And in the winter, you
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: know what happens? Don't stop me. You know what happened?
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: They froze their tail off. They actually froze their tail off.
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: And you know what else? The next time, the next generation,
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: when they had babies, they had tails too. And they
• 54:12
  Speaker 5: froze their tail off. You're going to leave out of
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: here and tell everybody I preach about monkey tails, aren't you?
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: Don't you tell nobody I said that about freezing their
• 54:23
  Speaker 5: tails off. Don't you do that. That doesn't sound real preacher-y.
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: So don't do that. They might take it out of
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: context and put it on Instagram. Lord have mercy. I forgot.
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: It's going to probably be on Instagram now. And there's
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: going to be one more thing I'm going to have
• 54:37
  Speaker 5: to scroll past and ignore. Because they're all in on that.
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: They froze their tails off. And you know what, by
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: the third generation, they were born without tails. They stopped
• 54:55
  Speaker 5: being born with tails so they wouldn't freeze them off.
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: And suddenly I understood something. I never understood why Jesus said,
• 55:10
  Speaker 5: if your hand offends you, Because I'm a literalist. When
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: you tell me something, I take you seriously. So if
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: you tell me to jump on him, I'm going to
• 55:20
  Speaker 5: jump on him. We'll figure out what's going to happen later.
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: I'm going to jump. I'm going to jump right now.
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: I'm going to jump. The first time I went to Africa,
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: there was a big crowd of people, and they were
• 55:29
  Speaker 5: so excited, and they were praying, and they all wanted
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: to deliver. I just dived, you know, like they're doing.
• 55:35
  Speaker 5: I just dived out in the crowd. They almost killed me.
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: They almost killed me. They took my ring. They was
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: pulling on my clothes. They take prayer so seriously. They
• 55:46
  Speaker 5: take prayer so seriously. They take prayer so seriously. My
• 55:53
  Speaker 5: son and I are on the top of the rock
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: of Gibraltar and the monkeys have stopped growing what they
• 56:01
  Speaker 5: didn't need. What are you growing That you don't need.
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: What are you going for where you used to live?
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: And you don't live there anymore. But you still got
• 56:21
  Speaker 5: your tail. As if you were someplace else. And now
• 56:25
  Speaker 5: God has called you to the mountains. And you're in
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: a better place. And you're a better person. And you're
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: higher than you've ever been. And you got the opportunity
• 56:33
  Speaker 5: of a lifetime. And you still got your tail. And
• 56:42
  Speaker 5: that's what I learned at the Rock of Gibraltar. And
• 56:46
  Speaker 5: suddenly I understood what Christ meant. Cut your hand off.
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: If your hand offends you, cut it off. He means
• 56:53
  Speaker 5: if there's anything you know about you that's messing you up,
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: fix it. Just change your mind about it. Just fix it.
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: Just fix it. Don't just dance and skip and jump
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: and hoop and holler and make all kind of noise
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: and go home and make excuses for yourself and give
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: yourself a license to be dysfunctional. Just fix it. If
• 57:27
  Speaker 5: you don't know how to apologize and you don't know
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: how to say I'm sorry, or you don't know how
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: to work with somebody who didn't say I'm sorry to you,
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: or if it's that you doubt your own masculinity and
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: you don't trust your own femininity and now you don't
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: even know what either one of them is because I'm
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: so confused. I don't know a duck from a pigeon.
• 57:47
  Speaker 5: I don't know anything. And you're trying to figure out
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: all of that. Whatever it is that you are dealing with,
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: just fix it. Easier said than done. Real hard work.
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: Let's just praise the Lord. Let's just dance and leave
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: the inside unfixed. Let's not take on the big fight
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: Do you know when the prodigal son was in the mud?
• 58:21
  Speaker 5: I'm almost finished. He was in the mud. Yeah, I
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: got it. Okay, I got it. He was in the
• 58:27
  Speaker 5: mud and everything and covered with mud and everything. And
• 58:31
  Speaker 5: he didn't have anything to eat except what the swine
• 58:34
  Speaker 5: did eat. And he was sitting in the hog pen.
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: And he came to himself. That's a weird scripture. He
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: came to himself. He came to himself. Came means a journey,
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: means a distance, means a traveler. It means it took
• 58:49
  Speaker 5: me some time to come to myself. He came to himself.
