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Unfinished Business · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Coming up on the Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 2: If he created you for a purpose, that purpose remains
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  Speaker 2: the same. Whether you are in the hog pen or
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  Speaker 2: in the palace. Whether you're in the prison like Joseph
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  Speaker 2: or whether you're in Potiphar's house. Whether Potiphar's wife lies
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  Speaker 2: on you or not. If God told you you were blessed,
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  Speaker 2: when it's all over, you will still be blessed. He
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  Speaker 2: may have to reroute you, but the destination remains the same.
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  Speaker 2: That's why Job said, though he slay me, yet shall
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  Speaker 2: I trust him.
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  Speaker 3: This is the potter's touch.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings, brothers and sisters, in the name of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: our King. I am so blessed to have the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to share the word of the Lord with you, to
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  Speaker 2: be in your homes and to be in some small
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  Speaker 2: way a part of your life. I'm excited this week
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  Speaker 2: because the message that I'm going to share with you
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  Speaker 2: is called Unfinished Business. I want you to check this out.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it is self-explanatory. Watch this. God is speaking
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  Speaker 2: in the book of Romans chapter 11, verse 29, and
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  Speaker 2: he's telling the Romans... who are largely not of the
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  Speaker 2: children of Israel. And he's teaching the church that even
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  Speaker 2: though the traditional Orthodox Jew is not the friend of
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  Speaker 2: the Christian ideology, he says, don't get too much of
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  Speaker 2: an attitude because they are still my children. They may
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  Speaker 2: be prodigal, but they're mine. They are still mine. They
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  Speaker 2: are mine because I say they're mine. And so you
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  Speaker 2: got to be careful how you handle them. And he
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  Speaker 2: says this. And so all of Israel shall be saved
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  Speaker 2: as it is written. There shall come out of Zion
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  Speaker 2: the deliverer. And shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. He
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  Speaker 2: says I'm going to fix them. For this is my
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  Speaker 2: covenant with them. This is my contract with them. When
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  Speaker 2: I shall take away their sins. He says now as
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  Speaker 2: concerning the gospel. They are enemies of your sakes. But
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  Speaker 2: as touching the election. They are beloved for the Father's sake.
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  Speaker 2: And then he says, for gifts and callings of God
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  Speaker 2: are without repentance. Now, see, I grew up in the
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  Speaker 2: Baptist church. I got Spirit-filled in Pentecostal church. And in
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  Speaker 2: both reformations, I have heard this scripture discussed and grossly mutilated.
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  Speaker 2: For whenever anybody could sing and they weren't living right,
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  Speaker 2: they'd say, well, she might can sing, but gifts and
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  Speaker 2: callings are without the repentance of God. And while it
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  Speaker 2: is true you don't have to be repentant to be talented,
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  Speaker 2: that is not what this text means. And when you
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  Speaker 2: delegate this text over to such a mediocre thought, you
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  Speaker 2: limit the intensity of the text itself. Because God is
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  Speaker 2: not taking the time in the middle of his discourse
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  Speaker 2: about the children of Israel, though they did not embrace Christ,
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  Speaker 2: still being elect to stop and say they may be
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  Speaker 2: talented children.
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  Speaker 4: But they're still sinners. That's not what he's saying.
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  Speaker 2: What God is saying, I am going to deal with
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  Speaker 2: them and I'm going to bring them back and a
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  Speaker 2: deliverer is going to come and reform them and salvage them.
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  Speaker 2: He said, because I have unfinished business with them. He says,
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  Speaker 2: gifts and callings are without repentance. He said, that means
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  Speaker 2: if I called you, I won't change my mind. This
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  Speaker 2: is not about you. This is about me. That if
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  Speaker 2: I give you my word, I'm going to do something.
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  Speaker 2: I will not take my word back. If I gave
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  Speaker 2: you a gift, I will take my gift back. If
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  Speaker 2: I call you to do something, I will take my
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  Speaker 2: calling back. For gifts and callings are without the repentance
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  Speaker 2: of God. I must settle that with you because I
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  Speaker 2: cannot pastor an ignorant church. Gifts and callings are without
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  Speaker 2: the repentance of God. But I want you to hear
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  Speaker 2: it in the message Bible. The message Bible says it
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  Speaker 2: real good. Put it up on the screen for me, Jamel.