• 58:54
  Speaker 5: That is the baddest scripture. I dare you. I could
• 58:57
  Speaker 5: preach on that all night. He came to himself. Not
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: he came to Georgia. He came to Memphis. He came
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: to California. No, he came to himself. It takes you
• 59:09
  Speaker 5: a long time. to come to yourself and you can
• 59:11
  Speaker 5: lose a lot of people while you come to yourself
• 59:14
  Speaker 5: and you can damage a lot of people while you
• 59:16
  Speaker 5: come to yourself and you can lose opportunity after opportunity
• 59:20
  Speaker 5: that God has for you because you won't come to
• 59:23
  Speaker 5: yourself you will not confront yourself you will not be
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: transformed By the renewing of your mind. You will not
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: let somebody borrow your body, a new personality, come inside
• 59:40
  Speaker 5: of your body and walk around in your clothes and
• 59:43
  Speaker 5: in your shoes. The nicer you, the better you, the
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: stronger you, the more intense you, the more loving you,
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: the more communicative you, the more kind you are. wants
• 59:56
  Speaker 5: to take over your body until a new personality lives
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: in your body and you have joy on more than Sunday.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 5: More than Sunday. You can have joy on more than Sunday.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 5: More than Sunday. You can have joy. You can have
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 5: joy unspeakable, full of truth and glory. You can have
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 5: joy when you go home. You have joy in your car.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 5: You can have joy in your house and in your
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: life and in your spirit. You can have joy in
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 5: a trailer. You can have joy in a park. You
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 5: can have joy anywhere. You can have joy in your
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: spirit right now. Right now. Right now. You can decide
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 5: in your mind right now. I am through being who
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: I was. I'm tired of that. I don't like her.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 5: I don't like him. He's messing me up. He's canceling
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 5: out my chances. He's killing my future. He's destroying my career.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 5: He's tearing up my marriage. He's tearing up my relationship.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: And I am going to get rid of him. I'm
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 5: going to be transformed by the renewing of my mind.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 5: My mind. My mind is my rock of Gibraltar. My
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 5: mind is my rock of Gibraltar. That's where I shoot from.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: That's where I preach from. That's where I fight from.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 5: That's where I teach from. Out of my head. Out
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 5: of my head. I got to get it right.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: In my head.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 5: That's where the war is between the devil and God.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 5: It's in my head. It's in my mind. It's in
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 5: my thoughts. It's in my thinking. It's in my ways.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 5: And I... I don't care if I win the battle
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 5: at work and win the battle with the car and
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 5: fix the pipes and the freezers and do all of
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 5: that and cut the grass and trim the hedges till
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 5: they're straight. If I don't fix the hell that's in
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: my head, I will never be free and I will
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: never be whole. Man, I will never be what God
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 5: wants me to be. And I want to be free.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: I want to be free. I want to be free
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 5: in my mind. I want to be free in my spirit.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 5: I want to be free. I want to be free.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 5: I want to be free. I don't want to die
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: and haven't been free. I want to be free. I
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: want to be free so much that I sing in
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 5: the shower. I want to be so free that I
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 5: can sing on the back porch. I want to be
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: so free that I get on my neighbor's nerves because
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 5: I sing out of tune. I want to be so
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 5: free that I have peace and power on the inside
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 5: and I can't understand why I can't let go of
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 5: my tail. If I let go of my tail, if
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: I am willing to cut off that hand because it
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: offends me, If I am willing to cut out that
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 5: tongue because it offends me, offends me only means that's
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: the only thing standing in between you and what God
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 5: wants to give you. If you cut that one thing off,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: that one thing, do you hear me this morning? That
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 5: one thing, if you cut that one thing off, if
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 5: you stop being so insistent, That you got to be
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 5: who you used to be. If you cut that one
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 5: thing off, you shall eat of the fat of the land.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 5: God will put you in goodly houses. He will open
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: doors for you. He will make ways for you. He
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  Speaker 5: will strengthen you. He will bless you. He will overshadow you.
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  Speaker 5: He will overcome you. He will make you smarter. He'll
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  Speaker 5: make you brighter. He'll make you a better mother, a
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  Speaker 5: better father, a better friend, a better person. If you'll
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  Speaker 5: cut off that one thing, if you'll cut off that
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  Speaker 5: one thing. Why are you loyal to something you don't
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  Speaker 5: need anymore? It's freezing you. You're freezing your tail off.