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  Speaker 2: In the message Bible, it says God's gifts and.
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  Speaker 4: Callings are under full warranty.
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  Speaker 2: Never canceled and never rescinded. God's gifts and God's calls
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  Speaker 2: are under full warranty.
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  Speaker 4: Never canceled and And never rescinded. It's sovereign. It is unchangeable.
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  Speaker 4: It is absolute.
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  Speaker 2: It is God. You ask Noah. You can't get drunk enough.
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  Speaker 2: For him to rescind it.
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  Speaker 4: Ask Lot.
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  Speaker 2: You can't have a sexual sin so bad. For him
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  Speaker 2: to rescind it. When God has called you, he has
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  Speaker 2: called you. When God has blessed you, he has blessed you.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to worry about him changing his call.
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  Speaker 2: You have to worry about him chastising your life and
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  Speaker 2: your circumstances. I'm not saying you won't be punished. You
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  Speaker 2: will be grossly punished for wrongdoing.
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  Speaker 4: For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth. But he will
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  Speaker 4: chasten you before he.
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  Speaker 2: Will change him. And the chastening of the Lord is brutal.
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  Speaker 2: And the chastening of the Lord will leave you sore.
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  Speaker 2: But he will not change because you did.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, to be more like God.
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  Speaker 2: Teach me, Lord, how to not change when the people
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  Speaker 2: I love change. Don't let me acquiesce to their behavior.
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  Speaker 2: Just because you lose your dignity does not mean that
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  Speaker 2: I have to lose mine. Help me to be steadfast
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  Speaker 2: and unmovable and stable and teach me how to be
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  Speaker 2: the I am that I am created to be and
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  Speaker 2: not to bring myself down because you decided to go down.
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  Speaker 2: God is immutable. And I'm going to give you three
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  Speaker 2: ways that God is immutable. He is immutable, number one,
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  Speaker 2: in his essence. He is immutable in his essence. That
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  Speaker 2: word immutable means that he will not mutate. He will
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  Speaker 2: not change. He will not evolve into something else. In
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  Speaker 2: his essence, in his being, He is immutable.
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  Speaker 4: He is immutable.
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  Speaker 2: He will not mutate into something. God cannot grow. Because
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  Speaker 2: growth is mutation. He cannot grow and he cannot diminish.
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  Speaker 2: He is.
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  Speaker 4: Never was.
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  Speaker 2: He is. He just is. In his essence, in his essence,
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  Speaker 2: he will never be reduced. He is sovereignly, in his essence,
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  Speaker 2: he is God. The whole world can go to hell
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  Speaker 2: and he'll still be God. After Pink says it this way,
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  Speaker 2: he says God is often mentioned.
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  Speaker 4: As a rock.
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  Speaker 2: And when I came in this morning, the choir was
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  Speaker 2: singing about him being a rock. Picture a rock in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the ocean and the ocean comes in
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  Speaker 2: and it goes out and it goes back and it
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  Speaker 2: goes forth and it has hurricanes and it has tornadoes.
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  Speaker 2: But when it's all over, the rock is still standing there, unmovable.
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  Speaker 2: That is your God. He is stable in his essence.
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  Speaker 2: He cannot be reduced and he cannot be increased. He
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  Speaker 2: was perfect when he started. He was absolute in his majesty.
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  Speaker 2: He is immutable in his essence. Time will not change
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  Speaker 2: him because he is eternal.
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  Speaker 4: You will grow old, but he will not.
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  Speaker 2: Time will affect you, but time cannot touch God because
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  Speaker 2: God does not live in time. He created time. God
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  Speaker 2: lives in eternity and he stands above time. He is
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  Speaker 2: immutable in In his essence, he is unchangeable. He will
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  Speaker 2: not be mutated by your circumstances. He made up his
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  Speaker 2: mind and it is what he says that it is.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody say amen. Number two, he is immutable in his attributes.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever God could do, God can do. Whatever God was,
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  Speaker 2: he is and will be. His attributes remain the same.
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  Speaker 2: His power will not diminish over time. His attributes are
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  Speaker 2: consistent If he was a healer, he is a healer.
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  Speaker 2: If he was a provider, he is a provider. If
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  Speaker 2: he was a way maker, he is a way maker.
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  Speaker 2: His attributes are still the same. If he could part
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sea, he can part the Red Sea. If
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  Speaker 2: he could raise the dead, he can raise the dead.
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  Speaker 2: If he could turn water into wine, he can turn
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  Speaker 2: water into wine. There is nothing that God could do
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  Speaker 2: that he now can't do. His attributes are immutable. They
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  Speaker 2: will not diminish. Your attributes will diminish. That's why you
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  Speaker 2: wear glasses. That's why you got those plastic teeth in
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  Speaker 2: your mouth. Because what was isn't anymore. That's why you
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  Speaker 2: got that piece in your hair. That's why you're putting
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  Speaker 2: that protein in your scalp. Because you have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things that were that are not. But whatever God was,
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  Speaker 2: he is and always will be. His attributes are immutable.
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  Speaker 2: Do you hear what I'm saying to you? And number three.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the one I want to really weigh in.
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  Speaker 2: He is immutable in his counsel. He is immutable in
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  Speaker 2: his counsel. His counsel will not change. he will not
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  Speaker 2: tell you see this is what I have a problem
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  Speaker 2: with excuse me I'm going to have a pet peeve
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  Speaker 2: right now this is what I have a problem with
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  Speaker 2: people are always coming to you to tell you what
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  Speaker 2: God told them to do and then it doesn't work
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  Speaker 2: and they.
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  Speaker 4: Look stupid.
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  Speaker 2: God's counsel doesn't change If he told you to come,
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  Speaker 2: he told you to come. If he told you to preach,
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  Speaker 2: he told you to preach. If he told you to
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  Speaker 2: shut up, he told you to shut up. His counsel
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  Speaker 2: doesn't change, which means your purpose doesn't change. If he
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  Speaker 2: created you with something in mind, he will not then
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  Speaker 2: create you.
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  Speaker 4: And change his mind.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I could really drop into something really heavy. If
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  Speaker 2: he created you with something in mind, he will not
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  Speaker 2: create you and then change his mind. His counsel does
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  Speaker 2: not change. His method may change, but his counsel doesn't change.
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  Speaker 4: I got a.
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  Speaker 2: GPS system and if you want to, you can push
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  Speaker 2: a button and it will reroute you. But the destination
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  Speaker 2: remains the same. God may reroute you. What he used
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  Speaker 2: to do with the blood of bullocks and goats, he
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  Speaker 2: now does it with the blood of Jesus Christ. He
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  Speaker 2: may reroute you, but the redemption does not change.
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  Speaker 4: His counsel does not change.
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  Speaker 2: So if he called you to do something, he is
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  Speaker 2: yet calling you. And if he told you to do something,
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  Speaker 2: he is yet telling you. And if he created you
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  Speaker 2: for a purpose, that purpose remains the same. Whether you
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  Speaker 2: are in the hall pen or in the palace. Whether
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  Speaker 2: you're in the prison like Joseph or whether you're in
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  Speaker 2: Potiphar's house. Whether Potiphar's wife lies on you or not.
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  Speaker 2: If God told you you were blessed, when it's all over,
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  Speaker 2: you will still be blessed. He may have to reroute you,
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  Speaker 2: but the destination remains the same. That's why Job said,
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  Speaker 2: though he slay me, yet shall I trust him. When
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  Speaker 2: he slayed me, he rerouted me. But when it's all over,
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  Speaker 2: I will arrive where he created me to arrive because
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  Speaker 2: his counsel cannot be mutated. He is immutable. So the
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  Speaker 2: fact that the bush was on fire is not particularly
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  Speaker 2: amazing because bushes are mutable. Until the immutable God got
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  Speaker 2: in the mutable bush, what got Moses' attention.