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  Speaker 5: You're freezing your career. You're freezing your marriage. You're freezing
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  Speaker 5: your home life. You're freezing your ministry. You're freezing the
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  Speaker 5: best part of your ministry. The best part of your
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  Speaker 5: ministry is in your tears. And in your brokenness. And
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  Speaker 5: in your fears. And you just keeping it real. And
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  Speaker 5: just being who you are. The best part of you
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  Speaker 5: as a wife. Is that broken crazy. You know secrecies
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  Speaker 5: that you have. That's what's cute about you. If you
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  Speaker 5: just freeze it all. If you just freeze off the thing.
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  Speaker 5: That's stopping you from being all. You can be. You
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  Speaker 5: can change your life. And be ye. transformed by the
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  Speaker 5: renewing of your mind. So the prodigal son is in
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  Speaker 5: the hog pen, and he has no money, and he
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  Speaker 5: has nothing to eat, and he spent all his father's
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  Speaker 5: stuff in riotous living, and all the prostitutes have left him,
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  Speaker 5: and all the friends have left him, and he's in
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  Speaker 5: the hog pen, and you can tell you're in the
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  Speaker 5: hog pen when something that don't even... appeal to you
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  Speaker 5: suddenly starts to appeal to you and all of a
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  Speaker 5: sudden he wants to eat what the swine did eat
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  Speaker 5: he's a Jew boy he doesn't even eat he eats
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  Speaker 5: swine much less what the swine did eat and with
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  Speaker 5: flies all around his hair and gnats in his face
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  Speaker 5: and slop on his clothes And something happened to him
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  Speaker 5: right there, not in the sanctuary, not in the church,
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  Speaker 5: not in the choir, not in the praise team, not
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  Speaker 5: in the balcony, not sitting in the back, not sitting
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  Speaker 5: up front, not leaving up down in there. He was
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  Speaker 5: in the hog pen and he came to himself. And
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  Speaker 5: when he came to himself, he said, I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: cut my tail off. Being stubborn is killing me. It's
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  Speaker 5: killing my opportunity. I will arise and go to my
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  Speaker 5: father's house. I'll swallow my pride and go to my
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  Speaker 5: father's house. and say, I am no more worthy to
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  Speaker 5: be thy son. Make me as one of your hired servants.
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  Speaker 5: And he practiced what he was going to say all
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  Speaker 5: the way home. He hadn't even got to his father yet.
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  Speaker 5: He was just practicing what he was going to say.
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  Speaker 5: And while he was practicing it and getting in his
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  Speaker 5: head what he was going to say, while he was
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  Speaker 5: yet a great ways off, his father looked down the
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  Speaker 5: road and saw him coming. And the Bible says the
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  Speaker 5: old man ran out to meet him. I'm 68 years old.
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  Speaker 5: Let me tell you something. It takes something to make
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  Speaker 5: me run now. At 28, I would run over anything.
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  Speaker 5: But if you see me running at 68, you better
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  Speaker 5: run too because something's chasing me. The father ran. The
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  Speaker 5: father ran to meet him. He ran to meet him.
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  Speaker 5: And he was wrong because he was practicing for a
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  Speaker 5: father he had in his mind. Who would accuse him.
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  Speaker 5: He wasn't practicing for the father that would run out
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  Speaker 5: to meet him and cover him up and put him
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  Speaker 5: in a good place and set a party together and
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  Speaker 5: kill the fatted calf and open up the door. He
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  Speaker 5: didn't even know that he had that kind of father
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  Speaker 5: because all those years he had kept his tail and
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  Speaker 5: his tail had stopped him. From seeing who his father
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  Speaker 5: really was. But while he was still funky. And smelly.
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  Speaker 5: And gnats all around. The father wrapped a robe around him.
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  Speaker 5: And sent the servants out to get ready for him.
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  Speaker 5: And put a ring on his finger. And brought him in.
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  Speaker 5: All of a sudden. The only thing he changed. He
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  Speaker 5: didn't change his hair. He didn't change his clothes. He
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  Speaker 5: didn't change his car. He didn't change his goat. He
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  Speaker 5: didn't change his lamb. He didn't change his speech. He
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  Speaker 5: didn't change how he looked. He didn't change anything else.