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  Speaker 4: Is that the bush was not consumed.
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  Speaker 2: The reason the bush was not consumed is because an
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  Speaker 2: immutable God was in the midst of the bush. And
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  Speaker 2: if an immutable God gets in a mutable bush, it
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  Speaker 2: will stop it from being consumed. I got a shout
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  Speaker 2: right there because that's the.
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  Speaker 4: God that lives in me. Before I die in a cage,
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  Speaker 4: I want to run in the wild.
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  Speaker 1: We can do what it is without limits, without being
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  Speaker 1: boxed in a cage, without being hindered.
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  Speaker 4: I want to run in the wild of my destiny.
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  Speaker 4: I want to run in the wild of my purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Telling us to branch out and it's time to shift
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  Speaker 2: and just about taking it to the next level and
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  Speaker 2: just thinking outside of the four walls.
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  Speaker 4: I got to get out of this cage.
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  Speaker 2: God has given us a place around where we are pastoring,
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  Speaker 2: to take over that region for the kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 2: You're frustrated about something that's just an incubator to take
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  Speaker 2: you to the next dimension. Now we're going to grow
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  Speaker 2: and go to global missions.
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  Speaker 1: No more limits, no more boundaries.
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  Speaker 2: The cage is open.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have any excuses anymore on why you can't
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  Speaker 1: fulfill your purpose and complete your assignment. To register for
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  Speaker 1: this international gathering, visit pastorsandleaders.org or call 1-800-BISHOP-2.
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  Speaker 2: Many of you, God has created you for a purpose.
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  Speaker 2: And you have gotten off track. But he has not.
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  Speaker 2: Your circumstances does not change his purpose. He is absolute. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: if only Moses had attended this church.
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  Speaker 4: I could have saved 40 years. Of his life.
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  Speaker 2: When Moses started running. Away. From the children of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: The Hebrew children. He ran from them. Because they rejected him.
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  Speaker 2: He loved them. And they hurt him. And the bad
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  Speaker 2: thing about love. Is that you can't help who you love.
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  Speaker 2: Your love is not rational. And Moses is having this
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  Speaker 2: love affair. With the Hebrew children. Because his mama was Hebrew.
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  Speaker 2: His daddy was Hebrew. But his experience was Egyptian. And
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  Speaker 2: you always want what you didn't get. Caught between a rock.
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  Speaker 4: And a hard place.
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  Speaker 2: Now Moses. Goes on the run. So he runs. Away
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  Speaker 2: from Egypt.
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  Speaker 4: And he crosses. Through the desert and across the water.
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  Speaker 4: To Midian. And he hides.
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  Speaker 2: In Jethro's house amongst the Midianites. For 40 years, he disappears.
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  Speaker 4: 40 years.
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  Speaker 2: The pastor of the Old Testament church is backslidden for
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  Speaker 2: 40 years. AWOL.
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  Speaker 4: Am I.
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  Speaker 2: Missing in action? Absent without leave for years. This Moses
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  Speaker 2: goes to Midian. He was so much like the Egyptians
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  Speaker 2: that the Midianites thought he was an Egyptian. He walked
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  Speaker 2: like an Egyptian. He spoke the Egyptian language. He was
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  Speaker 2: educated in the Egyptian school. He passed himself off As
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  Speaker 2: if he were Egyptian. And he dwelt amongst the Midianites
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  Speaker 2: for 40 years. 40 years he lived there. 40 years
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  Speaker 2: he ate there. 40 years he slept there. 40 years
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  Speaker 2: he met a woman and married there. One of the
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  Speaker 2: seventh daughter of Jethro. He married her. Her name was Zipporah.
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  Speaker 4: And from her loins she births him two children. there
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  Speaker 4: in Midianite.
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  Speaker 2: And Moses thought that he had gotten away from God.
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  Speaker 4: After all, he was successful in Midian.
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  Speaker 2: He had a job. He had a wife. He had sons.