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  Speaker 5: The only thing he changed was he changed his mind.
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  Speaker 5: And when he changed his mind, he experienced the father
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  Speaker 5: in a way that he never experienced the father before.
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  Speaker 5: I want you to stand up on your feet. And
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  Speaker 5: I want you to make up in your mind. I
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  Speaker 5: got some changing to do. I'm going to be transformed
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  Speaker 5: by the renewing of my mind. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 5: transformed by the renewing of my mind. I got one
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  Speaker 5: more thing to say to you and I'll be finished.
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  Speaker 5: I have heard this scripture all my life. I can
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  Speaker 5: do all things through Christ which strengthens me. People always
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  Speaker 5: use it when they come up against a task or
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  Speaker 5: an obstacle. I can do all things through Christ which
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  Speaker 5: strengthens me. greater is he that's in me than he
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  Speaker 5: that's in the world. I can do all things through
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  Speaker 5: Christ which strengthens me and it sounds so good and
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  Speaker 5: it sounds so wonderful and we use it all the
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  Speaker 5: time except we use it out of context. When God said,
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  Speaker 5: when Paul said, I can do all things through Christ
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  Speaker 5: in Philippians who strengthens me. He said it after saying this,
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  Speaker 5: I have learned how to be a based and I
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  Speaker 5: have learned how to be a bound. I have learned
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  Speaker 5: both how to be at one and I have learned
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  Speaker 5: how to have plenty. That means you don't come here
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  Speaker 5: knowing how to fix your mind. You have to learn
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  Speaker 5: how to do this. You have to learn how to
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  Speaker 5: do this. I don't know, there's a hundred people I'm
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  Speaker 5: speaking to in here. If I'm talking to you, make
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  Speaker 5: some noise in this place. Come on, make some noise
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  Speaker 5: in this place. This is what I'm going to learn
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  Speaker 5: this Sunday morning. This is what I'm going to learn
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  Speaker 5: this Sunday morning. I'm going to learn to change my mind.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to learn not to say everything. I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to learn until I get a new habit. I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to freeze my tail off. I'm going to enter into
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  Speaker 5: a new dimension and become a new person. I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to shock my kids. They're not going to even know
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  Speaker 5: who I am because I refuse to live and die
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  Speaker 5: and never lose my tail and never lose my hand
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  Speaker 5: and never lose my temper and never lose my mouth
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  Speaker 5: and cry because I drove people off. I refuse not
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  Speaker 5: to change. The only thing that needs to change is
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  Speaker 5: not your shoes. It's not your jeans. It's not your shirt.
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  Speaker 5: It's your mind. I need a hundred people in this
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  Speaker 5: room that will change their mind. Come on. That will
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  Speaker 5: change their mind.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: That will change their mind. that will change their mind.
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  Speaker 5: There's something on the other side of that change that
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  Speaker 5: only God can give you. If you change your mind,
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  Speaker 5: God will open up the windows of heaven and pour
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  Speaker 5: you out a blessing that you don't have room enough
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  Speaker 5: to receive. For the next 60 seconds, I want you
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  Speaker 5: to praise God till you feel a change coming. Do
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  Speaker 5: you feel a change in your spirit? Do you feel
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  Speaker 5: a change in your attitude? Do you stop belittling yourself?
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  Speaker 5: Do you stop talking down to yourself? Do you forgive
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  Speaker 5: your father until you let go of your mother? Until
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  Speaker 5: you let go of your pain? I want you to
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  Speaker 5: cut that thing off that's been stopping you from being
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  Speaker 5: who you can be. I can't hear you. I can't
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  Speaker 5: hear you. I want you to cut it off. I
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  Speaker 5: want you to cut it off. I want you to
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  Speaker 5: get rid of it. I want you to shut it down.
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  Speaker 5: I want you to stop it. I want you to
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  Speaker 5: wear it out. I want you to move it out
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  Speaker 5: of your way. I want you to, you got to
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  Speaker 5: hear it. You got to hear it because this is
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  Speaker 5: your Sunday. This is your Sunday. This is your Sunday
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  Speaker 5: for change. This is what you've been praying about. This
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  Speaker 5: is what you've been asking for. This is what you've
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  Speaker 5: been talking to God about. He sent me here to
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  Speaker 5: answer your question. You can have a better life. You
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  Speaker 5: can have peace. You can have joy. It's up to you.