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  Speaker 2: He had a life. He had been accepted. He had
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  Speaker 2: been inducted. He was a part of the Midianite community.
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  Speaker 2: 40 years is a long time. 40 years is the
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  Speaker 2: length of a generation. He has been successful, but success
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  Speaker 2: is irrelevant to purpose.
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  Speaker 4: It is possible.
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  Speaker 2: To be successfully wrong. What do you mean preacher? I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad you asked. I would remind you that God told Joshua.
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  Speaker 2: That I want you to have good success. If God
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  Speaker 2: said I want you to have good success. Then it
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  Speaker 2: only reasons that there must be.
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  Speaker 4: Such a thing.
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  Speaker 2: As bad success. And so I ask you. What kind
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  Speaker 2: of success do you have? If your success doesn't bring
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  Speaker 2: you into God's purpose, it is bad success. You can
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  Speaker 2: be successfully wrong. And so Moses is successfully wrong in
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  Speaker 2: Midian and he is wallowing in In his victories, walking around,
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  Speaker 2: tending the flock and living his life. When all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden after 40 years, God appears.
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  Speaker 4: In a burning bush.
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  Speaker 2: The bush is so spectacular to us as preachers that
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  Speaker 2: we have preached the bush at the expense of the message.
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  Speaker 2: The bush was only there to get your attention. It
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  Speaker 2: is not the message. It is the vehicle that carries
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  Speaker 2: the message. Because when you really belong to God, God
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  Speaker 2: will set something on fire to get your attention. I
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  Speaker 2: said when you really belong to God, God will set
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  Speaker 2: something on fire and let it burn.
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  Speaker 4: Let it burn. Let it burn.
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  Speaker 2: It is burning to get your attention.
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  Speaker 4: And the bush was burning.
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  Speaker 2: And that is not unusual because in the desert, dry
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  Speaker 2: bushes will catch a fire because bushes are mutable mutable
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  Speaker 2: and fire turns him into something else So the fact
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  Speaker 2: the bush was on fire is not particularly amazing because
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  Speaker 2: bushes are mutable. Until the immutable God got in the
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  Speaker 2: mutable bush, what got Moses' attention is that.
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  Speaker 4: The bush was not consumed.
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  Speaker 2: The reason the bush was not consumed is because an
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  Speaker 2: immutable God was in the midst of the bush. And
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  Speaker 2: if an immutable God gets in a mutable bush, it
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  Speaker 2: will stop it from being consumed. I got to shout
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  Speaker 2: right there because that's the God that lives in me. Now.
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  Speaker 4: The bush is being regenerated. Regenerated.
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  Speaker 2: Regenerated is how you say it, but I'm emphasizing genes
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  Speaker 2: to show you that the genes were designed to be
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  Speaker 2: mutable until the immutable God got in it and he
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  Speaker 2: regenerated it so that it defied its own laws and
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  Speaker 2: the bush didn't burn up.
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  Speaker 4: It just kept on burning.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime something keeps burning in your life and it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: burn out... God is trying to tell you something. God
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  Speaker 2: is trying to tell you.
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  Speaker 4: Something.
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  Speaker 2: And he will set your bush on fire to get
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  Speaker 2: your attention. What's that burning in your life right now?
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  Speaker 2: Could it be burning to get your attention? That the
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  Speaker 2: success you enjoy is not the success he designed.
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  Speaker 4: Before he would let.
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  Speaker 2: You get away, Moses, he will set your bush on
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  Speaker 2: fire and let it burn.
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  Speaker 4: Let it burn. Let it burn.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible said when Moses saw the bush burning, he
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  Speaker 2: kept on walking. But when he saw that the bush
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  Speaker 2: was not consumed, he turned aside. to see the wonder was,
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  Speaker 2: how can it be on fire this long and not
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  Speaker 2: burn up? I want to talk to some people in
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  Speaker 2: this room who've had something on fire for a long
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  Speaker 2: time and you thought it should have burned out by now,
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  Speaker 2: but it's still burning. Could it be that the immutable
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  Speaker 2: God has gotten in a mutable circumstance and set it
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  Speaker 2: on fire and regenerated it to get your attention so
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  Speaker 2: that you would turn aside to see.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, but enough with the bush. Let's get to the message.
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  Speaker 2: Moses, Moses, I am the God of your fathers. What?
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  Speaker 4: I'm over here with the Midianites, Lord. We don't even
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  Speaker 4: believe in you.
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  Speaker 2: They've spent 40 years re-indoctrinating me to worshiping Ashtaroth. After all, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: we have not heard from you in over 400 years.
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  Speaker 2: You have been silent for 400 years. You will see
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  Speaker 2: that again between Malachi and Matthew, 400 years of silence.
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  Speaker 2: But every now and then, God gets quiet for a while.
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  Speaker 2: But just because God has gotten quiet doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 2: he has forgotten you.
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  Speaker 4: 400 years later. Oh, I'm preaching to somebody. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know who it is. 400 years later. Moses, I am
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  Speaker 4: the God of your fathers. I am the God of Abraham.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Abraham has been dead for over 400 years.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm still his God. I was his God when
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  Speaker 4: he was alive.
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  Speaker 2: And I was his God when he was dead. Because
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  Speaker 2: I'm not just a God over the living. I am
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  Speaker 2: the God over the dead. And I promise him, surely
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  Speaker 2: I will bless you. And I have unfinished business. I
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  Speaker 2: am the God of Abraham.
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  Speaker 4: And I am the God of Isaac.
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  Speaker 2: Generationally. I am the God of your father. And I
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  Speaker 2: will be the God of your children. I am the
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  Speaker 2: God of Abraham.
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  Speaker 4: And I am the God of Isaac.
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  Speaker 2: That's why God must be demonstrated in the life of
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  Speaker 2: the parent. Because if God is demonstrated in the life
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  Speaker 2: of the parent, then God will be demonstrated in the
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  Speaker 2: life of the child. Moses, I am the God of Abraham.
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  Speaker 4: Take off your shoes. For the ground you stand on
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  Speaker 4: is holy. It's holy.
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  Speaker 2: It's holy.
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  Speaker 4: It's holy.
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  Speaker 2: Wherever you see me is holy. However, I reveal myself
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  Speaker 2: as holy. However, I show up as holy.
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  Speaker 4: Before I got here, it wasn't holy. But the moment
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  Speaker 4: I stepped in here, the ground will stand on.
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  Speaker 2: Kick off your shoes and recognize.
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  Speaker 4: That you are standing.
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  Speaker 3: We are standing on holy ground.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that there are angels all around.
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  Speaker 4: My friends, I've got to go. I'm out of time.
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  Speaker 4: They're kicking me out.
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  Speaker 2: But I pray that the Lord has blessed you in
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  Speaker 2: some profound way as we attempted to describe to you
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  Speaker 2: the Word of God and that it might be etched
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  Speaker 2: into your heart and a part of your life, indelibly
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  Speaker 2: impressed into your spirit. If ever was the time We
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  Speaker 2: needed God's word every day. It's right now. You be
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  Speaker 2: blessed here and be strengthened and know that if God.
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  Speaker 4: Is for you.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody wins the Olympics by mistake. Success is always intentional.
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  Speaker 1: It's all been leading up to this moment. It's time
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  Speaker 1: for you to run your race.
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  Speaker 2: Do not allow the cares of this world to destroy
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  Speaker 2: your passion for living, but run after your destiny.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to untangle all of the things that you
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  Speaker 2: have been through, reset, start over, reboot, and go to
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  Speaker 2: a whole new level. Moses says, yes, Lord. I drifted
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  Speaker 2: a long ways from you, but I'm coming back. I
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  Speaker 2: spent 40 years doing my own thing, but I'm coming back.
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  Speaker 2: I've been hooked up at the wrong place at the
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  Speaker 2: wrong time with the wrong people doing the wrong thing,
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  Speaker 2: serving the wrong God. But I got to get back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm running back to you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm running back.
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  Speaker 2: This is the part of us touching.