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  Speaker 5: No devil can take it. No demon can take it.
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  Speaker 5: No witch can take it. No warlock can take it.
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  Speaker 5: It's yours if you want it. It's yours if you
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  Speaker 5: want it. And you think you've been praising God? If
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  Speaker 5: you praise God with a new mind... The Spirit of
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  Speaker 5: God will come in the balcony. It will come in
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  Speaker 5: the front row. It will meet you in the aisle.
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  Speaker 5: It will be waiting on you in the car. It
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  Speaker 5: will heal your body. It will change your blood pressure.
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  Speaker 5: It will change your temperature. Open your mouth.
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  Speaker 2: I can't hear you. I can't hear you.
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  Speaker 5: I can't hear you. The devil is afraid. The devil
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  Speaker 5: is afraid. The devil is afraid. The devil is afraid.
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  Speaker 5: If you would really do it. If you let go
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  Speaker 5: of your church self. And get down to your real self.
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  Speaker 5: And let God do it. Amazing things would happen. If
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  Speaker 5: you would just do it. If you would just do it.
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  Speaker 5: And not wait on nobody to forgive you. And not
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  Speaker 5: wait on anybody to come back. And not wait on
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  Speaker 5: anybody to say I'm sorry. If you would just let
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  Speaker 5: it go. You could stop medicating yourself. Stop treating yourself.
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  Speaker 5: Stop making excuses for yourself. If you let it go,
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  Speaker 5: God will do something amazing. He'll do amazing things. He'll
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  Speaker 5: do a miracle right in the middle of that aisle.
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  Speaker 5: The Holy Ghost will do a miracle. He'll do a
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  Speaker 5: miracle for you right now with your hands up in
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 5: the air. The Spirit of the living God will overshadow
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  Speaker 5: you right now, right where you are. Standing right there.
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  Speaker 5: The anointing will do a change in your life. I
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  Speaker 5: will break every curse over your house. Over your children.
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  Speaker 5: Over your finances. Over your body. Right there. If you
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  Speaker 5: open your mouth to God. God will fix that thing.
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  Speaker 5: Once and for all. Your daddy can't stop it. Your
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  Speaker 5: granddaddy can't stop it. Your great granddaddy can't stop it.
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  Speaker 5: You got it. the power right now in your mind.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody can stop you. If you change your mind, demons
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  Speaker 5: will run from you. They'll run from you. They'll run
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  Speaker 5: off of your view. They'll get off of your road.
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  Speaker 5: If you change your mind, God will do amazing things
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  Speaker 5: in your life. And come on, I got to go.
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  Speaker 5: I got to go. But somebody in this room is
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  Speaker 5: going to change their mind. They're going to cut off
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  Speaker 5: some stuff. Let me hear you open your mouth and
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  Speaker 5: give glory to God. Let me hear you give glory
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  Speaker 5: to God. Let me hear you give glory to God.
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  Speaker 5: Let me hear you give glory to God. Give glory
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  Speaker 5: to God. Give glory to him. Give glory all the
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  Speaker 5: way in the balcony. All the way on the top row.
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  Speaker 5: That's right. Give him glory. God's getting ready to fix
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  Speaker 5: something in you. Your body's getting healed. Your mind's getting healed.
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  Speaker 5: Your spirit's getting healed. Your circumstances are getting healed. There's
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  Speaker 5: a change coming. A new you is coming. God's going
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  Speaker 5: to throw you a party. He's going to throw you
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  Speaker 5: a bath. He's going to kill your fatty calf. If
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  Speaker 5: you praise him, he will kill your calf. I wish
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  Speaker 5: I had some real praises. I need a hundred praises.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 5: I need a hundred praises. Just a hundred praises. I
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  Speaker 5: could make it with 99. If I get 99 praises
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  Speaker 5: in this room, God's going to do something in your belly,
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  Speaker 5: out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water.
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  Speaker 5: Rivers are coming out of you. Rivers are coming out
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  Speaker 5: of your spirit. Rivers are coming out of your life.
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  Speaker 5: Open your mouth and praise your God and break that curse.
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  Speaker 5: Break that curse. Break that curse right now.
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